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On the death of Francis Lieber, he re-edited his work on " Civil Liberty and Self -Government/* 1874; and his " Manual of Political Ethics," 1874. His more recent works are — "Political Science/' 1877 ; and " Communism and Socialism/' 1880. President Woolsey was for several years one of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and was Chairman of the American Division of the Committee on the Revision of the New Testament.

WORBOISE, Emma Jane, daughter of a clergyman of the Church of England, was born in 1825. Having been left an orphan when very young, she was educated at the school for clergymen's daughters, established at Caster- ton, near Kirby Lonsdale, by the late Rev. W. Cams Wilson j was married to a gentleman of French descent, and is now a widow. This lady has written several works of fiction, including " Helen Bury," 1850 ; *'Anny Wilton: Lights and Shades of Christian Life," 1855; '* Grace Hamilton's School Days," 1856 ; " Eingsdown Lodge ; or, Seed- Time and Harvest," and "Wife's Trials, a Tale," 1858 ; " Millicent KendHck : or, the Search after Happiness," 1862; "Lottie Lons- dale : or, Chains and Links," and " Married Life : or, Philip and Edith," 1863; " Thornycroft Hall," " Lillingstones of Lillingstone/' and "Labour and Wait: or, Eve- lyn's Story," 1864; "St. Bertha's: or, the Heiress of Ame/' 1865; " Sir Julian's Wife," and " Violet Vaughan/' 1866 ; " Chrystabel," 1872 ; " The House of Bondage/' 1873. She has contributed to periodical literature, edits the Christian World, and preserves the cognomen under which she first became known to the public.

WORCESTER, Bishop op. (fifce Philpott, Db.)

WORDSWORTH, The Rioht Rev. Chables, D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dun- blane, second son of the late Dr.

Christopher Wordsworth (many years Master of Trinity College, Cambridge), and nephew of trie celebrated poet, born in 1806, was educated at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained, among distinctions, two Chancel- lor's prizes, that for Latin verse in 1827, and for the Latin essay in 1831, and was placed in the first class of Liter® Humaniores, when he took the degree of B.A. in 1830. In reward for the first of these dis- tinctions he was appointed to a studentship by the Dean. He was no less distinguished for athletic exercises, being, in 1829, one of the Oxford eight, and also one of the Oxford eleven, and successful in both encoimters with the sister University. After taking his B.A. degree, he remained at Christ Church for two or three years as a private tutor, and had among his pupils the late Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, and other cele- brated men. In 1835 he was se- lected Second Master of Winchester College, an office which up to that time had never been conferred on any one not educated at Winches- ter. On accoimt of weak health, he resigned in 1845, and accepted in 1846 the appointment of first War- den of Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, which he held for seven years, during which time the insti- tution was in a great measure indebted to him for its establish- ment on a firm and prosperous basis, and he materially aided the progress of the buildings, the col- lege chapel (which cost .£8,800) having been erected solely at his expense. In 1852 he was elected Bishop of the imited dioceses of St. Andrews, Dtmkeld,and Dunblane, and at the installation of the late Earl of Derby as Chancellor, in 1853, was admitted to the hon. degree of D.C.L. by the University of Oxford. In 1854 he resigned the Wardenship of Glenalmond, and has since devoted himself exclu-