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 SHELLEY " Epipsychidion," " Adonais," and "Hellas." Among his minor poems, the most exquisite and original are the "Address to the Skylark," " The Sensitive Plant," and " The Cloud." He had renewed his intimacy with Byron in Italy, and enjoyed boating as his favorite amusement. On July 8, 1822, he sailed with his friend Wil- liams, in a boat of peculiar build, and requiring skilful management, from Leghorn for Lerici. In a sudden squall the boat disappeared, and the bodies of Shelley and his companions were washed ashore. The quarantine regulations of Tuscany required that everything drifting from the sea should be burned, and the remains of the poet were therefore reduced to ashes on a funeral pile, after the ancient fashion, in the presence of Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and Mr. Trelawney. The ashes were deposited in the Protestant burial ground at Eome, near the grave of Keats, with the inscription : Cor Cor- dium. His reputation both as a poet and a man has risen as the misapprehensions of his con- temporaries have passed away, and his sincerity, benevolence, noble aims, and peculiar graces of character and genius have been fully recog- nized. Mrs. Shelley published an edition of his poetical works, with biographical notes, in 1839, and a selection from his letters, transla- tions, and prose writings, in 1840. The first complete edition of his works, from the origi- nal editions, was edited by R. H. Shepherd (4 vols., London, 1875). See also the "Life" by Oapt. Thomas Medwin (London, 1847) ; " Rec- ollections of the Last Days of Shelley and By- ron," by E. J. Trelawney (London and Boston, 1858) ; the unfinished " Life of Shelley," by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (2 vols., London, 1858) ; the "Shelley Memorials," by Lady Shelley (London and Boston, 1859); and "Shelley's Early Life, from Original Sources," by Denis Florence Mac-Oarthy (London, 1872). II. Mary Wollstoneeraft Godwin, an English authoress, sec- ond wife of the preceding, born in London in 1797, died there, Feb. 1, 1851. She was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Woll- stonecraft, received a careful and peculiar edu- cation, and married Shelley in 1816, after having lived with him two years previous to his first wife's death. In 1816, on the lake of Geneva, she joined in a compact with Shelley and By- ron each to write a romance in imitation of the German ghost stories which they were read- ing. The result was her novel of " Franken- stein" (London, 1818), the hero of which dis- covers the secret of generation and life, and creates a man by the resources of natural phi- losophy, who proves to be a powerful and mischievous monster. She completed the nov- el of "Valperga" just before the death of Shelley, and afterward published "The Last Man," "Lodore" (1835), and "The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck." She also wrote a se- ries of biographies of foreign artists and po- ets for the " Cabinet Cyclopaedia" (1835), and " Rambles in Germany and Italy " (1844), and edited Shelley's works (2 vols., 1839-'40). SHENANDOAU 845 SHELTON, Frederick WlilUn, an American au- thor, born at Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., about 1814. He graduated at the college of New Jersey in 1834, took orders in the Prot- estant Episcopal church in 1847, and has been successively settled at Huntington, Long Island, at Fishkill on the Hudson, and at Montpelier, Vt., whither he went in 1854. He now (1875j resides at Carthage Landing, Dutchess co., N. Y. He has published "The Trollopiad, or Travelling Gentleman in America" (New York, 1837), a satirical poem; "Salander and the Dragon, a Romance" (1851); " Chrystalline, or the Heiress of Fall-Down Castle" (1854); " The Rector of St. Bardolph's, or Superannu- ated," and "Up the River" (1853), a series of rural sketches; and "Peeps from the Belfry, or the Parish Sketch Book" (1855). SHE9I (Heb., name, or fame), one of the three sons of Noah, according to most com- mentators the eldest. He was the progenitor ' of the southwestern nations of Asia, being the father of Elam (Susiana), Ashur (Assyria), Ar- phaxad (according to Josephus, Chaldea), from whom descended the Hebrews and Arabs, Lud (Lydia), and Aram (Syria). The region occu- pied by the Biblical Shemites or Semites thus extended from the mountains E. of the Tigris to the western offshoots of the Taurus, and from the Armenian mountains to the south- ern extremities of the Arabian peninsula. (See SEMITIC RACE AND LANGUAGES.) SHENANDOAH, a river of Virginia, the prin- cipal tributary of the Potomac. The main riv- er, or South fork, rises in Augusta and Rock- ingham cos. in three streams which unite near Port Republic, Rockingham co., flows N. E. through the valley of Virginia, W. of and nearly parallel with the Blue Ridge, receives the North fork at Front Royal, Warren co., and falls into the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Its length from Port Republic is about 170 m., and it is navigated by small boats, called gondolas, for more than 100 m. above Front Royal. It passes through the richest portion of Virginia, and affords im- mense water power. The valley of the She- nandoah was very conspicuous in the military operations of the civil war. SHENANDOAH, a N. county of Virginia, in- tersected by the North fork of the Shenandoah river; area, about 500 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 14,936, of whom 676 were colored. The sur- face is hilly and the soil generally fertile. Iron ore, lead, copper, coal, and limestone are found. It is traversed by the Winchester, Potomac, and Harrisonburg division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 239,045 bushels of wheat, 19,860 of rye, 154,813 of Indian corn, 81,023 of oats, 8,329 tons of hay, 18,757 Ibs. of wool, and 165,338 of butter. There were 3,466 horses, 9,946 cattle, 6,645 sheep, and 9,364 swine; 1 manufactory of bar and 1 of pig iron, 7 of stone and earthenware, 10 flour mills, and J saw mills. Capital, Woodstock.