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 466 WARTON WARWICK with scanty long bristles of a light brown col- or, and a inane between the ears extending along the neck and back, sometimes 10 in. long. In the allied genus potamochotrux (Gray), or river hogs, the ears are elongated, tapering, ending in a pencil of hairs ; the face is elon- gated, and is rendered hideous by a long pro- tuberance on each side, half way between the nose and eyes ; tail thick, high up the rump ; upper part of intermaxillary bones swollen and rough ; upper canines large, arising from a prominent bony case on the side of the jaws, and curved upward. The masked water hog, or bosch vark (P. Africanus, Gray), is generally black, with whitish cheeks having a large cen- tral black spot ; it is an inhabitant of 8. Afri- ca, and is very savage and ill-looking. The Masked Water Hog (Potamochcerus AMcanus). painted pig of the Cameroons (P. penieillatus, Schinz), from the Gold coast of W. Africa, is bright red bay, with black face, forehead, and ears. These hogs are hunted for their flesh. See Andorsson's " Okavango River " (1861). WARTON. I. Joseph, an English author, born at Dunsford, Surrey, in 1722, died at Wickham, near London, Feb. 23, 1800. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and became curate of Basingstoke. In 1746 he published " Odes on Various Subjects" (4to, London), and in 1748 was presented to the rectory of Winslade. lie made a translation of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, added to it Christopher Pitt's version of the /Eneid, and published the whole in 1753 (4 vols. 8vo). Soon afterward he contributed 24 critical papers to the " Ad- venturer." In 1754 ho was made rector of Tun worth, and in 1755 second master of Win- chester school. In 1756 he published the first volume of his " Essay on the Writings and Ge- nius of Pope," the work upon which his repu- tation chiefly rests, and of which the second volume did not appear till 1782. From 1766 to 1793 ho was head master of Winchester school, in 1782 was made a prebendary of St. Paul's, and in 1788 of Winchester. His edi- tion of Pope's works (9 vols. 8vo) appeared in 1797, and about the same time he began an edition of Dryden, which was completed after his death (4 vols. 8vo, 1811). See "Biograph- ical Memoirs of the late Rev. Joseph War- ton, D. D.," by the Rev. John Wooll (4to, London, 1806). II. Thomas brother of the preceding, born in Basingstoke in 1728, died in Oxford, May 21, 1790. In May, 1743, he became a commoner of Trinity college, Ox- ford, and in 1745 contributed to "Dodsley's Museum" a song and a prize essay. In 1747 he published a poem on "The Pleasures of Melancholy," and in 1749 " The Triumph of Isis," an answer to Mason's anti-Jacobite poem, "Isis, an Elegy." In 1751 he became a fel- low of Trinity college, where he spent the remainder of his life. His " Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser" (1754) gave him a high reputation as a critic. From 1757 to 1767 he was professor of poetry, an office held by his father, Thomas Warton, D. D., in 1718-'28. He published an edition of Theo- critus (2 vols. 4to, 1770), and Inscriptionum Romanarum Metricarum Delectus (4to, Lon- don, 1758). Among his remaining works are: "The Oxford Sausage, or Select Pieces writ- ten by the most celebrated Wits of the Uni- versity of Oxford" (1764); an edition of the Greek anthology (1766) ; and " The History of English Poetry, from the close of the Eleventh to the commencement of the Eighteenth Cen- tury, to which are prefixed two Dissertations : 1, on the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Eu- rope ; 2, on the Introduction of Learning into England" (vol. i., 1774; ii., 1778; iii., 1781; and a fragment of vol. iv., to the end of the reign of Elizabeth). In the edition of Richard Price many of Warton's mistakes are corrected (4 vols. 8vo, London, 1824 ; new ed., 8 vols., 1840). In 1785 he was elected Camden pro- fessor of ancient history, and succeeded White- head as poet laureate. In 1802 Dr. Mant, bish- op of Down, published an edition of " The Po- etical Works of the late Thomas Warton, B. D." (2 vols. 8vo), with an account of his life. WARVILLE, Brtssot de. See BRISSOT. WARWICK, a S. E. county of Virginia, on the peninsula between the York and James rivers, bordering on the latter, and drained by several small streams ; area, 95 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,672, of whom 1,052 were colored. The surface is undulating, and the soil very fertile. Oysters and firewood are largely ex- ported. The chief productions in 1870' were 4,850 bushels of wheat, 85,794 of Indian corn, 7,653 of oats, 4,210 of Irish and 2,217 of sweet potatoes. There were 140 horses, 246 milch cows, 329 other cattle, and 1,140 swine. Capi- tal, Warwick Court House. WARWICK, a town of Kent <<>.. Rhode Isl- and, 10 m. S. by W. of Providence, bordering on Narragansett bay and intersected by the Stonington and Providence railroad ; pop. in 1870, 10,453; in 1875, 11,614. In the town are several villages engaged in manufactures, the principal of which are Natick, Phrenix, Centreville, River Point, Lippitt, Arctic, and