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 WORDSWORTH on epitaphs, and much other heretofore un- published matter, including several poems, have been edited by the Eev. A. B. Grosart (3 vols. 8vo, London, 1876). His only daugh- ter, DOEA, married in 1841 Edward Quillinan, author of several poetical works, "The Con- spirators, a Romance," and a partial transla- tion of Camoens's "Lusiad." She published "Journal of a few Months' Residence in Por- tugal, and Glimpses of the South of Spain" (2 vols. 8vo, 1847), and died July 3, 1847. II. Christopher, an English clergyman, youngest brother of the preceding, born at Cocker- mouth, Cumberland, June 9, 1774, died at Buxted, Sussex, Feb. 2, 1846. He graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1796, and was elected a fellow. His " Six Letters to Gran- ville Sharp, Esq., respecting his Remarks on the Use of the Definite Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament" (1802), pro- cured him the office of chaplain to the arch- bishop of Canterbury. He received several preferments, was master of Trinity college, Cambridge, from 1820 to 1841, and after- ward resided at his rectory of Buxted. He published an "Ecclesiastical Biography" (6 vols. 8vo, 1809) ; " Sermons on Various Oc- casions " (1814) ; " Who wrote Eikon Basi- likeT' (1824) ; " King Charles I. the author of Eikon Basilike, further proved" (1828); and "Christian Institutes" (4 vols. 8vo, 1837), de- signed for students in the university and can- didates for holy orders. III. Christopher, an English prelate, son of the preceding, born in 1807. He graduated at Cambridge in 1830, became a fellow, travelled in Greece in 1832- '3, and published "Athens and Attica" (1836). In 1836 he was appointed public orator of the university of Cambridge and head mas- ter of Harrow school, retaining the latter office till 1844, when he was made a canon of "Westminster. He became vicar of Stan- ford-in-the-Vale, Berkshire, in 1850, and bish- op of Lincoln in 1869. His works include " Ancient Writings copied from the Walls of the City of Pompeii" (1837) ; " Greece, Picto- rial, Descriptive, and Historical " (1839) ; " The Correspondence of Richard Bentley " (2 vols., 1842); "Theophims Anglicanus, or Instruc- tion for the young Student concerning the Church, and our own Branch of it "(1843; 9th ed., 1865 ; abridged and published under the title of " Elements of Instruction concern- ing the Church," &c., 1849) ; " Diary in France, mainly on Topics concerning Education and the Church" (1845); "Letters to M. Gondon on the Destructive Character of the Church of Rome" (1847; with a "Sequel," 1848); "On the Canon of the Scriptures" (1848); " Lectures on the Apocalypse " (1849) ; " Baby- lon, or the Question examined, Is the Church of Rome the Babylon of the Apocalypse?" (1850) ; " Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate " (2 vols., 1851); "St. Hippoly- tus and the Church of Rome in the earlier part of the Third Century" (1853); " Re- WORMS 729 marks on M. Bunsen's Work on St. Hippoly- tus " (1855) ; " The New Testament in the Ori- ginal Greek, with Introductions and copious English Notes" (4 parts, 1856-'60) ; "The Holy Year" (1862); "Journal of a Tour in Italy" (2 vols., 1863); "Union with Rome" (1867) ; and " The Holy Bible, with Notes and Introductions" (6 vols., 1864-'70); besides an edition of Theocritus (1844), and many volumes of sermons and lectures, of which the most celebrated appeared under the titles " Dis- courses on Public Education" (1844), "The Interpretation of the Old and New Testament " (1861), and "The Church of Ireland: her His- tory and Claims" (1866). IV. Chailes, brother of the preceding, born at Booking, Essex, in 1806. He graduated in 1830 at Oxford, where he became a tutor, and was second master of Winchester college from 1835 to 1845, and first warden of Trinity college, Perthshire, from 1846 to 1854. In 1852 he was chosen bishop of the united sees of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, Scotland, and in 1853 received from Oxford the degree of D. C. L. lie is one of the New Testament company for the revision of the English version of the Bible. He has published Grcecce Grammatical Rudimenta (Lon- don, 1839), which has passed through 16 edi- tions; " Communion in Prayer " (1843); "His- tory of the College of St. Mary, Winton" (1848); "A United Church of England, Scotland, and Ireland Advocated " (1861) ; " On Shakspeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible" (1864) ; and a " Letter to the Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, on Religious Liberty." WORKHOUSE. See PAUPERISM, vol. xiii., p. 181. WORM GRASS. See PINKROOT. WORMS. See ANNELIDA, EARTHWORM, EK- TOZOA, HAIR WORM, LEECH, NEREIDS, PLANA- RIANS, and RIBBON WORM. WORMS, a city of the grand duchy of Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the Rhine, 26 m. S. S. E. of Mentz; pop. in 1871, 14,484, com- prising about 9,000 Protestants, 4,000 Catho- lics, and 1,000 Jews. The streets are exceed- ingly crooked. Worms has a Byzantine cathe- dral with four towers, begun in the 8th cen- tury and completed in the 12th. Prominent among the other churches is the Gothic Lieb- frauenkirche. which gives name to the famous Liebfrauenmilch wine, produced in its vicin- ity. The synagogue dates from the llth cen- tury. Worms has much trade, and manufac- tories of polished leather, cigars, and other articles. It is one of the oldest of German cities, and was the scene of the Nibtlungen- lied, which begins by telling how King Gun- ther in Worms reigned over the Burgundians. (See NiBELrNGENi.iED.) The Romans had a station here. Attila destroyed the city, and Clovis rebuilt it. Charlemagne and his suc- cessors occasionally resided here. Under t German empire it was successively ruled by local counts and by the dukes of Franconia. It subsequently became a free imperial city,