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shot in response to one fired upon his ship, the Water Witch, from a Paraguayan fort on the Paraua river in Februarj-, 1855, the affair resulting in the loss of one sailor, killed, for which the U.S. government secured reparation in January, 1859. He returned to the United States in May, 1856. His surveys were completed in 1860, turning his chai'ts, notes, and journals over to the navy de- partment. He resigned his commission April 18, 1861, on the secession of Virginia. He was offered an admiral's commission in the Italian navy to aid in its reorganization in 1861, but declined and entered the Confederate service. He com- manded the heavy batteries at Gloucester Point on the York river, and engaged in building gun boats at West Point, Va., which he burned upon the surrender and retreat from Yorktown. He was commisioned commodore in 1862, and sent to England to take command of an iron clad then being built in the Mersey river. This vessel, however, was seized by the English government under threat of war from the U.S. minister, whereupon he took command of a small iron-clad at Copenhagen, Denmark, which he renamed Stonewall. This also being seized in a Spanish harbor, thereby cutting off his services to the Confederate States, he went to Argentine Republic and engaged in exploration. He was afterward associated with ex-President Uzquiza in sheep and cattle raising. Subsequently he went to England to superintend the construction of two iron-clads and two gun-boats for the Argentine navy, in which institution his son was a fleet captain, and engaged in extending the explora- tion of the tributaries of the Plata. In 1880 he took up his residence in Florence, Italy. He is the author of: La Plata: the Argentine Confed- eration and Paraguay (1859); describing 3600 miles of river, navigation and exploration on land extending over 4400 miles. He diod in Rome, Italy, Oct. 26. 1899.

PAQE, Thomas Nelson, author, was born at Oakland, Hanover county, Va., April 23,1853; son of Maj. John and Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; grandson of Francis and Susan (Nelson) Page, and of Thomas and Judith Nelson, and a descendant of Col. John and Alice (Luckin) Page of the county of York in Virginia. He was brought up on the family plantation, attended Washington and Lee university for three sessions, taught school in Kentucky for one year and was graduated at the University of Virginia, LL.B., in 1874. He practised law at Richmond, 1875-93, when he removed to Washington, D.C. He re- ceived the honorary degree of Litt. D. from Wash- ington and Lee university in 1887, of LL.D. from Tulane university in 1899. and of Litt. D. from Yale in 1901. He was married in 1886 to Anne Seddon Bruce, who died in 1888; and secondly, in

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1893, to Florence Lathrop, widow of Henry Field of Chicago, 111. He devoted his leisure to literary work, and is the author of: In Ole Virginia, Marse Chan and Other Sto- ries (1887); Two Little Confederates (1888); Befo' De War (with Armistead C. Gordon, 1890); On Neufound River (1891); Among the Camps (1891); Elsket and Other Sto- ries (1891); The Old South: Essays, Social and Historical (1892); Pastime Stories {1894:); The Burial of the Guns (1895); The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (1896); Social Life in Old Virginia (1897); Tn-o Prisoners (1898); Red Rock (1898); Santa Clans' Partner (1899), and Gordon Keith (1903).

PAQE, Walter Mines, editor, was born in Cary, Wake county, N.C., Aug. 15, 1855; son of Allison F. and Katharine (Raboteau) Page; grandson of Anderson Page, and a descendant of the Page family in Virginia. He attended the Bingham, N.C., military school; was graduated from Randolph-Macon college, Va., in 1876; was a fellow in Greek at Johns Hopkins university under Dr. Gildersleeve, 1876-78; and was a teacher at the Boys' High school, Louisville, Ky., 1878-79. He was editor of the St. Joseph, Mis- souri, Daily Gazette, 1880-81; later became book reviewer and editorial writer on the New York Woi'ld, and returning to North Carolina founded the State Chronicle, at Raleigh, which he edited until 1883, when he was engaged on the staff of the New York Evening Post. He wa's manager of the Forum, 1887-91; its editor, 1891-95; literary adviser of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895-99; editor of the Atlantic J/o»f/J?/,1896-99.and became editor of The World's Work in November, 1899. He was a member of the publishing house of Doubleday, Page & Co., of New York city, and of the University club, in New York. He is the author of The Rebuilding of Old Conunomcealths, a book of essays toward the better training of the masses of the population of the Southern States (1902).

PAQE, William, painter, was born in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 23, 1811. His pai'ents removed to New York city in 1819, and in 1821 he received a premium from the American Institute for a drawing in India ink. He entered upon the study of law in the office of Frederick De Peyster in 1825. but soon left and apprenticed himself to James Hei-ring, the portrait painter, with whom