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An Caisled,n Riabhach, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, 1860. Education: private; Trinity College, Dublin. Professor of modern literature, State University, New Brunswick, 1893; former examiner in Celtic, Royal University of Ireland; at present, professor of modern Irish, senator and dean of the Irish Faculty, National University of Ireland. First president National Literary Society; presented with the freedom of the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Kilkenny, Ireland; member of the Fry Royal Com- mission for inquiring into Irish University education. President of: the Gaelic League since its foundation, 1893; Irish Texts Society; hon. member: College Historical Society; Caledonian Medical Society. Author of: "Literary History of Ireland" (1899); "Poems of Raftery" (1904); "Religious Songs of Connacht" (1906); "Legends of Saints and Sinners" (1915); about thirty other books: plays, collections of folk-lore, folk songs, editions of Irish texts, histories of Irish literature, poems; assistant editor "New Irish Library"; collaborator in "Dic- tionary of Religion"; contributor to: "Revue celtique"; "Zeitschrift fiir keltische Philologie"; "Eriu"; "Leabhar na Gaedhilge"; "Celtic Review". ARTICLES: Bkehon Laws, The; Four Masters, Annals op the; Ireland: Irish Literature; O'Carolan, Torloqh; O'CoNOR, Charles; O'Curry, Eugene; O'Daly, Donogh M6r; O'DuQAN, John.

Hyvemat, Vert Reverend EuoiiNE Xavier Louis Henri, litt.B., d.d., orientahst, b. at S. Julien-en-Jarrgt, Loire, France, 30 June, 1858, son of Claude Hyvernat, former editor of "Gazette de Lyon", and Lgonide Meyrieux. Education: St.

John's Preparatory Seminary and University of France, Lyons; Seminaries of St. Sulpice, Issy and Paris. Ordained 1882; chaplain. Church of St. Louis of the French, Rome, 1882-1885; interpreter of Oriental languages, Propaganda, Rome, 188.5-1889; professor of Assyrology and Egyptology, Roman Seminary, 1885-1888; in Armenia on a scientific mission for the French Government 1888-1889; chief of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Literatures (at present, professor of Oriental lan- guages and archaeology), Cathohc University, Wash- ington, D. C, 1889-. Member of: Pontifical Roman Academy of the Nuovi Lincei; Academy of the Catholic Religion (Rome); Pontifical Roman Academy of Archaeology; American Oriental Society; Society for Biblical Studies (Rome); A.siatic Society (Paris); Asiatic Society (Florence); Vorderasiatische GeseUschaft; Text and Translation Society. Author of: "Les Actes des Martyrs d'Egypte" (Paris, 1886); "Album de PaMographie Copte" (Paris, 1888); "Du Caucase au Golfe Persique (in collabo- ration with Paul MuUer-Simonis) (Washington, 1892) ; compiled "Acta Martyrum", Coptic text and Latin translation (in collaboration with Giuseppe Balestri) (Paris, 1907-1908); editor of "Scriptores Coptici", "Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium"; consulting editor, "Jewish Encyclopedia"; collabora- tor in: Vigouroux, " Dictionnaire de la Bible"; "Jewish Encyclopedia"; contributor to American, German, and French Reviews.

ARTICLES: Coptic Literature; Egypt; Elish^; Eznik; James of Sarugh; John of Ephesus; John op Malalas; John OF NiKrt; Pebsecutions, Coptic; Vebsions of the Bible, Coptic.