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Herald", illustrator on the "New York Tribune", librarian for Knoedler and Company, New York; for a number of years, manager for a bureau for the loan of art material to magazines and newspapers; has been also employed with the Orinoco Exploring and Mining Company, Guyana, South America, and with the Electric Vehicle Company, New York; managing editor "American Art News" (4 years); at present, resident in New York. Has done drawings on wood, etchings and pen and ink sketches for illustrations; exhibited with the Etching Club in connection with the Water Color Exhibition and at the Architectural League; designer of the monument to the Unknown Dead, erected by the United States Government at SaKsbury, North Carolina; has travelled in South America. Collaborator in; "Most Famous Pictures of the World" (by Mr. Van Cleef : explanations and critical notes) (New York, 1903); has contributed to "Harper's Magazine"; "Cosmopolitan", etc.

ARTICLES: Allori; Alunno, Niccol6; Angelico, Fra; Au- DR.4N; Baglione, Giovanni Cavaliere; B.\ldovinetti, Alesso; Baldung, Hans; Barbieri, Giovanni; Baroccio, Federigo; B.\YEU T SuBiAS, Francisco; Berrettini, Pietro; Berrugtjete, Alonso; Boccacino, Boccaccio; Bonvicino, Albssandro; BoRDONE, Cavaliere Paris; Borgognone, Ambrogio; Borras, Francisco NicolAs; Bril, Paulus; Brumidi, Constantino; Diepenbeeck, Abraham van; Echave, Baltasar de; Gegen- BAUER, JosEP Anton von.

Van den Biesen, Reverend Christian, d.d., b. at Amsterdam, Holland, 8 July, 1864. Education: Seminary, Hageveld, Holland; St. Joseph's College, MiU HiU, London; Gregorian University, Rome. Ordained 1887; former professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, St. Joseph's College, MiU Hill, London; stationed at the house of the Society of St. Joseph for Foreign Missions, Cloakham, Axminster, England, 1908-1914; at present chaplain at the Dominican convent, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scot- land. Has contributed to "Dubhn Review".

ARTICLES: Alpha and Omega; Antediluvians; Apoca- ltpbe; Baltasab; Diaspora ; Drachma.

Van der Donckt, Reverend Ctril, b. in Belgium, 1865. Education: College at Renaix, Seminary at St. Nicholas, American College, and University, Louvain, Belgium. Ordained and came to the United States 1887; acting pastor of pro-Cathedral, Boise, Idaho, 1887-1888; rector at Pocatello, Idaho, for a number of years in charge of eleven counties, 1888- ; at present, rector of St. Joseph's Church, Pocatello. Erected churches at Bellevue, Glenns Ferry, Mont- peher, and Pocatello, Idaho, and a parochial school at Pocatello; refuted B. H. Roberts', of Utah, "Views of the Deity" Author of: "Mrs. Eddy and Bob Ingersoll"; author and editor of: "The Confessor after the Heart of Jesus" (translated from the Italian of Guerra); "The Right to Life of the Unborn Child" (translated from the Dutch of Klarmann); "Work of Lourdes: Heaven's Recent Wonders" (translated from the French of Boissarie); has contributed to: "American Ecclesiastical Review"; "Cathohc Sentinel" (Portland, Oregon). ARTICLE: Boise, Diocese of.

Van den Gheyn, Very Reverend Gabriel, Ph.D., S.T.L., b. at Ghent, 4 February, 1862. Educa- tion: University of Louvain. Ordained 1885; former superior, Institute of St. Lii5vin, Ghent (18 years); inspector of convents, diocese of Ghent, 1908- ; canon of the cathedral of Ghent. President of the 20th Belgian Historical and Archaeological Congress. President of the Archseologieal and Historical Society of Ghent; secretary of the Provincial Commission of Monuments and Archaeological Museums of Ghent; member of the Council of the Royal Archaeological Academy of Belgium; member of various Belgian and French Archaeological Societies; Knight of the Order of Leopold; officer of the French Academy. Author

of "La religion et sa definition", and other philosopti- cal and archaeological works.

ARTICLE: Ghent, Diocese of.

Van der Essen, L:fioN, ph.iitt.n., b. at Antwerp, Belgium, 12 December, 1883. Education: St. Johns Berchmans College, Antwerp; Louvain University, Belgium. Assistant professor, Seminary of History, Louvain, 1906-1910; professor of critical history and institutions of the Middle Ages (1910- ), lecturer (1911-1912) and special professor (1912- ) of the Flemish Course in Medieval History, and vice- president of Seminary of History, Louvain University. In Naples and Parma on a scientific mission from the Belgian Government, 1906-1909; successful com- petitor for a "bourse de voyage" awarded by the Belgian Government; winner in a University compe- tition among four Belgian universities. Author of: "Het Ontstaan van Antwerpen" (Antwerp, 1905); "Etude critique et htt^raire sur les Vitse des Saints Merovingiens de I'ancienne Belgique", crowned by the Institute of France (.Louvain and Paris, 1907); "De straf- en rechterlijke verzoeningsbedevaarten in de Middeneeuven" (Antwerp, 1911); " Geschiedenis der Middeneeuven" (Louvain, 1912); "Les archives farn^siennes de Naples au point de vue des Pays- Bas" (in collaboration with A. Cauohie) (Ghent, 1907); "Les archives particulieres de 1' stranger et leur importance au point de vue de I'histoire des Pays-Bas" (in collaboration with A. Cauchie) (Liege, 1909); "Inventaire des archives farn&iennes de Naples au point de vue de I'histoire des anciens Pays- Bas espagnols" (.in collaboration with A. Cauchie) (Brussels, 1911); collaborator in "Biographie Nationale de Belgique" (by Dr. Van der Essen: "Saint Quentin", 1905); "A Short History of Belgium" (Chicago, 1916); contributor to: "Bulletin de la commission royale d'histoire de Belgique"; "Analectes pour servir k I'histoire eccl&iastique de Belgique " ; " Geschiedkundige bladen " ; " 0ns Geloof ". ARTICLES: Annals, Ecclesiastical; Cheonicon Pas- chale; Eleutherius, Saint, Bishop of Tournai; Eligius, Saint; Florence, Council of; Foillan, Saint; Gery, Saint; Ghislain, Saint; Gondulphus, Saint; Gondulphus of Metz; GoNDULPHUs of Tongres; Gudula, Saimt; Pamelius; Vindi- ciANus, Saint.

Vander Heeren, Reverend Achillb, s.t.l., b. 16 December, 1880. Education: Preparatory Seminary, Roulers, Belgium; Seminary, Bruges; University of Louvain, Belgium. Ordained 1903; professor of moral theology (1907-1910) and of Holy Scripture (1910- ), Seminary, Bruges. Author of "Psahni et Cantica Breviarii" (Bruges, 1913); contributor to: "Revue d'histoire eccl&iastique de Louvain"; "Collationes Brugenses"; " Geloof sonderrieht"; asso- ciate editor of "Geloof sonderrieht".

ARTICLES: Oaths; Peter, Epistles op St.; Philippiaws, Epistle to the; Scandal; Septuagint Version; Suicide.

Van Hoonacker, Reverend Albin August, 6.T.D., b. at Bruges, Belgium, 19 November, 1857. Education: College of St. Louis, Bruges; Preparatory Seminary, Roulers, Semipary, Bruges, and University of Louvain, Belgium. Ordained 1880; professor of humanities. College of St. Louis, Bruges, 1880; curate, Church of St. Martin, Courtrai, Belgium, 1886; vice- regent. College of the Holy Ghost, Louvain Univer- sity, 1887-1889; professor of the critical history of the Old Testament and Hebrew (1889- ) and of Assyrian and moral philosophy (1894- ), Louvain University; canon of the cathedral of Bruges; Knight of the Order of Leopold. Author of: "De rerum creatione ex nihilo", dissertation for doctorate (1886) ; "Observations critiques sur les r^cits concernant Bil6am" (1888); "L'origine des quatre premiers chapitres du DeutiSronome" (1889); "N6h6mie et Esdras" (1890); "N6h6mie en I'an 20 d'Artaxerxes I. Esdras en I'an 7 d'Artaxerxes II" (1892); "Zorobabel