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ALLEINE. AL'LEINE, or ALLEIN, (1811-81). An English writer and theologian, author of Vindiciw Pictulis, or A VincUcation of Godliness (London, 163). He was born at Ditcheat, Somersetshire, educated at Oxford; became assistant in the ministry to his father, Richard Alleine, and was noted for his eloquence. He declared for the Puritans, Init continued for twenty years (1641-C2) rector of Batcombe in Somerset. On the passage of the act of uniformity he went with the ejected, and, after the five-mile act, preached where he could find occasion. His Vindication of Godliness was refused license, and Roger Norton, the King's printer, caused a large part of the first edition to be seized and sent to the royal kitchen for kindling; but, on reading it, he brought back the sheets and sold the work from his own shop, for which he had to beg pardon on his knees at the council table. Alleine died at Frome Selwood, December 22, 1081. ALLEMAINE, al-man'. An old name for Germany (cf. Fr. Allemagne). See. ALLEMANDE, al'le-mand' (Fr., feminine of aUcmuml, German). A French dance, said to have been invented in the time of Louis XIV., which again became popular at the Parisian theatres during the reign of Napoleon I. It has a slow waltz kind of tempo, and consists of three steps {pas marches) made in a sliding manner, backward and forward, but seldom waltzing or turning round. The whole charm of the dance lies in the graceful manner of entwining and detaching the arms in the different steps. In England it was called Almain. and is mentioned in Ben Jonson's play. The Devil is an Ass, acted in 1610, which proves it of earlier origin. The name has also reference to a German dance of Swabia, of which Beethoven's twelve Deutsche Tanze for orchestra are specimens. The Allemande is also the name of a movement in the Huite (q.v.), having no relation to the dance of the same name. It usually consists of a figurative melody which has a simple accompaniment. AL'LEMAN'NI. See. AL'LEN. Alexandee Viets Griswold, D.D. (1841 — ). A Protestant Episcopal theologian, born at Otis, Mass. He graduated at Kenyon College in 1802, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1805. In 18G7 he became professor of church history in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. His publications include Continuity of Christian Thought (Boston, 1884, eleventh edition, 189.5), Life of Jonathan Edwards (1889), Religious Progress (1894), Christian Institutions (New York, (1897), Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks (1901, two volumes). ALLEN, Arabella. A character in Dickens's Pickwick Papers. She becomes Mrs. Nathaniel Winkle.  ALLEN, Charles Grant Blairfindie (1848-99). An English author, better known as Grant Allen. He was born in Kingston, Canada, of Irish descent, and was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1871. He then spent a few years as principal of a colonial college in Jamaica. He is best known by his popular scientific works, his expositions of the theory of evolution being particularly clear and readable. He spent most of his life in London, where he died. Among his scientific books the following may be mentioned: Physio- logical Æsthetics (1877), probably his best work; The Color Sense (1879), The Evolutionist at Large (1881), Vignettes from Nature (1881), Co/i(i Clout's Calendar (1883), Flowers and their Pedigrees (1884), The Utory of the Plants (1895), and Evolution of the Idea of God (1897). He also wrote a life of Charles Darwin (1885), and a number of novels, among them: Philistia (1884), The Devil's Die (1888), The Woman Who Did (1895), A Bride from the Desert (1896). Historical studies also attracted him, and he published Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881), and a series of historical guide books to Paris, Florence, and Belgium. ALLEN,  (1848 — ). An American politician. He was born at Lowell, Mass., graduated in 1869 at Amherst College, and for a time was in the lumber industry at Lowell. In 1851-52 he served in the Lower House of the Massachusetts State Legislature, and in 1883 in the State Senate. He was subsequently elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth (1885-89) Congresses. In 1898 he succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and in 1900-01 was the first civil governor of Puerto Rico. His administration of the affairs of the island did much to promote trade and internal prosperity. ALLEN, (1800-63). An American missionary, boin at Barre, Mass. He graduated in 1823 at Amherst College, studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1827 went to Bombay as a missionary. He traveled widely in western India, established schools, directed a new translation of the Bible into Mahratta, and in 1853 returned, much broken in health, to America. His History of India was published at Boston in 1856. ALLEN, Ebenezer (1743-1806). An American soldier. He was born in Northampton, Mass., and removed to Vermont in 1771. He became a lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain Boys, and during the Revolution served first as captain in and then as major of a battalion of New Hampshire rangers. He was conspicuous for gallantry at the battle of Bennington, and in September, 1777, forced the evacuation of Ticonderoga by his capture of Mount Defiance. ALLEN, Edward Patrick (18.53—). A Roman Catholic bishop of Mobile, Ala., appointed in 1897. He was born at Lowell, Mass., and after completing a theological course at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md., was ordained a priest in 1881. Afterward he held a professorship at Mount St. Mary's, and was its president from 1884 until he was consecrated bishop by Cardinal Gibbons. During his administration he relieved the college of its heavy indebtedness, increased its equipment, and enlarged its faculty. ALLEN, Elisha Hunt (1804-83). An American politician and Hawaiian justice, born at New Salem, Mass. He graduated at Williams College, was called to the Massachusetts Bar, and was a member of the State Legislature of Maine from 1836 to 1841, and in 1846. In 1849 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, and from 1852 to 1856 was United States consul