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ANDERSEN. In t<pain (18(iO). He wrote otlier novels, The Two liuroiicsses (184!)) and To lie or Not To Be (1857), and an epic failure, Ahasucrus (1847) ; but the Picture Book Without Pictures (1840) had revealed his best talent to him as an inter- [ireter of child nature. Between 18o:i and 18G2 he printed nine small volumes of stories, and fin- ished the last of them in 1872. His last years were unliarassed by criticism, and attended by all the honor and love that should accompany old age. His literary jubilee occurred in 1869, and he died at Copenhagen, August 4, 1875, after a brief and painless illness.

In appearance, Andersen was limp and very ungainl}'. His nose was large, his neck and limbs long and lank, and his hands and feet very large; yet he fancied himself distinguished-look- ing, and had a child's delight in dress and deco- ration. His character, too, hovered between the childlike and the childish. He never realized the limitations of his genius. He did not like children, and he was not personally attractive to them. He was a shrewd observer, but self- absorbed and out of touch with his political gen- eration. His literary style is faulty, but it re- flects marvelously the vivid imagery of juvenile fancy. He had at his finger-tips all the vener- able devices of the nursery to spur attention and kindle sympathy. No writer looks at nature so wholly with the child's eyes as he, none so inter- penetrates narration with the smiles, the fears, and the very intonations of childhood. His per- sonifications may tease the adult fancy, but they are the natural drama of children. Andersen's works are Englished in ten uniform but unnum- bered volumes. JIary llowitt's is still the best of many translations of the Tales, though it is far from faultless. A sumptuous centenary edi- tion of the Tales appeared (1900) under the pa- tronage of the Danish Government simultane- onsly in six languages. Andersen's Autobiogra- phy was compiled by Jonas (Berlin, 1879). R. Nisbet Bain's Life of Andersen (New York, 1895) is the best in English.

ANDERSEN, an'der-scn, Karl (1828-83). A Danish poet. He was born at Copenhagen, stud- ied law there, and was subsequently appointed curator of the royal museums at the castle of Rosenborg. He first became known through his Kraiids paa en Arbejders Kiste ("A Wreath for a Laborer's Coffin," 1875). He also published Lyriske Smaadiqie ("Shorter Lvrics," 1863), Poesier ("Poems'." 1870), Genrehillcdcr ("Genre- Pictures," 1876-81), and other works. He made a collection of Icelandic sagas (1864) and trans- lations of Servian folk-songs.

AN'DERSON. A city and railroad centre, the county seat of Madison Co.. Ind., 30 miles northeast of Indianapolis, on the west fork of the White River, and the Chicago and Southeastern, tlie Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and other railroads (ilap: Indiana, D 2). An abundant supply of natural gas promotes the maniifacturing industries, which include iron, steel, glass, wire nails, strawboards, tiles, etc. The city is the centre of an extensive system of interurban electric railways, the power for the operation of which is supplied by a million- dollar plant. Anderson owns and operates its water works, gas. and electric light plants, has several small parks and a public library. Near the city are the historic mounds of the so-called "mound builders." Anderson was settled in, incorporated in 1865, and is governed un- der the charter of 1865, which provides for a mayor, elected every four years, and a city coun- cil of six member?, controlling all the appoint- ments. Its rapid growth is showft by the follow- ing figures of populalion; ISSO, 4126: 1890, 10,741; 1900, 20,178.

ANDERSON. A city and county seat of Anderson Co., S. C, about 125 miles northwest of the State capital, Columbia, on the .Southern, the Blue Ridge, and tlie Charleston and Western Carolina railroads (Map: South Carolina, B 2). It has city and school libraries, and there are handsome school buildings and churclies, and a fine city hall and county court-house. The city is in a fertile cotton-growing and somewhat diversified agricultural region, and has several large wholesale stores, while among its indus- trial establishments are cotton and cottonseed oil mills, factories for the manufacture of fer- tilizers, spring beds and mattresses, overalls, col- lars, and otlier articles of apparel, lumber and flour mills, and machine shops. A notable feat- ure of the city is a superb electric power station, ten miles distant on the Seneca River, and con- trolled by a private corporation, which supplies to the city and vicinity electric power for in- dustrial enterprises as well as light. Tliis com- pany also controls the city's water supply. The government, under a charter of 1882, is adminis- tered by a mayor, elected every tw'o years, and a municipal council. Town meetings are held when necessary. Anderson was settled in 1827. Pop., 1890, 3018; 1900, 5498.

ANDERSON, Alexander (177.5-1870). The earliest wood-engraver in the United States. He was born in New York Citj', and in 1796 received his medical degree from Columbia College, but after two years he gave up his medical work and devoted his entire attention to wood-engraving. Among his best known productions are his forty illustrations of Shakespeare's plays, and the cuts for Webster's HpcUinfiBook. He was commissioned by the Government to engrave plates for paper currency. Consult Lossing, Memorial Address on Alexander Anderson, published by the New York Historical Society.

ANDERSON, Sir Edmund (1530-1605). An English jurist. Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1582, distinguished for zeal in the cause of the Established Church, and for harshness toward Catholics and other dissenters. In his attitude at the trials of Robert Brown, the founder of the Brownists, and of John Udall, concerned in the authorship of the ]Iartin Mar- prelate pamphlets, he showed a spirit of brutal vindictiveness bent on conviction. He was one of the commissioners in 1586 to try Queen Mary of Scotland, and afterward to try Sir Walter Raleigh. He was a man of extraordinary legal learning.

ANDERSON, Gau-sha (1832—). An American theologian. He was born at North Bergen, N. Y.. and was educated at Rochester University and Baptist Theological Seminary. He held several pastorates, and afterward became president successively of the universities of Chicago (1878-85) and Denison, 0. (1887-90). .Afterward he took the chair of homiletics and theology at Chicago University.

ANDERSON, (1831-62). A Confederate soldier. He was born at Wilmington,