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* KWAN-YIN. 639 KYKLE. and, as it dates from the year 915, many images with male attributes arc found there. Tliou- sands of monks and oilier worshijiers from all parts of China, as well as from Tibet and Mon- golia, visit the place annually. The worship of Kwaiiyin is peculiar to that development of 15iiddliism which is called Mahayana, or the 'Great Conveyance.' See JI.ii.v.xa. Consult: Eitel, Handbook- for the Htudcnl of Chinese Buddhism (Hong Kong, 1870); Ed- kins, Chinese Buddhism (London, 1880) ; Wad- dell. The Buddhism of Tibet (London, 18!)5) ; Lloyd, "The Development of Japanese Buddhism," in Transaetions of the Asiatic Nociety of Jiiimn, vol. xx. (Yokohama, 1894) ; and Grillis. The lic- liyions of Juinin (Xew York, 1895). KWEI-CHOW, kwa'chou'. or KUEI-CHO0 (Chin.. lionoral)le land). "The Switzerland of China.' an inland province, bounded on the south- west by Yun-nan. on the northwest and north by Sze-ehuen. on the east by Ilunan, and on the south by Kwang-si. Area, (i4,454 square miles (Map: China, C 0). It is an exceedingly moun- tainous country, but has many fine grassy plains, though of no great extent. The population is sparse; cultivation is carried on only in the neighborhood of towns and villages, the chief crops are wheat, barley, rice, and the poppy. Coal, iron, copper, silver, quicksilver, and anti- mony exist in great quantity. Coal is worked extensively for domestic use. Opium, wood-oil, fibre-paper, 'rice-paper,' and white wax and gall- nuts are the chief exportable products. The province supplies several considerable tributaries to the Sikiang, which flows through Kwang-si and Kwang-tung. Its chief rivers are the Wu- kiang and the Yuen. The Wu-kiang rises north of the capital, and. after a course of .500 miles northeast and north, flows into the Yangtse at Fu-chow. Owing to its rapids, it does not be- come navigable until it appro;iches Sze-chuen, 100 miles fnmi its mouth, where it is known as the Kung-tan River. The Y'uen. which flows east and northeast into the Tung-ting Lake, in Hu- nan, waters the southeastern part of the prov- ince. Its upi)er courses are obstructed by nu- merous rapids, but it is navigable from its mouth to within l.'iO miles of the capital. Kwei-yang (q.v.). With Y'un-nan. Kwei-chow forms the Governor-Generalship of Y"un-Kwei. The popu- lation is about "..lOO.OOO, and consists mostly of immigrants from Sze-ehuen and other neigh- boring provinces. The province has not recov- ered yet from the devastation caused by the war which existed in the first half of the nineteenth century between the Chinese and the aboriginal Miao-tse, who still inhabit the mountains. KWEI-LIN-FTJ, kwa'lfn'foo' (Chin., cassia forest city). Tlie capital of the Chinese Prov- ince of Kwang-si (q.v.). It is a walled city, somewhat decayed, situated on the navigable River Kwei (Map: China. D 6). KWEI-YANG-FU. kw:-i'yang'fon'. The capi- tal of the (Chinese Province of Kwei-chow. It is finely situated in a plain, near the centre of the province, is surrounded by walls of white marble, and contains many handsome memorial arches and monuments of the samp material (Map: China. (i). It is the smallest of all the provincial capitals of China, its walls bavins a circuit of only two miles. Its streets are fairly wide, its shops large and prosperous-looking, and its inhabitants civil. Their foreign goods are re- ceived through the Tung-ting Lake and the Yuen Kiver. Its fuel supply is derived from the coal- mines 10 miles west of the city. KYANIZING. An efficacious method of pre- serving limber from dry rot (q.v.), by injecting into the pores of the wood a solution of corrosive sublimate; it was invented by John H. Kyan, who was born in Dublin, November 27, 1774, and died in 1850. KYD, kid, Thomas (c.l557-e.95). An English dramatist, son of a London scrivener, born about 1557. He attended the Merchant Tailors' School and acquired some knowledge of Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. He died about 1595. Im- mensely popular were his two plays, liaving as hero Jeronimo (or Hieronimo), Marshal of Spain. They are known as The First Part of Jeronimo (printed, 1605), and The Spanish Tragedy (printed, 1594). They were both per- formed pro'oably as early as 1588. They were fre<(uently quoted and abused by later drama- tists: and to the second play 'Shakes|)care seems to have been indebted for some of the machinery of Hamlet. Kyd wrote other tragedies, and may have been the author of a lost Hamlet. Consult his Works, ed. by Boas (O.vford. 1900) ; Ward, History of English Dramatic Literature, vol. ii. (London, 1881) : and Sarrazin, Thomas Kyd und srin Krris (Berlin. 188-2). K-STLLMANN, kll'man. Walter (1837-). A German architect, born at Weyer - bei - Wald, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin, where he formed a partnership with Adolf Ilevden about 1868. Their extensive activity, under the firm name of Kyllniann & Heyilen. resulted in the erection of numerous public and private buildings in Berlin and vicinity, among them the "Kaisergalerie." one of the handsomest arcades in Europe. They were the architects of the Johanniskirche in Diisseldorf, the post-offices in Brcslau and Ros- tock, and were particularly successful with their structures for exliibitions. notably the buildings of the German Empire at the Vienna Exposition of 1S73. KYXOE CATTLE. See Highlaxd C^ttu:. KYMRY. kim'ri, or CYMKY. See Wales, section on History. KYOTO. A city of Japan. See Kioto. KYRIE ELEISON, kir^-* Ma'i-son (Gk. Kypie ((-nao: hi/rie flecson. Lord have mercy). A form of jjrayer which occurs in both Greek and Latin liturgies. It appears as a regu- lar formula as early as the Apostolic Consti- tutions. In fact, the retention of the Greek form in the Western books is evidence that it comes down from the time when that language was used throughout the entire Christian Church. The number of repetitions has varied at different times, while in the East the alternation of Christ e eleison was unknown. In the modern Roman Catholic mass it follows immediately upon the introit (q.v.). KYRLE, kerl. Joiix (16."?-- 17241. An English pliilanthropist. famed by Pope's eulogy of him in his third Moral Epistle under the name 'The Man of Ross.' He was born in the Parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Ross Grammar School and at Balliol College,