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* LEIGHTON. 107 LEIPZIG. pictures, secured his election as associate of the intrinsically the best perverted and himself Roj-al Academy. He became a member in 1800, made the accomplice. In 1070, on the di^pri- and president in 1878, fulfilling the public func- vation of Dr. Alexander Burnet, he was made tions with especial grace. Although a bachelor, Arclibishop of Glasgow, an oUice which he accepted lie entertained royally in his fine house at Ken- only on the condition that he should be assisted sington. He received lirst-class medals at Ant- in liis attempts to carry out a liberal measure werp in 1885, and Paris 188'J, was an honorary for "the comprehension of the Presbyterians." His member of many foreign academies and orders, efforts, however, were vain; the higli-lianded and received honorary degrees from Oxford, tyranny of his colleagues was renewed, and Cambridge, and Edinburgh. In 1880 he was made Leighton resigned in 1074. After a short resi- a baronet, and on January 24. 1890, he was dence in Edinburgh, he went to live with his raised to the peerage as Baron Leighton of sister at Broadhurst, in Horsted Keynes, Sussex, Stretton. He died on the following day in Lon- where he sjwnt the rest of his days in retire- don, and was buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral. nient. He died June 2.5, 1684. Leighton's com- Leigliton was a clever rather than a great plete works (he published nothing during his artist. His work is finished and painstaking, the lifetime) are to be found in an edition published result of sttidy and cultivated taste, rather than in London (ed. by West, 7 vols., 1809-7.5) ; a genius. His art is the equivalent of the classical volume of selections by Blair appeared in 1883. art of Ingres, softened by a sort of romantic The most admired of his writings is his com- mentary on First Peter. Consult liis biography by West and Blair in the editions mentioned aliove. A Leighton bibliography, compiled by Blair, is in the British and Foreign Evanqclical h'eviriv for July, 1883. liEINSTEE, len'ster. One of the four prov- inces of Ireland, occupying the southeast portion of the country, and bounded on the east liy Saint George's Channel and the Irish Sea (Map: Ire- land, D 3). Area, 7022 square miles: divided feeling. His earlier works (before 1800) in- clude "Paolo and Francesca," the "Odalisque," "Dante at Verona." "Orpheus and Eurydice." Among the most important of his later paintings are: "Hercules Wrestling with Death'' (1871) ; the "Condottiere :" "Summer Moon:" "Damne- phoria" (1870) : portrait of Sir Richard Burton (1870); ":Musie Lesson" (1877); "Biondina" (1879); his own portrait (1880), in the Uflizi Gallery, Florence; "Wedded" (1882); "Last Watch of Hero" (1887) ; "Captive Andromache" into 'the counties o"f Dublin, Meath, Louth, Kil (1888); "Bath of Psyche" (1890), Millbank Museum: "Rizpah" ( 1893) : "Phoenicians Trading with Britons," a decoration for the Royal Ex- change. He painted a triptych representing "JNlusic," for the jNIarquand residence. New York, and the Metropolitan Museum possesses his •'LachrymiB." Leighton also attempted a few dare, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, West ^leath, Longfoi-d, King's, and Queen's (qq.v). PoiTOlation, in 1841, 1,982.109; in 1001. 1,150,480. LEIPA, or BOHMISCH-LEIPA, bf'mish ll'ptt (Bohemian Ceskd-Lipa) . A town of Bo- hemia, Austria, 42 miles north-northeast of pieces "of sculpture with success, the best of Prague (Map: Austria, D 1). Its industries which are "Athlete Struggling with a Python" include brewing, sugar-refining, dyeing, and the (1877) and a "Sluggard," both in Millbank Mu- seum. He also designed illustrations to George Eliot's Romola and DahieVs Bible. His Ad- dresses to the fftiidents of ihe Royal Academy were published in 1890. Consult his biography, by Mrs. Lang (London, 1885) ; Rhys (ib., 1895). LEIGHTON, RoBEKT (1011-84). Archbishop of fUasgow. He was born probably in Lon mantifacture of machinery. Poptilation, in 1900, 10,074, mostly Germans. IjEIPO'A (Xco-Lat.. probably from the native name). An Avistralian megapode, called 'native pheasant' and 'niallee-bird' by the country peo- ple. See jNIound-Bird. LEIPZIG, iTp'tsiK, or LEIPSIC, lip'slk. The largest city in Saxony, and the fourtli city in size don in 1011. He entered Edinburgh Univer- in the German Empire, situated on the Elster, sity in 1027. took his degree of Jl.A. in 1031, Pleisse, and Parthe, 74 miles by rail northwest and afterwards proceeded to France. Returning of Dresden (Map: Germany. E 3). Leipzig lies to Scotland, he was appointed, in 1041. to the jn a rich and e.xtensive plain. Its fortifica- parish of Xewbattle, near Edinburgh ; but he tions no longer exist, having given way to was not militant enough to please his fierce co- pleasant promenades. The mean annual tem- presbyters, while they appeared to him, who had perature is 40.7° F. ; mean rainfall 22 inches, studied far more deeply than any Scotchman of in the old town, which has become more and his time the various ecclesiastical politics of more exclusively the business .section, are many Christendom, truculent abotit trifles. In 1052 he ancient buildings and narrow streets, divcrsi- resigned his cliarge, and in the following year fied by handsome modern edifices in the Re- was elected principal of the I'niversity of Edin- naissance style. Here quaint, sliopdincd courts hurgli, a dignitv which he retained for ten years, perve to connect streets and shorten distances. After the restoration of Charles II., Leigliton, This section is surrounded by finely built modem who had long separated himself from the Pres- districts, forming both an inner and outer circle byterian party, was, with much reluctance, in- of suburbs, beautified by spacious avenues and diiced to accept a bishopric. He chose Dunblane, promenades. Beyond these suburbs are still other because it was small and poor. Unfortunately for suburban areas, which have been legally a his peace, the men with whom he was now allied part of the city since 1892. The spacious were even more intolerant and unscrupulous thoroughfare called the Briihl crowns the "^•'th- than the Presbyterians. Twice he proceeded to em part of the old town. In the vicinity London (in 1005 and 1009) to implore the King are the monument to Hahnemann, of houia>o- to adopt a milder course. Nothing was really pathic fame, and the monument, with the Polisli done, though much was promised.' and Leigli- eagle, on the spot where Poniatowski was ton had to endure the misery of seeing an drowned at the beginning of Napoleons retreat ecclesiastical system which he' believed to be in 1813, Along the avenues in the old to^^•n are Vol. XII.— ^.