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* LINDSAY. 291 LINDSLEY. Holyrood. He became an usher to Prince James, afterwards James V. of yeotland, an office which he held till 1522. In thi^s year he married Janet Douglas, described as the King's seamstress. About 1.328 .James V. appointed him Lyon king-of-arnis (chief Court herald), in which capacity he was sent on several diplo- matic missions. He died before April 18, 1.555. The earliest of his poems, Tlw Drcine (about 1528), is an allegory written in tlic seven-line stanza of Chaucer. The poet is conducted by Dame Remembrance through earth to hell and purgatory, back to the earth, and finally to heaven. The vision closes with an account of the dreadful state of Scotland — the robbery and op- pression in the Highlands and on the borders. This poem was soon followed by The 'J'estament (iiid Vnmplaynt of our Sovrraiie Lordin Papyngo (15.30), a satire on the Court, prelates, and nobles, and by the King's Fliftiiig (15.36?), an audacious rebuke of the King's licentiousness. For the feast of Epiphany, January 6, 1540, Lindsay wrote his famous morality play, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, in which he de- nounced with especial severity the clergy. A year or two before his death he completed a long l)oem (0333 lines) called The ilonarchie. which gives an account of the rise and fall of Assyria, Persia, Greece, and Rome, closing Avitli a prophecy of the fall of the fifth world-monarchy, the Church of Rome. Other poems are : The Cam- play iit of Bagsche, the Kingis mild Hound, to liawtie, the Kingis hest heUivit Dog, and his Com- panions, a satire on the Court: The Historie and Testament of Squyer ileldrum, a metrical ro- mance, having as a hero a contemporary Scotch laird; Kiltie's Confessions, aimed at the confes- sional: and Ane Description of Peder Coffer, an exposure of peddlers' tricks. For a century Lind- say's satires, abounding in humor and proverbial philosophy, were read tliroughout Scotland. They seem to have lost their popularity chiefly be- cause the language in which they were written became unintelligible to all except scholars. In furthering the Reformation in Scotland they played a part hardly second to the sermons of John Knox. The Thrie Estaitis occupies a con- siderable place in the development of the drama. Consult his Poetical ^yorl^s. ed. bv Laing (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1870) : and Works, ed. for Early English Text Society (5 parts, London, 186.5-71). LINDSAY, Robert. A Scotch chronicler, called, from his birthplace, Pitscottie (q.v. ). LINDSAY, Thomas Boxd (1.8.53—). An American linguist and educator, born in New York City. He graduated at Wesleyan LTniver- sity fn 1874. and then studied in Germany. In 1878 he became assisstant professor of Latin and Sanskrit at Boston University, and in 1884 was promoted to a full professorsliip. He wrote sev- eral articles on Latin poets for Warner's Library of Best Uterature : edited Cornelius Xepos (1882 and 1805). .Tu venal (1800). and Catullus (1002) ; and published East/ Latin Lessons (with Rollins, 1800) and Sight Slips in Latin (1802). LINDSAY, Wallace M. (18,58—). A distin- guished Latinist, born in Fifeshire: educated at Glasgow University and Balliol College, Ox- ford: Fellow of .Tesus College. 1880-00. In the latter year he was appointed professor of hu- manity at Saint Andrews University. Scotland. His contributions to classical learning have been chiefly in the fields of historical grammar of the Latin language and the study of I'lautus. His publications include: Latin Language (Oxford, 1804, the most important work on the subject in English); .1 Short Historical Latin Grammar (Oxford, 1805) ; Introduction to Latin Textual Emendation (London, 1806) ; Palatine Text of Plautus (Oxford, 1890); The Codex Turnebi of Plautus (Oxford, 1808) : Plautus' Caplim (2d ed. London, 1002) ; Xonius Marcellus (Oxford, 1001), etc. LINDSAY, William (1835—). An Ameri- can lawyer, born in Rockbridge County, Va. He was educated in Virginia, and in 1854 removed to Hickman County, Ky., where he taught school, studied law, and in 1858 was admitted to the bar. He entered the Confederate service at the outbreak of the Civil War, was a captain in the Twenty-second Tennessee Regiment, and an aide on the staffs of Generals Buford and Lyon. At the close of the war he resumed his law pr'actice at Clinton, Ky., from which place he was elected as a Democrat to the State Senate in 1867. In 1870 he was elected to the bench of the Kentucky Supreme Court, and from 1876 to 1878 was Chief Justice of the State. He then declined a re- nomination, and resumed his practice at Frank- fort. He was again in- the State Senate in 1889, was a commissioner of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in the same year was elected to the L'nited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of .John G. Carlisle, who had been appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Cleveland. In 1804 he was reelected for the full term of six years, but, being a "sound-money' man. before the close of his term had become estranged from his party and voted generally with the Republicans. After his retirement from the Senate he practiced law in New York City, and in 1001 was appointed by President ^IcKinley a eonunissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis. LINDSBORG, llnzljorg. A city in JlcPher- son County, Kan., 206 miles west by south of Kansas City: on the Smoky Hill River, and on the Union I'acific and the Jlissouri Pacific rail- roads (Map: Kansas, E 3). It is the scat of Bethany College (Lutheran), opened in 1881, consisting of twelve departments, including a musical conservatory which is widely known for its annual 'Messiah' concerts. The city is the cen- tre of several large Swedish Lutheran colonies, and is the location of the Bethany Book Concern, the Lutheran publication house for the West. It has considerable trade in giain, broom-corn, live stock, farm produce, etc., and manufactures flour, brooms, and brick. Population, in 1890, 908 ; in 1000, 1279. LINDSEY, lln'zl, Cn.VRi.E.s (1S20-). A Canadian author. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, and in 1841 went to Canada, where he was employed on the staff of the Toronto Ex- aminer and of the Toronto Leader. His publica- tions include: Clergy Reserves (1851) : Prohibi- tory Liquor Lairs (18551; Life and Times of ^yilliam Liion Macl,en::ie (2 vols., 1,862) : An Inrcsfigation of the Unsettled Boundarir.<! of On- tario (1873) ; and 7?onie in Camida (1877). LINDSTDEY, John Berrien (1822-07). An American physician and educator, born at Prince- ton. N. .1. After graduating at the University of Nashville in 1839, he attended the medical