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* ODE. 736 ODENSE. from vcrst to verse and from stanza to stanza. The irregular ode is thus the most purely sub- jective of lyric forms and capable of the' most delicate adjustments of music and mood; but, because of its verj- pliancy, it is also perhaps the one form in which success is least often at- tained. Of musical settings for odes the most famous are those of Purcell, twenty-eight in num- ber, and the four by Handel. Among the great English odes of the nineteenth century are Wordsworth's To Duty and Intima- tions of Immortulilri ; Coleridge's To France; Shelley's To the ^V<st ^yind, To Libert;/. To Naples, and To a SK-i/larl; ; Keats's To a Xightin- gale. To Autumn, and On a (jrecian Urn : Tenny- son's On the Death of the Duke of Wellington; and Swinburne's To Virtor Hugo. Among those produced in the United States there are Bryant's To a Waterfoirl, The Winds, and Ht/mn of a City; and Lowell's great Commemoration Ode to those who fell in the Civil ^'ar. As an occasional poem ' addressed to a friend, the ode is cultivated by many poets on both Sides of the Atlantic. Consult: English Odes. selected (London, 1881); Great Odes, English and American, selected by Sharp (Canter- bury Poets) ; and for more recent odes, the poems of (i'oventry Patmore and William Watson. See also the various poets mentioned in this article, and Lyric Poetry. ODELI/, Be>-.i.mix B., .Jr. (18.54—). An American political leader, born at Xewburg, Is. Y. He studied at Bet liany College, W. Va., spent three years at Columbia, and then entered busi- ness and politics almost simultaneously. He became a mpml)er of the Xew York State Repub- lican Committee in 1887, and chairman of the Executive Cnmmittee in ISOfi. From ISO.t to 1901 he was a member of Congiess. and was chairman of the Committee on Accounts during the Fifty- fifth Congress. In lono he was elected Governor of Xew York, and signalized his administration by cutting down the expenses of government through the application of 'business principles.' This and his attitude toward Senator Thomas C. Piatt, head of the Xew York Republican organiza- tion, made Odell a conspicuous national figure. In I!in2 he was reelected Governor. ODELL, .ToxATinx (1737-1818). An Ameri- can loyalist poet, born in Xewark. X. .T.. Septem- ber 2.5. 1737. After graduating in 1754 at the College of Xew .Jersey in Xewark, he stiidied medicine, and was a surgeon in the British Army. In I'Ofi he took orders and sliortlv after became rector of the churcli at Burlington, X. J. He was devoted to the loyalist cause during the Revolution, was driven out, and on the evacua- tion of Xew York went to England: but he re- turned to .Xnieriea and filled positions in the Council of the Province of XVw Brunswick. He died in Fredericton, X'. B.. Xovember 25. ISIS. Odell is chiefly known as the most effective satirist on the Tory side and also for strong odes and other lyrics. He shares the honors of Tory laureate with .Joseph Stansbury, with whose M-rses his own were collected in" 18(iO by Win- tlirop Sargent. OD'ENA'THTTS. King of Palmyra and hus- band of the celebrated Zenobia. See Palmyra; Zk.nouia. ODENBURG, e'drn-boorK (Hung. Soprony). A royal Irec city and capital of the county of the same name in Hungary, situated a short distance from the X'eusiedler See and 53 miles by rail southeast of Yienna (Map: Hungary, E 3). It is a fine town with a number of inter- esting churches and monasteries, a theatre, a casino, a higher gymnasium and L'ealschiilr. a Protestant lyceum, and a number of other educa- tional establislimcnts. The vicinity of Oedenburg has long been famois for its wine anil fruit. The manufactures of the town include sugar, spirits, preserved fruit, agricultural implements, wagons, etc. The trade is mostly in agricultural pro- ducts. Oedenburg is identified with tlie Roman Scarahantia. Population, in 1900, 33,478, mostly German Catholics. ODENHEIMER, o'dcn-hi'mer, William Henry (Is17-7:ii. A bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was born in Philadelphia, graduated from the L'niversity of Pennsylvania in 1835, and was ordained priest in 1841. His sole ministerial charge was Saint Peter's, Phila- delphia, where he was considered one of the model parish priests of the United States. In 1859 he was consecrated third Bishop of Xew Jersey. At the division of the State into two dioceses he chose that of Xorthern X'ew Jersey. He was the author of The Origin and Compilation of the PraxjerBouk (1841); The True Catholic Yo Romanist (1842); and Canon Law (1847). He died at Burlington. X. J. Consult the volume of his sermons with introductory memoir bv his widow (Xew York. 1881). ODENKIRCHEN, (ydcn-kiirK'fn. A town in the Rhine Province. Prussia, on the Xiers, 25 miles northwest of Cologne (Map: Prussia, B 3). It has manufactures of velvets, silks, leather, harness, and sealskin. Population, in 1900, 14,- 745. ODENSE, r/nrnsft. The largest city on the island of I'iinen. Denmark, lapltal of Odense Amt, constituting the northern half of the island, and the third city in jiopulation in the Kingdom. It is situated on the Odense River near its mouth in the Odense Fiord (Map: Denmark, D 3). Its streets are well paved, and the city has many handsome modern houses. It is lighted by gas and electricity, and was the first citv in Den- mark to have water distributed to the hou.ses through pipes. The most notable building is the Cathedral of Saint Canute, built in the thir- teenth century, the best example of Gothic architecture in Denmark. Here are buried several distinguished Danish monarchs. The Church of Our Lady, built in the twelfth century, is the oldest edifice in the town. Other buildings worthy of note are the Odense Castle, erected by Frederick lY., and surrounded by a beautiful park, the large monumental city hall, ami the new post-otllce. The chief educational institu- tions are a seminary, a technical ami ;in ajrrleul- tural school, two libraries of 30.000 volumes each, and an archaeological museum. The city is of great industrial and commercial importance. The chief industrial establishments are breweries, distilleries, glass, chemical, and tobacco factories, machine shops, textile mills, and sugar refineries. The harbor consists of two elongated basins forming the forked extremity of the Odense Ship Canal, opening into the fiord. Further improvements and extensions are now