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* REICHSTADT. 808 BEID. July 22, 1818, he was created Duke of Eeichstadt, with the rank of an Austrian prince. He received a liberal education, but never enjoyed robust health, nor did he exhibit energj- of character. He died at Schiinbrunn, July 22, 1832. His body was interred in the Imperial tomb at Vienna. Consult Welschinger, he roi de Rome, 1811-32 (Paris, 1897). KEICHSTAG, riKs'tag. See Germany. KEID, red. Sir George (1841—). A Scotch painter, born in Aberdeen. He was a pupil of the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh, and also studied under iloUinger, Israels, and Yvon. He succeeded Douglass as president of the Royal Scottish Acad- emy in 1891, and was knighted in the same year. He is noted as a delicate painter of flowers and landscape, and as a fine portraitist. His works in this latter line include portraits of Lord Presi- dent Inglis, in the Scottish Parliament House, of John ilackenzie, and of H. Wellwood ^Maxwell. REID, Georhe Agnew ( 1861— ). A Canadian artist, born near Wingham, Ontario. He began to study art in Toronto under Robert Harris, con- tinued it in Philadelphia with Thomas Eakins, and tlien went to Paris, where he studied with Constant, Lefebvre, Dagnan-Bouveret, and others. A frequent exhibitor at the Salon, his oil paint- ings were also displa.yed at the leading exhibi- tions in Canada and the United States, and he won a World's Fair Columbian medal for his large canvas, "The Foreclosure of the Mortgage" (1893). Some of his other important pictures are "Drawing Lots," "Dreaming," "The Other Side of the Question," "Mortgaging the Home- stead," "The Berry Pickers," "A Story, Adagio," "A Modern Madonna," "Lullaby," and "Twilight," while he was also particularly successful in panels for mural decoration. The series of these in the entrance hall of the municipal buildings, Toronto, was presented to the city by Mr. Reid and placed there at his own expense. In 1898 he was elected president of the Ontario Society of Artists. REID, James Smith (1846—). An English classicist, born at Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland, and educated at the City of London School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was Fellow of Christ's College from 1870 to 1872 and classi- cal lecturer from 1870 to 1880 : also classical lec- turer of Pembroke College (1873-78 and 1880-85), and tutor of Gonville and Caius College 188.5 —. In 1899 he was made professor of Ancient His- tory. His publications include editions of many of Cicero's philosophical works and orations and numerous philological papers. REID (Thomas) Matne (1818-83). A Brit- ish writer of hunting romances and tales of ad- venture, born at Ballyroney. County Down, Ireland. April 4, 1818. His father was a Presby- terian minister and Mayne Reid was educated for the same profession, but the thirst of adven- ture led him to emigrate to the United States. In 1840 he arrived at New Orleans, where he ■worked as a storekeeper, negro-overseer, and actor. As a hunter and trader among the Indians, he gained that knowledge of scenery, manners, and characteristics which he afterwards used to advantage in his Scalp Hunters, White Chief, and many other romances. He devoted five years to travel in the United States. In 1846 he obtained a commission, and served with distinction in the Mexican War. In 1849 he sailed for Europe to take part in the struggle for independence in Hungary, but got no farther than France. He then went to England, and be- gan his long series of romances. In 1867 he returned to New York, and founded the unsuc- cessful Onward Magazine. In 1870 he went back to England, where he died October 22, 1883. Among his many tales of adventure on land and on sea are: The Rifle Rangers (1850); The Desert Rome (1851) ; The Free Lances (1851) ; The ^Var Trail (1857); The Boy Tar (1859); Afloat in the Forest (1865); The Gastaicays (1870). Most of Reid's stories were translated into French, and many of them into German. Consult the Memoir by his widow, Elizabeth Reid (London. 1890). REID, Robert (1863—). An American figure painter, born In Stockbridge, Mass. He was a pupil of Boulanger and Lefebvre, in Paris, and was strongly influenced by the Impressionists. His figure pieces are usually girls surrounded by flowers, out of doors, and his treatment is essentially energetic and bold. He is better known by his purely decorative works, which in- clude "America Unveiling Her Natural Strength," in the United States Building at the Paris Exposition of 1900. There were also fres- coes by him in the Liberal Arts Building at Chi- cago in 1893. He received the Hallgarten Prize in 1898. and a silver medal, and special gold medal for mural decoration, at Paris in 1900. REID, Robert Gillespie (? — ). A Canadian railway contractor, born at Coupar Angus (Perthshire), Scotland. In 1865 he went to Australia, where he was interested in gold- mining and other ventures, and in 1871 he emigrated to America, and had charge of the construction of the international bridge across the Niagara River, the international railway bridge over the Rio Grande, the Lachine Bridge over the Saint Lawrence, three-quarters of a mile in length, and much other important bridge work in the West. In 1893 he made a contract with the Government of Newfoundland colony whereby he was to construct a trans-insular railway from Saint John's to Port-aux-Basques, to be paid for at the rate of .$15,600 a mile and completed in three years. It was likewise arranged that he was to maintain and operate the line for a period of ten years in consideration of a grant of 5000 acres of land in alternate blocks for each mile of railway constructed. In 1898 he contracted with the Government to operate all trunk and branch railways in the island for a period of fifty years, on condition that these railways should, at the termination of the time specified, become his property. He was also to receive from the Government 2,500,000 acres of land on terms similar to those described in the previous contract : to obtain the Government telegraph lines: to build and operate seven steamers: to build and operate a street-railway in Saint .John's; to buy and operate the Saint .John's dry dock : to pave a designated portion of Saint John's; and to pay $1,000,000 in cash to the Government within one year from the signing of the contract. Jhich opposition to this transac- tion was aroused in the colony and finally re- sulted in the resignation of the Governor, Sir James Winter, and his Cabinet, and the election of the Liberal Robert Bond. Reid then agreed