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* EEWARD. 87 statute prohibiting the rocoiving back of property believed to have been stolen, without investiga- tion, is not generally followed. The offer of a reward may be made verlially, by writing, or in the newspapers, and when made to the pul)lie in- definitely, may be accepted b.v any one who may see the offer. The various Stales differ as to whether one jjerforming the service without hav- ing seen the offer is entitled to the reward. Where the offer of a reward is made in the news- papers, it may be withdrawn or revoked in the same way, and one who saw the offer, but did not see the revocation and jierformed the service called for, is not entitled to recover. The gen- eral principles of contracts govern, and the per- formance of the service requested completes a unilateral contract, on which an action can be maintained. One who goes to great troulde and expense to get the desired information, but does not succeed in doing so imtil after the offer is revoked, is without remedy. A police officer cannot recover a reward offered for the detection of a criminal, if his efforts were in the line of his duties; but if his services were not in any sense official, and were performed in his leisure time, he may claim such a reward just as anv other individual could do. Consult the au- thorities referred to under Contract. KEWARI, or RIWARI, re'wa-re'. The chief commercial town of the District of CJurgaon, Punjab, British India, 48 miles southwest of Delhi, at the junction of two railways (Jfap: India, C 3). It has a fine town hall, hand- some Jain temples, and the interesting ruins of the fort of Gokulgarh. It is an important grain-distributing centre; sugar and salt are also exported, and great quantities of iron are imported for manufacturing purposes. Rewari dates from about B.C. 1000, when it was built near the site of an older town, ruins of which exist on the east. Population, in 1891, 27,900; in 1901, 2"..3no. REWBELL, re'bel', .Teax Frax^om (1747- 180"). A French politician, born at Colmar, Alsace. He practiced law, became president of the corporation of advocates, was elected as a Deputy of the Third Estate to the States-General for the District of Colmar, and in the Na- tional Assembly became known for his knowl- edge of jurisprudence, his bold Republicanism, and his denunciations of Royalist conspiracies. In 1791 he became president of the Assem- bly, afterwards was general secretary to the directoiy of Haut-Rhin, and in 1792 was elected to the Convention. He was an opponent of the Jacobin Club, to whose suppression in November, 1794, he greatly contributed: was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and was elected to the Council of Five Hundred. In Novem- ber of 179.5 he became a member of the Direc- tory, in which he exercised great influence on matters of finance and justice. He was elected president of the Directory in 1790, and was chosen by lot to retire in ^lay. 1709. He sat in the Council of Ancients, but after the coup dY>tat of the Eighteenth Bruniaii'e (November 9, 1799) withdrew from public life. Consult the stand- ard work's on the French Revolution, and Sciout, Le nirrrtoire (4 vols., Paris. 189.5-97). REYBATJD, ra'bft', Louis ( 1799-1879) ._ A French author and politician, born at Marseilles. He entered journalistic work, and settled in Paris REYNARD. in 1829. Besides editing a Jlisloire scicnlifiqiio cl mililairc de rcxpt'dition frain-iii.sc cii Eijypto (10 vols., 1830-30), he published Etudes Hur Wa rc'formalcurs ou sociulislts modvrnes (1840), which won the Montyon pria-- a satirical ro- mance, entitled •l<nimi: I'liliirot A la rivlurclie d'tiiir posiliun nucUilc (1843); and a satire on Revolutionary ideas, Ji'-rumc I'alurut ii la re- cherche de la mcillcurc dcs rcpubliijucs (1848). BEYER, rfl'.vflr', Lofis EtiknneEknest (1823 — ). A composer of the modern French school. His real name was Key. He waa educated in the nmnicipal schools. In 1850 he produced Le Sdlum, a symphonic ode with chorus, set to a poem by Tbeophile Gau- tier. Several operas followed, one of llie most conspicuously successful being La tllaliie (18G1). He was elected to the Aead<5inic in 1870, and about the same time succeeiled Ber- lioz as librarian at the Paris Opf'Ta. Mean- while he gained considerable reputation as a feuilletcniiste on the Journal dcs ncliatx, and through his essays published in 1875 under the collective title of A'o(es de musi2), Sigurd (1884), Salammho (1890); cantatas, Victoire (1859), L'Union dm arts (1862), L'Hymnc dii Jihin; and male choruses. REYKJAVIK, rik'ya-v«k'. The capital of Iceland, situated on the southwest coast of the island at the head of the Faxa Fjord (Jlap: Denmark, F 1). It eonsi.sts chiefly of wooden houses, and has a small cathedral, a classical col- lege, a theological seminary, and a medical school. In the house of the Althing are a library and a col- lection of Icelandic antiquities. During the sum- mer there is steam connuunicalion with Copen- hagen. Poi)ulation, in 1901, 6082. REYNARD (ra'nerd) THE FOX. The greatest medireval beast epic, in which animals become the mouth-pieces of liunuin society, ^'er- sions of this epic are found in the chief languages of Western Europe. The imrrative is made uj) of stories derived from European folk-lore and of more or less literary survivals of the .lilsopic fable. Though the first extant signs of the epic date back to 940 (Ecbasis Captiri), the various elements of the tale did not group themselves into a whole until the twelftli century. In the Latin IsengrimiiK, which is, however, mainly of literary origin, the animals already have specific names. The principal character is Reynard (from the Ciermanic Raginohard, meaning 'the wily, the crafty one')— the fox, whose deadly enemy is Isegrim (probably German eiscn and grimm, signifying 'strength,' 'endurance') — the wolf. About these two and their bitter feud arc found grouped: Noble the lion, Bruin the bear. Tibert the cat, Baldwin the ass, Chanticleer the cock, Kvward the hare, etc. The fact that Jsengrin was used in 11 12 as the e|)ithet of a man (one of the conspirators against Gaudry, Bishop of Laon) shows that the tale was popularly current at an early date. The French Itommi de Kciiard, a lost version of which was probably the soirce of most of the other European versions, is a cycle of epir.odes in octosyllabic verse, compiled by vari- ous authors at variois epochs. The narrative is there divided into 'branches,' thirty in number.