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TALFOURD. published together under the title Memoirs of Charles Lamb. They have since been edited by Percy Fitzgerald (London, 1892). Talfourd's great literary success was Ion, a tragedy performed by Macready (May 26, 1836). It was followed by The Athenian Captive (1838) and Glencoe (1840). Consult the Tragedies (Routledge's Pocket Library, London and New York, 1889); Critical and Miscellaneous Writings (Philadelphia, 1842); and A Memoir of Mr. Justice Talfourd (London, 1854).  TALIAFERRO, , (1822-98). A Confederate soldier, born at Belleville, in Gloucester County, Va. He attended Harvard College, and then William and Mary College, where he graduated in 1841. At the beginning of the Civil War he was made a colonel in the Provisional Army of Virginia. He participated in most of the battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia prior to March, 1863, and was promoted brigadier-general in March, 1862. In March, 1863, he was put in command of the district of Savannah, Ga. In the following July, at the time of the desperate attacks on Fort Wagner, he was in command of the defenses on Morris Island, and in August of those on James Island. In 1864 he commanded the Seventh Military District, comprising a part of South Carolina, and in December was given command of the entire State. He was promoted major-general January 1, 1865. After the war he resumed the practice of law, and served for ten years in the Virginia House of Delegates. He contributed “Jackson's Raid Around Pope” to Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.  TA-LIEN-WAN,. A bay on the eastern coast of the Liao-tung Peninsula in Manchuria (Map:, F 4). It is roomy and protected at the entrance by two islets. It is ice-free throughout the year. At its head lies the new Russian port (q.v.). Ta-lien-wan with the surrounding territory was leased to Russia in 1898.  TALIESIN,. A British bard, who is supposed to have lived about the middle of the sixth century. Nothing definite is known as to his career, and some scholars hold that he is a mythical personage. According to legend he was called ‘the chief of the bards.’ The “Book of Taliesin” contains 50 poems, which were formerly attributed to Taliesin. All are now generally believed to be of a later date. Consult: Skene, The Four Ancient Books of Wales (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1868), in which the “Book of Taliesin” is included; for the legends, Guest, Mabinogion (2d ed., London, 1877).  TALIPES,. The technical term for (q.v.).  TALIPOT PALM (Hind, tālpāt, from Skt. tālapatra, palm-tree leaf, from tāla, palm-tree + patra, leaf), (Corypha umbraculifera). The noblest palm of the East Indies, a native of Ceylon, Malabar, etc. Its straight cylindrical trunk, 60 to 100 feet high, is crowned with a tuft of enormous palmate plaited leaves, divided near the outer margin into numerous segments, and united to the trunk by spiny leafstalks. The leaves are usually about 8 or 10 feet long, exclusive of the leafstalk, which is 7 or 8 feet long. At the age of thirty or forty years the tree produces a long

pyramidal cluster of whitish flowers rising to the height of 30 feet from the midst of its crown of leaves, and dividing into simple alternate branches, the lower of which sometimes extends laterally 20 feet. After maturing the numerous globose fruits about an inch and one-half in diameter the tree generally dies. The leaves are used for covering houses, for making tents, and for many other purposes. The leaves of this palm are used in Malabar for writing upon, characters being traced upon them with an iron style. They are prepared for this purpose by boiling, drying, damping, rubbing, and pressing. The soft central part of the stem, like that of many other palms, yields a kind of sago.  TALISAY,. A town of Cebú, Philippines, situated 6 miles southwest from Cebú (Map:, H 9). Population, in 1887, 16,055; now 19,000.  TALISMAN (Sp., Port. talisman, from Ar. tilsam, tulsam, tilism, pl. tilsamān, talisman, from Gk., telesma, consecrated object, talisman, religious rite, completion, from , telein, to end, to make perfect, from , telos, end). In its strict sense, a species of charm, consisting of a figure engraved on metal or stone when two planets are in conjunction, or when a star is at its culminating point, and supposed to exert some protective influence over the wearer of it by keeping away diseases or bringing luck. While the proper distinctive character of the talisman thus resides in its astrological character, in common usage the terms talisman and (q.v.) are synonymous, referring to any object used as a charm against evil spirits or evil influences. Consult Elworthy, The Evil Eye (London, 1895). <section end="Talisman" /><section begin="Talisman, The" /> TALISMAN,. A novel by Sir Walter Scott, published, with The Betrothed, in June, 1825. The action takes place in Palestine, during the Crusades. The title of the story is derived from an amulet or charmed stone with which Saladin cures King Richard Cœur de Lion in his illness and which he afterwards presents to the hero, Sir Kenneth, finally discovered to be the Prince Royal of Scotland, on his marriage with Edith, the sister of Richard. <section end="Talisman, The" /><section begin="Talladega" /> TALLADE′GA. The county-seat of Talladega County, Ala., 60 miles east of Birmingham; on the Southern and the Louisville and Nashville railroads (Map:, C 2). It is the seat of State schools for the deaf, dumb, and blind; of Talladega College (Congregational), an institution for colored students; and of a Presbyterian Orphans' Home. Talladega has considerable industrial importance. There are cotton mills, a cottonseed-oil mill, an iron furnace, and manufactories of hosiery and fertilizers. Under the charter of 1901 the government is vested in a mayor, elected biennially, and a unicameral council. The water-works and the gas plant are owned and operated by the municipality. On the site of Talladega, General Jackson, at the head of 2000 men, defeated a force of 1000 Creek Indians on November 9, 1813, the Indians losing about 300, and the Americans, 15 killed and 86 wounded. Population, in 1890, 2063; in 1900, 5056. <section end="Talladega" /><section begin="Tallahassee" /> TALLAHAS′SEE. The capital of Florida, and the county seat of Leon County. 105 miles west of Jacksonville; on the Seaboard Air Line, the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia, and the<section end="Tallahassee" />