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* TBtrCE OF GOD. 493 TRUEBA Y LA QUINTANA. the King, too, lent the truce the wei^lit of liis authority and thus made it a |)oaro of the land. Consvilt: Khickhohn, (lim-hichte des dvitcsfricdcns (Leipzig, 1857) ; Huberti, Studien ^iim Oottesfrieden und Landfriedcn (Anspaeh, 18!)2 ) . TBUCK FARMING. See Agriclltire. TRUDEATJ. Edward Livingston (1848—). An American plivsician, born in New York City, who received his preliminary education in Co- lumbia College, and hi.s medical degree in 1871 from the College of Phvsioians and Surgeons, now Columbia medical department. After a brief period of practice in New York City, he was obliged by pulmonary disease in 1873 to go to the Adirondack Mountains, where he has since resided. In 1884 he founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake, N. Y.. for the treatment of incipient tuberculosis in work- ing men and women, the first American institu- tion attempting the climatic and open-air method of treatment of this disease. In 1894 he founded the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, the first research laboratory for the purpose in America. Dr. Trudeau is a mem- ber of. many medical and other learned associa- tions. He has contributed a vast number of articles to medical periodicals. TRITE, Alfred Charles (1853—). An American educator and agriculturist, born at Middletown, Conn. He graduated at Wesleyan University in 1873, was principal of the high school at Essex, N. Y., in 1873-74, from 1875 to 1882 was an instructor in the State Normal School at Westfield, Jlass., and in 1882-84 stud- ied at Harvard. In 1884-88 he was an instructor in the Wesleyan University, in 1888 entered the office of Experiment Stations in the United Stales Department of Agriculture (q.v.), was editor there in 1889-90, vice-director in 1891-92, and became director in 1893. He was dean of the first graduate school of agriculture held in the United States (at Columbus, Ohio, 1902), and as chairman of the committee on methods of teaching agriculture of the Association of Ameri- can Agricultural Colleges and E.periment Sta- tions, was for years prominent in the movement for the improvement of college courses in agri- culture, and the extension of agricultural in- struction to the elementary and secondary schools. He organized agricultural investiga- tions in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and the work of the Department of Agriculture relating to irrigation, agricultural engineering, and the farmers' institutes. He particularly studied the organization and management of institutions for agricultural education and research, and pub- lished several monographs on this subject, chief- ly in the bulletins of the office, including: Edu- cation and Research in Apricultiire in the United States (1894); Ar/ricultiiral Experiment Sta- tions: Their Objects and Work (1895); The Aqricultvrnl Experiment Stations in the United States (with V. A. Clark, 1900) ; Agricultural Experiment Stations in Forcirjn Countries (with D. .L Crosby, 1902) ; and Progress in Agricul- tural Education (1902). For ten years he was chief editor of the Experiment Station Record. He contributed articles on agriculture and horti- culture to the Neiv International Encyclopedia and Webster's International Dictionary. TRUE, CH.RLES KiTTBEDGE (1809-79). A Methodist Episcopal clergyman. He was born in Portland, Maine; graihia(ed at Harvard Uni- versity, 1832. and entered the New England Conference, 1833. He was agent of the New England Education Society, 1834; princijial of Amenia Seminary, 1835; entered the New York Conference, 1836; was transferred to the New England Conference, 1838; was professor of intel- lectual and moral science in Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1849-61: and financial agent of Wesleyan University, 1870-73. He published: The Elements of Logic (1840); Shawmiit ; or, the Settlement of Boston by the Puritan Pil- grims (1845); John M'intlirop and the Great Colony (1875) ; The Life and Times of Sir Wal- ter Raleigh (1877) ; The Life and Times of John Knox (1878) ; Memoirs of John Howard (1878) ; The Thirty Years' War (1878) ; Heroes of Hol- land (1882); Life of Captain John Smith (1882). TRUEBA Y COSIO, troo-a'rei § kf/se-d, Tele.sforo DE (1798-1835). A Spanish and Eng- lish author, born at Santander an<l e<lucated in a Catholic college in England. His studies for a dip- lomatic career he made in London and in Paris, where he afterwards served as attache to the Span- ish legation until 1822. After his return to Spain he founded an academy uniting the entire younger generation of poets and presided over by Alberto Lista. The two comedies, El veleta and Casarse con 60,000 duros, which he wrote about this time, entitle him to be ranked with the best Spanish dramatists. In politics an ardent champion of the constitutional party, he took refuge in Lon- don on the restoration of the absolute regime and presently earned wide reputation as an Eng- lish writer. Besides the novels Gome:: Arias ( 1828) and The Castilian { 1829) . in imitation of Walter Scott, he published a Life of Hernan Cortds (1830) ; History of the Conquest of Peru, (1830); The Romance of History (1830); The Exquisites; Salvador de Guerilla ; The Incognito (1831); produced the comedies Call Again To- Morrow (1832), The Exquisites, Mr. and Mrs. Pringle, The Man of Pleasure (1832), and the historical drama The Royal Fugitive (1834); but won his greatest success with the descriptive picture of manners Paris and London (1831). Returning to Spain in 1834, he was elected to the Cortes and secretary of the Second Chamber. He died in Paris. TRUEBA Y LA QUINTANA, e la ken-tii'- na, Akto.xio de (1821-89). A Spanish poet and novelist, born in the Basque region, of peasant stock. He went to Madrid, where he en- tered business, but devoted his leisure hours to study, and even succeeded in obtaining a univer- sity degree. He was made by Isabella II. his- toriographer of Biscay, but was deprived of his ])Ost of historiographer when the Queen was ban- ished in 18G8. His verse, contained in the two collections El libra de los cantiires (1852) and El libro de las moiitai'ias (1808). is marked throughout by a tender melancholy natural to his native Basque region, of which he sings. His his- torical novels, such as El Cid Campeador and Las hi fas del Cid, are dreary performances. In the short tale of. manners, descriptive of his be- loved Basque district, he succeeded. There are various collections of these tales, for example, the Ciientos dc color de rosa, the Cuentos cam-