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* WALTHEK. VON DER VOGELWEIDE. 275 WALTZ. maturer wuik is prevailingly ethical, politically or religiously didactic. His patriotism was broadly Geruian. He appears at his best in the i^pruche, models of didactic compactness. Hi.? opponents called him a demagogue, and he cer- tainly was a political agitator of unllinehiug courage, but he was also tJermany's greatest lyric poet before Goethe. Walther's Works are edited by Lachmann (Berlin, 1827), Waekernagel ami I'tieger (Cies- scn, 1802), Pfeiffer (Leipzig, 18G4), Paul (Halle, 1882), and Wilmanns (ib., 1883). There are modern German versions by Simrock (Berlin, 1833), Woiskc (Halle, 18.52), Schriiter (.Jena, 1881), and Menzel (I'lauen, 1888) : and fAven by Uhland (Stuttgart, 1822), Menzel (i^eipzig, 18G5), Eurdach (ib., 1880). Wilmanns (Bonn, 1882), and Sch.'inbaeh (Berlin, 18!)5). Consult the mill i</</ra pint by Ix'o (Vienna, 1880), and Hornig, (I'lossiirium (C^luedlinburg, 1844). WALTON, wal'ton, Brian (c.lfiOO-01 ). The editor of alton's polyglot Bible. He was born probably at Hilton, Yorkshire, studied at ('ani- bridge, was ordained in 1(2.'S, and became rector of Saint ilartin's Orgar. London. 1028; and also of Sandon in Essex, 1030. Being involved in the troubles of the times, he was deprived of his rec- tories; but. undismayed, he planned the famous polyglot Bible, for which £!)flO was subscribed. It was published in London in 10.57. (See Poly- glots.) He had various learned helpers, but the editorship devolved on himself. The work was finished in four years. At the Restoration Wal- ton regained his preferments, and he was conse- crated Bishop of Chester in 1000. Consult his memoirs by Todd (London, 1821). WALTON, George (1740-1804). . ipri- can lawyer. He was born in Frederick County, Va., began his career as a carpenter's apprentice, but devoted his leisure to study, and was admit- ted to tile Georgia bar in 1774. He was very active in opposing the j)olic' of the English Gov- ernment toward the Colonies; was a delegate to Congress 1775; was a colonel of militia; and was wounded and taken prisoner w'hen Savannah ■was captured by the British in 1778. He was released in 1779 and was elected Governor of Georgia; he was Chief .Justice of that State, 1783-93 ; was a justice of the United States Su- preme Court in 1793; and L^nited States Senator 1795-96. He was one of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence. He died at Augusta, Ga., in 1804. WALTON, IzAAK (1593-1683). An English author. He was born in the Parish of Saint Mary, Stafford. August 9. 1593. and seems to have gone to London about 1611. The belief al- most universally expressed by biographers until recent years that he was a 'sempster' or a linen- draper is contradicted by the records of the Iron- mongers' Company, which show that Walton was made a member of that company in 1018; and the license for his first. marriage in 1620 describes him as an ironmonger. He was living in Fleet Street, Lonilon. in 1024. and the book^ of Saint Dunstan's Parish show that from 1028 to 1044 his home was in Chancery Lane, where Dr. .John Donne was his friend and neighbor. After a few years (until 1651) spent partly at Stafl'ord and partly in visiting ''the families of the eminent clergymen of England, of whom he was much be- loved," he took up his residence probably at (lerkenwell, where he was living in 1653, when the first edition of The Compleat Angler ap- peared. When the Restoration was elVected he made his home for the most part with Bishop .Uorley of Winchester and Bishop Ward of Salis- bury, and died at Winchester, December 15, 1083. The earliest of Walton's writings that we have is "An Elegie," added to the 1633 edition of Donne's poems. When Donne's sermons were jiublisliid in 1640 they were prefaced by a Life from Walton's pen, revised and sepiirately pub- lished in 1608. The affectionate intimacy of its tone, and its artless blending of simjdicity, piety, and humor, well show why Walton was so lov- ingly regarded by Wotton, Hales, Drayton, and other famous contemporaries, and give ample credence to Boswell's statement that the book was a favorite of Dr. Johnson's. Similar in spirit are his biograjihies of Sir Henry Wotton (1051), of Kicliard Hooker (1605), which was prelixed the following year to Hooker's Evclesius- tical Polity, of George Herbert (1670), and of Robert Sanderson (1678). All save the last ap- jieared in one volume in 1670. Yet the work for which V"alton is best known and loved is the most eareles.s and least practical of all, The Com- pleat Anijlcr, or the Contrniplatirc Man's Recrea- tion, of which Lamb said, "It would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it." It is a rambling dialogue on all that pertains to the angler's art, charming in its pastoral freshness and the archaic quaintness of its style, and full of the gentle, kindly, sinci'rc spirit of the man. It is of little value now in its intended function of a treatise, but will always live as a fishing idyll of great beauty. Appearing in five editions during Walton's lifetime, it has since been pub- lished more than a hundred times; and the de- mand for 'Waltoniana' has given a high value to the earlier copies. A supplement upon fly-fishing, by his close friend, Charles Cotton, was added to the fifth edition and now forms the second part of the work. Consult; Wcstwood and Satchell, Bihliothcca Piscatoria (London. 1883) ; Marston. Walton, and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishiiiri (ib.. 1894). WALTON - LE - DALE. A manufacturing town in Lancashire, England, a suburb two miles southeast of Preston (q.v.) ' ( Map : England, D 3). Population, in 1901, 11.271. WALTON-ON-THAMES. A favorite pleas- ure, angling, and residential resort in Surrey, England, five miles southwest of Kingston. Popu- lation, in lS!tl, 7988; in 1901, 10,329.' WALTZ (Ger. Wfiher, round dance, roller. from wal:::en, OHG. icalzan, AS. wealtan, obso- lete Eng. icalt, to roll ; connected with Goth. iraltis, AS. icalu, staff). A round dance, origi- nally of French origin, but so modified in Ger- many as to belong really to that country. It became popular on the Continent at the begin- ning of the nineteenth century, and was intro- duced into England in 1812. It is danced tojnusie of I time by any number nf cnu]iles. who wheel rapidly round on an axis of their own. advancing at the same time round the room. The two great composers of the waltz are the two Johann Strausses (father and son). The waltzes writ- ten by some of our classical masters are not in- tended for dancing. They are high art forms,