TRAVELER or TRAVELLER. TRITON, in mythology, a marine demi-god, half man, half fish, the fabled trumpeter of Neptune. TRO-CHEE (troke), a certain metrical foot; in English an accented and an unaccented syllable. TROPHY (trofy).

TULLY, the Anglicized name of Tullius, and a name by which Cicero (Marcus Tullius) is often called. TYROL (tir'rol or te-rol').

UNION (yoon'yun).

This word is from the Latin unio, oneness, which

is from unus, one.

UPPER BENJAMIN, the obsolete name of a sort of overcoat.

VALOR. This word is from the Latin

valle-o, to be strong.

VANE, SIR HENRY, was born in Hadlow, in Kent, England, in 1612. After the restoration of that royal profligate, Charles II., Vane was condemned for treason, and beheaded on Tower Hill, June 14, 1662. He had been governor of Massachusetts in 1635. He was a zealous republican, a man of sincere religious convictions, and courageously opposed to the usurpations of Cromwell. Honor to his memory! VAUNT (Vawnt or vänt). VEHEMENT (Ve'he-ment). VERMEIL (ver'mil).

VERRES (ver'rēz). See Cicero's speech, p. 456.

VINCENT, CHARLES, a French songwriter, was born at Fontainebleau, April 15, 1826. He has published numerous poems and songs, which have been popular. See p. 95. VIRGIL (Publius Virgilius Maro), the great epic poet of the Romans, was born near Mantua, in Italy, B. C. 70, and died B. C. 19. The Eneid is the work by which he won his principal fame.

VIRGINIA, the beautiful daughter of Lucius Virginius, a brave centurion of ancient Rome. was seized as a slave, and awarded by Appius Claudius to his freedman Marcus. To save his daughter from dishonor, Virginius stabbed her, exclaiming, "There is no way but this to keep thee free." See Macaulay's ballad, p. 442.

VISOR (viz'or).

WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM, the national hero of Scotland, is supposed to have been born about the year 1270. He gained several battles over the English,but was inhumanly |

executed in London, in 1305. See p. 166.

WAN (won, not wăn). WAND (wond, not wănd, except sometimes in poetry). WANDERING JEW, THE, an imaginary personage, whose existence is derived from a legend, that when our Savior was on his way to execution, he rested on a stone before the house of a Jew, nained Ahasuerus, who . drove him away with curses; whereupon Jesus replied, "Wander thou upon the earth till I return." The fable runs that the Jew, racked with remorse, has ever since been wandering over the earth.

WARE, HENRY, an American clergyman and writer, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1794; died 1843. He became pastor of the Second Church in Boston in 1816. Some thirteen years afterward he accepted the professorship of pulpit cloquence in the Divinity School of Harvard University. His poetica! writings are at once vigorous and graceful in their style. WARRIOR (Wõrꞌre-ur). WASHINGTON, GEORGE, the "first in war," as well as "in peace," among the Americans, was born February 22, 1732, near the banks of the Potomac, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia. That he was diligent and studious in his youth his writings in mature years abundantly testified. He entered the military service of the colony in 1751; was in Braddock's expedition in 1755, and had two horses shot under him; was appointed commander-in-chief of the American army in 1775; was elected President of the Convention for forming the Constitution in 1787; was elected President of the United States in 1789, again in 1793, and died in 1799. For a further sketch of his career, see p. 107; also Webster's remarks, p. 197.

Counsels of Washington, p. 87. WEARY (wēar'y). WEBSTER, DANIEL, the great Ameri can lawyer, orator, and statesman, was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 18, 1782; died at his residence in Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852. His parents were poor; but he was enabled to enter, Dartmouth College in 1797. He first practiced law in his native State, and was in Congress in 1812.

very generally abused and ridiculed by the critics. Still, many of his readers sympathized with his views, and through their encouragement, he was induced to publish, in 1807, two other volumes of poetry. In 1814 was published his great work, "The Excursion." On its appearance, Jeffrey, the great Edinburgh critic, wrote of it, This will never

do." And yet it has been doing ever since, more and more every year. Coleridge describes it as being characterized by "an austere purity of language, both grammatically and logically."

In 1813 Words worth removed to Rydal Mount, among the lakes of Cumberland, which was his home for the rest of his life. From him and his companions, Southey and Coleridge, who resided near him for a time, the Lake School of poetry derived its name. Originally applied in contempt, it gradually grew to be the recognized title of Wordsworth and his disciples. Choosing the simplest forms of speech as the vehicle of their thoughts, the poets of this school took their subjects often from among the commonest things.

The chief remaining works of this great writer are "The White Doe of Rylstone"; "Ode on Immortality"; "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent"; "Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems"; and "The Prelude," a fragment of autobiography, describing the growth of a poet's mind, and which was not published till the author was dead. In the composition of sonnets, a poetic form of which he was remarkably fond, he has not been excelled by the finest of the old masters.

Before his death, Wordsworth, who on his appearance as a poet had been laughed at and abused by the leading critics, was not only acknowledged, and justly, to be

really the greatest English poet of his time, but was regarded with a reverence due to him as one of tho purest and most blameless of the poets who have enriched and enlarged the domain of English literature. In his poetry the soul of man is made to animate nature, as, in the Platonic philosophy, the Deity was the inmate spirit of the universe. Nature inhabits him, and he inhabits nature, with a reciprocity of life-giving influence. He has widened the glance of faith, and hope, and charity, and has given to thehumblest daisy on the mountain-side " a voice "to bid the doubting sons of men be still."

In 1843, on the death of Southey, Wordsworth became poet-laureate. He died on the 23d of April, 1850, a few days after the completion of his 80th year.

From the Ode to Immortality, pp 61, 62, 77.

The Sonnet, p. 122.

The Happy Warrior, p. 170. Ode to Duty, p. 405. WOUND (woond or wownd). WRACK, synonymous with wreck, and an ancient form of that word; also, a kind of sea-weed. Y-CLEPED (I-klept'). YEA (ya or yē). YEARN (yern).

YOUNG, EDWARD, a poet and clergyman, was born near Winchester, England, in 1684; died 1765. His poem of the "Night Thoughts," by which he is now chiefly known, was not completed till 1746, when he was 62 years old. It has many beauties and many defects. In its epigrammatic style, its frequent antitheses, and its perpetual ingenuity of strained analogies, it often invites criticism; but no one can dispute the compressed power of the language, and the appropriateness and elevation of much of the thought.