TRAVELER or TRAVELLER. TRITON, in mythology, a marine demi-god, half man, half fish, the fabled trumpeter of Neptune. TRO-CHEE (tro'ke), 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. VAL'OR. 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 Æneid 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, named 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.

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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 eloquence 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 American 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.

He removed to Boston in 1816, was | sent to Congress from that city in 1822, and from that time up to the period of his death was in public life, distinguishing himself by many remarkable efforts of eloquence, which place him in the front rank of great orators, with Demosthenes, Chatham, Mirabeau, Grattan, and Patrick Henry.

Webster's style is distinguished at once for elegance, simplicity, and strength; rising at fitting times into the highest region of eloquence and beauty. Singularly clear and impressive as he is in argument, his sparing use of rhetorical embellishments render them all the more effective whenever they are introduced into his diction. Appealing generally to the reason only, he can also rouse the passions as by a thunder-peal when he would rise to the height of a great occasion, by enlisting the moral and emotional nature in sympathy with his cause. Of his political course it has been truly said, that the key to it is "the belief that when the Union is dissolved, the internal peace, the vigorous growth and prosperity of the States, and the welfare of their inhabitants, are blighted forever, and that, while the Union endures, all else of trial and calamity which can befall a nation may be remedied or borne."

Declaration of Independence,p.96. Washington and Union, p. 197. The Constitution, p. 342. WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY, duke of Wellington, was born in Ireland, May 1, 1769, died 1852. He is regarded as the greatest of English generals. In 1815 he won the battle of Waterloo against Napoleon. After retiring from active military service, he exercised great political influence in the cabinet. WILLFUL or WILFUL.

WIRT, WM., an eminent American advocate and writer, was born in Bladensburg, Md., 1772, and was admitted to the bar in 1792. The part he took in the famous trial of Aaron Burr gave him his greatest distinction as an eloquent pleader. His "Letters of a British Spy," the "Old Bachelor," and a "Life of Patrick Henry," enjoyed great popularity in their day. He died 1835.

Burr and Blennerhassett, p. 321.
Oratory of Patrick Henry, p. 401.

WILSON, JOHN, a poet and magazine writer, was born in Paisley, Scot land, 1785. Educated at Oxford, he put forth, in 1812, the "Isle of Palms," and soon afterward the

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City of the Plague," and "Unimore," the principal contributions of his fanciful and capricious muse. There is a soft, liquid flow of musical expression in these poems, with a vague, dreamy wildness and pathos, in combination with an exuberant fancy. It is as a prosewriter, however, that Wilson takes rank among the literary Titans of his native land. In 1820 he became connected with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, where he wrote, under the name of Christopher North, a series of political and literary papers which attracted great attention. He died 1854.

Address to a Wild Deer, p. 162. WILSON, HENRY, Senator of the United States, was born in Farmington, N. H., 1812, of poor parents. He was elected to the U. S. Senate from Massachusetts, as successor of Edward Everett, in 1855.

at

WILSON, ALEXANDER, the celebrated ornithologist, was born at Paisley, Scotland, and came to Delaware in 1794. Removing to Philadelphia, he devoted himself to natural his tory. He possessed considerable taste for literature, and wrote some poems of merit. He died in 1813. WOEFUL or WOFUL. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, born Cockermouth, in Cumberland, Eng. land, April 7, 1770, was sent to St. John's college, Cambridge, in 1787. He took his degree in 1791, without any great distinction as a scholar. For several years after the outbreak of the French revolution he was an ardent republican; but the excesses of the extreme party in France altered his political views. friends wished him to enter the Church. Without attaching himself to any profession, he wandered about, gradually satisfying himself that he was justified in regarding poetry as his true vocation.

His

In 1797 he had conceived a plan for the regeneration of English poetry. In 1798 he published, in conjunction with Coleridge, a collection of "Lyrical Ballads." Most of these were from his own pen; but the book, so far from making converts to his way of thinking, was

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. 1814 was published his great work, "The Excursion." On its appearance, Jeffrey, the great Edinburgh critic, wrote of it, "This will never

do."

In

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 graminatically and logically."

In 1813 Wordsworth 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. composition of sonnets, a poetic form of which he was remarkably fond, he has not been excelled by the finest of the old masters.

In the

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 the 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 innate 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 the "humblest daisy on the mountain-side " a voice" to bid the doubting sons of men be still."

In 1843, on the death of Southey, Words worth 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 (1-klept').
YEA (yā 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.