Quadrant, The. See REGENT ST.

You will observe a town dandy getting fldgetty after his second turn in the Quadrant, while you will meet the same Frenchman there from noon till dusk, bounding his walk by those columns, as if they were the bars of a cage.

N P. Willis. Quarr Abbey. A famous monastic establishment upon the Isle of Wight, erected in the twelfth century, of which the ruins only now remain.

Quarters of the World. See FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. Quartier Latin. [Latin Quarter.]

A large district in Paris, on the south of the Seine. Here the principal colleges and schools have been situated for many centuries, and here the numerous students have lived; whence this quarter derives its name.

4"Though the colleges are now converted into private houses or into public schools, the Pays Latin is still inhabited by many thousand students in letters, science, law, and medicine, leading a life of gayety and freedom from restraint which is hardly to be understood by an Englishman. They and their associates, male and female, form the staple of a large portion of the well-known novels of Paul de Kock." Murray's Handbook.

"The life of the young artist here is the easiest, merriest, dirtiest existence possible. He comes to Paris, probably at sixteen, from his province; his parents settle forty pounds a year on him, and pay his master; he estab lishes himself in the Pays Latin; he arrives at his atelier at a tolerably early hour, and labors among a score of companions as merry and as poor as himself." Thackeray.

Quatre Fils Aymon. A ruined castle near Spa in Belgium, associated with historic and romantic traditions.

Quebec Citadel. A vast fortress,

from its lofty commanding situation one of the strongest in the

world, is the principal defence of the city of Quebec, Can. It covers 40 acres.

The

Queen Anne's Farthing. belief generally obtains in England that a Queen Anne's farthing is a very rare possession: indeed, it is supposed that there are but three, of which two are in the public keeping, and that one which is missing would bring a fabulous price; but the fact is, that it is no more rare than any other coinage of the mint of equal antiquity, and that the poor country people who occasionally take long journeys to London to dispose of so great a curiosity which has fallen into their hands, find that the numismatist to whom they apply is already the possessor of several.

Queen Elizabeth. See DEATH OF QUEEN ELIzabeth.

Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol. The popular name of an ancient piece of brass ordnance, 24 feet in length, cast in 1514, and presented by the States General of Holland to Queen Elizabeth. It is preserved in Dover Castle.

Queen of Sheba. See EMBARKA

TION OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. Queen of the West. A powerful United States ram," in the War of the Rebellion. She was sent down the Mississippi, and, running the batteries at Vicksburg, destroyed several transport vessels on the Lower Mississippi and on the Red River, but was finally lost on the latter river through the treachery of a pilot.

Queen's Arms. A tavern in St. Paul's Churchyard, London.

Queen's Bench. See KING'S BENCH AND QUEEN'S BENCH.

Queen's College. A foundation of the University of Cambridge, England. Established in 1448.

Queen's Head. A noted hostelry in the olden time in Islington, London.

The Queen's Head and Crown in Islington

town

Bore, for its brewing, the highest renown. Queen's Prison. See KING'S BENCH AND QUEEN'S BENCH. Queen's State Coach. See CORONATION COACH.

Queen's Theatre. See PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE.

Queensberry House. The seat of the Duke of Buccleuch, near Richmond, England.

Quinze Vingts. A hospital for the blind, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, Paris.

Quirinal Hill. [Lat. Mons Quirinus.] One of the original seven hills of Rome, now covered with palaces and churches, among which the most noticeable is the Palace of the Pope on the Monte Cavallo, the summit of the hill. The modern name, Monte Cavallo, is derived from the marble groups of Castor and Pollux with their horses, discovered in the Baths of Constantine, which now stand before the obelisk in the Piazza di Monte Cavallo.

rivals Phidias and Praxitiles, as they were sent as a present to Nero out of Armenia. They were placed on pedestals of white marble by Sixtus V., by whom I suppose their injuries are repair'd. They are govern'd by 4 naked slaves like those at the foot of the Capitol. John Evelyn, 1644.

Quirinal Palace. The papal palace on Monte Cavallo, Quirinal Hill, Rome. The present structure was begun by Gregory XIII. in 1574, and continued and enlarged by succeeding Lopes. The meeting of the conclave for the election of the popes takes place in the Quirinal Palace, and from the balcony opening upon the Piazza di Monte Cavallo the name of the new pope is proclaimed to the people.

聘 "That palace-building, ruindestroying Pope, Paul III., began to erect the enormous palace on the Quiri nal Hill, and the prolongation of his labors by a long series of successive pontiffs has made it one of the largest and ugliest buildings extant."

C. A. Eaton.

BOLUS.

Rabenstein. [Ravenstone.] An ancient feudal castle, of late partially restored, near Streitberg, in Franconia, Germany. Raboteur, Le. [The Planer.] A picture by Annibale Caracci (1560-1609), representing Joseph planing a board, while Jesus, a lovely boy about six or seven years old, stands by watching the progress of the work. Mary is seated on one side plying her needle." This picture is in the collection of the Earl of Suffolk at Charlton, England.

"The great fault of this picture is the subordinate and commonplace character given to the Virgin Mary; otherwise it is a very suggestive and dramatic subject, and one which might be usefully engraved in a cheap form for distribution." Mrs. Jameson.

Raby Castle. One of the finest and best-preserved of the ancient northern castles of England, the seat of the Duke of Cleveland. King Canute presented it with other offerings at the shrine of St. Cuthbert, but it passed out of the hands of the monks in 1131. Portions of the older building are so skilfully incorporated with the new that it seems a perfect specimen of a castle of the fourteenth century. The castle is of great size and strength, and the walls surrounding it occupy about two acres of ground. The pleasuregrounds and park are of a magnificence commensurate with that of the castle itself, and command lovely prospects.

Rachel. See JACOB AND RACHEL. Rachel's Tomb. A small structure near Bethlehem is known as the "sepulchre of Rachel." Jews, Moslems, and Christians unite in affirming the authenticity of this sepulchre, although the building is modern.

They journeyed from Bethel, and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath. . And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. Gen. xxxv. 16-19.

Radcliffe Library. An imposing library building connected with the University of Oxford, founded by Dr. John Radcliffe (d. 1714).

Radical Road. The name given

to a promenade under the cliff called Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh, Scotland. The name is derived from the circumstance that the road was built in 1819 by disaffected people who were out of employment.

Rainbow, The. According to Aubrey, the Rainbow, in Fleet Street, the second coffee-house established in London, was opened about 1656. It is now a tavern, and the old coffee-room has been destroyed.

The coffee house was the Londoner's house; and those who wished to find a gentleman commonly asked, not whether he lived in Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, but whether he frequented "the Grecian" or "the Rainbow.' Macaulay.

Rainbow Falls. A beautiful cascade in the Adirondack region of New York, near the foot of the Ausable Ponds.

Rainbow Landscape. The name given to a celebrated picture by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Now in the Bethnal Green Museum, London.

Rainy Season in the Tropics. A noted picture by Frederic Edwin Church (b. 1826), the American landscape-painter.

Raising of Lazarus. A picture by Sebastian del Piombo (1485–1547), and considered one of the most important works of the sixteenth century, executed for Giulio de' Medici, afterward Pope Leo X

It is now in the National Gallery, London.

"This is in many respects one of the noblest pictures existing, -a dramatic combination and pictorial completeness which few would now hesitate to prefer to the Transfiguration by Raphael."

Eastlake, Handbook of Painting. Raising of Lazarus. An admired painting by Benjamin West (1738-1820), serving as an altarpiece in Winchester Cathedral, England.

Raising of Lazarus. A picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon (17861846). In the National Gallery, London.

Raising the Body of St. Hubert

of Liège. An altar-piece, ascribed to Gerard van Meire, the Flemish painter, but which has also been ascribed to Dierick Bouts and to other painters. It is in the National Gallery of London.

Rake's Progress. A famous dramatic and satirical picture by William Hogarth (1697-1764).

"It would be suppressing the merits of his heart to consider him only a promoter of laughter. . . . Mirth colored his pictures, but benevolence designed them. He smiled, like Socrates, that men might not be offended at his lectures, and might learn to laugh at their own follies." Lord Orford. Rákos, Field of. [Rákos Mezo.]

See FIELD OF RÁKOS.

Raleigh's House. See MYRTLE GROVE.

Ramaseum [or Memnonium]. An ancient Egyptian palace and temple at Thebes, the residence of Rhamses the Great. It is now a wreck, but the ruins indicate that it was of immense size. Within the palace are the remains of the statue of Rhamses, the largest found in Egypt. The walls are covered with wonderful sculptures, illustrating the adventures and victories of the great king, and his offerings to the gods. [Written also Rhamession.]

"The Rhamession was built

wholly by the great Rhamses, in the fifteenth century B.C.; ... and it may be considered as a typical example of what an Egyptian temple of this age was intended to have been. Its façade is formed by two great pylons, or pyramidal masses of masonry, which, like the two western towers of a Gothic cathedral, are the most imposing part of the structure externally.. They [the palace-temples] do not seem to have been appropriated to the worship of any particular god, but rather for the great ceremonials of royalty, of kingly sacrifice to the gods for the people, and of worship of the king himself by the people." Fergusson.

And thou hast walked about how strange a story!

In Thebes's streets, three thousand

ago:

years When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous,

Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Horace Smith.

Rambla. A beautiful promenade in Barcelona, Spain. The name is derived from the Arabic, and signifies a river-bed, which in Spain, being often dry in summer, is used as a road. It is the centre of fashion and amusement. Ramble, The. A lovely region in Central Park, in the city of New York, with labyrinthine foot-paths winding through acres of woody hills, bordered by a lake.

Rambouillet. See HÔTEL DE RAM

Ranelagh Gardens. A place of amusement in London, no longer in existence, but very popular from its opening in 1742 till the beginning of the present century. Ranelagh, spoken of by Smollett as being like the "enchanted palace of genii," was a sort of rival to Vauxhall.

"The prince, princess, duke, much nobility, and much mob besides, were there. Walpole (in 1742). "Ranelagh has totally beat Vauxhall. Nobody goes anywhere else everybody goes there."

Walpole (in 1744). "Ranelagh was a very pleasing

place of amusement. There persons of inferior rank mingled with the highest nobility of Britain."

Samuel Rogers. Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, it behooved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind. Dickens.

Vauxhall and Ranelagh! I then had heard Of your green groves, and wilderness of

lamps

Dimming the stars, and fireworks magical, And gorgeous ladies, under splendid domes,

Floating in dance, or warbling high in air The song of spirits. Wordsworth.

Rape of Europa. A picture by Paul Veronese (1530?-1588). In the Doge's Palace, Venice.

Rape of Ganymede. 1. The masterpiece of the Athenian sculptor Leochares (fl. 372-338 B.C.) Copies in marble of the bronze original abound. One, and perhaps the best existing, is in the Museo Pio-Clementino, of the Vatican, Rome. There is another copy in the Library of St. Mark's, Venice.

2. A well-known picture by Rembrandt van Ryn (1606-1669), the Dutch painter. Now in the Dresden Gallery.

Rape of Proserpine. A picture by
Francesco Primaticcio (1490-1570),
the pupil of Raphael. Now in
the Stafford House Gallery.
Rape of Proserpine. A picture,
"with a rich, fantastically lighted
landscape," by Niccolo dell' Ab-
bate, called also Niccolo da Mo-
dena (1512-1571). In the gallery
of Stafford House.

Rape of Proserpine. A picture by
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).
Now at Blenheim, England.
Rape of the Sabines. A celebrated
group in marble by Giovanni da
Bologna (1524-1608), and regard-
ed as his masterpiece. In the
Loggia de' Lanzi, Florence, Italy.

he should give it, and it was agreed to call it the Rape of the Sabines." Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Raphael and his Fencing Master. A picture in the Louvre, Paris, by some attributed to Pontormo. Raphael and Michael Angelo. A noted picture by Horace Vernet (1789-1863), the French painter.

"As clever a picture as can be, - clever is just the word, the groups and drawing excellent, the coloring pleasantly bright and gaudy; and the French students study it incessantly: there are a dozen who copy it for one who copies Delacroix." Thackeray.

Raphael Sanzio. A celebrated

portrait of himself by the painter. In the collection of autograph portraits in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. There is another in the Louvre, Paris. Raphael, Stanze of. See STANZE

See CAR

OF RAPHAEL. Raphael's Cartoons. TOONS OF RAPHAEL. Raphael's Loggia. See LOGGIA OF RAPHAEL.

Raphael's House. [Ital. Casa da Raffaello.] A well-known house in Florence, Italy, in which Raphael was born and lived. Ras-et-Teen, Palace of. This palace, built by Mohammed Ali, is situated at the western end of the peninsula of the same name, near Alexandria, Egypt. Ratcliffe Highway. A famous London thoroughfare, now called St. George's Street, noted from its association in former times with murders and robberies.

"Many can remember the ter ror which was on every face, the careful barring of doors, the providing of blunderbusses and watchmen's rattles." Macaulay.

"Look at a marine-store deal er's, in that reservoir of dirt, drunken. ness, and drabs: thieves, oysters, baked potatoes, and pickled salmon,- Rat cliff Highway." Dickens.

Rattler, The. The first naval vessel propelled by a screw. She was built by the English Admi