History, aids, and alphabets are discussed.

Includes statistics and history.

In the broadest sense, education includes all those experiences by which intelligence is developed, knowledge acquired, and character formed. In a narrower sense, it is the work done by certain agencies and institutions, the home and the school, for the express purpose of training immature minds.

Founded in 1843, by Jean-Baptiste Muard, at Pontigny, France, for the work of popular missions.

Short biography of the King of East Anglia, who died in 870.

This Archbishop of Canterbury died in 1240, and was canonized within six years. Biography.

Biographical article on the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (better known as the Irish Christian Brothers).

English Jesuit, martyr, d. 1581. Biographical article.

English Jesuit and martyr, d. 1628. Short biography.

Includes Hebrew and Greek editions.

Derives its name from the time (about A.D. 620) when the fortress of Edwin's burgh was raised on a lofty spur of the Pentland Hills, overlooking the Firth of Forth, and established the Anglian dominion in the northern part of the Northumbrian Kingdom.

Confessor of Louis XVI, and vicar-general of the Diocese of Paris at the height of the French Revolution. (1745-1807)

A titular archiepiscopal see in that part of Mesopotamia formerly known as Osrhoene.

Tyrian Greeks of the fourth century, probably brothers, who introduced Christianity into Abyssinia; the latter a saint and first Bishop of Axum, styled the Apostle of Abyssinia, d. about 383.

The family name of four engravers.

A title applied to two different collections of old Norse literature, the poetical or "Elder Edda" and the prose or "Younger Edda".

An independent state of South America, bounded on the north by Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the south by Peru, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

Offers details of false views.

A philosophical term meaning either a tendency of mind in a thinker to conciliate the different views or positions taken in regard to problems, or a system in philosophy which seeks the solution of its fundamental problems by selecting and uniting what it regards as true in the various philosophical schools.

German numismatist. (1737-1798)

Biographical article on the Dominican theologian and mystic. Includes bibliography.

German historian, b. at Duingen in the principality of Kalenberg, 7 Sept., 1664; d. at Würzburg, 9 Feb., 1730.

Abbot of Schönau, born in the early part of the twelfth century.