Diocese in Bavaria.

Converted while a student at Cambridge and entered the Society of Jesus in 1627.

Passionist, b. at the Admiralty, London, 21 Dec., 1799; d. at Carstairs, Scotland, 1 Oct., 1864.

A poet, opponent of trials for witchcraft, born at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, 25 February, 1591; died at Trier 7 August, 1635.

A priest, theologian, and philosopher, born at Bronte in the Province of Catania, Sicily, 6 December, 1740; died at Rome, 26 November, 1795.

A term used with reference to business transactions to signify the investing of money at a risk of loss on the chance of unusual gain.

A Tyrolean patriot of 1809, born at Gnadenwald, near Hall, in the Tyrol, 13 July, 1767; died at Hall, 28 March, 1820.

In scholastic terminology, species is the necessary determinant of every cognitive process.

A celebrated town of the Peloponnesus, mentioned several times under this name or under that of Lacedæmon in the Bible.

The University of St. Mark's at Lima enjoys the reputation of being the oldest in America; it has the distinction of having first begun its course by royal decree.

The literature produced by the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, Central America, Cuba and adjacent islands, and of South America with the notable exceptions of Brazil (whose speech is Portuguese) and the Guianas.

As a medium of literary expression Spanish asserted itself first in the twelfth century: it had been six or seven centuries in the process of evolution out of Latin.

A distinguished eighteenth-century scientist, b. at Scadiano in Modena, Italy, 10 January, 1729; d. at Pavia, 12 February, 1799.

Seventh Archbishop of Baltimore. (1810-1872)

Suffragan of Zara.

This name properly signifies the whole peninsula which forms the south-western extremity of Europe. Since the political separation of Portugal, however, the name has gradually come to be restricted to the largest of the four political divisions of the Peninsula: (1) Spain; (2) Portugal; (3) the Republic of Andorra; (4) the British possession of Gibraltar, at the southern extremity.

Educator and author, born at Florence, 8 Aug., 1716; died at Rome, 16 Sept., 1788.

The idea of space is one of the most important in the philosophy of the material world; for centuries it has preoccupied and puzzled philosophers and psychologists.

A titular see of Palestina Prima, suffragan of Cæsarea.

Titular see in the Balkans, suffragan of Adrianopolis.

One of the famous historians of the early Church, born at Bethelia, a small town near Gaza in Palestine.

The two towns, Sovana and Pitigliano, are situated in the Province of Grosseto, Central Italy.

Suffragan of Westminster, England.