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Frame-maker (1640) is in a private collec-
tion in that city. Among other famous work?
are: The Syndices of the Drapers, Portrait
of Himself, Portrait of his Mother, Descent
from the Cross, Angel Leaving Tobias, The
Woman Taken in Adultery, Lady with a
Fan, The Mill H. Van Loon's JR. V. R.
(1930) is at once a biography of Rembrandt,
a fine historical novel, and a general history
of the age.

Remedy, in law, the means afforded to ob-
tain redress for injuries, and to protect or
enforce rights. The nature of the remedy
often determines the proper court in which
to commence an action.

Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin (1843-
1927), American clergyman, was born in
Staunton, West Virginia. He was pastor of
churches in Philadelphia and Savannah, Ga.,
from 1865 to 1880, when he settled perma-
nently in New York City, and became pastor
of St. James's Lutheran Church there. He
prepared a Lutheran Manual (1892), gener-
ally used by the sect, and published Doom
Eternal (1880) ; The Problem o) Life .(1913).

Remenyi, Eduard (1830-98), Hungarian
violinist, born at Heves, Hungary. He made
a number of tours around the world. His
technical facility was extraordinary, and in
his transcriptions of Hungarian airs his play-
ing invariably aroused enthusiasm.

Remington, Frederic (1861-1909), Am-
erican sculptor, illustrator, and author, born
at Canton, N. Y. While engaged as a cowboy
on a Western ranch he began to model in
clay, making admirable statuettes of Indians
and cowboys, with their ponies, that attracted
favorable notice, particularly his Broncho
Buster and The Wounded Bunkie. Some of
his stones illustrated with his own drawings
are Pony Tracks (189$); Crooked Trails
(1898); The Way of an Indian (1906).

Remington, Philo (1816-89), American
inventor, born in Litchfieid, N. Y., and served
an apprenticeship in the fire-arms works
owned by his father, Eliphalet Remington, at
Ilion, N. Y. In 1870 the firm supplied many
rifles for the French Government, but the
demand for fire-arms having fallen off, in
*873, James Densmore and George N. Yost
induced Remington to undertake the manu-
facture of typewriting machines. Subsequent-
ly the manufacture of both typewriters and
rifles came under the control of stock com-
panies, the name Remington being retained.

Remittent Fever, a paroxysmal malarial
fever, in which the symptoms do not entirely
intermit, but only diminish to some extent

at intervals. In India it is often called jungle
fever, and is more severe and more fatal than
intermittent fever, approaching as it does the
type of continued pyrexia, which endangers
life by the prolonged high temperature it in-
duces.

Remscheid, tn., Prussian Rhine prov. It
is the center of the German cutlery trade,
and does an enormous export business; p.
79,000.

Remsen, Ira (1846-1927), American chem-
ist, was born in New York City. In 1872-76,
he was professor of chemistry in Williams
College, and in Johns Hopkins University,
1876-1901, when he became its president. In
1879 he founded the American Chemical
Journal, and was its first editor. He is the
author of text-books, which have been trans-
lated into many foreign languages.

Renaissance, a general term for the re-
vival of ancient classical influences which
moved Europe in the isth and i6th. centuries.
The Renaissance took its rise in Italy, in the
desire to be able to read the masterpieces of
Greek literature. If any approximate date can
be assigned for the dawn of the new day, it
was about the time of the visit of Emanuel
Chrysoloras, who, in 1396, had come over
from Byzantium—the home of Greek culture
— and was lecturing in Florence on Greek
literature. The period during which the in-
fluence of the Renaissance lasted may for
convenience* sake be divided into four parts.
The first was contemporaneous with the earl-
ier life of Cosimo de' Medici, before he at-
tained power (1389-1433), during which By-
zantine scholars were the chief humanists;
the second period lasted until Cosimo's death
(1464); the third synchronized with the
opening and ending of the public life of
Lorenzo dej Medici (1470-92); while the
fourth lasted throughout the winter of the
Mediccan fortunes at Florence and the pon-
tificate of Giovanni de7 Medici (Leo x.), un-
til the sack of Rome (1527), during the pon-
tificate of another Mcdicean pope (Clement
vir.). Among the famous men of the ItaliaJj
Renaissance are Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
Raphael, Michael Angelo, Andrea del Sarto,

In Germany it took deep root, where it
assisted in helping on the reformation. Among
the most distinguished of its humanists were
Erasmus, Reuchlin, Ulrich von Hutten, with
such artists as Holbein, Durer, and others, In
Holland the new influence expressed itself
rather in art than letters, The Van Eycks,
Lucas van Leyden, revealed to their age the
mysteries of oil painting, and paved the way