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ur-Dupeyron. Published twice a month, this j
review has, in the highest sense of the word,
been cosmopolitan in scope.

Reward. A recompense offered or paid by
a governmental authority or private in-
dividual for the performance by one or more
persons of some particular act.

Reybaud, Marie Rock Louis (1/99-
1879), French author, was born at Marseilles.
In 1850 he was elected a member of the
Academy. His best work is a satire, Jerome
Paturot a la Recherche d'une Position So-
dale (1843), followed by Jerome Paturot a
la Recherche de la Meilleure des Repub-
liques (1848).

Reyer, Ernest (1823-1909), French op-
eratic composer, born at Marseilles. His best-
known operas are Le Selam (1850) and Sal-
ammbo (1890). Reyer has also published
Notes de Musique (1875).

Reykjavik, or Reikjavik, tn., cap. of
Iceland, at s.w. corner; contains cathedral,
governor's house, observatory, parliament
house (with valuable historical library), col-
lege, hospital, free library, and banks; p.
26428.

Reynard the Fox, the English name of a
famous mediaeval apologue or 'beast-fable,'
of which the earliest known variant (which
may indeed be the original poem) is the Lat-
in Reinardus et Isengrimus, believed to, have
been written in the loth century. From
Goethe back to the mediaeval minnesinger,
Heinrich der Glichesaere, this epic has been
in great favor among the Germans.

Reymont, Lad is las Stanislas (1867-
1925), Polish author, wrote The Peasants, for
which he was awarded the Nobel Prize
(1924); Vampire; The Revolt.

Reynolds, John Fulton (1820-63), Am-
erican soldier, born at Lancaster, Pa. In
November, 1862, he was given command of
the First Corps. He participated, as a major-
general, in the battle of Fredericksburg, and
was with the reserve at Chancellorsville. On
July i, 1863, he was in command of the
Union troops then present on the field of Get-
tysburg, and was struck by a bullet that
caused almost instant death.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-92), English
portrait painter, first president of the Royal
Academy (founded 1768), knighted in 1769,
and appointed painter-in-ordinary to George
m. in 1784. Born at Plympton, Devonshire,
he was pupil of Hudson, the chief portrait
painter of the day. He settled in London,
where Ms portraits <?f the Misses Gunning

and of Admiral Keppel secured his position as
the leading portrait painter of the day. In
784 he painted one of his finest portraits,
Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse; but in 1789
he had to lay down his brushes owing to fail-
ure of eyesight.

RFC, Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
A U. S. New Deal agency.

Rhadamanthus, in ancient Greek myth-
ology, a son of Zeus and Europa, and a
brother of Minos, king of Crete. He lived
so just a life that after his death he was
made a judge of the dead.

Rhaetia, or Raetia, a province of the Ro-
man empire, lay s. of the Danube.

Rhaetian Alps, a chain of the Alps in
Grison canton, Switzerland. The main group
is Bernina, in which the highest peak is Piz
Bcrnina, 13,295 ft. high.

Rhamnaceee, a natural order of trees and
shrubs, of which representative genera are
Rhamnus and Zizyphus. Z. spina Christi is
one of the prickly shrubs said to have fur-
nished the material for Christ's crown of
thorns.

Rhamnus, a genus of shrubs and trees be-
longing to the order Rhamnaceae. They bear
cymes or racemes of flowers, followed by
berry-like drupes. Some of the species are
cultivated.

Rhampsinitus, the classical name of the
Egyptian monarch Rameses m., who reigned
during the first half of the i2th century B.C.

Rhapsodists, in ancient Greece, profes-
sional reciters of epic poems, who bore a
laurel branch in addition to their splendid
dress.

Rhatany, or Rattany, a name given to
various plants of the genus Krameria, native
to Peru and Bolivia, the roots or which are
used in pharmacy.

Rhazes, Mohammed Abukekr Ibn-
Zacheria (c. 860-932), Arabian physician,
was born in Persia. He is reputed to have
written two hundred and twenty-six medi-
cal treatises, among which were ten books
dedicated to his patron Almanzor, comprising
a general study of medicine. He gave the
earliest account extant of smallpox and wrote
the first treatise concerning the diseases of
children.

Rhea, or American Ostrich, a genus of
running birds, confined to the unforested
parts of South America. They are smaller
than the African ostrich and have three toes,
instead of two. The smallest of the rheas,
known as Darwin's Rfcea, a Patagc-nian spe-