BINYON, LAURENCE (1869- )

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BINYON, LAURENCE (1869- ) , English poet, born at

Lancaster

LANCASTER
LANCASTER,
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF
LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
LANCASTER, THOMAS, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

on the loth of August 1869, was educated at St Paul's school, London, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize in 1890 for his Persephone. He entered the department of printed books at the British Museum in 1893, and was transferred to the department of prints and drawings in 1895, the Catalogue of English Drawings in the British Museum (1898, &c.) being by him. As a poet he is represented by Lyric Poems (1894), Poems (Oxford, 1895), London Visions (2 vols., 1895-1898), The Praise of Life (1896), Porphyrion and other Poems (1898), Odes (1900), The Death of

Adam

(1903), Penthesilea (1905), Dream come true (1905), Paris and

Oenone

OENONE

(1906), a one-act tragedy, and Attila, a poetical drama (1907); as an art critic by monographs on the 17th-century Dutch etchers, on John Crome and John Sell

Cotman

COTMAN, JOHN SELL (1782-1842)

, contributed to the Portfolio, &c. In 1906 he published the first volume of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of reproductions from William Blake, with a

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

introduction.
See also R. A. Streatfeild, Two Poets of the New Century (1901), and W. Archer, Poets of the Younger Generation (1902).
BIO-BIO, a river of southern Chile, rising in the Pitto Hachado pass across the Andes, 38 45' S. lat., and flowing in a general north-westerly direction to the Pacific at Concepci6n, where it is 2 m. wide and forms an excellent harbour. It has a total length of about 225 m., nearly one half of which is navigable.
BIO-BIO, an inland province of southern Chile, bounded N., W. and S. respectively by the provinces of Concepci6n,

Arauco

ARAUCO

and Malleco, and E. by Argentina. It has an area of 5246 sq. m. of well-wooded and mountainous country, and exports timber to a large extent. The great trunk railway from Santiago S. to Puerto Montt crosses the western part of the province and also connects it with the port of Concepci6n. The

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

, Los Angeles (est. pop. 7777 in 1902) lies 152 M. E. of this railway and is connected with it by a branch line.

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