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Yale College.

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An institution of learning in New Haven, Conn., chartered in 1701, and holding rank among the first colleges in the country. It includes the various departments of law, divinity, medicine, and art, which constitute a university.

Yardley Oak. A venerable oak in the parish of Yardley, England.

This sole survivor of a race

Of giant oaks, where once the wood
Rang with the battle or the chase,

In stern and lonely grandeur stood.
From age to age it slowly spread
Its gradual boughs to sun and wind;
From age to age its noble head

As slowly withered and declined.
James Montgomery.

Yellow Tower. The ruin of an
ancient abbey-church in Trim,
Meath County, Ireland.
Yellowstone. See GRAND CAÑON
OF THE YELLOWSTONE.

Yes, or No? A picture by John Everett Millais (b. 1829).

York, the finest structure of its kind in England. It was mostly built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Its extreme length is 486 feet, length of transept 223 feet. It has a magnificent west front, flanked by two towers, 196 feet in height.

"Owing to the great width attempted for the nave, York has not the usual perfection of length affected by other English cathedrals, and loses in effect accordingly. Its great peculiarity is the simplicity and squareness of its plan." Fergusson.

In the history of art, it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced Emerson. in this all-preserving island.

If there were a building on it [the moon] as big as York minster, as big as the Boston Coliseum, the great telescopes like Lord Rosse's would make it out.

Holmes.

Open your gates, ye everlasting piles! Types of the spiritual church which God hath reared,

Thou, stately York! and ye, whose splendors cheer

Isis and Cam, to patient science dear! Wordsworth.

Yester House. The seat of the York Place. The name by which Marquis of Tweeddale, near Longniddry in Scotland. York Column. A pillar of Scotch granite in Carlton House Gardens, London, 124 feet high, surmounted by a statue of the Duke of York, second son of George III.

York House. A former palace of London, so called from the Archbishops of York. Here Lord Bacon was born in 1560. York House was finally sold and removed. Its" Watergate" on the Thames still remains.

"There was a costly magnifi. cence in the fêtes at York House, the residence of Buckingham, of which few but curious researchers are aware: they eclipsed the splendors of the French Court." Isaac Disraeli. York Minster. A noble church at

the palace of Whitehall, in London, was formerly known, from the circumstance that the Archbishops of York resided there when in town. The last Archbishop of York who lived there was Cardinal Wolsey; and on his fall, in 1529, the name was changed to White Hall.

You must no more call it York-Place, that is past;

For since the Cardinal fell, that title's lost:

"Tis now the king's, and called Whitehall. Shakespeare. Yosemite Valley. 1. A picture by Albert Bierstadt (b. 1829). Now in possession of Mr. James Lenox.

2. A picture by Thomas Hill (b. 1829).

Young Bull. See BULL, THE YOUNG.

Young Courtesan. A picture by Xavier Sigalon (1788-1837), well known by engravings. In the Louvre, Paris.

Yuste. A monastic edifice near Plasencia in the province of Estremadura, Spain, celebrated as the place of retirement of the Emperor Charles V. on his abdication of the throne in 1556. It was the property of the Jeronymite monks, and derives its name from the little stream, the Yuste, which flows beneath it. It was

founded in 1404. The convent and the surrounding estate_now belongs to the Duke of Montpensier. It is now in ruins.

So Charles the emperor, whose mighty reign

The globe itself scarce held within its bound,

At Yuste, a fair abbey of our Spain,
A lowly home and quiet haven found.
Luis Capata, Trans.

In Saint Just the silent bowers
Hear a drowsy funeral lay:
Bells are humming from the towers
For the monk who died to-day.

Graf von Auersperg, Trans.

Zaccaria, St. See ST. ZACCARIA. Zamek. A royal castle at Cracow, the ancient capital of Poland, built in the fourteenth century, but mainly rebuilt in 1610. Zealous, The. An armor-plated ship of the British navy, launched March 7, 1864.

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Zechariah's Tomb. A rock-cut tomb near Jerusalem, adorned with Ionic pillars and square piers, and surmounted with a pyramidal roof.

"Perhaps this building should properly be called a cenotaph, as it is perfectly solid, and no cave or sepulchral vault has been found beneath it; though, judging from analogies, one might yet be found, if properly looked for." Fergusson.

Zemzem. A holy spring in Mecca, Arabia. It is said to have gushed out on this spot to the succor of Ishmael and his mother when perishing of thirst. It is carefully enclosed and joined with the tower of the Kaabah by a railing.

"The Well Zemzem has its name from the bubbling sound of the waters, zem-zem: they think it is the well which Hagar found with her little Ishmael in the wilderness: the aërolite and it have been sacred now, and had a Caabah over them, for thousands of years." Carlyle. Zeno Chapel. A chapel in St. Mark's Church, Venice, Italy, built by Cardinal Zeno in the early part of the sixteenth century.

Zenobia. A statue by Harriet Hosmer (b. 1831).

"This morning I went to Miss Hosmer's studio to see her statue of

Zenobia.... [It] stood in the centre of the room, as yet unfinished in the clay, but a very noble and remarkable statue indeed, full of dignity and beau ty." Hawthorne. Zenobius, St. See ST. ZENOBIUS. Zingarella, La. [The Gypsy.] A

beautiful picture of the Madonna and Child by Antonio Allegri, surnamed Correggio (1494-1534), representing the Virgin with an Oriental turban (hence the name). This picture is now in the Museum at Naples. There is another upon the same subject bearing this name at Parma, Italy. See REPOSE IN EGYPT.

The painter's wife, whom he married in 1520, is supposed to have been his model for La Zingarella. This picture is also called Madonna del Coniglio from the rabbit (coniglio) which appears in the foreground.

Zion. See MOUNT ZION.
Zocodover. The principal square
and fashionable promenade of
Toledo, Spain.

Zodiac of Denderah. A celebrated astronomical drawing upon the ceiling of the portico of the Temple of Denderah in Egypt. It was formerly supposed to be of the age of the early Pharaohs, but is now referred to the time of the Ptolemies.

Zoological Gardens. An enclosure contiguous to Regent's Park, London, belonging to the Zoological Society, and containing a large and rare collection of animals. The Gardens were first opened to the public in 1828, and the menagerie is now the finest public bivarium in Europe.

In the Zoological Gardens, I saw & baboon who always got into a furious rage when his keeper took out a letter or book. C. Darwin.

Zuccone, Lo. [The Bald Head.] A bronze statue of David by Donatello (1383-1466). In the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

Zwinger, The. A public building in Dresden, Saxony. It contains a valuable collection of works of art and scientific treasures. The word is a general name for a prison or any confined place.

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