family

William I.-(1797-1888.) King of
Prussia (1861-88), Emperor of
Germany (1871-88), x, 276, 279,
285, 313; xv, 226, 227, 237.
William II.-(1859- .) Emperor of
Germany, x, 288, 313; training
of, xv, 22, 23; cause of popu-
larity and power, 206, 211;
compared with Frederic the
Great, 209, 214, 215;
history, 209; interferes in the
Transvaal, 210, 211; becomes
Emperor, 211; extensive reader,
211; religion and home life,
212, 213; fearlessness, 213, 214;
enters army, 215; attends Bonn
University, 215; made major-
general, 215; issues two pro-
nunciamentos on coming to
throne, 216; extensive travels,
216, 217; desires for a greater
Germany, 218; seizes Kiao Chow,
219, 220; sends Admiral Died-
richs to annoy Admiral Dewey,
221; refuses to receive Trans-
vaal envoys, 222; sends brother
to America, 223, 224; presents
monument of Frederic the Great
to America, 224-226; promises
to cultivate Russia's friendship,
228, 229; reasons for dismissing
Bismarck, 229-233; trained by
Bismarck in diplomacy, 233;
grows in popularity, 233, 234;
practical accomplishments, 234;
adverse to advice, 234-236; love
for war, 236; recklessness, 236,
237.
William III, of England (1650-

1702.) Accession of, v, 104;
vii, 187; his virtues, 188; his
throne not a bed of roses, 188;
unfortunate in his Flemish cam-
paigns, 189; union of Scotland
and England, 191; fixed succes-
sion in House of Hanover, 191;
fall from horse and death, 191;

commo-

of England (1830-37), theme:
"English Reforms," x, 25; the
Tories in power and hostile to
reform, 25; social and political
England at the era, 26, 29; the
Whigs pledged to parliamentary
reform, 30; the struggle an
epoch in English history, 31;
Russell's Reform Bill (1831),
31; its provisions and aims, 33;
passes third reading after period
of stormy debate, 36; defeated
in House of Lords, 38;
tions throughout the country,
39; Bill of 1832 enlarging rep-
resentation of people becomes
law, 40; Irish affairs, 43-45;
the tithes question, 45, 49; Mel-
bourne's administration, 51;
abolition of slavery in British
West India Islands, 52; and in
all British dominions, 53; Trade
unions and war (1834) between
capital and labor, 54, 55; repeal
of house tax and poor law
amendment, 56; passing of mu
nicipal reform bill, 57; demise
of William IV and accession of
Queen Victoria, 58, 59; the
penny postage law, 59; modi
fications in the criminal code,
60; Peel's second ministry
(1841) and its great political
heads of portfolios, 61; relief
from abuses and distresses of
George IV's era, 62; death, 322,

-V, 285. See
William III of England.
William of Saint Amour.-v, 234.
William of Wykeham.

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(1324-
1404.) English prelate and
statesman, theme: "Gothic Arch-
itecture," v, 361; historical de-
velopments of church architec-
ture of Middle Ages, 362; the
ancient Basilica, 364, 365; trans-
ition from the basilica to the
Gothic church-the Romanesque,
366; monastic buildings, con-
vents and retreats, 368-370;
brighter influence of the Cru-
sades, 371-374; the "Gothic,"
375; Winchester Cathedral, and
its builder, Wm. of Wykeham,
377; Salisbury, York, Glouces-
ter, and Westminster, 377, 378;
new era sets in with Michael
Angelo, 380; St. Peter's, Rome,
and St. Paul's, London, £31;
mixture of Greek and Gothic,
382; architecture turned into
great feats of engineering, 383;
8 church for liturgical ser-
vices or for pulpit eloquence?
385; church edifice to be
adapted to the end designed,
386; design of the Protestant
church, 387; a church for the
poor as well as for the opulent,
388.

William Rufus.-King of England
(1087-1100), v, 180, 182, 192,
259, 336.

(1582-1650.)

English prelate and statesman,
V, 406.

Williamsburg, Va., House of
Burgesses meets in, xi, 266.
William the Conqueror. (1028-
87.) King of England (1066-
87), v, 171, 175; vi, 242; xiii,
137.

William the Silent. (1533-84.)
Prince of Orange and first stadt-
holder of the Netherlands, v,
107; vi, 378, 430; viii, 159;
ix, 131, 282; xi, 29, 126, 229.
Wilmot, David W., of Penn., xii,
133.

Wilson, James.-(1742-92.) Ameri-
can jurist, xi, 156.
Wilson, John, "Christopher North."

(1785-1854.) Moral philoso-
phy professor, xiii, 246, 276.
Wilson, Woodrow. (1856-1924.)
President of the United States,
xvi; family history, 15, 16;
education, 17, 18; professor at
Princeton, 18; President of
Princeton, 18; son and grand-
son of the Manse, 19; difficulty
in speaking, 19, 20; dealings
with Mexico, 20, 22; seeks
beauty in method as in logic, 22,
23;

artistic temperament, 23;
gains reputation of "a political
ingrate," 23, 24; recreation, 25;
refuses interview to Viscount
Grey, 27, 28; inability of, to
work with other men, 28-30;
an International Liberal, 30;
political code is strong belief
that mankind is divided into
sheep and goats everywhere, 30-

33; Democratic party only
weapon of, 33, 34; reduces
tariff, 34; establishes Federal

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Reserve Banks, 34; equalizes
Panama Tolls, 34; takes over
Income Tax, 34; puts through
the Adamson Law, 34; disap-
proves of Coalitions, 34, 35; ex-
cludes Roosevelt from employ-
ment, 35; exiles General Leon-
ard Wood to unimportant camp,
35, 36; "snubs" William
Howard Taft, 36-38; attitude
toward relations between the
U. S. and England, 37; part in
elections of 1916 and 1918, 38,
39; acts on his own initiative,
40; declares United States
neutral, 40, 41; addresses
notes of protest to Britain and
Germany, 41, 42; coins phrase
"too proud to fight," 43; asks
combatants to state respective
aims, 43, 44; breaks relations
with Germany, 44, 45; seeks
Congressional authority for
armed neutrality, 45, 46; policy
provokes dissent in two respects,
46, 47; hopes to secure equitable
and lasting peace, 48; under-
stands Lloyd George and Clem-
enceau, 49, 50; his Fourteen
Points accepted as basis of
peace, 51-58; demands cancella-
tion of all secret treaties, 53, 55;
proposes League of Nations, 58;
agrees to joint guarantee of
French frontier, 49, 60; loses
his Liberal bodyguard, 60, 61;
hope in the supreme will of the
people, 62; illness, 62; keeps
country from war with Mexico,
63; refuses to compromise with
the Senate over reservations to
Covenant of League of Nations,
63; term of Presidency over,
63; desires to enter Senate, 63,
64; dignity of, 64.
Winchester, Bishop Fox, vi, 259;

Wolf, F. August.

(1759-1824.)
German classical scholar, "Pro-
legomena," xiii, 422.

Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal.—(1471-
1530.) English statesman, vi,
257, 267; vii, 202.

Woman, Education of, vii, 299.
See More, Hannah.
Woman, Political, The, vii, 145.
See Maintenon, Mme. de.
Woman as friend, type of, Paula,
a Roman lady of rank and
wealth, iv, 173. See Paula.
Woman as Novelist, vii, 345. See
Eliot, George.

Woman as Sovereign (Queen Eliza-
beth), viii, 65. See Queen Eliza-
beth.
Woman

in Literature, vii, 265.
See Staël, Mme. de.

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Woman of Paganisın (Cleopatra),

iii, 311; attractive but im-
moral, 335; malign influence of
Paganism on, 337-345; effect of
Christianity on, 346.

Woman of Society, vii, 227. See

Récamier, Mme.

Woman of the World, The, vii, 181.

See Marlborough, Duchess of.
"Women, Dream of Fair," Tenny-
son's, xiii, 453.

Women, Heroic, vii, 69.

Women, Jewish, more favored and
honored in Greece and Rome
than the sex of other nationali-
ties, iv, 174, 175.
"Women, Legend of Good," Chau-
cer's, vi, 73.

Women, new position, xii, 428.
Women, Notable, of Greece and
Rome, iv, 176.

Wonder, Daughter of, xiii, 302.
Wood, Charles.-English politician,
X, 66.

Wood, Leonard.-(1860- ) Amer-
ican general and administrator,
friendship with Roosevelt, xv,
79.

Woodberry, Prof. Geo. E.

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Worcester, Roger of.-V, 270.
Wordsworth, William.

(1770-
1850.) English poet, ix, 271;
xiii, 87, 90, 95, 96, 439, 453,
457, 460; xiv, 95.

Working Men's College, London,
xiv, 108.

Worldliness of Jesuit dignitaries,
vi, 319.

Worms, Diet of, Luther at, vi, 168,
250, 340; ix, 159.

Worms, Henry IV summons coun-
cil of German bishops at, v, 123.
Worth, Battle of (1870), x, 242.
Wotton, Sir Henry.-(1568-1630.)
English scholar and diplomat,
xiii, 299, 336.
Wren, Sir Christopher.

(1631-
1723.) English architect, builds
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, v,
381.

Wright, Orville.-(1871-.) Amer-
ican co-inventor of the airplane,
xvi, 283; family history, 283;
boyhood, 283, 284; interest of,
in problem of flight, 286, 287;
school of thought on aviation,
287, 288; early experiments,
288-291; discovers control sys-
tem, 290, 291; designs man-
carrying glider, 293-297; re-
sults of first experiments, 297,
298; builds two testing ma-
chines, 298, 299; designs
powered machine, 300-304;
makes first trial flight, 305;
abandons all other business, 308;
fails to enthuse War Department,
309; experiments cause sensa-
tion in Europe, 310, 311; carries
on negotiations with foreign
governments, 311, 312; demon-
strates contract machine, 313;
quiet life, 313, 314; personal
character, 314; first serious
accident, 314, 315; invention
becomes government property,

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316;
courage and dangers of,
316, 317; difficulties in business,

319, 320; compared with brother
Wilbur, 320, 321; receives com-
mission during war, 321; great-
ness of work, 321-324.
Wright, Wilbur.

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(1867-1912.)

American co-inventor of the air-
plane, xvi, 283; family history,
283; boyhood, 283, 284; be-
comes editor of weekly news-
paper, 285; interest in problem
of flight, 286, 287; school of
thought on aviation, 287, 288;
early experiments, 288-291; dis-
covers control system, 290, 291;
designs man-carrying glider, 293-
297; results of first experiments,
297, 298; builds two testing
machines, 298, 299; designs
powered machine, 300-304;
makes trial flights, 306, 307;
abandons all other business, 307;
fails to enthuse War Department,
309; experiments cause sensa-
tion in Europe, 310, 311; carries
on negotiations with foreign
governments, 311, 312; negoti-
ates with War Department, 312,
313; quiet life, 313, 314; in-
\vention becomes government
property, 316; 'courage and
dangers of, 316, 317; flies in
France, 317, 318; physical
characteristics, 318, 319; makes
historic flight, 319; difficulties
in business, 319, 320; death,
320; compared with brother
Orville, 320, 321; greatness of
work, 321-324.

Writs of Assistance (against Amer-

ican liberties), resistance to Eng-
lish, xi, 48, 77, 223.
Würtemberg, Kingdom of, South
Germany, ix, 164, 170.

"Dawn of the Reformation," v,
393; corruptions that crept into
institutions of the Church in
Middle Ages, 394; the Papacy
and powers and prerogatives of
the Popes in England in Wy
clif's time, 395; sale of church
preferments and tribute (Peter's
pence, etc.) forced on nation,
396; increase of Mendicant
friars to uphold Papal domina-
tion, 396; sale of indulgences
and pious frauds, 397; con-
vents and religious houses de-
vour substance of the poor, 398;
vices of clergy and corruptions
in Church doctrine, 398; birth,
education, and attainments of
Wyclif, 399, 400; rector of
Fillingham and a "don" of the
University of Oxford, 401;
attacks abuses of the Church,
and becomes head of Canter
bury Hall, appointment voided
by Langham and ratified by the
Pope, 403; in political life,
404; leads opposition against
the Pope's interference with
ecclesiastical livings in England,
405; friendship of his pro-
tector John of Gaunt, 405; his
treatise on the "Regimen of the
Church," 406; Parliament's
assault on pontifical exactions
and pretensions, 407; Wyclif
accused as a pertinacious
heretic, 407; subject of a papal
bull, appears at Lambeth to an-
swer his accusers, 408, 409; prc-
ceedings dropped, 410; his
translation of the Bible, 412;
version prohibited, 414; de-
nounces the eucharist and mys
teries of Catholic faith, 419;
death, 420; labors and services
as pioneer of reform in England,
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