FRITH, fit, Rhijnvis, Dutch poet : b. Zwoll, Over-Yessel, 7 Feb. 1753; d. there, 8 Feb. 1824. He was made burgomaster and afterward re ceiver at the admiralty college in Zwoll, but did not cease to cultivate the art of poetry and to enrich Dutch literature. He tried his powers in almost every department of poetry. In his earlier years he was too much inclined to the pensive and sentimental style. It predominates particularly in his romance 'Ferdinand and Constantin' (1785), and; through his example has for a long time prevailed in Holland. Ibis 'Grave (Het Graf 1792) is the first distin guished didactic poem since the revival of Dutch poetry. His 'Old Age' (De Ouderdom) appeared 1802.. Among his lyric poems, (Oden en Gedichten) (1798), are several hymns and odes distinguished for great elevation and f eel ing. His ode on is very celebrated. He also made that naval hero the subject of an e ic poem. The best of his tragedies are ' 'rza' ; 'Johanna Gray,' and particularly 'Ines de Castro.' His poetical 'Letters to Sophia on Kant's Philosophy' (1805) are a feeble effort of his old e. Among his prose works, his 'Letters on Subjects of Literature' (1784), contributed much to the dissemination of good taste, by their finished style and excellent criticisms. .
FliJgRVARY, fey-al.-vier!, Clam BARON Hungarian soldier and statesman: b. 18.32; d. 25 April 1914. He entered the army at 19 and fought with distinction at the battle of Sari Martino in 1859. On the eve of Solferino he carried out a daring reconnaissance and gained information that might have won the day for Austria had it been properly used. When the Dual System was created in 1867 he was transferred to the Honved, or Hungarian fense army, of which, first as under-secretary, and after as minister, he was the principal or ganizer. On the fall of the Tisza government
in 1905 the opposition refused to take office unless Magyar words of command were intro duced into the Hungarian regiments of the joint army, which the Emperor Francis Joseph sternly refused to grant. The emperor de sired to place Fejervary at the head of a fight ing cabinet, an honor which the old soldier, who was only two years younger than the em peror, refused. His objections were overruled., however, and he became Premier. All attempts to negotiate with the coalition failing, he launched a campaign for universal suffrage for Hungary and advised the Crown to summon the five coalition leaders, Andrassy, Appenyi, Zichy; Binffy and Kossuth to appear before the-mon arch in Vienna. In a five minutes' audience the emperor declared his standpoint and dis missed them with a severe admonition. In February 1906 Fejervary dissolved the Cham ber with a high hand and six weeks later the coalition leaders came to terms, waived their chief demand and took office. Baron Fejervary now stepped aside and lived in comparative re pose as captain of the Hungarian Guard. He was an inveterate gambler and the emperor paid his debts more than once. On the last oc casion, Francis Joseph gave him a roll of bank notes to pay a gambling debt and demanded his word of honor that he would never play again. °But if the temptation is too strong," he added, *here is the remedy,* and handed him a re volver.