Blanking Dies
Blanking Dies. These Are Made For Cutting Out Flat Blanks From Steel, Iron, Paper, Etc. Usually Both Punch And Die Are Hardened And Tempered; Sometimes The Punch Is Left Soft, And As It Gets Worn Is Set Out And Refitted By Being Forced Or Shoved Into The Die; Sometimes It ...
Clement W Cou Mbe
Clement W. Cou Mbe. A Much Flattened Univalve Mollusk Of The Family Haliotide, Allied To The Keyhole Limpets. It Takes Its Name From Its Rough Resemblance To The Human Ear, And Is Known As Ormer And Oreille De Mer In The Channel Islands, Where One Species Is Exten Sively Used ...
Cohost Dinoolveia
Cohost Dinoolveia: Order Saurischia. Primitively Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Suborder Theropoda. Bipedal Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Suborder Sauropoda. Quadrupedal, Amphibious, Plant Feeding Dinosaurs. Order Ornitaischia. Predentate Or Beaked Herbivorous Dinosaurs. Suborder Ornithopoda. Bipedal Unarmored Dinosaurs. Suborder Stegosaur's. Armored Dinosaurs. Suborder Ceratopsia. Qquadrupedal Horned Dinosaurs. The Two Main Phyla Or Orders Of Dinosaurs Have Received ...
Constitution
Constitution - Amendments). Unfortunately, The Court Did Not Confine Itself To The Case Before It; But For The Reasons Above Mentioned, And To Answer For The Public The Arguments Brought Forward By Counsel, Who Went Out Of Their Way To Deliver A Series Of Obiter Dicta (personal Judgments Not Needed ...
Corona
Corona. Gothic The Gothic Style Of Archi Tecture Is Frequently Termed Pointed Or Ogival, On Account Of Its Pointed Or Ogive Arches. (see Architecture). In The 12th Century This Style Is In Its Transitional Stage And, Therefore, We Find Moldings, Capitals And Column Shafts In Romanesque Decoration. The Ground-plans Become ...
Crystallography
Crystallography), And Its Optical And Other Physical Properties (see Physical Crystall Ography) ; Specimens Of Previously Described Species Are Accurately And Rapidly Determined By Much Simpler Methods, Varying From Sight Recognition To Systematic Testing With The Aid Of Tables Or (schemes." Sight Recognition Is The Result Of Experience In Handling ...
De Smet
De Smet, Peter John, American Jesuit Missionary To The Indians: B. Dendermonde (now Termonde), Belgium, 31 Dec. 1801; D. Saint Louis, Mo., 23 May 1873. In 1822, Being Yet Only A Scholastic In The Order, He Was Sent By His Superiors To Join The Jesuit Mission In The United States ...
De Soto
De Soto, Hernando, Spanish Nobleman, Conqueror And Explorer: B. Villanueva De La Serena (badajoz) About 1496; D. 1542 Or 1543. As A Captain In 1523-24 He Shared The Adven Tures Of C6rdoba's Fleet On The Nicaraguan Costs, Hut Was Overcome By Gil Gonzalez Through Treachery. Joining Fran Cisco Pizarro In ...
De Vries
De Vries, Marion, American Lawyer: B. Near Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, Cal., 15 Aug. 1865. He Was Graduated From The San Joaquin Valley College In 1886 And From The Law School Of The University Of Michigan In 1888. He Practised Law At Stockton, Cal., 1889-1900; Was Assistant District Attorney Of ...
De Witt
De Witt, Jan, Dutch Statesman: B. Dort, 24 Sept. 1625; D. The Hague, 20 Aug. 1672. His Father Was Jacob De Witt, A Prominent Figure In The Stormy Dissensions Of Holland's Political Life, And An Ardent Supporter Of The Republic Against The Hereditary Stadtholders Of The House Of Orange. The ...
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Des Knaben Wunderhorn. 'the Boy's Marvelous Horny (vol. I, 1806, Really Published In 1805, 1808), The Most Fa Mous Collection Of German Folksongs, Was The Work Of Clemens Brentano (q.v.) And Achim Von Arnim (q.v.), Both Members Of The Heidel Berg Romantic Group. The Title Was Furnished By The Title ...
Des Moines
Des Moines, De-moin, Iowa, City, Capi Tal Of The State, And County-seat Of Polk County; Near The Geographical Centre Of The State, Long. 16° 43' 52" W.; Lat. 41° 35' 45" N. It Is Situated At The Junction Of The Des Moines And Raccoon Rivers, And Is Entered By 19 ...
Desert
Desert, The Great American. The North American Deserts Possess All The Physi °graphic, Geologic And Climatic Elements Which Distinguish The African Desert Of Sahara. The Chief Difference Between The Two Regions Is The Relatively Larger Area Of The Sahara, The Arrange Ment Of The Topographic Units And The Occur Rence ...
Desert Animals
Desert Animals. Men Are Apt To Think Of The Vast Tracts Of Absolutely Treeless Arid Sand As Uninhabited, Because They Are Void Of The. Creatures Known To The Regions Where Humanity Dwells. Yet These Tracts Are Often Teeming With Life. On The Shadowless Expanse Which Affords No Lurking-place, Animals, Adapt ...
Desert Land Law
Desert Land Law. Under The Group Of Acts Known As The Desert Land Law, Any Citizen Of The United States 21 Years Of Age Or More Or Any Person Of Such Age Who Has De Clared His Intention Of Becoming A Citizen And Who Is A Bona-fide Resident Of The ...
Desert Plants
Desert Plants, Such Plants As Are Characteristic Of Arid Regions; In General Marked By Structures Adapted To Check Transpiration Of Water, Such As Reduced Leaf Surface, Absence Of Leaves, Thickened Epidermis, Hairy Or Waxy Coverings, Stomata Apparatus)) In Sunken Pits, The Entrances To Which May Or May Not Be Protected ...
Deserted Village
Deserted Village, The. The De Serted Village,) The Best Known Of Oliver Goldsmith's Poems, Appeared In May 1770, And Reached A 5th Edition By August Of That Year. There Has Never Been Any Marked .diminution Of The Favor In Which It Is Held By Lovers Of Poetry, Though Pentameter Couplets ...
Desertion
Desertion, In Legal Terminology A Word Applied Almost Exclusively To Violations Of The Obligation Of Husband And Wife To Live Together In The State Of Matrimony. Desertion May Be Defined As The Wilful Termination Of The Mar Riage Relation By One Of The Parties Without Lawful Or Reasonable Cause; Or ...
Design
Design, Schools Schools In Which Art Is Taught With An Industrial Application In View Rather Than A Purely Esthetic End. Theoretically Such Schools May Be Considered As Intermediate Between Schools Of Technology, In Which (with The Exception Of The Architectural Courses) De Signing Is Of A Purely Mechanical Nature And ...
Desmoulins
Desmoulins, Lucie Simplice Camille Benoist, French Revolutionist: B. Guise, Pi Cardy, 2 March 1760; D. Paris, 5 April 1794. He Studied At The Lycee Louis-le-grand And Later Took Up Law. In 1785 He Appeared Before The Parliament Of Paris As An Advocate, But A Defect Of Speech Made Him Unsuccessful ...
Dessau
Dessau, Des'sow, Germany, Capital Of The Duchy Of Anhalt, In A Valley On The Mulde, On The Railroad Between Berlin, Kothen, And Leip Zig, 65 Miles Southwest Of Berlin. Situated In A Region Well-wooded And Well-cultivated It Has Wide Tree-shaded Streets, A 16th Century Palace, Containing Fine Collections Of Dutch, ...
Determinants
Determinants, An Important Class Of Algebraic Functions Which Owe Their Origin To The Attempt To Formulate The Solutions Of Gen Eral Systems Of Simultaneous Linear Equations. Snch A System Of The Second Order Is Chr-fbi,4 Asx+bsy=14; From Which — , Aok—alei X— • Aim The Solution Of The System Of ...
Determining Tendency
Determining Tendency. Also Called Attitude, Task (aufgabe) And Is Partly Synonymous With Purpose In Its More Empiri Cal Use. Determining Tendency Was A Term Introduced By Ach And Taken Over Into English To Designate One Of The Wider Influences Which Control The Course Of Associations And So Of Thought And ...
Determinism
Determinism Is The Doctrine That Everything That Exists, As Well As Every Event That Happens, Is Absolutely Fixed And Necessary In The Sense That It Has Been Made What It Is' By The Action Of Some Ground Or Cause. From This Point Of View There Is Accordingly No Ele Ment ...
Detonators
Detonators Are The Devices Used In Firing High Explosives By Detonation. They Consist Of Small Cylindrical Copper Tubes Closed At One End And Charged With Mercuric Fulminate Or A Mixture Of Mercurial Fulminate And Potas Sium Chlorate Which Is Compressed In The Bot Tom Of The Tubes. Those Used For ...
Detroit
Detroit, Siege And Capture Of, In The War Of 1812. Before War Was Officially De Clared Against Great Britain A Plan Of Invading Canada Was Drawn Up. One Part Of The Army -under Brig.-gen. William Hull (q.v.) Was To Cross From Detroit And Sweep Eastwardly To Meet Two Other Armies ...
Detroit
Detroit (fr. D'etroit, Strait), Mich., Capital Of Wayne County, In The Southeast; Larg Est City Of The State And Of The Entire Northwest To The Pacific; Situated On The Northwest Bank Of The Detroit River Dividing The United States From Canada, One End Fronting West Of Lake Saint Clair And ...
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank, The. The Deutsche Bank (deutsche Bank In Berlin) Was Founded In 1870 With A Capital Of 15,000,000 Marks. Its Object, As Stated In Its Charter, Was (the Trans Action Of All Sorts Of Banking Business, Particu Larly The Fostering And Facilitating Of Commer Cial Relations Between Germany, The ...
Deutschland
Deutschland, The, A German Sub Marine Merchant Vessel, The First Of Its Class To Cross The Atlantic Ocean. Commanded By Capt. Paul Koenig And A Crew Of 28 Men, The Boat Sailed From Bremen 14 June 1916, Stopped At Helgoland For Nine Days And Then Set Out For Baltimore, Md., ...
Devil O E
Devil (o. E. Deofol; O. S. Diubal; O. H. G. Tiufal; M. G. Teufel; Gothic, Diabo Lus, From Gk. 6ta30;tos, A Slanderer), An Evil Spirit, Satan, The Tempter, Slanderer And Tor Mentor Of Human Beings, According To The Scriptures Of The Old And New Testaments. Most Of The Old Religions ...
Devil In Art And
Devil In Art And Symbolism. All Representations Of The Devil During The First Four Centuries Of Our Era Appear To Have Been That Of A Serpent Tempting Eve. In A Fresco In The Cemetery Of Sainte-agnes Satan Is Figured In The Form Of A Human Bust Termi Nating In A ...
Devise
Devise, Vii, A Gift Of Real Property By A Person's Last Will And Testament. The Term De Vise Technically And Properly Only Applies To Real Estate; The Object Of The Devise Must Therefore Be That Kind Of Property. The Word, However, Is Sometimes Improperly Applied To A Bequest Or Legacy. ...
Devonian
Devonian. The Name Devonian Appeared In Geological Literature In 1839, When Murchi Son And Sedgwick Applied It To A Rock System In Devonshire And Cornwall, England, Con Sisting Of Conglomerates, Shales And Fossilifer Ous Limestones Below The Carboniferous Rocks And Above The Great Mass Of The Gray Wacke Or Transitional ...
Devonshire
Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cav Endish, 8th Duke Of, English Statesman: B. 23 July 1833; D. Cannes, France, 24 March 1908. He Succeeded To The Ducal Title In 1891, Having Previously Become Well Known By His Courtesy Title Of The Marquis Of Hartington. First Re Turned To The House Of Commons ...
Dewey
Dewey, George, American Naval Officer: B. Montpelier, Vt., 26 Dec. 1837; D. Washington, D. C., 16 Jan. 1917. At 17, After A Preparatory Course In The Northfield Military School, Young Dewey Was Appointed A Cadet At Annapolis, In The Class Which Was Graduated In 1858. At The Outbreak Of The ...
Dewey_2
Dewey, Melvil, American Educator And Librarian: B. Adams Centre, N. Y., 10 Dec. 1851. He Was Graduated From Amherst Col Lege In 1874; Was College Librarian During, His Senior Year And For Two Years After Graduation. He Then Went To Boston Where He Was Active In Founding The American Library ...
Dextrin
Dextrin (cials•00), The Commercial Name For A Group Of Substances Obtained From Starch, And Very Similar To It In Composition; Also Called Starch Gum, British Gum, Etc. It Resembles Gum In Being Soluble In Water, But Is Distinguished From That Substance By Composi Tion; By Being, Like Starch, Converted Into ...
Dextrose
Dextrose, Grape-sugar, Starch-sugar Or Dextroglucose, Belongs To The Class Of Mono Saccharides, In The Section Hexoses. Its Formula May Be Expressed Either As Coh,20e Or C.11,0 (oh)g. Dextrose Occurs Along With Levulose In Very Many Plants, And Notably In Grapes And Most Other Fruits; Also In Honey, And Enters Into ...
Diabase
Diabase, A Word Used By Petrographers With Varied Meanings; But The Present Usage In This Country Restricts It To Crystalline Igneous Rocks, Of The Basalt Family, Generally Occurring As Dikes, Having As Essential Constituents Plagio Clase Feldspar, Augite And Magnetite. Olivene May Or May Not Be Present. Diabases Differ From ...
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, A Disorder Of Nutrition, In Which There Is Deficient Oxidation Of The Sugar In The Body, Which Permits Of The Storing Up Of Large Amounts Of Sugar In The Blood. This Is Eliminated In Part In The Urine, And There Constitutes One Of The Most Positive Findings Of ...
Diacritical Marks
Diacritical Marks. A Mark Used To Indicate A Special Value For The Letter To Which It Is Attached. Such A Mark May Be A Conven Tionalised Letter As The • In The Swedish A, Originally An O, Or The In The German A, 6, 4, Originally An E. Similarly The ...
Dialect
Dialect, From The Greek Dialectos, Latin Dialectus, Ancient French Dialecte, A Conversa Tion, Discourse, Manner Of Speaking, Language Of A District Or Country; Derived From The Greek Verb Dialegestkai, To Speak Through, Or Across. Hence The Term Dialect, Strictly Applied, Signi Fies Speech Or Vehicle Of Conversation, Phrase Ology, Idiom, ...
Dialectic
Dialectic, The Art Of Separating A Sub Ject Into Its Parts By Discussion. It Thus In Cludes Both The Use Of Reason And Speech, And Is The Process Of Defining An Idea Or Principle And Testing The Definition By Showing All The Consequences, Both Positive And Negative, That It Involves. ...
Dialogues Of Leopardi
Dialogues Of Leopardi, The. Leopardi's Philosophical Paragraphs, Known To Italians As The Morali' Are Mostly In Dialogue Form; But They Are Not, As Regards Sub Stance, To Be Taken Apart From The Other Prose Works Composed By Him Largely In 1824, Pub Lished First In 1827, And Again With Slight ...
Dialogues Of Plato
Dialogues Of Plato, Jowett's Translation Of. The Worst And The Best Of Benjamin Jowett's Translation Of Plato's Dia Logues Is Expressed In Two Contemporary Epigrams. Ingram Bywater, Fellow Of Exeter College, Oxford, And Jowett's Successor As Regius Professor Of Greek, Used To Say, Half In Jest, "i Do Not Suppose ...
Dialogues Of The Dead
Dialogues Of The Dead. Lucian Is A Remarkable Figure In The World's Literature. A Native Of Syria And Living In The 2d Cen Tury A.d., He Wrote The Best Greek That Had Been Written In 300 Years, And Was, Indeed, "the Last Great Master Of. Attic Eloquence And Attic Wit.* ...
Diamond
Diamond, A Natural Form Of Carbon, Highly Valued As A Precious Stone When Trans Parent And Of The Crystalline Form. The Dia Mond Crystallizes In The Cubic Or Monometric System, Its Common Form Being The Regular Octahedron Or A Modification Of It. The Faces Are Often Curved And The General ...
Diamond Industry
Diamond Industry, A Most Import Ant And Far-reaching Department Of National And International Commerce, Which Is Spreading And Increasing, Year By Year, Especially In The United States. The Diamond Has Been A Precious Stone Procured With Difficulty, Treasured Up With Jealous Care, And Sought After By The Rich And Magnificent ...
Diamondback Terrapin
Diamondback Terrapin (main Steamy: Palustris). This Far-famed Turtle Be Longs To The Family Emydide And May Be Recognized By The Unhinged Plastron Or Lower Shell, The Concentric Grooves And Ridges Which Mark Each Plate Of The Upper Shell Or Carapace, The Smooth Unnotched Jaws, Smooth Skin Cover Ing The Head, ...
Diana
Diana. One Of The Few Readable Pastoral Romances Is The Spanish 'diana) (1558) By The Portuguese Jorge De Montemor, Whose Name Is Usually Given In Its Spanish Form As Monte Mayor. The Pastoral Tradition, Taking Its Rise In The Of Theocritus, The Of Virgil, And The Late Greek Story Of ...
Diana Of The Crossways
Diana Of The Crossways. This Novel By George Meredith Is A Penetrating Study Of Feminine Character In Its Marital And Social Relations. Diana, As Meredith Proclaims, Is °a Positive Heroine, With Brains And Real Blood.)) Her Youthful, Loveless And Unhappy Marriage, Her Reckless Plunge Into The Gaieties Of London Life,. ...
Diaphragm
Diaphragm, Di'a-fram. (1) In Anatomy, A Dome-shaped Muscular Partition Found In The Mammals, Separating The Abdominal Cavity From The Pleural Cavities Containing The Lungs. It Is Attached To The Lower End Of The Sternum, The Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh And Twelfth Ribs, And The Upper Three Or Four Lumbar Vertebra:. Its ...
Diarrhcea
Diarrhcea, A Symptom Of A Disordered Condition Of The Intestines, Accompanied By Too Frequent Movements Of The Bowels, Due To Their Increased Peristaltic (or Wave-like) Motion. Like Dyspepsia, It Is Only A Symptom Of Some Pathological Condition. Diarrhoea Is Usually The Result Of Some Indiscretion In Diet, Such As The ...
Diary
Diary, A Daily Record Of Events Or Obser Vations Made By An Individual. It Contains A Narrative, More Or Less Detailed, Of Matters Of Personal Interest, Often Including The Results Of Reading Or Meditation. Yet References To Cur Rent Events Of General Interest Are Sometimes Introduced. This Form Of Diary ...
Diatoms
Diatoms, A Sub-order Of Microscopic Plants Belonging To The Class Alga. A Plant Of This Sub-order Consists Of A Unilocular Or A Septate Cell; And Its Cells Are Composed Of Two Symmetrical Valves, Multiplying By Spontaneous Separation. There Are Two Well-defined Sec Tions: (1) Diatomece, Including Species Invested With A ...
Diaz
Diaz, Porfirio, De'is, Mexican Statesman: B. Oaxaca, 15 Sept. 1830; D. 2 July 1915. He Received A Classical Education At The Oaxaca Institute, And Had Begun Studying Law When The War With The United States Broke Out. He Served Through That Struggle In The National Guard, And On The Conclusion ...
Diaz Del Castillo
Diaz Del Castillo, Ka-stely6, Ber Nardo (vulgarly Bernal), One Of The Spanish Conquerors Of Mexico, And Historian Of That Conquest: B. Medina Del Campo, In Old Castile, About 1498; D. Santiago De Los Caballeros, Guatemala, About 1590, Leaving Numerous Descendants. His Work, Entitled (historia Ver Dadera De La Conquista De ...
Diazo Compounds
Diazo-compounds Resemble Azo Compounds (see Coal-tar Colors), In Contain Ing The Group —n,—, But With The Difference That In The Former Two Organic Radicals Are United To The Characteristic Group, As R.ni.r, Instead Of One As In The Latter. These Compounds Were Discovered In 1858 By Griess, Who Obtained Them ...
Dicast
Dicast, A Member Of The Popular Courts Of Athens. To Solon Is Attributed The Institu Tion Of These Courts. From The Citizens Over 30 Years Of Age About 6,000 Were Chosen Annually By Lot And Of This Number Sections Of From 20 To 500 Members Were Chosen Daily To Hear ...
Dichroism
Dichroism (gr. Dis, °twice,' Chroa, Tcolor°), The Property Which Many Colored Doubly Refracting Crystals Have Of Exhibiting Different Colors In Different Directions. Thus The Color Of A Green Tourmaline Appears Very Much Darker In The Direction Of The Vertical Axis Than When The Crystal Is Viewed At Right Angles To ...
Dichromatism
Dichromatism. The Designation Of A Phenomenon Among Birds Defined By Chapman As ((the Existence Of Two Phases Of Color In The Same Species?' Some Writers Have Included Under This Term, Albinism, Or Lack Of Pigment; Melanism, Or Excess Of Dark Pigment, Producing An Extensive Or Complete Blackening Of The Stir ...
Dickens
Dickens, Charles, English Novelist: B. Landport, England, 7 Feb. 1812; D. Gad's Hill, Near London, 9 June 1870. Dickens, Who Was Christened Charles John Huffham Dickens, Was The Eldest Son And The Second Child Among Eight Of John And Elizabeth Dickens. His Father Was A Navy-clerk In The Portsmouth Dockyard ...
Dicotyledons
Dicotyledons, A Subdivision Of The Angiosperms, Or Plants With Encased Ovules, Which Is Characterized By The Fact That The Embryo Has At Least Two (sometimes More) Cotyledons Or Seed Leaves, Whereas The Mono Cotyledons (q.v.), The Other Subdivision Of The Angiosperms, Have Only One. Besides This Almost Invariable Characteristic, Others ...
Dictator
Dictator, An Extraordinary Magistrate Of Ancient Rome, First Appointed 501 B.c. At First No One Was Eligible To The Office Who Had Not Been Previously A Consul. The Power Of Naming A Dictator, When An Emergency Arose Requiring A Concentration Of The Powers Of The State In A Single Superior ...
Dictionary
Dictionary (low Latin Dictionarism, First Used In The 14th Century; From Dictio, Post Classical Synonym For Verbum, Word). The Various Applications Of The Term, General And Special, Are So Familiar That A Detail Would Be Of No Service. Of Its Synonyms, It May Be Said That The Greek Word "lexicon* ...
Diderot
Diderot, Denis, Cred're, French Man Of Letters And Encyclopedist: B. Langres, 5 Oct. 1713; D. Paris, 31 July 1784. He Was Educated By The Jesuits But Afterward Became One Of The Bitterest Enemies Of The Church. When His Education Was At An End He Became Estranged From His Family By ...
Diebitsch Sabalkanski
Diebitsch-sabalkanski, Hans Karl Friedrich Anton, Count, Russian Field-marshal: B. Grossleippe, Silesia, 13 May 1785; D. Kleczwo, Near Polotsk, Poland, 10 June 1831. In 1797, When 12 Years Of Age, He Was Sent By His Father, Who Had Served Under Frederick The Great And Frederick Wil Liam Ii Of Prussia, To ...
Dies
Dies Ir/e (day Of Wrath), Technically This Supreme Product Of Latin Hymn-writing Is Called A Sequence Because Of Its Place In Litur Gical Usage. It Is First Found In Italian Missals In Connection With The Office For The Burial Of The Dead And By Action Of The Council Of Trent ...
Dies And Die Making
Dies And Die Making. In The Manu Facture Of Machinery By The Modern Duplicate System, In Which Every Individual Part Is So Nearly Alike That It May Be Replaced For Any Other Broken Or Worn Part, The Art Of The Die Maker Has Become Of Great Importance. The Majority Of ...
Diesterweg
Diesterweg, Friedrich Adolf Wilhelm,. German Educator : B. Sieger, Prussia, 1790; D. 1866. In 1806-11 He Studied At Herborn And Tubingen. He Taught At Mann Heim And At Worms For About Two Years, When He Removed To The Model School At Frankfort. Later He Became Rector Of The Latin School ...
Dietetics
Dietetics, A Branch Of Hygiene, Is The Science Or Study And Regulation Of The Diet. Diet Is The Customary Allowance Of Food And Drink Taken By Any Person From Day To Day — Either As A Hygienic Measure—or As A Remedy In Cases Of Disease. The Words Diet, Dietetics And ...
Differential Thermometer
Differential Thermometer, An Instrument For Determining The Difference Of Temperatures Between Two Points Or Places. That Of Sir John Leslie Is One Of The Best Known, And Will Be Found Described Under Thermometer. His Invention Is Now Used Only As A Thermoscope. Howard's Differential Ther Mometer Is The Most Sensitive ...
A Dolls House
Doll's House, A. The Theme Out Of Which (a Doll's House) Was Constructed Was Not Of Sudden Choice. In His Notes For This Modern Tragedy, Ibsen Jotted Down, Under Date Of 19 Oct. 1878, The Following Statement: " A Woman Cannot Be Herself In The Society D The Pres Ent ...