ABSYR'TUS ( C k. •Atpeproc, .1 psy•tos).
In the legend of the Argonautie expedition (see Annoxii•rs I, the younger brother of Medea. She carried him off with her \Own she tied with Jason from Col•his, and, according to the common version of the story, deterred her pur suing parent. -fetes, by mating the boy in pieces and scattering his body on the sea for his father to gather up.
ABT, iipt. FttAxz (1819-55). A German song writer amid musical conductor. Ile was born at Eilenburg and sent to the Thomasschule at Leipzig to be educated. Here lie met Men de's:01m, wAio is said to have persuaded him to follow a musical career. lie was appointed kapellmeister at the court theatre of Bernburg in 1541, but soon relinquished this position for a similar one at Zurich, where he remained fur eleven years, obtaining great popularity as a teacher, composer, and leader of singing socie ties. lie was called to Brunswick in 187,2 as second musical director at the court theatre, was appointed court kapellmeister in 1555, and pew:bawd in 1881. Ile came to the United States in 1872 at the invitation of several choral societies, and everywhere met with a cor dial reception. Alit was :1 iu.olifie and at the time of his death had published nearly 000 books (lielte), some of them vont:lining from twenty to thirty numbers. lie belomrs to that group of composers which ineludes Trulm, Kiicken, and tfunibert. Ilis vocal compositions
are remarkable for their simplicity and clearness of melodic construction. Among these may be mentioned: f' /I tralben brimtniirts ( \lief' the 110111eWard Glue Yacht, flu mein herziges Kind I'llood Night, Nl• C'hild") : Nehlaf' •ohl, flu siisser Engel (":Sleep Well, Sweet Anger) : Lettelitemics Aug.
("Marie. or, When I Am Year Then.").
• ABU, tine of t•he Aravulli mountains India, over 5000 feet high. It is held in high esteem by the Jainas and is celebrated for its two magnificent temples of white marble. supposed to have been built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and considered the finest ppeciniens of Indian architecture.
ABU, The .krabie word for "father,"which in modern Arabic often becomes abbrevi ated to Hu. It is prefixed to many .krabic proper names, as the equivalent syllable .tb is prefixed to Hebrew names. Example: .klui-bekr, or more properly, A bit-bak r, the 'father of lta kr.' Rut A bu. like the lIchrew .1b, often is not to be interpreted literally, hut signifies possessor, or is used to in dicate even more generally the notion of fullness, largeness, and the like; as in.kbulfeda, "possessor of devotion," "the devoted one:" Abner, "the bril liant one," literally "father or possessor of light."