JANUS QUAD'RIFRONS, ARCH OF. An arched passage on the Forum Boarinm at Rome. It ha, four facades and was surmounted by a second story, now destroyed. Its erection is a- signed to the time of Constantine. and it appears to have served as a sort of exchange.
jANVIER, Tuom.ks AwnoNE (1S49 —). An American journalist and novelist. bony in Philadelphia. With a public-school education. he began newspaper work in his native city in IS70. and continued it till ISSl, when he went to spend several years in Colorado, New and Old :Mexico. sojourns which left their impression upon his literary work. A well-known writer of short stories. danvier is specially skilled in the delineation of the picturesque foreign life of New York. where lie lived in 1SS1-94. publi cations include: Co/or Blokes (1SS'5I : The Mexican Guide ( ISs7) : The Aztec Treasure Roust- (18901: Stories of Old :Vete Spain (1S91): 7'he Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories (1891); An Embassy to Prorenee (1S03) : In Old Neu- York (1S9-1): In the Sargasso Sea ( IS9S 1 : The Passing of Thomas, and Oilier Sto rifs (ono) : and In Great Waters (1901).—His
sister. MARGARF.T THOMSON J.% NVIER 1R-14—) , was born in New Orleans. She wrote under the pen-name 'Margaret Vandergrift' many juveniles, among which are nameworthy: Under the Dog Star (IStil): The Absent-.11inded Fairy, and Other 'Verses (1CC3): The Dead Doll, and Other rcrws ISSR).
JA'OK (name among the A large, edible sculpin 1.11yorocephalus jaol•, which is one of the most characteristic and useful fishes of both shores of Bering Sen. it is about two feel long, reddish above and white beneath. It is very active. has extraordinary tenacity of life. and is extensively caught and smoke-cured by the Kamtehadales. who call it `jaok.' and Koriaks, whose name for it is `i laal;' while the coast Russians call it `ramsha!