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LUZULA 42 LYCEITM season. The different provinces of th«  island are connected with Manila by tele- graph, and there are cables from that city to the S. islands in the group, and also to Borneo, Singapore, and Hong Kong. See Philippine Islands and Manila. LUZULA (16'-), wood-rush; a genus of Juncacese (rushes). It has soft, plane, generally hairy leaves, a glumaceous perianth of six leaves, and a one-celled, three-valved capsule with three seeds. About 40 are known, all from temperate or cold climates. LUZZATTI, LUIGI, Italian statesman, born in 1841, in Venice, of Jewish parents. In 1867 he Ijecame professor of political economy and constitutional law at Padua University. In 1870 he entered politics by being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, after which he soon rose to prominence. He was Minister of Fi- nance 1891-1892 and 1896-1898, and for a short period in 1910 he was Premier. He is an extreme Liberal, almost a radi- cal, in his politics and is noted for his interest in all working-class movements. LVOFF, PRINCE GEORGE E., Rus- sian social reformer, one of the promi- nent figures in the final revolution PRINCE GEORGE E. LVOFF which brought about the downfall of the Imperial Government in 1917; became interested in social reform at an early age, working through the zemstvos, those community councils within which the Imperial Government limited all the local autonomy it allowed to communities. Prince Lvoff was one of the delegation which, representing the national federa- tion of zemstvos, presented a petition to Nicholas II., in 1905, for an extension of civic rights. He was a member of the first Duma, and identified himself wdth the Constitutional Democrats, standing for an extension of the democratic prin- ciple in Russia's political organization. In March, 1917, when the Czar was over- thrown and the problem of organizing a provisional government presented itself, Prince Lvoff was found to be the only personality on whom both conservatives and radicals could agree as suitable to head the Cabinet. He was, accordingly, nominated Premier, and was one of the few who remained in the Cabinet during the many changes of the Kerensky regime. After the rise into power of the Bolsheviki, under Lenine and Trotzky, Prince Lvoff was compelled to ftee abroad. LWOW. See LembeRG. LYAUTEY, LOUIS HUBERT GON- ZALVE, a French soldier; born at Nancy, French Lorraine, in 1854. Mem- ber of the French Academy. After a military training he engaged in French colonial service. A pupil of Galleni, Lyautey at Madagascar and Tonking accomplished important work in strengthening the French position in the colonies and pacifying the natives. In 1912 he was appointed Resident-General at Fez, Morocco, at a time when law- lessness reigned unchecked and the Ger- mans were active in fomenting trouble among the Berbers and Arabs. General Lyautey set up advance posts among the malcontents which were influential in civilizing the people. He built up the country by establishing important public works. He trained the Moors to be ef- fective soldiers, sending two army corps to the western front in the European War, where the Moroccans proved their valor. General Lyautey was appointed Minister of War in 1916, but resigned in 1917. LYCAONIA (lik-a-6'ni-a), in ancient geography, a country in Asia Minor, bounded on the E. by Cappadocia, on the N. by Galatia, on the W. by Pisidia, and on the S. by Isauria and Cilicia; its capital was Iconium. LYCEUM (-se'-), the name of an academy at Athens, so called from its position near the temple of Apollo Ly- ceus. Here Aristotle and his disciples taught, and were called Peripatetics, from their habit of walking up and down its porches while delivering their lee-