affected his health; and in 1844 he gave up writing for some time, substituting instead public entertainments, called by him “Irish Evenings,” illustrative of his own works. These were successful both in Great Britain and in America. In addition to publishing numerous songs of his own, Lover edited a collection entitled The Lyrics of Ireland, which appeared in 1858. He died on the 6th of July 1868. Besides the novels already mentioned he wrote Treasure Trove (1844), and Metrical Tales and Other Poems (1860).
His Life was written in 1874 by Bayle Bernard.
LOVERE, a town of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of
Bergamo, at the north-west end of the Lago d’Iseo, 522 ft.
above sea-level. Pop. (1901) 3306. It is a picturesque town,
the houses having the overhanging wooden roofs of Switzerland
united with the heavy stone arcades of Italy, while the situation
is beautiful, with the lake in front and the semicircle of bold
mountains behind. The church of Santa Maria in Valvendra,
built in 1473, has frescoes by Floriano Ferramola of Brescia
(d. 1528). The Palazzo Tadini contains a gallery of old pictures,
some sculptures by Benzoni and Canova, and a zoological collection.
Lovere possesses a silk-spinning factory, and the Stablimento
Metallurgico Gregorini, a large iron-work and cannon
foundry, employs 1600 workmen. Lovere is reached by steamer
from Sarnico at the south end of the lake, and there is a steam
tramway through the Val Camonica, which is highly cultivated,
and contains iron- and silk-works. From Cividate, the terminus,
the road goes on to Edolo (2290 ft.), whence passes lead into
Tirol and the Valtellina.
LOW, SETH (1850–), American administrator and educationist,
was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 18th
of January 1850. He studied in the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn and in Columbia University, where he graduated in
1870. He became a clerk (1870) and then a partner (1875) in
his father’s tea and silk-importing house, A. A. Low & Brothers,
which went out of business in 1888. In 1878 he organized, and
became president of, the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities. In
1882–1886 he was mayor of the city of Brooklyn, being twice
elected on an independent ticket; and by his administration of
his office he demonstrated that a rigid “merit” civil-service
system was practicable—in September 1884 the first municipal
civil-service rules in the United Service were adopted in Brooklyn.
He was president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901,
and did much for it by his business administration, his liberality
(he gave $1,000,000 for the erection of a library) and his especial
interest in the department of Political Science. In his term
Columbia became a well-organized and closely-knit university.
Its official name was changed from Columbia College to Columbia
University. It was removed to a new site on Morningside
Heights, New York City. The New York College for the Training
of Teachers became its Teachers’ College of Columbia; a Faculty
of Pure Science was added; the Medical School gave up its
separate charter to become an integral part of the university;
Barnard College became more closely allied with the university;
relations were entered into between the university and the
General, Union and Jewish theological seminaries of New York
City and with Cooper Union, the Metropolitan Museum of Fine
Arts and the American Museum of Natural History; and its
faculty and student body became less local in character. Dr
Low was a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference in 1899. He
was prominent among those who brought about the chartering
of Greater New York in 1897, and in this year was an unsuccessful
candidate, on an independent ticket, for mayor of New York
City; in 1900, on a fusion ticket, he was elected mayor and
served in 1901–1903.
LOW, WILL HICOK (1853–), American artist and writer
on art, was born at Albany, New York, on the 31st of May 1853.
In 1873 he entered the atelier of J. L. Gérôme in the École des
Beaux Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of Carolus-Duran,
with whom he remained until 1877. Returning to New
York, he became a member of the Society of American Artists
in 1878 and of the National Academy of Design in 1890. His
pictures of New England types, and illustrations of Keats, brought
him into prominence. Subsequently he turned his attention to
decoration, and executed panels and medallions for the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, New York, a panel for the Essex County Court
House, Newark, New Jersey, panels for private residences and
stained-glass windows for various churches, including St Paul’s
Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark, N.J. He was an instructor
in the schools of Cooper Union, New York, in 1882–1885,
and in the school of the National Academy of Design in
1889–1892. Mr Low, who is known to a wider circle as the
friend of R. L. Stevenson, published some reminiscences, A
Chronicle of Friendships, 1873–1900 (1908). In 1909 he
married Mary (Fairchild), formerly the wife of the sculptor
MacMonnies.
LOWBOY, a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so
called in contradistinction to the tallboy, or double chest of
drawers. Both were favourite pieces of the 18th century, both
in England and America; the lowboy was most frequently used
as a dressing-table, but sometimes as a side-table. It is usually
made of oak, walnut or mahogany, with brass handles and
escutcheons. The more elegant examples of the Chippendale
period have cabriole legs, claw-and-ball feet and carved knees,
and are sometimes sculptured with the favourite shell motive beneath the centre drawer.
LOW CHURCHMAN, a term applied to members of the Church
of England or its daughter churches who, while accepting the
hierarchical and sacramental system of the Church, do not
consider episcopacy as essential to the constitution of the Church,
reject the doctrine that the sacraments confer grace ex opere
operato (e.g. baptismal regeneration) and lay stress on the Bible
as the sole source of authority in matters of faith. They thus
differ little from orthodox Protestants of other denominations,
and in general are prepared to co-operate with them on equal
terms.
The name was used in the early part of the 18th century as the equivalent of “Latitudinarian,” i.e. one who was prepared to concede much latitude in matters of discipline and faith, in contradistinction to “High Churchman,” the term applied to those who took a high view of the exclusive authority of the Established Church, of episcopacy and of the sacramental system. It subsequently fell into disuse, but was revived in the 19th century when the Tractarian movement had brought the term “High Churchman” into vogue again in a modified sense, i.e. for those who exalted the idea of the Catholic Church and the sacramental system at the expense both of the Establishment and of the exclusive authority of Scripture. “Low Churchman” now became the equivalent of “Evangelical,” the designation of the movement, associated with the name of Simeon, which laid the chief stress on the necessity of personal “conversion.” “Latitudinarian” gave place at the same time to “Broad Churchman,” to designate those who lay stress on the ethical teaching of the Church and minimize the value of orthodoxy. The revival of pre-Reformation ritual by many of the High Church clergy led to the designation “ritualist” being applied to them in a somewhat contemptuous sense; and “High Churchman” and “Ritualist” have often been wrongly treated as convertible terms. Actually many High Churchmen are not Ritualists, though they tend to become so. The High Churchman of the “Catholic” type is further differentiated from the “old-fashioned High Churchman” of what is sometimes described as the “high and dry” type of the period anterior to the Oxford Movement.
LOWE, SIR HUDSON (1769–1844), English general, was the son of an army surgeon, John Lowe, and was born at Galway on the 28th of July 1769. His mother was a native of that county. His childhood was spent in various garrison towns but he was educated chiefly at Salisbury grammar school. He obtained a post as ensign in the East Devon Militia before his twelfth year, and subsequently entered his father’s regiment, the 50th, then at Gibraltar (1787) under Governor-General O’Hara. After the outbreak of war with France early in 1793, Lowe saw active service successively in Corsica, Elba, Portugal and Minorca, where he was entrusted with the command of a
