CONOID 113 CONRAD cated at the high school, St. Mary's, Ont., Toronto University, and King's College, Toronto. He was missionary to miners and lumbermen in the Rocky Mountains, 1890-1903; and representative of Cana- dian Western Missions for the Presbyter- ian Church in Great Britain, 1893-1894. He took an active part in social service work, and during the World War was chaplain with the Canadian forces at the front. His works include: "Beyond the Marshes," "Black Rock," "The Sky Pi- lot," "Ould Michael," "The Man from Glengarry," "Glengarry School Days," "Breaking the Record," "The Prospec- tor," "The Pilot of Swan Creek," "Gwen: The Doctor of Crow's Nest," "Life of Dr. James Robertson," "The Foreigner," "The Angel and the Star," "The Dawn by Galilee," "The Recall of Love," "Corporal Cameron." etc. CONOID, in geometry, a surface gen- erated by a straight line moving in such a manner that it constantly touches a curve and another straight line; similar to the cone, but having a straight line in- stead of a point for its apex. CONON, a celebrated astronomer of Samos, who lived in the 3d century B. c. CONNOR, RALPH. See Gordon, Charles William. CONRAD L, Duke of Franconia; was elected King of Germany in 911; but Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, and Henry, Duke of Saxony, disputed his title, and engaged the Huns to overrun Germany. Conrad is said to have received a mortal wound in combat with these revolted chiefs. He died in 918. CONRAD II., son of Henry, Duke of Franconia; was elected King of Ger- many in 1024. Attempts were made to displace him, but without success, and in 1027 he was crowned emperor at Rome, in the presence of Canute, King of Eng- land, and Rudolph, King of Burgundy. As heir to Rudolph, who died in 1033, C'mrad became King of Burgundy. He died in 1039. CONRAD III., Duke of Franconia, of the house of Hohenstauff en ; bom in 1093; was elected emperor in 1138. His title was disputed by Henry the Proud, Duke of Saxony, and the rivalry of these two princes was the germ of the factions afterward so famous under the names of Guelfs and Ghibellines. In 1146, at the diet held at Spire, Conrad was persuaded by the eloquence of St. Bernard to un- dertake a crusade, on which he set out the following year. It was fruitless and disastrous, and Conrad returned with the wreck of his army in 1149. He died in 1152. CONRAD IV., Duke of Suabia, chosen King of the Romans in 1237, son of the great Emperor Frederick II., and like him was excommunicated by the Pope, Innocent IV., who set up a rival em- peror in William, Count of Holland. On the death of his father, in 1250, Conrad marched into Italy to recover the towns which had declared against him. He took Nap)es, but could not get the inves- titure of the kingdom of Sicily from the Pope. He died in Italy in 1254. See CONRADIN. CONRAD, JOSEPH an English novel- ist, of Polish birth and ancestry, bom in 1856. His full name was Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski. When his father died. JOSEPH CONRAD young Conrad, then a boy of 13, wan- dered from Poland to Marseilles, France, where he joined a French vessel and rose to be a captain in the merchant service. Later he held an office on an English ship and late in life learned the English language. With this handicap he yet learned to write novels in clear idiomatic English and became one of the foi'emost modern English novelists. He is at his best in his portrayal of the life of the sailors in the southeastern seas, his studies of the contact of the western Eu- ropean with the Oriental mind being ex- tremely subtle and interesting. His most successful novels are "Gales of Unrest" (1898) and "Lord Jim" (1900), both stories of sailor life in the East. Among his other works are "Typhoon" (1902) ;
