WAKDEN 289 WAREHOUSING SYSTEM raphy of Sidney Lanier" (1885), "Notes on Oriental Antiquities"; "The Seal Cyl- inders of Western Asia" (1910) ; "What I Believe and Why" (1915). He died in 1916. WARDEN, DAVID BAILLIE, an Irish- American scholar; born in 1778. He was graduated at the New York Med- ical College, was United States secretary of legation at Paris, and subsequently consul from 1804 to his death. He was a member of the French Institute, and published: "Inquiry Concerning the In- tellectual and Moral Faculties and Lit- erature of the Negroes" ^810) ; "Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments" (1816) ; "Description of the District of Columbia" (1816) ; "Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States" (1819) ; "L'Art de verifier les dates: Chronologie Historique de I'Am^- rique" (Art of Verifying Dates: Histor- ical Chronology of America, 10 vols, Paris, 1826-1844) ; "Bibliotheca Ameri- cana Septentrionalis" (North American Library), etc. (1820); "Recherches sur les Antiquites de I'Amerique Septentri- onale" (Researches in North American Antiquities, 1827) ; and "Bibliotheca Americana" (1831). He died in Paris, Oct. 9, 1845. WAR DEPARTMENT, one of the de- partments of the executive branch of the United States Government, headed by the Secretary of War, who is a cabinet offi- cial. The chief officers under the Sec- retary of War are the Chief of the Gen- eral Staff Corps, Chief of the Militia Bureau, Adjutant General, Inspector General, Judge Advocate, Quartermaster General, and Surgeon General. Under the Bureau of Insular Affairs, the War Department administers the Philippine and Porto Rican governments, and the Dominican receivership. John W. Weeks of Massachusetts was appointed Secre- tary of War in 1921. WARDLAW, ELIZABETH, LADY, a Scotch poet; born in 1677; the second daughter of Sir Charles Halkett, of Pit- firrane. She married in 1696 Sir Henry Wardlaw, of Pitreavie, also near Dun- fermline. Her pseudo-archaic ballad, "Hardyknute, a Fragment," was first published in 1719 as a genuine antique, and, expanded from 216 to 336 lines, had been two or three times reprinted, when Percy in the second edition of his "Rel- iques" revealed the secret of its author- snip. To Lady Wardlaw also Dr. Robert Chambers in 1859 ascribed "Sir Patrick Spens," "The Douglas Tragedy," and many more of the finest traditional Scotch ballads. Indorsed though it be by Professor Masson in his "Edinburgh Sketches" (1892), the theory is unten- able; still our debt to Lady Wardlaw ia a heavy one, for "Hardyknute," says Scott, was "the first poem I ever learnt, the last I shall ever forget." She died in 1727. WARDLAW, RALPH, a Scotch Con- gregationalist ; born in Dalkeith, Dec. 22, 1779. He studied at the University of Glasgow, and at the Selkirk "Hall" of the Burgher Synod; but, becoming dis- satisfied with the tenets of that body and of Presbyterianism in general, he em- braced the doctrines of the Independents. He held office in that body, first at Perth, then at Dumfries, and finally (1803) at Glasgow. He also (1811) became prin- cipal Professor of Theology at the "Hall" of his denomination in that town. In 1818 Wardlaw received the degree of D. D. from Yale College. He wrote a large number of works, chiefly of a pol- emical character; the chief were: "Dis- courses on the Socinian Controversy" (1814), "Unitarianism Incapable of Vin- dication" (1816), "Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature and Uses of Infant Baptism" (1825), "Discourses on the Sabbath" (1832), "Christian Ethics" (2d. ed. 1839), and "National Church Establishments Examined" (1839). He died Dec. 17, 1853. WARE, WILLIAM, an American clergyman, editor, and author; born in Hingham, Mass., Aug. 3, 1797. In addi- tion to his pastorates, and his editorship of the "Christian Examiner," he wrote the following: "Letters from Palmyra" (1837), first published in the "Knicker- bocker Magazine," subsequently repub- lished as "Zenobia; or, The Fall of Pal- myra" (new ed. 1868) ; "Probus; or, Rome in the Third Century" (1838) , republished as "Aurelian" (new ed. 1868); "Julian; or, Scenes in Judea" (1841) ; "Sketches of European Capitals" (1851) ; "Lec- tures on the Works and Genius of Wash- ington Allston" (1852) ; and a "Life of Nathaniel Bacon," in Sparks' series. He edited "American Unitarian Biography" (1850). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 19, 1852. WAREHOUSING SYSTEM, a customs regulation, by which imported goods may be lodged in public or bonded warehouses, at a reasonable rent, without payment of the duties on importation, till they be withdrawn for home consumption, thus lessening the pressure of the duties, which would otherwise cripple the pur- chasing power of the merchant. In the United States the warehousing system has been extended to other than imported goods. Thus spirituous liquors may be deposited by the manufacturer in gov- ernment warehouses and payment of the internal revenue duty delayed till the
