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ENGLAND, CHUKCH OF. 100 ENGLISH. supplement its endowments, the voluntary gifts aggregate annually not less than £000.0011. As to organized "work, there would seem to have been but Tittle, outside of the universities and schools, until the beginning of the eighteenth cen- turv. The two great missionary societies named above include in their operations almosl all the heathen parts of Asia and Africa, as well the colonic- of Great Britain. In addition, there are many special organizations, whose territory is defii imparatively limited. Provision is regularly mad,-, by means of temporary or ,.ir services of the Church in many towns and villages on the Continent of Europe", where English-speaking people are found in any considerable numbers. In home mission work the agencies are almost countless. The army, the navy, seamen, drunk- ard-, fallen women, friendless girls and lads, the navvies, the hop-pickers, the deaf, dumb, and blind, the Jews, the waifs and strays, and unedu- cated — all these and many other classes are pro- vided for by organizations more or less national in their character. Besides the organizations already specified, there exist others of a semi- monastic character composed of men, of women, (H of both, by means of which much of the Church's work is done. Sisterhoods (q.v.). of which a number have been formed, wen- first organized in the year 1845. under the direction of Dr. l'usey. In 1002 there were in all 13,953 benefices or cures, and about 20,000 clergymen. See Anglican Communion; Reformation; I'havkh llonK. Common; Bishop; Tithes; ES- TABLISHMENTS, ECCLESIASTICAL; APOSTOLIC SUC- ■ i 5SION ; and the articles on many of the organi- zations, institutions, and men named above. Bibliogbaphy. Haddan and Stubbs, Councils cclesiastical Documi nts (Oxford. 1869-1 1 I ; Bright, Early English Church History (Oxford, 1888) : Dixon, History <>) the Church of England, tin Ibolition of the Roman Jurisdiction, I Mil-.. London, 1877-85) ; Cutis, Turn- ing Points in English Church History (ib., 1874) ; Abbey and Overton. The English Church h th Eighteenth Century (ib., 1886) ; Hore, The church in England from William III. to 1 ictoria I ih.. 1886-88) ; Wakeman, Introduction to the qlund i ib.. I -i'tSl : nglish Church in the Nineteenth ■in ( Xew York. 1894) ; Stephens, History of nglish church (ib., H"" 1 ; Rogers, Wen and i nglish < 7i urch i il>.. 1898) ; Wirgman, B the English Church lib., and the Official Year-Bool of the Church ENGLAND'S HELICON. An anthol English poems, edited by John Bodenham in 1600 and reissued in 1812. H contains one hun- dred and lii'u poems, by the leading ritera of the day. ENGLEMANS TUNA. See Pbickli Peab. FNGLER, eir_i'ler. HeINRICH Oistw LdOLF i Is 1 1— i . i ;, re: in botanist, bom ai Sagan and educated at Breslati (1863-66) He was profes- i botanv at i lie I 'ni er it hi K iel from Ists to 1884, :<< Bre lau from 1884 to 1889, and led in 1^- tie chair at Bei lin, where hi ctor of the Botan- issl he became editor of the Bo ' fir Bystematik und Pflan en iphii His woi n systemal ic and geographical botany, reveal considerable re- search. They include the publication entitled I ersuch einer EntwicklungsgesoMchte der P/Ian- elt (1879-82). ENGLES, William Morrison (1797-1807). An American author. He was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He was at first engaged in mis- sionary work among the Indian tribes of Wyo- ming, and after holding a pastorate for several years in Philadelphia, was, in 1838, appointed edi- tor of the religious and other literature printed by the Presbyterian Board of Publication, of which he became president in 1S03. His works include: Records of the Presbyterian Church (1840) ; Eng- lish Uartyrology I 1.843); Sailors' Companion (1857) ; and Soldiers' Pocketbook (1861), which had an enormous circulation in the army during the War of the Rebellion. ENGLEWOOD, in'g'1-wud. A city in Bergen County, N. J., 14 miles north of New York City; on a branch of the Erie Railroad (Map: New Jer- -ev, E 2). It lies on the gentle western declivity of' the Palisades of the Hudson and along the edge of the Hackensack Valley. It is entirely a residential place, and has no manufactures. There are a hospital and a Library Association (subscription) with about 7000 volumes. Engle- wood was incorporated as a village in 1860, and in 1896 was chartered as a city. The govern- ment, is vested in a mayor, elected every two years, and a council. Population, in 1900, 6253. ENGLISCH, engTish, Joseph (1835—). An Austrian surgeon, born at Freudenthal, Austrian Silesia, and educated at the University of Vien- na. In 1871 he became one of the physicians-in- chief at the 'Rudolfstiftung,' Vienna, and in 1S92 was made professor of surgery at the Vien- na University. He is a distinguished authority on genito-urinary diseases. His publication- on rupture, genito-urinary diseases, malformation of the sexual organs, and cognate subjects, in- clude: Ucbcr Orarialhtrnien (1871): Zur Radi- kalbehandlung der Evngeweidebruehe (1878); Veber abnorme Lagerung des Hodens ausserhalb der Bauchhohle (1885); Ueler angeborene Penis- fist eln (1892). ENGLISH, George Betiiine (1787-1828). An American author and adventurer. He was born at Cambridge, Mass.; graduated at Har- vard, became a member of the Boston bar, and studied theology. He soon began to doubt the truth of Christianity, however, and published in 1S13 The Grounds <>/ Christianity Examined, a work favoring Judaism. He subsequently edit ,,i a paper in the West, and then served in the Mediterranean as a lieutenant of marines. In 1820 he resigned his commission to serve under Ismail Pasha in Egypt, and won distinction as an officer of artillery in the expedition against Sennar. He was subsequently agent for the 1'niiei! States Government in the Levant, but re- turned home in 1827. He published Narrative of tin Expedition to Dongola and seminar (1822). ENGLISH, Thomas Dunh (1819-1902). An American physician and man of letters, born in Philadelphia, Pa. English, whose family name is a corruption of Angelns. studied medicine in his native city, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Sehi.nl in 1839. He speedily gave up the practice Of medicine for law however, and was admitted to the Philadel-