from Washington and Lee University and studied law at the University of Virginia. He prac- ticed for some years in Ricliniond. Va.. then after a second marriage moved to Washington, D. C, where lie continued to live. Aside from some dialect poetry, his lirst notewortliy literary venture was the tale ilarse Vhnn. puhli.shed in the Century Uayazine in 1884. and incorporated, with J/e/i Lady and other stories, in the volume entitled In Ole Virginia (1887). This was fol- lowed by Two Little Confederates (1888); Befo' de War, a collection of his early poems together with poems by A. C. Gordon (1888): On Xew- found Kiver '{ISn); Elsket (1891); The Old South, a volume of essays (1892); Pastime Stories (1894): Red Rock (1898), a novel of the Reconstruction period; and Gordon Keith (1903). These stories, with very few excei)tions, deal with Virginia, present negro character, and are noted for the faithfulness and sympathy with which they depict the courtesy, courtliness, and high spirit of the aristocracy of that State just before, during, and after the Civil War.
PAGE, William (1811-85). An American
portrait and historical painter. He was born at
Albany. X. Y., and in 1819 moved with his
parents to Xew York City. He first studied with
S. F. B. Morse, through whom be entered the
Academy of Design. From IS2S to 1S:?0 lie
studied "theology at Andover and Amherst, but,
returning to art. he took up portrait painting
at Albany, and later at New York, where, in
18.36. he was made National Academician. His
works of this period include portraits of Gov-
ernor Maicy for the New York City Hall, and
John Quinc'y Adams for Faneuil Hall. Boston;
"The Holv Family." Boston Athena-um; "The
Infancy of Henry i".;" and others. In 1849 he
went abroad, residing at Rome and Florence,
where he made many fine copies of Titian and
painted his celebrated "Venus." the "Flight Into
Egjpt," the "Infant Baccluis," besides i)urtraits
of Robert and Elizabeth Browning and others.
In 18G0 he returned to New York, and in 1871-
7.3 was president of the Academy of Design.
He afterwards i)ainted ])ortraits of Henry Ward
Bcecher, Wendell Phillips, Charles P. Daly.
James Russell Lowell, and General Grant. He
published a .Yen- fleometrical Method of Meas-
vrituf thf Human Figure (New York. 1860).
PAGES, pa'zhes'. See G.RXiER-PAGi:s.
PAGET, prij'it, Sir George Edward (1809-
92). An English physician and reformer of
medical education, born at Great Yarmouth. Nor-
folk. He studied at Charterhouse School and at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and got
his medical education at Saint Bartholomew's
Hospital and in Paris. He practiced in Cam-
bridge, and in 1S42 his suggestion of bedside
examinations for medical students was adopted
by the university. Paget re])resented Cambridge
in the General Council of Medical Education
(186.3 sqq.) and served as its president (1809
and 1874). For the last score of years of his
life he was regius professor of physic in Cam-
bridge. Paget wrote little besides papers for
the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the
Erlinljurrjh Medical Journal.
PAGET, Hexrt William. See Anglesey,
First ilARQiis of.
PAGET, Sir .jAiiES (1814-99). An English
surgeon and pathologist, born at Y'armouth. He
became apprenticed there to Charles Costerton, a
practitioner, from whom he gained the rudiments
of medical knowledge. Having finished his ap-
prenticeship. Paget, in 1834. entered Saint
Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he distin-
guished himself in his first year by discovering
the Trichina s/iirn/is. At t1e end of bis second
vear he carried oil' all the Inmors. He was soon
made curator of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
Museum, and in 1839 demonstrator in the hos-
pital. In 1842 he undertook an inunense task
which resulted in the publication of the Descrip-
tive Catalogue of the Fatholuyical Specimens
Contained in the Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons (London, 1846-49). He prepared a
similar catalogue for Saint Bartholomew's Hos-
pital iluseum. From 1847 to 18.52 he was pro-
fessor of anatomy at the College of Surgeons,
and during this period delivered the famous lec-
tures on surgical pathology which gave him a
wide reputation. He became surgeon to Saint
Bartholomew's Hospital in 1861; he was al.so
made sergeant-surgeon to the Queen, surgeon to
the Prince of Wales, and in 1871 was made a
baronet. His chief works, besides the Descriptive
Catalogue, were his Lectures on Surgical Path-
ology (London, 1863), which were for many years
the standard text-book in England and the
United States.
PAGET, Violet (pen-name Ver.nox Lee)
(185t) — ). An English author, who in 1871 set-
tled in Italy. From her we have several novels
and many brilliant essays on art and literature.
Among her publications are: Studies of the Eigh-
teenth Century in Italy (1880); Belcaro, a vol-
ume of essays (1881): The Prince of the Hun-
dred Soups^ a fairy tale (1883); Ottilie, an
Eighteenth Century Idyll (1883); Euphorion,
a collection of essays (1884): Miss Broicn, a
novel (1884); Bald'icin, philosophical dialogues
(1886); A Puppet Show (1889); Hauntings
(1890); Vanitas (1892); .ilthea (1893); Re-
luiissance Fancies (1895): Limh^. a volume of
essays (1897); Genius Loci (1899).
PAGGI, pa'je, Giovanni B.ttista ( 1554-
1627 1. An Italian painter, born in Genoa. He
was a pupil of Luca Cambiaso. and lived in
Florence twenty years, painting for the iledici.
His best works in Florence are "Saint Catharine
of Siena," in Santa ilaria Novella, and the
"Transfiguration." in San Marco. In 1600 he
returned to Ganoa and there became one of the
most noted of the Genoese school. His two pic-
tures in San Bartolommeo, and his "ilassacre
of the Innocents" in the Palazzo Doria. are good
examples of his graceful treatment of sacred sub-
jects. He is less successful as a colorist.
PAGO'DA (Sp. pagoda, from Pers. butkadah, idol tcmjile. pagoda, from hut, idol + kadali, temple: Chinese, peh-kuh-t'a. poh-kuh-t'a. white bone tower, pao-t'a, |)recious tower, t'a, tower, pile). A temple of Eastern Asia, or part of a temple, and generally a tower-like mass of many stories. As the term is European and applied to a non-European building, and as it is in careless popular use without exact significance, it can be said only that the idea generally conveyed by it
is that of an Eastern religious tower. Thus an accurate writer describing Buddhist temples in Japan will speak of the hondo or temple proper, the gateway building, and the pagoda; but the
