Taper Dealing in a novel way with an old yet ever recurring and interesting problem,the woman with a past and her attempted redemption by a man with a future, it made a more profound impression than any other modern English play, and placed Pinero in the front rank of modern drama tists. GUSTAV KOBBE, Forum, Sept., 1898. 352 Tappertit, Sim (i.e., Simon), in Dickens's novel, Barnaby Rudge, the silly and conceited apprentice of Gabriel Varden, in love with his daughter, and hence the bitter enemy of his successful rival, Joe Willet. Though only five feet high, thin-faced, small-eyed, sharp-nosed, he was delighted with his stature and beauty, but especially enraptured with his legs, which were miracles of slimness. His set fancy was that his eyes were irresistible and that their might would subdue the haughtiest beauty. Tasso, Torquato, the famous Italian poet (1544-95), is the hero of Goethe's drama, Tasso (1789), and of Byron's poem, The Lament of Tasso (1817). Both poets_accept the unverified legend that Tasso was enamoured of Leonora d'Este (sister of his patron, Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara), who was seven years his senior, and Byron makes capital of the undoubted fiction that his seven years' confinement (1579-1586) as a lunatic was due to brotherly resentment. The publication of Tasso's letters by Guasti, in 1853, and, more recently, Angelo Solerti's Vita di Torquato Tasso (1895), which is largely drawn from family records, have in a great measure exonerated the duke at the expense of the unhappy poet himself. Briefly, Tasso's intrigues with rival powers-the Medici at Florence, the papal court, and the Holy Office at Bologna-aroused the alarm and suspicion of the duke, whilst his Teazle general demeanor and his outbursts of violence and temper compelled, rather than afforded, a pretext for his confinement; and, to quote his own words, "in a fit of madness he broke out into execrations of the ducal court and family, and of the people of Ferrara. For this offence he was shut up in the Hospital of Sant' Anna. Tattle, in Congreve's comedy, Love for Love (1695), a more egregious sort of Sparkish (q.v.), who is described in Act i as a mixture of lying, foppery, vanity, cowardice, bragging, licentiousness, and ugliness." Though priding himself on his secrecy, he is continually boasting of his amours. Tearsheet, Doll, in Shakespeare's II Henry IV, a woman of low character. In Henry V, II, Pistol recommends her to Nym. Prince Hal's remark (II Henry IV, II, ii), “This Doll Tearsheet should be some road," has started a conjecture that her name is a misprint or a corruption from Tear-street. Teazle, Sir Peter, a leading character in Sheridan's comedy, The School for Scandal (1777), an old and testy aristocrat, married to a young country girl, whom he is perpetually depreciating to her face for her rustic ways and humble birth, though he really loves her and admires her naïveté and imagined innocence. "I am the sweetest-tempered man alive," he says, with unconscious self-betrayal, and hate a teasing temper, and so I tell her ladyship a hundred times a day." Lady Teazle, his wife, is represented at the opening of the play as a lively and innocent, though imprudent, country girl, transplanted into the midst of all that can bewilder and endanger her, but with still enough of the purity of rural life about her heart to keep the blight of the world from settling upon it permanently." Nevertheless, she manages to get entangled in an affair with the arch-hypocrite Joseph Surface (q.v.), from which she emerges with damaged reputation but repentant and reformed. Tempest, Lady Betty, in Gold- | had been recently attempted by a smith's Citizen of the World, xxviii stranger; and it was supposed this (1859), an old maid who, in her Dedicatory Epistle might pass for brilliant, blooming, but too romantic some imitation of the same kind, youth, had turned down all her and thus putting inquirers upon a suitors because none exactly fulfilled false scent, induce them to believe her ideals, and so was left to become they had before them the work of a wallflower and " a piece of fashion- some new candidate for their favor." able lumber.' Tempest, Nancy, heroine of Rhoda Broughton's novel, Nancy, a romp and a hoyden, who, out of affection for her family and to relieve them in their necessities, has married the elderly Sir Roger Tempest, and learns to love him only after many complications and misunderstandings. Tennessee's Partner, in a story of that name by Bret Harte (1871), the all-forgiving associate of a scoundrel, known in camp as Tennessee, who runs away with the partner's wife, returns without her, is received back into partnership, is arrested for highway robbery, and hanged, after a vain effort by Partner to bribe the self-constituted court with his entire fortune "$1700 in coarse gold and a watch." Tessa, in George Eliot's Romola, an innocent Tuscan peasant girl who is bigamously married by Tito Melemma (g.v.). Testy, Timothy, a grouty pessimist, in Beresford's Miseries of Human Life. Temple, Charlotte, heroine of a once popular novel by Susanna Haswell Rowson (1790), founded on fact. Her real name was Charlotte Stanley, and she was an English school-girl, induced to come to New York by her betrayer, an English officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Montresor,-the Colonel Montraville of the novel,—and abandoned there. She died after childbirth. There is a monument to her Teufelsdröckh, Diogenes, Professor memory over her grave in Trinity of Things in General at Weissnichto Church graveyard, New York City. in Germany, the feigned author of Colonel Montraville afterward mar- Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833-34), ried in New York. By a strange which claims to consist only of charNemesis, his eldest son became en-acteristic passages translated from the gaged to a girl who turned out to be his own daughter by Charlotte. This part of the story is told in the sequel, Charlotte's Daughter, published post-dung) is described, in Book II, as a humously. Temple, Henrietta, titular heroine of a novel (1837) by Benjamin Disraeli. In real life she was Henrietta Villebois, married (1821) to Sir Francis William Sykes of Basildoun, died 1846. Templeton, Laurence, the pseudonym under which Sir Walter Scott published Ivanhoe in the original edition (1820). The preface is initialed L. T., and the dedication by "Laurence Templeton is to the Rev. Dr. Dryasdust. In a subsequent edition Scott explained that there was no desire or wish to pass off the supposed Mr. Templeton as a real person. But a kind of continuation of The Tales of my Landlord 86 original German and held together with a running commentary. Teufelsdröckh (the name means Devil's foundling who had been brought up by Andreas Futteral, a farmer, and Gretchen his wife, had passed with no special credit through the gymnasium and the university, had studied law and renounced its practice, had lost to a luckier suitor the fair Blumine whom he loved, had plunged into all manner of doubt and despair, and had finally emerged with the conviction that blessedness was better than happiness, and that the idea of his baffled dreams was to be found in the real life around him. Thaisa, in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608), the wife of Pericles and mother of Marina. Dying it was supposed in childbirth, she was cast into the sea, but miracu Thalaba 354 lously revived and became a priestess of Diana at Ephesus. Theobald rated on a novel entitled The Monks of Thelema, in which a wealthy nineteenth-century idealist, Alan Dunlop, seeks to revive on English soil the Liberty Hall of mediæval French father-imagination. See RONDELET, Mr. Thalaba, a famous figure in Oriental mythology, whom Robert Southey took as the hero of his epic, Thalaba the Destroyer (1801). He was It is always delicate and invidious work to criticise what is meant to be humorous with the obvious retort that your practical mind is too dull to appreciate it. Yet we should at least have some slight substratum maintain that nineteenth-century caricature of possibility; and the conditions of the caricature, because one is naturally met beautiful and richly-dowered maidens to live in unrestricted everyday intercourse with a group of gay and fascinating bachelors, some of whom were eminently ineligible.-Saturday Review, October 5, 1878. less, motherless, sisterless, brotherless," for Hodeirah and Zeinab, his parents, had left him orphaned in early youth and before their death all the eight other children had been cut off by the Dom-Danielists (q.v.). Even he had almost fallen a victim to an evil spirit sent from Dom-existence of this community of Thelema are Daniel (see ABDALDAR), but had simply and glaringly impossible on the face of them. Never would the shrew chaperons escaped with Abdaldar's magic ring. of the period so far abdicate their responThereupon he set out on his retribu-sibilities and interests as to allow a bevy of tive mission as the Destroyer of Dom-Daniel. He successively baffled the stratagems of Lobaba, a sorcerer, and of Mohahreb, another evil spirit, resisted the seductions of the paradise of pleasure, rescued therefrom the maiden Oneiza, whom he married but who died on the bridal night, and finally succumbed to the strategy of Maimana (q.v.), recovered his liberty, was befriended by Laila, first in the flesh and when she died, then by her spirit. Under her tutelary guidance he reached Dom-Daniel, slew all the surviving sorcerers, and, having accomplished his mission, was taken up into heaven. Thekla, in Schiller's drama, Wallenstein, daughter of the hero, a lovely and pathetic figure but without any historical justification. Thelema, Abbey of, in Rabelais's Gargantua, an imaginary establishment whose motto, Fay ce que Vouldras (old Fr. "Do what you will "), sufficiently illustrates the principles on which it was conducted. Presented by Grangousier to Friar John as a reward for his services in the subjection of Lerné, it was the very reverse of a Catholic religious house, being specially dedicated to luxurious enjoyment, bodily and mental recreation, and intellectual companionship. Religious hypocrites, lawyers, and usurers are excluded, but gallant gentlemen and brilliant ladies are welcomed with effusion. Walter Besant and James Rice in 1878 collabo Thelluson, Hannah, titular heroine Mulock Craik. On the death of her of Hannah (1871), a novel by Dinah married sister, the widower, Rev. Bernard Rivers, invites her to take charge of his home and infant daugh ter. The gentle woman of thirty sees no harm in this arrangement, though it scandalizes the Rivers and in love, and after vainly struggling their circle. Of course the pair fall against fate they marry and defy their worst. Theobald, Mrs. Jane, heroine of Visit Her?, a young girl of Bohemian Mrs. Edwards's novel, Ought we to origin and associations. The people who will not visit her are the relations of Mr. Theobald, and all the respectable people in Chalkshire, among whom he takes her to live after a free, happy, haphazard life on the Continent. It would be a pity to tell the story, further than to say that the pretty, good-hearted, witty, charming little victim, shunned for no reason by these good people, and deserted by her worthless husband, who takes up an old flirtation with an old reprobate fine lady to beguile the dulness of Chalkshire, comes near being driven into wickedness, but is saved on the way to elopement by one of those sudden fevers which lie in wait in novels, and is reconciled to her husband, and joyfully leaves Chalkshire with him and goes back to their free life on the Continent. Dull respectability and convention are too much for them, and they must fly or be crushed; yet she has done no wrong.— W. D. HOWELLS, in Atlantic Monthly. classical in name only, being in reality romantic mediæval figures. See THESEUS in vol. II. Theseus is Shakespeare's early ideal of a heroic warrior and man of action. His life one of splendid achievement and of joy; his love is a kind of happy victory, his marriage a triumph. From early morning, when his hounds-themselves heroic crea Theodora, in Disraeli's novel, Lothair, a brilliant American woman, a devotee to the cause of Garibaldi and United Italy, with whom Lothair falls platonically in love, and whose influence saves him from the machina-is tions of Catesby and other Roman Catholic friends. She is drawn from a real person (wife of Colonel Cham-tures-fill the valley with their musical bers, an Englishman), who was in fact the pillar of the Italian cause, for, like the Ayesha of Mahomet, she believed in Garibaldi from the first, encouraged him in his efforts, glorified him in success, consoled him in defeat, and, above all, supplied him with the nerve and sinews of the war on which he had entered. Among Garibaldi's followers she was known as the ་ "Padrona." Theodora had espoused the cause of Italian freedom with an enthusiasm bordering on frenzy, and was most gallantly seconded by her husband in her endeavors. She was reported in the Italian papers as not being in any one feature like an Englishwoman (which is the highest praise that can be awarded to a woman on the Continent). It is certain that, with her dark, flashing eyes and jet-black hair, she was as unlike as possible to the ordinary British matron. She was far from handsome in countenance, but there was a certain picturesque wild: ness in her expression which never failed to elicit from strangers the question of "Who is she?" Her dark hair was parted over the forehead and tucked behind her ears, and fell in two thick curls down her neck, in the fashion of Sir Joshua's latest pictures. Her dress was always of the simplest fashion, though made of rich materials. In short, it was impossible for those who had once beheld Theodora ever to forget her.-Birmingham Post. confusion," until midnight, when the Athenian clowns end their "very tragical mirth with a Bergomask dance, Theseus displays his joyous energy and the graciousness of power.-E. DOWDEN: Shakespeare Primer. In Thisbe, heroine of the interlude in A Midsummer Night's Dream. classic mythology she is a beautiful maiden of Babylon, beloved by Pyramus, whom she is not allowed to marry. They succeed, however, in communicating with one another through a chink in a wall; whence the amusing episode in Shakespeare's play: And through wall's chink, poor souls, they are content See PYRAMUS and WALL. Thornberry, Job, in Beaconsfield's novel, Endymion (1880), a political agitator, who is evidently drawn from Richard Cobden. Mr. Job Thornberry represents Mr. Cob. den, whose eloquence is felicitously described in an account of a Corn-law meeting at Manchester. The circumstances of Mr. Thornberry's later life would have perplexed and annoyed his living prototype. Mrs. Thornberry, who is first introduced as a Therese, Madame, in Erckmann-zealous devotee of a Unitarian preacher, Chatrian's novel of that name, a vivandière of rare elevation of character who is left for dead in the streets of a little village in the Vosges after a fierce conflict in which her soldier comrades are engaged with the Austrian troops and rescued by a philanthropic old doctor from the inhumanity of the villagers and the vengeance of the Austrians. Theseus, in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1594), the Duke of Athens, husband of Hippolyta, before whom, as part of the marriage festivities, is enacted the play within a play of Pyramus and Thisbe. They are joins the Roman_communion; and his son, supremacy of personal motives and influ- Thorne Thorne, Dr., in Trollope's novel of that name, a physician in the village of Greshambury, an independent, honest gentleman who looks after his niece Mary Thorne, a sweet, modest girl in love with Frank Gresham, whom she eventually marries. 356 Thornhill, Sir William, in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, a pretended cynic, but really a philanthropist, who assumes the incognito of Mr. Burchell, in order the better to assist the unhappy, the deserving | poor, and the oppressed. Hating shams of all sorts, his almost involuntary cry of "Fudge!" at any exhibition of snobbishness or pretension, has become a by-word. He is a constant visitor at the home of Dr. Primrose, the titular vicar, falls in love with and eventually marries one of his daughters, Sophia, and succeeds in saving her sister, Olivia, from undeserved shame, incurred through his own nephew, by proving that what the squire had fancied was a mere mock marriage was in fact a legal one. Thornhill, Squire, in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, the prodigal and libertine nephew of Sir William Thornhill, who abducts both the vicar's daughters, casts the vicar himself into jail, and imagines that he has betrayed Olivia Primrose, the younger daughter, into a mock marriage, which to his discomfiture turns out to be entirely legal. Thorpe, Charles, afterward Lord Medway, a leading character in Quits (1858), a novel by Baroness Tautphoeus. He is successively the enemy, the reluctant lover, the rejected suitor, and in the end the accepted husband of the heroine, Nora Nixon. We afterward talked long about Quits, and she told me that the character of Thorpe was a favorite bit of work; that she had taken great pains with it, as she wished to produce a typical Englishman of the best class, with all his fine qualities, and the defects inseparable from these qualities; and the most charming arch smile lit up her face as she said, "I must think that I succeeded with Thorpe, for after Quits was published I had several very angry letters from some English cousins of mine, any one Thundertentronckh of whom might have sat (with some slight every one of them reproached me in no changes) for the portrait of Thorpe, and measured terms for putting a fellow into a book." So you see they fitted the cap upon interview in Atlantic Monthly, July, 1894. themselves."-BARONESS TAUTPHOEUS. An Thorpe, John, in Jane Austen's novel, Northanger Abbey (written in 1798), a horsey, slangy undergraduate, vain, boastful, vulgar, who rejoices in flashy clothes and bewilders Catherine Morland by his tall talk. She had not been brought up to understand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods an excess of vanity will lead." 66 Thoughtless, Betsy, heroine of a novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751), by Mrs. Eliza Haywood, describing the début into London society of a giddy and inexperienced but right-minded girl, and the various perils she escaped from the dissolute set amid which she was launched. The novel is chiefly interesting to-day from having furnished hints to Miss Burney for her far superior Evelina. Thule, Princess of. See MACKENZIE, SHEILA. Thunderer, The, a name bestowed upon The Times, in allusion to the vigorous articles contributed to it at one time by Edward Sterling, who possessed a literary style of considerable power. A It appears that the Times provided the occasion and even the word. Two women had been bespattered with mud by a horseman riding too close to them, and the Times published a harsh reproof of the Duke of Cumberland, the supposed offender. denial was made on behalf of the duke, and the Times recanted, publishing a second article, which began with the words: "When a few days ago we thundered out." That struck the public as the right word for what the Times was generally doing in those days, and The Thunderer became the Times's nickname. " Thundertentronckh, Arminius von, the nom de plume under which Matthew Arnold contributed several |