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FIELD 129 FIFESHIRE FIELD, KATE, an American author and lecturer; bom in St. Louis, Mo., about 1840. During several years she was European correspondent of the New York "Tribune" and other journals. She founded "Kate Field's Washington" (1889), in Washington, D. C. Among her books are "Planchette's Diary" (1868); "Ten Days in Spain" (1875); "History of Bell's Telephone"; "Life of Fechter," etc. She died in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 19, 1896. FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON, an American jurist; born in Haddam, Conn., Nov. 4, 1816; brother of Cyrus West Field; was graduated at Williams Col- lege in 1837; studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1841 ; and removed to San Francisco in 1849. He was elected to the first legislature under the Cali- fornia constitution, in the autumn of 1850; prepared a code of mining, civil and criminal laws, which was generally adopted in the Western States; became a justice of the Supreme Court of Cali- fornia in 1857; was appointed its chief- justice in 1859; and in 1863 was ap- pointed an associate justice of the Unit- ed States Supreme Court, which office he resigned in April, 1897. He died in Washington, D. C, April 9, 1899. FIELD ARTILLERY. See AR- TILLERY. FIELDING, HENRY, an English novelist; born in Sharpham Park, Som- ersetshire, April 22, 1707. After only moderate success as a playwright and lawyer he wrote "The Adventures of Jo- seph Andrews" (1742), to burlesque Richardson's "Pamela"; it grew in his hands into a strong novel of a new type, and his career and fame were deter- mined. His masterpiece is "Tom Jones; or the History of a Foundling" (1749). His last novel, "Amelia" (1752). is char- acteristic of his sentiments rather than of his genius. He died in Lisbon, Oct. 8, 1754. FIELDING, WILLIAM STEVENS, a Canadian statesman. He was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1848, where he was educated, and where he was for 20 years connected with the Halifax "Morning Journal." Since 1882 he has represented Halifax, first in the Pro- vincial Legislature, becoming Prime Min- ister in 1884 and resigning in 1896 to become Minister of Finance in the Cabi- net of Sir Wilfred Laurier. He repre- sented Canada in London in 1902 and at the negotiation of the Franco-Canadian Commercial Treaty, Paris, 1907-1909. He was a member of the commission on Canada- West India trade, 1909-1910, and helped to negotiate the Reciprocity Agreement with the United States in 1911. Since 1917 has represented Shel- burne and Queen's in the Dominion Pai-liament. FIELDS, ANNIE (ADAMS), an Amer- ican poet and essayist, wife of James T. Fields; born in Boston, Mass., in 1834; became a leader in charity organization and work. She published: "Under the Olive," poems (1881) ; "Biography of James T. Fields" (1884) ; "How to Help the Poor" (1885); "The Singing Shep- herd"; "Authors and Their Friends"; "A Shelf of Old Books" (1896) ; "Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1897) ; "Charles Dudley Warner" (1904). She died in 1915. FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS, an Amer- ican publisher and author ; born in Ports- mouth, N. H., Dec. 31, 1817._ The vari- ous publishing firms of which he was partner, with Ticknor, Osgood, and others, were of the first rank. He edited the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1862-1870; and was an acceptable lecturer on liter- ary subjects and authors. He published: "Poems" (1849); "Yesterdays with Au- thors" (1872) ; "Hawthorne" (1875) ; "In and Out of Doors with Dickens" (1876); "Underbrush" (1881), essays; "Ballads and Other Verses" (1881) ; and (with Edwin P. Whipple) edited "The Family Library of British Poetry" (1878). He died in Boston, Mass., April 24, 1881. FIERI FACIAS, a writ which lies for him who has recovered in an action for debt or damages to the sheriff, command- ing him to levy on the goods and chattels of the defendant the sum or debt recov- ered. This writ lies as well against privileged persons as common persons, and against executors or administrators with regard to the goods of the deceased. It is commonly contracted to Fi. fa. FIESCHI, JOSEPH (fe-es'ke), a Corsican conspirator. Having conceived a hatred for the French king, Louis Philippe, in consequence of the depriva- tion, by the prefect of the Seine, of a situation which he held, he constructed an infernal machine which he discharged from a house in the Boulevard-du- Temple, during a review of the National Guard, July 28, 1835. The king escaped unhurt, but Marshal Mortier and 17 people were killed and many more wounded. Fieschi, with his accomplices, Pepin and Morey, was guillotined, Feb. 16, 1836. FIFESHIRE, a maritime county of Scotland, in the eastern midland division. It has an area of 504 square miles