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PAGANINI 79 villages and the word paganus = a vil- lager became synonymous with heathen. PAGANINI, NICOLO, an Italian vio- list bom in Genoa, 1784. His father was a distinguished musical amateur. From 1813, when he went to Milan, dates his marvelous performance on a single string which later amazed great audi- ences in Germany, France, and Eng- land. He realized large sums of money by his playing which were gambled away. His last years were spent at his villa near Parma. Died in Nice in 1840. PAGANISM, the state or condition of a pagan; heathenism; the worship of idols or false gods, used specially of that of ancient Rome. In Germany the term if applied to tendencies in the Christian church, deemed polytheistic. PAGE, a youth attached to the service of a royal or noble personage, rather for formality or show than for servi- tude. The name "pages" appears to have been confined to slaves and at- tendants of an inferior class, in modern Europe, till the reigns of Charles VI. and Charles VII. of France. As chiv- alric institutions prevailed, the office, by whatever name it may be called, became of importance. Courts and castles were the schools in which the young noble passed through the degree of page, in order to reach the higher grades of es- quire and knight, when he became hors de page. Pages are still, or were until recently, in the household of th Queen of Great Britain, with the title of "Pages of the Presence" etc. The word Is also applied to messenger boys in National, State, and municipal legisla- tive bodies. PAGE, CARROLL SMALLEY. United States Senator from Vermont. Bom 1843 at Westfield, Vt. Educated at dif- ferent New England academies, he en- tered business in Lamoille, Vt. He rapidly made headway and served as president of the Lamoille County Sav- ings Bank and Trust Co., and was direc- tor in many important railroad and banking corporations. From 1869-1872 he was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, and later of the State Senate. Prominent in the activi- ties^ of the Republican party, he was Chairman of the Vermont delegation to the National Convention in 1912. Fi-om 1890 to 1892 he was Governor of Ver- mont. Senator Proctor of Vermont died in 1908 and Page was elected to fill his unexpired term. He was twice re-elected. PAGE PAGE, CURTIS HIDDEN. An American editor and translator. He was born at Greenwood, Mo., in 1870, and graduated from Harvard as A. M. and Ph. D. in 1894. He then went to reside in France and Italy, and returned to teach the Romance languages and Eng- lish at Western Reserve University, Har- vard, Columbia, the Northwestern Uni- versity and Dartmouth. He translated Bergerac's "A Voyage to the Moon"; Ronsard's "Songs and Sonnets"; "The Best Plays of Moliere"; and Anatole France's "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife." He has edited "Poet Lore," and some poetical reprints. PAGE, HERMAN, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Boston in 1866. He graduated from Harvard in 1888 and studied in the Episcopal Theological School. He was ordained priest in 1891 and from that year to 1900 was in charge of mission churches in Idaho. In the latter year THOMAS NELSON PAGE he became rector of St. John's Church, Fall River, Mass. He was later rector of St. Paul's Church, Chicago. He was consecrated bishop of Spokane, Wash., in 1914. PAGE, THOMAS NELSON, an Amer- ican novelist; born in Oakland, Va., April 23, 1853. He was educated at Washington and Lee University, and practiced law at Richmond, Va. His