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TERENTIUS 303 TEEHUNE we soon find him the friend and associate of the great and noble. He was gifted with dramatic genius. Terence was be- yond question the chief dramatist of his time. He used, moreover, the Latin tongue with singular grace and elegance. Critics have denied to him the possession of lively humor. Terence was the inter- preter of Menander; but he was more than a mere translator. His six com- vMies that remain belong to the "Fabula Palliata." It is said that Terence went to Greece and translated 108 of Men- ander's plays. Whether he was lost on his homeward voyage, as some say, or lost his transcripts and died of grief in consequence, we have no means of de- ciding. He died in his 26th year, 159 B. C. The following are his comedies, with the years of their production: (1) "Andria" (The Woman of Andros), 166 B. C; (2) "Hecyra" (The Stepmother), 165 B. c; (3) "Heauton-timoroumenos" (The Self- Tormentor), 163 B. c; (4) "Eunuchus" (The Eunuch) 162 B. c; (5) "Phormio," 162 b. c; (6) "Adelphi" (The Brothers), 160 B. c. The edito princeps of Terence was pub- lished at Strassburg in 1470. The works of Terence have been translated into al- most every European tongue. TEBESA, or THERESA, ST., one of the most remarkable of the women saints of the modem Roman calendar; born in Avila, Old Castile, Spain, March 28, 1515, of the noble house of Cepeda. Even as a child she was remarkable for piety of a most enthusiastic kind; and, educated in a convent in her native city, she entered a convent of the Carmelite order there in 1534- In this convent she continued to reside for nearly 30 years, but it was not till about the year 1539 that her con- stitution became strong enough to permit her to follow, even in an imperfect way, the observances of conventual life. After a time her religious exercises reached a most extraordinary degree of asceticism. Her prayers were almost continual, and she was reported to be favored with vis- ions, ecstasies, and other supernatural visitations. The fame of her sanctity spread not only throughout Spain, but into almost every part of the Church. The most notable and permanent fniit of the enthusiastic spirituality of Teresa is the reform of the Carmelite order, of which she became the instrument. After a time she obtained permission from the Hoty See to remove with her little com- munity to a humble house in Avila, where she re-established in its full rigor the ancient Carmelite rule, as approved by Innocent IV. in 1247, with some addi- tional obsen-ances introduced by herself. This new convent of St. Joseph's was es- tablished in 1562, in which year she as- sumed the name of Teresa de Jesus; and in 1565 she obtained from the Pope, Pius rV., a formal approval for the rule as modified by her. In 1567 the general of the Carmelite order, F. Rubeo, was so struck, during his visitation of the con- vents at Avila, with the condition of that over which Teresa presided that he urged on her the duty of extending throughout the order the reforms thus successfully initiated. Teresa entered on the work with great energy, and though she met with much opposition, nevertheless suc- ceeded in carrying out her reforms. In 1579 the Carmelites of the stricter observance established by Teresa were released from the jurisdiction of the old superiors, and united into a distinct as- sociation, with a separate head and a dis- tinct organization which was approved in 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII. Under this new constitution the association flourished and extended; and within her own lifetime no fewer than 17 convents of women and 16 of men accepted the re- forms which she had originated. Teresa died at Alba, Oct. 4, 1582, and was can- onized by Gregory XV. in 1622, her feast being fixed on Oct. 15. She left a num- ber of works, which have at all times maintained a high reputation among a large section of her own Church; their merits are also acknowledged by non- Catholic writers. The best-known trea- tises are her autobiography, "The Way of Perfection," "The Book of the Founda- tions," and "The Interior Castle." Her works in the original Spanish fill two folio volumes (Salamanca, 1587). Biog- raphies have been written in Spanish, French, Italian, German and English. TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON, an American author, born at Newark, N. J., in 1872. He was educated at Columbia and traveled on horseback through Syria and Egypt investigating leper settle- ments, and living among the Bedouins of the desert. He has been on the staff of the New York "World" since 1894. His works include "Syria from the Saddle"; "Columbia Stories"; "Dr. Dale— A Story Without a Moral"; "The Secret of the Blue House"; "The Shadow of the Prophet"; libretto of "Nero" (a comic opera) ; "Caleb Conover"; "Railroader"; "Dad"; "Dollars and Cents"; "The Lo- cust Years"; "Bruce"; "The Pest." TERHUNE, MARY VIRGINIA, ("Marion Harland"), an American au- thor; born in Amelia co., Va., Dec. 21, 1831; received an academic edu- cation, and early began to write for