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EDWARDSVILLE 476 EGEDE missionai'y, and at the time of his death was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). His works are the recognized exponents of essential Calvinism next to those of its founder, and rank high in the theo- logical metaphysic of all time. They include among others: "An Inquiry Into the Modei'n Prevailing Notions Respect- ing that Freedom of the Will Which Is Supposed to Be Essential to Moral Agency" (1754) ; "The Great Christian Doctrine of the Original Sin Defended" (1757?) and "A Dissertation Concern- ing the End for Which God Created the World" (1789). He died in Princeton, N. J., March 22, 1758. EDWARDSVILLE, a city of Illinois, the county-seat of Madison co. It is on the Wabash, the Illinois Traction, the Toledo, St. Louis and Western, the Litchfield and Madison, and the St. Louis, Troy and Eastern railroads. The city is the center of an agricultural and coal mining region, and has manu- factures of tools, plumbing supplies, brass finishings, radiators, buggies, etc. There is a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,014; (1920) 5,336. EDWARDSVILLE, a borough of Penn- sylvania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, and is entirely a residential suburb of Wilkes-Barre. Pop. (1910) 8,407; (1920) 9,027. EDWIN, King of Northumbria, was the son of .^lla. King of Deira, who died in 588. His father died when he was but 3 years old, whereupon .-Ethel- ric. King of Bernicia, seized his terri- tories. The child was carried into north Wales, and there brought up. At length he found refuge with Raedwald, King of East Anglia, who took up arms on his behalf against ^thelfrith, the son of his oppressor, and defeated him in a great battle, in which the usurper fell (617). Edwin now obtained his father's kingdom of Deira, and ere long overran Pernicia, thus bringing under his rule a united Northumbria. He died in 634. EDWY, King of England, son of Ed- mund I., succeeded his uncle Edred in 955. Taking part with the secular clergy against the monks, he incurred the confirmed enmity of the latter. The papal party, headed by Dunstan, was strong enough to excite a rebellion, by which Edwy was driven from the throne to make way for his brother Edgar. He died in 959, being probably not more than 18 or 19 years old. EEL, the general name of a family of teleostean fishes belonging' to the apodal section of the Malacoptey'ygii. They be- long to various genera. The genus An- guilla is characterized by its serpent- like elongated body, by the absence of ventral fins, and the continuity of the / dorsal and anal fins round the extremity of the tail. The dorsal fin commences half-way between the head and the anal fin, and the lower jaw projects beyond the upper. In the genus Conger, which is conclusively marine, the dorsal fin commences above the pectoral, and the upper jaw is the longer. The smoothness of the body — the scales be- ing inconspicuous — and the serpentine movements of eels are proverbial. The conger and at least three other species — the sharp-nosed, the broad-nosed, and the snig — belong to Great Britain. The species of the genus AnguiUa, which are both freshwater and marine, seldom ex- ceed 30 inches in leng^th. In England river eels are caught in great numbers by means of eelbucks or eelpots. A kind of trident is used also for taking them, called an eelspear. Eels avoid cold, and frequently migrate in winter to the mud or brackish water estuaries where the temperature is higher. They have even been met with in large numbers performing migra- tions on land, mostly intervening necks of soil covered with damp grass. Some eels spawn in the estuaries of rivers, and immense numbers of the young eels pass up the streams in spring, their passage in England being called the eel- fare. EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, an American author; born in Philadelphia, May 24, 1852; was graduated at La Salle College. Subsequently he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Notre Dame, Ind., and Professor of English Language and Lit- erature in the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. He was appointed U. S. Minister to Denmark in 1907. His experiences in that post he described in "Ten Years on the German Frontier" (1919). He is the author of 30 books, including: "That Girl of Mine" (1879); "Preludes" (1880), a book of poems; "Songs and Sonnets" (1885); "Stories of Duty" (1885); "A Garden of Roses" (1886) ; "The Life Around Us" (1886); "Everlasting St. Francis" (1912), etc. EGEDE, HANS (a'ge-de), the apostle of Greenland; was born in 1686 in Nor- way. In 1721 he set sail for Greenland with the intention of converting the na- tives to Christianity, and for 15 years performed the most arduous duties as missionary, winning by his persevering