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WATTS 322 WAUL he spent the rest of his life at the family seat of Sir Thomas Abney, Abney Park, near London. He wrote "Hymns and Spiritual Songs" (1707); "Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children" (1720); "A Manual of Logic" (1725); several volumes of "Sermons," besides other works of less note. As a religious poet Watts has been always widely popu- lar. His hymns are marked by religious fervor and evangelical zeal. Widely sep- arated parties have used them as man- uals of Christian devotion, and they have come home to the heart of the English common people in a way that no other de- votional lyrics, not even Wesley's or ISAAC WATTS Cowper's have done. The "Logic" of Watts was for long a widely popular book. Though not distinguished by pro- found metaphysical thought, it is yet a very able treatise. It is plain and prac- tical, vigorous and sensible, and may even yet be read with profit. The works of Watts were published in a collected form first in six then in nine volumes (Lond. 1810-1812). He died in Theobaldo, Herts, England, Nov. 25, 1748. WATTS, MARY STANBERY, an Am- erican novelist, born in Delaware county, O., in 1868. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Cincinnati, and in 1891 married Miles Taylor Watts. Her novels, which for the most part deal with the Middle West, include "The Ten- ants" (1908); "Nathan Burke" (1910); "The Rise of Jennie Cushing" (1914); "The Boardman Family" (1918) ; "From Father to Son" (1919). She also wrote many plays, and contributed many short stories to magazines. WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE, an English poet and critic; born in St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England, in 1832, He was educated at Cambridge; afterward settling in London, he soon became the center of a remarkable literary and ar- tistic company, including Philip Bourke Marston, Rossetti, Browning, Tennyson, Swinburne, etc. He wrote extensively in periodicals, and the books : "Greeting at Spithead to the Men of Greater Britain" (1897) ; "The Coming of Love" (1897) ; "Aylwin" (1898).) "The Work of Cecil Rhodes; a Sonnet Sequence" (1907); "Old Familiar Faces" (posthumous, 1916). The poems of his which are most generally known are "The Burden of the Armada" and "The Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken," the latter of which has been often reprinted in England and America. He died in 1914. WAT TYLER'S INSURRECTION. See Tyler Insurrection. WAUKEGAN, a city and county-seat of Lake co., Ill,; on Lake Michigan, and on the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 35 miles N. W. of Chicago. The princi- pal part of the city is built on a bluff which rises rather abruptly to the height of 50 feet. Here are many churches, a high school, School of the Immaculate Conception, St. Alberta's Convent, St. Joseph's School, public library, water- works, electric lights, street railroads, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. Waukegan is largely interested in the lake fisheries. It has flour mills, tanneries, the Forsyth Scale Works, a pump factory, silver plating establishment, and manufactories of farming implements, sashes, doors, blinds, etc. It also has a trade in grain, wool, and butter. Pop. (1910) 16,069; (1920) 19,226. WAUKESHA, a city and county-seat of Waukesha co.. Wis., on the Fox river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul and other railroads; 20 miles W. of Milwaukee. It contains Carroll Col- lege (Pres.), a high school, Keeley in- stitute, the State Industrial School for Boys, electric lights. National bank, and several weekly newspapers. The city is chiefly noted for its wonderful springs of medicinal waters. It has bottling works, quarries of excellent building stone, ex- tensive malleable iron work. Pop. (1910) 8,740; (1920) 12,558. WAUL, THOMAS NEVILLE, an American lawyer; born in Sumter Dis- trict, S. C, Jan. 5, 1813 ; was educated at Columbia College in 1829-1832, and was later admitted to the bar and began prac-