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LOCK HAVEN LOOLE 569 editorship, and Lockhart was invited to supply his place. He accepted, the offer, removed to London with his family early in 1826, and ed- ited the " Quarterly " till 1853, the work main- taining its reputation under his charge. He did not entirely relinquish his connection with "Blackwood," hut contributed occasionally to the " Noctes Ambrosianae " and to other de- partments of the magazine. His remaining works are: "Life of Kobert Burns" (Edin- burgh^ 1828); "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" (London, 1829); and "Life of Sir Walter Scott " (7 vols., London, 1836-'8). In relating Scott's business transactions, he allowed his prejudices to get the better of his judgment, and his strictures upon the Ballantynes, the publishers of the Waverley novels, provoked a bitter controversy. The emoluments which Lockhart received from his literary labors, and a sinecure given him by Sir Kobert Peel, placed him pecuniarily in easy circumstances, but his latter years were clouded by domestic sorrows. His wife died in 1837 ; their eldest son, to whom Scott's " Tales of a Grandfather " were in- scribed, had died some years before ; and Lock- hart survived his second son. His daughter, Charlotte (who died Oct. 26, 1858), was mar- ried in 1847 to James Robert Hope, who be- came owner of Abbotsford, and took the name of Hope-Scott. Of their three children, two died young, and in the surviving daughter, Mary Monica, the pedigrees of Scott and Lock- hart became centred. Lockhart left the " Quar- terly Review " in 1853 in shattered health, and retiring to Abbotsford, which had been inher- ited by his daughter, ended his life there. His personal qualities were not of a kind to make him generally popular. His manner was chill- ing and even supercilious to strangers ; and he frequently uttered witty sarcasms. LOCK HAVEN, a city and the capital of Clin- ton co., Pennsylvania, on the S. bank of the W. branch of the Susquehanna river, at the mouth of Bald Eagle creek, and on the West Branch canal and the Philadelphia and Erie and the Bald Eagle Valley division of the Penn- sylvania railroad, 70 m. N; N. W. of Harris- burg; pop. in 1870, 6,986. It is a centre of the lumber trade, large quantities of logs being floated down the river to this point, and con- tains several saw mills, two national banks, graded public schools, including two high schools, and three weekly newspapers. LOCRPORT, a city and the capital of Niag- ara co., New York, on the Erie canal and the New York Central railroad (which here crosses the canal by a bridge 500 ft. long and 60 ft. above the water), 20 m. E. of Niagara falls, and 25 m. N. N. E. of Buffalo ; pop. in 1870, 12,426, of whom 3,489 were foreigners. It is situated in a rich agricultural district, and has large quarries of very fine limestone and of sandstone flagging, which give employment to several hundred men. The surplus water of the Erie canal, which is here raised 60 ft. by five double combined locks, is distributed by means of a hydraulic canal three fourths of a mile long to various manufactories, furnishing an immense water power, and constituting one of the chief sources of prosperity. The city is lighted with gas, and contains 6 flour mills, 11 saw mills, a cotton and two woollen facto- ries, the establishment of the Holly water works manufacturing company, three national banks with a capital of $500,000, two state banks, graded public schools, including a high school, a Catholic female seminary, three daily and four weekly (one German) newspapers, and 14 churches. It was incorporated as a city in 1865. LOCKROY, Joseph Philippe, a French drama- tist, whose real name is SIMON, born of French parents in Turin, Feb. 17, 1803. He was one of the best actors of the Comedie Francaise, but left the stage in 1840 to write for it, in conjunction with Scribe, Anicet-Bourgeois, and other authors. Among his most successful plays are Passe minuit, Les trois epiciers, Le chevalier du guet, and Chariot et le mditre tfecole. With Alexandre Dumas the elder he wrote Conscience, a drama (1854). He also wrote the librettos for La reine Topaze (1856), Ondine (1863), and other operas. His son DOUAED, born in 1840, has become known as a radical politician and journalist. He was under arrest for a time in 1871 as a participant in the insurrection of the commune, although he had striven to prevent bloodshed ; and in April, 1873, he was elected to the assembly by the department of Bouches-du-Rhone. LOCK YE It, Joseph Norman, an English astron- omer, born in Rugby, May 17, 1836. He was educated in private schools and on the conti- nent, and in 1857 received an appointment in the war office, into which in subsequent years he introduced many improvements. In 1866 he became a fellow of the royal astronomical society, and proposed a method of observing the red flames of the sun without the necessity of waiting for an eclipse, which was put in suc- cessful operation in 1868. In 1869 he was elected a fellow of the royal society, and du- ring that and the following year he announced to it many important discoveries in solar phys- ics. He was the chief of the eclipse expedi- tion sent to Sicily by the English government in 1870, and in 1871 he was appointed Rede lecturer in the university of Cambridge. He is widely known as a lecturer on science, and his contributions to periodicals on scientific subjects are very numerous. In 1874 he suc- ceeded Encke as corresponding member of the French academy of sciences. He is now (1874) editor of "Nature," a weekly scientific journal. He is the author of "Elementary Lessons in Astronomy " (new ed., revised by the author, New York, 1870), and of "Contri- butions to Solar Physics" (London, 1874). LOCLE, a town of Switzerland, in the canton and 9 m. N. W. of the city of Neufchatel, and 5 m. S. W. of La Chaux de Fonds, about 3,000 ft. above the sea; pop. in 1870, 10,334. The town is on the little river Bied, which a short