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WEYDEN. 451 WEYMOUTH. Duke of Florence he painted a triptych, a panel of which probalily survives in the flne "Pieta" at the UtKzi ; for Francesco tSforza, Duke of Milan, a "Crucifixion" (Brussels Museum), with portraits of tlic Duke, his wife and son; and for Cosimo de' Medici a "Madonna, with Patron Saints" (cUM. Stadel Institute, Frankfort). The great paintings of Italy, however, had no in- fluence upon liis art. He returned to Brussels, where he died .linie 16, 1464, as a member of a religious fraternity. Rngier van der W'eyden's art was as deeply re- ligious as his personality. In sentiment it rep- resents a reaction against the placid painting of Jan van Kyck, intended for eonifortalilc middle classes, and appeals to the more popular religious tendency of the day. His intense dramatic action sometimes leads to exaggeration, and his draw- ing, though always careful, is sometimes de- fective. His colors are less bright and luminous than Van Eyck's, being rendered with dawn and twilight effects. The heads, with their large eyes and prominent brows, are wonderfully ex- pressive and spiritual. His influence was even wider than Van Eyck's. In the Netherlands Hans ^femling was his pupil, and he exercised a formative influence upon Dierieh Bouts and (,luentin Massys. The Cologne school of the lat- er fifteenth century was dependent upon him; Jlartin Schongauer of Colmar was probably his pupil, and even Wolgcmut and the Xurembergers felt his influence. Through his designs for reliefs he had a wide influence upon the sculpture of his day. To Rogier's earliest period no paintings can with certainty be ascribed. About 1440 he painted a "Descent from the Cross." now in the Madrid Museum ; replica in the sacristy of the Escorial. Of his later achievements the great altar-piece in seven panels of "The Last judg- ment" (1449), in the Hospital at Beaune (COte- d'Or), France, is one of the most important. Of great originality is the altar-piece representing "The Seven Sacraments," in the Antwerp Mu- seum. The Old Pinakothek at JIunich possesses an "Adoration of the ilagi," which became a model for later painters, and "Saint Luke Paint- ing the Madonna." In the Berlin ilusemu are three altar-pie*es, including the celebrated !Mid- dclburg Altar, with the "Adoration of the Holy Child." Consult the biographies bv Wauters (Brussels, 1S.56) and Pinchart (ib., I'sTfi) ; also Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Early Flemish Painters (London, 1872) ; Miintz, in Rcriir rlc Part ehrrtii-n (18n.5); and Firmenich-Richartz, in Zeilschrift fiir hiklendc Kiinst, vol. x. (Leipzig, 1898-99) . WEYER'S CAVE. A large stalactite cav- ern in Augusta County, Va., opening into a western spur of the Blue Ridge. 11 miles nortli- east of Staunton. It ranks next in importance to the Mammoth and Wyandotte Caves, and con- tains several chambers, of which the largest is Washington's Hall, 250 feet long and more than 90 feet high. ■WEYLER, va'e-lar', NicoLAU V.leriano. IMar- quis of Teneriffe (18.'!8 — ). A Spanish general. He was born in Piilnia, island of ^Majorca, De- cember 17, 1838. He eotered the army, was mili- tary attache of the Spanish Legation in the United States during the Civil War, and accom- panied General Sheridan on some of his cam- piiigns. In the ten years' war in Culia (1808- 78) he hel<l a conniiand under Balmaceda, and in 187.3 served in Spain against the Carlists, with some distincti<in. In 1879 he was made (;(jver- nor(iencral of the Canaries and in 1889 Captain- (Jcnera! of the Pliilippincs, where he amassed a fortune. He was later conunissioned as Provincial (jJovernor of Catalonia, and in 1896 he was sent to Cuba, in response to the demands of the advocates of severe methods, to succeed .Martinez Campos (<|.v.). His ruthless policy aroused a strong protest in the United States, and he was recalled in 1897. In 1900 the military party gained ascendency in the Ciovernment and he was made Captain-General of Madrid. In the Sagasta Caliinct, which held olliee from March, 1901, to December, 1902, he was Minister of War. WEYMAN, wi'man or wa'mon. Sta.N'ley John (185.5 — ). An English novelist of the ro- mantic school. He was born at Ludlow, Shrop- shire, August 7, 1855, and was educated at Shrewsbury and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1881, and practiced luitil 1889. His first three romances, The House of the Wolf (1890), The .Vew Rector (1891), and The Htnry of Francis Cludde (1891), were fol- lowed by .4 Oentleinan of France (1893), which established his fame as a romanticist. It was translated into several languages. • Without quite equaling this cff'ort. Weyman has since iiultlished Viirlrr the Red Role (1894), My Lady Rotha ( 1894) , Memoirs of a Minister of France ( 1895) , The Red Cockade (1895), The Man in lilack (1896), Shrewshury (1897), The Castle Inn (1898), Hophia ( 1 900 ) , In Kinxfs lii/irays, twelve short stories (1902), and several other romances. WEYMOUTH, w,"i'nn'ith. A town, including several villages, in Norfolk County, Mass., 12 miles southeast of Boston, on the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad (Map: Massa- chusetts, F 3). It has the Tufts Library with more than 20,000 volumes, and the Fogg Li- brary. Weymouth is primarily an industrial town, being especially interested in the manu- facture of shoes and in wool-scouring. There are also car-repair shops here. The water-works are owned and operated bv the town. Popula- tion, in 1890. 10.866; in 1900, n.;?24. Thomas Weston came to Weymouth in 1622, but the first permanent settlement was made by Capt. Robert Gorges in 1623. It was here that Thomas Mor- ton of Jlerrymount was first seized in 1628 by the Plymouth colonists. Lentil 1635, when it was incorporated, the place was called by its Indian name. Wessagusset. Consult C. F. Adams, Jr., Proceedinris on the 230th Anniversary of the Permanent Settlement (Boston, 1874). WEYMOUTH, or Melcombe Rekis and Weymiutu. a seaport and fashionable watering- ]ilaee in Dorsetshire, England, on a bay at the mouth of the Wey, four miles north of the Isle of Portland, and eight miles south of Dorchester (!Map: England, D 6). A fortified point, called the Nothe. se|iarates the (dd town of Weymouth, lying to the south, and Jlelcombe-Regis. extend- ing to the north. The two communicate by means of a bridge. The old town is rminteresting in appearance. Melcombe Regis, elegantly built, stands on a narrow peninsula, with the sea on the east, and an estuary on the west side. Its