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VEDDAS. 36 VEGA CARPIO. Consult: Virchow, Ccber die Weddas von Cey- lon (Berlin, 1881); Descliamps, Au pays des Veddas (Paris, 1892) ; Sarasin, Die Weddas von Ceylon (Yiesbaden, 1891). VED'DER, Elihu (1836—). An American painter and illustrator. He was born in New- York City, and after some instruction became a pupil of "the classicist Picot at Paris. In 1857 he went to Italy, and he remained ehielly in Flor- ence till the outbreak of the Civil War in ISGl, when he returned to the United States. Xot be- ing permitted to enlist, by reason of a defect in his left arm, he remained in New York City and Boston until December, 1805, when he again went to Paris, and thence to Rome. Ved- der is a man of an original, powerful, and weird imagination. His work is preg- nant with meaning, with a significance beyon<l the mere artistic. His feeling for form is largely that of the sculptor, and although liis sense of color seems not .so sensitive, it has, in the main, a large and decorative meaning. He is not the most productive of painters, but what he has produced is of a high order. His feeling for composition is strong, and his figures, although usually small in scale, are of heroic mien. Among his best known oil paintings are: "The Greek Actor's Daughter;" "Roman Girls on the Sea- shore;" the "Phorcydes;" the "Cumean Sibyl;" "Venetians on the Main;" a "Crucifixion;" the "Venetian llodel;" the "Lair of the Sea Ser- pent" and five others in the Boston Museum. After 1892 he executed considerable decorative work, including a panel in Bowdoin College, and several pieces, "Good and Bad Government," in the new Congressional Library at Washington. His illustrations of FitzGerald's translation of Omar Kha.-yam (1884) gained him a world-wide reputation, VEDDER, Henry Clay (1853 — ). An Ameri- can Ba])ti»t Church historian. He was born at De Renter, N. Y'., graduated at Rochester Uni- versity in 1873, and at Rochester Theological Sem- inary in 1876. He was an associate editor of The Examiner in 1876-92, and its chief editor in 1892-94, when he became professor of Church history in Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa. He edited The Baptist Quarterly Rerirw from 1885 to 1892. His publications include: rtaptists and Lihcrty of Consricncc (1883) ; The Decline of Infant liaptifitn (1S90) ; A fihort His- tory of the Baptists (1891, new ed. 1902) : The Tlifihcr Criticism (1892) ; Thr Dairn of Christi- anity (1894) ; Talks inth Baptist Young People (1895); American ^yritcrs of To-day (1894); The Decline of Apostolic S-iicccssion in the Church of Enffland (1894); A nistnry of the Baptists of the Middle ^States (189S). He has also issued a series of translations of documents illustrating Cluirch historj', under the name His- torical Leaflets (1901 sqq.). VEEN, v:'in, M,RTIX van. The real name of the Dutch painter commoiilv c:lled Heomskerk (q.v.). VEEN, O^T.^^o VAN (e.l5.5.5-c.in291. A Flem- ish painter, born at Leyden and usually called Otto Vaenius. He studied under Fcderigo Zuc- cliero at Rome. After his return from Italy he lived at Leydon. .Antwerp, and Brussels, where he became superintendent of the mint in 1620. .Among his most characteristic works are: Twelve Scenes from the "Revolt of the Ancient Batavi" (1613, Amsterdam Museum); "The Calling of Saint Matthew" (Antwerp) ; "The Parnassus" (Berlin) ; and "The Raising of Lazarus, altar- piece in Saint Bavon, Ghent, His portraits dis- jilay sonic of the qualities found in his great pupil Ruliens. VEERY. The tawny or Wilson's thrush i Tardus fusceseen^) , one of the best known thruslies (q.v.) of the Eastern and Middle United States. It is about seven and one-half inches long, nearly uniformly cinnamon-brown above, white beneath, tinged with buflf, the sides of breast and throat with small wedge-shaped brown spots. The veery is a notable songster, but the notes, though of peculiar attractiveness and re- sembling somewhat the rhythmic continuous ring- ing of a bell, are perhaps impossil)le to describe in words. The nest is of bark, rootlets, and leaves, and is built on or near the ground, and the eggs are usually four and greenish-blue. The vcery is found in cold, damp woods, and in some northerly places is the most numerous of our thruslies. See Plate of Eggs of Song-Bibds. VEFIK PASHA, ve'fik pa-sha'. See Ahmed (or AciiMET) Vefik Pasiia, VEGA, va'ga, Garcilaso de la. See Garci- LASO DE LA VeGA, VEGA, Georg, Baron (1765-1802), An Aus- trian mathematician, born at Sagoritza, Carniola, and educated at Laibach. In 1780 he became teacher of mathematics in a regiment of artil- lery. He served with distinction in the wars against the Turks and the French, and rose to the rank of colonel. Vega is especiall}- known for his Loyarithmische, triyonomctrisehe and andcre Tafein (1783, and many subsequent edi- tions) ; and similar t:U)les, which are still useful. He also wrote: Eydrodynamik (2d ed, 1819); Anleitung zur Zeitkunde (1801): Natiirlichcs Mass-, Geicichts- iind Miin~system (1803). Con- sult Kaucic, "Georg Freihcrr von Vega," in Organ dcr militurwissenschafilieheii Vereine, vol, iii. (Vienna, 1SS6) . VEGA CARPIO, v;-i'gii kar'pe-5. Lope Felix DE, generally called Lope de Vega (15G2-1635), The most ingenious dramatis poet of Spain, sur- named EI Fenix de Espana. Born in Madrid, November 25, 1562, he received his elementary training there at the Imperial college under the Jesuits. The earliest of his extant plays, El verdadero amantc, was written when he was thirteen years old. It is almost certain that he took part in an expedition against the Azores (1582). His llcrmosura de Anyclica (1602), a long poetical continuation of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, is far inferior to the work of the Italian, After his return from the scene of Spain's naval humiliation. Lope wrote the Arcadia (1598), a jiasforal novel, in mingled |)rose and verse, which, under fictitious names, introduces love ejilsoiles in Avhich the author and some of his friends had figured. The epic is a [intrintic attack upon Sir Francis Drake. In 1599 ajipeared a religious poem, the ffan Tsidrn, in which he celebrated the life and deeds of the liatron saint of Madrid. To 1602 may be ascribed the Kimas, a collection of sonnets, and to 1604 the prose romance El pcregrino en su patria. The