MICHAEL GEORG CONRAD
\mˈa͡ɪkə͡l d͡ʒˈɔːɡ kˈɒnɹad], \mˈaɪkəl dʒˈɔːɡ kˈɒnɹad], \m_ˈaɪ_k_əl dʒ_ˈɔː_ɡ k_ˈɒ_n_ɹ_a_d]\
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A German novelist; born at Gnodstadt, in Franconia, April 5, 1846. He founded at Munich, in 1885, Society, a journal intended to be an organ of the "naturalistic" school. He spent several years in Paris, and many of his sketches relate to phases of life in France. Among his novels are: "The Wise Virgins"; "The Fool's Confession". He is author of a comedy, "The Emancipated", and the drama "The Firm of Goldberg". On social and political questions he has written: "The German Reveille"; "Justice, the State, and the Modern Spirit".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Alectorius lapis
- name of a stone, supposed exist stomach cock, or, according others, that capon, four years old. Many marvellous properties were formerly attributed to it, which are as groundless its existence. There no stones in the stomach, except what have been swallowed.