[210] Born 1466, died 1536; a native of Antwerp, and the greatest scholar and critic of his age.
[211] Born 1466, died 1530. His best pictures are in Antwerp.
[212] Fought in Germany between 1618 and 1648.
[213] The chief officer of a Dutch or Belgian town; the mayor.
[214] Go-b'lan´, so called from Gilles Gobelin, a famous tapestry maker of Paris in the fifteenth century.
[215] Sir Anthony Van Dyck, born 1599, died 1641. Many of his best portraits are to be found in private galleries in England.
[216] Peter Paul Rubens, born 1577, died 1640; the greatest painter of the Flemish school.
[217] The home of the Army Council and of the Headquarters Staff in Whitehall, London. The Army Council completely controls the army. At the head of it is the Secretary of State for War, who is a member of one of the Houses of Parliament and of the Cabinet.
[218] So called because raised by Lord Strathcona (1820-1914) who rose from a clerk in the Hudson Bay Company to be head of the company and High Commissioner for Canada. The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway was almost entirely due to him.
[219] City of Saskatchewan, Canada; 400 miles west of Winnipeg, on the Canadian Pacific Railway.