[Al`ten, Karl August], a distinguished officer, native of Hanover, who entered the British service, bore arms under Sir John Moore, was chief of a division, under Wellington, in the Peninsular war, and closed his military career at the battle of Waterloo (1763-1840).
[Al`tenburg] (33), capital of Saxe-Altenburg, and 4 m. S. of Leipsic; its castle is the scene of the famous ["Prinzenraub"] (q. v.), related by Carlyle in his "Miscellanies."
[Althen], a Persian refugee, who introduced into France the cultivation of madder, which became one of the most important products of the S. of France.
[Alton Locke], a novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages.
[Alto`na] (148), a town and seaport of Sleswig-Holstein, now belonging to Germany, close to Hamburg, on the right bank of the Elbe, and healthier, and as good as forming one city with it.
[Alto-relievo], figures carved out of a tablet so as to project at least one half from its surface.
[Al`torf], an old town in the canton Uri, at the S. end of the Lake of Lucerne; associated with the story of William Tell; a place of transit trade.
[Altruism], a Comtist doctrine which inculcates sacrifice of self for the good of others as the rule of human action.
[Alumbra`do], a member of a Spanish sect that laid claim to perfect enlightenment.
[Alured of Beverley], an English chronicler of the 12th century; his annals comprise the history of the Britons, Saxons, and Normans up to his own time; d. 1129.