CHRONICLERS 
 
 
eountess.-E. Stirling, The Prisoner of 
State (1847). 
 
  Christine Dryfoos, the undisciplined, 
showy daughter of a self-made man in W. 
D. Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes 
(1889). 
  "She was self-possessed because she felt 
that a knowledge of her father's fortune 
had got around, and she had the peace 
which money gives to ignorance. She is 
madly in love with Beaton, whose atten- 
tions have raised expectations he concluded 
not to fulfill. At their last meeting she 
felt him more than life to her, and knew 
him lost, and the frenzy that makes a 
woman kill the man she loves or fling vit- 
riol to destroy the beauty she cannot have 
for all hers possessed her lawless soul ... 
She flashed at him, and with both hands 
made a feline pass at the face he bent 
towards her." 
 
   Christmas Treasures. Eugene Field, 
 in A Little Book of Western Verse, gives a 
 father's soliloquy over such treasures as 
       The little toy my darling knew, 
       A little sock of faded hue, 
       A little lock of golden hair, 
 all that remains to him who, 
      As he lisped his evening prayer 
      Asked the boon with childish grace, 
      Then, toddling to the chimney-place, 
      He hung his little stocking there. 
                                 (1889.) 
   Chris'topher (St.), a saint of the Roman 
 and Greek Churches, said to have lived in 
 the third century. His pagan name was 
 Offe'rus, his body was twelve ells in height, 
 and he lived in the land of Canaan. Offe- 
 rus made a vow to serve only the mighti- 
 est; so, thinking the emperor was "the 
 mightiest," he entered his service. But 
 one day the emperor crossed himself for 
 fear of the devil, and the giant perceived 
 
 
that there was one mightier than his pres- 
ent master, so he quitted his service for 
that of the devil. After awhile, Offerus 
discovered that the devil was afraid of the 
cross, whereupon he enlisted under Chrit, 
employing himself in carrying pilgrims 
across a deep stream. One day, a very 
small child was carried across by him, but 
proved so heavy that Offerus, though a 
huge giant, was well-nigh borne down by 
the weight. This child was Jesus, who 
changed the giant's name to Christoferus, 
"'bearer of Christ." He died three days 
afterwards, and was canonized. 
   Like the great giant Christopher, it stands 
   Upon the brink of the tempestuous wave. 
               Longfellow, The Lighthouse. 
 
   Christopher Wright, otherwise "Uncle 
Christopher," is the consequential oracle 
of the neighborhood, and the father of six 
daughters, in Clovernook, by Alice Cary 
(1851). 
 
   Christ's Victory and Triumphs, a 
 poem in four parts, by Giles Fletcher 
 (1610): Part  i. "Christ's Victory  in 
 Heaven," when He reconciled Justice with 
 Mercy, by taking on Himself a body of 
 human flesh; part ii. "Christ's Triumph on 
 Earth," when He was led up into the wil- 
 derness, and was tempted by Presumption, 
 Avarice, and Ambition; part iii. "Christ's 
 Triumph over Death," when He died on 
 the Cross; part iv. "Christ's Triumph 
 after Death," in His resurrection and as- 
 cension. (See PARADISE REGAINED.) 
 
   Chroniclers (Anglo-Norman), a series 
 of writers on British history in verse, of 
 very early date. Geffroy Gaimar wrote 
 his Anglo-Norman chronicle before 1146. 
 It is a history in verse of the Anglo-Saxon 
 kings. Robert Wace wrote the Brut d'An- 
 gleterre [i.e., Chronicle of England] in eight- 
 
 
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