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parition from the past, both play and playing no
longer capable of moving an audience. She suf-
fered a stroke in her Brooklyn home in 1900,
and was moved to Saratoga. Fellow players
arranged a benefit for her in 1901 and raised
$5,000, but this was soon gone, and her collection
of rich costumes and jewels were then sold to
support her last years. She died at a home in
Amityville, Long Island, and it is recorded that
scarce twenty people attended the funeral.

Janauschek was plain and rugged of feature,
like Charlotte Cushman, and had to conquer her
audiences by the quality of her voice, the com-
manding sweep of her gesture and pose, and the
tragic intensity of her impersonations. There is
no doubt but she embodied with both passion and
keen intelligence a style of tragic acting once
popular, but that she neither could nor would
change that style to meet the changes in taste.
Hence she became a brave, stubborn, unhappy
old woman, and died alone and almost forgotten
in an alien land.

[Fritz A. H. Leuchs, The Early German Theatre in
N. Y. (1928) ; J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett, Players
of the Present, pt 2 (1900), 171-74; Brockhaus* Kon-
versations-Lexikon, vol. IX (1902); AT. Y. Dramatic
Mirror, Dec. 10, 1904; Current Lit., Oct. 1902; N. 7.
Times, N. Y. Evening Post, Nov. 30, 1904; Theatre
collection, Harvard Coll. Lib.; Robinson Locke collec-
tion, N. Y. Pub. Lib.] V7. P. E.

JANES, LEWIS GEORGE (Feb. 19, 1844-
Sept. 4, 1901), author, educator, was born in
Providence, R. L, the son of Alphonso Richards
Janes, a highly respected merchant and a pi-
oneer in the anti-slavery movement, and Sophia
,(Taft) Janes. On his father's side, he was de-
scended from William Janes, who came to New
England in 1637, and was one of the first set-
tlers of the New Haven Colony. William's great-
grandson, Jonathan, married Irene Bradford,
grand-daughter of Gov. William Bradford, of
the Plymouth Colony. On his mother's side,
Janes claimed descent from Peregrine White,
who was born on the Mayflower in Massachu-
setts Bay.

Young Janes was educated in the public
schools of Providence, graduating from the high
school in 1862. He was about to enter Brown
University when he was stricken with an illness
which continued for four years. Upon his re-
covery, perhaps moved by his own bitter experi-
ence, he went to New York to study medicine.
An interest in questions of health remained with
him to the end of his life, but he was early di-
verted to scientific and religious studies, and
thus never practised medicine. In Brooklyn, N.
Y., where he brought his first wife, Gertrude
Bool, whom he married in Roddand, Mass., June
2,1869* and who died in 1875, and where on June

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17,1882, he married his second wife, Helen Hall
Rawson, he began his influential career. "It was
a happy day," wrote John White Chadwick
[q.vJ], minister of the Second Unitarian Church
of Brooklyn, "when I secured him as a teacher
in our Sunday School. Soon the class outgrew the
allotted space in the Sunday School room and
came up into the church. But the morning hour
was not enough for the breadth of the discus-
sion, and resort was had to evening meetings at
the house of one friend or another. . . . Again
the company outgrew the space and there was
migration to the church, which was often filled
to overflowing on Sunday evenings with an
eager throng" of followers. In 1886 Janes pub-
lished his first book, A Study of Primitive
Christianity. The Brooklyn Ethical Association
was formed in 1885, and Janes was made its
president (1885-96). On the platform of this
society he delivered lectures on a wide variety
of subjects, many of which were printed in pub-
lished volumes of the proceedings of the Asso-
ciation, and became widely known as an exponent
and defender of the Spencerian philosophy. In
1893-96 he served as lecturer on sociology and
civics in the School of Political Science of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. From
1894 to 1895 he was instructor in history at
Adelphi College, Brooklyn, and in 1896 he pub-
lished Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of
Our Liberties, First Settler of Warwick, R. I.
Changing his residence to Cambridge, Mass., he
now devoted his life to three major interests: to
the Cambridge Conferences, held during a series
of winters for the study of ethics, philosophy,
sociology, and religion; second, to the Green-
acre Conference School, at Eliot, Me., where
through a series of summers he gathered dis-
tinguished scholars and eager students for the
study of comparative religion; and third, to the
Free Religious Association, organized by Ralph
Waldo Emerson and others for the fostering of
religion freed from theological dogma and eccle-
siastical control, of which he was elected presi-
dent upon the retirement of Thomas Wentworth
Higginson [q.v.] in June 1899. During this
same period he was busy with his pen, writing
numerous pamphlets, magazine articles, and his
most popular book, Health and a Day (1901).
Happily engaged in these activities, just at the
close of the annual summer school, he died sud-
denly at Greenacre. He was survived by his
widow, and by three of his four children, a son
by his first wife, and two daughters by his sec-
ond wife. Largely self-educated, Janes was a
man of fine scholarship and utter dedication to
the spirit of free inquiry. He had an aptitude

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