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THOMAS HENRY HALL CAINE (1853— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:HENRY See also:HALL See also:CAINE (1853— )  , See also:British novelist and dramatist, was See also:born of mixed See also:Manx and See also:Cumberland parentage at See also:Runcorn, See also:Cheshire, on the 14th of May 1853 . He was educated with a view to becoming an architect, but turned to journalism, becoming a See also:leader-writer on the See also:Liverpool See also:Mercury . He came up to See also:London at the See also:suggestion of D . G . See also:Rossetti, with whom he had had some See also:correspondence, and lived with the poet for some See also:time before his See also:death . He published a See also:volume of Recollections of Rossetti (1882), and also some See also:critical See also:work; but in 1885 he began an extremely successful career as a novelist of a melodramatic type with The See also:Shadow of a See also:Crime, followed by The Son of Hagar (1886)., The Deemster (1887), The Bondman (1890), The Scapegoat (1891), The Manxman (1894), The See also:Christian (1897), The Eternal See also:City (1901), and The Prodigal Son (1904) . His writings on Manx subjects were acknowledged by his See also:election in 1901 to represent See also:Ramsey in the See also:House of Keys . The Deemster, The Manxman and The Christian had already been produced in dramatic See also:form, when The Eternal City was staged with magnificent accessories by Mr Beerbohm See also:Tree in 1902, and in 1905 The Prodigal Son had a successful run at See also:Drury See also:Lane . See C . F . See also:Kenyon, See also:Hall See also:Caine; The See also:Man and the Novelist (1901) ; and the novelist's autobiography, My See also:Story (1908) . CA'See also:ING See also:WHALE (Globicephalus melas), a large representative of the See also:dolphin tribe frequenting the coasts of See also:Europe, the See also:Atlantic See also:coast of See also:North See also:America, the Cape and New See also:Zealand .

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uniform See also:black See also:colour it is also called the " black-See also:fish." Its maximum length is about 20 ft . These cetaceans are gregarious and inoffensive in disposition and feed chiefly on cuttle-fish . Their sociable See also:character constantly leads to their destruction, as when attacked they instinctively See also:rush together, and blindly follow the leaders of the See also:herd, whence the names See also:pilot-whale and ca'ing (or See also:driving) whale . Many hundreds at a time are thus frequently driven ashore and killed, when a herd enters one of the bays or fiords of the See also:Faeroe Islands or north of See also:Scotland . The ca'ing whale of the North Pacific has been distinguished as G. scammoni, while one from the Atlantic coast, See also:south of New See also:Jersey, and another from the See also:bay of See also:Bengal, are possibly also distinct .

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