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Yorick (Mr.), the pseudonym of the Rev. Laurence Sterne, attached to his Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768).

YORK, according to legendary history, was built by Ebrauc, son of Gwendolen widow of king Locrin. Geoffrey says it was founded while “David reigned in Judæa,” and was called Caer-brauc.—British History, ii. 7 (1142).

York (New), United States, America, is so called in compliment to the duke of York, afterwards James II. It had been previously called “New Amsterdam” by the Dutch colonists; but when in 1664 its governor, Stuyvesant, surrendered to the English, its name was changed.

York (Geoffrey archbishop of), one of the high justiciaries of England in the absence of Richard Cœur de Lion.—Sir W. Scott: The Talisman (time, Richard I.).

York (James duke of), introduced by sir W. Scott in Woodstock and in Peveril of the Peak.

Yorke (Oliver), pseudonym of Francis Sylvester Mahoney, editor of Fraser’s Magazine.

Yorkshire Bite (A), a specially ’cute piece of overreaching, entrapping one into a profitless bargain. The monkey who ate the oyster and returned a shell to each litigant affords a good example.

Yorkshire Tragedy (The), author unknown (1604), was at one time printed under the name of Shakespeare.

Young. “Whom the gods love die young.”—Herodotos: History. (See Notes and Queries, October 5, 1879.)

(Quoted by lord Byron in reference to Haidee.—Don Juan, iv. 12, 1820.)

Young America. J. G. Holland says, “What we call Young America is made up of about equal parts of irreverence, conceit, and that popular moral quality familiarly known as brass.”

Young Chevalier (The), Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II. The second pretender (1720–1788).

Young England, a set of young aristocrats, who tried to revive the courtly manners of the Chesterfield school. They wore white waistcoats, patronized the pet poor, looked down upon shopkeepers, and were imitators of the period of Louis XIV. Disraeli has immortalized their ways and manners.

Young Germany, a literary school, headed by Heinrich Heine [Hi-ny], whose aim was to liberate politics, religion, and manners from the old conventional trammels.

Young Ireland, followers of Daniel O’Connell in politics, but wholly opposed to his abstention from war and insurrection in vindication of “their country’s rights.”

Young Italy, certain Italian refugees, who associated themselves with the French republican party, called the Carbonnerie Democratique. The society was first organized at Marseilles by Mazzini, and its chief object was to diffuse republican principles.

Young Roscius, William Henry West Betty. When only 12 years old, he made £34,000 in fifty-six nights. He appeared in 1803, and very wisely retired from the stage in 1807 (1791–1874).

Young-and-Handsome, a beautiful fairy, who fell in love w ith Alidorus “the lovely shepherd.” Mordicant, an ugly fairy, also loved him, and confined him in a dungeon. Zephyrus loved Young-and-Handsome, but when he found no reciprocity, he asked the fairy how he could best please her. “By liberating the lovely shepherd,” she replied. “Fairies, you know, have no power over fairies, but you, being a god, have full power over the whole race.” Zephyrus complied with this request, and restored Alidorus to the Castle