The English Atticus.  Joseph Addison.

  Who but must laugh if such a man there be. 
  Who would not weep if Atticus were he? 
  Pope, Prologue to the Satires.

AT’TILA, one of the tragedies of Pierre Corneille (1667).  This king of the Huns, usually called “The Scourge of God,” must not be confounded with “Athalie,” daughter of Jezebel and wife of Joram, the subject and title of Racine’s ches-d’oeuvre, and Mdlle.  Rachel’s chief character.

AUBERT (Therese), the heroine of C. Nodier’s romance of that name (1819).  The story relates to the adventures of a young royalist in the French Revolutionary epoch, who had disguised himself in female apparel to escape detection.

AUBREY, a widower for eighteen years.  At the death of his wife he committed his infant daughter to the care of Mr. Bridgemore, a merchant, and lived abroad.  He returned to London after an absence of eighteen years, and found that Bridgemore had abused his trust, and his daughter had been obliged to quit the house and seek protection with Mr. Mortimer.

Augusta Aubrey, daughter of Mr. Aubrey, in love with Francis Tyrrel, the nephew of Mr. Mortimer.  She is snubbed and persecuted by the vulgar Lucinda Bridgemore, and most wantonly persecuted by lord Abberville, but after passing through many a most painful visitation, she is happily married to the man of her choice.—­Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover (1780).

AUBRI’S DOG showed a most unaccountable hatred to Richard de Macaire, snarling and flying at him whenever he appeared in sight.  Now Aubri had been murdered by some one in the forest of Bondy, and this animosity of the dog directed suspicion towards Richard de Macaire.  Richard was taken up, and condemned to single combat with the dog, by whom he was killed.  In his dying moments he confessed himself to be the murderer of Aubri. (See DOG.)

Le combat entre Macaire et le chien eut lieu a Paris, dans l’ile Louviers.  On place ce fait merveilleux en 1371, mais ... il est bien anterieur, car il est mentionne des le siecle precedent par Alberic des Trois-Fontaines.—­Bouillet, Dict.  Universel, etc.

AUCHTERMUCHTY (John), the Kinross carrier.—­Sir W. Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth).

AUDHUMBLA, the cow created by Surt to nourish Ymir.  She supplied him with four rivers of milk, and was herself nourished by licking dew from the rocks.—­Scandinavian Mythology.

AUDREY, a country wench, who jilted William for Touchstone.  She is an excellent specimen of a wondering she-gawky.  She thanks the gods that “she is foul,” and if to be poetical is not to be honest, she thanks the gods also that “she is not poetical.”—­Shakespeare, As You Like It (1598).