_Foster_ (_Dr. James_), a dissenting minister, who preached on Sunday evenings for above twenty years, from 1728-1748, in Old Jewry (died 1753). Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. Pope. _Foster_ (_Silas_), the bucolic master of the house that shelters the reformers of The Blithedale Romance. He gulps his tea, helps himself to dip-toast with the flat of his own knife, and perpetrates terrible enormities with the butter-plate, “behaving less like a sensible Christian than the worst kind of an ogre.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Blithedale Romance_ (1852). =Foul-weather Jack=, Commodore Byron (1723-1786.) =Foundling= (_The_), Harriet Raymond, whose mother died in childbirth, was committed to the charge of a _gouvernante_, who announced to her father (Sir Charles Raymond) that the child was dead. This, however, was not true, for the _gouvernante_ changed the child’s name to Fidelia, and sold her at the age of 12 to one Villiard. One night, Charles Belmont, passing Villiard’s house, heard the cries of a girl for help; he rescued her and took her to his own home, where he gave her in charge to his sister Rosetta. The two girls became companions and friends, and Charles fell in love with the “foundling.” The _gouvernante_, on her death-bed, revealed the secret to Sir Charles Raymond, the mystery was cleared up, and Fidelia became the wife of Charles Belmont. Rosetta gave her hand to Fidelia’s brother, Colonel Raymond.—Edward Moore, _The Foundling_ (1748). =Fountain, Bellamore, and Hare´brain=, suitors to Lady Hartwell, a widow. They are the chums of Valentine the gallant, who would not be persuaded to keep his estate.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _Wit without Money_ (1639). =Fountain of Life=, Alexander Hales, “the Irrefragible Doctor” (*-1245). =Fountain of Oblivion.= The student, Hieronymous, is told to seek out a certain fountain and cast a scroll into it, “and he shall find peace.” He obeys, and sees mirrored there his own life, and himself as boy and man, and beside him a maiden whose face is like that of the woman he loves. “And the name was no longer Hermione, but was changed to Mary; and the student, Hieronymous, is lying at your feet!”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, _Hyperion_ (1839). =Fountain of Youth=, a marvellous fountain in the island of Bim´ini (one of the Baha´ma group). It had the virtue of restoring the aged to youth again. In the middle ages it was really believed to exist, and Juan Ponce de Leon, among other Spanish navigators, went in serious quest of this fountain. =Four Kings= (_The_) of a pack of cards are Charlemagne (_the Franco-German king_), David (_the Jewish king_), Alexander (_the Macedonian king_), and Cæsar (_the Roman king_). These four kings are representatives of the four great monarchies.