=Stradiva´rius= (_Antonius_), born at Cremo´na, in Italy (1670-1728). He was a pupil of Andreas Amāti. The Amati family, with Stradivarius and his pupil, Guarnerius (all of Cremona), were the most noted violin-makers that ever lived, insomuch that the word “Cremona” is synonymous for a first-rate violin. The instrument on which he played Was in Cremona’s workshop made ... The maker from whose hands it came Had written his unrivalled name-- “Antonius Stradivarius.” Longfellow, _The Wayside Inn_ (prelude, 1863). =Strafford=, an historical tragedy by R. Browning (1836). This drama contains portraits of Charles I., the earl of Strafford, Hampden, John Pym, Sir Harry Vane, etc., both truthful and graphic. The subject of the drama is the attainder and execution of Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford. =Straitlace= (_Dame Philippa_), the maiden aunt of Blushington. She is very much surprised to find her nephew entertaining dinner company, and still more so that he is about to take a young wife to keep house for him instead of herself.--W. T. Moncrieff, _The Bashful Man_. =Stral´enheim= (_Count of_), a kinsman of Werner, who hunted him from place to place, with a view of cutting him off, because he stood between him and the inheritance of Siegendorf. This mean, plausible, overreaching nobleman was by accident lodged under the same roof with Werner, while on his was to Siegendorf. Here Werner robbed him of a rouleau of gold, and next night Ulric (Werner’s son) murdered him. _Ida Stralenheim_, one of the characters in Byron’s drama, _Werner_ (1822). She was the daughter of Count Stralenheim, and was betrothed to Ulric, for whom she had a deep affection, but when she learned from the lips of Ulric himself that he was the murderer of her father she fell senseless at his feet, and revived only to learn that he had fled the country, and that she had lost him forever. =Stranger= (_The_), the Count Waldbourg. He married Adelaide at the age of 16; she had two children by him, and then eloped. The count, deserted by his young wife, lived a roving life, known only as “The Stranger;” and his wife, repenting of her folly, under the assumed name of Mrs. Haller, entered the service of the Countess Wintersen, whose affection she secured. In three years’ time, “the stranger” came by accident into the same neighborhood, and a reconciliation took place. Kotzebue’s _Menschenhasz und Rene_ (1787). English adaptation: _The Stranger_ (1808). =Strangford= (_Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, viscount_), in 1803, published a translation of the poems of Camoens, the great Portuguese poet. Hibernian Strangford ... Thinkst thou to gain thy verse a higher place. By dressing Camoens in a suit of lace?... Cease to deceive; thy pilfered harp restore, Nor teach the Lusian bard to copy Moore. Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809).