TONE CIRCLES, circles of STANDING STONES (q. v.) found in
various parts of Great Britain, North Europe generally, and also, but of
more recent origin, in North India; were certainly, in the most of cases,
set up to mark the circular boundary of a place of burial; erroneously
ascribed to the Druids; from the character of numerous cinerary urns
exhumed, seem to have belonged to the bronze age in Great Britain; most
interesting are those of Stennis, in Orkney, with a circumference of 340
ft., Avebury, in Wiltshire, and STONEHENGE (q. v.).

STONEHAVEN (4), fishing port and county town of Kincardineshire,
situated at the entrance of Carron Water (dividing the town) into South
Bay, 16 m. SSW. of Aberdeen; has a small harbour, and is chiefly engaged
in herring and haddock fishing.

STONEHENGE, the greatest and best preserved of the STONE
CIRCLES (q. v.) of Britain, situated in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire,
7 m. N. of Salisbury; "consists of two concentric circles, enclosing two
ellipses"; the diameter of the space enclosed is 100 ft.; the stones are
from 13 ft. to 28 ft. high; is generally regarded as an exceptional
development of the ordinary stone circle, but the special purpose of its
unusual construction is still a matter of uncertainty.

STONYHURST, a celebrated Roman Catholic college in East Lancashire,
10 m. N. of Blackburn; established in 1794 by certain Jesuit fathers who,
after the suppression of their seminary at St. Omer, in France, by the
Bourbons, took up their residence at Bruges and then at Liege, but fled
thence to England during the Revolution, and accepted the shelter offered
them at Stonyhurst by Mr. Weld of Lulworth; there are about 300 students,
and upwards of 30 masters; a preparatory school has been established at
Hodder, a mile distant; in 1840 was affiliated to the University of
London, for the degrees of which its students are chiefly trained;
retains in its various institutions many marks of its French origin.

STOOL OF REPENTANCE, in Scotland in former times an elevated seat in
a church on which for offences against morality people did penance and
suffered rebuke.

STORM, THEODORE WOLDSEN, German poet and exquisite story-teller,
born in Sleswig; was a magistrate and judge in Sleswig-Holstein
(1817-1888).

STORM-AND-STRESS PERIOD, name given in the history of German
literature to a period at the close of the 18th century, when the nation
began to assert its freedom from artificial li