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reform of the calendar was put forward in his _Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani_ (Frankfort, 1612); and he published a book on music, _Melodiae condendae ratio_ (Erfurt, 1592), still worth reading. For details see V. Schmuck's _Leichenrede_ (1615); J. Bertuch's _Chronicon Portense_ (1739); F.W.E. Rost's _Oratio ad renovendam S. Calvisii memoriam_ (1805); J G. Stallbaum's _Nachrichten uber die Cantoren an der Thomasschule_ (1842); _Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie_; Poggendorff's _Biog.-Litterarisches Handworterbuch._ CALVO, CARLOS (1824-1906), Argentine publicist and historian, was born at Buenos Aires on the 26th of February 1824, and devoted himself to the study of the law. In 1860 he was sent by the Paraguayan government on a special mission to London and Paris. Remaining in France, he published in 1863 his _Derecho international teorico y practice de Europay America_, in two volumes, and at the same time brought out a French version. The book immediately took rank as one of the highest modern authorities on the subject, and by 1887 the first French edition had become enlarged to six volumes. Senor Calvo's next publications were of a semi-historical character. Between 1862 and 1869 he published in Spanish and French his great collection in fifteen volumes of the treaties and other diplomatic acts of the South American republics, and between 1864 and 1875 his _Annales historiques de la revolution de l'Amerique latine_, in five volumes. In 1884 he was one of the founders at the Ghent congress of the _Institut de Droit International._ In the following year he was Argentine minister at Berlin, and published his _Dictionnaire du droit international public et prive_ in that city. Calvo died in May 1906 at Paris. CALW or KALW, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, on the Nagold, 34 m. S.W. of Stuttgart by rail. Pop. (1905), 4943. It contains a Protestant and a Roman Catholic Church, two schools, missionary institution, and a fine public library. The industries include spinning and weaving operations in wool and cotton. Carpets, cigars and leather are also manufactured. The timber trade, chiefly with the Netherlands, is important. The place is in favour as a health resort. The name of Calw appears first in 1037. In the middle ages the town was under the dominion of a powerful family of counts, whose possessions finally passed to Wurttemberg in 1345. In 1634 the town was taken by the Bava
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