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=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= 1845- ----. A journalist and essayist of New York city, editor of The Outlook. Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas; My Study Fire; Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short Studies in Literature; Essays in Literary Interpretation; Essays on Nature and Culture; Essays on Books and Culture. _Do. Rob._

=McAdoo, Mrs. Mary Faith [Floyd].= _Tn._, 1832- ----. Wife of W. McAdoo, _infra_. The Nereid, a romance; Antethusia.

=McAdoo, William Gibbs.= _Tn._, 1820-1894. A jurist of Tennessee. Poems; Elementary Geology of Tennessee (with H. C. White).

=MacAfee, Mrs. Nelly Nichol [Marshall].= _Ky._, 1845- ----. A Kentucky writer of fiction. Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings from Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wearing the Cross; Passion; A Criminal through Love.

=McAnally, David Rice.= _Tn._, 1810- ----. A Methodist clergyman, prominent in St. Louis and elsewhere in the Southwest, who, besides a History of Methodism in Missouri, has written a number of lives of Methodist bishops.

=MacArthur, Arthur.= _S._, 1815-1896. A prominent jurist of Washington. Lectures on the Law; Reports of Supreme Court Cases; Education in its Relation to Manual Industry. _Ap._

=MacArthur, Robert Stuart.= _Q._, 1841- ----. A distinguished Baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church from 1870. Quick Truths in Quaint Texts; Calvary Pulpit, or Christ and Him Crucified; Divine Balustrades, and Other Sermons. _Bap. Fu. Re._

=McBride, James.= _Pa._, 1788-1859. A writer of Hamilton, Ohio. Pioneer Biography. _See Bibliography of Ohio._

=McCabe, James Dabney.= _Va._, 1842-1883. A versatile and prolific Southern writer whose principal work is a Life of General Robert Lee, while among his many others are, Planting the Wilderness; History of the War between France and Germany; History of the Turko-Russian War; Paris by Sunlight and Gaslight; Our Young Folks Abroad; The Great Republic; Lights and Shadows of New York Life; Centennial History of the United States. _Le. Lip._

=McCabe, William Gordon.= _Va._, 1841- ----. Cousin of J. D. McCabe, _supra_. A Confederate officer, since 1888 head master of a school in Petersburg, Virginia. The Defence of Petersburg; A Latin Grammar.

=McCall, George Archibald.= _Pa._, 1802-1868. A soldier of Philadelphia, who served in the Mexican war, and in the Civil War was brigadier-general of volunteers in the Federal army. Letters from the Frontier.

=McCall, Hugh.= _S. C._, 1767-1824. A United States army officer. History of Georgia (1811-16).

=McCall, John Cadwalader.= _Pa._, 1793-1846. Cousin of G. A. McCall, _supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Troubadour, and other poems; Fleurette, and other rhymes.

=McCall, Peter.= _N. J._, 1809-1880. Cousin of G. A. McCall, _supra_. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, mayor of that city, 1844-45. Rise and Progress of Civil Society; History of Pennsylvania Law and Equity.

=MacCarroll, James.= _I._, 1815-1892. A musical and dramatic critic of New York city. Letters of Terry Finnegan to D’Arcy McGee; The New Gauger; Adventures of a Night; The New Life-Boat.

=MacCarty, J---- Hendrickson.= _Pa._, 1830- ----. A Methodist clergyman. The Black Horse and Carry-All; Inside the Gates; Two Thousand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; Fact and Fiction in Holy Writ. _Meth._

=Macchetta, d’Allegri, Blanche Roosevelt [Tucker], Marchesa.= _O._, 1853-1898. Home Life of Longfellow; Marked “In Haste;” Stage Struck; Life of Doré; The Copper Queen; Verdi, Milan, and Othello. _Fo._

=McClellan, Carswell.= _Pa._, 1835-1892. Brother of H. B. McClellan, _infra_. A topographical assistant on the staff of General A. A. Humphreys in the Civil War. Afterwards a civil engineer in railroad and government service. The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S. Grant _versus_ The Record of the Army of the Potomac. _Hou._

=McClellan, Ely.= _Pa._, 1834-1893. Brother of C. McClellan, _supra_. Assistant medical director, United States army. The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States.

=McClellan, George.= _Ct._, 1796-1847. A noted surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College, for which institution he obtained the charter. The Principles and Practice of Surgery. _Lip._

=McClellan, George Brinton.= _Pa._, 1826-1885. Son of G. McClellan, _supra_. A distinguished soldier, general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1861-62; an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1864; governor of New Jersey, 1878-81. His most important works include, The Armies of Europe; Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; European Cavalry; McClellan’s Own Story. _See Appletons’ American Biography._

=McClellan, Henry Brainerd.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. Brother of C. McClellan, _supra_. A major in the Confederate service during the Civil War, who published an admirable Life of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. _Hou._

=McClelland, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1796-1864. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman and educator. Canon and Interpretation of Scripture; Sermons.

=MacClelland, Margaret Greenway.= 18-- -1895. A Virginia novelist. Mammy Mystic; Old Ike’s Memories, a book of verse. Princess; Oblivion; Jean Monteith; Madame Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett’s Lock; St. John’s Wooing; The Old Post Road. _Har. Ho. Mer._

=MacClelland, Milo Adams.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A physician of Knoxville, Illinois. Civil Malpractice, a Treatise on Surgical Jurisprudence. _Hou._

=MacClenachan, Charles Thompson.= _D. C._, 1829- ----. A lawyer of New York city, long employed in the department of public works, among whose writings are, Law of the Fire Department; The Atlantic Cable of 1858; Book of the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.

=McClintock, John.= _Pa._, 1814-1870. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, professor in Drew Theological Seminary at the time of his death. He is best known by the Theological and Biblical Cyclopædia which he began with James Strong, _infra_, but he was the author, also, of Living Words; Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and Methodology. _See Life by G. R. Crooks, supra._ _Meth._

=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A Philadelphia journalist, founder of The Times in 1873, and its editor since then. Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains; The South: its Industrial, etc., Condition. _Lip._

=McClure, Alexander Wilson.= _Ms._, 1808-1865. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, among whose writings are, Lectures on Ultra Universalism; Life of John Cotton, _supra_.

=McConnel, John Ludlam.= _Il._, 1826- ----. A lawyer and novelist of Jacksonville, Illinois, who was a soldier in the Mexican War. His fictions are studies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon; Grahame, or Youth and Manhood; The Glenns; Western Characters.

=McConnell, Samuel D=[6] Pa., 1846- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence as an independent thinker, rector of St. Stephen’s Church in Philadelphia, 1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, subsequently. Sons of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the Episcopal Church in the United States; A Year’s Sermons; An Open Secret. _Ar. Wh._

=McCook, Henry Christopher.= _O._, 1837- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a naturalist. Object and Outline Teaching; The Last Year of Christ’s Ministry; The Last Days of Jesus; Garfield Memorial Sermons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The Gospel in Nature; The Mound-Making Art of the Alleghanies; Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey Ants and Occident Ants; Tenants of an Old Farm; American Spiders. _Fu. Lip._

=McCord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah [Cheves].= _S. C._, 1810-1880. A writer of South Carolina. Sophisms of the Protective Policy, translated from Bastral; Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; My Dreams, a volume of verse.

=McCormick, Richard Cunningham.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. An Arizona journalist, governor of that Territory, 1866-69. Visit to the Camp at Sebastopol; St. Paul’s to St. Sophia; Arizona: its Resources (1865).

=McCosh, James.= _S._, 1811-1894. A metaphysician of eminence and a Presbyterian divine of the Free Church. After being professor in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1852-68, he came to America in 1868, and was president of Princeton College, 1868-88, resigning in the latter year, but holding an emeritus professorship until his death. As a philosophical thinker he exercised an extended influence. His principal writings include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive Thought; Christianity and Positivism; Scottish Philosophy; Mill’s Philosophy; Method of the Divine Government; First and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; The Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel Sermons; Philosophy of Reality; The Religious Aspect of Evolution; Realistic Philosophy defended; Whither? O Whither Tell Me Where; The Development of Hypotheses; Philosophic Series: I. Expository, II. Historical and Critical. _See Life of, edited by W. M. Sloane, infra._ _Meth. Scr._

=McCoy, Mrs. Catherine [Webb] [Towles].= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A writer of Columbus, Georgia. Tales from the Freemason’s Fireside; The Three Golden Links; Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.

=McCrackan, William Denison.= _Bv._, 1864- ----. An author and lecturer of New York city, born in Munich of American parents. The Rise of the Swiss Republic; Romance and Teutonic Switzerland; Swiss Solutions of American Problems; Little Idyls of the Big World. _Ar. Kt._

=MacCracken, Henry Mitchell.= _O._, 1840- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, chancellor of the University of the City of New York from 1891. Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant and Lotze; A Metropolitan University; Leaders of the Church Universal.

=MacCreary, George Washington.= _Ind._, 1835-1890. An Indiana jurist. Treatise on the American Law of Elections; Reports of the Circuit Courts of the United States, Eighth District, 1879-83.

=McCulloch, Hugh.= _Me._, 1808-1895. A distinguished financier, secretary of the treasury, 1865-69 and 1884-85. Men and Measures of Half a Century was his only publication. _Scr._

=McDermott, Hugh Farrar.= 1833-1890. A journalist of New York city. Poems from an Editor’s Table; The Blind Canary, a book of verse.

=McDonald, James Madison.= _Me._, 1812-1876. A Congregational clergyman who was pastor of a church in Princeton, New Jersey, 1856-76. Credulity; My Father’s House, or the Heaven of the Bible; Life and Writings of St. John; Ecclesiastes Explained; Key to the Book of Revelation. _Scr._

=McDougal, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple] [Greene].= _R. I._, 1805-1875. A Rhode Island writer who resided in California from 1862. The Original; The Mechanic; Might and Right, a History of the Dorr Rebellion; Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; The Dwarf Boy, and Minor Poems; Beyond the Veil.

=MacDowell, Mrs. Katherine Sherwood [Bonner].= _Mi._, 1849-1883. A writer of Holly Springs, Mississippi, from 1873 to 1878 a resident of Boston and the private secretary of Longfellow. In Mrs. Kirk’s novel of “Margaret Kent” she figures as the heroine. Dialect Tales; Suwanee River Tales; Like unto Like. _Har. Rob._

=Mace, Mrs. Frances Parker [Laughton].= _Me._, 1836- ----. A popular verse-writer of San José, California. The authorship of Only Waiting, her best known poem, has been claimed by several writers. Legends, Lyrics, and Sonnets; Under Pine and Palm. _Hou._

=McFadden, Bernarr Adolphus.= _Mo._, 1868- ----. A teacher of physical training in New York city. The Athlete’s Conquest, a novel; System of Physical Training.

=MacFerrin, Anderson Purdy.= _Tn._, 1818- ----. A Methodist clergyman in Tennessee. Sermons for the Times; Heavenly Shadows and Hymns.

=MacFerrin, John Berry.= _Tn._, 1807-1887. Brother of A. P. MacFerrin, _supra_. A Methodist clergyman in Tennessee. History of Methodism in Tennessee.

=McGaffey, Ernest.= _O._, 1861- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. Poems of Gun and Rod; Poems. _Do. Scr._

=MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius.= _O._, 1844-1878. A famous journalist and war correspondent. During the Franco-Prussian war he was the correspondent at Paris of the New York Herald, and he went through the Russo-Turkish war as the correspondent of the London Daily News. Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the Northern Lights; Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. _Har._

=McGarvey, John William.= _Ky._, 1829- ----. A clergyman of the Christian denomination, professor of sacred history in the University of Kentucky from 1865. Commentary on the Acts; Commentary on Matthew and Mark; Lands of the Bible; Text and Canon; Credibility and Inspiration of the Bible.

=McGiffert, Arthur Cushman.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of church history in Union Seminary from 1893. Dialogue of Papias and Jason. He has published a translation with prolegomena and notes of the Church History of Eusebius Pamphilus; The Apostolic Age. _Scr._

=McGill, John.= _Pa._, 1809-1872. A Roman Catholic bishop of Richmond. Our Faith the Victory; The True Church Indicated; Life of John Calvin, from the French.

=McGlasson, Eva Wilder.= _See Brodhead, Mrs._

=McIlvaine= [ma̯k-il-văn´], =Charles Petitt.= _N. J._, 1799-1873. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and long a prominent figure among Low Churchmen. Evidences of Christianity; Oxford Divinity; The Holy Catholic Church; The Truth and the Life, include his chief works. _Ran._

=McIlvaine, Joshua Hall.= _Del._, 1815-1897. A Presbyterian clergyman of note in the Middle States who founded Evelyn College at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1887. He was professor of belles-lettres at Princeton College, 1860-70, and president of Evelyn College at the time of his death. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Elocution, the Sources and Elements of its Power; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture; The Wisdom of the Apocalypse; Pastoral Directions to Inquiring Souls. _Ran. Scr._

=McIntosh, Maria Jane.= _Ga._, 1803-1878. A New York writer whose novels and tales of domestic life enjoyed a long popularity. Her writings include, Praise and Principle; Conquest and Self-Conquest; Violet; Two Lives, or To Seem and To Be; Charms and Counter-Charms; The Lofty and the Lowly; Meta Gray; Two Pictures; Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Aunt Kitty’s Tales; Woman in America, her Work and her Reward; The Cousins, a juvenile tale. _Ap._

=Mackaye, Mrs. Maria Ellery [Goodwin].= _R. I._, 1830- ----. An educator of Cambridge, author of The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other French Studies. _Le._

=McKeever, Harriet Burn.= _Pa._, 1807-1886. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, Nothing but Leaves; Edith’s Ministry; The Old Château; Crown Jewels. _Meth._

=McKellar, Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. A prominent type-founder of Philadelphia who, beside publishing American Printer, and was the author of Tam’s Fortnight Ramble, and Other Poems; Droppings from the Heart; Lines for the Gentle and Loving; Rhymes Atween Times. His verse is unpretentious, and seldom more than commonplace in sentiment and execution. _Lip._

=McKenny, Thomas Lorraine.= _Md._, 1785-1859. A writer for many years in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes; Essays on the Spirit of Jacksonianism; History of the Indian Tribes (with J. Hall); Memoirs, Official and Personal.

=McKenzie, Alexander.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Cambridge from 1867. Cambridge Sermons; History of the First Church in Cambridge; Some Things Abroad; The Two Boys. _Lo._

=Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell.= _N. Y._, 1803-1848. A naval officer of prominence in his day. Popular Essays on Naval Subjects; The American in England; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commodore Decatur, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; A Year in Spain. _Har._

=Mackenzie, Robert Shelton.= _I._, 1809-1881. A journalist of London who came to America in 1852, and from 1857 was the literary editor of the Philadelphia Press. His writings include, Lives of Dickens, Scott, and Guizot; Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine; Partnership _en Commandité_, a work upon commercial law; Bits of Blarney; Mornings at Matlock; Tressilian and his Friends.

=Mackey= [măk´ee], =Albert Gallatin=. _S. C._, 1807-1881. A physician of Charleston whose life was principally devoted to the study of freemasonry. Text-Book of Masonic Jurisprudence; Lexicon of Freemasonry; The Mystic Tie; Book of the Chapter; Manual of the Lodge; Cryptic Masonry; Masonic Ritualist; Masonic Parliamentary Law; History of Freemasonry in South Carolina; Encyclopædia of Freemasonry. He edited the Ahimon Rezon.

=Mackey, John.= _S. C._, 1765-1831. A journalist, and educator of Charleston whose American Teacher’s Assistant (1826) was the first comprehensive work on arithmetic published in America.

=Mackie, John Milton.= _Ms._, 1813-1894. A New England writer, in early life a tutor in Brown University. Cosas de España; Lives of Leibnitz, Schamyl, Samuell Gorton; Tai Ping Wang; From Cape Cod to Dixie.

=McKim, Randolph Harrison.= _Md._, 1842- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany at Washington. Nature of the Christian Ministry; Vindication of Protestant Principles; Future Punishment; Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons; Christ and Modern Unbelief; Christianity and Buddhism. _Wh._

=McKinney, Mordecai.= _Pa._, _c._ 1796-1867. A jurist of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistrate and Civil Officer; Pennsylvania Tax Laws; Digest of Pennsylvania Banking Laws.

=McLaren, William Edward.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago. He was consecrated bishop in 1875, but prior to 1872 was a Presbyterian clergyman. Catholic Dogma the Antidote of Doubt; The Practice of the Interior Life.

=McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham.= _Il._, 1861- ----. A professor of American history at the University of Michigan from 1891. Life of Lewis Cass, _supra_. _Hou._

=Maclean, Mrs. Clara Victoria [Dargan].= _S. C._, _c._ 1840- ----. An educator of South Carolina. Her work in fiction includes Riverlands; Helen Howard.

=McLellan, Isaac.= _Me._, 1806-1899. A verse-writer of New York city of note as a sportsman. His verse, once popular, is now nearly forgotten. The Year, and Other Poems; The Fall of the Indian; Poems of the Rod and Gun (1883), with biographical sketch.

=McLeod, Alexander.= _S._, 1774-1833. A Reformed Presbyterian minister of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day. Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness; American Christian Expositor, include his chief works.

=McLeod, Xavier Donald.= _N. Y._, 1821-1865. Son of A. McLeod, _supra_. A Roman Catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an Episcopal clergyman. Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, include the more important of his works.

=McMahon, John Van Lear.= _Md._, 1800-1871. A prominent lawyer and politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is an authority on the early history of the province.

=McMaster, Gilbert.= _I._, 1778-1854. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Duanesburgh, New York. The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; Apology for the Psalms; Moral Character of Civil Government.

=McMaster, Guy Humphrey.= _N. Y._, 1829-1887. A jurist and verse-writer of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of Steuben County, but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum.

=McMaster, John Bach.= _L. I._, 1852- ----. A professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883, and prior to that date an instructor in engineering at Princeton College. Bridge and Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of the United States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution (with F. D. Stone). _Ap. Hou._

=McMillan, Conway.= _Mch._, 1867- ----. A professor of botany in the University of Minnesota from 1891. Twenty-Two Common Insects of Nebraska; The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.

=McMurtrie, Henry.= _Pa._, 1793-1865. An educator of Philadelphia. Lexicon Scientiarum is his principal work.

=McMurtrie, William.= _N. J._, 1851- ----. A professor of chemistry in the University of Illinois. Culture of the Sugar Beet; Culture of Sumac; Grape Culture in the United States, are among his publications.

=McNamara, John.= _I._, 1824-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska. Three Years on the Kansas Border; The Black Code of Kansas.

=McNaughton, John Hugh.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A verse-writer of Caledonia, New York, many of whose songs have been set to music, and proved extremely popular. Babble Brook Songs; Onnalinda, a romance in verse.

=Macomb, Alexander.= _D. C._, 1782-1841. An officer of prominence in the American army during the War of 1812, becoming major-general in command of the army in 1828. Treatise on Martial Law; Treatise on Practice of Courts-Martial; Pontiac, a drama. _See Memoir by G. H. Richards._

=Macon, John Alfred.= _Al._, 1851- ----. A journalist of New York city. Uncle Gabe Tucker. _Lip._

=McPherson, Edward.= _Pa._, 1830-1895. A journalist of Gettysburg, editor of The Tribune Almanac from 1877, and for some years American editor of the Almanach de Gotha. Political History of the United States during the Civil War; Political History of the United States during Reconstruction; Handbook of Politics.

=MacQueary, Howard.= _Va._, 1861- ----. A Universalist clergyman of Minneapolis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman in Ohio, but, on account of his denial of the Virgin birth of Christ, was tried for heresy in 1891, and suspended from the Episcopal ministry. Evolution of Man and Christianity; Topics of the Times, lectures on theological and sociological themes. _Ap._

=McSherry, James.= _Md._, 1819-1869. A lawyer of Frederick, Maryland. Père Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; Williloft, or the Days of James the First; History of Maryland.

=McSherry, Richard.= _W. Va._, 1817-1885. A physician of prominence in Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. Early History of Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; Health and How to Promote It, are his principal writings. _Ap._

=McTyeire= [măk-teer´], =Holland Nimmons.= _S. C._, 1824-1889. A Methodist bishop in Tennessee. Manual of Discipline; Duties of Masters; History of Methodism, are among his works.

=McVickar, William Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1827-1877. An Episcopal clergyman who became rector of Christ Church, New York city, in 1876. Life of Rev. John McVickar; City Missions. _Hou._

=Macy, Jesse.= _Ind._, 1842- ----. A professor of political science in Iowa College. Our Government; The English Constitution. _Mac._

=Madison, James.= _Va._, 1751-1836. The fourth President of the United States. The Reports of the Debates in the National Convention of 1788 are the most important writings of his earlier career. His complete works have been issued in six volumes. _See Lives by Rives, J. Q. Adams, S. H. Gay; History of the United States, Madison’s Administrations, by H. Adams._

=Maffit, John Newland.= _I._, 1795-1850. A once noted Methodist preacher and lecturer. Tears of Contrition; Pulpit Sketches; Poems.

=Magill, Mary Tucker.= _Va._, 1832- ----. Granddaughter of H. St. George Tucker, _infra_. An educator and fiction-writer of Winchester, Virginia. The Holcombes; Women, or Chronicles of the Late War; School History of Virginia; Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems. _Lip._

=Magoon, Elias Lyman.= _N. H._, 1810- ----. An eminent Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a lecturer and art connoisseur of liberal thought and wide attainments. Proverbs for the People; Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity; Westward Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; Living Orators in America.

=Magruder, Allan Bowie.= 18-- - ----. The Bible Defended; Life of John Marshall, _infra_. _Hou._

=Magruder, Julia.= _Va._, 1854- ----. A novelist. Miss Ayr of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet; Princess Sonia. _Cent. Har. Lgs. Lip. Lo. S. Scr._

=Mahan= [ma̯-hăn´], =Alfred Thayer.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A distinguished officer in the United States navy whose masterly works upon sea power in history have received official recognition from both home and foreign governments. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1783-1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters; Life of Admiral Farragut; Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain. _Ap. Lit. Scr._

=Mahan, Asa.= _N. Y._, 1799-1889. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Adrian College, 1860-1871, and after the latter date resident in England. Critical History of Philosophy; The Science of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic; Theism and Anti-Theism in their Relations to Science; Critical History of the American Civil War. _Bar. Meth._

=Mahan, Dennis Hart.= _N. Y._, 1802-1871. A military engineer of distinction whose text-books have been widely used. Treatise on Field Fortifications; Elementary Course of Civil Engineering; Elementary Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Industrial Drawing; Descriptive Geometry; Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent Fortifications; an edition of Moseley’s Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture, with additions. _Wil._

=Mahan, Milo.= _Va._, 1819-1870. Brother of D. H. Mahan, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore. The Exercise of Faith; History of the Church; Reply to Colenso; Palmoni, a Free Inquiry; Comedy of Canonization.

=Malcom, Howard.= _Pa._, 1799-1879. A Baptist clergyman and educator at one time prominent in Philadelphia. Nature and Extent of the Atonement; Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule of Marriage; Travels in Southeastern Asia.

=Mallery, Garrick.= _Pa._, 1831-1894. An army officer in charge of the bureau of ethnology from its foundation in 1879. Calendar of the Dakota Language; Introduction to the Study of Sign Language among North American Indians; Greeting by Gesture; Israelite and Indian, a Parallel in Planes of Culture; Picture Writing of the American Indians, are among his important contributions to ethnology.

=Malone, Walter.= _Mi._, 1866- ----. A verse-writer of Memphis, Tennessee. Songs of Dark and Dawn.

=Maltby, Isaac.= _Ct._, 1767-1819. A Boston author who was general of militia. Elements of War; Courts-Martial and Military Law; Military Tactics.

=Manly, Basil.= _S. C._, 1825-1892. A Baptist clergyman and educator, professor in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville. Kind Words Teacher; A Call to the Ministry; Bible Doctrine of Inspiration Defended.

=Manly, John Matthews.= _Al._, 1865- ----. Pre-Shakesperean Drama.

=Mann, Cyrus.= _N. H._, 1785-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Westminster, Massachusetts, 1815-41. Epitome of the Evidences of Christianity; History of the Temperance Reformation.

=Mann, Horace.= _Ms._, 1796-1859. A famous Massachusetts educator and philanthropist, president of Antioch College, Ohio, 1852-59, and for twelve years secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He entirely remodelled the school system of his State. Beside his twelve important annual reports on education, he published Lectures on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man; Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; Powers and Duties of Women. _See Life by Mrs. Mann; Boone’s Education in the United States; Gordey’s Rise and Growth of the Normal School System; Horace Mann, the Educator, by A. Winship._ _Le._

=Mann, Mrs. Mary Tyler [Peabody].= _Ms._, 1806-1887. Wife of H. Mann, _supra_, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody, _infra_. Flower People; Christianity in the Kitchen; Culture in Infancy (with E. Peabody); Life of Horace Mann; Juanita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba. _Le. Lo._

=Mann, Matthew Derbyshire.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A physician, professor of gynæcology in the University of Buffalo, who has published a Text-Book on Prescription Writing, and edited The American System of Gynæcology.

=Mann, William Julius.= _G._, 1819-1892. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, author of Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. _See Memoir by E. T. Mann, 1893._

=Manning, Jacob Merrill.= _N. Y._, 1824-1882. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church, 1857-82. Helps to a Life of Prayer; Half Truths and the Truth; Not of Man, but of God; Sermons. _Hou._

=Mansfield, Edward Deering.= _Ct._, 1801-1880. Son of J. Mansfield, _infra_. A lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati. Utility of Mathematics; Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political Grammar of the United States; Legal Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of General Scott; History of the Mexican War; American Education; Memoirs of D. Drake, _supra_; Popular Life of General Grant; Personal Memories. _Clke._

=Mansfield, Jared.= _Ct._, 1759-1830. A mathematician, professor at West Point, 1812-28, who published Essays: Mathematical and Physical.

=Mansfield, Lewis William.= _Ct._, 1816- ----. A writer of Cohoes, New York. The Morning Watch, a book of verse; Up-Country Letters; Country Margins.

=Manship, Andrew.= _Md._, 1824- ----. A Methodist evangelist of Philadelphia. Thirteen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished Memories; Reminiscences from the Saddle-Bags of a Methodist Preacher; History of Gospel Tents and Experience.

=Manville, Mrs. Helen Adelia [Wood].= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A verse-writer of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Heart Echoes, a volume of verse.

=Manville, Marion.= Daughter of Mrs. Manville, _supra_. _See Pope, Mrs._

=Marble, Manton.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. A journalist of New York city, editor and proprietor of The World, 1862-76, and author of A Secret Chapter of Political History.

=March, Alden.= _Ms._, 1795-1869. A once prominent surgeon of Albany. Wounds of the Abdomen; Improved Forceps for Harelip Operations.

=March, Charles Wainright.= _N. H._, 1815-1864. A journalist and essayist of New York city. Daniel Webster and His Contemporaries; Sketches in Madeira, Portugal, and Spain.

=March, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1816-1902. A Congregational clergyman. Walks and Homes of Jesus; Night Scenes in the Bible; Our Father’s House; From Dark to Dawn; Home Life in the Bible; The First Khedive, or Lessons in the Life of Joseph; Morning Light in Many Lands. _C. P. S._

=March, Francis Andrew.= _Ms._, 1825- ----. A philologist of distinction, professor at Lafayette College from 1856, and the successor of James Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the American Language Association. Relation of the Study of Jurisprudence to the Roman Period; Hamilton’s Theory of Perception; Method of Philological Study of the English Language; Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language; Anglo-Saxon Reader. _Har._

=Marcy, Erastus Edgerton.= _Ms._, 1815-1900. A physician of New York city. Theory and Practice of Medicine; Theory and Practice of Homœopathy; Christianity and its Conflicts; Life Duties.

=Marcy, Henry Orlando.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A physician of Cambridge. Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia; professional translations from the Italian of Ercolani. _Ap._

=Marcy, Randolph Barnes.= _Ms._, 1812-1887. Brother of E. E. Marcy, _supra_. A brigadier-general in the United States army. Exploration of the Red River in 1852; Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border; The Prairie Traveller; Border Reminiscences. _Har._

=Marden, Orison Swett.= _N. H._, 1848- ----. A Boston writer whose collections of brief biographies, comprise Pushing to the Front; Architects of Fate. _Hou._

=Marguerittes, Julie de.= _See Rea, Mrs._

=Markell, Charles Frederick.= _Md._, 1855- ----. A Maryland lawyer and journalist. Charmodine, a volume of verse.

=Markham, Charles Edwin.= _Or._, 1852- ----. An educator and verse-writer of California. In Earth’s Shadow, a book of verse; Songs of a Dream Builder; The Man with the Hoe.

=Markham, Jared Clark.= _Ms._, 1816- ----. An architect who designed the Saratoga monument. Appeal in Behalf of National Monuments; Monumental Art; Historic Sculpture.

=Markoe, Thomas Masters.= _Pa._, 1819-1901. A surgeon of New York city, professor in Columbia College from 1860, and author of a Treatise on Diseases of the Bones. _Ap._

=Marsh, Mrs. Caroline [Crane].= _Ms._, 1816-1901. Wife of G. P. Marsh, _infra_. The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems; Life of George P. Marsh. _Scr._

=Marsh, George Perkins.= _Vt._, 1801-1882. A philologist of distinction who was minister to Italy, 1861-82. Lectures on the English Language; Man and Nature, re-written and enlarged with the title, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of the English Language; Mediæval and Modern Saints and Miracles. _See Life by Mrs. Marsh, supra._ _Har. Scr._

=Marsh, John.= _Ct._, 1788-1864. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as a temperance lecturer. Epitome of Ecclesiastical History; Half Century Tribute to Temperance; Temperance Recollections.

=Marsh, Othniel Charles.= _N. Y._, 1831-1899. A palæontologist, professor at Yale University from 1866. Odontornithes; Dinocerata; Sauropoda, are among valuable scientific monographs by him.

=Marshall, Edward Chauncey.= _N. Y._, 1824-1898. An educator, inventor, and journalist. Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval Academy; Ancestry of General Grant.

=Marshall, Humphrey.= _Pa._, 1722-1801. A famous botanist of Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages.

=Marshall, John.= _Va._, 1755-1835. Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death. The Life of Washington; Writings upon the Federal Constitution. _See Lives by Van Santvord, 1854, Flanders, 1858, Magruder, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography._

=Martin, Edward Sandford.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New York city. Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of the Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, some Views of Ours; Windfalls of Observation; Lucid Intervals. _Har. Scr._

=Martin, François Xavier.= _F._, 1764-1846. A New Orleans jurist, chief justice of Louisiana, 1837-45. General Digest of Louisiana Laws; Reports of Louisiana Supreme Court, 1813-30; History of Louisiana to 1814.

=Martin, Henry Newell.= _I._, 1848-1896. A biologist of note, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. The Human Body; Practical Biology (with T. H. Huxley); Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection (with W. A. Moale). _Ho._

=Martin, John Hill.= _Pa._, 1823- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia, legal editor of The Intelligencer from 1881. Bethlehem and the Moravians; The Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Chester and its Vicinity; Delaware County.

=Martin, Mrs. Margaret [Maxwell].= _S._, 1807- ----. An educator of Columbia, South Carolina. Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest; Religious Poems; Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina, include the larger part of her writings.

=Martin, William Alexander Parsons.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen College, Peking. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he has published The Chinese: their Education, Philosophy, and Letters; The Lore of Cathay. _Har._

=Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne [Smith].= _N. H._, 1805-1879. A writer of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New York city. Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France; William Tyndale; Lady Alice Lisle.

=Martyn, William Carlos.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Son of Mrs. Martyn, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. History of the Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fathers of New England; History of the Dutch Reformation; Lives of John Milton, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge. _Fu._

=Marvel, Ik.= _See Mitchell, D. G._

=Marvin, Enoch Mather.= _Mo._, 1823-1877. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. The Work of Christ; Sermons; To the East by Way of the West.

=Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton [Briggs].= _Ms._, 1823-1890. A verse-writer of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, was long a popular song. Utterance, a Collection of Home Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; Rose Hamilan, a tale. _Hou._

=Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Arthur.= _Me._, 1844-1884. The Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of verse. _Lo._

=Mason, David Hastings.= _Pa._, 1828-1903. A Chicago journalist who published a Short Tariff History of the United States. _Bai._

=Mason, Emily Virginia.= _Ky._, 1815- ----. A nurse in Confederate hospitals, and after the Civil War an educator in Paris. She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.

=Mason, George Champlin.= _R. I._, 1820-1894. An architect of Newport, Rhode Island. Newport and its Environs; Application of Art to Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; Reminiscences of Newport.

=Mason, John.= _E._, 1600-1672. A Puritan soldier who held a place in the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding to that filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. History of the Pequot War is a vigorous narrative, first printed by Increase Mather in 1677. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra._

=Mason, John Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1770-1829. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration on the Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. Letters on Frequent Communion; Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles. _See Works in four volumes; Memoirs by Van Vechten, 1856._

=Mason, Otis Tufton.= _Me._, 1838- ----. An anthropologist of note. The Hupa Indian Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture; The Origins of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North American Indians; The Antiquities of Guadeloupe. _Ap. Scr._

=Mather, Cotton.= _Ms._, 1663-1728. Son of I. Mather, _infra_. A famous Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, 1683-1728, and his father’s colleague for the greater part of that period. He was a prolific author, publishing nearly four hundred works, large and small, but it is upon the Magnalia Christi Americana that his reputation rests. Among other works are Wonders of the Invisible World; Christian Philosopher; Psalterium Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium; Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The Armour of Christianity; Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; Death made Easie and Happy. His style is disfigured by pedantry and strained analogies, and is at all times far removed from simplicity, but the author is nevertheless easily seen to be intensely in earnest in his endeavours to be of service to his generation. _See Lives by S. Mather, 1729, W. B. O. Peabody, A. P. Marvin, 1889, B. Wendell, 1892; North American Review, July, 1840, April, 1869; Tyler’s American Literature; Pond’s The Mather Family; Old Colony Days, by Mrs. May Alden Ward._

=Mather, Fred.= _N. Y_, 1833-1900. A pisciculturist of note, author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks.

=Mather, Increase.= _E._, 1639-1723. Son of R. Mather, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, and president of Harvard College, 1685-1701. Of his nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction the existence of mundane supernatural forces. His style is much superior to that of his son. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Mather, Moses.= _Ct._, 1719-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Darien, Connecticut, from 1744 till his death, who was of much prominence in his day as a controversialist. Systematic View of Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; Election Sermons. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Mather, Richard.= _E._, 1596-1669. A Puritan clergyman who came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester, 1636-69. He was a man of large influence in the colony, and was one of the three divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification is as important as any of his many writings. _See Life by I. Mather; Tyler’s American Literature._

=Mather, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1706-1785. Son of C. Mather, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston who succeeded his father and grandfather as pastor of the North Church, but in 1741 became the head of a new church, of which he was pastor till his death. Among his writings are, Life of Cotton Mather, _supra_; Essay on Gratitude; America Known to the Ancients, an attempt to prove the Japhetic origin of the first inhabitants of the American continent. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Mather, William Williams.= _Ct._, 1804-1859. A geologist of Ohio. Geology of the First Geological District.

=Mathews, Albert.= _N. Y._, 1820-1903. A lawyer of New York city. Walter Ashwood, a Love Story; A Bundle of Papers, by Paul Siegvolk; Thoughts on Codification of the Common Law; Ruminations, and Other Essays. _Put._

=Mathews, Cornelius.= _N. Y._, 1817-1889. Cousin of A. Mathews, _supra_. An author and playwright of New York city, among whose non-dramatic works are, Indian Book of Fairy Tales; The Enchanted Moccasins, and Other Legends; Money-Penny: a romance. Jacob Leisler; The Politicians; Witchcraft, comprise some of his plays.

=Mathews, James McFarlane.= _N. Y._, 1785-1870. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city, at one period chancellor of the University of the City of New York. What is Your Life?; The Bible and Men of Learning; Fifty Years in New York.

=Mathews, Joanna Hooe.= _N. Y._, 1849-1901. Daughter of J. M. Mathews, _supra_. A writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, The Bessie Books; The Sunbeams. _Cas._

=Mathews, Julia A----.= 183- - ----. Daughter of J. M. Mathews, _supra_. A writer of Sunday-school fiction, among which are, The Bessie Harrington’s Venture; Jack Granger’s Cousin; Drayton Hall Series. _Ran._

=Mathews, William.= _Me._, 1818- ----. An educator and essayist of Chicago, and later of Boston. Hours with Men and Books; Getting on in the World; The Great Conversers; Literary Style; Men, Places, and Things; Oratory and Orators; Wit and Humor, their Use and Abuse; Nugæ Litterariæ. _Rob. Sc._

=Mathews, William Smith Babcock.= _N. H._, 1837- ----. A musical critic of Chicago. Outline of Musical Form; Dictionary of Music and Musicians; How to Understand Music; New Musical Miscellanies.

=Matthews, [James] Brander.= _La._, 1852- ----. A littérateur of New York city. Among his many writings the more important are, The Theatres of Paris; French Dramatists of the 19th Century; Margery’s Lovers, a Comedy; The Last Meeting, a Story; The Secret of the Sea, and Other Stories; A Family Tree, and Other Stories; The Story of a Story; Tom Paulding; Studies of the Stage; Americanisms and Briticisms; Vignettes of Manhattan; His Father’s Son; Introduction to the Study of American Literature; The Royal Marine; Tales of Fantasy and Fact. _Har. Scr._

=Matthews, James Newton.= _Ind._, 1852- ----. A physician and verse-writer of Mason, Illinois. Tempe Vale, and Other Poems, includes many of his contributions to The Century and other periodicals. _Ke._

=Matthews, Stanley.= 1824-1889. A Cincinnati jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1881. A Summary of the Law of Partnership for the Use of Business Men. _Clke._

=Matthews, Washington.= _I._, 1843- ----. A surgeon in the regular army, well known as an ethnologist. Among his writings are included a Grammar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians; Gentile Organization of the Navajo Indians.

=Mattison, Hiram.= _N. Y._, 1811-1868. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, active as a controversialist. Bible Doctrine of Immortality; The Trinity and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the Times; Impending Crisis; Defence of American Methodism; Popular Amusements, include his chief works. _Meth._

=Maturin= [măt´u-rĭn], =Edward.= _I._, 1821-1881. An educator of New York city. Beside Lyrics of Spain and Erin, he was the author of several historical novels, comprising Eva; Bianca; Montezuma; Benjamin: the Jew of Grenada. _Har._

=Maury= [maw´rĭ], =Ann.= _E._, 1803-1876. Cousin of M. F. Maury, _infra_. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family.

=Maury, Dabney Herndon.= _Va._, 1822-1900. Nephew of M. F. Maury, _infra_. A Confederate major-general in the Civil War. Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops; Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. _Scr._

=Maury, Matthew Fontaine.= _Va._, 1806-1873. A once famous scientist, for many years in charge of the Hydrographical Office at Washington, as well as of the Naval Observatory. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate service, and from 1868-73 was a professor in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Treatise on Navigation; Physical Geography of the Sea; Wind and Current Charts; Physical Geography for Schools; The World we Live In. _See North British Review, May, 1858; Life by his daughter, Mrs. Corbin; Manly’s Southern Literature._

=Maury, Mrs. Sarah Mytton [Hughes].= _E._, 1808-1849. Sister-in-law of A. Maury, _supra_. Etchings from the Caracci; The Englishwoman in America; The Statesmen of America; Progress of the Catholic Church in America.

=May, Caroline.= _E._, _c._ 1820- ----. A writer of New York city. American Female Poets; The Woodbine, a Holiday Gift; Poems; Hymns on the Collects; Lays of Memory and Affection.

=May, Edith.= _See Drinker, Mrs._

=May, John Wilder.= _Ms._, 1819-1883. A jurist of Boston. The Law of Insurance; Law of Crimes; Criminal Law. _Lit._

=May, Margaret.= _See Tucker, Mrs._

=May, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1810-1899. A retired Unitarian clergyman of Leicester, Massachusetts, of prominence in the anti-slavery movement, and author of The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims.

=May, Samuel Joseph.= _Ms._, 1797-1871. Cousin of S. May, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse prominent in the anti-slavery cause, and also in educational reforms. Education of the Faculties; Revival of Education; Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict. _See Memoir, 1873._

=May, Sophie.= _See Clarke, Rebecca._

=Mayer, Alfred Marshall.= _Md._, 1836-1897. Nephew of B. Mayer, _infra_. An astronomer, professor of physics in Stevens Institute at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1871. Light (with C. Barnard); Notes on Physics; The Earth a Great Magnet; Sound; Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters (edited). _Ap. Cent._

=Mayer, Brantz.= _Md._, 1809-1879. A lawyer and journalist of Baltimore, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Mexico as It Was and as It Is; Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and Republican; Observations on Mexican History and Archæology; Mexican Antiquities; Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Memoir of Jared Sparks, _infra_.

=Mayer, Lewis.= _Pa._, 1783-1849. A German Reformed clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania. Lectures on Scriptural Subjects; The Sin Against the Holy Ghost; History of the German Reformed Church.

=Mayhew, Experience.= _Ms._, 1673-1758. A missionary to the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard. Indian Converts; Grace Defended.

=Mayhew, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1720-1766. Son of Experience Mayhew, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church, 1747-66. He was a bold thinker both in religion and politics, and his influence over the colonial mind at an eventful period was very great. He was as eloquent as he was original and independent. A noted Sermon on the Repeal of the Stamp Act is an effective example of his style. Seven Sermons; Sermons to Young Men. _See Memoir by Alden Bradford, 1838._

=Maynard, Charles Johnson.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A naturalist of Newton, Massachusetts. The Naturalist’s Guide; The Birds of Florida; The Birds of Eastern North America; A Manual of Taxidermy; The Butterflies of New England.

=Mayo, Amory Dwight.= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, prominent since the Civil War in educational matters in the Southern States. Graces and Powers of the Christian Life; Symbols of the Capitol; Religion in Common Schools; Talks with Teachers.

=Mayo, Robert.= _Va._, 1784-1864. A writer long in the civil service at Washington. View of Ancient Geography and History; New System of Mythology; United States Pension Laws; Synopsis of the Commercial and Revenue System; The Treasury Department, its Origin and Operations.

=Mayo, Mrs. Sarah Carter [Edgarton].= _Ms._, 1819-1848. Wife of A. D. Mayo, _supra_. The Palfreys; Ellen Clifford, and several compilations of verse and prose.

=Mayo, William Starbuck.= _N. Y._, 1812-1895. A novelist and physician of New York city. Kaloolah; The Berber; Never Again; Flood and Field; Romance Dust, a collection of short stories. _Put._

=Mead, Charles Marsh.= _Vt._, 1836- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Andover Seminary, 1866-1882, and since the latter date a resident in Germany. He published The Soul Here and Hereafter, a Biblical Study; Christ and Criticism; Supernatural Revelation. _Ran._

=Mead, Edwin Doak.= _N. H._, 1849- ----. A Boston writer and lecturer upon social and historical topics, and editor of The New England Magazine (1897). Martin Luther: a Study of the Reformation; The Philosophy of Carlyle; The Roman Church and the Public Schools. _El._

=Meade, William.= _Va._, 1789-1862. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Family Prayers; Old Churches of Virginia; Lectures on the Pastoral Office; Reasons for Loving the Episcopal Church. _See Memorial by J. Johns._

=Mears, John William.= _Pa._, 1825-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Hamilton College, 1870-81. The Bible in the Workshop; The Martyrs of France; The Beggars of Holland; The Story of Madagascar; The Heroes of Bohemia; From Exile to Overthrow.

=Meehan, Thomas.= _E._, 1826-1901. A botanist and nurseryman of Germantown, Philadelphia, editor and publisher of “Meehan’s Monthly,” a popular journal devoted to botany and floriculture. American Handbook of Ornamental Trees; Flowers and Ferns of the United States.

=Meek, Alexander Beaufort.= _S. C._, 1814-1865. An Alabama jurist and journalist. Red Eagle; Songs and Poems of the South; Romantic Passages in Southern History.

=Meek, Fielding Bradford.= _Ind._, 1817-1876. A palæontologist in government service. Palæontology of the Upper Missouri; Check List of North American Invertebrate Fossils; Report on Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country.

=Megapolensis, Johannes.= _Hd._, 1603-1670. A Dutch clergyman of the New Amsterdam colony, the first Protestant missionary to the Indians. His Short Account of the Mohawk Indians appeared in 1651.

=Meigs= [mĕgs], =Charles Delucena.= _Ba._, 1792-1869. A noted Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College, 1841-61. Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery; Science and Art of Obstetrics; Treatment of Child-Bed Fevers; Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus, and several translations from French medical writers. _See Memoir by J. F. Meigs, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Meigs, James Aitkin.= _Pa._, 1829-1879. A physician and naturalist of Philadelphia, author of Cranial Characteristics, and other scientific monographs. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Meigs, John Forsyth.= _Pa._, 1818-1882. Son of C. D. Meigs, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician. Memoir of C. D. Meigs, _supra_; Diseases of Children.

=Meigs, Return Jonathan.= _Ct._, 1734-1823. A noted soldier in the American Revolution. Journal of Occurrences during the Expedition to Quebec.

=Meigs, Return Jonathan.= _Ky._, 1801-1891. Grand-nephew of R. J. Meigs, _supra_. A noted lawyer of Tennessee. Reports of Tennessee Supreme Court Cases; Digest of Tennessee Decisions; The Code of Tennessee.

=Meline, James Florant.= _N. Y._, 1811-1873. A New York writer, an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Two Thousand Miles on Horseback; Commercial Travelling; Mary Queen of Scots and her Latest English Historian, an attack upon Froude’s view of the subject; Life of Sixtus V. _Clke._

=Melish, John.= _S._, 1771-1822. A once noted traveller of Scottish birth. Travels in the United States, etc.; Description of the Roads, etc.; Description of the United States (1816); Necessity of Protecting Manufactures; Information for Emigrants; Statistical View of the United States.

=Mell, Patrick Hues.= _Ga._, 1811-1888. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Georgia, vice-chancellor of the University of Georgia. Baptism; Corrective Church Discipline; Parliamentary Practice; The Philosophy of Prayer; Church Polity; Predestination.

=Mellen, Grenville.= _Me._, 1799-1841. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city, whose verse was once very popular and much praised by critics, but is now forgotten. Our Chronicle of ’26, a satire; The Martyr’s Triumph, and Other Poems; The Passions; Glad Tales and Sad Tales, a collection of tales in prose; The Rest of the Nations. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Mellick, Andrew D----.= _N. J._, 1844-1895. A lawyer of Plainfield, New Jersey. The Story of an Old Farm; The Hessians in New Jersey.

=Melville, George Wallace.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Chief of the Bureau of Steam-Engineering in the United States navy from 1887. A survivor of the ill-fated “Jeannette,” of which he was engineer. In the Lena Delta, a Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his Companions. _Hou._

=Melville, Herman.= _N. Y._, 1819-1891. A novelist of New York city, for many years employed in the custom-house. His earliest writings were very popular, but had nearly passed out of remembrance before the author’s death. Typee; Omoo; White Jacket; Redburn; Mardi; Pierre; Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales; Moby Dick; The Confidence Man; Battle Pieces, a volume of verse; Clarel, a poem; John Marr and Other Sailors; Timoleon, a collection of poems. _Har._

=Mendenhall, James William.= _O._, 1844-1892. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Review from 1888. Echoes from Palestine; Plato and Paul. _Meth._

=Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin.= _O._, 1841- ----. A prominent scientist, president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1894, and author of A Century of Electricity. _Hou._

=Menken, Adah Isaacs.= _La._, 1835-1868. An actress of Jewish birth whose name originally was Dolores Adios Fuertes. She was several times married and divorced, but is known by the name of her first husband. Her verse is morbid, but still finds occasional readers. Memories; Infelicia. _See Every Saturday, September 12, 1868._ _Lip._

=Mercein, Thomas Fitz Randolph.= _N. Y._, 1825-1856. A Methodist clergyman of New York State. Natural Goodness; The Wise Master Builder; Childhood and the Church. _Meth._

=Mercer, Charles Fenton.= _Va._, 1778-1858. A congressman from Virginia, 1816-40, prominent as an opponent of slavery. The Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States was not published until 1863.

=Mercur, James.= _Pa._, 1842-1896. A scientist and army officer, professor at West Point from 1884. Elements of the Art of War; Military Mines, Blasting, and Demolitions. _Wil._

=Meriwether, Mrs. Elizabeth [Avery].= _Tn._, 1832- ----. A novelist of Memphis, Tennessee. The Master of Red Leaf; Black and White; The Ku Klux Klan; My First and Last Love.

=Meriwether, Lee.= _Mi._, 1862- ----. Son of Mrs. Meriwether, _supra_. A special agent of the United States Bureau of Labor. A Tramp Trip: how to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day; The Tramp at Home; Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean. _Har. Scr._

=Merriam, Augustus Chapman.= _N. Y._, 1843-1895. A Greek scholar, adjunct professor of Greek at Columbia College. Law Code of Gortynia in Crete; Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab; The Phæacians of Homer; Sixth and Seventh Books of Herodotus. _Har._

=Merriam, Clinton Hart.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A naturalist of note, chief of the United States Biological Survey. Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region; Mammals of the Adirondacks. _Ho._

=Merriam, Florence Augusta.= _N. Y._, 1863- ----. Sister of C. H. Merriam, _supra_. A Washington writer. A-Birding on a Bronco; My Summer in a Mormon Village; Birds Through an Opera Glass. _Hou._

=Merriam, George Spring.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A littérateur of Springfield, Massachusetts. A Living Faith; Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, _supra_; The Way of Life; The Story of William and Lucy Smith; A Symphony of the Spirit; The Chief End of Man; Reminiscences and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs. _Cent. El. Hou._

=Merrill, Ayres Phillips.= _Ms._, 1793-1873. A physician of Memphis, and subsequently of New York city. Lectures on Fevers.

=Merrill, George Perkins.= _Me._, 1854- ----. A geologist, professor in Columbian University, Washington, from 1893. Stones for Building and Decoration; Handbook of the Geological Department, Smithsonian Institution.

=Merrill, Selah.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. A Congregational clergyman and archæologist, United States consul at Jerusalem, 1882-86. East of the Jordan; Galilee in the Time of Christ; Greek Inscriptions Collected in 1875-77 East of the Jordan; The Site of Calvary. _Scr._

=Merrill, Stephen Mason.= _O._, 1825- ----. A Methodist bishop in Ohio. Christian Baptism; New Testament Idea of Hell; The Second Coming of Christ; Aspects of Christian Experience; Digest of Methodist Law; Outlines of Thought on Probation; Mary of Nazareth and Her Family. _Meth._

=Merrill, William Emory.= _Wis._, 1837- ----. A military engineer in the United States army. Iron Truss Bridges; Improvement of Tidal Rivers.

=Merriman, Mansfield.= _Ct._, 1841- ----. A civil engineer, professor at Lehigh University from 1881. Continuous Bridges; Elements of the Method of Least Squares; The Figure of the Earth; Mechanics of Materials; Treatise on Hydraulics; Text-Book on Retaining Walls and Masonry Dams; Introduction to Geodetic Surveying; Text-Book on Roofs and Bridges. _Ho._

=Merritt, Timothy.= _Ct._, 1775-1845. A Methodist clergyman and journalist. Christian Manual; Convert’s Guide; Discussion against Universal Salvation; Validity of Infant Baptism; Lectures on Universal Salvation (with W. Fiske, _supra_).

=Merwin, Elias.= _Ct._, 1825-1891. A Boston lawyer, professor of equity in Boston University from 1854. The Principles of Equity and Equity Pleading. _Hou._

=Merwin, Henry Childs.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. Son of E. Merwin, _supra_. A Boston lawyer living in Concord, Massachusetts. The Patentability of Inventions; Road, Track, and Stable, a book about Horses. _Lit._

=Messenger, Mrs. Lilian Roselle.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. In the Heart of America (verse); The Vision of Gold, and Other Poems.

=Metcalf, Richard.= _R. I._, 1829-1881. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Winchester, Massachusetts, 1866-81. Letter and Spirit; The Abiding Memory, a collection of Sermons. _A. U. A._

=Metcalf, Theron.= _Ms._, 1784-1875. A jurist of Massachusetts. Principles of the Law of Contracts; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Court Cases, 1816-1823; Reports, 1840-1849.

=Metcalfe, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. An instructor of ordnance at West Point who has published The Cost of Manufactures; Ordnance and Gunnery. _Wil._