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Mab, Ralph. The Character of a Christian, as dis- tinguished from Il3'poL'rite8 and Ilereticks : upon John viii. 31, 32, Lon., 1627, 8vo.
Maberley, Hon. Mrs. Kate C. 1. Emily ; or, The Countess of Kosendale, Lon., 1840, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 2. The Love-Match, 1841, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Melanthe; or, The Dajs of the Medici, 1843, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 4. Leontine; or, The Court of Louis XV., 1846, 3 vols. p. Svo. 6. FasbioD and its Votaries, 1848, 3 vols. p. Svo. 6. Leonora, 1866, 3 vols. cr. 8vo.
MabO) John. Mabo's Remembrances, Lon., 1583, 16mo.
Macy Theophilus. Edward the Second, a Tragedy; and other Poems, 1809.
Macabseus, or McBee, or MacAIpine^ John, a Scotchman, Prof, of Divinity in Copenhagen, where he died, 1557. Enarratio in Deuteronomium Doctoris Joh. Macchabei Alpinatus, Lon., 1563, Svo. See MaoCrie's Life of Knox ; Orme's Bibl. Bib.
MacAdam, John Loudon, 1756-1836, a native »f Scotland, celebrated for his improvements in road- making, was rewarded by a grant of £10,000 by the Eng- lish Government, and the offer of knighthood, which, in the spirit of Barzillai, he declined on account of his age, and saw conferred, in 1834, upon his son, James Nicoll MacAdam. 1. A Practical Essay on the Scientific Repair and Preservation of Public Roads, Lon., 1819. 2. Re- marks on the Present State of Road-Making, 1820. 3. Observations on Roads, 1822, Svo. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1837, Pt. 1, 101; Blackw. Mag., xiv. 473; MacCuUoch's Lit. of Polit. Econ., 1845, 199; Everett's Orations and Speeches, 1853, i. 271.
MacAfee, Robert B. Hist, of the Late War in the Western Country, Lexington, Ky., 1816, Svo.
MacAil, Robert L., an Independent minister, late of Manchester, England. 1. Discourses, Sernls., and Life by Dr. Ralph Wardlaw, Lon., 1840, 2 vols. Svo ; 1843, Svo. 2. Four Addresses to the Young, 1842, 12mo. 3. Serms. preached chiefly at Manchester, 1843, 12mo.
MacAll, Samuel, minister of Castle-Gate Meeting- House, at Nottingham. Lects. and Discourses, Lon., 1860, 12mo.
JMacAllan, Alexander. 1. The Pocket-Lawyer: a Prac. Digest of the Law of Scotland, <fec. ; 4th ed., 1840, 12mo. A good book. See 3 Jurist, 1156; S Leg. Obs., 99. 2. Erskine's Institutes, <tc. : see Ekskine, Joun.
MacAllester, Oliver. Letters rel. to a Scheme
f (rejected by France in 1769 for an Invasion upon Eng- and, Lon., 1767, 2 vols. 4to.
Macallo, J. Ninety-nine Canons or Rules in Physic, Lon., 1657, 12mo ; 1659, Svo.
Macallum, Rev. B. Remains, comprising Essays, Berms., Ac, N. York, 12mo.
Macallum, Pierre F. 1. Travels in Trinidad in 1803, Liverp., 1805, Svo. 2. Observs. on the Duke of Kent's Persecution, Lon., 1808, Svo.
Macan, Turner. Firdousee, Shah Nameh ; an Heroic Poem of the History of Persia; in Persian, with Glossary, Life, &.C., Calcut., 1829, 4 vols. r. Svo. Worth about £8. Contains an English and Persian preface, a Life of Fir- dousee, and the complete text of the Book of the Kings.
MacArther, James. Life of J. Kay, Glasg., 1810.
MacArthur, Alexander. Collegium Bengalense Carmen, <fec., 1805, 4to.
MacArthur, J. Army and Navy Gentleman's Com- fanion, Lon., 1780, 4to,
MacAithur, John, LL.D., a Scotsman. Principles Hnd Pract: -eof Naval and Military Courts-Martial, Lon., 1792, 8v ) 4th ed., 181.3, 2 vols. Svo. An excellent work.
MacArthur, John. Life of Lord Nelson: see Clarke, James Stanieb.
MacArthur, John. 1. Agricultural Catechism.
" Does the author very much credit." — Donaldson'* Ag. Biog.
2. Essay on the Roots of Plants.
■' A very valuable appendage to the physiology of plants."— UOSALDSON : vM supra.
Macartney, C. The Vow ; a Comic Opera, Svo.
Macartney, George, Earl of Macartney, 1737- 1806, a distinguished public officer, is best known to the world at large by his embassy to China, 1792-94. See Alexander, Wm. ; Anderson, ^Eneas; Barrow, Sir John ; Holmes, Samuel; Staunton, Sir George, Bart.; Croker's Boswell's Johnson : Edin. Rev., ix. 289.
Macartney, James. 1. Lumincui AnImaU: Nli. Jour., 1810, and Phil. Trans., 1810. 2. Small lutcitlBM of Birds; Phil, Trans,, 1811.
Macartney, James. Treat, on Inflammation, Lon.,
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Macartney, Rev. Wm. Trans, of Cicero de Offieiis.
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Mararton, Andron. Christian Alphabet, 1811, 8ro. Ma« aulay, Alexander. Pensions on the Irish
Establishment, Lon., 1763, Svo.
■— 'Macaulay, Alexander, M.D. Medical Dictionary for Families; 10th ed., Lon., 1851, Svo.
Macaulay, Aulay. 1. Polygraphy;or,Short-IIani made Easy, Lon., 1756, 12mo. 2. New Short-Uani, Manches., 12mo.
Macaulay, Rev. Aulay, d, 1797, minister of (he church and parish of Cardross, Dumbartonshire, educated at the University of Glasgow, was an uncle of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, the eminent his> torian, 1. Essays on various subjects of Taste and Criti- cism, Lon., 1780, Svo. 2, Hist, and Antiq. of Claybrook, Ac, Lon., 1791, Svo. 3. Peculiar Advantages of Sunday- Schools; a Serm., 1792, Svo. Other serms., Ac. An ac- count of this excellent scholar will be found in Nichols's Lit. Anec, vol. ix. See, also, Lon. Gent. Mae., June, 1816,635.
Macaulay, Catherine, 1733-1791, the youngest daughter of John Sawbridge, Esq., of Ollantigh (House) in Kent, was married in 1760 to George Macaulay, M.D., and (after his death) in 1778 to Mr. Graham. She pub. a number of political pamphlets, a Treatise on Moral Truth, 1783, Svo, Letters on Education, 1790, 4to, Ac, and the following work, by which she is best known : History of England from the Accession of James II. to that of the Brunswick Line, Lon., 1763-83, 8 vols. 4to, £6. History of England from the Revolution to the Present Time, vol. i., Bath, 1778, 4to, 15». : all that wai pub. This is called the Republican History of England ; and its partialitj' has elicited severe animadversions :
" Cumbining Roman admiration with English faction, she Ti<w lated truth in her English characters, and exaggerated romance in her Roman." — Disraeli on the Literary C/iaracUr, ed. Lou., IMU. 387.
" When any doubt is entertained of the character of Cbarlrs, Mrs. Macaulay may be referred to ; and a charge against him, if it can possibly be made out, will assuredly be found, and supported witli all the references that the most animated diligence can sup- ply."— Smyth's Lects. on Mod. Hist. Lect. XVI.
Mr. Hollis, as may be supposed, had a high esteem for Mrs. Macaulay'S/Work:
" Mrs. Macaulay's History is honestly written, and with con- siderable ability and spirit, and is full of the freest, noblest senti- ments of liberty." — Hollis's Memoirs.
Horace Walpole places Mrs. Macaulay far before Hume, and almost on a level with Robertson.
"Strafford's Letters . . . furnished materials to Harris and Macaulay ; but the first is little read at present, and the secoud not at aX\."—Hallam's Comtit. Hist, of tmg., 7th ed., Lou,, 1854, 241, n,
" Catherine, though now forgotten by an ungrateful public, made quite as much noise in her day as Thomas I Macaulay] does in ours," — J, Wilson Crok£r: Lon. Quar. Kev., Ixxxiv. 501.
See Boswell's Life of Johnson ; Wilkes's Life and Let- ters, 4 vols. 12mo ; Roberts's Life and Corresp. of Hannah More; Sparks's Washington, vols. ix. 282, x. 68, 16i»; Baldwin's Lit. Jour., vol. i. ; Lon. Month. Rev., xxzvi. 300; Lon. Gent. Mag., xl. 606, Ixi. 569, 618, and see In- dex; Brit. Crit., vol. iv. ; Blackw Mag., xxxviii. («ll | xlv. «48.1.
Macaulay, Colin Campbell, 1799-1853, a son of the Rev. Aulay Macaulay, Vicar of Rothley, contributed some valuable literary papers to the transucti< ns of tbs Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.
Macaulay, fcieorge, M.D. Papers in Med. Qbs. and Inq.,- 1755. . .
Macaulay, James, M.D. Essay on Cruelty to Ani- mals, Lon., 1839, fp, Svo.
Macaulay, John. 1. Unanimity; a Poem, Lon., 1780, 4to. 2. The Genius of Ireland ; a Masque, 178i, Svo. 3. Mor ■>dy on the Death of Lady Arabella Denny, 1792, Svo. 4 Verses on the Death of Louis XVI,, 17W, 4to. 5. Trkas. of M. de Beausobre's Hist, of the K-- formation, vol. i., 1802, Svo.
Macaulay, Kenneth, minister of Ardnamuronan, and missionary to the Islands from the Society for Pr»
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pags'ing Cbriiiti&a Enowledf^e. Hi«t of St Kilda, Ac, Lon., 1764, 8vo.
"A book which Dr. Johnson liked. ... He had said in the inomiDg that 'Macaulay'b HiBtory of St. Kilda was very well Written, except some J'opiiery about liberty and slavery.' " — Croker'it BotvxWi Lift of Johnstm, ed. Lon., 184S, r. 8ro, 229, 801 ; and see 191, 407.
Macaulay, Kenneth, Member of Council at the Colony of Sierra Leone. The Colony of Sierra Leone Tindicated from the Misrepresentations of Mr. [James] McQueen, of Glasgow, 1827. Answered by Mr. McQueen in Blackw. Mag., xxi. 61U-624, xxiii. 63-89, xxvii. 233, zxix. 194.
Macaulay, Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington, M.P., llarou Alacaulay, of Rothley, in the county of Jjeicester, b. 1800, at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, is ABonof the late eminent philanthropist, Zachary Macaulay, who died in 1838, and a grandson of the Rev. John Mac- aulay, a Presbyterian minister in the Scottish Highlands, descended from the Maeaulays of the island of Lewis, the most northern and largest of the Outer Hebrides. The subject of our notice was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he soon distinguished himself by his extraordinary facility in the acquisition of knowledge, and the tenacity of memory which enabled him to recall it at will : in 1819, he gained the Chancellor's Medal for a poem (pub. at the time) entitled Pompeii; in 1821, he gained the same Chancellor's Medal for a poem (pub. at the time) entitled Evening; and in the same year he was, as a reward for his classical proficiency, elected to the Craven Scholarship. In 1822, Mr. Macaulay gradu- ated B.A., and was elected a Fellow of Trinity; and, in 1825, he graduated M.A. On leaving college, the suc- cessful student turned his attention to law and politics, and displayed the same zeal in these new fields of re- search as that which had already given him a memo- rable name with his fellow-gownsmen. Nor was his application unrewarded with a like measure of success : called to the Bar, at Lincoln's Inn, in February, 1826, he was, about two years later, appointed by the Whig Go- vernment a Commissioner of Bankruptcy; in 1830, he became a member of Parliament in the Whig interest, representing the borough of Calne, (acting also as Secrs- tary to the Board of Control for India,) and contributed greatly by his eloquence to the triumph of the Reform Question; in December, 1832, he was returned to the first Reformed Parliament as member for Leeds, and re- tained his seat until 1834; in 1834, he was sent to India as a member of the Supreme Council of Calcutta, and re- mained abroad for two years and a half, principally em- ployed in the preparation of a Penal Code of Laws for India, pub. in 1838, but not yet put into execution ; in 1839, he became Secretary of War; in 1840, was elected member of Parliament for the city of Edinburgh ; in September, 1841, he lost these ofiices, in consequence of the accession of Sir Robert Peel; in 1846, on the return of the Whigs to office, he was appointed Paymaster-General of the Forces, with a seat in the Cabinet; in 1847, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament, in consequence of the offence which his course on the Maynooth Grant Ques- tion had given to his Edinburgh constituents; in 1849, he was elected Lord-Rector of the University of Glasgow, and gained great credit by his Inaugural Address ; in the same year he became a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn ; in 1850, he was appointed to the honorary office of Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy; in 1853, he rweived the Prussian Order of Merit; in July, 1852, he was, without any effort on his part, re-elected by the voters of Edinburgh one of their representatives in Par- liament; and, in Jan. 1856, he resigned his seat, and bade a last adieu to the troubles of political life.
" The experience of the last two years," he remarks, in his fare- well address to his con^itituentg, " has convinced me that I cannot reasonably expect to be ever again capable of performing, even in an imi>erfect manner, those duties which the public has a right to •ipect from every member of the House of Commons."
In September, 1857, Mr. Macaulay was raised to the peerage, and chose, as his new title, that of Baron Macau- lay, of Rothley, in the county of Leicester. Having thus given a rapid summary of Mr. Macaulay's political career, we are prepared to consider him in capacities in which he haa gained at lenst equal distinction, — viz.: as a po£T, sbsaVist, orator, and historian.
Macaulay as a Poet:
We have already noticed two of the most meritorious of Mr. Macaulay's poetical compositions, — viz. : Pompeii and Evening, both of which gained tlie high distinction tl the Chancellor's Medal, — the former in 1819. the latt«r
in 1521. Many of the author's early poems, written alotjt and a little subsequent to this period, were contributed to Knight's Quarterly Magazine, the pages of which were enriched with many other gems from youthful authors, some of whom, like Mr. Macaulay, though not to the same degree, have since attained merited celebrity in the Republic of Letters. Of these first-fruits of our author's poetical genius perhaps the most admired are The Battle of Ivry, The Cav.nlier's March to London, The Spanish Armada, and A Song of the Huguenots. In 1842, 8vo, Mr. Macaulay gave to the world his Lays of Ancient Rome, consisting of the spirit-stirring narrations of Ho- rati'JS Codes, The Battle of the Lake Regillus, the Death of Virginia, and The Prophecy of Capys. Of this work an exquisite ed. was pub. in 1847, fp. 4to, 21». boards; bound by Hnyday, 42«. ; with numerous Illustrations, original and from the antique, drawn on wood by Geo. Scbarf, Jr., and engraved by Samuel Williams.
The Illustrations have been engraved, with the greatest accuracy, from designs on the wood, by Mr. Scharf, partly selected from ancient monuments and the compositions of Raphael, Giulio Romano, and Mantegna, and partly original.
The original designs are about thirty in number. For these the most picturesque portions of the text have been selected for illustration, — Mr. Scharf 's object having been to embody, to the best of his ability, the vivid pictures of the poet's imagination. The illustrations selected by Mr. Scharf from the antique, and from the Italian masters, consist of Compositions, Coins, and other Monuments, which serve to illustrate and explain the text.
There were also eds. of the Lays of Ancient Rome, pub. in 1848, 8vo; 1853, p. 8vo; 1856, fp. 8vo; 1857, fp. 4to, (Scharf 's lUust. ;) with Ivry and the Armada, 1857, 16mo.
" Mr. Macaulay's ' Lays of Ancient Rome' ditfered initially from Mr. Lockhart's Spanish translations in this : — that the latter worked from the native materials, which he refined and improved, — the former simply from the general scope and spirit of ancient legenda. Taking it tor granted, according to the very probable theory of Niebuhr, that the semi-fabulous traditions of all infant nations must have existed primarily in a metrical form, he retraiisferreU some of the portions of early Roman history back into the shape which might t>e supposed to have been their original one ere his- toricised by Livy, — and this with consummate imaginative and artistic ability. He is entirely of the Homer, the (JUiiucer, and Scott school, his poetry being thoroughly that of action; and sentiment is seldom more than interjectionally introduced, — the utmost fidelity being thus shown to the essential characteristic* of that species of composition which he has so triumphantly illustrated.
"The four subjects selected by Mr. Macaulay are those of 'Ho ratius Cocles,' 'The Battle of the Lake Regillus,' 'Virginia,' and ' The I'rophecy of Capys ;' and he haw clothed them in a drapery of homely grandeur, yet at the same time with a pictureequeness of etfect, which carries us back to Homer in his wai-s of Troy and in his wanderings of Ulysses. Mr. Macaulay has evidently sedulously endeavoured to preserve a thorough distinctive nationality, not only in the materials, natural and historical, but in the very spirit of his dilfereut legends ; and he has wonderfully succeeded in this delicate, ditficult, and laborious task. In vividness of outline, in graphic breadth, and in rapidity of narrative, he approaches tlia authorof -The Lay'and 'Marmion,' — like the mighty minstrel, un- reservedly throwing himself into and identifying himself with his subject. Probably the finest — at least the most poetical — of the four legends is • The Prophecy of Capys,' which breathes the very spirit of antique simplicity, and is eacrusted with such a thick- falling shower of local allusions as to stamp it with the air of truth. ' The Battle of the Bridge' is, beyond the others, full of heroic action and energy; and ' Virginia' is touching, fixjm the very simplicity of its majestic sentiment, — so childlike and yet so noble.
" Mr. Macaulay is another of the few poets who have wrlttea too little by far. The fragment of 'The Armada' is like a Torso of HiTcules, — redolent of graphic power ; and • The Battle of Ivry,' although scarcely equal to it, is also remarkable for its masculiiie conception and disdain of petty ornament
" The following placid descriptive sketch from 'The Battle of the Lake Regillus' contrasts finely with the ancient stirring aa8oica> tions of the scene :
' Now on the place of slaughter Are cots and sheepfolds seen ;— [quotation ending with]
What time the Tliirty Cities Came forth to war with Rome.' "
—Mnir's Scetches of the Fbet. lot. qf Uu Putt HaifUMury, 1861, 297-298.
" The Roman character is highly poetical, — bold, brave, and inde- pendent; devoid of art or subtlety, full of faith and hope; devoted to the cause of dutj' as comprised in the two great points of reverence for the gods and love of country. ShnksiKjare saw its fitness for the drama; and these 'Lays of Ancient Rome' are, in their way and degree, a further illustration of the truth. Mr.
: Macaulay might have taken — and, wo trust, will yet take — wider ground; but what he has done he has done nobly, and like an antique Roman. ... It is a great merit of these potmis that they are free from ambition and exaggeration. Nothing seemi over-
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pUn that has bwn chosen. They eeeni to hare been framed with gjeat artistical skill, with much self-denial and abfltinonce from any thing incongruons, and with a very successful imitation of the effect* intended to be represented. Ypt every here and there images of beauty and expressions of feeling are thrown out that are wholly independent of Home or the Romans, and that appeal to the widest sensibilities of the human heart. In point of home- liness of thought and language there is often a boldness which none but a man conscious of great powers of writing would have yentured to show." — Frof. Wilsos: Jilackw. Mag., Dec. 1842, 808, 823 ; and in his Essays, Oril. and Imag., Edin. and Lon., 1857, iii. 396, 418.
See also Wilson's Essays, ir. 419, n.
" IliB Roman ballads (as we said in an article on their first ap- pearance) exhibit a novel idea worked out with rare felicity, so as to combine the spirit of the ancient minstrels with the regularity of construction and sweetness of versification which modern taste requires." — J. Wilson Crokbr: Lon. Quur. Rr.v., Ixxxiv. 549.
" That he was imbued with the very soul of poetry is sufficiently evinced by his 'Battle of the Lake Regillus' and his moving 'Le- gends of Rome.' " — Sir Archibald Alison : Hist, of Europe, 1815- 52, chap. V.
" Mr. Macaulay has also written Lays of Ancient Rome, and some ballads, in the same style, upon modern subjects, which are ftlll of animation and energy and have the true trumpet-ring Which stirs the soul and kindles the blood." — Oeorgk Stillman
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" The sparkle and glow of his verse always take strong hold npon the sensibility and fancy; and of all writers he is the hist who could >ye accused of tediousness."' — Gnswold's Poets ami Poetry of Eng. in the NintteerUh Cent., 4th ed., Phila., 1864, 845.
" He comprehends the manner of the ancient ballads as tho- roughly as he admires their spirit. Their garrulous minuteness, their homely pathos, their close dealings with the plainest reali- ties on the one hand, and, on the other, with the wildest ima- ginings of credulity, are all represented in his Lays. . . . We cannot leave these Roman lays without begging for a re-issue of Mr. Macaulay's earlier French and English ballads. Wherefore, too, should he not add to the number of the latter, — so well read as he is in history, so well skilled in the art of popular song? why should he not do something more for his own country and his own countrymen?" — Lon. Athen., 1842, 942-945, q. v.
See also Prescott's Hist of the Conq. of Mexico, 23d ed., Best., 1855, ii. 340, n. ; Scrymgeour's Poetry and Poets of Britain, Edin., 1850, 490; Lon. Quar. Rev., Ixxi. 453; Westm. Rev., xxxix. 105, and for Jan. 1855; Brit, and For. Rev., xv. 479; Eclec. Rev., 4th ser., xiii. 303; Blackw. Mag., Hi. 802, and vol. Ixxix., art. "Modern Light Literature: Poetry;" Eraser's Mag., xxvii. 59; South. Quar. Rev., iv. 76 ; Democrat. Rev., xxvi. 209 ; N. York Eclec. Mus., i. 204.
Lord Brougham is so well pleased with the fruits gathered by Mr. Macaulay in his classical excursions that he would fiiin have him renew his researches:
" The learned and ingenious work of Mr. Macaulay, • Lays of An- cient Rome,' well deserves to be consulted by the reader of the early Roman history. Mr. M. might render much service by undertaking a Roman history, still a great desideratum." — Pulii. Philos., l*t. 2, Lon., 1843, 100, n.
We trust that Mr. Macaulay will remember the hint when he shall have finished the History of England on which he is at pre.ient engaged.
MaCAULAV AS A.N ESSAYIST:
A number of papers of unusual excellence, pub. by Mr. Macaulay in Knight's Quarterly Magazine, preceded the celebrated essay on Milton, which introduced him to the fastidious readers of the Edinburgh Review. This bril- liant yet profound disquisition appeared in the number for August, 1825, and at once excited the interest and ad- miration of the public in no ordinary degree. It was •agerly devoured by readers of all shades of political opinion and all grades of mental culture, — from Sir James Mackintosh, who declared it to be worthy of the Kdinburgh's best days, to the ambitious school-boy, who immediately adopted it for his next nnnual recitation; from the uncompromising Tory, who praised every thing but its republican logic, to the exulting Whig, who found in it for a second time the death-warrant of the first Charles. The paper on Milton was succeeded in the Review by articles from the same able pen. many of them of equal, and some of superior, merit to that famous production. The last essay — tliut on the Earl of Chatham — appeared in the number for October, 1844, — nearly twenty years from the date of the first of the series. A collective edit. of these reviews — all that had then appeared — was pub. at Philadelphia, by Messrs. Carey & Hart, in 5 vols. 12mo, and also in 1 vol. 8vo. They were eogerly purchased, and within five years 60,000 vols, had left the publishers' Bhelves. As these vols, were imported into England in large quantities, the author felt it a duty to authorize the owners of the Review to issue an impression for the pro- tection of their own rights; and accordingly, in 1843, an edit, of the Essnys, revised by the author, was issued in 3 T<:U Though pub. in an expensive form, the demand
in Great Britain was so great that wUhln the lut hw months (we write in 1857) the 8th ed. has been put to press, 3 vols. 8vo, 36». Pocket ed., 3 vols. fp. 8vo, 21*. A number of the articles have also been ieaued separately. The London ed. contains the following articles: (we quota from the issue of 1854, 3 vols. fp. 8vo.) Vol. L: I. Milton, (Augu.^t, 1825.) IL Machiavelli, (Mnrch, 1827.) IIL Hallam's Constitutional History, (Sept. 1828.) IV. Southey's Colloquies on Society, (Jan. 1830.) V. Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems, (April, 1830.) VL Southey'i edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, (Dec. 1830.) VIL Civil Disabilities of the Jews, (Jan. 1831.) VIII. Moore's Life of Lord Byron, (June, 1831.) IX. Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, (Sept. 183L^ X. Lord Nu- gent's Memorials of Hampden, (Dec. 1831.1 XL Bur- leigh and his Times, (April, 1832.) XIL War of tb« Succession in Spain, (Jan. 1833.) XIII. Horace Walpol«» (Oct. 1833.) Vol. IL: XIV. William Pitt, Earl of Chat, ham, (Jan. 1834.) XV. Sir James Mackintoch, (July, 1835.) XVL Lord Bacon, (July, 1837.) XVIL Sir William Temple, (Oct. 1838.) XVIIL Gladstone on Church and State, (April, 1839.) XIX. Lord Clive, (Jnn. 1840.) XX. Von Ranke, (Oct. 1840.) Vol. IIL: XXL Leigh Hunt, (Jan. 1841.) XXIL Lord Holland, (July, 1841.) XXIIL Warren Hastings, (Oct. 1841.) XXIV. Frederic the Great, (April, 1842.) XXV. Madame D'Arblay, (Jan. 1843.) XX VL Life and Writ- ings of Addison, (July, 1843.) XXVIL The Earl of Chathiira, (Oct. 1844.) The Philadelphia ed. (we quoU from that of 1849, r. 8vo) contains all the preceding, and the following additional papers : I. On Dryden, (E. R., 1828.) IL History, (E. R., 1828.) IIL Dumont's Rocol- lections of Mirabeau, (B. R., 1832.) IV. Cowley and Milton. V. On Mitford's History of Greece. VI. On the Athenian Orators. VII. Barfire's Memoirs, (E. R., April, 1844.) VIII. Mill's Essay on Government, (E. R., March, 1829.) IX. Bentham's Defence of Mill, (June, 1829.)
X. Utilitarian Theory of Government, (E. R., Oct. 1829.)
XI. Charles Churchill. It is denied that this last-named is properly attributed to Mr. Macaulay; nor can we vouch for the authenticity of all the others. The vol. from which thi.s list is taken contains also The Lays of Ancient Rome, An ed. of the Essays was pub. in New York, 1854, 5 vols. 12mo; and in Boston, 1854, 1 vol. 8vo. W« have referred to the admiration expressed by Sir Janiea Mackintosh of the paper on Milton: this eminent critia did not scruple, at a later day, to eulogize the author in tha most flattering terms :
" The admirable writer whose language has occasioned this ilhi» tration, who at an early age lias mastered everj' si)ecie8 of compoei- tion, will doubtle.ss hold fast to simpliiity, which survives all tha fashions of deviation from it, and which a man of a genius so fertile has few temptations to forsake." Bee Blackw. Mag., xxviii. 587.
Sir Archibald Alison, after a review of the literary characteristics of Lord Jeffrey, Sir James Mackintosh, and Sydney Smith, continues :
" Much as these very eminent meu differ from each other, Mr. Macaulay is, perhaps, still more clearly distinguished from either. Both his turn of mind and style of writing are peculiar, and exhibit a combination rarely if ever before witnessed in English, or even in modern, literature. Unlike Lord .Teffrey. he is deeply learned in ancient and modern lore; his mind is richly stored with the poetry and history both of classical and Continental literature. Unlike Mackintosh, he is eminently dramatic and pictorial ; he alternately speaks poetry to the soul and pictures to the eye. Unlike Sidney Smith, he has omitted subjects of party contention and paasingt interest, and grappled with the great ciuestioiis, tlie immortai names, which will forever attract the interest and command tha attention of man. Milton, Bacon, Machiavelli, first awakened hU- discriminating and critical taste ; Clive, Warren Hastings, Fredenck the Great, called forth his dramatic and historic powers. He har treated of the Reformation and the Catholic reaction in his review of Ranke ; of the splendid despotism of the Popedom in that Of Hildebrand; of the French Revolution in that of Barire. There is no danger of his essays being forgotten, like many of those of Addison ; nor of pompous uniformity of style being complained' of, as in most of those of Johnson. His learning is pr-diglons; and perhaps the chief defects of bis composition arise from tba exuberant riches of the stores from which they are drawn. When warmed in his subject, he is thoroughly in earnest, and his lan- guage, in consequence, goes direct to the heart. In many of I'ii- writings— and especially the first volume of his history, and hia essay on the Reformation— there are reflections, equally Jnst and original, which never were surpassed in the philosophy of history. That he is imbued with the soul of poetry need bo told to none who have rcHd his Battle of the Lake Regillus ; that he Is a great biograj pher will be disputed by none who are acquainted with the 8pl.-ndid biographies of Clive and Hastings, by much the finest production* of the kind in the English language.
" Macaulay's style, like other original things, nas already pnv duced a school of imitators. Its influence may distinctly be traced both in the periodic.il and daily literature of the day. Its great characteristic is the shortness of the sentences.— which often eqnala that of Tacitus himself,— and tlio r<»pidtty w '.S wb^h nrtw an I ii»
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to its felicitous use mucli of tlie celebrity wliich lie has acq is to be ascribed. There is no doubt that it is a most powerful engine for the stirring of the mind, and, when not repeated too often or cjirried too fiir. has a surprising effect. Its introduction forms an era in our historical composition. It reminds us of Sallust and Tacitus."— £iMay», 1850, iii. 036-637; originally pub. in Blackw. Uag., AjirU, 1849.
See also Alison's Hist, of Europe, 1815-1852, chap. v. ; his Essays, 1850, ii. 420, iii. 118.
•'[Lord John Russell] praised Macaulay's late articles in the Edinburgh, and agreed with me in lamenting that his great powers should not bo concentrated npon one great work, instead of being scattered tlius in Sibyls' leaves,— inspired indeed, but still only leaves. I did not express the thought quite in this way ; but inch was my meaning." — Moore's Diary, June, 1839; Memoirs, «&;., Lon., 1866, vii. 268.
" Rogers directed my attention to the passage in his last Edin- burgh article, where he describes Warren Hastings's trial and the remarkable assemblage of persons and circumstances which it brought together. Agreed perfectly with R. as to the over-gor- geousnuss of tliis part of tiio article. But the whole produces great effect, and is everywhere the subject of conversation." — Ibid., Dec. 1841 ; Metmiirs, tCv., 304-305. See also vol. vi., Pref , xv.
■' His criticfU essays exhibit a wide variety of knowledge, with a great fertility of illustration, and enough of the salt of pleasantry and sarcasm to flavour, and in some degree disgtiise, a somewhat declamatory and pretentious dogmatism." — J. Wilson Crokeb: Lon. Quar. Hev., Ixxxiv. 549.
"These essays are remarkable for their brilliant rhetorical power, their splendid tone of coloring, and their affluence of illus- tration. With a wide range of residing, and the most docile and re- tentive memory, ho pours over his theme all the treasures of a richly- ■tored mind, and sheds light upon it from all quarters. He excels In the delineation of historical characters, and in the art of carry- ing his reader into a distant period and reproducing the past with the distinctness of the present. He is also an admirable literary critic, though sometimes his praise and censure might be distri- buted with somewhat more of discrimination and qualiUcation. And the obvious criticism which his writings call forth is founded npon their exuberance of power, and their too uniform splendor of style. The mind would sometimes be refreshed if passages of a calmer, soberer tone were here and there interspersed, on which the highly-wrought powers of attention might repose themselves. Hot does he always resist the temptation to produce effect by a ■light touch of caricature." — George Stillman Hillard.
See also Poe's Literati ; Lewes's Biog. Hist, of Philos., 2d ed., 1857; The Life of Bacon ; Henry Reed's Lects. on Eng. Lit., Phila., 1855, 58; Allan Cunningham's Biog. and Crit. Hist, of the Lit. of the Last Fifty Years, 1833 ; Men of the Tijne, Lon., 1853 ; Lyall's Agonistes, or Phi- los. Strictures, Lon., 1856, 55, 74, 118, 140; Blackw. Mag., XTii. 468, xxii. 406, xxvii. 679, (Noctes Ambros., April, 1830,) XXX. 411, (Noctes Ambros., Aug. 1831 ;) Fraser's Mag., i. 584; Maginn's Fraserian Papers, N. York, 1857, 112-120; Tuckerman's Characteristics of Lit., 2d series; Amer. Whig Rev., ix. 499, (by Rev. H. N. Hudson ;) Princ. Rev., xii. 431; Chris. Rev., v. 450; South. Lit. Mess., xiv. 476; Knick., xxxiii. 508 ; New Englander, vii. 288, (by Rev. Leonard Bacon;) N.York Eclec. Mag., vii. 394, xiii. 35, (by Geo. Gilfillan ;) N. Amer. Rev., Ixi. 481, (by .E. P. Whipple.) To the last-named gentleman — Mr. Whipple, of Boston — we are indebted for one of the ablest •criticisms on Mr, Macaulay's characteristics as an essayist which has been given to the world. The article to which we refer, and of which Mr. Macaulay himself expressed .great admiraiion, was originally pub. in the Boston Mis- .cellany for February, 1843, and has been reprinted in the Jst vol. of Whipple's Essays and Reviews, (Boston, 1852, 2 Tols. 12mo.) We must make room for a brief extract :
"If Macaulay thus obtains popularity in quarters where it is ;f«nerally denied to thinkers and monopolized by the last new Dovel, he is not the less calculated to win golden opinions from •readers of judgment and reflection. Behind the external sliow and ^Uttering vesture of his thoughts — beneath all his pomp of diction, aptness of illustration, splendor of imagery, and epigrammatic point and glare — a careful eye can easily discern the movement of a powerful and cultivated intellect, as it successively appears in the well-trained logician, the discriminating critic, the comprehensive thinker, the practical and far-sighted statesman, and the student of universal knowledge. Perhaps the extent of Macaulay's range jver the field of literature and science, and the boldness of his generalizations, are the most striking qualities he displays. The %mount of his knowledge surprises even lK)ok-worms, memory- mongers, and other literary cormorants. It comprises all litera- tures, and all departments of learning and literature. It touches Scarron on one side and Plato on the other. He seems master of every subject of human interest, and of many more subjects which only he (an make interesting. He can battle theologians with Weapons 'Irawn from antique armories unknown to themselves; jting pcdints with his wit, and then overthrow them with a pro- J'usion of trivial and recondite learning; oppose statesmen on the practical and theoreticivl questions of political science; browljeat
which never Ijefore was U8e<l 'o convey so much vigor and reach of thought and so large and neavy a load of information."— Pp. 16, 1«.
Macaulat AS AN Orator :
In 1853, Mr. J. S. Redfield, of New York, pub. a col- lection of Mr. Macaulay's Speeches, in 2 vols. 12mo. la 1853, Mr. H. Vizetelly, of London, pub. Macaulay'i Speeches, [nearly one hundred,] Parliamentary and Mis- cellaneous, in 2 vols. 8vo. These unauthorized issues led to an ed. of his Speeches, pub. by Longman, corrected by the author, 1854, 8vo, and Speeches on Parliamentory Reform in 1831-32, corrected by himself, 1854, 16mo. Mr. Macaulay had not been long in Parliament before ho secured a reputation which he ever afterwards main- tained,— that of one of the most eloquent and instructiv* speakers who had ever sat in the English Commons. Sir James Mackintosh writes, as early as March 8, 1831, (Macaulay had taken his seat but a few months before,) " Macaulay and Stanley made two of the finest speeches ever spoken in Parliament." See Mackintosh's Life: Letter to Miss Allen.
" It is hard to say," remarks Sir Archibald Alison. " whcthef his poetry, his speeches in Parliament, or his more brilliant essays, are the most charming : each hivs raised him to very great eminence, and would be sutticient to constitute the reputation of any ordi- nary man. That he was qualified to have taken a very high place in oratory is proved by many of his speeches in the House of Com- mons,— particulai-ly those on the Reform Bill." — Hist, of England, 1816-1862, chap. v.
" That these Speeches should be equally popular with the Essays or the History of the same great writer was hardly to be ex- pected ; that they deserve to be so we have no manner of doubt in the world. . . . For ourselves, we have been equally delighted with the manner and the matter of these speeches. They are wonderful, not merely as compositions, but as specimens of true deliberative eloquence; and equally admirable for the just, and often deep, practical political philosophy with which they are everywhere imbued. ... If we examine these speeches of Mr. Macaulay, not simply by some abstract canons of ideal perfection in oratorical style, (which scarcely any man has exemplified,) but by a due deference to the variable limits imposed by the variable sti-ucture of different minds, — limits within which the conditions of that style may be adequately complied with, — we must again profess our surprise at the degree in which many of these speeches fulfil those conditions. We have no scruple in saying that they will in that respect sustain comparison with any speeches with which the whole range of British oratory has supplied us. . . . Burke often managed to empty the House: Mr. Macaulay, if it be known that he is likely to speak, never fmls to fill it. If the benches be empty when he begins, no sooner is it known that he is speaking than numbers flock in and hang on his accents with breathless attention. Certainly, he does not want the testimonies to signal eloquence enumerated by Cicero : — ' Coronam multiplicem, judicium erectum, crebras assensiones, multas admirationes.' " — £din. Rev., c. 490-534, Oct. 1854: review of Vie ed. of Speeches corrected by himself, Lon., 1S54, 8vo.
" The popular voice places Mr. Macaulay in the very first rank of contemporary speakers. Those who are prepared to admit a dis- tinction between the most distinguished and successful of un- trained speakers and the confessed orators include him, without hesitation, in the latter class. If they form their judgment merely from reading his speeches as rei)orted in the papers, certainly they have ample ground for presuming that he must be a man of no ordinary eloquence ; for he scarcely ever rises but to pour a floc<<l of light upon the subject under discussion, which he handles with a masterly skill that brings out all the available points and sets them off with such a grace of illustration, such a depth and readi- ness of historical knowledge, a-s are equalled by no other living orator. . . . When it gets wlnspercd about that Mr. Macanlay is likely to speak on a particular question, the intelligence acts like a talisman on the members. Those who may not take sufficient interest ih the current business to be present in the house may be seen hovering in its precincts, in the lobbies, in the library, or at Bellamy's, lest they should be out of the way at the right moment and so lose a great intellectual treat; and it is no sooner known that the cause of all tliis interest has actually begun to speak than the house becomes, as if by magic, as much crowded as when the leader for the time-being is on his legs." — Fraser's Magazine, xxxiii. 77 ; Contemporary Orators : The Rigid Hon. I. B. Maeavlay.
See also Blackw. Mag., x.xix. 140, 662; xxx. 396, 410, (Noctes Ambros., Aug. 1831.) Macaulay AS a Historian:
Many thousands, doubtless, of the admirers of the im passioned poet, the brilliant essayist, and the eloquent orntor, had long shared in the regret of Lord John Russell and Tom Moore {uhi svpra) that Macaulay's " great powers should not be concentrated upon one great work, instead of being scattered in Sibyls' leaves." Great, therefore, was the satisfaction at the announce- ment recorded by Moore in his Diary, Dec. 1841, t»
political economists on their own vantage-ground; be apparently I years and a half subsequent to the entry from which wa nrtoiious in matters of pure reason in an argument with reason- have just quoted ' WAS
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' " Mai im »y, another of the gueets, and I, stayed for some time. He ia a most wonderful man ; and I r^oice to learn that the world may expect from him a History of Kngland, taken up, 1 believe, where llume leaves off." — Moore's Memoirs, dx^ Lon., 1856, vii. 304.
Never, perhaps, was a work more anxiously, more im- patiently, expected by the public than Macaulay's History of England, from the first announcement of its intended preparation to the day (Dec. 17, 1855) which witnessed the publication of the third and fourth volumes. Mr. Macaulay, however, was too conscientious a historian, and too sensible of the value of his extended literary reputation, to permit himself to be hurried to the press. Truncated Whitelockes, and second-hand authorities, were not permitted to mislead ; the ease of the lounger's sofa possessed no charms, and the forbidding piles of the State-Paper OflBce no terrors, to one to whom criticism was a luxury and labour a necessity. See our Life of David Hume, p. 916 of this Dictionary. At length, in 1849, appeared the first and second volumes of " The History of England, from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living." The success of these vols, was great and immediate :
" We pay Mr. Macaulay no compliment, but only record his good fortune, when we say that these two volumes are the most popu- lar historical work that ever issued from the English press. Within six months this book has run through five editions, — in- volving an issue of above 18,000 copies ; and, on the other side the Atlantic, our enterprising and economical brothers of America have, we hear, reproduced it in forms which appear infinite in number and infinitesimal in price. For the best rewards of authorship he, therefore, has not been doomed, like many illus- trious predecessors, to await the slow verdict of his own or the tardy Justice of a succeeding generation. Fame has absolutely trodden on his heels. As widely as our language has travelled — super et Garamantas et Indos — these volumes have already spread the reputation and opinions of their author." — EAin. Hev., xc. 249, July, 1849.
The 8th ed. was pub. in 1852, 2 vols. Svo; and, by Jan. 1856, the sale of vols. i. and ii. had reached nearly 40,000 copies. In the United States, the sale of vols. i. and ii., in five years, (1849-54,) amounted to no less than 125,000 copies; and this number may now (1857) be considerably increased. A new ed. of vols, i.-iv., to be
Sub. in 7 vols. p. 8vo, has been recently (1857) announced, [r. Macaulay's volumes had hardly got fairly before the world when they were attacked with much asperity by the Rt. Hon. J. Wilson Croker, in the London Quarterly Eeview for March, 1849, 548-630. It is said that Mr. Croker's critical perceptions were sharpened in this case by Mr. Macaulay's strictures (Edin. Rev., Sept 1831) on his edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, and that he revenged on the historian the offence of the essayist; but on this subject we have no right to express an opinion. In justice to Mr. Macaulay, we could say no less than we have done on this theme; in justice to Mr. Croker, we can say no more. We give some brief extracts from Mr. Croker's critique :
" It may seem too epigrammatic — but it is, in our serious judg- ment, strictly true — to say that his History seems to be a kind of vmbination and exaggeration of the peculiarities of all his former efforts. It is as full of political prejudice and partisan advocacy as any of his parliamentary speeches. It makes th# facts of English History as fabulous as his Lays do those of Komau tradition ; and it is written with as captious, as dogmatical, and as cynical a spirit as the bitterest of liis reviews. That upon so serious an undertaking he has lavished uncommon exertion is not to be doubted, nor can any one, during the first reading, escape the tiitrainement of his picturesque, vivid, and pregnant execution; but we have fairly stated the impression left on ourselves by a more calm and leisurely perusal. . . . Mr. Macaulay's historical narration is poisoned with a rancour more violent than even the passions of the time; and the literary qualities of the work, though in some respects very remarkable, are far from redeeming its substantial defects. There is hardly a page — we speak lite- rally, hardly a page — that does not contain something objection- abU either in substance or in colour; and the whole of tlie bril- liant and at first captivating narrative is perceived, on examina- tion, to be impregnated Ui a really marvellous degree with bad taste, bad feeling, and — we are under the painful necessity of add- ing— bad taith. . . . Mr. Macaulay's pages, whatever may be their other characteristics, are as copious a repertorium of vituperative nloquence as, we believe, our language can produce, and especially ^amst every thing in which he chooses (whether right or wrong) to recognise the shibboleth of Toryism. . . . We premise that we are about to enter into details, because there is, in fact, little to question or debate about but details. We have already hinted that there is absolutely no new fact of any consequence, and, «'e think we can safely add, hardly a new view of any historical fact, in the whole book. Whatever there may remain questionable oi debatable in the history of the period, we should have to argue with Burnet, Dalryniple, or Mackintosh, and not with Mr. Macau- lay. . . . Our first complaint is of a comparatively small and almost mechanical, and yet very real, defect, — the paucity and irregularity of his dates, and the mode in which the few that he do28 give are overlaid, as it were, by the text. . . . Our second eompliint is one of the least important, perhaps, but most prominent,
defects of Mr. Macaulay's book,— his style,— not merely the choka and order of nords, commonly called stylo, but the turn of iniii^ which prompts the choice of exprcssiouH as well an of topic*. . . , We must next notice the way in which Mr. Macaulay relera to and uses his authorities,— no trivial points in the execution of a his- torical work, — thrugh we shall begin with comparatively *mfH matters. . . . But, we are sorry to eay, we have a heavier eoa»> plaint against Mr. Macaulay. We accuse him of a habitual aa4 really iivjurious perversion of his authorities. This anfurtanato indulgence— in whatever juvenile levity it may liave originated, and through whatever steps it may have grown into an aucoiy scious habit — seems to us to pervade the whole work, from Alpli*
to Omega, from Procopius to Mackintosh We must here ob*«rve
that one strong mark of his liistorical impaitiality is to call uof thing bigoted, intolerant, shameless, cniel, by tlie comprebecMiva title of Tory. . . . We are ready to admit, a hundred time* crwc, Mr. Macaulay's literary powers, — brilliant even under the affects tion with which he too frequently disfigures them. He is a great painter, but a suspicious narrator; a grand proficient in the piiv turesque, but a very poor professor of the historic. These volume* have been, and his future volumes as they appear will be, de- voured with the same eagerness that Otivtr Twist or Vanity Fair excite, with the same quality of zest, though perhaps with a higher degree of it ; but his pages will seldom, we think, receive a second perusal ; and the work, we apprehend, will hardly find a permanent place on the historical shelf, nor ever, assuredly, — if coiy tinued in the spirit of the first two volumes, — be quoted as authority ou any question or point of the History of England."
But this reviewer was himself reviewed in the Edin« burgh Quarterly for July, 1849, in the concluding portion of an eulogistic notice of Mr. Macaulay's History :
"Such is this great national work, — as our countrymen har* already pronounce<l it to be. The loud, clear voice of impartial Fame has sounded her award ; and it will stand, without appeal, aa long as Englishmen regard their past history and love the Con- stitution of which he tells. From one quarter only — and that a quarter of which we expected, and which perhaps wished for it- self, better things — has the melancholy wailing of disappointeil jealousy been heard. The public naturally looked with interest for the notice of Mr. Macaulay's History in the Quarterly Ke- view. The notice had not long appeared, when it was observed, with equal wit and truth, that the writer of it, in attempting murder, had committed suicide. We have doubted whether we should add a word in illustration of a judgment in which the public has shown, through almost all its representatives, that it cordially agrees. . . . That a journal of deserved name and reputa- tion should announce of these volumes propositions so openly con- tradictor3' as that on the one hand their author has produced no new facts and discovered no new materials, and that on the other he has made the facts of English history 'as fabulous as hia Lays do those of Roman tradition,' betrays, it is true, some rank- ling wound behind. ... It was a great mistake to assail this work on the score of accuracy. Its author was the last man likely ta be caught tripping on that head."— ^m. Bev., xc. 281-282, 290.
Sir Archibald Alison, whilst not hesitating to condema the historian when he thought condemnation deserved, yet rebukes the too common fault of petty criticism, — exaggeration of the importance of trifling slips of the pen:
" We shall not, in treating of the merits of this very remarkable production, adopt the not-uncommon practice of reviewers on such occasions. We shall not pretend to be better informed on the de- tails of the subject than the author. We shall not set up the reading of a few weeks or months against the study of half a Ufe- time. . . . We shall leave such minute and Lilliputian criticiaDM to the minute and Lilliputian minds by whom alone they are evw made. Mr. Macaulay can afford to smile at all reviewers who affect to possess more than his own gigantic stores of information."
Sir Archibald then proceeds to a temperate discussion of several of the points involved in Mr. Macaulay's his- tory, concluding with —
"It is this partial and one-sided exposition of the truth, accom panied by a general exaggerated style of composition, more than positive inaccuracy, that we complain of in Mr. Macaulay. It ia this statement of the facts on both sides which, amidst all onr ad- miration of his genius, we often desiderate in his entrancing pagi-e; and nothing but the adoption of it, and taking his seat on the Bench instead of the Bar of History, is required to render Ua noble work as weighty as it is able, and as influential in 'or^€ the opinion of future ages as it unquestionably will be TOCceaafol in interesting the present."— BtaciuiootT* J/a^., April, 1849 ; and in his Essays, Edin. and Ix.ii., 1850, iii. 62S-674.
See also his Hist, of Europe, 1815-1852, chap. v. For other reviews and notices of the first and second volumei of Macaulay's History of England, see Tuckerman's Cha- racteristics of Literature, First Series, Phila., 1849, 171- 192 ; Edin. Rev., Ixxxix. 462 ; N. Brit. Rev., x. 197 ; Eclec. Rev., 4th ser., xxv. 1 ; Fraser's Mag., xxxix. 1 ; Lon. Gent. Mag., 1849, Ft 1, 338; N. Amer. Rev., Ixviiu 611, (by Francis Bowen;) Mass. Quar. Rev., n. 32? Princeton Rev., xxii. 101 ; South. Quar. Rev., xv. 374 Brownson's Quar. Rev., 2d sen, iii. 274; Bost Chr* Exam., xlvi. 253, (by G. E. Ellis;) Democrat. Rev., xxir 205; N. York Church Rev., ii- 1, (by J. Williams;) ». York Eclec. Mag., xvi, 405, 600; Bost. Liv. Age, xx. 298, (from the Lon. Spectator,) 408, ffrom the Lon. txa- miner.) Particular portions of Mr. Macaulay's History have been criticized by different cri'.ics : Wm. "eP^^'llJ Dixon and Samuel M. Janney (see pp. 606 and 9M ef this Dictionary) have defended the sharacter cf W illiav
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PeoD B igb Mill«r and others have espoosed the eanse •f the jcotch ; Dr. Lingard (see Lon. Quar. Rev., Ixxxix. 269, u.) that of the Roman Catholic Church ; and Churchill Babington (see Edin. Rev., xc. 287, n.) con- tends for a higher status for the clergy of the seventeenth century than Mr. Maeaulay will allow them. Other cri- ticisms upon various points discussed in the history have appeared in the columns of the Athenaeum, the Times, ftud other journals of the day.
From the date of the publication of the first and second volumes of Mr. Macaulay's History, the public were •nxionsly awaiting, month after month, year after year, the appearance of the continuation of this fascinating production ; but the tedious term of Jacob's servitude •lapsed before the eager expectants were gratified. Dec. 17, 1855, will long be remembered in the annals of Pater- noster Row. The publishers had promised the third and fourth volumes of the History on that day ; and, as the first edition of the first and second volumes had consisted of 6000 copies only, it was presumed that 25,000 would be amply sufficient to meet the public demand. But this enormous pile of books — weighing no less than fifty-six tons — was exhausted the first day, and eleven thousand disappointed applicants remained unsatisfied, to envy the happy possessors and to insist upon a new impression being immediately put to press. The delighted publishers apologized for the disappointment, and asked for another month's time to fill the unsupplicd order.s. But this de- mand, extraordinary as it was, was greatly surpassed in America. One publishing-house in New York sold 73,000 vols, in ten days, (three difierent styles and prices,) and 25,000 more were immediately issued in Philadelphia. 10,000 copies were stereotyped, printed, and in the hands of the publishers, within fifty working-hours, (more than one hundred compositors being employed on the enter- prise ;) and editions were pub. in Boston, and probably in other cities of the United States. We presume that the aggregate sale in England and America within the first four weeks from the date of publication considerably exceeded 150,000 copies. On the continent of Europe, editions of the History were pub. in Dutch, (issued by H. C. 8. Ery, at the Hague, 4th Part pub. Sept 1856,) and in Hungarian, trans, by M. Auton Szengery. As regards the division of time in the four volumes of the History, vol. i. closes with an account of the occurrences of the autumn of 1685 ; in the concluding chapter of vol. ii. we find William and Mary seated on the English throne; vol. iii. comprises the history of events in 1689, '90, and '91; aiid vol. iv. terminates with the Peace of Ryswick in 1697. It is stated that for vols. i. and ii. Messrs. Longman agreed to ollow the author £600 per annum for the privilege of publication for ten years, the copy- right remnining the property of Mr. Maeaulay, and that the copynght of vols. iii. and iv. was purchased by the tame house for £16,000. We do not vouch for the cor- rectness of these figures, but presume that they represent the truth.
Whether Mr. Mncaulay will be able to carry his history down to so recent a point as he originally designed — "the memoiy of men yet living" — is now a matter of some doubt in the public mind ; but it is to be remem- bered that by far the greater part of the historian's task is now accomplished : the history of England from the Peace of Ryswick to the close of the American War pre- sents but few points which require extended examination and minute investigation. We trust that Mr. Maeaulay will live to carry his narration down to 1789, the starting- point of Sir Archibald Alison's History. We shall then have an uninterrupted narrative, in the histories of Hume, Maeaulay, and Alison, extending over a period of 1907 years, viz. : B.C. 55-a.d. 1852.
We must not conclude without some brief citations of jpinions on the merits of volumes iii. and iv. of Mr. Macaulay's History. A lively interest was felt before the appearance of these volumes to see in what manner the historian would treat the great events which brought about the Revolution of 1688, and the measures of almost equal importance which immediately followed the settlement which secured the English throne to William and Mary and their Protestant successors. Whatever may be thoaght of the political animus of the author, there can be but one question as regards his admirable facility in condensation, his power of graphic portraiture, and the lofty eloquence of his rhetoric. We have heard Mr. Ban- oroft, the Americon historian, himself long skilled in ■tate-paper research, express his astonishment at the *Mkrvellous manner in which Mr. Maeaulay has condensed 1160
volumes of matter in the comparatively few (kassagos of which his last two volumes are composed. But to out quotations :
"Wo conclude, as we commenced, In unfeigned admiration of th« power, wisdom, and success of this ^eat national work; of the comprehensive philosophy of its plan, and the rare felicity of its execution. The height at which it aims is ambitious; but ill. Maeaulay has reached it. and will hand down his name to future times indissolubly linked with that free constitution the history of which he has done so much to illustrate. Let those who wish to study the genius of British liberty learn by the li'^ht of these volumes, inibil>e their spirit, and be roused by their noble fervour to thoughts and deeds worthy of freemen. As long as she is ani- mated by such patriotism and imbued with such principles, we may angur the best for the future of our country, and for the dynasty established by William, under which she has risen to such freedom and such greatness." — Edin. Jiev.. Jan. 1857.
" Mr. Msicaulay's peculiar qualifications for the great task he haa undertaken are well known. Probably no man of our days enjoj* so wonderful a memory, or possesses snch extensive and varijd knowledge. In science we do not suppose he is much of a prcA« cient, but over the field of literature his reign is universal. History, especially that of England, haa always been his &vourite study, and he has devoted to the volumes already published many years of indefatigable toil. Every page bears testimony to a degree of conscientious and minute research which no historian has ever sur- passed, and which only Orote, Gibbon, and Ilallam, in this country, have ever approached." — North Britiih Rev., May, 1856.
*' With the rest of the world we come with our homage to Mr. Maeaulay. Steady, strong, and uniform, the stream of his thought continues to flow ; and, without effort, or with no outward sign of it, he keeps his place as the first living writer of Knglish prose. There is no occasion for ns to quote from Mr. Macanlay, to criticise or to praise him. Our readers long ago have made their own quota- tions, selected their favourite passages, have read again and again every pagii of his history ; and the universal approbation of the world has at once dispensed with the necessity of panegyric, and made censure impossible, except to those who are ambitious of A foolish sinp ularity. On wliatever side we looli at this iwok. wheth*/ the style of it or the matter of it, it is alike astonishing. The style is faultlessly luminous; every word is in its right place; every sentence is exquisitely balanced ; the current never flags. Homer, according to the Roman poet, may be sometimes languid; Mr. Maeaulay is always bright, sparkling, attractive." — Wtstmimter Rev., April, 1856.
Some of Mr. Macaulay's reviewers are far less entha* siastic than the three just quoted :
"Everybody reads — everybody admires — but nobody believee in — Mr. Maeaulay. This, which is perhaps the most brilliant of all histories, seems about the least reliable of any. We have not encountered a single courageous individual, among the mnltitudi of its admirers, bold enough to avouch for it ; yet no one reads 1* m eagerly because it is difficult to find any one who has genuine faith in what he reads." — Blackw. Mag., Aug. 1856 ; and see the number for Sept. 1856.
We quote another comment :
" The PrincipU upon which Mi: Maeaulay torote. his History.
"Mr. Urban: — In reading Macaulay's Essays the other day, I came across a passage in wliich the author lays down the princi- ples on which, in his opinion, history ought to be written. It may, perhaps, have some interest for your readers, as being, in some sort, a defence to the charges which many reviewers have not scrupled to bring against the historian of James and William, of giving a false colouring to events. Speaking of Machiavelli'e History, he says, —
" ' The history does not appear to be the fruit of mnch industry or research. It is unquestionably inaccurate. But it is elegant, lively, and picturesque, beyond any other in the Italian language. The reader, we believe, carries away from it a more Wvid and a more faithful impression of the national character and manners than from more correct accounts. The truth is, that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature. It is in tlie style not of Davila and Clarendon, but of Herodotus and Tacitus. The classical histories may almost be calle<l romances founded in fact. The relation is. no doubt, in all its principal points, strictly true. But the numerous little incidents which heighten the in- terest, the words, the gestures, the looks, are evidently furnished by the imagination of the author. The fashion of Inter times is difl"erent. A more exact narrative is given by the writer. It may be doubted whether more exact notions may be conveyed to the reader. The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the beet histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of flo titious narrative is Judiciously employed. Something is lost ia accuracy, but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected, but the great characteristic features are imprintel on the mind forever.' — Estay on Machiatelli, March, 1827, Euay*. vol. i. p. 110.
" I remain, sir, yours obediently,
" F. J V " —Lnn. Gent. Mag., June, 1857, 708.
Certainly no one can question our fairness lb regard! a faithful exhibition of both sides of opinions on thia popular wriUsr.
See also Oxford and Cambridge Mag., March, 1856. 173; Lon. Athjnaeum, 1855, 1489-1524; Index to Lon. Notes and Queries, vols, i.-xii.. First Series ; and Index to voL xiii. Other notices of Mr. Mncaulay and his literary pro- ductions will be found in Gilfillan's Galleries of Literary Portraifa, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 ; Henry Reed's Lects. on Eng. Lit., 107; Eraser's Mag., xl. 171; Lon. Gent. Mag., March, 1838, 322; South. Lit Mess., xiv. 476; New Englande^
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M.". Macaulay has lately contributed to the 8th ed. of the Eiioyclopedia Britannica, now (1857) passing through the press, Lives of Dr. Samuel Johnson, of Oliver Goldsmith, of Bishop Atterbury, and of John Bunyan. These have been reprinted in America. Messrs. Appleton, of New York, also pub., in 1867, Biographical and Historical Sketches by T. B. Macaulay, consisting of the four bio- graphical articles just noticed, and eighty-three selections from the History of England.
With a memory so retentive, stores of information so multifarious, and a vocabulary more copious than is gene- rally given to the sons of men, it may well be supposed that the essayist, orator, poet, and historian possesses Bubstantial claims to distinction as a brilliant, instructive, and interesting conversationist. Such, indeed, is the fact. Tom Moore again and again expresses his astonishment at Macaulay's Vfonderful powers, e.g.:
" Dined at Lansdowne Hoube. . . . Sat between Macaulay and Rogers. Of Macaulay's range of knowledge any thing may be believed, so wonderful is his memory." — Diary, Aug. 2d, 1840: Memoirs, dc., vii. 280.
" Went to Bowood to dinner. . . . Macaulay wonderful : never, perhaps, was there combined so much talent with so niarvellous a memory. To attempt to record his convorsatiou, one must be as wonderfully gifted with memory as himself." — Diary, Oct. 2lst, 1846 : Memoirs, dx.. vii. 283.
" Macaulay, another of the guests, and I stayed for some time. He is a most wondoiful man.' — Diary, Dtc. \bth and \Wi : Me- moirs, dc., vii. 304. (Quoted previously in another connexion.)
'' Breakfasted this morning with Milnes, to meet the American Minister, Uallani, Macaulay, Ac. &c. Macaulay opened for us quite a new character of his marvellous memory, wjiicli astonished ns as much as it amused me; and that was his acquaintance with the old Irish slang ballads, such as 'The Night before Larry was Stretched,' Ac. &c., many of which he repeated as ghbly as / could in my boyhood. He certainly obeys most wonderfully Eloisa's Injunction, 'Do all things hvA forgtt.' " — Diary, March \%th, 1842: Memoirs, dc., vii. 314-315.
But perhaps no one of these interviews delighted Moore to greatly as the one next to be noticed, the account of which will remind the reader of the literary dinner at Foote's, when Dr. Johnson electrified tho eulogizing translator of Demosthenes with the blunt declaration, " That speech I wrote in a garret in Exeter Street." But to Moore's narrative :
"Went (Lord John and I together, in a hackney-coach) to breakfast with Rogers. The party, besides ourselves, Macaulay, Luttrell, and Campbell. Macaulay gave us an account of the Monolhelite controversy, as revived at present among some of the fanatics of the day. In the course of conversation Campbell quoted a line, 'Ye diners-out, from whom we guard our spoons,' and, looking over at me, said, significantly, ' i'nu ought to know that line.' 1 pleaded not guilty. Upon which he said, 'It is a poem that appeared in The Times, which every one attributes to you ;' but I again declared that I did not even remember it. Mac- aulay then broke silence, and said, to our general surprise, 'That is mine.' On which we all expressed a wish to have it recalled to our memories, and he repeated the whole of it. I then remembered having been much struck with it at the time, and said that there was another squib, still better, on the subject of William Bankes's candidateship for Cambridge, which so amused me when it ap-
r tared, and showed "uch power in that style of composition, that wrote up to Barnes about it, and advised him by all means to seciu-e that hand as an ally. ' That was mine also,' said Macaulay ; thus discovering to us a new power, in addition to that varied store of talent which we had already known him to possess. He Is certainly one of the most remarkable men of the day." — June 26, 1831 : 'Memoirs, dv., vi. 213-214.
We have ourselves listened with great interest to Mr. Washington Irving's graphic description of the historical arguments (not " wit-combats") between Hallam and Macaulay. Mr. Irving assured us that Macaulay could ■ quote with as much facility from the volume and page of t'ha authorities which he referred to as if they were imme- diately under his eye.
Among the many honours conferred upon our author, not the least was his election, together with Mr. Prescott, November 30, 1852, to membership of the Koyal Irish Academy. These gentlemen were elected to fill the vacar.sies in the department of polite 8cholar.--hip (which numbers only fifteen) caused by the death of Moore and Wordsworth.
"Macaulay," observed the secretary on that occasion, " the his- torian, the critic, the poet, the philosopher, — however individuals may find fault with his history, dissent from his criticism, censure his poems, or dispute his philosophy, — must still be regarded as one of the foremost literary men in the world."
The late Sydney Smith also bears testimony to Macau- lay's wide range of knowledge and conversational fluency, and — far higher commendation — to his patriotism and lolitical honesty: •'la) vays prophesied his greatness, from the fiift moment I
from India. His enemies might have laid before (Uivui^ / iMvor did go) that he talked rather too much ; but now be >««« "rr-ihnial flaslieo of silence that make his conversation perfiectty deliclitftiL But what is far better and more iniportaut than all tbi« b, that I believe Macaulay to be Incorruptible. You mlKllt l«y ribbon*, stars, garters, wealth, title, before him In vain. He Tiu an buneat, gen\iine love of his country ; and the world could nut brllw htm to neglect her interests."
Macaulay, Zachary, 1759-1888, an eminent mer. chant, and still more eminent as a zealous } bilantbropist, father of the preceding, for forty years fcught by tba side of William Wilberforce in promotion of the Britiib Anti-Slavery movement. He pab. Letter to U.R.U. tho Duke of Oloucester, Lon., 1815, 8vo; a tract on Eaat and West India Sugar, 1823, 8vo, <tc. See Wilberforca'i Life and Correspondence; Lon. Gent Mag., March, 1888, 323, Dec. 1838, 678; Index to Blackw. Mag., vols. L-L A monument to this excellent man waa erected by his friends in Westminster Abbey : his 8o> , the historian of England, has already erected a monumbnt for bimaelf.
Macauley, Miss £. W., d. 1837, aged 52, an actreaa and poetess. 1. Effusions of Fan -y, Lon., p. 8vo. 2. Mary Stunrt ; an Historical Poem, 8vo. 3. Tales of tba Drama, 1822, 12mo. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1837, Pt. 2, 9«. Alacauley, James. The Natural, Statistical, and Civil Hist, of the State of New York, N. York, 1829, 3 vols. 8vo.
" A heavy work, yet may be consulted for facta.*' — Paiamaitt RiNQ, of Columbia College.
Macausland, Richard. 1. Indians of N. America,
Phil. Trans., 1786. 2. Tartar Emetic; Med. Com., 1787.
Macauslaud, Robert, M.D. 1. Barometer, Ac,
Edin., 1789, Svo. 2. Falls of Niagara; Trans. Auier. Soo.,
iii. 17.
MacBane, Donald. Expert Swordman's Com- panion, Glasg., 1728, 8vo.
MacBean, Alexander. 1. Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Lon., 1773, 8vo: Preface written by Dr. Samuel Johnson.
" Tell Catherine to take Macbean's Ancient Geography ont of the book-case in your room and send it to me.' — Tmn, Uoarit Memoirs, dc., Lon., 18&3, i. 94.
2. Dictionary of the Bible, 1779, 8to. " A useful book in its day, but now completely superseded by later works." — Home's Bibl. Bib.
Kecommended by Bii^hop Tomline. MacBean, Wm. Gunnery, Lon., 1743, 8vo. MacBeth, Rev. John. The Sabbath, 1822, 12mo. MacBeth, Wm. 1. On Wines, Ac, Lon,, 1794, 8to. 2. Paper in Med. Com., 1795.
MacBride, David, M.D., 1726-1778, pub. some medi- cal works, of which the be.«t-known is Introduc. to the Theory and Practice of Physic, Lon., 1772, 4to; DubL, 1776. 2 vols. 8vo; in Latin, Utrecht, 1774, 2 vols. 8to. See Rees's Cyc.
MacBride, James, M.D., 1784-1817, a native of AVilliamsburg district. South Carolina, educated at Yala College, practised medicine at Pineville, S.C. He wa* the author of many botanical papers, and contributed to Dr. Stephen Elliott's Sketch of the Botany of S. Carolina and Georgia, Charleston, S.C. 1821-24, 2 vols. 8vo.
MacBride, John David, D.C.L., Principal of Mag. dalene Hall. 1. Diatessaron ; or. The Hist of our Lord Jesus Christ, compiled from the Four Gospels, Oxf., 183'', 8vo. Anon. 2. Lects. Explanatory of No. 1, 1835, 8to| 4th ed., 1854, 2 vols. 8vo. See Home's Bibl. Bib., 183», 138. 3. Leets. on the Articles of the United Church tf England and Ireland, 1853, 8vo.
MacCabe, William Bernard. 1. A CathoH* Hist, of Ireland, 3 vols. 8vo: i., 1848; ii., 1849; iii., 1855. See commendations in Lon. Notes and Queries, vol. xi. 518. 2. Bertha; a Romance, 1861, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Florine, Princess of Burgundy, 12mo. 4. Adelaide, Queen of Italy; a Tale, 1856, 12mo.
MacCaghwell, Hugh, Latin Cavellns, 1571- 1626, titular primate of Armagh, wrote commentaries on, and a defence of. Duns Scofus's Works, Ac., which were in substance incorporated in Luke Wnding's ed. of Dun> Scotus's Works, Lyons, 1639, 12 vols. fol. See Ware'a Ireland, by Harris.
MacCall, Hugh, Miyor, U. S. Army, d. nt Savannah, Georgia, 1824, aged 57. Hift of Georgia, Savannah, 2 vols. 8vo: vol. i., 1811; ii., ISK
"McCall's History has its merits. Lu. the at tlior labourwl nwW disadvantages, and his materials weie scant/." ''•"' "'■«•
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MacCall, John C. 1. The Tronbadonr, and other Voems. Phila., 1822, 12mo. 2. Fleurette, and other Ahymos. 1828, 18mo, pp. 61.
MacCall, Peter, a distinguished member of the Bar, and late Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, has contributed some fugitive productions to the literature of the day. See The Philadelphia Book, 1836, 298.
Maccall, William, was bom in 1812, at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland. He entered the University of Glas- gow at an early age, where he remained six years. He subsequently studied for two years at the Academy of Geneva. For a long time he has been a resident in Lon- don or the neighbourhood, chiefly occupied as a writer for periodicals. He has contributed numerous biographi- cal and other articles to the Gentleman's Magazine, the longest and most elaborate being on Ulrich Von Hutten and on LeibnitE. To The Critic he has sent many papers and reviews, generally employing the signature "Atticus." Besides tracts and pamphlets, he has published the follow- ing works: 1. The Agents of Civilization, Lon., 1843, 12mo. 2. The Education of Taste, 1846, fp. Svo. 3. The Elements of Individualism, 1847, p. 8vo. 4. National Missions, 1855. These works are chiefly designed by the author to expound and propagate a doctrine to which he has given the name of Individualism. See Lon. Critic; Manchester Examiner.
MacCalla, Daniel, D.D., 1748-1809, a native of Neshaminy, Pennsylvania, graduated at Princeton, New Jersey, 1766; taught school in Philadelphia; was ordained pastor of the churches of New Providence and Charleston, Penna., 1 774 ; subsequently was the minister of the Congre- gational Church at Wappetaw, S. Carolina, for twenty-one years. He pub. a Sermon at the Ordination of James Adams. His Sermons and Essays, with an Account of his Life, were pub. by Mr. Hollingshead, 1810, 2 vols.
MacCalla, W. L* Adventures in Texas, chiefly in 1840, Phila., 18mo.
MacCann, W. Two Thousand Miles' Ride through the Argentine Provinces, 1863, 2 vols. p. Svo.
MacCarmock, Capt. Wm. Further Impartial Account of the Inniskillen Men, Lon., 1691, 4to.
MacCartee, Mrs. Jessie G., formerly Miss Be- thnne, a sister of the Rev. George W. Bethune, D.D., and the wife of the Rev. Dr. MacCartee, minister of the Reformed Dutch Church in Goshen, Orange county, New York, has pub. a number of poems in periodicals, which have been highly commended. See Griswold's Female Poets of America, 2d ed., Phila., 1853, 131; May's Ame- rican Female Poets, Phila., 1854, 151.
MacCarthy, Charlotte. 1. Justice and Reason ; a Treatise. Lon., 1768, 8vo. 2. The Fair Moralist.
MacCarthy, Denis Florence. 1. Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, Original and Translated, Dubl., 1850, 16mo.
2. Dramas of Calderon; from the Spanish, 1853, 2 vols.
3. The Bell-Founder, and other Poems; new ed. 1857, fp. Svo. 4. Underglimpses, and other Poems, 1867, fp. 8vo. Other publications. See Irish Quar. Rev., iv. 259 ; Lon. Athenaeum, Aug. 1, 1857, 961.
MacCartney. 1. His Defence, Lon., 1712, Svo. 2. Duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun, 1713, 4to.
MacCartney, Washington. 1. Difierential and Integral Calculus, Phila. 2. Origin and Progress of the U. States, 1847, 12rao.
MacCarty, Thaddeus, d. 1785, aged 63, minister of Worcester, Mass., pub. six occasional serms., 1747, '59, •68, '70, '95.
MacCaskie, Rev. James. The Withered Leaf: a Discourse on Isaiah Ixiv. 4, Phila., 1865, Svo.
MacCaul, Alexander, D.D., Prof, of Divinity, Ring's Coll., London, and Preb. of St. Paul's, formerly nissionary of the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, aas pub. Sketches of Judaism and the Jews, Lon., 1838, Svo, and other theolog. works, 1831-50. See Darling's Cyc. Bibl., vol. i. 1902.
MacChesney) W. R., of Louisville, Kentucky. Discourse delivered at Louisville, Ky., before the First English Lutheran Church, exhibiting a Concise View of the Doctrines, Practices, and Government of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, 1843, pp. 13.
MacCheyne, Robert Murray, 1813-1843, a native of Edinburgh, entered the University of Edinburgh, 1827 ; ordained minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee, 1836. He was an exemplary character and a most zealous divine. 1. In conjunction with Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, Narrative of a Mission of Enquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839: 2d ed., 1842, 2 vols. p. 8vo US9
2. Remains [Serms., Letters, Ac] of Rev. R. M. Mao- Cheyne, with a Memoir by Rev. A. A. Bonar, 24th 1000, 1848, 12rao; new ed., 185.3, 12m'). 3. Additional Re- mains, 1846, 12mo; 1853, 12mo, 4. Basket of Fragments ; 2d ed., 1847, 12mo; 4th ed., 1854, 12mo. 5. Select Pieces from his Works, 1847, 32mo, 6. Familiar Letters, edited by his Father, 1848, p. 8vo ; 2d ed., 1851, p. Svo. Th« Works of the late Rev. R. M. MacCheyne, complete, N, York, 1847, 2 vols. r. Svo. See Bonar's Memoir; Cham> bers and Thomson's Biog. Diet, of Eminent Scotsmen, 1865, V.389 ; Bost. Chris. Rev., xiii. 518, (by S. F. Smith j) N. York Method. Quar. Rev., vii. 689, (by G. Peck.)
"The tenderness of his conscience, the truthfulness of hil chararter, his deadness to the world, his deep humility and exalted devotion, liis consuming love to Christ, and the painful solicitnd* with which he eyed every thing affecting his honour, the fidelity with which he denied himself and told others of their faults or dangers, his meekness in bearing wrong, and his unwearied In- dustry in doing good, the mildness which tempered liis unyielding firmness, and the jealousy for the Lord of Hosts which commanded but did not supplant the yearnings of a most affectionate heart, rendered hira altogether one of the loveliest specimens of the Spirit'! workmanship." — Rev. James Hamilton, nf London.
MacCleland,T. 1. Reportof CasesinCt. of Excheq., Ac, Lon., 1825, Svo. 2. With E. Younge, ReporU of Cases in Equity, Ac, 1827, Svo.
MacClellan, George, M.D., 1796-1847, a native of Woodstock, Conn., graduated at Yale College, 1816; re- ceived the degree of M.D. from the University of Penn- sylvania, 1819; was one of the founders of the Jefierson Medical College, 1825, and of the Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839, (both these institutions being located in Philadelphia;) and was Professor of Surgery in Jefferson Medical College. He was a frequent contributor, especi- ally in the early part of his career, to the medical jour- nals, and was the author of a work, pub. after his death, on The Principles and Practice of Surgery, Phila., Svo. See Ebekle, J., M.D. ; Blake's Biog. Diet., 13th ed., 1856, 829.
MacClellan, George B. Manual of the Bayonet Exercise ; prepared for the Army of the United States, Phila., 12mo.
MacClelland, George. Predestination, Ac, 1848.
Macclesfield, Rt. Hon. George, Earl of. Solar and Lunar Years, Ac; Phil. Trans., 1750.
MacClintOck, John, D.D., b. in Philadelphia, 1814; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1S35; ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Churchy 1837; Prof, of Mathematics in Dickinson College, Car- lisle, Penna., 1837; Professor of Greek and Latin in same institution, 1840 ; editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, 1848-56. This eminent scholar has pub. a trans, of Neander's Life of Christ, 1846 ; a work on the Temporal Power of the Pope, 1865, 12mo; an Analysis of Watson's Theological Institutes, ISmo ; edited, with additions, the American ed. of the English version of Bungener's Hist, of the Council of Trent, 1855, 12mo; and given to the world, in conjunction with Mr. Crooks, a series of Greek and Latin school-books.
MacClintock, Samuel, D.D., 1732-1804, minister of Greenland, New Hampshire, pub. a number of serms., Ac, 1769-1800. See Piscat. Evangel. Mag., i. 9-12; Bost. Chris. Exam., xliv. 404, (by A. P. Peabody.)
MacClung, John A. Sketches of Western Adven- ture, Phila., 1832, 12mo : Cine, 1865, 12mo.
MacClure. Ultra Universalism, Bost
MacClure, David, D.D., d. 1820, aged 71, a native of Brookfield, Mass., graduated at Yale College, 1769; minister of North Hampton, New Hampshire, 1776-85; minister of East Windsor, Conn., 1786. He pub. three separate Serms., 1784-90 ; with Dr. Pari-jh, Memoirs of E. Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College, 1810, Svo; XXIV. Serms. on the Moral Law, 1818, Svo; an Account of Windsor, Conn., in the Histor. Collec, v.
MacClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier* Knt, Chaplain R. N., b. at Wexford, Ireland, 1807, received the honour of knighthood and a reward of £5000 for his discovery of the North-West Passage, which has been an object of search for three centuries. See the Discovery of the North-West Passage by H. M. S. Investigator, Capt R. MacClure, 1850-54; edited by Capt S'herard Osborn, C.B., (author of Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal,) from the Logs and Journals of Capt. Robert Le M. MacClure, Lon., 1856, Svo; 2d ed., with addits., 1857, Svo. See notice of this work in Lon. Lite- rary Gazette; Saturday Review; Lon. Athenaeum, 1866, 1301; Westm. Rev., Jan. 1867. See also Men of the Time, Lon., 1866, 513-520; N. Amer. Rev., Isxx .WO- 332 : The Arctic Search.
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* M e feel certain that among the numerous rolnmes lescriptire of Aictic enterprise, wliich have Bwolled the proportions of a library, noj > will rank higher, or bo more generally read, than that now published." — Lon. Atherueum, 1866, 1301.
MacClurg, James, M.D., 1747-1823, a native of Hampton, Virj^inia, was educated at the College of Willinm and Mary, Williamsburg, subsequently studied medicine at Edinburgh and Paris, and practised at Williamsburg, 1772-83, and at Richmond, 1783-1823. He gained great reputation by his inaugural essay,— De Galore,— an Essay on the Human Bile, pub. in London, and a discourse on Reasoning in Medicine, pub. in the Philadelphia (Dr. Chapman's) Journal of the Medical Phys. Sciences. The Belles of Williamsburg, a series of poetical " characters," were principally from his pen. See his life, by John W, Francis, M.D., of New York, in Thaeher's Amer. Med. Biog., 379-383 ; Prof. George Tucker's Discourse on Amer. Lit., Dec. 19, 1837.
MacCombie, Thomas. 1. Essays on Civilization, Lon., 8vo. 2. Arabin; or, The Adventures of a Colonist In N. S. Wales, 1845, 12mo.
MacCombie, WiUiam. 1. The Christian Church. 2. Moral Agency, Lon., 1842, fp. 8vo. 3. Hours of Thought, 1839, r. ISrao. " Worthy of one of the first essayists of the age."— Dr. ChaIt
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4. Use and Abuse ; or. Right and Wrong in relation to Labour, Capital, Machinery, and Land, 1852, 12mo. 6. Beauties of Modern Sacred Poetry, Aberd., 1853, 12mo.
MacConnel, John L., b. in Illinois, 1826, practises law at Jacksonville, in his native State. 1. Talbot and Vernon, N.York, 1850, 12mo. 2. Graham; or. Youth ajid Manhood, 1850, 12mo. .3. The Glenns : a Family History, 1851, 12mo. 4. Western Characters, 1853, 12mo. Mr. MacConnel is at present (1857) engaged upon a con- tinuation of his Western Characters, and has also in course of preparation a History of Early Explorations in Ame- rica, in which the labours of the first Roman Catholic missionaries will be particularly noticed.
MacConner, Dermot. Letter to the King of Spain, Lon., 1642, 4to.
MacConochie, Rev. James. 1. Writer of the Fourth Gospel, 1803, 8vo. 2. National Defence, 1813, 8vo
MacCord, David J., 1797-1855, an eminent lawyer of Columbia, South Carolina, of which State he was a native, contributed a number of papers on politics, politi- cal economy, <fec. to the Southern Review and De Bow's Review. In connexion with Col. Blnnding, he pub. one vol. of the South Carolina Law Journal. 1. Reports of Cases determined in the Constit. Ct. of S. Carolina, 1821- 28, Columbia, 1822-30, 4 vols. 8vo. 2. Chancery Cases in Ct. of Appeals of S. Carolina, Phila., 1827-29, 2 vols 8vo
3. With Thomas Cooper, M.D., The Statutes at Large of ft. Carolina, 1682-1840, Columbia, 1836-41, 10 vols! 8vo.
4. With Henry Junius Nott, Reports of Cases in Constit. Ct. of S. Carolina, 1817-20; 2d ed., Charleston, 1842, 2 vo^ 8vo. See Duyckinck's Cye. of Amer. Lit., ii. 249.
MacCord, Louisa S., widow of the preceding, (to whom she was married in 1840,) and a daughter of the late Langdon Cheves, was b. in South Carolina, December, 1810, and is a resident of Columbia, in that State. 1 My Dreams, Phila., 1848, 12mo. This is a vol. of poems. 2. Sophisms of the Protective Policy; from the French of F. Bastiat, N. York, 1848, 12mo. 3. Caius Gracchus; a Tragedy, 1851, 12mo. Mrs. MacCord has contributed many papers— principally on subjects of political economy —to the Southern Quarterly Review. De Bow's Review, »nd the Southern Literary Messenger. Both her poetical and prose productions have been commended. See Duyc- kinck's Cyc. of Amer. Lit. ; Hart's Female Prose Writers of America; Read's Female Poets of America; May's American Female Poets.
MacCord, W. J. ]. Salvation, Lon., 1847, 12mo. 2. Grace Reigning : Life, <fec. of B. H. Conklin, 32mo.
MacCorkle, William. See Elv, Ezra Styles, D.D.; Home's Bibl. Bib., 1839, 86.
MacCormac, Henry, M.D., Consulting Physician to the Belfast General Hospital, and Prof, of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Royal Belfast Institution. 1. Stammering, and its Cure, Lon., 1828, p. 8vo. 2. Con-
ic"o"-r®^o^^^'®'"' ^®^^' ^^°- ^- Philosophy of Human Nature, 1837, 8vo.
"One greit merit of this book is its extraordinary lucidity of expression." — Lon. Atlas.
4. Methodus Medendi, 1842, 8vo.
"Full and elaborate on the nature, origin, and characteristics of disorders."— Zon. Spectator.
6. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 4c. ; trans, from the Greek, 1844, 12mo.
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MacCormack, Samuel. 1. A View of the But* of Parties in America. Anon. 2. Comparative View of the British and American Constitutions, Edin., 1817. Sto^ Anon. '
" "This pamphlet is not well calculated for cirrulation • It U » t much too heavy. It is considerably heavier thi,n the authofi former production."— B/arA^w. Mag., I. 414, q v u >«" •
MacCormick, Charles, 1744-18o'7, of the Middl* Temple, a native of Ireland. 1. Secret Hiit. of Charlet XL 2. Reign of George IIL to 1783. 3. Continuation of Rapin's Hist, of England. 4. Night Reading for Leisure Hours. 6. Life of Edmund Burke, 1797, 4to. , " A disgraceful piece of party virulence."— Zowncfc*'* BiU. jfan,
MacCormick, Joseph, D.D., minister at Preston- pans. State Papers and Letters addressed to William Carstares, Confidential Secretary to King William, Ac, Lon., 1774, 4to. See Carstares's Life, prefixed to State Papers; Biog. Brit.; Swifr's Works, ed. 1801, xviii. 238- Laing's Hist, of Scotland; Chalmers's Biog. Diet '
MacCormick, Richard C, Jr., of New York. A Visit to the Camp before Sevastopol, N. York, 1855, 12mo. See N. Amer. Rev., Oct. 1855, 458 ; Putnam's Mae.. Sept 1855, 320. 6» "l"-
MacCormick, Capt. Thomas. The Rambler of Fortune; or, Sketches of the Early Part of a Military Life. 1803, 8vo. ' '
MacCosh, James, LL.D., Prof, of Logic and Mathe- matics in Queen's College, Belfast. 1. The Method of the Divine Government, Physical and Moral, Edin., 1850, 8to; 5th ed., revised, Lon., 1856, 8vo.
" A work of pre-eminent merit. He has by a single stride secnred for himself a position in literature such aa few ever reached by a first publication." — North British Review.
•' Of all kindred works, this i» the one which is most likely to
allure the careless thinker, while it instructs the attentive." N.
Turk Prot. Epis. Quar. Mev., Jan. 1856, 127.
" Dr. McCosh eiyoys in this country a distinguished reputation His work on the Method of the Divine Government is generally regarded as one of the first boolisof the age."— Dr. Charles Hodge, of PnneHon.
2. With George Dickie, M.D., Prof, of Natural History in the Queen's University in Ireland, Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation, 1856, p. 8vo ; 3d ed., 1857, cr. 8vo.
" It would be valuable as a mere book of science in one of its most recondite departments, even if its higher logical purpose were absent." — N. York Evangelist.
This work should be perused after reading Bntler'f Analogy, and with the works of Cuvier and Owen.
" If the generalizations of Butler are wider in their scope, we think it must be admitted that those of McCosh and Dickie ai« even more exact In point of science, and therefore. In the modern phases of popular infidelity, likely to prove the more cogent and unanswerable."
But Butler is altogether unanswerable.
MacCoy, Isaac. 1. Remarks on the Practicability of Indian Reform, embracing their Colonization, Boat, 1828, 8vo. 2. Hist, of the Baptist Indian Missions, with Remarks on the Condition of the Aboriginal Tribes, Washington, D.C., 1840, 8vo.
MacCracken, J. L. H., a merchant of the city of New York, d. 1853, at Sierra Leone, Africa, aged about 40, contributed a number of papers to the Democratio Review, the American Monthly, the Knickerbocker .Maga- zine, Ac. His principal composition was a comedj' in five acts, illustrative of life in New York, entitled Earning a Living, pub. in the Democratic Review in 1849. See Duyckinck's Cyc. of Amer. Lit., ii. 592.
MacCreery, John. The Press ; a Poem, Liverp., 1803, r. 4to, in two. parts, Lon., 1829, cr. 8to. Thie beautiful volume, ornamented with wood-engraviEgs, waa pub. as a specimen of typography. Those who feel inte- rested in the history of typography should consult T. P. Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron, Bibliomania, Biblio- phobia, Bibliotheca Spenceriana, Cassano Catalogue, Tour in France and Germany, Tour in the Northern Counties of England, Ac, his Library Companion, and especially his new edition of Ames's an! Herbert's TyT)ographJcal
Antiquities of Great Britain.
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MacCiie, Alex inder. Vindication of the Cove- gnritcrs; 4th ed., Lcn., 1845, 12mo.
MacCrie, Thomas, D.D.. 1772-1835, a native of Dunse, Scutland, educated at the University of Edinburgh; officiated for ten years as minister to a congregation at Kdinlmrgh ; connected with the General Associate or Anti- burgher Synod; separated from this body in 1806, and joined Mr. Bruce and others in founding the Constitu- tional Associate Presbytery; in 1817, succeeded Mr. Bruce as Divinity Professor at Whitburn, and held that chair till 1827. 1. The Life of Johp Knox; containing Illus- trations of the Hist, of the Reformation in Scotland, with Biographical Notes of the Principal Reformers, and Sketches of the Progress of Literature in Scotland during the Fifteenth Century, Edin., 1812, 8vo. This excellent work and the various eds. of it have been already noticed in our life of John Knox, p. 1044 of this Dictionary, q.v. ; see also Blackw. Mag., xxvi. 490. 2. The Life of Andrew Melville, containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary Hist, of Scotland during the latter part of the Sixteenth and beginning of the Seventeenth Century, 1819, 2 vols. 8vo. The author was wont to say that this work had cost him " a hundred times more labour than the life of Knox." The life of Melville is, as he observes, a con- tinuation of the latter work with respect to the ecclesi- astical history of Scotland.
" The book falls but little below its learned author's Life of Knox WitL regard to its capability of yielding pleasui'e and profit." — JJlackw. Mag., xvi. 251-262.
" I lay the book down with regret, and with the utmost admira- tl(>n for the talents of the author." — Mr. WiutU^t Diary, in Blackw. Mag., vi. 688.
" His Life of Knox and his Life of Melville most undoubtedly find places in every well-chosen collection of Scottish literature." —Dibdin's Lib. Comp., ed. 1825, 281.
3. Two Discourses on the Unity of the Church, Ac, 1821. 4. Memoirs of Mr. Wm. Veitch and George Bry- 8on, written by themselves ; with other Narratives illus- trative of the Hist, of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, Edin., 1826, Svo. Edited by Dr. MacCrie. b. Hist, of the Progress and Suppression of the Reforma- tion in Italy in the Sixteenth Century, Ac, 1827, 8vo, Trans, into French, German and Dutch, and inserted by the ecclesiastical tribunal of Rome in the Index Expui-ya- toriut.
"Has thrown a collected light npon a subject interesting and little familiar." — HuUam's Lit. Bitt. of Europe, 4th ed., Lon., 1854, L 366, n.
Reviewed in Lon. Qunr. Rev., xxxvii. 50-84, (by R. Bouthey ?) and in N. Amer. Rev., xliv. 153-178, (by G. W. Greene.) See also Noctes Ambros., May, 1830; Blackw. Mag., xxvii. 807.
6. Hist, of the Progress and Suppression of the Reforma- tion in Spain in the Sixteenth Century, 1829, Svo. A ■equel to No. 4.
" McCiio's History of the Reformation in Italy, and History of the Reformation in ifpain. have never been superseded, and remain the very best account we possess of the protest made against Romisli corruption by the races of the South, — a protest not less ardent, but unhappily less persistent, than that of the phlegmatic North. McCrie belongs to tlie higher class of writers to whose earnestness, thoroughness, and genuine research we turn for re- lief from the superficial, second-hand showiness of books written from a transient impulse in order to supply only a transient need." — Westminster Rev., Jan. 1857.
See Brit. Crit., vii. 343; Blackw. Mag., xxvii. 807.
7. Serms., 1836, 8vo; Posth.
"They unite all his wonted energy with novelty of thought, itrength of imagination, and richness, and even fervour and passion, 9f language. The ' Thief ou the Cross' has been called, by a com- petent judge, the finest sermon in the English language." — GilfU- Xan'i First Gallery of Literary Portraits, 3d ed., Edin., 1851, 147.
No competent judge could assert of any sermon that it was " the finest in the English language." All that he eonld safely say of any sermon would be that it pleased \im better than any other which he happened to recollect ftt that moment. Let us avoid extravagance.
8. Lects. on the Book of Esther, 1838, 12mo.
"A lucid and energetic exposition of that fine romantic fragment <f Jewi-ih history."-— GliFn,LA.N : uhi tupra, q. v.
9. Miscellaneous Writings, edited by his son, 1841, Svo, Dr. MacCrie also pub. some controversial, theological,
Aud political tracts, 1797-1817; contributed the Lives of Vfickliffe, Huss, Jerome of Prague, Be7.a, Rivet, Patrick Hamilton, Francis Lambert, Bugenhagen, Alexander Hen- derson, and other articles, to the Christian Magazine, 1802 -06 ; and a review of Old Mortality in the first three num- bers of the Christion Instructor for 1817. In this review be defended the Covenanters so vigorously against Scott, that the latter was driven to a vindication of his novel which appeared (Tales of my Landlord) in the London QiMrt rly Review, xvi. 430-480. At the time of his death
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"Dr. MacCrie, the well-known author of the Lives of Knox aid of Melville, whose curiosity in whatever concerns tiie history of this country is forever active and indefatigable, and whose di» tinguished intelligence and sagacity are united to the most liberal and communicative spirit." — J'ref. (p. vl)to Sir G. Mackenzie's M^ moirs of the Affairs of Scotland, Edin., 1821, 4to.
AlacCrie, Thomas, Jr., D.D., LL.D., son of tha
preceding. 1. Life of Thomas MacCrie, D.D., Edin., 1840, Svo.
'• We do not know that we ever perused any modem production from which we derived more delight and instruction than from tfa* one before us." — Edin. Presbyterian Pev.
'• The volimie exhibits in a high degree all the charms of biogn^ phiail composition, being natural, fivithful, and elaborate." — Glas- gow Constitutional.
2. Sketches of Scottish Church History, 1841, 12mo; 2d ed., 1843, fp. Svo. 3. The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal ; a new Trans., with Historical Introduc. and Notes, 1846, 12mo; M ed., 1848, 12mo. Gibbon tells u« in his Memoirs that it was from Pascal's Provincial Let- ters, which he perused almost every year, that he learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony.
" Molifere's best comedies do not excel them in wit, nor the com- positions of Bossuet in sublimity." — Voltaire.
Voltaire narrates of Bossuet that he said be coveted most being the author of the Provincial Letters. D'Agues- seau doubts whether the Philippics of Demosthenes or Cicero offer any thing more forcible or more perfect.
" Breakfasted at Rogei-s's, to meet Macaulay. Talking of Pascal'! 'Lettres Provinciales,' Macaulay said it was almost the only book one could get never tired of." — Tom Moore's Diary: Memoirs, Lon., 1856, vol. vi. 240.
" Pascal was a prodigy. His Pens6es are wonderfully profound and acute." — Sir James Mackintosh : Conversations with Alexander H. Everett : N. Amer. Rev., xxxv. 449.
" His philosophic glances are wonderful. The summary of argu* ments for skepticism and dogmatism, especially the latter, is per- haps the best in ancient or modern pliilosophy. The last contains in a single page the whole system of Dr. Reid'; and it is but little to add that it contains in the first sentence (' L'unique fort des Doginatistes c'est, qu'en parlant de bonne foi, on ne pent douter de« principes naturels ;'] the whole book of Dr. Beattie." — Sir James Mackintosh's Diary, July 19, 1808 ; in his Life, vol. ii.
See also articles on Pascal indicated in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, N. York, 1853, 217. Bayle calli Pascal '* I'un des plus sublimes esprits du monde."
4. Lects. on Christian Baptism, 1850, fp. Svo.
MacCrindell, Miss R. 1. The School-Girl in France; a Narrative, Lon.. 1840, 12mo; 4th ed., 1851, 12mo. 2. The English Governess, 1843, 12mo; 2d ed.,
1847, 12mo. 3. The Convent; a Narrative founded on Fact, 1847, 12mo; 4th ed., 1853, 12mo. See Lon. Athen.,
1848, 110.
MacCringer, Joel, D.D. A Compendious Treat of Modern Education, Lon., 1804, fol.
MacCuUagh, James, 1809-1847, a native of Lough* lindhuhussey, county of Tyrone, Ireland, educated at Trinity College, Dublin; obtained a scholarship in 1827} was elected a Fellow in 1832 ; was appointed Professor of Mathematics in 1835, and of Natural Philosophy in 1843. He contributed many valuable papers to the Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1830-42, on Refracted Light, Laws of Cry*- talline Reflexion, Refraction, Ac. See Lon. Gent Mag., 1848, Pt. 1, 92-94. At the time of his early death (h« committed suicide in a fit of derangement resulting from dyspepsia) Professor MacCuUagh had won a position in the first rank of the natural philosophers of Europe.
MacCuUagh, William Torrens, M.P., b. 1813, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, called to tha Bar in 1836, and entered Parliament for Dundalk, 1847. 1. The Use and Study of History, Dubl., 1841, Svo; Lon., 1842, Svo; 2d ed.. 1846, Svo.
" Very eloquent ; full of useful suggestions, although too brief." — De Veriour's Oiridian Civilization, 484.
" A work of remarkable eloquence and power. It is the fiuit of much reflection. I'y a highly thoughtful and accomplished mind, upon materials drawn from extensive reading and observation."— ion. M. Clinmicle. May 21, 1842.
2. The Industrial History of Free Nations, 1846. 2 vol*
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MacCulloch, J. M. 1. First Reading Book, Lon. 2. Second do. 3. Third do.; 8th ed., 1844, 18mo. 4. Course of Elementary Reading in Science and Literature; 12th ed., 1844, l2mo. 6. Key to do. ; last ed., 1864, 12mo. 6. Series of Lessons in Prose and Verse; lasted., 1849, 12mo. 7. Prefixes and Affixes. 8. English Pro- nuuciation and Spelling. 9. English Grammar, with Exercises, ISmo. 10. Literary Characteristics of Scrip- tn$; lasted., 1853, 12mo.
AlacCuIloch, John, M.D., 177.3-1835, a native of Guernsey, educated at the University of Edinburgh, re- moved to Blackheath, London, 1807, and practised as a {>hy8ician ; engaged in the Government Surveys in Scot- and about 1811 ; and from 1826 to 1832 was employed in the Mineralogical and Geological Survey of Scotland, For this last service he received £7000. In 1820, he was appointed Physician-in-Ordinary to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, subsequently King of Belgium. 1, Re- marks on the Art of Making Wine, Lon., 1816, 12mo; 4th ed., 1829. 2. A Descrip. of the Western Islands of Scotland, including the Isle of Man, 1819, 2 vols. 8vo, and 4to vol. of Plates. See A Critical Examination of this work, Lon., 8vo, said to be by a Mr. Brown.
"Although, as might be expected from the pursuits of tlie author, mineralogy and geology are particularly attended to, yet this work is valuable and instructive also on the subjects of the agriculture, scenery, antiquities, and economy of these islands, and is, indeed, a work of great merit." — Stevenson's Voyages and 2Vaii«ii.
3. A Geological Classification of Rocks, *c., 1821, 8vo. 4. The Highlands and W. Islands of Scotland; in a series of Letters to Sir Walter Scott, 1821, 4 vols. 3vo.
" North. ' The Doctor is a clever man ; but those four volumes of his are too heavy a load for the shoulders of the public. Besides, the doctor does not always speak the truth.' " — Nodes Ambros., Oct. 1826 ; in Blackw. Mag., xviii. 501, q. v.
See also Blackw. Mag., xxix. 293, xliv. 183.
6. A System of Geology, 1831, 2 vols. 8vo. 6. Account of Blair and Dunkeld, 1823. 7. Malaria, 1827, 8vo. 8. Remittent and Intermittent Diseases, 1828, 2 vols. 8vo. 9. Proofs and Illustrationg of the Attributes of God from the Facts and Laws of the Physical Universe; being the Foundation of Natural and Revealed Religion, 1837, 3 vols. 8vo; 1840, 3 vols. 8vo; 1843, 3 vols. 8vo. This ex- cellent work was completed in 1830, although not pub. until after the author's death.
"We cannot refrain, while we are at all on the subject of natural religion, frcm recommending the late Dr. Macculloch's three volumes, entitled ' Proofs and Illustrations of the Attributes of God :' they are the ripe fruits of long and earnest study, replete with interesting research and multifarious information." — British Critic.
" The talented writer of this inimitable work is no more ; but atttpendcus is the monument which his genius has erected. Such an exuberance of ability flows through every part of these elabo- rate volumes, that it is difficult to make a selection for the purpose of a review ; for the great extent to which these researches have been carried compels us to be restricted in our remarks, and un- willingly to pass by much wliich would gratify the general reader." -Ch. of Eng. Quar. Bev.
Dr. MacCulloch was also the author of many papers pub. in the Trans. Geolog. Soc. ; Phil. Mag. ; Brando's Jour.; Encye. Brit.; Edin. Rev. ; Lon. Quar. Rev.; Westm, Rev. ; New Month. Mag. ; and Lon. Mag.
MacCulloch, John Ramsay, b. about 1790, in the district of Galloway, Scotland, formerly a writer for Iho Scotsman, an Edinburgh newspaper, and (for about two years) its nominal (?) editor, has contributed to the Fdinburgh Review a number of papers on Political Ixsonomy, and given to the world the following valuable publications on subjects of the same nature. Mr. Mac- Culloch is a member of the Institute of France, and Comptroller of the Stationery Office, and enjoys an ex- tensive reputation as a writer, and a pension of £200 from the Government for his services to the cause of letters. He anticipated the " Manchester School" in his adoption of the principles A Free Trade, and has ever been distinguished for his bold and uncompromising ad- vocacy of what he believes to be the sound doctrines and true interests of his favourite department of practical science. 1. A Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects, and Importance of Political Economy; containing ftn Outline of a Course of Lectures on the Principles and Doctrines of that Science, 1825, 8vo. 2. The Principles of Political Economy, 1825, 8vo. This is principally a reprint, with additions and modifications, of the article OL Political Economy in the Supplement to the Eucyc.
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E. it., edited by Macvey Napier, fiee No. 19 Tu« 24 ed. of The Principlea of Political Ecotomy wa« pub ia 1830, the 3d in 1843, and the 4lh in 1849.
"With some of the controvernhil spirit from which ie ia difflcuU to disengago such a work, with some d<.|{matlj(m now and then oo debatable ground, the knowledge condcnoed Id It, the cl«ani««i of conception, the vigour and rouch of thought, and the earawt- ness, simplicity, and strength of style, ma<le it [the flrrt editionl a book valuable to its rendcrH, and, what is of the hlgheat oon. sequence, readable with i)lea«uro. . . . Wc connlder it [the weond edition] as much the best manual of Political i'Miauiuy, m ttw science now stands, tliat ha« yet been preuented to the worM, either in our own or any other language with which we ar* •» quaiuted."— £Win. Rev., lii. 337-363.
" Mr. MacCulloch hag given a limiinoiii) Runiniary of the da» trines of Political Economy, together with n succinct, h-ariied, aaa luminous account of the origin and progrens of Uie itci«i)c« JtwlL and an answer to some of the moot poi)ular objoctlong that hava been stated to its utility. The historicjil nketcli Is ex«!cuU-d with peculiar spirit and originality, and contains, besides many curioaa notices of germinal truths in the writings of Child, Petty, an4 Dudley North, the best condensed account of the doctrine* of Quesnay and the Economistes, and of all the foreign author* oa the science, that is anywhere to be met with. Mr. MatCulloch'i view of the defects of the system of Adam Smith, and of tha respective merits of Malthus and Uicardo, is equally masterly and candid."— lam. Rev.
See Some Illustrations of Mr. MacCulloch's Principles of Political Economy, by Mordecai Mullion, Edin., 1826; Carey's Principles of Polit. Econ., Phila., Vu 1, 1837, viii. 20, 227, Pt. 3, 1840, 64; Westm. Rev., iv. 88; Lon. Month. Rev., cix. 113; U. Sutes Lit. Gaz., ii. 449; No. 19 of this article, — Lord Brougham's commendation. 3. An Essay on the Circumstances which determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes, 1826, 12mo; 1861, 12mo; 1854, 12mo. 4. Ob- serve, on the Duty on Sea-Borne Coal, Ac, 1830. This tract is supposed to have promoted the repeal of the duty on sea-borne coal. 5. Historical Sketch of the Bank of England, Ac, 1831, 8vo. 6. Observs. on the Influence of the East India Company's Monopoly on the Price and Supply of Tea, Ac, 1831, 8vo. 7. On Commerce, iU Principles and History, 1833, 8vo : pub. by the D. U. K. S. See Waterston's Cyc. of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Ac., 1847, 8vo. 8. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation ; 2d ed., 1834, 8vo; 1839, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; 1842, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; 1844, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; 1849, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; 1852, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; 1854, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; 1856, 8vo, with Supp., 8vo; Amer. ed., edit, by Henry Vethake, Phila., 1843, 2 vols. 8vo.
"One work, however, the author does strongly recommend, from long personal experience of its utility, — Mr. MacCullocb's ZHo- tionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. It contains an immense quantity of authentic and well-digested information on all subjects of domestic and foreign trade and commerce, on bank- ing, joint-stock companies, exports and imports, book-keeping and accounts, &c. &c. It is, in fact, a mine of practical knowledge for the practical lawyer. ... In Mr. MacCul loch's Dictionary he will not often be disappointed upon such occasions : £xperto crede."— Warren's Law Studies. 2d ed., Lon., 1845, 183, 184.
" The most ample and satisfactory Commercial Directory is Xii. MacCul loch's, which is, indeed, an encyclopaedia of statistical, geographical, and commercial information, bronght down to the present time. The articles are condensed, and abound in such a variety of useful information that no commercial lawyer can dia- pensewith its a.\A.''— Marvin's Leg. Bibl.. Phila., 1847,489.
" Without exaggeration, one of the most wonderful compilation* of the age. The power of continuous labour, the wide inquiry, and the artistical finish, which have been brought into play by this work, are probably uurivalled in the history of literature. . . . Mr. MacCulloch occupies a high place amongst the author* of the day as a hard-headed, original thinker in political economy ; a still higher, as one of the most zealous and successful lal>ourera in rendering that science popular; but, of all his publicati.-ng, his Commercial Dictionary is the one least :ikely to encounter the rivalry of a work of superior or even equal value."— ion. Spectator.
See also Eclec. Rev., 3d Ser., viii. 209 ; Lieber's Poliu' Ethics, 1839, Pt. 2, 363. Of this invaluable work 10,000 copies had been sold in America up to 1853.
9. Observs. Illustrative of the Practical Operation and Real Effect of the Duties on Paper, showing the £xp«> diency of their Reduction or Repeal, 1836, Svo. The piiper-duties were reduced in the course of the same year. See Ceawfurd, John, No. 6. 10. A Sutisiieal Account of the British Empire, exhibiting its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, 1836, 2 vols. Svo ; 1839, 2 vols. 8vo: 1847, 2 vols. Svo.
Contains the fullest information upon every subject con nected with the British Empire, its Constitution and Go- vernment, Population, Manufactures, Ac.
The Geological portion of this valuable work was oon- tributed by Mr. Bakewell, Sir H. De La Bhcbe, and Mr Maclarenj the Dotanical, by Sir W. J. Hooker ; the Zer.
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" Sucli a mass of useful iDformation as has rarely been found in a single publication. It is equally distinguished fur industry and talent. . . . But. without entering upon detail, we may truly ■ay that this work is a library in itself." — Lon. Lit. Gazette, 1836, 806.
" By far the best volumes of the kind which have ever yet been offered to the public."— Zon. Athen^ 1836, 881 ; and see 901 .
11. Statements Illustrative of the Policy and Probable Consequences of the Proposed Repeal of the Existing Corn Laws, and the Imposition in their stead of a Moderate Fixed Duty on Foreign Com, 1841, 8vo. Ex- tensively circulated : it was answered by Sir J. C. Dal- biac, Mr. Taylor, and others. 12. A Dictionary, Geo- graphical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and Principal Natural Objects in the World; illustrated, and Maps. Pub. in numbers; com- pleted in 1841, and bound in 2 vols. 8vo ; 2d ed., 1846, 2 vols. 8vo, Supp., 8vo ; 3d ed., 1849-51, 2 vols. 8vo, 6upp., 8vo; 4 th ed., 1854, 2 vols. 8vo; 5th ed., 1856, 2 vols. 8vo.
" Such a publication, which can be referred to on the instant for any subject embraced in its pages, is indispensable to all libra- ries, and must completely supersede every previous attempt to popularize and reduce within convenient limits these various classes of information." — Lon. Month. Chronicle.
"The extent of information this Dictionary affords on the sub- jects referred to in its title is truly surprising. It cannot fail to Erove a vade-mecum to the student, whose inquiries will be gnided y its light and satisfied by its clear and frequently elaborated communications. Every public room in which commerce, politics, or literature forms the sulyect of discussion ought to be furnished with these volumes." — Lon. Globe, Sept. 7, 1842.
"The maps are worthy of the text." — Lon. Lit. Gaz.
" The English language has never been adorned by a more valu- able work of this kind than the new and splendid work of McCul- loch." — N. York Mctluxl. Quar. Rev.
The last edit, has been carefully revised and brought up to the present state of knowledge :
"The present is an improved edition, [1856,] with additional in- formation made necessary by late changes. . . . The articles Aus- tralia, Russia, and Turkey, with others of less importance, have been re-written. . . . The present improved edition will be accept- able to all readers of newspapers, who now meet for the first time with the names of numerous places in the East of Europe, especi- ally in those great empires of which in this edition the description has been entirely re-written." — Lon. Economist.
13. A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System, 1845, 8vo; 1848, 8vo : 1852, 8vo.
" We recommend to our readers Mr. McCuUoch's late excellent work on Taxation." — Lon. Quar. Rev.
See MacCuUoch's Lit. of Polit. Econ., 1845, 342.
14. The Literature of Political Economy : a Classified Catalogue of Select Publications in the Different Depart- ments of that Science, with Historical, Critical and Bio- graphical Notices, 1845, 8vo. We have frequent occa- sions to refer to this excellent work in our present volume. See Warren's Law Studies, 2d ed., 1845, 172. 15. A Treatise on the Succession to Property Vacant by Death, Ac, 1848, 8vo.
" Je m'etonne que les publicistes anciens et modernes n'aient pas attribu6 aux lois sur les successions une plus grande influence dans la marche des affaires humaines." — De Tocqueville.
Reviewed in Blackw. Mag., Ixiv. 1-16. 16. London in 1850-51, 1851, sq. 17. Treatises and Essays on Subjects connected with Economical Policy, with Biographical Sketches of Quesnay, Adam Smith, and Ricardo, 185.3, 8vo. 18. Russia and Turkey, 1854, 16mo. To Mr. Mac- Culloch we are indebted for (19.) A New ed. of Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, with a Life of the Author, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and Supplemental Dissertations, 1828, 4 vols. 8vo; 1839, 8vo; 1846, 8vo ; 1850, 8vo ; 1857, 8vo. See MacCuUoch's Lit. of Polit Econ., 1845, 11.
" L'edition classique par excellence." — Bi-anqui.
"This admirable work [Wealth of Nations] has received the aid of several learned and able commentators, of whom Professor Mac- CuUoch is, beyond all question, the first in this country, and M. de Gamier abroad. The edition of the former is a book of great value, and, like his excellent treatise on Political Economy in the 'Encyclopaedia Uritannica,' [see No. 2,] ought to be in the hands Of every one who would study this science with success." — Lord Brougham's Lives of Vie PliHotoplurs of the I'ime of George IJL, ed. Lon. and Glasg., 1855, 264.
" The student would do well to purchase Mr. McCuUoch's Edition of the 'Wealth of Nations.' The 'Supplemental Notes and Dis- sertations' which are appended to the work contain a systematic and comprehensive account of the main doctrines of the present race of political economists. If carefully and cautiously read, they will be of good service to the student." — Warren's Law Stu- diet, 2d ed., Lon., 1845, 172.
" The present mode is perhaps the best he could have chosen at onre to disseminate and make popular his own opinions, and to
direct the student in making the most beneficial use of tno work of the great founder of the science, and estimating his discoveries at their full value." — Edin. Rev., Ixx. 426-446.
"The eulogy of Smith in the introductory discourse is gener ms and full, warm and positive, his criticisms modest and few. It is such an appreciation aa leaves on the reader a strong impression of the value and merits of the work. It is when he comes to do- tails in the body of the work that the editor is impelled to expose the errors of his author." — Stephen ColwiWs Prelim. Essay to 6'. A. Matile's trans, of List's Natumal System of Polit. Econ., Phila,, 1856, xxix.
Mr. Colwell has devoted much time and thought to the literature of Political Economy, and his collection of works upon subjects connected with this department :f letters is perhaps unrivalled.
20. Ricardo's Published Works, with a Biographicvl Sketch and an Index, 1846, 8vo.
"The high esteem in which these works are held, ani thej- ia- creasing scarcity, have occasioned their being collected »nd pub» lislied in this volume. We are much pleased also to find a cai» fully-compiled index attached to the work, which will materially assist the reader in consulting the work." — L<m. Economist.
21. A Select Collection of Early English Facts on Com- merce ; printed by the Political Economy Club of London for private distribution, from the originals supplied by Mr. MacCulloch, who also wrote the Preface.
Respecting this eminent teacher of Political Economy, and his works, see also Sir Archibald Alison's Hist, of Europe, 1815-1852, chap, v.; Colwell's Prelim. Essay, ubi supra, 52-55 ; Blackw. Mag., xv. 380, xix. 55, xxi, 46, 169, 274, 378, n., 380, xxiv. 758, xxvi. 511, 673, xxix. 311, 394, xxxii. 60, 706, xxxiu. 439, 442, 580, 799, 813, XXXV. 839, 842, xxxix. 415.
MacCulloch, Kenneth. Sea-Compasses, 1787.
MacCulloch, Lewis. Herring Fisheries upon the South and East Coasts of Scotland, 1786, 8vo.
MacCulloch, Robert, D.D., a minister of the Church of Scotland at Dairsie, Fifeshire. Lects. on the Prophe- cies of Isaiah, Lon., 1791-1805, 4 vols. 8vo.
" There is little evidence of such an acquaintance with the He- brew language and other critical aids as are essential to the correct interpretation of this sublime but difficult book. The doctor is very evangelical in his sentiments." — Orme's Bibl. Bib.
"They contain many ingenious elucidations of the text, and many judicious and useful reflections." — Lon. Month. Rev., N. 8, XX. 226.
" Dr. MacCulloch has made great use of Vitringa's elaborate commentary on Isaiah." — Home's Bibl. Bib,
" Of Vitringa's learned work these Lectures may be considered a tolerable abridgment or epitome in English." — Orme's Bibl. Bib.
MacCulloch, Thomas, Rector of Wormley. Serm., 1803.
MacCulloch, William. Serms., with Sketch of his Life and Character, Glasoj., 1793, 12mo.
MacCuUoh, J. H., M.D., of Baltimore. l.Researchea in America ; being an Attempt to settle some Points rela- tive to the Aborigines of America, Ac, Bait., 1816, 8vo; 1829, 8vo.
"Dr. McCulloh. in his single volume, has probably brought together a larger mass of materials for the illustration of the abori- ginal history of the continent than any other writer in the lan- guage."— PrescotVs Hist, of the Conq. of Mexico, 23d ed., Bost., 1855, ill. 391, n.
See also vol. i. 61, n., 99, n., 118, n., 154, n. ; voL iiL 379, n., 386, n.
" No better authority can be required on American antiquities." —Prescott^s Hist of the Conq. of Peru, Bost., 1855, i. 92, u.
See also vol. i. 11-12, n., 46, n., 135, n.
2. Analytical Investigations concerning the Credibility of the Scriptures, and of the Religious System inculcated in them, 1852, 2 vols. 8vo.
MaciCurdy, D. 1. First Lessons in Geometry. 2. Ele- ments of Euclid; or. Second Lessons in Geometry.
MacCurtin, H. 1. Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland, Dubl., 1717, 4to. 2. Elementi of the Irish Language, Lovain, 1728, 8vo. 3. English- Irish Dictionary, Paris, 1732, 2 vols. 4to.
MacDermot, Rev. John. Father Jonathan; or. The Scottish Converts, Phila., 1855. 12mo.
MacDermot, Martin. Crit. Dissert on Taste, Lot . 1823, Svo.
MacDiarmid, John, 1779-1808, a native of Ween Perthshire, educated at the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrew's, removed to London in 1801, where he became editor of the St. James's Chronicle, and a contributor t« this journol and other periodicals. 1. Toquiry into the I System of Military Defence of Great Britain, Lon., 1803, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. Civil and Military Subordination, 1804, 8vo. 3. Lives of British State.smen, 1807, 4to; 2d ed., 1820, 2 vols. 8vo ; 3d ed., 1838, 8vo. The " Lives" are I those of Sir Thomas More, Lord Burleigh, Lord Strafford, and Lord Clarendon.
" Able but hapless Macdiarmid ! cut off from us in the very blooae
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1. A Gaelic and English
2. Ais-Eiridh na Sean
»f exls'^nce. ... A work full of great promise."— Dftdtn*! Lib.
Onnp., ed. 1825, 622.
" Some research and reflection are combined in this literary and civil history of tho sixteenth and seventcentli centuries; but it was writtun with the blood of the author, for Macdiarmid died of over- study and exhaustion." — IHsraMi CalamitUs of Aulhort, ed. 1840, 80, q.v.
" A deservedly popular publication. . . . The character of Straf- ford is drawn from the best authorities, and with abundant, per- haps excessive, candour."— fioMam's Constit. Hist, of Eng., 7 th ed., Lon., 1854, u. 41, n. , r^ ^ , ,^
" Ta.lked of McDiarmid's ' Lives of Statesmen.' R. [Lord John Russeill praised his account of Lord Strafford.'"— Tbm Moore's Diary, Oct. 12th, 1823 : Memoirs, <£c. of Moore, Lon., 1853, vol. iv. 136. See also entry under date of Oct. 13th, 1823. "The book offers a more speedy and elegant introduction than was before attainable, to an acquaintance with four of the most distinguished characters in our political history." — John Foster's Essays, Lon., 1856, i. 189-216; originally pub. in JEclec. Rev., Oct. and Nov. 1808.
See Blackw. Mag., i. 601, 625.
MacDiarmid, John, 1789?-1852, a native of Edin- burgh, and educated at the University of that city, editor and proprietor of the Dumfries Courier. 1. History of Dumfries. 2. Guide to Moffat 3. Life of Cowper, pre- fixed to Cowper's Poems, 1817. At least six edits, were pub. : see Cowpbr, William, p. 440. 4. Life of Wm. Nicholson, the Galloway Poet. 5. Sketches of Nature. 6. The Scrap-Book. At least three edits, were pub. To Mr. MacDiarmid we are also indebted for some other literary labours, among which are Prefatory Remarks to a new trans, of Paul and Virginia from the French of St. Pierre, and to an edit, of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems.
MacDonald and Hubbard Harp, Bost., 12mo.
MacDonald, Alexander. Vocabulary, Edin., 1741, 8vo.
Chanoin Albannaich, Duneidiunn, (Edinburgh,) 1751, 12mo. To this collection of Gaelic poems there is an English preface.
MacDonald, Alexander. Complete Dictionary of English Gardening, Lon., 1806, 2 vols. 4to.
MacDonald, Alexander, Keeper of the Register of Deeds and Protests in Scotland, d. 1851, edited several vols, for the Maitland Club, supplied many of the mate- rials of Sir Walter Scott's notes and illustrations of the •Waverley Novels, and was employed in other literary enterprises.
MacDonald, Andrew, 1757-1790, the son of George Donald, a gardener of Leith, was educated at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh ; ordained a deacon of the Scotch Church in 1775; became pastor of a congregation at Glasgow in 1777; subsequently removed to London, and died in that city, after a short literary career, " a victim to sickness, disappointment, and misfortune." He fre- quently wrote under the nom de plume of Matthew Bramble. 1. Velina; a Poetical Fragment, Glasg., 1782. 2. The Independent; a Novel. 3. Vimonda; a Tragedy, Lon., 1788, 8vo. Successfully represented on the stage at Edinburgh and London. 4. XXIX. MiscelL Serms., 1788, 8vo; 4th ed., 1793, 8vo.
" The style is clear, neat, and pure, the words well chosen and well arranged." — Critical Rev.
5. Miscellaneous Works, 1788, 8vo,— viz. : I. The Fair Apostate ; a Tragedy. II. Love and Loyalty ; an Opera. III. Princess of Tarento ; a Comedy. IV. Vimonda; a Tragedy. See Biog. Dramat. ; Lon. Gent. Mag., voLlx. ; Disraeli's Calamities of Authors, ed. Lon., 1840, 82; Chambers and Thomson's Biog. Diet of Eminent Scots- men, 1855. vol. iii.
MacDonald, Archibald. 1. Some of Ossian's Lesser Poems rendered into English Verse. With a Pre- lim. Discourse in answer to Mr. Laing's Crit and Histor. Dissert, on the Antiq. of Ossian's Poems, 1805, 8vo. 2. Fingal rendered into Verse, 1808, Svo.
MacDonald, David, b. 1803, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. 1. Address on the Study of the Law, Bloom- ington, 1843, Svo. 2. Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace, Constables, Ac. in the State of Indiana, Indianap. and Cin., 1856.
MacDonald, Donald, minister of the Free Church, Edinkillie. Creation and the Fall: a Defence and Ex- position of the First Three Chapters of Genesis, Edin., 1857, 8vo.
" We do not hesitate to designate tliis volume aa the most com- plete examination of the literature and exigences of the Creation and the Fall which has appeared in England."— ^oitrnaZ of Sacred Literature.
MacDonald, Duncan or John. The New London
Family Cook, 1809, Svo.
MacDonald, George. 1. Within and Witboati • Dramatic Poem, Lon., 1855, or. Svo; 2d ed., 1667, fp, iro,
2. Poems, 1857, fp. Svo, " There is much in the Tolome wbJcb dewnrv to live."— ZrMi
Ounrdian.
MacDonald, James. General View of the AgtU culture of the Hebrides, Edin., 1811, Svo.
" No better report has ever appeared on any special tnbieel ( and it stamps the author as a superior person. — Donalatoifi AgriciUt. Biog., 1854, 102.
MacDonald, James. Travels through Denmark and part of Sweden, 1809, Lon., 1809, 2 vols. Svo. MacDonald, James. Howe's BleMedness of th«
Righteous; a new edit, 1819, 2 vols. Svo,
MacDonald, James M., D.D.,b. 1812, at Limerick, Maine, a son of Major-General John MacDonald, grado- ated at Union College, New York, 1832, was ordained • minister of the Presbyterian Church 1835, and hac been for some years past pastor of the First Preobyteriaa Church, Princeton, New Jersey. 1. Credulity, as Ulna* trated by Successful Impostures in Science, Superstition, and Fanaticism, N. York, 1843, 12mo. 2. Key to tba Book of Revelation, 1846, Svo; 2d ed., 1848.
" The author ably vindicates the labor which h» has bestowal on this neglected part of Scripture ; and, indeed, his brief bat able preface sets the whole matter in its true light. The ex- position is the work of a diligent and vigorous mind grappling with a difficult subject. It is marked by a caution and religioaii fear which are sometimes wanting in such discussions." — Da. J. W. Alexander, D.D. : Princeton Review.
Also highly commended in the Southern Christian Ad- vocate; N. York Evangelist, (by Rev. Dr. Cheever;) Pro- testant Churchman, (by Rev. J. W. Brown;) Christian Secretary; Genesee Evangelist; Elizabethtown Journal, (by Rev. Dr. N. Murray;) N. York Observer, (by Rev. Dr. Prime;) Religious Recorder; Christian Recorder; Pres- byterian; Albany Spectator, (by Rev. W. B. Sprague;) Methodist Review; BufTalo Com. Advert; Western State Journal.
3. Hist, of the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, Long Island, which was established near the middle of tho seventeenth century, 1847, 12mo. 4. My Father's House; or. The Heaven of the Bible, 1855, 12mo : 3 eds, pub. ; repub. in Glasgow. 5. The Book of Ecclesiastes Ex- plained, 1856, 12mo: commended by the Presbyterian Quar. Rev., Sept 1856; Princeton Review; New Eng- lander; N.York Observer; Presbyterian, Ac. Dr. Mao- Donald has also pub. several serins, in the National Re- corder, and contributed a number of articles to the Biblioai Repertory and the Princeton Review.
MacDonald, John. Travels in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa during a period of Thirty Year* and upwards, Lon., 1790, 2 vols. Svo. This is an acconnt of the adventures of a servant,
MacDonald, Lieut.-Col. John, 1759-1831, a son of the celebrated Flora MacDonald, was the author of a number of works, principally on military tactics, for an account of which see Lon. Gent Mag., 1832, Pt 1, 85-87. His Treatise on Telegraphic Communication was pub. in 1808, '17, Svo; and his Telegraphic Dictionary in 1816. This last contains 150,000 words, phrases, and sentences. His Treatise on the Violoncello was pub. in 1811, fol. MacDonald, John. See MacDonald, Duncah. MacDonald, Mrs. Mary Noel. See Meigs, Mbi. Mary Noel.
MacDonald, Thomas. 1. Civil Imprisonment m England, Lon., 1791, 8vo, 2, Public Duties of Privatt Life, 1795, Svo.
MacDonald, William, Archdeacon of Wilts. Plain Serms., Lon., 1824, 12mo. See Douglas, Joh.n, 1721-1807. MacDonnel, D. E. Dictionary of QuoUtions Ukea from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian Lan- guages, trans, into English., Lon., 1809, 12mo. Often fe- printed. Enlarged ed., by E. H. Michelsen, Ph. D., 185«, fp. Svo. A valuable work.
MacDonnel, Thomas, D.D. 1. Answer to tb« Appeal to the Common Sense, Ac., Lon., 1751, Svo, I. Answer to an Essay on Spirit, Dubl., 1754, 12mo. Sea Clayton, Robert. ». r
MacDonnell, Lord Antrim. Letter to the Iwn of Rutland, Lon., 1641, 4to.
MacDonnell, Rev. George. Book of Devotiona and Serms., designed chiefly for the use of Manners, W. York, 1851, ISmo. .
MacDoual, John. Voyage to Patagonia and Terr* Del Fuego in 1826-27, Lon., 1833, 12mo.
MacDouall, Andrew, Lord Bankton. An In- stituieof the Laws of Scotland in Civil RighU, Ac.BOiaj 1751-63, 3 vols. fol. A good work.
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MacDougal, John. Every Man his own Lawyer, Chillicothe, 1813, 8ro.
MacDougall, G. G. Trans, of Capt. W. A. Orah's Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Oreen- land, Lon., 1837. 8vo.
MacDongall, George F. The Eventful Voyage of H. M. S. Resolute to the Arctic Regions in Search of Bir John Franklin, Ac, Lon., 1857, 8vo. Bee Lon. Athenajum, 1857, 970.
MacDougall, Henry J. On Spermatorrhoea ; trans, from the French of M. Lallemand, Lon., 1847, 8vo.
" We express our opinion that Mr. McDougall'g translation of K nsefiil a work will prove of great service to 9ie profession of this xrantry." — itetJxco-dnrurffical Jiev.
" We recommeDd this work to the perusal of the profession." — Loti. Lancet.
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MacDougall, Lieut.-Col. P. L. The Theory of War, Lon., 1856, cr. 8vo.
" This volume, we have no doubt, will become a professional text- book."— Lmi. Athenieum.
MacDufiie, George, d. 1851, a member of the Na- tional House of Representatives at Washington, D.C., 1821-35, was subsequently elected Governor of South Carolina, and in 1843 was chosen to the United Slates Senate as colleague with J. C. Calhoun. An Eulogy upon the Life and Character of the late R. Y. Hayne, Charles- ton, 1840, 8vo. Other speeches, addresses, and political papers.
Mace, Daniel. XIX. Serms., 1751, 8vo.
Mace, Thomas. Discourses on the Highways of England, Lon., 1675, 4to.
Mace, Thomas, b. 1613, Clerk of Trin. Coll., Camb. Musick's Monument; or, A Remembrancer of the best Practical Music, both Divine and Civil, that has ever been known to have been in the world, Lon., 1676, fol.
" A most delectalile book." — Dr. Bumey's Hist, of Music.
See also Hawkins's Hist, of Music ; Rees's Cyc.
Mace, William, a Presbyterian divine, of Arian Bentiraents. The Now Testament in English and Greek; K new version, Ac, Lon., 1729, 2 vols. 8vo. Anon.
"The editor has altered various passages in conformity with the Arian hypothesis." — Hbi-ne's Bibl. Bib.
" Even Dr. Qeddes pronounces it a ridiculous and profane work." —Orme's Bibl. Bib.
Dr. Leonard Twells exposed its errors in A Critical Examination of the late Text and Version of the New Testjiment, Lon., 1732, 2 vols. 8vo. Dr. Doddridge fre- quently condemns it ; and Michaelis (Introduc. to New Test, vol. ii. 463, 464) severely censures the liberties which Mace takes with the sacred text.
MacElligott, James N., LL.D., Associate Principal of the Collegiate School, New York, and late Principal of the Mechanics' School. 1. Analytical Manual of Ortho- graphy and Definitions, N. York, 12mo. 2. Young Ana- lyzer, 18mo. 3. The American Debater, 1855, 12mo. These three works are highly commended. 4. Enlarged ed. of Dr. Ebenezer Porter's Rhetorical Reader, 1855, 12mo.
MacElroy, Archibald. The Philadelphia Directory, pub. annually, 1838- 58.
MacEwen, William, a minister of the Secession Church of Scotland at Dundee, d. 1762, in his twenty- eighth year. 1. Serm., 1758. 2. Grace and Truth, Lon., 1765, 12mo. Often reprinted. Last ed., by MacNeile, 1840, fp. 8vo.
" An exhibition of pure evangelical truth in very pleasant lan- piage." — John Brown, nf WhUburn.
3. Select Essays, Doctrinal and Practical, Edin., 1767, 2 vols. 12mo^
MacEwen, William. Serm., 1818.
Macey, Obed. The History of Nantucket, Bost, U35, 8vo. Edited by Wm. Coffin.
MacFadyen, Janies, M.D. Flora of Jamaica, vol. L, Lon., 1837, 8vo. All pub. Intended to have been com- prised in four parts in two vols.
MacFail, James. See MacPhail.
MacFaite, Ebenezer, M.D. 1. Life and Writings of Plato, Edin., 1760, 8vo. 2. General Geography, Pt. 1, 1780, 8vo. 3. On the Weather, Ac; Ess. Phys. and Lit, 1764.
MacFarlain, Alexander. Scripture Songs trans. into the Scots Gaelic Language, Glasg., 1753, 12mo.
MacFarlan, Duncan. 1. Vindic of the Minority in Genl. Assembly Ch. of Scot., Glasg., 1806, 8vo. 2, General View of the Agricult. of the Co. of Dumbarton, Olasg., 1811, 8vo. In conjunction with Rev. Andrew Mute.
"It is an excellent report, and abounds in liberal sentiments umI most Judicious n'markn." — DonaUlKm't AgriatU. Biog., 1854,
3. Authority, God's, and Obscr/^ance of iie Sabbfttb, 1832, 12mo. MacFarlan, Patrick. Strictures on the Rev. nf
Greville Ewiug's Speech at Bible-Cociety Meeting, Glaa<.« 1826, 8vo. Answered by MacGavin, (author of The Pro- testant,) 1827, 8vo.
MacFarland, A. The Escape; or, Loitering amid the Scenes of Story and Song, Bost., 12mo.
MacFarland, Asa, D.D., d. 1827, at Concord, New Hampshire. 1. Oration, 1802. 2. Historical View of Heresies, 1806.
MacFarlane, Charles, one of the most industriong of modern authors, resided for many years in Italy, and has given us the results of his observations in that coun- try in several of the volumes enumerated in the following list of his publications : 1. Constantinople in 1828-29, Lou., 1829, 2 vols. 8vo ; 2d ed., 1830, 8vo. 2. The Armenian ; a Tale of Constantinople, 4to; also in 1830, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Our Indian Empire, 1844, 2 vols. 12mo. 4. The French Revolution, 1845, 4 vols. 12mo. 5. In conjunction with George Lillie Craik and other writers, The Pictorial His- tory of England, 8 vols. imp. 8vo; new title-page, 1849; Index vol. separate, 1850. To these should be added Hist, of England during the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816-46, by [Charles Knight and] Harriet Martineau, 2 vols. imp. 8vo. In all, 11 vols. imp. 8vo, containing 8149 pages, or 16,298 columns. This magnificent publication has been already noticed by us at length on preceding pages: see Andrews, J. Petit, No. 3 ; Craik, J. Lillie; Henrt, Robert, D.D, : Knioht, Charles. The possession of all the histories of England in existence, from the ancient Chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth to the as yet un- finished version of Lord Macaulay inclusive, will not com- pensate for the absence of the Pictorial History ; and it ia absurd to pretend to study the English annals without having recourse to the latter. 6. Cabinet History of Eng- land, 1845-46, 26 vols. 18mo; again, 1851, 13 vols. 18mo. This work is a republication of a portion of the matter comprised in the chapters of the Pictorial History of Eng- land entitled Civil and Military History of England, with a continuation to 1845-46. It was pub. at the trifling price of one shilling per vol., 26 vol. ed. ; two shillinga per vol., 13 vol. ed. 7. Sports, Pastimes, and Recol- lections of the South of Italy, 1846, 18mo. 8. Old Eng- land Novelettes : I. The Camp of Refuge ; II. The Dutch in the Medway; III. A Legend of Reading Abbey, 1846- 47, 4 vols. 18mo. 9. Romance of Travel : The East, 1847, 2 vols. 18rao. 10. Life of Gresham, the Founder of the Royal Exchange, 1847, 18mo : see Burgon, Johx Wil- liam. 11. Turkey and its Destiny: Travels in Turkey in 1847-48, 2 vols. 8vo, 1860. 12. Seven Apocalyptie Churches, ob. 4to. 13. Romance of History : Italy, 3 vols, 12rao. 14. A Glance at Revolutionized Italy, 1849,2 vols. 8vo. 15. Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers, 1849, 18mo; and in 2 vols. 12mo. 16. Memoir of the Duke of Wellington, in 4 books, 1851, 12mo. 17. Life of the Duke of Marlborough, in 4 books, 1852, 12mo. 18. History of British India, 1852, 12mo; 1853, sq. 19. Japan, Geographical and Historical, 1852, 8vo. 20. Cata- combs of Rome, 1852, 12rao; 1854, 12mo; 1855, 12mo. 21. Camp of 1853, 1853, 12mo. 22. Great Battles of the British Army, 1853, 12mo; 1854, 12mo. 23. Kismorj or, The Doom of Turkey, 1853, fp. 8vo; 1854, 12mo. 24 Patriots of China, 1853, fp. 8vo. We have more com- mendations before us of several of Mr. MacFarlane's worki than we have time to count or room to accommodate.
MacFarlane, James. 1. Secession frou^ the Church of Scotland; new ed., Edin., 1847, 12mo. 2. Glances at the Temple : Serms., 1847, p. 8vo. 3. Essays on the Church and the Nation, Lon., 1849, 12mo.
MacFarlane, John, D.D., one of the ministers of Edinburgh. Inquiries Concerning the Poor, Edin., 1752, 8vo.
" This comprehensive and able treatise, though treating of the poor generally, is principally founded on facts and observationft relating to the poor of Scotland. The author i« opposed to a com- pulsory provision." — MacCalloch's Lit. of IHU. Earn., 1845, 297.
MacFarlane, John, LL.D., minister of Colleseie, Fifeshire. 1. Jubilee of the World : Christian Missions to the Heathen, Glasg., 1842, p. 8vo, Recommended as an essay of great worth by Drs. Bunting and Wardlaw, and others. 2. Mountains of the Bible ; 2d ed., 1850, p. 8vo; 3d ed., 1856, p. 8vo. 3. The Night Lamp; or. The Death-Bed of Agnes M. MacFarlane, 1860, p. 8voj 1851, p. 8vo; 1853, p. 8vo.
" We do not wonder at Its popularity. It is a etory of thrilling interest, told by an affectionate, intelligent, and ardent mind."— Dr. Kittys JourtuU.
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4. The Hiding- Plnce; or, The S'nner Fonnd in Christ, 1862, 18mo ; 3d ed., 1864, p. 8to.
"This volume, with all the freshnejs, and vigour, and genial g!ow of its predecessors, bears the niai fes of still more careful pre- paration."— United Pitsbgtirian iijgazine,
5. Why Weepeet Thou? 1854, fp. 8vo. MacFarlane, P. English and Gaelic Vocahulary,
1816, 8vn.
MncFarlane, R. Hist, of Propellers and Steam- Navigation, N. York, 1851, 8vo ; 1864, 18mo.
MacFarlane, Robert, 1734-1804, a native of iScot- land, educated at the University of Edinburgh, edited the (London) Morning Chronicle, and the Morning Packet, and pub. several works, among which were: 1. Temora, in Latin; from the Poems of Ossian, 1769, 4to. 2. Eng- lish and Gaelic Vocabulary, Edin., 1795, 4to. 3. The Poems of Ossian, in Gaelic, with a literal trans, into Latin; with a Dissert, on their Authenticity by Sir J. Sinclair, and a trans, from the Italian of the Abbe Cesarette's Dis- sert on the Controversy respecting Ossian, with Notes by J. McArthur, 1807, 3 vols. 8vo; Posth. Pub. by the Highland Society. MacFarlane was engaged in an essay upon the authenticity of the Poems of Ossian at the time of his death. His name is generally connected with The History of the Reiftn of George III., 1760-96, Lon., 1770- 82-94—96, 4 vols. 8vo. Of this he wrote only vols. i. and iv. ; and vol. i. was afterwards so altered that he disowned it. Mr. Green does not speak of it in the highest possible terms .
" A strange amalgam of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded into a specious and shewy mass by a morbid vigour of intellect, which raiher .scares from its ferocity than impresses with admiration by its force. Though ostentatiously the advocate Of the present ministry, the author ill disguises strong traits of the unprincipleiland dangerous political desperado. Who can he bef" —Diary of a Lnver of Lit.. Feb. 24, 1798, Ipswich, 1810, 4to, 65.
See also Lon. Gent. Mag., vol. Ixxiv.
MacFarlane, Robert. 1. Prac. of the Ct. of Session in Jury Ct. Civil Causes, Edin., 1837, 8vo. 2. Reports of Cases decided in Ct. of Session, 1838-39, 8vo. 3. With Thomas Cleghorn, Prae. Notes on Struc. of Issues, Ac., Pt. 1, 1844, 8vo.
MacFarlane, Robert. Serm., York, 1820, 8vo.
MacGauley, Rev. James William, Prof, of Na- tural Philos. to the Board of Education, London. 1. Lects. on Natural Philosophy, Lon., 1840, 12mo ; 1842, 12mo; I860, 2 vols. 8vo; 1852, 2 vols. 8vo. Commended. 2. Ele- ments of Architecture, 1846, fp. 8vo.
MacGaurin, Major Edward. Memoirs, Lon., 1786, 2 vols. 12mo.
MacGavin, J. R. Perils by Sea and Land, Lon., 1844, 18uio.
MacGavin, James. Index to the Book of Psalms, with Notes on Every Psalm. Useful.
MacGavin, WiUiam, 1773-1832, a native of Ayr- shire, Scotland, engaged in the West India business in Glasgow, pub. a number of religious tracts and pamphlets, edited a new eilit. of John Howie's Scots Worthies and of John Knox's Historj' of the Reformation, sided in some other literary labours, and pub. a series of papers (1818- 22) called The Protestant. These were collected in 4 vols. Svo, and seven edits, sold in the first ten years. An ed. was pub. in 1825, 4 vols. 8vo ; another in 1839, 4 vols. Svo ; another in 184G, r. Svo ; and another, with addits., at Hartford, Conn, in 1833, 2 vols. Svo.
'• The Protestant, a series of periodical papers composed by Mr. McGavin of Glasgow, contains the fullest delineation of the Popish system, and the most powerful confutation of its principles, in a popular style, that we have seen. Whoever wishes to see Popery tiawn to the life in its hideous wickedness and deformity will find kbundant .satisfaction in the pages of that writer.'' — Robert HaU's Seview of BirCs Popery.
'• Mr. McGavin dissects Romanism with a facility which really •stonishes. and with an effect which always entertains and exposes the system of demoralization in all its errors and deformity, till it bwomes the object of derision, loathsomeness, or disgust.' — Samuel Edoar.
'• I have much pleasure in calling attention to a collection of periodical papers entitled ' The Protestant.' Both its documentary ovidence, and its original argumentation against the Church of Rome, appear to me strong and conclusive in establishing the anti- scriptural and anti-social doctrines of that destructive system, wliicli is not more opposed to true religion than it is to civil liberty." — Huoii MacXeile, of Liverpool.
•• Much information is contained in these Essays, but without order.'' — liickerdttk^s G. S.
"It contains more clear, sound reasoning, and more valuable documentary proof, on the subject of the popish controverey, than over was contained in the same compass of the English language." —Speech of the Rev. Mr. MacGhee at the Glasgow Protestant Meet- ing, 183fi.
See Chambers and Thomson's Biog. Diet, of Eminent Scotsmen, 18.^6, vol. iii. ; Howie, John, No. 1 ; Knox, JoHX ; Mi.cFi RtAN, Patrick.
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MacGa\ock, Randal W., b. 1828, »( NMhvilK Tennessee. A Tennessean Abroad ; ar, Lett«rB from EuropZ Africa, and Asia. N. York, 1854, 12mo.
MacGee, Thomas D'Arcy. 1. Hijt of the Iritk Settlers, Bost, 1851, 12mo. 2. Hist of tb« AttempU to Establish the Protestant Reformation id Ireland, 1868, 12mo. 3. Catholic Hist, of N. America, 1854. 12mo.
MacGeoghegan, Abbe. Hist of Ireland, Ancient and Modern ; trans, from the French by O'Kelly, DubL. 1844, imp. 8vo.
MacGhee, Rev. Robert J.,l«ite minister of Harold'f Cross Church, Dublin, Rector of Holywell-oum.Ne«diD|c. worth, Hants. 1. Truth and Error Contrasted, Lon., 183«, 12mo.
"A powerful appeal to Romanist and Prote»Uut. "-BidctnittM't
2. Notes to the Douay Bible and Rhenish TesUmcBt* Svo. 3. Nullity of the Queen's Government in Ireland, 12mo. 4. Diocesan Statutes of the R. Catholics, 1837, 18mo. 6. With Dr. O'Sullivan, Roroimism as it rnlei ii Ireland, 1838, 2 vols. Svo. 6. Laws of the Papacy, 183», 12mo; 1841, 12mo. 7. Trans, of the Church Catechism of Rome, 1839, fp. Svo. 8. Lects. [42] on the Epbesians: 2d ed., 1848, 2 vols. Svo ; N. York, 1849, Svo, pp. 640.
"These Lectures form a delightful and profitable running cota- mentary upon this Epistle so rich in experimental truth."— Ztoii'i Herald.
9. Moral Theology of the Chunh of Rome, 1852, 8to. See Meyrick, Rev. Frederick, S ». 2. Other publica> tions.
" A powerftil antagonist of the Romanists In jaiimu jmbUe^ tions." — BichersUth's C. S.
MacGhie, Alexander. Book-Keeping, 1718.
MacGill, Rev. James, of Lochmahen. Enter intf thy Closet; or. Secret Prayer, Lon., 1843, fp. Svo; I84«, fp. Svo. Considered one of the best treatises on the sub- ject.
MacGill, Stevenson, D.D., 1765-1840, minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, and Prof, of Theology in the University of that city, was a native of Port-Glasgow.
1. Considerations addressed to a Young Clergyman, 1809, Svo.
" We wish that it may be read by every clergyman tn th* kiaf dom." — Lon. Christian Observer.
2. Discourse on Elementary Education, 1811, 8vo. S. Collection of Sacred Translations, Paraphrases, and Hymns, 1813, 12mo. 4. Discourses and Essays, 1810, 12mo. 6. Lects. on Rhetoric and Criticism, 1838, Svo.
" Equally useful to the youthful minister, the Riblical gtndrnt, and the general reader. The book is full of important iiistrurtioa of which candidates for the sacred office will do well to avail them- selves. It is a work which they should carefully study." — Ltm. Wesleyan Magazine.
6. Serms., 1839, Svo. See Memoir of Dr. MacGill by Robert Burns, D.D., Edin., 1842, 12mo; Chambers and Thomson's Biog. Diet, of Eminent Soclsmen, 1855, vol. r,
MacGill, Thomas. 1. Travels in Turkey, Italy, and Russia, Lon., 1808, 2 vols. 12mo. 2. Account of Tunis, Glasg., 1811, 8vo. A work of little value.
MacGill, William, D.D., of Ayr, was charged with Socinianism. 1. Prac. Essay on tlie Death of Christ, Edin., 1786, Svo. This elicited A Display of the Ortho- doxy of Dr. MacGill's Prac. EsSf.y, Ac, 1789, Svo. Anun.
2. Serms. on the Life of Christ.
Macgillivray, John, a son of William Macgil- livray, LL.D., accompanied Capt Stanley in the Voy- age of the Rattlesnake. Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake, Lon., 1852, 2 vols. Svo. See Lon. Athenseum, 1852, 1274. Mr. M. has also pub. a numb« of papers on subjects of natural history.
Macgillivray, P. H. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Aberdeen, Lon., 1853, 12mo.
Macgillivray, William, LL.D., Regius Professor of Natural History in the Marischal College, and Uni- versity of Aberdeen, was a native of the isle of Harris. 1. The Travels and Researches of A. Von Humboldt, being a Condensed Narration of his Journey in the Equi- noctial Regions of America and in Asiatic Russia, 1832, 12mo; 1850, fp. Svo. See Sabine. 2. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnseus, 1834, Svo. 3. The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, 1835. Ac. 4. Rnpa- cious Birds of G. Britain, 1836, p. 8vo. 5. A Hist of Bri- tish Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, 8vo : vols, i.-iiu, 1837-40 ; iv., v., 1852.
"I consider Mr. Macgillivray's the best work on English orn»- thological science with which I am acquainted."— J. J. Acpbbon.
"An admirable work, undoubtedly embracing more science, and at the same time more nature, than any treatise on the samo sub- ject ever published."— J. L. Comstock, M J). . ... ^^ ^,_
•' The ovXy ftiU and detaUed technical <le«aiptlon* »'J|J«^ give»
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H. this cuObtry. . . . The best work we have upon this rabject." — Jk'trth Bill. Bev., May, 1853, 9. r.
"Dr. Macgillivray'g accounts of the habits of birds we regard as •nong the best in "the language." — Lmi. Athemtum, 1852, 997, q. v.
Also highly cuininended by the Quar. Jour, of Agri- oult. ; Mag. of Zoology and Botany ; Tait's Mag. ; Cham- bers's Edin. Jour. ; Lit. Gaz. ; Spectator ; Atlas, Ac.
6. Mammalia, 1838, 12mo. This is vol. vii. of Jardine's Naturalist's Library : see Jardine, Sir William, Bakt., ho. 3. 7. New ed., with addits. of Sir James Edward Smith's Introduction to Botany, 1838, ]2mo. 8. Manual of Geology, 1839, fp. 8ro.
"The arrangement is perspicnons and comprehensive, the treat- ment more simple and attractive than it is in the power of many to render it." — Lon. Mmith. Bev.
•' The very beat companion which the young geologist can take with him in his rambles." — Edin. Witness.
Also commended by The Atlas and The Age.
9. A Manual of BoUny, fp. 8vo, 1840; 1844; 1853.
" Tlie student of Iwtany will find every thing so methodized, elassifled, and explained in this botik, that it may be called a rail- road conveyance to the science." — Bath Herald.
10. Manual of British Birds, 12mo, 1840; 1846. 11. Fifth ed., corrected, condensed, and continued to 1842, of W. Withering's British Botany, 1842, 12mo. In this work the descriptions are so full that the young botanist can determine the species without the assistance of other eyes. 12. Molluscous and Cirripedal Animals of Scotland, Ac, fp. 8vo, 1843 ; 1844. 1.3. Sixth ed. of T. Brown's Conchologist's Text-Book, 1845, 12mo. Dr. M. also pub. a number of papers, on subjects of natural history, in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, the Edin. New Philo.s. Jour., the Reports of the Brit. Assoc, and the Mag. of Zoology and Botany. At the time of his death he had completed the Natural History of Dee Side: this was purchased by the Queen of England for the benefit of the author's family, and privately printed in an octavo volume for presents. See Alexander Thomson's Biog. Account of Dr. Macgillivray, in Edin. New Philos. Jour., April, 1853; N. Brit. Rev., May, 1853; Lon. Gent, Mag., Nov. 1852; Lon. Athenaeum, Sept. 18, 1852.
Macgilvray, John. Poems, Lon., 1787, 4to.
Macgilvray^ Rev. William. Peace in Believing, N. York, 18mo.
MacGinnis, Rev. Jas. Y. Sketch of his Life, Character, and Writings, Phila., 1854, 12mo.
MacGlashan, John. 1. Law and Prac. in Actions of Aliment, Edin., 1837, 12mo. A valuable work. 2. Prac. Notes on the Jurisdiction and Forms of Process in Civil Causes of the Sheriff Courts of Scotland; 2d ed., 1842, 8vo.
" It is not so much taken up with the principles of Law as with Forms of Pleading." — 1 £din. Law Jour., 496.
" It must find a place in the desk of every practitioner who is •nxious to conduct his business with accuracy and safety." — Perth Courier.
3. Pawnbroker's New Guide, 1849, fp. 8vo.
AlacGowan. Register of the Weather, 1771-76; Trans. Soc. Edin., 1788.
MacGowan, J. 1. Florence Egerton. 2. Clara Stanley. 3. Evelyn Grey.
" It is almost unnecessary to commend this volume to those who /have read the stories which have already appeared from the same gifted pen." — Chris. Obs.
MacGowan, John, 1726 ?-17S0, a minister among the Particular Baptists, pub. several occasional serms., some theolog. treatises, and Discourses on the Book of Ruth, Ac, Lon., 1781, 8vo.
MacGowan, Thomas. Latin Reading, 1819.
MacGrane. On the Country and Aborigines of Chili and Brazil.
" The climate, &c. of Brazil has been described by two eminent naturalists, Piso and Macgrane, who observed it with a philo- sophical accuracy unusual in accounts of American provinces." —
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JMacGregor, Capt. French Infantry, 1809, 8vo.
MacGregor, Rev. Sir C. Notes on Genesis, Pt. 1, 1853, 8vo.
MacGregor, David, d. 1777, aged 66, f"r forty-one years pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, London- derry, N. H. Serms. and theolog. treatises, 1741-74.
MacGregor, Rev. E. R. The Figures and Sym- bols of Divine Inspiration, Ac, Bost., 1S54, 18mo.
MacGregor, Sir James, M.D., wrote Medical Bketcbes of the Expedition from India to Egypt, Lon., 1804, 8vo, and some other professional treatises, 1798- 1808.
MacGregor, John, teacher of mathematics, Edin. 1. Practical Mathematics, Lon., 1792, 8vo. 2. Mensura- Ui)n, 1794, 8vo.
MacGregor, John, M.P., 1797-1857, a natiro of
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Stornoway, Ross-shire; a Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1840; entered Parliament for the city of Glasgow, 1847, and subsequently became Governor of the unfor- tunate Royal British Bank. Mr. MacGregor died at Boulogne. 1. Sketch of British America, 1828, 12mo and 8vo; 2d ed., 1833, 2 vols. 8 vo.
" That most interesting i.cw work, McGregor's Northern Atm- rica." — Prof. Wilson : art. on W. C. Bryant, BlacliW. Uag., April, 1832, and in Wihan't tUsays, Kdiu. and Lon^ 1866, vol. ii. 210. Keviowed in Blackw. Mag., xxxi. 907-927. See also Blackw. Mag., xliii. 214, etseq. " This Is a valuable work. It is the production of a ger.tieinan of practical knowledge and observation, who lived long in th« land of which he writes." — Lon. Athenieum,\%i2, 137.
" With these sketches we have been much pleased. The book i» well worthy of the attention of the public, and especially of persons disposed to emigrate to a congenial climate pi'otected by the British Ck>n8titution." — Lon. Lit. Gaz.
2. Emigration to British America, 1829, 8vo. 3. My Note-Book, 1835, 3 vols. p. 8vo : chiefly an account of his travels on the Continent: dedicated to Sismondi. 4. Civil and Financial Legislation of Europe and America, 1842, 8vo. 5. Civil Statistics of All Nations, 1844-50, 5 vols. 8vo, £7 9«. This important work comprises a Digest of the Productions, Resources, Commercial Legis- lation, Customs, Taritfs, Navigation, Post and Quarantine Laws, Shipping, Moneys, Weights, Treasures, Ac, and British Commercial Treaties with Foreign States. 6. The Progress of America from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846, Historical, Statistical, and Geographical, 2 vols. imp. 8vo, 1847, £4 14«. 6d.
" Two volumes of about fifteen hundred pages each, exhibiting, in the most condensed form, a vast body of uiinute geographical, historical, and statistical information, make a book tor reference, not for review. It can hardly be said to add to the reputation which Mr. MacGregor has deservedly won as an economist and statistician; but it worthily sustains the fame of his Reports on the Commercial Tariffs of the two Americas, printed by order of the British Parliament, and received as authorities by every civilized state."— Irfwj. Athen.. 1847, 591.
7. Holland and the Dutch Colonies, 1848, r. 8vo. 8. Germany and her Resources, Government, Ac. under Fred. IV., 1848, r. 8vo. 9. Hist, of the British Empire from the Accession of James I., vol. i., 1852, 8vo. 10. New ed. of De Lolme's work on the Constitution of Eng- land; with Life and Notes, 1853, p. 8vo, (Bohn's Standard Lib.) Mr. MacGregor was also the author of twenty-two Reports on Foreign Tariff and Trade, presented to Par- liament by royal command, and a number of pamphlets upon prominent topics of the day. See Lon. Gent. Mag., June, 1857, 735.
MacGregor, John. 1. Eastern Music, 1851, 4to. 2. Three Days in the East, 1850, 18mo.
MacGregor, John James. 1. New Picture of Dublin, Dubl., 1821, 12mo. 2. True Stories from thi Hist, of Ireland: Three Series, in 3 vols. 18mo; 2d ed,, 1829-33. See Memoirof J. J. MacGregor, Lon., 1842, 12m3. MacGregor, Malcolm. Epist. to Dr. Shebbeare, Lon., 1777, 4to. MacGregor, P. Book-Keeping, Bost., 1850, 12mo. MacGregor, Thomas. Supp. to the Dictionary of Decisions of the Ct. of Session by Lords Kaimes and Woodhouslee, 1804. See House, He.nry, Lord Kaimes, No. 3.
MacGregor, >V. L., M.D., R.A. The Hist, of the Sikhs, Lon.. 1847, 2 vols. 8vo.
" Replete with information and interest." — Lon. Athen. "Quite as requisite as Mill or Eli)hinstone.'" — Indian News. "An interesting and valuable book." — Attends Indian Mail. " An interesting and instructive narrative." — Edin. Weekly Reg. "A vivid and soul-stirring picture." — Lan. Obs. MacGuffey, \V. H. 1. Eclectic Spelling-Bock, Cin. 2. First Reader. 3. Second do. 4. Third do. 5. Fourth do. More than a million copies of these workj have been pub.
MacGuire, Rev. Arthur. Barometers; Tram. Irish Acad., 1786, '91.
MacGuire, E. C. Religious Opinions and Character of Washington, N.York.
Machabseus, Joh. Enarratio in Deuteronium, Lon., 1563, 8vo.
MacHale, Rt. Rev. Doctor, Archbishop of Tuom. Evidences and Doctrines of the R. Catholic Church; 2d ed., with addit. Notes, Lon., 1842, 8vo. Dr. MacHale has also pub. a number of controversial letters, Ac. See Blackw. Mag., xli. 819, xliii. 808.
MacHarg, Charles K. Life of Talleyrand, with Extracts from his Speeches, Ac, N.York, 1857, 12mo. Machel, Thomas. Antiquities; Phil. Trans., 1684. Macheli, Mrs. Poems and Translations, Lon., 1856. 12mo. MacHenrr, James, M.D., a resident of Philadel
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phia, an I a contributor to the American Quarterly Review, — pub. i.i thatcity from 1827 to 1837, — was the author of The Wilderness, a Novel; The Spectre of the Forest, a Novel; The Insurgent Chief, a Novel ; The Pleasures of Friendship, a Poem, 1835; The Antediluvians, or The World Destroyed, a Poem, 1839, &c. The novels just nanaed are spoken of not in the most respectful terms by a critic in Blackwood's Magazine. Feb. 1825, — American Writers, No. 4, — and The Antediluvians is reviewed at length and unmercifully ridiculed in the same periodical for July, 1839; Tlie Pleasures of Friendship meets with no better fare from the critical pen of the Rev. Timothy Flint, in the London Athenaeum, Oct. 31, 1835. A specimen of Dr. MacHenry's poetry — The Indian Sum- mer—will be found in The Philadelphia Book, 1836, 87-88 :
" Shocking as it may seem, we have not read Dr. MacIIenry'a Ante-diluviuns. nr The Wrrld Destrnyi-d, witli a tithe of the interest we felt in Sir Tliomas D. Lauder's Account of the Morayshire I'loods."— fi/ac/,«i. Maq., xlvi. 127, July, 1839.
Machiavelliy Nicholas, Esq., (an assumed name.) Scheme for Raising Money, Ac, 1747.
Machin, John, d. 1751, Prof, of Astronomy to Gresham College, 1713, and Secretary to the Royal So- siety, pub. The Laws of the Moon's Motion according to Gravity, Lon.. 1729, 8vo; and three papers in Phil. Trans., 1718, '23, '38.'
Machin, Lewis. The Dumbe Knight; a Comedy, Lon., 1608, '11, '33, 4to. Reprinted in Dodsley's Col- lection of Old Plays.
Itlachin, Richard. Serm., Lon., 1740, 8vo.
Machlachlan, J. Mines and Manufactures of the E. Indies, &c.; Nic. Jour., 1805.
Machrie, William. 1. Royal Recreation and Art of Cocking, Edin., 1705, Svo. 2. Essay upon Duelling, 1711, 8vo.
Maclan^ R. R. 1. Gaelic Gatherings, with Descrip- tions, Lon., 1847, 4to, £4 ; col'd, £6 8». 2. Costumes of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands. See Logan, James.
Macie, James Louis. Chemical Experiments on Tahasheer; Phil. Trans., 1791.
Macllvaine, Charles Petit, D.D., D.C.L., b. at Burlington, New Jersey, Jan. 18, 1799, the son of Hon. Joseph Macllvaine, representative of the State of New Jersey in the Senate of the United States ; graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, 1816; was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, by Bishop White, July 4, 1820; and priest, by Bishop Kemp, 1823. He became Rector of Christ's Church, Georgetown, D.C., in 1820; was Chaplain and Professor of Ethics, Ac. at the United States Military Academy at West Point, 1825-27; and in December of the latter year became Rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, In 1831, he was appointed Professor of the Evidences of Revealed Religion and Sacred An- tiquities in the University of the City of New York, and in the next year was consecrated Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio, which important position he holds at the present day, (1857.) 1. The Evi- dences of Christianity in their External Division; ex- hibited in a course of Lectures delivered in Clinton Hall, in the winter of 1831-32, under the appointment of the University of New York, N. York, 1832, 12mo. Also re- printed in Philadelphia, London, and Edinburgh ; 8th ed., with Preface by Dr. Olinthus Gregory, LL.D., Lon., 1850, 12mo; 9lh ed., 1857, 12mo. Also pub. in Seeley's (Lon- don) Christian Family Library, 1851; and at Edinburgh, 1852, 12mo. Used as a text-book in several colleges.
"A work of no ordinary merit." — Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 1000.
" It is worthy of an extensive circulation, and we have no doubt is destined to great usefulness. It is a favourable circumstance ■ttending it, that it is not only distinguished throughout by sound and perspicuous reasoning and in many instances by eloquence of a high (ii der, but also tliat it is pervaded by the amiable, pure, and generoiM spirit which Christianity inspires. May the benevolent wish of its author be accomplished, in its becoming instrumental in confirming the faith and elevating tlie views especially of our young men, in whose intellectual and moral character may be bound up the destinies of our country through successive ages."— William B. Spkaoue, D.D. : K. Amer. Rev., xxxvi., 345-358, April, 1833.
Writing at the distance of about a quarter of a century from the date of the article just quoted, we are happy to attest that the " benevolent wishes" of the author and his reviewer have been most abundantly gratified. We our- selves have heard, within the last few years, from the author of these Lectures, a grateful acknowledgment of many instances in which individuals had tendered their thanks to him as the instrument of their happy escape from the sophistries and absurdities of infidelity. Chris- tianA should consider it their solemn duty to give such
works a wide circulation, especially among the ikeptleai of their own acquaintance. But thii is a «uV>ject already noticed in our life of DonnninoE, Philip, p. b\t of this Dictionary. See also Princeton Review, t. 76. 2. Oxford Divinity compared with that of the Romno and Anglican Churches, with a Special View of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith, Phila., 1841, Svo; Lon., 1841, 8ro. Recommended by the Edinburgh Review (Ixxvii. 682, April, 1843) as one of the best " confutations of the teneta of the Oxford School." See this article, — Puseyism, or the Oxford Tractarian School, — which contains notice* of several works on this theme, once so fruitful in con- troversy. Mr. Bickersteth calls O. 8. Fabcr's Priroitiva Doctrine of Justification, and Bishop Macllvaine'i work, "able answers to Mr, Newman's Lectures." (Christian Student, 4th ed., 1844, 460.) 3. The Sinner's Justifica- tion before God, N.York, 18mo; Lon., 1851, sq. 4. The Holy Catholic Church, Philo., 18mo; Lon., 1844, I6mo. 5. No Priest, No Altar, No Sacrifice, but Christ, N. York, 12mo; Lon., 12mo. 6. Valedictory Offering: Fira Serms., 1853, 12mo. 7. A Word in Seasi n to Candi- dates for Confirmation. 8. The Doctrines jf the Pro*. Epis. Church as to Confirmation. 9. Chief 1 anger of tba Church. 10. The Truth and the Life: a series of XXII. Discourses, N. York, 1855, 8vo; Lon., 1855, 8vo. Thia vol. was pub. at the request of the Convention of the Dio- cese of Ohio.
" This volume of sermons by the Protestant Bishop of OUc is a favourable specimen of Kpiscopal puljiit-oratory among the AaM»- ricans. The subjects are practical; the treatment is plaia aa.^ searching; the style close, at times almost weighty." — Lon. Spt^^ tutor ; and in Bosi. Liv. Age., xlv. 448, May 19, \%hh.
"If any one wishes to know what the gospel is, and kow H should be preached, let him read these discourses. They are dear in their doctrinal statements, forcible in their illustrations, and throughout breathe the spirit of the great Teaclier." — N. Tork l^ot. Epis. Quar. Rev. and Church Register, April, 1855, 309-SlO.
Also highly commended by the Christian Intelligencer, Evangelist, New York Observer, Presbyterian, Ac. The bishop has also pub. many separate serms. and charges; compiled Select Family and Parish Serms., [chiefly from English divines,] Columbus, Ohio, 1839, 2 vols. 8vo; edited Memoir of the Rev. Henry W. Fox, and Memoir of the Rev. Charles Simeon, both pub. in New York ; and contributed articles to the New York (Quarterly) Review, the Episcopal (Monthly) Observer, the London (Monthly) Christian Observer^ the Protestant Churchman, (New York,) the Episcopal Recorder, (Phila.,) and the Western Episcopalian, (Gambler, Ohio.)
" He is distinguished for the ooundness and clearness of bis evangelical views, and for the expository character of his preach- ing. That for which as a preacher he is most eminent is his power of illustrating Scripture by Scripture. And his mode of doing this shows at once the fullness and the accuracy of his know- ledge of Scripture, and the transparent simplicity of his concep- tion. ... In all his preaching he aims to lay broad and deep th» foundations of Christian character, in strong, clear views of man's sinfulness and need, and Christ's fullness and freenees as a Saviour." — Fish's Pulpit Eloquence of the Nineteenth Century, N. York, 1857, 442, q. v. for a notice of this excellent prelate, and a serm. of his on the Resurrection of Christ.
See also Western Memorabilia ; Knickerbocker, xxxt. 42; Darling's Cyc. Bibl., vol. i. 1911.
Macllvaine, J. H. Discourse on Ancient and Modern Divination ; new ed., Rochester, N. York, 1855. 18mo.
Macllwain, George, Consulting Surgeon to the SU Ann's Society, Ac. 1. Unity of the Body, Lon., Svo. 2. Stricture of the Urethra, Ac, Svo. 3. Hernial and other- Tumours, Svo. 4. Constit. Origin of Porrigo, Svo. K Medicine and Surgery one Inductive Science, 1838, Svo.
" A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong."— LoED Bacox.
6. Nature and Treat, of Tumours, 1845, Svo. 7. Me- moirs, Ac. of John Abernethy, Oct. 1853, 2 vols. p. Svo; 2d ed., Dec. 1853, 2 vols. p. Svo: see Abernetht, John.
Macinieson. Principles of Political Economy, Lon., 2 vols. Svo.
Maclntire, John. Marine Forces, 1762, Svo.
Macintosh. English Grammar, Glasg., 1797.
Macintosh, A. F. Military Tour in European Turkey, July, 1854, 2 vols. p. Svo; 2d ed., Oct 1854.
Macintosh, Andrew. Poems, 1811, Svo.
Macintosh, Borland, Brigadier. Essays on Ways and Means for Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting, Ac. ia Scotland, Ac, Edin., 1729, Svo.
"The author seems to have entertained vp-y sound views and enlarged comprehension."— OonaWion'* AgnmU. Biog., loM, 48.
Macintosh, Charles, Curator of Gardens. L Orchard and Fruit-Garden. 1839, 12mo. 2. Flower- Garden, 1839, 12mo. 3. Greenhouse, Hothouse, au<
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•■Tlie labour and experience of a life devoted to the science of Horticulture we now present to the public." — Autlior't Preface.
b. Book of the Garden, pub. in monthly Pte. r. 8vo, 1862-55 ; bound in 2 vols., viz. : vol. i.. Architectural and Ornamental, pp. 776, 1073 engravings, £2 10». ; vol. ii., Practical Gardening, pp. 876, 280 engravings, £1 17«. 6d.
"The best practical book I have ever met with." — Professor Johnston.
"One of the complctest works on agriculture of which our Htera- tare can boast.'' — Agricultural Gazette.
" A work the excellence of which is too well knovm to need any lamarksof ours." — Farmer's Magazine.
" The best authority on the subject." — Florist.
Also commended by The Guardian, The Observer, The Literary Gazette, The Morning Chronicle, The Sun, The Scotsman, The Dundee Courier, and The Edinburgh Ad- vcrtiser.
Macintosh, Daniel* 1. Hist, of Scotland, Lon., ]2mo.
" A good abridgment of the History of Scotland." — Lon. Nevi Monthly Mag.
Also commended by The Dundee Advertiser and The Caledonia Mercury.
2. Key to Geology, 1839, 8vo. 3. Geology and Astro- nomy ; 2d ed., 1848, 8vo. 4. Elements of English Gram- mar, Edin., 1852, 12mo.
Macintosh, David. New ed. of Dr. Wm. Robert- son's Hist, of America; with a Continuation, comprising the History of the Colonies from 1652 to the Present Time, Ac, Lon., 1817, 4to, pp. 558, 14 Maps and Plates. The Continuation occupies 230 pages.
Macintosh, Donald. CoUec. of Gaelic Proverbs and Familiar Sayings, Edin., 1785.
Macintosh, John. 1. Book of the Indians, N. York, 12mo. 2. Spanish and English Primer.
Macintosh, Maria J., b. 1803, at Sunbury, Liberty county, Georgia, is a daughter of Mnjor Lachlan Macin- tosh, and a descendant of the celebrated Brigadier-Gene- ral William Macintosh, who led the Highland troops in the rising of 1715. Thfe military reputation of the clan Macintosh commences with the earliest records of Scot- tish history; and seven descendants of this ancient house bore commissions in the American Revolutionary army. Of the history of the family since its settlement in the New World a brief summary will be found in Hart's Female Prose Writers of America, and in Duyckincks' Cyc. of Amer. Lit. Miss Macintosh is the author of a number of tale.s, which have been received with great favour both in Europe and America. 1. Blind Alice, N. York, 1842. 2. Jessie Graham. 3. Florence Arnott. 4. Grace and Clara. 5. Ellen Leslie, 1843. These five tales were pub. collectively, in 1 vol. 12mo, in 1847, (new ed.,
1849, 12mo,) under the title of Aunt Kitty's Tales. 6. Conquest and Self-Conquest, 1844, 12mo; Lon., 12mo. 7. Woman an Euigma ; or. Life and its Revelations, 1844, 18mo. 8. Praise and Principle, 1845, 18mo. Twice pub. in London. 9. The Cousins; a Tale for Children, N. York, 1845, 18mo; 1854, 18mo. All of the preceding works appeared anonymously : those which follow were pub. with the name of the author. 10. Two Lives; or, To Seem and To Be, 1846, 12mo. Seven eds. were pub. in less than four years after the first appearance of this work. It has been repub. in London. 11. Charms and Counter-Charms, 1848, 12mo. Six eds. in six years; several times repub. in London. 12. Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward, N. York, 1850, 12mo. 13. Evenings at Donaldson Manor; or. The Christmas Guest,
1850, 12mo; 1851, sm. 8vo; 1852, 12mo; Lon., 1851, 12uio. This is a collection of tales, most of which bad previously been pub. in magazines. 14. The Lofty and the Lowly, N. York, 1852, 2 vols. 12mo; new ed., Lon., 1864, 12mo. 16. Emily Herbert ; or, The Happy Home, N. York, 1856, 12mo; Lon., 1865, 12mo. 16. Rose and Lillie Stanhope; or, The Power of Conscience, N. York, 1866, 12mo ; Lon., 1866, 12mo. 17. Violet; or. The Cross «nd the Crown, N. York, 1856, 12mo; Lon., 1867, 12mo. In 1866 appeared a collective ed. of several of Miss Mac- intosh's tales, under the title of Miss Macintosh's Juvenile Library, in 7 vols. 18mo, (New York ;) Contents : I. Grace and Clara; II. Ellen Leslie; III. Florence Arnott; IV. fimily Herbert; V. Rose and Lillie Stanhope; VI. Jessie liraham ; VII. Blind Alice.
This accomplished lady has also contributed many
tales, as yet uncollected, to Graham's, Peterson's, and the
Knickerbocker Magazines. An intelligent critic, after a
warm commendation of Mies Macintosh's anxious desire
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"And thus will it be with the author that lives in the hearts and not in tiie fancy of her readers. And, long after she is returned to the great library of the unforgotten dead, a blessing wide as her language and fervent as devotion will descend on the delineator of those lufty priuciples that showed the nobleness of simplicity and the holiness of truth." — Prof. John Hart: Female Prott Writers of America, new ed., Phila., 1865, 09.
Maclntyre, JRix, Principles of Classical Accentua* tion, Lon., 12mo.
Maclntyre, Duncan, 1724-1812, a native of Druim> laiquhart, Argylshire, Scotland, pub. at Edinburgh in 1768 a vol. of poems entitled Grain Ghnidhealacb le DonacLa Mac-an-t-soir, reprinted in 1790 and in 1804. See Reid's Bihlioth. Scoto-Celtica ; Chambers and Thorn* son's Biog. Diet, of Eminent Scotsmen, 1855, vol. iii.
Maclntyre, J. J. 1. Influence of Aristocracies on Revolutions, Lon., 1843, 8vo ; 1847, 8vo. 2. Electira Franchise, Lon., 1847, 12mo.
Maclntyre, James, M.D., Prof, of Mathematics and Astronomy in the Central High School, Baltimore. New Treat, on Astronomy and the Use of the Globes, N.York,
1849, 12mo. An excellent work, and highly commended. Maclntyre, M. Philosophic Comment, on the Gospel
of St. John, Lon., 1833, 4to.
Maclver, Mrs. Cookery, Ac, Lon., 1787, 12mo.
Maclvor, James. Essay upon the Versification of Homer, Lon., 1839, 8vo.
MacJilton. Poems, Bost., 1840, 12mo.
Mack, Ebenezer. Life of General De La Fayette, Ithaca, N. York, 1841, 12mo.
Mackaille, Matthew, pub. a number of medical treatises, 1659-83. See Watt's Bibl. Brit.
Mackalness, J. Med. paper in Phil. Trans., 1740.
Mackay. Prisoners in the Fleet, 1729, fol.
Mackay, Mrs. Colonel. 1. The Family at Heather- dale; 3d ed.. Ijon., 1854, 18mo. 2. Sabbath Musings, 1844, 18mo. 3. The Wycliffites in England in the Fifteenth Century, 1846, 12mo ; 2d ed., 1861, fp. 8vo.
" A superior l)ook of its class." — Scottish Guardian.
4. Thoughts Redeemed ; or. Leisure Hours, 1854, sq.
Mackay, Alexander, an eminent member of the London press, connected with the Morning Chronicle, who visited the United States in 1846 for the purpose of re- porting the debates at Washington in relation to the Oregon question. On his return to England, he wrote The Western World, Ac, a very able work on the people and institutions of the United States, distinguished for elegance of diction, vigour of style, and liberality of sen- timent. Mr. Mackny was subsequently appointed by the merchants of Manchester as a commissioner to proceed to India to investigate the capabilities of that region for a greatly-increased cultivation of cotton. The subject of this notice faithfully discharged the important duties of his mission, but died on his voyage home. Alexander Mackay was a native of Scotland, and about thirty-eight years of age at the time of his death.
1. The Western World ; or. Travels through the United States in 1846-47, Lon., 1849, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 4th edy
1850, 3 vols. p. 8vo; Phila., 1849, 2 vols. 12mo.
"One of the most faithful and intelligent descriptions of the people and institutions of the Union hitherto written." — Lon. AtheruBum, 1853, 1479.
"Mr. Mackay is abundant in details and infei-enccs." — Edin. Per., xcii. 380.
"The most complete work published on the United State* In extent and variety of siibject it stands alone among Americao travels.'' — Lon. Spectator.
2. Western India : Reports addressed to the Chamber! of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn, and Glasgow. By the late Alexander Mackay, Esq.; edited by James Robertson, Esq., 1853, 8vo. See Lon. Athenaeum, 1853, 1479.
Mackay, Andrew, pub. several mathematical works, among which is The Complete Navigator, Lon., 1804, 8voj 1810, 8vo.
" There appears to be nothing wanting for the complete in- struction of the young mariuer in nautical affairs." — Imperial £eview.
Mackay, Charles, LL.D., a popular poet, journalist, and miscellaneous writer, the descendant of an ancient Scottish house of considerable distinction, was born at Perth in 1812, but educated in London, to which city he was removed in infancy. During the course of a European tour the ardent votary of knowledge pursued his studies at Brussels and at Aix-la-Chapelle. From 1834 to '43 he was connected with the literary stnfiF of the Morning Chronicle, from 1844 to '47 edited the Glasgow Courier (contributing also to Chambers's Journal and the Lond~.o
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^•aily News,) and for a number of years wrote the lead- ing articles for the London Illuelrated News, of which he has been for some time past chief-editor. To the last- nnmeil journal he occasionally contributes a song, with original music. His publications nre as follows : 1. Songs and Poems, Lou., 1834, 12mo. 2. The History of London, the Progress of its Institutions, the Manners and Customs of its People, 1837, 12mo. 3, The Thames and iU Tribu- taries, 1840, 2 vols. 8vo.
" The author is so choert'ul in his style, and has been generally BO diligent in his gathering, that the general reader may be well contented witli liis labours."— ion. At/ienteum, 1840, 697, 6<>8: see also pp. 714-715.
"A lively, agreeable, and characteristic work. Mingle.1 with doscriptious of existing things are many legends aiid spirited ver- sions of the early poelry of the country." — L<m. Spectator.
4. The Hope of the World, and other Poems, 1840, p. 8vo.
•'Graceful description and a sense of the beautiful are Mr. Mackay'g best qualities : his deflcieucies, which are many, arise apparently from a too exclusive reliance on these qualities, and too little efl'ort at independent thinking." — Lon. Athen., 1840,728.
5. Longbeard, Lord of London ; a Romance, 1840, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1850, 12mo. 6. Memoirs of E.xtraordinary Popular Delusions, 1841, 3 vols. 8vo; 1852, 2 vols. 12mo • • 856, 2 vols. p. 8vo: Phila., 1850, 8vo.
"We are not aware that the reader will anywhere find such full and amusing accounts of those celebrated humbugs— the Missis- sippi Scheme, the South-Sea Bubble, the Tulipomania, Ac— as in these entertaining volumes." — Scotsman.
"These volumes will captivate the attention of readers who, ac- cording to their various tempers, feel either inclined to laugh at or sigh over the follies of mankind." — Lon. Times.
See Lon. Athen., 1842, 104-140.
7. The Salamandrine ; a Poem, Lon., 1842, 8vo ; 1848, p. 8vo; 1853, sup. r. 8vo ; 1866, 12mo. Greatly admired. 8. Life of Lieut.-General Hugh Mackay, of Scowry, by the late John Mackay ; new ed., edited by Chas. Mackay, 1842, I2mo. See Mackay, John. 9. Legends of the Isles, and other Poems, 1845, p. 8vo ; 1850, p. 8vo ; 1851, p. 8vo.
" Finer specimens of elevated lyrical poetry have not appeared since Campbell produced his inimitable war-odes. They are highly original in conception, and have an easy strength and felicity of expression that are seldom seen in modern poetry."— CAamfiers'* Journal.
See Dubl. Univ. Mag., xxvii. 315-324.
10. Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, by J. T. Smith ; edited by C. Mackay, 1846, 2 vols. 8vo ; 1849, 12mo. 11. Education of the People: Letters to Viscount Morpeth, 1846, 12mo. 12. The Scenery and Poetry of the English Lakes: a Summer Ramble, 1846, p. 8vo: 1852, p. 8vo.
" Well conceived, and executed by no feeble hand."— Dubl. Univ. Hag., XXX. 33-40, q. v.
Highly commended by Tait's Mag., The Spectator, Britannia, and Sun.
13. In conjunction with W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D., The Life of Sir Robert Peel, 1846-50, 4 vols. 8vo. 14. Voices from the Crowd, 1846, 12mo. Originally pub. in the Lon- don Daily News.
"Bold and energetic; full of high thoughts and manly aspira- tions."— Cfiambers's Journal.
" These are the utterances of a man who has caught, and who expounds, the spirit of his age. They are noble, and, indeed, rlorious, productions, teeming with the spirit of truth and humanity." — Nottingham Rev.
See No. 15. 15. Voices from the Mountains ; with 3d ed. of No. 14, 1847, sq.; with 4th ed. of No. 14, 1861, fp. 8vo. Nos. 14 and 15 were pub., in 1 vol. 12mo, by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, Mass., in 1863. The vol. was reviewed in the Christian Examiner, (Boston.)
" Charles Mackay is one of the most soul-stirring lyiists of our •lay. His poems must always be popular." — Lon. Critic,
See Lon. Athen., 1847, 933.
16. Town Lyrics, and other Poems, Lon., 1848, 12mo : see Lon. Athen., 1848, 159. 17. The Bottle ; a Poem, 1848, fol.. Is.; with Cruikshank's Plates, 2». 18. In conjunc- tion with W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D., The World as it is: a System of Modern Geography, 1849, 2 vols. 4to: vol. iii. of this work was furnished by C. Stafford. 19. Egeria, or The Spirit of Nature, and other Poems, 1850, 12mo.
"We delight to observe the march of progress in an author; and in Dr. Mackay, as I have just remarked, this is very apparent; for • Egeria,' his last, is by far his best, poem, whether we regard felicity of conception, or imaginative and artistic power, — many of Its passages, viewed in the light of didactic verse, beiijj? of high and rare merit both as to manner and matter." — Mcir's &'.-etciies of the Poet. Lit. of the Past Half-Century, 1851, 318-319, q. v. lor a brief review of Dr. Mackay's poetical career.
20. The Lump of Gold, and other Poems, 1856, 12mo.
" Dr. Charles Mackay has been voiceless for some years. Echoes Of his old mubic are still common in the streets, where youngsters delight to waible
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'The good time coming;' but tl;e lyriat has been chary of hU Htlrring llnw. II. hM ma% seized the lyre once again, and prov«d that the .trio« hTT. tol none of the fine old toi.e."-Z>m. AUitn.. 1860, 130 ,T
Bee also Irish Quar. Rev., June, 1868. 21. The BoDC of the Brave, 185«. 12mo. 22. Ballads and Lyrlo Poei pao, l.imo. 23. Lnder Green Leaves, 1867, 12wo. Thii 18 a collection of lyrics. Dr. Mackay has also wrilUt one hundred songs for the ancient popular melodies of lingland, in connexion with the late Henry R. Bi.hop, ans —himself a composer of music— has publii.hed twenty five songs with his own melodies. Of one of these— Joh» Brown— over 20,000 copies have been sold.
In October, 1867, Dr. Mackay visited the United StalM^ and 18 at the present moment (November, 18d7)deliTeriDg lectures in Boston upon a theme which few have so weQ illustrated by their own genius,— Songs, National, His- torical, and Popular. Interesting biographical and critical notices of this popular writer will be found in the B«. ropean Times, Oct. 2, 1857, Ac One of these sketohei 18 from the pen of the late Angus Reach. The author of the article of October 2 awards to Dr. Mackay the hirh praise that
''In his songs, as in all his writings, be has one great pnrpost at heart, from which he never deviates for a momeutr-tbe pco motion of human virtue and human happiness. Free govemmeDt, equal laws, liberal institutions, an enlightened spirit iu the ruling powers, the diftusion among all classes of the be«t feelings and charities of social and domestic life,— these are the objecu which he pursues in every line of his writings. In this respect it may be said that he stands alone: at least, we know of no other of wbom the same thing can be said to an eqiml extent. . . . His verse Is exceedingly sweet, flowing, and melodious : and his skill Id the musical art has given him a command over the resources of rhythm which few English song-writers possess. In his happiest effusIoiM he has combined the force of Burns with the elegance and polish of Moore."
"If any gentle-hearted, imaginative person would have th« springs of childhood's purest feelings touched, and the aspInttioDS of manhood's noble^st moods strengthened, let him read the sweet poems of Charles Mackay. If any strong-souled reformer, battUaff with evil times and selfish men, would feed the fountains of his faith and charity and brighten the visions of his choicest hours, let him read the glorious poems of Charles Mackay. His writings are not the poetry of tragedy, of metaphysics, or of tradition; but of happiness, oi beauty and hope, of nature and truth, of man and reform. It is pre-eminently the poetry of the times, singing— iu native music, whose thrilling appeals stir the blood like a trumpet's blasts, and whose tender suggestiveness melts the eyes like an SBolian's melancholy— the best characteristics, the wisest lessons, and the chief duties of the present age." — Chrittian Examiner, (Boston :) Vide No. 16 supra.
Mackay, Henry. Excise Laws, Ac, Edin., 177i», 8vo.
Mackay, J. T. Flora Hibemica : Plants, Ferns, Ac. of Ireland, Lon., 8vo.
Mackay, James, and Gustavns C. Hebbe, LL.D. Life in the New World ; or. Sketches of American Society, by Seatsfield ; trans, from the German by J. M. and G. C. H., N. York, 1839, 8vo. Seatsfield also wrote The Cabin Book, or Sketches of Life in Texas; trans, from the German by Prof. Ch. Fr. Mersch, 1844, Svo; North and South, or Scenes in Mexico, ]2mo; Flirtatioa in America, 12mo; Raiubleton, or Romance of Life in New York, Bait., 8vo; Tokeah, Phila., 12mo,
Mackay, Jo. Journey through England and Scot- land, Lon,, 1722-23, 3 vols. Svo. Written by DannI Defoe.
Mackay, John. Secret Services of, pub, from his MS., Lon., 1733, 8vo.
Mackay, John. Life of Lieut.-Oeneral Hugh Ma«. kay, of Scowry, Edin., 1836, 4to. See Mackay, Cbablei, No, 8,
Mackay, Matthew. 1. Serms. on the Chrlstiaa Warfare, Lon,, 8vo, 2. Expos, of St. Matt. chap. v. 1- 10, 1845, 2 vols. Svo.
Mackay, Robert William. 1. The Progress of In- tellect, as Exemplified in the Religious Development of the Greeks and Romans, Lon., 1850, 2 vols. Svo. So* Westm. Rev., liv. 353. 2, Sketch of the Rise and Progresa of Christianity, 1856, p. Svo.
Mackay, \V. Tales of a Traveller at Home and Abroad, vol. i., Lon., 1851, Svo.
Mackay, William. Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Juno, Lon., 1798, Svo.
Mackbeth, Abraham. Discourse upon the Wan- dering Thoughts in Prayer, Lon., 1713.
Mackcoull, John. His Vindication, lSUi>, Svo. MacKean. Acts of the General Assembly of Pans. sylvania 1775-81, Phila., 1782, fol.
MacKean, Alexander. Practical Life-Tablet, Lon 1837, Svo. ^^
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MassKeati) Joseph, D.D.,LL.D., 1776-1818, a native •i Ipgwicb, Mass., gradaated at Harvard College, 1794, was ordained minister of Milton, Mass., 1797, and resigned in 1804, and was elected Prof, of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard College in 1809. He died at Havana, which he visited for the benefit of his health. He pub. six Ser- mons, 1804-17, a Memoir of John Eliot in Hist. Collec, and an Addition to Wood's Continuation of Goldsmith's Hist, of England.
MacKean, Thomaa, LL.D., 1734-1817, Chief-Jus- tice of Pennsylvania, 1777, and Governor of the same State, 1799 to 1808, was a member of the National Con- gress of 1765, and of that of 1774 to 1783, (a delegate from the State of Delaware,) and occupied other important public positions. With Prof. J. Wilson, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, unfolding the Prin- eiples of Free Government, Lon., 8vo.
" The publication must bo perused throughout, in order to form an idea of the good sense and manly eloquence of the speeches here made public." — Lon. Monthly Rev.
MacKeen, Joseph, D.D., 1757-1807, a native of Londonderrj', Now Hampshire, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1774, was pastor of the church in Beverly, Mass., 1785-1802, and President of Bowdoin College, 1802-07. He pub. seven single Sermons, 1793-1801, some papers in the Transac. Amer. Acad., and an Inaugural Address, (with Mr. Jenks's Eulogy,) 1802.
MacKeen, Joseph, LL.D., 1792-1856, a native of Vermont, came to the city of New York ia 1818, was en- gaged for many years in the profession of teaching, and from 1848 until 1854 was actively occupied in the per- formance of the duties of Superintendent of City Schools. In 1854, Mr. S. S. Randall was appointed City Superin- tendent, and Mr. MacKeen and Mr. Seton were chosen his assistants. Mr. MacKeen edited for a year or two the Journal of Education, and as Superintendent of the City Schools wrote a number of valuable Annual Reports, the ■uggestions contained in which have greatly furthered the cause of public education in the State of New York.
MacKeever, Harriet B. Twilight Musings, and other Poems, Phila,, 1857, 12mo, with a Preface by the Rev. William Bacon Stevens, D.D., of Philadelphia, who commends these poems highly.
MacKellar, Thomas, the son of an officer in the British navy who emigrated to New York, (where he re- sided until his death) was born in that city, Aug. 12, 1812, became a printer in 1826, removed to Philadelphia in 1833, and has been for many years a partner in the extensive type and stereotype foundry of L. Johnson <fc Co.
Mr. MacKellar had acquired considerable reputation by his poetical contributions to periodicals before he ven- tured to launch a whole volume upon the uncertain ocean of literary criticism; but the success of his first enterprise encouraged others, and at the present date he is favour- ably known to the public as the author of three volumes of poetry, — viz.: 1. Droppings from the Heart; or. Occa- sional Poems, Phila., 1844, 18mo, pp. 144.
" He is a man of genius, wi th a heart as tender as a woman's. . . . I do not know tliat in my life I ever saw a more complete picture than this book of a heart overrunning with tenderness. His lines to his ' Sleeping Wife' are as beautiful as any thing of Barry Corn- wall's. The piece called the ' Heart-Longings,' too, is finely ex- pressed. . . . For family rending, among people of pure tastes, the ' Droppings of the Heart' is the bestnadapted book of poetry I have lately seen." — N. 1'. Willis : N. York Mirror'
•' We observe, with especial pleasure, that the great merit of never straining after effect is one of the most prominent charac- teristics of Mr. MacKellar's verse. He wi-ites from the impulse of poetical emotions rather than from the less ennobling incitements of merely literary ambition." — Knickerbocker, Aug. 1844.
" There are poems of much sweetness and pathos in this col- lect'.on. Their spirit is tender and profoundly religious, and the •xpression simple and natural." — W.C. Brta.nt : N. York Evening
" We hesitate not to pronounce him a true poet." — J. W. Alez- ASDER, D.D. : Frincelort Whig, Feb. 2, 1844.
2. Tarn's Fortnight Ramble, and other Poems, 1847, 12mo, pp. 216.
" Tarn — or Mr. MacKellar, to speak of him by his real name — is no potty trifler in verse, but an earnest man, writing on earnest subjects and striving to do good as well as to amuse. Such nbould ever be the high aim of poetry." — Joseph C. Neal: NeaVt Gazette.
"The head and the heart of this author (although he is too modest to make hif;h claims for either) in truth require no gratui- tous commendation. His muse has indeed the truth, and depth, and insight of poetry, lacking only the passionateness, fire, and rapture with which its sometimes grandeur, otteiier giddi- ness, intoxicates the fency. It is a gentle, loving, hopeful, healthy heartiness that is the charm of his poems. The rhythm is smooth, the versification accurate, and the sentiment always beautiful. Extracts made anywhere at random from this book would show how just the character we ascribe to the writer, and how tame Uie praise we have Kiver t . hii poetry." — Da. ULSsa.
3. Lines for the OenUe and Loving, 1853, I8mo, pfw 144.
The reader will observe that we have quoted a number ot highly commendatory notices of Mr. MacKellar's poetry; but those which we have inserted bear but a small pro portion to those which we have omitted. A writer who has received so cordial a reception from the public need have no hesitation in repeating the experiment, whenever the cessation of the cares of business will allow the indul- gence of poetical reveries, literary rambles, and tem- porary oblivion of types, proofs, and compositors.
MacKenna, T. 1. The Civil Code, Book I.; from the French, Lon., 1833, 8vo. 2. Rights and Lialiilitiea of Tenant, Landlord, Ac, 1834, 12mo.
MacKenna, Theobald, d. 18U9. Political Essays on Ireland, 1794-1805.
MacKenney, Col. Thomas Ij., an enterprising traveller who resided for a long time with the Indian tribes in North America, is best known to the literary world by his share in a work already noticed on a pre- ceding page, — viz. : History of the Indian Tribes, Ac, : see Hall, Judge James, No. 10. Colonel MacKenney has given to the world: 1. Sketches of a Tour to tha Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of Incidents connected with the Treaty of Fond du Lao. By Thomas L. MacKenney, of the Indian Department, and Joint-Commissioner with His Excellency Governor Cass in negotiating the Treaty, Bait., 1827, 8vo. Reviewed in N. Amer. Rev., xxv. 334-.'552. 2. Memoirs, Official and Personal; with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians, N. York, 1846, 2 vols, in 1, 8vo. Col. MacKenney was, in 1816, appointed by President Madison Superintendent of the United States Trade with the Indian Tribes; and in 1824 he was nominated to preside over a Bureixu of Indian Affairs, then for the first time organized in connexion with the Depart- ment of War. His memoirs must not be neglected by the student of American history.
Mackenrat, A. Secret Memoirs of A. C. Johnstone, Sir A. Cochrane, and of Sir T. Cochrane, 1814, 8vo.
Mackenzie, Alexander, M.D. 1. Dropsical Casej Med. Obs. and Inq., 1762. 2. The Thigh-Bone; ibid.
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, d. 1820, long a re- sident of Canada, and the discoverer of the river which bears his name, is supposed to have been a native of In- •verness. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Law- rence, through the Continent of North America, to tha Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account [pp. 130] of the Fur-Trade, Lon., 1801, 4to, pp. 544, £1 16*. M. ; Paris, 1802, 2 volsi 8vo.
" This very interesting work contains the second successful at tempt to penetrate by land to the frozen Ocean of North America," — Pinkerton's Voyages and 'Vrarrh.
"Though this large volume will convey b\it little important in- form vtion to the geographer, the naturalist, or the statesman, it will ,"robably be perused with very general interest and satisfec- tion. . . His narrative, if sometitties minute and fatiguing, is unifoi nly distinct and consistent: his observations, though not nuraet nis. are sagacious and unassuming; and the whole work bears an impression of correctness and veracity that leaves no un- pleasant feeling of doubt or suspicion in the mind of the reader " — Lord Jefi'rey : £din. Jiev., i. 141-158.
See also Stevenson's Voyages and Travels, 551.
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander. Theory of Taste founded on Association. Lon., 1842, 12mo.
Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 1803-1848, a na- tive of the city of New York, the son of Mr. John Slidell by his wife, Margery Mackenzie, entered the United States navy January 1, 1815, was made lieutenant in 1825, and commander in 1841. In 1837, he was permitted, by an act of the Legislature, to add his mother's name to the one which he had already made distinguished in the Re- public of Letters. He died at his residence on the Hudson River, not far from Tarry town. New York. 1. A Year io Spain; by a Young American, Bost., 1829, 2 vols. 12mo; Lon., 1831, 2 vols. ]2mo. Enlarged, N. York, 1836, 3 vols. 12mo. Trans, into Swedish. This work gained the lively raconteur great reputation in London : Washing- ton Irving writes from there, shortly after its appearance in that city :
"It is quite the fashionable book of the day, and spoken of in the highest terms in the highest circles. If the lieuteuaut were in Loudon at present he would be quite a lion."
The same distinguished author reviewed A Year in
Spain for the London Quarterly, (Feb. 1831, xliv. 319-
342,) and, at the close of u most complimentary paper,
thus encourages the young aspirant for literary honours:
I '■ We anticipate fiirtlier and still more copious extracts from our
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The rev ewer has survived to add many fresh laurels to his brows, and, at the expiration of nearly thirty years, »till " live J, a prosperous gentleman," happy in the grate- ful admiration of the good and the refined of all climes, »nd happier still in the affection of his friends, his family, and his countrymen. See life of Washington Irving, p. 935 of this Dictionary.
A Year in Spain was also reviewed in the London Monthly Review, cxxiv. 633 ; Fraser's Magazine, v. 436 ; Worth American Review, xxx. 237, (by W. Phillips ;) and Bouthern Review, viii. 154. See also South. Quar. Rev., xiii. 78; and Noctes Ambrosiana, April, 1831. 2. Popular EsEivys on Naval Subjects, N. York, 1833, 2 vols. 12mo. 8. The American in England, 1835, 2 vols. 12mo j Lon., 2 vols. p. 8vo. 4. Spain Revisited, N. York, 1836, 2 vols. 12mo ; Lon., 2 vols. p. 8vo. 6. The Life of John Paul Jones, Captain U. States Navy, Bost., 1841, 2 vols. 12moj K. York, 2 vols. 12mo.
" We are glad to see the life of this celebrated man by one com- petent to write it. His adventures border bo much on the marvel- lous that one is glad to be sure of reading only what is authentic, and that written in a style and language becoming the subject." — Christian Advocate and Journal.
6. The Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, N. York, 1841, 2 vols. 18mo. With an Appendix, containing a Reply to J. Fenimore Cooper's Account of the Battle of Lake Erie. See Burgess, Tristam; Cooper, James Fenimore.
"This is a fine piece of biography: it is both a just and true de- lineation of the character of that gallant and heroic commander, and a noble tribute to his memory." — Rev. Dr. Cogswell.
" The brilliant victory of Lake Erie was for years after its occur- rence a source of crimination and recrimination as to the relative merits of the first and second in command. The three publications above named [1. Burgess's Battles of Lake Erie ; 2. Biography of Commodore Elliott; 3. Mackenzie's Life of Perry] leave little doubt of the soundness of the popular opinion, which makes Perry the hero of the victory."— President King, of Columbia College : Oakley's ed. of Kent and King's Course of English Reading, 1853, 40.
7. The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, Bost., 1846, 12mo ; being vol. xxi. [New Series, xi.] of Jared Sparks's Library of American Biography.
"Commander Mackenzie's book is a fine specimen of naval biography, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his calling. To our own seamen it must become what Southey's fascinating Life of Kelson has long been to the members of the British navy, the text- book of excellence in the service, the authentic and striking por- trait of the favourite hero of the profession." — Francis Bowen : N. Amer. Rev., Ixiv. 217-237.
Commander Mackenzie left in MS. a journal of his Tour in Ireland, which it is to be hoped will not be with- held from the public. The literary taste of this excellent writer enabled him to make a profitable use of his profes- sional knowledge ; and both were highly appreciated by his attiiched friend Washington Irving, who thus acknow- ledges his assistance in one of the most important of the works which have conferred such merited distinction on the author of The Sketch-Book :
" The author of this work is indebted for the able examination of the route of Columbus to an officer of the navy of the United States, whose name he regrets not being at libertv to mention. He has been greatly benefited in various parts of this history by nautical information from the same intelligent source." — Life arid Voyages of Christopher Columbus, rf«., iii. 366.
" JVote to the Revised Edition of 1848.
"In the present revised edition the author feels at liberty to give the merit of the very masterly paper on the route of Colum- bus, where it is justly due. It was furnished him at Madrid by the late Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, of the United States Navy, whose modesty shrunk from afiixing his name to an article so calculated to do him credit, and which has since chal- lenged the high eulogiums of men of nautical science."— iftid., iii. 880,5.1). '
Mackenzie, Anne Maria. Novels, Ac, 1795-1809.
Mackenzie, C. A. 1. Sin and Grace, Lon., 1862, 18ino. 2. Voyages and Travels of a Pilgrim, 1864, ISmo.
Mackenzie, Campbell. Trans, of Letters of John Huss, Ac, Lon., 1846, p. 8vo. Commended by Church and State Gazette.
Mackenzie, Charles. Mineralogy of the Ochill Hills; Thorn. Ann. Philos., 1814.
Mackenzie, Charles. Notes during a Residence in Haiti, Lon., 1830, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. « Evidently entitled to the fullest credence."— Zm?. Month. Mag.
Also commended by the Literary Gazette, Spectator, and Atlas. See also Blackw, Mag., xxvii. 240, 679, Xxxiv. 615.
Mackenzie, Rev. Charles. Hist, of the Church tlf Christ to 1688, Lon., 1842, p. 8vo.
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Also commended by the Lon. M. Herald
Mackenzie, Mrs. Colin. Life in the Miisioo. Um Camp, and the Zenana; or. Six Year, in India, Loa^ 1864, 2 vols. 12mo; 1865, 3 vols. p. 8vo
Mackenzie, D. L. A Practical Dictionary of Ed«. lish EpitheU, Lon., 1864, r. 16mo, pp. 216.
Mackenzie, David. 1. Emigrant's Guida to Ana. traha, Lon., 1848, 18mo. 2. Qold-Digger, 1852, 12mo. 3. Ten Years in Australia; 3d ed., 1852, l2mo.
Mackenzie, E. 1. Historical, Ac View of the U. 8. of America, Ac, Newc-upon-Tyne, 1819, 18mo. 2. Uia. toncal, Ac. View of the Co. of Northumberland, Ao.. isiib 2 vols. 4to.
Mackenzie, Erick. The Roua Pass; or, Englisli. men in the Highlands, Lon., 1867, 3 vols. p. 8vo.
" The Koua Pass is a good novel,— the best of the season. . . , W# should scarcely think the 'Roua Pass' her first work : it aflbnls «• every reason to believe it wUl not be her last"— Watm. Rev., Jul/,
Mackenzie, Frederick. 1. Specimens of Gothic Architecture, on 61 Plates, Lon., 4to. In conjunction with A. Pugin. 2. Roof of King's College Chapel, (Cambridge,) 1840, 4to. 3. St. Stephen's Chapel, (Westminster.) 1844. atlas fol., £4 4».
Mackenzie, Sir George, 1636-1691, a native of Dundee, educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and St Andrew's, was called to the Scottish Bar in 1656, and subsequently raised to the Bench; returned to Parlia- ment for the county of Ross about 1670; made King't Advocate, and one of the Lords of the Privy Council, in Scotland, in 1674; retired to Oxford in 1689. The best- known of his works are : 1. Aretina ; or. The Seriona Romance, Lon., 1661, 12mo. 2. Religio Stoica, Edin., 1663, 8vo. 3. A Moral Essay, preferring Solitude to Public Employment, 1666, 8vo. See Evelyn, Joh.v, No. 7.
"It seems singular that Mackenzie, plunged in the banbwt labours of ambition, should be the advocate of retirement, and that Evelyn, comparatively a recluse, should have commended that mode of life which he did not choose."— Sir James MACuih TOSH : Eiin. Rem., xxxvi. 5, and in his Works, Lon., 1854, ii. 120, n.
"The eloquence of Mackenzie's style was well suited to the dig- nity of his subject." — DisraeWs Curiosities of Literature, ed. Lon- 1840,189. ' ^
4. Moral Gallantry, 1667, 8vo. 5. A Moral Paradox ! Easier to be Virtuous than Vicious, 1667, '69, 8vo; 1669, fol. ; Lon., 1685, 8vo. 6. Pleadings and Decisions, Edin., 1672, 4to. 7. Discourse on the Laws and Customs of Scotland in Matters Criminal, 1674, '78, 4to ; 1699, foL 8. On Precedency, 1680, fol. 9. The Science of Herauldry, 1680, fol. 10. Institutions of the Laws of Scotland, 1684, 12mo; Lon., 1694, 8vo; Edin., 1706, 12mo. With Notes, Ac. by John Spottiswood, 1723, 8vo. Revised, Ac. by .Alex. Bayne, 1730, '58, 12mo. See Erskinb, John. 11. Jus Regium, Ac; or. Monarchy Vindicated against Buchanan, Naphtali, Dolman, Milton, Ac, Lon., 1684, 8vo; 1685, 12mc
" An unequal defence of absolute monarchy." — SaUam't Oonttit. Hist, of Eng., 7th ed., Lon., 1854, ii. 462, q. v.
See also Sir James Mackintosh's Works, (A Defence of the French Revolution,) Lon., 1854, iii. 142. 12. On the Discovery of the Fanatick Plot, Edin., 1684, fol. 13. Ob- servations on the [Scotch] Acts of Parliament, Ac. to end Reign of Charles II., 1686, fol. 14. Oratio Inauguralii habita Edinburgi de Structura Bibliothecse, Juridicia, 1680, 8vo. This eloquent oration was delivered at the opening of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, of which Sir George was the founder. 15. Reason ; an Essay, Lon., 1690, 8vo; 1695, 12mo. 16. The Moral History of Frugality, and its opposite Vices, 1691, 8vo. 17. Caelia'a Country-House and Closet; a Poem. 18. Essays upon seve- ral Moral Subjects, 1713, 8vo. He wrote two tracts (1686, 8vo; 1686, 4to) in defence of the Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland, against Bishop Lloyd and Stillingfleet. In 1716-22, Edin., 2 vols, fol., (edited by Ruddiman,) ap- peared Sir George Mackenzie's Works, with many Learned Treatises of his never before Printed, (but omitting Aretina, Lon., 1661, 12mo, and On the Discovery of the Fanatick Plot, 1684, Edin., fol.;) and in 1821, Edin., 4to, (edited by Thomas Thomson,) was pub., for the first time, Sir George's Memoirs of the Afiairs of Scotland. Of this work a review by Sir James Mackintosh will be found in the Edinburgh Review, xxxvi. 1-33. See also notices of Mackenzie in Sir James's Miscell. Works, Lon., 1854, ii. 119, 122, 324, iii. 142.
It is as an essayist that Mackenzie has acquired tha most reputation ; but these are now so nearly forgotten that " a gentleman need not be ashamed of owniaj that
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'■ Ilis MiscellHDeous Essays, both in prose and verse, may now be dispensed with, or laid aside, without difficulty. They have not vigour enough for long life. But, if they be considered as tlie elegant amusement of a statesman and lawyer who had little lei.'4ure for the cultivation of letters, they afford a striking proof of the variety of his accomplishments and of the refinement of his taste. Id several of his Moral Kssays both the subject and the manner betray an imitation of Cowley, who was at that moment beginning the reformation of £ngliah style." — Sib Jamm Mackin- tosh : JEdin. Rev., xxxvi. 6, and in his Worls, ii. 120.
Mr. Hiillam does not think so well of the Essays :
" The Essays of Sir George Mackenzie are empty and diffuse : the style is full of pedantic words to a degree of barbarism ; and, though they were chiefly written after the Revolution, he seems to have wholly formed himself on the older writers, such as Sir Thnnias Browne, or even Feltham. He affects the obsolete and uupleasing termination of the third person in the verb in eUi, which was going out of use even in the pnlpit. besides other rust of archaism. Nothing can be more unlike the manner of Dryden, Locke, or Temple. In his matter he seems a mere declaimer, — as it the world would any longer endure the trivial morality which the sixteenth century had borrowed from Seneca or the dull ethics of ki-rmons. It is probable that, as Mackenzie was a man who had seen and read much, he must have some better passages than I have found in glancing shortly at his works." — Lit. Hist, of Ewvpt, 4th ed. Lon., 1854, iii. 559.
That Evelyn greatly admired Sir George's writings, (see his letter to Cowley, 12th March, 1666,) and Dryden highly valued and profited by his criticisms, (see his Dis- course on the Origin and Progress of Satire, prefixed to his Journal,) we have ample evidence. See Mackenzie's Life, prefixed to bis works, fol. ed. ; Lord Woodhouselee's Life of Lord Karnes; Bp. Nicolson's Scot Hist. Lib.; Laing's Hist, of Scot. ; Burnet's Own Times ; Chambers *nd Thomson's Biog. Diet, of Eminent Scotsmen, 1855, vol. iii. ; Brydges's Cens. Lit. ; Blair's Lects. on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, Lect. XVII. ; Dibdin's Lib. Comp., ed. 1825, 279; Disraeli's Curiosities of Lit., ed. 1851, 189-190; Lon. Gent Mag., vol. Ixiii. 515 ; Blackw. Mag., i. 273.
Mackenzie, George, Viscount Tarbat and Earl of Cromartie, 1630-1714. See Cromartie, or Cro- MBRTY, George, Earl op. Other publications of his — political, historical, and theological — are noticed in Wood's Parish of Cramond, and in Park's Walpole's R. and N. Authors.
Mackenzie, George, M.D., of Edinburgh. The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation : with an Abstract and Catalogue of their Works, Their Various Editions, and the Judgment of the Learned concerning them, Edin., 1708-11-22, 3 vols, fol. This work has been styled " a most shapeless mass of inert matter;" yet it is well worth having, notwith- standing.
" This work, found complete, is not of very ordinary occurrence, IJie third volume being usually missing. . . . After all, they are unseemly tomes ; and the third is compelled to walk on stiLti to keep pace with its companions." — DUxiin'i Lib. dump.
Mackenzie, George. 1. The System of the Weather in 1816-17, 1818. 2. Do. of the Brit. Islands, Perth, 1821, 8vo.
Mackenzie, Sir George Stewart, Bart 1. Dis- eases and Management of Sheep, Lon., 1809, 8vo.
" Displays much skill in the objects of description. ... He had imbibed the mania of the Spanish sheep, and thought to overturn what nature has ordained." — Di/naldsnn't Agriadt. Bing.
2. Travels in Iceland in 1810, Edin. and Lon., 1811, «to; 1812, 4to; Chambers's People's ed., 1842, r. 8vo. Prefixed is a Dissert, on the Hist, and Literature of Ice- land, by Sir Henry Holland, M.D., (see p. 865 of this Dictionary,) and a list of Icelandic Plants, by Sir Wil- liam Jackson Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., (see p. 881 of this Dictionary.)
" Almost every topic on which a traveller is expected to give Information is here treated of, — the history, religion, natural history, agriculture, manners, &c., — and all evidently the result of much pre- Tious knowledge, good sense, and information collected on the spot." —Stevensoti's Vnyagtt and Travelt.
Reviewed by Robert Southey, in the London Quarterly Review, vii. 48-92. See also Hooker, Sir William Jackson, K.H., D.C.L., No. 1, in this Dictionary. 3. Agricult of Ross and Cromarty, 1813, 8vo.
" The climate, soil, and productions of these northern counties are well described, with the means and obstacle* of improvement" —DonoUdson't JgrieuU. Biog.
4. Essay on some Subjects connected with Taste, 1817, 8vo. 5. Combustion of the Diamond, ilkc. ; Nic. Jour., 1800. 6. Geological Tracts; Trans. Soc. Edin., 1815. 7. Qlass of a Forcing-House; Trans. Hortio. Soc, 1816.
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831, a native of Edin- burgh, the son of Joshua Mackenzie, M.D., was educated at the University ( f Edinburgh ; subsequently became ta attorney of th« Scottish Court of Exchequer, and 117*
' studied English Exchequer practice in London ; In 1904y : was rewarded for his political tracts in defence of the toriea I by the office of Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, and re- I tiiined this lucrative post until his death. His house was I for many years the principal resort of the distingaished literary and political characters of Edinburgh and of all visitors who could secure a proper introduction.
" Henry Mackenzie's excellent conversation, agreeable family, good evening parties, and the interest atttichod to united age and reputation, made his house one of the pleasantest. One of th« Arbitri Klegantiarum of Old Kdinburgh, he survived to floiiiish ia a new scene." — Lurd Oockbunn't Memorials of hit Time, chap, v, 1856, q. V.
His literary productions are as follows: 1. The Man of Feeling; a Novel, 1771, 8vo. Pub. anonymously,