A dictionary of American authors

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=Lowell, Robert Traill Spence.= _Ms._, 1816-1891. Son of C. Lowell, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, head master of St. Mark’s School, Southborough, 1869-73, and professor of Latin at Union College, 1873-79. After the latter date he continued to live at Schenectady, which is the _locale_ of his book, A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town, as Southborough suggests that of his popular story of school life, Antony Brade. His other works include The New Priest in Conception Bay, a novel of life in Newfoundland, the scene of his first rectorship; Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years Ago, and Other Poems. The Defence of Lucknow is his most familiar poem. _Rob._

=Lowrie, John Cameron.= _Pa._, 1808-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Travels in Northern India; Two Years in Upper India; Manual of Foreign Missions; Missionary Papers; Presbyterian Missions.

=Lowrie, John Marshall.= _Pa._, 1817-1867. Cousin of J. C. Lowrie, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. Esther and Her Times; Adam and His Times; A Week with Jesus; The Translated Prophet; The Prophet Elisha; The Life of David.

=Lucas, Daniel Bedinger.= _W. Va._, 1836- ----. A lawyer of Charlestown, West Virginia, who was a United States senator in 1887. A Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid of Northumberland, a dramatic poem; Ballads and Madrigals.

=Luce, Stephen Bleecker.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A rear-admiral of the United States navy, retired in 1887, who, beside publishing a treatise on Seamanship, has edited a collection of Naval Songs.

=Lüders, Charles Henry.= _Pa._, 1858-1891. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; Hallo, My Fancy! a collection of verse (with S. D. Smith). _Scr._

=Ludlam, Reuben.= _N. J._, 1831-1899. A Chicago physician, dean of the Hahnemann Medical College. Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women.

=Ludlow, Fitzhugh.= _N. Y._, 1836-1870. A littérateur and journalist of New York city. The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures; Augustus Jones, Jr. _Le._

=Ludlow, James Meeker.= _N. J._, 1841- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of East Orange, New Jersey, from 1886. My Saint John; Concentric Chart of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of the times of Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah; That Angelic Woman, a novel. _Fu. Har._

=Ludlow, Noah Miller.= _N. Y._, 1795-1886. An actor and theatrical manager in the Southern States. Dramatic Life as I found It.

=Lukens, Henry Clay.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty; Story of the Types; Jets and Flashes.

=Lum, Daniel Dyer.= 18-- - ----. The Spiritual Delusion; Early Social Life of Man; Utah and its People. _Lip._

=Lummis, Charles Fletcher.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A Los Angeles writer. The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon: Indian folk-lore stories; Some Strange Corners of our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand Chimú; A New Mexico David, and Other Stories. _Cent. Lam. Mg. Scr._

=Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell [Chellis].= _N. H._, 18-- - ----. A prolific writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, All for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge; Father Merrill. _Cr. Lo._

=Lundy, John Patterson.= _Pa._, 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Review of Bishop Hopkins’s “Bible View of Slavery;” Monumental Christianity; Forestry.

=Lunt, Edward Clark.= 186- - ----. A writer on economics. The Present Condition of Economic Science.

=Lunt, George.= _Ms._, 1803-1885. A lawyer of Newburyport, and later a resident of Scituate, among whose writings in verse and prose are, The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems: Sonnets and Miscellanies; Old New England Traits; Three Eras of New England. The latest collection of his verse was made in 1883.

=Lunt, William Parsons.= _Ms._, 1805-1857. A Unitarian clergyman of Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1835 until his death, whose literary work was much admired for the beauty of its style. Union of the Human Race; Gleanings.

=Lupton, Nathaniel Thomas.= _Va._, 1830-1893. An educator and scientist of Alabama, State chemist from 1885, and author of The Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture.

=Lusk, William Thompson.= _Ct._, 1838-1897. A prominent obstetric physician of New York city. The Science and Art of Midwifery.

=Luska, Sidney.= _See Harland, Henry._

=Lyle, William.= _S._, 1822- ----. A verse-writer of Rochester, New York. The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems.

=Lyman, Henry Munson.= _H. I._, 1835- ----. A Chicago physician, professor of medicine in Rush College. Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep; Artificial Anæsthesia; Practice of Medicine.

=Lyman, Joseph Bardwell.= _Ms._, 1829-1872. An agricultural journalist of New York city. Philosophy of Housekeeping; Resources of the Pacific States; Women of the War; Cotton Culture.

=Lyman, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1792-1849. A noted philanthropist of Boston, the founder of the Lyman School at Westborough. Three Weeks in Paris; The Political State of Italy; Account of the Hartford Convention; The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations.

=Lyman, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1833-1897. Son of T. Lyman, _supra_. A scientist of note associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy in Cambridge from 1860. His principal work is the Ophiuroidea of the Challenger Expedition.

=Lynch, Anne C.= _See Botta, Mrs._

=Lynch, James Daniel.= _Va._, 1836- ----. A political writer of Mississippi. Kemper County Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississippi; Bench and Bar of Texas.

=Lynch, William Francis.= _Va._, 1801-1865. A naval officer of prominence as an explorer. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea; Naval Life, or Afloat and Ashore.

=Lyon, Anne Bozeman.= _Al._, 1860- ----. A Southern writer of fiction. No Saint; A Sterlings Camp.

=Lyon, David Gordon.= _Al._, 1852- ----. An educator of Cambridge, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1882. Keilschrifttexte Sargons Koenigs von Assyrien; An Assyrian Manual. _Scr._

=Lyon, Irving Whitall.= _N. Y._, 1840-1896. A Hartford physician who wrote Colonial Furniture in New England. _Hou._

=Lyons, Albert Brown.= _H. I._, 1841- ----. A prominent chemist of Detroit who has published a Manual of Practical Assaying.

=Lytle, William Haines.= _O._, 1826-1863. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, remembered in literature for the poem beginning, “I am Dying, Egypt, Dying.” _See Poems of, edited, with Memoir, by W. Venable, infra._ _Clke._

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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