Part 19 (1/2)
=Mahoney, Francis=, ”Father Prout.” 1805-1866. Irish poet and journalist. M. wrote the noted poem, The Bells of Shandon.
=Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner.= 182 Jurist. Author Roman Law, Ancient Law, Village Communities, Early Hist. of Inst.i.tutions, etc.
_Pub. Ho._
=Maitland, Edward.= 18-- ----. Novelist. Author The Higher Law, The Pilgrim and the Shrine, and By-and-By. _Pub. Put._
=Maitland, Sir Richard.= 1496-1586. Scotch poet.
=Malcolm, Sir John.= 1769-1833. Diplomatist. Author Hist. of Persia, Political Hist. India, Life of Lord Clive, etc. _See Kaye's Life of, London, 1856._
=Mallet, David.= 1700-1765. Scotch poet. Author Ballads, etc.
=Mallock, Wm. Hurrel.= 184 Novelist. Author Is Life Worth Living, The New Republic, Positivism on an Island, Romance of the 19th Cent., etc. A writer of much force and originality.
=Malmesbury, Wm. of.= 1095?-1143. Anglo-Norman historian.
=Malone, Edmund.= 1741-1812. Shakespearean scholar. Editor of the edition of 1790. _See Life, by Prior, 1860._
=Malory, Sir Thomas.= 1430?-1496. Author or translator of the famous romance, The Morte d'Arthur. _Pub. Mac._
=Malthus, Thos. Robt.= 1766-1834. Political economist. Author of a celebrated Essay on the Principle of Population. _See Life, by Otter, 1836._
=Mandeville, Bernard.= 1670-1733. Philosopher. Author of the noted Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices Public Benefits, etc. _See Craik's Eng. Lit. vol. 2._
=Mandeville, Sir John.= 1300-1372. ”The first writer in formed English.” He traveled extensively and wrote an entertaining account of his travels.
=Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere.= 1672-1724. Novelist and dramatist.
She wrote the noted political satire, The New Atlantis.
=Manners, John Lord.= 181 Poet. Author England's Trust, English Ballads, etc.
=Manning, Anne.= 180 Novelist. Author Mary Powell, Household of Sir Thos. More, Pa.s.sages in the Life of the Faire Gospeller, etc.
_Pub. Do._
=Manning, Henry Edw., Cardinal.= 180 Theologian. Author Temporal Power of the Pope, Parochial Sermons, The Vatican Decrees, etc. _See Century Mag. May, 1883._ _Pub. Apl. Sad._
=Mannyng, Robert.= fl. c. 1340. Rhyming chronicler.
=Mansel, Henry Longueville.= 1820-1871. Philosopher. Author The Limits of Religious Thought, Philosophy of Consciousness, Bampton Lect., 1858, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._
=Mant, Richard.= 1776-1848. Bp. Killaloe. Religious writer. Author Poems, Hist. Ch. of Ireland, etc.
=Mantell, Gideon Algernon.= 1790-1852. Geological writer of note.
Author Thoughts on a Pebble, Medals of Creation, etc.
=Map=, or =Mapes, Walter=. 1150-1196. Anglo-Norman poet and romancer.
=Marlowe, Christopher.= 1564-1593. Dramatist and poet. The greatest dramatist before Shakespeare. His Tamburlaine was the first blank verse play acted. Faustus, Jew of Malta, and Edward II. are powerful dramas. The influence of Marlowe is traceable in several of Shakespeare's plays. _See editions by Cunningham and Dyce._ _See Schlegel's Dramatic Lit._ _Pub. Mac. Rou._
=Marryatt, Frederick.= 1792-1849. Marine novelist. Peter Simple, Jacob Faithful, and Mids.h.i.+pman Easy are among the best of his novels. They are lively, inartistic tales, full of broad fun and drollery. _See Life, by his daughter Florence, 1872._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Lip. Rob._