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M ARROW 



MARRY AT 



solemnised before twelve witnesses. Hut a mar- 

 riage good at common law U good notwithstanding 

 any statute on the subject, unless the statute con 

 tain express word* of nullitv. The original law jf 

 the prohibited degree* lias been modified ; and the 

 prohibition of marriage with a deceased wife's sister 

 a all but unknown. 



In MM nil - 



Jointure. 



Judldtl fHmtlon. 



LMiUnsUoo. 



Bwurdjr. IteM MsrrtsM*. Myitsmr. 



H**mr Hu.UndWKl WuV BrtUwot. 



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Marrow is a substance of low specific gravity 

 filling the cells and cavities of the hones of mam- 

 mals. There are two varieties, which are known 

 as ml or watery marrow and yellow or oily marrow. 

 In some of the short bones, a the bodies of the 

 vertebra? and the sternum, the marrow has a 

 reddish colour, due to the presence of cell- which 

 hare this colour and are supposed to he transition 

 form* between the pm|>ei marrow cells and red 

 blood -corpuscles. On analysis it is found to 

 contain 7."> per cent, of water, the remainder con 

 luting of albuminous and lihiinous mutter, with 

 salts and a trace of oil. In the long bones of a 

 healthy adult mammal the marrow occurs as a 

 yellow, oily lluid, contained in vesicles like those 

 of common fat. which ore imliedded in the inter- 

 spaces of the medullary membrane i.e. a highly 

 vascular membrane lining the interior of the hones. 

 This marrow consists of 90 |>er cent, of oil and 4 of 

 water, connective tissue, and vessels. 



Marrow < on(r<>\< rsv, one of the most 

 strenuous and memorable struggles in the religious 

 history of Scotland, took its name from a book en- 

 titled the Mamne of Mwlcrn hirinitu, written liy 

 a Puritan soldier in the time of thcCoinnioii wealth. 

 The highly evangelical character of this work, and 

 especially its din-trine of the free grace of (iod in 

 the redemption of sinneis, had made it a great 

 favourite with the few zealous and pious ministers 

 then to be found in the Church of Scotland, and in 

 1718 an edition was published by the Kcv. .lames 

 Hog of Carnock. A committee of the General 

 Assembly reported against the work as too free in 

 iu offer of salvation, and the Assembly formally 

 condemned the book. Twelve ministers, amon--t 

 whom were Thomas linston (q.v.) and the Ki-kine* 

 i. protested against this decision, and we,e 

 uliimatrly rebuked by the Anvml.lv. the national 

 sympathy being on the whole with the liepre 

 enten' or 'Marrow-men.' The contrmer-v wax 

 substantially the same that, in 1733, resulted in 

 the deposition of Khrnerer Krskine, and the ori- 

 gination of the Secession ' body. 



Mnrrtnt. ri<Ki>Kin<-K. was horn in West- 

 minster on .Inly 10, I71W. He was the second son 

 of Joseph Marrvat. M.I', for Sandwich and colonial 



|ent for the i.lsnd of Grenada. In IMI6 he went 



rane on oar te mpfnemt riKte. He 

 some years of active and danerroii* nervire 

 his famous captain on the north west coas 

 France, on the north coast at Spain, and i 



agent 



to sea as a mid>hipman under Captain Inl Coch- 

 rane on board the Impfnemt friKte. He spent 



under 

 coasts of 

 , nd in the 



Mediterranean, taking pan in many of the inri 

 dnt which be afterward* described in h'r,,,,l. M,l,l- 

 mag and Mr MUMfmm Eaty. The cruises of 

 the Implrittm,' be wrote In hi private lo-. wen- 

 periods Of continaed excitement from the hour in 

 which she hove np her anchor till h<< dropped it 

 strain In port : the day that passed without a shot 

 being Bred In anger was with ns a blank day ; the 

 boats were hardly secured on the boomn than they 

 were cast Ions* and oat again.' After vi.it in 

 Wo* Indian waters in the sEolut and Spartan 



frigate* he received a lieutenant'* <-<iminis*ion in 

 and was soon after aptminted to the sloop 

 'ilr, in whicli he criiiM-if on the north coast 

 of South America. He was twice invalided home, 

 lull wax it]i|Miiiited commander nl I lie ii^'e of 1 \\iMily- 

 three, iu 1815, at the close of the great war. In 

 1819 he married Mi slmim, the ihin^'hter of a 

 Scotch gentle man, and was tncn a|i|iointed to the 

 Beaver sloop, which was kept cruising off St 

 Helena to guard against the escane of Napoleon. 

 After doing_good work in Mippre*Mii}f the channel 

 MB^On in the Kosario he was sent nut in com- 

 mand of the I.iirne to Hurnia, where liis men 

 Midi-red severely in ri\er-work ami stockade-fight- 

 ing. On his return to England his services were 

 rewarded l>y the Companionship of the Hath and 

 the command of the Ariadne, of twenty-eight (run>. 

 He resigjied in 1830 and never afterwards applied 

 for a ship, but settled in Sussex House, Hammer- 

 smith, and thenceforth led the life of a man of 

 letter?'. Frank Miltimay, his first novel, appeared 

 in is-.*.), ami the King's (hen in 1830. In 1832 he 

 became editor of the Metropolitan .'/</";"". to 

 which he contributed Norton Forster (1832), I'eter 

 Ximi>le (1833), Jacob Fnilltfnl, .hi/iln-t in Xearr/t df 

 a Father, and Mr Mit/s/ii/rtnan Easy ( 1834). After 

 living for some time abroad he severed his connec- 

 tion with the Metropolitan Mayasine, and wrote 

 for the Arc- Monthly at the rate of 20 a sheet. 

 Smirlrii YHW and The Pasha of Main/ Tales dune 

 out in 1836, and in 1837 Marrvat set out for a tour 

 through the United States, where he remained for 

 two years, and where he wrote The Phantom Ship 

 (1880) MM a drama, The Ocean Waif, which was 

 produced at a New York theatre. His literary 

 work wo-s fairly remunerative : he received 1200 

 for Mr MUtUpma* Kan;/, 1600 for his Diary in 

 .liiiini-ii, and similar sums for his other books. 

 Hut he wa* extravagant and unlucky in his specula- 

 tions, and lie lost heavily through his estate of 

 Langham in Norfolk. During his later years his 

 mean- were greatly narrowed, and his life seems to 

 have ln-en shortened by overwork. His Diary in 

 America was issued in 1839, and was followed 

 before the close of 1842 by Poor Jack, Maxtrrman 

 Itcady, The Poarhrr, and Percival Keene. In 1843 

 ho settled on his Norfolk property, where he spent. 

 his days in farming and in writing stories for chil- 

 dren. He published *i filers in Canada in 1844, 

 The Mutton in 1846, The Privateer's Mn in 1846, 

 and the Children of the New Forest in 1847. 

 Valerie was only partly Marryat's ; and Rattlin the 

 Reefer, though included in the list of his novels, 

 was written by E. Howard, his sub-editor on the 

 MttropoUta* Magazine. His health broke down 

 in 1847, and, after rupturing several blood -vessel>, 

 he died at Langham on August 9, 1848. He was 

 an excellent ollicer and a generous man, though 

 quick tempered, extravagant, and over-eager in the 

 pursuit of enjoyment. 



A a writer of sea-stories Marrynt has no superior. 

 He cannot, it may be, bring 'fully home to his 

 in the beauty and the terror of 'the deep. Hut 

 for invention, narrative skill, and grasp of character, 

 and especially for richness of humour, he stands first 

 of all those who have dealt v.-ith the sea and sailors 

 in prose fiction. No doubt his fun often descends 

 to farce ; still, setting Dickens aside, there is no 

 English novelist who has awakened heartier and 

 Imnester laughter. His happiest creations, Mr 

 Chuck*, for example, and Terence O'Brien, and 

 Mr EMJ and Meaty and Equality Jack would 

 not unworthily till places in the gallery of the 

 greatest novelist. His best books are thoroughly 

 rand in workmanship. They betray no sign of 

 straining after effect ; the prose is direct, clear, and 

 viprous, an ideal, in its way, of the narrative of 

 adventure, Nothing, for example, could well be 



