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tin- Revolution. Before his 

 I. at h. Deo. 29, 1820, he bequeathed 

 I'd HI to each Paris hospital, and 

 similar sums for works to bene- 

 fit pul.lir \\olfareandameliorate the 

 conilition of the working classes. 



Monument. Any considerable 

 work of architecture or sculpture 

 designed to commemorate an act or 

 person important in national or 

 Kind history. The term also em- 

 public buildings, official and 

 otliiTuist', without such historical 

 siL'iiilicance. In Great Britain the 

 Am -if nt Monuments Protection 

 Act, 1882, constitutes the coin- 

 ini-<ioners of works guardians of a 

 certain number of public monu- 

 ments, with power to add to the 

 number. Private owners of these 



^^^v^^^^^^^m mo n u m e n t s 

 retain all 

 rights, but 

 must not 

 destroy or 

 deface them, 

 and must 

 afford facili- 

 ties for their 

 inspection to 

 an inspector of 

 monuments 

 and his work- 

 men in event 

 of repairs be- 

 ing needed. 

 There is also a 

 private society 

 for the Preser- 

 vation of An- 

 cient Build- 

 ings. In France 

 there is a state 

 department 

 for this pur- 

 pose. See. An- 

 cient Build- 

 ings; Ceno- 

 taph. 



Monument, 

 THK. Fluted 

 columninLon- 

 don. Of the 

 Doric order, it 

 was completed 

 in 1677, from 

 the design of 

 Sir Christopher Wren, to com- 

 memorate the Great Fire of Lon- 



Monument. London, 

 from Fish Street Hill 



don, ItiOU. It -t. in. I 

 Street Hill, a little more than 100 

 ft. from the site of the house in 

 Pudding Lano whore the fire is said 

 to have originated, and is 202 ft. in 

 height. The column contains a 

 spiral stairway of 345 stops of black 

 marble, and is surmounted by a 

 metal urn, 42 ft. high. Edward 

 Pierce was the sculptor of the 

 dragons at the four angles of the 

 base, Caius Gabriel Gibber exe- 

 cuted the relief on the pediment, 

 and Dr. Thomas Gale composed 

 the Latin inscriptions. The Monu- 

 ment cost about 14,000. See 

 Great Fire ; London Bridge. 



Monuments Germaniae His- 

 torica. Collection of documents 

 relating to the history of Germany 

 in medieval times, arranged and 

 edited for the use of students. The 

 work was begun by a society 

 founded by Stein, and the first 

 volume appeared in 1826, G. H. 

 Pertz being the editor. The work 

 was divided into five sections, the 

 most important being that of 

 Scriptores, mainly the old Latin 

 chroniclers, and fresh volumes ap- 

 peared regularly until 1914, edited 

 and introduced by the leading Ger- 

 man historians. Pertz remained in 

 charge until 1874, when the or- 

 ganization was transferred to the 

 Prussian Academy of Sciences. 



Monypenny, WILLIAM FLAVELLE 

 (1866-1912). British journalist. 

 Born Aug. 7, 1866, in co. Armagh, 

 Ireland, he was educated at Trinity 

 College, Dublin. Having contri- 

 buted to The Spectator, in 1894 

 he joined the staff of The Times, 

 leaving that paper to become, in 

 1899, editor of The Star, Johan- 

 nesburg. During the S. African 

 War he was an officer in the 

 Imperial Light Horse. In 1903 he 

 returned to England, and, rejoin- 

 ing the staff of The Times, was 

 given the task of writing the Life of 

 Lord Beacons- 

 field. He had 

 completed two 

 volumes when he 

 was taken ill, 

 and on Nov. 23, 

 1912, he died. 

 The Life was 

 finished by G. E. 

 Buckle. 



Monza. City 

 of Italy, in the 

 prov. of Milan, 

 the ancient Mo- 

 dicia. It is situ- 

 ated on the river 

 L a m b r o, 8 m. 

 by railway and 

 tramway N.N.E. 

 was the ancient capital of the 

 Lombard sovereigns. The treasures 

 of the cathedral, founded in 595 by 

 Queen Theodelinda, include the 



famous ii. .n i ruwn of Lombardy, 

 v. itli \\liii-h Charlemagne waft 

 crowned in 774 and Napoleon in 

 The church of San Gerardo 

 is built in the form of a rotunda 

 The town hall dates from 1293. 

 Felt hats, cotton, silk, leather, etc., 

 are manufactured. Here, on July 

 29, 1900, King Humbert was ama- 

 sinated. Pop. 53,200. 



Mood (Lat. modus, manner) 

 OR MODE. In grammar, the form of 

 a verb which indicates the special 

 manner in which an action is re- 

 garded. Such are the indicative 

 (simple statement), subjunctive 

 (contingent), imperative (com- 

 mand). The infinitive is not really 

 a mood, but the case of a noun. 

 The subjunctive, so common in 

 other language*, has no distinct 

 form in English, although phrases 

 like " if it be true," " if I were to 

 go " represent the shade of 

 meaning. 



Mood. In medieval music, the 

 relations of the large, the long, and 

 the breve. If the two former were 

 involved, it was called greater ; if 

 the two latter, then it was called 

 lesser. Either might be perfect or 

 imperfect. In the greater mood 

 perfect, one large equalled three 

 longs ; if imperfect, two longs only. 

 In the lesser mood perfect, one long 

 equalled three breves ; if imperfect, 

 two breves only. See Time. 



Moodkee OR MUDEI. Village of 

 the Punjab, India. It is 26 m. S 

 of the Sutlej on the road from Kar- 

 nal to Ferozepore. Here, on Dec. 

 18, 1845, was fought the first 

 battle of the Sikh War of 1845-16. 

 After a long and hasty march, 

 necessary owing to the rapid move- 

 ments of the enemy, Sir Hugh 

 Gough was unexpectedly attacked 

 by the Sikhs, whose cavalry made 

 a determined attempt to cut off 

 the British line of retreat. A 

 desperate battle ensued, marked 



Monza, Italy. Facade of the 14th century cathedral ol 

 S. Giovanni Battista. in the Lombardo-Gothic style 



of Milan, and by the flight of Gough's native 

 troops, and, owing to the confu- 

 sion, the firing of one white regi- 

 ment into another. Eventually 

 the British prevailed, and the 



