MOZDOK 



t'g operas bad already 



;iel,ie\ed e. .|i-n I. Table BUCCCSB, but 



tli.- |in>i|iirtii>n of Idomeneo at 

 Miiiin-h in 1781 definitely placed 

 linn in the front rank of opera com- 

 posers, and marked the turning 

 I" nut in liLs career, leading the way 

 greatest operas, Le Nozze di 

 , 1786 ; Don Giovanni, 1787 ; 

 uii.l I )ie Zauberflcite. 1791. His last 

 i -inn position was the Requiem, 

 uln, !i he began the year of his 

 death, but left unfinished. He died 

 in Vienna of a malignant fever, 

 Deo. 0, 1791, and was buried the 

 ne\t day in a pauper's grave out- 

 side the city gates. 



Mozart's life was a remarkable 

 illustration of the conditions of the 

 time, whereby a musician might be 

 one of the most celebrated in 

 Ktin <]><>, the intimate of princes, 

 and yet be in a constant state of 

 anxiety about the ordinary neces- 

 sities of life. Granted that his wife 

 was a bad manager and he himself 

 naturally improvident and careless 

 about money matters, his precari- 

 ous means of gaining a livelihood. 

 by teaching, playing at concerts, 

 and composing made him rarely 

 free from pecuniary worries which 

 undoubtedly hastened his end. His 

 compositions number 624, and are 

 distinguished by spontaneous and 

 beautiful melodies. His operas 

 form a landmark in the history of 

 national opera in Germany, and 

 his instrumental music shows an 

 important advance in the de- 

 velopment and treatment of the 

 orchestra. See Opera. 



Bibliography. Lives, O. Jahn, 

 Eng. trans. P. D. Townsend, 1891 ; 

 E. JT. Breakespeare, 1902 ; Life, in- 

 cluding correspondence, E. Holmes, 

 1912 ; Mozart and His Music, F. H. 

 Cowen. 1912 ; Mozart's Operas, 

 E. J. Dent, 1913. 



Mozdok. Town of S. Russia, in 

 the prov. of Terek (general govern- 

 ment of the Caucasus). It stands 

 on the river Terek, 50 m. N. of 

 Vladikavkaz. There are manufac- 

 tures of candles, soap, leather, 

 spirits, bricks, and tiles, and trade 

 in silk, cotton, and woollen goods, 

 etc. Vines and fruit trees are 

 cultivated and silkworms exten- 

 sively bred. Pop. 15,000. 



Mozir. Town of W. Russia, in 

 the govt., and 150 m. S.E., of 

 Minsk. It stands on the Pripet and 

 the Orel-Warsaw Rly. There are 

 leather and oil factories and 

 breweries, and considerable trade 

 in cereals, cattle, horses, and 

 timber. Pop. 11,000 



M.P. Abbreviation lot Member 

 of Parliament ; Military police. " 



Mpongwe OR PONOO. Name ap 

 plied by the Portuguese to the 

 Abuka, a negroid tribe in the Ga- 

 bun colony, French Equatorial 

 Africa. Their Bantu dialect ex- 



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tends from the N. Gabun penin- 

 sula along the coast to the Ogowe 

 They are industrious cultivators, 

 traders, and boatmen, using craft 

 r.o ft. long, hollowed out by fire 

 See Bantu ; Negro. 



Mpororo. Upland region on 

 the S.W. border of Uganda. Ex- 

 tending from the Kagera river- 

 boundary between Tanganyika ter- 

 ritory and Ankole to Mt. Mfumbiro 

 in Belgian Congo, it comprises 

 scantily timbered grass-steppes 

 4,600 ft. above sea-level, with 

 mountainous ridges up to 7,600 ft., 

 and marshy valleys. It possesses 

 a healthy, temperate climate, with 

 big game in abundance, and fertile 

 soil, and is ruled by the pastoral 

 Batusi, who have subjugated the 

 primitive agricultural negroid 

 population. These Bapororo are 



allied to the Ruanda Bahutu, the 

 Ankolo Bairo, and the Wanyambo 

 (q.v.). See Africa. 



M.P.S. Abbreviation for Mem- 

 ber of the Pharmaceutical Society 

 (of Great Britain). 



Mr., Abbrev. for Mister (q.v. ) 



M.R.C.S. Abbreviation for 

 Member of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. 



M.R.C.V.S. Abbreviation for 

 Member of the Royal College of 

 Veterinary Surgeons. 



Mrs. Dane's Defence. Drama 

 by Henry Arthur Jones. It was 



E reduced Oct. 9, 1900, at Wynd- 

 am's Theatre, London, where it 

 had a run of 209 performances. The 

 story tells how Sir Daniel Carteret, a 

 famous judge, having undertaken, 

 in a private capacity, the defence 

 of Mrs. Dane from village gossip, 

 discovers that her past prevents 

 her from becoming the wife of a 

 young friend of his. Charles Wynd- 

 ham and Lena Ash well playea the 

 leading parts. 



MUANaA 



Mrs. Dot. Comedy by William 

 Somerset Maugham. It was pro 

 duoed April 27, 1908, at tin 

 Comedy Theatre. Indn Marie 

 Tempest played Mr*. Dot, and 

 Grahame Brown, Kenneth Douglas, 

 and Lydia Bilbrooke were member* 

 of the cast. 



Mrs. Poyser. Character in 

 George Eliot's novel Adam Bede, 

 published in 1859. A shrewd and 

 practical farmer's wife, her phil- 

 osophy of life is packed with a 

 homely wit and wisdom, which she 

 delivers with an epigrammatic 

 terseness that has supplied the cur- 

 rency with many familiar quota- 

 tions. The author took delight in 

 this creation of her imaginary 

 world. " writing her dialogue with 

 heightening gusto " as the book 

 went on, and she records in her 

 diary her satisfaction when told 

 that Mrs. Poyser had been quoted 

 in the House of Commons : " A* 

 the farmer's wife says in Adam 

 Bede, it wants to be hatched over 

 again and hatched different." Sef 

 Adam Bede. 



Mr. Wu. Drama by Harry M. 

 Vernon and Harold Owen, It was 

 produced Nov. 27, 1913, at The 

 Strand, London, where it had a 

 run of 403 performances. The plot 

 is concerned with the attempt made 

 by Mr. Wu, a wealthy Chinaman, 

 to avenge the seduction of his 

 daughter by seducing her betrayer's 

 mother, Mrs. Gregory. In the parts 

 of Mr. Wu and Mrs. Gregory 

 Matheson Lang and Lilian Braith- 

 waite scored great successes. It was 

 revived in 1917 at the same theatre. 



MS. Abbreviation for manu- 

 script (q.v. ) ; pi. MSS. ; and as M.S., 

 for Master of Surgery. 



Msta. River of Central Russia. 

 Rising in Lake Mstino in the govt. 

 of Tver, it flows through that of 

 Nijni-Novgorod and, after a wind- 

 ing course of about 150 m., dis- 

 charges itself into Lake Ilmen, S.E. 

 of Novgorod. It is much used for 

 the transport of grain and timber, 

 and is connected with tho Volga by 

 a system of canals. 



Mtzkhet. Town of Georgia. It 

 is in the dist., and 10 m. N.W., 

 of Titiis, at the junction of the 

 rivers Aragva and Kur. It was the 

 old capital of Kartalia, and the 

 residence of the Georgian kings. 

 The ancient cathedral, the burial 

 place of several Georgian princes, 

 contains valuable books and .MSS. 



Muansa OB MWANZA. Prov. of 

 Tanganyika Territory, E. Africa. It 

 is bounded N. by Lake Victoria and 

 Kenya Colony, E. by the Aruscha 

 prov., S. by Kondoa-Irangi and 

 Tabora provs., and W. by Bukoba 

 prov. It was conquered by the 

 British in the Great War. Pop. 

 est. 300,000. 



