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ll ~t (In- Turks, and died 



1-VI,. -2-2. 17117. A. collection <-f the 



altnliiitcd In him. compiled 



li\ his conip..! i n>( and acquaint 



.in..-. Uudolf Krieh Uaspe, and 



taken in part from Bebel's Facetiae 



l>el.clianae, 1">OS, ami from 



s Deliciae Academicae, 1705, 



i published in English under 



tin- title of Baron Munohausen'i 



Narrativi- of his Marvellous Tra\ i-!s 



ami Campaigns in Russia, 1785. 



ditions con tain matter stolen 



from Luiian's True History and 



designed to ridicule Joseph 



Mi mt^olfier' s balloon ascents, James 



linn-e's African explorations, and 



other contemporary sensations. 



Many, however, of the stories con- 



(aim-d in the first edition may be 



regarded as authentic Munchausen, 



whether actually true or false. 



Muncie. City of Indiana, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Delaware co. 

 It stands on the White river, 55 m. 

 N.E. of Indianapolis, and is served 

 by the Chicago, Cincinnati, and 

 Louisville and other rlys., including 

 an extensive inter-urban electric 

 system. It has important glass and 

 glassware industries, and manufac- 

 tures iron and steel, motor vehicles, 

 clothing, and gas engines. Coal and 

 natural gas are obtained locally. 

 Settled in 1834, Muncie received a 

 city charter in 1865. Pop. 36,500. 



Munda. Primitive tribe in N. 

 India. Numbering in 191 1, 574,434, 

 mostly in Chota Nagpur, Bihar and 

 Orissa prov., 91,298 are on Assam 

 tea plantations. Dark-brown and 

 long-headed, one-third of them are 

 Hinduised, and 80,292 are Chris- 

 tian. The Munda sub-family of lan- 

 guages, spoken by 3,843,223 people, 

 includes the Santali, Mundari, 

 llh 11 in ij. and Ho dialects of Kher- 

 wari, besides Juang and Kurku. It 

 forms, with the Mon-Khmer sub- 

 family, the Austroasian family. 

 See Austria ; Kol. 



Munday, ANTHONY \ 1553-1633). 

 English dramatist and miscellane- 

 ous writer. Born in London, he 

 was in turn stationer's apprentice, 

 actor, writer of pamphlets against 

 the Jesuits, Messenger of the 

 Queen's Chamber, and City page- 

 ant- writer. Concerned in 18 plays, 

 among them Sir John Oldcastle, 

 and The Downfall of Robert, Earl 

 of Huntingdon, he translated ro- 

 mances, including Palladino of 

 ml, from the French and 

 -h, wrote ballads, and re- 

 \i-'d Stow's Survey of London. 

 An industrious but inferior writer, 



A. J. Mundella, 

 British politician 



Ruuell 



he was attacked by Ben Jonson 



and Mai -I. .11. ll<- was buried in S. 

 Stephen's Church, Cult-man St r. . t 



Miiiidclla, AMIK.SS .Inns (1825 

 117). I'.iiii-h politician. Born in 

 Leicester, March 2*. |v_>:,. ,,f mixed 

 Italian and 

 English paren- 

 tage, he was 

 apprenticed 

 to a hosiery 

 manufacture r. 

 and in 1858 

 had become a 

 partner in the 

 Nottingham 

 firm of Hine 

 & Co. Active 

 in munic i p a 1 

 politics, a town councillor, and 

 volunteer officer, he won wider fame 

 in 1866 by his successful establish- 

 ment of a conciliation board for the 

 settlement of trade disputes, one of 

 the first of its kind. 



In 1868 Mundella was returned 

 as a strong Radical to the House of 

 Commons as M.P. for Sheffield. In 

 1880 he entered Gladstone's gov- 

 ernment as vice-president of the 

 council, and as virtual minister for 

 education was responsible in 1881 

 for the Act which extended the sys- 

 tem of compulsory education begun 

 in 1871, and in 1882 for a new and 

 most important education code. 

 He left office in 1885, but returned 

 for a few months in 1886 as presi- 

 dent of the board of trade, where 

 he created the labour department. 

 In 1892 he returned to the board, 

 and continued his efforts to better 

 the conditions of workers, but re- 

 tired in May, 1894, owing to a pub- 

 lic inquiry into the liquidation of a 

 company with which he had been 

 connected. He was, however, re- 

 turned to Parliament unopposed 

 for the Brightside Division of 

 Sheffield. He died July 21, 1897. 

 Munden, JOSEPH SHEPHERD 

 (1758-1832). British actor. Born 

 in London, he worked for a time in 

 a shop before joining a strolling 

 company. In the provinces he 

 made a reputation as a comedian, 

 and was also the manager of a 

 group of theatres. He appeared in 

 London in 1790, and at Covent 

 Garden and The Haymarket be- 

 came the most popular comedian 

 of his time. In 1811 he left London, 

 but he returned in 1813, and played 

 at Drurv Lane until his retirement 

 in 1824^ He died Feb. 6, IW2. 

 Munden played a great number of 

 parts, including several of Shakes- 

 peare's comic characters, while he 

 appeared in The Beggar's Opera, 

 Tristram Shandy, Every Man io 

 His Humour, and other plays. 



Munden. Town of Germany, in 

 the prov. of Hanover, Prussia. It 

 is situated at the point where the 



Fulda and \NYrra join to form the 



I.", m. S.W. <,f (. f 

 Chemical*, rubber, celluloid, and 

 cigar* arc manufactured, and < ..a 

 in mined in the locality. The town 

 was lx-Meed l.y Tilly in 1620. 



r.-p. 11,000. 



Mundesley . Watering-place of 

 Norfolk. It is 7 m. from Cromer 

 with a station on the Mid. and 

 G.N. joint rlys. The encroach- 

 ments of the sea have been partly 

 stopped by sea walls. Pop. 770. 



Mungo. Short, fine, woollen 

 fibre recovered from densely com- 

 pacted rags or cloth-cuttings. It 

 is used in conjunction with longer 

 fibre in manufacturing new cloth, 

 especially in obtaining a close and 

 fine surface upon the new goods. 



Mungo (c. 518-603). Scot- 

 tish saint, also known as S. Kenti- 

 gern (q.v.). The name Mungo is 

 formed from two Gaelic words 

 meaning " dear one." 



Munich (Ger. Munchen, from 

 Lat. Forum monachorum, monks 

 market). Third largest city of 

 ^ Germany, capital 



Munich arms 



of the republic 

 of Bavaria. It 

 stands on the 

 left bank of the 

 Isar, at 1,700 ft. 

 alt. on a plain 

 25 m. N. of the 

 Bavarian Alps. 

 Essentially a 

 modern city, it is one of the best- 

 built capitals of Europe. Brewing 

 is the chief industry, and ma- 

 chinery, rifles, and scientific instru- 

 ments are manufactured. Other 

 industries are mainly in the applied 

 arts, including bronze casting, 

 silver work, photography, process 

 engraving, wood carving, stained 

 glass, carpet and porcelain manu- 

 facture. Munich is the centre of 

 the S. Bavarian rly. system. 



The walls of the old city have 

 been replaced by spacious boule- 

 vards and public gardens, but two 

 gates remain, the Karlstor and 

 Isartor. The modern city is regu- 

 larly built, and extends mainly to 

 the N. and W. The chief suburbs 

 are Schwabing in the N., Neuhau- 

 sen in the W., Sendling in the S., 

 and Haidhausen and Giesing across 

 the Isar. The English Garden is a 

 beautiful public park of 600 acres. 

 Among the numerous other open 

 spaces are the Court Garden, with 

 arcades containing frescoes ; the 

 Konigsplatz, with the Propylaea, 

 a classical gateway commemorat- 

 ing Greek independence ; the Maxi- 

 mil iansplat /.. with the fine Wittels- 

 bach fountain, erected 1895 ; and 

 the extensive gardens along the 

 river. The two finest streets are 

 the Ludwigstrasse, running N., 

 and the Maximilianstrasse, running 



