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Munkacevo. Town of Czecho- 

 slovakia in the autonomous dist. 

 of Ruthenia, formerly known as 

 Munkacs. It is on the Latorcza at 

 the edge of the Forest Carpathians, 

 on the rly. route from Budapest to 

 Lemberg through the Beskid Pass. 

 The fortress on a rock near the 

 town was besieged many times. 

 Nearly half the inhabitants are 

 Jews. There is a trade in, timber, 

 grain, and cattle. Near the fort 

 was erected in 1896 a millen- 

 nial monument commemorating 

 the first Magyar encampment in 

 Hungary. Pop. 17,000. 



Munkacsy, MICHAEL (1844- 

 1900). Hungarian painter. Born at 

 Munkacevo, his real name was 

 Lieb, and his 

 youth was 

 spent in ex- 

 treme poverty. 

 He studied at 

 the Art Society 

 in Pest and 

 later made his 

 way to Vienna, 

 Munich, and 

 Diisseldorf, 

 where he 

 painted The 

 Last Days of a Condemned Pri- 

 soner, which was greatly admired. 

 In 1872 he settled in Paris, where 

 his picture Milton Dictating Para- 

 dise Lost won a medal in 1878. 

 After a brilliant career he became 

 insane and died at Endenich, Ger- 

 many, May 1, 1900. He is best 

 known by his immense religious 

 pictures, Christ before Pilate, and 

 the Crucifixion, sold for more than 

 30,000 each, and by his Ecce 

 Homo. Other notable works are 

 The Apotheosis of the Renaissance, 

 for the ceiling of the Austrian 

 Art Historical Museum, Vienna. 

 1884 ; and The Two Families. 

 Pron. Moonkachy. 



Munku Sardyk. Sacred moun- 

 tain of N. Mongolia. It is 7 m. N. 

 of Kossogol, and from its glaciers 

 rise the Oka, Irkut and Ulu-kem, 

 one of the head streams of the Yeni- 

 sei. It was first ascended by Radde 

 in 1859. Graphite is found near 

 by. Alt. 11,500ft. 



Munro, HECTOR HUGH (1870- 

 1916). British novelist. Born 



Michael Munkacsy, 

 Hungarian painter 



in Burma, son of 

 Munro, he 

 was educated 

 at Exmouth 

 and Bedford, 

 and joined 

 the Burma 

 Mounted 

 Police, but 

 retired on 

 grounds of 

 St About 

 lyu he began 

 contributing 



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HectorILMunr0( 

 British novelist 



Munkacevo, Czechoslovakia. The castle, founded io 

 the 14th century, and the scene ol many sieges 



to The Westminster Gazette 

 sketches over the pen-name Saki, 

 and won notice by his political 

 satires in an Alice in Wonder- 

 land setting. He acted as war 

 correspondent in the Balkans, 

 and as St. Petersburg and Paris 

 correspondent 1902-8. Shortly 

 after the Great War broke out he 

 joined the army, and fell in action, 

 a lance-sergeant in the 22nd Royal 

 Fusiliers, Nov. 14, 1916, at Mailly, 

 near Beaumont-Hamel. He won a 

 high place as a writer of the short 

 story, his work in this form having 

 something of the neat artistry asso- 

 ciated with the French conte. His 

 works included The Rise of the 

 Russian Empire, 1900 ; and The 

 Toys of Peace, with a memoir by 

 R. Reynolds, 1919. 



Munro, HUGH ANDREW JOHN- 

 STONE (1819-85). British scholar. 

 Born at Elgin, Oct. 19, 1819, he 

 was educated at Shrewsbury School, 

 and Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 Having proved himself a brilliant 

 classical scholar, he became fellow 

 and lecturer at Trinity College, 

 and was, 1869-72, professor of 

 Latin in the university. He died in 

 Rome, March 30, 1885. Munro's 

 high reputation rests on his edition 

 and translation of Lucretius, 1860- 

 64, regarded as one of the finest 

 modern examples of classical 

 scholarship. He also wrote Criti- 

 cisms and Elucidations of Catullus, 

 1878, and verses and translations 

 in Greek and Latin. 



Munro, NEIL (b. 1864). Scottish 

 novelist. Born at Inverary, June 3, 

 1864, he engaged in journalism, 

 and attracted wide attention by 

 his stories, The Lost Pibroch, 1896. 

 Among his other tales and novels, 

 which deal for the most part with 

 Scottish life, especially in the West 

 Highlands, are John Splendid, 

 1898 ; Gilian the Dreamer, 1899 ; 

 Doom Castle, 1901 ; The Daft 

 Days, 1907 ; Fancy Farm, 1910 ; 

 and The New Road, 1914, a tale of 

 General Wade's men after the '45. 

 .He became editor of The Glasgow 



Evening News in 

 1918. Under the 

 pseudonym of 

 Hugh Foulis he 

 published humo- 

 rous studies of 

 West of Scotland 

 character. He 

 wrote the article 

 on Sir Walter 

 Scott for this 

 Encyclopedia. See 

 Port. Gallery of 

 Contributors. 



Munro, ROBERT 

 (1835-1920). Scot- 

 tish archaeologist. 

 Born in Ross- 

 shire, July 21, 

 1835, he studied in Edinburgh, and 

 practised medicine at Kilmarnock 

 until 1886. Thereafter he served as 

 secretary to the Society of Anti- 

 quariesofScotland,1888-99,andde- 

 voted himself especially to thestudy 

 of the European stone age. His 

 numerous works include The Lake- 

 Dwellings of Europe, 1890 ; Prehis- 

 toric Scotland, 1899; Palaeolithic 

 Man and Terramara Settlements, 

 1912 ; Prehistoric Britain, 1914. 

 He died at Largs, July 18, 1920. 



Munro, ROBERT (b. 1868). 

 British politician. Born May 28, 

 1868, the son of a minister of the 

 Free Church of Scotland, he was 

 educated at Edinburgh University, 

 and became an advocate. He 

 served as counsel to the inland 

 revenue, and in 1910 entered the 

 House of Commons as Liberal M.P. 

 for the Wick Burghs. In 1913 he 

 was made lord advocate, and in 

 1916 secretary for Scotland. In 

 Oct., 1922, he became Lord Justice 

 Clerk, taking the title Lord Alness. 

 Munro, SIR THOMAS (1761- 

 1827). British soldier and adminis- 

 trator. Born May 27, 1761, the son 

 of a Glasgow 

 merchant, he 

 entered the 

 service of the 

 East India 

 Company as 

 an infantry 

 cadet in 1780, 

 participating 

 at once in the 

 operations 

 against Haider 

 Ali. He was en- 

 gaged in civil administration 1792- 

 99, and then served against Tippoo 

 Sahib. Later he was appointed 

 administrator of Kanara. Return- 

 ing home in 1807, he went out again 

 to Madras in 1814 on a mission of 

 administrative reform, but his work 

 being interrupted by a fresh' k Mah- 

 ratta war he defeated the Peshwa in 

 a brilliant campaign. From 1819 

 until his death from cholera, July 

 6, 1827, he was governor of Madras. 



Sir Thomas Munro, 

 British soldier 



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