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mediately going out to India. He served as brigade 

 major in the Afghan war of 1842, was assistant 

 adjutant general through the Sikh war, was adju- 

 tant general of the British forces in the Punjab 

 campaigns of 1848 and 1849, and in the Persian ex- 

 pedition of 1856 was chief of staff and obtained the 

 honor of knighthood for his services. He was 

 appointed adjutant general in India in 1857, com- 

 manded an infantry division at the siege of Luck- 

 now and subsequent operations, and was rewarded 

 for his services by promotion to major general in 

 1858. He became lieutenant general in .1865 while 

 serving as permanent Under Secretary for War, 

 which office he filled from 1861 till 1871. After 

 that he was president of the Army Purchase Com- 

 mission. In 1872 he became full general. 



Mackay, George Eric, an English poet, born in 

 London, Jan. 25, 1851 ; died June 2, 1898. He was 

 a son of the late Charles Mackay, the well-known 

 author, and wrote at first under the signature 

 George Eric Lancaster. His later work appeared 

 under his own name shortened to Eric Mackay. 

 His most popular work, the sale of which reached 

 35,000 copies, is " The Love Letters of a Violinist " 

 (London, 1886), written while he was walking in 

 the country. His other works are " Songs of Love 

 and Death " (1875) ; " Pygmalion in Cyprus and 

 Other Poems " (1880) ; " Ad Reginam " (1881) the 

 third edition of this book appeared the same year 

 with the addition of " Sonnets now First Pub- 

 lished " ; " Gladys the Singer and Other Poems " 

 (1887) ; " A Lover's Litanies " (1888) ; " Nero and 

 Actea" (1891); "The Lover's Missal"; "White 

 Rose of the Crown " (1894) ; " A Song of the Sea, 

 My Lady of Dreams, and Other Poems " (1895) ; 

 "Arrows of Song" (1896); and "The Little Gods 

 of Grub Street : A Satire " (1897). 



Madrazo, Federigo, a Spanish painter, born in 

 Rome in 1815; died in Madrid in August, 1898. 

 He studied in Paris in the atelier of Winterhalter, 

 and in a short time reached such rank as a por- 

 trait painter that he was appointed court painter at 

 Madrid. Subsequently he was made director of 

 the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts and was nomi- 

 nated a Senator. His " Godfrey of Boulogne pro- 

 claimed King of Jerusalem " hangs in the Versailles 

 gallery. 



Malietoa Lanpepa, King of Samoa, died in 

 Apia, Aug. 22, 1898. He succeeded Malietoa Tala- 

 vu on Nov. 8, 1880. Tamasese, who contested the 

 succession, was favored by the Germans, then de- 

 sirous of establishing a protectorate over the Sa- 

 moan Islands, and in 1887 Malietoa was seized by 

 the German forces in Samoa and deported, first to 

 Cameroons, and thence to Jaluit, one of the Mar- 

 shall Islands. In response to the protests of Great 

 Britain and the United States, especially the latter, 

 which declared that the institution of a German 

 protectorate would be regarded as an unfriendly 

 act. the German Government brought back the ex- 

 iled King, and on Nov. 9, 1889, he was formally re- 

 stored by proclamation of the consuls of Germany, 

 the United States, and Great Britain. 



Mallarme', Stephane, a French poet, born in 

 1841 ; died in Paris, Sept. 11, 1898. He was well 

 ersed in the English language, which he taught in 

 college in Paris till 1893. He made a translation 

 the poems of Edgar A. Poe, and was the author 

 poetry that appealed to the votaries of the de- 

 lent school, of which he has been regarded as 

 fie chief master since Verlaine's death. 

 Marks, Stacy, an English painter, born in Lon- 

 an in 1829 : died there, Jan. 9, 1898. He was the 

 of a coach-builder, who brought him up in his 

 asiness until this failed, leaving him free to fol- 

 aw his bent for art. He entered the school of the 

 >yal Academy in 1851, studied also in Paris, and 



in 1853 his picture representing " Dogberry " was ac- 

 cepted for the Academy exhibition. His first suc- 

 cess was won by " Toothache in the Middle Ages," 

 exhibited in 1856. He sold his pictures after this, 

 and obtained profitable commissions for mural 

 decoration. He was elected an associate of the 

 Royal Academy in 1871 and a member in 1878. 

 He painted many humorous pictures of bird life. 

 One of his most successful paintings was " Science 

 is Measurement," representing an ornithologist in 

 his laboratory. He wrote his reminiscences. 



Martineau, Russell, an English scholar, born 

 in Dublin, Jan. 18, 1831 ; died in Sidmouth, Dec. 15, 

 1898. He was a son of the distinguished Unitarian 

 theologian and philosopher, James Martineau, who 

 at the time of his son's birth was pastor of a con- 

 gregation in Dublin. The son received his educa- 

 tion at the University of London, and in 1857 was 

 appointed an assistant in the printed book de- 

 partment of the British Museum, remaining there 

 until 1896. He was a Hebrew scholar of note, and 

 was familiar with most of the languages of north- 

 ern Europe. He catalogued the extensive collec- 

 tions of Luther's works in the British Museum, 

 translated Gregorovius's work on Corsica, and 

 edited the standard English version of Ewald's 

 "History of the People of Israel" (1867-'74), and 

 also the Song of Solomon for the Polychrome 

 Bible. 



Moreau, Gnstare, a French painter, born in 

 Paris in 1836 ; died there, April 19, 1898. He was 

 a pupil of Picot in the School of Fine Arts, and ex- 

 hibited in 1852 a " Holy Family." From the begin- 

 ning the idealism and poetry of his art aroused the 

 admiration of the young and progressive and the 

 condemnation of the conservative, lovers of estab- 

 lished methods. As early as 1853 he took his place 

 with the masters by painting " Darius fleeing after 

 the Battle of Arbela " and the "Song of Songs," 

 the latter of which was purchased by the Govern- 

 ment and hung in the museum at Dijon. In- the 

 Universal Exposition of 1855 he showed "Athenians 

 delivered up to the Minotaur." For several years 

 he exhibited nothing, only to come out in the Salon 

 of 1864 with one of his most striking works " CEdi- 

 pus and the Sphynx," which gave rise to as violent 

 polemics as ever were excited by a picture. His sub- 

 sequent productions include " Jason " ; " Death and 

 the Man " ; " Orpheus torn by Bacchantes," pur- 

 chased by the Luxembourg gallery ; " Diomede de- 

 voured by her Horses " ; " Prometheus " : " Jupiter 

 and Europa " ; " Hercules and the Leruean Hydra " ; 

 "Salome"; "St. Sebastian," painted in distemper 

 with wax ; " Jacob and the Angel " ; " Moses cast 

 upon the Nile " ; " David " ; and the " Sphynx Di- 

 vined." These last were shown at the exposition of 

 1878, with six water colors as brilliant and vibrat- 

 ing in color as his works in oil. He won medals at 

 the Salons of 1864, 1865, and 1878, received the Le- 

 gion of Honor in 1875, and was nominated to the 

 Academy of Fine Arts in 1888. Four years later he 

 was elected professor at the Ecole des Beaux- Arts. 



Miiller, George, a British philanthropist, born 

 in Kroppenstadt, Prussia, Sept. 27, 1805; died in 

 Bristol. March 10, 1898. He was sent to the Hal- 

 berstadt Church School at the age of eleven and 

 thence to the Nordhausen Gymnasium and entered 

 the University of Halle as a'divinity student. Al- 

 though intended for the Christian ministry from the 

 beginning, his life in school and at the university 

 was given up in a great measure to idle pleasure, 

 and his irregularities and shifts to obtain money got 

 him into frequent trouble. During a walking tour 

 in Switzerland he was suddenly overcome with re- 

 ligious emotion at a prayer meeting, and thenceforth 

 he determined to be a missionary. His father was 

 opposed to his adopting such a career, and withdrew 



