BIOGRAPHY 



about 1570 B. C. In pursuance of a royal command 



tliat all male infants of Hebrew birth should be destroyed, 



110066, to escape this fate, was laid in a l>a-ket among a 



t-luiiip of bulrushes on the batiks of the Nile, and there 



discovered by the daughter of Pharaoh, who adopted 



him as her son. When arrived at a ripe manhood, 



Moses began to form plans for the deliverance of his ra< e 



from bondage, and incurring, by so doing. Egyptian 



mistrust, he tlt-.l to Midian. where he served as a shep- 



her.l till his 80th year. Then he is said to have been the 



.ent of the Lord's commands to guide the children 



1. 1 Israel out of captivity into the Land of Canaan, He 



idingly conducted them through the Hed Sea into 



.. 1. it-mess, and became their apostolic chief ami 



noosing for them the code since known as the 



"Mosaic Dispensation." After appointing Joshua as his 



-sor. Moses died on Mount Pisgah, at the patn- 



ige of 1JU. 



.Moultori. I. on i-e (handler, novelist and poet; born 



in 1'omfret. Conn , April ID, 1^:C>; daughter of Lucius 



I. and Loui-a K Clark) Chandler. Author: "This. 



and the other." "Juno Clifford." "My Third 



''-d-Time Stories," "More Bed-Time Stoi. 



men's Hearts," "Swallow Flights," poem-; 



"New B.-d-Time Stories." "Random Rambles," " Fire- 



"Our.-elves and < )ur Neighbors," "Miss 



:om Boston, and Other Stories," "In the Garden 



Stories Told at Twilight," "Lazy Toura 



n and Elsewhere," "In Childhood's Country," 



"At the Wind's Will." Edited: (with biographies) 



Last Harvest," by Philip Bourke ( 

 Marston; "Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston," 



ions from Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy." 



.tloulton. Kit-hard Green, educator, author; born 



rig.. May ~>. lvl!; graduated from London 



Cambridge. Kng.. I'liiverMty. 1^71 



(1'h. D. rm\ersity of Pennsylvania. 1S(1); university 



n lecturer since 1874, with English and American 



Now professor of literary theory and in- 

 terpretation. University of Chicago. Author: "Shakes- 

 a Dramatic Artist, a Study of Inductive Literary 

 :i." "The Ancient Classical Drama, a Study of 

 Literary Evolution," "Four Years of Novel Heading 

 Account of an Experiment in the Study of Fiction," 

 "The Literary Study of the Bible." "A Short Introduc- 

 tion to the Literature of the Bible," "The Moral Sy-tem 

 of Shakespere." Editor: "The Modern Header's Bible," 



. one volumes, 1895-98. 



Moultrie, William, an American Revolutionary 

 general. >orn in South Carolina in 1731; was the recip- 

 ient of the thanks of Congress for his heroic defense of 

 the fort on Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor, since 

 railed l.v hi- name. In 1785, he became governor of 



ive State, and died in 1805. 



Mo\om. Philip Stafford, clergyman; born in 

 Markham. Canada. August Id. IMs; educated in Kala- 

 maioo College, Mich.. 1866-68; ShurtlefT College, III , 

 ls.,s 7O; graduate of University of Rochester, A. B., I 

 ls7'.: \ M 1883 I). D., Brown, 1892); studied in 

 i-sfer Theological Seminary, 1875-7H; fin lamed to 

 r ember !'., 1S71. Served with Army of 

 ibcrland at Ft. Doncjson as "captain's boy." 

 1862; enlisted in the 17th Illinois Cavalry, October 3, 

 1863. serving until November 30. 1865. Pastor of 

 church. Cleveland. <).. 1879-85; 



>nal 

 "m\er- 



rvard. 1894-97; preacher at Yale, 

 Vajar, Wellesley, Amherst. Williams. Dart- 

 Bowdoin. etc. Author: "The Aim of Life." 

 Jerusalem to Nica-a: The Church in the First 



riturie-. 1'he Kelu'ion of 1' . numcr- 



i:id secular periodical-. 



M../.irl..loli.iiinriir\ -o- lorn \\olfu.mu V in ..<!, 11 -. 

 German rornixjeer, was born in Sal/burg in 17"6; com- 

 posed Home pieces at the age of five, when he was taken 

 to Munich, and performed with his sister before the 

 elector of Bavaria in 17o.'{. the children went on a 

 tour to nil the principal German towns, as well as Brus- 

 I in April. I7,l. gave concert* in 



London <>n hn n ', Mozart 



became director of the archbishop'* 



ide a tour in llal return from which, 



he M-tiled m Vienna Here, in I.M 



year, he wrote "Idomeneo" on the 



\\ el,, r. 



^Jr VxllUI II, \ l \l*lll'i, V/. *0U OU , All 



Mh. Boston. 1885-93; South Congregatiot 



rch. SP- 



Muller, Fried rich Max, philologist: born in Dessau 



in 1M.M; son of a German poet, \Vilhelm Muller; edu- 

 cated at Leip/ig; studied at Pans, and eame to England 

 m I Mil; u.is appointed Taylorian professor at Oxford 

 m lx.-, i. ;,,,,( ,,, istis. professor of comparative philology 

 there, a science to which he has made large contributions; 

 besides editing the " Kig-Veda," he has published "Lec- 

 tures on the Science of language." and "Chips from a 

 German Workshop," dealing therein not merely with 

 the origin of languages, but tliat of the early religious 

 and social systems of the East. Died in 1900. 



Mun>e\. I r.inK \ndre\\. publisher; born in Mercer. 

 Me., August Jl. is,>4; educated in public schools m 

 Maine; unmarried; started business career in country 



store; became manager Western I'moti Telegraph office . 

 Augusta, Me.; went to New York. ivsj. and started 

 "The Golden Arm.sy," juvenile weekly (now the adult 

 monthly, "The Argosy ); in February, 1889, launched 

 "Mun-ey's Weekly," converted October, 1891, into 

 "Mun-ey's Magazine"; now also owns "The All-Story 

 Magazine," the "Washington Times," and "Boston 

 Journal." Author: "Afloat in a Great City," "The 

 Boy Broker." "A Tragedy of Errors." "Under Fire," 

 " Derringforth." 



M mister berg, Hugo, professor of psychology. Har- 

 vard, since lv.i_'; born in Danzig, Germany, June 1. 1863; 

 graduated from Danzig Gymna-ium, Issj; post-gradu- 

 ate studies in philosophy, natural sciences, ami medicine 

 in Leipzig and Heidelberg, l^_' ^7 . Ph. D. I-eipzig. 

 1885, M. D., Heidelberg, 1887; LL. D., Washington 

 University, 1904); instructor University of Freiburg. 

 Germany. I.ss7; assistant professor same, 1891. Author: 

 "Psychology and Life," "Grundzuege der Psychologic." 

 also other works in German, "American Traits," "The 

 Americans," "Principles of Art Education," "Eternal 

 Life." 



MiirfriMN Mary Noailles ("Charles Egbert Crad- 

 dock"), author; born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., January 

 24, 1850; for years concealed her identity and sex under 

 her pen-name. Author: "In the Tennessee Mountains," 

 "Where the Battle was Fought," "Down the Ravine." 

 "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain." "In the 

 Cloud*." "The Story of Keedon Bluffs," "The Despot 

 of Broomsedge Cove," "In the 'Stranger's- People' Coun- 

 try," " His Vanished Star." "The Phantoms of the Foot- 

 bridge," "The Mystery of Witchface Mountain," "The 



Juggler," "The Young Mountaineers, 1'he Story of 



Old Fort Loudon." "The Bushwhackers and other 

 Stories," "The Champion," "A Spectre of Power," 

 "Storm Centre," "The Frontiersman." 



Murlllo, Bartolome Ksteban, born in 1618; Span- 

 ish painter, pupil of Juan del Castillo; after living in 

 great poverty, made the acquaint:. laaques, 



who introduced him to the Kscorial. He made a repu- 

 tation by his pictures in the "Clau-tro Clnco" of the 

 Seville Franciscan Convent, and afterwards itainted 

 Madonnas and holy families, his "chef-d'u-uvre ' being 

 "The Immaculate Conception," now in the I/ouvre. 

 Murillo died (1682), from the effects of a fall from scaf- 

 folding when engaged on a pciture of "The Espousals 

 of St. rathe- 



.Murray. James Stuart. F.arl of. regeol of Scotland; 

 bont in 1638; was a natural son of King Jamea V. Dur- 

 ing the early part of the reign of his half-sister, Mary 

 Queen of Scots, he became her chu-f minister, and after 

 her deposition was appointed to the regency. Assas- 

 sinated. January. 1 



Nan -en. I rldtiof. born at Lysaker. near Chr 

 Norway, about 1846; made his first Arctic exploration 



engaged ... 

 n he pen 



In* suit 

 n he married in 1, nt du 



9erati 



was composed m 17s..'. "No//e di In-. 



..\arim" in 17s7. " I >ie /,:iul.erl!..fe " and "la 

 n 17'.M. a: :iern " on hit 



death-bed, in addition to which i 1 many 



masses, symphonies, concertiis. etc. Died, 1791. 



... IssJ, followed by a second in 

 Greenland: from 1VM. to 1S96. 



fainoii- expedition in the " Fram." when he penetrated 



farther north than any of lux prcdereiwnni. PmfeNSor of 



:it Christia: ve part, 



I'tu.'i. in effect mi.' separation of Norway from Sweden. 



the first Norwegian ambsjBJSjdOff lo England 

 Napoleon I. wax l>orn m I. ng the 



second son of Charles Bonaparte, a < 



He was educated at Mnenne. entered the Fren. 



notable for hi- conduct nt the 



I o. .Ion m I7'.:i. when he commanded the artillery . 



is later he led t he t mop* of thrt <>nvintion against 

 the Sections, and in 1700, soon after his first marriage, 

 received the command of the army of Italy. A 



great annexe-. m ihi- . 



Egypt, when- he defeated the Mameluke* and invaded 



he reached France m October. 1790, overthrew 

 il He now again 

 made peace" 



UK the German I 



in the n rnnrr. while hr- aim concluded a con- 







