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McCORMACK 



productions are concerned chiefly with the Eng- 

 land of his own day. He was born in Cork, 

 Ireland ; became a reporter on the Cork Exam- 

 iner in 1847, then found his way to London, the 

 land of promise of every journalist, and be- 

 came successively Parliamentary reporter, leader 

 writer and editor. His novel, Dear Lady Dis- 

 dain, published in 1871, met with great success. 

 Into this novel, as well as Mononia and My 

 Enemy's Daughter, he put a good deal of his 

 early life and its local associations. His un- 

 adorned English is warm with human sympa,- 

 thy, persuasive in narrative and full of subtle 

 humor. He was prominent as a member of 

 Parliament, and led the Home Rule party after 

 ParnelPs overthrow. In The Ladies' Gallery 

 and The Right Honorable he developed his 

 plots against a background of Parliamentary 

 life. His crowning success in the field of litera- 

 ture is A History of Our Own Times, appearing 

 in successive volumes. It became popular in 

 America as well as in England, and is his liter- 

 ary monument. His other historical works are 

 History oj the Four Georges and The French 

 Revolution. His novels include Miss Misan- 

 thrope, A Fair Saxon, Lady Judith, The Maid 

 of Athens and Paul Massie. The Story of 

 Gladstone's Life is one of his best-known biog- 

 raphies. 



McCLELLAN, maklel'an, GEORGE BRINTON 

 (1826-1885), a leading genera' with the Union 

 forces during the early part of the War of 

 Secession, and one of the few great military 

 men who sought the Presidency unsuccessfully. 

 He was born at 

 Philadelphia, De- 

 cember 3, 1826, 

 was graduated 

 from West Point 

 in 1846, and 

 served as an en- 

 gi ne er in the 

 Mexican War; 

 for splendid serv- 

 ice in that strug- 

 gle he was ap- 

 pointed a captain. 

 After the war the 

 government commissioned him to make ex- 

 tensive surveys in the West for a proposed 

 Pacific railroad, and in 1855 sent him to Europe 

 to study the organization of armies. For three 

 years he held offices as vice-president of the 

 Illinois Central Railroad and general superin- 

 tendent and president of the Ohio & Missis- 

 sippi's eastern division. 



GEORGE B. McCLELLAN 



At the beginning of the War of Secession 

 McClellan was appointed major-general. As a 

 military leader and organizer he was remark- 

 ably successful, but his lack of aggressiveness 

 and slowness of movement were sharply criti- 

 cized, and when, after the battle with General 

 Lee at Antietam, Md. (see ANTIETAM, BATTLE 

 OF), McClellan failed to follow up the enemy, 

 his command was taken from him. In 1864 as 

 Democratic candidate for President against 

 Lincoln he was defeated. Thirteen years later 

 McClellan served one term as governor of New 

 Jersey. Among other works, he wrote the 

 Manual of Bayonet Exercise and Report on the 

 Organization and Campaigns of the Army of 

 the Potomac. 



McCLURE, makloor', SAMUEL SIDNEY (1857- 

 ), an American editor and publisher, 

 founder of the publishing house and newspaper 

 syndicate that bears his name. He was born 

 in Process, County Antrim, Ireland, and emi- 

 grated to America with his parents in chil 

 hood, settling in Illinois. In 1882 he w 

 graduated from Knox College, and edited 

 Wheelman, for bicyclists, in Boston until 1 

 In that year he established the McClure Sy 

 dicate in New York, the first organization of i 

 kind to adopt the system of buying man 

 scripts from authors and selling them for sim 

 taneous publication in various newspapers, 

 began the publication of McClure's Magazin 

 in 1893, and under his editorship it 

 reached the front rank among American pe 

 odicals. 



In 1899 he established the publishing ho 

 of McClure, Phillips & Company, the partne 

 ship ending when Doubleday, Page & Compan 

 acquired the book business, and the McClu 

 Syndicate took over the magazine. The S. 

 McClure Newspaper Corporation was form 

 in 1915, when the New York Mail, of whi 

 Mr. McClure became editor, was pure 

 He has been a trustee of Knox College, Gal 

 burg, 111., since 1894. He was for a time at 

 head of the Montessori Association, formed for 

 the purpose of introducing the Montessori sy 

 tern of child training into the United Sta 

 and it was largely due to him that Madam 

 Montessori engaged in her American lecture 

 tour of 1913-1914. A frank and interesting 

 story of the publisher's life, from his own pen, 

 appeared in serial form in his magazine in 1915. 



McCORMACK, makor'mak, JOHN (1885- 



), an Irish tenor who has acquired fame in 



concert tours in Europe, America and Australia. 



He was born in Athlone Westmeath. It was 



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