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posing fountains. Through the medium of 

 bronze and marble he has given life to old 

 myths, and has idealized Grecian heroes, 

 nymphs and dancing fauns. The MacMonnies 

 Fountain for the Court of Honor at the Colum- 

 bian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, won 

 him lasting distinction. No poet ever took 

 more pains than MacMonnies to secure fitting 

 and precise expression for his ideas. Before 

 submitting the new public fountain for Denver 

 he made and destroyed five earlier models. His 

 statue of Sir Harry Vane, in the Boston Public 

 Library, and of Shakespeare, in the Congres- 

 sional Library at Washington, are two of his 

 other famous works. MacMonnies was born 

 in Brooklyn, and at the age of three began to 

 show signs of artistic genius. At that time he 

 modeled horses with crumbs of bread and 

 lumps of wax and painted flowers. He studied 

 first under Saint Gaudens, and later went to 

 Paris. He now lives in France, in the retire- 

 ment which he courts and loves. MacMonnies 

 has also shown great ability as a painter. The 

 reader will find an admirable appreciation of 

 this eminent sculptor in Lorado Taft's History 

 of American Sculpture. 



MacNAB, SIR ALLAN NAPIER (1798-1862), a 

 Canadian soldier and statesman, for many years 

 one of the leading Conservatives in the old 

 legislative assembly, and from 1854 to 1856 

 joint Premier with Auguste N. Morin. The 

 MacNab-Morin Ministry, although not a long 

 one and not considered especially strong, was 

 responsible for some of the greatest legislation 

 on the statute books of Canada. MacNab is 

 not one of the greatest figures in Canadian his- 

 tory, but circumstances made him a leader at 

 times when history was being made. 



MacNab was born at Niagara, Ont. While 

 he was still a boy in school, the War of 1812 

 stirred his desire to show his loyalty to his 

 country, and in 1813 he enlisted in the British 

 navy as a midshipman. He soon left the navy 

 and served in the army during the remainder 

 of the war. After peace was declared MacNab 

 began to study law and was finally admitted to 

 practice. He first came into the public eye in 

 1830, when he refused to testify in regard to 

 disturbances in Hamilton following a parade of 

 Sir John Colborne's effigy through the streets. 

 In the same year he was elected to the assem- 

 bly for Upper Canada, and from 1837 to 1841 

 was speaker of that body. 



As colonel of militia MacNab took a con- 

 spicuous part in suppressing the Rebellion of 

 1837. He was in command at Niagara when 



the Caroline, an American boat, was armed and 

 used to assist the rebels. Bj' his orders the 

 boat was seized, set afire, and allowed to 

 plunge over Niagara Falls. For his services 

 during the rebellion he was knighted. After the 

 union of the two Canadas in 1841 Sir Allan was 

 leader of the Conservative opposition in the 

 assembly until 1844, when the Liberals were 

 defeated in the general elections and he was 

 elected speaker. In 1845 he introduced the 

 Rebellion Losses Bill, which was aimed to com- 

 pensate those persons who had suffered a loss 

 in property during the Rebellion of 1837 in 

 Upper Canada. This bill met great opposition. 

 It was said to place a premium on rebellion, 

 and finally caused the downfall of the Con- 

 servatives in 1848. In that year Sir Allan's 

 service as speaker came to an end. He con- 

 tinued, however, to sit in the assembly, and in 

 1854, on the resignation of Sir Francis Hincks, 

 was called on to form a Ministry. 



The new MacNab-Morin Ministry at once 

 took up several great obstacles to progress in 

 Canada. Two of these, the clergy reserves and 

 seigniorial tenure, demanded quick action, and 

 the bills providing for the secularization of 

 clergy reserves and the abolition of seigniorial 

 tenure passed the assembly on the same day. 

 To John A. Macdonald, then attorney-general, 

 belongs the chief credit for these measures (for 

 clergy reserves see ONTARIO, subhead History; 

 for seigniorial tenure, see QUEBEC [province], 

 subhead History). After his resignation from 

 the Premiership MacNab was created a baro- 

 net, and spent three years in England, but in 

 1860 returned to Canada and was immediately 

 elected to the legislative council. During the 

 session before his death he was speaker. W.F.Z. 



MACON, ma'kon, GA., the county seat of 

 Bibb County and one of the most rapidly grow- 

 ing manufacturing centers of the South. It is 

 situated on the Ocmulgee River, only six miles 

 from the geographical center of the state; lo- 

 cally it is called the Heart of Georgia. By 

 rail Atlanta is eighty-three miles northwest, 1 

 Augusta is 125 miles northeast, and Savannah 

 is 191 miles southeast. Through the service of 

 the Georgia Southern & Florida; the Southern, 

 Macon & Birmingham; the Georgia, Macon, 

 Dublin & Savannah; the Macon & Birming- 

 ham, and the Central of Georgia railways it 

 ranks next to Atlanta as the railroad center of 

 the state. The river is navigable from Macon 

 to 'the sea throughout the year. Negroes form 

 thirty-five per cent of the population, which 

 increased from 40,665 in 1910 to 45,757 in 1916 



