A Brief Handbook of English Authors Part 20

=Maxwell, Wm. Hamilton.= 1794-1850. Irish novelist. His fiction is military in character. _Pub. Rou._

=Maxwell, Sir Wm. Stirling.= 1818-1878. Author The Cloister Life of Chas. V., Velasquez and his Works, etc.

=May, Sir Thos. Erskine.= 181 Historian. Author Const.i.tutional Hist. England, Hist. Democracy in Europe, etc. Style careful and thoughtful. _See Lit. World, April, 1878, and The Biograph, March, 1880._ _Pub. Arm. Wid._

=Mayhew, Augustus.= 1812-1875. Litterateur.

=Mayhew, Edward.= 181 Veterinary writer. Bro. to A. M. Author Ill.u.s.trated Horse Doctor, etc. _Pub. Apl. Lip. Rou._

=Mayhew, Henry.= 1812-1876. Bro. to two preceding. Author London Labor and London Poor, German Life and Manners and numerous humorous works.

_Pub. Har. Rou._

=Mayhew, Horace.= 1819-1872. Humorist. Bro. to three preceding. Author Letters Left at the Pastry Cook's, etc.

=Mayhew, Thomas.= 181 Bro. to four preceding. Editor of the Penny National Library.

=Mayne, John.= 1761-1836. Scotch poet. Author of The Siller Gun, Logan Braes, etc.

=Mayo, Mrs. Isabella Fyvie=, "Edward Garrett." 184 Religious novelist. Author By Still Waters, Occupations of a Retired Life, Gold and Dross, etc. _Pub. Do._

=McCarthy, Denis Florence.= 1820-1880. Poet and miscellaneous writer.

Author Ballads, Poems, and other Lyrics, etc., and translator of the dramas of Calderon.

=McCarthy, Justin.= 183 Novelist and historian. Author Linley Rochford, Dear Lady Disdain, etc., and of a valuable Hist. of Our Own Times. Style graphic and forcible. _Pub. Har._

=McCulloch, John Ramsay.= 1789-1864. Political economist. Author Principles of Political Economy, Dict. of Commerce, Statistical Account of the British Empire, etc.

=Melmoth, Wm.= 1710-1799. Translator of Pliny. Author Laelius, or Friends.h.i.+p, etc.

=Melville, Sir James.= 1535-1606. Scotch writer. Author Historical Memoirs.

=Melville, J. G. Whyte.= 1821-1878. Novelist. Author Kate Coventry, The White Rose, Katerfelto, etc. Style rapid and spirited. _Pub. Apl.

Por._

=Meredith, Owen.= See Bulwer-Lytton, E. R.

=Merivale, Chas.= 1808-1874. Historian. Author Hist. Latin Christianity, Fall of the Roman Republic, Hist. of the Romans under the Empire, etc. A writer of much ease and dignity of style, whose historical estimates are careful and valuable. _Pub. Apl. Har. Rou._

=Merivale, Herman.= 1806-1874. Historical writer. Bro. to C. M.

=Merrick, James.= 1720-1769. Poet. His poem The Chameleon is well known.

=Miall, Edward.= 1809-1881. Political writer. Author Ethics of Non-Conformity, The Voluntary Principle, etc.

=Mickle, Wm. Julius.= 1734-1788. Scotch poet. His poem, c.u.mnor Hall, suggested Scott's Kenilworth. _See Works of, 1808._

=Middleton, Conyers.= 1683-1750. Theologian. M. wrote a Life of Cicero and a Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Church.

=Middleton, Thomas.= 1570-1627. Dramatist. The Witch of Edmonton, a tragi-comedy, is his most noted play. _See Dyce's edition, 1840._

=Mill, James.= 1773-1836. Scotch historian and philologist. Author of an impartial Hist. British India, a.n.a.lysis of the Mind, etc.

=Mill, John Stuart.= 1806-1873. Philosopher. Son to J. M. A profound but cold thinker and writer. Author System of Logic, Political Economy, Liberty, Subjection of Women, etc. _See Autobiography, Table's Eng. Lit., and Caroline Fox's Memories of old Friends._ _Pub.

Apl. Har. Ho. Lit._

=Miller, Hugh.= 1802-1856. Geologist. Author Old Red Sandstone, Footprints of the Creator, etc., works which greatly helped to popularize the study of geology. _See Life, by Peter Bayne._ _Pub.

Ca._

=Miller, Thomas.= 180 Poet and novelist. Author Rural Sketches, Country Scenes, Fair Rosamond, Songs for British Riflemen, etc. _Pub.

Rou._

=Milman, Henry Hart=. 1791-1868. Poet and historian. M. was author of Fazio, a successful drama, of an excellent Hist. of the Jews, of numerous poems, and editor of an annotated Gibbon. _Pub. Arm. Har.

Lit. Por. Put. Rou._

=Milnes [milnz], Richard Monckton, Lord Houghton.= 180 Poet and litterateur. Author Poems of Many Years, Life of Keats, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rob._

=Milton, John.= 1608-1674. Poet. His literary life sharply defines itself into 3 periods; in the first, 1626-1640, he wrote the poems L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, the Pastoral of Comus, and the elegy Lycidas.

During the second, 1640-1660, he wrote prose treatises, mainly controversial, such as the Areopagitica, and his sonnets. After 1660 came the great epics, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, and the choral drama Samson Agonistes. A great artist, he created the Eng.

epic, infusing it with his own severe strength and dignity. He had no humor or feeling for dramatic situation but he could be both graceful and tender as his early poems show. He was the great Puritan poet. Of the numerous Lives of Milton the best are, _Ma.s.son's and Mark Pattison's Milton in Eng. Men of Letters. Pickering's, Rossetti's and Ma.s.son's are among the best editions of his poems. For complete edition of his prose works see Bohn's Standard Library._ _See Hines's Study of Paradise Lost._ _Pub. Mac._

=Minto, Wm.= 184 Litterateur. Author Characteristics of Eng.

Poets, from Chaucer to s.h.i.+rley, Manual of Eng. Prose Lit., Defoe in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Mitford, John.= 1781-1859. Poet and critic.

=Mitford, Mary Russell.= 1786-1855. Miscellaneous writer. Author of the tragedies Julian, Rienzi, Foscari, etc., and the charming series of those sketches ent.i.tled Our Village. _See Fields' Yesterdays with Authors, and The Friends.h.i.+ps of Mary Russell Mitford._ _Pub. Har._

=Mitford, Wm.= 1744-1827. Historian. Author Hist. of Greece, etc. _See Life, by Lord Redesdale._

=Mivart, St. George.= 182 Naturalist. Author The Genesis of Species, Contemporary Evolution, The Cat, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac. Scr._

=Moberly, Geo.= 180 Bp. Salisbury. Religious writer. _Pub. Dut._

=Moir [moi'[e^]r], David Macbeth.= 1798-1851. Scotch poet and novelist.

=Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa [Stewart]=, "Ennis Graham." 184 Scotch novelist. Author of the novels Hathercourt and Miss Bouverie, and of numerous excellent juvenile works of which The Cuckoo Clock, Carrots, and The Tapestry Room are well-known examples. _See The Spectator, Jan. 1880, Jan. 1881, and Jan. 1882._ _Pub. Har. Ho. Mac.

Rou._

=Monboddo, Lord.= See Burnet, James.

=Montagu, Chas. Earl of Halifax.= 1661-1715. Poet. Co-author with Prior of The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, and author of miscellaneous poems. _See Johnson's Lives of the Poets._

=Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth.= 1720-1800. Founder of the Blue Stocking Club and author of a once famous essay on the Genius of Shakespeare.

_See Doran's A Lady of the Last Century._

=Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley.= 1690-1762. Famous for her brilliant and satirical Letters. _See Letters of, edited by Mrs. S.J. Hale, N. Y., 1856._

=Montgomery [m[o^]nt-g[)u]m-[)e]r-[)i]], James.= 1771-1854. Scotch poet. His verse is not strong, but some of his hymns are general favorites. _See Critical Essays, by A. K. H. Boyd._ _Pub. Hou. Rou._