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MAISTRE. paign, gathering there materials for his most famous story, Lea prtsarlm'ers du Coat-use t1825). His first book, Voyage auteur do me chambrs (1794), was written in the style of Laurence Sterile, in Turin, while De Maistre was under ar~ rcst for participation in a duelr The Empédilion lloctm'rtc uazoar tie ma chumbre (1825), in like style, was less successful. He wrote also two stories, Lea lépreucc de la cite d’Aoste (1811) and Proscooie, on to jeurle Sibéﬂ’cn’ne (1825), imitatc cd from Madame Cottin’s once noted Les exiles dc Sibérie (1806), De Maistre’s essays are a genial afterglow of eighteenthcentury wit, and his stories are models of vigorous and direct narration, combining power of exact de- scription With sentimental aﬁectation in a way that puts him quite apart among the French novelists.

MAISUR, mi-sﬁ‘or’. See Mrsanr

MAITLAND, mﬁt’lundi A town of New South Wales, Australia, in Northumberland County, on the Hunter River, 95 miles north of Sydney, and 13 miles northwest of Newcastle, to which it is joined by railway (Map: New South Wales, F 3). It is divided by the river into East and West Maitland, two distinct munici- palities. In either division are handsome hanks, churches, and other public buildings. In West Maitland, the more populous part, are several coach-building factories, tobacco factories, and several mills, including a paper mill. Good coal is mined in the neighborhood. The district is called the ‘granary of New South Wales,’ and an extensive trade is carried on in agricul- tural produce Total population of East and West Muitland, in 1895, 10,800; in 1901, 10,085.

MAITLAND. The family name of the Earls and Dukes oi Laudcrdale (q.v.).

MAITLAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1850—)1 A celebrated English historian. He was educated at Eton and at 'l‘rin y College, Cambridge Af- ter graduation he studied law, and in 1384 he became reader of English law at Cambridge. In 1889 he was chosen professor of the same subject His writings are almost entirely on the early legal institutions of England, and have exerted a great inﬂuence in this ﬁeld upon English and American students. His greatest work is the History of English Law, the ﬁrst edi on of which appeared in 1395. In this he was assisted by Sir F. Pollock. The work extends to 1307, and cleared up a great number of problems, as did also his series of essays known as Domesday Book and Beyond (1897]. Another interesting work of Muitland is Roman Comm Law in the Church of England (1898)—a collection of essnys, in which he undertakes to refute the claims of the High Church Party, who maintain that the canon law of Rome was ncver binding on the ecclesiastical courts of England. For the names of the.other works of Maitland, consult Gross, Sources and Literature of English History (London and New York. 1900).

MAITLAND, Jolllv ALEXANDER FULLER Sea FULLER-hlAITLAND, JOHN ALEXANDER

MAITLAND, Sir PEkuonINn (1777-1854L A British general and colonial administrator, born at Longpltrisll House, Hampshire, In 1314 he was made i njor-generitl, ﬁnd in 1815 took part in the \Vuterloo campaign. He was Lieutenant- Governcr of Canada in 181528, but his inexperi-

ence in civil government led him to rely too much upon his Councilors, while his want of tact and autocratic Toryism rendered him unpopular with the mass of the Canadians. The only important event of his administration was the beginning of the Welland Canalr After leaving Canada he was Governor of Nova Scotia from 1828 to 1834, though he spent but one oi those years at his post. In 1830 he was promoted lieutenant-gen- eral; he was commander of the Madras army in 1836-38, and GovernorrGeneral at the Cape of Good Hope in 184346.

MAITLAND, Sir RICHARD, Lord LErmIvcmlv [1496-1586L A Scottish lawyer and antiquary of an Anglo-Norman family long settled in Ber- wickshire, His father, Sir William Maitland of Lethington, was killed at Flodden. Rich- ard Maitland was educated at the University of Saint Andrews and studied law in Paris. Returning to Scotland, he was nominated heir to his father, and entered the service of James v. During the troubled years' that followed the death of the King he aimed at an independent course. As a commissioner in set- tling disputes on the borders he became famous. 0!) Queen Mary’s return from France in 1561 he became an ordinary Lord of Session and a member of the Privy Council, and the next year he was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal. Though totally blind, he held the seal till 1567, and his position on the bench till 1584. He died March 20, 1586. Maitland is remembered mainly for his valuable collection of early poems, in two’ volumes, now preserved at Magdalen College, Oxford. Selections from it were published by John Pinkerton under the title, Ancient Scottish Poems Never Before Published (1786). Mait- land’s own poems, which possess considerable in- terest, were published with a memoir in 1830 by the Maitland Club, a society founded at Glasgow in 1828 for printing ancient Scottish manu- scripts

MAITLAND, SAMUEL Ronny (17924866). A Church of England scholar. He was born in London and studied at Trinity College, Cam- bridge, without graduation, as he was not a member of the Church of England. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1816, then studied theology and was ordained in 1821. He held perpetual curacy of Christ Church, Glou- cester, 1823»29, but resigned to devote himself to literature. In 1838 he was appointed librarian to Dr. Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, and keeper of the Lambeth manuscripts, retaining the omre until the death of the Archbishop, in 1848‘ From l839 to 1849 he edited the British Maga- zine, in which he wrote valuable articles, chieﬂy on prophecy, Church history, cr‘ 'eism, etc. His principal historical works are: An Inquiry into the Grounds on which the Prophetic Period of Daniel onol Saint John Has Been supposed to Consist of 1260 Years (London, 1826); Facts and Documents Illustrative of the Doctrines- and Rites of the Ancient Albigmes and Waldenscs (1832); The Voluntary System (1834) ; Tho Dark Ages: A. Series of Essays Intended to Illus- trate the State of Religion and Literature in the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Centuries (1844); Essays on Subjects Connected with the Reformation on England (1849); Superstition and Science (1855M He wrote also numerous pamphlets, letters, and reviews

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