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 MORLAKS and was for a while a pastor. But ill ealth impelled his retirement, and he was acher at Stuttgart till 1866. He is one of e best of the Swabian poets, and has made cellent translations of Anacreon and Theoc- us. His works include Maler Nolten a vel (Stuttgart, 1832) ; Gedichte (1838 ; 4th .., 1867) ; Idylle vom Bodensee (1846 ; 2d ed., 856) ; Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmannlein, a "iry tale (1853) ; Vier Erzdhlungen ; and Ma- rt aufder Seise nacTi Prag, a novel (1856). -jlmer set to music his opera Die Regenbru-, and Hetsch and F. Kauffmann many of songs and ballads. MORLAKS, the name of a portion of the Slavic population of Dalmatia and the adjoining mar- itime districts of Austro-Hungary. They are skilful mariners, and form a large portion of the sailors in the Austrian navy. The coast of the Adriatic between Carlopago and Zengg is from them called Morlacca, and the strait be- tween it and the islands of Veglia, Arbe, and "" igo the strait of Morlacca. NORLAND, George, an English painter, born London about 1764, died there, Oct. 29, 4. His father was an artist, under whose rection he made pictures and drawings for le. When 21 he left his father's house and rsued his art alone, reaching the full ma- rity of his powers about 1790, after which riod he gave himself up to intemperance and oriigacy. During the last few years of his e he was seldom sober, and painted only to pply his actual necessities. Many of his later works were executed in sponging houses, in one of which he died. His subjects were generally selected from low life, and he ac- quired an astonishing skill in painting domestic animals, especially pigs.' He was also very successful in delineating the more common species of English landscape. His execution deteriorated greatly toward the close of his life, but his pictures were nevertheless in such de- mand that a regular manufactory of imitations of them was established by his brother Henry. MORLEY, Henry, an English author, born in London, Sept. 15, 1822. He was sent to a Moravian school at Neuwied on the Rhine, and graduated at King's college, London, where he established and edited the " King's College Magazine." He practised medicine in Shrop- shire from 1843 to 1848. Beginning in 1847, he has published numerous papers on public health. From 1851 to 1857 he was Dickens's assistant in editing "Household Words," and from 1856 to 1859 joint editor of the London " Examiner," of which he was sole editor from 1859 to 1864. In 1859 he became professor of English literature in King's college, and in 1865 in University college. He was the most active promoter of the association formed in 1869 for the education of women in connec- tion with the latter institution. His principal publications in book form are: "The Dream of the Lily Bell," tales and poems (1845); "Sunrise in Italy," poems, and "Tracts upon 674 VOL. XL 53 MORMONS 831 Health, for Cottage Circulation " (1847)- "A Defence of Ignorance" (1851); "Life of Ber- nard Palissy of Saintes " (2 vols., 1852) : " Life of Jerome Cardan " (1854) ; " Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa" (1856); "Gossip and Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair" (1857)- "A History of English Literature" (2 parts' pub- lished, 1864 and 1867, the first devoted to writers before Chaucer, the second reaching from Chaucer to Dunbar); "Steele and Ad- dison's Spectator, original and corrected texts " (1868); "Tables of English Literature" (1870); "Clement Marot, and other Studies" (1871); and "A First Sketch of English Lit- erature " (3 vols., 1873). MORLEY, John, an English author, born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Doc. 24, 1838. He graduated at Lincoln college, Oxford, in 1859, early became a contributor to the " Saturday Review," and in 1867 succeeded George Henry Lewes as editor of the "Fortnightly Review." He published "Edmund Burke, a Historical Study," in 1857, "Critical Miscellanies," in- cluding essays on De Maistre, Condorcet, Car- lyle, and Byron, in 1871, and in the latter year also a volume on Voltaire. In April, 1872, he delivered at the London royal institution a lec- ture on Rousseau, which was afterward elabo- rated into two volumes (1873). In 1873 he de- livered a series of lectures on " The Limits of the Historic Method." In that year also he was active in resisting the educational system intro- duced by the Gladstone government, because of its denominational character, and published " The Struggle for National Education." His latest work is " On Compromise " (1874). MORLEY, Thomas, an English composer, died in London at an advanced age about 1604. He graduated as a bachelor of music at Oxford in 1588, and was made gentleman of Queen Eliza- beth's chapel in 1592. He was a pupil of Wil- liam Birde and a student of the forms of the Italian madrigal writers. His works consist of canzonets, madrigals, anthems, and church services. In imitation of Giovanelli, who had employed 37 of the most celebrated Italian composers to write madrigals in honor of the Virgin Mary, Morley obtained from English composers 24 madrigals in praise of Queen Elizabeth under the name of Oriana, entitling the collection "The Triumphs of Oriana, to five and six voices, composed by divers several authors, newly published by Thomas Morley, Bach, of Musicke and Gentleman of her Maj- esty's honorable Chapell " (1601). Among the composers represented in this collection were John Milton, father of the poet, Wilbye, and Benet. Morley wrote also a treatise of much value entitled "A Plaine and Easie Introduc- tion to Practical Musicke." MORMONS, or Latter Day Saints, a sect founded by Joseph Smith, who was born at Sharon, Vt., in 1805, and was killed at Carthage, III, n 1844. (See SMITH, JOSEPH.) According to lis own account, Smith at about the age of 15, while living with his father, who was a