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* McCULLOUGH. 606 MACDONALD. ods lie imitated. Forrest intended JlcCullough to be his dramatic successor, but any realization of tliis was made impossible by the latter's lack of originality and literary training. In 1881 McCul- lougli ajjpeared for a month's run in the parts of Othello and Virginius. at Drury Lane, London, but failed to make a favorable impression on his English auiliences. He took many notable rules, including Laertes, lago, Edgar, Macdull', Kich-^ niond, Cominius (to Forrest's Coriolanus), Pyth-' ias (to Forrest's Damon), Hamlet, Richelieu, Faleonbridge, Pierre (in Otway's Venice Pre- served), De JIauprat (to Edwin Booth's Riche- lieu), Richmond (to Edwin Booth's Richard IIL), Spartaeus, RoUa (in I'izarro), and Lucius Brutus (in The Fall of Tarqiiin). His chief part, however, was Virginius, in which, indeed, he was unrivaled during his time. His inter- pretations were of the heroic type. MacCTJNN', Hamish (1868—). A Scotch composer, born in Greenock. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and under Hu- bert Parry. He was introduced to the musical world in 1837 by August Manns, and the next year became professor of harmony at the Royal Academy of Jlusic. In 1892 he 'was conductor of the Ham])stead Conservatory Orchestra Soci- ety. In 1804 he resigned his profes-sorshi]). His compositions are full of life and color and have been received with universal popularity. They in- clude the operas Jcanie Dcdiix (1894) ; Uirirmid and Ghrini (1897) ; the cantatas, Bunnic Kihneny (1888); Lord Ullin's Ddtuihlrr (1888); The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1888); The Came- ronian's Dream (1892); The Death of ParAj Peed; the orchestral overtures. The Land of the Mountain ayid the Flood; Cior Mohr ; The Doine Dens o' Yary-ow; and numerous songs and instru- mental ])ieces. McCTJBDY, James Frederick (1847—). A Canadian Orientalist, born at Chatham, New Brunswick. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick, under William Henry Green at the Princetcm Theological Seminary, where he was instructor in Semitic languages (1873- 82), and at Giittingen and Leipzig (1882-84), was Stone lecturer at Princeton (188.'5-8G), and then became professor of Oriental languages in the University of Toronto. For the American edition of Lange's Commentary he translated and edited the parts dealing with the Psalms and Hosea, and himself wrote the commentary on Haggai (1872-74). His other works include: Aryo-f>emitic Hpeech (1881); "The Semitic Per- fect in -Assyrian," in the Prorreilings of the Sixth Oriental Congress (1885) ; IJislory. Projiheet) and the Monuments (1894-1901) ; anil The Life and ^'llrl■ of the Rev. D. J. Mavdonnell (1897). McDANIEIi, mak-dan'yel, Henry Dickerson (18.37 — ). An American lawyer and politician, born in ^lonroe, Ga. He graduated at Mercer L'niversity (Macon, Ga.) in 18.'56, and was ad- mitted to the bar; was a member of the Seces- sion convention of Georgia in 1861, and on the outbreak of the Civil War entered the Confed- erate Army, in which he rose to the rank of major in the Eleventh Georgia Infantry. In 186.5 he was a member of the State constitutional convention, in 1873-74 of the State Legislature, in 1874-83 was State Senator, and from 1883 to 1886, as a Democrat, was Governor of Georgia. Subsequently he acquired interests in oil and cotton-milling in 'alton County, Ga. MACDONALD, mak'dO'nal', Etie.N'NE jAcyiES .Joseph Alexandre, Duke of Taranto (1765-1840). A marshal and peer of France. He was born at Sedan of a Scutch family, en- tered the army in 1785, endiraced the cause of the Revolution, served under Dumouriez and Piche- gru, and became general of division in 1796. In 1798 be was Governor of the Roman Republie, and the next year was defeated at the Trebliia l>y an overwhelming force under Suvarolf, reileeiuing himself, however, in 1800 and 1801 by his bol.l march through Switzerland. Though he had aided Napoleon on the Eighteenth Brunuvire, he lost the favor of the First Consul in 1804 through the sympathy he displayed feu- Morcau (q.v.). Restored to favor in 1809, he commanded under Eug&ne Beauharnais, took Laibach, won the battle of the Raab, and with Lauriston (q.v.) broke the Austrian cen- tre at Wagram, gaining the title of duke and marshal. He fought in Spain in 1810, in Russia in 1812, at Liitzen and Bautzen in 1813, was crushed by Bliicher at the Katzbaeh, and in the same year led the rear-guard in the retreat from Leipzig. He shared in the campaign of 1814 in France. The Bourbons made him a peer and he remained faithful to them during the Hundred Daj's, for which after tlie Second Restoration he was loaded with honors and gifts. The Souvenirs da mnrcehiil Maedonahl. duo de Tarente, were published at Paris in 1892. MACDON'ALD, Flora (1722-90). A Scottish celebrity. She was burn at Jlilton, in the island of South Uist, one of the Hebrides, and became famous in connection with the escape of the Jacobite Pretender in 1746. Wien the Pretend- er, Charles Edward Stuart, after the battle of CuUoden, fled and was pursued by the King's troops, he was rescued by the exertions of Flora, and, disguised as her female servant, was con- ducted by her to the Isle of Skye. Vben the act of Flora became known she was arrested, and, after being kept five months on various vessels of war, slie was sent to London, but was soon discharged under the Indemnity Act of 1747. In 1750 she returned to Scotland, and was married to Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh. They emi- grated to America in 1774, and settled in Fayette- ville, N. C. In the Revolutionary War Macdon- ald took the part of the British, and served in the army as brigadier-general. Flora re- turned to Europe alone. Her husband, after cap- ture and imprisonment at Halifax. Va., rejoined her in Scotland. She died at Peinduin. Consult : Macgregor (afterwards MacKenzie), Flora Mae- donahl and Jler Adventures tcith Prince Charles (Inverness, 1882); Jolly, Flora Macdonald in Uist (Perth, 1886). MACDONALD, George (1824—). A Scottish novelist, bnrn at Huntley, Aberdeenshire, and ed- ucated at Aberdeen University. He studied for the ministry at the Independent College, High- bury, London ; preached at Arundel in Sussex, and at Manchester, but retired from the ministry owing to ill health. In 1872-73 he visited the United States on a lecturing tour. He began his literary career as poet, publishing volumes of poems in 1856, 1857. and 1858. His later verse comprises T/if Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Poems (1882), and Rampolli, translations from