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* McENTEE. 613 MacGAHAN. kills in Winter" (1884) ; and "Shadows of Au- tumn" (1880). MACEO, nia-su'o, Antonio (1848-00). A Cuban [latriot and military leader. He was born at Santiago de Cuba, and in the Cuban revolution of 1808-78 joined the insurgents as a private. Though originally but a mulatto farm-hand, he rose to be second to Gomez among the Cuban lead- ers. He defeated ilartinez Campos at Demajagua and La Galleta, conducted a very .skillful cam- paign at Baracoa, and in 1878 complelclj- routed .Santocildes at San I'lpiano. He refused to sign the Peace of Zanjon. Having traveled in various American countries, he unsuccessfully attempted in ISUO to start a fresh Cuban revolution. In the uprising of 1895 he took a most distinguished part. Probably the most brilliant achievements of the Cubans during the war were his two in- vasions of, and his campaign in, Pinar del Rio Province, in which he was opposed to the best of the Spanish troops; and his combats at Para- lejo, Jobito, ilal Tiempo, Sao del Indio, and Can- delaria. Accompanied by only his staff, he crossed the trocha between Majana and ilariel, was surrounded by a considerable Spanish force, and was killed. MACEKATA, ma'cha-rii'ta. A walled town of Central Italy, and cajfital of the province of the same name. It is finely situated in the midst of hills, on a lofty eminence, about 22 miles south-southwest of Ancona, and commands pic- turesque views of the sea and the Apennines (Map: Italy, H 4). The streets are straight and well ]iaved, and there are some fine public edi- fices, including a cathedral, conventual establish- ments, and palaces. The palazzo municipale. or town hall, is a beautiful building of the thir- teenth century. Jlacerata is prosperous, and a provincial centre of intellectual and social Italian life. Of its ancient university, however, only the faculty of jurisprudence is still in existence. Population (comnuine), in 1901, 22,784. MACEARLANE, mak-f;lr'lan, Charles ( ?- 1S58). A Scotch author. From 1810 to 182" he lived in Italy, and in 1827-28 he was in Constan- tinople. In 1829 he settled in London as a mis- cellaneous writer. Subsequently he again trav- eled in Italy and Turkey. He died, a poor brother, at the Charterhouse, December 9, 1858. To Knight's Pictorial History (1838-44) he con- tributed the Civil and ililitary History of Eng- land, afterwaj-ds abridged as the Cabinet History of Enyland (1845-47). He wrote popular biog- raphies of Marlborough (1852), Napoleon (1852), and Wellington (18.5.3). and several his- torical novels, as the Armenians (1830), and Old Enr/land i'ofelcttes (1840-47). MACEARLANE, Robert (1734-1804). A Scotch author and editor. He was educated at Edinburgli, and was for a time editor of the London Morninrj Chronicle. He prepared a com- plete edition of O.ssian in the Gaelic, with a Latin translation (3 vols., 1807). Volumes i. and iv. of the History of the Reiyn of Oeorye III. (1770-90), pulilishcd by Evans, are also by him. MacEAR'REN", George Alexander (1813- 87 ) . - English composer, the son of George Macfarren, the dramatist. He was born in Lon- don, and after having studied music for two years with Lucas, entered in 1829 the Royal Academy of Music. Upon leaving there in 1836 he taught music at a school in the Isle of Man, but I'eturned tu the Academy the next year and was appointed professor of harmony. In 1844 he founded the Handel Society, and in 1845 became conductor at Covent Garden. In 1875 he suc- ceeded William Sterndale liennett as principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and the .same year became professor of music at Cambridge Univer- sity. In 1800 his ejesiglit, which had been growing weak for years, had failed entirely, but despite this calamity Jlacfarrcn continued his work as before. His death occurred at London. As a composer his works lacked inspiration, and he exercised little influence on his contempo- raries. His theoretical treatises, however, are clear and forceful presentations of his views on harmony and compo.sition. His best composi- tions were: the cantatas ''Lenora," "May Day;" the operas Robin Hood (1800), Don 'Quixote (1840), The Devil's Opera (1838) ; the oratorios Joseph (1872), Saint John the Baptist (1873), and Saint George's Te Deum (1884). Of his writings, Kudiments of Harmony (1800) and Six Lectures on Harmony (1807) are important. Consult Banister, G. A. Macfarren, His Lif-;, ^Vorks, and Influence (London, 1891). McFIN'GAL. A satirical political poem, in the metre of Butler's Hudibras, by John Trum- bull, the first part published in 1775, the whole in 1782. The hero, a Tory Xew England squire in Revolutionary days, carries on a controversy A^ith the leader of the Wliigs. It was e.xtremely jjopular, and was reprinted many times. MacFLECK'NOE, or a Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T. S. A poem by Dry- den, published in 1082. in which Thomas Shad- well is depicted as the adopted son and heir of Richard Flecknoe, an Irisli priest, famous for his bad verses. The satire was imit.ited by Pope in his Dunciad. McFLIM'SEY, Flora. The heroine of Wil- liam Allen Puitler's Nothing to Wear (q.v. ). MacGAHAN, m:'ik-ga'lKin. Januarius Alot- SIU.S (1S44-7S!). An American journalist and traveler, born in Lexington, Ohio. As a corre- spondent of the Xew York Herald (1870-71) he was with Bourbaki's army in the Franco-Prus- sian War, went to Lyons and Bordeaux, and at- tracted much attention by his interviews with re- publican, monarchical, and clerical leaders. He was the only newspaper correspondent in Paris during the whole period of the Commune,, and he narrowly escaped death. He afterwards vis- ited Russia as Herald correspondent, accompanied the expedition to Khiva, contrary to Russian orders, and told liis experience in Campaign- ing on the Oxus and The Fall of Khiva (1874). He had already reported the Alabama Confer- ence at Geneva and accompanied General Sher- man to the Caucasus. He reported the Car- list War in Spain (1874), and made a Polar voyage (1875). described in Under the Xorlh- ern Lights (1870). He then investigated as a journalist the Bulgarian atrocities, accompanied by the United States Commissioner, Eugene Schuyler (q.v.). His Turkish Atrocities in Bul- garia (1870) lielped to free the hands of Rus- sia for the Turkish War. He accompanied the Russian army, though crippled by acciilents, and gave the most vivid picture of the fighting at Shipka and Plevna. He was preparing to at-