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* MACLE. 636 McLENNAN. and has been used for niakinj; beads for rosaries. The term made is also sometimes used in min- eraloj0- to designate twin erj-stals. See Miner- alogy" MacLEAN, niak-lan', George Edwin (1850 — ). An Amerit-au educator, born at Rockville, Conn. He jrraduated in 1871 at Williams Col- lege, studied theology, and held pastorates at New I.*banon, N. V., and Troy, N. Y. After study at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin he was appointed professor of English language and literature in the University of ilinnesota. In 1895 he became chancellor of the University of Nebraska, and in 1899 president of the Univer- sity of Iowa. He published: An Old and Middle English Reader ( 188ti) ; An Introdncton/ Course in Old English (1891) ; and An Old and Middle English Ueader (1893). McLEAN, .loiiN (1785-1861). An American political leader and jurist, born in Morris Coun- ty, N. J. His father removed in 1785 to Virginia, then to Kentucky, and linally settled in Warren County, Ohio. Young JIcLean began the study of law in Cincinnati in 1803, and was admitted to the bar in 1807. In 1812 he was elected to the National Congress as a Democrat, and was unanimously reelected in 1814. He declined the nomination to the United States Senate in 1815, but served from 1816 to 1822 as Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. President Monroe appoint- ed him Commissioner of the Land Office in 1822 and Postmaster-CJeneral the next year. He was continued in office by President John Quincy Adams, and workcil such great improvement that Congress increased the salary of the office. He disagreed with President Jackson on the question of patronage and resigned from the Cabinet, though offered both 'ar and Navy departments. President .Jackson, however, appointed him to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1829. He wrote a dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott case, declaring that slavery exists by force and ■"is limited to the range of the laws under which it is sanctioned." In 1848 he was a candidate for the Presidential nomination of the Free Soil Party, and in 1856 received 196 votes at the Re- publican convention. He published Reports of the United States Circuit Courts (1829, 1840- 50) an<l Eulogy on James Monroe (1831). McLEAN, .Toiix (1800-86). An American educator, tenth president of Princeton College. He was born in Princeton, where his father was professor of chemistry in the college, and lived there during his whole life. He graduated in 1816 and two years later became a tutor. From that time until his resignation of the presidency, which he held from 1854 till 1868, he was "a member of the faculty. Among Dr. McLean's publications are A Leeture on a Common School Sgslem for Xeic Jersei/ (1829), which had con- siderable influence with the Legislature when it later established a common school system ; two letters on The True Relations of the Church and the State to Schools and Colleges (1853); and a History of the College of yew Jersey (1877). McLEAN, Sarah Pratt (1858—). An American author, born in Connecticut. She married Franklin Lynde Greene in 1887. Her first book. Cape Cod Folks, describing, it was said, persons she had known, involved her in a libel suit. Her other works include: Some Other Folks (1883) ; Touhead (1884) ; and LasY- chance Junction (1889). MACLEAK', George Frederick (1833—). A Church of England scholar. He was born in Bed- ford, February 3, 1833 ; graduated at Cambridge B.A. 1855: became headmaster of King's College school, London, 1866; warden of Saint Augus- tine's College, Canterbury, 1880. In 1885 he was made an honorary canon of Canterbury. His imblications embrace: Introduction to'the Prayer Book (1869); Apostles of Mediceval Europe (1869); The Gradual Conversion of Europe ( 1875) ; The Conversion of the Celts; the English, the Xorthmen and the Slavs (1878-79) : The Evi- dential ]'(ilue of the Holy Eucharist (Boyle Lec- tures, 1879-80) ; Saint Augustine's, Canterbury, Its Rise, Ruin and Restoration ( 1888) ; Introduc- tion to the Creeds (4th ed. 1899) ; and, with W. W. Williams, Introduction to the Articles (2d ed. 1896). He edited the Oxford Bible helps (1893), and the Gospel of Mark in the Cambridge Bible for Schools aiut Colleges ( 1893). MACLEHOSE, mak"l-hr)z. Mrs. Ag.ves (1759- 1841). A sweetheart of Robert Burns, born in April, 1759. She was a daughter of Andrew Craig, a surgeon of Glasgow. Robert Chambers afterwards described her as of "a .somewhat voluptuous style of beauty, of lively and easy manners, of a poetical fabric of mind, with some wit, and not too high a degree of re- finement and delicacy." In 1776. after a brief courtship, she married .James Maclehose, a filas- gow lawyer. Owing to the husband's jealousy, they separated four years later. Mrs. JIaclehose lived first at Glasgow, and then at Edinburgh, where she was supported by Lord Craig. Her husband sailed for .lamaica. Burns first met Mrs. Maclehose at Edinburgh, December 7, 1787, and a mutual attraction soon grew up. A corre- spondence ensued in which they addressed each other as Clarinda and Sylvander. Their last meeting, which took place on December 6. 1791, Burns immortalized in "Ae fond kiss, and then we sever." and in three other lyrics. During the friendship Mrs. Maclehose wrote several lit- tle poems, one of which Burns thought worthy of Sappho. She joined her husband in .Jamaica, was coldly received, and then returned to Edin- burgh, where she died October 22, 1841. The correspondence is published in the works of Burns. McLEN'NAN", .John Ferguson (1827-81). An English sociologist, best known for his theory of exogamy. He was born at Inverness and was educated there, at King's College. Aberdeen, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the same year he wrote the article "Law"^' for the eighth edition of the Encyclopwdia Britannica and was thus led to study the custom of marriage by cap- ture. This theory was advanced in An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Mar- riage Ceremonies (1865): in the Fortnightly Review (1866, April and May), under the title "Kinship in Ancient Greece." and in the June Argost; of the same year in a paper on "Bride Catching:" and further contributions are to 'oe found in his Studies in Ancient History (1876), and in "Levirate and Polyandry" (Fortnightly, May. 1877) and "Exogamy and Endogamy" (ib., .June. 1878). In 1880 he began a study'of Maine's theory of the patriarchate, but it was not completed on his death, and was edited in