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MOORE. MOORE, Frank Fkankfort (1855—). A Britisli novelist and dramatisl, horn at Limerick, Ireland, and edueated at the Uoyal Aeademieal Institution, lielfast. ills phiys include: .1 Murcli. Hare (1S77); The Queen's Houm (18'J1); and Kitty dice, Aelress (1895). Some of his novels are: Told by lite .Vea (1877) ; Coral and Voeoanut (1890); The Two Clippers (1894); The Secret of the Court (18U5); The Millionaires (1898); A Damsel or Two (1902) ; all more or less sen- sational in character.

MOORE, George (1853—). A British novel- ist and dramatist, born in Ireland. He studied art uniler Luyten in London, and completed his education in France. His first ellorts in litera- ture were contined to the maj^azines, anil under the title Xoles and t^ensalions. he contributed from time to time to the London Hank. His first publication was a volume of verse. Flowers of Parnassus (1877). the treatment of which at the hands of the critics is supposed to have been largely responsible for the fact that, with the exception of I'tiiian Poems (1881), he has pub- lished but little verse. For a long time in England his critical work was regarded as of more per- manent value than his novels.

His later activities largely consisted of critical studies in aid of the Irish renaissance. He allied himself with ilartin and Yeats in founding the Irish Literary Theatre at Dublin. In the preface of his comedy. The Bending of the Bough (1900), he defines his interest in the movement for the revival of the Celtic tongue and literature, as not merely a desire to reform dramatic literature, but as arising solely from "alarm over the present course of English fiction." He inveighed against the trend of modern English literature, which he regarded as wholly given up to the mere por- trayal of "manners, facts, and social customs," and advocated the return to the novel of "human passion and moral ideas." He declared that France alone had followed the truth in literature, and he threw in his lot with the French school. These views he consistently carries out in his novels, and some of them, especially .1 Modern Lover (1883), A Mummer's Wife '(1884), and Esther Waters (1894). aroused vigorous protest, as being unduly realistic. But his indisputable power of keen observation and delicacy of appre- ciation have won increased admiration. In liister Teresa (1901). which is at once a sequel and a recasting of Evelyn Innes (1898), he shows these powers abimdantly. together with soimd knowl- edge of art and music. Among his other works are: Confessions of a Younq Man (1888) ; f^prinq Days (1888): Miss Fletcher ( 1889) ; /mprra- sious and Opinions (1890); Modern Painting (1893); The Htril;e at Arlinr/ford : A Plat/ (1894) : and The Celibates (189.5).

MOORE, Georoe Foot (1851—). An Ameri- can Orientalist, boin at West Chester. Pa. He graduated at Yale in 1872. and at the Union Theo- logical Seminary in 1877; entered the Presby- terian ministry, and was pastor of the Pitnam Presbyterian Church at Zanesville. Ohio. In 1883 he was appointed Hitchcock professor of Hebrew and the history of religions at .Andover Theological Seminary, where he was president of the faculty from 1899 to 1901. when be was ap- pointed professor of divinity in Harvard T^niver- sity. He was for several years editor of the Journal of the .American Oriental Society. His publications include: .1 Commentary on Judges (1895) ; Judges, a translation with notes for the Polvchrome Bible (1898); and The Bool; of Judges in Hebrew (1900).

MOORE, George Hexby (1823-92). An American historical writer and librarian, born in Concord, N. U. He removed in 1839 to New York City, and in 1843 graduated at New York Universit}'. Before leaving college he had become connected with the New York Historical Society, as an assistant to his father, .lacob Bailey Jloore, the librarian, and in 1849 succeeded him as its librarian. In this position he remained until 1872, when, on the opening of Lenox Library, he became its first superintendent. Here he re- mained until his death. He was a frequent con- tributor to historical magazines, and to the pro- ceedings of historical societies. Among his best known works are: The Treason of Charles Lee (1858) ; The Employment of Negroes in the Revo- lutionary Army (1862) ; Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (1800) : and A History of the -lurisprudence of New York ( 1872). MOOBE, Harry Humphrey (1844—). An American painter, born in New Y'ork City. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and under Gerome in Paris. Afterwards he became the pupil and friend of Fortuny in Madrid, and still later traveled and painted in Germany, Italy, and .Japan. His works include "Gypsy Encamp- ment, Granada," "Moorish Water-Carrier," "Al- meh," "The Blind Guitar-Player." and "A Moor- ish Bazaar." He received the Order of Charles III. of Spain.

MOORE, Sir Henry (1713-09). An English colonial governor, born in Vere, Jamaica. He be- came Lieutenant-Governor of his native island in 1750, and, except for a few weeks in 1759. was head of the administration until 1702. In reward for his services in suppressing the slave insur- rection of 1700 he was made a baronet. In July, 1705, he was appointed Governor of New York, where he arrived at the lx>ginning of the trouble over the Stamp Act. Inlluenced by public opin- ion, he suspended the execution of tlie act. His administration was generally popular with the people. He continued to hold the office of Gover- nor until his death.

MOORE, Henry (1751-1844). A Wesleyan minister and biographer of ,Iohn Wesley. He was born in a suburb of Dublin, and was apprenticed to a wood-carver. Impressed by the preaching of John Wesley, he frequented tlie Methodist meet- ings and joined a class in Dublin in 1777. He began to preach, gave up the wood-carver's art, and started a classical school. He received an appointment from Wesley to the Londonderry circuit in 1779. He was subsequently called to London, served from 1784 to 1780 as assistant traveling companion and amanuensis to .John Vesley. and again from 1788 to 1790. W'esley made him one of his three literary executors, and appointed him to be. after his death, one of the twelve ministers to regulate the services of City Road Chapel. He was president of the Wes- leyan Conference in 1804 and 1823. Moore clung to the methods of Wesley. He refused ordination in the Church of England, although he accepted it from Wesley assisted by two Episcopal clergy- men; opposed Coke's Lichfield scheme of 1794 for the creation of a Methodist hierarchy, and also