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'write himself out,' 385; his
novels grouped by periods, ib.:
genius shown in his 'Caxtons.'
386; his loss irreparable, ib. ;
his literary character, 387 (see
Parisians, the); his Coming
Race' and 'Kenelm Chillingly,'
389; pictures of English life in
'My Novel,' 391

Lytton (Robert, Lord, b. 1831),
'Owen Meredith,' chronicles and

characters by, cxxviii. 109; his
merits as a poet, ib. ; his fault
of redundancy, 110; character of
his heroic verse, ib.; social charac-
ter of his genius, 115; his view of
life, 116; his 'Licinius,' b.; his
impersonations of Greek art, 119;
his true spirit of poetic imitation,

123

Lytton (Robert, Lord), merits of his
'Fables in Song, cxl. 382

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his History of England,'
Vol. V., cxiv. 279; grandeur of
his character, ib.; compared with
Bolingbroke and Burke, 280; his
Parliamentary talents, 281; his
patriotism and love of liberty,
282; present volume extends from
1697 to 1700, 283; his original
design unfinished, ib.; minute
charges of inaccuracy, 287; Mr.
Paget's carping criticisms, 288;
his charge of treachery against
Marlborough confirmed, 289, 296;
his account of Claverhouse, 297,
305; on the standing army, 307;
his narrative less florid than the
previous volumes, 309; episode of
Lord Clancarty, ib.; his defence

of the Partition Treaty, 312; his
subdued eulogy of William III.,317
Macaulay (Lord), his estimate of the
Darien expedition, cxv. 5

his high opinion of Pitt's
Parliamentary genius, cxvi. 120
his views on native education
in India, cxvii. 39

his lines on the Muse of
Literature, cxviii. 165

his remarks on the Irish
Church, cxxiii. 461

his early conversational
powers described by Mr. Crabb
Robinson, cxxx. 533

his refutation of James Mill's
strictures on the Edinburgh Re-
view, cxxxix. 104, 109 (see Vol.
XLIX. p. 185); his speech on the
Indian Government Bill, 331

Lord Cockburn's sketch of,
cxl. 269; his light verse, 369;
Mr. Greville's description of,

525

Maccabees, the, historical importance
of their era, cxix. 159
McCarthy (Sir Charles), his defeat
by the Ashantees, cxxxviii. 573;
his death, ib.
McClellan (Federal General), his
Anaconda strategy, cxxi. 253,
254; his official retirement, 255;
his military qualities vindicated,

259; his proposed route to Rich-
mond, 268, 269
McClellan (Federal General), his suc-
cesses in Western Virginia, cxxxvii.
375; his genius for organisation,
376; defeated at Chickahominy, 380
McCrie (Dr. T.), his character,
cxxxi. 205; friendship with Sir
W. Hamilton, ib.
McCulloch (Mr.), secretary of the
American Treasury, cxxix. 505;
his financial education, ib.; his
qualifications for office, 506; his
functions usurped by Congress,
ib.; his difficulties after the war,
509; his speech at Fort Wagner
on contraction of the currency,
510; his doctrine approved by
Congress, 511; his gold reserve-
fund criticised, 514; his surplus
of 1867,522
Macdougall (Colonel), his 'Modern
Warfare and Modern Artillery,'
exxiii. 95; advocates rapidity of
infantry movements, 119; his
valuable criticisms, 120

McGregor (Rob Roy), his fraudu-

lent bankruptcy, exii. 350; his
conduct in the affair of '15, ib.
Machiavelli (Nicholas, 1469-1527),
his policy the ordinary practice
of rulers before his time, cxix. 531
singularity of his genius,

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his threefold division of
mankind, cxxxi. 395
McIvor (Mr. W. G.), his Notes on
the propagation of the Chinchona,
exviii. 507; his assistance in its
introduction at Ootacamund, 517;
his official reports thereon, 518
Mackay (Dr. Charles), his collection

of Jacobite ballads, cxiii. 87; his
belief in the genuineness of Hogg's
'Jacobite Relics,' 112

(Mr. A.), his report on cot-
ton culture in Western India, cxv.
504

Mackenzie (Sir Alexander), his ex-

plorations in British North Ame-
rica, cxix. 447
Mackenzie (Sir G.), his cavern-theory
of the Geyser eruptions, cxiii. 537
McKinlay (Mr.), his search-expedi-
tion in Central Australia, cxviii.
331

Mackintosh (Sir James, 1766-1832),
his speech against the Foreign
Enlistment Bill, cxxxv. 569

his estimate of Lord

Brougham, cxl. 268

speeches of, in Parliament,
cxl. 527; Mr. Greville's reflections
on his career, 528

Maclagan (Mr. Peter), his pamphlet
on the Irish Land, cxxxi. 282
Maclise, (Mr., b. 1811), historical error
in his fresco of the 'Meeting of
Wellington and Blucher,' cxix.
331

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his fresco on the 'Meeting of
Wellington and Blucher,' cxxiii.
22; difficulty of choosing mate-
rials, ib.; adopts the stereochromic
process, 23, 24; defects of the
Royal Gallery, 25; his historical
accuracy re-examined, 26 note;
his Death of Nelson,' 27; his
accuracy in details, 28; his remu-
neration, 31
Macknight (Thomas), his Life of
Lord Bolingbroke, exviii. 404;
his merits as a political writer, ib. ;
his slovenly use of his materials,
405
MacMahon (Marshal, afterwards
French President), his operations.
before the surrender at Sedan,
cxxxii. 501, 518
Macpherson (Sir John, about 1767-
1821), his parentage, cxxv. 66;
tutor to the two Grevilles, ib.;
his intimacy with Adam Ferguson,
ib.; succeeds Warren Hastings as
Governor-General of India, ib.;
spirited sketch of, in Wraxall's
Memoirs, ib.; anecdote related by
Dr. Percy, 77

Macpherson (Major), his services in suppressing human sacrifice among the Khônds, cxix. 400; valuable character of his reports, 412 McPherson (Federal General), his able conduct in the War of Secession, exxi. 254, 263; commands the army of Tennessee, 265

his military promise and death, cxxix, 254 and note Madagascar, its strange immunity from foreign conquest. cxxvi. 376; the Malagasy tribes reduced by Radama, 377; their government an absolute monarchy, 378; their character and physique, 379; laws proclaimed at the kabarys, 380; success of the London Missionary Society in, ib. 381; rapid strides of Christianity, 382; death and character of Radama, 383, 384; his widow Ranavalo succeeds, ib. ; she starves her husband's relatives, ib.; Europeans ordered to quit, 385; she interdicts Christian worship, ib.; martyrdoms, 386; indignities heaped on Christian victims, 389; charges against converts, 390; causes of the persecution, 391; French and English attack in 1845 repulsed, 392; growth of Christianity, ib.; indemnity for the attack subscribed at Mauritius, 395; the capital Antananarivo, 396; description of the prince royal, 397; his popularity, 398; persecutions renewed in 1857, 401; death of the queen, 403; accession of Radama II., ib. ; his tolerant policy, ib.; ordeal by Tangena abolished, 404; the royal body-guard, 406; Jesuit missionaries, 408; French treaty signed, 409, 410; trial by battle proclaimed by the king, ib.; revolution and massacre of the bodyguard, 411; the king stifled, 412; his character, 413; his queen Rabodo succeeds, ib.; revolutionary

changes, ib. 414; protection of Christians, ib.; hopeful prospects of Christianity, 415

Madan (Mr.), his treatise Thelyphthora,' cxv. 207

Madden (Sir F.), his charge of forgery

against Mr. Payne Collier, cxi. 466; his verdict against the 'Players' Petition,' 482; his bias against Mr. Collier, 484 Madeira, early discoveries of, cxxviii. 214; prosperity of, in the fifteenth century, 215-220 Madras, surrendered to the French, (1746), cxxvii. 547

Madrid, Scottish College of Jesuits at, cxix. 194

Maffei (Francesco Scipio, Marquis, 1675-1755), projected collection of Christian inscriptions, cxx. 223 Magellan (Ferdinand de, d. 1521), his famous voyage of 1519,

cxxxviii. 234

Maggots, produced in meat by flies, CXXV. 390

Magic, historical belief in, cxxi. 432 Magnetism, Faraday's discoveries in, cxxxii. 193, 207

Terrestrial, works relating to, CXXXVI. 407; former indifference of the Government, ib.; expeditions of 1818, 408; state of knowledge early in the present century, ib.; expedition of La Perouse, 409; declination of the needle, ib.; the Magnetic Pole discovered, 410; the 'rock' theory exploded, ib.; Halley's theory revived by Hansteen, 411; Humboldt's magnetic storms, 412; the 'Berlin Association,' ib.; the question revived in England, 413; General Sabine's Report to the British Association, ib. ; formation of Government observatories, 414; Antarctic expeditions, ib.; diurnal variation of declination, 415; question of a line, ib.; semiannual variation, 416; cosmical

origin of disturbances, 417; their periodical character; 418, 419; Humboldt's nocturnal episode,' 420; the aurora borealis, ib. note; observations at Point Barrow, ib.; relations with solar physics, 421; empirical state of present knowledge, 422; lunar variations, ib.; researches of Mr. Chambers and Dr. Neumayer, 423; Dr. Bache's American observations, ib.; semiannual inequality of lunar variations, ib.; question of secular change, 424; merit of Halley's discoveries, ib.; object of magnetic surveys, 426; English survey in 1838, ib.; survey of Canada, 427; position of Hansteen's 'Siberian Pole,' ib.; survey of the Eastern Archipelago, ib.; researches in France, ib.; importance of the British South Polar Survey, 428; comparison of both hemispheres, ib.

Maguire (Mr.), his 'Irish in America,' cxxvii. 502

Mahávansá, the, English translation of, cxv., 387

Mahmoud II. (Sultan of Turkey, 1808-1839), his coup-de-main in 1822, cxxi. 491

Mahomet (570-632), object of his social reforms, cxvi. 353; his first disciples, 354

his contempt for a settled life, cxxiv. 4 note; institutions of his ancestors, 8, 10; ancient rites and ceremonies, ib,; previous advance in Arabian monotheism, 11; Jewish influences, 12; national aversion to Christianity, 13; his early life, 17; nervous constitution and sensibility, 19; his supposed hysteria, ib.; his cataleptic fits, ib. 21; his meeting with Zeid, ib.; his first vision at Mount Hira, ib.; his revelations, 23; first converts, 24; ridicule of his claims, b.; attacks the Caaba worship, 25; protected by his

uncle, 26; his simple method of imposture, 27; persecution of him and his sect, 28; supported by Omar, 29; meeting with the six pilgrims, 30; midnight meeting at Akaba, 32; his flight to Medina, 33; his new policy of ambition, ib.; his welcome at Medina, 35; plunders the caravans, 36; his coldblooded murders, 37; his destruction of the Jews, 38-41; captures Chaibhar, ib.; causes of the rapid spread of Islamism, 42; his conquest of Mecca, 43; terms of negotiation, 44, 45; his cowardly spirit of revenge, ib.; ignorant ferocity of his followers, 47; his last procession to Mecca and death, 48; his character, ib. ; personal appearance, 49; failure of his creed in Arabia, 50 Mahometanism, causes of its first spread, cxxiv. 42

Mahometans in India, sweeping

charges of fanaticism against, cxxiv. 305; their passive conduct during the Mutiny, ib. Mahomet II. (Sultan, 1430-1481), his massacre at Constantinople, cxxi. 487; thanksgiving at St. Sophia, 488; his investiture of Patriarchs, 489

Mahrattas, the, social aspects of, cxviii. 544; rise of their power,

ib.

contests of, with the Rajpoots in the last century, cxxxiv. 361, 365; with the Rajah of Jypore, 366; services of European adventurers, ib.; their treacherous character, 378; their conquests checked by the British, 383

first British war with, cxxxvii. 233; the second war, ib.

Mai (Cardinal Angelo, 1782-1854), his editions of the Vatican Codex, cxii. 256; their critical defects, 264

'Maiden,' the, instrument of torture

in Scotland, cxl. 341
'Maillotins,' the, outbreak of, at
Paris under Charles VI., cxxxiv.
262

Mailly (Madame de, d. 1751), the
Belle Inconnue of Louis XV.,
cxxv. 482, 483; her appearance
and character, ib.; supplanted as
mistress, 484; her dismissal from
Court, 490; her later penitence,
496 note

Maimonides or Ben Maimon (Moses,
1131-1204), his theological writ-
ings, cxvii. 187

his abridgment of the Talmud,
cxxxviii. 33
Maine (Sir Henry Sumner, b. 1822),

his Ancient Law,' cxiv. 456; its
speculative character, 460; on the
growth of legal fictions, 475; on
the progress of equity, 476;
ascribes to families the earliest
form of society, 479; his origi-
nality of disquisition, 480; his
'historical method,' 481; his
treatment compared with Mr.
Austin's Jurisprudence,' ib. ; dis-
cards the term Natural Law, 482;
his criticisms incomplete, ib. ;
wrongly accused of positivist
theories, 484

his historical treatment of
positive law, cxviii. 442; on the
perverted use of the term Natural
Law, 460

his anti-landlord views of
'rent' in India, cxxxiv. 466; his
doctrine of 'Village Communities,'
467; on ancient German cultiva-
tion, 468, 470
Maintenon (Madame de, 1635-1719),
her pretended letters to Fouquet,
cxxiv. 373, 375

her letters, instigating the
persecution of the Huguenots,
cxxvii. 100
Mainwaring (Roger, Bishop of St.
David's, d. 1653), his impeachment

by the House of Commons, cxx.
27; cxxxiv. 180

Maistre (Joseph, Count de, 1755–
1821), his literary and private
character contrasted, cxxiv. 343
Maitani (Lorenzo), his excellence
as a sculptor, cxxi. 530
Maitland (of Letherington, d. 1573),
theories of his conversion to
Mary's cause, cxxxiv. 103
Maitland (Dr.), mistake in his
'Church of the Catacombs,' cxx.
225, 226 notes

his defence of the Dark
Ages, cxxxix. 10
Maitland Club, the, cxii. 495 note
Majano (Benedetto da), Tuscan
sculptor, his merits and defects,
cxxi. 545

Majorities, objections to decision
by, cxviii. 140; the necessary
condition of corporate govern-
ment, ib.

Malays (in Borneo), their commer-
cial honesty, cxvi. 403; their
energy in the Chinese insurrec-
tion, 408

Malcolm III. (of Scotland, d. 1093),
cxxvi. 239; his homage to Eng-
land, 242
Malebranche (Nicholas, 1638-1715),
anecdote respecting his correspon-
dence purchased at the Millon
sale, cxxiv. 345, 346

on insoluble problems in
science, cxxxiii. 147
Malesherbes (Chrétien Guillaume
de Lamoignon de, 1721-1794), his
connexion with the De Tocque-
villes, cxiii. 435; his execution, ib.
Malet (Sir Alexander, Bart.) on the
'Overthrow of the Germanic Con-
federation by Prussia in 1866,'
cxxxiii. 459; his account of the
rupture at Frankfort, 473
Malice, absurd legal interpretations
of, exviii. 455
Malmesbury, William of. See Wil-
liam of Malmesbury

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