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MACLEOD 67 MacMILLAN IVIACLEOD. FIONA, pen-name of William Sharp (1856-1905), q. v., a secret well preserved until after Mr. Sharp's death. The works under this name had a strong Gaelic flavor. His other style was to a marked degree dif- ferent from this and he was a volumi- nous writer. As Fiona Macleod, besides magazine work, he published: "Pharais" (1895), a romance; "The Mountain Lovers" (1895) ; "The Sin-Eater and Other Tales" (1895); "The Washer of the Ford" (1896) ; "Green Fire" (1896) ; a modern version of the old Celtic ro- mance, "The Laughter of Peterkin"; "The Dominion of Dreams" (1899) ; "Forthcoming, an Historical Jacobite Romance"; "The Highland Year"; etc. MACLISE, DANIEL, a British paint- er; born in Cork, Ireland, Feb. 2, 1806. He was the son of a Highland soldier named McLeish. He entered the school of the Royal Academy, London, in 1828, soon exhibited at the Academy, and in 1833 made himself famous by his "All- Hallow Eve." He became royal academi- cian in 1840. His later pictures are many of them familiar by engraving. The frescoes — each 45 feet long and 12 feet high — in the Royal Gallery of t .a House of Lords, depicting "The Meeting of Wellington and Bliicher on the Eve- ning of the Battle of Waterloo" and "The Death of Nelson at Trafalgar," were ad- mitted to be the finest mural paintingfs hitherto executed in Great Britain. The most noteworthy pictures exhibited by Maclise, after the completion of these great works, were "Othello," "Desde- mona," and "Ophelia" (1867), "King Co- phetua and the Beggar Maid" (1869). He died in London, England, April 25, 1870. McMAHON, SIR ARTHUR HENRY, born in 1862. Educated at the Military College, Sandhurst. Was awarded a Sword of Honor in 1882. Joined the 8th (King's) Regiment in 1883. Entered the Indian Staff Corps and joined the 1st Sikhs Punjab Frontier Force in 1885. A member of the Punjab Commission in 1887. He joined the Indian Political De- partment in 1890. Held various Indian political offices up to 1893. As British Commissioner demarcated the boundary between Beluchistan and Afghanistan in 1894-1896. Revenue and Judicial Commis- sioner of Beluchistan, 1901-1902. Arbi- trator on boundary between Persia and Afghanistan in 1903-1905. Created a Sirdar, 1st Class, 1907. Agent to Gov- ernor-General, Beluchistan, 1905-1911. Foreign Secretary to Indian Govern- ment, 1911-1914. British Plenipotentiary for treaty between England, China, and Tibet, 1913-1914. First High Commis- sioner of Egypt, 1914-1916. MACMAKON, MARIE EDME PA- TRICE MAURICE DE (mak-ma-ongr), DUKE OF MAGENTA, a Marshal of France, descended from an Irish Jacobite family; born in Sully, near Autun, France. July 13, 1808. After distin- guished services he won a marshal's baton and the dignity of Duke of Ma- genta for the decisive part he took ii^ the battle of that name. He was nomi- nated governor-general of Algeria in 1864. In the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 he had command of the first army corps, but was defeated at Worth, and wounded and captured at Sedan. On the close of the war he was made com- mander of the army of Versailles, with which he suppressed the Commune. In 1873 he was elected president of the re- public for a •period of seven years. He resigned on Jan. 30, 1879. He died in Paris, Oct. 17, 1893. McMASTER, JOHN BACH, an Amer- ican historian; born in 1852 in Brooklyn, graduated 1872 at the College of the City of New York and became for some years after a civil engineer. In 1877 he became an instructor in Princeton Uni- versity, and in 1883 he accepted his present position as professor of Amer- ican History at the University of Penn- sylvania. In his first year as professor appeared the first volume of his "History of the People of the United States," and since that time at various intervals until 1913 seven more volumes were published, completing the history of the United States from the close of the Revolution- ary to the outbreak of the Civil War. For his materials McMaster depended upon strictly primary sources, most of all the newspapers. He has gathered in his work all of importance that tran- spired in the United States in the period covered. Particular attention was paid to social and economic conditions as well as political, nor was the development of the Western territory neglected, as had been the case in previous works. McMaster has published a number of other works, as, "Life and Times of Stephen Girard" (1917) ; "A History of the War of the United States with Germany," etc. MacMILLAN. DONALD BAXTER, American explorer; born in Province- town, Mass., 1874. He graduated from Bowdoin College and began teaching, be- ing head of the classical department of Swarthmore Preparatory School in Pa., 1900-1903, and instructor at Worcester Academy, 1903-1908. In 1908 he joined