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MALCOLM MALCZEWSKI 61 " The Hours," in which three female figures represent the Present, Past, and Future. MALCOLM, Sir John, a British diplomatist, born in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire, May 2, 1769, died in London, May 31, 1833. He was sent to In- ia at the age of 13, in the charge of his uncle, Paisley, and received a cadetship under the India company. In 1797 he was made )tain, distinguished himself in a series of im- rtant services by bravery and intelligence, id after the fall of Seringapatam was secre- to the commission appointed to divide Lysore. In 1799 he was commissioned by )rd Wellesley to negotiate with Persia a de- fensive alliance against an anticipated French ivasion of India. He had at this time ac- lired several eastern languages, and had been 1792 staff interpreter of Persian. In 1801 was appointed private secretary to the gov- or general, but was again sent to Persia in following year. In February, 1803, he commissioner of Mysore, and joined army of Gen. Arthur Wellesley in the [ahratta campaign. In 1805 he was recalled Bengal, where he was actively occupied in forming treaties of alliance with native princes. In 1808 he went again to Persia, but did not obtain the advantages hoped for by the British government. On returning thither the next year as plenipotentiary, owing to a change in the ministry, he was received in the most flat- tering manner, and on his departure in 1810 was honored with the order of the sun and moon and made a khan and sepahdar of the empire. In 1812 he went to England, was knighted, and published a " History of Persia " (2 vols. 4to, 1815), the materials for which he had drawn from original Persian annals as well as extensive personal research and observation. On returning to India in 1817, he was appoint- ed political agent in the Deccan, with the rank of brigadier general in the army. He served tinder Sir T. Hislop as second in command during the Mahratta and Pindaree wars, and iially distinguished himself at the battle Mehidpoor, in which Holkar was routed. After this war he was appointed governor of Malwa and the adjoining provinces, with the ik of major general. The country was then a state of anarchy, brigandage and rapine sing generally prevalent; he succeeded in ^storing order, and governed mildly but firm- An account of this part of India was pub- shed by him in 1823, under the title of "A [emoir of Central India," He was in England )m 1821 to 1827, when he was appointed >vernor of Bombay, which office he held for iree years, and then returned to England. He fas elected not long afterward to parliament for Launceston, and distinguished himself by Jtive opposition to the reform bill. A monu- mt was erected to his memory in Westmin- abbey, and also an obelisk 100 ft. high near igholm, in Eskdale. He also published a 1 Sketch of the Political History of India from L784 to 1823 " (London, 1826), and a "Life of Lord Clive" (1836). See "Life and Corre- spondence of Sir John Malcolm," by John W. Kaye (2 vols., London, 1856). MALCOM, Howard, an American clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1799. He en- tered Dickinson college in 1813, was licensed to preach in May, 1818, by a Baptist church in Philadelphia, and entered Princeton theolo- gical seminary, where he remained two years. On finishing his studies he was settled over a church in Hudson, N. Y., and afterward in Boston and Philadelphia,. He was president of the college at Georgetown, Ky., from 1839 to 1849, and of the university at Lewisburg, Pa., from 1851 to 1859, having been obliged by the failure of his voice to relinquish preaching. In both institutions he filled also the chair of metaphysics and moral philosophy. The dis- ease in the throat increasing, he retired to pri- vate life in Philadelphia. In 1841 he received the degree of D. D. simultaneously from the university of Vermont and Union college, N. Y., and after his resignation at Lewisburg was made LL. D. by that institution. He visited most of the countries of Europe, and travelled as a deputy from the Baptist missionary soci- ety in Hindostan, Burmah, Siam, China, and Africa. He was one of the founders of the American tract society, of which he was a vice president from the beginning. He was also one of the prominent laborers in establishing the American Sunday school union, having visited on its behalf, when first organized, every principal city in the United States. Among his works are: a "Dictionary of the Bible" (18mo, Boston, 1828; enlarged ed., 1853); "The Extent of the Atonement;" "The Christian Eule of Marriage" (1830); " Memoir of Mrs. Malcom " (1833) ; " Travels in Southeastern Asia" (2 vols. 12mo, Boston, 1839); and "Index to Eeligious Literature" (2d ed., Philadelphia, 1870). He has also pub- lished several addresses and other tracts, and edited the "Imitation of Christ," Law's "Se- rious Call," Keach's " Travels of True Godli- ness," Henry's " Communicant's Companion," and Butler's " Analogy of Religion." MALCZEWSKI, Antoiii. a Polish poet, born in Volhynia about 1792, died in Warsaw, May 2, 1826. He served in the army from 1811 to 1816, and afterward travelled in Italy, Switzer- land, and France. Having gone to Volhynia, he eloped to Warsaw with the young wife of one of his neighbors, whom he had cured of & dangerous illness by magnetism. Want and misery, however, soon embittered the life of the lovers, and hastened the death of the poet. His principal work, Marja (Warsaw, 1825), a metrical romance in the style and spirit of Byron, which appeared in the last year of his life, was severely criticised, but is now gener- ally recognized as one of the gems not only of Polish but of modern poetry. It has passed through numerous editions, and has been trans- lated into French by Clemence Robert, and into German by K. R. Vogel.