MACFARLANE, Alexander, American mathematician: b. Blairgowrie, Scotland, 21 April 1851; d. 28 Aug. 1913. He was gradu ated at Edinburgh University in 1875, taking his D.Sc. in 1878, and in 1881 was appointed examiner in mathematics there. He became professor of physics at the University of Texas in 1885 and from 1897 was lecturer on mathe matics at Lehigh University. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a mem ber of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Author of 'Algebra of Logic) (1879) ; (Physi cal Arithmetic) (1885) ; Tapers on Space Analysis> (1894) 'Bibliography of Quater Mom and Allied Mathematics> (1904), etc.
MacFARREN, SIR George Alexander, English composer: b. London, England, 2 March 1813; d. there, 31 Oct. 1887. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, where in 1837 he became a professor of harmony and composi tion and in 1875 principal. In the same year he was elected professor of music in Cam bridge University. Among his compositions are the operas 'The Devil's Opera> (1838) ; 'Robin Hood> (1860), and the oratonios 'St. John the Baptist) (1873) ; 'King David> (1883), etc. He also wrote several valuable treatises: 'Har mony) (1860) ; 'Counterpoint) (1879), etc. He was knighted in 1883. In 1860 he became blind and his wife thereafter wrote his compositions from his dictation.
McFAUL, James Augustine, American Roman Catholic prelate: b. Lame, County An trim, Ireland, 6 June 1850; d. 16 June 1917. At an early age he attended Saint Vincent's Col lege, Beatty, Pa., finishing his classical studies at Saint Francis Xavier's College, New York City, and subsequently pursuing his theological course at Seton Hall, South Orange, N. J. He was ordained priest 26 May 1877, Orange, Paterson, Jersey City, Newark and New Bruns wick, N. J. being in turn the scene of his first labors in the ministry. In 1878 he was named assistant at Saint Mary's Church, Trenton, N. J., and afterward pastor of the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Long Branch, N. J.
Some years later he assumed the rectorship of the Cathedral at Trenton, and then became sec retary, chancellor and vicar-general of the diocese. On the death of Bishop O'Farrell in 1894 Father McFaul was chosen his successor, and was consecrated at Trenton 18 October of that year. Noteworthy among his achievements were the erection of an orphan asylum at Hope well and of a home for the aged at Laurence ville, N. J., also a day nursery in Trenton. He is the author of some excellent articles on Citizenship,) published a volume of pastoral letters, etc., and was a leading power in forming the Saint Michael's Diocesan Union. However, he is perhaps best known as the founder of the Federation of Catholic Societies and the reorganizer of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, American branch.
MacFLECKNOE, or A SATIRE UPON THE TRUE-BLEW PROTESTANT POET, T. S., a satire by John Dryden (q.v.), published in 1682, in which Thomas Shadwell has the principal part. Dryden here introduced the name of Richard Flecknoe (1600-1678?), who by the author is represented as an Irish priest famed for his had verse, but who is described by Andrew Marvell as can English priest at Rome? Flecknoe was disliked by Dryden because of the former's abuse of the players and his attacks on their morality or rather absence of it. The name served also as a stalking-horse from behind which Shadwell might be pilloried as the adopted son and heir of Flecknoe. The satire served Pope as model for his 'Dunciad.' The authorship of 'Mac Flecknoe' long disputed and attributed to Dry den, was called in guestion in 1918 when there appeared a possibility that it might have been written by John Oldham, Dryden's friend. A manuscript of the latter's poems in the Bod leian Library contains 'MacFlecicnoe,) but Dry den claimed authorship of the piece and his friend Oldham never did. Consult Belden, H. M., 'The Authorship of MacFlecknoe' (in Modern Language Notes, December 1918).