MacCUNN', HAMISH ( 1868—). A Scotch composer, born in Greenock. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and under Ila Bert Parry. lie was introduced to the musical world in 1887 by August Manns, and the next year became professor of harmony at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1892 he was conductor of the Hampstead Conservatory Orchestra Soci ety. In 1894 he resigned his professorship. His compositions are full of life and color and have been received with universal popularity. They in clude the operas Jeanie Deans (1894) ; Diannid and Ghrine (1897) ; the cantatas. Bonnie Kilmeny (1888) : Lord Ullin's Daughter (1888) ; The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1S88) ; The Came ronian's Drcans (1892) ; The Death of Panty Reed; the orchestral overtures, The Land of the Mountain and the Flood; Cior Mohr; The Doirie Dens o' Yarrow; and numerous songs and instru mental pieces.
MeCIIRDY, JAMES FREDERICK ( 1847 — ). A Canadian Orientalist, born at Chatham, New Brunswick. Ile was educated at the University of New Brunswick, under William Henry Green at the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was instructor in Semitic languages (1873 82), and at Giatingen and Leipzig (1882-SI), was Stone lecturer at Princeton (1885-86), and then became professor of Oriental languages in the University of Toronto. For the American
edition of Lange's Commentary he translated and edited the parts dealing with the Psalms and Hosea, and himself wrote the commentary on Haggai (1872-74). His other works include: Arno-Set/1We Speech (IS31) ; "The Semitic Per fect in Assyrian," in the Proceedings of the Sixth Oriental Congress (1885) ; History, Prophecy and the Monuments (1894-190]) ; and The Life and Work of the Rev. D. J. Illacdonnell (1897).
MeDANIEL, TIENay Thetaasox (1837—). An American lawyer and politician, horn in Monroe, Ga. He graduated at Mercer University (Macon, Ga.) in 1856, and was ad mitted to the bar; was a member of the Seces sion convention of Georgia in 1881, and on the outbreak of the Civil War entered the Confed erate Army. in which he rose to the rank of major in the Eleventh Georgia Infantry. In 1865 he was a member of the State constitutional convention, in 1873-74 of the State Legislature, in 1874-83 was State Senator, and from 18S3 to /SSG, as a Democrat, was Governor of Georgia.
Subsequently he acquired interests in oil and cotton-milling in Walton County, Ga.