MACFARLANE, ROBERT ( 1734-1S'04). A Scotch author and editor. He was educated at Edinburgh, and was for a time editor of the London Morning Chronicle. He prepared a com plete edition of Ossian in the Gaelic, with a Latin translation (3 vols., 1807). Volumes i. and iv. of the History of the Reign of George III. (1770.96), published by Evans, are also by him.
MacFAR'REN, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1813 S7). An English composer. the son of George Alacfarren, the dramatist. He was born in Lon don. and after having studied music for two years with Lucas. entered in 1829 the Royal Academy of Music. Upon leaving there in 1S36 he taught music at a school in the Isle of Man, but returned to the Academy the next year and was appointed professor of harmony. In 1844 he founded the Handel Society, and in 1845 became conductor at Covent Garden. In 1875 he suc ceeded William Sterndale Bennett as principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and the same year became professor of music at Cambridge Univer sity. In 1800 his eyesight, which had been growing weak for years, had failed entirely, but despite this calamity .51acfarren continued his work as before. His death occurred at London. As a composer his works lacked in-spiration, and he exercised little influence on his contempo raries. His theoretical treatises, however, are clear and forceful presentations of his views on harmony and composition. His best composi tions were: the cantatas "Lenora," "May Day:" the operas Robin Hood (1460), Don Quixote (1846), The Opera (18:18); the oratorios; Joseph (1872), Saint John the Baptist ( 1S73), and Saint George's Tc Deum (1884). Of his writings, Rudiments of Harmony (18601 and Six Lectures on Harmony (1867) are important. Consult Banister, 0. _-t. Marfarren, His 'Works, and Influence (London, 1891).
MeFIN'GAL. A satirical political poem, in the metre of Butler's Hudibras, by John Trum bull. the first part published in 1775. the whole in 1782. The hero, a Tory New England squire in Revolutionary days. carries on a controversy with the leader of the Whigs. It. was extremely popular, and was reprinted many times.
MaeFLECK'NOE, OR A SATIRE ON TnE BLUE PROTESTANT POET, T. S. A poem by Dry den, published in 1682, in which Thomas Shad well is depicted as the adopted son and heir of Richard Fleck an Irish priest, famous for his had verses. The satire was imitated by Pope in his Dunciad.
IVIeFLIIVSEY, FLORA. The heroine of Wil
liam Allen Butler's Xothing to Wear (q.v.).
MacGAHAN, mak-ginan. JANUARIUS ALOY SIUS ( 184-1-78 ) . An American journalist and traveler, horn in Lexington, Ohio. As a corre spondent of the New York Herald (1S70-71) lie was with Bourbaki's army in the Franco-Prus sian War, went to Lyons and Bordeaux, and at tracted much attention by his interviews with re publican, monarchical, and clerical leaders. He was the only newspaper eorrespondent in Paris during the whole period of the Commune,. and he narrowly escaped death. He afterwards vis ited Russia as Herald correspondent, accompanied the expedition to Rhiva, contrary to Rnssian orders, and told his experience in ('ampaign ing on the Oxus and The Fall of Ehira I 1374). He had already reported the Alabama Confer ence at Geneva and accompanied general Sher man to the Caucasus. lie reported the Car list War in Spain (1874), and made a Polar voyage (1875), described in Under ern Lights (1376). lie then investigated as a journalist the Bulgarian atrocities. accompanied by the United States Commissioner, Eugene Schuyler (q.v.). Ills Turkish .1trocitie.s+ in Bul garia (1876) helped to free the hands of Rus sia for the Turkish War. lie accompanied the Russian army, though crippled by accidents, and gave the most vivid picture of the fighting at Shipka and Plevna. He was preparing to at tend the International Congress at Berlin (1878) when he died of fever at Constantinople.
T•leGEE, uf-ge', ANITA NEWCOMB (1864—). An American physician. A daughter of Prof. Simon Newcomb, she was born in Washington, D. C., and educated in that city and in Europe. In 1888 she married the ethnologist, J McGee, and four years afterwards received the degree of M.D. from Columbian University, Washington. She originated and was director of the Hospital Corps of the Daughters of the American Revolts thin. which chose the trained women nurses during the Spanish-American War. In August, 1898, by her appointment as acting assistant surgeon of the United States Army, she became the only woman officer of the army. She was assigned to duty under the surgeon-general to organize and ad minister an army nurse corps, as the women nurses employed numbered then considerably more than one thousand. She resigned on com pletion of this work, December 31, 1900, when the corps was by act of Congress made a per manent part of the army.