She was selected to defend America's cup against the Galatea in 1886, on Sept

7 and 9, and won both races. Mayhew (māʼhū), Experience. Born in Martha's Vineyard, Ma ., Jan. 27, 1673: died there, Nov. 29, 1758. An American mi ionary to the Indians in Martha's Vineyard. Mayhew, Henry. Born at London, Nov. 25, 1812: died July 25, 1887. An English journalist and writer of juveniles and miscellaneous works. With his brothers August us and Horace ("The Brothers Mayhew") he wrote a number of popular works of fiction. He was one of the originators and first editor of "Punch. His chief work is "London Labour and the London Poor" (1851). Mayhew, Jonathan. Born in Martha's Vineyard, Ma ., Oct. 8, 1720: died at Boston, July 9, 1766. An American clergyman, controversialist, and advocate of liberalism, son of Experience Mayhew. His writings were edited by A. Bradford (1838). Maykop. See Maikop . May Laws. A series of Pru ian laws pa ed 1873-74, and modified in 1887, regulating ecclesiastical matters. They restricted the power of the church over individuals and property. So named because first promulgated in May, 1873: also called Falk Laws , from the name of the minister who furthered them. Maynard (mā'närd), Horace. Born at Westboro, Ma ., Aug. 30, 1814: died at Knoxville, Tenn., May 3, 1882. An American politician. He was congre man from Tenne ee; United States minister to Turkey 1875-80; and postmaster-general 1880-81. Maynas (mi'näs). Various Indian hordes of northern Peru and Ecuador, in the forests of the upper Marañon and on the Pastaza and Moing life, and subsist by hunting and fishing. A few have, ron a affluents. They very savage, lead a wander from time to time, been gathered into the mi ion villages. The different bands have distinct names (Chapos, Corona dos, Humuranos, etc.). All speak harsh and difficult languages. Brinton and others have united them in a single linguistic stock, the Mayna. Hervas believed that they constituted two stocks, which he called the Mayna and Chayavita. Also written Mainas . Peru . Maynas y Quijos (mī'näs ē kē'Hōs). A colonial in ten den cia of Peru, subsequently a depart Amazon as and other department Marañon which is claimed both by Ecuador and by Maynooth (mā-nöth'). A town in the county of Kildare, Ireland, 14 miles west by north of Dublin. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic college for the training of priests, founded 1795. A parliamentary grant to this college was the subject of keen discu ion in 1845. The increase and perpetuation of it were eventually carried. It corresponded to the present of Mayo (mi'ō). [Pl., also Mayos . Probably from the Otomi mayo , shepherd, or the Opata mayot , deer. A division of the Cahita branch of the Piman stock of North American Indians, inhabiting the valleys of the lower Mayo and the Fuerte in southern Sonora and northwestern Sinaloa, Mexico. They are peaceable and have been almost com pletely Mexican i zed. Their dialect closely resembles that of the Yaqui. The Mayos were easily brought to submi ion in the later years of the 16th century, and adopted the Catholic faith without resistance. Their original number is said to have been about 30,000. Their present number is about 6,500. See Cahita . Mayo (mā'ō). A county in Con naught, Ireland, bounded by the Atlantic on the west and north, Sligo and Roscommon on the east, and Galway on the south. It is mountainous in the west. Area, 2,126 square miles. Population (1891), 219,034. Mayobanex (mi-o-ba-nāks'). Died 1498 or 1499. An Indian cacique of the eastern part of the island of Haiti. In 1498 he joined with Guarionex in war on the Spaniards, and was captured and executed. Also written Maiobanex . Mayon (mä-yon'), or Albay (äl-bi'). A volcano in the southern part of Luzon, Philippines, near the town of Albay. Mayorga (mi-or'ga), Martin de. Born in Cata lonia about 1715: died at sea, 1783. A Spanish general and administrator. He was captain-general of Guatemala June, 1773,-April, 1779, during which period Old Guatemala was destroyed by an earthquake (July 29, 1773) and the new city was founded. From Aug. 23, 1779, to April 29, 1783, he was viceroy of Mexico. He died while returning to Spain, and it was suspected that he was poisoned. Mayor of Garratt, The. A play by Foote, produced in 1763. See Garratt. Mayor of Quin borough, The. A comedy by Middle ton, printed in 1661. It was probably written or sketched before 1602, and owed its publication after the Restoration to the caricature of a Puritan. Mayo run as (mä-yō-rö'näs). [Quichua, 'rivermen.'] An Indian horde of northeastern Peru and the adjacent parts of Brazil, south of the Amazon, and in the forests about the rivers Javary, Ucayale, and Tapichí. They are very sav. age, subsist mainly by hunting, use poisoned arrows, and IMG:content-0757.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0758.png:[ocr errors] the house of Austria by interfering in favor of the Protes- tants in the Thirty Years' War, and which resulted in com- plete succe at the peace of Westphalia in 1648. At home his policy of centralizing all administrative authority in the crown-also a legacy from Richelieu - was opposed by the nobles and the Parliament of Paris, and gave rise to the wars of the Fronde (which see), during which he was twice expelled by his opponents from the court (1651-52 and 1652-53). In 1659 he concluded the peace of the Pyrenees, putting an end to the hostilities with Spain which had sprung up during the Thirty Years' War, and securing an increase of French territory. Mazarin Bible. An edition of the Bible printed by Gutenberg at Mainz in 1450-55, being the first book ever printed with movable types. It is so named because the first known copy of it was dis- covered in the Mazarin library at Paris in 1760. Mazarron (mä-thär-ron'). A town in the prov- ince of Murcia, Spain, situated near the Medi- terrane an 30 miles south of Murcia. Population (1887), 16,445. Mazaruni (mä-zä-rö'ne), or Ma a run i (mä- sä-rö'nē). Ariver in British Guiana which joins the E equibo about 45 miles southwest of George town. Length, about 400 miles. Mazas (mä-zä'). A prison in Paris, situated on the Boulevard Mazas, opened in 1850. It is off i. cially called Maison d'Arrêt Cellulaire, having renounced in 1858, at the request of the family of Mazas, the name it had hitherto borne. It is still, however, popularly called the Prison Mazas. Mazatenango (mä-thä-tā-nän'gō). A town of southwestern Guatemala, the capital of the mod- ern department of Suchitepequez, about lat. 14° 45' N., long. 91° 30′ W. It was a stronghold of the Mames Indians, and was taken by the Spaniards in 1525. Population (1893),6,970. Mazatlan (mä-sät-län'). [Nahuatl, 'place of the deer'; from mazatl , a deer.] A town of about 12,000 inhabitants, on the southern coast of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, in lat. 23° 10′ 37′′ N. The town has been besieged a number of times in the course Mayr (mir), or Mayer (mi'er), Johann Simon. port of entry for the state of Sinaloa. Born at Mendorf, Bavaria, June 14, 1763: died Mazaca (maz'a-kä). The ancient name of Cæsarea (in Cappadocia). Mazade (mä-zäd'), Louis Charles Jean Robert de. Born at Castel-Sarrazin, Tarn-et-Garonne, in 1820: died at Paris, April 27, 1893. A French author, editor, and critic, member of the Acad- emy 1882. Among his works are "La guerre de France 1870-71," "Μ. Thiers: cinquante années d'his to ire contem- poraine," "L'Espagne moderne," "L'Italie moderne," "La- martine, sa vie littéraire et politique,"etc. He edited the "Correspond ance du Maréchal Davout." Mazamet (mä-zä-mā'). A town in the depart- ment of Tarn, southern France, situated on the Arnette 50 miles east by south of Toulouse. It has cloth manufactures. Population (1891), commune, 14,361. Mazandaran (mâ-zen-de-rân'). A province of Persia, south of the Caspian Sea, mostly low coast-land, about 200 miles long and 50 broad. Capital, Sari. Population, 300,000. Mazariegos (mä-thä-re-āgōs), Diego. Born at Ciudad de la Mancha about 1495: died after 1565. A Spanish soldier, conqueror of Chiapas (1524- 1529). He was governor of Cuba 1556-65. Mazarin (maz'a-rin; F. pron. mä-zä-ran') (properly Mazarini), Jules. Born at Piscina, Italy, July 14, 1602: died at Vincennes, France, March 9, 1661. A French statesman. He was de- scended from a noble Sicilian family, studied at a Jesuit col, lege at Rome and at the University of Alcalá, and in 1622 entered the papal military service. He was afterward em- ployed in various diplomatic mi ions, and attracted the attention of Richelieu, at whose instance he entered the French service. He became a naturalized French man in 1639, and in 1641 was made a cardinal by the Pope on the pres- entation of Louis XIII., although he had never taken any- thing but minor orders. He was appointed prime minister on the death of Richelieu in 1642, and was retained in of- fice by the queen regent, Anne of Austria, after the death of Louis XIII. in 1643. He continued the foreign policy of Richelieu, which looked to the abatement of the power of Bender, 1709. A Co ack chief. He was descended from a poor but noble family at Mazepintzui in the palatinate of Podolia, and was educated as a page at the court of John Casimir, king of Poland. Having been de- tected in an intrigue with a Polish lady of high rank, he was by order of the injured husband bound naked on the back of an untamed horse from the Ukraine. The horse on being let loose galloped off to its native haunts, where it was caught by some Co ack peasants. Mazeppa re- mained among the Co acks, whose hetinan or chief he be- came in 1687. He enjoyed the favor of Peter the Great, who gave him the title of Prince of the Ukraine. With a view to making himself independent of Ru ia, he con- spired first with Stanislaus Leszczynski of Poland, and af- terward with Charles XII. of Sweden. Besieged by the Ru ians in his capital Baturin, he escaped to the camp of Charles XII., whom he accompanied to Bender after the Mazères. See Masères . Mazillier. Born at Marseilles in 1797: died at Paris in 1868. A noted French dancer and com- poser of ballets. He began his career at Bordeaux in 1820. His pantomime was noted as particularly good. Among his ballets (in which he performed at the Opéra in Paris) are "Le diable amoureux" (1845), "Le diable à quatre" (1846), "Le corsaire" (1856), "Marco Spada (1857), etc. In these he had the collaboration of Paul Fou- cher, St.-Georges, Théophile Gautier, and others. Mažuranić (mä-zhö-räʼnich), Ivan. Born 1814: died 1890. A Croatian poet, ban of Croatia 1873-80. His chief work is an epic national poem. Mazzara, or Mazzara del Vallo (mät-sä'rä del väl'lo). A seaport in the province of Trapani, Sicily, 53 miles southwest of Palermo. It has a cathedral and ruined castle. Population (1881), 13,074. Mazzarino (mät-sä-rēnō). A town in the prov- ince of Cal tan is sett a, Sicily, 47 miles west- southwest of Catania. Population (1881), 12,964. Mazzini (mät-sē ́nē), Giuseppe. Born at Genoa, June 28 (22?), 1805 (1808%): died at Pisa, Italy, March 10, 1872. An Italian patriot and revo- lutionist. He graduated at the University of Genoa in 1826, became a member of the bar of that city, and joined the Carbonari. In 1830 he was arrested by the authorities of Piedmont on the charge of conspiring against the government, but after an imprisonment of six months was IMG:content-0759.png:[blocks in formation] Mbocobis. See Mocobis . Mbondo (mbōn'dō). A Bantu tribe of Angola, West Africa, dwelling to the northeast of Ma- lange. They wear skins, are in a lower state of culture Mbuiyi (mbwe year See Sumbe Mbunda (mbön'dä), or Mambunda (mäm-bön ́- dä). A Bantu tribe of the Barotse kingdom, in the upper Zambesi valley, often confounded with the dominant Barotse. They are strong enough to excite fear, and in 1880 the Barotse weakened them by IMG:content-0760.png:[blocks in formation] Mead, Richard. Born at Stepney, London, Aug. 11, 1673: died at London, Feb. 16, 1754. English physician. He entered the University of Utrecht in 1689, and studied under Grævius for three years. In 1692 he went to Leyden, and took his degree of M. D. at Padua in 1695. He was made a fellow of the Royal So- ciety in 1703. In 1703 he was elected physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and in the same year discovered the itch-mite. He became the most popular physician of the day, and a famous collector of books, coins, etc. In 1727 he was made court physician to George II. He pub- lished "De Variolis et Morbilis" (1747), "Monita et Præ- cepta Medica" (1751). He is best known as the friend of Pope, Johnson, and other famous men. Meade (med), George Gordon. Born at Cadiz, Spain, Dec. 31, 1815: died at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1872. An American general. He graduated at West Point in 1835, served in the Mexican war, and was appointed to the command of a brigade of volunteers in the Army of the Potomac at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. He served in the Peninsular campaign, and commanded a division at Antietam and a division at Fred- ericks burg. He succeeded General Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac June 28, 1863, and defeated General Lee at Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863. He remained in command of the Army of the Potomac during the rest of the war. He was promoted major-general in the regular Meadows, Drink water Meadows (med'ōz), Drink water. Born in Yorkshire or Wales, 1799: died at Barnes, June 12, 1869. An English actor. After playing in pro vincial theaters, he made his first appearance in London at Covent Garden in 1821, and remained there until 1844, when he went to the Lyceum, and later to the Prince 's. Meadows, Sir Philip. Born at Chattis ham, Suffolk, 1626: died Sept. 16, 1718. An English diplo matist. He graduated at Cambridge, and in Oct., 1653, relieved Milton as Latin secretary to Cromwell's council. In 1656 he represented Cromwell at Lisbon at the ratification of the Anglo-Portuguese treaty. In 1657 he was sent as envoy to Frederick III. of Denmark, and afterward John Porter defeated a part of Lee's under Long street and A. P. Hill. This is also called battle of Beaver Dam Creek, and formed part of the Seven Days' Battles. properly be called a roué. Méchant (ma-shon'), Le. [F., 'The Wicked One.'] A comedy by De Gre et, produced in Paris in 1745. Villemain says it is the exact reflection of the salons of the 18th century. The hero perhaps might Mechi (mek'i), John Joseph. Born at Lon.. don, May 22, 1802: died Dec., 1880. An English agricultural reformer. Mechitar. See Mekhitar . Mechitarists. See Mekhitarists . IMG:content-0761.png:[blocks in formation]