The unequal but remarkable prose epic of "Les Martyrs" [of Châteaubriand)

This, the story of which is laid in the time of Diocletian, shifts its scene from cla ical countries to Gaul, where the half-mythical heroes of the Franks ap pear, and then back to Greece, Rome, and Purgatory. Saints bury , French Lit., p. 427. Martyrs, Les. An opera by Donizetti, produced at Paris in 1840, in London as "I Martiri" in 1852: an adaptation of Donizetti's "Poliuto." Marure (mä-rö'rā), Alejandro. Born near Quezal ten an go, 1803: died in Guatemala City, 1866. A Guatemalan politician and historian. His principal works deal with the history of Central America from 1811 to 1844. Marvejols (märv-zhōl'). A town in the department of Lozère, southern France, situated on the Colagne 11 miles west-northwest of Mende. Population (1891), 4,672. Marvel (mär'vel), Ik. The pseudonym of Donald Grant Mitchell. Marvell (märvel), Andrew. Born March 31, 1621: died Aug. 18, 1678. An English poet and satirist. He graduated at Cambridge in 1638. In 1653 he became tutor of Cromwell's ward, William Dutton, and in 1657 was appointed Milton's a istant in the Latin secretaryship. He is known chiefly for his satires on Charles II. and the Stuarts originally circulated in manuscript and collected in "Poems on Affairs of State" (1689). most notable poem is the "Horatian Ode" to Cromwell (printed1776). He also wrote "The Rehearsal Trans prosed," a succe ful attack on Parker for his a aults on the non conformists (1672-73). Perhaps the most noted of his minor poems is his "Nymph Complaining" (or "The White Faun "). Mary of Egypt, Saint