Marlowe, Christopher
Christopher (1564-1593), an English playwright. He is interesting chiefly as a forerunner of Shakespeare, to whom he was a not unworthy John the Baptist. He was educated at Cambridge. He was killed in a drunken brawl. Readers will do well to begin with his Jew of Malta. The Jew Barabbas is a far worse character than Shylock, and is without the latter's redeeming qualities. Faustus is a characteristic play. It suggests Goethe's Faust. In Tamburlaine the Great, a shepherd of Titanic disposition aspires to the throne of Persia and aims to ride into power over the bloody remains of his opponents.
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Marmalade
a semi-liquid preserve, made by boiling the pulp of thick-rinded fruits, such as oranges, pineapples, quinces, etc., with portions of the rind. The most common kind of marmalade is made from the bitter or Seville oranges, the common or sweet sorts being considered inferior for this purpose, though also occasionally used. The woolly coating on the interior being removed, the rind is cut up into thin strips, and boiled along with the expressed juice of the pulp and a quantity of sugar equal in weight to the other ingredients.
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Marmion
A Tale of Flodden Field, a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott. The poem was begun in November, 1806, and was published in February, 1808. The first edition of 2,000 copies in quarto form was sold at a guinea and a half, $7.50 per copy. A second edition was required within a month, and cheaper editions followed in rapid succession. In all some 50,000 copies were sold during the author's lifetime. The poem is in six cantos, each canto preceded by a lengthy introduction in the form of an epistle to a friend. These introductions to the various cantos are not necessary to the thread of the story; on the contrary, they rather interfere with it, at least at a first reading. The hero of the story, Marmion, is an English knight whose various adventures in Scotland are narrated in the poem. The last canto describes the battle of Flodden Field in which Marmion falls. See Scott
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Marmot
a popular name for any mota, the common or Alpine marmot, of more particularly confined to A. marthe higher regions of the Alps, Pyrenees, and Car in length; dark brown above, and lighter Carpathians. It is about 20 inches 'below. The hoary marmot, an American
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Marne
BATTLES first Battle of the tember, 1914, marked the European War and British halted Mons and Charleroi against the German MARMOT Kluck, unable to large societies in extensive burrows. They nally intended, while remained undefeated are very active in the summer, and pass and fight. The the winter in a state of torpidity. Sept. 6. Manoury's
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Marne (HAUTE hot m rn a department)
HAUTE (hot märn), a department in the N. E. of France, formed chiefly out of the old province of Champagne, and embracing land in the upper basins of the Marne and the Meuse; rises in the S. into the plateau of Langres and the Monts Faucilles ( 1,500 to 1,600 feet); area, 2,402 square miles; pop. about 220,000. Cereals, wine ( 12,000,000 gallons annually), fruits and potatoes are the principal products; the department yields 200,000 tons of iron ore annually, and there are numerous furnaces; the cutlery is in high repute.
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Marne (Species ranging as far N)
a species, ranging as far N. as the Arctic of France, formed Circle, is A. pruinosus. Marmots live in of Champagne, Marne, and to a and the Aisne; area pop. about 450,000 and chalky soil of varieties of % which two - fifths ing of sheep is and extensive carried on; cereals toes are grown; produced; building metal works, tanneries tion. See MARNE,
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Marquette (JACQUES mar-ket' a French)
JACQUES (mar-ket'), a French missionary and explorer, born in Laon, France, in 1637. He became a Jesuit priest in 1666 and went to Canada as a missionary. In 1673-1674 he made an extensive missionary journey through the Lake Superior and Green Bay region, traveling, exploring, and preaching, being in this way one of the early voyagers down the Mississippi river, of which he interesting account. He died wrote an near Marquette River, Mich., May 18, 1675.
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Marquette University
a Roman Catholic school in Milwaukee, Wis., founded in 1864. There are colleges of arts and science, engineering, law and medicine. The Medical College has received the highest rating from the American Medical Association. In all the university there are over 1,200 students and 300 officers of instruction. The university is not endowed, but supports itself solely from its tuition fees and from gifts. The grounds and buildings have an estimated value of a million and a half. The library contains in all about 35,000 volumes.
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Marquis Of
a Scotch noble, and a distinguished royalist leader under Charles I., known, in English history, as the "Great Marquis"; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1613. He took an active part on the side of the king, was created a marquis, and in a few months gained the battles of Perth, Aberdeen, and Inverlochy. In 1645 his fortune changed; and after suffering a defeat from Lesley, at Philiphaugh, near Selkirk, he was obliged to leave the kingdom; in 1648 he landed in Orkney with a few followers, but was soon overpowered, conveyed to Edinburgh, and there decapitated and quartered May 21, 1650. MONTSERRAT (mont-se-rat') (Latin Mons Serratus, so named from its sawlike outline), a mountain of Catalonia, in N. E. Spain, 30 miles N. W. of Barcelona. Its height is 4,055 feet. The mountain owes its celebrity to the Benedictine abbey built halfway up it, with its wonder-working image of the Virgin, and to the 13 hermitages formerly perched like eagles' nests on almost inaccessible pinnacles. In 1811 the French, under Suchet, plundered the abbey, burned the library, shot the hermits, and hanged the monks. The place in 1827 became the stronghold of the Carlist insurrection.
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Marrow
a substance of low specific gravity filling the cells and cavities of the variebones bones of mammals. There are two ties, which are known as red or watery marrow and yellow or oily marrow. The oily matter of the marrow is composed of the same materials as common fat, with the oleine in greater abundance.
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