Meyer (III)
GEORGE VON LENGERKE, American political leader. Born in Boston in 1858, he graduated fra Harvard in 1879, and was then for twenty years in business as merchant and trustee. During part of this time he was on the Boston Common Council and Board of Aldermen, and in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving as Speaker, 1894-7. He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotientary to Italy 1900-5, and Ambassador to Russia, 1905-7. President Roosevelt made him Postmaster-General in 1907, and he was Secretary of the Navy under President Taft, 1909-13. He died in 1918.
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Meyer (KUNO a German scholar)
KUNO, a German scholar of Celtic literature. In 1894 he became professor of Teutonic languages at the University College, Liverpool, and in 1911 profesor of Celtic at Berlin. He founded a school in Dublin for the study of Celtic, and the Irish patriots, anxious to make it the language of Ireland, accepted him with enthusiasium. His important contributions to Celtic literature led to an invitation from Harvard to lecture there, which he finally declined because of the strong pro-Ally leaning of that institution.
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Meyer, Johann Georg
mi'er, Johann Georg (1813-1886), a celebrated Dutch painter. He was born at Bremen. He received his education in art at the Dusseldorf Academy. His first paintings were of Biblical subjects. Later he changed to domestic scenes. He signed his paintings Meyer von Bremen. He painted over a thousand different pictures. He is especially popular with children, as might be inferred from such subjects as See What Mother Has Brought, Who'll Buy a Rabbit? Birthday Morning, The Little Brother, Toll Paid Here, The Storks Brought It, In Which Hand? and The Pet Bird.
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Meyerbeer
GIACOMO bar), a German composer; born in Ber- (mi'erlin, Prussia, Sept. 5, 1791. His genius showed itself so early that at six years of age he played at a concert, and at nine was one of the best pianists in Berlin. He was taught afterward by Clementi and the Abbé Vogler at Darmstadt. He subsequently visited Italy, and fell under the influence of Rossini, in imitation of whose style he composed several operas. The first work which made him a man of mark was the "Crusade in Egypt." It was produced at Venice in 1824, and at Paris two years later. Meyerbeer became the favorite composer of the Parisian public, whose taste he satisfied by the popular works which followed, and which are now well known throughout the world. "Robert the Devil" was produced at the opera of Paris in 1831; "The Huguenots" (1833); "The Prophet" (1849); "Star of the North" (1854); and "Dinorah" (1859). He left the manuscript of another great opera, "L'Africaine" (The African Woman), which was produced in Paris in 1865. Besides his operas, Meyerbeer, wrote a "Stabat," a "Miserere," a "Te Deum," an oratorio, cantatas, and many songs. He was supreme in the French opera for more than 30 years, was associate of the Institute, and officer of the Legion of Honor, member of the Academy of Fine Arts at Berlin, and chapelmaster to the King of Prussia. He died in Paris, May 1, 1864.
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Meynell
ALICE (THOMPSON) (mā'nel), an English author; born in London, England, about 1853. She spent much of her childhood in Italy, and married (1877) Wilfrid Meynell, editor of "Merry England." She wrote "Preludes" (1875; 2d ed. 1893), illustrated by her sister, Lady (Elizabeth) Butler; "Rhythm of Life" (1893); "The Children" (1896); "The Spirit of Place" (1898); "Collected Poems" (1913); "Essays" (1914); etc.
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Mezazoth, The
A schedule which, when fastened on the doorpost, possessed talismanic qualities. It is said in the Talmud that whoever has the mezazoth fixed on his door, and is provided with certain personal charms, is protected from
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Mezereon
Daphne Mezereum, a small shrub with deciduous obovate or spatulate lanceolate leaves; flowers generally in threes; silky-pink, or white; very fragrant. Berries red, ovoid. Acrid and poisonous; the berries are cathartic; the leaves used as a vesicant. MÉZIÈRES (mā-zyar'), the capital of the French department of Ardennes, on a bend of the Meuse, opposite Charleville, and 155 miles N. E. of Paris; principal building the flamboyant church, restored in 1884, in which Charles IX. was married in 1570. Strongly fortified by Vauban, and protected by a citadel, in 1521 it was successfully defended by the Chevalier Bayard, with 2,000 men, against 40,000 Spaniards under Charles V.; in 1815 held out for two months against the Allies, who besieged it after the battle of Waterloo; and in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 capitulated after a frightful bombardment. Again, during the World War, the town and its vicinity was the scene of much and heavy fighting. Pop. about 11,000.
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Mezzanine
a low story between two higher ones, especially between the ground floor and the story above it.
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Mezzotint
a process of engraving on copper or steel. The smooth plate is abraded with a roughened file-like tool, and myriads of tiny points are raised over the surface of the plate. These points catch and hold the ink, and an impression taken from a plate in this condition would give a soft velvety mass of black without variety of light shade. A burnisher is next used to get rid of the raised points where half tones and lights are wanted. Sometimes where very brilliant lights are required, they are cut away so as to insure a smooth surface of copper. By means of this burnishing process, all gradations of light and shade are obtained from the white of the smooth copper to the black of the roughened plate. The process dates from about the middle of the 17th century.
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Miami
a river rising in Hardin co., O.; flowing a general S. W. and S. course through Logan, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery, Butler, and Hamilton counties, and entering the Ohio river at the extremity of the State. It is about 140 miles long. The Miami and Erie canal runs alongside the river between Piqua and Hamilton.
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Miami
a town of Arizona, in Gila co. It is on the Arizona Eastern railroad, and is the center of a rich copper mining district. Water power is derived from the Roosevelt Dam, 40 miles distant. Pop. (1920) 6,689.
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