Vernon of the British navy. The mansion contains many interesting relics connected with Washington, and among others the key of the Bastille which was presented to him by Lafayette. In 1856 the house with six acres of land was purchased by the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association, and is now the property of the nation.

Tell me, ye who make your pious pilgrimage to the shades of Vernon, is Washington indeed shut up in that cold and narrow house? That which made these men, and men like these, cannot die.

Edward Everett.

The tree whose branches in your north winds wave

Dropped its young blossoms on Mount Vernon's grave. Whittier.

As from the grave where Henry sleeps,
From Vernon's weeping willow,
And from the grassy pall which hides
The Sage of Monticello.
Whittier.

Mount Zion. The chief and most interesting of the hills upon which Jerusalem is built. It is the oldest part of the city, the first upon which buildings were erected.

Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top

Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed

In the beginning how the heavens and earth

Rose out of Chaos; or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed

Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song. Milton.

Mountain of Light. See KOнI

NOOR.

Mourning Bush. An ancient and celebrated tavern in Aldersgate, London.

Mousa Castle. A Pictish castle on

one of the Orkney Islands, said to be "perhaps the most perfect Teutonic fortress now extant in Europe."

Mouse-tower, The. [Ger. Mäusethurm.] A tower on an island in the Rhine, supposed to have been erected in the Middle Ages by some of the robber-knights of the Rhine. The ruins have been covered with stucco, and con

verted into a watch-tower. It
derives its name from the legend
of the cruel Archbishop Hatto of
Mayence. According to the story,
as told by Southey in his familiar
ballad, the Bishop, having burned
alive a barnful of starving poor
in order to rid himself of their
importunities for food from his
well-furnished granaries, was
punished for his cruel act by be-
ing devoured by a whole army of
rats in his tower on the Rhine, to
which he had fled for safety.

"Fly! my Lord Bishop, fly," quoth he,
"Ten thousand rats are coming this
Way-

The Lord forgive you for yesterday!" "I'll go to my tower on the Rhine," replied he,

"Tis the safest place in Germany;

The walls are high, and the shores are steep,

And the stream is strong, and the water deep! Southey.

"It appears to have been built in the thirteenth century by a Bishop Siegfried (full 200 years after the death of Bishop Hatto), along with the opposite castle of Ehrenfels, as a watchtower and toll-house for collecting the duties upon all goods which passed the spot. The word maus is probably only an older form of mauth, duty or toll: and this name, together with the very unpopular object for which the tower was erected, perhaps gave rise to the dolorous story of Bishop Hatto and the rats." Murray's Handbook. From my study I see in the lamp-light, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.

They almost devour me with kisses;
Their arms about me intwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine.

Longfellow. Moyamensing Prison. A massive prison in Philadelphia, Penn. Mozart Hall. A building in Cincinnati, O., devoted to lectures and concerts.

Mozzi, Villa. See VILLA MOZZI. Mucross Abbey. A beautiful and famed monastery, now in ruins, situated in the county of Kerry, Ireland. It is of the fourteenth century. The best-preserved portion is the cloister, which consists of 22 arches. The whole area is

covered by a magnificent yewtree of a growth of centuries.

Muezzin, The. A picture by Jean Léon Gérôme (b. 1824), the French painter.

Mug-house Clubs. The Mug-house club was one of the most popular clubs in London early in the eighteenth century. The house in Long Acre derived its name from the fact that each member drank his ale from a separate mug. After a time other similar clubs were formed, and they became intimately connected with political events. Their tumults and struggles with the Jacobites culminated in the serious Mug-house riots of the year 1716. The Mughouse club in Long Acre, though subsequently a political rendezvous, was not such at first, and is said to have consisted of gentlemen, lawyers, and statesmen. The Club in its early days is thus described: "They have a grave old Gentleman, in his own gray Hairs, now within a few months of Ninety years old, who is their President, and sits in an arm'd chair some steps higher than the rest of the company to keep the whole Room in order. A Harp plays all the time at the lower end of the Room; and every now and then one or other of the Company rises and entertains the rest with a song, and (by the by) some are good Masters. Here is nothing drunk but ale; and every Gentleman hath his separate Mug, which he chalks on the Table where he sits as it is brought in; and every one retires when he pleases as from a Coffee-house. The Room is always so diverted with Songs, and drinking from one Table to another to one another's Healths, that there is no room for Politicks, or any thing that can sow'r conversation.

Mulberry Garden.

A celebrated place of resort and entertainment in London in the seventeenth century, now included in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

Muleteer, The. A picture by Antonio Allegri, surnamed Correggio (1494-1534). In the gallery of Stafford House, London.

Mulets, Grands. See GRANDS MULETS.

Mulino, Il. See MILL, THE. Mungret Priory. An interesting monastic ruin in the county of Limerick, Ireland. It is said to have been founded by St. Patrick, and is undoubtedly of high antiquity.

Münster Congress. A picture by Gerard Terburg (1608-1681), the Dutch genre-painter, and considered one of his masterpieces. It was sold at the Demidoff sale for 182,000 francs, and is now in the National Gallery, London.

Murder of the Innocents. See MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS.

Muro Torto. A piece of broken wall in the garden of the Pincian Hill.

"At the farthest point of the Pincio you look down from the parapet upon the Muro Torto, a massive fragment of the oldest Roman wall, which juts over, as if ready to tumble down by its own weight, yet seems still the most indestructible piece of work that men's hands have ever piled together."

Hawthorne, The Marble Faun.

Hence turning to the right out of the Porto del Popolo, we came to Justinian's garden neere the Muro Torto, so prominently built as threatening every moment to fall, yet standing so for these thousand years. John Evelyn, 1644.

"Vainly have the antiquaries puzzled themselves to conceive them with what intention, or by whom, this piece of deformity was made, whether originally built in this strange shape, or whether fallen into it by time or accident." Eaton.

Musée du Louvre. A vast collection of works of art in Paris, occupying almost the whole of the Louvre Palace and Louvre Gallery. See LOUVRE.

"As a whole it is perhaps the finest, and as regards numbers the largest in Europe, although it must yield in Italian art to those of the Vatican and Florence; in Dutch, to those of the

Hague, Amsterdam, and Antwerp; in | Roman antiquities, to the Museums of the Capitol and Vatican at Rome, and to that of Naples; and in Greek sculpture, to the British Museum. Most of the objects are set out and exhibited to the best advantage in splendid rooms. Under Napoleon III. the whole was re-arranged, whilst very great additions were made in every department, especially in the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Etruscan, among them the magnificent collections of the Marquis Campana, of Rome, purchased in 1861 for nearly 200,000l., which form the most important portion of the Musée Napoléon III." Murray's Handbook.

Musée du Luxembourg. [Museum of the Luxembourg.] A gallery of paintings in the Luxembourg Palace, Paris.

"This gallery contains what are considered to be the best works of living French painters; at the expiration of ten years from the death of an artist, his works may be transferred to the Louvre. This gallery dates from 1818, and the works have been mostly purchased after the annual exhibitions under the selection of a jury composed chiefly of members of the Institute. Until lately the pictures selected were almost entirely of the school of the Empire and Restoration - enormous classical or academic subjects. Of late, however, this system has been departed from, and the collection is now a fairer representation of the French school of the day." Murray's Handbook.

Museo, El. [The Museum.] The royal picture-gallery of Madrid, Spain, and one of the richest collections in the world. Of the building, Fergusson says, "If not quite successful in design, it has so many good points about it as to be well worthy of study." The gallery contains a vast number of pictures by Spanish and Italian artists.

Museo Borbonico. [Bourbon Museum.] A celebrated museum of antiquities, sculptures, paintings, gems,' etc., in Naples, Italy. It received its name from Ferdinand I., in 1816, who placed in it the royal collections of antiquities and pictures. The greater part of the relics found at Herculaneum and Pompeii are deposited here. This museum is now called Museo Nazionale.

Museo Capitolino. [Capitoline Museum.] A gallery of sculpture, the Museum of the Capitol, at Rome. It was begun by Pope Clement XII., and, though not so extensive as that of the Vatican, is a most interesting collection.

An apart

Museo Chiaramonti. ment in the Vatican, Rome, filled with sculptures, arranged by Canova. It was founded by Pope Pius VIII., and derives its name from that of his family.

"Here are some seven hundred pieces of sculpture, -all worthy of examination, many of them curious, and some of them of great merit." Hillard.

Museo Gregoriano. See ETRUSCAN MUSEUM.

Museo Nazionale. See MUSEO BORBONICO.

Museo Pio-Clementino. A museum in the Vatican Palace at Rome, so called from the two popes Clement XIV. and Pius VI., who made large donations to it. It contains the most magnificent collection of ancient sculpture in the world, among which may be mentioned the Torso Belvedere, the Meleager, the Antinous, the Laocoon, and the Apollo Belvedere.

"This is by far the most extensive collection in the Vatican. Besides the Cortile of the Belvidere . . ...it comprises the Hall of Animals, the Gallery of the Muses, the Circular Hall, the Hall of the Greek Cross, the Hall of the Biga, and the Grand Staircase. In point of architecture, these are the most splendid portions of the whole Vatican, and the visitor knows not which most to admire, the innumerable works of art which solicit his attention, or the spacious courts, and the noble apartments around and in which they are distributed."

cording to Strabo, the Museum was a large structure surrounded by a corridor, and the famous Library of Alexandria was attached to it.

2. A hill in Athens, Greece, south-west of the Acropolis.

3. A well-known edifice on Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., used for theatrical purposes, and containing a museum of curiosities and antiquities.

Tickets to the Museum, said the landlady. There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket

sence Cenderilla was played. Holmes.

4. See BRITISH MUSEUM, INDIA MUSEUM, SLOANE MUSEUM, SOANE MUSEUM, etc.

Music Hall. A plain edifice in Boston, Mass., containing a noble hall, used for concerts and other

"The lawyers discussed law or literature; criticised the last new play, or retailed the freshest Westminster Hall bite' at Nando's or the Grecian, both close on the purlieus of the Temple. Here the young bloods of the Înns-of-Court paraded their Indian gowns and lace caps of a morning; and swaggered in their lace coats and Mechlin ruffles at night, after the theatre." National Review. Napoleon at Fontainebleau.

A

picture by Paul Delaroche (17971856), the eminent French historical painter.

Napoleon at St. Helena. An ad

mired picture by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846).

Narcissus. An ancient marble statue supposed to be the copy of a work by Praxiteles, the Greek sculptor (b. 392? B.C.). It is in the Museum at Naples, Italy. [Called also Pan, and Bacchus.] Narcissus and Echo. A picture by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the English landscape-painter, and regarded one of his best works.

Narragansett Fort. A ruined In

dian fortress near Kingston, R.I., the scene of one of the most desperate conflicts between the early colonists of New England and the Indian tribes during 'King Philip's War." The fort, of which a few remains still exist, was taken by the Massachusetts and Connecticut men in December, 1675.

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teer of the Confederate navy in the war of the Rebellion. She was one of the most active and formidable vessels afloat, but was finally destroyed by the Montauk, under command of Capt. Worden.

Nassau, John, Duke of, and his Family. A family picture by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), and one of his grandest compo sitions. Now at Panshanger.

National Academy of Design. A fine building on Fourth Avenue, New York, devoted to the exhibition of works of American art.

National Cemetery. A national burying-ground in Arlington, Va., containing the bodies of 16,000 soldiers, who fell in the war of the Rebellion.

National Gallery. A collection of paintings and works of art in London. It originated under the auspices of the British government, and was founded in 1824. The building of the National Gallery was erected 183238.

"It possesses windows without glass, a cupola without size, a portico without height, pepper-boxes without pepper, and the finest site in Europe, without any thing to show upon it.'

All the Year Round.

National Gallery of Statuary. A semicircular chamber in the Capitol at Washington, formerly the hall of the House of Representatives, in which that body sat for 32 years. In 1864 the room was set apart as a hall of statuary. It contains statues of some of the most eminent men of the republic, and of the colonial period, contributed by the different States.