condition of England, with suggested remedies for abuses.  The opinions on religion and politics expressed in it are not, however, always those by which he was himself guided.  M. wrote many works of controversy, among which are Dyaloge concerning Heresies, also epigrams and dialogues in Latin.  His pure and religious character, his sweet temper, his wit, his constancy and fortitude under misfortune combine to render him one of the most attractive and admirable figures in English history.

Life by W. Roper (son-in-law), Lord Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, Utopia was translated by Robinson (1551, etc.), Bishop Burnet (1684, etc.), and ed. by Lupton (1895), and Michelis (1896).

MORGAN, LADY (SYDNEY OWENSON) (1780?-1859).—­Novelist, dau. of Robert Owenson, an actor, was the author of several vivacious Irish tales, including The Wild Irish Girl (1806), O’Donnel (1814), and The O’Briens and the O’Flaherties (1827); also two books on society in France and in Italy characterised by “more vivacity and point than delicacy,” and a Life of Salvator Rosa.

MORIER, JAMES JUSTINIAN (1780?-1849).—­Traveller and novelist, s. of Isaac M., descended from a Huguenot family resident at Smyrna, where he was b., was ed. at Harrow.  Returning to the East he became in 1809 Sec. of Legation in Persia.  He wrote accounts of travels in Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor; also novels, in which he exhibits a marvellous familiarity with Oriental manners and modes of thought.  The chief of these are The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1824), and Hajji Baba in England (1828), Zohrab the Hostage (1832), Ayesha (1834), and The Mirza (1841).  All these works are full of brilliant description, character-painting, and delicate satire.

MORISON, JAMES COTTER (1832-1888).—­Was ed. at Oxf.  He wrote Lives of Gibbon (1878), and Macaulay (1882); but his best work was his Life of St. Bernard (1863). The Service of Man (1887) is written from a Positivist point of view.

MORLEY, HENRY (1822-1894).—­Writer on English literature, s. of an apothecary, was b. in London, ed. at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King’s Coll., London, and after practising medicine and keeping schools at various places, went in 1850 to London, and adopted literature as his profession.  He wrote in periodicals, and from 1859-64 ed. the Examiner.  From 1865-89 he was Prof. of English Literature at Univ.  Coll.  He was the author of various biographies, including Lives of Palissy, Cornelius Agrippa, and Clement Marot.  His principal work, however, was English Writers (10 vols. 1864-94), coming down to Shakespeare.  His First Sketch of English Literature—­the study for the larger work—­had reached at his death a circulation of 34,000 copies.