sympathy and intervention of the German princes. From Germany he travelled to Switzerland and from Switzerland to Brussels in the Royalist interest. He published a number of anti-revolutionary pamphlets, and a violent attack on Bonaparte and the Directory resulted in his being exiled in 1797 to Berne. In 1798 he came to London, where he founded the Mercure britannique. He died at Richmond, Surrey, on the 10th of May 1800, his widow being pensioned by the English government. Mallet du Pan has a place in history as a pioneer of modern political journalism. His son John Lewis Mallet (1775–1861) spent a useful life in the English civil service, becoming secretary of the Board of Audit; and J. L. Mallet’s second son, Sir Louis Mallet (1823–1890) also entered the civil service in the Board of Trade and rose to be a distinguished economist and a member of the Council of India.
Mallet du Pan’s Mémoires et correspondance was edited by A. Sayous (Paris, 1851). See Mallet du Pan and the French Revolution (1902), by Bernard Mallet, son of Sir Louis Mallet, author also of a biography of his father (1900).
MALLING, EAST and WEST, two populous villages in the
Medway parliamentary division of Kent, England, respectively
5 and 6 m. W. by N. of Maidstone, with a station on the South-Eastern
and Chatham railway. Pop. (1901), East Malling, 2391;
West Malling, 2312. They are situated in a rich agricultural
district on the western slope of the valley of the Medway, and
East Malling has large paper mills. At West Malling are remains
of Malling Abbey, a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1090 by
Gundulf, bishop of Rochester. The remains, which are partly
incorporated in a modern building, include the Norman west
front of the church, the Early English cloisters, the chapter-house,
gate-house (the chapel of which is restored to use), and
other portions. About Addington near West Malling are considerable
prehistoric remains, including mounds, single stones,
stone circles and pits in the chalk hills; while at Leybourne
are the gateway and other fragments of the castle held by the
Leybourne family from the 12th to the 14th century.
MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL (1849– ), English
author, was born at Cockington Court, Devonshire. He was educated privately, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He won the
Newdigate prize in 1872, and took a second class in the final
classical schools in 1874. He attracted considerable attention
by his satirical story The New Republic (2 vols., 1877), in which
he introduced characters easily recognized as prominent living
men, Mark Pattison, Matthew Arnold, W. K. Clifford and others.
His keen logic and gift for acute exposition and criticism were
displayed in later years both in fiction and in controversial works.
In a series of books dealing with religious questions he insisted
on dogma as the basis of religion and on the impossibility of
founding religion on purely scientific data. In Is Life Worth
Living? (1879) and The New Paul and Virginia (1878) he
attacked Positivist theories, and in a volume on the intellectual
position of the Church of England, Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption
(1900), he advocated the necessity of a strictly defined
creed. Later volumes on similar topics were Religion as a
Credible Doctrine (1903) and The Reconstruction of Belief (1905).
He published several brilliant works on economics, directed
against Radical and Socialist theories: Social Equality (1882),
Property and Progress (1884), Labour and the Popular Welfare
(1893), Classes and Masses (1896) and Aristocracy and Evolution
(1898); and among his anti-socialist works should be classed his
novel, The Old Order Changes (1886). His other novels include
A Romance of the Nineteenth Century (1881), A Human Document
(1892), The Heart of Life (1895) and The Veil of the Temple (1904).
He published a volume of Poems in 1880, and in 1900 Lucretius
on Life and Death in verse.
MALLOW, a market town and watering place of Co. Cork, Ireland, on the Blackwater, 14412 m. S.W. from Dublin, and 21 N. from Cork by the Great Southern and Western railway. Pop. (1901), 4542. It is a junction for lines westward to Killarney
and Co. Kerry, and eastward to Lismore and Co. Waterford.
The town owes its prosperity to its beautiful situation in a
fine valley surrounded by mountains, and possesses a tepid
mineral spring, considered efficacious in cases of general debility
and for scorbutic and consumptive complaints. A spa-house
with pump-room and baths was erected in 1828. The parish
church dates from 1818, but there are remains of an earlier
building adjoining it. There are manufactures of mineral water
and condensed milk, corn-mills and tanneries. Mallow received
a charter of incorporation from James I. Its name was originally
Magh Allo, that is, Plain of the Allo (the old name used by
Spenser for this part of the river), and the ford was defended by
a castle, built by the Desmonds, the ruins of which remain. A
bridge connects the town with the suburb of Ballydaheen.
Mallow is a centre for the fine salmon fishing on the Blackwater.
The climate is very mild. The town was a parliamentary
borough till 1885. It is governed by an urban district council.
MALLOW, botanically Malva, the typical genus of the natural
order Malvaceae, embracing about sixteen species of annual and
perennial herbaceous plants, widely distributed throughout the
northern hemisphere.
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| Mallow (Malva sylvestris). | |
| 1. Flower in section. | 3. Fruit with persistent calyx. |
| 2. Stamens showing the union of the filaments into a common tube (monadelphous). |
4. Same seen from the back showing the 3-leaved epi-calyx. |
| 5. Seed. | |
The mallows possess the reniform one-celled anthers which specially characterize the Malvaceae (q.v.). The petals also are united by their base to the tube formed by the coalesced filaments of the stamens. The special characters which separate the genus Malva from others most nearly allied to it are the involucre, consisting of a row of three separate bracts attached to the lower part of the true calyx, and the numerous single-seeded carpels disposed in a circle around a central axis, from which they become detached when ripe. The flowers are
