=Muse= (_The Tenth_), Marie Lejars de Gournay, a French writer (1566-1645). Antoinette Deshoulieres; also called “The French Callĭŏpê.” Her best work is an allegory called _Les Moutons_ (1633-1694). Mdlle. Scudéri was preposterously so called (1607-1701). Also Delphine Gray, afterwards Mde. Emile de Girardin. Her _nom de plume_ was “viconte de Launay.” Béranger sang of “the beauty of her shoulders,” and Châteaubriand, of “the charms of her smile” (1804-1855). =Muse-Mother=, Mnemos´ynê, goddess of memory, and mother of the Muses. Memory, That sweet Muse-mother. E. B. Browning, _Prometheus Bound_ (1850). =Muses= (_Symbols of the_). CAL´LIOPE [_Kăl´.ly.ŏ.py_], the epic Muse: a tablet and stylus, sometimes a scroll. CLIO, Muse of history: a scroll or open chest of books. ER´ATO, Muse of love ditties: a lyre. EUTER´PÊ, Muse of lyric poetry: a flute. MELPOM´ENÊ, Muse of tragedy: a tragic mask, the club of Hercules, or a sword. She wears the cothurnus, and her head is wreathed with vine leaves. POL´YHYM´NIA, Muse of sacred poetry: sits pensive, but has no attribute, because deity is not to be represented by any visible symbol. TERPSIC´HORÊ [_Terp.sick´.o.ry_], Muse of choral song and dance: a lyre and the plectrum. THALI´A, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry: a comic mask, a shepherd’s staff, or a wreath of ivy. URAN´IA, Muse of astronomy: carries a staff pointing to a globe. =Museum= (_A Walking_), Longīnus, author of a work on _The Sublime_ (213-273). =Musgrave= (_Sir Richard_), the English champion who fought with Sir William Deloraine, the Scotch champion, to decide by combat whether young Scott, the heir of Branksome Hall, should become the page of King Edward, or be delivered up to his mother. In the combat, Sir Richard was slain, and the boy was delivered over to his mother.--Sir W. Scott, _Lay of the Last Minstrel_ (1805). _Musgrave_ (_Sir Miles_), an officer in the king’s service under the earl of Montrose.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time, Charles I.). =Music.= Amphion is said to have built the walls of Thebes by the music of his lyre. Ilium and the capital of Arthur’s kingdom were also built to divine music. The city of Jericho was destroyed by music (_Joshua_ vi. 20). They were building still, seeing the city was built To music. Tennyson. _Music and Men of Genius._ Hume, Dr. Johnson, Sir W. Scott, Robert Peel and Lord Byron had no ear for music, and neither vocal nor instrumental music gave them the slightest pleasure. To the poet Rogers it gave actual discomfort. Even the harmonious Pope preferred the harsh dissonance of a street organ to Handel’s oratorios. _Music_ (_Father of_), Giovanni Battista Pietro Aloisio da Palestri´na (1529-1594). _Music_ (_Father of Greek_), Terpander (fl. B.C. 676).