MACMILLAN  , the name of a

family of English publishers . The founders of the firm were two Scotsmen, Daniel Macmillan (1813-18J7) and his younger brother Alexander (1818-1896) . Daniel was a native of the Isle of Arran, and Alexander was born in Irvine on the 3rd of October 1818 . Daniel was for some time assistant to the bookseller Johnson at Cambridge, but entered the employ of Messrs Seeley in London in 1837; in 1843 he began business in Aldersgate Street, and in the same year the two brothers purchased the business of Newby in Cambridge . They did not confine themselves to bookselling, but published educational works as early as 1844 . In 1845 they became the proprietors of the more important business of Stevenson, in Cam-bridge, the firm being styled Macmillan, Barclay & Macmillan . In r85o Barclay retired and the firm resumed the name of Macmillan & Co . Daniel Macmillan died at Cambridge on the 27thof June 1857 . In that year an impetus was given to the business by the publication of Kingsley's Two Years Ago . A branch office was opened in 1858 in Henrietta Street, London, which led to a great extension of trade . These premises were surrendered for larger ones in Bedford Street, and in 1897 the buildings in St Martin's Street were opened . Alexander Macmillan died in January 1896 .

By his great

energy and literary associations, and with the aid of his partners, there had been built up in little over half a century one of the most important publishing houses in the world . Besides the issue of many important series of educational and scientific works, they published the works of Kingsley, Huxley, Maurice, Tennyson, Lightfoot, Westcott, J . R . Green, Lord Roberts,Lewis Carroll, and of many other well-known authors . In 1898 they took over the old-established publishing house of R . Bentley & Son, and with it the works of Mrs Henry Wood, Miss Rhoda Broughton, The Ingoldsby Legends, and also Temple Bar and the Argosy . In 1893 the firm was converted into a limited liability company, its chairman being Frederick Macmillan (b . 1851), who was knighted in 1909 . The American firm of the Macmillan Company, of which he was also a director, is a separate business . See Thomas Hughes, Memoir of Daniel Macmillan(188z) ; A Bibliographical Catalogue of Macmillan ee Co's Publications from 1843 to 1889 (1891), with portraits of the brothers Daniel and Alexander after Lowes Dickinson and Hubert Herkomer; also articles in Le Livre (September 1886), Publishers' Circular (January 14, 1893), the Bookman (May 1901), &c .