Education
He graduated from Brown University in 1832, and studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1833-1834.
He graduated from Brown University in 1832, and studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1833-1834.
On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835-1838. Besides contributing to the North American, American Whig, and Christian reviews chiefly papers relating to German history and literature, Mackie published:
Life of Godfrey William von Leibnitz, with Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (Boston, 1845) at archive.org
Life of Samuel Gorton in Sparks"s “American Biography” series (1848)
Cosas de España, or Going to Madrid via Barcelona (New York, 1848)
Life of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief (1856)
Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection (1857)
From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics (1864).