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"ALDEN HENRY MILLS (1836-1919), American editor, descendant of John Alden, was born at Mt. Tabor, Vt., Nov. I i 1836. After graduating from Williams College (1857), under the regime of Mark Hopkins, he completed the course. at the Andover Theological Seminary (1860); but he never took orders. He first contributed to the Atlantic Monthly two essays on "The Eleusinia" (1859-60), and then apaper on "Pericles and President Lincoln" (1863). These fruits of his classical studies show the influence of De Quincey, who was the subject of another essay in the Atlantic (1863). He delivered twelve lectures before the Lowell Institute in Boston, 1863-4, on " The Structure of Paganism'.' He was managing editor of Har- per's Weekly from 1863 to 1869, and then became editor of Harper's Magazine, which position he held until his death in New York, Oct. 6 1919.

He was author of God in His World (1890); A Study of Death (1895) and Magazine Writing and the New Literature (1908).