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MILLVILLE 



MIMICRY 



epical treatment, partly to his exceptional qualifi- 

 cations fur treating it, but most of all to the actual 

 superiority of his genius. After Homer tliere is no 

 poet to whom the sublime is HO much a native 

 element, who rises into it with so little apparent 

 effort, ami remains in it for so long together. 

 Another circninst:infe which would alone make liim 

 a poet for the world is that in him and in him 

 alone the Hebraic ami the Hellenic spirit appear 

 thoroughly at one. His theme and hi* creed con- 

 nect him with the Scriptures, Imt his literary taste* 

 and models are the tastes ami models of the Itcnais 

 sance. As an Knglish poet lie tills up the great 

 gap which would otherwise yawn lietween the age 

 of Shakes|M>are and the aye of Dryden, an<l, like 

 Wren in architecture, proves that the classical 

 style need not necessarily lie synonymous with 

 petiantry or inanity. In the artful harmony of 

 blank verse he surpasses every English |x't, though 

 he may not have caught the 'wood-note* wild' of 

 Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His magna- 

 nimity as a man matched his sublimity as a poet ; 

 but he had pcrhn|>s more than a usual share of the 

 failings attendant upon the magnanimous character, 

 and at first sight appears arrogant and unamiablc. 

 It is not until we consider that the circumstances of 

 his life forced these characteristics into prominence, 

 and that biographers have too commonly thought 

 the softer and more familiar traits unworthy of 

 record ; until we remember that the company of 

 this austere idealist was frequented by the young, 

 and that the pleasures of the social hour have been 

 exquisitely sung by him : above all, until we note 

 hi* almost entire dependence for composition ti|>on 

 external impulse, the rashness of some of his actions 

 and the chivalry of others, that we |ierceive him to 

 have possessed his full share of the emotional tem- 

 perament common to poets. 



Tlii- principal contemporary authority for Milton'n life 

 it liu nephew, Edwanl Phillip*. To and lia* added sonic 

 intcrcfttiii'; notices. Syinnions, Mitf-<r<l, Todd, and others 

 wrought awfully in their day in collecting ami mvi>ti- 

 gating particulars, but t u>ir laboum have been entirely 

 superseded by Profesnor Masnon (6 vols. 187G-7U), who 

 lia* left nothing unexplored, and whoso venlict is in most 

 cue* decisive. Johnson's short biography, however, must 

 aJways be read for iw literary merit, and as a remarkable 

 innUnce of insuperable antipathy atriving to be just. 

 Milton's Life him been written on a small scale by 

 Mark Pattismi i M.-n of Letter*,' 1880) and by Kichard 

 Garnett ('Ureat Writer*,' 188<J, with full bibliography I. 

 'i here is an excellent and coiuiuvhensive iieruian bio- 

 graphy by Alfred Stern (' vol.*. I/'ip. 1S77-79). Add i son, 

 Jnhnxm. Cbanning, ami MacauUy am esjiccially dU- 

 tiicui.ilied among .Milton's critics. 



Mill* ille. a city of New Jersey, on the Maurice 



Kivei. II miles by mil S. by K. of I'hiladelphia. 

 It has manufacture* of cottons and glass. Top. 



( IH'.KI, lo.ixrj; | HHHI) 10,583. 



Milwaukee, comity seat of Milwaukee county, 

 \Vi-4-onsin, and the largest city in the state, 18 

 healthfully situated on the west shore of Lake 

 Mirhigan, 85 miles north of Chicago. It stands at 

 the mouth of the Milwaukee Kiver, which, with its 



confluents ami a i liter of channels, furnishes 25 



miles of dockage. The eastern division of the city 

 occupies high bluffs along the shore of Milwaukee 

 Bay, an nun of Lake Michigan having a width of 

 even miles, and constituting a rapacious Imtlior of 

 refuge for the largest lake vessels. Milwaukee'* 

 resilience street* arc wide and well shaded, and her 

 residences com prise many palatial homes. The pub- 

 lic parks, i-iglit in numlicr. have an aggregate area 

 of over 400 acres. The street railway system em- 

 brace* sixteen electric lines with 158 miles of track, 

 mid n l-o provides the city with electric light. It is 

 connected with an electric line running to \Vnukc 

 oha, twenty miles westward, and another to Keno- 

 nha, thirty-five miles southward, to be eventually 



extended to Chicago. The water supply is drawn 

 from Luke Michigan through a tunnel and a series 

 of pipes extending out two miles into cool and 1111- 

 di.sturhetl water. The city is well drained by an 

 extensive sewerage system, and Milwaukee Kiver is 

 Hushed with lake water forced into it two miles from 

 its mouth, through a tunnel, by a screw-wheel pump 

 having a capacity of 450,000,000 gallons per day. 

 The public institutions of Milwaukee include a 

 National Soldiers' Home, 20 asylums and eleemosy- 

 nary establishment-, 11 bospitals, 3 convents and a 

 Capuchin monastery, 152 churches, 51 parochial 

 schools with about 20,000 pupils, ,VJ public schools 

 with an aggregate enrolment of 34, (XX) pupils, a 

 public library containing 80,000 volumes, a public 

 museum, an art gallery, II banks, including five 

 national banks, and life and lire insurance compa- 

 nies. Kight daily newspapers are published here, 

 and there are many weeklies printed in various lan- 

 guages. Milwaukee is essentially a manufacturing 

 city, although the grain and lake shipping interests 

 are quite large. Besides the lake lines which pro- 

 vide connections for the trunk railroads, there are 

 eleven lines of passenger and freight steamers run- 

 ning to various port* on the lakes, nml a car ferry 

 giving across Luke Michigan. Eleven railroad lines 

 radiate from the city. Milwaukee's shipments of 

 grain during 1807 aggregated 19,591,000 bushels. 

 The coal received during the same year amounted 

 to 1,492,000 tons. The value of Milwaukee's manu- 

 factured products during 1897 was 8126,676,112, in- 

 cluding $.'{0,467, 283 in the metal-working industries, 

 $15,797,250 in brewery products, and $15,419,333 in 

 the leather-working industries. Beer brewing is 

 the largest industry, the output in 1897 aggregating 

 J.JTl.lls barrels.' Population of the cHy (1890) 

 204,468; ( 1900 ) 285,315. 



MlmflnsA (from the Sanskrit nuni, 'to investi- 

 gate;' hence, literally, investigation) is the collec- 

 tive name of two of the six divisions of orthodox 

 Hindu philosophy. It is distinguished as J'lin-n- 

 and I'tliirii-tiiiiHiinitA, the latter Iwing more com- 

 monly called I'riliiiitii, while the former is briefly 

 styled Miiiniiixii. Though the Mimansa is ranked, 

 I iv all native writers, with the live other philoso- 

 phical systems, the term philosophy can scarcely be 

 applied to it in the same sense as to them ; its 

 object is merely to lay down a correct interpreta- 

 tion of such Vedic passages as refer to the Brail- 

 manic ritual, to solve doubts wherever they may 

 exist on mat tei-s concerning sacrificial acts, and to 

 reconcile discrepancies according to the Mimansa, 

 always apparent only of Vedic texts. See SANS- 

 KRIT', VKH.XS. 



Mimes, the name given by the ancients to 

 certain dramatic jicrformances, in which, with little 

 attempt at art, scenes of actual life were repre- 

 sented, sometimes in improvised dialogue. The 

 Greek mimes appear to have U-cn invented by the 

 Creeks of Sicily ami Southern Italy. They were a 

 favourite amusement of convivial parties, the guest* 

 themselves being generally the performers, Sojihron 

 of Syracuse (about 4'2<> H. c. i composed many in the 

 I '"lie dialed, which were much admired, ami which 

 I'lato was accustomed to read. The Roman mime* 

 were not Uirrowvd from the Greek, but were of 

 native Italic growth. They were not only far ruder 

 and coarser, but in some respects they were essenti- 

 ally different the dialogue occupying a smaller 

 place, and mere gesture and mimicry predominating. 

 The humour and satire, however, were often genuine, 

 though rouyli and even indecent, ami they were 

 greatly lelished by all classes; even the patrician 

 Sulla was fond of them. Their most famous mimic, 

 poet* were Decimus Labcrius and 1'ub. Syrns. 



Hi m lory. The fact that insects lielonging 

 to very dillereut groups often bear an extremely 



