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LEFT ELIOT 506 ELIZABETH "Westminster Review." In January, 1857, she came prominently into public notice with a series of tales entitled "Scenes from Clerical Life." In the following year the publication of "Adam Bede" placed her in the first rank of writers of fiction. It was succeeded by the "Mill on the Floss" (1860); "Silas Marner" (1861); "Romola" (1863); "Felix Holt" (1866) ; "Middlemarch" (1872), and "Daniel Deronda" (1876). She published also three volumes of verse, "The Spanish Gypsy" (1868) ; "Agatha" (1869), and the "Legend of Jubal" (1874). Her last work published during GEORGE ELIOT her life was "The Impressions of Theo- phrastus Such" (1879), but a volume of mixed essays was issued posthumously. For many years she was happily associ- ated in life and work with George Henry Lewes, though a legal union was im- possible during the lifetime of Mrs. Lewes, In May, 1880, after Mr. Lewes* death, she married Mr, John Cross, but did not survive the marriage many months, dying rather suddenly at Chelsea on Dec. 22 of that year. ELIOT, JOHN, "the Indian Apostle"; born probably at Widford in Hertford- shire, in 1604. He graduated at Cam- bridge in 1622, and, after taking orders in the Church of England, emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1631. In 1646, after two years' study of the language, he de- livered a long sermon in the native di- alect at Nonantum; other meetings soon followed. He shortly after began to establish his converts in regular settle- ments, his work meeting with approval both in the colony and at home; in Eng- land a corporation was founded in 1649 "for the promoting and propagating the Gospel among the Indians of New Engi- knd." In 1674 the number of "praying Indians" was estimated at 3,600; but the decay of the "praying towns" was rapid after the war with a native king, Philip (1675), in which the converts suffered equal cruelties at the hands of their countrymen and of the English. With Thomas Weld and Richard Mather, Eliot prepared the "Bay Psalm-book" (1640), the first book printed in New England. His great work was the translation of the Bible into the tongue of the Indians of Massachusetts (Algonquin) (1661- 1663). He died in Roxbury, Mass., May 21, 1690. There are monuments to his memory in the Indian burying ground at South Natick and at Newton. ELIOT, SAMUEL, an American edu- cator and historian; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 22, 1821. He filled the chair of history and political science in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. (1856-1864); was president of Trinity College (1860- 1864) ; and overseer of Harvard (1866- 1872). Among his publications are: "The History of Liberty" (1853) ; "The Liberty of Rome" (1849); "Life and Times of Savonarola" (1856) ; "Manual of United States History Between the Years 1492 and 1850" (revised ed., 1873) ; and "Stories from the Arabian Nights" (1879). He died in Beverly, Mass., Sept. 14, 1898. ELIS, a maritime state of ancient Greece in the W. of the Peloponnesus, bordering on Achaia, Arcadia, and Mes- senia, and watered by the rivers Alpheua and Peneus. Of its capital Elis (now Kaloskopi) there are few traces. Olym- pia, where the famous games were held, was near the Alpheus. Elis and Achaia now form a monarchy of Greece. ELISHA, a Hebrew prophet, the dis- ciple and successor of Elijah. Many miracles of prediction and cure, and even of raising the dead, are ascribed to him. He held the office of prophet for fully 65 years, from the reign of Ahab to that of Joash (latter half of 9th century B. C). ELIZABETH, a city and county-seat of Union co.. N. J., on Staten Island Sound and on the Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Baltimore and Ohio, Philadelphia and Reading and New Jersey Central railroads, 14 miles S. W. of New York City. It covers a wide expanse of level land, is laid out with broad and hand- some streets, running at right angles, has numerous business blocks, and is noted for the large number of handsome residences of New York business men. The chief articles manufactured are