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LEFT MILNER 236 MILTON Bonn, Germany, March 23, 1854. Edu- cated at Tubingen, King's College, Lon- don, and Balliol, Oxford. Studied law. Became a journalist 1882-1885. Secretary to C. J. (afterward Lord) Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1887-1889. Under Secretary of Finance, Egypt, 1889-1892., Chairman Board of Internal Revenue 1892-1897, High Commissioner for South Africa 1897, and Governor of Good Hope. Created Viscount 1902, Gov- ernor Transvaal and Orange River Col- onies 1901'. Resigned offices and re- turned to England in 1905. Lord Mil- ner was severely criticized in Liberal party circles as sharing the responsi- bility for the South African War with Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The House of Commons indirectly ex- pressed disapproval of some of his acts in the Transvaal. The House of Lords placed on record its appreciation of his services in the colonies and an address praising his work and signed by 370,000 names was presented in August, 1906, Secretary of State for War 1918-1919. MILNES, RICHARD MONCKTON. See Houghton, Lord. MILO. See MeloS. MILOUNA PASS, a high point in the Olympian Mountains in Thessaly, not far from Tymavos. It was the scene of a Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. MILTIADES (-ti'a-dez), an Athenian general, hero of Marathon. He was the youngest son of Cimon, and succeeded his brother Stesagoras about 515 B. c, as tjrrant of the Chersonese. He took part in the invasion of Scythia by Darius, held his government of the Chersonese at least 22 years, and I'etired to Athens in 493. He distinguished him- self by a great victory over the Per- sians at Marathon. Having persuaded the Athenians to give him the command of a fleet, he used it for private ends in an attack on Paros. The attack failed, Miltiades was severely wounded, and on his return to Athens was prosecuted and imprisoned. His death took place in prison about 489 B. c. MILTON", a borough in Northumber- land CO., Pa., on the West Branch of the '^usquehanna river, and on the Phila- delphia and Reading, and Pennsylvania railroads; 15 miles W. N. W. of Danville. There are several churches. National bank, and weekly newspapers. It has rolling mills, car shops, knitting factory, saw and planing mills, and manufac- tories of nails, tools, and machinery. Pop. (1910) 7,460; (1920) 8,638. MILTON, town of Norfolk CO., Mass.^ 7 miles S. of Boston, on the Neponsetl river. New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad. Contains homes of many Boston business people. Has academy and meteorological observatory. Large stone quarries in the vicinity. Town meeting form of government. Pop. (1910) 7,924; (1920) 9,382. MILTON, JOHN, an English poet, born on Dec. 9, 1608, in London. His father, a distinguished musician, made a comfortable living from his profession of scrivener, and was wise enough to recognize the genius of his son and to give him a most careful education. Milton was sent to St. Paul's School in 1620, where he became acquainted JOHN MILTON with the work of Chaucer, Spenser, and other English poets as well as with the great names of classical antiquity. Both school and home life, therefore, stimu- lated his instinct for poetry, music, and philosophy, all master passions of his life. In 1625 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, securing the degree of B. A. in 1629 and of M. A, in 1632. He planned at first to go into the Church, but during the period of five years of quiet study at Horton, his father's rural place, he de- termined instead to devote himself to literature and learning. In this period he covered the whole field of classical literature, Italian literature, philosophy, and English writers. Meantime he was producing a small but exquisite body of original verse. He had already, as a uni- versity student, v^rritten a hymn, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (1629), which blended pagan and Christian ele-