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 548 MILL MILLARD of certain educational qualifications ; advocates cumulative voting ; and opposes the use of the ballot. His later works are : "Considerations on Representative Government" (1861) ; " Utili- tarianism " (1862) ; u Auguste Comte and Posi- tivism" (1865); "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy " (1865) ; " England and Ireland " (1868) ; "The Subjection of Women " (1869) ; " Chapters and Speeches on the Irish Land Question" (1870); and "Autobiogra- phy" (posthumous, 1873; German translation by Karl Kolb, Stuttgart, 1874). In 1865 Mr. Mill was elected to parliament from Westmin- ster, and acted with the advanced liberals. In 1867 he presented a petition for woman suf- frage, and moved an amendment to the reform bill striking out the words limiting the electo- ral franchise to males. In 1868 he lost his seat. He was chosen rector of the university of St. Andrews in 1867, and his inaugural address was published in the same year. His posthu- mous " Three Essays on Religion : Nature, the Utility of Religion, Theism," appeared in 1874. See " John Stuart Mill : His Life and Works " (1873), 12 sketches by J. R. Fox Bourne, W. T. Thornton, Herbert Spencer, and others. MILL, John, an English scholar, born at Shapp, Westmoreland, about 1645, died in Oxford, June 23, 1707. He graduated at Oxford in 1669, where, after receiving various ecclesiastical preferments, he was made in 1685 principal of St. Edmund's hall. He became prebendary of Canterbury in 1704. His most important work is his edition of the Greek Testament, to the preparation of which he devoted the last 30 years of his life. It was undertaken at the suggestion and expense of Dr. Fell, bishop of Oxford ; but after that dignitary's death Mill continued it at his own cost, and paid back to Fell's executors the money advanced. He finished the work only 14 days before his death, and it was published the same year. It adopts the received text of Robert Stephens, and contains over 30,000 various readings col- lected from the works of former commenta- tors, the writings of the fathers, and ancient wncollated manuscripts. MILL1IS, John Everett, an English painter, born in Southampton, June 8, 1829. When nine years old he gained a medal from the so- ciety of arts, and was placed in Mr. Sass's pre- paratory school of art in London, whence at the age of 11 he was transferred to the antique school of the royal academy. In 1843 he gained the medal for drawing from the an- tique. In 1846 he exhibited his first picture at the academy, "Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru," and in 1847 obtained the gold medal for the best oil picture, his subject being " The Tribe of Benjamin seizing the Daughters of Shiloh." At this period he was induced to re- ject the academic rules which then prevailed, and to adopt the principles of the " Pre-Ra- phaelite school," of which he was one of the original members. The first picture painted by him in the new style was " Isabella,," from Keats's poem, exhibited in 1849. In 1850 ap- peared his " Ferdinand lured by Ariel," and a mystical picture of Christ, and in 1851 "Mari- ana in the Moated Grange," " The Return of the Dove to the Ark," and "The Woodman's Daughter." So rigorously did he follow the realistic principles involved in his new concep- tions of art, that the simplicity at which he aimed was decried as an evidence of baldness and poverty, and his pictures were declared to be utterly deficient in the sense of beauty. But their unquestioned power challenged at- tention, and it was conceded that the natural- ism which the artist sought to embody in his works was of a higher order than the literal reproduction of nature. His efforts at religious symbolism found few admirers, and were not repeated. "The Huguenot" and "Ophelia," exhibited in 1852, increased his reputation ; and in the succeeding year his "Proscribed Royalist" and "Order of Release." Some of his later works are : " A Dream of the Past : Sir Isumbrus at the Ford " (1857) ; " The Here- tic" (1858); "Vale of Rest" and "Spring Flowers "(1860); "The Black Brunswicker" (1861); "My First Sermon" (1863); "Char- ley is my Darling" (1864); "Joan of Arc" and "The Romans leaving Britain" (1865); " Sleeping," " Waking," and " Jephthah ' (1867); and "Winter Fuel" (1874). Millaia was a contributor to the " Germ " (1850), a short-lived periodical, devoted to an exposi- tion of the views of the pre-Raphaelites. He has sometimes been engaged in the illustration of books and periodicals. In 1863 he was elected a member of the royal academy, hav- ing been an associate since 1853. He married the former wife of John Ruskin, who had pro- cured a divorce in Scotland. MILLARD, a W. county of Utah, bordering- on Nevada; area, 6,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870 r 2,753. It contains Sevier lake, and is inter- sected by Sevier river. The W. part is mostly unexplored. The settlements are in the E. part, in the valleys along the W. base of the Wasatch mountains. Valuable minerals are supposed to exist. The chief productions in 1870 were 29,267 bushels of wheat, 6,853 of Indian corn, 9,714 of potatoes, 4,038 Ibs. of wool, 23,437 of butter, 14,325 of cheese, and 1 909 tons of hay. There were 1,555 horses, 2,041 milch cows, 2,915 other cattle, 3,722 sheep, and 151 swine. Capital, Fillmore City- MILLARD, David, - an American clergyman r born in Ballston, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1794, died in Jackson, Mich., Aug. 3, 1873. He was brought np a farmer, but became a teacher when 17 years old. In 1815 he entered the ministry of the Christian denomination, and from 1818 to 1832 was pastor in West Bloomfield, N. Y., where he wrote "The True Messiah in Scrip- ture Light" (1818). He also edited for sever- al years a monthly magazine called the " Gos- pel Luminary." In 1837-'40 he was pastor in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1841 he visited the Mediterranean and the East, and in 1843 pub-