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 564 MILTON MILWAUKEE second edition was issued in 1674, the third in 1678, and in 1681 Milton's widow gave up to Simmons all her interest in the work for 8. This poem has been the subject of a great deal of criticism and research. Disraeli, in his " Amenities of Literature," has pointed out its remarkable similarity to the work of Csadmon, an Anglo-Saxon poet ; others attempt to trace the character of Satan to Vondel's Lucifer, and cite a recently discovered record of Ley- den university (1874), which shows that Mil- ton studied there, and probably acquired some knowledge of contemporary Dutch literature. "Paradise Regained" appeared in 1671, in the same volume with the drama of " Samson Ag- onistes." A second and enlarged edition of his minor poems was published in 1673. His principal later prose publications are the " His- tory of Britain" (1670), down to the Norman conquest, containing many of the early tradi- tions, much of which had been written before the restoration ; a tract entitled " Of True Re- ligion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and what best Means may be used against the Growth of Popery" (1673), in which he urges absolute toleration for all Protestant sects, but denies it to Roman Catholics ; a short Latin grammar (1661); a compendium of logic (1672); and his Latin epistles and oratorical exercises in the university (1674). He left in manuscript a Latin treatise entitled De Doctrina Christiana, which had been unsuccessfully offered to Elze- vir for publication. Two years after his death it came into the hands of one of the English secretaries of state, by whom it was deposited in the state paper office, where it was acci- dentally discovered in 1823. It was translated and edited (4to, 1825) by 0. R. Sumner, D. D., afterward bishop of Winchester, and 'it com- pletely establishes Milton's Arianism, which had been suspected from passages in " Paradise Lost." Its heterodoxy was doubtless the rea- son why it was offered first to a Dutch pub- lisher, and afterward withheld from the pub- lic. In his last years he was afflicted by the gout, which, according to Aubrey, " struck in " and caused his death. He died calmly and without pain, and his remains were laid beside those of his father in the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate. After his sight failed he had been accustomed to go to bed at 9 o'clock, and to rise at 4 in summer and 5 in winter. Be- fore rising, he often had some one to read to him or to write at his dictation. He studied till 12, with the intervention of breakfast, then exercised for an hour, dined, played on the organ or bass viol, and resumed his studies till 6, from which hour till 8 he conversed with visitors. He fancied that " his vein never hap- pily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal," and was never satisfied with what he wrote in the other half of the year. He attended no church, belonged to no religious communion, and never had social prayers in his family. That he was somewhat haughty and overbearing, and of severe if not choleric temper, appears from other evidence as well as from passages in his controversial writings ; yet his manners were usually urbane, and his conversation delightful. The principal biogra- phies of Milton are those by Toland, Todd, Sym- mons,Dr. Johnson, Mitford, Keightley (London, 1859), and Masson (2 vols., London, 1859-71). The last is also a literary history of the time. The best edition of Milton's poetical works is Pickering's, with a life by the Rev. John Mit- ford (8 vols., London, 1851; the 2 vols. of poems reprinted, with Mitford's "Life," 1873). Among others are those of Bishop Newton (3 vols. 4to, 1749), the first critical edition ; Todd, with variorum notes (6 vols., 1801) ; Hawkins (4 vols., Oxford, 1824) ; Sir E. Brydges (6 vols., 1831) ; C. D. Cleveland, with a verbal index (large 12mo, Philadelphia, 1853) ; Keightley (2 vols. 8vo, 1859) ; W. M. Rossetti, with memoir (8vo, 1871); David Masson (1874); and the minor poems by T. Warton (1785). The prose works were first collected by Toland (3 vols. fol., 1697-'8), and have since been edited by Birch (2 vols., 1753), Charles Symmons (7 vols., 1806), Robert Fletcher (8vo, 1826), and Rufus W. Griswold (2 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia, 1845); but the only complete edition is in Bonn's "Standard Library" (5 vols. post 8vo, 1848- '53). A concordance to the poems by Pren- dergast was published at Madras in 1857. A German translation of his principal political writings (Politische Hauptschrifteri) was pub- lished in Berlin in 1874 by Dr. W. Bernhardi, with annotations. MILUTIN, or Milyntin, Nikolai Alexeyovitrli, a Russian statesman, born April 29, 1818, died in Moscow, Feb. 7, 1872. Being born on the same day with the grand duke Alexander, he was educated at the expense of Czar Nicholas, at the lyceum of Moscow, where he graduated in 1835. Nicholas then gave him a free schol- arship at the university of St. Petersburg, where he completed his studies in 1838. He became supernumerary, and in 1842 vice pres- ident, of the imperial chamber of court ac- counts. In 1844 he was appointed chief of the press bureau, which post he soon left to undertake the revision of the Russian muni- cipal laws. The czar next appointed him a member of the committee on the condition of the Russian serfs. Though Nicholas did not venture to act upon Milutin's advice in favor of emancipation, he appointed him under sec- retary of the interior. After the accession of Alexander II. (March 2, 1855), Milutin became his confidential adviser. He countersigned the ukase of emancipation, March 3, 1861, and pre- pared the laws necessary for this reform. He was made minister of the interior, and the new criminal code, the press law, and the introduc- tion of the jury system are chiefly his work. MILWAUKEE, a*S. E. county of Wisconsin, bounded E. by Lake Michigan ; area, 240 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 89,930. It is watered by the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Root rivers. The surface is undulating, and the soil calcareous