A study of death

by ALDEN, HENRY MILLS

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New York: Harper & Brothers. 1895. Hard Cover. 336 pages, boards, some shelf-wear, else very good. The following is from In Memoriam: A Book Of Record by William M. Slone: Henry Mills Alden was born in Mount Tabor, Vt., November II, 1836, and died in New York City, October 7, 1919. He was elected to the Academy June 1, 1910,--Chair 41. After graduation from Williams College, he attended the Andover Theological Seminary and received a license to preach, but was never ordained. He became managing editor of Harper's Weekly in 1863 and in 1869 the editor of Harper's Magazine, which position he held continuously up to the time of his death, and for eighteen years, from 1900 to 1918, contributed to it the Editor's Study. He was always interested in the classics, particularly in the philosophy and religion of the ancients. In the winter of 1863-64 he delivered twelve lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, on "The Structure of Paganism." He was the author of "The Ancient Lady of Sorrows," "God and His World," "The Study of Death," and "Magazine Writing and the New Literature." .

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