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Meaning in these stories is most often embodied in a common object charged with mysterious and terrible significance. In several of them a supernatural power is represented as a powerful animal. In Greenleaf, the story of an old woman obsessed by hate, a mad bull stands surrogate for divine vengeance-or perhaps for divine love? "The black, heavy shadow tossed its head several times and then bounded forward. Mrs. May remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she could not decide what his intention...
...rest of the magazine is given up to a "complete" bibliography of Miller's writings and to two previously unpublished articles by him. The bibliography is not complete and even inaccurate in several places, but it is a useful beginning. The two articles, one on John Greenleaf Whittier and one on Protestant Churches in Colonial America, though not vintage Miller, serve as fine introductions. The essay on colonial churches (originally appearing in Church History, in 1935) was in its time a seminal work; its premises were more exhaustively treated in The New England Mind and other, better-known articles...
...fact is that Charles W. and William Greenleaf were third cousins, so Thomas Hopkinson and T. S. are fifth cousins. Oh, brother...
While Harvard's President (1869-1909) Charles W. Eliot won renown in Boston, his first cousin pioneered in St. Louis. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, who had toiled in a post office dead-letter department before becoming a Unitarian minister, founded not only St. Louis' first Unitarian church and Washington University but also an influential family; among his grandsons is T. S. Eliot. Last week, fittingly enough, Washington University (fulltime enrollment: 6,000) named a Boston Eliot as its twelfth chancellor. He is Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, grandson of Charles W. and fifth cousin of Poet...
...Cornhill has long been one of the favorite browsing grounds of the great literary figures of New England. John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and scores of others prowled through the shops there often. Whittier's earliest works were first published in one of the printing shops in the area, as were the first editions of numerous now-famous pieces of American literature...