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1852, as well as in a pamphlet on Pre-Baphaelitism, and in his "Lec- tures onArchitecture and Painting," in 1853. Mr. Millais was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1853, and became R.A. in Dec, 1863. He exhibited "The Order of Re- lease " and " The Proscribed Boyal- ist " in 1853 ; " The Eescue,'^ in 1855 J "Peace Concluded," "Au- tumn Leaves," and "L'Enfant du Regiment," in 1856 j "A Dream of thePast — Sir Isumbrus at the Ford," in 1857 ; " The Heretic," in 1858 ; "Vale of Rest," and "Spring Flowers," in 1860; "The Black Brunswicker," in 1861 ; " My First Sermon," in 1863; "My Second Sermon," and " Charlie is my Dar- ling," in 1861 ; "Joan of Arc," and " The Romans leaving Britain," in 1865 ; and " Sleeping," " Waking," and "Jephthah," in 1867; "Sis- ters," "Rosalind and CeUa," "Stel- la," "Pilgrims to St. Paul's," and "Souvenir of Velasquez" (his diploma work), in 1868; "The Gambler's Wife," "Vanessa," " The End of the Chapter," and "A Dream at Dawn," in 1869; "A Flood," " The Knight Errant." " The Boy- hood of Raleigh" and "A Widow's Mite," in 1870; "Chill October," "Joshua fighting with AmaJek," "A Somnambulist," and "Yes or No?" in 1871; "Flowing to the River," and "Flowing to the Sea," in 1872 ; " Early Days," " New Laid Eggs," and " Lalla Rookh," in 1873 ; "Scotch Firs," "Winter Fuel," "The Picture of Health," "The North-West Passage." " Still for a Moment," and " A Day-Dream," in 1874; "The Fringe of the Moor," " The Crown of Love," and " No ! " in 1876 ; "Forbidden Fruit," "Over the Hills and Far Away," and "Getting Better," in 1876; "A Yeoman of the Guard," " The Sound of Many Waters," and " Yes ! " in 1877 ; " The Princes in the Tower," " A Jersey Lily " (Mrs. Langtry), and "St. Martin's Summer," in 1878. In 1878, Mr. Millais also exhibited " A Good Resolve," in the

GJrosvenor Gallery; and "The Bride of Lammermoor," in King Street, St. James's. He exhibited at the Royal Academy " The Tower of Strength," and a portrait of Mr. 9^1adstone, 1879 ; a portrait of him- self (painted by invitation for the Collection of Portraits of Artista painted by themselves in the TJffizfi Gallery, Florence), "Cuckoo," and a portrait of Mr. Bright, 1880 ; por- trait of Principal Caird, D.D., " Cinderella," and portraits of the Earl of Beaoonsfield, and of Dr. Eraser, Bishop of Manchester, 1881 ; a portrait of Cardinal Newman, 1882 ; " Une Grande Dame," "The Grey Lady," a portrait of the Mar- quis of Salisbury, and " Forget-me- not," 1883. For colour this artist has shown a faculty which is the most striking characteristic of the English school. He was decorated with the Legion of Honour in 1878. In 1881, he was appointed a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, in the place of the late Dean Stanley ; and in 1882, he was elected a Foreign Associate of the Acad^mie des Beaux- Arts, in the plaoe of the Italian sculptor Dupre. Mr. Mil- lais is married to Euphemia-Chal- mers, daughter of George Gray, Esq., of BowersweU, Perth, N.B.


MILLER, Joaquin, an American poet, whose real name is Cincinnatus Heine Miller, was born in the Wabash district, Indiana, Nov. 10, 1841. When he was thirteen years old his father emigrated to Lane county, Oregon, whence the boy went three years later to try his fortune in California. After a wandering life of seven years, he returned home in 1860, and entered a lawyer's office at Eugene, Oregon. The next year he was an express messenger in the gold-mining districts of Idaho, which he left to take charge of the Democratic Register, a weekly newspaper at Eugene, afterwards suppressed by the authorities for its political sentiments. In 1863 he opened a law office in Cañon City, Oregon. From 1866 to 1870, he