ALDEN, HENRY MILLS

(18361919), an American editor and _ writer b. at Mt. Tabor, Vt., Graduating from Williams College, in 1857, he studied at the And over Theological Seminary, but never entered the ministry. In 1861 he went to New York where he at once formed his life-long connection with Harper Bros., becoming editor of Harpers’ Weekly in 1863. Six years later he relinquished this position to a ume editorship of Harpers’ Magazine, a publication which in those days had a national influence. Mr. Alden was known as a literary man of scholarly attainments, whose high standards had a powerful influence in developing an American literature of the best quality. His own indibut of the quality equal to the best that he chose in others. Among his works are ‘The Ancient Lady of Sorrow’ (poems, 1872), ‘God in His World’ (1890); and ‘A Study of Death’ (1895). *Magazine Writing and the New Literature’ (1908). To these may be added many magazine articles of the le permanent nature.