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Including Brother Jonathan: GRISWOLD, Rufus Wilmot (1815-1857), American author and editor. He was born in Benson, Vt, on Feb. 15, 1815, and apprenticed in the printing trade in Albany, N. Y. In his early 20's le was a Baptist minister but later returned to publishing. He was on the editorial staff of several periodicals in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, including Brother Jonathan, the 'Vie World, and Horace Greeley's New Yorker. .- assistant editor of Graham's Magazine in-42-1843, Griswold obtained contributions from me of the outstanding writers in the United States.
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
Meantime, his friends supposing him dead, Verlaine had published his poems Les Illuminations (1886), including the famous sonnet attributing colors to the vowels, and these have had a great influence over younger French poets. A collection of his works, with a biography, was published by his brother-in-law, Paterne Bevrichoy, in 1879-1898. |
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