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petuate his name, when all other memorials of him shall have passed 

 away. Here, too, we mark not onlj " the vision and the faculty- 

 divine," but equally the unerring taste, incapable of an incongruous 

 image, a mixed metaphor, an unapt epithet, a halting rhythm, or a 

 forced rhyme. He professed to translate a great many German 

 poems ; but he made them all his own. He is, indeed, in these versions, 

 true to the original ; but he transposes rather than translates it, seeking 

 not so much for synonymous words and phrases, as for equivalent 

 force and beauty of expression. 



In character Dr. Frothingham was worthy of his sacred profession, 

 of the affection with which he was regarded by all who knew him 

 well, and of the general reverence which followed him to his retire- 

 ment and to his grave. In manners and conversation his strongly 

 marked individuality was so held in check, alike by good taste and by 

 benevolence, as to be piquant indeed, but never otherwise than genial 

 and attractive. He had many warm friends, perhaps few intimates. 

 Generous, hospitable, kind, tenderly thoughtful for the feelings and the 

 rights of others, he did untold good in those quiet, unostentatious 

 ways in which genuine philanthropy can work without shout or song. 

 He was conservative both from taste and from principle ; but his con- 

 servatism had in it no bitterness or exclusiveness, — he only preferred 

 doing good in his accustomed ways, while he conceded cordially the 

 freedom of choice he claimed. As a pastor, he was tenderly beloved 5 

 and in all professional, social, and domestic relations he has left only 

 the most precious and blessed memories. 



Dr. Frothingham's only published volumes were " Sermons in the 

 Order of a Twelvemonth " and two volumes of Poems. Of occasional 

 sermons and other pamphlets he printed many. He contributed 

 largely to our best periodical literature, and to every important publi- 

 cation of that kind issued in Boston, for considerably more than half 

 a century ; and his papers thus published, and because of their form 

 forgotten, would fill nearly half as many volumes as they covered 

 years. 



Theodore Strong was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 

 July, 1790, and died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 1, 1869. 

 His father was a clergyman, and there had been an unbroken line of min- 

 isters in the family of his mother for eleven generations. He took his 

 bachelor's degree at Yale in 1812, and was immediately appointed tutor 

 in Mathematics at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. He was soon 



