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ticulars, few, trivial, or irrelevant, are turned out in as much profusion 

 as if they dropped from an intellectual machine." Maine shows not 

 only a great power of imagination, but very unusual discrimination in 

 regard to the materials he allows his imagination to work upon. The 

 result is, that his ideas, and the writings in which they are so well 

 expressed, have a permanent interest and value. 



HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE MUNRO. 



An inadvertence has caused the retention on our honorary roll of 

 the above name, although in point of fact its bearer died at Rome 

 on the 30th of March, 1885. At the time of his decease he ranked as 

 the first Latin scholar in the British Empire, and was recognized as 

 the compeer of the best classical scholars in the world. 



Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro was born at Elgin, Scotland, in 

 1819. His education as a boy was mainly conducted at Shrewsbury 

 School, under Dr. Benjamin Hall Kennedy as Head Master. Shrews- 

 bury School is not so famous as Winchester and Eton, as Westminster 

 or Harrow ; and certainly it has to Americans none of the somewhat 

 factitious renown which they have learned to attach to Rugby. But 

 at the English Universities, and among cultivated Englishmen gen- 

 erally, Shrewsbury has a fame second to no school for producing first- 

 rate scholars ; and it would be hard to convince any pupil of Dr. 

 Kennedy's that he had ever had his superior among the schoolmasters 

 of England. 



The taste and practice of the Shrewsbury scholars ran always in the 

 direction of rigid accuracy rather than varied reading. Munro pre- 

 served the school traditions as to the first ; but he bettered the instruc- 

 tion as to the second. Few scholars have been broader. 



He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1838 ; was chosen Craven 

 University Scholar in 1841; was "Senior Optime" (second class) in 

 the Mathematical Tripos of 1842, and Second Classic and First Chan- 

 cellor's Medallist in the same year. His successful competitor for the 

 highest classical honors was the Hon. George Denman, now Mr. Justice 

 Denman, a son of Queen Caroline's defender, Lord Chief Justice Den- 

 man. Munro became a Fellow in 1843 ; and as he never married, and 

 took orders in the Church of England, he retained his fellowship till 

 his death. 



Munro was in due time chosen on the staff of instruction in his 

 college, and gave early proof of his powers as a critic by a paper be- 

 fore the Cambridge Philosophical Society, in which he contested Dr. 



