832 THOMAS RAYNESFORD LOUNSBURY. 



during the latter part of this time as Adjutant of the Draft Rendezvous 

 at Elmira, New York, which was also a depot for Confederate prison- 

 ers. The next five years he passed in school teaching, private tutor- 

 ing, and eager study, particularly of the English language and literature. 

 In 1870 he returned to Yale, as instructor in English at the Sheffield 

 Scientific School; the next year he was made professor of English 

 there. As such he continued his work, scholar and teacher alike, 

 for thirty-five years, retiring in 1906. He died at New Haven, on 

 April Otii, 1915. 



For a long time he had then been recognized not only as one who will 

 hardly be forgotten among the worthies of Yale but as a scholar of 

 national and international importance — after the death of Professor 

 Child, of Harvard, in 1896, undisputedly the most eminent master of 

 his subject in the United States. This eminence was attested by many 

 degrees and similar honors. He was Doctor of Laws of Yale, of 

 Harvard, and of Aberdeen; he was Doctor of Letters of Princeton; and, 

 to go no further, he was from the first a member of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Letters. He had been made a Fellow of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences April 8, 1896. 



Apart from occasional writing, his publications were not precocious. 

 The first which he chose to record in Who's Who was a compact 

 handbook concerning the History of the English Language, published 

 so late as 1879. In 1882 — though it bears the date of the following 

 year — appeared his Life of James Fenimore Cooper, in the American 

 Men of Letters Series. In 1891 came what is generally thought his 

 most important work, the three-volume Studies in Chaucer, affection- 

 ately dedicated to Professor Child. Between 1901 and 1906 came the 

 three volumes which he grouped together under the title of Shakes- 

 pcaran Wars: Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, Shakespeare and 

 Voltaire, and The Text of Shakespeare. Meanwhile, in 1904, he had 

 extended into a small volume papers originally written for occasional 

 purposes, concerning The Standard of Pronunciation in English. 

 This was followefl in 1908 by a similar but rather more extensi\'e book 

 on The Stanchird of Usage in English. In 1909, he completed this 

 third of his trilogies by his book on English Spelling and Spelling 

 Reform. In 1911 appeared his four lectures, originally given at the 

 University of Virginia, on the Early Literary Career of Robert Brown- 

 ing; in 1912 followed that most compact and satisfactory of anthol- 

 ogies, The Yale Book of American Verse. His last considerable 

 lJul)lication was posthumous: The Life and Times of Tennyson (From 

 1S09 to 1850) he had left unfinished; in December, 1915, only eight 



