574 CHARLES FRANKLIN DUNBAR. 



fidelity and skill. From the first a ; indard was set. The Journal 



was to In.- a medium of communication for investigators, and took rank 

 at once as one of the leading Bcholarly repertories on i ts subject. Space 

 in it v. .lit by eminent writers the world over, and publication in 



. .- guarantee of a claim to the attention of the leai 

 Id. Pi Dunbar always looked back with ju-t satisfaction on 



what he had here achieve I, and found in it sou;.' -..lace for his inability 

 to carry out hi- plans for independent publication. 



Professor Dunbar was by nature reserved ; always dignified : in con- 

 versation, happy in the intuitive selection of the right word; guarded 

 in expressing an opinion, but sure to express a just one when his 

 conclusions had been reached. His writings reflected these qualil 

 They are distinguished by a rounded Btateliness of diction more Bought 

 for ration ago than in our own day; dignified, yet never sti ' 



flowing, yet never affected. No more ju-t and delightful tribute has 

 been paid to a man in hi> own lifetime than is contained in Professor 

 Dunbar's paper on President Eliot's Administration of Harvard Ohn 

 . published in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine (for dune. 1894) 

 of the twenty-fifth year of President Eliot's administration. 

 Equally sympathetic, and at the Bame time judicial and discriminating, 

 are his memoirs, in the Proceedings of this Academy, of three men of 

 very different types, — Henry ('. Carey, Francis A. Walker, and E. W. 

 ( rurney. 



It is a singular fact that Professor Dunbar wrote with hesitation, and 

 often had to nerve himself anew to the task of literary composition, 

 withstanding many years of experience in rapid writing, he shrank 

 from taking pen in hand; yet. when the first sentence was written, the 

 others followed apparently with ease, and certainly in logical sequ< 

 and with an immediate happy choice of phrase. The present writer has 

 been bo fortunate a- to examine some of the note-, memoranda, and 

 unfinished manuscript left by his lamented colleague : and in the briefest 

 and most fragmentary of these papers he has been repeatedly struck b\ 

 the appositeness of the language, the instinctively systematic arrange- 

 instant proof of clear and well ordered thought. 

 In personal intercourse with those who enjoyed hi- more intimate 

 laintance, Professor Dunbar's habitual dignity and reserve wen' often 

 broken by flashes of humor. He enjoyed keenly a good story, and 

 the mirthful side of every subject. Often in solemn meetings the 

 nkle of ! perceptible only to those who knew him well, Bhoi 



ition of the oddities and idiosyncra ies of his contemporai 



