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of life and literature in their larger aspects; and it is to this tendency 

 of his faculties and sympathies that we owe two of his productions, 

 similar in their aim and pervaded by an inner unity of thought — 

 Sovie Aspects of the Greek Genius (1891) and Harvard Lectures on 

 Greek Subjects (1904). Both books in scope, content, and manner of 

 handling the theme, give us most of Butcher's personality, so far as 

 the written word can reproduce that charm which made all who 

 knew him love to frequent the places he made happy by his presence. 

 Butcher felt that true learning marched with the love of our human 

 kind; and it is in these two volumes that he shows us at close range 

 how Hellenism had become a material part of himself and how that 

 force to which half of the things of life belong was charged with the 

 mission of clarifying the spirit and moulding character. Both books 

 illustrate the essentially human quality of that scholarship which 

 does not suffer the aridities of learning to bar approach to the sanc- 

 tuaries of the spirit, a scholarship at once exact, searching, and pro- 

 found, but withal irradiated by that true culture which translates 

 into present ways of thinking and doing the spiritual heritage be- 

 queathed us by the ancient classical world. 



Herbert Weir Smyth. 



INGRAM BYWATER (1840-1914) 



Foreign Honorary Member in Class III, Section 2, 1894. 



Ingram Bywater, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1893-1908, 

 died on December 17, 1914. He was born in London in 1840 and 

 received his early education at the University and King's College 

 Schools. Thence he went as holder of a scholarship to Queen's 

 College, Oxford, where one of his tutors was Robinson Ellis, whose 

 influence must have been an important factor in determining the 

 young man's choice of a career. After taking a first class in classics 

 in the final schools, he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College in 1863 ; 

 for twenty years he served as tutor and later as University Reader in 

 Greek, until he was appointed by Mr. Gladstone in 1893 as Jowett's 

 successor. After his retirement in 1908 he lived quietly among his 



