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of the modern pronunciation to the literature of the ancient tongue. 

 Not long after his return from his first journey, in the year 1856, he 

 published selections from modern Greek writers, accompanied with 

 explanatory notes, and a little earlier enriched an American edition 

 of Smith's "Plistory of Greece" with a preface, notes, and a continu- 

 ation of Greek History from the Roman conquest until the present 

 time. 



While engaged in the daily duties of a laborious profession, Mr. 

 Felton found leisure to prepare for the press a number of editions of 

 Greek authors and other M'orks within the same department'. His 

 maiden work of this kind was an edition of Homer's Iliad, published 

 in 1833, with English notes — which were carefully revised and en- 

 larged in subsequent editions — and with the addition of Flaxman's 

 illustrations. Next, in 1840, he sent forth from* the press a Greek 

 reader, containing selections from writers of the best stamp — a work 

 which has been repeatedly printed, and has mantaiued its ground 

 among the principal introductions to the study of that language. 

 This was followed in the next year by an edition of the Clouds oi' 

 Aristophanes, with* an introduction and a commentary, which appeared 

 again in a revised form and was republished in England. In 1843, 

 in conjunction Avith Professor Edwards, of Andover, and Professor 

 Sears, then of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Newton, he pul>- 

 lished a work entitled Classical Studies, consisting principally of 

 translations from the German, his contributions being selections from 

 the works of Frederic Jacobs. In 1844 he rendered a valuable ser- 

 vice to classical literature by translating, in conjunction Avitli Pro- 

 fessor Beck, Munk's Treatise on Greek and Roman Metres. Three 

 years afterward appeared his editions of the Panegyricus of Isocrates 

 — that much polished closet-oration of the "old man eloquent," and 

 of the Agamemnon of .^schylus — that difficult chef-d'oeuvre of the 

 earliest dramatist. Both of these passed into second editions. In 

 1849 he brought out an edition of the Birds of Aristophanes, and in 

 1852 "Selections from Greek Historians," namely, from Herodotus. 

 Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, and 

 Pausanias. In the course of the same year appeared a tribute from 

 his pen to the memory of his immediate predecessor in the Eliot 

 professorship, entitled "Selections from the Writings of Dr. Popkin, 

 with a Biographical Sketch." 



These were his principal contributions through the press and 

 bearing his own name, to the main study of his life. But we ought 

 not to pass over his frequent lectures and anonymous writings, tending 

 to illustrate and recommend Greek learning, such as his four courses 

 of Lowell Lectures, and his frequent contributions to the North 

 American Revieio. 



Nor ought the briefest sketch of Mr. Felton' s life to omit his lite- 

 rary labors beyond his own immediate province. As his mind strove 

 to grasp universal knowledge, and as he maintained a lively sympathy 

 with the literature of most of the cultivated nations, so, from time 

 to time, he poured forth through the press the gatherings of his rich 

 and many-sided mind. Among his original works we mention hi)S 



