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master in the High School thus became a schoolmaster for thousands 
who never saw his face; and so gentle and kindly were his methods that 
one is led to believe that he must have done much to cultivate a similar 
temper amongst those who were thus brought within the sphere of his 
intellectual influence. 
For ten years after accepting this position Mr. Murray retained his 
mastership in the High School. In 1892 he resigned it and devoted 
himself thereafter wholly to literary and journalistic work. In 1891 he 
published a collection of his writings under the title of ‘‘ Verses and 
Versions,” in which were many very happy renderings from French and 
Latin into English verse and from English into Latin verse, in addition 
to a number of entirely original poems, some of which are not likely soon 
to be forgotten. Amongst these is the versified story of the heroism of 
Daulac and his band at the Long Sault, and a legendary ballad entitled 
“The Thistle.” In the difficult art of verse translation Murray has 
probably not had an equal in Canada, though the late William McLen- 
nan, one of our own members, lost all too soon to the Society and to 
Canadian letters, had also a singular gift in that direction. 
It is impossible to do justice to our late friend and colleague without 
speaking of his special devotion to the poet Horace. The parcus deorum 
cultor et infrequens has himself received from posterity, as he confidently 
prophesied, a worship, neither scant nor infrequent, and probably 
among his votaries, few have been more fervent or faithful than George 
Murray. He knew his Horace from cover to cover, and was always 
ready to prolong the night, if one were so minded, in exchanging quo- 
tations from, and discussing the merits and characteristics of, his 
favourite bard. The two indeed were kindred spirits though sepa- 
rated in time by nearly two millenniums. Both were kindly and ur- 
bane, honorably independent, with a cheerful and not over-severe 
philosophy of life. Both also possessed one of the noblest of human 
endowments, a marked capacity for friendship. On the intellectual 
and æsthetic side both had an innate sense of style and a love of 
moderation and proportion. As no unworthy worshipper, therefore, 
did Murray come to the Horatian shrine. As we recall our friend, 
humanity was written large in the lineaments of his face; spoke in 
the tonesef his voice, a voice vibrant with sincerity; breathed in all 
his actions. With him has disappeared a wealth of scholarship, good 
sense, and good taste; but the spirit of the man is with us: it has gone 
forth as a liberalizing, humanizing influence through the length and 
breadth of our land. 
3.—RESIGNATION. 
The Society had the pleasure last year of electing as a member 
Professor Ernest W. McBride, then of McGill University, Montreal. 
