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McCLINTOCK, JOHN. 



years in this position, he was elected to the 

 chair of Greek and Latin Languages in the 

 same institution, the duties of which he dis- 

 charged until 1848, and the same year was 

 elected editor of the Methodist Quarterly Re- 

 view, which he conducted for a period of eight 

 years with marked success. While in his 

 hands, the Quarterly rendered especial service 

 by its examination of the positive philosophy 

 of Comte, and the detection of its errors. 

 These expositions attracted the attention of 

 the French philosopher, and led to some cor- 

 respondence between him and Dr. McClintock. 

 In 1856 he was appointed by the General Con- 

 ference, in connection with Bishop Simpson, a 

 delegate to represent the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church in the English, Irish, French, and 

 German Conferences. He was also present as 

 a delegate from that church to the World's 

 Convention, held in Berlin, during the same 

 year. After his return, he was elected President 

 of the Troy University, and in the interim of the 

 organization of the college classes he 'was pas- 

 tor of St. Paul's Church, New York. Here his 

 preaching attracted large congregations, and 

 he speedily took high rank as a pulpit orator. 

 In June, 1860, he sailed for Paris, to take 

 charge of the American chapel there, under 

 the auspices of the American and Foreign 

 Christian Union, where he remained during 

 most of the years of the late civil war. 

 Through his agency, pamphlets, elucidating 

 the causes of the war, were prepared and cir- 

 culated among the English people. His home 

 at Paris became a rallying centre for Union 

 Americans, and so wide-spread was his influ- 

 ence that he was recognized by his country- 

 men as an unofficial but most effective rep- 

 resentative of the Northern people. Returning 

 home at the close of the war, he resumed 

 again his literary labors, which had been 

 suspended for several years. In 1866, he 

 was made chairman of the Central Centenary 

 Committee, which gave so much spirit and 

 success to the Centennial Commemoration of 

 the Origin and History of American Method- 

 ism. In 1867, upon the establishment of the 

 Drew Theological Seminary, in Madison, N. J., 

 through the munificence of Mr. Daniel Drew, 

 Dr. McClintock was chosen president, and in 

 this position closed his laborious and useful 

 life. Dr. McClintock's literary activity was 

 incessant, and the fruit of it remains in numer- 

 ous volumes. Besides frequent contributions 

 to the Methodist Quarterly Review, and other 

 periodicals, he prepared, in conjunction with 

 Prof. Blumenthal, a translation of Neander's 

 "Life of Christ," and, in conjunction with 

 Prof. Crooks, of Dickinson College, a series of 

 Latin and Greek elementary text-books, on the 

 method of " Imitation and Constant Repetition." 

 These latter volumes were the first published in 

 our country in which this method of teaching 

 the classic languages, now so generally prac- 

 tised, was thoroughly carried out. Also an 

 " Analysis of Watson's Theological Institute," 



MERIMEE, PROSPER. 



and "Sketches of Eminent Methodist Minis- 

 ters." A series of letters in answer to a speech 

 delivered in Congress by the Hon. Joseph R. 

 Chandler, on the Roman Catholic question, 

 was afterward collected into a volume entitled 

 the "Temporal Power of the Pope." But his 

 most important literary labor was the well- 

 known Theological and Biblical Cyclopaedia, 

 on which he had been engaged for many years 

 in association with Dr. James Strong. Of this 

 great work three volumes have been published. 

 It will doubtless long remain a monument of 

 Dr. McClintock's breadth of scholarship and 

 unflagging industry. Intellectually, Dr. Mc- 

 Clintock was distinguished by his versatility, 

 and his rapidity in the acquisition of knowl- 

 edge. His erudition was broad, varied, and 

 accurate ; he was an able theologian, an author 

 and editor of commanding influence, an ac- 

 complished educator, and an effective preacher. 

 MERIMEE, PROSPER, a French Academician, 

 Senator, scholar, dramatist, and man of letters, 

 born in Paris, September 26, 1803 ; died, after 

 a lingering illness, in Cannes, France, October 

 8, 1870. His early education in the Univer- 

 sity of Paris was thorough and critical. He 

 subsequently studied law, and was admitted to 

 the Parisian bar, but never practised his fond- 

 ness for literature rendering legal practice too 

 irksome to him. After the Revolution of 1830, 

 the Count d'Argout, then minister, selected 

 him as secretary for his cabinet, and afterward 

 appointed him secretary of the Board of Trade, 

 and head-clerk of the Admiralty-Office. In 

 1831 he succeeded M. Vitet as the inspector 

 of the ancient historical monuments of France, 

 a post which he retained until the time of his 

 death, and in which he acquired his reputa- 

 tion as a distinguished antiquarian and archae- 

 ologist. In 1848 the provisionally government 

 selected him as one of the commissioners charged 

 to take the inventory of the possessions belong- 

 ing to the Orleans family. Some time after- 

 ward, when the tribunals gave judgment against 

 M. Libri, nominally for alleged robbery of the 

 Royal Library (see LIBRI, ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA. 

 for 1869), but really for adhering to the Or- 

 leans interest, the fidelity of M. Merirnee to 

 the same cause led him to recriminate against 

 the decision of the judges in two letters in- 

 serted in the Remie des Deux Mondes, for which 

 he was fined, and imprisoned for fifteen days. 

 In 1844 he succeeded M. Charles Nodier in the 

 French Academy ; in 1853 he was nominated 

 Senator and free member of the Academy of 

 Inscriptions ; in I860 he was made commander 

 and in 1866 grand-officer of the Legion of 

 Honor. The wide range of M. Prosper Meri- 

 mee's attainments enabled him to obtain dis- 

 tinction in the domains of archaeology, history, 

 and romance. At the outset of his literary 

 career he gained celebrity by his two apoc- 

 ryphal works-, by imaginary authors "The 

 Theatre of Clara Gazul, a Spanish Come- 

 dienne " (1825), and " Guzla," a collection 'of 

 Illyrian songs, attributed by him to Hyacin- 



