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tional periodicals of the country. Ten of his educational addresses have been 

 published and highly commended by literary authorities. His lectures* 

 twelve in number, on the evidence of Christianity, were published a few years 

 since, and have been well received. He has also been quite a translator from 

 the French language, of which he was master. His articles on metaphysical 

 subjects published in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 

 Arts and Letters, have attracted a good 'deal of attention, and been favorably 

 reviewed in the periodical reviews of the country. Bat what has contributed, 

 most to his fame as a scholar and an educationist, is his proficiency in tha 

 Anglo-Saxon and early English languages. In 1872, he published a book, en- 

 titled " English of the Fourteenth Century," containing a critical examination 

 of the English of Chaucer. In 1875, he published "An Introduction to the 

 Study of the Anglo-Saxon," as a text-book, which has passed through several 

 editions, and which the London School Board Chronicle has noticed in the 

 most complimentary terms. His '' Elements of English Analysie " published 

 in 1877, is already in its second edition. His literary and scholarly abilities 

 were of constant growth, and his fame was far from having reached its zenith. 

 The loss to the Wisconsin University, in his death, is an irreparable one, 

 and the world of letters has been bereft of one of its most brilliant writers and 

 thinkers. No words are adequate to offer solace to the bereaved wife — the 

 balm of a religious hope, the consolations of a gospel, Avhich he sincerely be" 

 lieved and ably defended, and the hope of a blessed reunion in n brighter and 

 better world, must supply what nothing earthly can do. 



