As linguistic scholar, Dr. Blyden ranked deservedly high, for he possessed a working knowledge of the French, German, Italian and Spanish among modern languages and of Hebrew, Greek and Latin among the classics, to which must be added a critical familiarity with the Arabic.

While in London, he was elected Honorary Member of the Athenæum Club, Fellow of the American Philological Society and Corresponding and Honorary Member of the Society of Sciences and Letters of Bengal. Several colleges conferred on him honorary degrees, among them D.D. by Lafayette and Hamilton Colleges and LL.D. by Lincoln University. On the organization of the American Negro Academy in 1897, he was elected one of its first corresponding members.

Some of the most distinguished scholars of both continents, such as Gladstone, Lord Brougham, Herbert Spencer, Lord Salisbury, R. Bosworth Smith, Charles Dickens, Stafford Brooke, the Earl of Derby and Charles Sumner included Dr. Blyden among their correspondents. Lord Brougham during a speech made June 25, 1860, before the House of Lords referred to a letter in his possession from Dr. Blyden that contained a high estimate of the eminent qualities of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was then no less than the great commoner, William Ewart Gladstone.

Other works bearing the authorship of Dr. Blyden besides those elsewhere mentioned were "The African Problem and Other Discourses, "West Africa before Europe," and numerous monographs. Because of his services in the field of literature, he enjoyed a pension in his declining years.

James Carmichael Smith, Esq. (retired), who is familiar with conditions in the West Indies, the United States and the West Coast of Africa, says:

"The life and work of the late Edward Wilmot Blyden, D.D., have attracted the attention of Europeans and Africans as one of the most conspicuous expressions and manifestations of the be

lief that a man of unmixed African ancestry possesses the mental capacity, the intellectual and imaginative power of acquiring and assimilating alike the literary culture of the ancient civilization of the Greeks, the Romans, and the Hebrews; and of the modern civilizations of the Anglo-Saxons, the Latins and the Arabs. . . . He must be regarded as one of the first fruits of a maturing literary harvest which in the fulness of time will be ingathered and which will then reveal to all mankind the viewpoint, the outlook, and the ideals of the Westernized Africans of America and the West Indies; and also of the Westernized Africans of the Continent of Africa who have lived throughout all of their generation in Africa, governed and surrounded mainly by Pagan and Mohammedan religious influences and by African laws and institutions."

APPENDIX A
HOLLY

The death of Bishop Theodore Holly, March 22, 1911, at Port-auPrince, Haiti, recalls the career of Washington's most distinguished Negro. He was born in 1829 of Roman Catholic parents. His father, a native of Saint Mary's County, Maryland, was one of the laborers employed in the building of the Capitol. Young Holly learned the shoemaker's trade, found his way north and finally became ordained in 1850 priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was at one time rector in a western New York parish, then in Michigan and in Canada, ultimately becoming rector of Saint Luke's P. E. Church at New Haven, Connecticut. He was active in the conventions regularly held by the colored men of the North in these dark days. The enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 threw the colored people of the North in a spirit of unrest and the burning question was, What must we do to better our condition-migrate to Canada, to Africa, the West Indies or Central America?

In 1874 he was consecrated Right Reverend Bishop of Haiti by Rt. Rev. John Williams, D.D., in Grace Church, New York. He worked with singular zeal to advance the cause of Christianity in his adopted home, visiting his native city at rare intervals, where relatives still reside, preaching both at St. Luke's and St. Mary's P. E. Church. His last visit to Washington was in 1901.

The distinguished prelate was also a recognized Masonic author whose contributions appeared in some of the leading fraternal periodicals of the United States, although the editors had not the slightest suspicion that their brilliant contributor was a Negro.

On the occasion of his one visit to Great Britain to attend the Second Lambeth Conference, the bishop, by invitation of the late Dean Stanley, preached in Westminster Abbey on St. James Day, a most eloquent sermon, extracts from the peroration of which went the rounds of the English-speaking world:

"And now on the shores of Old England, the cradle of that AngloSaxon Christianity by which I have been in part at least illuminated, standing beneath the vaulted roof of this monumental pile redolent with the piety of by-gone generations during so many ages; in the presence of the 'Storied urn and animated bust' that hold the sacred ashes and commemorate the buried grandeur of so many illustrious personages, I catch a fresh inspiration and new impulse of the divine missionary spirit of our common Christianity; and here in the presence of God, of angels and of men, on this day sacred to the memory of an apostle whose blessed name was called over me at my baptism, and as I lift up my voice for the first, and perhaps the last, time in any of England's sainted shrines, I dedicate myself anew to the work of God, of the Gospel of Christ and of the salvation of my fellow-men in the far-distant isle of the Caribbean Sea that has become the chosen field of my special labors.

"O Thou Savior Christ, Son, who when Thou wast spurned by the Jews of the living race of Shem, and who when delivered up without cause by the Romans of the race of Japhet, on the day of Thy Crucifixion hadst Thy ponderous cross borne to Golgotha's summit on the stalwart shoulders of Simon, the Cyrenian, of the race of Ham; I pray Thee, O precious Savior, remember that forlorn, despised and rejected race, whose son bore Thy cross, when Thou shalt come in the power and majesty of Thy eternal kingdom to distribute Thy crowns of everlasting glory! And give to me then, not a place at Thy right hand or at Thy left, but the place of a gatekeeper at the entrance of the Holy City, the Holy Jerusalem, that I may behold my redeemed brethren, the saved of the Lord, entering therein to be partakers with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, of all the joys of Thy glorious and everlasting Kingdom."

APPENDIX B

AN EARLY INCIDENT OF THE CIVIL WAR

Robert Smalls of Beaufort, S. C., achieved the greatest distinction of any Negro during the Civil War by turning over to the United States the Steamer Planter. The facts of this incident are set forth in reports by committees of several Congresses as follows: