Genesee, New York. In 1829 he was appointed Latin tutor in Harvard University; in 1830 Greek tutor; and in 1832 College Professor of the Greek language. In 1834 he received his appointment of Eliot Professor of Greek literature, (the third Professor on that foundation; Mr. Everett and John Snelling Popkin having preceded him), the duties of which he has since discharged* with the exception only of the time passed in a foreign tour from April, 1853, to May, 1854. In this journey he visited England, Scotland and Wales, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, travelling thence to Malta and Constantinople. On his return stopping at Smyrna, and several of the Greek islands, he arrived in Athens in Oct. 1853, and remained in Greece, the principal object of his tour, till the following February. In Europe, previous to visiting Greece, he was occupied chiefly with the collections of art and antiquities in London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples. In Greece he was engaged, partly in travelling through the country, in visiting the most celebrated places for the purpose of illustrating Ancient Greek History and Poetry, and in studying at Athens the remains of ancient art, the present language and literature of Greece, the constitution and laws of the Hellenic kingdom, attending courses of lectures at the University, and in visiting the common schools and gymnasia. Returning from Greece to Italy, he revisited the principal cities, especially Naples, Rome, and Florence, studying anew the splendid collections of art and antiquities. Having pursued a similar course in France and England, he returned to the United States in May, 1854, and immediately resumed the duties of the Greek Professorship at Cambridge.

The professional occupation of Dr. Felton being that of a public teacher, his studies have embraced the principal languages and literatures of modern Europe as well as the ancient, and something of Oriental literature. His literary occupations have been various. While in college he was one of the editors and writers of a students' periodical called the Harvard Register. Of numerous addresses on public occasions, he has published an address at the close of the first year of the Livingston County High School, 1828; a discourse delivered at the author's inauguration as professor of Greek literature; an address delivered at the dedication of the Bristol County Academy in Taunton, Mass.; an address at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, on moving resolutions on the death of Daniel Webster; and an oration delivered before the Alumni of Harvard University.

Mr. Felton's contributions to periodical literature embrace numerous articles in the North American Review, and critical notices commencing with the year 1830; various articles and notices published in the Christian Examiner from the same date; numerous reviews and notices published in Willard's Monthly Review, between June, 1832, and December, 1833, afterwards in Buckingham's New England Magazine; and

There was not one in 1855 connected with college who was connected with it when he was appointed Tutor. In term of service, though not in years, he was the oldest member of any department of the University.

occasional contributions to other periodical publications, such as the Bibliotheca Sacra, the Methodist Quarterly Review, the Knickerbocker Magazine, the Whig Review, with articles in various newspapers, among others the Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston Courier, the Evening Traveller.

The separate volumes of Dr. Felton, his editions of the classics, and contributions to general literature, are hardly less numerous. For the first series of Sparks's American Biography he wrote the life of Gen. Eaton. In 1833 he edited the Iliad of Homer with Flaxman's Illustrations and English notes, since revised and extended, having passed through numerous editions. In 1840, he translated Menzel's work on German literature, published in three volumes in Ripley's Specimens of Foreign Literature. In 1840, he published a Greek reader, selections from the Greek authors in prose and poetry, with English notes and a vocabulary—which has been since revised and passed through six or seven editions. In 1841, he edited the Clouds of Aristophanes, with an introduction and notes in English, since revised and republished in England. In 1843, in conjunction with Professors Sears and Edwards, he prepared a volume entitled Classical Studies, partly original and partly translated. greater part of the biographical notices, some of the analyses, as those of the Heldenbuch, and the more elaborate one of the Niebelungenlied, together with several poetical translations in Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe, published in 1845, were from his pen. In 1847, he edited the Panegyricus of Isocrates and the Agamemnon of Eschylus, with introductions and notes in English. A second edition of the former, revised, appeared in 1854.

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In 1849, he prepared a volume entitled, Earth and Man, being a translation of a course of lectures on Comparative Physical Geography, in its relation to the History of Mankind, delivered in French in Boston, by Professor Arnold Guyot. This work has gone through numerous editions in this country, has been reprinted in at least four independent editions in England, and has been widely circulated on the Continent, having been translated into German.

In 1849, he edited the Birds of Aristophanes, with introduction and notes in English, republished in England; in 1852, a Memorial of Professor Popkin, consisting of a selection of his lectures and sermons, to which is prefixed a biographical sketch of eighty-eight pages. In 1852, he published selections from the Greek historians, arranged in the order of events. In 1855, a revised edition of Smith's History of Greece, with preface, notes, additional illustrations, and a continuation from the Roman conquest to the present time; the latter embracing a concise view of the present political condition, the language, literature, and education in the kingdom of Hellas, together with metrical translations of the popular poetry of modern Greece. His latest work has been the preparation of an edition of Lord Carlisle's Diary iu Turkish and Greek waters, with a Preface, notes, and illustrations. He has also published selections from modern Greek authors in prose and poetry, including History, Oratory, Historical Romance, Klephtic Ballads, Popular Poems

and Anacreontics.

As Professor, besides teaching classes in the Text books, he has delivered many courses of lectures on Comparative Philology and History of the Greek language and literature through the classical periods, the middle ages, and to the present day.

Outside of the University, besides numerous lectures delivered before Lyceums, Teachers' Institutes, and other popular bodies, Dr. Felton has delivered three courses before the Lowell Institute in Boston. The first (in the winter of 1851-2), of thirteen lectures on the History and Criticism of Greek Poetry; the second (in 1853), of twelve lectures on the Life of Greece; the third, in the Autumn of 1854, on the Downfall and Resurrection of Greece. These were published in 1867, entitled: Greece, Ancient and Modern.

To these extended literary labors, Dr. Feiton has brought a scholar's enthusiasm. He has not confined his attention to the technicalities of his profession, but illustrated its learned topics in a liberal as well as in an acute literal manner, while he has found time to entertain in his writings the current scientific and popular literature of the day. As an orator he is skilful and eloquent in the disposition and treatment of his subjects. We have already alluded to his elevated composition on the approaching death of Webster, and as a further indication of his manner, we may cite a passage from his address before the Association of the Alumni of Harvard in 1854.

** Dr. Felton died at Chester, Pa., in 1862. His Familiar Letters from Europe appeared two years later.

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her laws upon the prostrate nations. Greece fell before the universal victor, but she still asserted her intellectual supremacy, and, as even the Roman poet. confessed, the conquered became the teacher and guide of the conqueror. At the present moment, the intellectual dominion of Greece-or rather of Athens, the school of Greece--is more absolute than ever. Her Plato is still the unsurpassed teacher of moral wisdom; her Aristotle has not been excelled a philosophic observer; her schylus and Sophocles have been equalled only by Shakespeare. On the field of Marathon, we call up the shock of battle and the defeat of the Barbarian host; but with deeper interest still we remember that the great dramatic poet fought for his country's freedom in that brave muster. As we gaze over the blue waters of Salamis, we think not only of the clash of triremes, the shout of the onset, the pean of victory; but of the magnificent lyrical drama in which the martial poet worthily commemorated the naval triumph which he had worthily helped to achieve.

All these things suggest lessons for us, even now. We have the Roman passion for universal empire, under the names of Manifest Destiny and Annexation. I do not deny the good there is in this, nor the greatness inherent in extended empire, bravely and fairly won. But the empire of science, letters, and art, is honorable and enviable, because it is guined by no u.just aggression on neighboring countries; by no subjection of weaker nations to the rights of the stronger; by no stricken fields, reddened with the blood of slaughtered myriads. No crimes of violence or fraud sow the seed of disease, which must in time lay it prostrate in the dust; its foundations are as immovable as virtue, and its structure as imperishable as the heavens. If we must add province to province, let us add realm to realm in our intellectual march. If we must enlarge our territory till the continent can no longer contain us, let us not forget to enlarge with equal step the boundaries of science and the triumphs of art. I confess I would rather, for human progress, that the poet of America gave a new charm to the incantations of the Muse; that the orator of America spokę in new and loftier tones of civic and philosophic eloquence; that the artist of America overmatched the godlike forms, whose placid beauty looks out upon us from the great past,--than annex to a country, already overgrown, every acre of desert land, from ocean to ocean and from pole to pole. If we combine the Roman character with the Greek, the Roman has had its sway long enough, and it is time the Greek should take its turn. Vast extent is something, but not everything. The magnificent civilization of England, and her imperial sway over the minds of mea, are the trophies of a realm, geographically considered, but a satellite to the continent of Europe, which you can traverse in a single day. An American in London pithily expressed the feeling naturally excited in one familiar with our magnificent spaces and distances, when he told an English friend he dared not go to bed at night, for fear of falling overboard before morning. The states of Greece were of insignificant extent. On the map of the world they fill a scarcely visible space, and Attica is a microscopic dot. From the heights of Parnassus, from the Acrocorinthos, the eye ranges over the whole land, which has filled the universe with the renown of its mighty names. From the Acropolis of Athens we trace the scenes where Socrates conversed, and taught, and died; where Demosthenes breathed deliberate valor into the despairing hearts of his countrymen; where the dramatists exhibited their matchless tragedy and comedy; where Plato charmed the hearers of the

Academy with the divinest teaching of Philosophy, while the Cephissus murmured by under the shadow of immemorial olive groves; where St. Paul taught the wondering but respectful sages of the Agora, and the Hill of Mars, the knowledge of the living God, and the resurrection to life eternal. There stand the ruins of the Parthenon, saluted and transfigured by the rising and the setting sun, or the unspeakable loveliness of the Grecian night,-beautiful, solemn, pathetic. In that focus of an hour's easy walk, the lights of ancient culture condensed their burning rays; and from this centre they have lighted all tine and the whole world..

ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER.

ELIZABETH MARGARET, the daughter of Thomas Chandler, a Quaker farmer in easy circumstances, was born at Centre, near Wilmington, Delaware, December 24, 1807. She was educated at the Friends' schools in Philadelphia, and at an early age commenced writing verses. At eighteen she wrote a poem, The Slave Ship, which gained a prize offered by the Casket, a monthly magazine. She next became a contributor to the Genius of Universal Emancipation, an anti slavery periodical of Philadelphia, in which most of her subsequent productions appeared.

In 1830, Miss Chandler removed with her aunt and brother (he had been left an orphan at an early age) to the territory of Michigan. The family settled near the village of Tecumseh, Lenawee county, on the river Raisin; the name of Hazlebank being given to their farm by the poetess. She continued her contributions from this place in prose and verse on the topic of Slavery until she was attacked in the spring of 1834 by a remittent fever; under the influence of which she gradually sank until her death on the twentysecond of November of the same year.

In 1836, a collection of The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, with a Memoir of her Life and Character, by Benjamin Lundy, the editor of the journal with which she was connected, appeared at Philadelphia. The volume also contains a number of Essays, Philanthropical and Moral, from the author's pen.

Miss Chandler's poems are on a variety of subjects; but whatever the theme, it is in almost every instance brought to bear on the topic of Slavery. Her compositions are marked by spirit, fluency, and feeling.

JOHN WOOLMAN.

Meek, humble, sinless as a very child,

Such wert thou,-and, though unbeheld, I seem Oft-times to gaze upon thy features mild,

Thy grave, yet gentle lip, and the soft beam Of that kind eye, that knew not how to shed

A glance of aught save love, on any buman head. Servant of Jesus! Christian! not alone

In name and creed, with practice differing wide, Thou didst not in thy conduct fear to own

His self-denying precepts for thy guide. Stern only to thyself, all others felt

Thy strong rebuke was love, not meant to crush, but melt.

Thou, who didst pour o'er all the human kind
The gushing fervor of thy sympathy!
E'en the unreasoning brute failed not to find
A pleader for his happiness in thee.

Thy heart was moved for every breathing thing,
By careless man exposed to needless suffering.

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But most the wrongs and sufferings of the slave,
Stirred the deep fountain of thy pitying heart;
And still thy hand was stretched to aid and save,
Until it seemed that thou hadst taken a part
In their existence, and couldst hold no more
A separate life from them, as thou hadst done before.
How the sweet pathos of thy eloquence,

Beautiful in its simplicity, went forth
Entreating for them! that this vile offence,
So unbeseeming of our country's worth,
Might be removed before the threatening cloud,
Thou saw'st o'erhanging it, should burst in storm and
blood.

So may thy name be reverenced,-thou wert one
Of those whose virtues link us to our kind,
By our best sympathies; thy day is done,
In thy pure memory; and we bless thee yet,
But its twilight lingers still behind,
For the example fair thou hast before us set.

LAUGHTON OSBORN,

THE only account which we have met with of this gentleman, a member of a New York family, is in the late Mr. Poe's "Sketches of the Literati," and that furnishes little more than a recognition of the genius of the author, which is in some respects akin to that of his critic. Mr. Osborn has published anonymously, and all of his books have been of a character to excite attention. attention. They are bold, discursive, play some tricks with good taste and propriety; and upon the whole are not less remarkable for their keenness of perception than for their want of judgment in its display. With more skill and a just proportion, the writer's powers would have made a deeper impression on the public. As it is, he has rather added to the curiosities of literature than to the familiar companions of the library. Mr. Osborn was a graduate of Columbia College, of the class of 1827.

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His first book, Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis, was published in New York in 1831, in two stout duodecimo volumes. It is a rambling Shandean autobiography; grotesque, humorous, sentimental, and satirical, though too crude and unfinished to hold a high rank for any of those qualities.

Mr. Poe mentions its successor, The Dream of Alla-ad-Deen, from the Romance of Anastasia, by Charles Erskine White, D.D., a pamphlet of thirtytwo small pages, the design of which he states to be, "to reconcile us to death and evil on the somewhat unphilosophical ground that comparatively we are of little importance in the scale of creation."

The Confessions of a Poet appeared in Philadelphia in 1835. Its prefatory chapter, announcing the immediate suicide of the Nero, prepares the reader for the passionate romance of the intense school which follows.

In 1838 a curious anomalous satire was published at Boston, in a full-sized octavo volume, of noticeable typographical excellence, The Vision of Rubeta, an Epic Story of the Island of

Manhattan, with Illustrations done on Stone. In the relation of text and notes, and a certain air of learning, it bore a general resemblance to Mathias's "Pursuits of Literature." The labor was out of all proportion to the material. The particular game appeared to be the late Col. Stone, and his paper the Commercial Advertiser. The contributors to the New York American, the New York Review, and other periodicals of the time, also came in for notice; but the jest was a dull one, and the book failed to be read, notwithstanding its personalities. Among its other humors was a rabid attack on Wordsworth, the question of whose genius had by that time been settled for the rest of the world; and something of this was resumed in the author's subsequent volume, in 1841, published by the Appletons, entitled Arthur Carryl, a Novel by the Author of the Vision of Rubeia, Cantos first and second. Odes; Epistles to Milton, Pope, Juvenal, and the Devil; Epigrams; Parodies of Horace; England as she is; and other minor Poems, by the same. This is, upon the whole, the author's best volume. The critical prefaces exhibit his scholarship to advantage; the Odes, martial and amatory, are ardent and novel in expression; the Epistles to Milton, Pope, Juvenal-severally imitations of the blank verse, the couplet, and the hexameters of the originals-are skilful exercises. The chief piece, Arthur Carryl, a poem of the Don Juan class, has many felicitous passages of personal description, particularly of female beauty.

The next production of Mr. Osborn, indicative of the author's study and accomplishments as an artist, was of a somewhat different character, being an elaborate didactic Treatise on Oil Painting. It was received as a useful manual.

** Mr. Osborn has published in recent years a series of tragedies, comedies, and dramatic poems, comprising: Calvary-Virginia: Tragedies, 1867; Alice, or, The Painter's Story, 1867; The Silver Head, and the Double Deceit: Comedies, 1867; Bianca Capello, a Tragedy, 1868; The Montanini, — The School for Critics, Comedies, 1868; Travels by Sea and Land of Alethitheras, 1868; Ugo Da Este- Uberto-The Cid of Seville: Tragedies, 1869; The Magnetizer — The Prodigal: Comedies in Prose, 1869, The Last Mandeville-The Heart's Sacrifice -- The Monk-Matilda of Denmark: Tragedies, 1870; Meleagros-The New Calvary: Tragedies, 1871; and Mariamne, a Tragedy of Jewish History, 1873.

SONNET THE REPROACH OF VENUS.

The Queen of Rapture hovered o'er my bed, Borne on the wings of Silence and the Night: She touched with hers my glowing lips and said, While my blood tingled with the keen delight,

"And is the spirit of thy youth then fled, That made thee joy in other themes more bright? For satire only must thine ink be shed, And none but boys and fools my praises write?"

"O, by these swimming eyes," I said, and sighed, And by this pulse, which feels and fears thine art, Thou know'st, enchantress, and thou seest with pride, Thou of my being art the dearest part? Let those sing love to whom love is denied; But I, O queen, I chant thee in my heart."

TO JUVENAL.

Lord of the iron harp! thou master of diction satiric,

Who, with the scourge of song, lashed vices in mo. narch and people,

And to the scoff of the age, and the scorn of all ages succeeding,

Bared the rank ulcers of sin in the loins of the Mistress of Nations!

I, who have touched the same chords, but with an indifferent finger,

Claim to belong to the choir, at whose head thou art seated supernal.

More, I have read thee all through, from the first to the ultimate spondee,

Therefore am somewhat acquaint with thy spirit and manner of thinking.

Knowing thee, then, I presume to address without more introduction

Part of this packet to thee, and, out of respect to thy manes,

Owing not less unto thine than I rendered to Pope's and to Milton's,

Whirl my brisk thoughts o'er the leaf, on the wheels of thy spondees and dactyls.

Doubtless, by this time at least, thou art fully con versant with English;

But, shouldst thou stumble at all, lo! Pope close at hand to assist thee.

Last of the poets of Rome! thou never wouldst dream from what region

Cometh this greeting to thee; no bard of thy kind hath yet mounted

Up to the stars of the wise, from the bounds of the Ocean Atlantic.

Green yet the world of the West, how should it yield matter for satire?

Hither no doubt, from thy Latium, the stone-eating husband of Rhea

Fled from the vices of men, as thou in thy turn, rather later,

Went to Pentapolis. Here, the Saturnian age is restored:

Witness Astræa's own form on the dome of the palace of justice!

Here, in his snug little cot, lives each one content with his neighbor,

Envy, nor Hatred, nor Lust, nor any bad passion, triumphant;

Avarice known not in name,-for devil a soul hath a stiver.

How then, you ask, do we live? O, nothing on earth is more simple!

A. has no coat to his back; or B. is deficient in breeches;

C. makes them both without charge, and comes upon

A. for his slippers,

While for his shelterless head B. gratefully shapes

him a beaver,

"T is the perfection of peace! social union most fully accomplished!

Man is a brother to man, not a rival, or slave, or oppressor.

Nay, in the compact of love, all creatures are joyful partakers.

From the walls of the town Its defenders had forsaken. The gallant Pike had moved

A hurt foe to a spot

A little more removed

From the death-shower of the shot; And he himself was seated

On the fragment of an oak,
And to a captive spoke,
Of the troops he had defeated.
IIe was seated in a place,

Not to shun the leaden rain
He had been the first to face,

And now burned to brave again, But had chosen that position

Till the officer's return

The truth who 'd gone to learn
Of the garrison's condition.
When suddenly the ground

With a dread convulsion shook,
And arose a frightful sound,

And the sun was hid in smoke
And huge stones and rafters, driven
Athwart the heavy rack.
Fell, fatal on their track

As the thunderbolt of Heaven.
Then two hundred men and more,
Of our bravest and our best,
Lay all ghastly in their gore,

And the hero with the rest.
On their folded arms they laid him;
But he raised his dying breath :
"On, men, avenge the death
Of your general!" They obeyed him.
They obeyed. Three cheers they gave,
Closed their scattered ranks, and on.
Though their leader found a grave,

Yet the hostile town was won.
To a vessel straight they bore him
Of the gallant Chauncey's fleet,
And, the conquest complete,
Spread the British flag before him.
O'er his eyes the long, last night
Was already falling fast;
But came back again the light

For a moment; it was the last.
With a victor's joy they fired,

'Neath his head by signs he bade The trophy should be laid; And, thus pillowed, Pike expired.

EDWARD S. GOULD.

EDWARD S. GOULD, a merchant of New York, whose occasional literary publications belong to several departments of literature, is a son of the late Judge Gould* of Connecticut, and was born at

*James Gould (1770-1888) was the descendant of an English family which early settled in America. He was educated at Yale; studied with Judge Reeve at the law school at Litchfield; and on his admission to the bar, became associated with him in the conduct of that institution. The school became highly distinguished by the acumen and ability of its chief instructors and the many distinguished pupils who went forth from it, including John C. Calhoun, John M. Clayton, John Y. Mason, Levi Woodbury, Francis L. Hawks, Judge Theron Metcalf, James G. King, Daniel Lord, William C. Wetmore, and George Griffin, of the bar of New York, In 1816, Mr. Gould was appointed Judge of the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut. His legal reputation survives in his well known law book, Treatise on the Principles of Fleading in Civil Actions.

There is a memoir of Judge Gould in the second volume of Mr. G. H. Hollister's History of Connecticut, 1855.

Litchfield in that state May 11, 1808. As a writer of Tales and Sketches,he was one of the early contributors to the Knickerbocker Magazine, and has since frequently employed his pen in the newspaper and periodical literature of the times; in Mr. Charles King's American in its latter days, where his signature of "Cassio" was well known; in the New World, the Mirror, the Literary World, and other journals. In 1836, he delivered a lecture before the Mercantile Library Association of New York, "American Criticism on American Literature," in which he opposed the prevalent spirit of ultra-laudation as injurious to the interests of the country. In 1839, he published a translation of Dumas's travels in Egypt and Arabia Petræa; in 1841, the Progress of Democracy by the same author; and in 1842-3, he published through the enterprising New World press, Translations of Dumas's Impressions of Travel in Switzerland; Balzac's Eugenie Grandet and Father Goriot; Victor Hugo's Handsome Pecopin and A. Royer's Charles de Bourbon.

In 1843, he also published The Sleep Rider, or the Old Boy in the Omnibus, by the Man in the Claret-Colored Coat; a designation which grew out of an incident at the City Arsenal during the exciting election times of 1834. A riot occurred in the sixth ward, which the police failed to suppress, and certain citizens volunteered to put it down. They took forcible possession of the Arsenal and supplied themselves with arms against the opposition of Gen. Arcularius, the keeper. Gen. A. made a notable report of the assault to the legislature, in which an unknown individual in a claret-colored coat was the hero: and the term, the man in the claret-colored coat, immediately became a by-word. Mr.Gould wrote for the Mirror a parody on the report, purporting to come from the celebrated "Man in Claret," which made a great hit in literary circles. The Sleep Rider is a clever book of Sketches, a series of dramatic and colloquial Essays, presented after the runaway fashion of Sterne.

As a specimen of its peculiar manner, we may cite a brief chapter, which has a glance at the novelist.

fiction. MUNCHAUSEN.

I have ever sympathized deeply with the writer of fiction; the novelist, that is, et id genus omne. He sustains a heavier load of responsibilityI beg pardon, my dear sir. I know you are nice in the matter of language; and that word was not English when the noblest works in Ei glish literature were written. But sir, though I dread the principle of innovation, I do feel that "responsibility" is indispensable at the present day: it saves a circumlocution, in expressing a common thought, and there is no other word that performs its exact duty. Besides, did not the immortal Jackson use it and take it?

say, then, He sustains a heavier load of responsibility than any other man. First of all, he must invent his plot a task which, at this time of the world, and after the libraries that have been written, is no trifle. Then, he must create a certain number of characters for whose principles, conduct, and fate, he becomes answerable. He must employ them judiciously; he must make them all from a cabinboy to a King-speak French and utter profound wisdom on every imaginable and unimaginable sub