Feb. 2.—John D. Philbrick, late superintendent of the Boston public schools, and one of the leading educators of the country, died Feb. 2. The funeral services, which took place at the home of the deceased in Danvers, Mass., were attended by a large representative body of educators from Boston and other cities. Rev. C. B. Rice, a past member of the State Board of Education, officiating. The train from Boston which arrived at noon was crowded with masters and other friends of the deceased, who came to join the bereaved community in the last sad rites. The committee from the Boston Evening High School consisted of Richard F. Sullivan, William J. Haines, William D. L. McKissick, John W. Mooney, William F. Donovan, ex-School Committee, Charles Hutchins, W. H. Learnard, Jr., Dr. E. T. Eastman, and others.
Feb. 16.—Calvin S. Harrington, Professor of Latin in Wesleyan University, died at his home in Middletown, Conn. He was born May 17, 1826, in St. Johnsbury, Vt.; was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1852; 1852 to 1855 he was teacher of Latin in New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Sanbornton Bridge, N.H.; 1855 to 1860, principal of same; 1861 to 1863, Professor of Greek, and 1863 to his death, professor in Wesleyan University.
Feb. 18.—John B. Gough, the famous temperance orator, died in Philadelphia. He was attacked by apoplexy Monday, February 15, while lecturing on “Peculiar People,” in Philadelphia. When he arose to address the crowded gathering he was feeling well, and for forty minutes he spoke with his usual fire and eloquence. Then suddenly his head dropped upon his chest, and he fell prostrate to the floor.
Feb. 19.—Edward Learned, one of the most prominent citizens of Berkshire county, died at his home, in Pittsfield, Mass., of disease of the heart. He was sixty-six years old, and a native of Watervliet. He was a Representative to the Legislature in 1857, and a Senator in 1873 and 1874.
Feb. 25.—Death of John Smith, a well-known manufacturer of Andover, Mass. He was nearly ninety years of age, and for yearsmaintained a personal interest in the town, in which place he first settled on arriving in this country from Scotland. His detestation of the pro-slavery preaching of the day led him, with others, to form the Free Christian Church in 1846. He was also a generous supporter of educational interests, and large sums went from his hand to the infant colleges of the West, as well as to older institutions.
Feb. 28.—Mary Jane Welles, widow of the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, died at her residence in Hartford, Conn., aged 69 years. She was a daughter of Elias W. Hale, who graduated at Yale College in 1795, and subsequently was one of the original settlers of Lewistown, Penn. She married Mr. Welles in 1835.
March 6.—The Rev. Henry Martyn Grout, D.D., pastor of the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord, Mass., died in Boston after a brief sickness. He was born in Newfane, Vt., May 14, 1831. He entered Williams College in 1850, and was graduated in 1854. Dr. Grout entered the ministry in September, 1858, when he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Orthodox Church in Putney, Vt. After preaching there, at West Rutland, Vt., and Springfield, Mass., he moved to Boston, and became a member of the editorial staff of theCongregationalist, which position he filled with great credit to himself and the paper during Dr. Dexter’s absence abroad. He had occupied the pulpit of the church in Concord since 1872.
March 8.—The Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, D.D., rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, from 1839 to 1874, died suddenly. He was born in Providence, R.I., Dec. 3, 1812, and grew up in St. John’s Church, of which the famous Dr. Crocker was rector, and was one of a large number of young men whom Dr. Crocker induced to enter the Episcopal ministry. He was graduated from Brown University in 1831. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and of the American Oriental Society. He was at his death, with the exception of the Rev. T. R. Lambert, the oldest Episcopal clergyman in Massachusetts.
March 9.—Colonel William S. Clark, ex-president of Amherst Agricultural College, long associated with the educational and agricultural interests of the State, died at his home in Amherst, Mass., of Bright’s-disease, after a painful illness of three years. He was born inAshfield, July 31, 1826, and was graduated at Amherst College in 1848. He studied chemistry and mining at the Gottingen University, received the degree of Ph.D. in 1852, and received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1874. In 1877 Colonel Clark was invited by the Japanese Government to organize the Imperial Agricultural College, where he passed a year, leaving the institution in the most flourishing condition.
March 10.—Death at her home in South Boston of Mrs. Julia Romana Anagnos, wife of Michael Anagnos, and eldest child of the late Dr. Samuel G. and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. She was a woman of broad, intellectual mind, and a writer.
March 10.—Sudden death of H. B. Safford, postmaster of White River Junction, Vt., treasurer of the State Agricultural Society, and a leading citizen of the State.
March 11.—Death of Charles Powers, a prominent citizen of Somerville, and the senior member of the grain-elevator firm of Powers, Melvin, & Co.
March 13.—Hon. Peter Buchanan, of Barnet, Vt., died at his residence in McIndoe’s Falls Village, aged seventy-eight years. He was of Scotch descent, and inherited many of the sterling qualities of his race. He was born in Barnet, where he always resided, and held nearly every office within the gift of his fellow-townsmen. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1876, and was twice elected Assistant Judge of the Caledonia County Court.
March 15.—Death of Prof. Edward Tuckerman, LL.D., of Amherst College. He was born in Boston in 1820, was graduated at Union College in 1837, at the Law School in 1839, and at Harvard in 1847. In 1854 he came to Amherst as lecturer on history, and the next year was appointed to the professorship. Three years later he became Professor of Botany.
[First numeral refers to foot-note and name of periodical. Second numeral to page.Date of periodical is that of the month preceding this issue of the New England Magazine, unless otherwise stated.]
Academic and Educational. Biological Training in Colleges.Prof. W. G. Farlow.5, 577.—Health and Sex in Higher Education.John Dewey, Ph.D.5, 606.—Boston University School of Law.Benjamin. R. Curtis.8, 218.—The School-house in American Development.Rev. A. E. Winship.10, 387.—Knowledge which Earns Bread.Sarah K. Bolton.10, 394.—The Philosophical Phase of a System of Education.Chas. E. Lowrey.10, 397.—The Ancient-Modern Language Controversy.Minna Caroline Smith.10, 405.—The Problem of Woman’s Education.Nicolo D’Alfonso.10, 420.—Relation of the High School to the Community.David W. Hoyt.10, 429.
Architecture. Japanese House-building.Prof. E. S. Morse.5, 643.—Recent Architecture in America, City Dwellings.Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer.7, 677.—Some Notable Vanes. 1, 193.—At the White House.Hester M. Poole.19, 170.—The Old Guard Ball.—How the Metropolitan House can be made Beautiful. 19, 184.
Art. Decorations of the New York Academy of Music. 19, 172.—Growth in Art.Mary Parmele.19, 177.—Some Philadelphia Studios.Anne H. Wharton.19, 178.—Ceramics and Ceramic Painting. 19, 180.
Biography. B. F. Wade, the Politician.Hon. A. G. Riddle.3, 471.—George Washington Tifft.Francis F. Fargo.3, 544.—Two Interesting Traditions.Irving Beman.3, 484.—Sketch of Sir J. Bennett Lawes. 5, 694.—Castelar the Orator.William Jackson Strong.7, 785.—Thomas Middleton.Algernon C. Swinburne.16, 335.—George Borrow.George Saintsbury.16, 322.—Edmund Hatch Bennett. 8, 225.—Daniel Webster.Hon. Edward S. Tobey.8, 228.—John Dudley Philbrick. 10, 442.—Dr. Henry Norman Hudson. 10, 448.
History. Van Cortlandt Manor-house.Mrs. Martha J. Lamb.2, 217.—Champlain’s American Experiences in 1613.Arthur Harvey.2, 246.—Girty, the White Indian.George W. Ranck.2, 256.—The Trent Affair.Hon. Horatio King.2, 278.—Shiloh.Gen. William Farrar Smith.2, 292.—One Night’s Work, April 20, 1862.George B. Bacon.2, 305.—Chicago.Consul Willshire Butterfield.3, 445.—Michigan’s Boundary Trouble.Walter Buell.3, 457.—History of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio.Prof. W. H. Venable.3, 499.—Pittsburgh.James Henry Seymour.3, 506.—The City of the Straits.Henry A. Griffin.3, 539.—Shiloh Reviewed.Gen. Don Carlos Buell.7, 749.—Memoranda on the Civil War. 7, 781.—Forty Years of Frontier Life in the Pocomtuck Valley.Hon. George Sheldon.8, 236.—How we Ran the Blockade.Captain Roland F. Coffin.12, 616.
Industry. Maple Sugar-making in Vermont.J. M. French, M.D.8, 208.
Literature. The American Play.Lawrence Halton.4, 289.—Æschylus and Shakespeare, the “Eumenides” and “Hamlet.”Julia Wedgwood.16, 395.—A Novelist’s Favorite Theme. 16, 353.—Modern French Fiction.Henry Gréville.13, 309.
Religion, Theology. Proem to Genesis, Reply to Prof. Huxley.W. E. Gladstone.5, 614.—Proem to Genesis, A Plea for a Fair Trial.Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone.16, 289.—Why am I a Unitarian.Edward Everett Hale.13, 230.
Medicine, Hygiene, Physiology. A Thinking-Machine.Grant Allen.5, 596.—Health and Sex in Higher Education.John Dewey, Ph.D.5, 606.—Colorado as a Winter Sanatarium.Fish.5, 668. Climatic Treatment ofDisease.H. O. Marcy, A.M., M.D.15, 193.—Water Supply: Southern River Water.Thomas F. Wood, M.D.15, 212.—An Epidemic of Typhoid Fever.C. A. Lindsay, M.D.15, 223.—Health of the United States Army.Benjamin F. Pope.15, 227.—Bureau of Public Health—Bills before Congress. 15, 245.—Maritime Sanitation.S. T. Armstrong, M.D., Ph.D.15, 234.
Miscellaneous. My First Imprisonment.William T. Stead.16, 404.—On the Verge of a Tragedy.George Austin.16, 414.—Impressions of a Modern Arcadian.Mrs. E. M. Nicholl.16, 361.
Military. Unpublished War Letters.Gen. U. S. GrantandGen. H. W. Halleck.13, 270.—An Open Letter.Gen. J. B. Fry.13, 290.
Natural History. Animal Weather Lore.Charles C. Abbott, M.D.5, 635.—Durability of Resinous Trees.Heinrich Mayr, Ph.D.5, 679.
Politics, Economics. Shall we have Colonies and a Navy?Hon. John W. Johnston.2, 238.—Discrimination in Railway Rates.Gerrit L. Lansing.5, 586.—Strength and Weakness of Socialism.Washington Gladden.7, 737.—Darwinism and Democracy.W. S. Lilly.16, 310.—Government in the United States.Gamaliel Bradford.16, 346.—Fishery Question.Theodore S. Woolsey.13, 219.—Government Telegraphy.Cyrus W. Field.13, 227.—A Confederate Veto.Jefferson Davis.13, 244.—American Landlordism.Henry StrongandDavid B. King.13, 246.
Recreation and Amusement. Song-games and Myth-dramas at Washington.W. H. Babcock.4, 239.—A Trip Around Cape Ann.Elizabeth Porter Gould.8, 268.—Moose-Hunting.Frederick SchwatkaandT. E. Lambert.12, 621.—Salmon-Fishing in Canada.W. J. Bruce.12, 640.—Around the World on a Bicycle.Thomas Stevens.12, 655.—Lacrosse in the United States.J. A. Hodge.12, 665.
Science, Discovery, Inventions. Influence of Inventions on Civilization.C. Smith.5, 658.—The Air Telegraph.Thomas A. Edison.13, 283.—Dr. Pavy and the Polar Expedition.Mrs. Lilly Pavy.13, 280.
Travel and Description. The One Pioneer of Terra Del Fuego.Randle Holme.4, 319.—Italy from a Tricycle.Elizabeth Robbins Pennell.7, 643.—Mountaineering in Persia.S. G. W. Benjamin.7, 703.—Along the Kennebec.Henry S. Bicknell.8, 197.—Ranch Life and Game-Shooting in the West.Theodore Roosevelt.12, 611.—Bermuda Yachts and Dinghies.Charles E. Clay.12, 642.
1The Quiver.11Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.2Magazine of Am. History.12Outing.3Magazine of Western History(Cleveland, O.)13North American Review.4Lippincott’s Magazine.14Overland Monthly.5Popular Science Monthly.15The Samaritan.6Queries(Buffalo, N.Y.).16The Eclectic.7The Century.17The Ohio Educational Monthly.8New England Magazine.18The Brooklyn Magazine.9St. Nicholas.19The Decorator and Furnisher.10Education.20The Musical Herald.
hon. henry barnard, ll.d.,The first United States Commissioner of Education.[From a portrait made in 1858.]
FOOTNOTES:[A]In the February number of this magazine will be found an interesting article upon Abbott Academy, and in following numbers articles, now in course of preparation, will be published upon the Theological Seminary and Phillips Academy.[B]The history of the town has been carefully written by Miss Sarah Loring Bailey, and her volume of “Historical Sketches of Andover” is very valuable.[C]Phillips Brooks.[D]Historical Sketches, p. 145.[E]Sketches of Andover, pp. 402-3.[F]Prof. E. G. Coy, New Englander, July, 1885.[G]“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.”[H]Edmund Burke had previously warned the British Parliament against the futile attempt to tax the American colonies, and had said, “You will never get a shilling from them.”[I]Tudor and Bowen hold that these letters, which are found in the Massachusetts State Paper Collection, are from the pen of Otis. Bancroft gives strong reasons for believing Samuel Adams to be their author.
[A]In the February number of this magazine will be found an interesting article upon Abbott Academy, and in following numbers articles, now in course of preparation, will be published upon the Theological Seminary and Phillips Academy.
[A]In the February number of this magazine will be found an interesting article upon Abbott Academy, and in following numbers articles, now in course of preparation, will be published upon the Theological Seminary and Phillips Academy.
[B]The history of the town has been carefully written by Miss Sarah Loring Bailey, and her volume of “Historical Sketches of Andover” is very valuable.
[B]The history of the town has been carefully written by Miss Sarah Loring Bailey, and her volume of “Historical Sketches of Andover” is very valuable.
[C]Phillips Brooks.
[C]Phillips Brooks.
[D]Historical Sketches, p. 145.
[D]Historical Sketches, p. 145.
[E]Sketches of Andover, pp. 402-3.
[E]Sketches of Andover, pp. 402-3.
[F]Prof. E. G. Coy, New Englander, July, 1885.
[F]Prof. E. G. Coy, New Englander, July, 1885.
[G]“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.”
[G]“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.”
[H]Edmund Burke had previously warned the British Parliament against the futile attempt to tax the American colonies, and had said, “You will never get a shilling from them.”
[H]Edmund Burke had previously warned the British Parliament against the futile attempt to tax the American colonies, and had said, “You will never get a shilling from them.”
[I]Tudor and Bowen hold that these letters, which are found in the Massachusetts State Paper Collection, are from the pen of Otis. Bancroft gives strong reasons for believing Samuel Adams to be their author.
[I]Tudor and Bowen hold that these letters, which are found in the Massachusetts State Paper Collection, are from the pen of Otis. Bancroft gives strong reasons for believing Samuel Adams to be their author.