to a perception of the more abstruse meaning of Art; then he became entirely fascinated with Grecian sculpture and architecture, and we find him discoursing on the union between Greek Art, Song, and Philosophy. He took an active part in the government of the College under four administrations, and was for several years, as Regent, the chief executive assistant of the President. But his interest was not entirely absorbed by his academic duties. He had time to give, and zealous services also, to the cause of education and science elsewhere. He was an active member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and one of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. In these offices of honorable confidence his influence was widely felt. He was a ready and an eloquent writer, always prepared to uphold the cause of truth. In the latter years of his life he established a reputation also for his interesting popular addresses on many passing occasions which could have allowed but little preparation. But his tongue and pen were never more eloquent than when employed in the interests of Greek learning, and in describing the reawaking of Hellas. He twice visited Athens. Becoming deeply impressed by the institutions of that city and the learning of its scholars, he was full of hope for the future of Greece, and through her of Eastern Europe. He enjoyed the opportunity thus allowed of knowing her men of letters and her statesmen; and, bearing with him their lasting friendship, he returned with the desire of proving to others his own convictions of the importance of modern Greek civilization and literature. Mr. Felton's published writings have been already enumerated in print. They consist chiefly of editions of the Greek Classics, of Homer, the Agamemnon of Eschylus, the Panegyricus of Isocrates, the Clouds and the Birds of Aristophanes, and compilations for the use of advanced classical students. He also published an edition of Smith's History of Greece, adding a continuation from the Roman Conquest down to the year 1844. His contributions to Reviews on a variety of subjects are numerous and able. Besides the lectures pertaining to his professorship, he also delivered four courses upon Greek Literature before the Lowell Institute in Boston, and others at the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Nor does this enumeration fully represent the sum of his literary labors. The trait of his childhood remained a Every one who needed literary aid peculiarity of his mature life. applied to him, and was sure to receive a willing response. The amount of these generous contributions to the works of other writers can never be specified. In his educational works, as well as in the class-room, President Felton always aimed to develop before his pupils the prevailing thought of the author, and to lead them to appreciate its beauty or its grandeur. If they were reading an oration of Demosthenes, he rather helped them to perceive the compact perfection of the whole design, than lingered upon the phrases. All appliances of historical, archæological and critical knowledge were sought to help this great object. And yet the notes to his editions contain enough of minute philological remark, showing an appreciation of those points of discussion which the profoundest grammarians have dwelt on. His mirthful nature, also, another attractive feature of his mind, caught every merry allusion and sparkled in its light, adding a grace to the wit it reflected. As he performed the prime duty of a teacher, that of securing his own growth while cultivating others, his teaching became continually more successful; and although his kindly nature led him to be lenient to the short-comings of his pupils, and to overlook their devices, yet the scholarly men of every class felt, as they passed under his care, that they were in contact with a master mind. Particularly has this development been apparent since his European tours in 1853-4 and in 1858. With the Odyssey before him, he then traced the Greek headlands and the islands of the Egean, and learned to interpret the author by this commentary. Iliad in hand, he wandered over the Troad, and believed in Homer. At Athens he demonstrated to sceptics the identity of the Pnyx; and, standing on its Bema, looked towards the Acropolis and recalled the thunder-words of the great orator. Wandering to the remains of the Dionysiac Theatre, he was in imagination present at the representation of the Prometheus. He climbed the steps of the Propylæa, and, standing amid the ruined glories of the Parthenon, looked down on the waters of the Saronic, and away to the blue heights of the Peloponnesus, and read the whole Grecian history in the scene. He felt too the consecration of these monuments in the holier reminiscences of Mars Hill. The vivid pictures thus obtained, with the wider range of thought received from intercourse with the highly cultivated minds he encountered wherever he travelled, so wrought upon his plastic nature, that he seemed almost a new man, so fed and rekindled was his enthusiasm for his favorite studies, so felt was his assured position among the world's scholars, and so extended were his sympathies with everything embraced in human science. OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: MAY 27, 1862. 11 Thus developed, and thus prepared by academic life for the office, he succeeded to the presidency of the University in 1860. He entered on his new duties with the most conscientious determination to perform its functions with a sole regard to the best interests of learning and the true glory of religion. His aim was to bring about some wholesome reforms, and to foster a manly public sentiment among the students in favor of mental culture; to withdraw the young men from the pursuit of pleasure; to bring them more into sympathy with their teachers; to make the college less a resort of those who wish to amuse themselves, and more a place for vigorous training. In this endeavor he had achieved some measure of success; and, sustained by public opinion, had his life been spared, he would doubtless have seen his wishes fully realized. Disease had already insidiously approached him before he entered on this new office, the duties of which, so unremitting and engrossing, with such painful outlay of sympathy, evidently aggravated an organic derangement of the heart. He was advised to drop his cares and give himself rest during the vacation of the College, and he went to visit his brother near Philadelphia. There, early in February last, he was seized with more aggravated symptoms, and lingered till the 26th of that month, when, surrounded by his brothers, sisters, and wife, exhibiting all the amenities of his nature, he closed his eyes on this world, to explore the glories of the next, leaving a void here, and wherever his talents and character could be appreciated, never to be filled. His age was 54 years 3 months and 20 days. Greece speaks by her living representative from the ranks of the Academy in the following epitaphion, in the language that our brother loved so well: Ενθάδε ἡ γῆ κατακαλύπτει τοῦ ἐν Κανταβριγίᾳ Αρβαρδίου Συστήματος Εβίω ἔτη Ν Δ, μῆνας Γ, ἡμέρας Κ. Μετήλλαξε μηνός Φεβρουαρίου Κ 5, ἔτους ΑΩΞΒ. Οἴχεαι εἰς Αἴδαο, φίλων πολὺ φίλτατε Φέλτων, 12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY DON ANGEL CALDERON DE LA BARCA, the only member upon the associate list whom we have lost, so far as is now known, during the past year, died, at his residence, near San Sebastian, only a day or two after our last anniversary, viz. on the 31st of May, 1861, seventy years old. This eminent Spanish statesman, who was elected into the Academy while resident in this country, was also born upon our side of the Atlantic, in what was then the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. But he was early sent to Spain, and trained for the diplomatic service of his country in the Bureau for Foreign Affairs at Madrid. At different times he had different secretaryships in some of the principal countries of Europe; and, like others in similar relations to his government, suffered occasionally-once at least severely from the factions that disturbed his country's peace. Later, he was twice Minister to the United States; his first term of service falling wholly or chiefly in the time of Mr. Van Buren, and his second in that of Mr. Tyler. During the latter, he managed with honorable ability a question which for a short time disturbed the friendly relations of Spain and the United States. In the interval between these two missions, he was sent with large powers to Mexico, as the first authorized ambassador from Spain to her revolted colony; and by his wisdom, his moderation, and a kindliness of temper which everywhere smoothed the roughest paths before him, he established between the two governments relations of amity which many statesmen had thought impossible, and which in fact did not long continue after he left the country. His success as a diplomatist who carried into all his negotiations a spirit of conciliation and forbearance, was at this time so appreciated, that, in a season of trouble and anxiety, he was summoned to Madrid, and placed at the head of the foreign affairs of the government. But, notwithstanding the great advancement such a summons implied, he left the United States with regrets, openly expressed, and with no anticipations of permanent favor in his high place, or of permanent benefit to his Queen or her people. His misgivings were soon sadly realized. The factions that divided his country became more and more exasperated. Tumults followed. The administration of which he was a member was broken up by violence; and although his well-known fidelity and honor, no less than wellknown toleration, caused a marked distinction to be made between him and some of the ministers with whom he was associated, he felt at OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: MAY 27, 1862. 13 once that he was proscribed and doomed. At first he found hospitality under the flag of one of the foreign ambassadors; but it was soon certain that neither Madrid nor Spain could afford him the shelter his honor demanded. He therefore escaped to France, and passed a period of no common anxiety at Paris and in its neighborhood. When calmer times came, the injustice that had been done to him was felt by all. He was therefore recalled to Madrid, and received, with other distinctions, that of a place in the Senate, whose duties he fulfilled during the few remaining years of his life with assiduity and dignity. But even in youth ambition had never been a prominent trait in his character, and now in old age he felt more than most men the unfitness of office and power. He never again sought public place, but lived retired and much respected, either at Madrid during the sessions of the Cortes, or at his villa on the shore of the Atlantic, where he died. Señor Calderon was a person of much elegant culture, and was familiar in many languages in different departments of literature, some of which are rarely sought or valued by his countrymen. The American Academy may be thought bound to take the more careful charge of his memory, since he lived so long among us, and since his only published works, except those connected with his duties as a statesman, were, we believe, two that appeared in the United States. One of these is a graceful translation into Spanish octave verse of Wieland's Oberon, which appeared at New York in 1841, in a duodecimo volume of 318 pages, of which it may be not unsuitable to add, that a copy, materially corrected and improved by his own hand, is preserved by one of his friends in this city. The other is a translation into Spanish of Müller's Universal History, in four large octavo volumes, published at Boston in 1843, -a labor which, we believe, he undertook to gratify friends in Mexico and Cuba, who desired to read in their own language a book which he had taught them to believe was so much to be valued for the condensed instruction it affords. The Foreign Honorary Members deceased during the past year are BIOT and BARLOW of the first Class, and SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE of the third. SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE died on the 6th of July, 1861, aged seventytwo years. He was one of those men who not only do honor to their calling, but who elevate the calling itself. The strenuous application, |