enjoyment of modern English writers, he was surpassed by few to whom literature is a specialty. His powers of poetic composition were of no mean order. His judgments on questions of common life, and his sympathies with men of humble acquisitions, both illustrated the same breadth of character. His knowledge of the many sided and many shaded tendencies of modern speculation, as well as of the grave questions of theological truth and practical duty, and his wise and well considered conclusions in regard to these topics, were all significant of the same. His capacity to decide upon the proprieties of controversial discussion, and his selection of felicitous diction, were equally conspicuous.

If we turn from his achievements as objective products, and inquire by what subjective habits and activities these results were attained, we find them characterized by great ease and naturalness. The workings of Professor Hadley's mind, even when most extraordinary in their grasp and insight, apparently cost little effort. It was pleasure and play to him to trace the intricacies which to others are a tangled maze, and to respond with delicate touch to those refined discriminations which are impalpable to the ordinary mind. To perceive once, was with him to remember always. To master a train of thought by a single glance, was to make it his own forever. Much of this ease and precision was an endowment of nature, or, as he would prefer to phrase it, was the gift of God. But it was in part also and very greatly the result of discipline, and this perfection of discipline was in his case owing largely to those fine moral qualities in which are so often, if not uniformly, to be found the springs of what is best and most symmetrical in intellectual achievement. We cannot conceive of Professor Hadley as a boy, except as a boy who always had a book in his hand, and to whom his books were a real and interesting world. We cannot conceive of him except as acquiring with the eagerness of the busy and roving bee, and as hoarding his stores as spontaneously as he acquired them; but we cannot overlook the fact that many a boy as gifted as he was has been beguiled to the waste and perversion of his powers, by the ease with which he could use them; and that many more as apt and as quick as he have contracted some injurious mental habit, which has fear

fully revenged itself upon their intellectual growth. Others equally promising, through moral perverseness, have forced their marvelous powers to grind in some prison house of the Philistines instead of rejoicing in the freedom with which the truth makes free. The easy working of his mind was surprising, however it be accounted for,--whether it be ascribed to genius, or to intellectual discipline, or to moral culture, or to all combined. The ease with which he wrought was never abused to that fatal facility of superficial thought and extemporaneous guess-work which is made a substitute for thorough going and earnest application. Whatever his mind wrought it wrought with its entire energy.

This leads us to observe that the energy of Prof. Hadley's: mind was as surprising as the spontaneity of its acting. His capacity to bring into action the entire force of his powers was almost unique, especially when connected with the absence of the usual indications of effort. But the energy which was present was manifest from the results. We can think of nothing more apt to illustrate this feature of his character, if the comparison may be allowed, than the smooth and quiet working of one of these fearfully noiseless steam engines which makes itself felt in the precision and strength with which it drives every spindle and drill to its work. This quick and effective energy involved, of necessity, the complete concentration of his intellectual force, and the exclusion of everything irrelevant, whether the digressive thought or the intrusive feeling. The energy of Prof. Hadley also made itself known in the form of self-reliance. Though modest in the assertion of his opinions, he was strong in holding them. Though his convictions were never intruded, they were not easily changed. That his energy was chiefly intellectual, was indicated by the absence of passionate earnestness and impatient excitement. His coolness was equally conspicuous' in inquiring after what was true and in the exposition and defence of the conclusions which he had reached. His patience of labor was but another form of the same energy, as it was manifested in the control of his personal inclinations, in subduing fond partialities, and submitting to every form of unexciting drudgery. A supreme and honest devotion to truth was the chief passion of his soul. His sense of justice was conspicuous.

Few men have looked upon the various aspects of the face of truth so uniformly in the dry light of reason. Few have maintained a more unselfish allegiance to all her behests, with such complete subjection to her lawful authority.

We have incidentally referred to the fact that Prof. Hadley's mastery of any subject upon which he expressed an opinion, and his simple allegiance to the truth, gave him great authority among the scholars of this country. It was not so much he who spoke, as it was that measure of ascertained and accepted truth which had become impersonated in him. His peers and his pupils felt assured, when they heard him on any subject, that the field of inquiry had been mastered--that whatever was accessible had been patiently collected, impartially considered, sagaciously interpreted, and clearly and methodically set forth. If we add to this the considerate kindness that restrained him from inflicting needless pain, and the unaffected modesty that veiled his own personal agency, and hid rather than obtruded the tokens of superiority, we have explained how it happened, that among American scholars he was so generally and so readily acknowledged, by those with whom he came in contact, to be preëminent in many departments of knowledge. The most eminent among our living scholars needed only to meet and confer with him, to acknowledge this superiority to be unquestioned. It was regarded as only an act of generous loyalty thus to do homage to one who accepted no allegiance for himself, but gracefully transferred it to that truth which all scholars regard as supreme.

Had Prof. Hadley been brought in contact or comparison with European philologists he would have taken rank among the foremost scholars of his generation. We infer this from what we know of the acquisitions and works of philologists living and dead, from his unquestioned competency to appreciate and criticize these works, and from the honor which he received from those American scholars who have achieved a European reputation. His friends all profoundly regret that he could not have been personally known to those trans-Atlantic scholars, who would have gladly acknowledged him as their peer. It is worthy of notice that he made his surprising acquisitions without the leisure or the excitement of studies in a

European university, and that he made them when pressed with the laborious necessity of teaching college classes for three hours a day and more. Prof. Hadley, moreover, did not follow the German method of introducing himself to the world of scholars. He wrote no book for many years, and his grammar is avowedly based upon that of Professor George Curtius. Brief essays and papers, however able, do not readily attract the attention of foreign readers. Prof. Hadley, like many of the scholars of England, preferred to acquire the knowledge which he desired to possess, rather than to recast it for the few English-speaking readers, who were scarcely advanced enough to receive it. Moreover he was so pressed with his duties in training his classes in elementary Greek, and now and then directing the researches of a more advanced pupil, that for years he had not the leisure to write a treatise. Most of all, it should be remembered that he was the last man who would stoop to any of the manifold sensational devices for originality, which bring notoriety rather than reputation to many aspiring doctors of the German Universities, even in so grave and exact a department as philology. He preferred to wait his time. We regret that he has been called out of the world too early for the world to know by his learned works how great a light it has lost. Much was expected from him in the work of revising the New Testament, to which he applied his hand in a few pencillings as the last work of his life. Great importance was attached to his comprehensive knowledge of Hebrew and Greek, his scholarly insight, his candid and comprehensive judgment, and his mastery of compact and lucid diction. The suggestions which he would have made in the progress of this work, would have testified to the scholars of the Old World, that at least one great scholar and critic had been furnished by the New.

The special field of his usefulness and of his fame has been as an instructor. In this field he has expended his best energies for others, and impressed himself strongly and permanently upon many thousands of young men. This was his chosen field, not merely because he was distinctly called to it as the appointed work of his life which he accepted as laid upon himself by his great taskmaster, but because he embraced it as the noblest calling to which he might aspire. The remark has often been

made-what a pity and what a waste that a man like Prof Hadley, one of the foremost scholars of the country, should be doomed to teach elementary Greek to successive Freshman classes, when, if things were as they should be, he might have expended the treasures of his wisdom upon a few appreciative students, and the rest of his time in making fresh acquisitions. Not so judged Prof. Hadley, dearly as he would have prized the leisure, and heartily as he would have enjoyed the appreciative sympathy and the forward zeal of maturer scholars. He knew the needs of young students and the defects of their elementary training too well; he estimated the power of his own personal faithfulness and influence too justly, to be willing to forego this opportunity of usefulness as long as his strength would allow him to do elementary work. It was a great thing for this college, that year after year, so long as he was the only Professor of Greek, so many young men in the first term of their college life were brought in contact with a teacher of such splendid gifts and such exemplary thoroughness; a teacher who, though he might seem hard and exacting at first, was soon seen to be no more rigid than the truth of the science which he taught, and in whom the most exemplary fairness was always conspicuous; a teacher who was himself a copious fountain of exact knowledge, and whose dealings with his pupils exemplified the imperial attractions of impartial justice. As these pupils knew him better from week to week, their impressions of his wholesome rigor faded away, and love and honor took their place. When they came a second and a third term under his instructions, those whose esteem was worth possessing, honored him as all ingenuous and earnest souls honor gentle wisdom. The few who, from time to time, enjoyed his special intimacy by reason of their advanced studies, sat at his feet with admiration and delight. Among these were some of our most eminent philologists, who weep with tears which they would not restrain that he who was to them both brother and friend is snatched from their sight.

Not only have his fidelity and patience been most useful to his pupils, but they have been wholesome in their indirect bearing upon his fellow instructors, who could not but be reproved by his exemplary thoroughness if they were not inspired by his