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lished at a nominal price by the Society's publishers, As regards the communications made to the Society, Messrs. Triibner and Co. It has also been circulated Mr. Tucker, Professor of Classics in the University amongst the head-masters at the late Conference, and of Melbourne, sent a number of ingenious emendations copies have been sent to the Oxford Philological of the Ocdipits Ooloneus, the Helena, and the Phoe- Society with a view to future combined action. In nissae and of Solon, els havr6v. In the well-known Cambridge itsalf a representative committee is engaged crux of Aesch. Ag. 1143, he suggests iy&> St repiiavos iu considering the steps to be taken for the general •rax f/"1"6^" Kaicav. On Feb. i7, Dr. Paley read a introduction of the reformed pronunciation into Cam- paper questioning the usual translation of cupirifit in bridge at the beginning of the Michaelmas terra : John xiv. 27, Mark xii. 19, Luke vii. 49, and Mr. and it is hoped that this will result iu its unanimous Magnusson read a suggestive paper on misunderstood adoption throughout the university. passages in the Havanial—Elder Edda. OBITUARY. HENRI JORDAN.—In the Wochcnschrifb filr Klas- in 1822 at or near Keswick, where his family had been si3che Philologw, No. 1, 1877, Dr. E. Hiibner gives an settled for several generations. Soon after his birth account of this distinguished scholar, who died on his father was presented to the living of Great November 10th last at Konigsberg, from the effects of Mnsgrave in Westmorland, and he was sent to an operation. Appleby Grammar School, from which he proceeded He was descended from an old family, belonging to to Sedbergh. the French colony in , where he was bjrn Here he was contemporary with the late W. M. September 30th, 1833. He studied partly at Bonn, Gunson of Christ's College, like himself a Cumberland attracted there by Ritsehl, but principally at Berlin, man, and an intimacy was formed between them and always regarded as his principal which developed into a friendship only to be broken teacher. In 1867 he was appointed professor of by the sad de-ith of Mr. Gunson a few years ago. classical philology at Konigsberg. Hiibner speaks From Sedbergh Mr. Heslop entered Queon's College, warmly of the affection and respect with which he Oxford as a tabarder on the old foundation, and was was regarded by his pupils and his friends. speedily recognized as a scholar of unusual promise His chief works were dto's Fragments, , by his private tutor, Mr. W. Linwood. His exami- 1860 ; SeHptores historian AwjKstae (with Eyssen- nation in the schools which gained him a place in the hardt), 1864 ; text of Sallust, 1866, 1876 ; the third first class of 1846 was remarkably brilliant, and edition, delayed by the discovery of new fragments, brought him at once iuto prominent notice. For a will shortly appear; Formi urbis Romas, 1874; while he was assistant master at Rossall, and after Tcpographie der Sladt Rom, Berlin, Weidmann, vol. this he resided as fellow and tutor of Queen's. Then ii. 1871 ; vol. i. pt. 1, 1878 ; part 2, 1885 ; part 3 he married, aud accepted the small college living of and a monograph on the forum remain unfinished ; Knights Enham, from which he moved in 1854 to Kritische Beitrdge zur Gesehichte der lat. Spracke, the head-mastership of St. Bees. Here he remained Berlin, 1879. He also contributed largely to classical for twenty-five years, working with great success upon and archaeological journals, articles, some of them in the somewhat unpromising material that the free Italian, on the religion, art, architecture, topography foundation brought to his hand. In 1879 he was of ; on early , and cognate dialects, not left a widower. A new scheme for the management neglecting Greek authors, as Simonides of Amorgos, of the school was just about to come into operation, Theognis, Lysias. and Canon Heslop—for he had been appointed Hon. Hiibncr hopes that these scattered articles, the Canon of Carlisle in 1875—resigned the head- work of one who has left deep traces on German mastership to take up the living of Church Oakley scholarship, will be collected. which was offered him by his old college. Jordan's specialty was the topography of Rome, Beyond some anonymjus theological essays and and on that subject he was the first authority. But papers iu migazines put forth at Oxford, his published perhaps his critical edition of Sallust is the most works are but two, the well-known editions of the familiar of his works to English students. In three Olynthiac aud Philippic Orations and of the de Falsa or four articles in Hermes he determined the relative Legations in the Catena Classicorum Series. But he value of the more important MS8. in a way that has was an indefatigable worker. In middle age he taught not been seriously questioned, and in the edition that himself German for the sake of gaining access to the followed he for the first time gave a trustworthy stores of scholarship laid up in that language, and he collation of them. r<;ad and annotated and translated his favourite authors again and again. Much of this work was ERNEST DESJARDINS, born 30 September, 1823, done with a view to eventual publication, but he could died 22 October, 1886. In the Revm Historiqus, xii. not bring himself to put forth to the world anything (1887), pp. 101-105, Camille Jiillian pays a short that seemed to himself imperfect. His keen critical 'hommage' to this eminent" epigraphist and geo- faculty and his fastidious taste were mercilessly grapher. ' Sans eatrefdaiis le detail de sa vie, dans exercised on his own writings, and repeated revisions ceux de ses dix missions en Italie et dans la peninsule failed to bring with them that sense of perfection des Balkans, dans 1'analyse de ses travaux comme without which he would not publish. professeur, comme editeur des ceuvres de Borghesi, de He has left much manuscript, and among it thera la table de Peutinger, des Additamenta au Corpus, de is a corrected and enlarged edition of his Demosthenes, la geographie administrative et politique de la Gaule virtually a new book, which is almost ready for the romaine, comme membre de l'lnstitnt, nous avons press. This, it is hoped, together with some trans- simplement voulu marquer les services qu'il a rendus lations and notes on various portions of different a la science et a ses eleves. Nous aurions voulu qn'il authors may before long be brought out by his son, a nous Jiit possible aussi de faire conn ntre l'homme, former scholar of Christ's College. It would indeed son esprit, sa bonne grace, sa bonte. Tous ses be a pity if the learning accumulated by so exact and eleves en conserveront l'ineffacable souvenir.' fine a judgment and so retentive a memory should die with him, and leave but two little books behind OEOBOE HENRY HESLOP, who died on ths 30th of to mark the pla;e he held in the estimation of January, at Oakley Rectory, Basiugstoke, was born classical scholars.

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