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gree ; he ran the blockade and arrived at his home in 1862; he at once volunteered for service, and was assigned to duty as lieu- tenant on Jeb Stuart's staff; a little later he was transferred to the corps of engineers, and served as captain until the close of- the war. In the fall of 1865 he opened in Rich- mond, in company with his old schoolmate, John M. Strother, a classical school for boys, and there taught until 1868, in which year he was called to a chair in Randolph-Macon College, where he spent eight years, which were not the least effective in his carter; he possessed the art of stimulating in his pupils a love of learning, of planting deep and strong the roots of a life-long devotion to scholarship, and within a few years his graduates, with college culture broadened and deepened by university studies in Ger- many, were filling chairs of English in southern and southwestern schools; in 187G the opening of the Johns Hopkins Univer- sity called his old master, Gildersleeve, away to Baltimore, and Mr. Price was in- \ited to fill his chair and for the following six years he served his alma mater as pro- fessor of Greek; his lecture room was crowded with earnest students, warmed by the fire of his enthusiasm and stimulated bv his eager passion for learning, and his I enown as a teacher grew apace ; the call to Columbia was the reward of his success, and to Mr. Price it seemed rich in beautiful possibilities, relief from much of the drud- gery of his professional duties, opportuni- ties for special study, time for original re- search, the artistic resources of urban life in a great city, and above all, perhaps, res- toration to that work in English which he particularly loved; he spent twenty-one years in Columbia, saw it grow into a great

university, and at the time of his death was sixth in official rank in that vast faculty ; the courses offered by him covered a wide range, from Anglo-Saxon literature down through Chaucer and Shakespeare to Tennyson and Browning and Matthew Arnold; he never narrowed his field to that of the modern specialist; in Columbia as in Virginia his art was to mould and stimulate and inspire men; he was not a prolific writer, and his writings are few in number and slender in \olume; his "Teaching of the Mother Tongue," "Shakespeare's Verse Construc- t:on." and monographs of "King Lear" and other plays go far to exhaust the list ; his v-ork as a scholar must be judged therefore less from the volume or the quality of his writings than from the testimony of the men who worked under him and with him; his art as a teacher was to make learning lovable. "His learning." writes his colleague Woodberry. "was great in range and exact in detail. His thirst for knowledge was in- satiable and few fields of thought or litera- ture were unvisited by him. In the con- \ersation of daily life he surprised both by his brilliancy and light touch. He had the faculty of making learning a social thing. He blended deference with dignity and grace with strength, and he had uncommon sweetness of nature. There was no man whom it was so simply to love ;" he died at his home in New York City. May 7, 1903.

Moore, Charles Lee, born October 22, 1862, at Orange Court House. Virginia, son of Charles Catlett Moore and Virginia Anne Boulware, his wife. He graduated at Po- tomac Academy. Alexandria City. Virginia; studied law and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1883, in the corporation court of