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 WHITOX

WHITTIIOIINE

S.uihitii (Berlin. 1S56). ami publislied indppend- eutly : Contrilmtions from the Atharva Veda to the Theory of Sanskrit Verlml Accent (1856) ; was editoriiiUy connected "with "Webster's Dic- tionary" ; editor-in-chief of the "Century Dic- tionary " (6 vols., 1889-91). and a contributor to Boluingk's and Rotli's "Sanskrit Dictionary" (St. Petersburg. 7 vols., 185;J-G7). He translated the " Surya-Siddhanta. a text-book of Hindu astro- nomy" (1S60). He is the author of: On the Tijotisha Obi^rrvation of the Place of the Colnres atui the Date derirablefrom it (1864) ; Language ami the Study of language (1867) ; A Compendious German Grammar (1869) ; German Reader in Prose and Verse (1S69) ; On Material and Form in Language (1872) Oriental and Linguistic Studies (3 series, 1873, 1874. 1875) ; Daricinism and Language (1874) ; Life and Growth of Lan- guage (1875) in the "international Scientific Series," translated into various foreign languages ; A Practical French Grammar (1886); Essentialsof English Grammar (ISll) ; A Compendious German and English Dictionary (with Professor Edgren, 1S77); Sanskrit Grammar (Leipzig. 1879; 2d ed., 1888) ; Logical Consistencg in Vietcs of Language (1889): Mixture in Language (1881); The Study of Hindu Grammar and the Study of Saiiskrit (1*84) ; Forty Years' Record of the Class of 1845, Williams College (1885) ; The Upanishads and their Latest Translations (1886) ; Practical French Grammar (iH86) ; and also a large proportion of Volumes VI. -XH. oi the Journal of the American Oriental society (1860-81), his English version of " Taittirlya Pratiqakhya" winning the Bopp prize from the Berlin academy in 1871. Most impox'tant among his technical works is his critical com- mentary on the Atharva- Veda, with exegetical notes and a translation. No treatment, at once so systematic, extensive and complete, of the critical status of any Vedic text has ever been undertaken before ; and it is incidentally of great significance as exemplifying the method which future investigators must follow in the case of Rig-Veila. The work, which forms two large royal octavos, was edited by Professor Charles R. Lanman of Harvard university, and published by that university in 1903. See memorial sketch of Dr. Whitney by Thomas D. Seymour (1894). He died in Nfw Haven. Conn., June 7, 1S94.

WHITON, James Morris, author, was born in Bfjston. Mass., A]n\\ 11. 1833 ; son of James Morris and Mary Elizabeth (Knowlton) Whiton ; grandson of the Rev. Dr. John Milton and Abby (Morris) Whiton and of Ebenezer and Margaret (Bas-s) Knowlton, and a descendant of James Whiton (Hingham, Mass.. 1647), Thomas Morris (New Haven. Conn., 1638). an.l John Alden (Plymouth. Mass., 1620). His paternal grand- father (178.5-1856), A.B., Yale-1805, D.D., C(jllege

of New Jersey, 1848, was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Antrim, N.H.. 1808-53, and of the Con- gregational church in Bennington, N.H., 1853-56. He published " A History of Antrim" (Concord, N.H., 1834), tlie groundwork of Cochrane's History of xVntrim (1880) ; " Sketches of the Early History of New Hampshire, 1623-1833 " (Concord. N.H., 1834) ; contributed to the Collections of the Neio Hampshire Historical Society, and left in manu- cript, " A History of Presbyterianism in New Hampshire." James Morris Whiton was fatted for college at the Boston Latin school ; was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1853, and was rector of Hopkins Grammar school, New Haven, Conn., 1854-64. He was married, May 1, 1855, to Mary Eliza, daughter of William and Mary (Crie) Bart- lett, of Portland, Maine. He was pastor of tlie First and Nortli Congregational churches of Lynn, Mass., 1867-69, and 1869-75, respectively ; principal of Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 1876- 78 ; pastor of the First Congregational church, in Newark, N.J., 1879-85, and of Trinity Congrega- tional church, Tremont, New York city, 1886-91. He was professor pro /ejH^wre of ethics, Meadville, Pa., Theological school, 1893-94; in 1897 became a member of the editorial staff of the Outlook, and in 1899 a charter member and chairman of the executive committee of the New York State Conference of Religions (undenominational). He was acting pastor of the Congregational church at Haworth, N.J., 1898-1901. He received the degree of Ph.D. for post-graduate study at Yale in 1861, one of three men on whom the degree was then for the first time conferred by an Ameri- can college. Besides many articles in periodicals and weekly journals, his publications include : Select Orations of Lysias (1875) ; 7s Eternal Pun- ishment Endless ? (1876); Six iceeks' Prejyai'ation for Reading Ccesar {187G)\ Essay on the Gospel according to 3Iattheui (1880) ; Beyond the Shadow (1881) ; Early Pupils of the Spirit (1884; rev. ed., 1896) ; The Evolution of Revelation (1885) ; Three Months' Ph'eparation for Reading Xenophon, with his daughter, Mary Bartlett Whiton (1885) ; The Divine Satisfaction (1886); Turning Points of Tlwught and Conduct, sermons (1887) ; Auxilia Pergiliana (1887) ; The Law of Liberty, sermons (1888); Xew I'oiuts to Old Texts, sermons (1889) ; JMiat of Samuel? (1890) ; Gloria Patri (1902) ; Reconsiderations and Reinforcements (1896) ; Miracles and Su2)ernatural Religion (1903), and various Latin and Greek text-books. WHITTHORNE, Washington Curran, sena- tor, was born in Lincoln (now Marshall) county, Tenn., April 19, 1825. He attended an academy in Williamson county, and Campbell academy at Lebanon ; entered the University of Nashville, and was graduated from East Tennes.see univer- sity at Knoxville, A.B., 1843. He subsequently