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 Goodwin; Gildersleeve 465 to interpret it." His only volumes are an edition of the Medea (1876), a collection of Remnants oj Early Latin (1879), Hadley's Greek Grammar, revised and in part re-written (1884), and a translation of the Prometheus Bound (1891) ; but he published many short papers, chiefly upon etymologies, inscriptions, and ancient music and metres. In 1885 and 1886 he had charge of the American School at Athens, and had, at his death, gathered materials for an edition, never finished, of the scholia of Plato. William Watson Goodwin (1831-1912), after his graduation at Harvard in 185 1, studied at Gottingen, returned in 1856 as tutor in Greek, and was Eliot Professor of Greek from i860 until his resignation in 1901. His Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (i860) has passed through many edi- tions and revisions, and still holds the field as an epitome of classical usage. Its lucid analysis and arrangement and copious citations of its basic material make it both a reference book and a thesaurus. Its results enter more briefly into the Greek Grammar of 1870, which like Moods and Tenses remains in current use after a good half-century. Goodwin also revised Felton's edition of the Panegyricus of Isocrates (1864), and edited The Clouds (1873) and the collected translation of Plutarch's Morals, by several hands (1871). The Agamemnon, in his text, was performed at Harvard in 1906. His greatest editions are those of Demosthenes On the Crown (1901) and Against Midias (1906). Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, still living as the dean of Amer- ican philologists, was born in 1831 at Charleston, South Caro- lina. After his graduation at Princeton in 1849, he studied under Boeckh, Schneidewin, and Ritschl at Berlin, Bonn, and Gottingen, where he achieved the doctorate in 1853 with a dissertation upon Porphyry's Homeric studies. At the Uni- versity of Virginia he was from 1856 to 1876 professor of Greek, and from 1861 to 1866, professor of Latin. Upon the establish- ment of the Johns Hopkins University in 1876 he was appointed to its first professorship, that of Greek, which, as Emeritus, he still holds. He gave powerful aid in making the university a true school of research and his own department a training ground for philologists.' In 1880 Gildersleeve established the ' Among his pupils was Thomas Randolph Price, exemplar of the essential one- ness of the humanities, who both at Randolph-Macon and at the University of