See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES See also:

• CHILD
• FRANCIS JAMES CHILD (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

CHILD (1825-1896)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar and educationist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston on the 1st of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1825 . He graduated at Harvard in 1846, taking the highest See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank in his class in all subjects; was See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor in See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics in 1846-1848; and in 1848 was transferred to a tutorship in See also:

• HISTORY

history, See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• ECONOMY

economy and See also:

• ENGLISH

English . After two years of study in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, in 1851 he succeeded See also:

• EDWARD

Edward T . Charming as Boylston See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric, See also:

• ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory and elocution . See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

Child studied the English See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama (having edited Four Old Plays in 1848) and Germanic See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology, the latter at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen during a leave of See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence, 1849-18J3; and he took See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general editorial supervision of a large collection of the See also:

• BRITISH

British poets, published in Boston in 1853 and following years . He edited See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser (5 vols., Boston, 1855), and at one See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time planned an edition of See also:

• CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (? 1340-1400)

Chaucer, but See also:

• CON

con-tented himself with a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise, in the See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of the American See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Arts and Sciences for 1863, entitled " Observations on the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

Language of Chaucer's See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury Tales," which did much to establish Chaucerian See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar, See also:

• PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation and scansion as now generally understood . His largest undertaking, however, See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew out of an See also:

• ORIGINAL

original collection, in his British Poets See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, of English and Scottish See also:

• BALLADS

Ballads, selected and edited by himself, in eight small volumes (Boston, 1857-1858) . Thence-forward the leisure of his See also:

• LIFE

life—much increased by his See also:

• TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

transfer, in 1876, to the new professorship of English—was devoted to the See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative study of British See also:

• VERNACULAR (Lat. verna, dim. vernaculus, a slave horn in his master's house)

vernacular ballads . He ac-cumulated, in the university library, one of the largest See also:

• FOLKLORE

folklore collections in existence, studied See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript rather than printed See also:

• SOURCES

sources, and carried his investigations into the ballads of all other See also:

• TONGUES, GIFT OF, or GLOSSOLALIA (yXwova, tongue, aXeiv, speak)

tongues, meanwhile giving a sedulous but conservative See also:

• HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

hearing to popular versions still surviving . At last his final collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, at first in ten parts (1882-1898), and then in five See also:

• QUARTO

quarto volumes, which remain the authoritative See also:

• TREASURY

treasury of their subject . Professor Child worked—and overworked—to the last, dying in Boston on the 1th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1896, having completed his task See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save for a general introduction and bibliography . A sympathetic See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch was prefixed to the See also:

• WORK

work by his See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil and successor See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George L .

Kittredge .