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perhaps the most felicitous in his brief offhand addresses. Whether his hearers agreed with his thought or not, all accredited him with clothing it in elegant and beautiful form.
His scholarly attainments brought Dr. Manatt a distinguished career after leaving the University. He was United States consul at Athens in 1889-1893, was called to the professorship of Greek history and literature in Brown University in 1892, was manager of the committee of the American school at Athens, a delegate to the first international congress of archaeology at Athens in 1905, member of the American Philological Association, the American Social Science Association, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic studies. As an author he published Xenophon's Hellenica in 1888, the Mycenean Age in 1897, and Aegean Days in 1914. The last is the best known of his publications. It seems to have been a veritable labor of love, the outgrowth of his intimacy with Greece during his consulate in Athens and his three subsequent visits. The pages are full of literary and historical lore and reveal the author's thorough appreciation and understanding of Greek culture. He was a frequent contributor to reviews and magazines. His career closed as doubtless he would have wished it, in laying aside the duties of his professorship at Brown and his life at the same time, February 14, 1915.
GROVE E. BARBER.
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