sober, right-minded educators to face and see it solved right. I have the faith it can be so solved, and it is for this I make my appeal.

For who, after all, is the real friend of the poor boy? Who cherishes the real democratic ideals of education? The one who depresses so-called university standards down to the uneducated poor boy's level, or the one who insists that he be lifted up to the higher plane and helps create a public sentiment and opinion for that agency? The one who retards the right sort of school being established for him in his own community by yielding to low standards of entrance, or the one who declares that the right sort of school must be established, and points the way by announcing and enforcing the proper standards himself that would help toward this? Only by upholding proper college entrance standards can you encourage and expect a community to build up a school commensurate therewith. The real friend of the poor boy, and the one actually promoting democratic ideals in education is, therefore, that institution that insists on the locality building up a good home school for everybody, and encourages and protects that home school by not robbing it of the boy until prepared for efficient higher work elsewhere. There is not a strong community or a strong county to-day that cannot have a good school if it will. Our higher institutions of learning are among the chief causes at fault if anywhere none such now exist. After years of agitation we should be heartily sick of pretense, and ask only for the reality. The South's opportunity in education, as I see it, and it is a glorious one, is merely one of wisely mapping out a sound educational system and consistently and courageously applying its standards.

JOHN BELL HENNEMAN.

The University of the South.

THE LATE EDITOR OF THE SEWANEE REVIEW

Dr. John Bell Henneman, whose name appears with the title of Editor upon the cover of this issue of the REVIEW, as it has appeared upon all previous issues since the eighth volume, died suddenly in Richmond, Virginia, on the 26th of last November. His work upon the REVIEW Continued up to the day of his leaving Sewanee, and the present issue as it now comes from the press, is substantially in accordance with his arrangements. Dr. Henneman's official connection with the REVIEW began with the publication of the eighth volume in January, 1901, soon after he came to Sewanee to succeed his long-time friend and college classmate, Professor Trent, in the chair of English Language and Literature in the University of the South. For the next four years Professor B. J. Ramage, Ph.D., was associated with him in the editorship. From the twelfth volume to the present issue, Dr. Henneman was solely responsible for the policy of the REVIEW and its contents. It must not, however, be inferred that his coming to the editorship was by any means sudden or that his acquaintance with the REVIEW began after he had come to Sewanee. He knew the REVIEW from its beginning and appreciated the peculiar field it was destined to occupy among the literary periodicals of the country. Professor Trent, his predecessor in the editorial chair as in the professorial chair, was his warm friend since the days spent together at the University of Virginia, where both took the Master's degree in 1884; and while Dr. Henneman was engaged in educational work in other institutions he regarded the SEWANEE REVIEW as something representing, not the life of a single university, but as of peculiar value to the life and literature of the South. To each of the first five volumes he made contributions, probably more in number than those of any other single contributor outside of Sewanee. The character of these contributions is significant as shown by their titles: "Historical Studies in the South since the War," written while he was Professor of English and History in Hampden-Sidney, and con

tributed to the first volume, showed a broad outlook and a firm grasp of his subject, two marked characteristics of all his literary work; "The Study of English in the South," and "The Modern Spirit of Literature," contributed to the second volume, were notable papers and of permanent value; "The Work of a Southern Scholar," contributed to the third volume, was a scholarly and appreciative review of four of Woodrow Wilson's books; a paper on Maurus Jokai, entitled "The Nestor of Hungarian Letters," in review of Jokai's autobiographical novel, “Eyes Like the Sea," and a paper on "Tennessee History by Tennesseans," in which were reviewed the books which had then recently appeared in connection with the celebration of the Centennial of the State, were his contributions to the fourth volume. To the fifth volume he contributed a paper on "The Man Shakespeare: His Growth as an Artist." It was in review of Dowden's "Introduction to Shakespeare," Barrett Wendell's "William Shakespeare: A Study of Elizabethan Literature," and William J. Rolfe's "Shakespere, the Boy," and at the same time an earnest of Dr. Henneman's subsequent work as lecturer, editor and expositor of Shakespearean Literature, and not to be dissociated from his two papers on "Shakespeare in Recent Times," contributed to the last volume of the REVIEW he was destined to edit. All these papers showed the deep sympathy of the young professor (he was but thirty-two when the last of the above named papers was written), with the REVIEW in which he saw the representative, in the highest and widest sense, of the best and most recent life and thought and culture of the South and of the whole country. And his acceptance of the Chair of English Language and Literature in the University of the South, when offered him, was induced by the fact that he would thereby be brought into closer relations with the REVIEW. He was no novice, therefore, when he passed to the editorial chair. He was probably as familiar with the ideals set for the REVIEW as any one in the country, and was already trained to fulfill the task of the editor in maintaining those ideals.

It would be difficult now to say in what respect his genius for the conduct of the REVIEW was most clearly manifested. Was

it his broad and accurate scholarship which met all the many demands made upon it in an editorial position of that kind? Was it the quick discernment of what was excellent, not only to his taste, but to the taste of the cultivated public which the REVIEW was to serve? Was it his ability to command the class of articles which the REVIEW has been privileged to present to its readers, which otherwise would have been impossible? Was it the exquisite courtesy which made every contributor feel a personal interest in the REVIEW? Certain it is that Dr. Henneman combined all these qualities and by this combination succeeded in the most difficult task of maintaining the policy of the founders of the REVIEW.

The field of Dr. Henneman's activities was a broad one and his interests were varied, though all related to the general subject of education; and the REVIEW would have owed this tribute to his life, had he been in no way connected with this periodical, even as he was at the pains to secure papers upon McIver, and Bishop Dudley and others who have left their impress upon the educational life of the South. And the REVIEW is privileged to print the address of the Reverend Dr. DuBose, delivered at the University Chapel on the Sunday morning following Dr. Henneman's death. This address is of Dr. Henneman, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Language and Literature, who was chiefly known to members of the community of Sewanee and to the host of students, past and present, who have been undre his instruction and influence for the past eight years.

There remains yet to be said something of Dr. Henneman, the Educator, in the highest sense of that term, the man who has left a clear and definite impress upon the educational life of the South. To him perhaps as much as to any other man is due the advancement of the educational standards of the Southern schools and colleges, during the past few years. There is a dramatic, as well as a pathetic interest, given to what was probably the last public act of his life, the reading of a paper before the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States, at the fourteenth annual meeting held in Chattanooga, November 5, 1908. The title of the paper was

"The South's Opportunity in Education: The Problem of the Application of Standards." 'The subject was one dear to his heart and one that had occupied much of his time and attention during the last years of his life. To hear the paper and participate in the discussion which it was expected would follow, Dr. Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation was present. It was the final word upon the subject of entrance requirements for colleges. It is Dr. Henneman's last message to his colleagues and co-laborers in the broad field of Southern education. He returned to Sewanee and a few days later was taken ill. It was still hoped that a few weeks with his family physician in Richmond would restore him to health. He was in his forty-fifth year and it was felt that there should be, in all human. probability, at least twenty years more of service to be expected from him in the various fields in which his activities had proved their inestimable value. But the career cut short thus early and suddenly was not without its record of noble achievement for the cause of education, and for literature, as has been already recognized, and as will be increasingly apparent as the years go on.

DR. JOHN BELL HENNEMAN

I am called upon by the Vice-Chancellor to give some expression here this morning to his and my and, as far as possible, your sense of the calamity that has befallen this University and this community. I say, "as far as possible your"— for you are many, and I am not so near as once I was, to the heart-beats of Sewanee; my fingers are not so directly upon its pulse. Besides, the shock of our dear Dr. Henneman's death is so sudden and unexpected, I was so utterly unprepared for it, that I feel myself incompetent as yet to speak at all; a single day has been all too short for any just appraisement of the damage we have sustained.

'Through the kindness of the Secretary of the Association, the REVIEW is permitted to present this paper in this issue.