Cornelius Conway Felton, an American scholar and writer, born at Newbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1807, died at Chester, Pa., Feb. 26, 1862. He graduated at Harvard college in 1827. While in college he was distinguished for his literary tastes, and the wide range of his studies. He supported himself to some extent by teaching in Concord and Boston, and in the Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass. In his senior year he was one of the conductors of the Harvard Register," a students' periodical. After leaving college he was engaged for two years, in conjunction with two of his classmates, in the charge of the Livingston high school in Geneseo, N. Y. He was appointed Latin tutor in Harvard college in 1829, Greek tutor in the following year, college professor of Greek in 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. In addition to the duties of this professorship he filled for many years the office of regent of the college. In 1833 he published an edition of Homer, with English notes and Flaxman's illustrations, which has since passed through several editions, with revisions and emendations.

In 1840 a translation by him of Menzel's work on "German Literature," in three volumes, was published among Ripley's Specimens of Foreign Literature." In the same year appeared his Greek Reader," containing selections in prose and verse from Greek authors, with English notes and a vocabulary; this has since been frequently reprinted. In 1841 he published an edition of the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, with an introduction and notes; since revised and republished in England. In 1843 he aided Professors Sears and Edwards in the preparation of a work on classical studies, containing essays on classical subjects, mostly translated from the German. He assisted Longfellow in the preparation of the "Poets and Poetry of Europe," which appeared in 1845. In 1847 editions of the Panegyricus of Isocrates and of the "Agamemnon" of Aeschy-lus, with introductions and English notes, were published by him; a second edition of the former appeared in 1854, and of the latter in 1850. In 1849 he translated from the French the work of Prof. Guyot on physical geography, called "The Earth and Man;" and in the same year he published an edition of the "Birds'1 of Aristophanes, with an introduction and English notes, which was republished in England. In 1852 he edited a selection from the writings of Prof. Popkin, his predecessor in the Eliot professorship, with an introductory biographical notice.

In the same year he published a volume of selections from the Greek historians, arranged in the order of events. The period from April, 1853, to May, 1854, was spent by him in a European tour, in the course of which he visited Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece; giving about live months to the last named country, visiting its most interesting localities, and carefully studying its architectural remains. In 1855 he revised for publication in the United States Smith's History of Greece," adding a preface, notes, and a continuation from the Roman conquest to the present time. In the same year an edition of Lord Carlisle's Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters" was prepared by him for the American press, with notes, illustrations, and a preface. In 1856 he published a selection from modern Greek writers in prose and. verse. Besides the above, he compiled an elementary work on Greek and Roman metres, and wrote a life of Gen. Eaton for Sparks's American Biography," and also various occasional addresses, and numerous contributions to the North American Review," Christian Examiner," and other periodical publications.

He delivered four courses of lectures before the Lowell institute in Boston, on subjects connected with the history and literature of Greece. He wrote the articles on Agas-siz, Athens, Attica, Demosthenes, Euripides, Greece, and Homer for the first edition of this Cyclopedia. He was a member of the Massachusetts board of education, and one of the regents of the Smithsonian institution. In the summer of 1858 he made a second visit to Europe, partly on account of impaired health, and partly to complete some investigations into the language, topography, education, etc, of Greece. An account of this visit was given in his "Familiar Letters from Europe," published after his death (Boston, 1864) In 1860, on the resignation of President Walker, he was elected president of Harvard college. His most important work,Greece, Ancient and Modern," was published posthumously in 1867 (2 vols. 8vo); it was made up chiefly from his lectures before the Lowell institute.