and a thoughtful, kindly, but determined face. He was noticeable for his long, swift stride, as year after year, for more than a generation, he walked, cane in hand, with great regularity along Main street to and from his office with a favorite spaniel at his heels. Very unassuming and courteous in his manner, he had an air of quiet mastery, which together with his candor and kindness greatly won the confidence and esteem of his associates and employees. He was an excellent classical, and a well disciplined scholar; a master of pure, exact and vigorous English; an occasional writer of clever verse; fond of rare books and curios; much interested in all historical questions; clear in thought; ready in wit; proud, without ostentation, of his ancestry, his college, his work, his country; a most loyal, companionable and affectionate friend and a zealous patriot and citizen. Mr. Greene gave much thought to civic affairs and advocated several measures of reform, among them "Proportional Representation," upon which he wrote with force and discrimination. He was also all his life devoted to the improvement of the Indians and was a warm defender of their rights. The prolonged invalidism of his wife to whom he was most tenderly attached, and who could not bear to have him leave her, cut him off from extended travel and from opportunities for fame and fortune which he was abundantly capable of filling; yet he never thought of complaining. Though a brave soldier, rich in thrilling experiences of the Civil War and a cordial friend of old soldiers, he would never join the Grand Army of the Republic on account of his aversion to secret societies; but he was keenly interested in the proposed statue of General Devens, and at his death was a member of the Commission for its erection. Mr. Greene was a Puritan in his tastes, his habits, his religious faith, and above all, in his exalted sense of duty. His ideals were lofty and uncompromising. He hated selfishness, deceit, fraud and impurity with a righteous wrath, and he was a man capable of any sacrifice in standing by the men and the measures that he believed to be in the right. This love of duty was the iron string that vibrated through all his character and conduct in things great and small. This was his passion, his joy, his reward. This made him a worthy exemplar of the finest traits of the noble stock from which he sprang. This made us all see that he had in him the elements of true greatness and drew from the whole community a most striking demonstration of sincere admiration, honor and affection at his death. An able, brave, unselfish, stainless gentleman with a life that is an inspiration to us all, he rests in peace. D. M. John Bellows. This delightful Englishman made but one visit to the United States. I do not know that any member of the Society ever saw him in England, except myself. He contributed but three papers to our Proceedings. Yet he had that rare quality which inspires men with attachment at first sight. No man ever spent an hour in his company without hearing some interesting fact or bit of wisdom to be remembered as long as he lived, and without carrying away with him the memory of a most attractive and impressive personality. So when we heard of John Bellows's death, we felt as if we had lost one of our oldest and dearest members. The following are the principal events of his life: John Bellows was born January 18, 1831, at Liskeard, Cornwall. He died May 5, 1902, at Upton Knoll, Gloucester, England. He was son of William Lamb Bellows and Hannah Bellows, his wife. He was educated by his father, who was a schoolmaster. In 1845 he was apprenticed to Llewellyn Newton, a printer, at Cambourne, Cornwall. In 1851 he entered the employ of Harrison, the Queen's printer, in London. He left after a few months, by reason of ill health. In the same year he went to Gloucester and became manager of George Wait's printing office. In 1858 he started business as a printer for himself. January 14, 1869, he married Elizabeth Earnshaw, daughter of Mark Earnshaw (surgeon) of Clitheroe, Lancashire. Nine children survive him; four sons and five daughters. In 1870, during the Franco-German War, he visited France as one of the deputation from the Society of Friends to administer relief to the war victims. In 1872 he published the first edition, of 6,000 copies, of his celebrated French Dictionary. The whole edition sold within a fortnight of publication. In the same year he discovered the Roman Wall in Gloucester. That discovery led to great interest, on his part, in antiquarian research, especially in regard to the Roman occupation of Britain. He subsequently traced the wall around the city. He discovered this wall when building a new printing office (his business having largely increased), beneath which was a part of the Roman Wall, still in existence. In 1876 he published the second edition of his French Dictionary. From 1886 to 1892 he took a great and active interest in the Home Rule controversy, most vigorously and strongly supporting the Union side, as it was called. He distributed, mostly at his own expense, more than twenty tons of literature in leaflets and pamphlets. He carried on many newspaper controversies, and spoke at public meetings, being one of the most influential opponents of "Home Rule." In 1892 and '93, he visited Russia with Joseph Neave, on behalf of the Stundists. In 1896-97, he visited Bulgaria and Constantinople with his wife, to take relief from the Society of Friends to the persecuted Armenians. From 1896 to the end of his life he took a prominent part in the work of the Society of Friends in helping the Donkhobors to emigrate from Russia, and in settling them in Canada. In 1899 he visited Russia with Edmund Brooks, to plead with the authorities, on behalf of the Society of Friends, for those of the Donkhobors who were in exile. in Siberia. In the same year he visited Sweden with Edmund Brooks to plead for some men who were imprisoned for refusal of military service. In the same year, 1899, he was one of the deputation from the Society of Friends to the Hague Conference. In 1901 he visited the United States, where he made many friendships. During this visit he received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard University. PUBLICATIONS. Outline Dictionary for the use of Students, with prefaces by Professor Max Müller and Professor Summers. Published 1868 and 1869. Pocket French Dictionary. 1st edition published 1872. 2nd edition published 1876. Pamphlets. The Track of the War around Metz. Published after the FrancoGerman War. On the Ancient Wall of Gloucester and some Roman Remains found in proximity to it, in 1873. (Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. VI.) Notes on Offa's Dyke; the Black Rock at New Passage; and Caldicot Castle. (Proceedings Cotteswold Club, Vol. VI.) On some Archæological Remains in Gloucester Relating to the burning of Bishop Hooper. (Read at the annual meeting of the Cotteswold Club. Proceedings Cotteswold Club, Vol. VII.) William Lucy and his Friends of the Cotteswold Club, Five and Thirty years ago. (Proceedings, Cotteswold Club, Vol. XI.) Evolution in the Monastic Orders. Roman Work at Chepstow. Roman Remains at Bath. (Proceedings, Cotteswold Club, Vol. XIII.) Survivals of Roman Architecture in Britain. (Proceedings, Cotteswold Club, Vol. XIII.) On the Past in the Present in Asia. (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, April, 1894.) (Read afterward before the Cotteswold Club, and printed in Proceedings, Cotteswold Club, Vol. XI.) The Forest of Dean. (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, October, 1899.) The England of the Time of the War of Independence. (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, October, 1901.) (Afterward read before Cotteswold Club, and published in Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club, Vol. XIV.) Roman Wareham and the Claudian Invasion. (Dorset National History and Antiquarian Field Club, Vol. XIII.) The Roman Wall of Gloucester. (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, Vol. I., 1876.) On some bronze and other articles found near Birdlip. (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, Vol. V.) Remarks on Skeletons found at Gloucester in 1881. (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Society, Vol. V.) The Romans in Gloucestershire. (Cheltenham Natural Science Society, Session, 1899-1900.) Chisel Drafted Stones at Jerusalem. (Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, July, 1896.) Ritualism or Quakerism? The Browns of Bartonburg. (Friends' Quarterly Examiner, 1899.) Prayer. (Friends' Quarterly Examiner.) The Truth about the Transvaal War. (Translated into French and German.) New York Tribune. Letters and articles in newspapers, etc., afterwards printed as leaflets, etc. Why I ought not to keep Christmas. The Meditation of the Virgin. Letters to the Students of the Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. A Russian Railway Journey in Winter. Daniel Wheeler's farm at Shushare. The Georgian Road Through the Caucasian Mountains. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Prince Louis Lucien Buonaparte. Overtrained Free Trade. Letter to New York Tribune,-"How Boer Women and Children are treated." (Reprinted as a leaflet by the Women's Liberal Unionist Association.) Letter to Senator Hoar, in New York Tribune. (Reprinted, as above by Women's L. U. Association.) &c. &c. &c. The news of his death was received with profound sorrow in England, where he had a very wide circle of friends, including many famous men of science, and men of letters. He took great satisfaction in his friendship with Leslie Stephen, the accomplished editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; as well as in that of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had been his guest in England, and with whom he had corresponded for many years; and that of Andrew D. White, lately the accomplished Ambassador to Germany. Mr. Bellows was a very good correspondent. His letters were written in the careful style formerly cultivated by eminent men who had reason to expect that their lives would be written, and their letters would form an important part of their biography. I will not yield to the temptation to make many extracts from them until the Memoir, now in preparation in England, shall appear. The following was written when he got the news of the death of President McKinley: MY DEAR FRIEND, "Upton Knoll, Gloucester, 14. 9. 1900 Ah this is indeed heavy news that reaches us, that after all our hopes President McKinley has died! |