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Horace Howard Furness '54.--Noted during his lifetime as America's foremost Shakespearean authority; he was the editor-in-chief of the Variorum edition. He was a native of Philadelphia, where he died August...
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...Furness is probably the greatest American Shakespearian scholar and ranks among the greatest in the world today. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, he spent two years studying abroad and then returned to Philadelphia. His "Variorum Edition of Shakespeare" is accepted by students of all nationalities as the standard work of its kind and has received warm appreciation from the leading literary critics of England and America...
...Court of St. James; Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of Harvard University; Richard Olney, former Secretary of State; Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune; James Bradley Thayer, professor of law in Harvard University; Charles William Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee; Horace Howard Furness, editor of the Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Works; Basil Lanneau Gildereleeve, professor of Greek in Johns Hopkins University; John Shaw Billings, director of the New York Public Library; Samu-1 Pierp nt Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Henry Codman Potter, bishop of New York; Melville-Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United...