Frederick DeForest Allen

On August 4, 1897, occurred the sudden death of Frederick DeForest Allen, Ph.D., Professor of Classical Philology in Harvard University. Of the loss which classical scholarship has suffered by his death I need not speak here. His thoroughness and accuracy, his intrepid regard for the truth, and his keen, unbiased judgment are well known both to his former pupils and to the larger world which has read his published writings.

Shortly before his death he invited me to join with him in compiling a small Greek Grammar. During the two weeks immediately preceding his death we had worked together as far as the third declension, and had discussed somewhat the general plan of the book. After his death the publishers expressed a desire that I should complete the work which had been thus, begun a desire with which I could not refuse to comply. The task has been one of sadness and of joy: of sadness, because at every turn I missed the strong counsel of a consummate scholar; of joy, at the thought that I might thus, even in some slight measure, help to perpetuate the memory of a man whose name will always stand for what is highest and best in scholarship.

To the memory of Frederick DeForest Allen this book is affectionately inscribed.

Copyright, 1902, by

FRANK COLE BABBITT.

At. And ion. Greek.

W. P. I.