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Butler, James Davie

educator, lecturer, was born March 15, 1815, in Rutland, Vt. He held the chair of ancient languages in Wabash college, Ind., in 1854- 58, and in the university of Wisconsin in 1858-67. Since then he has devoted himself to lecturing and occasional preaching. His best known lectures are The Architecture of St. Peter's; Prehistoric Wisconsin; The Hapax Legomena in Shakespeare; and Commonplace Books.

BUTLER, JAMES GLENTWORTH, clergyman, author, was born in 1821 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York; and the author of The Bible Work, an extended scriptural commentary; and The Fourfold Gospel.