Professor Edward B. Whitney once told me that with the exception
of Max Mueller he considered Hall the foremost Oriental scholar
in the world. I suppose Hall would have said the same of
Professor Whitney.

Hall maintained his sturdy Americanism throughout his long
life in England. He was ready at all times to do battle,
in public or in private, when his countrymen were attacked.
I think, in many cases, if he had been at home, he would have
attacked the same things with which the Englishmen found fault.
He could not bear Ruskin. He thought he, himself, as an American
had to endure much contempt and injury from Englishmen because
of Ruskin's bitter and contemptuous speech. But when we consider
that he was an American we must admit that England treated
him very well. He had, I suppose, the most welcome admission
to all their scientific journals. In his time he was employed
on the very best and most important work done in England
in his line. He was professor of Hindostanee and of Hindoo
law and Indian jurisprudence in King's College in London,
also of the Sanscrit language and literature, and Indian
history and geography. In April, 1865, he was made Librarian
of the India Office, having in his charge the best collection
of Oriental manuscripts in the world, twenty thousand in
number.

While the catalogues of the libraries show a large number
of books published under his name, he said that the greater
part of his work had been anonymous.

In 1893 he wrote to a London magazine: "Although I have lived
away from America upwards of forty-six years, I feel to this
hour, that in writing English I am writing a foreign language."

Next in rank to Child, Lane, Bigelow and Short was Judge Soule.
Next to him came George Cheyne Shattuck Choate, one of the
well-known family of brothers of that name, sons of a Salem
physician. Choate became a physician himself. He was at
the head of the Massachusetts Institution for the Insane at
Trenton. He afterward had an establishment of his own near
New York, where Horace Greeley was under his care. I saw
little of him after we graduated. But he was nearly or quite
at the head of his department in the country. It is said
that his testimony in court involving questions of medical
jurisprudence was wonderful for its beauty, its precision
and its profound analysis.

But I am inclined to think that the one member of our class
whose fame will last to remote posterity, a fame whic