ont, 18; New
Hampshire, 25; Connecticut, 83; Massachusetts, 187. There yet remains
one in manuscript, of great interest, which the enterprise and wealth of
Boston have never yet given to the world in type. That is the version
prepared by Cotton Mather, and the manuscript of which is in the
possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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February 13-16.--Floods did great damage in Boston and other places in
Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

NECROLOGY.

January 16.--Death of Henry W. Hudson, LL.D., at Cambridge, from
exhaustion following a slight surgical operation. He was one of the most
noted Shaksperian scholars in the world. He was born in Cornwall, Vt.,
January 28, 1814. His early life was, like that of so many other Green
Mountain boys, one of poverty, struggle for a livelihood and an
education, till finally he had gained his much-coveted collegiate
training, and began life as a teacher in the South. He became interested
in Shakspere, studying the plays with only the slight aids then within
his reach. Almost immediately he fell to work upon his critical analysis
of the dramatist, which he delivered in the form of lectures at
Huntsville, and afterwards at Mobile and Cincinnati. In the fall of 1844
he came to Boston, and was constantly engaged in delivering his
Shaksperian lectures, during the following winter, in Boston and the
chief neighboring cities. The succeeding year they were repeated in
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. George S. Hillard, Theodore
Parker, Dr. Chandler Robbins, and Mr. Emerson became deeply interested
in him. His lectures were first published in 1848, and were dedicated to
Richard H. Dana. Mr. Hudson was admitted to the diaconate in the
Episcopal Church by Bishop Whittingham, in Trinity Church, New York, in
1849. He was still more or less engaged in literary pursuits, and in
1852 became and continued for nearly three years the editor of the
_Churchman_, a weekly religious journal then published in New York.
Subsequently he originated the _Church Monthly_, which he edited a year
or two. His only parochial charge has been that of St. Michael's,
Litchfield, Conn., assumed in 1858 and retained until 1860. It was in
1851 that his first edition of "Shakspere's Plays" appeared, in eleven
volumes, after the form and style of the Chiswick edition of 1826. In
1852 he married Miss Emily S. Bright, daughter of Henry Bri