n of feeling and intensity of utterance he used in the Handel
Society to sing 'The Hallelujah Chorus,' and the concluding chorus of
the Messiah, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.' His deeply religious
sympathies were touched by the sentiment of these great choruses, and
on this account his enjoyment of them was more profound than his
enjoyment even of the finished models of Haydn. He knew and felt that
he was on a grander theme, and that Redemption was greater than
Creation. And it is pleasant to think of him now as saying with a
deeper meaning and a more rapturous devotion than he knew on earth,
and may we add, a more thrilling musical delight, 'Worthy is the
Lamb.'"

We append some of the closing lines of the venerable Dr. Thayer's most
touching and eloquent tribute to the character of his beloved and
honored pupil: "He did in quality, more than in quantity, beyond any I
ever had to do with. He was under more stimulus than mere quiet
pleasure in study. He had a most delicate sense of beauty to be
gratified, a fine power of discrimination which sought objects for its
exercise. Then his love for his mother was a very powerful motive;
then too I think he thought of gratifying and honoring his teacher,
who loved him and tried to make him a scholar. But better, he loved
his Saviour and increasingly studied with humble loyalty to him. Still
we must not put Putnam in a wrong place. He was pre-eminently made for
a classical scholar."

Rev. Dr. Leeds adds:

"I became acquainted with Professor Putnam in the winter of 1860-61,
and was on intimate terms with him up to the time of his death, more
than two years later....

"Of his scholarship, others can speak more fitly than I. All remarked
that he was pervaded by that which is beautiful in the wonderful
language and literature he taught, as ever a vase by the perfume of
its flowers.

"But it is his character on which I love to dwell. Ever after I had
become well acquainted with him, he was a delightful illustration to
me of the power of love to foster diverse and even opposite elements
of character. He had feminine traits, and yet he was thoroughly
manly; the gentleness and tenderness of a true woman were his, and so
were the dignity and courage of a true man. He could speak, and was
wont to speak, and preferred to speak words of kindness the most
winning; but he could administer a rebuke longer to be remembered than
most men's; though _more_, perhaps, because it came fr