American scholar and folklorist; born at New York City, on the 12th of July 1844; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1864, and received therefrom the honorary degree of Ph.D. in 1874; was professor of modern languages in Cornell University (1868); of Spanish and Italian in the same (1872); and of Romance languages there (1881). He was one of the founders of the American Folk-Lore Society. In the department of folklore he achieved success, his Italian Popular Tales, published in Boston and London in 1885, being at once recognized as the only English work to fully represent the folktales of Italy, which it does exhaustively. His Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares of Jaques de Vitry, was published in 1890 by the English Folk-Lore Society.
