itizen of Boston, died at
his home in Charlestown at the age of 43. He served in the war with the
Fourth Battalion of Rifles, the 13th Massachusetts Volunteers, and the
39th Regiment. At the close of the war he joined the 5th Regiment, of
which he became colonel. In 1855 he was elected commander of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery. He was also commander of the Boston Light
Infantry Veterans, and a member of the Loyal Legion. Col. Trull was also
connected with various societies of civil, military, and masonic
character. In civil office he served in the Boston Common Council in
1875, 1876, 1877, in the Massachusetts Senate in 1884 and 1885, and was
a Director of Public Institutions.

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May 1.--Chas. M. Shepard, professor at Amherst College, died at
Charleston, S.C., at the age of 82.

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May 3.--Hon. John Boynton Hill, for many years a leading lawyer in
Bangor, Me., and more recently of Mason, N. H., died at Temple, N. H.
Mr. Hill was born in Mason, Nov. 25, 1796, and was graduated at Harvard
College in 1821. Among his classmates were Governor Kent of Maine,
Charles W. Upham of Salem, Senator Barnwell of South Carolina, and Ralph
Waldo Emerson.

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May 4.--Rev. Francis A. Foxcroft, one of the oldest Episcopal clergymen
in the State, died at Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 77.

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May 7.--William R. Patten, of Winchester, a soldier in the Civil War,
and later, Judge-Advocate, died in Concord. He was born in 1837.

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May 8.--Death of George W. Ray, a citizen and a manufacturer in
Springfield, Mass.

LITERATURE.

In _Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian_,[2] the task has been undertaken
of rendering the Bible narrative in a form which shall be convenient and
readable for young readers. Such an idea does not wholly please us, for
it does not seem possible to rewrite the sacred history without losing
the spirit of the close translation from the Hebrew and Greek. There is
an excuse for simplifying Bible stories for young children, but this
work seems adapted only to those who must be mature enough to fully
understand the reading of the Scriptures themselves. Yet, for those who
can profitably employ such a book, this work could hardly be better. It
is evidently prepared with great care. The first volume, which is