ght, of
Northampton. In 1862 he became chaplain in the New York Volunteer
Engineers. From 1865 Mr. Hudson lived principally in Cambridge,
frequently officiating in parish churches on Sundays, but principally
devoting himself to the teaching of Shakspere and other English authors,
in Boston and the immediate neighborhood. He was for a long time a
lecturer on English literature at the Boston University. A few years ago
he received the degree of LL.D., from Middlebury College. For two years
he was the editor of the _Saturday Evening Gazette_. In 1870 Messrs.
Ginn & Heath became his publishers, and brought out his "School
Shakspere" in three volumes, containing seven plays each. In 1872 he put
into two volumes the substance of his earlier volumes on "Shakspere's
Characters," revising, condensing, rewriting his earlier work, parts of
which he had outgrown, and presenting his final opinions, under the
title of Shakspere's "Life, Art, and Characters," which he dedicated to
his friend, Mr. Joseph Burnett, of Southboro'. It is but a few years
since his "Harvard Shakspere" was brought out.

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January 17.--Death of the Hon. Hosea Doton, of Woodstock, Vt., aged
seventy-four. He was a man of wide reputation as a mathematician and
civil engineer, and had long been in correspondence with leading
scientists in different parts of the country. His work in determining
altitudes of Vermont mountains is accepted as authority. For
thirty-eight years he made astronomical calculations for the _Vermont
Register_, also many years for the _New Hampshire Register_, and had
long kept a meteorological record for the Smithsonian Institute.

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January 18.--Death of the Rev. Jacob Hood, at his residence in
Lynnfield. He passed his ninety-fourth birthday on Christmas-day last.
He was born in Lynnfield, December 25, 1791, and moved to Salem in 1820,
where he was master of the old East School in 1822, remaining until
1835, at a salary of $600 per year. He taught an old-fashioned
singing-school in Salem from 1835 to 1850, and hundreds of his old
pupils in Essex county delight to speak of him as "Master Hood." He
returned to Lynnfield in May, 1865, where he had quietly resided since,
respected and beloved by all around him.

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Sudden death, in Boston, of Francis Edward Parker. He was the only son
of the Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, minis