ch natural insight that the experts to whom
these translations have been submitted found hardly a word to
change. 'After all,' as she herself wrote, 'ballads are simple
things, and require, as a rule, but a limited vocabulary, though
a peculiarly idiomatic one.'"

Not the least poetic of her books, although it is written in prose,
is the delicate interpretation of St. Francis, written for children
and called "God's Troubadour."

"Erect, serene, she came and went
On her high task of beauty bent.
For us who knew, nor can forget,
The echoes of her laughter yet
Make sudden music in the halls."
["In Memoriam: Sophie Jewett." A poem by Margaret Sherwood,
Wellesley College News, May 1, 1913.]

In 1913, Madame Colin, who had served the college as head of
the Department of French since 1905, died during the spring recess
after a three days' illness. Madame Colin had studied at the
University of Paris and the Sorbonne, and her ideals for her
department were high.

Among Wellesley's own alumnae, only a very few who were officers
of the college during the first forty years have died. Of these
are Caroline Frances Pierce, of the class of 1891, who was librarian
from 1903 to 1910. To her wise planning we owe the conveniences
and comforts in the new library building which she did not live
to see completed.

In 1914, the Department of Greek suffered a deep loss in Professor
Annie Sybil Montague, of the class of 1879. Besides being a
member of the first graduating class, Miss Montague was one of
the first to receive the degree of M.A. from Wellesley. In 1882,
the college conferred this degree for the first time, and Miss
Montague was one of the two candidates who presented themselves.
One of her old students, Annie Kimball Tuell, of the class of 1896,
herself an instructor in the Department of English Literature, writes:

I think Miss Montague would wish that another of her pupils,
one who worked with her for an unusually long time, should
say--what can most simply and most warmly and most gratefully
be said--that she was a good teacher. So I want to say it
formally for myself and for all the others and for all the
years. For I suppose that if we were doomed to go before
our girls for a last judgment, the best and the least of us
would care just for the simple bit of testimony that we knew
our business and attended to it. And of all the good people