CABROL, FERNAND MICHAEL: Roman Catholic historian and archeologist; b. at Marseilles, France, Dec. 11, 1855. He received his education at the Institut Belzunce, petit s4minaire, and grand s6minaare, all at Marseilles, and at the abbey of Solesmea (1878); was professor of ecclesiastical history in the theological school at Solesmea, 1879-90; of ecclesiastical literature at the Catholic University of Angers, 1892-95, being also prior during 1890-95; prior of Farnborough, Hampshire, England, 1895-1903; and abbot of Farnborough since 1903. He has been vice-president of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society since 1901, and in 1908 was president of the French section of the Eucharistic Congress. He is the author of Bibliographic des Bimk-

dietines de la congregation de France (Solesmes,

1889); Histoire du Cardinal Pitra (Paris, 1893); etude sur la Peregrinatio Silvice; des 4glises de JErusalem; la discipline et la liturgae au iv. sibcle (1893); Le Livre de la pribre antique; etude de liturgic (1900; 4th ed., 1910); La Devotion liturgique d la Saints Yi≥ (1905); Les Origlnes liturgiques (1906); and is editing with H. Leclereq Monuments ecclesice liturgica (1900 sqq.) and the important Dictionnaire d'archeologie chrétienne et de liturgic (1903 sqq.). Not the least important of his work is contained in such journals as La Science ccztholique, Revue du clergy français, Rev-ue des questions historiques, Revue d'archkologie chrétienne et de liturgic, and Revue des facult& catholiques, to which he has made valuable contributions in his chosen line of Christian antiquities and liturgics.

DAMES, BENJAMIN: Welsh Baptist and Hebrew scholar; b. at Llanboidy (12 m. w. of Carmarthen), Carmarthenshire, Feb. 26, 1814; d. at Frome (a suburb of London) July 19, 1875. He was educated at the Bristol Baptist College, and the universities of Dublin, Glasgow, Halls, and Leipsic (Ph.D., 1838). From 1838 to 1844 he was president of the Baptist College, Montreal, Canada, resigning on account of his open-communion views,

which brought him into conflict with the governors of the college. He was then president of the Baptist College, Regent's Park, London, for two years, but in 1846 he returned to the Baptist College at Montreal as professor of Hebrew, a position which he exchanged in 1852 for the professorship of classics in McGill University, Montreal. During this period he continued his Hebrew studies, winning the reputation of being, with one possible exception, the best Hebraist of his time on the American continent. In 1857 Davies returned to Regent's Park as professor of classic Hebrew and Old-Testament literature, retaining this post until his death. In his early years he was a popular preacher in Welsh and English, but later he lost this popularity; though slow of speech, his knowledge. was encyclopedic, and he had in a very rare degree the teacher's instinct and the power of wincing the esteem and affection of his pupils.

Much of Davies' literary work was done in collaboration with others and published anonymously. It is known, however, that he wrote the introductions and notes for most of the Old-Testament books in the Annotated Paragraph Bible (London, 1850-57), and he edited and greatly improved E. Robinson's Harmony of the Gospels (1878), . besides editing Vergil, Homer, sad other classic authors. But his chief work was in the domain of Hebrew. He translated, enlarged, corrected, and annotated several editions of F. W. H. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1846,80), and in 1871 published at London his Compendious and Complete Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon do the Old Testament with do English-Hebrew Index, chiefly founded on the Works of Gesenius and Furst, with Improvements from Dieterich- and other Sources, which, until the publication of the Oxford Hebrew Lexicon in 1906, was the most accurate, upto-date, and valuable in the English language. Though so profound a scholar, Navies was a very simple, devout Christian, and had it not been for his excessive modesty, which led him to prefer to produce anonymously, much other literary work would have been known as his.

T. Witton Davies.

Bibliography: T. W. Davies in Nottingham Free Church Record, May-June, 1898, and Soren Gomer (Welsh), May, 1898; The Baptist, July 30, 1876; Baptist Handbook, 1876.