BENNETT, CHARLES EDWIN American classical scholar, was born April 6, 1858, in Providence (R.I.). He graduated from Brown university in 1878, and also studied at Harvard and in Germany. After teaching in secondary schools in Florida, New York, and Nebraska, he became professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin in 1889, of classical philology at Brown university in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell university in 1892. His syntactical studies are based on a statistical ex amination of Latin texts, and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature. Of interest are his advocacy of "quantitative" reading of Latin verse, and his Critique of Some Recent Sub junctive Theories in Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was editor. Bennetts Latin Grammar (1895) was the first successful attempt in America to adopt the method of the brief, scholarly Schulgrammatik. Besides editing various Latin classics, he wrote, with G. P. Bristol, The Teaching of Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools (1900), and The Latin Language (1907), and with W. A. Hammond translated The Characters of Theophrastus (1902). His later publications include Syntax of Early Latin ; and New Latin Composition (1912). He died May 2, 1921, at Ithaca (N.Y.).