MORLEY, HENRY (1822-1894), British man of letters, was born in London on Sept. 15, 1822. He was sent to the Moravian school at Neuwied, whose system strongly influenced his subsequent theories of education. After an experiment in medical practice, which failed through the dishonesty of his partner, he set up a small school for young children at Liscard, near Liver pool. His principle was to abolish all punishment, to make his pupils regard their work as interesting instead of repellent, and to form their character by appealing exclusively to higher motives. The scheme proved a complete success. In 1851 he settled in London, on the invitation of Charles Dickens, as a regular con tributor to Household Words. He was also on the staff of the Examiner, which he edited from 1861 to 1867. Meanwhile he wrote admirable monographs on Palissy the Potter (1852), Jerome Cardan (1854), Cornelius Agrippa (1856), and Clement Marot (1870). His dramatic criticisms were reprinted in 1866 under the title of The Journal of a London Playgoer, 1851-1886. In 1857 he was appointed evening lecturer in English literature at King's College, and in 1865 succeeded David Masson as professor of English literature at University college, London. He published in
1864 the first volume of a monumental history of English litera ture entitled English Writers, which he eventually carried in eleven volumes down to the death of Shakespeare. He was indefatigable as a popularizer of good literature. After editing a standard text of Addison's Spectator, he brought out a vast number of classics at low prices in Morley's Universal Library, Cassell's National Library and the Carisbrooke Library. In 1882 he became principal of University Hall, which was a place of residence for students of University college and the home of Manchester New college. Morley was an untiring advocate of a teaching university for London. In 5889 he resigned his offices and retired to Caris brooke, Isle of Wight, intending to devote his leisure to the com pletion of his English Writers. But with his work only half achieved he died on May 14,