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FELTHAM FELTRE 119 layers. Drugget is a variety of felt in which machinery is made to agitate and work the fibres of wool together. A coarse variety of felt cloth has of late years been introduced, in the manufacture of which improvements have been made greatly facilitating the process. The method of making felt will be more partic- ularly noticed in the article HAT. FELTHAM, or Felltham, Owen, an English au- thor, died about 1680. No event of his life is known except that he resided for many years in the house of the earl of Thomond. He wrote " Resolves, Divine, Political, and Moral " (3d, and 1st complete ed., 1628 ; 10th ed., 1677), which has been highly admired for its exuberance of wit and fancy, fervent piety, and occasional subtlety of thought. Feltham is the author also of a few minor pieces in prose and verse. FELT03V, Cornelius Conway, an American scho- lar and writer, born at Newbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1807, died at Chester, Pa., Feb. 26, 1862. He graduated at Harvard college in 1827. While in college he was distinguished for his literary tastes, and the wide range of his stud- ies. He supported himself to some extent by teaching in Concord and Boston, and in the Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass. In his senior year he was one of the conductors of the " Harvard Register," a students' periodi- cal. After leaving college he was engaged for two years, in conjunction with two of his classmates, in the charge of the Livingston high school in Geneseo, N. Y. He was ap- pointed Latin tutor in Harvard college in 1829, Greek tutor in the following year, college pro- fessor of Greek in 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. In addition to the duties of this professorship he filled for many years the office of regent of the college. In 1833 he published an edition of Homer, with English notes and Flaxman's illustrations, which has since passed through several edi- tions, with revisions and emendations. In 1840 a translation by him of Menzel's work on " German Literature," in three volumes, was published among Ripley's " Specimens of For- eign Literature." In the same year appeared his " Greek Reader," containing selections in prose and verse from Greek authors, with Eng- lish notes and a vocabulary; this has since been frequently reprinted. In 1841 he pub- lished an edition of the " Clouds" of Aristo- phanes, with an introduction and notes ; since revised and republished in England. In 1843 he aided Professors Sears and Edwards in the preparation of a work on classical studies, con- taining essays on classical subjects, mostly translated from the German. He assisted Longfellow in the preparation of the " Poets and Poetry of Europe," which appeared in 1845. In 1847 editions of the Panegyricus of Isocrates and of the "Agamemnon" of JEschy- lus, with introductions and English notes, were published by him ; a second edition of the for- mer appeared in 1854, and of the latter in 1859. In 1849 he translated from the French the work of Prof. Guyot on physical geogra- phy, called "The Earth and Man;" and in the same year he published an edition of the "Birds" of Aristophanes, with an introduc- tion and English notes, which was republished in England. In 1852 he edited a selection from the writings of Prof. Popkin, his prede- cessor in the Eliot professorship, with an in- troductory biographical notice. In the same year he published a volume of selections from the Greek historians, arranged in the order of events. The period from April, 1853, to May, 1854, was spent by him in a European tour, in the course of which he visited Great Brit- ain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece ; giving about five months to the last named country, visiting its most interesting lo- calities, and carefully studying its architectu- ral remains. In 1855 he revised for publica- tion in the United States Smith's " History of Greece," adding a preface, notes, and a con- tinuation from the Roman conquest to the present time. In the same year an edition of Lord Carlisle's "Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters " was prepared by him for the American press, with notes, illustrations, and a preface. In 1856 he published a selection from modern Greek writers in prose and verse. Besides the above, he compiled an ele- mentary work on Greek and Roman metres, and wrote a life of Gen. Eaton for Sparks's " American Biography," and also various occa- sional addresses, and numerous contributions to the "North American Review," "Chris- tian Examiner," and other periodical publica- tions. He delivered four courses of lectures before the Lowell institute in Boston, on sub- jects connected with the history and litera- ture of Greece. He wrote the articles on Agas- siz, Athens, Attica, Demosthenes, Euripides, Greece, and Homer for the first edition of this Cyclopaedia. He was a member of the Mas- sachusetts board of education, and one of the regents of the Smithsonian institution. In the summer of 1858 he made a second visit to Eu- rope, partly on account of impaired health, and partly to complete some investigations into the language, topography, education, &c., of Greece. An account of this visit was given in his "Familiar Letters from Europe," published after his death (Boston, 1864). In 1860, on the resignation of President Walker, he was elected president of Harvard college. His most important work, " Greece, Ancient and Modern," was published posthumously in 1867 (2 vols. 8vo) ; it was made up chiefly from his lectures before the Lowell institute. FELTRE, a town of Italy, in the province and 18 m. S. W. of the city of Belluno, on the border of Tyrol, at the confluence of two small affluents of the Piave, at the foot of the last slopes of the Rhaetian Alps ; pop. about 5,500 Remains of the mediaeval fortifications are still visible in the upper town. The cathedral con- tains fine pictures. The monte di pietd, found-