William Gowland Field

“ But Blaydes' interest and ample leisure were mainly absorbed by classical study. In 1845 he published an edition of a second play of Aristophanes the 'Acharnians.' In 1859 he published in the 'Bibliotheca classica' three plays of Sophocles. ”

“ Scholarship meant for Blaydes what it had meant for Elmsley at Oxford, for Person and Dobree at Cambridge. With the later and more literary school of Sir Richard Jebb in England and von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in Germany he had small sympathy. ”

“ His own views on the editing of classical texts will be found in the introduction to his ‘Sophocles,’ vol. i., and in the preface to ‘The Philoctetes of Sophocles,’ 1870. The University of Dublin made him hon. ”