The New International Encyclopædia/Wells, Benjamin Willis

WELLS, Benjamin Willis (1850—). An American teacher, journalist, and author, born at Walpole, N. H. He graduated in 1877 at Harvard, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1880. Later he studied for a time at Berlin, held a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, was an instructor in the Friends' School, Providence, R, I., from 1882 to 1887, and from 1801 to 1890 was professor of modern languages in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. In 1800 he joined the editorial staff of The Churchman in New York City. Besides writing numerous magazine articles, he edited a number of school texts in French and German, contributed to the New International Encyclopædia, and published: Modern German Literature (1805); Modern French Literature (1807); and A Century of French Fiction (1898). With W. P. Trent, he edited Colonial Prose and Poetry, 1607-1775 (1901).