Within three years of the publication of his _Ignatius_, CURETON gave to the world his precious edition of the fragmentary _Festal Letters_ of ATHANASIUS, which Richard BURGESS soon translated into English, and LASSOW into German. [Sidenote: THE FOUNDATION OF THE ORIENTAL TEXT SOCIETY.] The Syriac version was one of its editor’s earliest discoveries amongst the spoils of the Nitrian monasteries, and it was published at the cost of a new society, of which CURETON himself was the main founder. For the old Oriental publication society[36] limited itself, as its name imports, to the publication of translations. The new one—the claims of which to liberal support CURETON was never weary of vindicating—was expressly founded to print Oriental texts. This new body had his strongest sympathies, but he co-operated zealously with the ‘Translation Fund’ as well as with the ‘Text Society,’ Among his other and early labours, was the publication of a Rabbinical Comment on the _Book of Lamentations_, and of the Arabic text of EN NASAFI’S _Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites_ (‘Umdat Akidat ahl al Sunnat wa al Tamaat’), both of which books were printed in 1843. After 1845, CURETON’S literary labours were almost exclusively devoted to that Syriac field in which he was to be so large and so original a discoverer. The first distinctively public recognition of his services was his appointment as a Chaplain to the Queen, in 1847. Two years afterwards, he was made a Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret’s. Thenceforward, his energies were divided. The charms of Syriac discovery were not permitted to obstruct the due performance of the appropriate work of a parish priest; though it is much to be feared that they were but too often permitted to interfere, more than a little, with needful recreation and rest. Among those of his parochial labours which demanded not a small amount of self-sacrifice were the rebuilding and the improved organization of the schools; [Sidenote: PAROCHIAL LABOURS.] the building of a district church—St. Andrew’s—in Ashley Place; and the establishment of Working-Class Lectures, upon a wise and far-seeing plan. [Sidenote: FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITERATURE.] In 1851, he gave to scholars the curious palimpsest fragments of HOMER from a Nitrian manuscript (now ADDIT. MS., 17,210), and, two years afterwards, the _Ecclesiastical History_ of JOHN, Bishop of Ephesus. This was quickly translated into German by SCHÖNFEHLER, and into English by Dr. R. Payne SMITH. [Sidenote: MS. ADDIT. 14,640. (B. M.)] Then came the _Spicilegium Syriacum_, containing fragments of BARDESANES, of MELITO of Sardes, and the inexpressibly precious fragments of an ancient recension of the Syriac _Gospels_, believed by CURETON to be of the fifth century, and offering considerable and most interesting divergences from the Peshito version.