William Torrey Harris, an American philosopher, born in Killingly, Conn., Sept. 10, 1835. He entered Yale college in 1854, but did not graduate. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by the college in 1869. In 1857 he went to St. Louis, and in the following year became a teacher in one of the public schools. Ten years later he was made superintendent of schools, a post which he still holds (1874). He was one of the founders of the philosophical society of St. Louis in 1866, and in 1867 established the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy," a quarterly magazine which he continues to edit, and to which he has contributed many philosophical articles of his own, besides translations of the principal works of Hegel. The "Journal" has also published translations from Leibnitz, Descartes, Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, and from recent German and Italian philosophers, and has given many remarkable papers on art, including in that term music and poetry as well as painting and sculpture.