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that faith in the substauce of his countrymen which gave him the 

 right to use words of honest scorn and warning. What impresses 

 one especially in reading this address, remembering the thoughtless 

 gibes which had been flung at this patriot, is the perfect self-respect 

 with which he defines his position, the entire absence of petty retalia- 

 tion upon his aspersers, the kindliness of nature, the charity, in a word, 

 which is the finest outcome of a strong political faith. It must have 

 been galling to Lowell to find himself tauuted with being un-American. 

 He could afford to meet such a charge with silence, but he answered 

 it with something better than silence when he reprinted in a volume 

 his scattered political essays. 



The public life of Mr. Lowell made him more of a figure before 

 the world. He received honors from societies and universities ; he 

 was decorated by the highest honors which Harvard could pay offi- 

 cially, and Oxford and Cambridge, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and 

 Bologna, gave gowns. He established warm personal relations with 

 Englishmen, and after his release from public office he made several 

 visits to England. There, too, was buried his wife, who died in 

 1885. But the closing years of his life in his own country, though 

 touched with domestic loneliness and diminished by growing physical 

 infirmities that predicted his death, were rich also with the continued 

 expression of his large personality. He delivered the public address 

 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Har- 

 vard University, he gave a course of lectures on the Old English 

 Dramatists before the Lowell Institute, he collected a volume of his 

 poems, he spoke and wrote on public affairs, and the year before his 

 death revised, rearranged, and carefully edited a definitive series of 

 his writings in ten volumes. 



1894. Horace E. Scudder. 



HENRY WARREN PAINE. 



The death of Henry Warren Paine, LL.D., took place at his 

 residence in Cambridge on the 2Gth of December, 1893. He had been 

 a Resident Fellow of the American Academy in Class III. Section 1, 

 Philosophy and Jurisprudence, from the year 1871. A membership 

 so long continued may bear witness to the interest taken by our late 

 associate in the advancement of knowledge and liberal culture beyoud 

 the immediate sphere of his own active life and achievements in the 

 special field of the practical jurist. 



He was born at Winslow in the State of Maine, August 30, 1810, 



