1862.] 69 [Dunglison. 



added to the series. These essays were respectively, Oa our Belief 

 of an External World ; On Cause and Effect, read before this So- 

 ciety ; On Simplicity in Ornament; On Sympathy; On the Asso- 

 ciation of Ideas ; On Dreams ; On Beauty ; On Sublimity ; On the 

 Ludicrous ; On Classical Education ; On the Siamese Twins, read 

 before this Society ; and On the Love of Fame. 



Professor Tucker's protracted and useful existence was now verging 

 to a close. The death— in the summer of 1859 — of his wife, the con- 

 stant and faithful participator in his joys and his sorrows for upwards 

 of thirty years, gave occasion to a thorough revolution in his domestic 

 arrangements, and in place of wisely determining 



" To husband out life's taper at the close, 

 And keep the flame from wasting by repose," 



he undertook extensive and harassing journeys. In the early portion 

 of the summer of 1860, he visited Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, 

 the Eastern Shore of Virginia ; and in the middle of June, in com- 

 pany with his son-in-law, Mr. George Bives, of Virginia, travelled as 

 far as Chicago, to look after property which he had there. He did 

 not suffer from the long journey he took on this occasion, and subse- 

 quently in Virginia, and returned to Philadelphia in the early part of 

 the winter, with the intention of escaping the severity of the northern 

 winter, from which he had suffered greatly the previous year, by a 

 sojourn in the South. In December, he left Philadelphia, and in 

 company with a friend pi-oceeded from Richmond, in Virginia, to 

 Columbia, in South Carolina; and afterwards to Charleston, Savan- 

 nah, and other Southern cities. The last letter the writer received 

 from him was dated Savannah, in February, 1861. In it he feel- 

 ingly and deploringly depicts the condition of Southern sentiment 

 as exhibited there. '^ The state of public affairs," he remarks, *'is 

 indeed gloomy, even to heart-sickening. People seem to be crazed 

 in the fancies of imaginary evils, and of their strange remedies." 



Some weeks after the date of this letter, the writer was pained to 

 learn from Mrs. Bives, the eldest daughter of Professor Tucker, that 

 while landing at Mobile from a steamboat from Montgomery, her 

 father had been struck down by a bale of cotton, which was being 

 removed from the vessel ; and that the shock to his system was so 

 great, that for two or three days he was insensible, or more or less 

 incoherent. Under a most hospitable roof, he remained at Mobile, 

 until his son-in-law reached the place, when he was removed to 

 Sherwood, in Albemarle County, Virginia, the residence of Mr. 



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