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trade. Mr. Glover alludes to this in his diary (March IG, 1834) in char- 

 acteristic language, as follows : 



Mr. C. this eveuiug nave lue my iudentures of apprenticeship to Thompson, Scarf 

 &, Co., by which I find that £300 of my money is gone forever, merely to learn the 

 "art and mystery " of a stuff merchant, a mystery I hope never to practice. 



What other plaus for his future may have been made for him, or were 

 entertained by himself at that time, are not known, though his aunt was 

 once very desirious that he should study for the ministry. lu after-life 

 he frequently referred to this with satirical allusions to having been cut 

 out for the clergy ; and in a letter written to friends in England many 

 years after coming to America it is amusing to find a joking reference to 

 his clerical education. In his commercial life, with its exacting routine, 

 though utterly at variance with every instinct of his nature, he fulfilled 

 the duties which the position entailed upon him conscientiously and 

 with assiduity as long as he continued in it. The early discipline did 

 him no harm, if, indeed, it did not fit him for the life of most exacting 

 routine of his later years, to which, though self-imposed, he gave the 

 best years of his existence. 



But there suddenly came an end to his commercial education, for at 

 the age of twenty-one, or as soon as he had reached his majority, he 

 shook himself free at once and forever from the trammels of business 

 life. 



His father had bequeathed him an ample fortune, but, as Mr. G-lover 

 once gave the story to the writer, through the perfidy of his father's 

 partners in business, or others associated with him in Rio, the fortune 

 had been dissipated, save a portion which, unknown to Mr. Glover, 

 until he had reached his majority, was reserved in trust by relatives 

 in England. Mr. Glover not only thought that he had been cheated 

 out of his patrimony, but on at least one occasion has intimated the 

 suspicion that his father's death had occurred from other than natural 

 causes. Some weeks after arriving at his majority he received the small 

 fortune held for him by relatives in Leeds, and having meantime fitted 

 himself for going abroad by the study of German, he began active 

 preparations for his journey. To one who has known Mr. Glover inti- 

 mately in later life his diary kept at this period is most interesting, as 

 showing, even at the age of twenty-one, so many of those traits of char- 

 acter or individualisms, if the term may be used, which so strongly 

 marked the mature man. Indifference to country or home, distrust of 

 mankind and of the motives of people about him, self-reliance and a 

 wish to be his own master, and at the same time frequent evidences 

 of the good influences by which he had been surrounded in the family 

 circle in which he was reared, appear on many pages. Some are so 

 striking I can not forbear making a few brief extracts. 



During a short visit to Burneston, in April, 1834, he wrote : 



Sauntered ahont all day, reading Tani O'Shanter ; begin to think a coiuitrv life 

 would be very tiresome. Could manage to spend some months very pleasant I.y in the 



