Il6 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



wide and rich was his capacity for friend 

 ship ! 



Last week it was my fortune to attend 

 a meeting at the club of those who are 

 charged with the duty of preparing some 

 appropriate memorial which shall testify to 

 coming generations of the supreme regard 

 in which he is held by many of the best of 

 this. There was the ex-mayor, who is rap 

 idly building a somnolent college into a 

 great university ; there was the poet-editor 

 who lately sang of the blossoming and the 

 evanishment of the great White City ; there 

 was the genial essayist, my neighbour still 

 going with good cheer on his little journey 

 in the world ; there was the representative 

 of the time-honoured publishing house of the 

 Cheerible brothers ; there was the barrister 

 by whom rogues most dread to be cross- 

 examined, the doctor for whom the profes 

 sion does not afford a field broad enough 

 for his energies, the painter who knows 

 how to catch the very spirit of the New 

 England village, and the general who can 

 hold an audience hanging upon his word, 

 and who can tell, because he saw it with 

 his own eyes, how his great chief received 

 the sword of Lee under the tree at Appo- 

 rnattox. And there were the best of words 



