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ease and sj^rncc of' speech and movement were as noticeable in tiie aj^ed 

 man as tiiej had been in the happj youth of Mill Grove. His courteous 

 manners to all, \\\^\\ and low, were always the same; his chivalry, gener- 

 osity, and honor were never dimmed, and his great personal beauty never 

 failed to attract attention ; always he was handsome." At last, " after a 

 few days of increasing feebleness, for there was no illness," Audubon 

 quietly passed away January 27, 1851. An appropriate monument, erected 

 by the New York Academy of Sciences, marks his last resting place in 

 Trinity Church Cemetery, near the place of his New York home. 



The two volumes, 'Audubon and His Journals,' are beautifully piinled 

 and attractively illustrated, the illustrations including about a dozen 

 portraits of Audubon, one of his wife, and several of each of his sons 

 John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford. Also 'Mill Grove Mansion,' 

 ' Flatland Ford Mansion,' and Audubon's 'Old Mill' in Pennsylvania: 

 the monument that marks his grave, and several sketches of birds and 

 camp scenes not previously published. There are also facsimiles of sev- 

 eral entries in his journals, and of diplomas received from various for- 

 eign and American scientific societies. The publishers have thus done 

 their share to give these memoirs a fitting dress. 



Great praise is due Miss Audubon for her labor in preparing the 

 manuscripts for the press, and for her admirable biographv of her 

 eminent grandfather, in which she has displayed rare good taste and 

 judgment. The Missouri River Journals are enriched by footnotes 

 giving extracts from the writings of contempoi^ary travellers, confirma- 

 tory or explanatory of the text, and the European Journals by biographi- 

 cal notes respecting the eminent persons mentioned in the narrative. 

 Further value and interest is added by the annotations — zoologial, gee- 

 graphical and biographical in character — furnished by Dr. Cones, — a 

 task for which his special lines of research have given him eminent fit- 

 ness. Miss Audubon also acknowledges indebtedness to him for other 

 material aid and advice. She also refers feelingh- to the encouragement 

 and assistance rendered by her sisters and other friends, and sa_ys, among 

 her other acknowledgments: "Next to the memory of my father, Mr. 

 Ruthven Deane has been the motive power which has caused this volume 

 to be written." She is to be congratulated on thus having raised not 

 onlj' an enduring" monument to the memory of an admirable man, but on 

 having given to the world a fund of information so varied and welcome 

 that it is hard to say to what class of readers it most strongly appeals. 

 It must, however, especially awaken an ansAvering chord of sympathy in 

 the ' born naturalist,' endowed with feelings and aspirations such as in- 

 spired the great ' painter-naturalist,' whose life and works are here so 

 fittingly set forth. — J. A. A. 



