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hair, his gray, spare and active form ever conveyed a sense 
of untiring energy both of mind and body. His unflagging 
industry and cheeriness, together with an undercurrent of 
humor—which could no more verge on the gross or profane 
bright intelligence, genial disposition and charming person- 
ality, which, as Hooker remarks, gave him the entré to 
salons as well as to the museums of everv capital, upon his 
first visit to Europe, just half a century since, continued 
rough the mellowing influences of age. 
One day last October I was dining with a friend in the 
magnificent new building on the bank of the Thames of the 
National Liberal Club of Great Britain. The conversation 
naturally turned on Gladstone: «+ How does he act and ap- 
pear,” I asked, “when e is 
Uh,” my friend replied, ‘he so entirely throws off his age 
tre on the few occasions when he visits us, and the mem- 
€rs crowd around him so eager to hear his voice and to pay 
bie] 
Sa lic occasions, In all my personal recollections of Gray: 
Meee he is indelibly associated with one who must have 
wielded a most beneficent influence over him. I can not 
think of them apart, 
‘© wile was ever more sympathetic ie 
» More tender, true and solicitous, than t) 
