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affection, ones out in delight over the elderberry bush that 
stirs an early ; a more gladdening sight,” says she, 
a cee cistus or fuchsia, because once the long com- 
panion os my existence, that wove itself into my joys whens joys 
were vivid,” 
We have lingered with George Eliot because she is a type of 
the novelist’s indebtedness to flowers. Her flower-references are 
more definite, more beautiful, and more varied than those of 
many other novelists. Where George Eliot, for instance, vould 
take on their relative proportion, but we see dimly ; with George 
Eliot they are out of all proportion, but we see so distinctly that 
the picture becomes vivid as life in memory. 
DWARD SANDFORD BuRGESS. 
THE DAVID LYDIG FUND. 
Am the provisions of the will of the late Judge Charles P. 
Daly, cere October 23, 1899, occurs the following (Art. 8, 
ec. 5): 
All the balance of the said rest, residue and remainder 
ep 
estate en shall remain after ayment of the fo cone de- 
vises, legac n sts in this eighth article of my wil 
specified, rae devise and bequeath as follows: One-twelfth 
part ther the New York Botan Garden fora 
eof to 
memorial of my wife’s late grandfather, David Lydig, the amount 
