Hartshorne.] \.4:0 [Oct. 11, 



merely; it was both elegant and forcible; varied with- 

 out eccentricity, and polished, although devoid of orna- 

 ment. His anniversary discourses on public occasions 

 connected with the Pennsylvania Hospital, and his in- 

 troductory and other addresses at the University, were 

 models of their kind; and there are passages in his 

 History of Christianity in India, which, without any of 

 the brilliant adornments of a Macaulay, would not 

 seem, in their manner, out of place upon the pages of 

 a Bancroft or a Prescott. 



His youthful ventures into the realm of poetic au- 

 thorship have been already mentioned. The exact 

 date of the composition of his longest versified work is 

 not known to me. The copy which I possess was 

 printed in Philadelphia, in 1864, without its author's 

 name. It was dedicated to his wife, in language of 

 admiration and tenderness; as the one who, as he 

 therein says, "hast taught me how much a woman can 

 love, and hast enabled me, through the feelings thou 

 hast inspired, to measure the depth of affection of 

 which the manly heart is capable." 



This poem was an epic, in rhymed heroic verse, en- 

 titled, "First and Last; a Poem intended to illustrate 

 the ways of God to man." It is divided into eighteen 

 chapters (instead of books or cantos), making a i2mo 

 volume of more than two hundred and fifty pages. 



In reading it, one might easily forget that its author 

 was a man of practical mundane experience and cyclo- 

 paedic research, an authority in precise and applied 



