xxxiv MEMOIR. 
thoughtful reader only additional notes of power, 
of that true English ' Lebensgluckseligkeit/ as the 
German calls it, which makes a jest of danger and 
an amusement of toil. Jean Paul makes somewhere 
the startling assertion that no man really believes 
his religious creed unless he can afford to jest about 
it. Without going so far as that, I will say boldly," 
adds the writer, " that no man feels himself master 
of his work unless he can afford to jest about it ; 
and that a frolicsome habit of mind is rather a token 
of deep, genial, and superabundant vitality, than of 
a shallow and narrow nature, which can only be 
earnest and attentive by conscious and serious 
efforts." ^ There were few circles of society where 
Frank Gates was not welcome ; and once received in 
any of them, a place was ever after reserved for him 
in their midst. Whatever raciness or originality 
of character was to be met with where his lot for 
the time was cast, he failed not to find it out ; and 
he eagerly availed himself of every opportunity 
which enabled him to see life in its less conventional 
aspects. A certain chivalry endeared him to the 
weak, his fearlessness attached to him the strong, 
and no act of kindness was ever lost upon or 
forgotten by him. He wandered far afield ; but at 
home or abroad it ever was the same with him, and 
he had friends, go where he would : for the intellect, 
^ Fraser'^s Magazine, November 1856. 
