Nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice... . 
SHAKESPEARE, Othello to his biographers. 
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is power- 
less against truth. 
Hvx.ey. 
What a curious, interesting book, a biographer, well ac- 
quainted with my life, could write; it is still more wonderful 
and extraordinary than that of my father. 
AvDUBON, in letter to his wife, 
March 12, 1828. 
