But until the battle on that awful 21st of July proved the war realwith the added horror of civil hateSecretary Seward's epigram of ninety days clung fast in the public mind.

Indeed, I may say that, being a peaceful man, I wanted to remain in Washington, for I believed that Seward was sincere in pleading for a compromise; but the woman I speak of had her own opinion convinced me that she was right, and I came to my own people.

Nome is on the south shore of that part of Alaska known as Seward Peninsula, and it has no harbour.

(This photo is the frontispiece of the collection of essays entitled "Darwinism and Modern Science," edited by A.C. Seward and published in 1909).

APPENDIX I. (Page 424.) Boswell most likely never knew that in the year 1790 Mr. Seward, in the name of Cadell the publisher, had asked Parr to write a Life of Johnson.

Mr. Seward, hearing of my difficulty, and no scholar, suggested the closing line in the Rambler

" I adopted it, and gave Seward the praise.

[1150] According to Miss Seward, who was Mr. White's cousin, 'Johnson once called him "the rising strength of Lichfield.

"' Seward's Letters, i. 335.

"' Seward's Biographiana, p. 601.

Seward's Biographiana, p. 601 Mr. Hoole, senior, records of this day:'Dr.

The Reverend Dr. Parr, on being requested to undertake it, thus expressed himself in a letter to William Seward, Esq.: 'I leave this mighty task to some hardier and some abler writer.

J. L. SEWARD, Orange, N.J. DR

His thanks are particularly due to the Rev. Dr. Adams, the Rev. Dr. Taylor, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Langton, Dr. Brocklesby, the Rev. Thomas Warton, Mr. Hector of Birmingham, Mrs. Porter, and Miss Seward.

Mr. Seward records (Anec. ii.

The first interview sought was with Mr. Toombs, the most daring and ingenuous, and perhaps the most gifted in eloquence of the Southern leaders, whose house, at that time, was a lofty building upon F Street, only two doors from the residence of Mr. Seward.

Here is Billy Seward, for instance,"with a gesture toward his neighbor's house,"who says slavery is contrary to the Higher Law, and that he is bound as a Christian to obey the Higher Law; but yet he takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, which protects slavery.

" "You would think, then, Wendell Phillips, for instance, more consistent in his political opinions than Mr. Seward?"

(Vol. iii, p. 309, n. 1.) 'Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest as well as the most virtuous persons were to be found amongst those who united with a business or profession a love of literature.' Seward's Biographiana, p. 599.

BEAUMONT, Francis, i. 75, n. 3. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, co-operation, their literary, ii. 334; Garrick's adaptation of The Chances, ii. 233, n. 4; Seward's edition of their plays, ii. 467.

161, n. 5; Rousseau, admires, ii. 12, n. 1; Seward, William, iii. 123, n. 1; Solander, Dr., v. 328, n. 2; Streatham, life at, iv.

HAYLEY, William, correspondence with Miss Seward, iv. 331, n. 2; dedication to Romney, iii. 43, n. 4.

Indeed, the civilization in which we stand, as compared with the barbarism out of which we have been led by the Bible, would make William Henry Seward's assertion only a mild statement of the truth when he says: "The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible."

SEWARD, S. S., JR., joint author.

English grammar, by Kate Smith, Ethel B. Magee and S. S. Seward,