Dante Alighieri, who has always been known by his Christian rather than surname (partly owing to the Italian predilection for Christian names, and partly to the unsettled state of patronymics in his time), was the son of a lawyer of good family in Florence, and was born in that city on the 14th of May 1265 (sixty-three years before the birth of Chaucer).

Mr. Smith seems to us well worth knowing as the type of a great class of Englishmen,that class to which the author of "School-Days at Rugby" gives the comprehensive patronymic of Brown,a class bold, honest, energetic, not too affectionate, not too intellectual, perhaps, but, by virtue of their strength of hand, head, and will, and their inborn honesty of soul, the masters in some important respects of all the men that live.

" He added his Christian name, because a reminiscence of the mystery belonging to his patronymic by itself flashed upon him.

He was a widower with a grown-up daughter; his wife, a daughter of the late Sir James Goldsworthy, who changed his ancient family patronymic from Granville to Goldsworthy on inheriting the great fortune of an American kinsman, had died eight years before.

I know of one who deserves to be called the Tree-hater, and, perhaps, to leave this for a new patronymic to his children.