American and a great admirer of his old master; whereupon the dear old soldier grasped me by both hands, shook them, then hugged and kissed me with an enthusiasm that was French in the extreme. At first I could scarcely understand what it all meant. He went with us to the tomb of his old master, with seemingly as much pride as though the grave had been that of his own father. I could not exaggerate my own satisfaction in meeting this, of all men the most faithful, at the grave of Bonaparte, the greatest soldier in the history of the world, and there, too, under the dome of the Invalides.

On either side of this immortal soldier, rest the remains of his two most devoted and trusted heroes, Duroc and Bertrand.

Lincoln.

It has been our good fortune to meet many of the truly great men of the last half century, both in this and foreign lands; and of them all we regard Abraham Lincoln as without a peer.

During the civil war we had frequent opportunities to study him, in and out of the White House. His comprehensiveness seemed universal; hence he was in no sense a specialist. In manner, like all great men, he was simple in a marked degree. In conversation he had no rival; and his great heart knew no bounds.

He was not the orator that Webster, Clay, and Calhoun were; but he had the practical sense and strength of them all. Cicero says: "Great men are of divine inspiration." Who, knowing the man,

would deny such of the immortal Lincoln?

Truth.

MUCH has been said by classic writers, both ancient and modern, of truth versus its antithesis.

In the affairs of our race, it has ever been and ever will be a question of the greatest importance to man.

"And Pilate said: 'What is truth?'" Well, truth (per se) is God; and all that God hath wrought is truth. Its breadth is the breadth of infinity; while untruth is of human creation, and is more or less a factor in all that is vile in humanity.

Wisdom.

WISDOM, is an extensive, ready, and correct use of our knowledge.

Happiness.

SAYS the Duchess de Praslin: "Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire."

Addison says: "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise."

Pope says:

"Order is heaven's first law, and this confessed,

Some are and must be greater than the

rest,

More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence

That such are happier, shocks all common sense."

Thompson says: "Not all the world combined, can make the happy man without the mind."

Colton says: "He who thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Seneca says: "The blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach and that no man can be happy who does not think himself so."

It would seem as if, with a comprehensive brain and the love of God in the soul, a large, warm heart for family and friends, with a little prosperity in store, should make almost any-one happy. Earthly happiness is only obtained by making others happy.