"Sunt homines qui cum patientia moriuntur: sunt autem quidam perfecti
qui cum patientia vivunt." -- ST. AUGUSTINE.

"O, yet a nobler task awaits thy hand." -- MILTON.

ALL misliking of sudden death was taken away from them who
years before W man its approach at The Knoll in a form so con-
soling that they mid, as did Madame de Motteville in attendance
on Anne of Austria, "La mort en elle sembloit belle et agréable."

And so it did not fail to be during the ton years succeeding
her relinquishment of regular daily work, supported an she was,
under the severe and various suffering that slowly wean out life,
by the "still unfailing sweetness of temper " told of by all who
knew her earlier years; by the imperturbable patience, the sub-
dued self-will, and the never-ceasing disinterested devotedness
to the highest purposes an the justest principles.

The necessity of the am, however, compelled the relinquish-
ment of the " Daily News." And to one so accomplished for
sage counsel whether best to preserve peace or to uphold war,
knowing what so few do know respecting civil and spiritual
powers and the limitations of each, the act, however unavoidable,
was a difficult one to perform. She had literally and truly sat
under the palm-tree for forty yews, and all Israel had come up
to her for judgment; and when the judgment, ripened by ex-
perience, is at its highest perfection, the suspension of the power
to wield it is the most deeply felt.

So thought Arago, when he told us of his readiness to die, with
a shade of regret as he realized that till now be had never been
so competent to live.

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