ABSTRACT
191 The close of the last year added a name to the list of the great men who have passed from among us durine:’ that period of time, which ought to, if it. does iiot, excite deep regret hevond the circles with whom that name was closely associated. When a distinguished statesman or a successful commander in taken away from the living, it in Ion; ere the popular voice in silent over the event; the death of one whose genius in of a less stirring and exciting character, in little felt out of its own sphere, ami the multitude scarcely know or care
“That from the firmament a star liuth fallen.”
