. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . the age offorty, in company with those she lov-ed dearest on earth, one who, had shelived, v/ould have brought to Ameri-can life and culture the mature fruitsof an extraordinary intellectual devel-opment and experience, the value ofwhich will not be lightly estimatedby those who have studied and prop-erly appreciated what she had alreadyaccomplished. Perhaps no one, fromher intimacy with Mazzini and
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . the age offorty, in company with those she lov-ed dearest on earth, one who, had shelived, v/ould have brought to Ameri-can life and culture the mature fruitsof an extraordinary intellectual devel-opment and experience, the value ofwhich will not be lightly estimatedby those who have studied and prop-erly appreciated what she had alreadyaccomplished. Perhaps no one, fromher intimacy with Mazzini and othersof the revolutionary leaders, was sowell qualified to write the history ofthe Roman Republic; and we maywell regret that there was lost in thewreck of the vessel, when she perished,a full narrative of that movement,which she was bringirg home withher for publication. The writingswhich she has left behind her willwell repay the attention of the thought-ful reader, who will come to their pe-rusal with a sense of admiration fortheir force and self-reliance, their beau-ty and sincerity, in the presence of manydifficulties; and v»ith a feeling of sym-pathy enhanced by htr sorrowful GEORGE PEABODY. T1HIS eminently successful philan-. thropic merchant Wcas born of arespectable New England parentage,in the south paiish of Danvers, Massa-chusetts, February 18,1795. For twocenturies the family to which he be-longed had been influential residentsin Essex County. He received, at thecommon schools of the village, a limi-ted education, which terminated withhis eleventh year, when he was placedto earn his living in a grocery store ofthe town. He found, in the proprie-tor, Mr. Proctor, a friend who treatedhim with parental kindness, and supjili-ed him with maxims of prudence andgood conduct, which, sown in a conge-nial soil, have borne their fruit in thedistinguished career of the honorablemerchant. It is, indeed, to this soundNew England training that Mr. Pea-body attributes th
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