. American lands and letters. Theodore D. Woolsey. From a fhotograili taken in iSjo- 356 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. more often lieated by metapliysic burnings thanby any widowed woes of an Alcestis; yet a most lovable, kind-hearted man —incapable of anuntruth^ wheth-er he talked ofgood reading oro f causalities ;stanchly ortho-dox, and so alittle inquisitiveabout the paces of those whoNoah Porter. From a fhotogyafli taken about iSjS. traVelleCl (^tueO- logically) in a broad road ; but doing all his bat-tles with a smile of kindliness, and smiting theReids or Stewarts — if need were — with blow

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. American lands and letters. Theodore D. Woolsey. From a fhotograili taken in iSjo- 356 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. more often lieated by metapliysic burnings thanby any widowed woes of an Alcestis; yet a most lovable, kind-hearted man —incapable of anuntruth^ wheth-er he talked ofgood reading oro f causalities ;stanchly ortho-dox, and so alittle inquisitiveabout the paces of those whoNoah Porter. From a fhotogyafli taken about iSjS. traVelleCl (^tueO- logically) in a broad road ; but doing all his bat-tles with a smile of kindliness, and smiting theReids or Stewarts — if need were — with blowsmuffled in charities. Not over-apt in delicatephrases — stronger in scholastics than in pretti-nesses, and reckoning the graces of an active con-science and of accuracy beyond all the graces ofwords. We cannot pass the name of that good, FREEMAN CLARKE. 357 learned Dr. Freeman Clarke,* who had the largeheart and the wise purpose to combine in his

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