. Twelve Americans : their lives and times. aves of a book,his heart ceased to beat. Referring to his last conversation with Mr. Marcy, GovernorSeymour said to me : That last interview with the good, great man who hadbeen my life-long friend impressed me deeply. I then madeup my mind that no man should cheat himself out of the re-pose of his old age. In his last days, if his life had not beena barren one, it seemed to me that every man should havemuch to think of; that he should devote himself to suchthought and to such usefulness in his private circle as hemight be fitted for. It is for these
. Twelve Americans : their lives and times. aves of a book,his heart ceased to beat. Referring to his last conversation with Mr. Marcy, GovernorSeymour said to me : That last interview with the good, great man who hadbeen my life-long friend impressed me deeply. I then madeup my mind that no man should cheat himself out of the re-pose of his old age. In his last days, if his life had not beena barren one, it seemed to me that every man should havemuch to think of; that he should devote himself to suchthought and to such usefulness in his private circle as hemight be fitted for. It is for these reasons that I have re-fused in my age to accept public station. WThen I see totter-ing old men, upon the brink of the grave, engaged in an un-seemly scramble for office, I am always reminded of Holbeinspicture of The Dance of Death. It shall never be said ofme that I took part in such a cotillion. I shall never be afigure in such a picture. And from the determination thus formed Iloratio Seymournever departed. A Descendant of CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, A Descendant of Presidents. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. A MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY. On a broad, cool highway, half city street, half country road,in the prim, ancient, and cultured town of Quincy, in Massa-chusetts, there stands a commodious family mansion, remarka-ble for its severe simplicity, the obvious solidity of its con-struction, and the great beauty of the old trees by which itis surrounded. To the left of this house, and only separatedfrom it by a well-kept gravel walk and tall hedges of careful-ly-clipped box-wood, there is visible a second structure, which,at first sight, is a puzzle to the casual visitor. It is built ofdark-gray stone. Massive walls support the semi-Gothic wood-work is to be seen. The whole structure is at firstsuggestive of the time when Luther defied the devil in thestone chamber of the Wartburg. A nearer view gives a dif-ferent impression of it. The bright sunshine which breaksthrough t
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