America : our national hymn . ts tooth, and on the left, the skull of a man-eating tiger, which in hislifetime was known to have feasted on the flesh of several victims. On one of thetwo bookcases on the intermediate side of the library is a sitting Buddh, carvedin white marble. The tall, old-fashioned clock in one of the corners has been anheirloom in the family a hundred and twenty years. The most-used chair in theroom was the property, more than a hundred years ago, of a clergyman of the northernpart: of Middlesex County. The straw chair with projecting arms did service severalyears in the
America : our national hymn . ts tooth, and on the left, the skull of a man-eating tiger, which in hislifetime was known to have feasted on the flesh of several victims. On one of thetwo bookcases on the intermediate side of the library is a sitting Buddh, carvedin white marble. The tall, old-fashioned clock in one of the corners has been anheirloom in the family a hundred and twenty years. The most-used chair in theroom was the property, more than a hundred years ago, of a clergyman of the northernpart: of Middlesex County. The straw chair with projecting arms did service severalyears in the town of Rangoon in Burmah. A very beautiful slipper, of Dresdenchina, does duty as a pen-holder on the centre-table. Engravings cover most of thewalls not hidden by the bookcases; the most interesting being Pere Hyacinthe andHengstenberg, the commentator on the Psalms. This dwelling hath a pleasant seat. It faces the east, is moderately retiredfrom the street, and is upon an elevation gently rising for some distance, up which. REV. DR. S. F. SMITH. THE AUTHOR OF OUR NATIONAL HYMN. sweeps, in a graceful curve, the public road. Following this in its descent, and thenalmost to the top of a lesser acclivity, one comes to a rural church ideallysituated, and forming, amid its trees, an attractive sight across the pretty vale fromthe northern side of Doctor Smiths home. This view is English in its quiet graceand natural beauty. Returning now by the road, and going on past the house again, a spacious villagegreen is passed, and you come to another church, the one over which Doctor Smithwas many years settled, fit in position to gladden an American George is embowered in a corner where roads cross on the broad plain from which rises,on the left of the main road we have trodden, a long and high hill. This is crownedby the buildings of the Newton Theological Institution. One who toils up the wind-ing tree-lined avenue will be rewarded by reaching an eminence which will bear com
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