of West Point, were, when asked on the scaffold if he had any thing to say: "Nothing but to request you to witness to the

world that I die like a brave man."

ROBERT HALL.

[An eloquent Baptist minister; born in Leicestershire, England, 1764; educated at Aberdeen; preached at Cambridge, Leicester, and Bristol; died 1831.]

The battle of Waterloo and its results appeared to me to put back the clock of the world six degrees.

GREGORY: Life, note A.

He said of Bishop Watson, "He married public virtue in his early days, but seemed forever afterwards to be quarrelling with his wife."- Ibid.

He called John Wesley "the quiescence of turbulence;" because, while he set all in motion, he himself was perfectly calm and phlegmatic.

Of a nervously modest man, Mr. Hall remarked, "Poor Mr. seems to beg pardon of all flesh for being in this world." To a man who asked him for a glass of brandy and water, he said, "You should ask for liquid fire and distilled damnation." Ibid.

Reviewing Mrs. Hannah More, he called "throwing soft peas against a rock." —Ibid.

I keep my nonsense for the fireside, while you publish yours from the pulpit.

To a minister who expressed his surprise at Mr. Hall's frivolous conversation after preaching a serious discourse.

He said of a certain clergyman, "His head is so full of every thing but religion, that one might be tempted to fancy that he has a Sunday soul, which he screws on in due time, and takes off every Monday morning."

When a lady replied, to a request for a subscription, that she would wait and see, Mr. Hall said, "She is watching, not to do good, but to escape from it."

Being told that his animation increased with years, he replied,

"Then I am like touchwood,

fired."

the more decayed, the easier

Some one said that the Archbishop of Canterbury's chaplain came into the room to say grace at dinner, and then retired; Mr. Hall remarked, "His grace, not choosing to present his own requests to the King of kings, calls in a deputy to take up his messages."

He called Tom Paine's writings against the Bible, "a mouse nibbling at the wing of an archangel."

When told that it was reported he was about to marry, he replied, "I marry Miss- -! I would as soon marry Beelzebub's eldest daughter, and go home and live with the old folks!" He called Owen, the geologist, "a valley of dry bones."

A tedious friend visited him at the asylum during a temporary aberration of mind, and asked him what brought him there: "What'll never bring you, sir,” replied Hall, — "too much brain, sir; too much brain, sir!"

The only passage in an egotistical clergyman's discourse which Mr. Hall pronounced very fine was "the passage from the pulpit into the vestry."

GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL.

[Properly Haendel: the distinguished musical composer; born at Halle, in Prussian Saxony, Feb. 24, 1684; composed sonatas at the age of ten; after study in Italy, settled in England, and acted as manager of the new Academy of Music, and of a theatre in which he lost his fortune; devoted himself from 1728 to the production of sacred music, composing the "Messiah," 1741; died 1759, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.]

I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

Of his state of mind during the composition of "The Messiah."

Vy, sir, your Highness plays like a prince.

Being asked by a member of the royal family how he liked his playing on the violoncello. A similar answer was given by Voltaire to the Duc de Villars, who asked him how he played the part of Genghis Khan in the poet's "Orphelin," at Ferney:

"Like a duke and peer." Marat, revolutionist as he was, favored the restoration of their titles to the nobles, because, as he said, "a duke is always a duke" (un duc est toujours un duc). He gave that as a reason for sentencing to death the republican Duc d'Orleans (Égalité): whatever he might profess, he would always be a noble. Napoleon said of the desertion of some of his generals after his first abdication, "You see, my dear Gerard, that the blue are always blue, and the white always white."

When Philip of Macedon corrected a musician at a banquet, and discoursed with him concerning notes and instruments, the musician replied, "Far be that dishonor from your majesty, that you should understand these things better than I do.". PLUTARCH: Apothegms.

Handel said at a state concert to George III. when a child, "You will take care of my music when I am dead."

HANNIBAL.

[The Carthaginian general; born about 247 B.C.; was taken, when nine years of age, to Spain by his father; became commander-in-chief, 221; invaded Italy, 218, and gained the battle of the Trebia; defeated Flaminius at Lake Thrasymene, and Æmilius Paulus and Varro at Cannæ, 216, but wasted his forces at Capua, and made no more offensive movements; evacuated Italy, 203; defeated by Scipio at Zama, 202; retired to Syria, 194, and to Bithynia, 190, where he took poison to escape being delivered to the Romans, 183 B.C.]

I will find a way or make one (Viam inveniam aut faciam). Words attributed to Hannibal, of the passage of the Alps by (it is supposed) the pass of the Little St. Bernard.

After gaining a great victory at Cannæ, his friends urged him to pursue the fugitives, and enter Rome in the confusion of the panic, promising him that he should sup in the Capitol within four days. On his reply that it required deliberation, a Carthaginian named Barca upbraided him, saying, "Hannibal, you know how to gain a victory, but not how to use it." "Occasion," observes Luther, "is a great matter. Terence says well, 'I came in time, which is the chief thing of all.' Julius Cæsar understood occasion: Pompey and Hannibal did not.”— Table Talk, 848. Pittacus, one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, to

whom is attributed the maxim, "Seize time by the forelock," used also to say, "Know the fitting moment;" with which the Emperor Charles V., according to Prescott ("Philip II.,” Bk. I. chap. ix.), made a partnership, "Myself and the lucky moment.” Plutarch quotes Zonarus to the effect that Hannibal himself acknowledged afterwards his mistake in not following up his victory, and used to cry out, "O Cannæ, Canna!"— Life of Fabius Maximus, note.

Let me deliver them from the terror with which I inspire them.

When mixing the poison which he always had in readiness, after the demand of Flaminius that he should not be permitted to live longer. The conduct of the Roman is contrasted with that of Scipio Africanus, who met his former antagonist at Ephesus, when Hannibal asserted that Alexander was the greatest general that had ever lived, Pyrrhus the second, and himself the third. Scipio smiled at this, and asked, "But what rank would you have placed yourself in, if I had not conquered you?” “O Scipio," replied the Carthaginian, "then I would not have placed. myself the third, but the first." Epaminondas, when called upon to decide between himself, Chabrias, and Iphicrates, replied, "Wait until we are dead." When Maurice of Nassau, second son of William the Silent, and even more distinguished in the field than his father, was asked who was the greatest living general, he replied, "Spinola is the second." (Spinola was an Italian general in the service of Spain: he captured Ostend in 1605, and gained several victories over Maurice from 1621 to 1625.) An Englishman asked Napoleon, at Elba, who was the greatest general of the age, adding, "I think, Wellington;" to which the emperor replied, "He has not yet measured himself against me." Dr. Parr once said, "The first Greek scholar is Porson; the third is Dr. Burney: I leave you to guess who is the

second."

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.

[Born in Delaware County, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1822; brigadier-general in the Civil War; member of Congress, 1864; governor of Ohio three terms; President of the United States, 1877-81.]

He serves his party best, who serves the country best.

In his inaugural address, delivered March 5, 1877 (March 4 being Sunday), President Hayes advocated a single presidential term of six years, and said, "The President of the United States, of necessity, owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor, and regard as of essential importance, the principles of their party organization. But he should strive to be always mindful of the fact, that he serves his party best who serves the country best."

HEINRICH HEINE.

[German poet and author; born at Düsseldorf, 1800; published "The Book of Songs," 1827; "Pictures of Travel," 1831; removed to Paris in that year; continued literary composition after the failure of his health in 1848, until his death, February, 1856.]

When people talk about a wealthy man of my creed, they call him an Israelite; but if he is poor they call him a Jew.

Saying that he knew whether people were talking about rich or poor Hebrews.

I am afraid you will find me very stupid. The fact is, Dr. called upon me this morning, and we exchanged our minds.

Apologizing, just before his death, to Berlioz, for feeling dull after the visit of a tedious German professor.

When his physician, who was examining his chest, asked him if he could siffler (which may mean to breathe forcibly or to hiss), "Not even M. Scribe's plays," he replied.

Thought is the unseen nature, as nature is the unseen thought.

This, and the following, are from manuscript papers, containing thoughts noted down as they occurred to him:

We do not comprehend ruins until we are ourselves in ruin.

The certificate of baptism is the card of admission to European culture.