Adam, which our Principal (Dr. Lee) delights to tell; it is
merely its bones. The doctor sent him to the bank for
L5--four in notes, and one in silver; then told him that he
must be paid for his trouble with a shilling, and next
proceeded to give him good advice about the management of
money, particularly recommending a careful record of every
penny spent, holding the shilling up before him all the
time. During this address, Sir Adam was turning over in his
mind all the trash he would be able to purchase with the
shilling, and his feeling may be imagined when the doctor
finally returned it to his own pocket.

It only remains now for me to thank my cousin and life-long friend, John
Taylor Brown, the author of the tract on "St. Paul's Thorn in the
Flesh." I am sure my readers will thank me not less heartily than I now
do him. The theory that the thorn of the great apostle was an affection
of the eyes is not new; it will be found in "Hannah More's Life," and in
"Conybeare and Howson;" but his argument and his whole treatment, I have
reason to believe, from my father and other competent judges, is
thoroughly original; it is an exquisite monograph, and to me most
instructive and striking. Every one will ask why such a man has not
written more--a question my fastidious friend will find is easier asked
than answered.

* * * * *

This Preface was written, and I had a proof ready for his pencil, when I
was summoned to the death of him to whom I owe my life. He had been
dying for months, but he and I hoped to have got and to have given into
his hands a copy of these _Horae_, the correction of which had often
whiled away his long hours of languor and pain. God thought otherwise. I
shall miss his great knowledge, his loving and keen eye--his _ne quid
nimis_--his sympathy--himself. Let me be thankful that it was given to
me _assidere valetudini, fovere deficientem, satiari vultu, complexu_.

_Si quis piorum manibus locus; si, ut sapientibus placet, non cum
corpore extinguuntur magnae animae; placide quiescas!_

Or, in more sacred and hopeful words, which, put there at my father's
request, may be found at the close of the paper on young Hallam: "O man
greatly beloved, go thou thy way till the end; for thou shalt rest, and
stand in thy lot at the end of the days."

It is not for a son to speak what he thinks of his f