gnition of him by unanimously voting his mother a special grant of
500 pounds a year.

What more remains to be said? It is a fadeless memory that John
Nicholson has left behind him. Soldier, administrator, and leader of
men, he trod "the perfect ways of honour," and by his private as much
as by his public life made himself a shining ensample for all time.
Like Havelock, Henry and John Lawrence, Gordon, and many another
soldier of high fame, Nicholson was a man of deep religious feeling.
For this his careful early training was largely responsible. He would
not have enjoyed the Lawrences' intimate friendship had he not been the
high-minded, pure-souled man he was; but if he bore "the white flower
of a blameless life" himself, he never paraded his religion or forced
his views upon others. It was enough for him to live cleanly and
righteously, to follow the dictates of conscience in all his actions.

We may fittingly close this brief record of his glorious career by
echoing the words of an eloquent speaker who thus eulogised "the Lion
of the Punjaub"--

"He fell as a soldier would wish to fall, at the head of his gallant
troops, with the shout of victory in his ear. Was not such a death
worthy of such a life? And will not the Cabul Gate, where he fell,
live in future British history as live those Heights of Abraham on
which there fell, a century ago, another youthful general, the immortal
Wolfe?"

[1] See, among other accounts, _The Book of the V.C._ (Melrose).

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