nant.

[4] The book alluded to is Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen. From
1800 till 1840. Edited by Dr. Hanna, and republished by G. P. Putnam's
Sons. The Duchess de Broglie was born in Paris, in 1797, and died in
September, 1838, at the age of forty-one. She was the only daughter of
the celebrated Madame de Stael. Some pleasant glimpses of her are given
in the Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor. Vol. I., pp.
128-139. Vol. II., pp. 103-139.

[5] The portrait in this volume is from a drawing by Miss Crocker,
engraved by A. H. Ritchie. Miss C., after pursuing her studies for some
time in Paris, has opened a studio in New York.

[6] In this letter she told me how much good Stepping Heavenward had
done her and how sorry she felt on hearing of Mrs. P.'s death, that she
had never written, as she longed to do, to thank her for it. "Dear soul!
(she added) perhaps she knows now how many hearts she has lifted up and
comforted by her wonderful words."--_From a letter of Mrs. W._

[7] Mr. Washburn died on Sunday, the 18th of September, 1881, aged 80
years. He was born in Farmington, Conn. His father, the Rev. Joseph
Washburn, pastor of the Congregational Church in F., was cut off in
the prime of a beautiful and saintly manhood. He inherited some of his
father's most attractive traits and was a model of Christian fidelity
and uprightness. In a notice which appeared in the New York Evangelist,
shortly after his death, President Porter, of Yale College, whose father
succeeded the Rev. Mr. Washburn as pastor of the church in Farmington,
thus refers to his life at Wildwood: "Some twenty years since he retired
for a part of eight years to the singularly beautiful house which was
selected and prepared by the taste of himself and wife, near East River,
a district in Madison, which he has for several years made his permanent
residence. His life was singularly even in its course and happy in its
allotments; a blessing to himself and a blessing to the world. His
memory will long be cherished by the many who knew him as one whom to
know was to love and honor."

[8] Mr. Isaac Farwell, or "Uncle Isaac," as everybody called him, was
the most remarkable man in Dorset. He died in 1881 in the 102d year of
his age. His centennial was celebrated on the 14th of July, 1879; the
whole town joining in it. He was full of interest in life, retained his
mental powers unimpaired, and would relate incidents that occurred in
the last centur