He was not likely to worry over the friends he would
lose because of any stand taken for human justice. Lamed said of him:
"He was very far from being one who tried in any way to make himself
popular." Certainly he never made any such attempt at the expense of his
convictions.

The first Galaxy instalment was a sort of platform of principles for
the campaign that was to follow. Not that each month's contribution
contained personal criticism, or a defense of the Chinese (of whom he
was always the champion as long as he lived), but a good many of them
did. In the October number he began a series of letters under the
general title of "Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again," supposed to have
been written by a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco, detailing his
experience there. In a note the author says: "No experience is set down
in the following letters which had to be invented. Fancy is not needed
to give variety to the history of the Chinaman's sojourn in America.
Plain fact is amply sufficient." The letters show how the supposed
Chinese writer of them had set out for America, believing it to be
a land whose government was based on the principle that all men are
created equal, and treated accordingly; how, upon arriving in San
Francisco, he was kicked and bruised and beaten, and set upon by dogs,
flung into jail, tried and condemned without witnesses, his own race not
being allowed to testify against Americans--Irish-Americans--in the San
Francisco court. They are scathing, powerful letters, and one cannot
read them, even in this day of improved conditions, without feeling the
hot waves of resentment and indignation which Mark Twain must have felt
when he penned them.

Reverend Mr. Talmage was not the only divine to receive attention in the
"Memoranda." The Reverend Mr. Sabine, of New York, who had declined to
hold a church burial service for the old actor, George Holland, came
in for the most caustic as well as the most artistic stricture of
the entire series. It deserves preservation to-day, not only for its
literary value, but because no finer defense of the drama, no more
searching sermon on self-righteousness, has ever been put into concrete
form.--["The Indignity Put Upon the Remains of Gorge Holland by the Rev.
Mr. Sabine"; Galaxy for February, 1871. The reader will find it complete
under Appendix J, at the end of last volume.]

The "Little Church Around the Corner" on Twenty-ninth Street received
that happy title fr