in embryo; and at that moment the embryo began to germinate. Carr has been dead many years and most of his pupils have followed him, When he died, some of his pupils — Todhunter conspicuous among them — obtained his widow's permission to express their loving admiration of him by placing a suitable headstone on his grave.
With an old man’s garrulity, I could write much more. The name of old Hastings is to me like a spark upon the tinder in the tinder-boxes we used before lucifer matches were introduced. ‘That spark would continue to spread over the tinder with very little blowing. But I must clap on the lid of the tinder-box. I only hope that the children of to-day will find as much cause to remember the surroundings of their childhood with loving reverence as I find. With Longfellow,
“Often I think of the dear old town
That is seated by the sea;”
and with him, I find there the faces in the street are strange. But with him, too, I send back my thoughts to my “dear old town,” with pleasure that is almost pain.” Life now has more conveniences, there is more polish, there is more knowledge, and knowledge is more widely diffused; but I cannot discover that hearts are truer, motives purer, aspirations nobler, or thought more profound, now than then.
