CROSSING THE BAR Nothing that Tennyson has ever written is more beautiful in body and soul than Crossing the Bar. HENRY VAN DYKE. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, 5 When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. 10 15 10 LEE AND GRANT1 JOHN BROWN GORDON JOHN BROWN Gordon (1832-1904), an American soldier and lecturer, was born in Upson County, Georgia. He was educated at the University of Georgia, and immediately thereafter entered on the practice of law. On the outbreak of the Civil War he 5 entered the Confederate service as a captain and rose to be a major general. After the war closed he became governor and United States senator from Georgia. At the time of his death he was commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans. The strong and salutary characteristics of both Lee and Grant should live in history as an inspiration to coming generations. Posterity will find nobler and more wholesome incentives in their high attributes as men than in their brilliant 15 careers as warriors. The luster of a stainless life is more lasting than the fame of any soldier; and if General Lee's self-abnegation, his unblemished purity, his triumph over alluring temptations, and his unwavering consecration to all life's duties do 20 not lift him to the morally sublime and make him a fit ideal for young men to follow, then no human conduct can achieve such position. 1 From Reminiscences of the Civil War. Copyright, 1904. Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers. And the repeated manifestations of General Grant's truly great qualities - his innate modesty, his freedom from every trace of vainglory or ostentation, his magnanimity in victory, his genuine sympathy for his brave and sensitive foemen, 5 and his inflexible resolve to protect paroled Confederates against any assault, and vindicate, at whatever cost, the sanctity of his pledge to the vanquished-will give him a place in history no less renowned and more to be envied than that 10 secured by his triumphs as a soldier or his honors as a civilian. The Christian invocation which came from his dying lips, on Mount McGregor, summoning the spirit of peace and unity and equality for all of his countrymen, made a fitting close to 15 the life of this illustrious American. salutary: healthful. incentive: that which prompts to action. self-abnegation: self-denial. ostentation: love of show. -magnanimity greatness of soul.inflexible: not to be bent. AMERICAN COURAGE SHERMAN HOAR SHERMAN HOAR (1860-1898), an American public man, was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was graduated from the academic department of Harvard University in 1882, and from the law department in 1885. In the year of his graduation he 5 formed a law copartnership and began practice in the city of Boston. In 1891 he was elected to Congress, and was afterwards, for four years, United States District Attorney. During the SpanishAmerican War he was a member of the Massachusetts Volunteer 10 Aid Society and died as a result of typhoid fever contracted in that service. One of the best of those paintings which have made the name of Edouard Détaille famous is called "The Salute to the Wounded." In the 15 painting one sees a country road in France, along which are marching some wounded Prussian prisoners under an escort of French cuirassiers. A French officer of high rank and his staff are seated upon their horses by the roadside and are in the 20 act of saluting their wounded enemies, who are passing before them. The picture always has had an attraction for me, because it shows that strong patriotic feeling which led the French painters at the time of the Franco-Prussian War to find, even 25 in the incidents of a struggle fraught with so much shame and disaster for their nation, opportunities to paint nothing that did not put in evidence the best qualities of their national character. Here in the United States there is no lack of that admiration for courageous self-sacrifice which 5 the French painter has put so faithfully into his picture; but I sometimes feel that we fail to find in the devotion, the self-denial, and the sacrifice of those who have given themselves to make and maintain our country, all the inspiration that 10 should be derived from them, or that would be got out of them by the men of France, had those qualities been displayed by their countrymen. I fear we undervalue the devotion to country which comes from a contemplation of what has 15 been done and suffered in her name. I feel that we teach those who are to make or mar the future of this nation too much of what has been done elsewhere and too little of what has been done here. Courage is the characteristic of no one land or time. 20 The world's history is full of it and the lessons it teaches. American courage, however, is of this nation; it is ours, and if the finest national spirit is worth the creating; if patriotism is still a quality to be engendered in our youth; if love of country 25 is still to be a strong power for good, those acts of |