His well-selected library was to him a constant source of pleasure and recreation, and the sight of it near him cheered and enlivened the last days of his declining life. He especially delighted in the study of the ancient classics and the writings of the early fathers of the Christian Church, being a thorough Biblical scholar; and from his own study, reading, and reflection he became liberal in his views on religious subjects.

The following just tribute to the memory of Mr. King is contained in a "Letter from Boston" in the "Salem Gazette" of July 31, 1857 :

"The Hon. John Glen King, whose death at the ripe age of seventy years was announced in your last paper, was a gentleman universally respected for his private worth and his public services and example. All who have had the pleasure of an intimate acquaintance with him have been blest by his social qualities, his urbanity of manner, and his kindness of heart. The odor of his virtues will long endure among his friends. Truly a good man has departed.”

Mr. King married, Nov. 10, 1815, Susan H., daughter of Major Frederick Gilman, and sister of Rev. Samuel Gilman, D.D., for many years the revered and beloved pastor of a church in Charleston, S. C., whose wife, Mrs. Caroline Gilman, was the editor of the "Southern Rosebud," and well known as a distinguished author.

Though suffering from occasional attacks of gout, the soundness of his health and the vigor of his faculties were unimpaired until a short time before his last illness, and the announcement of his death caused a widespread feeling of bereavement. Resolutions were adopted by the Essex Institute, deeply deploring the decease of its Vice-President "as a loss to literature and history, he having been in his lifetime eminent for his classical tastes and attainments, and conspicuous for his uniform devotion to sound literature." At a meeting of the Essex Bar Association, July 27, 1857, Hon. Daniel A. White presiding, a committee reported resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.

"That the Essex Bar Association have heard with deep regret of the decease of the Hon. John Glen King, one of the oldest members of their Society, who has been identified with the profession of the law in Essex County for the last half century;

"That they avail themselves of this melancholy occasion to express their high regard for his integrity, his fidelity, and his eminent professional merit; and that although most of those now engaged in the practice are by a long interval his juniors, yet young as well as old. will unite in paying a sincere tribute to the memory of one of the last

representatives of that Essex Bar, which was so long and so widely known and honored.

"Resolved, That the Bar is proud to feel that it is not only in the path of the profession that their departed brother has been distinguished, but that in all the relations of public and private life the consent of his fellow-citizens has awarded to his character the merit to which he was entitled, and that the numerous and responsible stations which through a long life he has been called upon to occupy, all indicated the unlimited and unabated confidence which was reposed in him."

Mr. King was chosen a member of the Historical Society in June, 1835.

MEMOIR

OF THE

HON. JOHN ALBION ANDREW, LL.D.

BY PELEG W. CHANDLER,

IMMEDIATELY after the death of Governor Andrew, in 1868, the Massachusetts Historical Society took appropriate action, and a member was appointed to prepare a Memoir of our deceased Associate. The unusual delay in this work has arisen partly from the authoritative announcement that an accomplished writer was collecting materials for an extended biography of the great War Governor, and it seemed best to postpone the sketch for this Society in the hope of being able to make a more satisfactory statement of Mr. Andrew's life and labors, from the light thrown upon them by a biographer selected by the family, one in every way competent to the work. It is now probable that the memoir referred to will not be published for a considerable time, if at all. Moreover, at the time of Mr. Andrew's death the fires of controversy were still burning, and it was thought that the subject might be treated in a more just and dispassionate way after the lapse of time, when the principles on which he acted could be better appreciated, and the prophetic character of his writings might be tested by time and experience. There was also a natural reluctance on the part of one of his earliest and most constant friends to attempt, in the space usually allowed for matters of this kind, the analysis of a character so remarkable, which should be just to him and loyal to the truth. In the Ufizzi Gallery at Florence, there is an unfinished bust of Brutus, and underneath some lines were at one time seen indicating that the artist abandoned his labor in despair, because overcome by the grandeur of the subject.

"Brutum efficisset sculptor, sed mente recursat

Tanta viri virtus, sistit, et obstupuit."

It is with something of this feeling that the sketch just now prepared is submitted to the Society.