moderate ability, having in early life adopted this course of action, have been very successful in their profession."

The Immortality of a Great Judge.

"I have seen in Venice, around the frieze of the large room in the Doge's palace, the names, with a single exception, of all the Doges of Venice—great men in their day and generation, to whose hands had been committed, each for a little time, the power of the republic. These men are forgotten. Not half a dozen names of those hundreds are remembered or ever mentioned now. In history only the victor Doges, or those in whose hands was the government of Venice during hours of extreme perplexity or prosperity, appear; and so it will be with us. The time will come when the Presidents of our Republic will be numbered by hundreds. Great as his high office may seem during the brief tenure of power alloted to each, they will nevertheless be very obscure persons indeed when compared with the men to whom was vouchsafed the opportunity of recording in judicial judgment decisions of lasting import, upon which depend the lives, liberty, and property of those generations, as well as of ages to follow. To-day Lord Coke's memory is gratefully preserved by every American lawyer, while even the names of the Prime Ministers of James the First have been forgotten."-Remarks upon death of Justice Campbell, in United States Supreme Court April 6, 1889.

GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR, MASSACHUSETTS.

(1826-.)

Senior Senator from Massachusetts.

Has been

twenty-five years in the public service at Washington. A varied scholar, a solid orator, an able lawyer, and a broad statesman. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, August 29, 1826. Was educated at Concord Academy and Harvard, where he graduated at twenty. Studied law at the Dane Law School, Harvard University; settled at Worcester; was City Solicitor, 1860; member of the State Legislature, 1852; of the State Senate, 1857; of Congress, 1869; being four times successively re-elected; United States Senator from 1877 till the present, having been three times re-elected, his present term expiring March 3, 1895. Mr. Hoar has filled various positions of responsibility and trust. Among others, Overseer of Harvard College, 1874-80; Chairman of the Massachusetts State Republican conventions of 1871, 1877, 1882 and 1885, and Delegate to the Republican National conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, and 1888, presiding over that of 1880, at Chicago; Chairman of the Massachusetts

delegation in 1880, 1884 and 1888; was one of the managers of the Belknap impeachment trial, 1876; member of the Electoral Commission, 1876, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880; has been president and is now vice-president of the American Antiquarian Society, trustee of the Museum of Archaeology, trustee of Leicester Academy, member of Massachusetts and American Historical Societies, and the Historic-Genealogical Society; and has received the degree of LL.D. from William and Mary, Amherst, Yale, and Harvard.

He might have been Governor of his State, or a judge of its highest court. He is of unbending principle, courage, independence, and integrity. A richly endowed lawyer, his ability was recognized by his being early placed upon the House Judiciary Committee, and afterwards at the head of the same committee in the Senate. "No one surpasses him," says ex-Senator Dawes, "in the extent and variety of his learning, in his familiarity with the classics, with ancient and modern history, and especially with that of his own country."

Humor.

“I am not certain that joking, or the capacity for joking, is the accompaniment, or ought to be the accompaniment of the great and severe transactions of human life; that men who are on trial for their lives, or who are framing constitutions or bills of rights, or denouncing great public crimes, are moved to take humorous views of the situation; or that there is any record that the Savior or the Apostles, or the Prophets, or either of them, had much humor."From an article on Charles Sumner, January, '94, Forum.

Sumner's and Lincoln's Instinct.

"There is no statesman of the time whom we can compare with Charles Sumner for unerring instinct, save Lincoln alone-and Lincoln owed much to his counsels."-Idem.

Our Wool Should be Protected.

"The nation that cannot produce its own clothing, that cannot clothe its armies in war, that cannot clothe its citizens in peace, without foreign assistance, is as weak and defenseless among the nations of the earth as the flocks we seek to protect would be weak and defenseless in an African desert, among lions and tigers. There can be no separation of the interest of the woolen manufacturer and the grower of wool. Every manufactured article of wool that comes in from abroad not only throws into idleness

the manufacturing operatives of America, who otherwise would have produced it, but condemns to a like idleness the farmer who, to that extent, would have grown wool."—-Remarks in United States Senate, July, 1894.

Intelligence of the People of Maine.

"Maine stands at the head of all the communities on the face of the globe in the capacity of the people to read and write, and in the education of its people. It is an unmixed English blood, and they have been used to self-government and to choose their rulers for two centuries."-From speech at Salem, Mass., 1884.

His Opposition to Hornblower and Peckham.

“Mr. Hoar, who led the opposition of the Republicans in the confirmation of William B. Hornblower and Wheeler H. Peckham, in 1894, for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, is a concentrated and incrusted bundle of prejudice and malice." -March-April, 1894, American Law Review, p. 276.