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ten years have now elapsed since the issue of the second edition of this Memoir, we have thought it well, without altering what has been already published, to add such additional matter, in the form of a supplement, in connection with persons and work which have been frequently alluded to in the Memoir, as shall give an increased interest to the work. It is true death winds up the history here of those who are removed; but it does not close the effect of their life, in the influence it has brought to bear upon others; and while they are dead they still speak; and the influence of the spirit remains while the body is slumbering in the tomb.

The last few years have witnessed the removal of some with whom Mr. Groves was particularly connected; and among them that of his faithful Ninevite servant, (see pp. 220 and 532, &c.) who followed him from Bagdad, remained with him during his sojourn in India, and eventually came to England with his widow, and who departed this life on the 13th of August, 1865. A short memoir of this devoted servant has already been published, under the title of “Faithful Hanai,” to which we would refer our readers.