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MASTERPIECES OF THE SEA amongst their works, he was acclaimed by his peers for his merits, and his modest emotions are never to be forgotten, his pleasure and his deprecating, appealing acceptance of recognition, so generous and so just.

His had been a long patient journey, traversing many ways of deprivation and many upward and downward paths. There were honors enough—at the "Centennial," in 1876, in Paris, and in Philadelphia at an earlier day; but this was the culminating glory and it came fitly at the end: a golden crown for his silver locks. 61