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 240 NOTES BY THE WAY.

by Dr. Bennett, with the Prince of Wales as chairman, and Francis Bennoch as treasurer. The result was the marble bust by Thomas Brock, A.R.A. It was admitted to its present place in the Abbey on March 2nd, 1884, by Dean Bradley, and is the first monument of an American author placed there. Dr. Bennett presented to the American Longfellow Memorial Committee the album containing the five hundred autographs of the subscribers.

The Poet, faithful and far-seeing, Sees, alike in stars and flowers, a part

Of the selfsame, universal being Which is throbbing in his brain and heart.

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