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400 published the American Instructor, valued at that time as an important contribution to the science of teaching. He was twenty-six when he began writing on the Oregon question, and forty -three when he set out to come to Oregon. The latter part of his life was spent in his hermitage at Three Rivers, Massachusetts, where he died aged eighty-five.

The titles to Kelley's writings would fill a page of this magazine. He was too enthusiastic not to be vis- ionary, but passages out of his brochures might be sus- pected of having been written within the last decade, from the likeness of the descriptions and the prophecies for the future of the country. Yet these were in print more than three quarters of a century ago. Although scattered broadcast then, in the Eastern and Middle States, they are "rare' now, few libraries possessing copies.

FRANCES FULLER VICTOR.