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 trip included England, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Greece, India, Ceylon, and Burmah. We visited the missions of various Church Societies, - English, Scotch, French, German, and American, so far as time and circumstances would permit. Vari- ous correspondence had suggested the points in the field-service of the Master where labor was needed. I endeavored to learn as exactly as possible the actuali- ties of the mission-work, its methods, its personelle, its needs, its trials, and its successes.

Literary work has been the natural result of my tastes and my studies. Articles for reviews, magazines, and newspapers have been almost without number. Among books, may be mentioned the "Life of Rev. Joseph Grafton;" "Lyric Gems" (publisher's title), "Rock of Ages," the two latter containing many of my own composition; "The Psalmist," in connection. with Baron Stow, the current Hymn Book of the Bap- tist Churches throughout the United States for thirty years, from 1843; "Missionary Sketches," and "Ram- bles in Mission Fields." These were followed by "The History of Newton," Massachusetts, 950 pp. octavo; several books edited; and varions translations for the Encyclopædia Americana, from the "German Conversa- tions Lexicon," amounting to fully one thousand printed pages. Not far from one hundred and fifty of my. hymns have, in various ways, been contributed to our Psalmody.

A strong poetical bias took hold of me when I was a boy of eight years. An "Elegy on a Cat," then written, disappeared long since, as well as the cat. The first poem published, was four years later; but if