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 ^'■Genius in Siois/iinc and Shadow.

��Rand. From that time his success was assured, and they were able to afford a very hixurious style of liv- iiiii;. When the portrait was finished the duke gave theui a dinner, and in- troduced them to many members of the nobility. Many years after, in the days of their poverty, she would enjoy speai\ing of this entertainment and its magnificence; but to Mr. Rand it was painful, and he would interrupt her with, '•• That is past and sone. my dear: don't let us trv to bring it back."

If I have been correctly informed, Mr. Rand died in New York city in the year 1873, and was buried in Woodlawn cemetery. His funeral services were conducted in the chapel of Dr. Booth's church, Presbyterian,

��Dr. Booth, and Dr. Williams, the late eminent scholar and Baptist divine, officiating. William Culien Bryant was an intimate, life-long friend, and, with other distinguished poets and artists, followed him to his last rest- ing-place. He left no children; and his widow survived iiim but a few years. No costly monument of granite or marble marks the spot where repose the remains of Mr. Rand; but he has left to his friends the memory of a character crowned with integrity, vir- tue, and religious faith, worthy of all imitation, while both in this country and in Europe remain many enduring monuments of his skill as an artist, and thousands who never knew him are to-day enjoying the fruits of his inventive genius.

��"GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOW."

The origin of those whom the world ments that it has been our pleasure has called great — men who have writ- to read. He has drawn from the ten their names indelibly upon the pages of history and his own memory pages of history — is often of the hum- illustrious examples of the develop- blest character. 8uch men have most ment of genius, even amid the most frequently risen from the ranks, uninviting and unfavorable surround- Oenius ignores all social barriers, ings. Daniel De Foe, Keats, Oliver and springs forth wherever heaven Cromwell, Hugh INIiller, .John Bunyan, has dropped the seed. The grandest Benjamin Franklin, Klihu Burritt, -characters known in art, literature, Benjamin West, and hundreds of and the useful inventions have illus- others, are cited as instances to illus- trated the axiom that brave deeds trate that genius is independent of are the ancestors of brave men;" circumstances. A galaxy of the names and it would appear that an ele- of the world's great men is presented ment of hardship is almost necessary' to demonstrate the fact that the hum- to the effective development of true blest may rise to be the greatest. In genius. That these facts are al- another chapter, Mr. Ballon effect- most incapable of just denial, Mr. ually dispels, by practial illustrations, Maturin M. Ballon further demon- the axiom that youth and rashness strates in hi^ deeply interesting book, dwell together. Evidence is given, Genius in Sunshine and Shadow," ample and sufficient, that 3'outh is which Messrs. Ticknor & Company, the period of deeds, when the senses ■of Boston, send to our table. Mr. are unworn and the whole man is in Ballou has, in his volume of three vigor of strengtli and earnestness, hundred pages, brought together the Mr. Ballou's book is crowded full of most curiously interesting collection interest from cover to cover, of facts bearing- out the above state- — Brooklyn Magazine.

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