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 John Marshall. the greatest questions, the most important interests, in the light of the highest reason, the finest learning, the most elevated senti ment, and often with an affecting eloquence,

His life, strange to say, remains to be writ ten. Lives enough have been thought worth writing that never were worth living, but the life of the great magistrate is unwritten still.

JOHN MARSHALL

which in our busy day has disappeared from courts of justice to be heard there no more; and shrined in the respect, the affection, the veneration of all his countrymen; no breeze of party conflict but was hushed in his presence, no wave of sectional quarrel but broke and subsided when it reached his feet.

Perhaps it is as well that it should be. Time was needed to set its seal upon the great lessons he taught; experience was requisite to show what was the result of following and what the result of departing from them. Some day the history of that life, that grand pure life, will be adequately written. But