the people, and they should be disappointed, their liberty will be lost, and tyranny must and will arise. I repeat it again, and beg gentlemen to consider that a wrong step, made now, will plunge us into misery, and our republic will be lost.-Speech in Convention, June 24, 1788.

But Henry's misgivings as to the working of the Constitution were mitigated by the adoption of the first eleven Amendments, some of which had been suggested by him, and he gave his support to the administration of Washington, although not approving of all its measures. In 1795 Washington offered him the post of Secretary of State, and subsequently that of Chief Justice of the United States; in 1796 he was again elected Governor of Virginia; and in 1797 President Adams nominated him as Special Minister to France; but he declined all these positions on account of impaired health and the necessary care of a large family. In 1799 the Virginia Legislature passed resolutions affirming the right of a State to resist the execution of an obnoxious act of Congress. Washington urged Henry to offer himself for a seat in the Legislature, for the purpose of opposing a doctrine which they both regarded as fraught with the utmost danger to the Union. He did so, and was elected, but died before taking his seat.

In all our history there is no man whose personal and official character is more absolutely irreproachable than was that of Patrick Henry. Of only a few of his speeches have we more than an account of the impression which they made upon those who heard him. So impassioned was his delivery that they seemed to be uttered on the

spur of the moment. But the few which have come down to us were evidently as elaborately prepared as were those of Demosthenes. Jefferson indeed declared that he was the greatest of orators, and John Randolph that he was "Shakespeare and Garrick combined." The Life of Patrick Henry has been written by William Wirt (1817), by Alexander H. Everett, in "Sparks's American Biography" (1844), and by Moses Coit Tyler, in the "American Statesmen" series (1887). Another Life has been published by his grandson, William Wirt Henry, who prepared the biographical sketch of his grandfather in "Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography" (1887).

HENRYSON, ROBERT, a Scottish poet, born about 1425; died about 1507. After studying at the newly founded University of Glasgow, he became a notary public and schoolmaster at Dunfermline. Although chronologically his life was almost exactly a century later than that of Chaucer, there is a marked resemblance both in matter and manner between the two poets. He wrote Robene and Makyne, said to be the earliest English classical poem. One of Henryson's poems, The Testament of Cressid, is a kind of sequel to the Troilus and Creseïde of Chaucer, and is inserted in some editions of Chaucer's works. Henryson wrote a metrical version of several of Æsop's Fables, to which was prefixed an introductory poem of which Chaucer might have been proud.

"The various works of Henryson," writes David Irving, "afford so excellent a specimen of the Scotch language and versification, that a complete collection, printed with due accuracy and accompanied with proper illustrations, could not fail to be highly acceptable to the lovers of our early literature."

A VISION OF ESOP.

In mids of June, that jolly sweet seasoun,
When that fair Phoebus with his beamès bricht
Had dryit up the dew frae dale and down,
And all the land made with his gleamès licht,
In ane morning betwixt mid-day and nicht,

I raise, and put all sloth and sleep aside,
And to a wood I went alone, but guide.

Me to conserve then frae the sunnès heat,
Under the shadow of ane hawthorn green
I leanit down among the flowers sweet;

Syne cled my head and closed baith mine een.
On sleep I fall amang those boughès been;
And in my dream methocht come through the shaw
The fairest man that ever before I saw !

His gown was of ane claith as white as milk,
His chimeris was of chambelote purple-brown ;
His hood of scarlet bordered weel with silk,
Unheckèd-wise, until his girdle down;

His bonnet round and of the auld fassoun;
His beard was white, his een was great and gray,
With locker hair, whilk over his shoulders lay.

Ane roll of paper in his hand he bare,

Ane swanès pen stickand under his ear,
Ane ink-horn, with ane pretty gilt pennair,
Ane bag of silk, all at his belt did bear;
Thus was he goodly graithet in his gear.
Of stature large, and with a fearfull face,
Even where I lay, he come ane sturdy pace;

And said, "God speed, my son ;" and I was fain
Of that couth word, and of his company.
With reverence I saluted him again,

"Welcome, father;" and he sat down me by. "Displease you nocht, my good maister, though I Demand your birth, your faculty, and name, Why ye come here, or where ye dwell at hame ?"

"My son," said he, "I am of gentle blood,
My native land is Rome withouten nay;
And in that town first to the schools I gaed;
In civil law studied full many a day,

And now my wonning is in heaven for aye.
Æsop I hecht; my writing and my wark
Is couth and kend to mony a cunning clerk."

HEPWORTH, GEORGE HUGHES, an American clergyman and lecturer, born in Boston, February 4, 1833. He studied theology at Harvard, was for two years pastor of the Unitarian church at Nantucket, and in 1858 was called to the Church. of the Unity, Boston. During the years 1862-63 he served as chaplain in the army. In 1870 he became pastor of the Church of the Messiah, New York, but having modified his religious views, resigned that charge in 1872, and organized the Church of the Disciples, of which he was pastor for the following six years. Afterward he was engaged on the editorial staff of the New York Herald. He has been a popular lecturer. He is the author of Whip, Hoe, and Sword, a sketch of his experiences as chaplain in the Army of the Southwest (1864), Little Gentleman in Green, a Fairy Tale (1865), Rocks and Shoals, a collection of short lectures to young men (1870), Starboard and Port (1876), Hiram Goff's Religion; or, The Shoemaker by the Grace of God (1893), Herald Sermons (1894), They Met in Heaven (1894), Brown Studies (1895).

What have become familiarly known as the "Herald Sermons" are the result of a suggestion made to Dr. Hepworth by James Gordon Bennett, who was of the opinion that for those who never see a religious paper, and never go into a "steeple-house," a short weekly sermon, printed in the Sunday paper, would be a good thing. “On