Col., associate editor of The Interior, joint founder with the late Professor David Swing of The Alliance, a member of the publishing firm of Rhodes & McClure, editor of a score of good books, dying at the age of sixty-three, he left behind him the record of an active and beneficent life. As he drew near the sunset of his days he expressed to an intimate friend his deep satisfaction in the thought that, though he must cease to labor, his work should still go on. He said: "The words I have spoken may be forgotten, the memory of my face may die among men, but the books I have edited and published shall go on doing good for ever."

Mr. McClure did not live to finish this book. The material he had been gathering for years came into my hands with the request that it be prepared for publication with such additions as seemed desirable. In loyalty to the memory of my friend-for he was such to me in my student days at Evanston--I have followed as closely as possible the plan he had adopted in the choice of subjects and arrangement of contents.

And now the "Pearls" go out into the world, not one of them being offered as new, but only presented in a new setting. And yet it may be some shall be new to Even the old may have new beauty if

many an eye.

seen in a new light.

CHARLES CARROLL ALBERTSON.

DELAVAN AVENUE PARSONAGE, BUFFALO, N. Y., November, 1897.