WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR.

FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
The first, both in point of time and merit, of American envoys was famous not less for the pastoral simplicity of his manners than for the politic grace of his mind.

Viewed from a certain point, there was a touch of primeval orientalness in Benjamin Franklin.

Neither is there wanting something like his Scriptural parallel.

The history of the patriarch Jacob is interesting not less from the unselfish devotion which we are bound to ascribe to him, than from the deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian tact, gleaming under an air of Arcadian unaffectedness.