below zero, and at Montreal it was everywhere deep snow (glorious for sleighing), icicles yard long outside the windows,--and of course smaller audiences to a frozen-up lecturer.

Yet many came nevertheless, and I am pleased to remember among them good Bishop Oxenden and his family.

In spite, then, of positively Arctic influences, as I had to do it, I did it bravely; and sent home needful dollars, and came back with a pocket full too.

All this is surely part of an author's lifework; so I am writing appositely.
Among notabilia of this second visit, which was crowded like the former with abundance of private hospitality and of public honours,--I may record these briefly.

Dr.Talmage, my kind and liberal host for two lengthened visits, gave a grand reception on October 26, 1876, to William Cullen Bryant and myself, which was attended by Peter Cooper, Judges Neilson and Reynolds, Mayor Schroeder, Professors Crittenden and Eaton, with some hundred more; the chief features of the evening being Bryant's poetical recitations and mine.