I remember meeting him one day, when he said he had just been spending Sunday in Canton.

"Indeed!" said I, "my great-grandfather used to live there, and is buried there." "Well, sir," he answered, "it may be a very respectable town for all that." A master of English fiction, who has won fame abroad, and who dwelt for some little time in this country, has given a most vivid and accurate description of Judge Thayer, his speech and his style and eloquence and sense in a novel lately published.

One of the persons of the novel asks an English friend to the club, which he calls the State Club.

He goes to the Club, and this is what happens: "The State Club held its meeting in the parlor of the well- known Warrener House.

There were some fifty members present, who received the Mayor with cheers, as he entered with his two friends.