HAVELOCK:

THE

BROAD STONE OF HONOUR.

A Tribute of the Tongue and Pen.

BY

EDWIN PAXTON HOOD,

AUTHOR OF "WORDSWORTH, A BIOGRAPHY;"

MINISTER," ETC., ETC.

THE EARNEST

LONDON:

JOHN SNOW, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLVIII.

101.0.594

LADY HAVELOCK

CONDESCEND TO ACCEPT THIS DEDICATION

AS A FRAIL BUT AFFECTIONATE

Tribute of Homage

TO HER ILLUSTRIOUS HUSBAND?

THAT Some of the sentences in this little tribute may not seem strange, it will perhaps be necessary to explain that it was delivered first as a Funeral Discourse from the Author's pulpit, repeated on two or three other occasions, and published first by request.

A TRIBUTE.

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.-2 TIм. iv. 7, 8.

THE Country has been pierced to the heart by the intelligence of the death of a man who was to most of us, twelve months since, quite unknown. His name and his deeds flit across our memory during the past six months, like a brilliant myth. All we can hear of him brings him before our mind like the vision of some fabled warrior of old; in purity and in bravery he resembles rather those men of whom we have read as children, but in whom this suspicious old world has ceased to believe. Well may we grieve for him. In any profession we cannot af

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