Perhaps to their present biographer it seems more remarkable than to his readers.

This rule, the present biographer promises, shall guide his pen throughout the following narrative.

They had a grand banquet followed by a tea, to which latter amusement the present biographer was invited.

This is a part, which, especially for a few days, the present biographer has always liked well enough.

These cogitations kept the present biographer long awake, and he did not breakfast next day until an hour before noon.

To produce a work not altogether unworthy the hero whose life it records, is the utmost that his present biographer can reasonably hope to accomplish.

"Though of another race," says Dr. Riley, "the present biographer is not affected by the consciousness that he is writing of a Negro."

'He was too good a man,' writes his present biographer, 'for me to estimate rightly, and too great a philosopher for me to understand thoroughly.'