man, and especially desired to attain connoisseurship in art. He had not the many-sided power of appreciation which distinguished Parker, yet a reverence for the beautiful, rather moral than aesthetic, led him to study with interest the works of the great masters.
In his later years, he never went abroad without bringing back pictures, engravings, or rare missals.
He had little natural apprehension of music, but used to express his admiration of some favorite operas, among them Mozart's Don Giovanni and Rossini's Barbiere di Seviglia.
In the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which he was chairman for many years, his acquaintance with foreign languages was much valued.
I remember a line of Tasso which he sometimes quoted when beautiful hands were spoken of:—
Dove ne nodo appar, ne vena eccede. On the other hand, I have heard him say that mathematics always remained a sealed book to him; and that his professor at Harvard once exclaimed, Sumner, I can't whittle a mathematic
e Booth, Mrs. Edwin.
Dexter, Franklin, a friend of Allston, 429. Dial, The, Margaret Fuller's paper, 145. Diary of an Ennuyee, Mrs. Jameson's, 40.
Dickens, Charles, dinner to, in New York, 26; at Mr. Rogers's dinner, 99; takes the Howes to Bridewell Prison, 108; gives a dinner for them, 110.
Dickinson, Anna, 305.
Disciples, Church of the, 256; Governor Andrew a member of, 263.
Divine Love and Wisdom, Swedenborg's, 204, 209.
Dix, Dorothea L., her work for the insane, 88.
Don Giovanni, its libretto, 24; admired by Charles Sumner, 176.
Dore, Gustave, the artist, his studio and work, 416-419.
Douglas, Stephen A., 178. Downing Letters, those of C. A. Davis, 25.
Dresel, Otto, musical critic and teacher, 438; tribute to his memory, 439.
Dress, in the thirties, 30, 31; at Mrs. Astor's dinner, 64, 65; at Samuel Ward's wedding, 65; at Lansdowne House, 102, 103; at the ball at Almack's, 106.
Dublin, the Howes in, 112-114.
Duer, John, at the Dickens dinner, 26.
were after the lurid flames were seen the evening sky. The approach to this place was a perfect "aston few moments before, some of the dragoons had ridden hastily through.
" the matter?" was asked. "Hell's was the only reply, as the bold dragoons fresh spurs and hastened on to a This was Friday, about four the evening.
time here, and then "Column, for the road to Tunstall's Depot, llop the hoofs of the horses failing like the steady tramp, tramp, tramp mandatory in "Don Giovanni, " or, simile, like the regular surf upon some rock-girt shore towards the station, the advance negro that eight Federal officers privates — in all, about thirty--were They were found basking in the perfect security, with arms stacked platform, and did not dream of dan early surrounded.
Brisk firing then but two privates escaped.
an axe, Gen. Stuart had the tele cut, thus destroying three lines.--McClellan's headquarters to Washington, the other two to camps on the mmy.
