tion Scene. Political Dinner. Sir Francis Burdett. - University of Ghent. - Public Schools of Andernach. King of Prussia. Professor Schlosser of Heidelberg. Strasbourg after the Three Days.- Zurich and the Brothers Pestalozzi. Top of the Righi. - Count de Salis. - Prince Metternich. The Family of De Rham. — Visit to Huber. -Lausanne. - Hospice of the St. Bernard, and Discovery Arrival at Paris. - Fenimore Cooper.- Duc de Broglie. Hon. Mr. Rives. - Lafayette. House of Deputies. Trial of Prince Polignac. — Academy of Sciences. Cuvier. - Humboldt. - Duchess de Broglie Chess.-M. Julien. "Silk Buckingham."— Evening at the Palace. - Louis Philippe. The Queen. Madame Orleans. Duke of Orleans. - Return to London. Campbell.- Lord Stowell. Countess of Cork. - Incident of the Duke of Welling- Tribute to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott. - Letter from Miss Sedgwick.-Letters from Mrs. Grant, of Laggan. FOREIGN AND HOME INTERESTS: 1833-1835. Nott stove sent to the Hospice on the Great St. Bernard. ment. Mr. Talboys' Offering to the Seminary. - Dr. Hook of Leeds. - Hugh James Rose. - Sir Robert Inglis. Miss Martineau. - Vacation Life at Con- Illness and Death of Eldest Son.- Death of "Alumni Address," and Evidences of Chris- Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning. Military Chaplaincy at Governor's Island. Building of the Chapel. Business Troubles. War with Mexico. Cali- fornia Regiment. Mission to California. - Public Ministra- CATHEDRAL MISSIONS AND CHURCH BUILDING: 1850-1854. New York Ecclesiological Society. - Cathedral System, and Bishop Smith. Sermon preached at the Jubilee Celebra- tion of the S. P. G.-Deaths of Son-in-law, Daughter, and Second Son. Purchase of Country Place at Irvington. Missionary and Church Work. - Building and Dedication Death of Bishop Wainwright.- Sermon before the Convention. A Cathedral Home. St. Stephen's College, Annandale. - Change of Duties in the College. Memorial of the Two Daughters of Governor Jay. - The One Hundred and Fif- THE LIFE OF JOHN MCVICKAR, S. T. D. JOHN CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE: 1787-1809. OHN MCVICKAR was born in the city of New York, on the 10th of August, 1787. The year, as historic, was one which he was fond of recalling. "The Constitution of the United States and I," he would say, "are of just the same age." His father, John McVickar, was one of the first merchants of New York. Of Scotch extraction, he came to America in early life, and entered into business with his brother Nathan. His mother was Anna, daughter of John Moore, of Newtown, Long Island, the descendant of one of the earliest English settlers in the colony, and himself long regarded as a sort of patriarch in that staid old village. There was the heritage of ancestral Churchmanship on both sides. As a merchant, his father stood among the highest in a city then noted for its honorable men of trade. A nice sense of commercial honor, and a readiness to grant extensions and give assistance in commercial difficulty, were his characteristics. "Who has McVickar helped to-day?" is reported to have been a common question on 'Change. As a man and a Christian in all the varied duties of home and society, he was equally exemplary. A vestryman of Trinity Church from 1801 to 1812, he still did not allow his duties there either to cramp his zeal or satisfy his obligations elsewhere. Four churches within what was then the one Diocese of New York, owe their origin, in whole or in part, and much of their prosperity, to the united zeal and liberality of Mr. and Mrs. McVickar,- Trinity Chapel, on the north side of Staten Island; St. Michael's, Bloomingdale; St. James's, New York; and St. Paul's, Constableville, Lewis County. But though such was the example of the father, and as one of the sons said in writing the news of his death, "My father lived for the happiness of his children," we must rather look to the mother, as is generally the case, for that personal influence which has its moulding and modifying effect upon a child's character. Mrs. Anna McVickar, who died in the seventythird year of her age, was one whom every one loved. "In the estimate of her character," to quote from the obituary notice at the time of her death, "it is not easy to say how much was due to natural temperament, how much to the early operation of religious principles. Neither is, it necessary, for in |