The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-16 00:00:00

GEORGE PEABODY.

There is a simplicity in tho article devoted to this phi-
lanthropist, which characteristically describes the unosten-
tatious benevolence of his character.

The periodical opens with an excellent portrait, repre-
senting him as he now is, and the article contains another
as he was in 1816.

George was born in the town of Danvers, Massachu-
setts, in 1795. His school life ended at the early age of 11,
when he commenced, though in a humble capacity, his
commercial career. He began as a clerk in a grocery
store, from that he joined his brother in a dry-goods store,
which was burnt down. He entered as a Volunteer to
repel the British attack in 1812, but he was disappointed,
as the attack did not come off at the spot where ho was
stationed. Shortly after he became a partner in a mer-
cantile house in Baltimore. As his business increased it
became necessary for him frequently to visit Europe, and
finally he settled in London, where he amassed the large
fortune, which he has distributed in a manner so lavish
and extraordinary as to excite the attention of the world
His first important gift was to his native town of Danvers'
where he founded an educational establishment at a
cost of £30,000. Following in the tide of his own success-
ful career, he next proceeded to Baltimore, where he
established an institution devoted to science and morality,
and embracing a free library, which has already cost him
more than £1.00,000. He then turned his attention to the
great city where he had mainly amassed his fortune, and
it is almost impossible to conceive a more munificent gift,
bestowed more unostentatiously, directed more usefully,
and born of a more pure sense of duty, than that with
which his mind now proposed and executed. Could the mag-
nificent range of buildings in Spitalfields, and the hundreds
of happy homes established there, have been erected without
the name of the donor appearing, we believe that the
earnest religious feeling of this gentleman, would have left
the astonished citizens to imagine that the whole had been
the work of some good spirit. But it was necessary to
endow the institution and to make rules for its guidance,
and this could not be ; otherwise it is probable that the
name of George Peabody would not even have appeared,
and the world would have been left to guess who the rich
person-was, who had bequeathed in death so vast a legacy
to the poor.
The first sum devoted to furnishing homes to the in-
dustrious poor of London was £150,000, but last year this
sum was supplemented by another of £lOO,OOO, in paid-up
shares of the Hudson's Bay Company, representing one-
twentieth part of the vast territory of that company, and,
though now at a discount, likely hereafter to rise to a very
high premium. The manner in which this donation was
announced was in keeping with the modest and retiring
character of the great banker. At a quiet dinner party
given to the trustees of the Fund he read a letter stating
his intention and his object, and after completing his ar-
rangements he left this country for his native land.
The blocks of buildings erected in Spitalfields, Chelsea,
Bermondsey, Islington, and Shadwell will stand as fitting
monuments to his memory. It is intended to erect upon some
public spot in London a statue to this philanthropic Ame-
rican banker, and the Queen has testified in a worthy
manner thehigh sense she entertains of these princely gifts
to her poorer subjects by an autograph letter, which may
be taken as the tribute of the nation through its repre-
sentative. Mr. Peabody declined the proffered honours of
a baronetcy or Grand Cross of the Bath, but replied to her
Majesty's letter in appropriate terms, and accepted with
expressions of deep gratitude the Queen's gift of her own
portrait. _

We have already trespassed beyond our limits in our
notice of this excellent periodical. The proprietors may
call it a " Leisure Hour," but wo can assure our readers
that many of them would do well to take an hour from
business to read up its temperate, well-written, and well-
selected articles.

The Making of the American Nation, by J. A. Partridge
(London : Stanford), is an able and voluminous work on
the causes and results of the late war in the United States.
Mr. Partridge is an ardent admirer of the American system
of Government, and as vigorous an opponent of the false
principles of democracy which the rebel slaveholders un-
successfully endeavoured to embody in their so-called
Government. His analysis of American history and insti-
tutions proves him to have been an industrious and con-
scientious student ; and his application of the well-esta-
blished axioms of political science to the United States
entitles him to still higher praise. Those who desire solid
instruction and sympathise with that earnestness which is
begotten of knowledge would do well to read both " The
Making of the American Nation" and an equally able and
exhaustive work by the same author on " Democracy "
(Ti itbner and Co.)
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary (Tritbner and Co.) is a diary
of events in Richmond from April, 1861, to April, 1865
four most eventful years. Although the writer rejoices in
the not uncommon name of Jones, which might easily
afford a cloak for deception, his book contains internal
evidence of genuineness. It is full of the most curious in-
formation with reference to the military and political
drama in the South, besides containing a record of every-
day occurrences in Richmond. Unintentionally, no doubt,
Mr. Jones furnishes ample evidence of the rottenness of
the civil administration of affairs in the Confederacy.
Mr. Tribner has also republished a History of Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, which is interesting not only for the
light it throws upon early. American life and manners, but
because Delaware County is one of the strongholds of the
Society of Friends in the Quaker State.
The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada (Hurst and
Blackett) is a handsome volume, profusely illustrated, on
the natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of
the Canadian forests, plains, and waters. The author is
Major W. Ross King, whose "Campaigning in Kaffirland"
is well known. His present work deserves to be widely
read, and is, indeed, not merely qualified to attract the na-
turalist, but may be appreciated and enjoyed by the least
scientific reader. The illustrations, some of them coloured,
are invariably excellent ; the author's style is picturesque,
vivid, and animated.
Westfield; A View of Home Life During the American
War (Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas), is a beautiful
story to which we pay the best compliment by saying that
it completely carries out the purpose expressed in its title-
page by giving, under the guise of a domestic tale, a
thrilling, but we believe not exaggerated picture, of the
high devotion and courageous self-forgetfulness by which
the men of the Northern States who went out to fight and
the women who remained at home to wait were animated
and sustained by the recent American conflict. There is
no author's name attached to the book, but it is gracefully
dedicated to Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., in remembrance
of his constant sympathy for the Federal cause.

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