Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

y-,6 AN OLD FAMILY. [a.D. 1870
Trustee of Seton Hall College. Published a pamphlet on
The Dignity of Labor, which has been widely circulated, and
a volume of Essays in 1 882, on historical and miscellaneous
subjects, ot which a European critic wrote to a friend that
" it must have been composed bv a man who lives in a library,
or who carries a library in his head." The author lives, it
is true, among his books; but his modest collection can
hardly be called a library. His essays, lectures, and maga-
zine articles have all been composed during the leisure hours
that a clergyman of methodical habits can generally find even
in the midst of sustained and active work. Hence he will
only say, with an old English poet:
My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind.
— Sir Emv. Dyer (1550-1607).
Emily, a pious and amiable young lady, who received her
education at the Sacr'e-Caeur in Paris. She had good offers of
marriage, which she refused, because she would have liked to
enter a convent. I have a photograph of Pius IX., which
he gave her on September 9, 1861, as she was preparing to
make a spiritual retreat, and under which he wrote: Dominus
duck te in solkudinem ut Loquatar ad cor tuum. She died at
Rye Beach, New Hampshire, September 26, 1868.
Elizabeth. Educated at the Sacr'e-Cceur, in Paris. A sun-
shiny character and a clever writer.
Helen. Educated at the Sacre-Cceur, in Paris. A nun in
the Order of Mercy. A good French scholar and musician.
She teaches in her convent.
Isabella. Educated at the Sacr'e-Caeur, in Paris, and at the
Trinita dei Alonti, at Rome. Married, April 19, 1870,
Thomas Jevons, Esq., a brother of the late distinguished
writer, Professor William Stanley Jevons, a cousin of Sir