"Such fertility, such Shakspearean breadth ; there is enough of him ; you feel as you do when you see the ocean." NOT A GOOD LISTENER. Speaking of the difficulty of being a good listener, he said that it was a terrible responsi bility for him to listen to a story. He could never be rid of the feeling that he must remember accurately, or it would be lost. There was one story in particular, told by a friend remarkable as a raconteur, which tried him more than anything in the world — of the kind. He felt like one of the old Greek chorus with strophe and anti-strophe, and it was a weight upon his mind lest he should not laugh properly at the end. OLD AGE. " If the Lord thinks it best for me to stay j until I tumble to pieces, I'm willing — I'm willing," he said. He was always capable of amusing his friends on the subject, as in the former days when Old Age came and j offered him a cane, an eye-glass, a tippet, and a pair of overshoes. " No ; much J obliged to you, said I. ... So I dressed myself up in a jaunty way, and walked out alone ; got a fall, caught a cold, and was laid up with lumbago, and had time to think over the whole matter." "My recollections are to those of other people around me who call themselves old — sexagenarians, for instance — something like what a cellar is to the ground floor of a house. The young people in the upper stories (American spell ing, story) go down to the basement in their inquiries, and think they have got to the bottom; but I go down another flight of steps and find myself below the surface of the earth, as are the bodies of most of my contemporaries. " NEW WORDS. His attention was turned on some occcasion to a young aspirant for artistic fame. He referred to the youthful person later as "one who performed a little on the lead pencil." He said to me one day, "I've sometimes made new words. In ' Elsie Venner' I made the word 'chrysocracy,' thinking it would take its place, but it didn't; 'plutocracy,' meaning the same thing, was adopted instead. 