Tue world is quickly oblivious of ite groatest sons, Their deeds live in history, and occasionally in geography, but then so fei people think of reading history, or regard the existing state of political geography as anything bat an expression of the eternal fitness of things. We take it that the two greatest names which embellish the world's records for the last fifty yeara are those of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Simpson Giant, or Uaconditional Surrender Grant, as his abbreviated signature has been read since the day of Fort Donelson. We cannot hear too much about such men, and it is to the honour of both that each trasted and appreciated the other. That Grant was not a great President is evident enough, Ho was all along a tool in the hands of a particularly unprincipled party. But this fact, however regrettable in itself, renders it all the more incumbent on those who retain any tincture of hero-worship to remember, and to prevent others from forgetting, that he is a great man and a great soldier. It was because Grant was great that he forgot to demand Lee's sword at the capitulation before Richmond. "TI didn't want his sword," said he, when asked afterwards how ho bad come to neglect so important a form. It was because he was a great soldier that victory attended him almost uninterruptedly from his first dash at Paducah to the crowning scene at Appomattox Court House. The characteristics of the man and the exploits of the General are fading from men's minds, erased by more recent doings and sayings. "We therefore welcome the appearance of Mr. John Russell Young's elaborate report of his journey round the world with
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