Dorothy Q. 104
Dorothy Q's House in Quincy, Mass. 105
Holmes Delivering His Farewell Address, Harvard. 105
Summer Residence at Beverly Farms. 107
O. W. Holmes and E. E. Hale. 108
O. W. Holmes in His Favorite Seat at Beverly. 109
Edward Everett Hale. 120
M. de Blowitz. 122
Thomas Alva Edison. 124
Karl Hagenbeck. 127
Fridtjof Nansen. 151
Robert E. Peary. 156
Colonel W. H. Gilder. 159
General A. W. Greely. 160
Professor T. C. Mendenhall. 160
Diagram of the North Magnetic Pole Region. 161
Professor C. A. Schott. 162
The Dining-Room in M. De Blowitz's Paris Home. 167
M. De Blowitz in His Study. 169
The Lampottes; The Country House of M. De Blowitz. 171
Charlotte Bronte. 180

AN AFTERNOON WITH OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

BY EDWARD E. HALE.

My first recollection of Doctor Holmes is seeing him standing on a
bench at a college dinner when I was a boy, in the year 1836. He was
full of life and fun, and was delivering--I do not say reading--one of
his little college poems. He always writes them with joy, and recites
them--if that is the word--with a spirit not to be described. For he
is a born orator, with what people call a sympathetic voice, wholly
under his own command, and entirely free from any of the tricks of
elocution. It seems to me that no one really knows his poems to the
very best, who has not had the good fortune to hear him read some of
them.

[Illustration: Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston, May 24th, 1893.]

But I had known all about him before that. As little boys, we had by
heart, in those days, the song which saved "Old Ironsides" from
destruction. That was the pet name of the frigate "Constitution,"
which was a