life to introducing North
American, and indeed we may say Massachusetts, systems of education into
South America,--first into Chili, where he was an exile for twenty
years, during the reign of the tyrants who brought such suffering upon
the Argentine Republic, and since that time into the Argentine Republic
itself, where he was at one time Governor of the province of San Juan,
at another, Minister of Instruction in the province and city of Buenos
Ayres, also Senator in their Congress. He took up the cause of his
country when quite a boy, and has devoted himself to it, either in the
field or as an educator, ever since. His eye has always been open to
behold the workings of the free institutions that he desired to see
established in it, and he has been probably the most powerful instrument
in inducing his government to adopt the Constitution and laws of the
United States, so that it is truly a sister Republic, and as such
appeals irresistibly to our sympathy.

The Life of Mr. Lincoln, which he has now written for his own
countrymen, has of course been gathered chiefly from biographies already
written; but the interest of the work consists in the adaptation of it
to the South American needs. To set forth the dignity of labor, the
supremacy of the moral sentiments, the duty of education for the whole
people, has been his aim; and he has enjoyed, and made others enjoy, the
fact that two men of the people, _par excellence_, who had no
adventitious aids of wealthy friends, or even of educated friends, did,
by force of character and native powers of mind, come to be the free
choice of this great people for President and Vice-President at a time
when a new epoch opened in its history: for even before the war broke
out, the "irrepressible conflict" was felt to be upon us, and we needed
the best of helmsmen, and the wisest,--in that sense of the word
_wisdom_ which includes goodness as well as intelligence. We hope to see
the Introduction to this work translated in full. The book closes with a
translation of Mr. Lincoln's favorite poem, "Oh, why should the spirit
of mortal be proud?" by young Bartholomew Mitre, one of Senor
Sarmiento's legation, a son of the President of the Argentine Republic.

A few months since, Senor Sarmiento issued a pamphlet, giving an account
of the splendid resources of the Republic, in answer to inquiries made
by those who wished to emigrate thither. He also wrote, many years ago,
a very interesting wo