literature, we have
still great painters among us. It would be idle, it would be, perhaps,
invidious, for me to mention names, many of which will rise unbidden to
your minds; but it is not, I think, out of place to remind you that it
is since the doors of the last Academy exhibition closed that the
illustrious historian [Kinglake] of the Crimean war has completed that
noble historic gallery, hung with battlepieces as glowing and as
animated, with portraits as vivid and as powerful, as any that have
adorned these walls. And if it be said that this great master of
picturesque English was reared in the traditions of a more artistic age,
I would venture to point to a poem which has been but a few weeks in the
world, but which is destined, if I am not much mistaken, to take a more
prominent place in the literature of its time--poem which among many
other beauties contains pictures of the old Greek mythology that are
worthy to compare even with those with which you, Mr. President, have so
often delighted us. I refer to "The City of Dreams," by Robert Buchanan.
["Hear! Hear!"] While such works are produced in England, it cannot, I
think, be said that the artistic spirit in English literature is very
seriously decayed. [Cheers.]

FITZHUGH LEE

THE FLAG OF THE UNION FOREVER

[Speech of General Fitzhugh Lee at a dinner given by the Friendly Sons
of St. Patrick and the Hibernian Society of Philadelphia, at the city
of Philadelphia, September 17, 1887. The occasion of the dinner was
the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of
the United States. General Lee, then Governor of Virginia, was the
guest of Governor Beaver at the dinner. The Chairman, Hon. Andrew G.
Curtin [Pennsylvania's war governor], in introducing General Lee said:
"We have here to-day a gentleman whom I am glad to call my friend,
though during the war he was in dangerous and unpleasant proximity to
me. He once threatened the Capitol of this great State. I did not wish
him to come in, and was very glad when he went away. He was then my
enemy and I was his. But, thank God, that is past; and in the
enjoyment of the rights and interests common to all as American
citizens, I am his friend and he is my friend. I introduce to you,
Governor Fitzhugh Lee."]

MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY:--I am very
glad, indeed, to have the honor of being present in this Society once
more; as it was my