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It would have been a most interesting experience to gather from those charming visits which it was my valued privilege to enjoy, a fuller and more detailed story of his Metamora days. In his "Something of Men That I Have Known," he describes the country lawyer of three score years ago. Personally he belonged to a somewhat later period yet he was intimately ac- quainted with many of the actors and throughout understood the spirit of the time. Books were few and were the constant companions on the circuit. The modern and familiar law li- brary at the county seat may have been a dream of the future but it was not a reality of the time. Judges and lawyers were alike pilgrims and traveled together as in ancient Canterbury days. The coming to the county seat of a group of eminent attor- neys was an event to be looked forward to with warm interest. When court adjourned for the day and the wits were fore- gathered for an evening of social enjoyment there was a rivalry quite as intense as that of the court room but it was far more cordial. Mr. Stevenson's remarkable skill as a social enter- tainer must have been acquired in large part in the charming encounters of those historic evenings. Fine native gifts, a clear sense of their worth, the discipline of education, the dignity of service, spotless integrity, an un- tiring industry, a profound respect for certain fundamental convictions that the race has built into the substructure of a superior society these are elemental qualities that underlie any true success. And these are qualities that were easily dis-