[[43]] Life, III. 149.

[[44]] Life of Charles Sumner, IV. 191; Works, VII. 452.

[[45]] G.W. Curtis, Orations and Addresses, II. 30.

[[46]] Ibid., 173.

[[47]] Ibid., 180.

[[48]] Ibid., 223.

[[49]] G.W. Curtis, Orations and Addresses, II. 458.

[[50]] See Curtis's Orations and Addresses, II.; also, his Reports as civil service commissioner, and various addresses before the Social Science Association.

[[51]] Edward Cary, Life of Curtis, American Men of Letters, 294.

[[52]] George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform, by Sherman S. Rogers, in Atlantic Monthly, January, 1893, LXXI. 15.