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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...same character. A royalist--a republican and an emperor--a Mohammedan--a Catholic and a patron of the synagogue--a subaltern and a sovereign--a traitor and a tyrant--a Christian and an infidel--he was, through all vicissitudes, the same stern, impatient, inflexible original--the same mysterious, incomprehensible self--a man without a model, and without a shadow. )o( WHEN I HAVE TIME. When I have time so many things I'll do To make life happier and more fair For those whose lives are crowded now with care, I'll help to lift them from their low despair, When I have time. When I have time, the friend I love so well Shall know no more these weary, toiling days; I'll lead her feet in pleasant paths always, And cheer her heart with words of sweetest praise, When I have time. When you have time The friend you hold so dear May be beyond the reach of all your sweet intent; May never know that you so kindly meant To fill her life with sweet content, When you had time. Now is the time Ah, friend, no longer wait To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer To those around whose lives are now so dear; They may not meet you in the coming year--Now is the time. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY H. W. BEECHER. A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history, which belong to the nation that sets it forth. When the French tricolor rolls out to the wind, we see France. When the newfound Italian flag is unfurled, we see resurrected Italy. When the other threecornered Hungarian flag shall be lifted to the wind, we shall see in it the long-buried but never dead principles of Hungarian liberty. When the united cro...