the power of example, Bunyan can contrast the difficulties of the pioneer with the comparative case of those who come after. In all English literature there is no finer and more inspiring description of the death of the good man than Bunyan's "So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side." Bunyan died in 1688. He had travelled on horseback from Bedford to Reading in order to endeavour to compose a family quarrel. He succeeded, but on his journey back he was caught in a storm, which brought on a fever, and he died at a friend's house in London. He was buried in Bunhill Fields. His last words were: "Take me, for I come to Thee." BIBLIOGRAPHY John Bunyan: his Life, Times, and Work, by Dr. John Brown, 2 vols. The Holy War and The Heavenly Footman. Macaulay's Essay on Bunyan. G. E. Woodberry, Essay on Bunyan in Collected Essays. S AMUEL PEPYS was born in 1633. His father was a shiftless, muddle-headed man who, after being for some years an unsuccessful tailor in London, retired to a village near Huntingdon, where he had inherited a small estate which brought him an income of eighty pounds a year. Samuel was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at Magdalene College, Cambridge; and when he was twenty-two, having little money and no prospects, he married the daughter of an impecunious Protestant refugee who was as irresponsible and unsuccessful as Samuel's father himself. Soon after his marriage Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards Lord Sandwich, who was a connection of the Pepys family, engaged Samuel as a sort of confidential secretary, and he and his wife were given rooms in Montagu's London house. Years after Pepys recalled how his wife used "to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hands," in the early days of their married life. Pepys held the appointment of "Clerk of the Acts of the Navy," and in 1673 he was appointed Secretary of the Admiralty, retaining his office until the Revolution of 1688 ended his official career. In 1690 he suffered a short imprisonment in |