This is an influential work by Charles Dudley Warner (1829 1900), an American essayist and novelist. Warner toured widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. Excerpt "Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar."