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COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

BY

FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN

The tongues of dying men

Enforce attention like deep harmony;

Where words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain,

For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

—Shakspeare

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

1901

Copyright 1901

by

Frederic Rowland Marvin

(June)

To my Wife

this Book is most Lovingly

Dedicated

Neither is there anything of which I am so inquisitive, and delight to inform myself, as the manner of men's deaths, their words, looks, and bearing; nor any places in history I am so intent upon; and it is manifest enough, by my crowding in examples of this kind, that I have a particular fancy for that subject. If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.—Montaigne.