Dear Mr. Smedley,--I am quite astonished at your wasting your money on an advertising astrologer. In the horoscope sent you there is not a single definite fact that would apply to you any more than to thousands of other men. All is vague, what "might be," etc. etc. It is just calculated to lead you on to send more money, and get in reply more words and nothing else....--Yours very truly, ALFRED R. WALLACE. [Illustration: A.R. WALLACE ADMIRING _EREMUS ROBUSTUS_ about 1905.] PART VII Characteristics "There is a point of view so lofty or so peculiar that from it we are able to discern in men and women something more than and apart from creed and profession and formulated principle; which indeed directs and colours this creed and principle as decisively as it is in its turn acted on by them, and this is their character or humanity."--LORD MORLEY. "As sets the sun in fine autumnal calm So dost thou leave us. Thou not least but last Link with that rare and gallant little band Of seekers after truth, whose days, though past, Shed lustre on the hist'ry of their land. And thine, O Wallace, thine the added charm Of modesty, thy mem'ry to embalm."--_Anonymous._ (_Received with a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley, a few days after Dr. Wallace's death_.) Addison somewhere says that modesty sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. This was manifestly true of Alfred Russel Wallace. When, for instance, honours were bestowed upon him, he accepted or rejected them with the same good-humour and unspoilable modesty. To Prof. E.B. Poulton, whose invitation for the forthcoming Encaemia had been conveyed in Prof. Bartholomew Price's letter, he wrote: _Godalming. May 28, 1889._