But the most sympathetically human demonstration was that at the funeral on July 5th, when his body was laid “to mingle with the illustrious dust” in Westminster Abbey. The Queen and the Prince of Wales were each represented in this closing scene. All the renowned Anglo-Indians then in England were present. The gathering, too, comprised much that was representative of Britain in war and peace, in art, literature and statesmanship. The decorations of the officers, won in Eastern service, shone amidst the dark colours of mourning. The words of the anthem were “his body is buried in peace but his name liveth for evermore.” As the coffin was lowered, the concluding lines of the hymn were sung: “And at our Father’s loved abode Our souls arrive in peace.” The funeral sermon was preached in the choir by Dean Stanley, who exclaimed as he ended: “Farewell, great Proconsul of our English Christian empire! Where shall we look in the times that are coming for that disinterested love, that abounding knowledge of India, like his? Where shall we find that resolution of mind and countenance which seemed to say to us, ‘This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I’?” THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. * * * * * _Vols. I.-IV., with Portraits, Now Ready, 2s. 6d. each._ English Men of Action. =General Gordon.= By Colonel Sir WILLIAM BUTLER. The _Athenæum_ says:--“As a brief memorial of a career that embraced many momentous spheres of action, that included some of the principal military and colonial crises of the past fifty years, and that ended in a halo of transcendent self-immolation, Sir William Butler’s volume is the best we possess.” The _Spectator_ says:--“This is beyond all question the best of the narratives of the career of General Gordon that have yet been published.” The _St. James’s Gazette_ says:--“Sir William Butler tells the story of Gordon’s life as a brother officer should. The interest never flags, and the narrative is imbued with a deep feeling of reverence.” The _Broad Arrow_ says:--“If the succeeding biographies of ‘English Men of Action’ do not in interest fall beneath, whilst in compilation they attain, the standard excellence of this volume, with which the series begins, they will form a notable addition to the library and furnish a valuable source of reference to the student of history.... To Plutarch’s Lives we would now recommend our young officers to add the ‘Life of Charles George Gordon’ as related by Sir William Butler.” =Henry the Fifth.= By the Rev. A. J. CHURCH. The _St. James’s Gazette_ says:--“The incidents in Henry’s life are clearly related, the account of the battle of Agincourt is masterly, and the style is eminently readable.”