E-text prepared by Al Haines MIRIAM'S SCHOOLING AND OTHER PAPERS by MARK RUTHERFORD Edited by His Friend, Reuben Shapcott. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner, & Co., Ltd. 1890 TO STEPHEN WILLSHER. I dedicate this result of my editorial labours to you, because you were dear to our friend who is dead, and are almost the only person now alive, save myself, who knew him at the time these papers were written. A word of explanation is necessary with regard to the picture at the beginning of the book. You will remember that Rutherford had in his possession a seal, which originally belonged to some early ancestor. It was engraved with a device to illustrate a sentence from Lilly. The meaning given to the sentence was not exactly Livy's, but still it may very well be a little extended, and there is no doubt that the Roman would not have objected. This seal, as you know, was much valued by Rutherford, and was curiously connected with certain events in his life which happened when Miriam was at school. Nevertheless, it cannot anywhere be found. It has been described, however, to Mr. Walter Crane, and he has reproduced it with singular accuracy. It struck me, that although it has no direct relation with anything in the volume, it might be independently interesting, especially considering the part the motto played in Rutherford's history. R. S. CONTENTS. GIDEON SAMUEL SAUL MIRIAM'S SCHOOLING MICHAEL TREVANION GIDEON. _The story which Jotham told his children on the day before his death concerning the achievements of his father Gideon--His comments and those of Time thereon._ I am an old man, and I desire before I die to tell you more fully the achievements of your grandfather. Strange that this day much that I had forgotten comes back to me clearly.