would come, and the child would wake. Is not that a magnificent power for one engine-man to have over the morning rest of thirty thousand sleeping people, because you, old Spartan croaker, who can't sleep easy underground it seems, want to have everybody waked up at the same hour in the morning. When I hear that whistle, and the fifty other whistles of the factories that have since followed its wayward and unlicensed example, I have wished more than once that we had in Boston a little more of the firm government of Sybaris. For if, as it would appear from these instances, Sybaris were a city which grew to wealth and strength by the recognition of the personal rights of each individual in the state,--if Sybaris were a republic, where the individual was respected, had his rights, and was not left to the average chances of the majority of men,--then Sybaris had found out something which no modern city has found out, and which it is a pity we have all forgotten. I do not say that I went through all this speculation at the Latin school. I got no further there than to see that the Sybarites had got a very bad name, and that the causes did not appear in the Greek Reader. I supposed there were causes somewhere, which it was not proper to put into the Greek Reader. Perhaps there were. But if there were, I have never found them,--not being indeed very well acquainted with the lines of reading in which those who wanted to find them should look for them. * * * * * What I did find of Sybaris, when I could read Greek rather more easily, and could get access to some decent atlases, was briefly this. Well forward in the hollow of the arched foot of the boot of Italy, two little rivers run into the Gulf of Tarentum. One was named Crathis, one was named Sybaris. Here stood the ancient city of Sybaris, founded, about the time of Romulus or Numa Pompilius, by a colony from Greece. For two hundred years and more,--almost as long, dear Atlantic, as your beloved Boston has subsisted,--Sybaris flourished, and was the Rome of that region, ruling it from sea to sea.