But one of the wisest and most thoroughly cultivated men whom I ever knew, retired before the age of fifty, from a profession in which he was making an enormous income, because, he said, he had got as much as he or any one belonging to him could want, and he did not see why he should sacrifice the rest of his life to money-getting.

Some people thought him very foolish.

I did not.

And I believe that the gentleman of whom I speak never once repented his decision." [Footnote 1: A collection ought to be made and published of Lord Derby's admirable Addresses to Young Men.] The gentleman to whom Lord Derby referred was Mr.Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam hammer.

And as he has himself permitted the story of his life to be published, there is no necessity for concealing his name.