BY THE BEV. BOBEBT ABIS WILLMOTT.
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hen the visitor to Cambridge enters the Ante-chapel of Trinity College, he meets two objectsof the deepest interest in art and science, — themarvellous statue of Newton, and the sitting figureof Bacon. If he raise his eyes to the paintedwindows, a different train of thought is awakened.One group especially attracts and detains him. Itis a scene at Bethany, in the house of that familywhom Jesus loved. Among the company gatheredaround him appears a face familiar to most studentsof the sweet and serious learning of the seven-teenth century : it is that of Geobge Hebbebt,to whom, after so many years, his own college hasconsecrated this memorial. The circumstances of his life are neither manynor varied. He was bom — one of ten children —April 3d, 1593, in the castle of Montgomery inWales. He came of a bold and noble race. Thereis at Penshurst a portrait of his brother, LordEdward, painted by Isaac Oliver, which shows aswarthy countenance, with dark eyes and exceed-
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