To Subscribers [pp. 480-483]

DIED at Elizabeth, N. J., Monday, March 25th, 1867, Benjamin
Franklin De Bow, in the 44th. year of his age.
It is related of Frederic Cuvier-himself a man of no ordinary
intelligence —that he gave no thought to his own fame, but was keenly sensitive for that of his brother for whom he ever manifested the
most devoted affection; and his biographers tell us, that so earnest
and so sincere was this fraternal love and admiration, that his last
words framed for his tomb an inscription embodying that controlling
sentiment: "Frederic Cuvier, brother of Georges Cuvier."
Called upon again to notice the removal of one of the conductors
of this REVIEW, the writer recalls the incidents above recited, and is
struck with the parallel in so far as self-abnegation and fraternal solicitude make the cases equal. The Christian gentleman whose name
heads this notice, although gifted with qualities which under other
circumstances might have brought him favorably before the public as
a writer, had from boyhood so completely identified himself with
the fortunes of his elder brother, that whatever of fame or public
usefulness fell to the career of the latter, satisfied to the utmost
the cravings of his ambition. Hence, to repeated solicitations
from the late Editor that he would contribute to the pages of
the REVIEW, there was no response beyond the preparation of an occasional critique, or the arrangement of the material for some of its
departments; and hence, although for twenty years connected with
the work as publisher or assistant editor, he was known to subscribers in no other capacity than as its business manager.
There were many causes which led to this disposition and willingness only to reflect the honors won by the unceasing industry and
the unquestioned ability of the statist.
Left orphans in childhood the elder brother, with that remarkable
power of control which distinguished him in after life, and which
was early developed, at once constituted himself the guardian of the
younger, directed his education as they advanced in years, watched
over him with a father's care and solicitude, and, in brief, so girdled
him with the heedfulness of a vigilant affection as in a great meas ure to destroy the necessity of self-reliance. Then came a frightful
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