has, if I am not mistaken, been translated into French, German, and Modern Greek, and has issued from the Mission-press at Ceylon, in one or more of the dialects of India.  It has also been partially rendered into the vernacular at the missionary stations, in opposite parts of the world.  His Child’s Book on Repentance, and his Histories of the Patriarchs, published by the American Tract Society, are the result of diligent study.  The Life of Moses may be specified, as having cost him most laborious investigation; and it is true of them all that there is in them an amount of illustrative Biblical research, and a depth of mental philosophy, which more ambitious writers would have reserved for their theological folios.  But even his books, widely as they are known and appreciated, convey but an imperfect idea of the writer’s power to interest and benefit children.  They cannot present his affectionate, playful manner, nor the genial and irresistible humor of his intercourse with them.  Mothers were glad to meet Mr. Gallaudet, but they were more glad to have their children meet him, even in the street; for a kind word, or a smile of pleasant greeting, told every young friend, even there, that he was remembered and cared for,—­and these things encourage children to try to deserve favor.

In person, Mr. G. was rather short and slender, but with an erectness of carriage, and a somewhat precise observance of the usages of refined society, which gave him an unfailing dignity of appearance.  A certain quaintness of manner and expression was an irresistible charm about him.  Sure I am, that one little girl will always remember the kind hand stretched out to seize her own,—­and the question after the manner of Mrs. Barbauld:  “Child of mortality, whither goest thou?”

His most remarkable personal characteristic was the power of expression in his face.  The quiet humor of the mouth, and the bright, quick glance of the eye, were his by nature; but the extraordinary mobility of the muscles was owing, probably, to his long intercourse with deaf mutes.  It was a high intellectual gratification to see him in communication with this class of unfortunates, to whom so large a proportion of the labors of his life was devoted.  It is said that Garrick often amused his friends by assuming some other person’s countenance.  We are sure Mr. Gallaudet could have done this.  We remember that he did astonish a body of legislators, before whom there was an exhibition, by proving to them that he could relate a narrative to his pupils by his face alone, without gesture.  This power of expression has a great attraction for children.  Like animals, they often understand the language of the face better than that of the lips; it always furnishes them with a valuable commentary on the words addressed to them, and the person who talks to them with a perfectly immovable, expressionless countenance, awes and repulses them.  In addition to this, our friend was never without a pocketful of intellectual bon-bons for them.  A child whom he met with grammar and dictionary, puzzled for months over the sentence he gave her, assuring her that it was genuine Latin:—­