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Haldane was given but little tis came from his mother, as then in Italy, that she was ill and wished to see hiun to understand her son's character better, and to realize that he would retrieve the past She also reproached herself that she had not been more sympathetic and helpful to him, and was not a little jealous that he should have found better and more appreciative friends than herself And, at last, when she was taken ill, she longed to see hi her side

Her illness, however, did not prove very serious, and she ientleman appeared as so refined in histoward her that she could scarcely believe that he was the same with the wild, wretched youth who had been in jail, and, as almost as bad, who had worked in aas beautiful in nature and art while in the old world, but his thoughts turned with increasing frequency to his own land--not only because it contained the friends he loved so well, but also because events were now rapidly cul sections that will eventually form a better and closer union on the basis of a e of each other

When Mrs Haldane saw that her son was deteran to seem to her more like his old unreasonable self She feebly remonstrated as a matter of course, and proved to her own satisfaction that it was utter folly for a young e wealth as her son to risk the loss of everything in the hardships and dangers of war He was as kind and considerate as possible, but she saw from the old and well-remembered expression of his eyes that he would carry out his oill nevertheless, and therefore she and his sisters reluctantly returned with hi safely installed them in their old ho citizens of his native city that they had no further occasion to seclude theanizing a regi recruited there, and in which Mr Ivison had assured him of a coh his old mission class, he was able to secure enlistht in was unpro in its first appearance, he see dilapidated fellows into soldiers, and it passed into general rehest to start with and the best disciplined and most soldierly of them all when ordered to the seat of war"