It is certainly remarkable how much there is worthy of record in members of so small a Community, and how large a proportion have made their mark in the varied walks of life. Science and Literature, Art and Manufacture, Philanthropy and Religion, Mission Effort and Education, Social Reforms and Mechanical Developments, have all had their furtherance from various members of our Society whose lives are here recorded. It forms a remarkable evidence of that quickening power in what the early Friends trusted would prove "Primitive Christianity revived." This remark receives further illustration, when it is observed that, with but little exception, the various individuals thus brought under notice have been the fruit of training in pious families, and how often they have themselves acknowledged the blessing attendant on a mother's care. It remains now but to add that the Committee will feel themselves amply repaid for their no small labour if the general acceptance of this work does but meet the Costs incurred in its production, and the absence of any other desire than to benefit the Society may be shown by their resolve to hand any surplus, should such accrue, to the Committee of the London Friends' Institute for the benefit of the Gallery Fund. W. BECK. H. G. CHALKLEY. LONDON, THE Quaker of the olden time, Around him, had no power to stain With that deep insight which detects And knows how each man's life affects He walked by faith and not by sight, The presence of the wrong or right He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That whoso gives the motive, makes And pausing not for doubtful choice Of evils great or small, He listened to that inward voice Which called away from all. From scheme and creed the light goes out, The saintly fact survives; The blessed Master none can doubt Revealed in holy lives. J. G. WHITTIER. BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. LUCY AGGS. BORN 1789-DIED 1853-AGED SIXTY-THREE YEARS. Lithograph 9 x 7 in. LUCY AGGS was the daughter of Thomas and Lucy Aggs, and was born in Norwich, on the 20th of 4th month, 1789. Her mother was a daughter of Henry Gurney, one of the original partners in the Norwich Bank. In a minute issued by Norwich Monthly Meeting concerning her, it mentions that "after much mental conflict, she came forth in the ministry early in the year 182; and her communications being to the comfort and edification of Friends, she was recorded as a Minister at the close of the following year," and the following obituary notice is taken from The Norfolk News :— "The life of this Christian lady furnishes no incidents of an exciting or remarkable character; for though it was one of considerable activity, rich in deeds of benevolence and religion, and even in some degree public, yet it was a life of sunshine rather than of sound. It had in it neither the earthquake, nor the whirlwind, nor the consuming fire, but only 'the still small voice,' which was more powerful than them all. She evidently never sought 'great things for herself,' but her very gentleness made her great.' And the remembrance of |