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of France. Eighteen Honorary Hopkins’s schol-
arships are distributed among those under-gradu-
ates who show great merit. The present college
buildings are plain, but fine ones are to be perma-
nently built at Clifton, a Baltimore suburb, with
grounds several hundred acres in extent. This
estate was Mr. Hopkins’s country seat, where he
walked and thought and saved and planned for
his grand beneficence. He might have reared a
magnificent granite shaft to himself; he might

LITTLE BIOGRAPHIES.—HOW SUCCESS IS WON.

have lived in costly ease, but he has preferred a
monument which will proclaim his name through-
out the world. To be simply rich, is to be forgotten
like thousands of other millionnaires ; to give wealth
like Johns Hopkins is to be remembered with
honor-and with gratitude forever. Generations of
boys will grow to be men, and their children’s chil-
dren will come into this busy world and go out,
but the work of this “seven millions” will never
be finished.