The four hundreth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther occurred November 4, 1883, and the event was duly celebrated by a public meeting at the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the American Evangelical Alliance. "Never before," says the New York Herald, " was such a throng gathered under its roof," and the opening address made by Mr. Jay, as president of the Alliance, was an effort worthy of himself and of the fame of the "Great Reformer."

IJ])on the seventy-ninth annivei-sary of the New York Historical Society he read a carefully prepared and highly interesting paper upon the peace negotiations of 1782-83. This paper, which was printed, is a valuable contribution to national history.

To enumerate the various speeches delivered by Mr. Jay upon important occasions, in which he has exprcfsed hi.s views upon national questions, and the various writings he has contributed to our historical and political literature, would far exceed present limits. Through a long life he has been a conspicuous actor upon the stage of jniblic events, and his views and ofjinions have never failed to attract attention and command respect, and his name will descend to ]jostcrity sus unsullied as that of his illustrous ancestor. During his whole career he has never in any controversy 8to|)ped to consider the odds against which he was fighting. To him to undertake has been to continue, and tiie sentiment ascribed to the Hero of Switzerland seems to have been the

motive-power of his own actions: " Je ne sais pas H la cfios^cat possible, jnaisje .saiji yii'il faut la /aire."