to railroad engineering in Baltimore and in Jamaica. The youngest,
Robert Sampson, only fourteen, is at Tryon, N.C., with his mother.

That interest in Lanier's life and work did not cease with his death,
there is abundant evidence. On October 22, 1881, a memorial meeting was held
by the Faculty and students of the Johns Hopkins University, at which
addresses*1* were made by President Gilman and Professor Wm. Hand Browne,
of the University, and by the Rev. Dr. William Kirkus, of Baltimore,
and a letter*1* was read from the poet-critic, Edmund C. Stedman,
of New York. In 1883 `The English Novel' was published,
and in 1884 the `Poems', edited by his wife, with the excellent `Memorial'
by Dr. Wm. Hayes Ward, who declared that he thought Lanier
would "take his final rank with the first princes of American song."*2*
Numerous reviews of his life and works were published, notably those
by Mr. Wm. R. Thayer, Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Professor Charles W. Kent,
and by the London `Spectator'. On February 3, 1888,
the Johns Hopkins University held another memorial meeting in Baltimore,
attended by many from other cities. "A bust of the poet, in bronze
(modelled by Ephraim Keyser, sculptor, in the last period of Lanier's life,
at the suggestion of Mr. J. R. Tait), was presented to the University
by his kinsman, Charles Lanier, Esq., of New York. It was also announced that
a citizen of Baltimore had offered a pedestal, to be cut in Georgia marble
from a design by Mr. J. B. N. Wyatt. On a temporary pedestal
hung the flute of Lanier, which had so often been his solace,
and a roll of his manuscript music. The bust was crowned
with a wreath of laurel; the words of Lanier, `The Time needs Heart',
were woven into the strings of a floral lyre; and other flowers,
likewise brought by personal friends, were grouped around the pedestal.
As a memento a card, designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman, of Boston,
was given to those who were present. Upon its face was a wreath,