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diff --git a/14689-0.txt b/14689-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a3b417 --- /dev/null +++ b/14689-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10153 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14689 *** + +[Illustration: William Lee (Signature)] + + + + +THE BAY STATE MONTHLY. + +_A Massachusetts Magazine_. + +VOL. II. + +MARCH, 1885. + +No. 6. + + * * * * * + +LEE AND SHEPARD. + +By George L. Austin, M.D. + + +For a quarter of a century the firm-name of Lee and Shepard has been +familiar to the public. During this interval of time it has been printed +upon millions of volumes, which have gone forth on their two-fold +mission of instruction and entertainment. Few publishing houses in +America have achieved a more honorable record, or have more indelibly +left their impress of good intentions and of deeds nobly done upon the +minds of increasing generations. It is of the individual members of this +firm, both of whom have grown gray in the business, that I purpose to +speak in this article. First of the senior partner of the house. + +Born at the "North End," in Boston, on the seventeenth of April, 1826; +early put to school, and taken out of it at the age of eleven, at which +time he was left fatherless, the eldest of six children; with a good +mother to whisper words of encouragement in his ear, when everything in +the world and the future before him looked dark,--such was the start of +William Lee in life. Thousands before him, and since, have had the same +infelicitous experience; but how few have had the courage to overcome +the obstacles which he succeeded in overcoming? While other young men of +his age, many of them his playmates, were planning to fit themselves, by +a long course of study, for the duties of life, he was at once +confronted with the duties and burdens of life, without such advantages +as an education affords, and he met them with a manliness and a +self-reliance which now seem truly marvelous. I have often heard him +tell of these early days; but I will pass by the recollections for fear +that the recital of them might discourage many who read these lines. + +After leaving school young William was offered a situation in the +bookstore of Samuel G. Drake, then located at No. 56 Cornhill. Mr. Drake +was himself a famous "book-worm," was familiar with the authorities and +the history of Boston, and, in after life, achieved a reputation as an +author. He was what one would term now an "old-fashioned bookseller," +but what he did not know of the book trade in his day was not worth +knowing. William Lee entered his employ for two purposes--to learn the +trade and, in a very small way, to help support the family which was, in +a large sense, dependent upon him. During the three years of his +apprenticeship he showed himself an apt scholar, a patient worker, and +gifted with indomitable will and ambition. + +The next two years were passed in the country. On returning to Boston he +again entered a book store, and, when eighteen years of age, he became a +clerk in the then prosperous publishing house of Phillips and Sampson, +located on Winter street. His connection with this house afforded him +increased advantages; he was no longer an apprentice filling a menial +position, but was conscious of occupying a responsible station in the +business, where his integrity and intelligence were appreciated at their +real value. He enjoyed the fullest confidence of his employers, and was +soon looked upon by them as their "best" clerk. Selling by auction, +especially in the evenings, was at that time a leading feature of the +trade, and William Lee soon became an expert in that way, as well as in +the general character of salesman to the country trade. There was +scarcely a detail in the book trade with which he did not make himself +personally familiar; he sought to post himself upon the character and +contents of every book that was kept in stock, in order that he might be +able to speak intelligently of them to his customers. This habit of +general familiarization is one which, in the lapse of subsequent years, +has proved of incalculable service to him; it is one which cannot be too +earnestly commended to the attention of all young men who are to-day +"working" up in the trade. + +At the age of twenty-one William Lee was allowed a share in the +business, and three years later he accepted an equal partnership in the +house. When it is remembered that at this time the house of Phillips and +Sampson stood foremost as publishers in New England, the fact that, at +the age of twenty-four, William Lee became an equal partner in this +house is certainly striking. It bears but one explanation: William Lee +owed his remarkable success to the talent which was born and bred in +him, and to the consciousness of self-reliance, with which his +employers, first and last, had inspired him. There is nothing in this +life which will so readily develop the best qualities of manhood as a +sense of responsibility, first to the individual himself and next to +those whom he serves. Take away this sense of responsibility, every man +becomes a machine; everything that he does is mechanical. + +In the firm of Phillips, Sampson and Company Mr. Lee continued as a +partner for seven years. To his energy and industry the prosperity of +the house was henceforth largely indebted. For twelve, and sometimes +fifteen hours a day, he remained faithfully at his round of duties. + +In 1857 Mr. Lee's health gave way, and his physician ordered him to +relinquish all cares of business. Acting in accordance with this advice, +he sold his interest to his partners for sixty-five thousand dollars, +taking the notes of the firm for that amount. After a few months of +travel in his own country, he sailed for Europe in June, 1858, in +company with Willard Small, with the intention of spending five years on +the continent. He proved to be a good traveler; his keen observation +encompassed everything; his generous heart and the geniality of his +nature won to him many friends. Ere many months had elapsed he had +traversed England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. + +While he was in Paris, an incident occured, the recollection of which +has served to enliven many a social occasion. It was the exciting time +succeeding the attempted assassination of Napoleon by Orsini. Mr. Lee +always wore a long, sandy beard, and in his travels sported a soft, +broad-brimmed hat. One day, while walking about the streets, he was +arrested and taken to the Palais de Justice. Explanations and +expostulations proved unavailing. The prisoner was declared to be a "red +Republican," and, in those days, that was no joke. It was only after the +production of a passport and the interference of the United States +consul, that the authorities were induced to release their captive. + +Mr. Lee was in Paris, and was on the point of making a second journey +into Spain, when the United States mail brought him a letter, conveying +the tidings of the death of both Mr. Phillips and Mr. Sampson, and the +failure of the house. + +The panic of 1857 had made sad havoc with the book trade generally, and +those firms which weathered the storm were sorely pressed. Phillips and +Sampson met with heavy losses, but struggled on in the hope of +recovering lost ground. But, in 1859, the death of the senior members of +the firm seemed to paralyze its prosperity, and the worst quickly +followed. + +Mr. Lee had received no warning of the impending calamity, and for the +time was much overcome by the announcement. He foresaw what it implied, +however, and at once returned to Boston, to find himself a heavy loser +by the financial disaster. + +Still undaunted, he gathered up what remained of his fortune and, in +February, 1860, he became a member of the firm of Crosby, Nichols and +Company, which had purchased many of the stereotype plates belonging to +the late firm of Phillips, Sampson and Company, and which now took the +name of Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company. But the long stagnation of +trade, succeeded by losses in the southern states, consequent upon the +political troubles of those days, bore heavily upon the new firm; and, +in the spring of 1861, Mr. Lee left the business and again trod the +streets of Boston without a dollar that he could call his own! Thus, +after twenty years of business activity, his fortune was gone, and +nothing remained for him to do except to begin life over again. + +During the next few months Mr. Lee surveyed the field about him, +endeavoring to discern what could be accomplished with no other capital +save brains. A decision was soon reached, and it resulted from one of +those little incidents of life, which, although rare indeed, make life +all the more worth living. I hope I betray no breach of trust in +recalling it. + +While walking down Washington street one day Mr. Lee encountered his +friend of many years. + +"What are you doing now, Charlie?" he asked. + +"Nothing; and I'm as poor as a church mouse," was the reply. + +"But, look here, Charlie, keep up your courage. I haven't got much +myself; but I'll go halves with you. Come up to my room to-night, and +we'll talk matters over." + +The friends parted, to meet again within a few hours in the glow of the +gas-light. Affairs were candidly and earnestly discussed, plans were +laid, and then and there began the firm, whose reputation has extended +wherever the English language is spoken,--the house of LEE AND SHEPARD. + +It was February 1, 1862. The times were not propitious for a beginning +at any trade, but the partners were veterans in experience, and no +sooner had they shaped their plans than the public in many ways evinced +its confidence in their undertaking. Better than a large capital was the +encouragement they received from all with whom they had formerly had +dealings; and they began under the most pleasing auspices. + +The firm first occupied a very old, two-storied wooden building, known +as "the old dye-house" on Washington Street, opposite the Old South +"Church."[A] + +[Footnote A: On the site now occupied by the "Old South Clothing +House."] + +Of course the store soon began to show its incapacity for the growing +business, just as the "old corner" had done in the case of Ticknor and +Fields, and as almost every ancient book-shop has done in the last +quarter of a century. The proprietors of the establishment were not only +their own employers, but their own employees as well. They attended to +their own book-keeping, did their own selling and buying, tied up their +bundles and packed all the cases. Early and late they shouldered their +task, and started ahead. After three years thus spent the firm moved +into the new store at 149 Washington Street, which still remains, and +which the firm continued to occupy until 1873. + +At this point it is convenient to go back a number of years and recount +the principal events in the life of the junior partner of the house: +Charles A.B. Shepard. + +If the boy could have had his own way, when he started in life, the +chances are that to-day he would be an American admiral. As it happened, +his early passion and proclivities were not fostered; he became a +bookseller whom all the world now knows as "Charley Shepard." + +He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, October 18th, 1829, and received +his education at the public school. He was one of the brightest scholars +in his class, learned easily, was fond of books, never wearied of study, +and never forgot what he acquired. At the start he was blest with a most +marvelous and retentive memory, and a keen sense of the practical side +of life. "It was thus," as one of his friends has remarked, "that his +school days were profitable to him to a degree not common, and it was +thus that his rapidly-growing literary attainments became the +astonishment of strangers and the never failing delight and surprise of +his friends." + +Mr. Shepard's father was a sea-faring man, who, however, took good care +to check every inclination towards that sort of life that existed in the +mind of his son, at a very tender age. At his business start, therefore, +the boy was forced into a channel that was not of his own choosing. At +the age of fifteen, after having previously tried his skill as a boy of +all work in the grocery business, he entered the store of John P. +Jewett, a bookseller at Salem. He remained with Mr. Jewett eleven years, +during which time he forgot all about the details of the West India +trade and instead acquired a perfect knowledge of those of the making +and selling of books. When, in 1846, Mr. Jewett removed to Boston and +opened a store on Cornhill, Mr. Shepard accompanied him, and by his +untiring energy, his close application to business and his intelligent +way of conducting the affairs of the house in general, very largely +contributed to the success which, in those days, was accounted so +remarkable. He was even then looked upon as the "hardest worker" in the +trade. He was the first to enter the store in the morning, and the last +to leave at night. To many, it seemed as if his hours were only hours +of toil; and yet, few young men of his age took life so easily as did +he, or got more enjoyment out of it. It was during Mr. Shepard's +connection with the house of John P. Jewett that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" +first saw the light. The story of its publication has so often been told +that it need not be repeated here. Mr. Shepard recalls all the incidents +associated with it as vividly to-day as though they were but events of +yesterday, and he is now the only living man that can tell them. As +everybody knows, the book bounded into success, due as much to the +shrewd advertising of the publisher as to the merits of the work itself. +It redounds to the credit of Mr. Jewett that he never hesitated to +acknowledge that whatever success he had as a Boston publisher was +largely due to his sprightly clerk, who labored literally night and day, +to master every detail of the business. + +[Illustration: Charles A.B. Shepard (Signature)] + +In 1855 Mr. Shepard conceived the idea of starting in business for +himself, and formed a co-partnership which was known to the trade as +Shepard, Clark and Brown. It flourished until the panic of 1857 swept +over the country. Reverses came, and the house was forced to give up. + +In 1862, as I have said, the firm of Lee and Shepard was started in +business, with no other capital save that of brain and muscle. The two +partners had long and favorably known one another. While strangely +dissimilar in tastes, they yet exhibited many points in common. At the +start, both were financially poor men; they possessed no funds, but, by +virtue of their well known integrity and ability to succeed, could +readily command the little which they required to begin life anew. Mr. +Shepard, as well as Mr. Lee, had made himself indispensable to every +firm with which he had been connected. Each had a wide circle of +friends, and each was trusted by his friends. Both men had been generous +in prosperity, and their good deeds, though known only to their intimate +friends and the objects of their benevolence, were not trumpeted for +worldly admiration. Both enjoyed a wide acquaintanceship with authors, +and with books, with dealers, and with the public, and both had strong +likes and dislikes, which made them as radical in politics as they were +in personal affairs. In the firm, each has always had his own duties to +perform, on the wise plan of a fitting division of labor. Yet while each +partner seems exclusively to occupy his own field, independent of and +unrestricted by the other, it rarely happens that there are any +cross-purposes between them. The wheels of progress move on with +unswerving and unerring progress; the law of compensation which is +dominant in the establishment is always working aright. + +Strangers who are for the first time brought in contract with these men, +whether socially or on matters of business, invariably detect the strong +points of conservatism which each exhibits. Mr. Lee gives one the +impression of being a well-read man, as, in fact, he is. The faculty +which he possesses of curiously gleaning the salient bits of knowledge +out of current thought and expression, is something remarkable. The +by-paths of literature are peculiarly his stamping-ground; and yet, upon +almost every subject of important character, he will chat for hours +intelligently and interestingly. + +Mr. Shepard shows many of the same qualities. His brain is exceedingly +fertile of ideas, his memory perfectly marvelous, his language pointed, +easy-flowing and abounding in wit and humor. He exhibits singular +quickness at repartee; he is fond of a joke, and will give and take with +the keenest sense of enjoyment. His familiarity with standard literature +serves him many a good turn; he makes it a duty to read thoroughly or to +"dip into" every new book that is talked about. He fortifies himself, +whether for daily life or for social intercourse, with all the +intellectual weapons, so to speak, that can ever be called into play. +Still, he moves along the pathway of life thoroughly without +affectation; a "liberal education" seems to have been his by +inheritance, and he can make better use of it than most college men with +whom he is brought in contact. + +It is as impossible for Mr. Shepard not to quote poetry as it is for him +to fly through the air and his facility in so doing would alone make him +a marked man. His whole soul is full of poesy, ever restless and +exuberant. I am not aware that he ever molded a rhyme, or sung a measure +of song in all his life. And yet so tenacious is his memory, so +wonderful his talent in applying the epigrammatic utterances of the +leading writers, both old and new, that a person, on being made +cognizant of the fact, finds himself puzzled. Poetry enters into even +the driest details of Mr. Shepard's business life. The signature to a +check is often audibly accompanied by some melodic couplet. Anywhere and +everywhere, and for everything that happens or may happen, the poetic +spice is rarely wanting. Mr. Shepard does not deliberately intend this +to be so; the gift rallies into utterance before he is aware of it, and +he can no more suppress it than he can turn back the roaring waters of +Niagara. + +Possessed of such qualities as these, Mr. Shepard very easily finds +friends and is the centre of their attraction. Outspoken, sometimes even +to bluntness, a bitter hater of duplicity and meanness, a keen detector +of counterfeit character, on the one hand; on the other, warm in his +affections, generous to a fault, faithful to those whom he +admires,--such is the man of whom I write. No one is ever at a loss to +discover whether Mr. Shepard is his friend or his enemy. + +Mr. Shepard has been intimately connected with the politics of his time. +He began as a thorough, out-and-out abolitionist; during the war he was +a stanch Republican, and a firm admirer of Charles Sumner. When the +great Senator forsook his party, Mr. Shepard chose the same course, and +to-day finds him enrolled upon the Democratic side, although, for some +years back, he has taken no active interest in any political movement of +the day. + +Such, in brief, is Charles A.B. Shepard, a man better known, perhaps, +than any other among the book trade of this country, everywhere popular, +and nowhere more truly so than among those who are brought daily in +contact with him and who know him best. + +The firm of Lee and Shepard removed from 149 Washington street, in 1873, +to a new building, which, replacing the one which had been destroyed in +the great Boston fire, now stands on the south-east corner of Franklin +and Hawley street. In these commodious and sumptuously-fitted quarters +the firm tarried until their removal, in January of the present year, to +their new quarters at No. 10 Milk street, adjoining the "old South." +Here they have evidently settled down to stay, perhaps for the remaining +years of their joint business life. + +When they started in the "old dye-house" it was simply as booksellers. +They owned no stereotyped plates, and for some weeks had no thought of +entering into any business relations with authors. One day Mr. Shepard +chanced to make a social call upon Mr. Samuel C. Perkins, formerly +associated with Phillips, Sampson and Company, who, after their failure, +had become possessed of some stereotype plates. During the conversation +Mr. Perkins recalled the fact, and asked Mr. Shepard to take them off +his hands. The wherewithall to purchase was wanting; but Mr. Shepard, +conscious of what he was doing, decided to buy them, giving the firm's +notes in payment. These plates included those of Oliver Optic's "Boat +Club Series," in six volumes, and those of the "Riverdale Stories" in +twelve volumes. Mr. Lee approved the transaction, and the firm at once +brought out a new edition of both series. They met with a quick sale; +indeed, so wonderful was their success that the author, who was then a +Boston school teacher, was summoned and commissioned to prepare a series +of books for girls. From that time down to the present day, the pen of +"Oliver Optic" has been busily employed in behalf of the American youth. +He has produced, besides the series already named, the "Army and Navy +stories," in six volumes; the "Great Western series," in six volumes; +the "Lake Shore series," in six volumes; the "Onward and Upward series," +in six volumes; the "Starry Flag series," in six volumes; the "Woodville +Stories," and the "Yacht Club series," each in six volumes; and two +series of six volumes each, entitled "Young America abroad." Hundreds of +thousands of copies have been sold of these books, and the demand for +them to-day is almost as large as it was ten or fifteen years ago. It is +no exaggeration to say that there is scarcely a young man or woman now +living who has not read and profitted by one or more of Oliver Optic's +stories. + +Among the other successful writers whom Lee and Shepard brought into +notice was Miss Rebecca S. Clark, known the world over by her pseudonym +of "Sophie May." Her first book was "Little Prudy," which achieved a +reputation not surpassed by that of Miss Alcott's "Little Women." This +first volume was rapidly succeeded by others by the same author, which +in turn won favor, and are now grouped in the catalogue in series, +namely: "Little Prudy Series," "Little Prudy's Flyaway Series," "Dotty +Dimple Series," and "Flaxie Frizzle Stories," each comprising six +volumes. All of these books grew into the people's hearts, and ere long +the newspapers noticed them, the magazines devoted large space to +reviewing them, and the stately and sober-minded "North American +Review," in a characteristic article, from Colonel Higginson's pen was +led to say of their merits: + +"Genius comes in with 'Little Prudy.' Compared with her, all other +book-children are cold creations of literature only; she alone is the +real thing, all the quaintness of childhood, its originality, its +tenderness and its teasing, its infinite unconscious drollery, the +serious earnestness of its fun, the fun of its seriousness, the natural +religion of its plays and the delicious oddity of its prayers--all these +waited for dear Little Prudy to embody them." + +Such a verdict, from so exalted authority, has had its effect. The +demand for Sophie May's books has been almost unprecedented. Inspired by +her success in this line the author has also written several volumes for +older readers, and they, too, have proved successful. + +Another author, who has held a prominent place in the firm's catalogue, +is Mr. George M. Baker. Although he has done much for the entertainment +of the young people in the line of story-telling, his greatest success +has been found in his series of amateur dramatic books, which have long +ago become standard. I would not undertake to mention how many "plays" +he has written; but to simply read the "mail orders" for such literature +or watch customers as they come and go from "headquarters," would +incline everybody to believe that he had produced about all that are +ever needed. + +Lee and Shepard's catalogue embraces the names of a great many authors, +to even enumerate which would require much space in this magazine. Among +the more prominent I will call to mind the Rev. Asa Bullard, Professor +James De Mille, Miss Amanda M. Douglass, who has written some of the +best stories in American literature for older readers; the Rev. Elijah +Kellogg, the author of many bright and wholesome stories for youth; Mr. +J.T. Trowbridge, who is known everywhere; the "Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby," +whom President Lincoln termed the _third_ power in crushing the +rebellion; Charles Sumner, the edition of whose works, published by this +house, was thought worthy of award at the Philadelphia exhibition; +Francis H. Underwood, who first suggested the "Atlantic Monthly" +magazine, and is one of the most genial and scholarly of American +writers; Colonel T.W. Higginson, who has produced a number of pleasant +books, and is the author of the most popular school History of the +United States ever written; B.P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington), and a host +of other names, which the lack of space forbids me to mention. + +In the making of books Lee and Shepard have shown an _originality_, +which has always been noticeable. In more ways than one, they have been +pioneers, and have set examples, which other firms have closely imitated +and followed. It was this house which first conceived the idea of +publishing serially favorite songs and poems in elegantly illustrated +form,--an idea which was at once taken up by nearly every other +publishing house in the country. These were issued in cloth binding, +and, two years ago, in the now famous "Golden Floral" style. In their +new dress these books have proved to be the most popular of their kind +ever sold on this continent. + +The house has also produced other illustrated books, of artistic +excellence. Among these Miss Jerome's "One Year's Sketch Book" has been +declared to be without a rival, in its own field, while Miss Miner's +"Orchids" must needs be seen to be appreciated. + +But I have reached the limits placed upon this article. I have omitted +to speak of many things of which I should like to say something. But the +warp and woof of the story are here given, and the reader will easily +discover therefrom that no secrets underly the firm of Lee and Shepard +save,--industry at home, and integrity in all their dealings with the +public. + +[Illustration: Rodney Wallace (Signature)] + +HON. RODNEY WALLACE. + +BY REV. S. LEROY BLAKE, D.D. + +[Pastor of the Calvinistic Congregational Church, Fitchburg.] + + +This is not a biography, it is a sketch; possibly I might say it is an +outline. At any rate the life of our subject can not be written till +other chapters are added, and the end comes. May it be long delayed. + +The intense culmination of forces in the busy period of a man's life +renders it fruitful in material for a sketch. What a successful man, of +marked force of character, has done, may be an incentive and an +encouragement to others. Perhaps this was Longfellow's chief thought +when he penned the "Psalm of Life:" + + Lives of great men all remind us + We can make our lives sublime. + +The lives of great men, and conspicuously that of the subject of this +sketch, prove that, in this country, a boy need not be born with a +silver spoon in his mouth, nor with a brilliant speech on his lips, to +reach eminent success, and be held in high honor; but that the noblest +results of a life of industry and frugality, and the highest honors any +worthy ambition can crave, are within reach of the boy who has energy, +courage, integrity of purpose, and purity of character. By their native +energy some of the most conspicuous men of our time have made their way +against obstacles which would have been too much for less sturdy wills. +Whatever deficiencies there may have been in their early training were +largely atoned for by native energy and force of character. Because this +is all true of the subject of this paper, we tell the story in the hope +that some other struggling boy may take courage from his example. + + +HIS START IN LIFE. + +Rodney Wallace was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, December 21, +1823, and is therefore in the full vigor of manhood. We may infer that +his boyhood was not blessed with the advantages which usually crown the +early life of so many lads, and strew their path with roses, from the +fact that at the age of twelve he left home to work on a farm for wages, +with agreement for limited opportunities for schooling. He is a son of +David and Roxanna Wallace. + +It seems likely that the family is of Scotch origin. David Wallace +seemed to think so, since he dropped the spelling Wallis, and adopted +the form in which the name is now written. In 1639, Robert Wallis was +living in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Benoni Wallis, of this family, removed +to Lunenburg and there married Rebecca Morse, of Lynn, July 2, 1755. She +died in Lunenburg August 25, 1790, and he died March 15, 1792. David, +son of Benoni and Rebecca Wallis, was born October 16, 1760. He married +Susannah Lowe, and lived in Ashburnham where he died January 14, 1842. +David, son of David and Susannah Wallis, was born at Ashburnham July 14, +1797. He married July 8, 1821, Roxanna Gower of New Ipswich, where he +lived till he removed to Rindge, New Hampshire, in 1846. He died at +Rindge, May 29, 1857; and his wife died at Fitchburg, February 27, 1876. +He was the first of his family in this country to adopt the spelling +Wallace, instead of Wallis. He had eight children, of whom the subject +of this sketch was the second. + +As we have said, at the age of twelve, when most lads are comfortably +cared for at home, young Wallace started out in life for himself. He let +himself to a farmer for forty dollars for the first year, with the +privilege of attending school eight weeks in the winter. It turns out +that the first forty dollars he earned were the beginning of a large +fortune, without a dishonest dollar in it, and that the eight weeks of +schooling of that winter on the farm, was the beginning of a knowledge, +gleaned here and there as opportunity offered, which fits him for +prominent positions of trust and responsibility. + +At an early age, sixteen I think, he was charged with the responsibility +of driving freight teams from Rindge to Boston, returning with loads of +merchandise. In the discharge of this trust he displayed the energy, +tact, and trustworthiness which were prophecies of the man. He was +taking his first lessons in the school of business, and proved himself +an apt scholar. + +Dr. Stephen Jewett was a somewhat notable physician of Rindge. His fame +in the cure of chronic and acute diseases was wide spread. He was +frequently called upon to make professional visits in Boston and other +New England cities and towns. His medicines attained a wide celebrity. +Their manufacture and sale became a large and lucrative business, and +was carried on after the death of Dr. Jewett, by his son, Stephen +Jewett, Jr. The energy which young Wallace had already shown induced Mr. +Jewett to put the whole business of selling these medicines into his +hands. He entered into this employment in 1843, at the age of twenty, +and continued in it till he came to Fitchburg in 1853. In selling these +medicines he travelled over five of the New England States. He said to +the writer that this was a good school in geography for him, for he +became acquainted with the topography of these states, and the location +of all their important places. + +Such were the beginnings of a business career of great prosperity. It +was in these ways that he got his start in life, and in these lesser +employments he proved himself worthy of and equal to the greater tasks +yet before him. Here he showed the same judgment and far-sighted wisdom, +which have marked his career in the larger, more conspicuous circles of +the business world, and won him a name which is everywhere repeated with +respect, and a reputation for integrity and honest dealing which any man +might covet. + + +HIS BUSINESS LIFE. + +In 1853 Mr. Wallace came to Fitchburg and entered upon that period +which, for convenience, I have named his business life. He formed a +co-partnership with Stephen Shepley, known as Shepley and Wallace. They +were wholesale dealers in books, stationery, paper-stock, and +cotton-waste. This firm continued under the name of Shepley and Wallace, +and R. Wallace and Co. till July 1, 1865. On this day the firm +dissolved, and the business was divided. Mr. Wallace took the department +of paper-stock and cotton-waste, which he still carries on. To what +proportions it has grown, under his management, may be judged from the +fact that the business done amounts at least to $200,000 a year. + +December 31, 1864, Stephen Shepley, Benjamin Snow, and Rodney Wallace +bought the Lyon Paper Mill and the Kimball Scythe Shops at West +Fitchburg, and began the manufacture of paper under the name of the +Fitchburg Paper Company, Stephen E. Denton was taken into the firm as a +partner soon after. He had charge of the business at the mill. In July, +1865, Rodney Wallace and Benjamin Snow bought the interest of Stephen +Shepley; and the Fitchburg Paper Company was then Wallace, Snow, and +Denton. Mr. Denton died in June,1868. January 7, 1869, Mr. Wallace +bought the interest of Benjamin Snow. January 23 of the same year he +bought the interest of Mr. Denton's estate of his widow, who was at that +time residing in New York. From that date till the present the Fitchburg +Paper Company is Rodney Wallace. He retains the old firm name. + +Since becoming sole owner, he has added largely to the original +property. A neat village of dwellings has grown up around his mills, +which deserves a name of its own. Wallaceville would be an appropriate +name. He has put in a substantial stone dam at great expense. In 1878 he +erected a new brick mill, with all the modern improvements, doubling the +capacity of the establishment. It is now capable of producing from +15,000 to 18,000 pounds of paper every twenty-four hours. Just across +the Nashua River is the Fitchburg Railroad. He has a freight station of +his own, where he receives all his freight and ships all his paper. + +Mr. Wallace has conducted his business with rare sagacity, with +unblemished integrity, and with an eye to the welfare of his employees, +as well as to his own personal interests. If it were not like praising a +man to his face, since he still lives, many instances might be cited to +prove that it has not been his policy to get the most out of his +employees for the least possible return. But it is enough to say that he +has no difficulty in keeping men in his employ. Somehow he has hit upon +a plan by which he has kept the irrepressible conflict between capital +and labor at a distance. + +Aside from his own business, which makes large drafts upon his time, +strength, and thought, he has been closely identified with numerous +other corporate and monetary interests. He has thus had a large share in +contributing to the growth and prosperity of the enterprising city in +which he lives. Its business interests, to a large degree, have enjoyed +his wisdom, and profited by his sagacity. Since 1864 he has been +President and Director of the Fitchburg Gas Company; a Director of +Putnam Machine Company since the same year; a Director of the Fitchburg +National Bank since 1866; a partner in the Fitchburg Woolen Mills since +1877; a Trustee of Smith College since 1878. He is a Director of the +Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company; a Trustee of the Fitchburg +Savings Bank; a Director of the Fitchburg Railroad; a partner of the +Parkhill Manufacturing Company. Besides these, he has had the settlement +of large and important estates, demanding time, good judgment, and +unbending integrity. We would especially note the large estate of the +late Ephraim Murdock, Jr., of Winchendon, and that of the late Hon. Wm. +H. Vose of Fitchburg. These facts speak for themselves, and show the +esteem in which Mr. Wallace is held by his fellow citizens, as a wise +counsellor, and as a man of integrity and uprightness of character, as +well as of rare good judgment in all matters pertaining to the +transaction of business. Another says, "In whatever enterprise Mr. +Wallace has been engaged, he has not only been fortunate in its +pecuniary interests, but also in the speedy command of the confidence +and respect of his associates. True moral principles have been united +with unquestioned probity, business tact, and liberal, intelligent +management." He has won a large fortune, without parting with his +honesty in earning a single dollar. As his property has increased, his +generous spirit has seen larger opportunities and at once embraced them. +He has not been among those who withhold more than is meet and tend to +poverty. Property in such hands is not a grinding monopoly, but a wide +blessing. Such men can afford to be wealthy. They represent the true +socialistic spirit, which is, that private capital should be held as a +public good. + +Largely through the influence of Mr. Wallace various improvements have +been made in Fitchburg, which contribute to its attractiveness. The +business of the city is in no small degree indebted to him for +facilities with which communication can be had with the world outside. +Prominent mention may be made of the beautiful Union Railway station at +Fitchburg in securing whose erection, and in planning which, Mr. Wallace +was largely instrumental. + + +MR. WALLACE IN POLITICS. + +Mr. Wallace has had no ambitious longings for political life. And yet +his fellow citizens would not be likely to let such a man remain wholly +out of public life. So it is true to say that whatever office Mr. +Wallace has held, has sought him. He was selectman of the town during +the years 1864, 1865, and 1867. In 1873 he was representative to the +Genral Court, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1872 by +nearly every ballot cast. He was re-nominated the next year without +dissent or opposition, but declined a re-election on account of ill +health. While a member of the Legislature he was on the Committee on +Manufactures, a position which his ability and experience fitted him to +fill. + +The most conspicuous political office he has held is that of Councillor. +While holding that position he represented one of the largest and most +important districts of the State. In it are included the thriving city +of Worcester and the sister city of Fitchburg, which, with their varied +industries, needed a man of large and ripe judgment to represent them. +He served three terms, during the years 1880, 1881, and 1882, or +throughout the entire administration of Governor Long. His election was +so entirely unanimous that for the last two years he had no competitor +in the field, Democrats as well as Republicans supporting him. While on +the Council he was a member of the following important committees: on +Pardons, on Harbors and Public Lands, on Military Affairs, and on +Warrants. + +At the close of Governor Long's administration he refused to allow +furthur use of his name for the office he had so ably filled for three +years. He celebrated his retirement from this position as a servant of +the public by a brilliant reception tendered to Governor Long in the +City Hall, Fitchburg, December 7, 1882. He thus gave his fellow citizens +and constituents an opportunity to look Massachusett's popular Governor +in the face and take him by the hand. + +The following account of the reception, appeared in the _Fitchburg +Sentinel_ of Friday, December 8, which I quote: + + "The reception tendered to Governor Long in City Hall, Thursday + evening, by Councillor Rodney Wallace and wife, was the most + enjoyable and brilliant entertainment ever given in this city, + and will be long remembered with pleasure by all who + participated. The reception was given by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace as + a compliment to Governor Long, with whom Mr. Wallace has been + associated as Councilor for three years, and to give their + friends here an opportunity to spend an evening socially with + His Excellency. Some 450 cards of invitation were sent out, + including about 700 persons, and nearly 600 were present on + Thursday evening. The storm and blizzard-like weather that + reached this city early in the afternoon prevented the + attendance of some of Mr. Wallace's business associates from + abroad. The intention was to give all a pleasant, social + evening, and the result was a full realization of the pleasure + anticipated for some days. + + * * * * * + + Guests were received at the west entrance over which a canopy + was erected. The steps, hall-ways and stairs were all carpeted. + The Common Council room was used as a dressing room for the + ladies, the Aldermen's room for the gentlemen, and the Mayor's + office was reserved for Governor Long and Councilor Wallace. On + entering the hall the guests were presented to Councilor + Wallace, Mrs. Wallace and Governor Long, who stood in the centre + on the east side--Messrs. Herbert I. Wallace, George R. Wallace, + Charles E. Ware, Jr., Harris C. Hartwell, James Phillips, Jr., + B.D. Dwinnell, Dr. E.P. Miller and M.L. Gate officiating as + ushers. After the greetings the time was spent socially, + listening to the excellent music furnished by Russell's + Orchestra, fourteen pieces stationed on the stage, and many + enjoyed dancing from 10.30 till about 1 o'clock. + + * * * * * + + Among the distinguished guests were the following from out of + town: Councilor Joseph Davis and wife of Lynn, Councilor Matthew + W. Cushing of Middleboro, Councilor Nathaniel Wales of + Stoughton, Councilor Rufus D. Woods of Enfield, + Congressman-elect William Whiting of Holyoke, Councilor-elect + Eben A. Hall of the Greenfield Gazette and Courier, Secretary of + State Henry B. Peirce of Abington, Rev. E.A. Horton of Boston + (formerly of Leominster), Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Edwards and Prof. + Henry M. Tyler and wife (formerly of this city) of Northampton, + Dr. F.A. Harris, wife and Miss Gage, Mrs. Glover (Governor + Long's mother-in-law), William B. Wood and wife, Superintendent + John Adams (of the Fitchburg Railroad) and wife, Mr. and Mrs. + Charles H. Shepley, all of Boston; N.D. White and Mr. and Mrs. + Joseph M. White of Winchendon, John S. Baldwin of the Worcester + Spy, J.B. Hall of the Worcester Gazette, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. + Merriam and daughter of Leominster. + + An attempt to describe the hall as it appeared on this occasion + cannot be otherwise than unsatisfactory. To appreciate the + brilliant scene one must see not only the gay decorations and + the beautiful flowers and plants, but also the happy people and + the elegant and tasty dresses of the ladies, in the full light + of the extra burners placed in the centre of the hall for this + reception. + + * * * * * + + The entire floor was carpeted, and the hall was divided into two + sections--reception room and dining room--by pink and white + bunting. The walls of the entire hall were decorated with + draperies, cottons, pink and white buntings, etc., and festooned + with two thousand yards of laurel and hanging baskets of + flowers, while a splendid collection of pot plants, orange and + lemon trees, and growing grapes, from Mr. Wallace's private + conservatory added much to the grand effect of the designs. + + The most elaborate work was in the front of the stage, at the + right of the stage and on the right and left centres of the + hall. Above all, over the stage was a gilt carved eagle + surmounting the State coat of arms. On either side flags were + festooned and ornamented with sprays of holly. In the rear of + the platform were palm trees, while in front dracinas, and + laurel, with a beautiful orange tree in each corner, each + bearing nearly twenty oranges. On the right wall of the hall, + the draperies were surmounted by four medallions representing + the elements--Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. In the right centre + was the large painting representing Crete, above which was the + motto "Amicus inter Amicos." In the foreground was a pedestal + surmounted by a bust of Ariadne, flanked on each side by growing + grapes, with two Roman altars burning incense through the entire + evening. + + On the left centre wall was a large painting representing + Antium, the home of Nero and Temple of Fortuna, with the Appollo + Belvidere on a pedestal in the foreground, flanked with two + standing vases with burning incense. Above the painting was the + motto "Gaudeamus Igitur," resting on a gilt lyre and torch. + Medallions representing Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter + surmounted the draperies on this side of the hall. + + One of the most admired features of the decorations was the + design on the floor at the right of the stage. A pedestal, some + ten feet high, was surmounted by a beautiful specimen of the + American eagle. On either side of the eagle was a perfect flag + made of natural flowers--violets, carnations and tube + roses--with a shield of similar flowers in the centre. The + entire pedestal was banked by pots of growing plants--including + palms, dracinas, ponisettas in full bloom, etc. + + The dining room was also handsomely decorated with flags, + draperies and flowers, while the table itself was elegantly laid + with exquisitely decorated china and silver, and ornamented by + beautiful bouquets, candelabra, and epergnes. Supper was served + through the entire evening, guests entering at the right from + the reception apartment and passing through to the west side of + the hall." + +The completeness of all these arrangements were largely due to the taste +and energy of his son, Mr. Herbert I. Wallace, who had the whole matter +in charge. + +In 1884 Mr. Wallace was chosen delegate from this district to the +Republican Convention held at Chicago in June, which resulted in the +nomination of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Like most of the +delegates from Massachusetts, Mr. Wallace was in favor of Senator +Edmunds of Vermont. But when he saw that Mr. Blaine's nomination was +inevitable, he joined in making it unanimous. He did not go with those +who bolted the nomination, because it was not his first choice, but he +supported it with his purse, his voice, and his vote, as appears from +the following synopsis of a brief address which he made at a +ratification meeting, held in the City Hall, Fitchburg, July 11, 1884, +which I clip from the _Fitchburg Sentinel_ of the next day: + + "Ex-Mayor Merriam, Chairman of the committee, called the meeting + to order, and said the audience had assembled to hear the report + of the two delegates to the Republican national convention. The + Chairman then introduced Rodney Wallace, who was most heartily + applauded as he arose to speak. + + Mr. Wallace, who was one of the delegates from this district to + the Republican convention, said his first choice for President + was the able statesman from Vermont, Senator Edmunds, and his + second choice was President Arthur, who has given us such an + excellent administration. The Massachusetts delegation, almost + without exception, worked hard to secure the nomination for Mr. + Edmunds, but it was impossible for that convention to nominate + anybody but James G. Blaine. Nobody can describe the enthusiasm + through the entire convention for Blaine. The California + delegation bore a banner inscribed "From Maine to California, + through Iowa, all for Blaine," and, in my opinion now, Mr. + Elaine is the strongest man in the Republican party. When the + motion was made to make the nomination unanimous, not a voice + was raised against it. I believe he will be elected in November + and will give us a strong and safe administration." + +The writer does not know whether Mr. Wallace considers his political +life ended. He certainly has no longing, desires, and ambitions in the +direction of public office. It is equally certain that any office which +he will consent to hold, and which the people who know him can give, he +can have without opposition. + + +MR. WALLACE AS A CITIZEN. + +I come now to a part of my story which it is exceedingly pleasant to +relate and of which I am able to speak, to no little extent, from +personal knowledge. It is, after all, what one is as a man among men, +which speaks most for his honor, or his dishonor. What greater +significance generous deeds have, when you know that behind them is no +calculating, grasping spirit, which is figuring out how much it can get +in return, but a noble, generous, self-forgetful manhood. We have a +conviction that the conflict between labor and capital, which just now +has reached a threatening pitch of violence, might have been avoided if +employers had not in so many cases endeavored to reduce men to mere +money-making machines. As a rule strikes do not occur where laboring men +are treated with the consideration due them as free citizens. The +freedom of Fitchburg from strikes is due to the intelligence of the +workmen, and the fairness of the employers. Another says, "nothing does +more to destroy the spirit of socialism and communism and to disipate +envy than to see wealthy men devoting a part of their wealth to public +uses." + +This introduces us to the most conspicuous act by which the subject of +our sketch has proved his public spirit and generosity of purpose as a +citizen. I refer to his gift to the city of Fitchburg of a beautiful +public library, which, by vote of the city government, is to be called +by his name. This act of beneficence reaches farther than appears to a +casual observer. It secures to the city, for all coming time, a +"Peoples' College," where the child of the poorest, as well as of the +richest, the toiler as well as the man of leisure, may get a very +important education. This building is to be devoted to art as well as to +literature, and we look to see it exert a refining and cultivating, as +well as an educating influence over the rising generations of our city. +Its very presence, in a most conspicuous position, in the very heart of +the city, will be educational. It will prove itself a most valuable +adjunct to the excellent course of instruction given in our public +schools. + +For some years it had been in Mr. Wallace's mind to do something of this +sort. In 1881 he purchased what was known as the Ruggles property, +opposite Monument Park. In the spring of 1884, when he left for his +annual tour in the South, he placed in the hands of Judge Ware, Chairman +of the Trustees of the Public Library, a genuine surprise to his fellow +citizens. I clip from the _Fitchburg Sentinel_ of March 26, 1884, the +following account of the matter: + + "Both branches of the City Council met on Tuesday evening and + transacted the following business: + + The principal business was + + IN JOINT CONVENTION. + + Major Davis presided and announced that Judge T.K. Ware, + Chairman of the Trustees of the Public Library, had a + communication to present to the City Council. + + Judge Ware said that he appeared before the Council at the + request of Honorable Rodney Wallace, who, previous to his + departure for the South, left with him the following + communication which gave him pleasure and gratification to be + able to present to the City Council: + + _To His Honor, the Mayor and the City Council of the City of + Fitchburg_; + + GENTLEMEN:--The subscriber has felt for a long time that a + building with proper appurtenances for our Public Library here + in Fitchburg was much needed, and makes the following + proposition, viz: + + I propose to convey by proper deed to the city of Fitchburg my + lot of land situated at the corner of Main street and Newton + place, and to expend, with the advice and approval of the + Trustees of the Public Library, within the next two years, a sum + not less than forty thousand dollars ($40,000) in erecting a + building on said lot; said building to be under the care and + management of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library for + the time being, and to be used for a Free Public Library, + Reading Rooms and Art Gallery, and for no other purpose. + + And it is understood that the city government, accepting these + donations for the above purposes, shall assume and bear the + current expenses of said building, grounds and appurtenances, + after the Library building shall have been completed and + furnished. + + If the above proposition is accepted I shall proceed to carry + out the same as soon as it can conveniently be done. + + RODNEY WALLACE. + FITCHBURG, March 17, 1884. + + Mayor Davis said this act on the part of our esteemed fellow + citizen calls forth the profound gratitude of all the + inhabitants of our city. I cannot allow this opportunity to pass + without expressing my thanks, as a citizen, for the munificent + gift. May his life be long and his prosperity increasing. + + The following order, introduced by Mayor Davis, was then + unanimously adopted: + + _Ordered_, That the City of Fitchburg accept the donation of + Honorable Rodney Wallace to it of the lot of land on the corner + of Main street and Newton place, and the Library building to be + erected by him thereon, upon the conditions and in accordance + with the terms and provisions contained in his written + communication and proposal to the Mayor and City Council; and + places on record its profound appreciation of the public spirit + and munificence of the donor, and its recognition of the + incalculable benefits which will result to his fellow citizens + and their descendants and successors for all time from this + noble gift. + + Alderman Joel said the surprise was so great and so agreeable + that words were not at his command to express the thanks he, in + common with all other members, felt for the munificent gift + presented by Mr. Wallace. He moved that a committee be appointed + to prepare and forward a vote of thanks to Honorable Rodney + Wallace for his gift. The motion was unanimously adopted, and + Mayor Davis appointed Alderman Joel, Councilmen Flaherty and + Parkhill as the committee." + +From the _Sentinel_ of April 10, 1884, I clip the following: + + "The following resolutions have been presented to Honorable + Rodney Wallace by the special committee appointed at the joint + convention of the two branches of the City Council, March 25: + + To HONORABLE RODNEY WALLACE: FITCHBURG, Mass. + + _Whereas_, the Mayor and City Council of the city of Fitchburg + have received and accepted a proposition tendered by Honorable + Rodney Wallace of this city, by the terms of which a lot of land + situated at the corner of Main street and Newton place is + donated to the city of Fitchburg, and a sum not less than forty + thousand dollars is to be expended by him, with the advice and + approval of the Trustees of the Public Library, within the next + two years in erecting a building on said lot, said building to + be used for a Free Public Library, Reading Rooms, and an Art + Gallery; therefore, + + _Resolved_, That this body desires to voice and place on record + the universal appreciation on the part of our citizens of the + generosity and public spirit of the honored donor, of the + timeliness of the gift, and not less, of the wisdom and + foresight manifested in the particular mode by which the city + is made the recipient of the munificent present. + + _Resolved_, That we recognize the fact that a gift of this + nature will result in incalculable benefits to the community so + fortunate as to receive it, enlarging and intensifying, as it + does, all the privileges of acquiring information and securing + culture which a public library affords; providing in a most + accessible and useful form the means by which our young people + and those whose daily toil leaves them little leisure for study, + may draw to themselves the results of all past experience; and + rendering both attractive and easy to all classes of our people + opportunities of turning their thoughts from the sterner + features of their daily occupations to the amenities of life as + presented by specimens of artistic and literary merit. + + _Resolved_, That while sharing in the delight of our citizens in + view of the valuable gift thus unexpectedly placed at their + service, we congratulate them even more upon the presence among + them of men whom Providence has blessed in three-fold + measure--with hearts abounding in philanthropic instincts, with + material resources ample for the gratification of such impulses, + and with that rarer gift than either, the judgment requisite to + secure for their donations the widest and most permanent range + of influence. + + _Resolved_, That we cannot resist the inclination to felicitate + our honored benefactor upon the deep and abiding joy which must + be the most adequate reward for this expression of his good will + toward our city--the joy arising from the knowledge that every + home within our corporate limits will enter into the enjoyment + of his gift and that not a few of our youth will be allured from + scenes of degrading and immoral pleasure by the presence in a + most convenient location of a beautiful edifice within which are + at their disposal the graces of art and the riches of + literature. + + _Resolved_, That the distinguished giver by this gift, the most + valuable ever received by this community at one time from a + single citizen, has "erected a monument more enduring than + bronze and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids" in + the establishment of a lasting sense of gratitude within the + hearts of his appreciative fellow citizens. + + ALONZO DAVIS, + JOEL JOEL, + BERNARD H. FLAHERTY, + JOHN PARKHILL, + (_Committee_) + FITCHBURG, April 1, 1884." + +Although $40,000 is the lowest limit named, it should be said that the +cost of the noble pile will far exceed that sum. It was a generous and +princely act for which he will be held in lasting and greatful memory. +He will leave behind him a monument which will forever identify his name +with the intellectual and moral culture of all classes of the citizens +of Fitchburg. + +On the seventh of April, the Trustees of the Public Library took +appropriate action on the gift of Mr. Wallace. The following account +appeared in the _Sentinel_ of April 8: + + "At a meeting of the Trustees of the Public Library, Monday + evening, the board adopted the following resolution, offered by + Henry A. Willis, and on motion of Rev. P.J. Garrigan it was + voted to enter the same on their records, request the daily + papers of the city to publish the same, and that Rev. P.J. + Garrigan, Henry A. Willis and L.H. Bradford be appointed a + committee to present the action of the board to Mr. Wallace: + + _Resolved_, That we have heard with great satisfaction of the + proposed gift by Honorable Rodney Wallace of land and a building + for the use of the Public Library, thus providing for a want + long felt by the Trustees, viz: facilities for making the + Library fully available to the people of the city, which it + never could be in its present confined quarters; that we will + fully co-operate with the generous donor in any manner desired + by him in carrying out the details of his proposed undertaking; + and that we desire here to place upon our records our keen + appreciation of the generous spirit which has moved him to + tender this munificent gift." + +The new library building fronts on Main street, and looks out upon +Monument Park and the beautiful Court House of North Worcester County. +It is of Greek classic style, and is built of Trenton pressed brick. It +has sandstone trimmings. It has a frontage of seventy-four feet on Main +street, and is sixty-five feet deep. The basement is ten feet in height. +It is two stories above the basement. The library floor is sixteen feet +high. The second story, which contains the picture gallery, is ten feet +high on the outside, and thirty-two in the centre. The extreme height is +therefore fifty-eight feet. The front of the building is especially +imposing. It has a projection in the centre, twenty-five feet wide and +six feet deep, which extends the whole height of the structure and +terminates in a gable, which is surrounded by a decorated pediment. The +main entrance is approached by massive steps of granite, twelve feet +wide, flanked by heavy buttresses. At the top of the steps is the +entrance porch, eleven feet wide, six feet deep, and arched overhead. +Polished granite columns with carved capitals on either side support the +archway above. In the belt of sandstone above this arch is cut the +legend "Library and Art Building." Above this belt is a row of windows +separated by columns of brick. Above these is a sandstone belt in which +is cut the name of the donor, by vote of the City Government. The title +of the structure is therefore "Wallace Library and Art Building." Above +is a row of circular windows separated by sandstone columns with carved +capitals. The hip roof of the building is crowned by a monitor top, +which admits light into the art room below. Over the entrance is to be +the city seal, in antique and Venetian glass. The whole structure is +amply lighted by a large number of windows. + +The basement provides for a store-room, a work-room, and reading-room, +which opens off Newton lane. The public will have full access to this +room. It will specially accommodate the workingmen. The late Honorable +Wm. H. Vose left $1,000, the income of which is to be used in supplying +suitable papers for this room. There are also in the basement a coal +room, and the boiler which heats the whole building. On entering the +building one stands in a large hall, on the right of which is a +reading-room for magazines, and on the left is a large reference room, +and a winding stairway by which the second story is reached. Across the +whole rear of the building is the library room, which is high enough to +admit of galleries. Ample provisions are thus made for all the possible +future needs of the city. In the second story is the art gallery. Around +it are five other rooms, which can be devoted to any of the uses such an +institution may require. When completed the inside will be finished in +hard woods, and according to modern ideas of taste and elegance. The art +gallery will be a model of its kind. + +With a collection of books and of works of art to match the thought of +the donor expressed in the building the library will be a lasting +blessing to our city. A gift so timely, and so well adapted to the needs +of a city like Fitchburg, with its population of young people, could not +fail to commend itself, and win the gratitude of every right-minded +citizen. Therefore, any one who will stand in front of this building for +an hour, and listen to the remarks made by those who look up to it as +they pass, will readily learn how deep a hold on the esteem of all +classes of the citizens of Fitchburg this generous act has given Mr. +Wallace. + +Lest my estimate of Mr. Wallace may seem extravagant to those who do not +know him, I add the following from the pen of Professor H.M. Tyler of +Smith College, Northampton, formerly Mr. Wallace's pastor. He writes:-- + + "It gives me great pleasure to send a few lines in answer to + your note, though it would be easy for a critic to say that I + have long since passed the point where I could give a + cold-blooded opinion of Mr. Wallace. I can write only from the + stand-point of warm friendship and cannot be cold in my respect + and admiration for my friend. Mr. Wallace is pre-eminently a + business man; to this the chief energy of his life has been + directed. It seems an impertinence for me to pass judgment upon + his career, but I have loved to study him in his business + habits. By his affability, correctness, and fairness in all his + work he has succeeded marvellously in attaching every one to + himself. All instinctively gravitate toward him, and never wish + to break off their association with him. I never knew a man so + master of his own ways and yet so universally popular. People + love to be influenced or even controlled by him. His office + would be the centre of any community in which he should be + placed. All men love to fasten to him their faith. He has + everywhere learned to gather friends by showing himself + friendly. His interest in the people of his own community has + been shown not merely by his public benefactions. Every one in + want of help has turned to him, and all have had a patient + hearing and generous response. + + He has been associated with people of every position and among + all has been a favorite companion. Everyone has felt at home + with him. It is rarely true that a man has gained success with + so thorough a desire that his friends should enjoy what he has + gathered with him. He is thus remarkable for his prosperity, for + the use which he is making of his prosperity, for his delight in + giving pleasure to others, and for the disposition and temper + which finds its enjoyment in such rational and kindly ways. + + It is not that one never disagrees with Mr. Wallace. He would + scorn the flattery which yields convictions to attempt to + please. Even when we differ he is none the less congenial. If I + have ever had the feeling that in any respect I should like to + make him over it has generally yielded to the conviction that on + the whole I could not hope to do better than has been done. + Among all the men with whom I have come in contact in places of + business responsibility and honor I do not know another to whom + I give more unqualified respect and esteem than I do to Mr. + Wallace. Cordially, + + HENRY M. TYLER." + +Mr. Wallace, as has appeared, was for three years associated with +Governor Long in the Government of Massachusetts. In response to a note +from me Mr. Long writes as follows: + + "I am glad to know that you are writing a sketch of Mr. Wallace + for publication. If a good subject will make a good sketch your + work will be a success. He is one of the men, however, who write + their own lives, not in the pages of any autobiography, but in + their conduct and character. I have served with him in public + life, and sat with him as one of my Councilors in the Executive + Chamber, and have found him always a fund of practical good + sense, of excellent judgment, trained by great experience in + affairs, and of thorough integrity. He is a representative + Massachusetts man, the builder of his own fortune, equal to the + enterprise of acquiring wealth and position, and magnanimous in + their use and enjoyment. But I like best to recall, as I am sure + do all who know him, his generous friendship, his great public + spirit, and his good heart, of which I have witnessed many + proofs. I trust that it may be many years before his life is + taken in any other way than in such an appreciative and kindly + sketch as you will write of him. + + Very truly yours, + JOHN D. LONG." + + WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 1885. + +December 1, 1853, Mr. Wallace married Sophia Ingalls, daughter of Thomas +Ingalls of Rindge, New Hampshire. She died June 20, 1871, leaving two +sons, Herbert I. Wallace and George R. Wallace. Herbert is a graduate of +Harvard in the class of 1877. George studied at the Institute of +Technology in Boston. They are associated with their father in the +management of his business. December 28, 1876 Mr. Wallace married Mrs. +Sophia F. Bailey of Woodstock, Vermont. Mr. Bailey was a member of +Congress from the district in which Fitchburg is included. Mrs. Wallace +is one of the well-known Billings family of Woodstock. Mr. Wallace lives +in a beautiful house on Prospect street, which is surrounded with +beautiful lawns and green-houses which, gratify his taste. From his +front door he can overlook the city and its varied industries in whose +development he has borne so conspicuous a part. + +We are near the end of a story which it has been a pleasure to tell. +Vastly more could be told. A volume of incidents could be written. There +are precious secrets of every generous and noble man's life which no pen +may profane by giving them publicity. These are the choice treasures +reserved only for those who know him best, and live nearest his heart. +But the writer desires, as Mr. Wallace's pastor, to add the testimony of +observation and personal knowledge to the rare purity and uprightness of +character, to the generosity of spirit, to the thoughtful kindness, and +to the deep and reverent regard for spiritual things, of his +distinguished parishioner. As an example of untiring energy, of probity +of character, of cleanness of soul, of uprightness of life, of sincerity +of purpose, of firmness of moral principle, he may safely be held up as +a model for young men. + + * * * * * + +FITCHBURG. + +BY MRS. CAROLINE A. MASON.[A] + +[Footnote A: Mrs. Mason is a resident of Fitchburg. Her home, on +Rollstone Street, is shown in the "Sketch of Fitchburg." Her reputation +as a writer of verse is not confined to the State. She is the author of +the words of the familiar ballad "Do They Miss Me at Home?" and has, for +many years, contributed poetry to leading weeklies and magazines.--Ed.] + + + Nested among her hills she lies,-- + The city of our love! + Within her, pleasant homes arise; + And healthful airs and happy skies + Float peacefully above. + + A sturdy few, 'mid hopes and fears, + Her fair foundations set: + And looking backward now, through years + Of steady gain, how small appears + Her old estate!--and yet, + + She dons no autocratic airs, + In scorn of humbler days, + But shapes her fortunes and affairs, + To match the civic wreath she wears + And justify her bays. + + Honor and Truth her old renown: + Conservative of both, + The virtues of the little town + She holds in legacy, to crown + The city's larger growth. + + Nor ease nor sloth her strength despoil: + Her peaceful farmers till, + With patient thrift, th' outlying soil, + Her trained mechanics deftly toil, + Her merchants ply their skill; + + Her ponderous engineries supply + A thousand waiting needs; + Her wheels revolve, her shuttles fly,-- + And ever where the prize hangs high, + Her foot, unfaltering, leads. + + Her sympathies are large and sweet: + And when, at Freedom's call, + The war flags waved, the war drums beat, + She sprang, responsive, to her feet, + And freely offered all! + + Alert in War, she emulates + The Arts of Peace, as well: + Religion, Order, guard her gates; + Wealth, Culture, Thrift, like happy Fates, + Her destinies foretell. + + So, through the round of years, she keeps + Advancing on her Past: + Her old-time vigor never sleeps,-- + And even as she sows she reaps. + God bless her to the last! + + * * * * * + +MAJOR GENERAL LEW WALLACE AT SHILOH. + +GENERAL U.S. GRANT'S VINDICATION OF GENERAL WALLACE.--THE WALLACE AND +GRANT LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTE. + +BY GENERAL HENRY B. CARRINGTON. + +[Author of "Battles of the American Revolution."] + + +It seems common to all great wars that the true version of leading +actions is rarely assured by the immediate reports of commanders. Many +causes secure to such reports substantial accuracy, but the development +of details seldom fails to show that justice to subordinates cannot be +done by the simple statement of general plans and general results. There +are historians who still claim that Arnold had no part in the battle of +Freeman's Farm, September 19, 1777; and many other battles of the +Revolutionary war lacked clear definition until nearly a century had +passed and the records were supplemented by careful examination of the +battle-fields and a more thorough scrutiny of British, French, and +Hessian archives, thereby to correct topographical data and harmonize +conflicting statements. + +The case of General Fitz John Porter forcibly illustrates the difficulty +of changing public opinion, once formed, even when supplemental data +enforce military recognition of their value. The Battle of Franklin, +which secured to General Thomas the opportunity to fortify Nashville and +ultimately defeat Hood, and the battles of Stone River, Gettysburg, +Chicamauga and Monocacy, are among the actions of the late war in which +differences of statement as to positions and movements have greatly +qualified first estimates of the relations which various officers +sustained to those actions. + +The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, has been the latest under +scrutiny. It is not the purpose to consider whether the action of the +day was influenced by the arrival of Buel's army, or by the non-arrival +of General Lew Wallace's division; nor whether General Wallace did, or +did not, march by scientific methods, when he moved for the nearest +firing. Among voluminous papers touching the civil war are the copies of +original papers received from General Wallace himself, and of present +interest. These papers received notice from the Western press at one +time, but seem to demand a more formal record, as essential factors in +the better understanding of the Battle of Shiloh. + +The following outline is suggested by these documents: + +1st. That the Federal line of battle, early in the morning, stretched +out from Pittsburg Landing nearly to the Purdy Road, with General +Sherman's division on the right, within about a mile of that road. + +2nd. That General Wallace's division was at Crump's Landing, not more +than five miles from Pittsburg Landing; it being then uncertain which of +the two would be the objective of attack. + +3d. That General Grant visited General Wallace at Crump's Landing and +ordered him to hold his command subject to orders, and then steamed +onward to Pittsburg Landing. + +4th. That before 6 o'clock, A.M., the sound of firing had led General +Wallace to put his command under arms; and he was prepared to move +wherever active work should demand, even before he was ordered to be +thus ready. + +5th. That he concentrated his brigades, then in three camps, into one +mass, at the forks of the Purdy Road and the road to Pittsburg Landing, +so that he might take either road, as orders should decide. + +6th. That he understood the original line of battle and the disposition +of its divisions, and knew that General Sherman held the right. + +7th. That the order received by him, before 12 o'clock, M., from Captain +Baxter, staff officer of General Grant, was in writing; and while +pronounced verbally, at first, the form it assumed, when reduced to +writing and subsequently delivered to General Wallace, was a direct +order to "unite with the right," and that involved the march on the +Purdy Road. + +If the verbal order of General Grant to Captain Baxter, to hasten +General Wallace's Division to Pittsburg Landing, was reduced to writing +by that officer, after he noticed the early success of the Union Line, +he would have shaped the approach of the fresh division to the best +possible advantage, to join the _army_, not the precise _Landing_, if +the army was not there; since General Grant, still being on crutches +from a sprained ankle when his horse fell under and upon him, on the +fourth, was compelled to depend largely upon staff-officers for +judicious action, in exigencies which fell under their eyes, and where +his riding was greatly limited. There is full harmony of events, by +giving full credit to all the data which seem, at first, to work +conflict. + +8th. That the Staff Officer who delivered the order assured General +Wallace and his staff that the Federal line was successful and driving +the enemy at every point. + +9th. That a movement at that time, toward Pittsburg Landing, would have +taken General Wallaces' Division out of possible contact with the enemy, +instead of supporting, and perfecting victory. + +10th. That when the Division of General Wallace moved, as it did, within +ten minutes after receipt of the orders, "impatiently waited for," it +could see the distant smoke and hear the roar of battle, and moved +directly toward the point of danger by the shortest route, with the +greatest celerity and in harmony with the order received. + +11th. That the defeat of the main army, the enforced retirement of +Sherman's Division, and, in fact, the withdrawal of the entire original +line, were new conditions, to be considered, when other Staff Officers +notified General Wallace of the same; and then, the addition of his +division to the rallying army, at Pittsburg Landing, seemed to be an +important element to the very safety of that army, except as it could +lean upon the divisions of Buel, already within supporting distance. + +12th. That the original advance of General Wallace's Division on the +Purdy Road, while thoroughly suited to the original conditions as they +existed when the order was delivered to him, was, of necessity, useless +and dangerous, when he found himself alone and unsupported, and that the +enemy had already swept over the position which he expected to occupy. + +13th. That there was no alternative, then, but to pass around the left +of the enemy, and rejoin the army, at such expense of time or labor as +the new conditions imposed; and that this was done, at great pains and +with great celerity, without straggling or loss. + +14th. That the prominent idea of withdrawing General Wallace's Division +from Crump's Landing, to support the main army in its advance, is to be +kept in mind;--whereby, confusion ceases as to the hour of the day when +the order to report at Pittsburg Landing was delivered or became +operative;--thereby, also, reconciling memories with the incidents of +the day, with no discredit to any. + +15th. That every theory of supporting an advanced line, from reserves +sent forward from the base, must so bend to facts, that it may be the +best thing possible, to strengthen the right of a successful line, even +to overlapping and turning the enemy; and that such a movement has the +emphatic endorsement of standard critics, and marked experience; while a +formal movement to the rear, in order to move to the front and the +right, as if on parade, would, under conditions such as presented to +General Wallace, have been, simply, to wear out his men in marching, +with small chance for taking any part in the assumed pursuit of a +defeated enemy. + +16th. That it is an unsound way of dealing with the facts of history, to +gauge the responsibilities of officers and men, of small experience, by +the rules which apply to the same officers and men after their +experience has matured; and that, when the battle of Shiloh took place, +and citizen regiments took part, with very slight knowledge of arms, it +was equally true, that the officers themselves, both regular and +volunteer, were proportionately unfamiliar with battle action on a large +scale, and that, as a matter of fact, the Generals and Colonels, for the +most part, had never seen a batallion drill, unless at West Point, much +less drilled more than a company; and their conduct and opinions, in +1861-2, are not to be measured by the ripened experience of the years +succeeding and succeeding years of reflection. + +And finally, that the orders, movements, and results of the sixth day of +April, 1862, must be judged by their relations to the passing hours and +issues of that day, as practical men would act under changing +conditions, and not by any formal order, which, however appropriate at +one time, would, at any other time, defeat the work in hand. The Rules +of Evidence, recognized by Civil and Military Courts alike, are but +expressions of sound judgment of past experience; and Military Science, +so called, has no other basis than that which belongs to the wise use of +means to ends in all applied science and in all human endeavor. +Whenever, therefore, the conduct of a battle is consistent with the +conditions, as at the time understood, it is not exactly just to measure +it by the terms of any instructions inconsistent with those +conditions;--so that while an order to march to Pittsburg Landing became +necessary upon the retirement of the original line, it ought not to be +technically applied back to a time when that line was supposed to be +sweeping on to victory and only sought fresh strength to mature that +victory. + +That a general action was precipitated by the Confederate forces under +General Albert Sidney Johnson and was in the nature of a successful +surprise of the Union Army, is the fact which harmonizes the reports of +officers of both armies with the incidents of the day, and fairly +distributes responsibility, without reflecting the narrow escape of the +Union Army from destruction upon any single officer or command; +especially, where all did so well, and so much is to be credited to the +fall of General Johnson and the interruption of his deliberate plan, +first to surprise, and then sweep on to victory, at whatever cost. + +The Documents are as follows: + +1st. Letter of Major General Lew Wallace to General U.S. Grant, February +26, 1869. + +2nd. Letter of Lieutenant Colonel Ross, A.D.C. to General Wallace, +January 25, 1868. + +3rd. Letter of General J.A. Strickland to General Wallace, January 24, +1868. + +4th. Letter of General G.F. McGinnis to General Wallace, February 20, +1868. + +5th. Letter of General Fred. Knefler to General Wallace, February 19, +1868. + +6th. Letter of Captain Ad Ware, A.D.C., to General Wallace (without +date). + +7th. Letter of General John M. Thayer to General Wallace, March 4, 1868. + +8th. Letter of General U.S. Grant to General Wallace, March 10, 1868, +commenting upon the letters cited and suggesting their publication, in +justice to General Wallace. + +[Illustration: The map of the Compte de Paris has been utilized. 1, 2 +and 3 give location of Wallace's Brigades in line, perpendicular to the +river, with right at Adamsville (3), 2. Concentration of Division. 4. +Crossing at Snake creek to take the right of General Sherman. 4-5. +Countermarch to lower crossing after retirement of the right. 6. Lower +crossing which had for several days previously been under water. +Wallace's division, on the 7th, held the right of Sherman, as indicated +for the 6th, when he moved to take part in the general action.] + +General Wallace to General Grant: + + WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 29, 1868. + + GENERAL: + + About a year after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, it came to + my knowledge, that I was suffering, in your opinion, from + erroneous information upon the subject of my conduct and + movements as commander of the Third Division of your army during + the first day of the battle named. To place myself right in your + estimation and in that of the army generally, I asked a Court of + Inquiry, by letter to the Secretary of War (Mr. Stanton) July + 17, 1863. After several months, during which the application + received no attention from the Secretary, I withdrew it, by + advice of friends, General Sherman amongst others. The course I + then resolved upon, that counselled by General Sherman, was to + carry my explanation directly to you; and such continued my + intention until the battle of Monocacy, after which your + treatment of me became so uniformly kind and considerate that I + was led to believe the disagreement, connected with Pittsburg + Landing, forgotten; a result, to which I tacitly assented, + notwithstanding the record of that battle as you had made it, in + the form of an endorsement on my official report, was grievously + against me. + + A recent circumstance, however, has made it essential to my good + name, which I cannot bring myself to believe you wish to see + destroyed, to go back to my former purpose; in pursuance of + which, the object of this letter is simply to introduce certain + statements of gentlemen lately in the army, your friends as much + as mine, in hopes that the explanations to be found therein will + be sufficent to authorize you to give me a note of acquittal + from blame, plainly enough, to allay the suspicions and charges + to which I have been so painfully subjected. The statements are + in the form of extracts pertinent to the subject from letters + now in my possession, from General Fred Knefler, General George + McGinnis, Colonel James R. Ross, General Daniel MacCaulay, + Captain Ad Ware, General John A. Strickland, General John M. + Thayer, now United States Senator from Nebraska--all, of my + command, on the day in question, present with me, well known to + you, and of unimpeachable honor. I could have obtained many + others, of like import, but selected these because their authors + had peculiar opportunities for information upon points + considered of chief importance. It is possible that my + explanations of the matter would be sufficient for the purpose + in view. However that may be, it is my judgment now, that the + charges against me have gone so far, and been put in such grave + form, that public opinion may require an exoneration, though it + come from your hand, to be based upon the testimony of others. + + Permit me to say, further, that as to the order you started to + me by Captain Baxter, I do not understand there is any question + of veracity between us. You tell me, that from the battle-field + you dispatched a verbal order by the officer named, to be + delivered to me, at Crump's Landing, directing me to march my + division to Pittsburg Landing by the road, parallel with the + river; and, supposing, as you did, that the order would reach me + by 11 o'clock, A.M., you reasonably concluded my command would + be on the field by 1 o'clock, P.M. + + Now in all candor, if you have been, as I am informed, of + opinion that I received that order as it was given, and at the + time stated (11 o'clock, A.M.), and that for any reason, such as + personal feeling against you, or that I lost my way, or took the + wrong road, or lingered on the march, making but five miles in + seven hours, it must be admitted that you were justifiable in + any, even the most extreme judgment against me; and I must + confess that your moderation was greater than mine would likely + have been, had our positions been reversed. I do not flinch from + that conclusion, at all; but what I do say in my defence is that + the opinion and the conclusion, which is its corollary, are both + wrong, because the order admitted to have been dispatched was + not delivered to me, in form or substance, as dispatched. On the + contrary, the order I received from your messenger was in + writing, unsigned, and contained substantially the following + instructions: + + "You will leave a force at Crump's Landing, sufficient to guard + the public property there; then march the rest of your division, + and _effect a junction with the right of the army_; after which + you will form your line of battle at right angles with the + river, and act as circumstances dictate." + + This order was read by Colonel Ross, under circumstances well + calculated to impress it upon his memory. It was also given to + Colonel Knefler, then my Adjutant General, and by him read and + unfortunately lost. Finally, its purport, as stated by me above, + is vouched for by Captain Ware as the aide de camp. To refuse + credit to my version of its contents will be very hard, indeed, + corroborated as it is by so many gentlemen of unquestionable + veracity, and such excellent opportunity for information on the + point. + + I think myself warranted now in asserting upon the credit of + the three officers just named, as well as my own, that by the + terms of the order, as it was delivered to me, the object of my + march was not Pittsburg Landing, as you intended, but the right + of the army, resting, when the battle opened in the morning, at + a point quite three miles out from the landing, on the road to + Purdy. + + As a general principle it must be admitted that when you + entrusted the order to a proper messenger for delivery to me, + your responsibility ceased; but, I turn and ask you, appealing + to your experience and justice, how am I held responsible for + the execution of an order if it never reached me; or, if it + reached me, conveying an idea radically different from that + originally given? Of necessity, I was accountable for the + execution of the order, only as it was received, and if it was + not received in a form to convey your true design, but was + promptly executed, neither of us are responsible for the result. + It was not your mistake, nor was it mine. + + Having established the purport, at least, of the order as it + came to my hand, the next inquiry is: "Did I proceed to execute + it, and how?" + + On these heads all the letters on file are applicable. They + show, as I think, that I took measures anticipatory to the order + you gave me, personally, in your passage up the river to the + battle-field, viz: to hold myself in readiness to march in any + direction; that my brigades were ordered to concentrate at the + place most proper and convenient for a prompt execution of the + orders, whatever they might be, because it was at the junction + of two roads, one leading to Pittsburg Landing, the other to the + right of the army. To one of these points, it may be added, I + was sure of being ultimately sent, if the exigencies of the + battle required the presence of my command. They show, that + after you parted from me, going up the river, I took measures to + forward your messenger to me instantly upon his arrival (see + Colonel Ross' letters), then rode to the place of concentration, + and waited impatiently and anxiously the expected instructions; + that they came to hand about 12 o'clock (my own remembrance is + 11:30 A.M.), and that the officer who brought them, also brought + the news that you were driving the enemy all along the line. + (See letters of General Knefler and Colonel Ross.) Up to that + time, therefore, I was certainly blameless. + + But let me ask you to stop here, and consider the effect on my + mind and subsequent movements, of the information, thus reliably + obtained, that the battle was won. What inducement could I have + had to march away from or linger on the road to a victory? Upon + the hypothesis that the good news was true, how could I have + imagined, (had there been so much as a doubt as to the intent of + the order received,) a necessity for my command at Pittsburg + Landing? + + But, proceeding. The letters further establish, that, + immediately upon receiving the order, I put my column _en + route_, to execute it. + + Now comes the questions. Did I take the right road to effect the + junction with the right of the army, or one leading to Purdy, + away from the battle? Pertinent to these inquiries, General + Knefler says, that the road chosen for the movement had been + patrolled and picketted by my cavalry. By their report, if by + nothing else, I must have been posted as to its terminus. In + corroboration of this assertion please notice that General + Macaulay, General Strickland, General Thayer and General + Knefler, all allude to the fact that the head of the column was + approaching, not going away from the firing, when the + countermarch took place. Consider, further, that the most + imperative necessities of my situation, isolated as I had been + from the main army, were, to know all the communications with + that army, and to keep them clear, and in order for rapid + movement. _Not only did I know the road, but every step my + division took from the initial point of the march up to the + moment of the change of direction, was, as is well known to + every soldier in the column, a step nearer to the firing and + therefore a step nearer to the battle_. While on this inquiry, + let me add that the report of my being set right after marching + upon the wrong road has in it this much truth, and no more. When + about a mile from the position which had been occupied by the + right of the army (General Sherman's division), Captain Rowley + overtook me and told me that you had sent him to hurry me up, + and that our lines had been carried by the enemy and the army + driven back almost to the river, a very different story from the + one brought me by Captain Baxter. Captain Rowley set me right as + to the conditions of the battle, not as to the road I was + following. Colonel McPherson and Major Rawlins, the other + members of your staff, mentioned as having been sent to me, met + me after the countermarch, when my command was on the river road + moving to Pittsburg Landing. + + Concerning the countermarch, I would remark that the condition + of the battle, as reported by Captain Rowley, made it prudent, + if not necessary. My column was only five thousand men, of all + arms. Reflecting upon it now, I am still of the opinion that it + did better service the next day in your new line of battle, than + it could have done, operating alone and unsupported in the rear + of the whole rebel army, where I was certainly taking it, when + "set right" by the captain. + + Instead of making the change of direction, when it was resolved + on, by a countermarch, the result proved that it should have + been effected by a general right about. The former manoeuvre was + chosen, however, because I was confident of finding a cross road + to the river road long before the head of the column doubled + upon its foot. [See Colonel Ross' statement of the effort made + to accomplish that idea.] + + One of the results I confidently anticipated from a reading of + the letter submitted, is, that you will be satisfied of the + wrong done me (unintentional, I believe), by Colonel Badeau, + when, in his book, he describes me as consuming seven hours in + marching five miles in the direction of the battle. The march + actually performed in that time was not less than fifteen miles, + over an execrable dirt road. + + Your opinion, as advanced in your letter to the War Office, + July, 13, 1863, that General Morgan L. Smith, had he been put in + command, could have had the division in the battle by 1 o'clock + P.M., is in direct terms, based upon the condition that General + Smith received your orders as you supposed them communicated to + me. But, suppose he had not received the order as originally + given; suppose, on the contrary, the order actually received by + him had the effect to send him in another direction from + Pittsburg Landing; and suppose that, on approaching his + objective, he had found himself in the rear of the whole rebel + army, and in his judgment compelled, by that circumstance, + together with the bad fortune of our own army, to a further + movement of quite ten miles--all of which were terrible + realities in my case--I am sure you are too just a man to have + held him accountable for the hours, however precious, thus + necessarily lost. + + With these remarks I place the letters of the officers named in + your hands. They will satisfy you, I think, that the exoneration + I seek will be a simple act of justice. The many misconceptions + which have been attached to my movements on that bloody Sunday, + have, it must be confessed, made me extremely sensitive upon the + subject. You can imagine, therefore, with what anxiety your + reply will be waited. + + Very respectfully your friend, + + LEW WALLACE. + To GENERAL U.S. GRANT, WASHINGTON CITY. + +Colonel Ross to General Wallace: + + CHICAGO, January, 25, 1868. + + General: Having read the extract from "Badeau's Life of General + Grant," as published in the Chicago Tribune, of the twenty-fifth + of December, 1867, wherein he refers particularly to the battle + of Shiloh, and seeing the gross injustice done you, and the + false light in which you are placed before the country and the + world, I deem it my duty to make a brief statement of what I + know to be the facts in reference to your failure to reach the + field of battle in time to take part in the action of Sunday, + April 6, 1862. + + I will first state the position of your command on that morning. + The First Brigade, Colonel M.L. Smith commanding, at Crump's + Landing; Second Brigade, Colonel John M. Thayer commanding, two + and one-half miles out on the Adamsville road; Third Brigade, + Colonel Charles R. Wood commanding, at Adamsville, five miles + out from the river. The first intimation you or any of your + staff had of the battle was between five and six o'clock, A.M., + when my attention was called by one of the men on the boat on + which were your headquarters, to the heavy and continued firing + in the direction of the camp at Pittsburg Landing. You were at + once notified of this, and being satisfied that there was a + battle going on, directed me to go at once and order this + division to get ready to move at a moment's warning, and to + instruct Colonel Wood to move his baggage and camp equipage to + the river with the least possible delay, and march his command + to the camp of the Second Brigade, midway between his (then) + camp and that of the First Brigade, at the river. + + After executing your order, as above, I returned to the Landing. + Soon after, you, together with your staff, went out to the camp + of the second Brigade, when the division had been ordered to + concentrate in order to be in position to take either one of two + roads, intersecting the Adamsville road from Crump's Landing to + Pittsburg Landing; one leading to Pittsburg Landing, the other + to the Purdy road from Pittsburg Landing, intersecting it at a + point not far from the right of our army under General Sherman, + as it was encamped when the battle began. + + Before starting for Colonel Thayer's camp, orders were given by + you to Captain Lyman, A.Q.M., on your staff, for a horse to be + saddled and kept in readiness, in case a messenger should come + down the river with orders from General Grant to you. + + Now for the order. Badeau says that a staff officer was + dispatched to General Wallace with verbal orders for him to + march by the nearest road parallel with the river. The order may + have been given verbally by General Grant to his staff officer, + but was not so delivered to you, nor did it direct you to march + by the nearest road parallel with the river. At about 11 + o'clock, A.M., while at the camp of Colonel Thayer, I was + directed by you to go to Colonel M.L. Smith. I met Captain + Baxter, A.Q.M., who stopped me and handed me a paper saying, "I + wish you would take this to General Wallace." I took the paper, + read it and returned it to him, saying, I could not do so, as I + was on my way under orders from General Wallace. At the same + time I turned in my saddle, and pointed out a group of horsemen, + telling the Captain that you were among them. I went to Colonel + Smith, delivered my orders, and returning, met the Captain + again. I very distinctly remember that this order directed you + to move forward _and join General Sherman's right on the Purdy + road_ and form your line of battle at right angles with the + river; and then act as circumstances would dictate. Now the + shortest possible route by which you could reach the point + designated in the order was the one taken, viz: that one leading + from Colonel Thayer's camp (on the Adamsville road from Crump's + Landing), to the Purdy road (from Pittsburg Landing), a distance + of about five miles; whereas the distance to the point to which + you was to march as designated in the order, _via_ Pittsburg + Landing, would have been at least twelve miles. Perhaps I should + here state that this order was not signed by any one, but coming + as it did through one of the Staff Officers of the Commanding + General, could not be questioned. I would also state in this + connection, that when I met Captain Baxter first, I asked him + how things were going. He replied that Grant was driving the + enemy at all points. Had this been the case, the order as + delivered by Captain Baxter would have been all right, as we + could then have joined General Sherman as directed therein. + Within ten minutes after the receipt of the order, the troops + were on the road. + + When we were about one mile from where we expected to join + General Sherman, we were overtaken by a messenger from General + Grant, Captain (since Colonel) Rowley, I believe, who informed + you that our troops had been defeated all along the line, and + driven back, till the right was within half a mile of the river, + and that the road we were on, would, if followed up, lead us + into the rear of the enemy. This being the case, it became + necessary to find some other way to form a junction with the + army. In order to do so, every mounted man attached to your + Head-Quarters was dispatched to find, if possible, some way to + get round the enemys' left without going back to the starting + point, or to find some resident to guide us by the nearest + possible route. Finally a man was found who was compelled to + act as guide. Nevertheless the march was continued as rapidly + as possible, until we joined the right of the army, just after + dark, in the position in which it lay when the battle closed for + the day. Badeau also says: "General Wallace was set right by + Captain (afterwards Colonel) Rowley, and Colonel (afterwards + Major General) McPherson, both at the time upon General Grant's + staff; that they set him right at 1 o'clock, and it took him + till seven to march five miles." It was near 1 o'clock when we + were overtaken by Rowley, but instead of having but five miles + to march, the distance could not have been less than eleven or + twelve miles. The first seen of General McPherson was when we + were met by him and General Rawlins, just as the head of the + column had reached the river road (from Crump's Landing to + Pittsburg Landing) who had come out to urge you to greater + haste. We had to march over the worst road I ever remember to + have seen. In many places it was almost impossible to get + artillery through. In my judgment the entire distance marched by + your command could not have been less than sixteen or seventeen + miles. + + The above, General, are the facts relative to the movements of + your command on the day referred to, which fell under my + personal observation. I am, General, very respectively, your + obedient servant, + + JAMES R. ROSS, + + Late Brev. Lieut. Col. Major. A.D.C. + To MAJOR GENERAL LEW WALLACE + CRAWFORDSVILLE, Indiana. + +General Strickland to General Wallace: + + HEADQUARTERS FIFTIETH REGIMENT, O.V.I. } + BIG RUN TRESTLE, Ky., June 24, 1863. } + + CAPTAIN J.R. Ross, for MAJOR GENERAL LEW WALLACE: + + DEAR SIR: In answer to your question as to my recollection of + the circumstances and time of the moving of Major General Lew + Wallace's command to the battle of Shiloh on the sixth of April, + 1862, I will submit the following statement: + + I was Acting Adjutant General for Colonel John M. Thayer (now + Brigadier General Thayer), he (Colonel Thayer) being in command + of the Second Brigade, General Lew Wallace's Division. On the + morning of the sixth of April (Sunday), 1862, the Brigade + commanded by Colonel Thayer, stationed at "Stony Lonesome," was + in readiness to march at daylight, or before. We were waiting + for orders to move, when Major General Lew Wallace and staff + rode to the headquarters of the brigade, I think between the + hours of 8 and 9 o'clock; it may have been earlier. General + Wallace ordered everything in readiness to move at a moment's + notice. I received the orders directly from General Wallace. I + assured him that the brigade, upon previous orders from himself + and Colonel Thayer, was ready to move, but went again, in + person, by order of Colonel Thayer, and notified Commanders of + Regiments, Batteries, etc., to be ready at the call from Colonel + Thayer's headquarters, to move. I heard General Wallace + addressing himself to Lieutenant Colonel McCord, commanding the + First Nebraska Regiment, to say, that he had received no orders + to move and that he was waiting for orders frown General Grant's + headquarters to move. I heard General Wallace request one of his + staff to watch the road to Crump's Landing for a messenger with + orders. + + At half past 11 A.M. (it might have been fifteen minutes to 12) + a person rode up to General Wallace with orders to move. I was + standing by General Wallace at the time. _The Brigade commanded + by Colonel Thayer was in motion in just ten minutes after the + order was received_. I am particular about this, because Colonel + Sanbourn, of the Twenty-first Indiana Regiment, and other + officers of the Brigade, talked over the matter in the morning. + After the order was received we moved off rapidly. + + After we had marched some distance, _and were getting nearer to + the sound of musketry continually_, we were met, I think, by + Major Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant General of General Grant, and + our direction changed. From my knowledge of the country, after + the battle of Monday, I am satisfied that, if we had not changed + our direction when we did, we would have gone in behind the left + of the rebel army. After the direction of the column was + changed, I was ordered by Colonel Thayer to go to the foot of + the column, for what purpose I cannot now recollect. I think it + was at the instance of General Wallace, to change direction on a + shorter route of Wood's brigade, and when going from the foot of + the column to the head, to report to my commanding officer, + Colonel Thayer. I remember noticing all _three_ of the + _Brigades_ in _close column, marching rapidly forward_. Just at + dusk we arrived at the valley of a small stream, where the mud + was very deep. We met an orderly, there, from the battle-field, + who said we could reach General Grant's forces by making great + haste, as Berdan's Sharp-shooters were holding the road by which + we were to enter. _The column was hurried forward as fast as it + was possible for it to move_. We arrived a little after dark, on + the right of General Grant's forces, but a few yards in front of + the enemy. + + Not knowing for what particular purpose you wish this + communication, I have been precise in details as to time, etc., + as it will be remembered by most of the officers of the Second + Brigade. + + I am, sir, your obedient servant, + + J.A. STRICKLAND, + Colonel Commanding Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. + +General McGinnis to General Wallace: + + INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, February 21, 1868. + + GENERAL: In reply to your note of this date, I would say, that + being in command of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry, I was + attached to the First Brigade, Third Division, Army of the + Tennessee, commanded by you, and encamped at Crump's Landing, on + the morning of the first day of the battle of Pittsburg Landing. + + At daylight of said day, our command was aroused by heavy and + continuous firing from the direction of Pittsburg Landing, which + led us to believe that a general battle was being fought. I do + not think more than twenty minutes had elapsed from the time + that the battle commenced until our whole brigade had received + orders to hold ourselves in readiness, (with three days' + rations) to march to any point required; and that point all + understood from indications would be Pittsburg Landing. + + For the purpose of concentrating the division, our Brigade + marched to Winn's Farm, two and a half miles from Crump's + Landing, where the Second Brigade of the Third Division was then + encamped. The road taken by our division, after concentrating, + intersected the Purdy road (from Pittsburg Landing) at a point + near Snake Creek, and not far from the ground occupied by + General Sherman's division on the morning of the battle, being + the right of the army. _This, in my opinion, was the shortest + and most direct route to the point at which the right of the + army was resting, when the battle began_. + + Orders were not received for the division to march to the field + of battle, _until about_12 _o'clock, A.M. and no time was lost + during the march_, as we moved with the utmost rapidity. + + In the history of that battle, written by (Badeau) who was not + there and who could not have had personal knowledge of the facts + in relation thereto, serious and gross injustice has been done + you. + + Very respectfully, + + G.F. McGinnis, + Late Brigadier General U.S.A. + +[General Fred Knefler's letter to General Lew Wallace corroborating the +statements made by the other members of the staff will be found on page +367--ED.] + +Captain Ware to General Wallace: + + GENERAL: I submit the following statement in regard to the + movement of your division, on Sunday, April 6, 1862, as far as + came under my observation. + + The first intimation I had that an engagement was progressing + was about 6 o'clock, A.M. I heard firing in the direction of the + camps at Pittsburg Landing. Soon after I was ordered by you to + proceed to Adamsville, where the Third Brigade, under Colonel + Wood was encamped, with orders to have his tents, and baggage + train sent immediately to the river, and his command to march + back to the Second Brigade, which was then stationed two and a + half miles from Crump's Landing. I also ordered the First + Brigade, under Colonel Morgan L. Smith, to move out to the same + point. The Second Brigade, under Colonel John M. Thayer, was + also ordered to be ready to move at a moment's notice. I + returned to your headquarters and with you proceeded to the + above-mentioned point. At twenty minutes of 12 an order was to + you delivered, by Captain Baxter, A.Q.M., directing "you to move + your division up and join General Shermans' right," on the road + leading from Pittsburg Landing to Purdy, that being the extreme + right of General Grant's position. + + Two Regiments of Infantry and one piece of artillery were left + at the camp of the Second Brigade, to protect the camp equipage + and baggage. I am, General, very respectfully, + + Your obedient servant, + + AD WARE, JR., A.D.C. + + To MAJOR GENERAL LEW WALLACE. + +General John M. Thayer to General Wallace: + + UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER, + + WASHINGTON. March 4. 1868. + + At the time of the battle of Pittsburg Landing I was in command + of the Second Brigade of the division commanded by General Lew + Wallace, and, with the Brigade, was in camp two and a half miles + out from Crump's Landing, at a place called Stony Lonesome. At + dawn of the morning of April 6, 1862, I heard cannonading in the + direction of Pittsburg Landing. At an early hour I received + orders from General Wallace, through a Staff Officer, to "hold + my command in readiness to march at a moment's notice." General + Wallace came to my camp, soon afterwards, and informed me that + he was awaiting orders from General Grant to move to the + battle-field. I knew he was very impatient to receive such + orders. The Division was kept in readiness to move without + delay. At about half past 11 o'clock an officer rode up to + General Wallace with the expected order from General Grant, and, + in a few minutes, the command was on the march towards the field + of action. As we advanced the cannonading became more distinct. + As we were moving on I recollect a Staff Officer passing up the + column seeking General Wallace. Very soon we countermarched, + with the view, as I understood, of crossing to the river road + leading to Pittsburg Landing, and there reaching the right of + our army, which we reached about dark. According to my + recollection there was no halting while on the march, except to + close up the column. + + While waiting in my camp for the order of General Grant to move + to the scene of action General Wallace manifested great anxiety + to move forward, and did move immediately on receipt of the + order. Very respectfully, + + JOHN M. THAYER, + + Late Brig. Gen'l and B'v't Maj Gen'l of Vols. + +General Grant to General Wallace: + + HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. + + WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH, 10, 1868. + + MY DEAR GENERAL: + + Enclosed herewith, I return your letters from officers of the + Army who served with you at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, + giving their statement of your action on that occasion. I can + only state that my orders to you were given verbally to a Staff + Officer to communicate, and that they were substantially as + given by General Badeau in his book. I always understood that + the Staff Officer referred to, Captain Baxter, made a memorandum + of the order he received and left it with you. That memorandum I + never saw. + + The statements which I now return seem to exonerate you from + this great point of blame, your taking the wrong road, or + different road from the one directed from Crump's Landing to + Pittsburg Landing. All your subsequent military career showed + you active and ready in the execution of every order you + received. Your promptness in moving from Baltimore to Monocacy, + Maryland, in 1864, and meeting the enemy in force far superior + to your own, when Washington was threatened, is a case + particularly in point, where you could scarcely have hoped for a + victory; but you delayed the enemy, and enabled me to get troops + from City Point, Virginia, in time to save the city. That act I + regarded as most praiseworthy. I refer you to my report of 1865, + touching your course there. + + In view of the assaults made upon you now, I think it due to + you, that you should publish what your own Staff and other + subordinate officers have to say in exoneration of your course. + + Yours Truly, + + U.S. GRANT, GENERAL. + To MAJOR GENERAL L. WALLACE, + CRAWFORDSVILLE, Indiana. + + * * * * * + +FITCHBURG IN 1885. + +BY ATHERTON P. MASON, M.D. + + +In the January number of this magazine appeared an excellent and +comprehensive historical sketch of Fitchburg. It is proposed in this +article to portray as briefly as possible, and by the aid of engravings, +the present condition and resources of our city. + +Old Rollstone and its opposite neighbor, Pearl Hill, have witnessed the +transformation of a rude, inhospitable wilderness into a beautiful and +busy city. We of the present day, proud of our heritage, are striving to +improve it by all means within our power. + +Fitchburg owes her growth and prosperity pre-eminently to those +energetic and plucky men who founded and fostered the great industries +which now constitute her life and soul. Alvah Crocker, Salmon W. Putnam, +Eugene T. Miles, and Walter Heywood, have left behind them great and +lasting proofs of their toil and perseverance. Of Rodney Wallace, who is +now in the midst of a useful and benevolent life among us, another will +speak more fully and fittingly in other pages of this magazine; nor +would we neglect to give due credit to the energetic men who are now +either carrying on business established by their predecessors, or +founding new industries which enhance the resources and good name of +Fitchburg. + +[Illustration: UNION PASSENGER DEPOT] + +The little river (the north branch of the Nashua) which runs through the +township, and which is formed by the confluence of several large brooks +in the westerly part of the town, first invited the manufacturer to +locate on its banks. Its water-power is still used, but steam is now the +chief motor that propels the machinery, looms and spindles that daily +pour forth products which go to the markets, not of this country alone, +but of the world. + +Perhaps no place of its size can boast of a greater diversity of +industries than Fitchburg. In such an article as this attention must +necessarily be confined to the chief among them, and but few words +devoted to the description of separate establishments. + +[Illustration: PUTNAM MACHINE COMPANY'S WORKS.] + +Machinery takes the first rank among the manufactures of Fitchburg. The +pioneers in this business here were two brothers, Salmon W. and John +Putnam, who, in 1838, established the firm of J. & S.W. Putnam. In 1858 +S.W. Putnam organized the Putnam Machine Company, which now has a wide +and enviable reputation. Mr. Putnam was President and General Business +Manager of the company until his death in 1872. Two of his surviving +sons are now actively engaged in carrying on the business, Charles F. +Putnam being President and Manager, and Henry O. Putnam Superintendent +of the department in which special machinists' and railroad tools are +made. There are six other departments devoted to special kinds of +manufacture which are superintended by able men. Mr. Putnam's two other +sons founded, in 1882, the Putnam Tool Company, located on Walnut +street, of which Salmon W. Putnam is President, and George E. Putnam +Treasurer, and is owned entirely by the Putnams. This company +manufactures machinery, railroad and machine tools. The present location +of the Putnam Machine Company, corner of Main and Putnam streets, +comprising over twenty-six acres, was purchased in 1866, and the +buildings were immediately erected at a cost of over $200,000. The works +were built from plans designed by the late President, and are arranged +with special reference to the variety of machines manufactured, +consisting of railroad and machinists' tools, steam-engines, +water-wheels, and shafting. They comprise machine shops, foundries and +forges, and rank with the oldest and largest establishments of the kind +in the United States. + +The Putnams are descendants of Gen. Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame. + +[Illustration: RESIDENCE OF MRS. SALMON W. PUTNAM, WALNUT STREET] + +The Fitchburg Machine Works occupy a large and convenient brick building +on Main street, near its beginning, and manufacture machinists' tools +principally. Opposite is the handsome brick building occupied by C.H. +Brown and Company, manufacturers of the "Brown" automatic cut-off +steam-engines, which have gained a wide reputation. A little further up +on Main street is located the Simonds Manufacturing Company. This +company was organized in 1868 with a capital of $150,000 and +manufactures machine knives and the well-known "Simonds" Circular Saw. + +On Water street are three machine shops to be noticed. The Union Machine +Company makes paper machinery. The Rollstone Machine Company, +manufactures the "Rollstone" Lathe and other wood-working machinery. The +Fitchburg Steam Engine Company, whose business was established in 1871, +manufactures steam-engines and boilers, making a specialty of the +"Fitchburg" steam-engine, the great merits of which are everywhere +acknowledged. The company, notwithstanding its comparatively recent +organization, has a firm foothold in this country, and abroad also. + +D.M. Dillon manufactures boilers and paper machinery. A.D. Waymouth and +Company, and C.W. Wilder manufacture respectively the Waymouth +wood-turning lathe and Wilder's patent lathe. + +In 1866 Charles Burleigh of Fitchburg invented the Burleigh rock drill, +and the next year the Burleigh Rock Drill Company was organized with a +capital of $150,000, to make and sell this machine and the Burleigh +Patent air-compressor. These drills have completely revolutionized the +business of rock-tunneling. They were first used in the Hoosac Tunnel +and, proved highly successful. Since then they have been employed at +Hell Gate, in the Sutro Tunnel, and at various points in Europe. + +[Illustration: STILES BLOCK, MAIN STREET.] + +The Rollstone Iron Foundry, the Fitchburg Iron Foundry, and M.J. +Perault, manufacture castings of all kinds. W.A. Hardy operates a brass +Foundry on Water street. There is no space to indulge further in details +regarding machinery. In addition to the above are numerous individuals +and firms here engaged in the manufacture of mowing machines and +agricultural implements, boiler makers' tools, electric machinery and +apparatus, files, grist and flouring-mill machinery, hay, straw, and +machine, knives, wood-working machinery, machinists' tools, water +motors, watch tools, paper machinery and the like. + +The paper manufacturing interest in Fitchburg is valuable and extensive. +The credit of successfully establishing this industry here belongs to +Alvah Crocker, who, in 1826, built a paper mill of his own. Paper had, +however, been made here to some extent previous to that time. In 1850 +the firm of Crocker, Burbank and Company was formed, of which Mr. +Crocker was the head until his death in 1874. The present members of the +firm are C.T. Crocker, S.E. Crocker, G.F. Fay, G. H. Crocker and Alvah +Crocker. The firm now operates five large paper mills in West Fitchburg. +A sixth, the Snow Mill, was recently destroyed by fire. About 32,000 +pounds of news, book and card paper are produced by these mills every +twenty-four hours. + +In 1865 the Fitchburg Paper Company was organized. Rodney Wallace, +having purchased the interests of the other three original members of +the company, is now the sole proprietor. He operates two large and +well-equipped mills in West Fitchburg, which produce from 15,000 to +18,000 pounds of card and hanging paper every twenty-four hours. + +[Illustration: CROCKER BLOCK.] + +In 1864 George W. Wheelwright and Sons built a paper mill, and in 1880 +the G.W. Wheelwright Paper Company was incorporated with a capital of +$100,000. The mill is located on Fourth street and produces about 7,000 +pounds of news paper per twenty-four hours. + +In 1884 a number of capitalists purchased the building long known as +Richardson's scythe shop, situated on Scythe-shop road, South Fitchburg, +and converted it into a paper-mill. It is now operated by the National +Paper Company and produces manilla and hanging paper. + +The chair business is represented in Fitchburg by an establishment which +is one of the largest and best arranged in the world. Walter Heywood +really founded this industry here in 1844, though chairs were made in +Fitchburg on a small scale some years previously. The Walter Heywood +Chair Company was organized in 1851 and incorporated in 1869 with a +capital of $240,000. In July, 1870, the company's buildings on Water +street were completely destroyed by fire, and a lot on River street, +comprising nine acres, was immediately purchased for the erection of new +works. These buildings, each three hundred feet long, fifty feet wide +and two stories high, besides store houses, offices and sheds, were soon +ready for occupation. A private track connects the works with the +Fitchburg Railroad. The Company has a very large trade, both foreign and +domestic, and employs three hundred men. The chair stock is prepared at +the company's mills in Barton, Vermont. + +[Illustration: FACTORY OF THE FITCHBURG WOOLEN MILL COMPANY.] + +The manufacture of cotton and woolen goods is extensively carried on in +Fitchburg. The Fitchburg Cotton Mill is a fine brick building at the +upper end of Main street; carpet warps, batting and twine are here +manufactured. The Fitchburg Duck Mills in South Fitchburg produce cotton +duck. The Parkhill Manufacturing Company (John Parkhill, President, and +Arthur H. Lowe, Treasurer), occupies what was formerly Davis' chair +shop, situated on Circle street, and manufactures gingham. The building +has been greatly enlarged and additional buildings have been erected +since the company was organized a few years ago. Excellent goods are +manufactured and find a ready market. + +The factory of the Fitchburg Woolen Mill Company, in Factory square, has +been long established and its products are well known. The company was +organized in 1843, but the factory itself has been in existence much +longer, being one of the oldest brick buildings in town. It was +originally used as a cotton mill, but in 1822 it was made into a woolen +factory. Since that date it has been enlarged several times. William H. +Vose, recently deceased, was Treasurer and Manager of this mill for +about forty years. Only a few months ago Mr. Vose wrote a concise +history of the factory since 1822, which is interesting and valuable. +James Phillips, Jr., is a prominent woolen manufacturer and operates the +three following concerns: a large woolen manufactory in West Fitchburg, +producing suitings, etc.; the Star Worsted Company, and the Fitchburg +Worsted Company, producing yarn and worsted. Mr. Phillips has met with +marked success, and his goods take high rank in the best markets. There +is a woolen mill in Rockville, a village in the westerly part of +Fitchburg, operated by James McTaggart, Jr. + +[Illustration: RESIDENCE OF MRS. WM.H. VOSE, PROSPECT STREET.] + +The firm of E.M. Dickinson & Company is the only one in the city engaged +in the manufacture of shoes. This firm occupies a handsome brick +factory, recently erected on Main street, next to the Simonds +Manufacturing Company, and has a large trade both in New England and the +West. In connection with E.M. Dickinson & Company, and located in the +same building, is the Sole Leather Tip Company. The Fitchburg Furniture +Company has a large manufactory on Newton Place. A number of concerns +carry on an extensive lumber business and operate establishments where +doors, sashes, blinds, and ornamental wood-work are made. J. Gushing & +Company and Washburn & Woodward operate large grain elevators and flour +mills. The first named firm occupies the "Stone Mill," one of the old +land-marks of Fitchburg. In addition to the above there are numerous +individuals and firms engaged in the manufacture of confectionery, +crackers, tin-ware, toys, soap, wood pulp, carriages, harnesses, marble +and granite monuments, bricks, beer, cigars and matches. In fine there +are over one hundred concerns here engaged in manufacturing on a large +scale, and considerably over one hundred establishments where +occupations akin to manufacturing are carried on. + +But Fitchburg is beautiful as well as busy. Handsome churches, business +blocks, public buildings and private residences greet the eyes of +strangers in our streets. + +[Illustration: RESIDENCE OF CHARLES T. CROCKER.] + +There are eleven churches in town. The First Parish (Unitarian) Church +is the oldest. The present edifice is a plain and substantial brick +structure at the head of the upper common, and was built in 1837. In +1883 the interior was entirely remodeled and stained windows put in, +thus making a handsome auditorium. Rev. W.H. Pierson is pastor of this +society. + +The First Methodist Church is on Main street, opposite the lower end of +the upper common, and was built in 1840. Rev. W.J. Pomfret is pastor. + +The First Universalist Church stands on the corner of Main and Rollstone +streets, and was built in 1847. Rev. F.O. Hall is pastor. This society +proposes to erect a new church, further down town, before long. + +On the opposite corner is the Calvinistic Congregational Church, built +in 1844. Rev. S.L. Blake, D.D., is pastor. In connection with this +Church is a handsome and commodious chapel. + +Further down Main street, opposite the Post-office, is the First Baptist +Church, a large and imposing structure, built in 1854. Rev. I.R. +Wheelock is pastor. + +A little further down, and on the opposite side of the street, is Christ +Church (Episcopal). This is built of granite and has a very attractive +appearance both within and without. The society has no settled rector at +present. + +Towards the lower end of Main street is situated the Rollstone +Congregational Church, a fine brick and stone structure, built in 1869. +In connection with it is a handsome chapel, the gift of the late Deacon +David Boutelle and named after the donor. The Second Advent Chapel is on +the corner of North and Cherry streets; no pastor is at present settled. + +[Illustration: MILLS OF THE FITCHBURG PAPER COMPANY.] + +[Illustration: THE WALLACE LIBRARY AND ART BUILDING.] + +The St. Bernard's Church (Catholic) is a costly and handsome brick and +stone edifice on Water street. Rev. P.J. Garrigan is pastor, and Rev. +D.F. Feehan is assistant pastor. In 1878 a fine Catholic Chapel (Church +of the Sacred Heart) was built in West Fitchburg, and is now under the +charge of Rev. J.T. Donohoe. There is also a very pretty Methodist +Church in West Fitchburg, of which Rev. W. Wignall is pastor. + +[Illustration: WHITNEY'S OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.] + +The Fitchburg Savings Bank block, on Main street, up town, is the +largest and finest in the city. It was erected in 1871, and is of brick +with a handsome and costly front of fine, white-grained granite. The +ground floor is divided into four stores, which are as commodious and +well-appointed as any in Worcester County. On the second floor are the +banking-rooms of the Fitchburg National and Fitchburg Savings Banks, the +office of the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and several law +offices. The two stories above are mainly occupied by the Free Masons, +whose rooms are among the finest in the State. + +[Illustration: THE "SNOW MILL," RECENTLY BURNED.] + +The Safety Fund National Bank has rooms in Crocker Block, a handsome +brick and stone structure further down on Main street. The Windsor Club +(social) has attractive rooms in this block. + +[Illustration: RESIDENCE OF MRS. EUGENE T. MILES, BLOSSOM STREET.] + +The Rollstone National Bank has rooms in the Rollstone Bank block, a +large and fine brick and sandstone structure, on the south side of Main +street, down town. The rooms of the Worcester North Savings Institution +are also in this block, and the Odd Fellows and E.V. Sumner Encampment, +Post 19, Grand Army of the Republic, have commodious apartments in the +upper portion. The Wachusett National Bank has a brick banking house on +the corner of Main and Day streets. + +[Illustration: E.M. DICKINSON & CO.'S SHOE MANUFACTORY] + +Whitney's Opera House block contains the only theatre in town. The stage +is of good size and well-appointed and the auditorium neat and +attractive. Good companies appear here throughout the season, and are +well patronized by citizens of Fitchburg and neighboring towns. Other +blocks worthy of mention are Belding & Dickinson's, Coggshall & +Carpenter's, Hatch's, Wixon's (not yet completed), and Stiles'--all on +Main street, and Union and Goodrich on Day street. + +There are eight hotels in the city, the Fitchburg Hotel and the American +House being the two largest. + +The City Hall, on Main street, nearly opposite the Savings Bank block, +is a large brick building. The entire upper story is devoted to a large +hall, called the City Hall. It is the largest in the city. There are +about a dozen other halls of various sizes in different parts of the +city. On the first floor of the City Hall are the various city offices, +rooms of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council. The entire rear portion +is occupied by the Public Library, containing over sixteen thousand +volumes, which will soon be removed to the new and elegant "Wallace +Library and Art Building," now in process of completion. Mr. Wallace's +generous gift to the city is fully described in another article. + +[Illustration: THE L.J. BROWN BLOCK, MAIN STREET.] + +[Illustration: FITCHBURG SAVINGS BANK BUILDING.] + +The Post-Office occupies the lower floor of a neat and substantial brick +edifice opposite the Baptist Church. The letter-carrier system was begun +here November 1, 1884. In the upper portion of this building are rooms +occupied by the Fitchburg Board of Trade and the Park Club (social). +Just below the Post-Office is Monument Square, in the centre of which is +a handsome soldiers' monument, designed by Martin Milmore, and costing +about $25,000. It was dedicated June 26, 1874. Four brass cannon, +procured through Alvah Crocker while a Member of Congress, stand in the +enclosure. In the rear of the square is the Court House, a stone +building of noble proportions, built in 1871. + +Fitchburg is located on the Hoosac Tunnel route, and hence has extensive +railroad facilities. The Fitchburg Railroad runs eleven passenger trains +to Boston every week, day and five to Greenfield and North Adams. The +Northern Division of the Old Colony Railroad terminates here and +furnishes four trains daily to Boston, and also to the principal cities +of southern Massachusetts. The Fitchburg and Worcester Division affords +ample means of communication with our sister city. The Cheshire Railroad +furnishes four trains daily to points in New Hampshire and Vermont. A +route for the proposed Fitchburg and Manchester Railroad was surveyed +last summer. The Union Passenger Depot, used by all these roads in +common, is a commodious building and an ornament to the city. Not far +from the depot is the "L.J. Brown" store, a large and handsome building +with a brown stone front, which is certainly worthy of mention, both as +a sample of the business blocks in town, and as a memorial of the late +L.J. Brown. + +Fitchburg is well provided with school houses. The High School on High +street is a large and convenient building, and was erected in 1869. Mr. +R.G. Huling has been the Principal since 1875. There are three large +Grammar school buildings in the city proper, and one in West Fitchburg, +besides a dozen or more buildings occupied by lower grades in various +localities in town. + +[Illustration: THE "STONE MILL."] + +There are two newspapers published here. The _Fitchburg Sentinel_ +occupies the entire upper portion of one of the oldest brick buildings +in town. The structure has been raised and enlarged since it was first +built. The first number of the _Sentinel_ appeared December 30, 1838, +and on May 6, 1873, the _Daily Sentinel_ began its existence. Both are +still published and enjoy a large and increasing circulation. The +_Fitchburg Tribune_ is issued weekly. This paper has been established +only a few years, but under the present proprietor is acquiring a goodly +circulation. + +[Illustration: FITCHBURG SENTINEL OFFICE.] + +Our city is fortunate in possessing an abundant supply of excellent +water derived from Scott, Shattuck and Falulah Brooks. Three reservoirs, +Overlook, Scott and Marshall, were constructed at the time the +water-works were first put in operation, a dozen years ago. These are +located on the high land north-west of the city. In 1883 a fourth +reservoir was constructed and named Falulah from the brook by which it +is supplied. Overlook is the largest and most elevated, being four +hundred feet above the railroad tracks. More than eighteen miles of +service pipe are now in use, and there are over two hundred fire +hydrants at various points. The city is equipped with a fire alarm +telegraph, having thirty-one signal boxes, and maintains an efficient +and well managed Fire Department. It is thus easy to understand why +Fitchburg seldom has a fire that amounts to much. + +The Wachusett Electric Light Company began to light the principal +streets in the city proper in 1883, and still continues to furnish +agreeable illumination. + +The Fitchburg Gas Company, organized in 1852, has works a little below +the Union Depot and is in prosperous condition. + +[Illustration: THE "HANNA MILL."] + +The Fitchburg Divison of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company +comprises this city, Leominster, Lunenburg and Westminster. There are +nearly four hundred subscribers. + +The Fitchburg Roller Skating Rink is an institution very attractive to +the public and well patronized. There is also a skating rink in West +Fitchburg. + +The Massachusetts Mutual Aid Society, an organization for life +insurance, was incorporated in 1875, and its members now number several +thousands. + +The Fitchburg Co-operative Savings Fund and Loan Association was +incorporated in 1877. Monthly payments are made by share holders and +money loaned on real-estate. + +The Worcester North Agricultural Society was incorporated in 1852, and +has extensive fair grounds and a trotting park in the easterly part of +the township. + +The city owns two cemeteries. Laurel Hill Cemetery is large and has been +in use for at least seventy-five years. It occupies a hill overhanging +the river, and is truly a city of the dead overlooking the city of the +living. Forest Hill Cemetery is on the Mount Elam road, two miles south +of the city, and is of more recent origin. St. Bernard's Cemetery, in +the easterly part of the town, is owned by the Roman Catholics. + +Fitchburg hospitality is well known, and Masonic or other organizations +are always sure of royal entertainment and a grand good time when they +visit their Fitchburg brethren. + +Art, literature and music have always been cultivated here. Though there +is no organized art club in town, there are not a few artists here of +merit whose skill with crayon and brush is fully appreciated. + +[Illustration: LAUREL HILL. RESIDENCE OF CHARLES MASON, ROLLSTONE +STREET.] + +The Fitchburg Literary Club was organized some fifteen years ago. Its +membership has been large and its meetings interesting. Mr. R.G. Huling +is now the President of the club. Several writers of prose and verse +reside in town. + +In proof of musical talent we refer with just pride to the Fitchburg +Military Band, G.A. Patz, Director. The band, under the faithful and +skillful management of the late Warren S. Russell, attained almost the +highest rank among the musical organizations of New England. Mr. Russell +was a most estimable man, of rare musical ability, and his death in +March, 1884, was a sad blow to the members of the band, and to the +citizens of Fitchburg as well. At his funeral, March 18, 1884, the +floral tributes from many musical organizations in New England, the +presence of Mr. D.W. Reeves, always a warm friend of Mr. Russell, with +the American Band of Providence, Rhode Island, whose members voluntarily +tendered their services for the occasion gratuitously; the great +concourse of citizens and the general suspension of business throughout +the city, showed better than any words the estimation in which he was +held. In April, 1884, Mr. Patz became the leader of the band. That he is +eminently qualified for the position is shown by the fact that the band +still maintains its high rank and bids fair to surpass in the future the +successes of the past. In the upper common is a very handsome +band-stand, erected by means of the generosity of certain citizens, and +down town in Railroad Park is another, not quite as ornamental. The band +gives a concert at each place nearly every week during warm weather, and +large audiences appreciate the music. Nor are we lacking in vocal +talent. Several of our residents, some of whom have perfected themselves +abroad, have acquired, or are acquiring, reputation as singers. + +[Illustration: RESIDENCE OF HENRY A. GOODRICH, HIGHLAND AVENUE.] + +There are many handsome residences and fine estates in and around the +city, a few of which are represented in this sketch. It is to be +regretted that the residence of Mr. George F. Fay, of Crocker, Burbank & +Co., cannot be shown. It is in process of completion, and when finished +will be the finest in the city. + +Fitchburg is situated in a pleasant valley, extending nearly east and +west, through the southern portion of which runs the little river. Main +street is just north of this stream, and, in a measure, parallel to it. +This is the principal business street in the city and from either side +of it branch off streets most of which eventually climb up a hillside. +The city tends to increase along the course of the valley mainly, though +now the surrounding slopes are fast becoming covered with dwellings. The +streets (with the exception of Main) are unpaved, but are carefully +looked after by the city and always kept in good condition. Good +sidewalks, plenty of shade trees, and the general appearance of thrift +and neatness on the part of citizens, make a stroll through the streets +of Fitchburg very agreeable. Such, at least, is the opinion of the +writer who, as a native of the place, may be allowed to express +pardonable pride in the general appearance of prosperity, neatness and +intelligence in the community. + +[Illustration: THE "LYON AND WHITNEY" MILL.] + +This sketch would be incomplete without some slight allusion to the +surrounding country. The most marked topographical feature in this +region is Rollstone Hill, a rounded eminence, composed entirely of +granite. It is just southwest of the city. Its top is bare rock, but the +sides are covered with a thin layer of soil, which furnishes support for +quite a forest. Several quarries are worked during warm weather, and an +immense amount of granite has been taken out without any apparent +diminution in the size of the hill. It may be of interest to state that +the Fitchburg Railroad depot, in Boston, is built of granite taken from +this hill; and there are several other large stone structures in the Hub +built of the same material. On the very summit of Rollstone is perched +"the Boulder," a round mass of rock, forty-five feet in circumference, +and weighing at least one hundred tons. The rock of which it is +composed is totally unlike any rock formation within a radius of thirty +miles or more, and it is probable that this boulder was brought to its +present position by ice. The view from the top of this hill is well +worth the slight trouble taken in ascending it. At the feet of the +observer lies the city, forming almost a semi-circle. Wooded hills arise +on all sides. Wachusett, twelve miles distant, rears its imposing pile +in the south, while Big Watatic overtops its brethren in the northwest. +Almost opposite Rollstone is Pearl Hill, which is also well worth a +visit. + +[Illustration: THE "BRICK" MILL.] + +There are many pleasant drives around Fitchburg, which are thoroughly +appreciated by the citizens. But we must not dwell longer upon Fitchburg +or its environs. Let those who are strangers to our city come and see +for themselves. They will be welcome. + +The writer is aware that much has been omitted in this sketch which +ought to have been spoken of; but in a magazine article, intended simply +to give a general idea of the place, such must of necessity be the case. +Much space might, for instance, be most justly devoted to the business +men and merchants of Fitchburg, who, by hard work and fair dealing, have +acquired honorable names in the community. It would be quite possible to +fill several more pages with such matters, but it is probable that the +readers of the "BAY STATE" will coincide with the opinion that it is +about time to stop. + +[Illustration: Fitchburg seal] + + * * * * * + +THE PAST AND FUTURE OF GOLD. + +BY DAVID M. BALFOUR. + + +Gold, from the earliest times to the present day, has been regarded as +one of the most precious of metals. Next to osmium, iodium, and +platinum, it is the heaviest of metals, being nineteen times heavier +than water. Next to iron it is the most extensively diffused metal upon +our planet. It occurs in granite, the oldest rock known to us, and in +all the rocks derived from it. It is, however, much more common in +alluvial grounds than among primitive and pyrogenous rocks. Nine-tenths +of the gold which has been produced has been obtained from alluvial +beds. Gold mines are generally situated at the extreme limits of +civilization. Herodotus notes the fact and he is confirmed by Humbolt. +It is first mentioned in Genesis ii: 11. It was found in the country of +Havilah, where the rivers Euphrates and Tigris unite and discharge their +waters into the Persian Gulf. Gold is never found in mass, in veins, or +lodes; it is interspersed, in threads or flakes, throughout quartz or +other rocks. It is the only metal of a yellow color; it is easily +chrystallizable, and always assumes one or more of the symmetrical +shapes,--such as the cube or octahedron. It affords a resplendent +polish, and may be exposed, for any length of time, to the atmosphere +without suffering change, and is remarkable for its beauty. Its +malleability is such that a cubic inch will cover a surface of eighteen +hundred square feet; and its ductility is such that a cube of four +inches could be drawn into a wire which would extend around the earth. + +Gold in its relative value to silver has varied greatly at different +periods. + +In the days of the patriarch Abraham, it was one to eight; B.C. 1000, it +was one to twelve; B.C. 500, it was one to thirteen; at the commencement +of the Christian era, it was one to nine; A.D. 500, it was one to +eighteen; in 1100, it was one to eight; in 1400, it was one to eleven; +in 1545, it was one to six; in 1551 it was one to two; in 1600, it was +one to ten; in 1627, it was one to thirteen; in 1700, it was one to +fifteen and one-half; it held the latter ratio, with but slight +variation, until 1872, when it began to rise, and in 1876 it rose to one +to twenty; it soon afterwards gradually declined, and now stands one to +nineteen and one-half. The supply of silver beyond a legitimate demand +for financial purposes, the decrease of the export of silver to the +East, and the demonetization of silver by the principal countries of +Europe, have induced a tendency in the ratio of the two metals to again +advance. Gold was extremely abundant in ancient times. It was +plenteously furnished by the rivers of Asia. The sands of Pactolus, the +golden fleece conquered by the Argonauts, the gold of Ophir, the fable +of King Midas, all tend to show the eastern origin of gold. It was +abundant in Cabul and Little Thibet. It abounded in the empire of the +Pharaohs, as is attested by the traces of mining operations, now +exhausted, and by the multitude of objects of gold contained in their +tombs. Dennis ("History of the Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria," vol. +II, p. 50) states that "gold ornaments, whose beauty and richness are +amazing, abound in the tombs of the Etruscans, who were undoubtedly one +of the most remarkable nations of antiquity, and the great civilizers +of Italy. In a single tomb in Cerveti, fragments of breastplates, +earrings, and brooches, sufficient to fill more than one basket, were +found crushed beneath a mass of fallen masonry. A gold chain, with a +number of pendant _scaraboei_, was found in a tomb in Vulci, +transcending anything before seen by him. Bieda, Chiusi, Canosa, +Casuccini, Perugia, and Veii belong in the same category." Schlieman +("Ilios" p. 253, et. seq.) states that they had an abundance of gold, +bordering, as they did, on Phrygia, and nearly touching the valley of +the Pactolus, so famous for its auriferous sands. It was very pure and +therefore easily worked. In a tomb a single vase was found containing +eighty-seven hundred small objects of gold. Ornaments of gold are very +abundant in the tombs of Mycenae. In remote antiquity the bulk of gold +was brought by the Phenicians from Arabia, which had twenty-two gold +mines. It was the ancient El Dorado, and proverbial for its wealth of +gold in all antiquity, down to the Middle Ages. "Arabia sends us gold," +said Thomas A. Becket. Sacred ornaments of gold abound in churches, +temples, pagodas, and tombs, throughout the Eastern hemisphere. The +Homeric poems call Mycenae a city rich in gold. Gold abounded in the +Levant, and it was obtained in considerable quantity in the island of +Siphnos, and also from Pangaeus. It was found in abundance in +Turdeltania in Spain; it was brought down by the rivers Tagus and Duoro; +and it was plenty in Dacia, Transylvania, and the Asturias. Caligula +caused his guests to be helped with gold (which they carried away), +instead of bread and meat. The dresses of Nero were stiff with +embroidery and gold; he fished with hooks of gold, and his attendants +wore necklaces, and bracelets of gold. The Egyptians obtained large +quantities of gold from the upper Nile, and from Ethiopia. Among them it +was estimated by weight, usually in the form of bulls or oxen. In the +centre of the continent, upon which so much light has been recently +thrown by Livingston, Stanley, and others, rocks are to be met with +quartz veins containing gold, and thus auriferous alluvium has been +formed. Western Africa was the first field which supplied gold to +mediaeval Europe. Its whole seaboard from Morocco to the equator +produces more or less gold. This small section of the continent poured a +flood of gold into Europe, and until the mineral discoveries of +California and Australia, it continued to be the principal supply to the +civilized world. In eastern Akim gold is said to be as plentiful as +potatoes in Ireland. The Fanti gold mines are far more valuable than +Ashanti, and the Wassaw and the Nquampossoo have gold nuggets in +profusion. The King of Gyaman became immensely rich by the product of +his gold mines; his bed had steps of gold. The French claim that they +imported gold from Elmina in 1382. The Portuguese discovered gold in +1442, upon the borders of Rio de Ouro. Mungo Park, in 1797, drew +attention to the existence of gold in the provinces of Shronda, Kinkodi, +Dindiko, Bambuk, and Barabarra. Caille, in 1827, reported an abundance +of gold in the valley of the Niger. The gold mines of Boure were first +visited by Winwood Reade in 1872. The inhabitants of Western Africa have +worked their gold fields for centuries to very little purpose. Their +want of pumps, of quartz-crushing machinery, and of scientific +appliances, has limited their labors to scratching the top soil and +nibbling at the reef-walls. A large proportion of the country is +virtually virgin ground; and a rich harvest has been left for +Occidental science, energy, and enterprise. It is fast becoming evident +that Africa will one day equal half a dozen Californias. The annual +product of gold in Africa has declined from $17,000,000 in 1471 to +$3,000,000 in 1816. Since the latter date it has gradually declined to +$2,000,000. The gold product since 1471 has amounted to $3,500,000,000. + +Gold, after the discovery of America, was produced in large quantities, +principally in the Antilles, and chiefly in Hispaniola, and the western +coast of the Gulf of Mexico. America is pre-eminently the land of +metals. Gold is found in greater or less abundance throughout its +Pacific coast from Alaska to Patagonia. The New World furnishes nearly +two-thirds of the precious metals annually produced. The export of gold +from the United States since 1848 has amounted to $1,548,564,852. The +gold mines of Peru were revealed to Europe by Pizarro in 1513. The gold +mines of South America extend throughout its entire territory. Its +richest mines are about Huylas and Turma, Most of the rivers of the +Andes bring down auriferous sands. Before the arrival of the Spaniards +the Indians had gathered from the river sands large quantities of gold +in Peru, Chili, and along the whole western coast of South America. +Brazil has yielded, from 1513 to the present time, $876,000,000 of gold. +The annual product of gold, in South America, at the present time is +$8,000,000. The total product, from 1513 to the present time, has +amounted to $2,176,000,000. The gold mines of North America extend from +Costa Rica to Alaska, between the parallels 8° and 71° of North +latitude, and the parallels of 82° and 168° of West longitude, comprised +between the Caribbean sea and the Arctic ocean, and the Rocky mountains +and the Pacific ocean. The Mexican gold mines were discovered by Cortez +in 1526. Their annual product has decreased from $3,000,000 in former +times to $1,000,000 at the present time. Their total product to the +present time has amounted to $652,000,000. Gold was discovered in +California by William Marshall, on the ninth day of February, 1848, at +Suter's mill on the American fork of the Sacramento river, and the mines +extend from 34° to 40° of North latitude. Their annual product has +decreased from $81,000,000 in 1853 to $14,000,000 at the present time. +The annual product of the gold mines of Colorado, Dakota, Nevada, +Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon, and other parts of the United States, +at the present time, is estimated to be $16,000,000. Their total product +has amounted to $200,000,000. The annual product of the gold mines of +British Columbia is estimated to be $2,000,000. Their total product has +amounted to $52,000,000. In estimating the gold product of California +Messrs. Hussey, Bond and Hale, of San Francisco, (Hunt's Mer. Mag., vol. +XXVII, p. 43) state,--"that there should be added to the amount +exhibited upon steamers' manifests fifteen to sixty per cent, for the +amount carried in the valises and pockets of returning passengers, +overland to Mexico, exported to Chili, and retained in California for +purposes of currency." Fenton (Tasmania, p. 430) states,--"that the +product of gold, $850,000, in Tasmania, in 1883, does not include the +value of gold which left the colony by private hands, when it is +considered that the alluvial auriferous deposits are worked by men who +are constantly on the move and who sometimes take with them, to the +other colonies, the product of their washings, without leaving behind +them any record of the weight or value of the gold thus removed." This +rule should be applied to Australia, Russia, New Zealand, and all +countries which are producers of the precious metals. The annual product +of the gold mines of North America is $32,000,000. Their total product +from 1513 to the present time is estimated to be $2,764,000,000, of +which $2,164,000,000 have been obtained since 1848. The annual product +of gold in America is $40,000,000,--more than one-third of the entire +annual product of the world. The total gold product of America, since +the hills of Hispaniola were revealed to the eyes of Columbus, has +amounted to $4,940,000,000--one-third of the product of the world since +the earliest times. + +Gold was discovered in Russia in 1743, near Nertschinsk, alluvial +deposits having been observed in that year in the Ural mountains. The +mines extend over that parallelogram of the earth's surface, comprised +between the parallels of 50° and 60° of north latitude, between the +Volga and Amoor rivers. They were not generally explored until 1810. In +1816 their product was but $80,000; at the close of 1823 there was a +large development. In 1830 the annual product was $4,000,000. About that +time the deposits of Siberia were discovered, and at the close of 1840 +they yielded a greater production than those of the Ural. In 1843 the +total annual product of both regions was $18,000,000. In 1853 it +attained to $36,000,000, but since that date it has gradually declined +to $22,000,000. The total product of the Russian goldmines has amounted +to $805,000,000. The annual product of gold in Europe is $24,000,000. +The total product of gold in Europe, from the earliest times to the +present day, has amounted to $4,145,000,000. + +Gold was discovered in Australia by Edward Hammand Hargreaves, on the +twelfth day of February, 1851, in the Bathurst and Wellington districts, +and the mines extend from 18° to 38° of South latitude. Their annual +product has decreased from $75,000,000 in 1853 to $26,000,000 at the +present time. Their total product has amounted to $1,453,000,000. The +finest gold was obtained at Ballarat, and the largest nugget was dug up +at Donolly, and weighed 2,448 ounces, valued at $46,000. The New Zealand +gold mines were discovered by Messrs. Hartly and Reilly, on the +twentieth of August, 1861, in the Otago district, on the Molineux river, +on the 45° of South latitude. Their annual product has decreased from +$10,000,000 in 1863 to $4,000,000 at the present time. Their total +product has amounted to $176,000,000. The annual product of gold in Asia +(including Australia, New Zealand and Oceanica) is $32.000,000. The +total product of gold in Asia, from the earliest times to the present +day, has amounted $2,065,000,000. + +Gold was considered bullion in Palestine for a long time after silver +was current as money. The first mention of gold as money, in the Bible, +is in David's reign (B.C. 1056) when that king purchased the +threshing-floor of Oman for six hundred shekels of gold by weight +($4,500.) The Lydians were the first people who coined money. The word +"_money_" is derived from the temple of Jupiter Moneta, where the Roman +mint was established. Croesus (B.C. 560) coined the golden _stater_, +which contained one hundred and thirty-three grains of pure metal. +Darius, son of Hystaspes, (B.C. 538) coined the _daric_, which contained +one hundred and twenty-one grains of pure metal; it was preferred for +its fineness, for several ages, throughout the East. It is supposed to +be mentioned in the Old Testament under the name of _dram_. Very few +specimens have come down to us. Their scarcity may be accounted for by +the fact that they were melted down under the type of Alexander. Next +were some coins of the tyrants of Sicily; of Gelo (B.C. 491), of Helo +(B.C. 478), and of Dionysius (B.C. 404). Specimens of the former two are +still preserved in modern cabinets. Gold coin was by no means plenty in +Greece, until Philip of Macedon put the mines of Thrace into full +operation, about B.C. 300. There are only about a dozen Greek coins in +existence, three of which are in the British Museum; and of the latter, +two are _staters_, of the weight of one hundred and twenty-nine grains +each. About B.C. 207, a gold coin was struck off at Rome called +"_aureus_," four specimens of which are in the institution before +alluded to. Its weight was one hundred and twenty-four grains. + +Gold coins were issued in France by Clovis, A.D. 489. About the same +time, they were issued in Spain by Amalric, the Gothic king; in both +countries they were called "_trientes_." The "_mouton_," worth about +nine dollars, was issued in 1156. Gold coins were first issued in +England in 1257, in the shape of a "_penny_," of the value of twenty +pence; only two specimens have come down to us. "_Florins_" were next +issued in 1334, of the value of six shillings. The "_noble_" followed +next of the value of six shillings and eight pence; being stamped with a +rose, it was called the "_rose noble_." "_Angels_" appeared in 1465, of +the same value as the latter. The "_royal_" followed next in 1466, of +the value of ten shillings. Then come for the first time the +"_sovereign_," in 1489, of the value of twenty shillings. The "_crown_" +followed in 1527, of the value of ten shillings. "_Units_" and +"_lions_," were issued in 1603; the "_laurel_" 1633, and "_exurgats_," +in 1642; all of the value of twenty shillings. The "_guinea_," of the +value of twenty-one shillings, was issued in 1663, of Guinea gold. In +1773 all gold coins, except the guinea, were called in and forbidden to +be circulated. The present sovereign was issued in 1817. The United +States "_half eagle_" was issued in 1793. + +Gold, to the amount of $2,171,000,000, was obtained from the surface and +mines of the earth from the earliest times to the commencement of the +Christian era; from the date of the latter event, to the discovery of +America, $3,842,374,000 was obtained; from the date of the latter event +to the close of 1847 an addition of $3,056,000,000 was obtained; the +triple discovery of the California mines in 1848, the Australian in +1851, and the New Zealand in 1861, has added, to the close of 1884, +$5,558,626,000; making a grand total of $14,628,000,000, of which +$5,818,626,000 has been obtained since 1843. The average loss by +abrasion of coin is estimated by Professor Bowen at one-twentieth of one +per cent. per annum, and the loss by consumption in the arts, and by +fire and shipwreck, at $4,000,000 per annum. A cubic inch of gold is +worth, at 3£ 17s. 10 1-2d., or $18.96 per ounce., $193; a cubic foot, +$333,504; and a cubic yard, $9,004,608. + +Gold to the amount of $1,081,000,000, is estimated to have been in +existence at the commencement of the Christian era. At the period of the +discovery of America it had diminished to $135,000,000; after that +event, it gradually increased, and in 1600 it attained to $154,000,000, +in 1700 it reached $398,000,000, in 1800 it amounted to $1,156,000,000, +in 1853 it attained to $3,332,000,000, and at the present time the +amount of gold in existence is estimated to be $8,166,000,000; which, if +melted into one mass, could be contained in the basement of Bunker Hill +Monument, which is a cube of thirty feet. Of the amount of gold in +existence $6,000,000,000 is estimated to be in coin and bullion, +$1,000,000,000 in watches, and the remainder in plate, jewelry, and +ornaments. Of the amount of gold in existence $2,374,000,000 is +estimated to have been obtained from North America, $1,739,000,000 from +South America; $1,858,000,000 from Asia (including Australia, New +Zealand, and Oceanica), $945,000,000 from Europe, and $1,250,000,000 +from Africa. The amount of the precious metals now in existence is +estimated to be $13,670,000,000. + +Gold, as compared with former periods, in regard to its annual product, +has attained, within the last forty-two years, to enormous proportions. +At the date of the discovery of America it was but $100,000; after the +occurrence of that event it gradually increased, and in 1800 it was +$17,000,000, and in 1853 it reached its acme, when it was $236,000,000; +it soon afterwards gradually decreased, and now it is but $98,000,000. + +Gold has changed places with silver as regards coinage. Since 1726 the +gold coinage of the French mint has amounted to 11,400,000,000 francs, +of which 8,200,000,000 francs have been issued since 1850. Since 1603 +the gold coinage of the British mint has amounted to £409,000,000, of +which £253,000,000 have been issued since 1850. Since 1792 the gold +coinage of the United States mint has amounted to $1,357,000,000, of +which $1,257,000,000 have been issued since 1850. Since 1664 the gold +coinage of the Russian mint has amounted to 900,000,000 roubles, of +which 630,000,000 have been issued since 1850. The twenty-five-franc +piece of France contains 112 grains of pure metal; the sovereign of +England, 113 grains; the new doubloon of Spain, and the half-eagle of +the United States, 116 grains each; and the gold lion of the +Netherlands, and double-ounce of Sicily, 117 grains each. It was +proposed, a few years since, to adopt a uniform system of coinage +throughout the world, so that the coins of one nation may circulate in +any other without the expense of re-coinage, "a consummation devoutly to +be _wished_." The gold coinage of the principal countries of the world +has increased from $77,000,000 in 1848 to $300,000,000 in 1854; in 1876 +it declined to $250,000,000, since which it has continued to decrease, +and is now but $90,000,000. The gold coinage of the United States mint, +since 1849, has amounted to $1,281,420,038. In proportion as the wealth +of a country increases it requires a currency of higher value. Gold, +owing to its greater supply, and more convenient portability, is +steadily gaining in the channels of commercial exchange upon silver. + +Gold, in view of the large amount which has been thrown into the +monetary circulation of the world since 1843, and the little influence +it has exercised upon the money market and prices generally, has +falsified the predictions of financial writers, a generation ago, upon +both sides of the Atlantic. The following statement will exhibit the +wholesale cash prices in the New York market, on the first day of +January, in the respective years, of six of the principal articals of +commerce: + + 1860. 1872. 1885. +Beef, per barrel $10.75 $10.00 $11.75 +Pork, " " 16.25 14.00 12.25 +Flour, " " 5.25 4.12 2.55 +Rice, " 100 lbs. 3.87 8.44 5.62 +Corn, " bushel .93 .81 .48 +Cotton, " pound .11 3-4 .21 1-4 .11 1-4 + +War is the great enhancer of prices. During the Civil War in the United +States (1861-1865), the prices of the above articles were more than +doubled. + +Gold, in the midst of its sudden plethora, was a perplexing problem to +the financial prophets of a third of a century ago. M. Michel Chevalier +(Revue des Deux Mondes, November, 1857) predicted,--"that a decline +would occur in the price of gold, equal to one-half of its former value; +that a period of peril was impending, full of inquietude, instability +and damage to a great variety of interests; that the value of gold would +be diminished, and that consequently wages and prices would be doubled; +that the duties on imports, and the interest on the debts of the +principal nations of the world, must necessarilly follow the same +course; that it would inevitably involve a re-coinage of all the +existing gold coins of the world, from time to time, in order to conform +to the price of the metal; that the value of the twenty-franc piece +would be reduced to 19 1-2, 19, 18 francs, as the depreciation +descended; and he, therefore, recommended a cessation of the gold +coinage until the lowest point of depreciation is reached; that the new +gold fields were likely to prove as productive as at first for several +generations; in no direction could new outlets be seen sufficiently +large to absorb the extra production in such a manner as to prevent a +fall in its value. It might fall until nineteen francs would correspond +only to the amount of well being which could then be obtained for five +francs." Poor man! He lived to see the utter failure of all his +predictions; to behold France become the largest coiner of gold in the +world; an exporter of the precious metals to the amount of $43,000,000 +annually during a decade; the rise of the standard of gold from 15 1-2 +to 18, as compared with silver, and involving a decline from 62 3-4d. to +52d. per ounce; great fear of a gold famine come upon the Directors of +the Bank of France, and also of the Bank of England; the annual product +of gold to attain its acme, four years before his predictions; its +gradual decline, until it had descended to one-half; a new gold-field +opened in New Zealand; and silver demonetized by his own country, +Germany, and the other principal countries of Europe. M. Emile de +Lavelaye (Ninteenth Century Review, September, 1881), states, "that the +present annual supply of gold is no more than sufficient to meet the +requirements of the expanding commerce of the world. The scarcity of +gold has induced so great a fall in prices that they are now lower than +in 1850. It is estimated that North America has contributed £14,000,000 +of the stock of gold in the world." We have already shown that the +annual product of gold has increased, at one period, thirteen fold, and +is now, notwithstanding its rapid decrease, five fold greater than at +the commencement of the present century; that prices have not been in +the least degree affected by the increased supply of gold; and that +North America has contributed $2,374,000,000 of the stock of gold in the +world. + +Gold has faithfully performed for the last forty-two years, and, in view +of its abundance and prospective increase, will continue to support its +_role_ of a fixed standard of value, and a firm basis for the bank-note +circulation of the principal countries of the civilized world, which is +evidently growing gradually metallic, as a comparative statement of the +amount of bank-note circulation issued, and the amount of specie held by +the Bank of England, the joint stock banks, and the private banks of +Great Britain the Bank of France, the State banks, and the National +banks of the United States, at different periods, will exhibit: + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1840. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + | GREAT BRITAIN. | FRANCE. | UNITED STATES. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Circulation | £34,976,524 | 220,005,695 francs. | $87,872,171 +Specie | 8,751,342 | 225,406,807 " | 35,207,690 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1850. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Circulation | £34,948,765 | 481,552,000 francs. | $118,984,112 +Specie | 19,843,026 | 458,820,000 " | 45,379,345 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1862. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Circulation | £39,574,862 | 725,417,563 francs. | $126,599,167 +Specie | 22,917,846 | 324,915,234 " | 102,507,559 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + 1885. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Circulation | £37,215,968 |2,912,386,475 francs. | $112,027,858 +Specie | 28,146,893 |2,065,937,158 " | 139,747,080 +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Gold has robbed silver of the _prestige_ claimed for it two centuries +ago by Locke,--"that it is the instrument and measure of commerce in all +the civilized and trading parts of the world, and its normal currency." +Gold has maintained its present price for one hundred and sixty years, +while silver has declined twenty-two per cent. within thirteen. When, +owing to scarcity, gold advances in price, then we may fear, that, what +the late Mr. Bagehot use to call the "_apprehension point_," is close at +our heels. The amount of gold in existence has increased from +$1,975,000,000 in 1843 to $8,166,000,000 at the present time; while +silver, owing to the great attrition of coin (estimated by Bowen at one +per cent. per annum), has increased from $5,040,000,000 to but +$5,504,000,000, during the same period. Of the two hundred and twelve +millions of dollars of the precious metals annually produced, +ninety-eight millions are furnished by gold. + + * * * * * + +MY MOUNTAIN HOME. + +BY WILLIAM C. STUROC. + + + Down in the valleys, where the grasses grow, + And waves the gold-rod and the meadow queen; + Where peaceful streamlets, with a languid flow, + Are calmly shimmering in the noonday sheen-- + There may be peace, and plenty too, I ween; + But on the mountain's elephantine height, + Where thunder-drums are beat on bassy key, + And lightning-flashes glisten through the night; + And forests groan with storm-chang'd melody, + There let my home, 'mid lofty nature be-- + That, near the stars, and near the sun and moon, + My eyes may gaze upon the book of space, + And learn the lyrics that are sung in tune + As rolling orbs their constant journeys trace. + + * * * * * + +General Knefler to General Wallace: + + + INDIANAPOLIS, February 19, 1868. + + GENERAL. Upon reading the "Life of Grant," by Colonel Badeau, I + was much surprised to see his version of your conduct on the + first day of the battle of Shiloh. As I was present with your + command on that day, as Assistant Adjutant General of Division, + I desire to make the following statement of facts, as I can + remember them at this time: + + The position of your division, on the morning of the sixth of + April, 1862, was as follows: Headquarters of the division and + camp of the First Brigade at Crump's Landing; Second Brigade, + two and a half miles from Crump's Landing, on the Purdy road, at + a place, if I remember right, called Stony Lonesome; Third + Brigade, two and a half miles from the camp of the Second + Brigade, at Adamsville, on the Purdy road, and five miles from + Headquarters of division at Crump's Landing. + + When the cannonading was first heard on Sunday morning 'you + issued orders' at once, for the concentration of the division at + camp of the Second Brigade, at Stony Lonesome. The baggage, camp + and garrison equipage was ordered to Crump's Landing, and + detachments were made for its protection. "_These orders were + given before you heard from Headquarters_." + + About 9 o'clock General Grant passed up on the Tigris and in + passing the boat upon which were your Headquarters, had a + conversation with you. I did not hear what was said, but you + immediately mounted, and accompanied by your staff rode rapidly + to the camp of the Second Brigade. It was, perhaps, two hours + before any order arrived. I know you were anxiously looking for + orders, and finally despatched one of your aids to ride to the + landing to ascertain if any one had arrived with orders, and + conduct him to you. Shortly after that,--it must have been 12 + o'clock, M., Captain Baxter, A.Q.M., arrived with orders, and + brought the very cheering intelligence that our army was + successful. I cannot tell at this time what the particular + language was. The order was placed in my hands as Assistant + Adjutant General, but where it is now, or what became of it, I + am unable to say; very likely, having been written on a scrap of + paper, it was lost after coming into my hands; a matter which I + much regret, as I feel confident that its production now would + conclusively demonstrate that you obeyed the command contained + in it. I remember, however, distinctly, that it was a written + order to march and form a junction with the right of the army, + which was understood to be the right of the army as it rested on + the morning when the battle began. Suffice it to say, that the + division marched at once, and took the road which had been + previously ascertained as leading to the right of the army, in + the position it occupied on the morning of the sixth, and + previous to that time. The road was then patrolled and picketted + by cavalry detachments of your command. By your permission, I + was marching with the advance guard, comprised of several + companies of the Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, Lieutenant + Colonel Berber, commanding. We marched very rapidly, and to + judge from the sound of the battle, we were approaching it fast. + The advanced guard had reached the crossing of Snake Creek, near + a mill, or some large building, where a bridge had been + constructed, and from that point we could see the smoke + overhanging the battle-field and distinctly hear the musketry, + when an order was received, to retrace our steps, and work our + way to the head of the column. We marched back at once, almost + to our starting place, where we found the column was marching + through the woods where there was no road (not even a trail + appeared) to save time and distance. The troops were marching + very fast, and I did not come up with you for perhaps two hours + after the advance guard received orders to countermarch. + + When the column was put in motion on the river road, which must + have been after 4 o'clock, we were met by some staff officers of + General Grant, Major Rawlins and Colonel McPherson, and another + officer whom I did not know. They had some conversation with + you, and then, for the first time I learned that our troops had + been repulsed, and that we were then marching to join the right + of the army, in its new position, at Pittsburg Landing. After + some hard marching over execrable roads we reached our position + about dusk. + + The road the division first marched on led directly to the right + of the army in its position as stated above, and we would have + joined it, had it not been repulsed, before 3 o'clock P.M. + + Having conversed with many of the division who were present on + that day, it is the general impression that we marched between + fifteen and eighteen miles. Now, considering that we had troops + not inured to hard marching, some of them on their first march, + the condition of the roads, almost impassible, and part of that + distance through woods, without any road, at all, it certainly + ought not to be intimated that you did not do your whole duty in + endeavoring to reach the field. + + I am General, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, + + FRED KNEFLER. + + Late Colonel Seventy-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers. + + * * * * * + +REUBEN TRACY'S VACATION TRIPS. + +BY ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD. + + +II. + +"O mamma, did'nt we have a good time at the Isles of Shoals last +summer?" said Reuben Tracy to his mother one evening last July as they +sat together on their piazza. "Did'nt the boys stare though when I told +them all about it in our geography class. Ned Bolton said that I knew +more about it than the geography did; and afterwards he asked me if I +had ever seen a mountain. How I wish I could see one and climb to the +very top of it. Oh my, would'nt I look!" + +And the boy's eyes looked as though they would look to the satisfaction +of the most devoted teacher. + +"Well," my boy, replied Mrs. Tracy as she drew him nearer to her in +loving admiration of such enthusiasm, "only yesterday I received a +letter from your uncle in Northampton urging me to take you and come to +make him a visit, and I thought then what a good opportunity it would be +for you to see your first mountain. Now do you know what one I mean?" + +"Oh yes," answered Reuben; "but you mean two, do'nt you? Mount Tom and +Mount Holyoke. I learned that in my geography. I can see it now in my +book where it says that Mount Tom is twelve hundred feet high, and Mount +Holyoke one thousand feet high." But Bob Phelps said that there were +lots of Rattlesnakes on Mount Tom, so I should not dare to go there--but +then--" + +"Visitors don't go on Mount Tom proper, as there is no accomodation for +them," interrupted Mrs. Tracy, "but on Mount Holyoke there is the +Prospect House, which your uncle said last summer was a very well-kept +house. Why, it is thirty-five years ago that I was on top of that +mountain, when, as a young girl, just a little older than you, I went +with my father and mother. A Mr. French had just taken the house. I +wonder if he is there now. He seemed determined then to do what he could +for the place. I can hear him now telling my father that a spot which +had been such a favorite one for over two hundred years must have some +superior claim upon the people of his day. I really would love to go +there again. It is one of those places which once seen is never +forgotten, and then I could'nt choose a better spot for your +introduction to a lovely mountain view. But, my child, it is getting +late and time for you to go to bed. Run along and I will write to your +uncle to-night and accept his cordial invitation." + +"And tell him" added Reuben, "that I wish every boy in this world had +such a boss mother as I have. Ned Bolton says so, too;" with which +unique expression of love and gratitude he kissed his mother "Good +night" and went off to bed to dream of, well, what do you think? Of +rattle-snakes, of mountains, or even of geography? Oh, no! only nothing, +for he was a healthy boy who said he couldn't spare the time to dream. + +After he had gone Mrs. Tracy sat alone for a while, thinking over this +early visit of hers, with all the precious memories which it suggested +of her own father and mother, now dead and gone. Then she thought over +the past year's intimate life which she had enjoyed with her boy, and +became more and more thankful that she had been enabled thus to get up +out of her selfish grief of the summer before--when death took her other +children from her--and empty her own life into the larger channel of +life around her. She was pleased to think of the good fruits that had +arisen from her plans for her boy's vacation trips, not only upon him +but upon other mothers who had been led to follow her example. She +thought of the Christmas week she had spent with him in Boston, where +they had enjoyed so many interesting historical sights. And in the few +weeks of the vacation which was now passing, it pleased her to recall +the delightful days which they had spent at Concord and at Plymouth. And +now, in this evening reverie, she smiled as she thought of her boy's +telling his geography class all about the Isles of Shoals. How she would +loved to have heard him--her fair-haired, blue-eyed boy, talking with +all the intensity of his nature of what he had seen. Ah! life had left +much to her yet; and she determined anew that Reuben should never want +for any of her sympathetic help, either in his sports or in his growing +student life. With this renewed determination she went into the house to +write her letter to her brother at Northampton. + +She was just finishing it when her husband came in from his weekly +meeting with the city fathers. She told him all her plan, which he +heartily endorsed, and practically helped by taking out his purse and +giving her a generous sum of money for the trip, saying, "I wish, my +dear, that I could go too, but I cannot leave my business this season of +the year. But I am only too glad that I can make money enough for you +and Reuben to go. I know of no better way to invest it for the future of +our boy, God bless him! + +"Ah!" replied Mrs. Tracy, her face all aglow with the joy of having her +own thought so fully met, "would that more fathers thought so! but while +some think only of a bank account, and the great majority think nothing +of any account at all, only the few know the need of a child's mind +_digesting_ money, so to speak, as it goes along." + +In a few days the arrangements were completed and Mrs. Tracy and her son +left their home in Salem for Northampton. Reuben quietly enjoyed the +scenery all the way from Boston to Springfield. In the forty minutes' +ride from Springfield to Northampton Mrs. Tracy had a delightful +opportunity, which she well used, to show her boy the winding course of +a river,--the beautiful Connecticut--as they followed it first on one +side and then on the other. When Reuben spied the house on Mount Holyoke +he realized then that he saw his first mountain. On making inquiries +about the mountain with a house on it, on the other side of the river, +the conductor told him that that was Mount Nonotuck, a peak of the Mount +Tom range, which was nine hundred and fifty feet high. He also told him +that Nonotuck was the old Indian name for Northampton, which was just +then coming in sight. + +On arriving at the station uncle Edward met them with his carriage to +convey them to his home on Round Hill. On their way there they passed +the fine building of Smith College, which particularly pleased Mrs. +Tracy and caused her to say, partly to herself, "Happy, happy girls to +have such privileges of college life." "What," said Reuben, "girls go to +college like boys? how funny!" When, after a moment or two of seeming +abstraction, he said: "That is what papa meant the other day when he +said that girls were as good as boys and could learn just as well as +they could, is'nt it?" But before Mrs. Tracy could answer him they had +arrived at their destination. + +The next day they took a drive around the town, or rather the city, +since a short time before it had become such. Its wealth of trees was a +source of joy to them. + +When they were crossing Mill River, on the old covered bridge on South +street, uncle Edward stopped and told them that this was the only bridge +on the river which was saved from the awful catastrophe of the bursting +of the reservoir at Williamsburg, ten miles from there. When they drove +off the bridge he told Reuben to notice the river as it flowed so +peacefully along, in apparent forgetfulness of its dreadful havoc of ten +years ago when about one hundred and fifty lives were lost, and +factories, houses, and churches were swept along, as so many leaves, by +the rushing torrent. He told, among other facts, how a cousin of his was +seated at the breakfast-table with his whole family--a wife, two sons, +and a daughter--when they were swept up by the waters, house and all, +and all drowned. And while he was telling these incidents, which were so +much to him, he made them more effective by driving up some little +distance through the district which had been devastated. Thus Reuben +learned of a peculiar tragedy, in a manner which no reading in itself +could so well have taught him. + +They spent a day or two more in looking around the different public +institutions, the Clarke Institute for the Deaf, on Round Hill, giving +them the most interest. But in spite of these attractions, Mrs. Tracy's +keen mother-eye noticed that Reuben was getting a little impatient to +climb a mountain, that mountain "with the tunnel" as he expressed it. So +she decided to go there the first pleasant day; and as it was now the +time of full moon she proposed to remain upon the mountain all night, +much to Reuben's delight. + +The next day proved to be pleasant, so they in company with Uncle Edward +and his wife started for Mount Holyoke, a distance of three miles. A +short drive brought them to the Hokanum ferry where they were to cross +the Connecticut. As they drove upon what seemed to Reuben a wharf, he, +accustomed only to the Boston ferry-boats, remarked that the boat was +not in yet. And it was not until a moment later when he found himself +moving away from the land that he discovered that he was on the boat +itself! The way in which they were being borne across the river by man's +use of the pulley and wire was a great novelty to the boy and could only +suggest to his mother the most primitive days. + +It took them five minutes to cross--about eighty-five rods--after which +a short drive through a pretty country took them to the foot of the +mountain. Then following a good carriage-road they were soon at the +half-way house where Reuben at last found the "tunnel" which had given +him so much wonder. + +After examining the stationary engine at the foot of the inclined plane, +in this wooden enclosure which Reuben had called the tunnel, they seated +themselves in the car and in two and a quarter minutes were landed at +the top, 600 feet higher. + +Mrs. Tracy on going up felt a little fear which was overcome when her +brother informed her that Mr. French was always at the top with his +watchful eye. + +"Yes, that is so," said a voice as they stepped out of the car, and Mrs. +Tracy was introduced to the same Mr. French who was so much in earnest +years ago when she visited the place to make it a success. + +They talked over the intervening years, Mr. French telling her of his +improvements, how the first railroad was built in 1854, and the present +track was laid in 1867, and how more than half a million people had been +up over it. + +He showed her a picture of the first house built there in 1821, then of +the one rebuilt in 1851, which was gradually enlarged, until it became +the present size in 1861, ten years later. + +She was particularly interested to hear him tell of the famous people +who had visited the place, so much so, that he brought out for +inspection some of the autograph books which filled a long shelf. He +said that there were names recorded as far back as 1824. As they looked +them over they saw at the date of August 12, 1847, in bold handwriting, +"Charles Summer," with the testimony that the view from Mount Holyoke +was "surpassingly lovely." + +At the sight of the clearly written name "Jenny Lind, Sweden," at the +date of July 7, 1851, Reuben exclaimed--"Oh, she was that big singer; +mamma showed me the house on Round Hill where she lived and was +married." + +That he should remember this fact pleased Mrs. Tracy while his boyish +enthusiasm led Mr. French to tell a pleasant little reminiscence of her +visit there which was heartily enjoyed by them all. And that others may +have the pleasure of hearing it from him on his own premises I will not +repeat it here. + +After a little further talk on the history of the place, in which Reuben +learned that it was named Holyoke in 1654 in honor of Captain Elizur +Holyoke, they began to enjoy the lovely pictures all around them. + +It was fortunate for them that a heavy wind of the night before had +taken away the clouds which had for a time hidden the mountains farthest +off. Hence they were now able to see distinctly the Green Mountains in +Vermont, Wachusett and Greylock in Massachusetts, and Monadnock in New +Hampshire. + +As they spoke of the many little villages which gave the human interest +to the scene, Mr. French said that they could see from there thirty-two +towns in Massachusetts and eight in Connecticut. + +He adjusted the telescope so that they could easily tell the time on the +clock at Smith College. He adjusted it again and they saw the Amherst +College buildings. Another adjustment revealed Mount Holyoke Seminary at +South Hadley; and in this way they saw the Armory at Springfield, the +Insane asylum at Northampton, and other well-known buildings. + +A sight of the unique Front street in Old Hadley with its four rows of +fine old shade trees led Uncle Edward to promise his guests a drive +through it before they should return to Salem. + +The fine combination of meadow, river, hills and towns, as pictured +through a colored reflecting glass, was a delight indeed. + +In one of the views, Reuben spied an island striped with cultivated +fields which Mr. French said was called Ox Bow; he pointed out another +called Shepard's island, which, with Ox Bow, added much to the scenery. + +The winding river suggested to Mrs. Tracy how much nature loved a curve. +While Uncle Edward, who had visited the chief mountains in this land and +in Europe, said that he always came back to this mountain view as the +loveliest and the most restful of them all, although it was not the +grandest or the most awe inspiring. + +So the day passed on Mount Holyoke, giving them at every moment living +pictures which no painter could equal. When the sun went down the moon +came up to give her light, and nature reveled in her beauty. + +The only painful shadow for Mrs. Tracy was when she felt sad that more +of earth's troubled ones did not or could not come to drink in such +peace and rest. + +But such days must come to an end. And what can follow more delightful +than a refreshing sleep on such a height. This they all had and were +ready the next morning to return to Northampton. + +As Reuben was anxious to count the steps which, on ascending the day +before, he had noticed on the side of the inclined plane; he went down +that way, while the rest of the party availed themselves of the car. He, +boy-like, did not mind the extra labor and longer time which that choice +involved, so long as he found out that there were five hundred and +twenty-two steps. + +As they descended the mountain from the half-way house Reuben gathered +for a souvenir some of the beautiful laurel which, in full-bloom, was +then adorning its sides. + +A few days later after the promised ride to Old Hadley, three miles +distant, which was extended four miles to Amherst to give Reuben a sight +of the college where his papa graduated, Mrs. Tracy and her son returned +to Salem. Mr. Tracy was highly entertained with Reuben's account of what +he had seen, and felt more than ever that his money had been well +invested. The rest of the vacation soon passed, the boy's active mind +being profitably engaged in the interim of active, healthful sports. + +And it is highly probable that by this time the geography class, with +Ned Bolton as spokesman, has discovered that "Reuben Tracy knows more +about a mountain than the geography itself!" + + * * * * * + +GEMS FROM THE EASY CHAIR. + + +Christmas. There is nothing in the deepest and best sense human which in +the truest and highest sense is not also Christian. The characteristic +feeling about Christmas, as it is revealed in literature and tradition +and association, is the striking and beautiful tribute to the +practicability of Christianity. + +Sermons. It is doubtless very unjust to the clergy to suppose that they +turn the barrel of sermons to save themselves the trouble of writing new +ones. Nothing but the levity of the pews could be guilty of such a +suspicion. The preacher knows that one squeezing does not take all the +juice out of an orange; and how much jucier a fruit is a good sermon! +Moreover, the pews are so pachydermatous, so rhinoceros-skinned, that +nothing but an incessant pelting upon the same spot makes an impression. + +America. Whoever has seen a self-possessed and sagacious orator handling +a tumultuous meeting as Phoebus-Appollo handles his madly plunging +steeds, has seen the symbol of popular government, and understands why +the sole fact of numerical force and brute power does not explain it. He +who watches the ocean rising into every bay and creek in obedience to +celestial attraction, sees in outward nature the law that governs the +associated life of men, and which gives the American people faith in +their own government, whether they can give a reason, for their faith or +not. + + * * * * * + +NATIONAL BANK FAILURES. + +BY GEORGE H. WOOD. + + +Occasionally the attention of the daily press of the country is called +to the provisions of the National Banking Law by the announcement of the +failure of some national banking association, and immediately it teems +with comments, and recommendations as to amendments which should be made +to render the law effective. These recommendations and comments usually +show the most lamentable ignorance, both as to the actual existing +provisions of the law and its practical working, and as regards banking +matters generally. In the case of the failure of the Middletown National +Bank of New York, the advice which has been given in the columns of the +press seems of itself to be sufficient, if it had been given sooner, to +have prevented the disaster. The Directors have been blamed, very justly +too, for they looked on while their President run them into all its +difficulties, and as usual the Bank Examiners have been held responsible +for the disaster. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that a +provision be added to the National Banking Laws punishing Examiners who +do not detect irregularities in the banks which they examine. + +The provisions of the National Bank Act as they now stand are as +perfect, theoretically, as they can be drawn, to protect both the +depositors and the stockholders. The law provides for the publication of +sworn reports, from time to time, of the condition of each national +bank. These reports must be sworn to by the President, or Cashier, and +their correctness must be attested by the signatures of at least three +Directors. These reports are required five times a year and it is +impossible to see how, if the Directors do their duty fully and +honestly, any delinquency on the part of the officers of the bank can +fail to be detected by them. Under the law, the stockholders elect the +Directors, at least five in number. The officers of the bank are elected +or appointed by the directors and are subject to them. Thus far the +protection the Act provides is based upon what, so far as financial +matters are concerned, is one of the great controlling influences of +human nature, _viz_: self-interest. The stockholders, in order to +protect themselves, are expected to elect Directors who will look out +for the interests of all. + +The sworn reports made to the Comptroller of the Currency are published +in the newspapers where the banks are located, and a copy sent to that +officer that he may know that the law in this respect has been complied +with. The stockholders can inspect them at any time as they appear, and +can note any changes which occur in them from time to time. The +stockholders are also at perfect liberty to make any inquiries that they +may deem fit, in any direction which their intelligence may suggest to +them. + +In addition to the protection which the law gives to the stockholders, +and also to the depositors, by requiring the publication of reports of +the condition of the national banks, Bank Examiners are provided in the +law; these Bank Examiners are appointed by the Comptroller of the +Currency, and make their examinations at any time that he may deem fit. + +A Bank Examiner to afford perfect security for the real merit of his +examination, has a disagreeable duty to perform. He enters a bank, which +by all the world is supposed to be well conducted and solvent, and to be +managed by honorable men, respected and looked up to by the whole +community. His position, however, is that of a Censor, and it does not +permit him to assume what the world supposes. On the contrary, to make a +good examination, he must take nothing for granted, and quietly act on +the ground that something is wrong. "Suspicions are the sinews of the +mind" in this case, and an examiner without them cannot expect to detect +mismanagement or defalcation. The position requires tact as well as +technical skill--tact not to offend unnecessarily or disturb friendly +relations, and skill to bring to light all that should be +discovered--and undoubtedly requires a high class of mind in the one +that fills it _well_. Bank examinations are not the only security +provided in the law, and it is ridiculous to assert that the Directors, +stockholders and depositors should throw aside or neglect to use all the +other means which the law provides to enable them to protect themselves, +and rely entirely upon the Government examinations, which in the nature +of things must depend for success on the sagacity of one individual. + +The framers of the National Bank Act, while they did all that they could +to protect the depositors and stockholders of national banks, as has +been seen, were still not perfectly sure but that failures might +sometimes occur. This feeling doubtless arose from a knowledge on their +part of the weakness of human nature, and of the imperfections of +systems of Government. That they felt in this way, is indicated by the +fact that they have provided, also, a method of protecting, as far as +possible, the depositors of national banks that _do_ fail. They have +provided for the appointment of receivers and for a distribution, under +Government control, of such assets as can be collected from the wrecks +of the failed banks. The stockholders of such banks are subject to the +penalty of being compelled to contribute, if the deficiency in the +assets requires it, an amount not exceeding the par value of the shares +of stock held by them in addition to the amount already invested in such +shares, to the fund necessary to pay depositors. This of itself would +seem sufficient to be careful and place a live Board of Directors in +charge of a large fund, considering the manner the stockholders of the +Pacific National Bank of Boston kicked and squirmed when this provision +of the law was applied. + +The experience of the past has been that bank officers have concealed +all their operations from the proprietors, and when failures have +occurred everybody has been astonished. As an additional safeguard to +meet this secrecy an organization has just been perfected in New York +which is a step farther in commercial agencies than has ever been +attempted. From one of their printed circulars it is ascertained that +they propose to keep in pay a corps of detectives and other agencies, +"as a check upon defalcations and embezzlements by bank Presidents, and +Cashiers and other officials." But it is not exactly clear who will +watch the detectives. + + * * * * * + +ELIZABETH. + +A ROMANCE OF COLONIAL DAYS + +BY FRANCES C. SPARHAWK, Author of "A Lazy Man's Work." + + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +UNWELCOME NEWS. + + +June was doing its best to make the world content. Little clouds floated +through the blue sky, like the light sighs of a mood that must find some +expression, and the air for all its softness was invigorating, it was so +full of life and purity. This day, like many another, needed only to +bring as fair hopes to the lives of those who looked into it as it did +to the nature it overbrooded to make the faces its light breezes fanned +as bright as the skies were, with only shadows of expression to give the +brightness new beauty. But no such light was on Elizabeth Royal's face +as she sat at the open window of her room with a piece of delicate +embroidery in her hands. Her future had not opened out into life; the +winter had killed its buds of promise. + +After all, Stephen Archdale had not gone to England. His father and +Governor Wentworth had insisted that it was much wiser to send an older +and a better business man. "Do you want to make the best of your case?" +the Colonel had asked incisively when Stephen hesitated. And the young +man had yielded, though reluctantly. It would have been so much easier +for him to be away and to be doing something. But at present he must +think only of doing the wisest thing. + +Elizabeth had not seen him; he had written to her father once, and had +promised to write again as soon as he had the slightest news. He had +tried his best to be cheerful, and had sent her a message that +endeavored to be hopeful; but she saw that courtesy struggled with +despair. She knew that they need never meet; but if this thing were +true--she could not believe it--but if it were true, then happiness was +over. Life in a June day has such possibilities of happiness; and that +morning her eyes grew so misty that she took a few wrong stitches in her +work, and as footsteps drew near the room, perceived this and began to +pick them out with nervous haste. She had not finished, however, when +Mrs. Eveleigh came in. As Elizabeth had expected, her first remark was a +comment. + +"What! another mistake, my dear? You know you made one only yesterday, +and you can work so beautifully when you give your mind to it. It is a +bad plan to have such a dreamy way with one. For my part, I should think +you would have had enough of doing things in dreams and never knowing +what they will end in. You would better wake up for the rest of your +life." + +As Elizabeth had heard the same remark numberless times before, its +effect was not startling. In silence she went on picking out her +stitches. + +"Why not say you think so, too? It would be more dutiful in you," +continued Mrs. Eveleigh. + +"You take care that I am waked up," returned Elizabeth. "You don't leave +one many illusions." + +"I hope not. What is the use of illusions?" + +"Yes, what?" + +"Well, Elizabeth, it is not I that have disturbed them this time; you +must thank him for that." + +"Him?" + +"Yes, he has come. I have just been leaning over the banisters, and saw +him come in." Elizabeth did not look dreamy now. "He did not come +forward at all in the modest, charming way of the other one, which you +know irresistably wins hearts," went on Mrs. Eveleigh; "he marched along +straight into the parlor and asked to see you, just as if he owned the +house and all that was in it. So he does own somebody in it, I am +afraid, poor child." + +The girl's face was white, her violet eyes looked black and shadowed by +heavy lines. + +"Is it--?" she began. + +"Oh, yes, my dear, it is your husband. He has come to claim you, no +doubt. If he cannot get the wife he wants, he will have somebody at the +head of his table. And, then, my dear, you know you are an heiress, not +a person of no account." + +"Nonsense," returned the other; "the marriage is not proven. He may have +come with news." + +At this moment a servant brought up Archdale's card. On it he had +written a line begging to see her. Elizabeth showed it to her companion. + +"See," she said, "you are mistaken. Probably we are free, and he wants +to tell me of it first,--first of anyone here, I mean. That is not +arbitrary, nor as you said, at all." + +"Very well, dear; only, don't crow till you are out of the woods. Would +you like to have me receive him with you?" + +Elizabeth hesitated. + +"No. I thank you," she said. "You are very kind, but perhaps it would be +better to go by myself." + +"As you like." And Mrs. Eveleigh's pride laid a strong hand upon her +swelling curiosity, so that with an indifference well acted she sat down +to her work. But as she lost the sound of Elizabeth's step on the stairs +she rose again and looked breathlessly over the banisters, trying to +catch the greeting that went on in the room below. But either through +accident, or because the girl knew the character of her companion, the +door closed behind Elizabeth, and Mrs. Eveleigh heard nothing. If she +had done so, the greeting was so simple that she would have gained from +it no clue of what was to follow. Archdale came forward, bowed low, and +held out his hand to her as simply as Katie's husband might have greeted +Katie's friend, and possibly have brought her some message. Elizabeth +felt this as she laid her hand in his for a moment, a smile of relief +and anticipation came over her face; and in reply to his question she +answered: "Yes, we are all well, thank you." It was after the first +moment that the embarrassment began, when at her look of hope and +questioning his eyes fell a moment, and when raised again gave no answer +to it. Both realized then how hard fate had been to them. But even yet +Elizabeth would not quite give up the cause. She steadied herself a +little by her hand on the back of the chair before she sat down in it, +asking with the smile still on her lips, but not spontaneous as before. + +"You have brought good news?" + +"No," he said. "I am afraid you will not call it good news." He looked +away as he spoke, but after a moment turned toward her, and their eyes +met. Each read the meaning in the other's face too plainly to make +reserve as to the real state of things possible. "The cause of all this +cruel delay is explained at last," he went on. "The Sea-Gull on her way +back to England was wrecked. All Bolston's papers are lost. He had a +fever brought on by cold and exposure, and after he had lain for weeks +in an Irish inn, he waked into life with scarcely his sense of identity +come back to him. He writes that he has begun to recover himself, +however, and that by the time we send the papers again, new copies, he +shall be able to attend to the business as well as ever. For our work, +he might as well be at the bottom of the sea." + +Elizabeth turned pale. + +"When did you learn this?" she asked. + +"A fortnight ago. I ought to have told you of it before, but I hated to +pain you." + +She looked at him firmly. Then smiled a little through her paleness. + +"Yes, it does pain me," she said. "But I don't despair. We are not +married, you and I, Mr. Archdale, and I wish Katie would throw aside her +nonsensical scruples. What matter whether Mr. Harwin was a minister? Why +will she not let it go that it was all fun, and marry you? I think she +ought." + +"I think so, too," he said. He did not add his suspicions that Katie was +acting upon the covert suggestions of his father which had so disturbed +her conscience that she declared she must be satisfied that the whole +thing was a falsehood of Harwin's. + +"I wish we could find him," said Elizabeth. + +"So do I", answered Archdale under his breath. She looked at him quickly +and away again, feeling that her last wish had not been a wise one. +"Yet" pursued Archdale, "you see that if Harwin's story is false, the +whole matter drops there, and that would make it simpler, to say the +least of it. Katie does not like the idea of having the court obliged to +decide about it. She says it seems like a divorce." + +Elizabeth flushed. + +"Do I like it?" she said. "But anything is better than this." + +"Yes," he answered, then seemed as if he would like to take back his +frank confession. She smiled at him. + +"Don't try to soften it, Mr. Archdale. We both mean that. You speak +honestly because you are honest and understand what I want, too; because +you are wise enough to believe in the absurdity of this whole affair." + +"You did not think it absurd at first," he answered. + +"I was overwhelmed. I had no time to consider." + +"No," he said, "only time to feel." + +"Don't speak of that day," and she shuddered. "If I were to live a +thousand years, there never could be another so horrible." + +He had risen to go. He stood a moment silent. Then: + +"You are so reassuring," he said. "Yet, how can either of us be assured? +Perhaps you are my wife." + +"Never," she said, and looked at him with a sudden coldness in her face. + +"If a minister has married us," he answered, "nobody has yet unmarried +us." + +The gravity of her expression impressed him. + +"God has not married us," she said. "I shall never admit that." There +was a moment's silence. "Poor Katie!" she added. + +"Yes, poor Katie,--and Mistress Royal." + +Elizabeth smiled sadly. + +"You remember that?" she asked. "It would not be strange if you forgot +everybody but Katie, and yourself." + +"It would be strange if I forgot you, since you are,--what you are." + +"I foresee," she answered, "that we shall be good friends. By and by, +when you and Katie are well established in your beautiful new house I +shall visit you there; Katie invited me long ago, and you and I are +going to be good friends." + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +PERPLEXITIES. + + +Although Elizabeth had been so brave before Archdale, yet as soon as he +had gone she sank into her chair and covered her face with her hands, as +if by this she could shut out the visions of him from her mind. She +lived in the land of the Puritans, and Indiana had not been discovered. +She knew that those words which ought to have been so sacred but which +she had spoken so lightly were no longer light to her, but that in the +depths of her heart they weighed like lead and gave her a sense of guilt +that she could not throw off. Even if they proved nothing in law, they +had already brought a terrible punishment, and if,--if--. With a low cry +she started up. Life had grown black again. But she was not accustomed +to give way to emotions, still less to forebodings. In a few moments she +went back to her embroidery, and to Mrs. Eveleigh. + +Archdale left Mr. Royal's house with a new comprehension of the woman he +had married in jest. Somehow, he had always considered that Katie and he +were really the only sufferers. Young, petted, rich, and handsome, it +had not come forcibly home to him before, however much his courtesy +might have assumed it, that this young woman whom, though he thought she +did well enough, he had no high opinion of, could actually suffer in the +idea of being his wife. But he saw it now through all her brave bearing, +and his vanity received its death-wound that morning. + +Three days afterwards he was at Katie's home; he tried to feel that he +had the old right to visit her. "Your friend is so brave," he said, "she +puts courage into me. Katie, why don't you feel so, too?" + +"Ah!" said the girl looking at him tearfully, "how can you ask that? It +is she who has the right to you, and I have not." + +"She wants it as little as mortal can," he answered. "I think except as +your betrothed she does not even like me very well, although she was so +kind when I came away." And he repeated Elizabeth's parting prophesy. + +"She and I are the two extremes," returned the girl. "If Mr. Harwin is a +minister, it will seem to me, as I told you, just as if you and +Elizabeth had been divorced." + +"Nonsense, love, you cannot separate what has never been joined +together." He kissed away the tears that brimmed over from Katie's eyes. +Yet as he did so, he was not sure that he had the right to do it, for +the shadow of another woman seemed to come between them. He had +confessed his dread to Elizabeth, but to this girl it was impossible; to +her he must be all confidence. How different were these two women toward +whom he stood in such peculiar relations, betrothed to one, possibly +married to the other. If this last were true which of them would suffer +the more? A week ago his imagination would not have seized upon +Elizabeth's feelings at all; now he was convinced that it would be no +less hard for her than for Katie; hard through her friendship and her +pride. But this one's tender little heart would break. After all, it was +only of her that he could think. The waiting was growing unendurable. +Yet he felt that his father was right when he said that the easiest +way, the shortest in the end, was to prove if possible that Harwin's +story of his vocation was fabricated. Indeed, there was no case for +appeal to the Court unless that were established. Let that fall through, +and the lovers were free to marry. + +"Have you heard" he asked after a time, "that Sir Temple and Lady Dacre +have written that they are coming to visit us,--us, Katie? You remember +they had an invitation to our wedding,--they shall have another, +dearest,--and could not come then, but they propose paying us a visit in +our own home at Seascape where they suppose we are living now, you and +I. I told you about my staying with them in England and asking them to +visit me when I was married. I was thinking then of my chances of being +engaged to you, Katie." + +"Yes, you told me of them," she said, and after a pause added, "You will +have to write them the truth." + +"It is too late for that to do any good. They follow close on the heels +of the letter; that is, by the next ship." + +"Then I suppose Aunt Faith will take them, either at your father's, or +at Seascape. Which will it be, Stephen?" + +"That house! It can never be opened until you do it, Katie; you know +that well enough." + +The girl sighed. Yet with all the sadness of her lot it was delightful +to be loved and mourned over in this way; mourned over, and yet perhaps +not lost. + +"I don't know about that being the best way," she returned slowly. "You +know Stephen, Uncle Walter is peculiar, and you could not entertain your +guests yourself; you would not have freedom. Really, it would not be +quite as nice for you." + +"Always thinking of me," he cried. "It seems now that the only freedom I +care about is the freedom to make you my wife, Katie." + +"Yes," she sighed again and was silent a moment. Then she said, "But +Stephen, if Aunt Faith is there, you know it won't be like anybody else, +and you can show them the house I am going to have. Do you believe +that?" she broke out suddenly. "Do you really believe that? This +uncertainty is killing me--don't imagine that I could not wait for +years, I am not dying for you, Stephen; I should not do such a thing, of +course. But not to know! I must know soon; life is unendurable under +such a strain." + +"Poor little girl, she was not made, surely, to bear suffering," thought +Archdale. And he went away assured that she was most of all to be +pitied, that she was least protected from the North wind which was +blowing against them all three. As to the house, she should certainly +have her way about it. He saw that she was sacrificing her own feelings +for him. She did not understand that it was making matters a great deal +harder, she thought that she was making it pleasanter for him. Well, she +should have the satisfaction of believing she had done so. It did not +occur to him that the girl had taken the most effectual way of awaking a +sentimental interest in the persons who were imagining that they were to +be her guests. Katie was one of those people who illustrate the use of +the velvet glove, for in spite of her sprightliness, she was considered +the gentlest little creature in the Colonies. + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +OVER THE THRESHOLD. + + +Florence, Lady Dacre, with her hand on Archdale's arm walked across the +plank from ship to shore, her husband on the other side of her and her +maid following with Sir Temple's valet, who was devotedly carrying all +the bundles, and interspersing his useful attentions with auguries as to +the "hignorance of the Hamerican Colonies." Lady Dacre walked on with a +light step, and eyes that took note of every thing. + +"So, this is Boston?" she said. "I have always wanted to see it. You +will think me in fun, but really, do you know, it has an odd sort of +aggressive look to me! We imagine a certain humility in Colonies, but +your people are more English than Englishmen. That is your carriage, +there on the pier? How kind in you to come for us. And that is your +coachman? Now, even he has a look that, on the whole, he is as good as +you." + +"He does not feel so," returned Archdale, smiling. + +"Oh, no, I suppose not; it must be the exhilirating air that gives +people that appearance. Such a sky as there is to-day! Do you have +beautiful weather like this all the time?" + +"No, sometimes we have a thunder shower." + +Sir Temple laughed. + +"Good enough for you, Florence," he cried. "What are you so absurd for?" + +"For fun. I suppose you know Governor Shirley?" she added after an +instant. + +"Slightly. But he is an intimate friend of Mr. Royal,--one of my +father's friends." + +"Ah! yes. Well, what is the difference?" + +"Then, last year," said Sir Temple, "we met some people in London." He +named several whom Archdale knew. + +"And there are two others here now," cried Lady Dacre, "or perhaps I +ought not to say two persons, but one and his shadow. People call him a +reckless sort of a fellow--the man, not the shadow,--but I think him +charming. It is Mr. Edmonson, the best whist player I ever saw." + +"And Lord Bulchester?" + +"Ah! you know them. Perhaps we are going to meet them at your house? +That will be delightful." + +"Lady Dacre has a perfect passion for whist," explained her husband. + +"You will certainly meet them there if they will do me the honor to +become my guests," returned Archdale. Then something that he had heard +came back to him, and brought a sudden frown to his face, but it was too +late to retract. So, after he had made his friends comfortable at an +inn, for they were to dine before starting on their journey, he wrote +his invitation and dispatched it by his servant with instructions to +bring back an answer. 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Blaine has just been issued from a large publishing house in +Augusta, Maine, his home. It is accepted as THE STANDARD work, and is +thorough and complete. Colonel Conwell is better fitted for writing such +a book than any other man in America, and all his earnestness, +knowledge, and ability, will be found in the volume. Mr. Blaine, his +relatives, and friends, co-operated with the author, and kindly gave him +access to the fullest data and information. It is a large, handsome, +illustrated volume, and is sold at a remarkably low price. An agent is +now taking orders among the people of this locality. + + * * * * * + +HOBBS, GORDON & CO.'S + +Concord Suspended Radial Drill, + +[Illustration] + +AND FULL SWING DRILL. + +CONCORD, N.H. + + * * * * * + +Stanley & Usher, + + 171 Devonshire St. + Boston, Mass. + +STEREOTYPERS AND ELECTROTYPERS, + +PRINTERS. + +Book, Job, Magazine and Catalogue. + +ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN. + + * * * * * + +Wait for the authentic, Augusta, Maine, edition. You want no other. + +Col. Russell H. Conwell's Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine, +published at Augusta, Maine, his home, is the standard, authentic +edition. It is a large, handsome volume, of upwards of 500 pages, +contains steel-plate portraits of both Blaine and Logan, and a large +number of general illustrations. Colonel Conwell has great fame as a +biographer. An agent for the book will soon be around; those who are +wise will subscribe for this edition only. Price $1.50 and $1.75. + + +The authentic Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine, by the +well-known Col. Russell H. Conwell, is having a most remarkable and +phenomenal sale. It is from the well-known publishing house of E.C. +Allen & Co., of Augusta, Maine, the home of the distinguished candidate +for President of the United States. The book is splendidly illustrated, +and is thorough and complete. An agent for the volume will soon visit +the people of this locality for their orders. Wait for the Augusta +edition; subscribe for no other. + + * * * * * + +CLERMONT. + +TO ALL WANTING WINTER HOMES AND FARMS. + +The most delightful and salubrious climate in the United States is to be +found in the HIGHLANDS OF FLORIDA, called by some the "APOPKA +MOUNTAINS," in the beautiful clear water Lake Region. + +CLERMONT is located on gently rolling land, between Lakes Minnehaha and +Minneola, in Sumter County, Florida. Soil highly productive. Amongst the +best in the State for the raising of Oranges, Limes, Lemons, Bananas, +Pineapples, STRAWBERRIES, and all kinds of EARLY VEGETABLES. + +PRICES OF LAND.--Farm Land, $20 per acre, and upwards; Lake Fronts, $50 +per acre, and upwards; Town Lots, 50 x 150 feet, $100 and upwards, +according to location, AND ON EASY TERMS. + + +THE SOIL + +Is in great part a rich, sandy loam, and is suitable for raising fruits +and vegetables. These lands are situated south of the so-called FROST +LINE, and you can market your fruit and vegetables raised thereon as +early as can be done from any other portion of Florida, and earlier than +can be done from any other State in the Union. + + +HEALTH. + +THE HEALTHIEST location in the State. Good health is an essential thing +in the profitable cultivation of a farm or garden, and the richest soil +in the world may yield very poorly if the settler is unable to expend +upon it his labor on account of chills and fever or malaria. NO WINTER +to delay your work. + +PLANT YOUR VEGETABLES IN OCTOBER and November, and commence to send your +produce to market in February. THREE CROPS CAN BE RAISED IN A YEAR from +the same piece of ground. + + +THE CLIMATE + +IS DELIGHTFUL: flowers bloom the year round in the open air. THE SUMMERS +in this high land are NO WARMER than in the North. The thermometer +rarely indicates higher than ninety degrees. + +THE MILDNESS OF THE CLIMATE and its bracing influence marks its +excellence for all PULMONARY AFFECTION, THROAT AILMENT, ASTHMA, +RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY TROUBLES, etc. Chills and fever and malaria are +unknown. + +A living can be made by the cultivation of vegetables while the +orange-groves are being brought into bearing. Our water protection is +unsurpassed, which makes it the choicest locality in the State for the +fruit-grower. + +Building material is plenty and cheap. Fish and game in abundance. Good +schools and churches will be established at once. Clermont is to be made +an educational centre. + +It is expected that the Florida Southern Railroad will be built very +near, if not through, the town within the next few months. Come and see +the place and its natural advantages. It will speak for itself. A +first-class sawmill has already been erected, and is in operation. + + +A GOOD INVESTMENT, + +And the safest thing in hard times, is to have an Orange-Grove. This can +be acquired by buying, say ten acres of land, at a small cost, say $200. +Clear it up and set out your orange-grove, and while your orange-trees +are maturing, raise strawberries and early vegetables, and send to the +Northern market; these always bring high prices in February and March; +or work at your trade or engage in business. In a new country you can +always find something to do. Start yourself a home. When you have a +five-acre orange-grove in full bearing you can be independent, and need +not care whether stocks go up or down. THE RISE IN THE VALUE OF YOUR +LANDS will make your investment a PROFITABLE ONE. INVESTMENTS IN REAL +ESTATE seem to be the important feature which generally decides a man's +prosperity. Such investments are secure and permanent, and not liable to +the fluctuations that personal property is subject to. + +VISITORS will be shown over the land in a carriage free of expense. +Those who come with a view to settle, should bring money to secure their +purchases as locations are not held upon refusal. + +Large numbers of people are purchasing and preparing Winter Homes, and +those who desire the best locations should visit the place at once. + +The Titles to these lands are indisputable; Warrantee Deeds given clear +of all incumbrances. + +Information given. Letters promptly answered. If persons before visiting +the place will write, full information will be sent concerning the route +and other particulars. Address, + +THE CLERMONT IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, + +_Minneola, Sumter County, Florida, or_ + +WILLIAM A. HOUSE, Vineland, N.J. + +_Reference, by permission, to ARTHUR P. DODGE, No. 31 Milk Street (Room +4b), Boston, where maps can be seen_. + + * * * * * + +STEWART MANUFACTURING COMPANY, + +MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN + +Household, Office, and Store Furniture + +INCORPORATED AUGUST 20, 1884. + +Capital Stock $250,000 + +Number of Shares 50,000 + +Par Value, $5.00 each. + +FULL PAID AND UNASSESSABLE. + + +OFFICERS: + +President and General Manager, R. McLEAN, Boston. + +Treasurer, J.R. O'HARA, 31 State Street, Boston, + +BENJ. RACKLIFF, Architect and Designer, Boston. + +Factory and Principal Office, 43 Beverly Street, Boston. + + +GENERAL PURPOSES. + +This Company has been incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing +Household, Office, and Store Furniture with the view of making a +specialty of certain grades of goods over which it will have entire +control, thus avoiding the direct competition incident to the general +trade. Yet it will to a limited extent handle a general line of goods +common to this class of business. + +Management.--The management of the Company will be in the hands of those +well known and experienced in the business, as practical furniture +makers and able financiers, whose standing will bear the closest +investigation for high moral and business character. + +Mirrors and Mantels.--This business now becomes one of the branches of +the Company, by purchase on highly favorable terms, and which at once +enables it to possess a business of profit and thoroughly established, +and ensures an income which places the Company at once on a +dividend-paying basis. + +Display Racks.--In addition, the Company has secured in like manner the +entire control of these, the most valuable articles of store furniture +that have ever been put on the market, and which have already received +substantial recognition of their value and demand among merchants and +traders throughout New England. This business has likewise become +already established, and only requires the usual attention of standard +goods to ensure a large and profitable income. + +Factory.--The Company will for the present retain its factory on Beverly +Street, which is well supplied with every facility for a large business, +and in due time will secure proper warerooms in some desirable locality +near the centre of trade in Boston. + +Business Outlook.--Considering the outlook of the manufacturing +interests for the coming year, investors are all agreed that whichever +party may triumph in the approaching presidential election, the incoming +administration will practically stand committed to a vigorous policy of +encouragement and support to our manufacturing interests. Hence our +far-seeing capitalists are wisely counting on a remarkable activity in +this branch of industrial development; and consequently are predicting +such a boom in manufacturing stocks the coming year as characterized +mining stocks during the years of '78, '79, and '80. + +Our Stock as an Investment.--That the Stewart Manufacturing Company's +Stock will commend itself to the careful consideration of the most +conservative investors there can be no questions, for the reason that it +starts off on a dividend-paying business, founded upon a line of +specialties over which it has supreme control. Thus, being entirely free +from those leading contingencies which invariably surround the career of +by far the majority of those establishments which venture into the arena +of mercantile contest, depending chiefly on their wits to successfully +compete with their associates in trade, therefore our stock must surely +meet the wishes of investors, as not only a profitable, but a SAFE +investment. + +Southern Trade.--The Company will, as soon as practicable, establish +agencies in the South, where it feels confident an extensive demand for +our goods awaits the advent of our agents. + +Foreign Trade.--It is expected that, within a few days, contracts will +he concluded with one of our largest exporting houses for the sale of +the entire surplus product of the Company for shipment to various +foreign ports, thus enabling the Company to shield itself from the +embarrassments incident to overproduction and dull home trade. + +We only ask, and earnestly invite, a careful and impartial investigation +into the merits of our stock and business to ensure a confirmation of +our claims. + +For further information the public is referred to any of the officers of +the Company. + +It is a matter of congratulation that our Company has already received +substantial tokens of confidence from the capitalists of New England, a +goodly number of whom are now included in our list of stockholders, +rendering our ability to compete for business equal to the best. + +J.R. 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The first part contains a +map of Mexico and fifty-seven pages replete with valuable historical and +statistical information, while the latter part (35 pages) is devoted to +such information and description as makes a guide book invaluable. We +are glad to see this book, and, for one reason, because so little +comparatively is known of Mexico. To capitalists, miners and merchants, +in fact to the general public we heartily commend this book. + + * * * * * + +A TOUCHING INCIDENT. + +A YOUNG GIRL'S DEMENTIA--HOW IT WAS OCCASIONED--SOME NEW AND STARTLING +TRUTHS. + + +The St. Louis express, on the New York Central road, was crowded one +evening recently, when at one of the way stations, an elderly gentleman, +accompanied by a young lady, entered the cars and finally secured a +seat. As the conductor approached the pair, the young lady arose, and in +a pleading voice said: + +"Please, sir, don't let him carry me to the asylum. I am not crazy; I am +a little tired, but not mad. Oh! no, indeed. Won't you please have papa +take me back home?" + +The conductor, accustomed though he was to all phases of humanity, +looked with astonishment at the pair, as did the other passengers in +their vicinity. A few words from the father, however, sufficed, and the +conductor passed on while the young lady turned her face to the window. +The writer chanced to be seated just behind the old gentleman, and could +not forgo the desire to speak to him. With a sad face and a trembling +voice the father said: + +"My daughter has been attending the seminary in a distant town and was +succeeding remarkably. Her natural qualities, together with a great +ambition, placed her in the front ranks of the school, but she studied +too closely, was not careful of her health, and her poor brain has been +turned. I am taking her to a private asylum where we hope she will soon +be better." + +At the next station the old man and his daughter left the cars, but the +incident, so suggestive of Shakspeare's Ophelia, awakened strange +thoughts in the mind of the writer. It is an absolute fact that while +the population of America increased thirty per cent. during the decade +between 1870 and 1880 the insanity increase was _over one hundred and +thirty-five per cent._ for the same period. Travellers by rail, by boat, +or in carriages in any part of the land see large and elaborate +buildings, and inquire what they are? + +Insane asylums! + +Who builds them? + +Each state; every county; hundreds of private individuals, and in all +cases their capacity is taxed to the utmost. + +Why? + +Because men, in business and the professions, women, at home or in +society, and children at school overtax their mental and nervous forces +by work, worry and care. 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They are either severally published in large and costly +volumes, or are still only to be found in the official records of the +United States Government. The scale, as well as the price, of these +narratives makes them unsuitable for consultation, more especially by +young readers. Professor Nourse has, therefore, done excellent service +in preparing, chiefly from official sources, the records of _American +Exploration in the Ice Zones_, and in giving them a popular form. The +volume embraces notices of the expeditions sent out by Mr. Grinnell, +under De Haven and Kane, for the relief of Sir John Franklin; the late +Admiral Rodger's explorations in the seas north of Behring Strait; the +voyages of Hayes and Hall up Smith Sound; Schwatka's remarkable sledge +journey of three thousand miles in search of the records and journals of +the Franklin Expedition; the disastrous cruise of the _Jeannette_, and +the expeditions sent out by land and sea to the rescue of De Long and +his crew. There are also short accounts of United States' explorations +in the Antarctic regions, and a statement of the object, and position of +the Arctic observers under the United States Signal Stations. One of +these stations, as we know, has been placed at Lady Franklin Bay, Smith +Sound, in the very forefront of the battle with the forces of the polar +ice; for two seasons nothing has been heard of it, and relief ships are +at this moment on their way to the north, in the hope of opening +communications with Lieutenant Greeley and the other missing men. The +history of American exploration in the ice zones is therefore still in +course of being enacted. So far as it has already gone it is a record of +which any nation might be proud. It could not well have been epitomized +with greater skill and knowledge than has been shown by Professor +Nourse; and his volume should have a popularity not confined to the +United States.--_The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland._ + + +EVENING REST. By J.L. Pratt. Young Folks' Library. Boston: D. Lothrop & +Co. Price 25 cts. + +A simple, quiet story, whose character is adequately expressed by the +title. Evening Rest is the name given to a little hamlet in the Blue +Ridge region of Pennsylvania, remarkable for the beauty of its +surroundings and the lovely character of its people. Thither goes a +young man from the East to visit an uncle whom he has never before seen, +and his experiences during the stay make up the contents of the book. +One incident of the story is strongly dramatic in character. A family +party, one of the members being the young man referred to, visit a coal +mine. While passing through one of the narrow passages the guide fires a +pistol to show the effects of the echo. The concussion of the air starts +a loose part of the roof overhead and a portion falls in. The little +company is shut up in the earth with little chance of ever seeing the +light again. They have lights, however, and stumble across some tools, +and by dint of many hours' hard labor they are at length able to +communicate with their friends outside, who are at last able to rescue +them. The author, throughout the story, dwells much upon the sweet and +tender influences of home. In _Evening Rest_ he creates an ideal +household and community, and strives to show how much they have to do +with the formation of character. + + +BABYLAND FOR 1884. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $.75. +Anything more delightful for the babies in the way of a picture or story +book cannot possibly be conceived than this bound volume of their +special magazine, which has just made its appearance with the most +attractive of covers and most bewitching table of contents. There are +songs for mamma to sing, and stories for mamma to tell, and pictures +which are better than both, because the little ones can read them for +themselves, and there isn't one but what can be read in twenty different +ways. To sum it all up, it is a regular dollar's worth of delight, and +will go farther towards making the four-year-old heart happy than any +other dollar's worth one can imagine. + + +CHRISTIE'S CHRISTMAS. By PANSY (Mrs. G. R. Alden). Boston: D. Lothrop & +Co. Price $1.50. This charming story will be heartily welcomed by young +readers, who will find it one of the brightest and most interesting +books of the year. Christie is a purely original character, and what she +said and what she did is faithfully and delightfully chronicled. While +the book is admirably adapted to use in Sunday-school libraries, it is +also exceptionally suitable for general reading, and may well have a +place beside "The Man of the House," "The Hedge Fence," and other +popular stories by the same writer, in the home library. + + +ALL THE YEAR ROUND By American Authors and Artists. Illustrated. Boston: +D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. Of all the collections of stories for +juvenile readers that have come under our notice the present season we +have seen nothing to compare with this in point of variety, interest and +abundance. In its beautifully printed pages provision is made for every +variety of taste; there are stories for the boys of hunting, and +fishing, and camping out; stories of adventures on land and water; +stories for the girls of school and play; stories of oldtime life of the +days of our grandfathers and grandmothers; stories of eminent men and +women, and mingled with choice poems by popular authors. Altogether it +is one of the most charming compilations of the year. + + +HOW THEY WENT TO EUROPE. By Margaret Sidney. Illustrated. Boston: D. +Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. Everything that Margaret Sidney writes is +sure of an audience, and though most of her books are prepared for the +delectation of the young, they have an equal charm for all classes of +readers. Some of her stories, in a household of children, have been +literally "read to pieces," and judging from the frequency with which +the tattered leaves are brought out, some delightful sort of flavor +hangs round them still. The title of the present book might be aptly +extended so as to read _How They went to Europe, and yet didn't, go to +Europe_, for the journey made by the little party of tourists is in plan +something like _The Voyage around My Room_, which everybody has read. +Two or three bright girls, who are disappointed because they can't go +abroad with more fortunate relatives, determine to form a club in which +they shall, to use a common phrase, "go through the motions" of going; +that is, they shall at their regular meetings follow on the map, and by +guide books and accounts of travel, the exact route taken by those who +are really journeying. The idea takes, and the club is organized; other +members are taken in, and before the next season it has so increased in +size as to include the best young people in town and render a change of +place of meeting necessary from private parlors to a large public hall. +Lectures and stereopticon exhibitions are added, and some of the more +enthusiastic members, after a course of French travel, form a +supplementary club for the study of French. The story is brightly and +naturally told and in a way that will be certain to bear fruit in the +way of other clubs of the kind, wherever it is read. Margaret Sidney's +stories have this peculiarity, that aside from their fascinating +qualities of dialogue and narrative they leave something to be +remembered. The aim of the author is not obtruded, but its spirit is +there and the mind is roused to thought and action. What child can ever +forget that most delightful of juvenile stories, _The Five Little +Peppers_, or the entertaining narrative of _What the Seven Did_, or the +author's latest of books for young readers, _Who Told It to Me_, and +what better book for boys is there than _Half Year at Bronckton_, a +story whose moral effect upon young and imaginative readers cannot be +over estimated. _The Pettibone Name_, which appeared a year or two ago +in the V.I.F. series, was an instance of the author's power in appealing +to readers of mature minds, and gave evidence of unusual power in the +line of the better class of fiction. All these books have made a +reputation for the author which will at once give her latest story a +prominent place among the books of the season.--_Boston Transcript_. + + +WIDE AWAKE "R." Illustrated, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.75. Of +all the annual WIDE AWAKE issues this is by far the most attractive, and +when this is said it is hard to conceive what, more _can_ be said in the +way of praise. Its illustrations, which are all drawn expressly for its +pages, represent the best work of the most prominent American +draughtsmen, while no stronger show of names in the line of contributors +has ever been presented by an American magazine. Among the strong +features of the volume is Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's serial complete, _A +Brave Girl_; Mr. Brooks' capital wonder-story, _In No-Man's Land_; Mr. +Talbot's _A Double Masquerade_, and Rev. E.E. Hale's _To-Day Papers_. +Either of these would alone be worth the price of the volume, but when +added to them are the additional attractions in the way of brilliant +short stories, breezy sketches of life indoors and out, chapters of +biography and history, bits of description, poems, and essays, the +volume becomes, a treasure-house seemingly inexhaustible in variety and +contents. In turning over its pages the eye falls upon such names as +Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney, Nora Perry, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sophie May, Mrs. +M.H. Catherwood, Margaret Sidney, Mrs. Mulock-Craik, Celia Thaxter, Lucy +Larcom, and others as well known in the annals of magazine literature. +The volume is elegantly printed and beautifully bound. + + +HOW TO LEARN AND EARN. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price +$1.50. It is not often that one finds between the covers of any single +book so much information so pleasantly given upon a special subject as +in "How to Learn and Earn." The sixteen illustrated essays which make up +the contents are descriptive of as many institutions in this country for +the instruction of children and young people in the useful arts or +professions. Some of them are institutions under the auspices of the +State, like the academy at West Point and the Indian School at Carlisle, +Pa.; one described is a school of reform; but most of them are the +outcome of private benevolence or charitable and religious endeavor. +Among the more notable of these are the Perkins Institution for the +Blind at South Boston, the Boston Chinese Mission School, the cooking +schools in various cities, the blind children's kindergarten, etc. Among +the authors whose contributions are included are Amanda E. Harris, Ella +Farman Pratt, Mrs. John Lillie, May Wager Fisher, Margaret Sidney and +Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. + + +IMITATIONS OF BABYLAND. The great reputation won during the past eight +years by D. Lothrop & Co.'s unique and charming illustrated magazine and +annual, BABYLAND, has induced certain publishers to attempt imitations +under similar titles. The public should beware of these inferior +imitations. The publishers deem it proper to inform the public that the +only genuine BABYLAND invariably bears the imprint of D. Lothrop & Co. +By noting this fact the dissatisfaction which follows the purchase of +inferior imitations will be avoided. + + +DEAN STANLEY WITH THE CHILDREN. By Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey. Boston: D. +Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. In this tastefully printed volume are brought +together five sermons to children, preached by Dean Stanley, prefaced +with a biographical sketch by Mrs. Humphrey and with an introduction by +Canon Farrar. Every reader knows what a charming man Dean Stanley was, +and how ardently he loved children, and devoted himself to pleasing +them. The sermons here given are full of exquisite tenderness, and form +admirable models for discourses of like character. Canon Farrar says +that there was not one sermon ever preached by Dean Stanley which did +not contain at least some one bright, and fresh, and rememberable thing. +His metaphors, his anecdotes, the invariable felicity of his diction, +his historical, literary and biographical illustrations, his invincible +habit of taking men at their best and looking out for the good in +everything, the large catholicity which rose above the mean, squabbling +of religious parties, the calm of spirit which seemed habitually to +breathe in the atmosphere of whatsoever things are true, and pure, and +lovely, and of good report, made him a preacher to whom one would rather +listen than to any other living man. Mrs. Humphrey's sketch not only +gives us an excellent idea of the man himself, but also tells us many +interesting things about the great English public schools. The volume is +well illustrated. + + +IT IS THE CHRISTMAS TIME. By Miss Mulock, with Twelve Ideal Christmas +Hymns and Poems. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $2.50. +Nothing more exquisite in the way of a Christmas presentation book, or +one better adapted to the spirit of the holiday season has yet been +presented to the public than the volume before us. Printed in large, +clear type, on the heaviest of paper, with broad white margins, and a +series of twenty illustrations by famous American and foreign artists, +engraved in the highest style of art, it forms a book of exceptional +beauty, and one of which the publishers may well be proud. The opening +poem, Miss Mulock's "Hymn for Christmas Morning," is followed by Naham +Tate's "While Shepherds watched their Flocks by Night," a hymn which has +held place in the hearts of the people for nearly two hundred years; +Wesley's stirring hymn, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing;" Herrick's "Star +Song;" Bishop Heber's "Epiphany"-- + + Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning; + +Keble's "Christmas Hymn;" The Rev. E.H. Sears's "Angel's Song;" William +Drummond's "The Angels;" George MacDonald's "Babe Jesus;" James +Montgomery's "Christmas Vision;" Wordsworth's "Christmas Carol," and +Whittier's "Christmas Carmen." All those diverse in form and expression, +breathe the one pure spirit of Christmas tide. + + +AMERICA. Our National Hymn. With Twelve other Patriotic Poems. +Illustrated. By Rev. S.F. Smith, D.D. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, +$3.00. For the past two or three years there has been a strong demand +for a new edition of this unique and elegant volume, which was +originally published in 1879. The publishers have responded to the call +by its reissue the present season, the work being extended by the +addition of twelve new poems, all upon patriotic themes. The words of +_America_, were written fifty-two years ago, while the author was a +theological student at Andover. An American gentleman, who had spent +some time in Germany, on returning home brought with him a number of +books used in the German schools, containing both words and music. These +were presented to Lowell Mason, who placed them in the hands of the +young student, asking him to translate anything he might find worthy, or +to furnish original words to such music as might suit him. In the +collection was the air--unknown at that time to Americans--to which Dr. +Smith set the words now so widely known and sung. There was not the +slightest idea on his part that he was producing a national lyric, but +it caught the popular taste at once, and every year has fixed it more +firmly in the hearts of the people as an expression of patriotic +feeling. It was first sung at a children's festival at Park Street +Church, July 4, 1832, and very soon found its way into district schools, +Sabbath-schools, concerts and patriotic gatherings throughout the +country. Some years ago a delegation from the Boston Board of Trade sung +it together at the summit of the Rocky Mountains. It has been used at +the celebration by Americans of the national holiday in nearly every +country on the globe, and served during the war to brace the hearts and +stimulate the courage of our soldiers in camp and hospital and in +prison. The author's college friends for more than fifty years made it +the first song sung at their annual class dinner. + +The poems which are added in the present edition include among others, +"The Pilgrims," written some years ago for Forefathers' Day; "The Flag;" +"Washington;" "The Student Soldiers;" "The Sleep of the Brave;" +"Decoration Day;" "Abraham Lincoln," and "My Native Land." They are all +imbued with the fervent spirit of patriotism and represent a high poetic +standard. The volume is splendidly illustrated by Harry Fenn, Robert +Lewis, and other artists of reputation. + + +MY CURIOSITY SHOP. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.25. +The little boy or girl who finds this book by the bedside Christmas +morning, ought to be supremely happy. From cover to cover it is filled +with the most delightful stories and rhymes and pictures, all written +and drawn expressly for little readers, and by those who love them, and +understand their likes and dislikes. + + +WIDE AWAKE. Bound volume for 1884 Boston: D. Lathrop & Co. Price 4.00. +Newspapers all parts of the country have repeatedly given the first +place in American periodical literature for the young to WIDE AWAKE. +Among its contributors are the very best and brightest writers in +America and England, and many of its articles are the same that give +reputation to _Harper's_ and the _Century_. Indeed, nothing better has +ever appeared in either of these periodicals than some of the full page +illustrations which have found place in WIDE AWAKE within the past two +or three years. The list of writers who are regularly employed include +the best names in our literature. It is by the liberal outlay of money +on the part of the publishers, coupled with the determination to have +the best at any price, that WIDE AWAKE has reached its present high +position. The present volume, which includes the twelve numbers of the +present year, is, in general excellence, an improvement upon all +preceding issues. It is a library in itself, and will be a source of +perennial pleasure to readers of all ages. + + +OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN. 1884. Illustrated. Boston. D. Lothrop & Co. +Price $1.50. This beautiful annual comprises the twelve numbers of the +year just closing, and will make an admirable present for the little +members of the household. Its stories are just such as they will read +with delight, while the illustrations make them double attractive. + + +A ROMANCE IN SONG. Heine's Lyrical Interlude. Translated by Franklin +Johnson, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $3.00. The best of the modern +German song-writers is unquestionably Heine, and thousands who know and +sing his verses even in their translated form can testify to their +exceeding sweetness and to their strange insight into the passions and +emotions that stir the human heart. Especially is this true of the sixty +brief poems which he published in 1823 under the somewhat singular title +of "A Lyrical Interlude." What gives them special interest is the fact +that they are genuine records of his own feelings and experiences. Heine +was engaged to be married to his cousin, whom he loved deeply and +ardently. She broke her vows and married another, and Heine carried +through life an unhealed spiritual wound. In the translation of these +songs Mr. Johnson has been peculiarly successful, while in all cases +retaining the original measure of the songs, he has endeavored to make +an exact rendering of the thought rather than to be literal. And yet in +some cases he is both, as for instance in the much quoted _Die Rose, die +Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne_, and _Nacht lag auf meinen Augen_. The +publishers have done their part to make the volume outwardly attractive. +It is printed on heavy paper, is beautifully illustrated and handsomely +bound. Coming at this season it makes an appropriate gift book. + + +ANNA MARIA'S HOUSEKEEPING. By Mrs. S.D. Power. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. +Price $1.00. Of all the books that have been written about housekeeping +there have been few that have treated the subject in a practical, common +sense manner, and this is decidedly one of the best of the few. The +suggestions and directions contained in its pages are given in a +pointed, straightforward manner, and appeal at once to the good sense of +all housekeepers who will save themselves an infinity of trouble and +worry and fret by giving them the consideration they deserve. The +twenty-four chapters of the book deal with different subjects, the +all-important one, "How to make Housework Easier," properly taking the +lead. Other chapters which we especially commend to housekeepers are +those headed "A Good Breakfast," "A Bill of Waste," "A Comfortable +Kitchen," "Blue Mondays," "Over the Mending Basket," and "Helps that are +Helps." There is not a chapter, however, but contains advice which, if +heeded, would save ten times the cost of the book in a year, to say +nothing of the time and trouble saved. + + +MATTHEW ARNOLD BIRTHDAY BOOK. Edited by his daughters, Miss L. and K. +Arnold. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. This beautiful little +volume resembles in its general plan other birthday books, the usual +blanks being left for autographs. The selections have been made with +great care, and under the direct supervision of Mr. Arnold himself, who +contributes besides, an introductory poem, which is reproduced in _fac +simile_. + + +A DOUBLE MASQUERADE. By Charles R. Talbot. Illustrated. Boston: D. +Lothrop & Co. Price $1.25. Mr. Talbot's reputation as a writer of +brilliant stories for young readers is well established. Few have been +more successful in striking the popular vein. The Juvenile libraries are +rare that do not contain some one or other of his books, and happy the +boy or girl who possesses them all. "A Double Masquerade" is a romance +of old Revolutionary times in Boston, in which historical characters +take part. It is a careful study of the events of those days, and the +young reader will get a clearer idea from its pages of the struggle +between the colonies and Great Britain, and of the men on both sides who +were leaders in the Revolutionary movement, than from mere statistical +and documentary history. One of the features of the volume is a +description of the battle of Bunker Hill, which a critic has pronounced +to be "one of the most graphic and telling accounts ever written of that +famous conflict." It is splendidly illustrated by Share, Merrill and +Taylor. + + +YOUNG DAYS. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $.75. This very +attractive volume is made up of instructive stories for children, +entertaining rhymes and verses, and most delightful pictures. + + +CAMBRIDGE SERMONS. + +Few publications of like character have ever been received with a +greater degree of favor, than the volume of sermons by Rev. Alexander +McKenzie, D.D., of Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass., published +under the above title by D. Lothrop & Co. The following expressions of +opinion in letters to the publishers, are indicative of the general +sentiment concerning them. + +Rev. Geo. L. Prentiss, D.D., Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Union +Theological Seminary, New York City, says: + +"The _Cambridge Sermons_ have both refreshed and edified me in a high +degree. They are full of spiritual power and light and sweetness. I have +read them with real delight." + +Rev. Edward B. Coe, D.D., pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New +York City, writes: + +"It is a volume which it will do any man good to read, as a broad, +fresh, eminently spiritual presentation of Christian truth. Coming from +under the shadow of a great university, these sermons are not +scholastic, but in the best sense popular and practical. They show +unusual felicity of statement and illustration, and are thoroughly +_alive_, with a keen sensibility to the thoughts and the wants of living +men. Quickening and suggestive to the mind, they have the rarer power of +touching chords of feeling which few preachers reach." + +Rev. Cephas B. Crane, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Boston, says: + +"The excellence of these sermons is manifold. They are such sermons as +the distinguished preacher is in the habit of giving to his people, +sermons for instruction and help, and not exceptional sermons for +conspicuous occasions. + +"They are structural; but the beams and braces are out of sight. They +are living things supported and shaped by their skeletons, not caged in +them. Remarkable for scope and freedom and boldness, they are guided in +all their movement by the spirit of the Sacred Word. They both stimulate +thought and invigorate faith. Fresh and fragrant and breezy, one +delights himself in them as in a garden in a June morning. From their +exquisite diction one might almost infer the graceful elocution of their +author. They are sermons to which the reader will often return." (12mo, +$1.50.) + + +A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. + +The following brief extracts from the large number of favorable notices +of this valuable book show the great cordiality with which it has been +received. + +"We have nothing as good."--_N.Y. Independent._ + +"The most attractive."--_Boston Literary World._ + +"Nothing better."--_Boston Transcript._ + +"Valuable as a book of reference."--_Pittsfield Eagle._ + +"Its accuracy will stand."--_Boston Transcript._ + +"Easy and readable style."--_Boston Journal._ + +"Graceful style ... Marvellously full ... Animation of the book is a +still greater marvel."--_N.Y. Independent._ + +"Will be read in all sections of the country with equal interest and +esteem."--_The South._ + +"The author writes with entire candor in regard to the history of the +secession movement, and yet there is nothing in his history that can +properly give offence to the readers in any section of the +country."--_The Capitol_, Washington. + +"The tone of the book is candid and impartial."--_Boston Journal of +Education._ + +"Probably the most intensely national of American histories."--_The +Star_, N.Y. + +"The style is cultured, and therefore simple and expressive."--_Detroit +Post and Tribune_. + +"The chapters form pleasing and finished pictures."--_The Standard_, +Chicago. + +"Interesting and instructive."--_The Gazette_, Barre, Mass. + +"Admirably written."--_Boston Herald_. + +"In the front rank." _Star_, N.Y. + +"His [the author's] name is a household word."--_The Globe_, Portland, +Me. + +"Enough incident and romance."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean_. + +"Sustains the already established reputation of the +author."--_Pittsfield Eagle_. + +"A book of rare interest and value."--_Herald and Presbyter_. + +"A noble picture of the grand American movement."--_N.Y. Home Journal_. + +"The cream of the complete history."--_Inter-Ocean_. + +"A good book and very readable."--_Morning Star_. + +"An interesting volume."--_Sabbath Recorder_. + +"Concise, authentic and thoroughly impartial."--_Ansonia Sentinel_. + +"Worthy of all commendation."--_Golden Rule_. + +"It has a backbone."--_Boston Herald_. + +"Pleasing in style, judicious in selection of material, thorough in his +investigations, impartial in spirit, the author wins the reader's +sustained attention and cordial approval."--_Golden Rule_, Boston. +Boston, D. Lothrop & Co., Publishers. 12mo, cloth, $1.50; crown 8vo, +cloth, gilt top, $2.50. + +D. Lothrop & Co. are publishing some excellent juvenile books at low +rates. They are written by the best authors, and are intended to +supplant the dime novel and Buffalo Bill style of juvenile books. These +publishers deserve the thanks of parents and guardians.--_Buck's County +Intelligencer_, Doylestown, Pa. + + +THE GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. No collections of modern poetry have +obtained or held public favor so securely as those included in the +Golden Treasury Series, a new edition of which has just been issued by +the house of D. Lothrop & Co. These various volumes made their +appearance in England at intervals, the first--which gave the series its +name--having been compiled by Francis Turner Palgrave, an English author +of exquisite taste and judgment. _The Ballad Book_, compiled and edited +by the poet, William Allingham, followed. Later appeared _The Book of +Praise_, edited by Roundell Palmer, made up of selections from the best +English hymn writers, and about the same time a fourth volume, +_Religious Poems_, an admirable selection of poems of religious life and +sentiment, was added to the series. For a time the English edition only +was obtainable in this country. Later the Messrs. Lothrop issued an +American edition from new English plates, and have since added to the +series _Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Tennyson's Poems, Lays of Ancient +Rome, Pilgrim's Progress_, and _Minds and Words of Jesus_. These words +which were originally issued at $3.00 a volume are now brought out in +popular form, elegantly printed on the best paper, beautifully +illustrated and handsomely bound, the price reduced from $3.00 to $1.25 +a volume. The series contains the very cream of English poetical +literature, no writer of note from the time of Shakespeare to the +present being unrepresented. For a choice holiday present to a lady, +nothing is more fitting or acceptable. + + +BOYS AND GIRLS' ANNUAL FOR 1885. Edited by William Blair Perkins. +Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $2.50. This collection of instructive, +and interesting stories, sketches, poems, biographies and papers in +natural history constitutes in itself an entire library. The entire make +up is of the most perfect character, and it is evident that no pains or +expense has been spared to make this volume every way worthy of the +enterprising publisher whose name it bears, and the host of merry, happy +children, who are destined to delight in its pages. It is a fitting +prelude to the holiday season, and sets a high mark for other publishers +to follow. It is one of the books that we delight to heartily commend, +for its intrinsic value is equal to its exquisite beauty. It is just the +book to head the children's Christmas list. + + +ÆSOP'S FABLES. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.00. These +stories, though they were told more than two thousand years ago, and +have been printed in hundreds of different editions, still retain their +pristine charm, and the children of to-day read them with the same +pleasure that they did centuries ago. The present is a cheap, +well-printed edition, profusely illustrated, and the juveniles will find +its contents just as enjoyable as if they were enclosed in the costliest +covers. + + +LITTLE FOLKS IN PICTURE AND STORY. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. +Price, $1.00. If the little people of the household do not fall in love +with this charming collection of stories and pictures they must be very +hard to suit. It would be hard to imagine a more attractive feast than +the publishers have here spread for them, or one so thoroughly adapted +to their tastes. There are stories about cats, stories about dogs, +stories about pigs, and stories about almost everything that can be +thought of to amuse very little readers, and the pictures are every bit +as charming as the stories. + + +CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS' ANNUAL. The "Chautauqua idea"--which is to place +educational advantages within easy reach of the multitudes so far as the +young are concerned--is happily realized in the annual publications +bearing the above title. + +A variety of subjects, knowledge of which is of vital importance to the +future success of the young, have been treated by famous writers +especially selected for the work, and treated in such a manner as to +educate, while affording delightful entertainment. To illustrate in the +present volume for 1884, the third of the series, there are delightful +lessons in Natural History, and on the care of Flowers and Plants, and +instructive facts as to Food and Drink; faithful and suggestive sketches +of Noted Men, showing how honorable success has been won in business, +literature, science, art, and public life; chapters in History, and a +score and more of fascinating stories and sketches relating to a great +variety of important subjects. + +If it were not for the suggestion of heaviness attached to the name, we +might call these volumes table cyclopedia, which in truth they are, full +of the most valuable information, but as equally full of fascination and +interest for all readers. + +Owners of No. 3 of this Chautauqua series will not rest satisfied until +they possess Nos. 1 and 2. No. 1 contains the famous "Stories of +Liberty," in which some of the brightest American writers recount the +efforts by which freedom has been won. In No. 2 can be found the +valuable papers by Dr. D.A. Sargent (of Harvard University) nowhere else +published. Every boy in the land should have copy, and set up his own +gymnasium. Papers on the use of the Microscope, on methods in +Housekeeping, and lessons in the Useful Arts also appear in these +volumes. + +It will be seen that the material in these annuals is of the best, which +could not fail to be the case when prepared by such writers as Arthur +Gilman, Sarah K. Bolton, Dr. D.A. Sargent, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, +Margaret J. Preston, Amanda B. Harris, Dr. Felix L. Oswald, Ernest +Ingersoll, and others of equal repute. The present volume contains seven +series of articles, with numerous choice illustrations. Published in +quarto size, handsome cloth binding, and sent to any address for $1.50. + + +YOUNG FOLKS' STORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS. Edited by Pansy. Illustrated. +Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.00. Little folks who have never been +abroad will find ample compensation for their loss if they can only turn +over the pages of this beautifully illustrated book of stories of +travel. There is hardly a country but is represented either by picture +or poem or story, and the contents will be a source of perpetual +pleasure for young readers. + + +YOUNG FOLKS' STORIES OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HOME LIFE. Edited by +"Pansy." Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.00. The two +writers who have done the most to make this charming book of stories +what it is, are Mrs. Alden and Margaret Sidney, and what more need be +said in its praise? The title describes the scope and character of the +stories, but it gives no idea of the attractive manner in which they are +written or illustrated. When a visit is made by the boys and girls to +the bookstores, we advise a careful examination of the volume. + + +ON THE WAY TO WONDERLAND. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, +$1.25. The bright colors of this unique book, and the sound of its +rhymes chanted by mamma, will captivate the eye and ear of the babies, +whose own book it is. It contains the stories in rhyme of Wee Willie +Winkie, Little Bo-Peep, Goody Two Shoes, The Beggar King, Jack and Jill, +and Banbury Cross, all gorgeously illustrated. + + +THE STORY OF THE MANUSCRIPTS. In this interesting and scholarly volume +Rev. George E. Merrill, D.D., gives the whole story of the preparation +and preservation of the various Scriptural books, a record which will be +read with interest not only by Biblical scholars, but by many others to +whom the main facts are unknown. The manuscripts were originally written +on papyrus, numerous copies being made in the early centuries, but in +the various persecutions of the Christians a great number of the +manuscripts were wantonly destroyed. In the reign of Diocletian, in the +fourth century, there were nine years of persecution, and few of the +original copies were left intact. Great value attaches to even such +manuscript transcripts as were made after the originals, and they are +carefully preserved in various libraries all over Europe. Some of these +are upon vellum, showing their great age. The closing chapter of the +book is devoted to a summing up of the opinions of the great critics on +the history and credibility of the New Testament manuscripts. + +As a record of facts bearing upon the history, authenticity and +interpretation of the New Testament Scriptures, this work is invaluable, +and no theological library is complete without it. Information upon the +subjects treated equally comprehensive can be found in no other form so +easily accessible and at so little cost. 12mo. $1.00. + + +WIDE AWAKE PLEASURE BOOK, Q. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price +$1.50. Another volume in the charming set of books for girls and boys, +and we might almost say for men and women, for grown people take as much +delight in their pages as the younger ones. It is no disparagement to +the former issues to say that the present one surpasses them, for +progress is the rule of its publishers, and the endeavor to do things +better grows more and more decided every year. The Pleasure Book for +1884 contains stories by a score of the most popular writers of the day, +sketches of life and character, bits of biography and history, +narratives of travel, poems, charades, music, puzzles, etc. Its pages +are enriched with hundreds of illustrations, drawn and engraved +expressly for its pages, making text and engravings together, one of the +choicest juvenile annuals issued by any publishing firm in the country. + + +A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. By Rev. E.E. Hale and Susan Hale. +Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $2.50. To those who have +already made acquaintance with the former books of this series no word +of praise of the present volume is necessary. It is animated by the same +spirit, and prepared according to the same plan, and characterized by +the same bright, sharp way of putting things. Although it is not +dependent upon either of its predecessors, its characters are the same, +and the reader has few new acquaintances to make. Of course the Horners +are the central figures. The scene opens in Boston, or rather in East +Boston, at the wharves of the Cunard Steamship Company, where Mr. Horner +and Tom meet Hubert Vaughan, who, the reader will remember, was left +behind in Europe at the close of the preceding volume. On his arrival +they proceeded to the Hotel Vendôme, where Miss Lejeune is awaiting +them, and the next day the party start for Mr. Horner's old home in +Northern Vermont. Here, and in the country surrounding, the larger part +of the summer is spent, the young people making excursions in all +directions, taking in Lake Champlain, with all its historical and +romantic surroundings: the Adirondack region, Lake George, and Schroon +Lake, besides enjoying themselves nearer home in fishing and camping +out. Into the story of their experience and adventures the authors weave +a great deal of interesting local history, and in such a manner as to +make a strong impression upon the mind of young readers. The volume is +brought out in the same elegant form as its predecessors, with the same +clear handsome pages and same wealth of illustration. The well-known +reputation of the authors, the racy and unconventional style of the +narrative and the superb manner in which the publishers have performed +their part of the work, places the volume in the very front rank of the +choice illustrated books of the season. + + +ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. By William Wordsworth. Illustrated. +Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $2.00. This beautiful volume challenges +comparison with any of the medium priced presentation books of the year. +The poem itself Is one of the most perfect in the language, while the +full page illustrations which accompany it represent the most exquisite +work of such artists as F.C. Hassam, Lungren, Miss L.B. Humphrey, W.L. +Taylor, W. John Harper and Smedley. Nothing has been left undone to make +a perfect book. The paper is of the finest, the print beautifully clear, +and the broad margin and elegant binding make it altogether a volume +winch will attract the eye, and satisfy the artistic taste of the +book-buying public. + + +MONEY IN POLITICS. By J.K. Upton, with an Introduction by Edward +Atkinson, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. $1.25. Mr. Upton, as many readers +know, was for some years assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and, as a +consequence, has a thorough understanding of the subject upon which he +writes. His book is a complete history of American coinage and money +issues, the management of national monetary affairs, and the different +legal tender acts that have been discussed or passed by Congress. Mr. +Atkinson, in his introduction, says of the book that it gives, in his +judgment, the best record of legislation in the United States yet +presented in regard to coinage, to legal tender acts, and other matters +connected with our financial history. It shows in the most conclusive +manner the futility of all attempts to cause two substances to become, +and to remain of the same value or estimation, by acts of legislation. +It gives a true picture of the vast injury to the welfare and to the +moral integrity of the people of this country, which ensued from the +enactment of the acts of legal tender during the late war, whereby the +promise of a dollar was made equal in the discharge of a contract to the +dollar itself. It shows that the mode of collecting a forced loan was +the must costly and injurious method of taxation which could have been +devised. It proves in the most conclusive way, the injury which will +surely come when by present acts of coinage and of legal tender, our +gold coin has been driven from the country, and our standard of value +becomes a silver dollar of light weight and of uncertain value. + +This book, Mr. Atkinson asserts, will prove to the mind of every +thinking man that, if we persist much longer in sustaining the acts of +coinage and legal tender which now encumber the statute book, our +national credit will be impaired and all our working people, whose wages +are paid in money, will be subjected to the most injurious form of +special taxation which could be devised; it proves that a considerable +portion of their wages will be taken from them under due process of law +without power of redress on their part, while the rich and astute +advocates of the present system will reap wealth which they nave not +earned by taking from the laborer apart of that which is his rightful +due. It is therefore of inestimable importance as giving the general +reader a clear understanding of the real condition of things, and +educating him into the right method of thinking about these matters, +which sooner or later, will have to be settled by the voice of the +people. + + +THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY. By Vernon Lee. Famous Women Series, Boston: +Roberts Brothers. Price $1.00. In this volume we have a biography of a +once famous, now almost forgotten, person. The Countess of Albany gained +her prominence in the political and social world of the latter half of +the eighteenth century, not by any greatness of character or of +achievement, but solely by favor of Fortune; for it does appear as a +compensation for the misery of her domestic life that she was accorded a +position in the world gratifying to her nature to hold. Fate certainly +owed the woman destined to live for a few years only, but those years +long ones, the wife of that Stuart known as the Pretender, many years in +which she could be mistress of herself and the recipient of kindly +consideration, if not some measure of posthumous fame. The book gives us +pictures not only of the countess, but of many persons of more or less +renown with whom she was associated. We are introduced to a somewhat +distinguished company of civil and ecclesiastical officials, persons of +literary and artistic tastes--men and women yet of historic note. The +pictures are sketched with great power and painted in solid. The +subjects are mostly such as would have delighted a Flemish artist to +paint, and they have received true Flemish treatment. The author +displays not a little of Carlyle's power of characterization. + + +PLUCKY BOYS. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," and other +authors. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. If there is +any book of the season that we can heartily commend to boys of the +stirring wide awake kind, it is this. The eighteen stories of which it +consists, are by well-known writers, all lovers of boys and admirers of +pluck, truthfulness, and manliness in them. The various young heroes +described represent in their characters some particular quality which +entitles them to be classed under the title which the compiler has given +the book. Mrs. Craik's story is called "Facing the World;" Sophie May +tells about "Joe and his Business Experiences;" George Gary Eggleston +contributes a sketch called "Lambert's Ferry;" Kate Upson Clark has a +story called "Granny," and there are others by authors of such +reputation as Amanda B. Harris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wager Fisher, +Hope Ledyard, Susan Power, Edith Robinson, and Tarpley Starr. The volume +is bound in holiday style, and will make a capital gift book for that +class of young readers for whom it was specially prepared. + + * * * * * + +NOTES AND COMMENTS. + +Of Marion Harland's latest book, "Cookery for Beginners," the _London +Saturday Review_ says: "Mrs. Harland's little book shows its origin by +the singular predominance of sweets (which is, speaking roughly, about +three to one), and by such odd phrases--odd, that is to say, to an +English ear--as that the chief merit of a cook is 'the ability to make +good bread.' Alas! if that be so, how many inhabitants of London, +England, possess a good cook? But Mrs. Harland is free from even a rag +of national prejudice. She sternly, and with almost frightful boldness, +denies the sacred PIE so much as a place in her book, and she ventures +on the following utterance, which we purposely place in italics, and for +which we hope that the eagle, whose home is in the settin' sun, has not +already torn out her eyes. '_The best way_,' says this daring inhabitant +of Boston, Mass., '_to manage a boiled egg at the table_ [she speaks of +it, it will be observed, as if it were a kind of wild beast] _is the +English way of setting it upright in the small end of the eggcup_ [Great +powers! most Britons will cry, what is the large end of an eggcup?], +_making a hole in the top_ [note the precision of these indications] +_large enough to admit the eggspoon, and eating it from the top, +seasoning it as you go._' The courage and genius of Mrs. Harland are not +more clearly indicated by this sentence than the deplorable habits of +her countrymen. She ought to be called, not Marion, but Columba. To +desist from folly, however, her little book is a very interesting and +valuable one. Its receipts, though few, are given with singular +clearness and in the most practical of manners, and the mechanical value +of the book is much increased by the inclusion of a large number of +blank pages for additional receipts." + + * * * * * + +"The fine grade of religious books published by D. Lothrop & Co., +Boston, justifies more than a passing notice. This firm turns out yearly +an immense number of books of the choicest quality, and at all prices to +suit the needs of Sunday-schools throughout the land. It has been the +aim of the publishers to employ none but the best writers for these +books, realizing it a most important part of Church work to provide for +the needs of this large class. Mingling intellectual strength with deep +religious feeling, at the same time the publishers strive to make the +books interesting and attractive. For an untold number of examples prove +that children and youth will _not_ read religious or moral teaching +presented in a dry manner, and why should they? Full of life and vigor, +and overflowing with intense energy in every part of their nature, these +young people _require_ something healthfully to inspire to this force +within them. If they do not find it in the natural avenues of the +Sunday-school or the town library, they will elsewhere, in questionable +literature--an indulgence in which results in a feverish taste for +excitement. To help these young people develop into strong men and +women, D. Lothrop & Co. have put forth every effort, sparing no expense. +A glance at their _Catalogue_ will give an idea of what they have been +doing in this department."--_The Messenger, Phila._ + + * * * * * + +Of Amanda B. Harris' last work, the _Advance_ says: "_Pleasant Authors +for Young Folks_ is a delightful little book. The name of its author is +sufficient to attract many readers who have been pleased with her 'Wild +Flowers' and other books and sketches. These 'Little Biographies' of +Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, Dr. John Brown, George +MacDonald, Dinah Mulock-Craik, John Ruskin, Charlotte Bronté and others, +are made up of stories and incidents from the lives of these writers, +bits of criticism and gems of extracts, put together as deftly and +skilfully and making as fine and polished a whole as a Roman mosaic of +the temple of Vesta. Such a delicious bit of a book as this in the hands +of a boy or girl is worth more as an incitement to reading and an +education of literary taste than many a library of a thousand volumes." + + * * * * * + +"Every day we see that there is an absolute necessity for giving good +books to our children. We cannot begin too early to cultivate a taste +for healthful literature. The recent developments in several cities must +call the attention of all careless parents to this fact. The influence +of bad books upon children is so apparent as to be startling, and the +boy who went armed to school last week in Pittsburg and gave his name to +his teacher as 'Schuykill Jack,' is only one of a large number of +weak-headed boys who have been depraved by reading these stories which +they ought never to have seen. Do not consider it lost or wasted time +during which you read to your boy; perhaps no other hours in your life +are so wisely used, and it will not be without its fruit, you may be +perfectly sure. Do not always read down to your children: they +appreciate higher and deeper thoughts than you sometimes think they +do."--_New York Evening Post._ + + * * * * * + +A "School of Library Economy" has just been established in Columbia +College, to be opened in October, 1886. The object includes "all the +special training needed to select, buy, arrange, catalogue, index, and +administer in the best and most economical way any collection of books, +pamphlets, or serials." The instruction is to be given by "lectures, +reading, the Seminar, visiting libraries, problems, and work." We shall +watch with interest this new species of technical school. + + * * * * * + +LAW IN EASY LESSONS. + +"It is manifest that such a manual as Every Man His Own Lawyer would be +a snare to the unwary, because it does not content itself with teaching +the reader what to avoid, but professes to guide him in the labyrinthian +paths of substantive law and technical procedure. It is equally clear, +however, that a rudimentary acquaintance with the main principles of +jurisprudence is indispensable to those who purpose to mingle in active +life at all, and discharge the most familiar duties of the citizen. But +law books are not inviting to the general reader--we may imagine, +indeed, that Blackstone has rather lost than gained in the esteem of his +professional brethren by the attempt to make his commentaries an +exception to the rule--and the volumes may be counted on the fingers +which are at once entertaining and trustworthy compends of legal lore. +To the meagre collection of attractive introductions to this subject an +addition has recently been made by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT in a couple +of brochures, respectively called _The Travelling Law School and Famous +Trials_, which are published in one volume by D. Lothrop & Co. The book +is ostensibly written for boys, but it may be heartily commended to +adult readers of both sexes. It is surprising how much sound law the +author manages to insinuate in the guise of interesting incidents and +pleasing anecdotes. Even they who are sickened by the scent of sheepskin +and law calf, and who would as soon think of entering on a course of +Calvinistic theology as on a study of jurisprudence, will imbibe through +the author's cheerful narrative a good many useful notions of their +legal rights and duties, just as children are persuaded to swallow an +aperient in the shape of prunes or figs. + +"In 'The Travelling Law School,' as the name implies, the reader is +invited to accompany a party of young students in a tour through several +of the Atlantic States, the incidents of the journey suggesting succinct +accounts of the main features of Federal, State, and municipal law. A +much larger sum of information can be thus informally conveyed in about +a hundred pages than would at first sight be deemed possible; and +notwithstanding the suspicion with which lawyers are apt to regard the +transmission of knowledge through such a pleasant medium, we are able to +vouch in this instance for its accuracy. We have been particularly +struck by the light which the author manages to throw, in a quick, +unaffected way, on the characteristic features of the American +Constitution. This he does by illustrations drawn from the organic laws +of other countries possessing parliamentary institutions, and his +references, on the whole, are singularly exact, though he might perhaps +have laid more stress on the centralizing tendencies which survive in +the executive branch of the French republican Government. + +"The plan followed in 'Famous Trials' is to take a given topic, like +forgery, confessions, mistaken identity or circumstantial evidence and +to illustrate the points best worth remembering by some actual and +interesting case in which they were strikingly brought out. + +"The instance of mistaken identity described by Mr. Abbott at some +length is really much more curious than the Tichborne case, though the +affair, having taken place many years ago in France, has been almost +totally forgotten. The true husband's name was Martin Guerre, a man of +fair social position and some property, who, after living happily with +his wife Bertrande for about a dozen years, disappeared suddenly, and +nothing was heard of him for eight years. At the end of that time the +same Martin Guerre, as all the town people supposed, came back, +recognizing his old neighbors and friends, and looking just as he used, +except that he had grown stouter and sunburned. His wife also recognized +him as readily as did his neighbors, and gave him an affectionate +welcome. To innumerable questions about occurrences in old times, he +returned satisfactory and explicit answers. To his wife, in particular, +he rehearsed incidents of past years that had completely faded from her +memory. When they awoke, for instance, on the morning after his arrival, +he asked her to 'Bring me my white breeches trimmed with white silk; you +will find them at the bottom of the large beech chest under the linen.' +She had long forgotten the breeches and even the box, but she found them +just as he had described. In the face of such evidence it seemed +impossible to doubt that this man was the genuine Martin Guerre. Yet he +proved after all to be an impostor, whose real name was Arnauld Du Tilh. +Yet strange as it may seem, on the impostor's trial, although confronted +with the man whom he was personating, he was able to answer questions +about the past life of the Guerre family more minutely and accurately +than the rightful claimant. Being disavowed, however, by the great +majority of witnesses, including the wife, on the appearance of her true +husband, he was sentenced to death for his fraud. Before his execution +he made a confession, saying that some intimate friends of Martin +Guerre, misled by the astonishing resemblance, had accosted him by that +name, which gave him the idea of claiming Guerre's position and +property; and that he had gained his intimate knowledge of Guerre's life +partly from Guerre himself, whom he had known slightly in the army, and +partly from several common acquaintances. With this slender outfit of +material he came within an ace of effecting his design, thanks to an +exceptionally tenacious and ready memory."--_Extract from notice in "New +York Daily Sun," of "The Travelling Law School._" D. Lothrop & Co. +$1.00. + + * * * * * + +AMERICAN BOOKS IN ENGLAND. + +The cordial reception awarded to the best class of American books in +England, is indicated by the following notices from the _Oldham Evening +& Weekly Chronicle_ of October 4: + +"FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW. By Margaret Sidney. Boston: D. +Lothrop & Co. This gorgeously got up and profusely and beautifully +illustrated volume is one of engrossing interest. All the characters are +skilfully drawn, the events are interestingly marshalled, and the plot +most naturally developed. For humour and pathos, for sympathy yet +fidelity, for loftiness of tone yet simplicity of style, this charming +volume has few superiors. Here and there it reminds us of Mark Twain, +anon of Dickens, and often of George Eliot, for the authoress has many +of the strong points of all these writers. Such wholesome and bracing +literature as this may well find its place in all our homes. It is a +tale of a high order, and is a real study of life. It is fresh, breezy, +bracing. It is strengthening and enthralling." + +"CAMBRIDGE SERMONS. By Rev. Alexander McKenzie. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. +This neatly and strongly got up volume consists of sixteen fresh, +vigorous, chatty, colloquial sermons. The author has the solidity of the +Scotch teacher, and the polish and beauty of the English preacher +combined with the freedom, the raciness, interest, and the freshness of +the American pulpit orator. These discourses are orations which were +delivered extemporaneously and taken down by a shorthand writer. Hence +they are homely, yet eloquent; natural, yet cultivated, and come right +home to the hearts of the readers. No one could tire reading these +sermons. They are as racy as a magazine article, as instructive as a +lecture, and as impressive and lofty as a message from God. They are +thoroughly American for their fearlessness, their living energy, and +their originality. Sermons of this high order are sure to be in demand." + + * * * * * + +GOOD READING. + +A glance at the way reading is generally taught in our schools will +convince any impartial observer that this subject is made the driest and +dreariest of all studies. In our graded schools, children generally +read, on an average, an hour a day during the eight or nine years' +course, at the rate of less than one book a year. The average child +easily learns by heart in a few weeks all there is in the first three +books, after that the constant repetitions are in the highest degree +monotonous. There is nothing to attract his attention or stimulate his +love for reading. The selections filling fourth, fifth and sixth readers +are too often far above the mental grasp of the pupil, and are also of +so fragmentary a nature as to be almost unintelligible to the average +student. Word pronouncing, and that alone, is the only refuge of the +teacher. + +There can be no excuse on account of the cost, for the money now thrown +away, and worse than thrown away, upon useless spelling books and +mind-stupefying grammars, would purchase a rich supply of the best +reading matter the English language affords for every school in the +land. + +I have tried this experiment, and to my mind it is no longer an +experiment. I have seen the children of the poorest and most ignorant +parents taking from the library works upon history, travels, biography, +and the very best fiction, exhibiting in their selection excellent +taste, and showing from their manner how much they love such books. They +would no more choose bad reading than they would choose bad food when +wholesome is provided for them. Shameful neglect, I repeat, and not +innate depravity, drives our children into by-ways and forbidden paths. +Let no one preach long sermons on the depraved tendencies of the young +until he has tried this simple, cheap, and practical way of avoiding an +unnecessary evil.--_F.W. Parker._ + + * * * * * + +The Golden Text Calendar, arranged by A.C. Morrow, editor of _The +Illustrator_ of the International Sunday-school lessons, with designs by +Mary A. Lathbury, is specially adapted as a holiday gift. Beautifully +lithographed and printed in nine colors. It contains the Golden Text for +every Sunday, and more than fifteen hundred quotations from the best +authors. The background of the calendar is of sprays of apple blossoms. +To the right of the pad the passing of time is represented by the flight +of birds and an angel bearing an hour-glass. To the left, a young girl, +with light flowing hair, stands beneath the branches of a tree, +gathering pink and yellow hollyhocks. The design is worthy of the +artist, and the literary selections reflect credit upon the editor. +Price, $1.00. + + * * * * * + +BABYLAND. The Boston _Daily Globe_ says: "One need not concern herself +about the 'Chatterbox,' or any of the annuals made up in England for +American youth, when there are better books, in adaptability of matter +to age, in engravings, paper and press-work, close by her at home. The +mother may find a number of annuals published in this country which will +suit her taste and purpose much better, and she ought always to give +them the preference. BABYLAND for 1884 is in all respects a desirable +publication for the youngest readers. Its songs and stories, its +speaking pictures and its general attractiveness always win the smiles +of little folks." + + * * * * * + +An interesting and suggestive little treatise on the "Care and Feeding +of Infants," has been published by Doliber, Goodale & Co., Boston, who +will send a specimen copy free to any address. + + * * * * * + +"AN ADMIRABLE BOOK." + +_The Literary World_, in a critical review of one of D. Lothrop & Co.'s +recent publications, _The Travelling Law School_, says:--"Mr. B.V. +Abbott's object, in the second volume of the Business Boys' Library, is +to give a series of first lessons on forms of government and principles +of law. This is done by means of a very slight framework of imagination, +a large amount of anecdote and illustration, a singularly lucid +explanatory style, and a fullness of knowledge that 'backs' the +narrative with manifest strength. _The Travelling Law School_ is a +fictitious body, taken about from place to place; all the objects and +experiences encountered on the journey being examined in their legal +aspects and relations, and their functions as such pointed out. Things +that one can own are discriminated from things that are common property; +Boston, New York, and Washington are differentiated in their civil and +political bearings; the laws of the streets and the railroads, of money +and the banks, of wills, evidence, fraud, and so forth and so on, are +expounded by means of 'famous trials' and otherwise in an ingenious, +always entertaining, and thoroughly instructive manner. We do not see +why a course of instruction along the line of such topics as these would +not be a wise feature in many schools of the higher grade, for which Mr. +Abbott's book would be an admirable text-book. The study of such a book +would be in the nature of a recreation, so full is it of matters of +living interest, while of its practical value there could be only one +opinion. Structurally it is in two parts, the second of which, entitled +'Famous Trials,' is separately paged." 12mo, $1.00. + + * * * * * + +A STANDARD GIFT BOOK. + +A new edition of Arthur Oilman's _The Kingdom of Home_ is announced by +the publishers, and will form a strong attraction for holiday +book-buyers. No poetical anthology has been received by the general +public with such favor as this, and the reason is not far to seek. It +contains the choicest poems on home subjects ever brought together, and +the merits of its selections and pictures will keep it perennially in +demand as one of the best gift books in the long catalogue of household +treasures. The illustrations are abundant and exquisite. There are full +page pictures, tiny ones, panel ones, head pieces, end pieces; some +woven into the text, some the key-note of the stanzas, some of broad +suggestions, some of quaint conceit. All subjects that bring up home +associations are pictorially told in what, as to the rule, is the best +of engraving. The old water-wheel is there, making music in the village +glen; the limpid stream winding near the farmhouse; the spinning-wheel, +"merrily, noisily, cheerily whirring;" the baby of the home saying her +evening prayer, and John asleep beneath the summer boughs. Everything +that clusters about the fireside, breathes in farewells, sings in +marriage and throbs in love, finds embodiment. The idea of home +comprises everything we hold dear--wife, children, friends; the roof +that covers us, and the things we have learned to love about us. It lies +at the very foundation of religion, and our ideal of heaven is simply a +home. It is the love of home which strengthens us to endure toil, +privation and suffering, and thousands in all ages have met death +willingly to sustain the sanctity of their hearthstones. There is not a +poet who has lived since the dawn of historic times who has not sung its +praises, and from the vast amount of literature which has thus grown up, +the contents of the present work have been selected. The compiler has +shown rare judgment in the performance of his task, he justly says that +the treatment of this subject has not been confined to the great poets. +"It is not the poetry of the intellect, but of the heart; and many who +have been eloquent on no other theme, have sung the praises of home in a +way that has touched the hearts of thousands." The collection, +therefore, includes not only the productions of the masters, but those +of many a minor poet as well. The paper is beautifully white and clear, +the margin liberal, and the binding at once chaste and elegant. It will +make a book for the household; "one not for a day, but for all time." +8mo, Russia leather, seal grain, $6.00. + + * * * * * + +A SPECIAL LETTER. + +As an indication of the great interest aroused by the matter of one of +the recent publications of D. Lothrop & Co., while it was passing +through the WIDE AWAKE magazine in serial form, we print the following +letter written from BROOKLINE, Mass., and dated Oct. 6, 1884, and signed +"A well wisher." + + DEAR WIDE AWAKE: + + We have read with great interest the "Anna Maria Housekeeping + Talks," and think you could not do a better work than to publish + them in a cheap form, so as to be within the reach of almost any + one, and so ladies could buy them for their servants to read, It + cannot fail of success, it seems to me. The "talks" are too good + to have their light "hid under a bushel," and ought to be in the + hands of every one who has a house in charge, whether servant or + mistress. + +In accordance with the general desire expressed in this and similar +letters, the publishers have presented the papers in an attractive 16mo +volume, published at $1.00. The subjects treated of embrace directions +for the table and kitchen departments, the general arrangement and +adornment of rooms, matters of dress and domestic economy, and +numberless small details which every young girl will desire to be posted +upon, and which even trained housekeepers are often grateful for being +reminded of. + + * * * * * + + +LOTHROP'S ILLUSTRATED POEMS. + +Among selections of the choicest works of best authors, in this +department, are George Eliot's story of HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, and her +splendid hymn, O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE; Tennyson's MAUD, AND +OTHER POEMS, also THE BROOK, AND OTHER POEMS; Adelaide Procter's +beautiful poem THE LOST CHORD; the favorite Christian songs, THE NINETY +AND NINE, and JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL; and the popular song, THE OLD +OAKEN BUCKET. Each volume in this Series is furnished in elegant cloth +bindings, or fringed floral bindings at $1.50 each. + + +LOTHROP'S POPULAR LIBRARY EDITIONS. + +Book lovers whose critical judgment extends to the binding as well as to +the contents of a volume, will find something quite to their taste in +Lothrop's new list of Illustrated Library Editions, which includes a +selection of favorites presented in a form most acceptable to +gift-makers, and very desirable for library use. The illustrations are +by notable artists, and admirably suited to the text. In this class may +be mentioned among others the volumes named below, which are published +in 8vo form, extra cloth, in morocco, full gilt, at the wonderfully low +prices indicated. + +_POETS' HOMES._ The desire of multitudes to know something of the home +life of the poets whose verses have become familiar in every household, +will find gratification in the attractive one-volume edition of the +delightful sketches edited by R.H. Stoddard, Arthur Gilman, and others, +under the title of POETS' HOMES. It contains appreciative chapters upon +Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Trowbridge, Lowell, Homes, Bayard Taylor, +Mr. and Mrs. Piatt, Stedman, Aldrich, and other poets of reputation. The +homes of these poets are described in charming sketches, many of which +are accompanied by portraits and other illustrations. Cloth, $4.00, +Morocco, $8.00. + +_HAYNE'S POEMS._ The welcome accorded to the first edition of the +"Poetical Works of Paul H. Hayne," has led to the publication of a new +edition. The critical estimate of Mr. Hayne's works, favorable from the +outset, accords him a place among the few American writers whose works +are likely to have a permanent place in public favor. As has been +appreciatively said, "He is a songster of the Southern groves, and +having built a nest in the wild wood (referring to his country home at +Copse Hill), he is content in the companionship of his mate and his +young, warbling to nature and to nature's God. If his notes reach beyond +his sylvan hall, and fall upon ears without its wall, and plaudits of +approval come in return, he trills responsively a grateful melody, and +resumes his solo as he would do had no _encore_ greeted him." Cloth, +$4.00, Morocco, $7.00. + +In the same attractive bindings, are the following complete Works of +_FAMOUS POETS_ at uniform prices, extra cloth, full gilt, $3.00. +Morocco, full gilt, $6.00. + +_WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE._ Edited, with a critical Biography, by William +Michael Rossetti. With an essay on the Chronology of Shakespeare's +Plays, by Edward Dowden, LL. D. A History of the Drama in England to the +Time of Shakespeare, by Arthur Gilman, M.A. A Critical Introduction to +each Play, by Augustus W. Von Schlegel. An Essay on Shakespeare's +Indebtedness to the Bible, a List of early editions to Shakespeare's +Plays; an Index to noteworthy Scenes; an Index to all the Characters; a +List of the Songs in the Plays; an Index to familiar Quotations, and a +carefully prepared Glossary, Shakespeare's Will, etc. The above +illustrative matter makes this the best-furnished one-volume edition in +the market. + +_LORD BYRON_, with portrait, correspondence, and notes, by Sir John +Gilbert, W.J. Linton and others. + +_ROBERT BURNS._ With portrait, correspondence and notes, edited by Allan +Cunningham. + +_GOETHE._ Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Browning, +C.B. + +_JEAN INGELOW._ Including "The Shepherd Lady." 400 pages. + +_LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL, MARMION_, and _LADY OF THE LAKE._ + +Lord Macaulay's _LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME._ With _IVRY_ and the _ARMADA._ +With illustration by Wequelin. + +_OWEN MEREDITH_ (Robert, Lord Lytton). "Lucille," "The Apple of Life," +"The Wanderer," etc. + +_JOHN MILTON._ With Memoir, Introduction and Notes, by David Masson, +M.A., LL. D. + +_THOMAS MOORE._ Unabridged. With explanatory notes. + +_ADELAIDE A. PROCTER._ There are, in this volume, gems of as noble and +perfect poetry as in any language.--_London Athenæum._ + +_JOHANN C.F. VON SCHILLER._ The finest one-volume edition of the works +of this favorite poet. + +_SIR WALTER SCOTT._ Including introduction and notes. + +_PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY._ "No poet was ever warmed by a more genuine or +unforced inspiration." + +_ALFRED TENNYSON._ Including all the latest poems. Illustrated by +Gustave Doré, W. Holman Hunt and others. + + +LOTHROP'S GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. + +This series presents a selection of books, remarkable for the rare and +enduring value of their contents, and made additionally attractive by +the form in which they are published. The volumes are of the semi-square +shape which offers such excellent opportunities for the best effects in +simple but elegant typography and binding, and the results will be in +the highest degree satisfactory to all lovers of handsome books. The +series takes its name from the book first upon the list. + +_THE GOLDEN TREASURY_, edited by Francis Turner Palgrave, consists of +selections made with rare discrimination from the very best of English +songs and lyrical poems. + +_IN THE BOOK OF PRAISE_, Sir Roundell Palmer, with a just appreciation +of their merits and a devout sympathy with their spirit, has brought +together, from the range of English hymns, those which are worthy of a +permanent place in public favor. + +_THE BALLAD BOOK_, edited with no less painstaking care, and excellence +in judgment, by William Allingham, includes an unsurpassed selection of +the representative ballads which have won fame and favor for the bards +of Britain. In no other form is so rare and pleasing a collection of +British ballads to be found. + +Of the volume which includes those masterpieces of Sir Walter Scott, +_MARMION, LADY OF THE LAKE, AND THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL_, no +explanatory words are necessary. These poems in the future, as in the +past, will hold undisputed place among the gems of classic literature. + +The popularity of England's Poet Laureate makes it equally unnecessary +to more than present the title of the next volume upon the list, _THE +COMPLETE WORKS OF TENNYSON._ + +Lord Macaulay's _LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, IVRY_, and the _ARMADA_, is +another volume upon which comment is needless. + +_RELIGIOUS POEMS_ is an admirable selection, reflecting the life and +sentiments of the Christian believer. + +_IN THE MIND AND WORDS OF JESUS_, by Rev. T.R. Macduff, we have a +masterly interpretation of the thoughts and utterances of the Divine +Teacher, so full of deep insight, of spirituality, and helpfulness, as +to seem little less than inspired. + +This series of standard books would be incomplete without the name of +Bunyan and his _PILGRIM'S PROGRESS_, which concludes the list. + +Each volume is beautifully illustrated and printed on the finest paper. +To their other excellent features is added a price which cannot fail to +make them popular. Vellum, cloth, $1.25 each. + + +LOTHROP'S SPARE MINUTE SERIES. + +"The significance of the name of this series is seen from the fact that +THOUGHTS THAT BREATHE, for instance, has 300 pages, and contains 273 +separately numbered and independent extracts. Thus a person can read one +or more of these at a time, and put the book down without breaking the +train of thought." 6 vols, 12mo, $5.00. 6 vols, imitation half calf. +$7.50. 6 vols, full imitation calf. $9.00. + +_RIGHT TO THE POINT._ From the writings of Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., +selected by Mary Storrs Haynes. With an introduction by Rev. Newman +Hall. + +Pithy paragraphs on a wide range of subjects, not one of which but will +be found to contain some terse, sparkling truth worthy of thought and +attention. A spare ten minutes devoted to such reading can never be +wasted. + +_THOUGHT THAT BREATHE._ From the writings of Dean Stanley. Introduction +by Rev. Phillips Brooks. The numerous admirers on this side of the water +of the late eloquent English churchman, will be grateful for this +volume, which contains some of his best utterances. 16mo, cloth, $1.00. + +_CHEERFUL WORDS._ From George MacDonald. Introduction by James T. +Fields. + +_THE MIGHT OF RIGHT._ From Rt. Hon. Wm. E. 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A story that will be particularly pleasing to boys, most +of whom will find in its hero a fair representation of themselves. 16mo, +60 cents. + +AN ENDLESS CHAIN. From the introduction, on the first page, of the new +superintendent of the Packard Place Sabbath-school, to the end, there is +no flagging of interest in this bright, fresh, wholesome story. +Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50. + +SIDE BY SIDE. Short illustrated stories from Bible texts for the help of +boys and girls in their everyday duties. 16mo, cloth, 60 cents. + +CHRISTIE'S CHRISTMAS. No more charming little heroine can be found than +the Christie of this volume, and the story of her journey to spend +Christmas, with the great variety of characters introduced, all of them +original and individual in their way, is perfectly novel and +interesting. + +As a guide to teachers, rich in suggestions and directions for methods +of teaching, etc., there is nothing better than PANSY'S SCRAP BOOK. +12mo. 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Any book sent postage paid on receipt of price. + +D. LOTHROP & CO. + +FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS, BOSTON. + + * * * * * + +"_WE HAVE NOTHING AS GOOD._"--N.Y. Independent. + + * * * * * + +Arthur Gilman's History of the American People. + + The publishers embrace the opportunity afforded by the + publication of the SIXTH THOUSAND of this important work to + bring together a few extracts from the large number of + commendatory reviews that it has been favored with. They exhibit + a singular unanimity of opinion. + + * * * * * + +"On its own ground, and for its clearly defined purpose, _we have +nothing as good_, are not likely to have. It begins a long step back of +the beginning, with Plato's Atlantis, tells the story of Columbus, Cabot +and the other explorers, or the Aborigines, of the French and Spanish +settlements, and so finds its way to the English colonies, the war for +independence, and down through the long history to the recent events of +President Arthur's administration. Considering the general brevity of +the book, it is _marvellously full_; and considering the long story to +be told, crowded with fact and detail; _the graceful style, warm +coloring and general lifelike animation_ of the books is a still greater +marvel. + +"Mr. Gilman writes with a happy pen which _never fumbles for a word_, +and has the knack of saying a thing accurately, concisely and +gracefully. He lights up his pages with items gleaned from rare sources. +He puts in telling and characteristic facts. He is good in topography, +and makes a skilful and judicious use of local antiquarian lore. He is +an intelligent reporter of debates, who knows how to condense the strong +and vital points of a long history. He is neither shy nor timid in +expressing his opinion on controverted questions, but carries such a +happy art in his boldness that it will never lose him a reader. His +account of the constitutional debate and of the political situation at +the close of the Revolutionary War, and the brief touches in the +subsequent development of political history, are done well. Working very +much on the general lines and methods of Mr. Green, in his history of +the English people, he notes the progress of the arts of life, of +literature, education and social life, and in discussing political +affairs, brings, them up to the high standard of independent liberalism. +_The book is well manufactured_, with good paper and open, clear +type."--New York _Independent._ + +"Mr. Gilman has rehearsed the interesting and wonderful story of the +people of these United States in a _clear and concise_ way, and has +enlivened the narrative by extracts from letters, diaries, newspapers +and other contemporary writings.... The book opens with a condensed and +accurate account of the early voyages of discovery and exploration, +beginning with that of Columbus; and among the subjects presented with a +reasonable degree of fulness may be enumerated the efforts towards union +form 1637 to the adoption of the Constitution, and the nature and +influence of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and 1799.... +The growth of the feeling of nationality is well brought out.... The +slavery struggle is well described.... The last chapter in the book, on +the 'Era of Progressive National Life,' is exceptionally well +written.... The most agreeable portions of the volume, however, are +those wherein the habits and manners of the past are described.... The +books contains very many (173) wood-cuts which have been selected with +great care and god judgment.... An excellent index closes the book, and +the publishers are to be congratulated on the mechanical excellence of +the volume. In fine, _it is the most attractive one-volume History of +the United States_ that we have seen."--Boston _Literary World._ + +"Mr. Gilman aims at something more than a literary production. He is by +training and instinct an educator. This story of the people's life will +foster a genuine love of country by the wholesome method of +instruction.... The contents are succinctly massed; the statements +embody facts, not speculations. It is a book that will be popular and it +is written for popular acceptance, yet _its accuracy will stand. Nothing +better exists_ as a compendium of our country's history, if in a +compendium we desire not figures and facts only, but the flesh and blood +reality of living history."--Boston _Transcript._ + +"This work sustains the already established reputation of the author. +The extreme care with which the facts have been collated, and the +attention shown to the latest results of investigation and discussion +even in minor matters, make it _very valuable as a book of +reference._"--_Berkshire Co. Eagle._ + +"The author shows rare tact and wisdom."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ + +"Bring out on the canvas a noble picture of the grand American +movement."--_New York Home Journal._ + +"The chapters form pleasing and finished pictures, one by one, of the +various stages in our national career. 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Spirited +narratives, and for the most part true ones, of boys who have conquered +obstacles and become successful business men; or of other plucky young +fellows who have shown fearlessness and "fight" in situations of danger, +and also self-sacrifice in order to save the lives of others. $1.50. + + +Robinson Crusoe. + +By DANIEL DEFOE. An edition _de luxe_, printed on exquisite paper, with +16 illustrations by Thomas Stothard, R.A., with an introduction by +Austin Dobson. Fac-simile of the frontispiece and title-page of the +original edition, original prefaces. _555pp. Extra cloth binding_, +$1.25. _Half calf_, $2.50. _Morocco, full gilt_, $3.00. + + +Side by Side. + +By PANSY, author of "The Man of the House," "Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking +On," "The Hall in the Grove," "Mary Burton Abroad," etc. Illustrated +stories from Bible texts for the help of boys and girls in their school +and home duties. _16mo, cloth, illustrated_, $.60. + + +Soldier and Servant. + +By ELLA M. BAKER. "Soldier and Servant" is a motto bequeathed to the +heroine by the mother who died when she was a babe, and which she early +adopts, carrying its sentiment into all of the acts of her after life, +the story of which will most assuredly furnish wholesome stimulus to +every girl who reads it. There are touches of humor, and graphic +descriptions worthy of comparison with passages in _Tom Brown's +Schooldays at Rugby_. 16_mo_, $1.25. + + +Story of Puff. + +By MRS. C.M. LIVINGSTON. It was truly said of the first edition of this +little volume, that no more captivating story of bird-life was ever +written, and that passages in it were worthy of comparison with those +found in "Rab and his Friends." It is the autobiography of a canary +bird, and every lover of the bird kind will read it with enthusiastic +pleasure. 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An intensely interesting little monograph which will be a +genuine inspiration to all faithful teachers, while to the thoughtless +disparagers of such toilers it will bear most useful lessons. _Paper_, 6 +_cents_. + + +American Explorations in the Ice Zones. + +Early American Voyages made in search of the Northwest Passage. +Explorations in the Arctic Zone by Lieut. DeHaven, Dr. Kane, Commodore +Rodgers, Capt. Hall, Lieut. Schwatka and Lieut. DeLong; Wrangel Land as +first reported by Capt. Long, and a brief account of the U.S. Expedition +to the Antarctic seas under Capt. Wilkes. Compiled from official and +other sources by PROF. J.E. NOURSE, U.S.N. We have in this volume the +work of a scientist and scholar, and at the same time a book of +thrilling interest. It contains all that the public desire to know +concerning the subject of which it treats, and must be, for years to +come, regarded as the standard work upon Arctic affairs. _8mo, extra +cloth, illustrated_,$3.00. _With circumpolar map_,$3.50. _Half calf_, +$6.00. + + +Bremen Lectures. + +On Fundamental, Living, Religious Questions by various eminent European +Divines. Translated by REV. D. HEAGLE, with an Introduction by REV. +ALVAH HOVET, D.D., President of Newton Theological Institution. Of this +volume, as touching some of the great religious questions of the day, +the translator well says it would be difficult to find another work +wherein is included in so brief compass so much of that which with the +present helps from science and thought, should be said on these several +themes. _Third edition. 12mo_, $1.50. + + +China. + +By ROBT. K. DOUGLAS, of the British Museum, and Professor of Chinese at +King's College, London, with revisions by Yan Phou Lee. The latest +addition to Lothrop's Library of Entertaining History, and a work which +is not only graphic and interesting in style and matter, but which bears +the marks of authenticity and scholarship on every page. _12mo, cloth,_ +$1.50. + + +Classic Tales. + +By MARIA EDGEWORTH. _12mo, cloth_,$1.25. + + +Christie's Christmas. + +By PANSY. Christie is one of those delightfully lifelike, naive and +interesting characters which no one so well as Pansy can portray, and in +the study of which every reader will find delight and profit. _12mo, +fully illustrated_,$1.50. + + +Cookery for Beginners. + +By MARION HARLAND, author of "Common Sense in the Household," etc. +Plain, practical lessons for girls and young housekeepers of small +means. Its directions are to be relied upon, and its results are +invariably delicate, wholesome, and delicious. _16mo,_ $1.00. + + +Double Story (A). + +By GEORGE MACDONALD. 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LOTHROP & CO., Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 6, +March, 1885, by Various + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14689 *** |