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+Project Gutenberg's The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6, by Various
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+Title: The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
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+[Illustration: Henry W. Paine]
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+THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.
+
+_A Massachusetts Magazine._
+
+VOL. III. NOVEMBER, 1885. NO. VI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
+
+HENRY W. PAINE.
+
+BY PROF. WILLIAM MATHEWS, LL.D.
+
+
+Among the callings acknowledged to be not only useful, but indispensable
+to society, there is no one, except the medical, which has been oftener
+the butt of vulgar ridicule and abuse than the legal. "Lawyers and
+doctors," says a writer on Wit and Humor in the _British Quarterly
+Review_, "are the chief objects of ridicule in the jest-books of all
+ages." But whatever may be the disadvantages of the Law as a profession,
+in spite of the aspersions cast upon it by disappointed suitors,
+over-nice moralists, and malicious wits, it can boast of one signal
+advantage over all other business callings,--that eminence in it is
+always a test of ability and acquirement. While in every other
+profession quackery and pretension may gain for men wealth and honor,
+forensic renown can be won only by rare natural powers aided by profound
+learning and varied experience in trying causes. The trickster and the
+charlatan, who in medicine and even in the pulpit find it easy to dupe
+their fellow-men, find at the bar that all attempts to make shallowness
+pass for depth, impudence for wit, and fatal for wisdom, are instantly
+baffled. Not only is an acute, sagacious, and austere bench a perilous
+foe to the trickery of the ignorant or half-prepared advocate, but the
+veteran practitioners around him are quick to detect every sign of
+mental weakness, disingenuous artifice, or disposition to substitute
+sham for reality. Forensic life is, to a large extent, life in the broad
+glare of day, under the scrutiny of keen-eyed observers and merciless
+critics. In every cause there are two attorneys engaged, of whom one is
+a sentinel upon the other; and a blunder, a slip, an exaggeration, or a
+misrepresentation, never escapes without instant exposure. The popular
+reputation of a lawyer, it has been well said, is but the winnowed and
+sifted judgment which reaches the world through the bar, and is
+therefore made up after severe ordeal and upon standard proof.
+
+These observations are deemed not inappropriate as an introduction to a
+sketch of the life of one of the most eminent lawyers of New England,
+whose career may be regarded as signally worthy of imitation.
+
+HENRY WILLIAM PAINE was born August 30th, 1810, in Winslow,
+Maine. His father, Lemuel Paine, a native of Foxborough, Mass., was a
+graduate of Brown University, and a lawyer by profession, who began
+practice in Winslow, Maine, in partnership with Gen. Ripley, afterwards
+the hero of Lundy's Lane. Owing to poor health, Mr. Paine, sen., soon
+abandoned the law for other pursuits. He was familiar with the
+representative English authors, and specially fond of the Greek language
+and literature, which he cultivated during his life. He had a tenacious
+memory, and could quote Homer by the page. Henry Paine's mother, Jane
+Thomson Warren, was the daughter of Ebenezer T. Warren, of Foxborough,
+the brother of General Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill. Of the
+three children of Lemuel and Jane T. (Warren) Paine, Henry William was
+the second.
+
+After the usual preparatory education, Mr. Paine entered Waterville
+College (now Colby University) in 1826, and graduated in 1830, at the
+age of twenty, with the highest honor of his class. During the last year
+of the college course, he was principal of Waterville Academy, then just
+founded for the preparation of young men for college. He spent eight
+hours a day in charge of his pupils, of whom there were eighty-two, and
+at the same time kept up with his class in the college studies. As a
+teacher he was greatly beloved and respected by his pupils, whose
+affection was won by no lack of discipline, but by his kindly sympathy,
+encouragement, and watchful aid in their studies. He had an eye that
+could beam with tenderness, or dart lightnings; and it was a fine moral
+spectacle, illustrating the superiority of mental over physical force,
+to see a bully of the school, almost twice his size, and who,
+apparently, could have crushed him if he chose, quail under his eagle
+gaze, when arraigned at the principal's desk for a misdemeanor. It is
+doubtful if ever he flogged a scholar; but he sometimes brought the
+ruler down upon the desk with a force that made the schoolroom ring, and
+inspired the lawless with a very wholesome respect for his authority.
+The fact that from that day to this his office has always been a kind of
+Mecca, to which his old pupils, whether dwellers in "Araby the Blest" or
+in the sandy wastes of life, have made pious pilgrimages, shows how
+deeply he was loved and how highly he was honored as a teacher.
+
+Immediately after graduation Mr. Paine was appointed a Tutor of
+Waterville College, and discharged the duties of that office for a year.
+He then began the study of law in the office of his uncle, the late
+Samuel S. Warren, of China, Maine, and continued the study in the office
+of William Clark, a noted lawyer in Hallowell, Maine, and, for a year,
+in the Law School of Harvard University, where he was the classmate of
+Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips and B.F. Thomas. In the autumn of 1834,
+he was admitted to the bar of Kennebec County, Maine. Beginning his
+professional career at Hallowell, he prosecuted it there with signal
+success till the summer of 1854, having for twenty years a practice not
+surpassed by that of any member of the Maine bar. During the sessions of
+1836, 1837, and again in that of 1853, he represented the citizens of
+Hallowell in the lower house of the State Legislature. He was also for
+five years Attorney for Kennebec County. During his stay in Maine, he
+was repeatedly offered a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court
+of that State; but, having an unconquerable aversion to office of every
+kind, civil or political, he declined to accept the honor pressed upon
+him. In 1853 he was offered by his political friends, then the dominant
+party in the Legislature, a seat in the United States Senate; but he
+refused to be nominated. In the summer of 1854, in accordance with a
+long cherished resolve, which he had been prevented from executing
+before by a promise to his father that he would not leave Maine during
+that parent's lifetime, he removed to Cambridge, Mass., and opened a
+law-office in Boston. Here he at once entered upon a large and lucrative
+practice, both in the State and Federal courts, which kept steadily
+increasing for over twenty years, till declining health and partial
+deafness compelled him to withdraw from the courts of justice, and
+confine himself to office business. During this period, his opinion on
+abstruse and knotty points of law was often solicited by eminent counsel
+living outside of Massachusetts, and he sent written opinions to
+attorneys in nine different states. As Referee and Master in Chancery,
+he was called upon to arbitrate in a great number of difficult and
+complicated cases, involving the ownership and disposition of large
+amounts of property. His decisions in these vexed cases, which often
+involved the unravelling of tangled webs of testimony, and the
+consideration of the nicest and most delicate questions of law, were
+luminous and masterly, and so impartial withal, that the litigants must
+have often been convinced of their justness, if not contented,--_etaim
+contra quos statuit, aequos placatosque dimisit._
+
+In 1863 and 1864 Mr. Paine was nominated, without his consent, by the
+Democratic party of Massachusetts, a candidate for the office of
+Governor. With much reluctance he accepted the nomination, but, as he
+expected, and doubtless to his joy, failed of an election. In 1867, on
+the resignation of Chief Justice Bigelow, the office of Chief Justice of
+the Supreme Court of Massachusetts was offered by Governor Bullock to
+Mr. Paine, who, not wishing to give up his large and profitable practice
+at the bar, declined to accept. This decision, though a natural one, is
+much to be regretted by the citizens of this state. Coming from an
+eminently judicial mind, his decisions, had he sat on the bench, would
+have been models of close, cogent reasoning, clearness, and brevity,
+worthy of the best days of the Massachusetts judiciary.
+
+Shortly after his removal to this State Mr. Paine was associated with
+Rufus Choate and F.O.J. Smith in the defence of Judge Woodbury Davis, of
+Portland, Maine, who had been impeached by the Legislature of that State
+for misconduct in his judicial office. In an editorial article upon the
+trial, which appeared after its termination, in the Kennebec Journal,
+published at Augusta, the Hon. James G. Blaine, the writer, declared
+epigrammatically that, in the defence of Judge Chase, "Paine furnished
+the logic, Choate the rhetoric, and Smith the slang."
+
+From 1872 to 1883 Mr. Paine was Lecturer on the Law of Real Property
+at the Law School of the Boston University, an office whose duties he
+performed with great credit to himself, and profit to those whom he
+addressed. So thoroughly was he master of his subject, difficult and
+intricate as it confessedly is, that in not a single instance, except
+during the lectures of the last year, did he take a note or scrap of
+memoranda into the class room.
+
+While he has always been a close and devoted student of the law, Mr.
+Paine has yet found time for general reading, and has hung for many an
+hour over the pages of the English classics with keen delight. For Homer
+and Virgil he still retains the relish of his early days, and, in the
+intervals of professional toil, has often slaked his thirst for the
+waters of Helicon in long and copious draughts. How well he appreciated
+the advantages of an acquaintance with literature, he showed early in a
+suggestive and instructive lecture on "Reading," which we heard him
+deliver before the Lyceum at Hallowell more than forty years ago. With
+his lamented friend Judge B.F. Thomas, he believes that a man cannot be
+a great lawyer who is nothing else,--that exclusive devotion to the
+study and practice of the law tends to acumen rather than to breadth, to
+subtlety rather than to strength. "The air is thin among the apices of
+the law, as on the granite needles of the Alps. Men must find
+refreshment and strength in the quiet valleys at their feet."
+
+With his brethren of the bar Mr. Paine has always held the friendliest
+relations, and he has enjoyed their highest esteem. To none, even the
+humblest of his fellow advocates, has he ever manifested any of the
+haughtiness of a Pinkney, or any of that ruggedness and asperity which
+gained for the morose and sullen Thurlow the nickname of _the
+tiger_. Amid the fiercest janglings and hottest contentions of the
+bar, he has never forgotten that courtesy which should mark the
+collision, not less than the friendly intercourse, of cultivated and
+polished minds. His victories, won easily by argumentative ability,
+tact, and intellectual keenness, unaided by passion, have strikingly
+contrasted with the costly victories of advocates less self-restrained.
+Though naturally witty and quick at retort, he has never used the weapon
+in a way to wound the feelings of an adversary. In examining and
+cross-examining witnesses, he has assumed their veracity, whenever it
+has been possible to do so; and though he has had the eye of a lynx and
+the scent of a hound for prevarication in all its forms, yet he has
+never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger, to
+confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness, or involve him in
+self-contradiction. Adopting a quiet, gentle, and straightforward,
+though full and careful examination, winning the good-will of the
+witness, and inspiring confidence in the questioner, Mr. Paine has been
+far more successful in extracting the truth, even from reluctant lips,
+than the most artful legal bully. He knows that the manoeuvres and
+devices which are best adapted to confuse an honest witness, are just
+what the dishonest one is best prepared for. It was not for all the
+blustering violence of the tempest, that the traveler would lay aside
+his cloak. The result was brought about by the mild and genial warmth of
+the sun.
+
+Few advocates have had more success with juries than the subject of this
+sketch. The secret of this success has been, not more the admirable
+lucidity and cogency of his addresses, than the confidence and trust
+with which his reputation for fairness and truthfulness, and his
+evident abhorrence of exaggeration, have inspired his hearers. Another
+explanation is, that he has avoided that rock on which so many advocates
+wreck their cases,--prolixity. Knowing that, as Sir James Scarlett once
+said, when a lawyer exceeds a certain length of time, he is always doing
+mischief to his client,--that, if he drives into the heads of the jury
+unimportant matter, he drives out matter more important that he had
+previously lodged there,--Mr. Paine has taken care to press home the
+leading points of his case, giving slight attention to the others.
+
+That Mr. Paine has been animated in the pursuit of his profession by
+higher motives than those which fire the zeal of the mere "hired master
+of tongue-fence," is shown by the comparative smallness of his fees,
+especially in cases exacting great labor. Great as has been his success
+in winning verdicts, and sound as have been his opinions, it is doubtful
+whether there is another lawyer living of equal eminence, whose charges
+for legal service have been so uniformly moderate.
+
+Reference has been made to Mr. Paine's wit. Several striking examples
+might be cited; but two must suffice. Some years ago, when he was County
+Attorney, a man who had been indicted in Kennebec County for arson, was
+tried, and acquitted by the jury on the ground that he was an _idiot_.
+After the trial, the Judge before whom the case had been tried, sought
+to reconcile Mr. Paine to the verdict by some explanatory remarks. "Oh,
+I'm quite satisfied, your Honor," said Mr. Paine, "with the defendant's
+acquittal. He has been tried by a jury of his _peers_"--On another
+occasion, Mr. Paine was making a legal argument before an eminent judge,
+when he was interrupted by the latter, who said: "Mr. Paine, you know
+that that is not law." "I know it, your Honor," replied the advocate,
+with a deferential bow; "but it _was_ law till your Honor just spoke."
+
+From 1849 to 1862, Mr. Paine was a member of the Board of Trustees of
+Waterville College. In 1851, he was elected member of the Maine
+Historical Society, and also of the American Academy. In 1854, his Alma
+Mater conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
+
+In the relation of marriage, Mr. Paine has been very happy. In May.
+1837, he was united to Miss Lucy E. Coffin, of Newburyport, a lady of
+rare endowments, both of head and heart.
+
+Few men have started in a professional career with a more vigorous and
+elastic constitution than Mr. Paine's. Endowed with an iron frame and
+nerves of _lignum vitae_, he very naturally felt in youth that his
+fund of physical energy was inexhaustible; but, like thousands of other
+professional men in this fiery and impatient age, he finds himself in
+the autumn of his life afflicted with bodily ills, which he feels that
+with reasonable care he might have escaped. Toiling in his profession
+year after year from January to December, with no recreation, no summer
+vacation, no disposition to follow the wise advice of Horace to
+Torquatus,--
+
+            rebus omissis
+  Atria servantem postico falle clientem,
+
+--working double tides, and crowding the work of eighty years into
+forty, Mr. Paine finds that, large as was his bank account with Nature,
+he has been overdrawing it for years, and that he has now to repay these
+drafts with compound interest. The lesson he would have young
+professional men learn from his experience, is, that they should account
+no time or money wasted, that contributes in any way to their physical
+health,--that gives tone to the stomach, or development to the muscles.
+Let them understand that, though suffering does not follow instantly
+upon the heels of transgression, yet Nature cannot be outraged with
+impunity. Though a generous giver she is a hard bargainer, and a most
+accurate bookkeeper, whose notice not the eighth part of a cent escapes;
+and though the items with which she debits one, taken singly are
+seemingly insignificant, and she seldom brings in "that little bill"
+till a late day, yet, added up at the end of three score years and ten,
+they may show a frightful balance against him, which can have no result
+but physical bankruptcy.
+
+In Mr. Paine's physiognomy the most noticeable features are the broad,
+massive, Websterian forehead, and the sparkling eyes.
+
+In summing up the characteristics of Mr. Paine as a lawyer and as a man,
+the writer, who was his pupil at Waterville Academy, and has enjoyed his
+friendship to this day, cannot do better than to cite the words of an
+acute observer who has known him intimately for many years. Chief
+Justice Appleton, of Maine, did not exaggerate, when he said: "He is a
+gentleman of a high order of intellect; of superior culture; in private
+life, one of the most genial of companions; in his profession, a
+profound and learned lawyer, as well as an accomplished advocate."
+
+To conclude,--if the subject of this imperfect sketch has occasion to
+regret his excessive devotion to his calling, he can have no other
+regrets. At the close of a long, most useful, and most honorable career,
+which has been marked throughout by the severest conscientiousness and
+the most scrupulous discharge of every professional duty, he is happily
+realizing that blessedness which Sir William Blackstone, when exchanging
+the worship of the Muses for that of Themis, prayed might crown the
+evening of his days:--
+
+  "Thus though my noon of life be past,
+  Yet let my setting sun at last
+  Find out the still, the rural cell,
+  Where sage Retirement loves to dwell!
+  There let me taste the homefelt bliss
+  Of innocence and inward peace;
+  Untainted by the guilty bribe,
+  Uncursed amid the harpy tribe;
+  No orphan cry to wound my ear,
+  My honor and my conscience clear;
+  Thus may I calmly meet my end,
+  Thus to the grave in peace descend."
+
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+
+
+
+
+PICKETT'S CHARGE.
+
+BY CHARLES A. PATCH, MASS., VOLS.
+
+
+In all great wars involving the destinies of nations, it is neither the
+number of battles, nor the names, nor the loss of life, that remain
+fixed in the mind of the masses; but simply the one decisive struggle
+which either in its immediate or remote sequence closes the conflict. Of
+the hundred battles of the great Napoleon, Waterloo alone lingers in the
+memory. The Franco-Prussian War, so fraught with changes to Europe,
+presents but one name that will never fade,--Sedan. Even in our own
+country, how few battles of the Revolution can we enumerate; but is
+there a child who does not know that Bunker Hill sounded the death-knell
+of English rule in the land? And now, but twenty years since the
+greatest conflict of modern times was closed at Appomattox, how few can
+we readily recall of the scores of blood-stained battle-fields on which
+our friends and neighbors fought and fell; but is there one, old or
+young, cultured or ignorant, of the North or of the South, that cannot
+speak of Gettysburg? But what is Gettysburg either in its first day's
+Federal defeat, or its second day's terrible slaughter around Little
+Round Top, without the _third_ day's immortal charge by Pickett and
+his brave Virginians. In it we have the culmination of the Rebellion. It
+took long years after to drain _all_ the life-blood from the foe,
+but never again did the wave of Rebellion rise so gallantly high as when
+it beat upon the crest of Cemetery Ridge.
+
+The storming of the heights of Inkerman, the charge of the noble Six
+Hundred, the fearful onslaught of the Guards at Waterloo, the scaling of
+Lookout Mountain,--have all been sung in story, and perhaps always will
+be; but they all pale beside the glory that will ever enshroud the
+heroes who, with perhaps not literally "cannon to right of them" and
+"cannon to left of them," but with a hundred cannon belching forth death
+in _front_ of them, hurled themselves into the centre of a great
+army and had victory almost within their grasp.
+
+To describe this charge, we will go back to the evening of the 2nd of
+July, and recall upon what basis the cautious Lee could undertake so
+fearful a responsibility. The victorious Southrons fresh from their
+triumphs at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville had entered the North
+carrying consternation and dismay to every hamlet, with none to oppose;
+their forward march was one of spoil, and it was not till the 1st of
+July that they met their old foemen, the Army of the Potomac, in the
+streets of Gettysburg, and after a fierce conflict drove them back. The
+second day's conflict was a terrible slaughter, and at its close the
+Federal Army, although holding its position, was to a certain extent
+disheartened. Many of our best generals and commanding officers were
+killed or wounded, scores of regiments and batteries were nearly wiped
+out, Sickles' line was broken and driven in and its position was held by
+Longstreet. Little Round Top, the key of the position, was held only at
+a frightful loss of life, and Ewell upon the right had gained a footing
+upon the Ridge. The Rebel army was joyful and expectant of victory. The
+morning of the 3rd of July opened clear and bright, and one hundred
+thousand men faced each other awaiting the signal of conflict; but,
+except the pushing of Ewell from his position, the hours passed on
+relieved only by the rumbling of artillery carriages as they were massed
+by Lee upon Seminary Ridge, and by Meade upon Cemetery Ridge. At twelve
+o'clock Lee ascended the cupola of the Pennsylvania College, in quiet
+surveyed the Union lines, and decided to strike for Hancock's Centre.
+Meanwhile, Pickett with his three Virginia brigades had arrived from
+Chambersburg and taken cover in the woods of Seminary Ridge. What Lee's
+feelings must have been, as he looked at the hundred death-dealing
+cannon massed on Cemetery Hill, and the fifty thousand men waiting
+patiently in front and behind them, men whose valor he knew well in many
+a bitter struggle--and then looked at his handful of brave Virginians,
+three, small, decimated brigades which he was about to hurl into that
+vortex of death,--no one will ever know. The blunder that sent the
+Light Brigade to death at Balaklava was bad enough, but here were
+five thousand men waiting to seek victory where, only the day before
+ten thousand had lost their lives or their limbs in the same futile
+endeavor. Leaving the college, Lee called a council of his generals at
+Longstreet's headquarters, and the plan of attack was formed. It is said
+that the level-headed Longstreet opposed the plan, and if so it was but
+in keeping with his remarkable generalship. The attack was to be opened
+with artillery fire to demoralize and batter the Federal line, and was
+to be opened by a signal of two shots from the Washington Artillery. At
+half-past one the report of the first gun rang out on the still, summer
+air, followed a minute later by the second, and then came the roar and
+flash of one hundred and thirty-eight rebel cannon. Almost immediately
+one hundred Federal guns responded and the battle had begun. Shot and
+shell tore through the air, crashing through batteries, tearing men and
+horses to pieces; the very earth seemed to shake and the hills to reel
+as the terrible thunders re-echoed amongst them. For nearly an hour
+every conceivable form of ordnance known to modern gunnery hissed and
+shrieked, whistled and screamed, as it went forth on its death-mission
+till exhausted by excitement and heat the gunners slackened their fire
+and silence reigned again.
+
+Then Pickett and his brave legion stood up and formed for the
+death-struggle; three remnants of brigades consisting of Garnett's
+brigade:--the 8th, 18th, 19th, 28th, 56th Virginia; Armistead's
+brigade:--the 9th, 14th, 38th, 53rd, 57th Virginia; Kempers's
+brigade:--the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 11th, 24th Virginia. Their tattered flags
+bore the scars of a score of battles and from their ranks the merciless
+bullet had already taken two-thirds their number. In compact ranks,
+their front scarcely covering two of Hancock's brigades, with flags
+waving as if for a gala-day, Gen. Pickett saluted Longstreet and asked,
+"Shall I go forward, sir?" but it was not in Longstreet's heart to send
+those heroes of so many battles to certain death; and he turned away his
+head,--when Pickett with that proud, impetuous air which has earned him
+the title of the "Ney" of the Rebel army, exclaimed, "Sir! I _shall_
+lead my division forward!" The orders now rang out, "_Attention_!
+_Attention_!" and the men, realizing the end was near, cried out to
+their comrades, "Good-by, boys! good-by!" Suddenly rang on the air the
+final order from Pickett himself, as his sabre flashed from its
+scabbard,--"_column forward! guide centre_!" And the brigades of
+Kemper, Garnett and Armistead moved towards Cemetery Ridge as one man.
+Soon Pettigrew's division emerged from the woods and followed in echelon
+on Pickett's left flank, and Wilcox with his Alabama division moved out
+to support his right flank--in all about fifteen thousand men. The
+selection of these supports shows a lack of judgment which it would
+almost seem impossible for Lee to have made. Pettigrew's division was
+composed mostly of new troops from North Carolina, and had been terribly
+used up in the first day's fight, and were in no condition to form part
+of a forlorn hope. Wilcox's troops had also received very severe
+punishment in the second day's engagement in his attack on the Ridge and
+should have been replaced by fresh well-tried brigades. But the movement
+had now begun and Lee with his generals about him watched anxiously for
+the result.
+
+[Illustration: MAJ. GEN. GEORGE E. PICKETT]
+
+It was nearly a mile to the Union lines, and as they advanced over the
+open plain the Federal artillery opened again, ploughing great lanes
+through their solid ranks, but they closed up to '_guide centre_'
+as if upon dress-parade; when half way over Pickett halted his division
+amidst a terrible fire of shot and shell, and changed his direction by
+an oblique movement coolly and beautifully made. But here occurred the
+greatest mistake of all. Wilcox paid no attention to this change of
+movement, but kept straight on to the front, thus opening a tremendous
+gap between the two columns and exposing Pickett's right to all the
+mishaps that afterwards overtook it. To those who have ever faced
+artillery fire it is marvellous and unexplainable how human beings could
+have advanced a mile under the terrific fire of a hundred cannon, every
+inch of air being laden with the missiles of death; but in splendid
+formation they still came bravely on till within range of the musketry;
+then the blue line of Hancock's corps arose and poured into their ranks
+a murderous fire. With a wild yell the rebels pushed on, unfalteringly
+crossed the Federal line and laid hands upon eleven cannon.
+
+Men fired in each others faces; there were bayonet thrusts, cutting with
+sabres, hand to hand contests, oaths, curses, yells and hurrahs. The
+second corps fell back behind the guns to allow the use of grape and
+double canister, and as it tore through the rebel ranks at only a few
+paces distant the dead and wounded were piled in ghastly heaps. Still on
+they came up to the very muzzles of the guns; they were blown away from
+the cannon's mouth but yet they did not waver. Pickett had taken the key
+to the position and the glad shout of victory was heard, as, the very
+impersonation of a soldier, he still forced his troops to the crest of
+Cemetery Ridge. Kemper and Armistead broke through Hancock's line,
+scaled the hill and planted their flags on its crest. Just before
+Armistead was shot, he placed his flag upon a captured cannon and cried
+"_Give them the cold steel, boys_!"; but valor could do no more,
+the handful of braves had won immortality but could not conquer an army.
+Pettigrew's weak division was broken fleeing and almost annihilated.
+Wilcox, owing to his great mistake in separating his column was easily
+routed, and Stannard's Vermonters thrown into the gap were creating
+havoc on Pickett's flank. Pickett, seeing his supports gone, his
+generals, Kemper, Armistead and Garnett killed or wounded, every field
+officer of three brigades gone, three-fourths of his men killed or
+captured, himself untouched but broken-hearted, gave the order for
+retreat, but band of heroes as they were they fled not; but amidst that
+still continuous, terrible fire they slowly, sullenly, recrossed the
+plain,--all that was left of them, but few of five thousand.
+
+[Illustration: Position of troops at time of attack on left centre on
+3rd day of battle of Gettysburg.]
+
+Thus ended the greatest charge known to modern warfare. Made in a
+most unequal manner against a great army and amidst the most terrific
+cannonade known in wars, and yet so perfect was the discipline, so
+audacious the valor that had this handful of Virginians been properly
+supported they would perhaps have rendered the Federal position
+untenable, and possibly have established the Southern Confederacy.
+While other battle-fields are upturned by the plough and covered with
+waving grain, Cemetery Ridge will forever proudly uphold its monuments
+telling of glory both to the Blue and the Gray, and our children's
+children while standing upon its crest will rehearse again of Pickett's
+wonderful charge.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE PATRIOT, SAMUEL ADAMS.
+
+BY EDWARD P. GUILD.
+
+
+[Illustration: SAMUEL ADAMS. FROM COPLEY'S PAINTING.[1]]
+
+Three years ago the old State House in Boston was restored to its
+original architectural appearance. After having fallen a prey to the
+ruthless hand of commerce, been surmounted with a "Mansard roof,"
+disfigured by a legion of business signs, made a hitching place for
+scores of telegraph wires, and lastly been threatened with entire
+demolition by the ever arrogant spirit of "business enterprise"; the
+sentiment of patriotic veneration asserted itself and came to the
+rescue. With an appropriation of $35,000 from the city, work was begun
+in the fall of 1881, and by the following July the ancient building had
+been restored to almost exactly its appearance in the last century. As
+the Old State House now stands, it is identical with the Town House
+which Boston first used for its town meeting May 13, 1713. This was nine
+years before the birth of the man destined to become the foremost
+character in the Boston town meeting of the eighteenth century--Samuel
+Adams. Probably no other man who ever lived has been so identified with
+the history of the Old State House as was he. The town meetings were
+held in Faneuil Hall after 1742, but through the stormy years when the
+Assembly met in the old building, Samuel Adams was in constant
+attendance as clerk. His desk, on which he wrote the first sentences
+ever ventured for American independence, and by which he arose, and,
+with hands often tremulous with nervous energy, directed the exciting
+debates, is to-day in the old Assembly chamber in the western end of the
+building. In 1774 he went to Congress, but for a long period afterward
+the Old State House was again his field of labor, as senator, as
+lieutenant governor and then as governor.
+
+The life of Samuel Adams ought to be more familiar than it is to the
+patriotic young men of to-day, but some excuse is found in the fact that
+a popular, concise biography has, until lately, not been written. The
+excellent three volume work of Mr. Wells, Adams' great grandson,
+although admirable as an exhaustive biography, is too voluminous for the
+common reader; but since the appearance of Prof. Hosmer's recent book[2]
+there can be no reason why any schoolboy should not have a clear idea of
+the life of the man who organized the Revolution.
+
+It is only as a patriot that Samuel Adams claims our attention. Although
+college bred he was a man of letters only so far as his pen could write
+patriotic resolutions and scathing letters against the government of
+King George. These letters were printed for the most part in the "Boston
+Gazette," published by Edes & Gill in Court Street. As a business man he
+was never a success. For years he kept the old malt house on Purchase
+Street, but he gave the business little thought, for his mind was
+constantly engrossed in public matters, and at last he made no pretext
+of attending to any matter of private business, depending for support
+only upon his small salary as clerk of the assembly. No one will ever
+accuse Samuel Adams of any selfish ambition, and, although his every act
+will not bear the closest application of the square and rule, yet he
+never deceived nor used a doubtful method in the least degree for
+personal gain.
+
+Adams did not begin his public career early in life. In 1764 he was
+chosen a member of the committee to instruct the representatives just
+elected to the General Court, and the paper drafted on that occasion is
+the first document from his pen of which we now have any trace, and is
+memorable, moreover, because it contains the first public denial of the
+authority of the Stamp Act. Adams was now forty-two, his hair was
+already touched with gray, and "a peculiar tremulousness of the head and
+hands made it seem as if he were already on the threshold of old age."
+He had, however, a remarkably sound constitution, a medium sized,
+muscular frame, and clear, steel-gray eyes.
+
+[Illustration: OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1793.]
+
+Among those closely connected with Adams in the public service, which,
+from this time on, became his only thought, were John Hancock and James
+Otis. Adams contrasted strongly with both of these men. Hancock was the
+richest man in the province and as liberal as he was wealthy. In the
+general jubilation that followed the repeal of the Stamp Act, he opened
+a pipe of Madeira wine before his elegant mansion opposite the Common,
+and so long as it lasted it was freely dispensed to the crowd. The dress
+of Hancock when at home is described as a "red velvet cap, within which
+was one of fine linen, the edge of this turned up over the velvet one,
+two or three inches. He wore a blue damask gown lined with silk, a white
+plaited stock, a white silk embroidered waistcoat, black silk
+small-clothes, white silk stockings and red morocco slippers." Adams was
+in marked contrast with Otis in temperament. The former, always cool and
+collected and his words based on deliberate reason, was the extreme of
+the other who carried his arguments in a flood of impetuous eloquence.
+"Otis was a flame of fire," says Sewall. But although Otis was once
+almost the ideal of the people, his erratic tendencies at last unfitted
+him for a leader.
+
+One reason of Sam Adams' prestige with the masses was his common and
+familiar intercourse with mechanics and artisans. Hancock, Otis, Bowdoin
+and Curtis, on account of their wealth and ideas of aristocracy, kept
+more or less aloof from the workmen; while Adams, plainly clad and with
+familiar but dignified manner, was often found in the ship yards or at
+the rope walks engaged in earnest conversation with the homely
+craftsmen. Indeed, nothing pleased him more than to be talking with a
+ship carpenter as they sat side by side on a block of oak, or with some
+shopkeeper in a sheltered fence corner. Most of his writing was done in
+a little room in his Purchase Street house where night after night his
+busy mind and quill were kept at work on his trenchant letters for the
+"Gazette," which were signed with significant nom de plumes in Latin.
+
+The year 1768 was made notable by the arrival in Boston from England of
+the 14th and the 29th regiments. The main guard was quartered in King
+(now State) Street, with the cannon pointed toward the State House, and
+the troops occupied various houses in the vicinity. In the next year the
+Governor, Bernard, was recalled, and Thomas Hutchinson, although
+remaining nominally lieutenant governor, became acting chief magistrate.
+He now appeared the most conspicuous figure among the royalists, and
+Samuel Adams became more distinctly the leader of the patriots.
+Neglecting all other affairs, he was content to live on a pittance,
+which he was enabled to do by a frugal and helpful wife.
+
+Affairs were now approaching a crisis. A consignment of goods from
+England, sent in defiance of the non-importation agreements, was not
+allowed to land and had to be returned. One importer, a Scotchman, would
+not sign the agreements, so after much remonstrance, Samuel Adams arose
+in town meeting and grimly moved that the number present, about two
+thousand, should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, wait upon
+the obstinate merchant and use such persuasion as should be necessary to
+secure a compliance. But no vote was needed, for the Scotchman was
+present, and rushing to the front with knees trembling and in a
+squeaking voice, rolling his r's like a well-played drum, exclaimed:--
+"Mr. Mode-r-r-rater, I agr-r-ree, I agr-r-ree!" greatly to the amusement
+of the people.
+
+It was early in the next year, 1770, that the hostility between
+towns-people and soldiers led for the first time to the shedding of
+blood. In February a boy, Christopher Snyder, was shot and killed during
+a disturbance, and in March occurred the "Boston Massacre." The story has
+been many times told. Quarrels had grown frequent between the soldiers
+and the rope-walk hands, the soldiers usually getting the worst of it.
+On the evening of the 5th, an altercation began just below the Old State
+House, between the sentinel of the guard and a crowd of townsfolk. An
+alarm was rung from one of the steeples, and many citizens hurried to
+the place, most of them thinking that a fire had broken out. A sentry
+was at the corner of King and Exchange streets, where the Custom House
+stood, and he was assaulted by the boys with snowballs. Captain Preston
+with seven or eight men rushed to the scene, loaded their muskets and
+made ready to fire. The mob hooted, struck their muskets and dared them
+to fire. At last a volley came. Three were killed and eight wounded.
+At once there was a tumult. The bells were all rung and the populace
+hurried to and fro. The bodies of the slain lay on the ground which was
+sprinkled with a light snow, serving to plainly reveal in the clear
+moon-light the stains of blood.
+
+[Illustration: OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1801.]
+
+The 29th regiment repaired to the spot prepared for firing, and there
+would have been a fierce contest but for the excellent conduct of the
+acting governor, Hutchinson. He took Captain Preston severely to task
+for firing at the people without the orders of a civil magistrate, and
+then, quickly working his way to the State House, took his stand in the
+balcony of the council-chamber looking down King Street, and made an
+address promising that the law should prevail and justice should be done
+to all. The next morning Hutchinson was waited upon by the selectmen who
+informed him that there would be no peace until the soldiers should
+depart. Hutchinson claimed, however, that the regiments were not under
+his command.
+
+A mass meeting was soon held in Faneuil Hall, and was addressed by
+Samuel Adams. It may readily be believed that he advocated no
+compromise, and a committee of fifteen was immediately appointed of
+which Adams was a member. According to instructions, they at once
+repaired to the council chamber, and demanded the instant removal of the
+troops. At three o'clock a regular town meeting assembled in Faneuil
+Hall, but, owing to the great number present, adjourned to the Old South
+Meeting House. Then the committee of fifteen appeared making their way
+from the council-chamber to the meeting-house. Samuel Adams was at the
+head, and as the crowd made way on either hand he bared his head, and,
+inclining to the right and left, as he passed through the line, kept
+repeating: "Both regiments or none!" "Both regiments or none!"
+
+[Illustration: STATUE IN ADAMS SQUARE.]
+
+In the presence of the dense multitude in the Old South, the governor's
+reply was rendered: the 29th regiment should go to the castle, but the
+14th must remain. Then the cry arose, "Both regiments or none!" and as
+the shout echoed from every quarter it was plain that the people had
+caught the meaning of the watchword, given shortly before by Adams. A
+new committee, also including Adams, was appointed and sent back to the
+governor, and as they stood in the council chamber the scene was one
+that John Adams pronounced long after as worthy a historical painting. A
+few sentences from Adams' address to Hutchinson are clear enough to show
+the intense earnestness and patriotism of the man.
+
+  "It is well known," he said, "that acting as governor of the Province,
+  you are by its charter the commander-in-chief of the military forces
+  within it; and as such, the troops now in the capital are subject to
+  your orders. If you, or Colonel Dalrymple under you, have the power to
+  remove one regiment, you have the power to remove both; and nothing
+  short of their total removal will satisfy the people or preserve the
+  peace of the Province. A Multitude highly incensed now wait the result
+  of this application. The voice of ten thousand freemen demands that
+  both regiments be forthwith removed. Their voice must be respected,
+  their demand obeyed. Fail not then at your peril to comply with this
+  requisition! On you alone rests the responsibility of this decision;
+  and if the just expectations of the people are disappointed, you must
+  be answerable to God and your country for the fatal consequences that
+  must ensue. The committee have discharged their duty, and it is for
+  you to discharge yours. They wait your final determination."
+
+
+Hutchinson for a long time stood firm, but yielded at last and the
+troops were removed.
+
+It is not the purpose of this paper to follow Samuel Adams through his
+active career in the years of the Revolution and the succeeding period.
+It is always Samuel Adams, the unswerving patriot, the adroit leader,
+the man of the people. It had long been felt in England that his was the
+most active spirit in the cause of the patriots, and there was much talk
+of effecting his arrest and bringing him to trial on the charge of
+treason, but the move was never made. Adams' courage never failed. He
+had long given up the idea of any compromise between the colonies and
+the Crown, and there is nothing conciliatory in his words or acts. When
+the tea was emptied into Boston Harbor it was easily understood that
+Adams was the real leader in the action. No one familiar with the life
+of the great town meeting man, as Prof. Hosmer likes to call him, can
+doubt that he had the essential qualities of an adroit strategist.
+Cromwell once locked Parliament out, Adams once locked the Assembly in.
+He had secured a majority of the members to vote for a Continental
+Congress, but could the resolve be presented and brought to a final vote
+before Governor Gage could prorogue the Assembly, as he would use all
+speed to do, the instant the first knowledge of the scheme reached his
+ears? On the 17th of June, just one year before the Battle of Bunker
+Hill, that question was answered. The resolve was offered that day
+providing for the appointment of delegates to such a congress. Tory
+members at once essayed to leave the hall to dispatch the news to
+the governor, but the bolts were fast, and Samuel Adams had the key
+in his pocket. Two months later the delegates were on their way to
+Philadelphia,--Thomas Cushing, Samuel and John Adams and Robert Treat
+Paine.
+
+Events then transpired rapidly. So far, Samuel Adams was almost wholly
+alone in the idea of independence, but it was declared by Congress less
+than two years later. For more than twenty years longer, Adams continued
+in public life, but his greatest work was before the Declaration of
+Independence rather than after. There were times when the cause of the
+patriots must have fallen through but for the nerve and skill of this
+man. Bowdoin, Cushing, Hancock, Otis, and even John Adams could not have
+been thoroughly trusted in the last years of the colony to bring affairs
+to a successful issue. But Samuel Adams was fitted by intellect and
+character, adroitness and courage, tireless energy and by never failing
+devotion to the public good, to be the man for the time.
+
+When America had become a Republic, and Adams had returned from Congress
+to his native town, he served as presiding officer of the Senate, then
+as lieutenant governor, and, upon the death of Hancock, governor, to
+which office he was several times chosen by the people. He died in 1803,
+and his dust lies to-day in the old Granary Burying Ground, close by the
+common grave of the four victims of the Boston Massacre.
+
+The statue in bronze now standing in Adams Square is noble in design,
+and appropriate for situation. It is in almost the busiest position of
+the great city, and daily across its shadow pass tens of thousands of
+mechanics and artisans--the class of men with whom Samuel Adams used to
+love to hold intercourse. The Old State House and Faneuil Hall are only
+a stone's-throw distant from the statue, but the face is not looking in
+the direction of either; it is turned directly toward the visible shaft
+of granite on Bunker Hill--the monument which marks the first great
+battle in the struggle for that Independence toward which, in all his
+labors for so many years, the eyes of Samuel Adams were ever turned.
+
+
+[Footnote 1: For the reproduction of the above portrait and the two
+following views of the Old State House, we are indebted to the courtesy
+of Messrs. Ticknor & Co., the well-known Boston publishers.--Ed.]
+
+[Footnote 2: Samuel Adams. By James K. Hosmer, 1 vol., 442 pp. American
+Statesmen Series. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1883.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORITATIVE LITERATURE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
+
+BY GEORGE LOWELL AUSTIN.
+
+
+II.
+
+
+  THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, sixteenth
+  President of the United States: together with His State Papers,
+  including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations,
+  and the closing Scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J.
+  Raymond. To which are added Anecdotes and Personal Reminiscences of
+  President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter, with a steel portrait, and
+  other illustrations, 1 vol. octavo, pp. 808. New York: Derby and Miller,
+  1865.
+
+
+During the Presidential canvass of 1864, the author of this volume
+prepared a work upon the administration of President Lincoln. That
+canvass resulted in the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, whose death occurred
+soon after his second inauguration. As the editor of the _New York
+Times_, Mr. Raymond possessed at the time ample facilities to prepare
+such a book as was needed to interest the public in the life of one
+whose work was at once as great as it was successful. Up to the day of
+its publication, this book was the best and most authoritative that had
+been published. Twenty years have since elapsed, and in many respects it
+still maintains a just superiority and a historical value that cannot be
+questioned. Its errors are of omission, rather than of commission; while
+its merits are so great as to render it indispensable to all future
+writers on the subject. Every public speech, message, letter, or
+document of any sort of Mr. Lincoln's, so far as accessible in 1865,
+will be found included in the volume. The rapidly occuring events of
+the civil war, with much of their secret history, are tersely and
+graphically described. The "Reminiscences" of Mr. Carpenter, covering
+about thirty pages, add interest to the volume.
+
+
+  ABRAHAM LINCOLN: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the
+  inner growth, special training and peculiar fitness of the Man for his
+  work. By William O. Stoddard. Illustrated. 1 vol. octavo, pp. 508. New
+  York: Fords, Howard & Hurlbert, 1884.
+
+
+Mr. Stoddard was one of President Lincoln's secretaries during the civil
+war, and very naturally his work ought to have strong claims upon the
+interest and attention of American readers. His book is not of a
+profound or critical character; but a singularly honest and candid and
+strictly personal biography, simply written for readers of all ages and
+degrees of intelligence. It sheds considerable light on the political
+history of the civil war and on the events which led to it. With the
+military history, it deals but little. Still its brief, vigorous and
+vivid sketches furnish an exceedingly fascinating bird's eye view of the
+great struggle. But its most valuable feature is the clearness with
+which it depicts Lincoln, the man,--his sagacity and patience at
+critical moments, his keen perception of "popular" sentiment and
+disposition, his _individuality_, his distinctive fitness for the
+tasks and burdens which fell upon him. This work, at once so accurate,
+so comprehensive, so discriminating and so well written, is one for all
+Americans, and particularly for younger readers. It has in it a charm
+possessed but by very few biographies, and a fascination that but few
+novels can surpass. To enjoy it and to profit by it, one need not always
+coincide with the author's judgments of men and measures, or his
+criticisms of military leaders and policies.
+
+
+  THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Isaac N. Arnold. 1 vol. octavo,
+  pp. 462. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1885.
+
+
+This work also possesses strong claims upon our attention. It was
+completed only a few days before the death of its eminent author.
+Furthermore, Mr. Arnold knew President Lincoln better than almost any
+other man; they had been intimate friends for more than a quarter of a
+century, thinking, conversing and working together during all that time.
+When the civil war broke out, Mr. Arnold entered Congress; became one of
+the most trusted advisers of the President; and no one better than he
+knew and comprehended the latter's thoughts and intentions; even the
+cabinet officers and the private secretaries never approached so near to
+the heart and mind of President Lincoln as did his life long, trusted
+and admired friend. In 1867, Mr. Arnold published a "History of Abraham
+Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery" which is a work of rare interest
+and of exceptional historic value. But this work, in the judgment of the
+author, was unsatisfactory from the fact that, while it depicted well
+enough the _times_, it failed to portray the _life_ of President
+Lincoln. The later volume meets the deficiency, and in fact leaves
+absolutely nothing to be desired. The spirit of tenderness broods over
+its charmful pages. Singularly unpretentious, its very simplicity is
+eloquent and inspiring, and makes the heart of the reader blend with the
+grand and noble heart of its subject. Its accuracy is unmarred; it
+explains all doubts that have ever existed in regard to Mr. Lincoln's
+motives and acts; it asserts nothing without proving it; it tells the
+plain, straightforward story, and leaves criticism to others. As a
+_personal_ biography of Mr. Lincoln's life and character, this book
+is not only unsurpassed, but it deserves to rank as one of the classics
+in our native literature.
+
+
+  THE POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES PRECEDING THE REBELLION; or the True
+  Story of Sumter and Pickens, By Thomas M. Anderson, Lieut. Col. U.S.A. 1
+  vol. quarto, pp. 100. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883.
+
+
+The author assumes that there were "a number of conspiracies" antedating
+the immediate outbreak of the civil war, but makes no claim that the war
+was the result of such conspiracies. His narrative, then, is merely
+descriptive of the events which took place in the period between October
+1860 and April 1861, purely _resume_ in character and wholly based
+upon the disclosures of the Official Records. The author allows himself
+to criticise men and acts rather freely, and at times captiously; and
+has evidently intended his book to be a defence of his brother, the hero
+of Sumter, against certain charges which were once made against him. The
+old hero needs no defender, even if we suppose that he ever merited
+criticism. The volume is a small one,--trustworthy as regards its
+statements and valuable for reference. It may profitably be read in
+conjunction with the second volume of Mr. Curtis's _Life_ of _James
+Buchanan_, also with the small volume, by General Doubleday, entitled
+_The Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Pickens in 1860-61_.
+
+
+  THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN OF GENERAL MCCLELLAN IN 1862. Papers read
+  before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts in 1876-77-78
+  and 80. Printed for the Society. Vol. I, octavo, pp. 249. Boston: James
+  R. Osgood and Company, 1881.
+
+
+The Military Society of Massachusetts was organized in 1876, with the
+object of investigating questions relating to the civil war. Up to the
+date of the publication of this volume, about forty papers were read,
+six of them being devoted to the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, eleven
+to General Pope's campaign of 1862, three to the campaign of
+Chancellorsville, three to the Antietam campaign, sixteen to the
+campaign of 1864, and one each to the battle of Mobile Bay and Grouchy
+controversy,--all, with the exception of the last two, bearing upon the
+operations of the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and 1864, and including
+discussions from different standpoints of the objects and general plans
+of the several campaigns and battles in which it participated, and of
+the controverted questions that have arisen concerning them. The first
+printed volume of the Society contains the following papers:--"General
+McClellan's Plans for the campaign of 1862, and the Alleged Interference
+of the Government with them," by John C. Ropes, Esq: "The Siege of
+Yorktown," by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. John C. Palfrey, U.S.A.: "The Period
+which elapsed between the Fall of Yorktown and the Beginning of the
+Seven-Days-Battles," by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. Francis W. Palfrey, U.S.V. "The
+Seven-Days Battles--to Malvern Hill," by same author. "The Battle of
+Malvern Hill," by same author; "Comments on the Peninsular Campaign,"
+by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. Charles A. Whittier, U.S.V. All of these are earnest
+discussions,--but of unequal worth--of the various merits or demerits
+of General McClellan in the Peninsular campaign, or the attitude of the
+government toward him at that time. The ground is traversed as often
+before; all the old arguments are again brought into comparison, and
+a very small amount of _new_ evidence is discovered. What has
+previously been said in many books and pamphlets and by a score of
+writers, is here said in one volume by three writers. But nothing
+appears to be _freshly_ said, and, as usual, the conclusions
+reached are colored by the political likes or dislikes of their several
+writers. The sole merit of the volume lies in the fact that its papers
+embody a mass of very valuable material, gleaned from trustworthy
+sources, for the future historian. It is very safe to assume, however,
+that the future historian while expressing gratitude for their
+investigations, will not be tempted to place much weight upon the
+conclusions of the gentlemen who hold the monopoly of this volume but
+have not solved a single mooted question.
+
+
+  LIFE OF JAMES BUCHANAN, Fifteenth President of the United
+  States. By George Ticknor Curtis. 2 vols. octavo, pp. 625, 707. New
+  York: Harper & Brothers, 1883.
+
+
+The second volume of this exceedingly painstaking and meritorious
+biography sheds much light upon the events preceding, and those
+transpiring during, the civil war. As another writer has remarked,
+"there is something very pitiable, something almost tragic, in the
+figure of James Buchanan during the last months of his administration."
+He found himself wavering between two factions, between Right and Wrong.
+So long as he wavered, the South stood by him; when he ceased to be a
+wary politician and manifested a decision of character such as the times
+demanded, the South turned against him as one man. His biographer proves
+conclusively that the weak and time-serving President was _opposed_
+to secession; but as positively proves without intending to do so, that
+he favored it by his singular unfitness and indifference in emergencies.
+When secession threatened, Mr. Buchanan took the ground that he would
+not precipitate war by applying force to prevent a State from seceding,
+but that he would defend the flag and property of the United States.
+With this policy in his heart, he permitted public property to be
+seized, without striking a blow; he discovered treason in his cabinet,
+and coolly allowed the traitors to consummate their work and to depart.
+The fact was, that he was a very weak man, and his biographer is the
+best authority for the statement. The work is important; it will always,
+as it richly merits, be consulted by students, and may be read with
+interest and profit by all.
+
+(To be continued.)
+
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+
+
+Life insurance, by whatever system, plan or method, has, for its
+fundamental basis, the laws governing the rates of mortality at the
+different ages. These fundamental laws have been developed and made
+clear by a vast amount of statistical data obtained from observations
+among persons insured in life insurance companies among annuitants,
+among inhabitants of various towns and cities, and among the whole
+population in certain countries, notably in England and in Belgium. One
+uniform, unvarying, certain law has been thus established, which is that
+the rate of mortality, or in other words the cost of insurance,
+increases as a man grows older. From this law there is no escape. We
+must accept the inevitable. Hence any system of insurance which is not
+in accordance with this first principle, this unalterable law of nature,
+is unsound, and any company, whether charging level premiums or natural
+premiums, which does not recognize and conform to this fundamental law
+of nature, is doomed to disaster and wreck, sooner or later.
+
+There are two methods of life insurance worthy of the name, and two
+only. The one is by payments accurately adjusted to the cost of
+insurance at each actual age, and which inevitably, unavoidably and
+inexorably, must increase with the age of the person insured, and the
+other is by level, or uniform payments extending over the whole duration
+of life or for a stated number of years. The first is the natural system
+and has been adopted _in part_, and imperfectly, by assessment
+companies; the second is the artificial system, and is the one which has
+been offered exclusively until lately, by all the regular life insurance
+companies. Properly carried out, the one is as sound in theory and as
+safe in practice as the other. In fact, the artificial premiums are the
+exact mathematical or commuted equivalents of the natural premiums.
+
+Until within the last decade, the level premium system was practically
+the only one in use. Since then there have come into existence hundreds
+of co-operative or assessment companies. These institutions have had a
+wonderful growth. It is claimed that the number of members and the
+amounts insured, double those, respectively, in the old or regular
+companies.
+
+Assessment companies do not, strictly speaking, grant insurance. They
+are rather agencies, or trust companies, and their functions or
+covenants are to make assessments upon survivors when deaths occur, and
+to pay over the proceeds of such assessments to the beneficiaries of the
+deceased members. There is no definite promise to pay in full, and no
+obligation to pay more than the assessments yield. There is no capital,
+no risk, no _insurance!_ It is a voluntary association of
+individuals. There is usually but little if any penalty for
+discontinuance of membership, and the permanence of such institutions
+depends mainly upon the volition of their members. They spring into
+existence suddenly by the voluntary association of a few individuals
+without capital or personal risk, and as suddenly they may go out of
+existence by the voluntary act or withdrawal of their members. A breath
+may create, a breath destroy.
+
+It must be evident then to the merest tyro, that the permanence and
+success of assessment companies depend upon the most rigid observance of
+those principles which science and sound business experience have
+demonstrated to be fundamental. Among these principles may be mentioned
+the following.
+
+1. Rates of assessments or payments adjusted to the cost of insurance at
+the actual age of each person. These rates must inevitably and
+inexorably increase with the age of the individual.
+
+2. The creation of a guaranty, or emergency fund, available not only to
+meet extra mortality, but as a cement to secure cohesion among the
+members, and prevent the exodus of the sound lives.
+
+3. An assessment in advance at issue of certificate, otherwise some
+persons will be insured for nothing and the cost will fall on the
+persistent members.
+
+As was well said by a contributor in your last number, assessment
+insurance has its defects, and these are well known to the managers of
+these institutions, and that great improvements have been made by the
+National Convention of assessment companies, which is composed of
+representatives from the best companies organized in almost every state.
+They recognize existing defects, they point out the remedies, and yet,
+but few seem to have the courage of their convictions. It is a fact
+beyond dispute, that with perhaps a half-dozen exceptions, the rates of
+assessment in every assessment company in the country remain constant as
+at the age of entry. That is to say, a man entering at the age of forty,
+pays the rate at forty only, as long as he remains a member. This is a
+direct violation of the inexorable law of nature which says, that as a
+man grows older the risk of dying, or in other words the cost of
+insurance, increases. It is all nonsense to urge that the _average_
+age and the average cost will be kept down by the influx of new members.
+The contract is made with the individual, and unless each person pays
+enough to compensate the company for the indemnity or insurance
+furnished to him, it follows of necessity, that others will be
+overcharged in order to meet the deficiency so occasioned. And this evil
+is intensified each year as the company grows older. When younger and
+fresher men find that they are overcharged in order to meet deficiencies
+arising from the act that older and inferior risks pay less than cost,
+they will either not enter, or, if members, will speedily desert and
+join an institution which is on a sounder and more equitable basis. No
+institution can be permanently successful which does not observe equity.
+I have no hesitation in saying that every assessment or corporation
+company which violates this fundamental law of nature by not making its
+rates of assessment increase with the age of the individuals insured, is
+_doomed_, and that disaster and wreck is only a question of time.
+This is not a new opinion. It's truth is attested by more than one wreck
+in this country already.
+
+In every level, or uniform premium, there is a provision for the payment
+to the company of the rate of insurance at the actual present age, (no
+matter at what age the insurance was affected) on the net amount at
+risk.
+
+The great danger for co-oporative or assessment companies lies in the
+facility with which such institutions may be organized, and by men
+without capital, character, experience or financial ability, who may
+thus be ushered into corporate existence by the indulgent laws of
+different states.
+
+The members of the National Association of assessment companies should
+see to it that the laws of the different states should be so amended as
+to require at least a small capital, say $25,000, as a guaranty of good
+faith and ability on the part of the promoters, and that no company
+should be admitted to membership unless its system was founded on sound
+principles as demonstrated by science and business experience.
+
+The managers of assessment companies should be careful lest their claims
+should prove to be unfounded. For instance, the writer of the article in
+your last number boldly asserts that it "is susceptible of mathematical
+demonstration that one or two million of dollars of reserve is adequate
+to perpetuate any well-conducted assessment company for all time,
+however large or small it may be, while the spectacle is presented to us
+of level premium companies holding fifty to one hundred millions of
+accumulations belonging to their policy holders, from which no possible
+benefit, in most cases, will ever accrue to them." On reflection he must
+see the absurdity of such statements.
+
+The level premium system is a combination of insurance and investments.
+The hundred millions are _investments_, and are necessary for the
+integrity of the level premium contracts. Any assessment company in
+which the rates do not increase as the members grow older should be
+compelled to have the full premium reserve required by state law and
+actuarial science to be held on level premium contracts. This is capable
+of mathematical demonstration.
+
+It must be borne in mind that the cost of insurance _proper_, that
+is, the provision to meet current death claims alone, is quite as high
+in the best assessment company as in a regular life insurance company,
+for this cost depends on the careful selection of lives. The difference
+in the two institutions is that the former dispenses with the investment
+element, while the latter exacts it in connection with all their
+contracts. Hence the price to be paid is greater. But is not the
+_guarantee_ also greater?
+
+The beneficiary under a death claim in an assessment company has for her
+security the _hope_, or promise if you please, that one thousand
+men will pay ten dollars each for her account. The beneficiary under a
+death claim in a regular life insurance company has for her security not
+only the actual payments of ten dollars each by one thousand men, but
+the definite promise to pay in full by an institution which has ample
+capital, assets, and surplus to back its contracts.
+
+Assessment insurance is yet on trial, and its only hope of permanent
+business lies in a rigid compliance with the laws of mortality and of
+sound business experience.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE OLD STATE HOUSE.
+
+BY SIDNEY MAXWELL.
+
+
+  The Old State House! Within these antique walls
+  The early fathers of the hamlet met
+  And gravely argued of the town's affairs.
+  Another generation came; and in
+  This hall the Tory Council sat in state
+  While from the burning lips of Otis, or
+  The stem, defiant tongue of Adams sprang
+  That eloquence whose echoes thundered back
+  From Concord, Lexington, and Bunker's Hill!
+  Between those years and ours a century lies;
+  Those patriot's graves are deep with moss and mould,
+  And yet these walls--the same whose shadows fell
+  Athwart the crimson snow where Preston charged[3]--
+  Still cast their shadows; not on troops, nor mob
+  Exasperated by their wrongs, but on
+  A jostling, hurrying throng--freeman each one,
+  Unless in bondage to himself. O Man:
+  Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate
+  This aged relic of the past because
+  It lies across thy path! From avarice
+  Redeemed; restored unto its former self,--
+  We hail thee, noble Sentry of the years,
+  And greet thee with a thousand loving cheers!
+
+
+[Footnote 3: The "Boston Massacre," March 5th, 1770.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE PRECIOUS METALS.
+
+BY DAVID N. BALFOUR.
+
+
+From the earliest times to the commencement of the Christian Era, the
+amount of the gold and silver obtained from the surface and mines of the
+earth is estimated to be $5,084,000,000; from the latter event to the
+epoch of the discovery of America, $4,363,374,000 were obtained; from
+the date of the last event to the end of 1842, an addition of
+$8,500,000,000 was made; the extensive working of the Russian gold mines
+in 1843, and subsequent years, added to the close of 1852,
+$1,400,000,000 more; the quadruple discovery of the California gold
+mines in 1848, those of Australia in 1851, of New Zealand in 1861, and
+the silver mines of Nevada and other countries bordering upon the
+Pacific slope of the United States, added, at the close of 1884,
+$7,093,626,000, making a grand total at the present time of
+$26,441,000,000.
+
+The average loss by the attrition of coin is estimated by Prof. Bowen
+at one-fortieth of one per cent, per annum; and the average loss by
+consumption in the arts, and destruction by fire and shipwreck, at
+$9,000,000 per annum. The amount of the precious metals in existence is
+estimated to be $13,670,000,000, of which gold furnishes $8,166,000,000,
+and silver $5,504,000,000. Of the amount now in existence,
+$10,500,000,000 are estimated to be in coin and bullion, $2,000,000,000
+in watches, and the remainder in plate, jewelry, and ornaments. Of the
+amount now in existence, $9,448,000,000 is estimated to have been
+obtained from America, $1,908,000,000 from Asia (including Australia,
+New Zealand, and Oceanica); $1,004,000,000 from Europe, and
+$1,310,000,000 from Africa.
+
+The following statement will exhibit the product of the precious metals
+throughout the world in 1884:--
+
+
+  Countries.         Gold. (America)         Silver.            Total.
+  Alaska,                $300,000            $30,000          $320,000
+  British Columbia,     2,000,000             80,000         2,080,000
+  United States,       30,800,000         48,800,000        79,600,000
+  Mexico,               1,000,000         30,000,000        31,000,000
+  Guatemala,               40,000            200,000           240,000
+  Honduras,                50,000             50,000           100,000
+  San Salvador,           100,000            150,000           250,000
+  Nicaragua,              100,000            100,000           200,000
+  Costa Rica,              50,000             50,000           100,000
+  Columbia,             1,900,000            500,000         2,400,000
+  Venezuela,            3,000,000            200,000         3,200,000
+  Guiana,                  75,000             50,000           125,000
+  Brazil,                 400,000             50,000           450,000
+  Bolivia,                 50,000         12,980,000        13,030,000
+  Chili,                   60,000          5,000,000         5,060,000
+  Argentine Republic,      50,000            200,000           250,000
+  Patagonia,              $10,000             $5,000           $10,000
+  Other countries,         15,000             45,000            60,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Total,              $40,000,000        $98,480,000      $138,480,000
+
+
+
+  EUROPE.
+
+  Countries.       Gold. (America)           Silver.            Total.
+
+  Russia,             $22,000,000           $300,000       $22,300,000
+  Prussia,                900,000          8,000,000         8,900,000
+  Spain,                   70,000          2,500,000         2,570,000
+  Austria,                950,000          1,500,000         2,450,000
+  Norway,                  60,000            300,000           360,000
+  Other Countries,         20,000            320,000           340,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Total,              $24,000,000        $12,920,000       $36,920,000
+
+
+  ASIA.
+
+  Countries.       Gold. (America)           Silver.            Total.
+
+  Borneo,                 $700,000          $470,000        $1,170,000
+  China,                   600,000           450,000         1,050,000
+  Japan,                   120,000           353,000           473,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Total,                $1,420,000        $1,273,000        $2,693,000
+
+  Australia,           $26,000,000           $80,000       $26,080,000
+  New Zealand,           4,000,000           500,000         4,500,000
+  Africa,                2,000,000           500,000         2,500,000
+  Oceanica,                580,000           247,000           827,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Grand Total,         $98,000,000      $114,000,000      $212,000,000
+
+
+The following statement will exhibit the annual product of the precious
+metals at different periods:--
+
+
+  Periods.                   Gold.           Silver.            Total.
+
+  A.D.   14,              $800,000        $4,200,000        $5,000,000
+  A.D.  500,               200,000         2,800,000         3,000,000
+  A.D. 1000,               120,000           880,000         1,000,000
+  A.D. 1492,               100,000           150,000           250,000
+  A.D. 1550,               800,000         3,200,000         4,000,000
+  A.D. 1600,             2,000,000         9,000,000        11,000,000
+  A.D. 1700,             5,000,000        18,000,000        23,000,000
+  A.D. 1800,            17,000,000        38,000,000        55,000,000
+  A.D. 1843,            52,000,000        42,000,000        94,000,000
+  A.D. 1850,           106,000,000        47,000,000       153,000,000
+  A.D. 1853,           236,000,000        49,000,000       285,000,000
+  A.D. 1863,           208,000,000        63,000,000       271,000,000
+
+
+The following statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals
+estimated to be in existence at different periods:
+
+
+  Periods.                   Gold.           Silver.            Total.
+
+  A.D.    14,         $427,000,000      $909,000,000    $1,327,000,000
+  A.D.   500,          100,000,000       400,000,000       500,000,000
+  A.D.  1000,           65,000,000       200,000,000       265,000,000
+  A.D.  1492,           57,000,000       135,000,000       192,000,000
+  A.D.  1550.           76,000,000       284,000,000       360,000,000
+  A.D.  1600,          105,000,000       391,000,000       496,000,000
+  A.D.  1700,          351,000,000     1,410,000,000     1,761,000,000
+  A.D.  1800,        1,125,000,000     3,622,000,000     4,747,000,000
+  A.D.  1843,        1,975,000,000     5,040,000,000     7,015,000,000
+  A.D.  1850,        2,368,000,000     4,963,000,000     7,331,000,000
+  A.D.  1853,        2,942,000,000     4,945,000,000     7,887,000,000
+  A.D.  1863,        5,107,000,000     4,945,000,000    10,052,000,000
+  A.D.  1884,        8,166,000,000     5,504,000,000    13,670,000,000
+
+
+The following statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals
+estimated to have been obtained from the surface and mines of the earth,
+from the earliest times to the close of 1884:--
+
+
+  Periods.                   Gold.           Silver.            Total.
+
+      A.C.          $2,171,000,000    $2,913,000,000    $5,084,000,000
+  A.D. to 1492,      3,842,374,000       521,000,000     4,363,374,000
+  1493 to 1842,      2,700,000,000     5,800,000,000     8,500,000,000
+  1843 to 1852,        900,000,000       500,000,000     1,400,000,000
+  1853 to 1862,      1,869,000,000       560,000,000     2,429,000,000
+  1863 to 1884,      3,145,626,000     1,519,000,000     4,664,626,000
+                    ______________    ______________    ______________
+  Grand Total,     $14,628,000,000   $11,813,000,000   $26,441,000,000
+
+
+During the first period (prior to the commencement of the Christian
+Era,) the annual product of the precious metals was $2,000,000; during
+the second period (prior to the discovery of America,) it was
+$3,000,000; during the third period (prior to the extensive working of
+the Russian gold mines, in 1843,) it was $26,000,000; during the fourth
+period (prior to the double discovery of the California gold mines in
+1858, and the Australia gold mines in 1851,) it was $140,000,000; during
+the fifth period (which immediately succeeded afore-mentioned
+discoveries,) it was $243,000,000; during the sixth period (immediately
+succeeding the double discovery of the New Zealand gold mines in 1861,
+and the silver mines of Nevada and other countries bordering on the
+Pacific slope of the United States,) it was $212,000,000. The annual
+products of the precious metals attained its acme in 1853, when it was
+$285,000,000. The increase in the amount of the precious metals in
+existence has been greater during the last forty-years than during the
+previous two hundred and ninety-four. Of the amount ($6,441,000,000) of
+the precious metals estimated to have been obtained from the surface and
+mines of the earth, from the earliest times to the close of 1884,
+$12,100,000,000 are estimated to have been obtained from America
+$6,724,000,000 from Asia (including Australia, New Zealand and
+Oceanica), $3,751,000,000 from Europe, and $2,866,000,000 from Africa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AMESBURY: THE HOME OF WHITTIER.
+
+BY FRANCES C. SPARHAWK.
+
+
+Amesbury is only a town. It has defects that would strike a stranger,
+and beauties that one who has learned to love them never forgets; they
+linger in glimpses of wood and hill and river and lake, and often rise
+unbidden before the mind's eye. The poet Whittier says that those who
+are born under the shadow of Powow Hill always return sometime, no
+matter how far they may have wandered. He himself, though not Amesbury
+born, has found it impossible to desert the old home, full of
+associations and surrounded by old friends. He always votes in Amesbury,
+and he often spends weeks at a time in his old home. The river that he
+has sung, the lake that he has re-christened, the walks and drives with
+which he is so familiar, all exercise their spell upon him; he loves
+them, just as he loves the warm hearts that he has found there and
+helped to make warm and true.
+
+But what a stranger would first notice in coming into town is, that the
+houses, instead of being on land regularly laid out for building, seem
+to have grown up here and there and everywhere, a good deal in
+accordance with their own sweet wills, and without the smallest regard
+to surroundings.
+
+But there are handsome houses in Amesbury, and these are growing more
+numerous every year. The people themselves would assert that the walks
+and drives about the village, the hills and the river are the things to
+be longest remembered about the place. If they were inclined to
+boasting, they might say also that they had as good a right as any
+people in America to be considered of ancient stock, for some of the
+names of the earliest settlers are the familiar names in the town
+to-day, and few towns in America are older than Amesbury. The names
+Barnard, Challis, Weed, Jones, and Hoyt, appear on the first board of
+"Prudenshall," and that of Richard Currier as town clerk. This was in
+April, 1668, the year after the new town was named.
+
+Early in 1735 the settlement of Newbury (then spelled Newberry) was
+begun. In a little over three years a colony was sent out across the
+Merrimac. The plantation was at first called merely from the name of the
+river. In 1639 it was named Colchester by the General Court; but October
+7, 1640, this name was changed to Salisbury, so that in 1638, almost two
+hundred and fifty years ago, Salisbury began to be settled. It seemed as
+if there was need of new settlements at that time to counteract the
+depletions in the Old World, for the Thirty Years' War was still
+impoverishing Germany; Richelieu was living to rule France in the name
+of his royal master, Louis XIII; England was gathering up those forces
+of good and evil which from resisting tyranny at last grew intoxicated
+with power, and so came to play the tyrant and regicide. For it was
+about that time that Charles I had disbanded his army, trusting to the
+divinity that, in the eyes of the Stuarts, did ever hedge a king, and at
+the same time thrown away his honor by pledging himself to what he never
+meant to perform. While this farce, which preceded the tragedy, was
+being set upon the stage of history, here, three thousand miles away,
+nature had begun to build up the waste, and to prophesy growth.
+
+Salisbury, and afterwards Amesbury, were named from the two towns so
+famous in England, the Salisbury Plain of Druidical memory, on which is
+the celebrated Stonehenge, and near by, the Amesbury where was one of
+the oldest monasteries in England. It is supposed that the towns were so
+named because many of the new settlers came from those old English
+towns. The latter name used to be spelled Ambresbury, and Tennyson in
+his "Idylls of the King" spells Almesbury. After the discovery by Modred
+of the guilt of King Arthur's fair and false wife, he says:--
+
+  "Queen Guinevere had fled the court and sat
+  There in the holyhouse at Almesbury
+  Weeping."
+
+
+Describing her flight, he tells us that she sent Lancelot
+
+  "Back to his land, but she to Almesbury
+  Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald."
+
+
+There Arthur sees her for the last time and mourns over her before he
+goes forth to his last battle with Modred.
+
+On the whole, it is not strange, considering its associations, and
+moreover the fact that this town in Massachusetts is the only Amesbury
+in America while so many other names are duplicated, that the people of
+Amesbury are not willing to merge the name of their town into that of
+the elder sister, even when those parts called in each "the Mills" are
+so closely united in interests and in appearance that no stranger could
+recognize them as two towns. It is only the Powow that makes the
+dividing line here. Blocks of offices and stores on both sides of the
+street, among them the post-office, common to both towns, hide the
+narrow stream at that point, and further up and down the towering walls
+of the factories make it unobserved. It is not here that one sees the
+Powow. But there is, or a little time ago there was, a place not far off
+from this main street where the river is still harassed, yet as it slips
+past in its silent toil with a few trees hanging low on the right, it
+has a fascination in spite of its prosaic surroundings; it takes
+naturally to picturesqueness and freedom.
+
+One of Whittier's early poems speaks of an Indian re-visiting the stream
+that his forefathers loved, and standing on Powow Hill, where the chiefs
+of the Naumkeaks, and of the other tribes held their powows. Here for a
+moment, says the poem, a gleam of gladness came to him as he stooped to
+drink of the fountain and seated himself under an oak.
+
+  "Far behind was Ocean striving
+    With his chains of sand;
+  Southward, sunny glimpses giving
+    'Twixt the swells of land,
+  Of its calm and silvery track
+  Rolled the tranquil Merrimack."
+
+
+The Indian's feeling about "These bare hills, this conquered river," was
+not strange. But to us it naturally occurs that we are more likely to
+wake up with our scalps on our heads, instead of sleeping our last
+sleep, while they dangle at a red man's girdle. Yet the very state of
+warfare that at that time existed between the races showed that in the
+settlers themselves was an element of savagery not yet eliminated. For
+in all this fierce strife of the tomahawk and the gun, the Quaker
+ancestors of the poet Whittier who met the Indians, armed only with
+kindness and the high courage of their peaceful convictions, were
+treated by the red men as friends and superiors. In the raids of general
+devastation they were unmolested. Their descendant has a natural right
+to express the pathos of the Indian's lot.
+
+There is a fine exhibition of human nature in the records of the first
+settlement of Amesbury. The place was called "Salisbury new-town" until
+1669, and was merely an offshoot of the latter, though much larger in
+extent than it is today, for now it is only about six miles by three.
+Then it reached up into what is now Newton, N.H. But why should not the
+people of those days have been generous as to the size of townships, for
+as to land, they had the continent before them where to choose?
+
+But in regard to the human nature. The settlers of Salisbury went at
+first only beyond the salt marshes, their town being what is now East
+Salisbury. The forests beyond had a threatening look, and were much
+too near. It was determined, therefore, to drive them back by having
+clearings and settlements across the Powow. So, December 26, 1642, about
+three years after this little colony had crossed the Merrimack, a town
+meeting was held in which it was voted:--"Yere shall thirtie families
+remove to the west side of ye Powowas river." This motion was very easy
+to carry. But it had not been voted what families were to move on beyond
+the immediate protection of the small colony at East Salisbury. Who was
+to go? Every man sat still in his place and nodded to his neighbor with
+a "Thou art the man," in manner if not in words. It seems to us a very
+little thing to give or take the advice, "Go West young man,--or woman."
+But it was very different then. To do it meant, besides living encircled
+by forests, to be obliged to go on Sunday through these forests, worse
+than lonely, to the meeting-house at East Salisbury, and always with the
+possibility of being at any moment obliged to flee all the distance to
+that town for comparative safety, perhaps of being obliged to flee in
+the night. Signals of alarm were arranged by the General Court. Alarm
+was to be given "by distinctly discharging three muskets, or by
+continual beat of the drum, or firing the beacon, or discharging a pesse
+of ordnance, and every trained soldier is to take the alarm immediately
+on paine of five pound." It was also ordered, "That every town provide a
+sufficient place for retreat for their wives and children to repaire to,
+as likewise to keepe safe the ammunition thereof." And also, "That all
+watches throughout this country bee set at sunset at the beat of the
+drums, & not bee discharged till the beate of the drum at sunne rising."
+
+But those old Puritans were not men to be bundled by any of the
+weaknesses of human nature. In ten days, when it was found that nobody
+had started "westward, ho!" another town-meeting was held, in which, in
+spite of the dangers to be encountered by the new colony, the first vote
+was re-affirmed, and it was decided that "the thirtie families be chosen
+by ye seven men," probably the selectmen. And to ensure the matter,
+it was determined that this vote should not be repealed except by the
+consent of every freeman in the town. So, in the spring, this tiny
+colony went out to Salisbury new-town.
+
+In 1647, a law was passed requiring every township of fifty families to
+maintain a school. This is the way that the preamble reads:--
+
+"It being one chiefe pr'ject of yt ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men
+from ye knowledge of ye Scriptures, as in former times by keeping ym in
+an unknown tongue, so in these latt'r times by pr'suading from ye use of
+tongues yt so at least ye true sense & meaning of ye original might be
+clouded by false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, yt learning may not
+be buried in ye grave of o'r fath'rs in ye church & commonwealth, the
+Lord assisting our endeavor. It is therefore resolved," &c.
+
+It seems overturning the cornerstone of our forefathers' intentions to
+banish from our schools the Scriptures, those finest examples of the
+strength and beauty of the English language, to say nothing of their
+lessons in individual self-government, which is the only foundation that
+a republic can be built upon.
+
+From this old law have grown up all the public schools of Amesbury.
+There is now a high school, and there are, of course, the required
+number of small schools; some of these in the outlying districts having
+very few scholars.
+
+Several years ago Mr. Whittier, who has the keenest sense of humor, told
+a friend that in one of these the whole number of pupils was three,
+average attendance one and a half! He was deeply interested in that half
+child.
+
+Amesbury has among its attractions a Lion's Mouth! In the old days of
+Indian ambushes it must have earned its right to the name. But now the
+only existing danger is lest one should be eaten up--with kindness.
+It is a short mile from the mills, and a pleasant walk in spite of its
+ending! At last there comes a little hollow with a large farm-house on
+the left, and a grass road winding past it at right angles with the main
+road and leading into beautiful woods. These woods are the very jaws of
+the lion; and it is very hard, on a hot summer's day, for those who go
+into them to come out again. A few rods up the road from the hollow are
+other houses. People bearing some of the earliest recorded names in
+Amesbury, descendants of the brave pioneers, are to be found here, or
+having departed this life, have left good records behind them. One of
+these latter lived here in the pleasantest way. He and his wife carried
+on their large farm in an ideal manner; everything was upon a generous
+scale. There was money enough not to wear out life in petty economies,
+and largeness of soul enough not to put the length of a bank account
+against the beauties and refinements of life. The loss of their only
+child, and a few years afterward of their grand-daughter, one of the
+loveliest children earth ever held, was--not compensated for, that
+can never be, but made much less dreary by a friendship of many years'
+standing between them and their summer neighbors. In this case, too, the
+gentleman is a native of Amesbury, proud and fond of his birthplace.
+Every summer he comes to the cottage of this friend, a charming little
+house only a few rods from the larger one, and spends the summer here
+with his family and servants. He has made a great deal of money in New
+York, but fortunately, not too much, for it has not built up a Chinese
+wall around his heart; his new friends are dear, but his early friends
+are still the dearest.
+
+Between the Mills and this formidable Mouth of the Lion, is the Quaker
+Meeting House, a modest, sober-hued building on a triangular green, on
+which, before it was fenced in, the boys delighted to play ball on the
+days and at the hours (for the Quakers have meeting Thursday also) on
+which the grave worshippers were not filing into what cannot fairly be
+called the house of silence, because it has been known to echo to
+exhortations as earnest, if not as vehement as one may hear from any
+pulpit. Still, there are sometimes long intervals of silence, and then
+the consciousness that silent self-examination is one purpose of the
+coming together, gives an impressiveness to the simple surroundings. It
+must have been here that Mr. Whittier learned to interpret so
+wonderfully that silent prayer of Agassiz for guidance when he opened
+his famous school from which he was so soon called to a higher life.
+
+  "Then the Master in his place
+  Bowed his head a little space
+  And the leaves by soft airs stirred
+  Lapse of wave and cry of bird
+  Left the solemn hush unbroken
+  Of that wordless prayer unspoken
+  While its wish, on earth unsaid,
+      Rose to Heaven interpreted.
+      As in life's best hours we hear
+      By the spirit's finer ear
+      His low voice within us, thus
+      The All-Father heareth us:
+      And his holy ear we pain
+      With our noisy words and vain.
+      Not for him our violence
+      Storming at the gates of sense,
+      His the primal language, his
+      The eternal silences."
+
+
+Mr. Whittier always goes to this meeting when he is well enough. The May
+Quarterly Meetings of the Society of Friends are held at Amesbury. There
+are a good many members of this Society in the town, and there is among
+them a hospitality, a kindness, and a cordiality that added to their
+quiet ways and the refined dress of the women makes them interesting.
+
+It goes without saying that Amesbury has also the allotment of churches
+of other denominations usual to New England towns.
+
+Thirty years ago and more, the Amesbury and Salisbury Mills were two
+distinct companies. The agent of the former mills, Mr. Joshua Aubin,
+was a gentleman of fine presence. After he left Amesbury, he sent to
+the town as a gift the nucleus of its present Public Library, which,
+although not absolutely free has only a nominal subscription to pay the
+services of the librarian, and for keeping the books in order.
+
+[Illustration: John G. Whittier]
+
+Mr. James Horton, agent of the Salisbury mills, was more of the
+rough-and-ready type of man, a little bluff, but frank and kind-hearted.
+Both gentlemen as it happened, lived in Amesbury and were of one mind in
+regard to the character of their operatives. It was before the influx
+of foreign labor, and the men and women in the mills belonged to
+respectable, often well-to-do American families. Rowdyism was a thing
+unknown to them, and as to drunkenness, if that fault was found once in
+an operative, he was reprimanded; if it occurred again, he was at once
+discharged. And so Amesbury, though a manufacturing town, was in its
+neatness and orderliness an exquisite little village with the Powow Hill
+at its back and the hem of its robe laved by two beautiful rivers. After
+Mr. Aubin's ill health had made him resign his place, the father of
+Prof. Langley, well-known to science, was agent for a time, and carried
+on matters in the spirit of his predecessors. But there came a change,
+the mills were united under one control, and an agent was sent to
+Amesbury for the purpose of forcibly illustrating the fact that
+corporations have no souls. He did it admirably. Work was started at
+high pressure, there came a rush of foreigners into the place, many of
+the old towns people moved away in disgust, and the new took the place
+of the old as suddenly as if an evil magician had waved his wand
+and cried: "Presto!" But this agent soon gave evidence that great
+unscrupulousness doesn't pay, even as a financial investment. After
+several other short regimes the present agent, Mr. Steere, came to
+Amesbury, and the corporation has found it worth while to keep him.
+The effect of the sudden influx of foreign population into Amesbury
+has never done away with; it has its "Dublin" in a valley where the
+corporation built houses for its operatives. And with what indifference
+to cleanliness, or health these were built! The poor operatives were
+crowded together in a way that would make neatness difficult to the most
+fastidious. A physician in Amesbury who considered the poor, presented
+this state of things so strongly and so persistently to the agent, spoke
+so forcibly of the moral degradation that such herding increased, or
+induced, that when it became necessary to build new tenements they were
+much better arranged. Every manufacturing town in New England has now
+its unwholesome because untaught population, a danger signal on the line
+of progress of the republic. It is only popular education that can
+remove this obstruction of ignorance. The foreign population of Amesbury
+today is large, and although it gives hands to the mills, it adds
+neither to the beauty nor the interest of the town. But it gives a
+mission to those who believe in the possibilities of human nature, and
+the right of every man to have a chance at life, even if the way he
+takes it be not agreeable to his cultivated neighbor.
+
+The mills in the days of their greatest prosperity were all woolen mills:
+now a part of them are cotton mills. They are all running, and,
+although not with the remarkable success of a score of years ago, have a
+future before them.
+
+The making of felt hats, now so important a business, was started here
+a number of years ago by a gentleman who built a hat factory near his
+house at the Ferry. He was a gentleman in that true sense in which,
+added to his nerve and will (and he had abundance of both) were those
+knightly qualities of generosity and kindliness that have made his
+memory dear, while the Bayley Hat Company, called after him as its
+founder, bears witness to his business ability.
+
+The great, oblong, many-windowed carriage manufactories meet one at
+every turn, and often the smithy stands near with its clangor. This
+business used to be confined to West Amesbury, now Merrimac. At the
+beginning of the century it was started on an humble scale by two young
+men, one a wood-worker, the other a plater, while another young man was
+trimmer for them. One of the firm lived in West Amesbury, the other in
+South Amesbury, now Merrimac Port, and after each had built his share of
+the carriage, it was found a little difficult to bring the different
+parts together. This was the beginning, and now Amesbury ships its
+carriages over the world. One of the first to bring this business from
+what was then West Amesbury to the Mills was a young man who in the
+beginning of the war had been unfortunate in business. He gave his
+creditors all he had, and went to the front. After serving his time
+there he came home, went into the carriage business, made money this
+time instead of losing it, and paid up his old creditors one hundred
+cents on the dollar. He deserves a big factory and success. And he has
+both. And he is not the only one of whom good things could be said.
+
+They have a Wallace G.A.R. Post in Amesbury, not in commemoration of the
+Wallace of old Scottish fame, but of a man no less patriotic and brave
+who lived among themselves, an Englishman, a shoemaker. He was lame, but
+so anxious during the Rebellion to have his share in the struggle for
+the Union that he tried to get a place on board a gunboat, saying that
+he could "sit and shoot." As this was impossible, the town sent him to
+Boston as its representative, and he was in the Legislature when the
+members voted themselves an increase of pay. Mr. Wallace believed the
+thing illegal. He took the money in trust. One day after his return to
+Amesbury he limped up to his physician (the same one who had brought
+about the better construction of the new corporation houses) and handed
+him fifty dollars of this over pay, to be used at his discretion among
+the poor, explaining as he did so where the money came from, that he
+felt that it belonged to Amesbury, and that he returned a part through
+this channel.
+
+Half way between the Mills and the Ferry stands an old well that a
+native of Amesbury dug by the roadside for the benefit of travellers
+because he had once been a captive in Arabian deserts, and had known the
+torments of thirst. Here was a man to whom the uses of adversity had
+been sweet, for they had taught him humanity. Mrs. Spofford has written
+an appropriate poem upon this incident.
+
+The elms in Amesbury are very beautiful, and they are found everywhere;
+but on the ferry road there are magnificent ones not far from the river.
+They are growing on each side of the road, arching it over with their
+graceful boughs.
+
+[Illustration: WHITTIER'S HOME, AMESBURY.]
+
+The Ferry proper near which was born Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers
+of the Declaration of Independence, is at the foot of the street that
+runs from the Mills down to the river. In old times there was a
+veritable ferry here a few rods above where the Powow empties into the
+Merrimack. This ferry is mentioned in the records, two years after the
+town had been set upon its feet. In a book written about Amesbury by Mr.
+Joseph Merrill, a native of the town, it is stated that the town
+petitioned the general Court for leave to keep a Ferry over the river at
+this place. This is the record from the same source:--
+
+"The County Court held at Hampton, ye 13th of ye 8th month 1668, Mr.
+Edward Goodwin being presented by ye Selectmen of ye town of Amesbury to
+Court to keep ye Ferry over Merrimac river about ye mouth of ye Powow
+river where ye said Goodwin now dwelleth, the Court do allow and approve
+of ye sd person for one year next following and until ye Court shall
+take further orders therein, and ye prices to be as followeth so, for
+every single passenger two pence, for a horse and man six pence, and for
+all great cattle four pence, for sheep and other small cattle under two
+years old two pence per head."
+
+In 1791 there came up a question of a bridge being built across the
+Merrimac. A town meeting was called to oppose the measure, and in this
+it was argued that a bridge would throw into disuse the ferry with which
+much pains had been taken. Precious old fogies! In those days, too, they
+lived, for they were as old as the centuries. Nothing of the mushroom
+about them. There is a tradition that once in Revolutionary days,
+Washington was carried across this ferry. But it is impossible to say
+what the tradition is founded upon, and how much it is worth.
+
+As to the river, there are rivers and rivers, as the saying is; at some
+we marvel, some we fear and to some we make pilgrimages as to the Mecca
+of the faithful. But the Merrimac is a river to be loved, and to be
+loved the better the more familiar it is. What its poet, Whittier, says
+about it must be literally true:
+
+  "Our river by its valley born
+  Was never yet forgotten."
+
+
+It is worth while to try to imagine it as he writes it in "Cobbler
+Keezer's Vision" two hundred and more years ago, when that old fellow
+was so amazed at the prospect of mirth and pleasure among the
+descendants of the stern Puritans that he dropped his lapstone into the
+water in bewilderment.
+
+This was the time when
+
+  "Woodsy and wild and lonesome,
+    The swift stream wound away,
+  Through birches and scarlet maples
+    Flashing in foam and spray."
+
+  "Down on the sharp-horned ledges
+    Plunging in steep cascade,
+  Tossing its white-maned waters
+    Against the hemlock's shade."
+
+  "Woodsy and wild and lonesome,
+    East and west and north and south;
+  Only the village of fishers
+    Down at the river's mouth;"
+
+  "Only here and there a clearing,
+    With its farm-house rude and new,
+  And tree-stumps, swart as Indians,
+    Where the scanty harvest grew."
+
+
+What a picture that is! And then behind these tree-stumps, the great
+forest with its possibilities of comfort and even of competence in its
+giant timbers,--when they were fairly floored, but; as it stood, a
+threatening foe with a worse enemy in its depths than the darkness of
+its shadows, or the wild beasts.
+
+Several of Mr. Whittier's songs of the Merrimac were written for
+picnics, given at the Laurels on the Newbury side of the river by a
+gentlemen and his wife from Newburyport. They were early abolitionists,
+friends and hosts of Garrison, of George Thompson and others of that
+brave band, and of course friends of the poet. This hospitable couple
+gave a picnic here every June for twenty years. The first was a little
+party of perhaps half-a-dozen people, the twenty-first was a large
+assembly. Mr. Whittier was present at these picnics whenever able, and,
+as has been said, sometimes wrote a poem to be read there. He never
+reads in public himself.
+
+Although the Powow river has been made so emphatically a stream of use,
+there are glimpses of a native beauty in it that its hard fate has never
+obliterated; these are still there, as one stands upon the little bridge
+that spans its last few rods of individual life and looks up the stream
+upon a wintry landscape, or upon summer fields, and longingly toward the
+bend.
+
+Whether the Powow has any power to set in motion the wheels of fancy as
+it does the wheels of the factories it is impossible to say, but this
+much is certain; on its banks was born an artist who has made his name
+known on the banks of the Seine. The father of Mr. Charles Davis, our
+young artist of great promise and of no mean performance, was for years
+a teacher in Amesbury, and the garden of the house where this son was
+born bordered upon the Powow.
+
+[Illustration: THE OLD SANDY HILL MEETING HOUSE]
+
+At Pond Hills, between Amesbury and Merrimac, is lake Attitash, which,
+before Mr. Whittier took pity upon it, rejoiced in the name of Kimball's
+Pond. There is a slight suspicion that it is still occasionally called
+by its old name. In dry seasons the water is used by the mills. But the
+blue lake is as beautiful as if it were never useful. On its shore
+enough grand old pines are left to dream under of forests primeval, of
+Indian wigwams, and of canoes on the bright water; for the red men knew
+very well the hiding places of the perch and of the pickerel. So did the
+white men who chose the region of the Merrimac for their new home. In
+the "Maids of Attitash" is described the lake where
+
+  "In sky and wave the white clouds swam,
+  And the blue hills of Nottingham
+    Through gaps of leafy green
+    Across the lake were seen."
+
+
+All these are still here, but one misses the maidens who ought to be
+sitting there
+
+  "In the shadow of the ash
+  That dreams its dream in Attitash."
+
+
+No doubt they are about here somewhere, only it takes a poet's eye to
+find them. And yet it was not very far from here that there lived a few
+years ago a young girl, a descendant of one of the early settlers of
+Amesbury, who on her engagement said to a friend proudly:--"I am going
+to marry a poor man, and I am going to help him." And so she always
+nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition. The courage of the
+old Puritans has not died out here any more than the old beauty has
+deserted the land.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+KATE FIELD'S NEW DEPARTURE.
+
+BY EDWARD INCREASE MATHER.
+
+
+Miss Kate Field has been so exclusively identified with artistic and
+literary success that her new departure as a lecturer on existing
+political evils has excited no little surprise and comment. An
+exceptional degree of public interest as well as of purely private and
+personal regard has followed her almost, indeed, from childhood; partly
+due, it may be, to a certain indefinable magnetism of temperament which
+always makes the place where she chances to be at the time seem a social
+centre, and somewhat, too, from a life that has not been without its
+picturesque setting of scenery and circumstance. "Kate Field was started
+right,"--remarked Miss Frances E. Willard of her one day. "As a child
+Walter Savage Landor held her on his knee and taught her, and she grew
+up in the atmosphere of Art." The chance observation made only _en
+passant_, never the less touched a salient truth in that vital manner
+in which Miss Willard's words are accustomed to touch truth. She was,
+indeed, "started right." The only child of gifted parents, endowed with
+a rare combination of intellectual and artistic talent; with a nobility
+and genuineness of nature that has ever been one of her most marked
+characteristics; attuned by temperament to all that is fine, and high,
+and beautiful,--it is little wonder that her life has presented a series
+of advancing achievements. She has studied, and read, and thought; she
+has travelled, and "sipped the foam of many lives;" and a polished and
+many-sided culture has added its charm to a woman singularly charming by
+nature and possessed of the subtle gift of fascination. When very young
+she studied music and modern languages abroad in Florence, and in
+London. To music she especially devoted herself studying under Garcia
+and under William Shakespeare, the great English tenor, whose favorite
+pupil she is said to have been. Walter Savage Landor conceived a great
+fondness for her, gave her lessons in Latin, and left her at his death a
+valuable portfolio of old drawings. In some verses addressed "To K.F."
+he alludes to her as:--
+
+  Modest as winged angels are,
+  And no less brave and no less fair.
+
+
+[Illustration: MISS KATE FIELD.]
+
+His interest was richly repaid by the young girl who, after his death,
+wrote reminiscences of Landor in a manner whose sympathetic brilliancy
+of interpretation added an enduring lustre to his life and achievement.
+In her early girlhood as, indeed, in her womanhood, her brilliancy and
+charm won all hearts. It was in Florence that she met George Eliot, and
+a moon-light evening at the Trollope villa, where Marion Lewes led the
+girl, dream-enchanted, out on the fragrant and flowery terrace, left its
+picture in her memory, and exquisitely did she portray it in a paper on
+George Eliot at the time of her death. By temperament and cultivation
+Miss Field is admirably adapted to interpret to the world its masters,
+its artists. Her dramatic criticism on Ristori ranks among the finest
+ever written of the stage; her "Pen Photographs of Dickens's Readings"
+have permanently recorded that memorable tour. Her Life of Fechter wins
+its praise from the highest literary authorities in our own country and
+London. She has published a few books, made up from her fugitive
+articles in the _Tribune_, the _London Times_, the _Athenæum_, and
+the magazines, and more of this literature would be eminently refreshing
+and acceptable. It is no exaggeration to say that among the American
+writers of to-day no one has greater breadth, vigor, originality
+and power than Kate Field. She is by virtue of wide outlook and
+comprehension of important matters, entirely free from the tendency to
+petty detail and trivial common-place that clogs the minds and pens of
+many women-writers. Her foreign letters to the _Tribune_ discussed
+questions of political significance and international interest. Miss
+Field is a woman of so many resources that she has never made of her
+writing a trade, but has used it as an art; and she never writes unless
+she has something to say. This fact teaches a moral that the woman of
+the period may do well to contemplate.
+
+Yet with all the varied charms of foreign life, passed in the most
+cultivated and refined social circles of Europe, Kate Field never forgot
+that she was an American, and patriotism grew to be a passion with her.
+She became a student of English and American politics, and her
+revelations of the ponderous machinery of the British Parliament, in a
+series of strong and brilliant press letters, now collected into the
+little volume called "Hap-Hazzard," was as fine and impressive in its
+way as is her dramatic criticism or literary papers. All this, perhaps,
+had paved the way for her to enter into a close and comprehensive study
+of the subject which she is now so ably discussing in her notable
+lectures on the social and the political crimes of Utah. The profound
+and serious attention which she is now giving to this problem stamps her
+lectures as among the most potent political influences of the time. Miss
+Field's discussion of Mormonism is one of those events which seem
+pre-determined by the law of the unconscious, and which seem to choose
+the individual rather than to be chosen by him. In the summer of 1883,
+by way of a change from continental travel, Miss Field determined to
+hitch her wagon to a star and journey westward. She lingered for a month
+in Denver where she received distinguished social attention and where,
+by special request, she gave her lecture on an "Evening with Dickens"
+and her charming "Musical Monologue." Of this Dickens' lecture a western
+journal said:--
+
+  "Charles Dickens was the novelist of humanity, and Kate Field is,
+  to-day, his most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter. Those who
+  were so fortunate as to attend her reading last evening enjoyed an
+  intellectual pleasure not soon forgotten. They saw a slender, graceful
+  woman, dressed in creamy white, with soft laces falling about her; with
+  low, broad brow, and earnest, sympathetic eyes, under a cloud of soft
+  dark hair. With a rich and finely modulated voice of remarkable power
+  of expression, she held her audience for two hours spellbound by the
+  magic of her genius."
+
+
+In Colorado Miss Field enjoyed an unique and picturesque holiday.
+Picnics and excursions were gotten up in her honor; special trains were
+run; she rode on horseback with gay parties of friends twenty-five miles
+a day; she joined friends from New York who were camping out on "The
+Needles," and she made a visit to the San Juan Silver-mining district.
+Among other diversions she had the honor of naming a new watering place,
+located on "The Divide," an hour by rail from Denver, to which, in honor
+of General Palmer who has practically "made" that region, Miss Field
+gave the name of Palmero, the Spanish for Palmer.
+
+How unconsciously Miss Field came to study the problem presented by the
+peculiar institutions of Utah is curiously indicated in a letter from
+Salt Lake City, under date of Jan. 16, 1884, which she wrote to the
+Boston _Herald_, and which opens thus:--
+
+  "I know of nothing that would do Bostonians so much good as a prolonged
+  trip across this continent, giving themselves sufficient time to tarry
+  at different points and study the people. For myself--about half a
+  Bostonian--I became so ashamed of sailing east year after year, that
+  last summer I made up my mind to hitch my wagon to the star of empire
+  and learn as much of my own country as I knew of Europe. I started from
+  New York in July, expecting to be absent three months, and in that
+  period obtain an intelligent idea of the far West. After passing two
+  months and a half in wonderful Colorado and only seeing a fraction of
+  the Centennial state, I began to realize that in two years I might,
+  with diligence, get a tolerable idea of this republic west of the
+  Mississippi. Cold weather setting in, and the fall of snow rendering
+  mountain travelling in Colorado neither safe nor agreeable, I came to
+  Utah over the wonderful Denver & Rio Grande railroad, intending to
+  pass a week prior to visiting New Mexico and Arizona. My week expired
+  on the 22nd day of October and still I linger among the 'saints.'
+  I am regarded as more or less demented by eastern friends. If becoming
+  interested in a most extraordinary anomaly to such an extent as to
+  desire to study it and to be able to form an intelligent opinion
+  therein is being demented, then I am mad indeed, for I've not yet got
+  to the bottom of the Utah problem, and if I lived here years, there
+  would still be much to learn. Despite this last discouraging fact,
+  I have improved my opportunities and am able to paragraph what has
+  come under my own observation or been acquired by absorption of Mormon
+  and Gentile literature. If the commissioners sent here by Congress to
+  investigate the Mormon question, at an annual expense of forty thousand
+  dollars per annum, had studied this question as earnestly as I have,
+  they never would have told the country that polygamy is dying out. One
+  or two members of that commission know better, and sooner or later they
+  must tell the truth or stultify their own souls."
+
+
+This extract reveals how deeply the anomaly of Mormon life had at once
+impressed her. Miss Field was too keen and cultivated an observer not to
+see beneath the surface of this phase of living a problem whose roots
+struck deep into national prosperity and safety. The distinguished
+essayist and critic, Mr. Edwin P. Whipple, said of her study of
+Mormonism:--
+
+  She undertook a perfectly original method of arriving at the truth, by
+  intimate conversations with Mormon husbands and wives, as well as with
+  the most intelligent of the "Gentiles." She discarded from her mind
+  pre-conceptions and all prejudices which discolor and distort objects
+  which should be rigidly investigated, and looked at the mass of facts
+  before her in what Bacon calls "dry light." Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
+  elder, was accustomed to account for the failures and ruin of the
+  brilliant young brokers who tried to corner the stocks in which he had
+  an interest, by declaring that "these dashing young fellars didn't see
+  things as they be." Miss Field saw things in Utah "as they be." She
+  collected facts of personal observation, analyzed and generalized them,
+  and, by degrees, her sight became insight, and the passage from insight
+  to foresight is rapid. After thorough investigation, her insight
+  enabled her to penetrate into the secret of that "mystery of iniquity"
+  which Mormonism really is; while her foresight showed her what would
+  be the inevitable result of the growth and diffusion of such a horrible
+  creed.
+
+
+The winter lapsed into spring and still she lingered in Salt Lake City.
+She relinquished all pleasure for the real work of studying deeply the
+anomaly of a Polygamous hierarchy thriving in the heart of the Republic.
+Every facility was accorded to her by United States officials, military
+officers, leading Gentiles and Apostates. Prominent "Latter Day Saints"
+offered her marked courtesy. She pursued this research unremittingly for
+eight months and when, at last, she left Salt Lake City, the leading
+Gentile paper, the Tribune, devoted a leading editorial to Miss Field's
+marvellously thorough study of Mormon conditions, and, on her departure,
+said:--
+
+  "Miss Field is probably the best posted person, outside the high
+  Mormon church officials, and others who have been in the church, on
+  this institution, in the world, and its effects upon men, women and
+  governments. With a fixedness of purpose which nothing could swerve,
+  and with an energy which neither storm, mud, snow, cold looks, the
+  persuasions or even the loss of friends, could for a moment dampen, she
+  has held on her course. In the tabernacle, in the ward meeting house,
+  in the homes of high Mormons, and, when these were closed to her, in
+  the homes of the poor, she has worked upon the theme, while every scrap
+  of history which offered to give any light upon the Mormon organization
+  she has devoured. Mormonism has been to her like a fever. It has run
+  its course and now she is going away. If she proposes to lecture, she
+  ought to be able to prepare a better lecture on Mormonism than she has
+  ever yet delivered; if a book is in process of incubation it ought to
+  be of more value than any former book on this subject. Lecture or book
+  will be intense enough to satisfy all demands. The 'Tribune' gives the
+  world notice in advance that Miss Field has a most intimate knowledge
+  of the Mormon kingdom."
+
+
+Returning to the East she stopped on the way in Missouri and at Nauvoo,
+Illinois, looking up all the old camping-grounds of Mormonism, and
+meeting and interviewing people who had been connected with it,
+including two sons of Joseph Smith, Miss Field opened her course of
+lectures on this subject in Boston last November, before a brilliant and
+distinguished audience, including the Governor and other officials of
+state, Harvard University professors, and men and women eminent in art,
+literature and society. She dealt with the political crimes of the
+Mormons, arguing that the great wrong was not, as many had believed,
+polygamy, but treason! Polygamy, though "the cornerstone of the Mormon
+church," was not inserted in its printed articles of faith and was not
+taught until the unwary had been "gathered to Zion." The monstrosity of
+the "revelation" on celestial marriage; the tragic unhappiness of Mormon
+women; the elastic conscience of John Taylor, "prophet, seer and
+revelator" to God's chosen people, were vividly depicted. Her extracts
+from Brigham Young's sermons, and from those of his counsellors, are
+forcible arguments on the Gentile side. Indeed, throughout her entire
+discourse, Miss Field clinches every statement with Mormon proof, rarely
+going to Gentile authorities for vital facts connected with her subject.
+The lecturer's sense of humor betrayed itself now and then, when, with
+fervor, she related an incident in her own experience, or quoted a "Song
+of Zion." The refrain of one of these songs still rings in our ears:
+
+  Then, oh, let us say
+  God bless the wife that strives
+  And aids her husband all she can
+  To obtain a dozen wives!
+
+
+The prodigious contrast between the preaching and practice of polygamy
+was fully displayed. Mormons claim that there is a vast difference
+between bigamy and polygamy; that only good men are allowed to take
+plural wives; that no saint takes more wives than he can support, and
+that a muchly married "man of God" exercises the most rigid impartiality
+in the bestowal of his affections upon his various women. Miss Field
+upsets these beautiful theories by graphic pictures drawn from life, and
+cited Brigham Young himself as "a bright and shining lie to the boast of
+impartiality." Brigham Young's coup d'etat in granting woman suffrage in
+1871 was illuminated, and emphasized by the assertions:--"A territory
+that has abolished the right of dower, that proclaims polygamy to be
+divine, that has no laws against bigamy and kindred crimes, that has no
+just appreciation of woman, is unworthy of self-respecting humanity,
+woman suffrage or no woman suffrage." Miss Field makes in these lectures
+a telling exposition of the doctrine of blood atonement, passing on to
+these Mormon missionaries and their methods, and the people who become
+"fascinated with the idea of direct communication with heaven through
+the medium of a prophet," and to whom the missionary brethren prudently
+"leave the mysteries of polygamy to the imagination," while they
+inculcate the importance of "gathering to Zion." She outlined the
+educational status and the discouragement given by Brigham Young to all
+educational progress. Of Mormon treason she says:--
+
+"Five years after the United States had established the Territory of
+Utah its people were in armed rebellion because the government dared to
+send a Gentile governor and national troops to Utah."
+
+Nor does she spare the United States in its responsibility for these
+crimes. "The United States to-day," said Miss Field, "is responsible for
+thirty years' growth of polygamy, with its attendant degradation of
+woman and brutalization of man." As an illustration of this conclusion,
+she told a most interesting story of which Governor Harding of Utah,
+Brigham Young, Benjamin Halliday, Postmaster General Blair, Abraham
+Lincoln and William H. Seward were the characters. The story is a
+dramatic and significant bit of Mormon history, related for the first
+time. It led up to an earnest and eloquent peroration of which the final
+words were: "'I'll believe polygamy is wrong when Congress breaks it up;
+not before!' exclaims a plural wife. Men and women of New England! You
+who forge public opinion; you who sounded the death knell of slavery,
+what are you going to do about it!"
+
+William Lloyd Garrison used to tell his friends that it was worth an
+admission fee just to see Kate Field on the platform, as she made so
+lovely a picture. Her attitudes--for they are too spontaneous and
+unconscious to be termed poses--are the impersonation of grace, and,
+aside from the enjoyment of the intellectual quality and searching
+political analysis of her lectures, is that of the artistic effect.
+She gave a course of three lectures on this "Mormon Monster." They were
+efforts whose invincible logic, graphic presentation and thrilling power
+held spellbound her audience. They were a drama of social and political
+life, and almost unprecedented on the lyceum platform was this eloquence
+and splendor of oratory, combined with the trained thought, the
+scholarly acquirement, and the finished eloquence of its delivery. This
+course of lectures finished there was a popular call for Miss Field to
+repeat one at Tremont Temple which, by invitation of Governor Robinson,
+the Mayor and a number of distinguished citizens, she consented to do.
+The triumph was repeated. From Boston she was invited to lecture in
+Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Washington. Press and people were alike
+enthusiastic. It is to the work of Miss Kate Field more than to any
+other cause, that the present disintegration of Mormon treason is due.
+Other travellers in Utah have made but the briefest stays, and have been
+ready to gloss over the tale. Miss Field is telling the truth about it,
+and she does it with a courage, a vigor, an honesty, and a power that
+renders it one of the most potent influences in the national life of the
+times. Kate Field holds to-day the first place on the Lyceum platform of
+America. She has a rare combination of judicial and executive qualities.
+
+She is singularly free from exaggeration, and her sense of justice is
+never deflected by personal feeling or emotional impulse. She has that
+exceptional balance of the intellectual and artistic forces that enables
+her to give to her lecture a superb literary quality, and to deliver it
+with faultless grace of manner and an impressiveness of presence rarely
+equalled. In Kate Field America has a woman worthy to be called an
+orator.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE MONUMENT AND HOMESTEAD OF REBECCA NURSE.
+
+BY ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD.
+
+
+Perhaps the greatest incentive to ideal living in a changing world is
+the firmly held conviction that truth will finally vindicate itself.
+When this vindication is made apparent, as in the case of Rebecca
+Nurse, one of the most striking martyrs of the Salem witchcraft days of
+1692, the cause of human progress seems assured. For it is thus seen
+that truth has within itself a living seed which in its development
+is destined to become man's guide to further knowledge and growth.
+This idea was impressed upon me anew as I stood before the granite
+monument, some eight and a half feet high, erected this past summer in
+Danvers,--originally Salem,--to the memory of Mrs. Rebecca Nurse, by
+her descendants. A carpet of green grass surrounded it, and a circle of
+nearly twenty pine trees guarded it as sentinels. The pines were singing
+their summer requiem as I read on the front of the monument these
+words:--
+
+  REBECCA NURSE,
+  YARMOUTH, ENGLAND,
+  1621.
+  SALEM, MASS.,
+  1692.
+
+  O Christian martyr, who for Truth could die
+  When all about thee owned the hideous lie,
+  The world, redeemed from Superstition's sway,
+  Is breathing freer for thy sake to-day.
+
+
+I lingered a moment over these fitting lines of Whittier, whose charming
+home, "Oak Knoll," a short distance off, had just given me a restful
+pleasure. Then I walked around to the other side of the monument, where
+I read, with mingled feelings, the following words:--
+
+    Accused of witchcraft
+      She declared,
+  "I am innocent, and God will
+    clear my innocency."
+
+  Once acquitted yet falsely
+  condemned, she suffered
+    death July 19, 1692.
+
+  In loving memory of her
+    Christian character,
+  even then truly attested by
+    forty of her neighbors,
+  this monument is erected.
+
+
+These last lines reminded me of the fact that the paper with its forty
+signatures, testifying to the forty years' acquaintance of the good
+character of Rebecca Nurse, was still in existence. Alas! why couldn't
+such a testimony of neighbors and friends have saved her? But it was not
+so to be. The government of the colony, the influence of the magistracy,
+and public opinion elsewhere, overpowered all friendly and family help;
+and on the 19th July, 1692, at the advanced age of seventy-one years,
+Rebecca Nurse was hung on Gallows hill.
+
+As I left the monument, which is in the old family burying-ground, and
+wandered up the time-honored lane towards the homestead where she was
+living when arrested, the March before, my thoughts would go back to
+those dreadful days. I thought of this venerable mother's surprise and
+wonder, as she learned of the several distinct indictments against her,
+four of which, for having practised "certain detestable acts called
+witchcraft" upon Ann Putnam, Mary Walcot, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Abigail
+Williams, were still to be found in the Salem records. I thought of the
+feelings of this old and feeble woman as she was borne to the Salem
+jail, then a month later sent off, with other prisoners, to the jail
+in Boston (then a whole day's journey), to be sent back to Salem for
+her final doom. I pictured her on trial, when, in the presence of her
+accusers, the "afflicted girls," and the assembled crowd, she constantly
+declared her innocence ("I am innocent, and God will clear my
+innocency"), and showed a remarkable power in refuting the questions of
+the magistrate. I thought of her Christian faith and courage, when, upon
+seeing all the assembly, and even the magistrate, putting faith in the
+"afflicted girls'" diabolical tantrums (what else can I call them?) as
+there enacted, and now preserved in the records of the trial, she calmiy
+said, "I have got nobody to look to but God." I again pictured her, as,
+just before the horrors of execution, she was taken from the prison to
+the meeting-house, by the sheriff and his men, to receive before a great
+crowd of spectators the added disgrace of excommunication from the
+Church.
+
+But I could picture no more. My heart rebelled. And as I had now reached
+the old homestead on the hill I paused a moment, before entering, to
+rest under the shade of the trees and to enjoy the extensive views of
+the surrounding country. This comforted my troubled feelings, and
+suggested the thought that in the fourteen years that Rebecca Nurse had
+lived there she must have often come under the shade of the trees,
+perhaps after hours of hard work and care, to commune alone with her
+God. How could I help thinking so when there came up before me her
+answer to the magistrate's question, "Have you familiarity with these
+spirits?"--"No, I have none but with God alone." Surely, to one who knew
+Him as she did, who in calm strength could declare her innocence when
+many around her, as innocent as she, were frightened into doubt and
+denial, the quiet and rest of nature must have been a necessary means of
+courage and strength.
+
+Then what did not the old house, with its sloping roof, tell me, as it
+still stood where Townsend Bishop had built it in 1636, upon receiving a
+grant of three hundred acres? Yes, this old "Bishop's mansion," as the
+deed calls it, had felt the joys and sorrows of our common human life
+for almost two hundred and fifty years. It had known the friends whom
+Townsend Bishop, as one of the accomplished men of Salem village, had
+gathered about him in the few years that he had lived there. It must
+have heard some of Hugh Peters' interesting experiences, since, as
+pastor of the First Church those very years (1636-1641), he was a
+frequent visitor. Why couldn't one think that Roger Williams had often
+come to compare notes on house-building, since he owned the "old witch
+house" (still standing on the corner of Essex and North streets) at the
+same time that Mr. Bishop was building his house? It certainly was a
+pleasure to remember that Governor Endicott once owned and lived on this
+farm. He bought it in 1648, for one hundred and sixty pounds, of Henry
+Checkering, to whom Mr. Bishop had sold it seven years before.
+
+I recalled many other things, that summer day, concerning this ancient
+place. Shall I not tell them? While the Governor lived on it he
+continued his good work for the general opening of the country around
+about. Among other things he laid out the road that passes its
+entrance-gate to-day.
+
+Here his son John brought his youthful Boston bride, and gave to her the
+place as a "marriage-gift." Then, some years later, she, the widow of
+John, having become the bride of a Mr. James Allen, gave it to him as a
+"marriage-gift;" and upon her death, in 1673, he became the possessor.
+Five years later he sold it to Francis Nurse, the husband of Rebecca,
+for four hundred pounds. Mr. Nurse was an early settler of Salem, a
+"tray-maker," whose articles were much used. He was a man of good
+judgment, and respected by his neighbors. He was then fifty-eight years
+of age, and his wife fifty-seven. They had four sons and four daughters.
+The peculiar terms of the purchase had always seemed interesting to me;
+for the purchase-money of four hundred pounds was not required to be
+paid until the expiration of twenty-one years. In the meantime a
+moderate rent of seven pounds a year for the first twelve years, and ten
+pounds for each of the remaining nine years, was determined upon.
+Suitable men were appointed to estimate the value of what Mr. Nurse
+should add to the estate while living upon it, by clearing meadows,
+erecting buildings, or making other improvements. This value over one
+hundred and fifty pounds was to be paid to him. These various sums, if
+paid over to Mr. Allen before the twenty-one years had expired, would
+make a proportionate part of the farm at Mr. Nurse's disposal.
+
+The low rent and the industrious, frugal habits of Mr. Nurse and his
+family, added to the fact that not a dollar was required to be paid down
+at first, led to the making of such good improvements that before half
+the time had elapsed a value was created large enough to pay the whole
+four hundred pounds to Mr. Allen. When Mr. Nurse thus became owner of
+this estate he gave to his children, who had already good homes within
+its boundaries, the larger half of the farm, while he reserved for
+himself the homestead and the rest of the land. By the deeds he gave
+them, they were required to maintain a roadway to connect with the old
+homestead and with the homes of each other.
+
+While the different members of the Nurse family were thus working hard
+for the money to buy the place there was hanging over its owner the
+shadow of litigation for its possession. But this was Mr. Allen's
+affair, not theirs, so they went on their way in peace. Indeed, it has
+been thought that their steady success in life was one cause of their
+future trouble. They became objects of envy to those restless ones less
+favored. And so, when the opportunity came to merely whisper a name for
+the "afflicted girls" to take up, Rebecca Nurse's fate was in the hands
+of an enemy. A striking example of the innocent suffering for the
+guilty. Does not vicarious suffering seem to be an important factor in
+the development of the race? Two years after, this faithful wife and
+mother had been led from her peaceful home to suffer the agonies of
+prisons, trials, and hanging. When the children had all married, the
+father gave up the homestead to his son Samuel, and divided his
+remaining property among his sons and daughters. He died soon after,
+in 1695. He was a kind, true father, whose requests after death were
+heeded. This homestead was in the Nurse name as late as 1784, when it
+was owned by a great-grandson of Rebecca. He sold it to Phineas Putnam,
+a descendant of old Nathaniel Putnam, who, in the hour of need, wrote
+the paper for the forty signatures above mentioned. The estate descended
+to the great-grandson of Phineas, Orin Putnam, who, in 1836, married the
+daughter of Allen Nurse. And thus a direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse
+was again placed to preside over the ancestral farm, and to their
+descendants it belongs to-day.
+
+After thus thinking over this interesting history of the old place,
+as I reclined under the shade of its trees, I was better prepared to
+enjoy the kind hospitality which it then offered me. I felt a peculiar
+pleasure in stepping into the same little front porch which Townsend
+Bishop had built so many years ago. And upon ascending the stairs I
+found myself lingering a while by the old original balusters, the
+building of which Roger Williams had perhaps viewed with interest. Upon
+reaching the attic it was a pleasure, indeed, to see in this new world
+the frame-work of a house which for two hundred and fifty years had
+stood so well the test of nature in all her moods. No saw was used in
+shaping those oaken timbers. They knew only the broad-axe. From this
+attic I descended to the sitting-room, to spend a while under the same
+low beams which had greeted the first visitors of the house. Here I
+imagined the Nurse family living in quiet and peace. Here I pictured the
+son Samuel, as, later, he wondered over and over again how he could
+remove the reproach which was on his mother's name. And I thought that
+to him his descendants owed much, for it was mainly to his pleadings
+that the General Court exonerated her in 1710, and the Church in 1712.
+
+While sitting there I learned of some alterations which had been made
+from time to time: how the front of the house, before which the old
+roadway used to be, had been widened by extending the western end beyond
+the porch.
+
+As I came out of the house upon the green grass around it, I enjoyed
+again the grand outlook over the surrounding country,--the same which in
+the days of agony had strengthened human souls,--and then walked down
+the hill, by the family burying-ground, out through the entrance-gate
+into Collins street, the public thoroughfare.
+
+I left the monument and its interesting associations that August day of
+1885 (it was dedicated only the July 30 before) with the feeling that as
+the present descendants of Rebecca Nurse owe much to her son Samuel, so
+their future descendants will be indebted to them for the appropriate
+manner in which they have still further striven to vindicate before the
+world the innocence of a much-wronged ancestor.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE PRESENT RESOURCES OF MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+BY H.K.M.
+
+
+Massachusetts is a busy state. The old time factory bell has not
+entirely given way to the steam whistle, nor the simple village spire to
+the more pretentious ecclesiastical tower of to-day, yet the energizing
+force of material prosperity has quickened the blood in nearly every
+hamlet, modernized the old, or built up a new, so that throughout the
+state there is a substantial freshness indicative of progressive thrift.
+
+The Tenth Census of the United States classifies the entire
+working population of the state in four divisions of labor as
+follows:--Agriculture, 64,973; Professional and Personal services,
+170,160; Trade and Transportation, 115,376; Mechanical, 370,265; with a
+total population of 1,941,465.[4] The aggregate steam and water power in
+1880 was 309,759 horse power; the motive power of 14,352 manufacturing
+establishments having an invested capital of $303,806,185; paying
+$128,315,362 in wages to 370,265 persons who produced a product value of
+$631,135,284. These results, in proportion to area and population, place
+Massachusetts first in the Union as a manufacturing state. In mechanical
+science a complete cotton mill has been considered the cap stone of
+human ingenuity. In 1790 Mr. Samuel Slater established in Pawtucket,
+R.I., the first successful cotton mill in the United States, but the
+saw gin, a Massachusetts invention of Mr. Eli Whitney in 1793, laid the
+foundation of the cotton industry throughout the world.
+
+There are 956 cotton mills in the United States with an invested capital
+of $208,280,346, with a wage account of $42,040,510. The relative
+importance of the four leading states in the manufacture of cotton goods
+is shown as follows:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+    206        Mass.     $74,118,801    $16,240,908     $74,780,835
+    133        R.I.       29,260,734      5,623,933      24,609,461
+     97        Conn.      21,104,200      3,750,017      17,050,126
+     41        N.H.       19,993,584      4,322,622      18,226,573
+
+
+As in cotton, so also in the manufacture of woolen goods has
+Massachusetts maintained from the first the leading position. In 1794
+in Byfield parish, Newbury, Mass., the first woolen mill went into
+successful operation. In 1804 a good quality of gray mixed broadcloth
+was made at Pittsfield, Mass., and it is said that in 1808 President
+Madison's inaugural suit of black broadcloth was made there.
+
+The five leading states in the production of woolen goods are thus
+classified:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+    167        Mass.     $24,680,782     $7,457,115     $45,099,203
+    324        Penn.      18,780,604      5,254,328      32,341,291
+     78        Conn.       7,907,452      2,342,935      16,892,284
+     50        R.I.        8,448,700      2,480,907      15,410,450
+    159        N.Y.        8,266,878      1,774,143       9,874,973
+
+
+In its kindred industry, dyeing and finishing textiles, Massachusetts is
+a controlling force; as seen in the classification of the three leading
+states in this department of labor:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     28        Mass.      $8,613,500     $1,815,431      $9,482,939
+     16        R.I.        5,912,500      1,093,727       6,874,254
+     60        Penn.       3,884,846      1,041,309       6,259,852
+
+
+Nearly one half of the entire American production of felt goods comes
+from her, as indicated in the classification of the four leading
+states:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     11        Mass.        $820,000       $163,440      $1,627,320
+      6        N.J.          313,000         86,170         685,386
+      4        N.Y.          157,500         35,289         257,450
+      1        Penn.         150,000         80,000         450,000
+
+
+Massachusetts is also an all-important factor in the total production of
+American carpets. The 59 mills in the United States made in 1880 a
+wholesale product valued at $31,792,802. Massachusetts made the most
+Brussels, 1,884,723 yards; Pennsylvania came next with 919,476 yards.
+She came next to New York in yards of Tapestry, and next to Connecticut
+in Wiltons, a good second in these important grades. The three leading
+carpet states are thus classified:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     10        N.Y.       $6,422,158     $1,952,391      $8,419,254
+    172        Penn.       7,210,483      3,035,971      14,304,660
+      7        Mass.       4,637,646      1,223,303       6,337,629
+
+
+In the manufacture of Boots and Shoes Massachusetts stands conspicuously
+at the front; her position in this great industry is clearly seen in the
+three states controlling this special product:--
+
+   No. of                  Capital          Wages          Value
+ Factories.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+    982        Mass.     $21,098,133    $24,875,106     $95,900,510
+    272        N.Y.        6,227,537      4,902,132      18,979,259
+    145        Penn.       3,627,840      2,820,976       9,590,002
+
+
+One evidence that Massachusetts is not sitting down all the time is the
+fact that she stands up to manufacture so many chairs. From a small
+beginning of wood and flag seated chairs, Mr. James M. Comee in 1805,
+with his foot lathe, in one room of his dwelling in Gardner. Mass., laid
+the foundation of this important industry, which has given the town of
+Gardner, where over 1,000,000 of chairs are annually made, a world wide
+reputation.
+
+The relative positions of the five leading chair states:--
+
+   No. of                  Capital          Wages          Value
+ Factories.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     62        Mass.      $1,948,600     $1,028,087      $3,290,837
+     62        N.Y.          991,000        472,974       1,404,138
+     45        Penn.         111,700        143,037         437,010
+     37        Ohio          497,026        321,918         821,702
+     37        Ind.          395,850        232,005         632,746
+
+
+In the currying of leather Massachusetts is a notable leader:--
+
+       No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  Establishments.  State.   Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+       194          Mass.   $4,308,169     $1,939,122     $23,282,775
+       185          N.Y.     1,720,356        366,426       6,192,002
+       455          Penn.    2,570,969        334,950       7,852,177
+        56          N.J.     1,983,746        762,697       8,727,128
+        61          Wis.     1,299,425        281,412       4,496,729
+        18          Ill.       534,786        141,096       2,391,380
+
+
+Her position in the manufacturing of worsted goods is also an all
+important one:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     23        Mass.      $6,195,247     $1,870,030     $10,466,016
+     28        Penn.       4,959,639      1,473,958      10,072,473
+     11        R.I.        4,567,416      1,222,350       6,177,754
+
+
+Again we find her at the head of another very important industry, the
+manufacture of paper.
+
+The five leading states in production are given their relative positions.
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     96        Mass.     $11,722,046     $2,467,359     $15,188,196
+    168        N.Y.        6,859,565      1,217,580       8,524,279
+     60        Ohio        4,804,274        839,231       5,108,194
+     78        Penn.       4,099,000        752,151       5,355,912
+     65        Conn.       3,168,931        656,000       4,337,550
+
+
+In 1880 Massachusetts manufactured 27,638 tons of printing paper, 24,746
+tons of writing paper, 10,255 tons of wrapping paper, 945 tons of wall
+paper, 3,706,010 pounds of colored paper, 255,000 pounds of bank note
+paper, 878,000 pounds of tissue paper, and 27,607,706 pounds of all
+other kinds of paper.
+
+She manufactures more shovels than any other state, about 120,000 dozen
+annually. Rhode Island comes next with about one-half the quantity, and
+Ohio stands third, her product being about 7,000 dozen annually.
+
+It also falls to her lot to manufacture more Hay and Straw cutters,
+about 6,000 annually. In the manufacture of hard soap Massachusetts
+falls a little behind some of her sister states, but she comes smilingly
+to the front with her 16,000,000 pounds of soft soap, about one half of
+the total production. New York brings her annual offering of about 5,000
+pounds.
+
+The 4,000 boats she annually builds constitute nearly one half of the
+number built in the United States.
+
+There are 131,426 persons in the United States engaged in the fisheries.
+
+The prominent share of Massachusetts in this industry is seen in the
+classification of the five leading states.
+
+    State.       No. of                  Capital           Value
+                 Persons                Invested.       of Product.
+                Employed.
+
+    Mass.         20,117              $14,334,450        $8,141,750
+    Md.           26,008                6,342,443         5,221,715
+    N.Y.           7,266                2,629,585         4,380,565
+    Me.           11,071                3,375,994         3,614,178
+    Vir.          18,864                1,914,119         3,124,444
+
+
+She has invested:--Over $1,000,000 in the manufacture of Baskets and
+Rattan goods; over $1,600,000 in the manufacture of Brick and Tile; over
+$2,000,000 in the manufacture of Wagons and Carriages; over $5,000,000
+in the manufacture of Men's Clothing; over $1,500,000 in the manufacture
+of Cordage and Twine; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Cutlery;
+over $3,000,000 in the manufacture of Fire Arms; over $16,000,000 in the
+Foundries and Machine Shops; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of
+Furniture; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Iron Nails and Spikes;
+over $6,000,000 in the manufacture of Iron and Steel; over $1,500,000 in
+the manufacture of Jewelry; over $3,000,000 in the manufacture of
+Liquors, Malt; over $3,000,000 in Slaughtering and Packing; over
+$2,000,000 in Straw goods; over $2,000,000 in Sugar and Molasses,
+refined; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Watches; over $2,000,000
+in the manufacture of Wire, and over $11,000,000 in unclassified
+industries.
+
+The limitations of this article will only allow brief reference to a few
+of the leading industries of Massachusetts. The facts presented give her
+a commanding position in the sisterhood of manufacturing States, while
+the condition of her operatives, their moral and intellectual character,
+has no parallel in any other manufacturing district in the world.
+
+On her well known but dangerous coast special provisions are made to aid
+the mariner; so likewise upon her more dangerous coast of sin we find
+2,397 ministerial light houses whose concentrated spiritual lens-power
+upon an area of 8,040 square miles, make the rocks of total depravity
+loom up far above the white capped waves of theological doubt. The lower
+law being less important than the higher, it takes but 1,984 lawyers to
+successfully mystify the juries of the Commonwealth. Of physicians and
+surgeons there are 2,845. It requires the constant services of 2,463
+persons to entertain us with music, and just one less, 2,462 barbers,
+who are in daily tonsorial conflict with our hair, either rebuking it
+where it does grow, or teasing it to come forth where heretofore the
+dome has been hairless.
+
+Of the 4,000,000 farms of 536,081,835 acres in the United States, 38,406
+farms of 3,359,097 acres valued at $146,197,415 yielding an annual
+income of $24,160,881 lie within the borders of the state. Her 150,435
+cows produce 29,662,953 gallons of milk, which is the foundation of her
+annual product of 9,655,587 pounds of butter, and 829,528 pounds of
+cheese. She would be unjust to her traditional sense of justice were she
+to send her beans out into the world single handed, with true paternal
+solicitude she provides them with the charmed society of 80,123 swine,
+thus hand in hand Massachusetts' pork and beans stride up and down the
+earth, supremely content in the joyous ecstasy of their Puritan conceit.
+While Massachusetts has well known agricultural tendencies, and her
+Agricultural college is one of the most important factors in her system
+of practical instruction, it cannot be claimed that she is a controlling
+element in the agricultural interests of the country. Of all her
+influences for good, perhaps her educational interests would command the
+greater prominence. She has ever regarded the instruction of her youth
+as one of her most sacred trusts, and in all the details of her public
+school system she ranks second to no state in the Union.
+
+In the various departments of technical instruction, she has a national
+reputation. Her colleges and universities so richly endowed secure the
+highest attainable advantages. These privileges supplemented by the free
+public libraries of the state, place possibilities within the reach of
+every young man or young woman, the value of which cannot be
+approximated by human estimate.
+
+Six of the leading states are thus classified:--
+
+  Public                 School      Sittings       School
+  Schools.    State.   Buildings.    Provided.     Property.
+
+    6,604     Mass.        3,343      319,749    $21,660,392
+   15,203     Ill.        11,880      694,106     15,876,572
+   11,623     Ind.         9,679      437,050     11,907,541
+   18,615     N.Y.        11,927      763,817     31,235,401
+   16,473     Ohio        12,224      676,664     21,643,515
+   18,618     Penn.       12,857      961,074     25,919,397
+
+
+The following institutions for higher education have about $5,000,000
+invested in grounds and buildings, about $9,000,000 in endowments,
+yielding an annual income of about $1,000,000, having about 4,000
+students and about 400,000 volumes in libraries, Universities and
+Colleges.
+
+
+UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
+
+  Amherst College, organized                        1821
+  Boston College, organized                         1864
+  Boston University, organized                      1872
+  College of the Holy Cross, organized              1843
+  Tufts College, organized                          1852
+  Harvard College, organized                        1636
+  Williams College, organized                       1793
+
+  COLLEGES FOR WOMEN.
+
+  Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, organized          1837
+  Sophia Smith College, organized                   1872
+  Wellesley College, organized                      1874
+
+  THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.
+
+  Andover Theological Seminary, organized           1808
+  Boston University School of Theology, organized   1847
+  Divinity School of Harvard University, organized  1816
+  Episcopal Theological School, organized           1867
+  Tufts College Divinity School, organized          1867
+  Newton Theological Institution, organized         1825
+  New Church Theological School, organized          1866
+
+  LAW SCHOOLS.
+
+  Boston University School of Law, organized        1872
+  Law School of Harvard University, organized       1817
+
+  SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.
+
+  Boston University School of Medicine, organized   1869
+  Harvard Medical School, organized                 1782
+  New England Female Medical College, organized     1850
+  Boston Dental College, organized                  1868
+  Dental School Harvard College, organized          1867
+  Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, organized      1823
+
+  THE SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE.
+
+  Massachusetts Agricultural  College, organized    1867
+  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, organized  1861
+  Lawrence Scientific School, organized             1848
+  Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial
+    Science, organized                              1868
+
+
+While Massachusetts is a model state in all her educational interests,
+we do not forget that there are 75,635 persons in the state who cannot
+read, and 92,980 persons who cannot write, but of the 990,160 native
+white persons of ten years and upwards only 6,933 are unable to write,
+being seven-tenths of one per cent., the lowest ratio of any state.
+Arkansas, per cent, being 25.0; Alabama, 24.7; Georgia, 22.9; Kentucky,
+22.0; No. Carolina, 31.0; So. Carolina, 21.9; Tenn., 27.3; West
+Virginia, 18.2; Connecticut, 5.5; Illinois, 5.9; New Hampshire 5;
+Pennsylvania, 6.7; New York, 5.3.
+
+There are 15,416 colored persons in the state, of 10 years and upwards;
+of this number 2,322 are unable to write, but from 10 to 14 years of
+age, both inclusive, these being 1,504, but 31 persons are reported as
+unable to write, or 2.1 per cent. South Carolina out of a colored
+population of 75,981 between the same ages, reports 57,072 persons as
+unable to write or 74.1 per cent. There are 1,886 colored persons in the
+state between the ages of 15 and 20, and only 70 are reported as unable
+to write, or 3.7 per cent.; we find this also the lowest ratio of any
+state.
+
+South Carolina's per cent. being 71.9; Alabama, 64.9; Georgia, 76.4;
+Texas, 69.2; and North Carolina, 68.5.
+
+Her density of population makes it exceedingly convenient for her 52,799
+domestic servants to compose notes over neighborly fences. Her 281,188
+dwelling houses house 379,710 families, placing 6.34 persons to the
+credit of each dwelling, and 4.70 persons to each family. This density
+gives her 221.78 persons to a square mile, a far greater ratio than any
+state except Rhode Island. This neighborly proximity has its social
+tendencies, which may account in part for the hospitable amenities which
+are a rightful part of Massachusetts' well known loyalty to a higher
+regard for the purest type of home, a comparative statement of the
+density of population of a few states.
+
+  State.                 Square Miles.    Persons to Square Miles.
+
+  Rhode Island,               1,085               254.87
+  Massachusetts,              8,040               221.78
+  Connecticut,                4,845               128.52
+  Georgia,                   58,980                26.15
+  Illinois,                  56,000                54.96
+  Iowa,                      55,475                29.29
+  Maine,                     29,895                21.71
+  Michigan,                  57,430                28.50
+  New Hampshire,              9,005                38.53
+  New York,                  47,620               106.74
+  Pennsylvania,              44,985                95.21
+  West Virginia,             24,645                25.09
+
+
+As inseparable as night is from day, so also are the ills of life from
+life itself. Massachusetts is no exception to the inexorable law which
+defines the conditions of human society; but through her public and
+private charities so wisely administered, she humanely softens the
+asperities which shadow the life of her unfortunates. To her lot fall
+1,733 idiotic persons, 978 deaf mutes, 5,127 insane, 1,500 of whom are
+cared for at home, and 3,659 prisoners, 1,484 of whom are of foreign
+birth. Human life teaches that the boundary lines of a smile and tear
+are the same, for where happiness is, there sorrow dwells. In the
+general estimate of 391,960 annual deaths in the United States, about
+33,000 occur in Massachusetts.
+
+One evidence of her unswerving faith in the national credit is seen by
+her holdings in U.S. registered bonds. The four leading states are
+reported as follows:--
+
+  No. of                         Per cent. of
+  Persons.      State.           Bondholders.           Amount.
+
+  16,885        Massachusetts,     23.05              $45,138,750
+  10,408        Pennsylvania,      14.23               40,223,050
+  14,803        New York,          20.24              210,264,250
+   4,130        Ohio,               5.65               16,445,050
+
+
+In the classification of the four leading states, of assessed valuation
+and taxation, it appears that the assessed valuation of her personal
+property exceeds that of any state.
+
+The four leading states are thus classified:--
+
+          Area        Real         Personal                      Total
+  State. Sq. M.      Estate.       Property.       Total.         Tax.
+
+  N.Y.   47.620  $2,329,282,359  $323,657,647  $2,651,940,006  $56,392,975
+  Penn.  44,985   1,540,007,657   143,451,059   1,683,459,016   28,604,334
+  Mass.   8,040   1,111,160,072   473,596,730   1,584,756,802   24,326,877
+  Ohio   40,760   1,093,677,705   440,682,803   1,534,360,508   25,756,658
+
+
+The grandest monument of human skill in modern railway science is
+unquestionably the St. Gothard Tunnel which connects the valley of the
+Reuss with the valley of the Ticino, which is from 5,000 to 6,500 feet
+below the Alpine peaks of St. Gothard, being a little over 9-1/4 miles
+in length, costing over $47,000,000, one-half of which was paid by the
+governments of Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Until its completion in
+1880, there was but one railway tunnel, Mont Cenis, that outranked our
+own Hoosac Tunnel of nearly 5 miles in length and costing about
+$10,000,000.
+
+The service, equipment, and management of Massachusetts' railway system
+is well nigh perfect. Out of 4,100 miles of track in the state, 2,453
+are laid with the steel rail. Including the 1,150 engines, 1,554
+passenger cars, 394 baggage cars, and 24,418 freight cars, the total
+cost of railroad equipment in the state has been $178,862,870; from this
+investment the total earnings in 1884 reached $33,020,816 from which
+$4,568,274 were paid in dividends. The number of passengers carried were
+57,589,200 and 17,258,726 tons of freight moved. One of the most
+important elements in her system is the Boston and Albany. Its engine
+service the past year was 5,680,060 miles, the company carried 94,721
+through passengers and 8,699,691 way, whose total earnings were
+$8,148,713.34 and total expenses were $5,785,876.98.
+
+In this connection we would refer to the city and suburban tramway
+service, which has taken an important part in the development of the
+state. The total cost of the 336 miles of road and equipment, including
+8,987 horses and 1,918 passenger cars is stated at $9,093,935. Number of
+passengers carried in 1884 was 94,894,259, gross earnings $4,788,096,
+operating expenses $3,985,617, total available income $924,440. When we
+consider that the street railway service carried more than 37,000,000
+passengers in excess of the steam railways, we realize its importance.
+
+While there are 66,205 more females than males in the state, in the
+wider distribution of the sexes their equality indicates that it could
+not happen by chance, and that marriage of one man to one woman was
+intended.
+
+An authentic estimate of the numerical proportions of the sexes is as
+follows:--
+
+United States, 983 women to 1,000 men; America, (at large) 980 women to
+1,000 men; Scotland, 1,096 women to 1,000 men; Ireland, 1,050 women to
+1,000 men; England and Wales, 1,054 women to 1,000 men; France, 1,007
+women to 1,000 men; Prussia, 1,030 women to 1,000 men; Greece, 940 women
+to 1,000 men; Europe, (at large) 1,021 women to 1,000 men; Africa,
+(estimated) 975 women to 1,000 men; Asia, 940 women to 1,000 men;
+Australia, 985 women to 1,000 men. In an aggregate of 12,000 men there
+is a surplus of about 161 women.
+
+Massachusetts has been making notable history ever since 1620, and in
+picking out here and there a few of the influences which have tended to
+develope her material resources, we would not be unmindful of those
+Christian influences which are also a part of her imperishable history.
+
+To the lover of nature, perhaps no state in range of rugged coast and
+water views blended with mountainous background, can offer more pleasing
+bits of picturesque scenery. The historic hills of Berkshire and the
+beautiful Connecticut River, with its 50 miles of sweep through the
+state, ever hurrying on to the sea, have inspired the tireless shuttles
+of descriptive imagery to weave some of the finest threads in American
+thought.
+
+Nowhere within the range of human vision can the eye find a more
+restful scene of quiet simplicity and softer blending of river, hill and
+foliage, than in the valley of the Deerfield on any sunny summer day.
+Let him who would have a sterner scene of majestic grandeur stand upon
+the storm-beaten cliffs of some rock-fringed coast, while the
+silver-crested sea and the dark, deep toned clouds, like mercy and
+righteousness, kiss each other.
+
+To us who love Massachusetts, her principles, her institutions, her
+hills, valleys and rocks, her future is but the lengthening out of a
+perfect present; and at last, when the scroll of states is finally
+rolled up, may her eternal record stand for the highest type of
+Christian citizenship.
+
+[Footnote 4: Census of 1885.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+ELIZABETH.[5]
+
+A ROMANCE OF COLONIAL DAYS.
+
+BY FRANCES C. SPARHAWK, Author of "A Lazy Man's Work."
+
+
+CHAPTER  XXVI.
+
+A GRAVE DECISION.
+
+
+After the greetings were over, Elizabeth, looking at Stephen Archdale,
+realized fully the difficulties of her task. She was to go through with
+it alone she perceived, for her father had turned away and taken up a
+spyglass that had been brought him at the moment, and was absorbed in
+looking through it at the new fascine battery. Evidently he expected her
+to give Captain Archdale the history of the facts and conclusions that
+had brought her father and herself to Louisburg. As she looked at the
+young man in his strength, she felt more than ever the necessity for
+speaking. He knew well enough that Mr. Edmonson hated him, and that was
+necessary to be known. And yet, speech was hard, for even though he
+could never imagine Edmonson's contemptible insinuations, still before
+he believed in his own danger he might have to learn his enemy's foiled
+purpose toward herself; and to be sought for her fortune was not a thing
+that Elizabeth felt proud of. Her head drooped a little as the young man
+stood watching her, and the color began to come into her face. Then the
+courage that was in her, and the power that she had of rising above
+petty considerations into grandeur, came upon her like an access of
+physical strength. The strong necessity filled her, and the thought that
+she might be bringing life where she had almost brought death, at least
+death of joy, lighted her face. Still she hesitated for a moment, but it
+was only to study how she should begin. Shall she give him Katie's
+letter at once, and in her name warn him to take care of the life that
+was of so much value to his betrothed? No, for with Katie's letter in
+his hand, he could not listen carefully to Elizabeth's words, he could
+think only of what was within. His thoughts would refuse to have to do
+with danger; they would be busy with joy. That must wait.
+
+"We have come here, my father and I," she began, "to say one word to
+you, Captain Archdale. We talked it over, and we saw no other way."
+
+"You are pale," cried Stephen suddenly. "You must be very tired. Let us
+sit down here while you tell me." And he pointed to a coil of rope at
+hand. But she shook her head.
+
+"I am not tired, thank you; I am disappointed that I can't go back
+immediately, that I must wait until to-morrow, when the dispatches will
+be ready."
+
+"You need not," he cried. "The General shall let you go if you wish it.
+I will insist upon it. The dispatches can go some other way. If the
+Governor wants news in such haste, he would do better to send us some
+powder to make them out of. He was enough in a hurry to get us off, to
+give us something to do after we are here."
+
+"I should think you had something to do," she said pointing to the
+battlements of Louisburg which at that distance and from that angle
+looked as if no shot had ever been fired against them. "But don't on any
+account speak to the General. We are glad to do even so little for the
+cause. And perhaps it's not that that makes me pale. I don't know. I
+have a warning hard to deliver to you. I have come hundreds of miles to
+do it. I will give it to you immediately, for you may need it at any
+moment." She drew closer to him, and laid one hand upon his arm as if to
+prevent his losing by any chance the words she had to say. Her gesture
+had an impressiveness that made him realize as much as her face did how
+terribly in earnest she was.
+
+"It must be something about Katie," he thought. And the vision of Lord
+Bulchester rose before him clearly.
+
+"Listen," said Elizabeth absorbed in her attempt to make him feel what
+she feared would seem incredible to him. "Stray shots have picked off
+many superfluous kings in the world--and men and the world not been the
+wiser. This is what some one said when the war was being talked of, said
+at your house, and said in speaking of you."
+
+"Said it to you?" interposed Archdale with a quick breath.
+
+"Oh, no, but about you, I am sure, _sure_, though it has taken me
+all this time to find it out. And,--oh, wait a moment,--the man who said
+it was your guest then, and he is here now, else we should not have
+come; he is here, perhaps he is close by you every day, and he,--he is
+meaning the shot for you." She waited a moment drawing a breath of
+relief that she had begun. "You know he is your enemy?" she went on with
+a longing to be spared explanations.
+
+She was spared them.
+
+"I do know it," said Archdale looking at her, and as she met his eyes a
+great relief swept over her. Her warning had been heard and believed,
+she was sure of that. She heard Archdale thanking her, and assuring her
+that he would give good heed to her warning. And she had not had to tell
+why Edmonson hated him, she had not even been obliged to utter the name
+that she was coming to hate. "Do you know?" she had asked wonderingly,
+and he had told it to her. Did he know the man so thoroughly, then? And
+were there other causes of hatred, possibly money causes, that had
+spared her?
+
+She had told her listener more than she dreamed, far more than her
+words. She had stood before him in the noblest guise a human being can
+wear, that of a preserver from evil fate; she had looked at him out of
+holy depths in her clear eyes, she had turned upon him a face in which
+expression had marvellously brought out physical beauty. Also, in her
+unconsciousness that he knew the reason of his danger, she had looked at
+him with a wonder at his ready credulity before there had come her smile
+of relief that she need speak no more. He knew Edmonson's story, knew
+how this play at marriage between Elizabeth and himself had interfered
+with the other's plans, guessed the further truth, looked at her, and
+muttered under his breath:--"Poor fellow!" It was with his own eyes, and
+not another man's that Archdale saw Elizabeth. Yet, it was not in human
+nature that she should not seem the more interesting as she stood there,
+since he had learned his own life to be in danger because another man
+had found her so desirable, and so unapproachable. Watching Elizabeth,
+he acquitted Edmonson of mercenary motives, whatever they might once
+have been. His appreciation had no thought of appropriation in it. Katie
+was his love. But comprehension of Elizabeth made him glad that their
+mistake had saved her from Edmonson. And then again after a moment he
+muttered under his breath:--"Poor fellow!"
+
+"You are very, very kind," he said to her.
+
+"Don't think me rude," she answered with a smile. "But, you know we must
+have done this for any one. Only,"--and her voice became earnest again,
+"I was very grateful that the least thing came to me for you and Katie.
+I have not done with Katie yet" she added, "here is something that I
+have brought you from her." And she handed him a letter. "She gave me
+this as I was leaving," she said.
+
+"Thank you," he said again, and holding it clasped in his hand, stood
+not looking at it, but as if he still had something to say. "Has
+Bulchester gone yet, Mistress Royal?" he asked abruptly at last.
+
+"No. But I think that he must be very hard to send away, and Katie you
+know hates to say anything unkind. She doesn't see that it is the
+kindest way in the end. We shall not go until to-morrow, you know. If
+you have any letters, we shall be so glad to take them."
+
+"Thank you once more." He stood still a moment. "The earl may be wise to
+stay on the field," he said. "I may be swept off conveniently. Yes, he
+is wise to wait and see what the fortunes of war will do for him."
+
+"Oh! Mr. Archdale," cried Elizabeth, between indignation and tears at
+his want of faith. "How can you not trust her? Your letter that she was
+so eager to send will prove how wrong you are." Here Mr. Royal sauntered
+up, and the conversation turned upon the scene before them.
+
+But in the midst of Archdale's description of one of their skirmishes a
+signal was given from the new battery. "They are signalling for me," he
+said. "My place is in command of those guns. I am sorry to leave my
+story half told, but I must go. I shall try to see you to-morrow." And
+with a hasty farewell he sprang into the boat. As he was rowed away,
+Elizabeth saw him put his hand into the pocket where he had slipped
+Katie's letter, and draw this out.
+
+She sat down again in her favorite place on deck, laid her arms on the
+railing of the schooner and her face upon them. Now that her errand was
+done, she became aware that she was very tired. She sat so quiet that
+she seemed to be asleep. But she was only in a day-dream in which the
+thought of which she was most conscious was wonder that Archdale could
+doubt Katie. Had she not always been a coquette? And had she not always
+loved him? Yet Elizabeth wished that she could have said that Lord
+Bulchester had gone, wished that she could have seen Stephen Archdale's
+face brighten a little before he left them, perhaps forever; she had not
+forgotten the danger of his post. Nancy softly drew her chair close.
+But Elizabeth made no movement. She sat with her face still buried,
+thinking, remembering, longing to be at home again, counting the hours
+until they should probably sail.
+
+Suddenly she started up. For there had come light that she saw through
+the dark folds that she had been pressing her eyes against. To her there
+was a sound as if the heavens were being rent, and she felt a trembling
+of the earth, as if it shook with terror at the spectacle. She stood a
+moment bewildered. It seemed as if the light never paled at all, but
+only changed its place sometimes; the roar was terrific, it never
+ceased, or lulled, and the water beneath them tossed and hissed in rage
+at its bed being so shaken. Nancy's hand sought her companion's with a
+reassuring pressure, for speech was impossible. But Elizabeth had only
+been unprepared. She recovered herself and smiled her thanks. Then she
+sat down again with her face toward the city and watched this cannonade,
+terrible to men grown grey in the service, as officers from the fleet
+bore witness, and to the enemy deadly.
+
+For the fascine battery had opened fire.
+
+At midnight General Pepperell sent for Archdale to detail him for
+special service the next day.
+
+"Why! what's the matter?" he cried, looking at the young man as he came
+into the tent.
+
+"Nothing, General Pepperell. I am quite ready for service," replied
+Stephen haughtily.
+
+"Ah!--Yes. Glad of that," returned the General, and he went on to give
+his orders, watching the other's pale face as he did so, and reading
+there strong emotion of some kind.
+
+When he was alone, and his dispatches had all been written, he sat
+musing for a time, as little disturbed by the glare and the thunder
+about him as if stillness were an unknown thing. His cogitations did not
+seem satisfactory, for he frowned more than once. "What's the matter
+with the fellow?" he muttered. "Something has gone wrong. I've seen an
+uneasiness for a long time. Now the blow has fallen. Poor fellow! he
+doesn't take life easy. The news is it, I wonder? or the letter?" He sat
+for a while carefully nursing his left knee, while his thoughts
+gradually went back to military matters, and worked there diligently. At
+last he straightened himself, clapped this same knee with vigor, put
+both feet to the ground and, rising, took up from his improvised
+table--a log turned endwise,--a paper upon which he made a note with a
+worn pencil from his pocket. "Yes," he cried, "I can do that. It's the
+only thing I can do. And I need it so much they will not mind." He
+finished by a smile. "Strange I hadn't thought of it before," he said.
+
+Then he threw himself down upon his bed of boughs and moss, and with the
+terrific din about him slept the sleep of weariness. At sunrise,
+according to his directions, an orderly roused him.
+
+Archdale had already gone with his reconnoitering party. His heart was
+bitter against the conditions of his life, and he felt that it would be
+no misfortune, perhaps quite the contrary, if Edmonson's plan were not
+interfered with. "It's beyond her comprehension," he said to himself.
+"How confident she was. What will she say when she knows?"
+
+In the morning, Elizabeth standing beside her father turned a tired face
+toward the shore as she watched General Pepperell's approach. Sleep had
+been impossible to her in the strangeness and terror of her surroundings.
+
+"You are very thoughtful to come to bid us good-bye," she said, giving
+him her hand as he stepped on board.
+
+He smiled, and still holding it, asked after a moment's hesitation,
+"Should you be very much disappointed if I begged you not to return this
+morning?"
+
+She certainly looked so for a moment, before she answered: "If it will
+help, if I can be of any use, I am ready to stay. Are there soldiers in
+the hospitals? Can we do anything for them, Nancy and I?"
+
+He caught at the diversion readily. "The hospitals? Yes, I should be
+very glad, infinitely obliged to you, if you would pay them a visit.
+I've not a doubt that your suggestions would make the poor fellows more
+comfortable, and there are a number of new ones there this morning.
+I'm sorry to say our health record is discouraging. Not that I'm
+discouraged, but I want to put this business through as quickly as
+possible." Then he turned to Mr. Royal. "I must tell you both," he said,
+"that I came to you this morning bent upon purposes of destruction,
+(though, happily, not to yourselves,) and not purposes of health, except
+of saving lives by making the work as short as possible. I should like
+this schooner. I have an immediate use for it, and in two days, or, at
+the outside, three, I'm going to send to Boston. Will you permit me to
+take this as a fire-ship, and will you remain under my especial care
+until this other vessel sails?" He turned to Elizabeth as he spoke. "If
+you consent," he said to her, "I am quite sure your father will. It will
+be a great favor to me, and I hope to the cause, if you do. But I won't
+insist upon it. If you say so you shall go this morning."
+
+Elizabeth glanced at her father, "But I don't say so," she answered.
+"I am compelled to stay if my father consents. It's not you that make
+me but a stronger power. You won't be offended if I call patriotism a
+stronger power?" And she smiled at him.
+
+"Thank you, my dear," he said with a gravity which showed that she had
+touched him. "You shall not regret your sacrifice."
+
+In the course of conversation he told Mr. Royal that Archdale had been
+sent off at dawn upon an exploring expedition. "I want to find out how
+near to us the Indians are," he said, "they are hanging about somewhere.
+You will not see him to-day."
+
+That morning, Elizabeth was rowed ashore with Nancy, and under an escort
+they went to the hospitals; not for a visit of inspection, as it turned
+out, but as workers. Nancy had had experience in illness, and Elizabeth
+was an apt pupil. Before the day was over the poor fellows lying there
+felt a change. There were no luxuries to be had for them, but their
+beds were made a little softer with added moss and leaves, the relays
+of fresh water from the brook running through the encampment were
+increased. One dying man had closed his eyes in the conviction that the
+last words he had sent to his mother would reach her; he had watched
+Elizabeth write them down, and she had promised to put a lock of his
+hair into the letter. He was sure that she would do it, and he died
+happier for the thought. Altogether, in many ways the comfortless tents
+grew less comfortless, for Elizabeth interpreted literally the general's
+permission to do here what she chose. The eyes of the soldiers followed
+both women with delight, and one rugged fellow, a backwoods man, whose
+cheerfulness not even a broken leg and a great gash in his forehead
+could destroy, volunteered the statement: "By George! whether in peace
+or war we need our women." This was responded to by a cheer from the
+inmates of his tent. The demonstration was all the more touching,
+because its endeavor to be rousing was marred in the execution by the
+physical weakness of the cheerers.
+
+They spent that night on shore. Elizabeth's tent was next her father's
+and a few rods from the general quarters. As Mr. Royal left her, she
+stood a moment at the swinging door of her strange room, and looked at
+the stars and at the scene so new to her on which they were shining.
+Then leaving it reluctantly, for it fascinated her, she laid down upon
+the woodland couch prepared for her, and was soon as soundly asleep as
+her maid near by, while around the tent patrolled the special guard set
+by General Pepperell.
+
+The next day also was spent in the hospital. In the course of the
+afternoon, Nancy, looking over the Bay in a vain search for the schooner
+which had brought them, said; "I wonder how we really shall get home,
+and when?"
+
+"As General Pepperell promised us," answered her mistress. "And probably
+we shall leave to-morrow. I expect to hear from him about it then. So
+does my father; he was speaking of it this morning."
+
+They were right; the next day the General told them that the
+"Smithhurst" would sail that afternoon with prisoners of war from the
+"Vigilant," a captured French vessel. "She is one of the ships that
+Governor Shirley has sent for to guard the coast," he said to Elizabeth
+speaking of the "Smithhurst." "She goes to Boston first to report and
+discharge her prisoners. Be ready at four o'clock. If I can, I will take
+you to the vessel myself; but if that is impossible, everything is
+arranged for your comfort. Your father is at the battery, I have just
+left him there. He is undeniably fond of powder. I've told him about
+this." Elizabeth was in one of the hospital tents when Pepperell came to
+her with this news. She staid there with Nancy all the morning, and at
+noon when her father came and took her away for awhile to rest, she had
+an earnest talk with him upon some subject that left her grave and
+pleased.
+
+After a time she went back to the hospitals again. At the last moment
+the General sent an escort with word that he had been detained. Just
+before this message arrived, Elizabeth called her maid aside.
+
+"Nancy," she said, "you see how many of our soldiers are here, hundreds
+of them, almost thousands. They are fighting for our homes, even if the
+battle-ground is so far away. And see how many have been sent in, in the
+short time we have been here. Do you want to desert them? Tell me how
+you feel? Shall we go back to our comfortable home, and leave all this
+suffering behind us, when we might do our little to help? Shall we,
+Nancy? I have no right to insist upon your staying; but don't you think
+we ought to stay? and won't you stay with me?"
+
+"Indeed I will," was the quick answer. "I hated to leave the poor
+fellows, but I did not see what else to do. The General won't like it
+one bit though. And your father, Mistress Elizabeth?"
+
+"The General has no authority over me. I'm not one of his soldiers. And
+as to my father, it's all right with him."
+
+Yet she felt very desolate when the ship which was to have carried them
+had gone with its companion vessel, and from the door of one of the
+hospital tents she stood watching the white sails in the distance. But
+it was not that resolution had failed her; for she would have made the
+same decision over again if she had been called upon at the moment.
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII.
+
+THE NIGHT ATTACK.
+
+
+As Elizabeth stood at the door of the hospital tent looking after the
+Smithhurst, General Pepperell came along, alone, in a brown study, his
+brows knit and his face troubled. For though the French ship-of-war,
+"Vigilant" had been captured, Louisburg had not, and every day was
+adding to the list of soldiers in the hospitals. But when he saw her, he
+stopped, and his expression, at first of surprise, changed to anger.
+
+"What does this mean?" he said abruptly. "The ship has sailed. I sent
+you word in time."
+
+"Yes," she answered.
+
+"Then what does it mean?" he reiterated, "Why are you here?"
+
+"It means," she returned, resenting the authority of his tone, "that
+when New England men are fighting and suffering and dying for their
+country, New England women have not learned how to leave them in their
+need, and sail away to happy homes. That's what it means, General
+Pepperell." As she spoke she saw Archdale behind the General; he had
+come up hastily as Pepperell stood there.
+
+"Thought you were in a desperate hurry to be off," said Pepperell dryly.
+
+Elizabeth blushed. She was convicted of changeableness, and she felt
+that she had been impatient. "Forgive me," she said. "So I was. But I
+did not realize then what I ought to do."
+
+"Um! Where's your father?"
+
+"Just gone out in the dispatch boat to the fleet."
+
+"Does he know of this--this enterprise? Of course, though," he corrected
+himself, "since he has not sailed."
+
+"Yes, of course," she said. "He stays with me. But," she added, "I
+suppose he expected me to ask you about it first."
+
+"And you knew I wouldn't consent--hey?"
+
+The girl smiled without speaking. "Mr. Royal is over-indulgent," he went
+on decidedly.
+
+"Perhaps," answered Elizabeth, "He thinks that a little over-indulgence
+in being useful will not be bad for me. You assured both Nancy and me
+that we were doing good service, real service, and that you should be
+sorry to lose us."
+
+"So you have done, and I shall be sorry to lose you, both personally and
+for the cause. Nevertheless, I shall send you home at once. Your father
+would never have consented to your staying if he had realized the
+danger. I never know where the shells will burst. I'll stop work upon
+that schooner that you came in, and send you home again in it. It's
+fitting up now as a fire-ship, but it can be made fairly comfortable.
+Your safety must be considered."
+
+"Why is my safety of any more importance than the soldiers'? No,
+General, you have no right to send me away. I refuse to go. I am not
+speaking of military right, understand, but of moral right."
+
+Pepperell gave a low whistle.
+
+"That's it, is it?" he said. "One thing, however; if you stay, you must
+submit to my orders. You are under military law."
+
+"I surely will. And now thank you," she returned with a smile so winning
+that, although for her own sake Pepperell had been angry, he relented.
+
+"Oh, of course, it's very good in you, my dear," he said. "Don't think I
+forget that."
+
+Capt. Archdale had been standing a little apart looking out to sea
+during a conversation in which he had no place. Now as he perceived the
+General about to move on, he came forward and spoke to Elizabeth. "You
+know that you are running a great risk?" he said to her gravely.
+
+"Yes," she answered him, "or at least somewhat of a risk. When did you
+come back from your reconnoitering party?"
+
+"The night before last," he said, not pursuing a subject that she did
+not wish to discuss with him. Elizabeth heard something hard in his
+voice, and saw a new sternness in his face that made her wonder suddenly
+if Katie's letter had lacked any kindness that Stephen deserved from her
+as he stood in the midst of danger and death. Could she have shown
+coquetry, or in any way teased him now?
+
+"Well, good-by for the present, my dear, and Heaven keep you," said the
+General, giving her hand a cordial pressure. Archdale bowed, and the two
+went on, Pepperell at first full of praises of Elizabeth's courage,
+though he regretted her decision. But life and death hung upon his skill
+and promptness, and he had little time for thoughts of anything but his
+task. Henceforth he only took care that Mr. Royal and his daughter were
+as well protected, and as well cared for as circumstances permitted.
+
+Yet, one evening soon afterward, he saw something which for the
+moment interested him very much. Elizabeth, with Nancy Foster who was
+now more companion than maid, was walking slowly toward her tent. Both
+were looking at the gorgeous sunset. Its brilliancy, vying with that
+of the deadly fireworks, offered a contrast all the more striking in
+its restfulness and happy promise. The two women had grown somewhat
+accustomed to the cannonade, and as they went on they seemed to be
+talking without noticing it. Just then a figure in captain's uniform
+came quickly up the slope toward them, and with a most respectful
+salute, stood bare-headed before Elizabeth.
+
+"Edmonson," commented the General even before he caught sight of
+his face. "Nobody else has that perfection of manner. Stephen won't
+condescend to it. Edmonson is the most graceful fellow I know. And, upon
+honor, I believe he is the most graceless. But his theories can't harm
+that woman." Yet as Pepperell stood watching the young man's expression
+now that it was turned toward him, and understood by his gestures the
+eager flow of words that was greeting Elizabeth, he held his breath a
+moment with a new perception, muttered a little, and stood staring with
+the frown deepening on his face. He wanted to catch her answering look,
+but she had turned about in speaking and her back was toward him. In an
+impatient movement at this, he changed his own range of vision somewhat,
+and all at once caught sight of another face, also bent upon Elizabeth
+with eager curiosity to catch her expression. Pepperell turned away
+delighted. "After all, he's not too much of a grand seigneur to have
+a little human curiosity," he chuckled, watching the new figure. "Yes,
+we'll do very well to go on a reconnoitering expedition together, you
+and I, Captain Archdale!" And he laughed to himself as he slipped
+quietly away, without having been perceived. "More news to write to
+pretty Mistress Katie," he commented, still full of amusement. Then
+his thoughts went back again to the problem that was growing daily
+more perplexing. And as he was again becoming absorbed in it, he was
+conscious of an undercurrent of wonder that he could ever have laughed.
+The thing next to be done was to make an attack up Island Battery, the
+one most serviceable to the enemy, most annoying to themselves. So long
+as that belched forth its fires against them, Warren's fleet must remain
+outside, and there could be no combined attack upon the city, and
+Louisburg was still unconquerable. Any day might bring a French fleet to
+its rescue, and then the game was up. Beyond question, Island Battery
+must be attacked, but it was a difficult and dangerous attempt, and
+Pepperell sat with his head upon his hand, thinking of the men that must
+fall even if it were successful. Still, every day now some among the
+soldiers were smitten down by disease and the French ships were nearer.
+It was only a question of sacrificing a part of his army or the whole of
+it. Warren was right to urge the measure, and it must be pressed upon
+his Council. But Pepperell felt as if he were being asked to sign a
+hundred death-warrants.
+
+It was not quite time for the members of his Council to assemble. He
+went to the nearest battery where the firing was hottest, sighted the
+direction of the guns, examined the state of the city walls where these
+had been played upon by them, cheered the gunners with his praise, even
+jested with one of them, and left the men more full of confidence in
+him, more desirous than ever to please him, and, if possible, more
+resolved to win the day. Not a trace of anxiety in his face or his tones
+had betrayed the weight that was upon him. Then he went back to his
+tent. The Council had assembled. When he took his place at the head,
+he had forgotten the incident that a few minutes before had moved him
+to laughter.
+
+Archdale stood motionless. The underbrush hid him from the speakers, and
+he was too far off to hear a word. It seemed to him that Elizabeth
+wished to shorten the interview, for soon Edmonson with another of his
+inimitable bows retired and she passed on. As Stephen caught sight of
+her face he saw that it was troubled. "He shall not persecute her," he
+said to himself. Nancy had gone on while Edmonson was speaking to her
+mistress, and now Elizabeth following was almost at the door of her
+temporary home, when a hand was laid heavily upon Archdale's shoulder,
+and Vaughan's hearty voice cried;--
+
+"Come on! I'm going to speak to our charming, brave young lady there.
+I want to tell her how proud of her courage I am. Come on! he repeated.
+Stephen followed. He had not taken her determination in this way. He
+thought her unwise and rash, and hated to have her there. And yet he
+could not deny that the camp had seemed a different place since she had
+entered it.
+
+"You take it that way," he said to Vaughan. "But I think we should be
+feeling that she may get hit some of these days, or be down with fever."
+
+"We'll hope not," returned the other cheerfully. "Let us look on the
+bright side. She is doing a work of mercy, and we will trust that a
+merciful Providence will protect her. We were just talking about you,
+Mistress Royal," he continued, striding up to Elizabeth and grasping her
+hand warmly. "Stephen, here, says he's always thinking you'll get hit
+somehow, or get a fever. I say, look on the bright side of things,
+'trust in the Lord,' as old Cromwell used to put it."
+
+"'And keep your powder dry,'" finished Archdale. "It's not safe to quote
+things by halves. Decidedly, this staying is not a prudent thing."
+
+"I didn't know that beseiging Louisburg could be called a prudent
+thing," she returned. "And so we're all in the same boat."
+
+"Ha! ha!" laughed Vaughan. "You have him there, Mistress Royal. He's
+always in the hottest places himself; he likes them best."
+
+"Somebody else likes them, too; somebody else who can capture Royal
+Battery with thirteen men," said Elizabeth. "I knew long ago that you
+were a genuine war-horse, Colonel Vaughan. Give me credit for my
+discernment."
+
+"Yes, yes, I remember," assented the other with the embarrassment of
+courage at finding itself commended. "But, really, against such a
+cowardly crew as those fellows were, there's no credit at all to be
+gained."
+
+She made him a bright reply, and Archdale listened in silence as they
+talked. But she noticed his gloomy face, and secretly wondered if it
+was anxiety about Edmonson that troubled him, or if possibly, he was
+displeased with Katie. But she put away for the second time the latter
+suggestion. The girl had never looked prettier or been more affectionate
+than when she had said good-by to her and given her the letter for
+"poor, brave Stephen," as she had tearfully called him. Archdale could
+not help listening to Elizabeth; there seemed to be a witchery about her
+whenever she opened her lips. It was probable that Edmonson felt it, he
+thought. And he began to wonder how things would all end. Perhaps they
+should all be shot and the affair wind up like some old tragedy where
+the board is swept clean for the next players. For his part, too much
+had gone from his life to make the rest of it of interest. Elizabeth
+turned to him.
+
+"Are you busy?" she asked. "I mean are you on duty?"
+
+"No," he answered, wondering what was coming, and noticing that her
+tall, slight figure seemed all the more elegant for the simplicity of
+her dress. "Can I do anything for you?" he added.
+
+"Yes, thank you," she answered, "You can, if you are willing. I am going
+to get some medicine that the doctors have asked me to keep, because it
+is very powerful, and they were afraid lest some of the men would be
+careless with it. Nancy is bringing the bandages. Here she is now. Thank
+you," as the girl put a phial into her hand. "There is extra work to be
+done to-day," she went on, turning again to Archdale, "and we are short
+of hands. If you don't mind, and will come, we shall be glad of your
+help."
+
+Captain Archdale playing at nurse with private soldiers! The young man
+did not fancy the idea at all; he would much rather have led a forlorn
+hope.
+
+But no forlorn hope offered, and this did. Of course he would do
+anything for Mistress Royal, but this was not for her at all. He had
+half a mind to excuse himself. As the suggestion came to him, he looked
+into the steady eyes that were watching him fathoming his reluctance,
+ready for approval or for scorning as the answer might be. His look took
+in her whole appearance, and set him wondering if the privates, some of
+whom had been even his neighbors and his boyish playfellows, could
+offend his dignity more than hers? He began to wonder how her eyes would
+change if they looked at him approvingly.
+
+"I will go with pleasure, if you'll put up with an awkward fellow," he
+answered. And Colonel Vaughan who was looking on was not aware that he
+had hesitated.
+
+Elizabeth's eyes darkened. She smiled and nodded her head slightly, as
+if to say, "I knew you would do it." But after this the trace of a smile
+lurked for a moment in the corners of her mouth, as if she might have
+added: "I know, too, what it has cost you." But she said nothing at all
+to Archdale. She bade good-by to Colonel Vaughan who protested that he
+wished he was not upon duty, and turned again toward the hospital.
+Suddenly Archdale thought that she might have been asking the same thing
+of Edmonson when she had been talking with him just before. If she had,
+it was very certain that Edmonson had found an engagement immediately.
+Upon the whole, Archdale was satisfied to have done what the other would
+not do. So that it was just as well he did not know that that other had
+not been asked.
+
+Was there ever another woman in the world like this one, he asked
+himself late that night, recalling that she had been for hours beside
+him, treating him just as if he were a crook to raise a soldier's head,
+if she wanted to rearrange his pillow, or a machine to reel off bandages
+round that poor Melvin's shattered arm, or to do any other trying
+service, and never even imagine that he would like to be thanked or
+treated humanely, while every look and word and thought of hers was for
+the soldiers. It was so different from what he had always found, and yet
+there was the nobleness of self-forgetfulness in the difference. But for
+all this vivid memory of those hours, it was imagination rather than
+recollection that occupied him most with her when she had left him. For
+he was picturing how she would look, and what she would say, when she
+read the letter that he had slipped into her hand as she was going away.
+He recalled her look of amazement, her beginning:--"Why, it's--" and
+then breaking off abruptly, perceiving that only peculiar circumstances
+could have made him give her Katie's letter to read, and perhaps
+divining the truth. For she had suddenly became very grave and had
+replied absently to his good-night, as on her father's she had turned
+from the hospital. The young man, wondering how she would receive the
+news of Katie's treachery, asked himself what she could find now in
+excuse for the girl who had used her faithful friend as the unconscious
+messenger of her broken plight? Stephen knew well enough that the old
+glamour would come back, but to-night he was full only of indignation
+against Katie. To have used Elizabeth as she had done was an added sin.
+
+"I wish Bulchester joy of her," he muttered, then with a sharp breath
+recollected that this was only a respite, that he should not always feel
+too scornful for pain.
+
+Three nights after this there was a silent and solemn procession down to
+the shore. Island Battery was to be attacked. Here was Archdale's
+forlorn hope ready for him, if he wanted it now. Every chance of success
+depended upon secrecy. The venture was so desperate that the General
+could not make up his mind to pick out the men himself, he called for
+volunteers. They came forward readily, incited, not only by courage and
+the desire to end the siege, but by ambition to be distinguished among
+their comrades who stood about them in hushed expectation. Every soldier
+off duty and able to crawl to the shore, and some who should not have
+attempted it were there. Among this crowd stood two women, scarcely
+apart from the others, and yet everywhere that they moved, given place
+to with the unobtrusive courtesy that has always marked American men, so
+that one woman in a host of them feels herself, should danger come, in
+an army of protectors, and otherwise alone. Elizabeth had meant to be
+here earlier, and to put herself by the General's side, for her father
+had gone with dispatches to the fleet, but her duties had detained her,
+and now she was separated from him by nearly a regiment. She stood
+silent in an anxiety that did not lessen because she told herself that
+it was foolish.
+
+Captain Brooks was to command the expedition, and the number of men
+needed to accompany him was fast being made up from the eager
+volunteers. In the dimness she recognized Archdale by an unconscious
+haughtiness of bearing, and Edmonson's voice, though lowered to suit the
+demands of the hour, made her shiver. Yet why? Of course they both were
+here; volunteers were stepping out from the ranks of their companies.
+But they themselves were not going, neither would they be left here
+alone together. Boat after boat with scaling ladders was filled with
+soldiers and shoved off, some of them out of sight in the dimness where
+the men, lying on their oars, waited for their comrades. In this way
+one after another disappeared. Things went on well. Elizabeth began
+to be reassured, to be occupied with the scene about her, to remember
+the importance of the expedition and how many times it had been
+unsuccessfully attempted. She began to think of the attack, of the
+result, and of the soldiers, to rejoice in them, to be proud of them,
+and to tremble for them, as one who has no individual interest at stake.
+
+It was only at night that the attempt could be made, only in certain
+states of the tide, and still at the best time it was a terrible
+venture; the work was new for the troops; the walls were high, the enemy
+was vigilant. With a sigh she saw another boat shove off to its fate.
+
+The volunteering slackened, either because so many of the men left were
+aware that fatigue and illness had undermined their strength, or because
+the night had grown lowering and the ominous roar of breakers reached
+them from their landing place. Finally a distinct pause came in answer
+to the call: "Who next?"--a pause that lasted a minute, and that, had it
+lasted another, would have meant discouragement, and perhaps despair.
+
+"I," said a firm voice, and Elizabeth saw Stephen Archdale step into the
+boat. A strange feeling came over her for a moment, then a wave of
+admiration for his heroism. If he were to die, it would be a soldier's
+death. Yet, there would be so many to mourn him. If he went to his death
+in this way, how would Katie feel? General Pepperell started forward, as
+if to prevent his embarking, then restrained himself. The men responded
+rapidly after this example, until the boat needed only one more. Then
+there fell upon Elizabeth's ears, a name more frightful to her than the
+boom of the surf or the roar of cannon, and Edmonson stepped in and
+seated himself opposite Archdale.
+
+"Two captains in one boat!" she heard a soldier remonstrate.
+
+"Nonsense! we're full. Shove off instantly, you laggards. Every minute
+tells," said the newcomer in a hoarse undertone.
+
+Elizabeth sprang forward. "No, no," she cried impetuously, forgetting
+everything but the terror.
+
+But the calling of the names was going on again, and her voice was
+unheard, except by a few who stood near her. Before she could make her
+way up to the General, the boat pulled by the vigorous strokes of the
+men who had been taunted as laggards, had shot out of sight. "Oh! bring
+them back, bring back that last boat," she implored Pepperell in such
+distress that he, knowing her a woman not given to idle fears, felt a
+sense of impending evil as he answered:
+
+"My dear, I cannot. No boat is sure of meeting it in the dark, and to
+call would endanger the expedition."
+
+There was no use in explaining now. She would have occasion enough to do
+it sometime, she feared; and then it would be useless. To-night she
+could say nothing. All these days she had dreaded what might come, for
+it did not seem to her that Captain Archdale took any care at all.
+Still, in the camp, out of general action, and surrounded by others,
+there had been comparative safety.
+
+Now the hour, the place, and the purpose had met. Through the darkness
+Stephen Archdale was going to his doom.
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII.
+
+A WOUNDED MAN.
+
+
+The General sent Elizabeth away very kindly. She sent the weary Nancy to
+bed and went back to the hospital. But anxiety mastered her so that she
+could not keep her hands from trembling or her voice from faltering when
+there was most need for steadiness.
+
+"You are exhausted, Mistress Royal, you ought not to be here," said one
+of the surgeons sternly. "Go and rest."
+
+"Oh, please let me stay," she pleaded with a humility so new that he
+looked at her with curiosity.
+
+"Hush!" said his assistant making an excuse to draw him aside. "Don't
+you know she's been watching the men set out for the Fort?"
+
+Elizabeth found words of comfort for a soldier who was mourning because
+his wife would have no one to look after her, if he died. "I will help
+her," she said. And then, by the light of the flaring candle, she wrote
+down the woman's address. She repeated verses of Scripture for some who
+asked her for them, and found a little steadiness of voice in doing it.
+But through everything she saw Archdale's vigorous form and heard
+Edmonson's passionate voice and his words. With such a marksman, and at
+such range, how could a shot stray!
+
+But she dreaded still more the time when the expedition should return.
+To-night she bitterly regretted that the General had not been told her
+errand, and saw that when Mr. Royal urged it, it had been the wish to
+save her that had made Stephen Archdale ask him not to do it.
+
+Three hours after the start she heard that the expedition had failed.
+All that was left was returning, the wounded would soon be brought in.
+Her little strength deserted her for the moment She sank down helpless
+in the shadow. Then she rose and went forward.
+
+As the boat lay rocking on the waves waiting for the others, Archdale
+took his bearings. Leaning towards the stern, he said to one of his
+men:--
+
+"Greene will you change places with me?" If the man had thought the
+request more than a whim, he would have supposed it to be because the
+captain considered his new choice a more dangerous post. Archdale
+seating himself again glanced toward the bow. He was now on the same
+side with Edmonson and the fourth man from him. It would be somewhat
+difficult to have the latter's gun go off by accident and be sure of its
+mark, and Greene was safe so far as exemption from an enemy at hand was
+concerned. Archdale would have preferred Edmonson's left hand but when
+it came to disembarking, his enemy should precede him.
+
+"Better cushions?" asked Edmonson with a sneering laugh under which he
+tried to hide his anger. "Can't see any other motive for your running
+the risk of capsizing us."
+
+"It is very presumptuous to do anything for which Captain Edmonson
+cannot see the motive," returned Archdale haughtily.
+
+"By Heavens!" cried Edmonson in another moment "You're bound to die in
+character if it come to a question of dying and of course it will with
+some of us."
+
+Stephen made no answer. He felt more strongly than ever that he needed
+good eyes and firm nerves. To be killed like a rat in a trap! His blood
+ran too warm in his veins to submit tamely to this. When the struggle
+should come yonder it mattered little whether it was by Edmonson's shot
+or another's, for if he fell in the heat of the conflict it would always
+be said that he died a soldier's death. And if he lived to come back
+Edmonson, should take boat first. He turned himself slightly toward his
+foe, and sat silent and observant.
+
+Had Elizabeth noticed them enter the boat together? He had thought of
+saying good-by, for his volunteering was no sudden resolve, but had been
+his determination from the first. But if he died, what real difference
+would that make to her? And if he came back, the leave taking would seem
+an absurdity. He seemed still to see the outline of her slender figure,
+as with her shawl wrapped about her like a mantle she had stood
+bare-headed in the cold May evening.
+
+Had he dreamed that Edmonson had learned of Katie's desertion, and was
+full of rage at every word of courtesy or interest that he spoke to
+Elizabeth, he would have felt his chance of life still less.
+
+"Can't you hitch along, you fellow next me?" cried Edmonson. "I'm so
+cramped here I can't move a muscle, and I suspect we shall want them all
+in good order pretty soon. We are coming up to the old walls. Swift and
+steady, boys. Every man be ready with his muskets."
+
+As he spoke, he took up his own weapon and examined it in the dimness.
+Then, still holding it in his right hand, he laid that arm along the
+edge of the boat as if to relieve it from the cramped position he had
+complained of. Archdale saw that the muzzle was pointed directly at him
+and that the hand which held it in apparent carelessness was working
+almost imperceptibly towards the trigger. That would not be touched
+quite yet, however, a shot now would alarm the garrison and be
+inexcusable. The accident would happen in the excitement of landing.
+Archdale's left hand that he with as great indifference as Edmonson's
+laid upon the boat's edge was steady. He leaned forward a little to be
+out of range, and they went on in silence.
+
+The clouds grew denser, the waves swelled more and more at the violence
+of the wind, and the storm, nearer every minute, seemed about to unite
+with the fiery storm that awaited the devoted band.
+
+"Look," said Archdale suddenly, "I believe they have discovered us." He
+raised his left hand as he spoke, and pointed to the Battery. Lights
+were glancing there, and something had given it an air of ponderous
+observation, as if eyes were looking through the walls and movements
+going on behind them. All the men scanned the battery earnestly except
+the speaker whose eyes were watchfully turned upon his neighbor, and who
+for reward saw Edmonson's fingers covertly placing themselves on the
+trigger, while his face was still toward the fortifications.
+
+"Yes, it's all up with us," cried the latter, "we are discovered,"
+In the movement of speech he was turning to Archdale, preparatory to
+dropping measuring eyes upon the musket, when the latter called out:--
+
+"See! they are going to fire." And with the words he dropped his left
+arm with a swift and accidental sweep by which his hand hitting forcibly
+against Edmonson's which was unprepared, struck it off the boat into the
+water. The pistol sent its ball spinning into the sea, running along
+Archdale's sleeve as it passed. The pistol itself lay under the water
+for the instant that Edmonson's hand rested there. The flintlock was
+wet, the weapon was useless.
+
+Its owner turned upon his clumsy companion in a rage. But before he
+could speak the guns of the battery blazed out, and in the iron shower
+that followed there was no thought for anything but that of saving
+themselves as much as possible.
+
+Round shot would have danced over the water and left them comparatively
+safe; but in the deadly hail of langrage such escape was impossible.
+Every moment of it inflicted torturing wounds or death. The boats were
+beeched with all speed at the foot of the monster which belched forth
+this red hot torrent wounding wherever it fell. But they had been thrown
+into confusion, and while some of them struggled to the shore, the
+occupants of others in their terror drew back out of harm's way, and
+left their comrades to their fate. Edmonson's was not the only flintlock
+wet, as the soldiers, weary and dispirited, toiled up from the surf.
+They tried their scaling ladders, they fought for a time with that
+desperate courage which never forsook them. Their captain cheered them
+with his bravest words and deeds, and Archdale and Edmonson were
+foremost in every post of danger until one fell badly wounded.
+
+But from the first the expedition was doomed. After an hour's conflict
+the recall was sounded, and the remnant of the scaling party straggled
+and staggered to their boats, some carrying wounded comrades, some
+themselves wounded and faint. But many had been taken prisoners by the
+French, and many lay dead and dying. Elizabeth stood waiting for the
+wounded to be brought in, and for the roll of the dead. The first man
+who came walking steadily toward her, turning about at every few steps
+to see that the men behind him were carrying their burden on their
+stretchers carefully, was Archdale.
+
+"You?" she said wonderingly. "I thought--I was afraid--."
+
+"Yes, I have come back," he answered; "and it is through your warning.
+Such as my life is, you have saved it."
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+[Footnote 5: Copyright, 1884, by Frances C. Sparhawk.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+EDITOR'S TABLE.
+
+
+It is surprising how few people, comparatively speaking, are aware of
+the fact, that the history of Boston has been treated as the history of
+no other city in this country has been. The year 1880 was the two
+hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding, and, commemorative of
+that year, a work, in four beautiful quarto volumes, has been issued in
+this city by Messrs. Ticknor and Company. The object of this work, and
+the importance attached to it is what leads us to speak of it in this
+place and at this time. This object is primarily to present the leading
+historical phases of the town's and city's life and developement,
+together with the traces of previous occupation, and the natural history
+of the locality. To accomplish this almost herculean task, the sections
+were assigned to writers well-known in their respective spheres,--many
+of them of national reputation,--who from study and associations were
+in a measure identified with their subjects. The entire work was
+critically edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University,
+with the co-operation of a committee appointed at a meeting of the
+gentlemen interested, consisting of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
+D.D., Samuel A. Green, M.D. and Charles Deane, LL.D. Now, it is not
+our purpose to enter into any description of this carefully planned,
+skilfully written, beautifully illustrated, printed and bound specimen
+of the art of book-making; but rather, again to call attention to its
+great merits and claims upon the interested public. The work deals
+almost exclusively with facts, and impartially also, and these facts are
+alike valuable to the man of letters, the man of science, the historian,
+the student, and the vast public whose patriotism invites them to
+seek the story of their city. A better conceived work has never been
+published on this continent; but it is unnecessary to commend what
+easily commends itself to the eye, the mind, and the purse of well-to-do
+people.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There is need of a more careful study of politics on the part of the
+people of this country. The recent elections in this State and in other
+States again recalls this need, and have again shown that altogether too
+many men cast their ballots, not in accordance with their intelligence
+or with their convictions, but as they are told to cast them. The first
+duty of an American citizen should be a thorough acquaintance with
+American political institutions, their origin, their growth and
+progress, their utility or their worthlessness. The right of suffrage is
+one of the inalienable rights of the people. It is one of their most
+sacred rights also, and ought not to be exercised except under most
+careful, candid and conscientious conditions.
+
+One cannot suppose, even for a moment, that our people are not aware of
+the accuracy of these assertions. We are not advocates of property
+ownership as a qualification of voting, nor would we seek to lay down
+any arbitrary _sine qua non_, to be rigidly adhered to in our
+system of voting. But, is it enough that a man should know how to read
+and write before he can cast a ballot? Do these qualifications comprise
+everything that is necessary to a proper and safe exercise of the right
+of suffrage? If so, then politics can never be formulated as a science,
+and politicians can never be regarded other than what many of them seem
+to be,--tricksters trading on the incredulity and ignorance of the
+masses. It is only when people understand _how_ and _why_ they
+vote, that they can vote intelligently.
+
+It may not be generally known that we have in this state, with allied
+organizations in other states, a Society for "Political Education,"
+carrying on its work by furnishing and circulating at a low price sound
+economic and political literature. Its aim is to publish at least four
+pamphlets a year on subjects of vital importance. During the present
+year, the "Standard Silver Dollar and the Coinage Law of 1878" has been
+treated by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, secretary of the society; "Civil
+Service Reform in Cities and States," by Edward M. Shepard; "What makes
+the Rate of Wages," by Edward Atkinson, and others have also been
+published,--in all sixteen pamphlets since the foundation of the
+Society.
+
+The first Secretary of the Society was Richard L. Dugdale, the author of
+the remarkable social study called "The Jukes." The twelfth number of
+the Economic Tracts of the Society gives a sketch of his life, and from
+it the following quotation is pertinent:--
+
+"The education of the people in true politics, it seemed to Mr. Dugdale
+and his associates, would not only greatly aid popular judgment on
+political questions, but would be a necessary preliminary to the
+election of public representatives and officers upon real issues. If
+elections were so held, successful candidates would come generally to be
+men competent to consider and expert in dealing with questions of state
+and administration. And if legislators and executives were so competent
+and expert, and were not merely men accomplished in intrigue or active
+in party contests, we should have from them conscientious and
+intelligent social reforms. Legislative committees, governors, mayors,
+commissioners of charities and corrections, superintendents of prisons,
+reformatories, almshouses, and hospitals, would then patiently listen
+and intelligently act upon discussions and of the condition of the
+extremely poor and the vicious, and especially of children and young men
+and women not yet hopelessly hardened."
+
+Few persons will deny that such a work as this needs everywhere to be
+done so that the charities of the country shall no longer be
+administered in the interests of a party.
+
+The Society has been in active operation about four years, and its
+success has thus far been most gratifying. It has already induced
+hundreds of people to make a careful study of American history and
+politics, and its influence is now felt throughout the length and
+breadth of this land. The very fact of such an effort is one of the
+encouraging signs of the times, and should be encouraged by all who aim
+for the welfare of the Republic.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But there is still another open field for work in this direction, and
+this perhaps lies more in the power of the people themselves. We allude
+to the necessity of public lectures, in every community, on the great
+themes pertaining to American politics and history. It must be evident
+to every observer that our so-called "Lyceum Courses" are to-day sadly
+deficient in efforts to educate the people. There is a perfect craze
+at the present time for concerts, readings, and a similar order of
+entertainments,--all of which are doubtless good enough of their kind
+and are capable of exerting a certain moral influence that cannot be
+questioned. But is it plausible that such pabulum meets all the needs of
+those people who frequent these entertainments? If it does, the fault
+lies with the people and not with those who are capable of amusing them.
+
+We would suggest to the public-spirited ladies and gentlemen living in
+our towns and cities to try the following experiment;--Plan a _lecture_
+course, to be filled by public speakers residing in your own
+communities. Establish a course of say four, six, eight, or a dozen
+evenings, and let only those questions be discussed which pertain to
+history, political economy, and politics. We venture the assertion that
+such a course, conducted thoroughly in an unpartisan spirit, would be
+well patronized, and would exert an influence for good. Never was there
+a better time to try the experiment than now.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The death of GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN at Newark, N.J.,
+October 29, reminds us how narrow is becoming the circle of living
+generals who took part in the great Civil War. It is two decades only
+since the struggle ceased; but, one by one, the famous leaders have
+passed away, and now McClellan has gone--the first to follow his great
+commander, Grant.
+
+It is not easy to comment upon the career of General McClellan without
+evoking, either from his admirers or his censors, the criticism of being
+unfair. To many, especially to the soldiers who fought under his
+leadership, he became an ideal of soldierly virtue, and has always held
+a warm place in their hearts; while to many others his military and
+civil career alike have seemed worthy only of disapprobation.
+
+It was natural that General McClellan should have a large and devoted
+following, for he was a man gifted with those personal qualities that
+always win popularity to their possessor, so that among the soldiers of
+the Army of the Potomac, and among those in civil life with whom he came
+in contact, he was usually regarded with admiration. As a military
+commander, it must be conceded by his most determined critics, even,
+that he possessed certain qualities unsurpassed by those of any other
+general in the war. This was true of his ability as an organizer of
+volunteer troups, in which capacity he probably rendered more effectual
+service than any other man in the Union army. He was also well versed
+in the science of war, and was a strategist of a higher order than has
+generally been conceded. As is often the case, he failed to receive just
+recognition of his really great abilities, because he lacked the needed
+complementary qualities. McClellan could admirably plan a campaign,
+and could perhaps have carried it to a brilliant issue, had all the
+circumstances conformed to his plan, but this not happening, he seemed
+unable to adapt his plan to the circumstances. Other generals with
+inferior plans would succeed by taking some sudden advantage at a
+critical time; McClellan on the contrary must either carry out his
+carefully arranged programme, or acknowledge himself foiled.
+
+That General McClellan was not a firm patriot is an assertion not
+entitled to any weight whatever. He was devoted to the cause of the
+Union, and in his career as a general we believe he should be given the
+credit of performing his duty to the best of his ability. That he could
+not triumph over unexpected obstacles was doubtless a cause of regret to
+him more than to any one else.
+
+General McClellan has been accused of an undue ambition for political
+preferment, and it must be admitted that he would have succeeded better
+in those positions to which he attained, had he been less solicitous for
+the future; but it is not yet proved that he ever enlisted unworthy or
+dishonorable means in the cause of his personal advancement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL RECORD.
+
+
+September 30.--Republican State Convention held in Springfield. The
+following ticket was nominated: Governor, Geo. D. Robinson of Chicopee;
+Lieut. Governor, Oliver Ames of Easton; Secretary of State, Henry B.
+Pierce of Abington; Treasurer, A.W. Beard of Boston; Auditor, Chas. R.
+Ladd of Springfield; Attorney General, Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence.
+With the exception of the office of treasurer, the ticket is the same as
+that of last year.
+
+October 1.--The Converse Memorial library building was formerly
+presented to the city of Malden by its donor, Hon. Elisha S. Converse.
+Hon. John D. Long made the dedicatory address. The building cost
+$100,000, and is one of the finest examples of architecture in the
+state.
+
+October 7.--Democratic State Convention at Worcester. The following
+ticket was nominated: Governor, Frederick O. Prince of Boston;
+Lieutenant-Governor, H.H. Gilmore of Cambridge; Secretary of State,
+Jeremiah Crowley of Lowell; Attorney General, Henry K. Braley of Fall
+River; Treasurer, Henry M. Cross of Newburyport.
+
+October 8.--Eight monuments were unveiled upon the battle-field of
+Gettysburg by Massachusetts veterans. The regiments which have erected
+these monuments and the principal speakers upon the occasion, were as
+follows:--
+
+The Twelfth Infantry. The monument is on Seminary Ridge. Col. Cook of
+Gloucester presided, George Kimball of Boston delivered the principal
+address, and comrade Gilman read a poem.
+
+The Eleventh Infantry dedicated its monument on the Emmittsburg Road,
+Capt. W.T. Monroe presided, and James H. Croft of Boston made the
+address.
+
+The Nineteenth Infantry monument on Cemetery Ridge was dedicated; J.W.
+Sawyer, presiding, Lieut. Geo. M. Barry and C.C. Coffin making
+addresses.
+
+The Third Battery has erected a monument. Formal exercises were not held
+here at this time, but the dedication was made with remarks by comrade
+Patch.
+
+The First Battery dedicated a monument in the National Cemetery. Remarks
+were made by G.H. Patch and H.I. Hall.
+
+The Eighteenth Infantry. The monument stands near the wheat field, and
+was dedicated with an address by Col. Wm. B. White of Quincy.
+
+The Second Sharpshooters. The monument is in the form of a statue and
+was dedicated. N.S. Sweet gave the address.
+
+The First Cavalry dedicated a monument near the Round Tops, Major Chas.
+G. Davis, delivered the address.
+
+October 13-16.--Seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions observed in Boston. The annual sermon
+was preached the 13th in Tremont Temple by Rev. Geo. Leon Walker D.D. of
+Hartford. A special discourse was delivered the 14th in the same hall by
+Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D. of Brooklyn. The attendance was the largest in
+the history of the Board, taxing the fullest capacity of Tremont Temple,
+Music Hall, and various churches simultaneously. Over 10,000 people were
+present on one evening and many were turned away. The Rev. Mark Hopkins,
+D.D. was re-elected president of the Board.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+
+September 26.--HON. WALDO COLBURNE, a Justice of the Supreme
+Judicial Court of Massachusetts, died at his home in Dedham, at the age
+of 60 years.
+
+Judge Colburn was born in Dedham, Nov. 13, 1824, and at 15 years of age
+he entered Phillips Academy at Andover, graduating therefrom in 1842 in
+the "English Department and Teachers' Seminary," which at that time was
+entirely distinct from the classical course. In the following year he
+entered the classical department, where he remained until the summer of
+1845, when he left the academy and for the two years following engaged
+in various pursuits, chiefly, however, civil engineering and surveying.
+On May 13, 1847, he entered the law office of Ira Cleveland, Esq., at
+Dedham, and on May 3, 1850, was admitted to the Norfolk County Bar. In
+the meantime he had spent some time at the Harvard Law School, and soon
+took a leading position in Norfolk county, which he always maintained.
+On May 27, 1875, he was appointed one of the Judges of the Superior
+Court by Gov. Gaston, and on Nov. 10, 1882, Gov. Long selected him to
+fill a vacancy existing in the Supreme Court. Judge Colburn was a
+Democrat, and had filled several positions of trust and responsibility
+in his native town. In 1853 and 1854 he represented Dedham in the
+Massachusetts House of Representatives, and as Chairman of the committee
+on Railroads earnestly opposed the loaning of the State's credit to the
+Hoosac Tunnel scheme. In 1870 he was a member of the Senate from the
+Second Norfolk District, and as a member of the Judiciary Committee
+drafted the well-known corporation act. He was Chairman of the Board of
+Selectmen of Dedham from 1855 to 1864, and during the war his services
+were important and valuable. He was President of the Dedham Institution
+for Savings and a director of the Dedham National Bank.
+
+Judge Colburn was naturally a man of robust constitution and excellent
+health, and, until his prostration shortly before his death, had never
+been obliged to neglect his official duties for a day on account of
+sickness.
+
+October 6.--Hon. Thomas Talbot, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts, died at
+this home in Billerica at the age of sixty-seven years. He was born at
+Cambridge, N.Y. Sept. 7, 1818, and subsequently removed with the family
+to Danby, Vt. After the death of the father, the family removed to
+Northampton, Mass. and Thomas at the age of thirteen began work in a
+woolen factory. In the winters of 1837 and 1838 he attended an academy
+at Cummington. Soon after, he joined his father in North Billerica, and
+the long manufactoring career of C.P. Talbot & Co. was begun. The firm
+still continues in the manufacture of woolen flannels, employing between
+two and three hundred hands.
+
+Mr. Talbot's first public service of note was as Representative from
+Billerica in the Legislature of 1852, and he was a member of the
+Constitutional Convention the following year. He was elected a member of
+the Executive Council in 1864, and served five years in that honorable
+capacity in association with Governors Andrew, Bullock and Claflin. In
+1872 Mr. Talbot was elected by the Republicans as Lieutenant Governor
+upon the same ticket with Hon. William B. Washburn, who was elected as
+Governor. Re-elected with Governor Washburn in 1873, he became Acting
+Governor when, during the legislative session of 1874, Governor Washburn
+was elected as United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
+death of Hon. Charles Sumner. One of the first important acts of his
+official life after this event was the approval of the "Ten-Hour bill."
+
+In the same year Mr. Talbot received the Republican nomination for
+Governor but was defeated by Hon. William Gaston. In 1878 he again had
+the nomination, and was elected over Gen. Butler, Judge Abbott and A.A.
+Miner.
+
+He was presidential elector in 1876 and 1884, and was chairman of the
+State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity from its establishment in 1879
+to 1884.
+
+Mr. Talbot was strictly a temperance man and was a professed
+Prohibitionist.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AMONG THE BOOKS.
+
+
+The preparation of elaborately illustrated editions of standard poems
+especially for the holiday trade has become a very prominent feature of
+the book publishing business. Every year seems to mark an increased
+beauty and variety in the work which the artist contributes to these
+holiday books, and many classic works of literature are read with
+clearer meaning and vastly greater delight, by reason of the intelligent
+interpretations often given in the illustrations of our best artists of
+the day.
+
+Among the most tasteful as well as sumptuous art volumes of the last
+three years have been James R. Osgood & Co.'s "The Lady of the Lake,"
+"The Princess," and "Marmion." For a similar book for this season,
+Messrs, Ticknor & Co., the successors of the old firm, have taken as a
+subject Lord Byron's _Childe Harold_.[6] Of the poem nothing need
+be said here, for it is universally accepted as Byron's greatest and
+best; but of the illustrations, pages of praise could easily be written.
+The poem itself has been a fertile theme for the artists, for the scene
+is made to shift from one to another of the most beautiful and romantic
+localities of the Rhine, of Spain, Italy and Greece, and most of the
+illustrations are true representations of castles, ruins, palaces and
+natural scenery in these ancient countries.
+
+All of the illustrations in the volume are from wood, in the production
+of which the most famous American artists and engravers have given their
+best work, all of it having been under the supervision of Mr A.V.S.
+Anthony.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Scarcely a year has elapsed since the appearance of the first volume of
+Mr. BLAINE'S _Twenty Years in Congress_, which details the
+history of our time from the outbreak of Secession to the death of
+President Lincoln. To maintain the interest attached to that work, a
+second and concluding volume ought to have been published ere this.
+Indeed, the public had a right to expect it. But, now, another bid for
+public consideration and favor has been put forth under the rather
+attractive title of _Three Decades of Federal Legislation_.[7] The
+author is the Hon. S.S. Cox of New York, at one time a formidable
+opponent of Mr. BLAINE in the halls of Congress, and at the
+present time American minister to Turkey.
+
+Mr. COX was a member of Congress for twenty-four years, his
+four terms from an Ohio district covering the war and the period
+immediately preceding it. As a politician, he was always ranked on the
+Democratic side, and was universally regarded as one of the closest,
+most competent and most conscientious observer of men and things. His
+acknowledged literary skill and his passion for accuracy rendered it
+almost certain that his history would be both fascinating and truthful.
+Contemporary history is at the present moment in high favor. All
+intelligent people realize that the records of the last fifty years are
+of more vital importance to living Americans than are the annals of all
+previous eras. Hence, when a man so thoroughly equipped with the gifts
+of mind and of expression as Mr. Cox has shown himself to be in earlier
+books from his pen,--we say when such a man sets out to relate the story
+of his time, it follows without further argument that his work will not
+only be sought but will be read.
+
+The narrative covers the eventful work of Congress for the past thirty
+years, and gives a much fuller inside view of Federal legislation during
+this period than can be obtained from Mr. BLAINE'S more pretentious
+work. No period in our national history is so full of interest as the
+times of which our author writes. The revolt from English rule and the
+establishment of our national government was one of the grandest epochs
+in history. In that period were determined the issue of national
+independence; in this epoch of even greater magnitude, the issue of
+national existence. Both periods alike witnessed the most terrible
+conflicts of armies, of bloodshed and suffering in both periods was
+shown the exercise of the highest and most brilliant statesmanship;
+and in both periods the Federal Legislature was witness to events
+scarcely less exciting and decisive than occurred on hundreds of bloody
+battle-fields. The exciting period of Secession, the departure of
+Senators and Representatives from Congress, the proclamation of war, the
+call for troops, the great uprising of the people of all sections, North
+and South, against each other, the act of Emancipation, the sanguinary
+battles of, and the close of the war, the return of peace, the
+assassination of President Lincoln, the election of Grant, the Electoral
+Commission and the seating of Hayes, the resumption of specie payments
+and a host of other equally impressive episodes and events, find in Mr.
+Cox an impartial historian. Of the importance of such a work, there is
+no need of saying anything, and it is quite enough to remark that the
+book taken all in all, is perhaps the most important, because of its
+impartiality and accuracy, that has so far been published during the
+present year.
+
+We have alluded to the fact that the author was a prominent actor in
+nearly all the legislation of this long period, and that he consequently
+possesses that personal and absolute knowledge which comes from actual
+participation. The following extract which is taken at random from page
+117 of the volume discloses something of the author's happy faculty of
+seeing and describing things as they occurred to him. He says:--
+
+"Being upon the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of
+Representatives when the Trent affair occurred, the writer attended a
+dinner given by the Secretary at this then happy home. This was at a
+time when men held their breath in trepidation, lest Great Britain and
+the Powers of Europe might make the Trent matter the pretext to
+consummate their recognition of Southern independence. Some feared that
+a disparted Republic would have to give way before the jealous
+encroachments of those who sought to divide our country as they
+endeavored to imperialize Mexico.
+
+"The delightful interchanges of thought between the persons at that
+dinner are not so important as the fact that transpired toward its
+close. After the ceremonies of introduction, and the tenders of
+politeness to Mrs. Frederick W. Seward and Miss Olive Risley--the
+adopted daughter of the house--the guests who had been received by these
+ladies moved to the hospitable dining-hall. On the right of Mr. Seward
+was seated burly English heartiness incarnated in Mr. Anthony Trollope,
+the novelist. His presence was almost a surprise, if not a satire on the
+occasion, as it concluded. At the other end of the table sat John J.
+Crittenden. He was then chairman of Foreign Affairs in the House. The
+author was on his right, as he was nearer by sympathy to him than others
+on the committee. He used to say to the writer: 'My young friend, when I
+was of your age, I did all the work and the older members received the
+merit marks. You may do the work, sir, and I will take the credit.' With
+his grave humor and hearty confidence, he was wont to parcel out to the
+writer no inconsiderable quantity of the work of this most arduous of
+committees. Thus it happened that a bill for the relief of the owners of
+the Perthshire, seized by us, came to the hand of the writer for a
+report. The chairman was not a little astonished when he found that his
+subbordinate, on the 17th of December, 1861, was dilating on the Trent
+case, and quoting Robinson's Reports to justify the detention of the
+contraband plenipotentiaries, upon British precedents and conduct."
+
+From the foregoing selection, it will readily be seen that the author's
+style is strong, clear, rapid, and stimulating, his judgment sound and
+unprejudiced, and his materials authentic. His condition, experiences,
+and industry combine to throw new light on the events of the most
+remarkable epoch in natural history, and the volume, independent of Mr.
+Cox's reputation, is bound to be a success. It is at once the most
+picturesque and harmonious political history of our times that has thus
+far been written, and will, also, be generally looked upon as a solid
+and substantial contribution to American literature. We feel that we
+cannot commend it too highly.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In the Century magazine, last spring, Gen. George B. McClellan undertook
+to present his explanation of the failure of the Army of the Potomac
+while under his command. In his article, he assaulted the memories of
+Lincoln and Stanton, and attempted much more than he accomplished,--at
+least, so thinks the HON. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, who examines
+McClellan's statements in a book recently published. It bears the simple
+title, _Lincoln and Stanton_.[8] Of this volume, which for the
+first time makes many fresh disclosures, we hope to have something to
+say at another time.
+
+Senator SUMNER was once asked by Lord Brougham the origin and
+meaning of "caucus," and he replied: "It is difficult to assign any
+elementary to the word, but the most approved one referred its origin to
+the very town, and about the time (1772), of his lordship's birth."
+There is a tradition in Boston that "caucus" was a common word here
+before the Revolutionary war broke out, and that it originated in a feud
+between the British troops on the one side and the rope-walkers and
+calkers on the other. Bloody collisions, it is said, occurred between
+them. The latter held meetings in the _calkers' hall_ in the lower
+part of the city, at which resolutions were adopted and speeches made
+denouncing the soldiers, who, on their part deriding the wordy war
+offered, sneeringly snubbed their opponents "The Calkers," which by an
+easy corruption became "the caucus," and finally a term to denote the
+meetings.
+
+Whether this be the origin or not of the word, one thing is certain--Mr.
+George W. LAWTON has done a most commendable thing in the
+publication of his little book on _The American Caucus System_.[9]
+It is exceedingly useful, and the wonder is for us why some such work
+has not earlier issued from the press, for it meets the requirements of
+the multitudinous politicians and others who are never absent on "caucus
+nights." The author begins at the beginning of his theme, and shows how
+easily men, that is, mankind in general, choose to be controlled by
+political power, and to bear its burdens; he then establishes the axiom
+that the direction of political power is with the caucus, and goes on
+still further to explain what gives the caucus its authority, to compare
+caucus nominations with self-nominations, and then historically to trace
+the growth of the caucus, and, lastly, to describe the proceedings of,
+and how to conduct, a caucus meeting. From first to last, these pages
+are suggestive, timely, and embody a great deal of good sound sense.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The late Mr. Walter Bagehot left behind him some materials for a book
+which promised to make a landmark in the history of economics, by
+separating the use of the older, or Ricardian, economic reasonings from
+their abuse, and freeing them from the discredit into which they had
+fallen through being often misapplied. Unfortunately he did not complete
+more than the examination of two of their postulates, namely, the
+transferability of capital and labor. These were originally published in
+the _Fortnightly Review_, in 1876, and are now republished, with
+some other materials for the author's proposed work, under the title of
+_The Postulates of English Political Economy_.[10] These essays,
+which emanated from a well-trained, scientific mind, an independent
+thinker, and one who was perfectly free in his criticisms, deal almost
+exclusively with one side of what the author wished and intended to say;
+but as they stand, they prove that had he lived he would have shed much
+light on the problem, how the rapid changes of modern city life may help
+us to understand, by analogy and indirect inference, the slow changes of
+a backward people.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The pathos and humor which have immortalized many of WILL CARLETON'S
+earlier poems enter again into his _City Ballads_.[11] If ever a poet
+comprehended the human heart and the mainspring of its responses, it is
+he who gave us that wonderfully-common-place (by reason only of its
+theme) but delightful versification, "Betsey and I are out." His new
+collection embraces several pieces almost as striking in their
+character; and their wholesomeness and truthfulness of sentiment will
+win for them many readers. None of these poems are fanciful pictures of
+life which does not exist; but they are, on the contrary, faithful to
+the actualities of the living present. They portray metropolitan life
+as in a mirror, and depict the mishaps of the inexperienced therein in
+a way that is at once healthful and conducive to practical morality.
+Every poem is a story, which carries within itself a lesson not easily
+forgotten, and as a poem is almost invariably characterized by a
+pleasant rhythm and animation. The illustrations--and they are
+numerous--are excellent; indeed, one would not wish them to be better.
+These poems and pictures will find entrance into many homes ere the
+holiday season is ended.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One of the most astonishing successes, in a literary line, of recent
+years is Col. Higginson's "Young Folks' History of the United States."
+Published originally as a book for general readers, its superlative
+merits commended themselves to teachers, then led to the introduction of
+the work, as a text-book of history, into very many schools. No other
+work of the kind, we believe, has met with such signal favor or so
+richly deserves it. So far as it goes, it is by all odds the _ne plus
+ultra_ for school use.
+
+The same author has recently published what he terms _A Larger History
+of the United States_,[12] which, however, ends only with the close
+of President Jackson's administration. So far we fail to discover any
+_raison d'etre_ of the volume, unless its purpose is distinctly to
+bring together in a re-arranged form the series of illustrated papers on
+American history contributed by Mr. Higginson to Harper's Magazine
+during the past two years. If such is the author's purpose, then we have
+no fault to find with the work. But the term "_Larger_ History" is,
+in this case, a misnomer. The book does _not_ contain as much
+matter as the earlier work to which we have alluded, and it is not, so
+far as we can make out, written for older readers. It does not strike
+one as being a history at all,--that is, a straightforward, logical, and
+continuous narrative coinciding with those exemplar types of historical
+writing bequeathed to us by Macaulay or by Motley. The book ends, as we
+have said, with the close of Jackson's administration; but we glean very
+little concerning the _administration_ and we are told much
+relative to "Old Hickory."
+
+Now, then, this may seem like finding fault with Mr. Higginson's book.
+If so, we have plainly asserted our reasons. But with his subject
+matter, and with his manner of treating it, everybody must be pleased.
+We have never read more charmful essays on the First Americans, the
+Visit of the Vikings, the Spanish Discoverers, the French Voyageurs, the
+Dawning of Independence, and the Great Western March, than appear
+between the covers of this beautiful volume. They are full of meat, and
+have the savor of fresh and studious investigation, and we feel grateful
+to their author for having provided so tempting a feast. What he says
+and the way he says it make us the more to regret the unfortunate title
+of his book.
+
+The illustrations, which are numerous, are veritable works of art, and
+we do not believe that any other American book can exhibit a finer or
+more valuable series of portraits of American statesmen. This feature
+alone should commend it to lovers of fine books, of which the present
+issue is decidedly one. We are not informed whether a second volume is
+forthcoming.
+
+
+[Footnote 6: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romance. By Lord Byron.
+Boston: Ticknor & Co. Price, in cloth, $6.00.]
+
+[Footnote 7: Three Decades of Federal Legislation, from 1855 to 1885. By
+the Hon. S.S. Cox, 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 726. Illustrated. Providence, R.I.;
+J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1885. Price, $5.00, (sold only by subscription.)]
+
+[Footnote 8: LINCOLN AND STANTON. A study of the war
+administration of 1861 and 1862, with special consideration of some
+recent statements of Gen. George B. McClellan, By Wm. D. Kelley. 8vo,
+pp. 88. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Price, $1.00.]
+
+[Footnote 9: The American Caucus System; its origin, purpose, and
+utility. By George W. Lawton. 1 vol. pp. 107. New York: G.P. Putnam's
+Sons, 1885. Price, $1.00.]
+
+[Footnote 10: The Postulates of English Political Economy. By the late
+Walter Bagehot, with a preface by Alfred Marshall. 1 vol. pp. 114. New
+York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Price $1.00.]
+
+[Footnote 11: CITY BALLADS. By Will Carleton, author of "Farm
+Ballads," "Farm Legends," etc. Illustrated. Square 8vo, pp. 180. New
+York: Harper & Brothers. Price $2.00.]
+
+[Footnote 12: A Larger History of the United States of America to the
+close of President Jackson's administration. By Thomas Wentworth
+Higginson. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, Portraits, and other Engravings.
+1 vol. 8vo, pp. 470. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886. Price, $3.00.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+NOTES AND QUERIES.
+
+At the request of many of our readers, this new Department is initiated.
+Please address all queries and answers simply,--EDITOR OF THE BAY STATE
+MONTHLY, 43 Milk St., Boston.
+
+
+1.--In one of the old Readers, I find a selection, not credited to any
+author, and beginning as follows:--"Born, sir, in a land of liberty;
+having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict
+to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to
+secure its permanent establishment in my country, my anxious
+recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are
+irresistibly excited, whensoever in any country, I see an oppressed
+nation unfurl the banners of freedom." Will some one of your readers
+inform me who was the author of these words, and what was the occasion
+for their utterance?--W.T.D.
+
+2.--Sullivan, in his _Familiar Letters_, states (p. 26) that:
+"General Washington is well known to have expressed his heartfelt
+satisfaction that the important State of Massachusetts had acceded to
+the Union. There is much _secret history_ as to the efforts made to
+procure the rejection (of the constitution) on the one side, and the
+adoption on the other." Where can I find the fullest account of this
+"secret history?"--STUDENT.
+
+3.--Who was the first American woman to publicly espouse the cause of
+Anti-Slavery? I have lately seen several names mentioned?--M.S.
+
+4.--"Where can I find the best account of the Know-Nothings, that
+figured in American politics some years ago?"
+
+5.--The late Epes Sargent, in one of his sketches, says:--
+
+"Semmes took a pinch of snuff, and replied,--'You remember _Mrs.
+Glasse's_ well-known receipt for cooking a hare--First catch your
+hare!'"--_Who was Mrs Glasse?_--LATIN SCHOOL.
+
+6.--Where can I find a full account of the history of the Indian tribes
+of early Massachusetts? The various State Histories say but little about
+them.--ANTIQUARY.
+
+7.--Has the life of Robert Rantoul Jr. ever been written? If so, by
+whom?--H.A.D.
+
+8.--Most of our States have one capital; some have two--Providence and
+Newport, in Rhode Island for instance. Why two?
+
+9.--In Chandler Robbins' "History of the Second Church," under date of
+Oct. 7. 1762, occurs the following: "Voted that the singers sound the
+base at the end of the lines whenever they think proper." What is the
+explanation of this custom?
+
+10.--Bartlett does not give this: "To fleet the time carelessly, as they
+did in the golden world." Where is it to be found?--ELHEGOS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+"_Undoubtedly the most remarkable series of articles ever published
+in a magazine, and their popularity is in, accord with their
+merit_."--BROOKLYN EAGLE.
+
+_Of the numbers of_ THE CENTURY _from November, 1884 to April
+1885, six issues, more than a million and a quarter copies have already
+been published_.
+
+
+THE WAR PAPERS IN THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+With the number for November, 1884, the first issue of a new volume,
+there began to appear in this magazine a series of separate papers, the
+object of which is to tell in clear and graphic manner the stories of
+the great battles of the War for the Union; the authors being leading
+officers on both the Federal and Confederate sides, often the first in
+command, and always a participant in the engagement under consideration.
+The extraordinary increase in the circulation of the magazine since
+these papers were begun, and the reception by the public and the press
+of the material already printed, indicate the wide-spread popular
+interest in the plan.
+
+THE NOVEMBER CENTURY contains the paper by General G.T. Beauregard, of
+the Confederate army, describing "The Battle of Bull Run," with more
+than twenty illustrations, including portraits of McDowell, Johnston,
+"Stonewall" Jackson, and others. General Beauregard not only describes
+the battle, but touches upon his relations with Mr. Jefferson Davis, and
+the general conduct of the war.
+
+THE DECEMBER CENTURY contains the graphic description of "The Capture of
+Fort Donelson," by General Lew Wallace, with portraits of Buckner,
+Floyd, Pillow, and others among the illustrations, and a frontispiece
+portrait of General Grant, from a little-known photograph; also an
+autographic reproduction of General Grant's famous "Unconditional
+Surrender" letter, written to the Confederate commander at Fort
+Donelson.
+
+THE JANUARY CENTURY contains an illustrated article by Rear-Admiral
+Walke, describing the "Operations of the Western Flotilla," including
+engagements at Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Pillow, Fort Donelson, Memphis,
+and Island No. 10. Captain James B. Eads (who built the gun-boats)
+contributes to the same number a paper on "Recollections of Foote and
+the Gun-boats."
+
+_New readers of_ THE CENTURY _desiring to secure these three
+numbers, November, December, and January, and thus begin the War Series
+and Mr. Howells's new novel, "The Rise of Silas Lapham," can obtain them
+for $1.00 of the publishers (who will send them to any address,
+post-paid, on receipt of price), or of dealers everywhere. New editions
+will be printed as rapidly as the demand requires. November is now in
+its sixth edition._
+
+THE FEBRUARY CENTURY, the Midwinter number, contains a remarkable list
+of attractions, including a richly illustrated paper on "Winter Sports
+in Canada," an illustrated story by Mark Twain, entitled "Royalty on
+the Mississippi," etc., etc. In this issue appears THE FIRST OF GENERAL
+GRANT'S ARTICLES in the war series, being his long-looked-for paper on
+"The Battle of Shiloh." For reasons which he recounts in the opening of
+the article, general Grant never made to the Government the usual full
+report touching this engagement. The paper is a comprehensive treatment
+of his relations to the battle, including much of picturesque and
+personal interest concerning its progress and a discussion of the main
+points of controversy, together with his own estimates of the military
+character and services of certain of the leading officers in both the
+Union and Confederate sides.
+
+THE CONFEDERATE SIDE AT "SHILOH" will be described in this February
+number in two interesting articles, one by the son of the Confederate
+leader, General Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh, and the other
+by Colonel Jordan, of general Beauregard's staff. These, with General
+Grant's article, are among the most notable contributions ever made to
+magazine literature. The illustrations are more than twenty-five in
+number.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+FURTHER PAPERS BY GENERAL GRANT.
+
+In his second paper General Grant will cover an entire year of his
+service in the war, including the different campaigns against Vicksburg,
+and its capitulation. In his third paper he will deal with the battle of
+Chattanooga, including the strategy of the campaign from the time of his
+assumption of the command. A fourth paper, on the Wilderness campaign,
+will follow.
+
+While largely engaged with the main features of the campaigns described,
+General Grant has not failed to take note of significant and
+characteristic details. These papers will be illustrated with the same
+regard for thoroughness and accuracy which has characterized the
+illustrations of the articles in the war series already published.
+
+
+THE "MONITOR" AND "MERRIMAC," IN THE MARCH CENTURY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The story of this famous fight is described in the March CENTURY by Col.
+John Taylor Wood, fourth officer of the "Merrimac" in the second day's
+fight, and now the senior surviving officer. Col. Wood was afterward
+commander of the privateer "Tallahassee." The Federal side of the battle
+is told by Commander S.D. Greene, U.S.N. (whose death has just
+occurred), who was the executive officer of the "Monitor," and operated
+the guns within the turret. General R.E. Colston, commander of the
+Confederate forces opposite Newport News, contributes an eyewitness's
+account of the same battle, describing, also, the "Merrimac's"
+engagement with the Federal fleet before the arrival of the "Monitor."
+A paper will soon appear on "THE MONITOR," BY CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON,
+making record of the circumstances attending the invention of that
+famous craft, and treating also of the engagement at Hampton Roads.
+Readers of the articles in the March number will be especially
+interested in the inventor's story.
+
+In the April CENTURY will be printed two important papers on THE CAPTURE
+OF NEW ORLEANS, BY ADMIRAL PORTER AND GEORGE W. CABLE.
+
+Admiral Porter, with whom, as he relates, the expedition against New
+Orleans originated, and who was in command of the mortar-fleet during
+the action, describes the Federal side of "The Opening of the Lower
+Mississippi"; while George W. Cable, the novelist, and at the time a
+resident of New Orleans, writes of the condition of the city and the
+circumstances attending its occupation. The illustrations will include
+a number of battle-scenes from sketches made by Admiral Porter.
+
+In the May and June numbers the papers in the War Series will be largely
+devoted to THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN BY GEN. G.B. McCLELLAN AND GEN. J.E.
+JOHNSTON.
+
+General McClellan will contribute two papers, the first of a general
+nature on the Peninsular Campaign, and the second (to appear later) on
+the battle of Antietam, thus covering the period of his command of the
+Army of the Potomac. General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the
+entire Confederate forces opposed to McClellan in the Peninsular
+engagements until the battle of Seven Pines, when in consequence of a
+wound he was succeeded by General Lee, will cover, in his papers, the
+period from Manassas to Seven Pines, dealing with both battles, and with
+his relations and differences with the President of the Confederacy. The
+engagements at Gaines's Mill and Malvern Hill, in this campaign, will be
+described in papers by GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER AND GEN. D.H. HILL, who
+were prominently engaged against each other in both actions. These will
+be well supplemented by the "Recollections of a Private."
+
+OTHER WAR PAPERS by Generals Longstreet, Pope, Gordon, Rosecrans, Buell,
+Hunt, Pleasonton, Newton, and other prominent leaders, will appear in
+later numbers.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SERIES will receive the most careful attention,
+and in this particular it is thought that the series will possess an
+unequaled historical interest. THE CENTURY has at its disposal a very
+large quantity of maps and plans, portraits of general officers of both
+sides, authentic paintings and drawings, and especially photographs of
+camp scenes, battle-fields, famous localities, etc. A strict regard for
+accuracy will guide the preparation of the illustrations.
+
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+  3, 1863._ All around him are evidences of the terrible battle. Behind
+  fences, stone walls and trees, in trenches and in open fields are seen
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+
+  BY COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.
+
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+
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.--_Wm. M.
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+
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.--_Henry Day, N.Y._
+
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.--_The Nation_.
+
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
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+
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+  the actions real.--_Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J._
+
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+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.--_Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman_.
+--------------------------------------
+
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+
+  Published by A.S. BARNES & CO., 111 & 113 William Street, New York.
+
+
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
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+
+  The RED Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
+  the convenience of Teachers and Scholars.
+
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+  Battles make it available for use by Teachers throughout the United
+  States.
+
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+  study, and are found in his standard volume, "Battles of the American
+  Revolution."
+
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+
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+
+  Each map is accompanied with a statement of the generals and number of
+  men engaged on both sides, to which is appended the reason for such
+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
+  authority in military matters.--_The Educator (New Haven, Ct.)_.
+
+  A valuable compilation from the author's large work, and cannot fail to
+  make a more lasting impression upon the reader's mind than could be
+  derived from the perusal of many volumes of history.--_N.Y.
+  Herald_.
+
+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
+  original system, so as to present a singularly clear view of the history
+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
+  losses on each side, and the incidents of the battle.--_N.Y. Evening
+  Post_.
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+  Volume I.--1884. Bound in cloth, royal 8vo.,
+  420 pages. Price, $2.00.
+  WITH
+  6 PORTRAITS ON STEEL, 10 MAPS, AND 107 ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PRESS NOTICES.
+
+  "A creditable addition to Massachusetts literature."--_Boston
+  Globe_.
+
+  "The first six numbers form a volume of genuine historic value and
+  interest."--_Transcript_.
+
+  "An admirable issue."--_Malden City Press_.
+
+  "Replete with sketches which should be read in every
+  household."--_Winchendon Courier_.
+
+  "Furnishing much valuable historical and biographical
+  matter."--_Boston Commonwealth_.
+
+  "Working its way to popular favor."--_The Weekly News_.
+
+  "The Bay State Monthly is just what is needed in New England."--_The
+  Gorham Mountaineer_.
+
+  "New England societies will not be able to dispense with this
+  magazine."--_St. Paul Pioneer-Press_.
+
+  "Crammed full of historic facts; should be in every
+  family."--_Brockton Eagle_.
+
+  "A conspicuous article is 'Bunker Hill' (with map), by General
+  Carrington, U.S.A."--_Southbridge Journal._
+
+  "Has made a firm footing and held its ground well."--_Newport News and
+  Journal_.
+
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+  map."--_Essex Banner_.
+
+  "One of the most popular in the list of monthlies."--_The Moniter
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+
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+  Herald_.
+
+  "The steady improvement in this magazine is gratifying."--_Medford
+  Mercury_.
+
+  "Deserves the support of every true American, and every Massachusetts
+  citizen."--_The Watchman_.
+
+  "Edited ably, growing healthily, and presents features of peculiar
+  interest."--_Congregationalist_.
+
+  "Improves with each number."--_New England Home Journal
+  (Worcester)_.
+
+  "Should be in every household in Massachusetts,"--_Barre Gazette_.
+
+  "One of the noted historical magazines of the day."--_Norfolk County
+  Register_.
+
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+
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+
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+  of veneration."--_New York Times_.
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+
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+
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+
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+  Spy_.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+  THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.
+
+  Volume I.--1884. Bound in cloth, royal 8vo.,
+
+  420 pages. Price, $2.00.
+
+  WITH
+
+  6 PORTRAITS ON STEEL, 10 MAPS, AND 107 ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PRESS NOTICES.
+
+  "A creditable addition to Massachusetts literature."--_Boston Globe_.
+
+  "The first six numbers form a volume of genuine historic value and
+  interest."--_Transcript_.
+
+  "An admirable issue."--_Malden City Press_.
+
+  "Replete with sketches which should be read in every
+  household."--_Winchendon Courier_.
+
+  "Furnishing much valuable historical and biographical
+  matter."--_Boston Commonwealth_.
+
+  "Working its way to popular favor."--_The Weekly News_.
+
+  "The Bay State Monthly is just what is needed in New England."--_The
+  Gorham Mountaineer_.
+
+  "New England societies will not be able to dispense with this
+  magazine."--_St. Paul Pioneer-Press_.
+
+  "Crammed full of historic facts; should be in every
+  family."--_Brockton Eagle_.
+
+  "A conspicuous article is 'Bunker Hill' (with map), by General
+  Carrington, U.S.A."--_Southbridge Journal._
+
+  "Has made a firm footing and held its ground well."--_Newport News and
+  Journal_.
+
+  "Filled with instructive literary matter, and a very reliable
+  map."--_Essex Banner_.
+
+  "One of the most popular in the list of monthlies."--_The Moniter
+  (Chatham)_.
+
+  "Handsomely gotten up, and reading-matter is interesting."--_Holyoke
+  Herald_.
+
+  "The steady improvement in this magazine is gratifying."--_Medford
+  Mercury_.
+
+  "Deserves the support of every true American, and every Massachusetts
+  citizen."--_The Watchman_.
+
+  "Edited ably, growing healthily, and presents features of peculiar
+  interest."--_Congregationalist_.
+
+  "Improves with each number."--_New England Home Journal
+  (Worcester)_.
+
+  "Should be in every household in Massachusetts,"--_Barre Gazette_.
+
+  "One of the noted historical magazines of the day."--_Norfolk County
+  Register_.
+
+  "Of that interest to the whole country that the cultured productions of
+  cultured Boston have usually been."--_Courier and Journal (Louisville,
+  Ky.)_.
+
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+
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+
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+  Barnstable."--_Lowell Morning Times_.
+
+  "Already a success."--_Cape Cod Bee (Barnstable)_.
+
+  "'The Rent Veil,' by Henry B. Carrington, is a strikingly fine
+  production, possessing a Miltonian stateliness, and breathing a spirit
+  of veneration."--_New York Times_.
+
+  "Replete with choice literary productions."--_Gardner Record._
+
+  "Keeps up the character established by the first number."--_Vox Populi
+  (Lowell)_.
+
+  "Should be in the hands of all who desire to know the Bay
+  State."--_Westborough Chronotype._
+
+  "Of special interest to the citizens of Massachusetts."--_Worcester
+  Spy_.
+
+  "A distinctive Massachusetts magazine."--_Waltham Record_.
+
+  "Both in appearance and contents creditable to the publishers."--_New
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+
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+
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+
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+  world."--_Home Journal_.
+
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+
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+  cultured Boston."--_Weekly Advocate._
+
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+
+  "Replete with choice literary contributions."--_Salem Register_.
+
+  "We predict a bright future for The Bay State Monthly."--_Norwood
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+ALASKA: Its Southern Coast. And the Sitkan Archipelago. By Eliza Ruhamah
+Scidmore. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. In this well-written and
+exceedingly interesting volume the author opens up to us a country which
+notwithstanding so much has been said of it, is yet very imperfectly
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+inhospitable region, wrapped in snow and ice the greater part of the
+year, and that a visitor to its settlements must undergo perils almost
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+book dispels this illusion in the most summary manner. She spent two
+summers in Alaska, and therefore speaks from personal knowledge. She
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+inside passage and cruise through the archipelago; and in voyaging past
+the unbroken wilderness of the island shores, the tourist feels quite
+like an explorer penetrating unknown lands. The mountain range that
+walls the Pacific coast from the Antarctic to the Arctic gives a bold
+and broken front to the mainland, and every one of the eleven hundred
+islands of the archipelago is but a submerged spur or peak of the great
+range. Many of the islands are larger than Massachusetts or New Jersey,
+but none of them have been wholly explored, nor is the survey of their
+shores completed. The Yosemite walls and cascades are repeated in mile
+after mile of deep salt water channels, and from the deck of an ocean
+steamer one views scenes not paralleled after long rides and climbs in
+the heart of the Sierras. The gorges and cañons of Colorado are
+surpassed; mountains that tower above Pike's Peak rise in steep incline
+from the still level of the sea; and the shores are clad in forests and
+undergrowth dense and impassable as the tangle of a Florida swamp.
+
+On her first visit to Sitka the author spent a week at Victoria,
+Vancouver's Island, a place which she describes as a veritable paradise.
+The drives about the town, she says, along the island shores, and
+through the woods, are beautiful, and the heavy, London-built carriages
+roll over hard and perfect English highways. Ferns were growing ten and
+twelve feet high by the roadside. Wild rose-bushes are matted together
+by the acre in the clearings about the town, and in June they weight the
+air with their perfume, as they did a century ago, when Marchand, the
+old French voyager, compared the region to the rose-covered slopes of
+Bulgaria. The honeysuckle attains the greatest perfection in this
+climate, and covers and smothers the cottages and trellises with
+thickly-set blossoms. Even the currant-bushes grow to unusual height,
+and in many gardens they are trained on arbors and hang their red, ripe
+clusters high overhead.
+
+The old Russian town of Sitka, the most northern on the Pacific coast,
+she describes as a straggling, peaceful sort of town, edging along shore
+at the foot of high mountains, and sheltered from the surge and turmoil
+of the ocean by a sea-wall of rocky, pine-covered islands. The moss has
+grown greener and thicker on the roofs of the solid old wooden houses
+that are relics of Russian days, the paint has worn thinner everywhere,
+and a few more houses tumbling into ruins complete the scenes of
+picturesque decay. Twenty years ago there were one hundred and
+twenty-five buildings in the town proper, and it is doubtful if a dozen
+have been erected since.
+
+Miss Scidmore's descriptions of the various places she visited and the
+curious things she saw are vivid and picturesque, and one can learn more
+of both from her pages than from all the official reports that have been
+published. It is a book that ought to have a wide popularity. It is well
+illustrated and contains a map reduced from the last general chart of
+Alaska published by the Coast Survey.
+
+
+BOY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY. By a Naval Officer. Boston: D.
+Lothrop & Co. Price $1.25. It is difficult to write a book of boy's
+adventures without falling into what is popularly called sensational
+writing, that is the description of improbable incidents to arouse and
+excite the imagination without any purpose beyond that result. The
+writer of the present volume, while making an intensely interesting
+story, has avoided this danger, and his narrative gives a not overdrawn
+description of the life of a boy on a vessel in the United States Navy.
+Joe Bently is the son of a Maine farmer, with a strong distaste for the
+life to which he has been brought up and an equally strong love for the
+sea. His desire to become a sailor has always been repressed by his
+father, who, though loving his son, has no sympathy with him in this one
+respect.
+
+Mr. Bently at last gives his consent, and Joe enlists as an apprentice
+in the Navy. The story of his journey, his examination, his experiences,
+on board ship and his adventures while lying in foreign ports is very
+graphically told, and the boy who reads it gets a clear and actual idea
+of what a boy must go through on board a man-of-war before he can
+graduate as an "able-bodied seaman." The writer shows a thorough
+acquaintance with every thing on board ship, even to the minutest
+details. The book ends with the promotion of Joe, and a promise to
+continue his adventures in another volume.
+
+
+THE EVOLUTION OF DODD. By W.H. Smith. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price
+$1.00. Here is a book we should rejoice to see in the hands of every
+teacher of youth in the country. It is a living, breathing protest
+against certain features of the present school systems which obtain in
+various parts of the country, from that of the kindergarten to the
+grammar school. The points of the author are so well taken, that the
+reader is forced not only to admit the reality of the evils he
+denounces, but to acknowledge the justice of the conclusions at which he
+arrives.
+
+In the evolution of character the public school has come to be a most
+important factor. To it has been assigned a task equal to any other
+agency that deals with human nature. But in multitudes of cases it has
+become a mere mill for grinding out graduates. The "system" has largely
+lost sight of the grandest thing in all the world--the individual soul.
+It addresses itself to child-humanity collectively, as if characters
+were manufactured, like pins, by the million, and all alike, and it
+attempts to grind out this great mass, each individual like every other,
+as if its members could be made interchangeable like the parts of a
+government musket.
+
+To illustrate his ideas, the author selects a representative boy, Dodd
+Weaver, the eldest son of a Methodist clergyman, and carries him through
+the various schools and grades of schools from the time of his entrance
+to his graduation. He does not make him a model boy to begin with, and
+strive to show how he was spoiled by the school system. On the contrary
+he endows him with a good many disagreeable qualities; he makes him
+bright, sharp, and full of vitality, with a strong bent for mischief. He
+is high-tempered, quarrelsome, and disobedient, and yet in the hands of
+one who understands his mental peculiarities plastic as dough. It is the
+aim of the author to show how utterly useless it is to treat such
+boys--and our schools are full of them--in exactly the same manner as
+those of different character and temperament, and to demand that
+teachers have the right to adapt their methods according to individual
+demands. He says:
+
+It is not a system--any set of rules or formularies--that can make our
+school, any more than it is forms and ceremonies that make our churches.
+These may all be well enough in their proper places, but there is
+nothing, absolutely nothing, in them, _per se_. It is the
+righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees in the one case, and the dry
+bones of pedagogy in the other.
+
+The evil arises, in the schools as in the churches, from believing and
+acting as if there were something in the system itself.
+
+If human nature were a fixed quantity, if any two children were alike,
+or anywhere nearly alike, if a certain act done for a child always
+brought forth the same result, then it might be possible to form an
+absolute system of pedagogy, as, with fixed elements, there is formed
+the science of chemistry. But the quick atoms of spirit that manifest
+their affinities under the eye of that alchemist, the teacher, are far
+more subtle than the elements that go into the crucible in any other of
+Nature's laboratories.
+
+A chemist will distil for you the odor of a blown rose, or catch and
+hold captive the breath of the morning meadow, and do it always just the
+same, and ever with like results; but there is no art by which anything
+analogous can be wrought in human life. Here a new element comes in that
+entirely changes that economy of Nature in this regard. The
+individuality of every human soul is this new factor, and because of it,
+of its infinite variability--because no two atoms that are cast into the
+crucible of life are ever the same, or can be wrought into character by
+the same means--because of this, no fixed rules can ever be laid down
+for evolving a definite result, in the realm of soul, by never-varying
+means.
+
+And this is where many teachers are at fault. They put their faith in a
+system, a mill through which all children shall be run, and in passing
+through which each child shall receive the same treatment, and from
+which they shall all emerge, stamped with the seal of the institution,
+"uniformity."
+
+This is the prime idea that lies at the foundation of the popular system
+of education--to make children uniform. This very thing that God and
+Nature have set themselves against--no two faces, or forms, or statures;
+no two minds, or hearts, or souls being alike, as designed by the
+Creator, and as fashioned by Nature's hand--to make all these alike was
+the aim of the system under which Dodd began to be evolved, and with
+which he began to clash at once.
+
+But it is not the system only which is at fault. Hot with the
+indignation bred from a discussion of its shortcomings, the author turns
+suddenly upon the parents of the innumerable Dodds in the schools of the
+country:
+
+And for you, who send your six-year-olds to school with a single hook,
+and grumble because you have to buy even so much of an outfit, what are
+you going to do about it when your boy drains all the life out of the
+little volume in a couple of weeks or a month? He knows the stories by
+heart, and after that he says them over, day by day, because he must,
+and not in the least because he cares to.
+
+What are you going to do about this? It is largely your business. You
+cannot shirk it and say that you send the boy to school, and it is the
+teacher's business to take care of him.
+
+The remedy for the wrongs and faults of the system is, in his opinion,
+to recognize the individuality of children in the schoolroom to study
+the mental peculiarities and needs of each, and to do away with the
+system so far as it interferes with the liberty of the teacher to adapt
+his means to the proper ends to be attained. It is demanded that
+teachers be selected on the sole ground of fitness and adaptability, and
+not because of favoritism or the mere fact that their book education is
+sufficient, and it is further insisted that parents interest themselves
+to see and demand that the best that can be done is done for their
+children. These are the means suggested in the way of reform, and they
+seem adequate in a large degree to accomplish what is desired. We
+commend the book to teachers and parents.
+
+
+MONEY IN POLITICS. By J.K. Upton. With an introduction by Edward
+Atkinson. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. The author of this
+comprehensive and valuable work was for several years Assistant
+Secretary of the United States Treasury, and in that responsible
+position had admirable facilities for studying the question of money as
+affected by congressional acts from the earliest history of the republic
+down to the present, and he has made good use of his opportunities in
+this book which is a succinct narration of the numerous changes made in
+American money beginning with the continental issues, in fact, earlier,
+the colonial money. The work is, therefore, a history of American coin
+and the numerous issues of paper that served as money. To the student
+there is in this book a fund of information extremely interesting,
+particularly at this time when the popular will is likely to compel
+farther legislation. A topic of present interest, is the silver dollar,
+to which the author devotes a chapter historical in its character, and
+another chapter concerning circulation of this coin. In the former
+chapter he begins with the Spanish milled dollar, "the Mexican pillar
+piece," which was the first silver dollar known in American commerce,
+and had, in colonial times, 386.7-8 grains of pure silver. In 1785 the
+American standard was fixed at 375.64 grains of pure silver which became
+the unit of account, the standard dollar. In 1792, after a Congress of
+the States was organized, the standard dollar was required to contain
+371.25 grains of pure silver, or, with the admixture of baser metal, the
+standard of silver coin 416 grains, the pure silver rated by itself as
+before. These facts are of interest as showing the origin of the
+American dollar recognized as the standard down to 1873.
+
+The chapters on "Circulation of the Silver Dollar" and "The Trade
+Dollar" are interesting and timely, inasmuch as the questions considered
+are now before Congress, or at least with the committees, and
+legislation of some kind will be demanded within the next year. There
+is, even now, a proposition embodied in a bill to suspend coinage of the
+silver dollar, because it has been found impossible to put the great sum
+coined directly in circulation. A great part of it has been made the
+basis of silver certificates, a kind of currency that, by and by, will
+bring distress to commercial interests if the issues are maintained, or
+if they are materially increased. Mr. Upton treats all these matters
+with very clear understanding of every question, and with certain
+facility of expression that appeals directly to the reader who has only
+common understanding of money affairs. From beginning to end the book is
+a rich mine of facts, of historical matter, and of statements that have
+undergone the scrutiny of the wisest financier during the critical
+period between the appreciation of values, with the disturbing
+influences of war, and the return of true values with resumption of
+specie payment which was effected with gold. While the work must have
+absorbing interest for that extended school of economists that has made
+finance a special study in the past dozen years, it will prove very
+useful to representatives in Congress, who may find here in compact form
+facts of history with which they should have familiar acquaintance
+before they attempt legislation intended to correct the errors
+incorporated in our money system.
+
+
+THE OLD STONE HOUSE. By Anne March (Constance Fenimore Woolson). Boston:
+D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. This capital story, by one of the
+brightest American writers of fiction, has been placed by the publishers
+in their Young Folks' Library Series, where it ought to find a new lease
+of popularity. The Old Stone House is the home of five young people,
+representing three families. They are all orphans, and are living with a
+widowed aunt, whose single and constant aim is to educate them into real
+men and women. The young cousins, who dearly love each other, differ in
+tastes and temperament, but not in such ways as to interfere with each
+other's enjoyments. The younger ones are jolly and fun-loving, and no
+occasion for having a good time is left unimproved. The main interest of
+the story, however, lies with the eldest of the cousins, Sybil
+Warrington, a girl of strong feelings but quiet exterior, whose ambition
+to shine in society is held in check by a feeling that something higher
+and better is required of her. The story of her struggles is quietly but
+effectively told, and will have a peculiar interest for young girls.
+Miss Woolson has written much, and her work has given her a very
+enviable reputation both in this country and in Europe, but in all her
+writings there is nothing more earnest.
+
+
+HOW SUCCESS IS WON. By Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. With Portraits. Boston: D.
+Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. This handsome volume is made up of
+biographies of twelve men who have achieved distinguished successes in
+the various directions in which they turned their respective energies.
+Mrs. Bolton not only rehearses the main incidents of their lives, but
+shows that in every case the success and honors attained were the result
+of industry, economy and high moral principle. Among those selected to
+illustrate how success may be won under different circumstances are
+Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, Henry M. Stanley and
+Alexander H. Stephens. The several sketches are bright and pointed, and
+the portraits which illustrate them add to their value.
+
+The Rochester (N.Y.) _Herald_ speaks of this extremely interesting
+book as "a singular collection of names, wide apart in many respects,
+but they represent men whom it is interesting to read about."
+
+
+ANNA MARIA'S HOUSEKEEPING. By Mrs. S.D. Power. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.
+Price $1.00. If we were asked to recommend any one single book to a
+young housekeeper which should serve as a domestic guide, counsellor and
+friend, we should unhesitatingly name _Anna Maria's Housekeeping_.
+So far as our knowledge extends, there is no other book which so exactly
+and thoroughly fulfils the needs implied in those titles. It is no mere
+collection of receipts, but a complete and common-sense treatise on the
+whole science of housekeeping, tersely and clearly written, with a
+flavor of experience about it that makes one accept it as authoritative.
+It is a staff upon which the young housekeeper may confidently lean, and
+by the aid of which she may overcome obstacles which without it would
+seem insurmountable. Mrs. Power does not believe in a house keeping
+itself. It requires continual care and oversight, and a clear knowledge
+of what is to be done. She believes, too, that a house can be well kept
+as easily as badly kept, and that a bright, clean, well-ordered home has
+a deal to do with molding the temper and even character of its members.
+"It is no small thing," she says, "to stand at the head of affairs, and
+be the motive power on which depend the welfare and credit, the health,
+temper and spirit of the whole family. When in midlife you come to find
+how essential the comfort of a well-kept home is to the bodily strength
+and good conditions, to a sound mind and spirit, and useful days, you
+will reverence the good housekeeper as I do, above poet or artist,
+beauty or genius." In the opening chapter of the book the author
+instructs Anna Maria in the art of "How to Make Home-work Easier." In
+the succeeding chapters she takes up the various kinds of work there is
+to be done about the house, and describes the easiest methods of doing
+it. "No attitudinizing," she remarks, "no fine lady affectations over
+the griddles and saucepans; instead, cultivate the fine character which
+acts up to the need of the hour swiftly, promptly, but with quiet and
+certainty." Her definition of "good food" is to the point. "It is not,"
+she says, "rich food, nor even the tolerable fare which is just
+undercooked and flavorless enough to tax digestion more than it ought.
+It is the best of everything cooked in the nicest possible way, and with
+pleasant variety." Passing from the kitchen the care of the different
+rooms of the house is taken up--the chambers, the sitting-room and the
+storeroom; instructions are given for making "blue Monday" less blue;
+the arts of starching and ironing are discussed; and a chapter is given
+to the mending and darning basket. Other portions of the book are
+devoted to "Company Days," "Shopping," "Sickness in the House," "Making
+the best of Things," and "Helps that are Helps," the servant-girl
+question forming the subject of the closing chapter. The volume is very
+handsomely brought out, but even were it not, it would be worth its
+weight in gold to the young and inexperienced housekeeper.
+
+
+GERTRUDE'S DIARY. By Pansy. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price
+60 cts. A new book by Pansy is always hailed with delight, and that
+delight generally mingled with wonder can possibly write so much and yet
+keep the freshness and brightness which runs through all her books.
+Gertrude is a girl of fifteen, wide awake, full of life, generally good
+tempered, and yet with as many faults as most girls of her age have;
+faults which arise more from thoughtlessness than from intent. She is
+one of four who agree to keep diaries, in accordance with a suggestion
+made by their Sunday-school teacher, and she records with impartiality
+all her good and bad times, her trials and her triumphs. Aside from its
+interest, it contains suggestions which cannot fail to make an
+impression upon the mind of any young girl who reads it, and to
+strengthen her in like temptations and under the same conditions. A
+pleasant story runs through the diary.
+
+
+MANY COLORED THREADS. From the Writings of Goethe. Selected by Carrie
+Adelaide Cooke. With an Introduction by Kev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D.
+Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. No other volume of the Spare
+Minute Series contains more real meat than this. Goethe was
+epigrammatic, and his ideas took the concentrated form of bullets,
+instead of scattering like shot. We doubt if there is another author,
+always excepting Shakespeare, from whose books so many noble and
+complete thoughts can be extracted. In the two hundred and fifty pages
+of this volume are more than a thousand of these gems, each worth; its
+setting. Dr. McKenzie says aptly of Goethe that he is able by virtue of
+his own genius to set more than the common man and to put his visions
+and his reflections in such form that others who would never have seen
+the tilings for themselves or been able to think deeply upon them, can
+have the benefit of his generous study and thought. He was many-sided.
+His mind took a wide range and seemed almost equally at home in many
+places. The real and the ideal both interested him and were cherished by
+him. Science and art, philosophy and poetry, engaged his attention and
+were enriched by his handiwork. In this versatility of his power and the
+manifoldness of their application he was remarkable. Out of this breadth
+of study came varied and large thoughts of the world and of human life.
+He had the faculties with which nature and humanity and divine power
+could breathe their inspiration for the world's instruction and delight,
+and that they were fully employed no-one who turns over the pages of
+this collection can doubt. A brief biography of Goethe takes the place
+of a preface, and there is an index of subjects.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MR. CHARLES LANMAN THE AUTHOR OF "THE LEADING MEN OF JAPAN."
+
+MARY COLE BAKER writes in the Washington (D.C.) _Republic:_ "Mr.
+Lanman is well known both in England and America as the writer of some
+of the most delightful descriptive books in the English language. To the
+facile wielding of his pen he adds an equally adroit and skilful use of
+the pencil, and his admirable results in these combined pursuits won for
+him from his friend and brother of the quill, Washington Irving, the apt
+and deserved soubriquet of 'the picturesque explorer of America.' To the
+pleasure which Mr. Lanman derived from these pursuits he added a
+sportsman's love for the field and took genuine delight in the
+'contemplative art' of angling. He was the first American to cast the
+artificial fly in the Saguenay region and to describe for the angler the
+charms of that since famous locality. He has followed this sport in
+nearly every State in the Union, never without his sketching materials,
+which he used unstintingly. The results of these labors are many
+hundreds of sketches of American scenery, invaluable now that the march
+of civilization has so completely changed the face of a large part of
+the country. It is delightful to find a man who has been able to get so
+much good from life as has Mr. Lanman. One would think that the writing
+and illustrating of more than thirty books, some of which are in two
+large octavo volumes, was the work of a lifetime. But this has been to
+Mr. Lanman his recreation. The fact that his books have been successful
+pecuniarily has not prevented him from following the duties of the
+various governmental positions in which he has been placed. No sinecures
+they either--librarian at different times of the House of
+Representatives, the War Department, of copyrights in the State
+Department and of the Interior Department, secretary to Daniel Webster,
+at the head of the returns of office of the Interior Department, and for
+the last ten years the American Secretary to the Japanese Legation at
+Washington. A lover of social intercourse, Mr. Lanman has led the
+typical busy life of the American, untouched by the direful and
+disastrous ills it is supposed to bring. He is now engaged in editing
+fourteen of his books for reproduction in uniform style, and a new book,
+_The Leading Men of Japan_, is ready for issue." 12mo, $1.50.
+Boston: D. Lothrop, & Co., Publishers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+COULDN'T BE BOUGHT: AND OTHER STORIES. By Faye Huntington. Illustrated.
+Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price 75 cts. A delightful collection of short
+stories for boys and girls, adapted to the Sunday-school library. The
+volume takes its name from the leading story. The author has a pleasant
+and attractive style, and her stories have a large amount of "telling"
+force in them.
+
+
+CHINA. By Prof. R.K. Douglas, of the British Museum. Edited by Arthur
+Gilman, M.A. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. This
+volume comes just at a time when there is a strong demand for something
+brief, exact and authoritative in the way of Chinese history. Current
+events have brought China before the world as one of the really great
+powers, and one which in time will be able not only to defend herself
+against the aggressions of other nations but will be perfectly able to
+take the offensive should occasion require. In the arts of diplomacy the
+Chinese are a match for the keenest statesman of Europe, and since the
+beginning of the present troubles with France they have developed a
+military talent which is perfectly surprising. With the growth of the
+military spirit it would not be strange if, in the course of the next
+generation China should hold as distinct and important a place among the
+warlike powers as France or England.
+
+The author of the volume before us had exceptional advantages for making
+such a book as just now the public demand and need. He was for several
+years a resident of China in an official capacity, and studied the
+people and their mode of life from actual observation. In preparing the
+book he also freely availed himself of the labors of others where they
+seemed capable of adding value to the narrative. In his preface he
+acknowledges his indebtedness to Doctor Legge's "Chinese Classics,"
+Archdeacon Gray's work on "China," Doolittle's "Social Life of the
+Chinese," Denys's "Chinese Folklore," Mayers's "Chinese Reader's
+Manual," Sir John Davis's "Poetry of the Chinese," as well as to the
+important linguistic, religious and topographical writings of Doctor
+Edkins of Peking, and particularly to the late Professor S. Wells
+Williams, of Yale College, whose work on the _Middle Kingdom_
+contains more information of value than any other single volume in our
+language.
+
+The various chapters of the work deal with the history of the empire in
+brief, its government, religions, its educational system, the nurture of
+the young, superstitions, funeral and wedding rites, the language, food
+and dress, honors, architecture, music, medicine and other subjects. It
+has been critically read by the young Chinese scholar, Mr. Yan Phou Lee,
+of Yale College, who has suggested a few notes. Its completeness is
+added to by an analytic table of contents and an index.
+
+IN THE WOODS AND OUT. By Pansy. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.
+Price $1.00. In the score or more of short stories which make up this
+volume Pansy is at her best. She never writes for the mere sake of
+filling up, but always, in the briefest of her sketches, she has
+something worth telling and worth remembering. There isn't a thing in
+the book which will not be read twice, and certain of the stones will be
+perennial favorites with the younger class of readers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PHILOSOPHIÆ QUÆSTOR.
+
+
+The seeker of philosophical truth, which is described as the shadowy
+figure of a young girl, is, throughout, very expressive of desire and
+appreciation. The impressions she receives are those to which such a
+condition are most sensitive--the higher and more refined ones--and the
+responsive thoughts concern the nature and character of what is heard or
+felt. The elevation into classic importance of Concord, its
+philosophers, and its School of Philosophy is due to the influence of
+their history and teachings in American literature, and it is pleasant
+to recognize in this work such reverence of their classicism. Mrs.
+Anagnos has written a prose poem in which the last two sessions of the
+Concord School of Philosophy, which include that in memory of Emerson,
+and its lecturers excite her feeling and inspire her thought. It is sung
+in lofty strains that resemble those of the sacred woods and fount, and
+themselves are communicative of their spirit. It will be welcomed as an
+appropriate souvenir.--_Boston Globe_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR NATIONAL FINANCES.
+
+
+Mr. J.K. Upton used to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the
+United States. Few men, therefore, have had better opportunities to
+inform themselves about our national finances. His volume, _Money in
+Politics_, published by D. Lothrop & Co., price $1.25, is a full
+history of the financial policy and legislation of this country. It is
+of the utmost value as a record, a book of reference, and an expression
+of sound theories. The intelligent reader cannot repress a feeling of
+shame that our national history in respect to finance should have been
+characterized by such continual bungling. The saddest feature in the
+case is the crass ignorance which Congress usually has displayed. Much
+of our legislation about money matters has been the merest
+experimenting, if not worse than this--the deliberate effort to enrich
+some one class of business men at the expense of the nation.
+
+He utters a solemn warning of the dangers to which we now are exposed
+through our present acts of coinage and legal tender, whereby our gold
+coin sooner or later must be driven from the country and our standard
+must become a silver dollar of light weight and uncertain value. He also
+shows conclusively the futility of legislation in causing two substances
+to become and remain of the same value. Mr. Edward Atkinson has
+furnished the introduction to the book, in which he commends it warmly.
+While Congress continues to permit the coinage of $2,000,000 in silver a
+month, for which there is no demand and the coinage of which merely
+furnishes a market for the wares of a few owners of silver mines, it is
+difficult to overstate the need that such books as this should be
+circulated and studied attentively throughout the nation. Mr. Atkinson
+makes an impressive comment, which we quote:
+
+"The productions of the hen-yards of the United States, according to the
+census statistics, was, in 1879, 456,910,916 dozen eggs, and, if hens
+have now increased in the ratio of population, it is now 500,000,000
+dozen, which at only ten cents a dozen, would exceed the value of the
+products of the silver mines.
+
+"It would be vastly more reasonable for Congress to order the compulsory
+purchase of two million dollars' worth of eggs per month," in order to
+sustain the hen products of the United States, "than it is to buy two
+million dollars' worth of silver; because the eggs could be used, or
+else would rot, while the silver cannot be used, and is expensive to
+store and to watch (pp. xvi-xvii)."--_Congregationalist_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ILLITERACY AND MORMONISM.
+
+
+Of _Illiteracy and Mormonism_, a brochure from the pen of Doctor
+Henry Randall Waite, just published by D. Lothrop & Co., the _Boston
+Daily Transcript_ in an advance notice, says:
+
+"In view of the present great interest in the problems treated, and the
+value of the material which it offers as an aid to their solution, the
+book is especially timely. Doctor Waite, who was for some time editor of
+the _International Review_, and whose work is well-known to readers
+of the standard American periodicals, is one of the clearest-headed of
+our younger writers on politico-economic subjects, and his views as here
+set forth demand thoughtful consideration and respect. He brings to the
+treatment of the subjects included in the title the special knowledge
+gained in his important official position as statistician of the late
+census, in charge of some of the most important branches, including
+education, illiteracy and religious organizations."
+
+The Dover (N.H.) _Star_, says:
+
+"He makes the best argument for the Constitutionality of National Aid
+[to education] which we have yet seen. It will bear careful
+consideration by members of Congress."
+
+The _Boston Daily Herald_ refers to the author's views as follows:
+
+"One of the most original and valuable contributions yet made to the
+discussion of the project of extending federal aid to common school
+education in the States ... The moderation of its tone and the
+conservatism of its suggestions will commend it to all thoughtful
+students of this problem, while its statistics, many of which, in their
+arrangement and application, are substantially new, should have a direct
+influence in shaping the final action of Congress ... Mr. Waite has
+given long and careful study to this subject in all its bearings, and he
+writes with an equipment of information and reflection which has been
+palpably lacking in much of the Senatorial discussion of it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS.
+
+
+The _New York Independent_, after referring to the various books on
+Arctic explorations and adventure--the narratives of Kane and Hayes and
+Gilder and De Long--says of Dr. Nourse's work: "The field of Arctic
+authorship was not yet, however, covered by any of these works, and it
+is to the credit of Professor Nourse that he saw what remained to be
+done. In the work before us he comes into no competition with the
+literary workers who have preceded him. No one will be the less disposed
+to read Dr. Kane's chapters, or to peruse Mr. Gilder's, for having read
+Professor Nourse; nor, on the other hand, will these works prejudice
+Professor Nourse's chance to be read. His book stands on ground of its
+own, as the one complete and competent survey of what American explorers
+have done in the polar zones.... Professor Nourse's volume is embellished
+with numerous good illustrations, and provided with an excellent and
+indispensable circumpolar map. It deserves the successful sale we
+understand it is already receiving."
+
+The _Literary World_ in a review of the book says "it is an
+encyclopaedic review of the whole subject of American enterprise in
+Arctic seas," and adds: "Professor Nourse's book bears the credentials
+of accuracy and authority, is well printed and bound, has numerous
+engravings and useful maps, including some portraits on steel, has a
+suitable index and table of contents, and furthermore is provided with a
+bibliography of chief publications on Arctic research since 1818. In
+every respect, then, it is a well-made book, a solid contribution to
+popular reading."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BACCALAUREATE SERMONS.
+
+
+D. Lothrop & Co., of Boston, have published in book form nineteen
+baccalaureate sermons preached at Harvard College, by Dr. A.P. Peabody,
+the new Professor of Christian Morals. Dr. Peabody's reputation, as a
+vigorous thinker and manly preacher, is as wide as this Republic; and
+the volume of sermons before us is something more than a series of
+homilies. It is a collection of addresses to young men--students just
+ready to embark on the perilous sea of life--which may be profitably
+read by every citizen of our country. The preacher does not address
+himself to any single side of human life. He counsels the students in
+their duties as men in all the relations of life. And in the selection
+of themes he embraces a great variety of topics. In the discourse on
+"Hebrew, Latin and Greek," for example, he takes the first-named tongue
+as standing for religion, the second for beauty and the third for
+strength. On this triad be formulates not only an intellectual cult but
+a practical rule of life. Another notable sermon is on "The Sovereignty
+of Law," an admirable disquisition on the supremacy of law in the
+intellectual life, the physical existence, the domain of morals and in
+every department of human activity. Dr. Peabody's style is forcible and
+virile, and his compactness of statement, enables him to put "infinite
+riches in a little room."--_Chicago Tribune._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A BOY'S WORKSHOP.
+
+
+Every boy with a jack-knife in his pocket and his head full of plans
+will fall to with delight on anything that gives him plenty to do in the
+boyish line. This is the merit of a little manual just published by the
+Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co., _A Boy's Workshop, with Plans and Designs
+for Indoor and Outdoor Work_, by a "Boy and his Friends"; with an
+introduction by Henry Randall Waite. The little manual goes to work
+intelligibly, describing the shop, and the tools, giving hints and
+accurate directions how to make a great variety of things whose uses
+will be at once apparent to the boyish mind, and suggestions as to other
+mysteries, the key to which makes any boy who possesses it a king among
+his mates.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOW SUCCESS IS WON.
+
+
+"How Success is Won," by Sarah K. Bolton (D. Lothrop & Co.), is a
+collection of twelve brief biographies intended to make clear to the
+young the character and conduct that have resulted in the success of
+Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, John Wanamaker, Henry M.
+Stanley, Johns Hopkins, William M. Hunt, Elias Howe, Jr., Alexander H.
+Stephens, Thomas A. Edison, Dr. W.T.G. Morton and the Rev. John H.
+Vincent. The sketches are gracefully and interestingly written, and the
+little volume is in every way to be commended.--_N.Y. Com. Adv._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GRAY MASQUE.
+
+
+The Gray Masque of Mrs. Mary Barker Dodge (D. Lothrop & Co., Boston)
+has won a series of splendid notices; yet, so far as we know, sufficient
+stress has not been laid upon the keynote of the volume. _Love_,
+in its varying phases, sounds through the majority of the verses like
+the refrain of a song. Sometimes sad, sometimes solemn, oftener gay and
+hopeful, the differing themes take up, one after another, the burden
+of the initial poem; and answer, in separate ways, the question there
+propounded, until the many-sided revelation is found to be fittingly
+illustrated on the cover by the winged boy, who throws aside the masque
+of mortality, and, soaring aloft, leaves behind him every earthly
+doubt and care. The "Dedication" and the concluding poem, the first
+emotional in its simplicity, the last intellectual in its subtlety,
+mark the breadth as well as the limits of Mrs. Dodge's poetical
+expression.--_Baldwin's Monthly._
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+--------------------------------------
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+
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+
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+
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+
+  THOUGHTS 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. Gladstone. Introduction
+  by John D. Long.
+
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+
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+
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+
+  HALF YEAR AT BRONCKTON, by the same author. Earnest, yet lively,
+  this is just the book for all boys old enough to be subjected to the
+  temptations of school life.
+
+  The other books of this series, "Tempter Behind," by John Saunders, "For
+  Mack's Sake," by S.J. Burke, and "Class of '70," by Helena V. Morrison,
+  are all worthy of a place in every Sunday-school library.
+
+  Amaranth Library. 4 vols., 12mo, illust.                            $6.00
+  Books by the author of Andy Luttrell.  6 vols., 12mo, illust.        7.50
+  Julia A. Eastman's Books. 6 vols., 12mo, illust                      7.50
+  Ella Farman's Books. 9 vols., large 16mo, illust.                   10.00
+  Pansy Series. 4 vols.                                                3.00
+  Mudge (Rev. Z.A.) Works. 3 vols.                                     3.75
+  Porter (Mrs. A.E.) Books. 5 vols.                                    6.25
+  Capron (M.J.) Books. 4 vols.                                         6.00
+  Mrs. E.D. Kendall's Books. 3 vols., 12mo, illust.                    3.75
+  Our Boys' Library. 5 vols., illust.                                  6.25
+  Our Girls' Library. 5 vols., illust.                                 6.25
+  Mrs. A.E. Porter's Books. 5 vols., 12mo, illust.                     6.25
+  Snow Family Library. 5 vols., illust.                                5.00
+  Sturdy Jack Series. 6 vols., 12mo, illust.                           4.50
+  To-day Series. New and of extraordinary excellence. 6 vols., illust. 7.50
+  Child Life Series. 26 vols., illust. Each                            1.00
+  Hill Rest Series. 3 vols., 16mo, illust.                             3.75
+  Uncle Max Series. 8 vols., illust.                                   6.00
+  Yensie Walton Books. 5 vols., 12mo, illust.                          7.50
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S YOUNG FOLKS' LIBRARY.
+
+  Nothing at once so good and cheap is anywhere to be found. These choice
+  16mo volumes of 300 to 500 pages, clear type, carefully printed, with
+  handsome and durable covers of manilla paper, and embracing some of the
+  best stories by popular American authors, are published at the low price
+  of 25 cents per volume, and mailed postpaid. One number issued each
+  month. No second edition will be printed in this style. The regular
+  edition is issued in cloth bindings at $1,25 to $1.75 per volume. Among
+  the numbers already published at 25 cents each as above are
+
+  1. Tip Lewis and his Lamp, by PANSY.
+  2. Margie's Mission, by MARIE OLIVER.
+  3. Kitty Kent's Troubles, by JULIA A. EASTMAN.
+  4. Mrs. Hurd's Niece, by ELLA FARMAN PRATT, Editor of WIDE AWAKE.
+  5. Evening Rest, by REV. J.L. PRATT.
+
+  Other equally charming stories will follow each month. The Library is
+  especially commended to Sunday-school superintendents or those
+  interested in securing choice Sunday-school books at lowest prices.
+  Attention is called to the necessity of early orders, as when the
+  present editions are exhausted, no more copies of the several volumes
+  can be had at the same price.
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S STANDARD BOOKS FOR YOUTHS.
+  Admirable books in history, biography and story.
+
+  Fern Glen Series. 31 vols., illust. Each                           1.25
+  Young Folks' Series. 33 vols., illust. Each                        1.50
+  Popular Biographies. 18 vols., illust. Each                        1.50
+  Young Folks' Histories, by MISS YONGE and others.
+    10 vols., illust. Each                                           1.50
+  Yonge's Historical Stories. 4 vols., illust. Each                  1.25
+  The $1000 Prize Books. A fresh edition in new style of binding.
+    16 vols., 12mo.                                                 24.50
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+    of binding. 8 vols., 12mo.                                      12.00
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S TEMPERANCE LIBRARY.
+
+  No Sunday-school library is complete without some well-chosen volumes
+  showing the evils of intemperance, the great curse which good men and
+  women are everywhere endeavoring to remove.
+
+  D. Lothrop & Co. publish among others the following admirable temperance
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+
+  The only way Out. By J.W. Willing.             $1.50
+  John Bremm. By A.A. Hopkins.                    1.25
+  Sinner and Saint. By A.A. Hopkins.              1.25
+  The Tempter Behind. By John Saunders.           1.25
+  Good Work. By Mary D. Chellis.                  1.50
+  Mystery of the Lodge. By Mary D. Chellis.       1.50
+  Finished or Not. By the author of "Fabrics."    1.50
+  Modern Prophets. By Pansy and Faye Huntington.  1.50
+  May Bell. By Hubert Newbury.                    1.50
+
+  TEMPERANCE REFORMATION, The, and Its Claims upon the Christian
+  Church. By Rev. James Smith, of Scotland. 8vo. $2.50.
+
+  Sunday-school teachers and superintendents will find the above books
+  admirably adapted to the purpose of teaching great moral lessons, while
+  they are also full of pleasure and interest to young readers.
+
+
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+
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+  place them not only beyond competition, but within the easy reach of
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+
+  Best Way Series. 3 vols., illust.                           $1.50
+  Half Hour Library, by PANSY. 8 vols., illust.                3.20
+  Little People's Home Library. 12 vols., illust.              3.00
+  Little Pansy Series. 10 vols., illust. Cloth, $4.00; boards. 3.00
+  Little May's Picture Library. 12 vols., illust.              2.40
+  Mother's Boys and Girls, by PANSY. 12 vols., illust.         3.00
+  Rainy Day Library. 8 vols., illust                           4.00
+  Spring Blossom. 12 vols., illust.                            3.00
+  Stories from the Bible, 1st and 2d Series. Each               .15
+  Twisty Clover Series. 6 vols., illust.                       1.20
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+  Little Neighbor Series. 6 vols., large 18mo, illust.         1.50
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+
+
+  LOTHROP'S POPULAR PANSY BOOKS.
+
+  The works of this popular author are universally acknowledged to be
+  among the very best of all books for Sunday-school reading. Earnest,
+  hopeful, practical, full of the spirit of Christian faith and courage,
+  they are also in the highest degree interesting.
+
+  COMPLETE LIST OF THE PANSY BOOKS.
+  _Each volume, 12mo,_ $1.50.
+
+  Chautauqua Girls at Home.
+  Divers Women.
+  Echoing and Re-echoing.
+  Endless Chain (An).
+  Ester Ried.
+  Ester Ried Yet Speaking.
+  Four Girls at Chautauqua.
+  From different Standpoints.
+  Hall in the Grove (The).
+  Household Puzzles.
+  Julia Ried.
+  King's Daughter (The).
+  Links in Rebecca's Life.
+  Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On.
+  Modern Prophets.
+  Man of the House (The).
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+  Pocket Measure (The).
+  Ruth Erskine's Crosses.
+  Randolphs (The).
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+  Those Boys.
+  Three People.
+  Tip Lewis and his Lamp.
+  Wise and Otherwise.
+
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+
+  Cunning Workmen.
+  Dr. Deane's Way.
+  Grandpa's Darlings.
+  Miss Priscilla Hunter and my Daughter Susan.
+  Mrs. Deane's Way.
+  What she Said.
+
+  _Each volume, 12mo,_ $1.25
+
+  Five Friends.
+  Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening.
+  Next Things.
+  Pansy's Scrap Book,
+  Some young Heroines.
+
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+
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+  Mary Burton Abroad.
+  Pansies.
+  Six little Girls
+  That Boy Bob.
+  Two Boys.
+
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+
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+  Docia's Journal.
+  Helen Lester.
+  Jessie Wells.
+
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+
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+  The little Pansy Series. 10 vols., boards, 3.00; cloth 4.00
+  Mother's Boys and Girls Library. 12 vols., quarto, boards. 3.00
+
+
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+
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+  order, are
+
+  A HEDGE FENCE. 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 c.
+
+  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. Cloth, Illustrated $1.00.
+
+  In fact all of Pansy's books have some special charm or attraction which
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+
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+
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+
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+  BIBLE READER, THE. By Rev. H.V. Dexter, D. D. 16mo., .50
+
+  BIBLE LESSONS FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERTS AND ANNIVERSARIES. By
+  Edmund Clark, 18 numbers 5 cts. each. Bound in 16mo. vol, cloth, $1.00.
+
+  BIBLE PICTURES. By Rev. Geo. B. Ide, D.D. 12mo, $2.00.
+
+  FIFTY YEARS WITH THE SABBATH-SCHOOL. By Rev. Asa Bullard, D.D.
+  12mo, cloth, $1.25.
+
+  SELF-GIVING. A story of Christian missions. By Rev. W.F.
+  Bainbridge. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50.
+
+  ROCK OF AGES. By Rev. S.F. Smith, D.D. A choice collection of
+  religious poems. 18mo, cloth, gilt edges, $1.25.
+
+  STUDY OF NAHUM (A). By Professor Thom. H. Rich. 16mo, $.40
+
+  STORY OF THE PRAYERS OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY (The). By Hezekiah
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+
+  WALK TO EMMAUS. By Rev. Nehemiah Adams. Charming specimens of
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+
+  Ella Farman is the editor of WIDE AWAKE, and her books are full of
+  sympathy with girl-life, always sunshiny and hopeful, always pointing
+  out new ways to do things and unexpected causes for happiness and
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+
+  _9 vols. 12mo. Illust. $10.00._
+
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+  A Little Woman.
+  A Girl's Money.
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+  Grandma Crosby's Household.
+  Good-for-Nothing Polly.
+  How Two Girls Tried Farming.
+  Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow.
+  Mrs. Hurd's Niece.
+
+  JULIA A. EASTMAN'S BOOKS.
+
+  Miss Eastman has a large circle of young admirers. She carries off the
+  palm as a writer of school-life stories, and teachers are always glad to
+  find their scholars reading her books. Miss Eastman's style is
+  characterized by quick movement, sparkling expression, and incisive
+  knowledge of human nature.
+
+  _6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $7.50_
+
+  Kitty Kent.
+  Young Rick.
+  Romneys of Ridgemont, Short Comings and Long Goings. (The).
+  Striking for the Right.
+  School Days of Beulah Romney.
+
+  REV. J.L. PRATT'S BOOKS.
+
+  This set of books is valuable for its fitness to the needs of young
+  people who have come to the age when they begin to examine for
+  themselves into religious beliefs and opinions. They are interesting as
+  stories, abounding with beautiful descriptions and delicate portraitures
+  of character, and are everywhere favorites with the thoughtful and
+  meditative.
+
+  _4 vols. 12mo. Illust. $6.00._
+
+  Evening Rest.
+  Bonnie Ærie.
+  Branches of Palm.
+  Broken Fetters.
+
+  MRS. A.E. PORTER'S BOOKS.
+
+  Mrs. Porter is a favorite author with adult readers, as well as with
+  children. Her stories, always dealing largely with home-life, are well
+  calculated to make truthfulness and steadfastness and Christian living
+  the subjects of youthful admiration and imitation.
+
+  _5 vols. 12mo. Illust. $6.25._
+
+  This One Thing I Do.
+  Millie Lee.
+  Sunset Mountain.
+  My Hero.
+  Glencoe Parsonage.
+
+  BY AUTHOR OF ANDY LUTTRELL
+
+  Powerful books, dealing with knotty problems, and positive in their
+  religious teaching. They are perennial favorites with all classes of
+  readers.
+
+  _6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $7.50._
+
+  Andy Luttrell.
+  Barbara.
+  Talbury Girls.
+  Strawberry Hill.
+  Silent Tom.
+  Hidden Treasure.
+
+  MRS. E.D. KENDALL'S WORKS.
+
+  Each full of earnestness of purpose, and impressing a life lesson on the
+  reader's mind. Excellent for boys.
+
+  _3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $3.75._
+
+  Judge's Sons.
+  The Stanifords of Staniford's Folly.
+  Master and Pupil.
+
+  MARY J. CAPRON'S BOOKS.
+
+  These books are thoroughly healthy and stimulating, and admirably
+  adapted to put into the hands of thoughtful young people to lead them to
+  right ideas on the fundamental truths of the religious life.
+
+  _4 vols. 12mo. Illust. $5.00._
+
+  Plus and Minus.
+  Gold and Gilt.
+  Maybee's Stepping Stones.
+  Mrs. Thorne's Guests.
+
+  REV. Z.A. MUDGE'S WORKS.
+
+  This well known author's works are among the most popular in the
+  Sunday-school library.
+
+  _3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $3.75._
+
+  Shell Cove.
+  Luck of Alden Farm.
+  Boat Builders.
+
+  CHARLOTTE M. YONGE'S HISTORIES.
+
+  Miss Yonge, while always boldly and continuously outlining the course of
+  historical events, has the knack of seizing upon incidents which reveal
+  the true character of historical personages. These histories are
+  attractive as romance and possess a peculiar power of impressing the
+  memory, being written from a Christian standpoint they are very
+  desirable books for Sunday-school libraries.
+
+  _6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $9.00._
+
+  Young Folks' History of Germany.
+  Young Folks' History of Greece.
+  Young Folks' History of Rome.
+  Young Folks' History of England.
+  Young Folks' History of France.
+  Young Folks' Bible History.
+
+  SPARE MINUTE SERIES
+
+  These are bright and pithy and soul-stirring volumes, quickening the
+  intellect of the reader and warming the heart.
+
+  _4 vols. 12mo. $4.00._
+
+  Thoughts that Breathe. _From_ Dean Stanley. Introduction by
+  Phillips Brooks.
+
+  Cheerful Words. _From_ George MacDonald. Introduction by James T.
+  Fields.
+
+  The Might of Right. _From_ Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone. Introduction
+  by John D. Long.
+
+  True Manliness. _From_ Thomas Hughes. Introduction by James Russell
+  Lowell.
+
+  W.H.G. KINGSTON'S BOOKS.
+
+  These stories are intensely interesting and graphic and enforce the
+  highest and most practical lessons.
+
+  _3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $8.00._
+
+  Voyage of the Steadfast.
+  Charley Laurel.
+  Virginia.
+  Little Ben Hadden.
+  Young Whaler.
+  Fisher Boy.
+  Peter the Ship Boy.
+  Ralph and Dick.
+
+  BUNGENER HISTORICAL SERIES.
+
+  From the French of L.L.F. Bungener. These works are of thrilling
+  interest, illustrating the religious struggles, heroism and social life
+  of the times of Louis XIV. and XV.
+
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+
+  Bourdaloue and Louis XIV.
+  Louis XV. and his Times.
+  Rabaut and Bridaine.
+  The Tower of Constancy.
+
+  BANVARD'S AMERICAN HISTORY.
+
+  Every library should be furnished with this series of American
+  Histories.--_New England Farmer_.
+
+  No more interesting and instructive reading can be put into the hands of
+  youth.--_Portland Transcript_.
+
+  Every American should own these books.--_Scientific American_.
+
+  _5 vols. 12mo. Illust. $5.00._
+
+  Southern Explorers.
+  Soldiers and Patriots.
+  Pioneers of the New World.
+  Plymouth and the Pilgrims.
+  First Explorers of North America.
+
+  DR. NEHEMIAH ADAMS' WORKS.
+
+  _12 vols. 12mo. $12.00._
+
+  At Eventide.
+  Agnes; or, the Litte Key.
+  Bertha.
+  Broadcast.
+  Christ a Friend.
+  Communion Sabbath.
+  Catherine.
+  Cross in the Cell.
+  Endless Punishment.
+  Evenings wish the Doctrines.
+  Friends of Christ.
+  Under the Mizzen-Mast.
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+  child life are especially pleasing.
+
+
+  FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS, AND HOW THEY GREW.
+  Extra cloth binding, very elegant die in colors and gold.
+  12mo, illust. 1.50
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+  PETTIBONE NAME (The). V.I.F. Series,
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+
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+
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+
+
+  EDWARD A. RAND'S BOOKS.
+
+  Mr. Rand's strong, helpful, interesting stories have made him such a
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+  ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.
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+
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+  Large 16mo, cloth, illust. 1.25
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+  12mo, illust. 1.25
+
+
+  MARIE OLIVER'S STORIES.
+
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+  admirers who watch eagerly for any new book from her pen, and find in
+  her a friendly and wise helper.
+
+  MARIE OLIVER'S STORIES.
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+  Old and New Friends.
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+
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+  the outcome of their experience in a trip around the world undertaken
+  because of their interest in Christian Missions. They not only abound
+  in interesting descriptions of the numerous places visited, but present
+  such a record of lofty purposes and noble endeavors as will furnish
+  inspiration to all readers.
+
+
+  AROUND THE WORLD TOUR OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. By W. F. BAINBRIDGE.
+  With maps of Prevailing Religions and all Leading Mission Stations.
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+
+
+  MISS YONGE'S HISTORICAL STORIES. There are very many, especially
+  among the young, who are not attracted to the study of history, as
+  presented in ordinary historical works, but who are attracted to it
+  through the reading of books in which it is interwoven with romance. All
+  such will be charmed with Miss Yonge's Historical Stories, which
+  instruct while they interest, and are written in the fascinating style
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+
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+
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+
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+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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+
+  BY COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.
+
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+
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.--_Wm. M.
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+
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.--_Henry Day, N.Y._
+
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.--_Geo.
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+
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+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
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+
+  The maps are just splendid.--_Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J._
+
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+  College, England_.
+
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+  Sec. of State_.
+
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.--_A. de
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+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.--_Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England_.
+
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.--_Harper's
+  Magazine_.
+
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.--_N.Y. Times_.
+
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.--_The Nation_.
+
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
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+
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.--_Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman_.
+--------------------------------------
+
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+
+  Published by A.S. BARNES & CO., 111 & 113 William Street, New York.
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+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+
+  BY COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.
+
+  Cloth, $6. Sheep, $7.50. Half Calf (various styles) or Half Mor., $9
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+
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+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
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+
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.--_Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey_.
+
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.--_Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y._
+
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.--_Henry Day, N.Y._
+
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.--_Geo.
+  Bancroft_.
+
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
+  and thoughtful perusal of this work.--_Benson J. Lossing_.
+
+  The maps are just splendid.--_Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J._
+
+  The book is invaluable and should be in every library.--_Wm. L. Stone,
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+
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+
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+  heart.--_London Telegraph_.
+
+  The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which
+  the century has produced.--_Army and Navy Journal_.
+
+  Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague
+  period of military history.--_Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff
+  College, England_.
+
+  A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.--_Lord Derby, late Brit.
+  Sec. of State_.
+
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.--_A. de
+  Rochambeau, Paris_.
+
+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.--_Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England_.
+
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.--_Harper's
+  Magazine_.
+
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.--_N.Y. Times_.
+
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.--_The Nation_.
+
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
+  treasures.
+
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.--_Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J._
+
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.--_Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman_.
+
+--------------------------------------
+
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+
+  Published by A.S. BARNES & CO., 111 & 113 William Street, New York.
+
+
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
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+  The RED Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
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+
+  The ¶ and Page references to various School Histories, which mention the
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+  Revolution."
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+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
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+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
+  losses on each side, and the incidents of the battle.--_N.Y. Evening
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+[Illustration: Map]
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+  PROF. RAPHAEL PUMPELLY, Chemist National Board of Health.
+
+  [NOTE.--This analysis, with a letter of recommendation from Prof.
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+  Jan. 12, 1884.]
+
+  _PARTS IN 1,000,000_
+
+  Total Residue                      44.6
+  Silica                             11.5
+  Iron and Alumina                    0.7
+  Lime                               10.5
+  Magnesia                            1.5
+  Chlorine                            4.6
+  Ammonia                             0.06
+  Albumoid Ammonia                    0.06
+
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+                                                  BOSTON, April 24, 1885.
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+alt="Henry W. Paine" /></a>
+<br />
+Henry W. Paine
+</div>
+
+<p>
+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page391" name="page391"></a>[pg 391]</span>
+</p>
+
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+<h1>
+    THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.
+</h1>
+<h2>
+    <i>A Massachusetts Magazine.</i>
+</h2>
+<h3>
+VOL. III. NOVEMBER, 1885. NO. VI.
+</h3>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>Contents</h3>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0002">HENRY W. PAINE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0003">PICKETT'S CHARGE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0004">THE PATRIOT, SAMUEL ADAMS.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0005">AUTHORITATIVE LITERATURE OF THE CIVIL WAR.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0006">ASSESSMENT LIFE INSURANCE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0007">THE OLD STATE HOUSE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0008">THE PRECIOUS METALS.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0009">AMESBURY: THE HOME OF WHITTIER.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0010">KATE FIELD'S NEW DEPARTURE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0011">THE MONUMENT AND HOMESTEAD OF REBECCA NURSE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0012">THE PRESENT RESOURCES OF MASSACHUSETTS.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0013">ELIZABETH.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0017">EDITOR'S TABLE.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0018">HISTORICAL RECORD.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0019">OBITUARY.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0020">AMONG THE BOOKS.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_NOTE">NOTES AND QUERIES.</a></p>
+<p class="toc"><a href="#h2H_4_0022">PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT.</a></p>
+
+<hr />
+
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+<h2>
+    HENRY W. PAINE.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Prof. William Mathews, LL.D.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Among the callings acknowledged to be not only useful, but indispensable
+to society, there is no one, except the medical, which has been oftener
+the butt of vulgar ridicule and abuse than the legal. "Lawyers and
+doctors," says a writer on Wit and Humor in the <i>British Quarterly
+Review</i>, "are the chief objects of ridicule in the jest-books of all
+ages." But whatever may be the disadvantages of the Law as a profession,
+in spite of the aspersions cast upon it by disappointed suitors,
+over-nice moralists, and malicious wits, it can boast of one signal
+advantage over all other business callings,&mdash;that eminence in it is
+always a test of ability and acquirement. While in every other
+profession quackery and pretension may gain for men wealth and honor,
+forensic renown can be won only by rare natural powers aided by profound
+learning and varied experience in trying causes. The trickster and the
+charlatan, who in medicine and even in the pulpit find it easy to dupe
+their fellow-men, find at the bar that all attempts to make shallowness
+pass for depth, impudence for wit, and fatal for wisdom, are instantly
+baffled. Not only is an acute, sagacious, and austere bench a perilous
+foe to the trickery of the ignorant or half-prepared advocate, but the
+veteran practitioners around him are quick to detect every sign of
+mental weakness, disingenuous artifice, or disposition to substitute
+sham for reality. Forensic life is, to a large extent, life in the broad
+glare of day, under the scrutiny of keen-eyed observers and merciless
+critics. In every cause there are two attorneys engaged, of whom one is
+a sentinel upon the other; and a blunder, a slip, an exaggeration, or a
+misrepresentation, never escapes without instant exposure. The popular
+reputation of a lawyer, it has been well said, is but the winnowed and
+sifted judgment which reaches the world through the bar, and is
+therefore made up after severe ordeal and upon standard proof.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page392" name="page392"></a>[pg 392]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+These observations are deemed not inappropriate as an introduction to a
+sketch of the life of one of the most eminent lawyers of New England,
+whose career may be regarded as signally worthy of imitation.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Henry William Paine</span> was born August 30th, 1810, in Winslow,
+Maine. His father, Lemuel Paine, a native of Foxborough, Mass., was a
+graduate of Brown University, and a lawyer by profession, who began
+practice in Winslow, Maine, in partnership with Gen. Ripley, afterwards
+the hero of Lundy's Lane. Owing to poor health, Mr. Paine, sen., soon
+abandoned the law for other pursuits. He was familiar with the
+representative English authors, and specially fond of the Greek language
+and literature, which he cultivated during his life. He had a tenacious
+memory, and could quote Homer by the page. Henry Paine's mother, Jane
+Thomson Warren, was the daughter of Ebenezer T. Warren, of Foxborough,
+the brother of General Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill. Of the
+three children of Lemuel and Jane T. (Warren) Paine, Henry William was
+the second.
+</p>
+<p>
+After the usual preparatory education, Mr. Paine entered Waterville
+College (now Colby University) in 1826, and graduated in 1830, at the
+age of twenty, with the highest honor of his class. During the last year
+of the college course, he was principal of Waterville Academy, then just
+founded for the preparation of young men for college. He spent eight
+hours a day in charge of his pupils, of whom there were eighty-two, and
+at the same time kept up with his class in the college studies. As a
+teacher he was greatly beloved and respected by his pupils, whose
+affection was won by no lack of discipline, but by his kindly sympathy,
+encouragement, and watchful aid in their studies. He had an eye that
+could beam with tenderness, or dart lightnings; and it was a fine moral
+spectacle, illustrating the superiority of mental over physical force,
+to see a bully of the school, almost twice his size, and who,
+apparently, could have crushed him if he chose, quail under his eagle
+gaze, when arraigned at the principal's desk for a misdemeanor. It is
+doubtful if ever he flogged a scholar; but he sometimes brought the
+ruler down upon the desk with a force that made the schoolroom ring, and
+inspired the lawless with a very wholesome respect for his authority.
+The fact that from that day to this his office has always been a kind of
+Mecca, to which his old pupils, whether dwellers in "Araby the Blest" or
+in the sandy wastes of life, have made pious pilgrimages, shows how
+deeply he was loved and how highly he was honored as a teacher.
+</p>
+<p>
+Immediately after graduation Mr. Paine was appointed a Tutor of
+Waterville College, and discharged the duties of that office for a year.
+He then began the study of law in the office of his uncle, the late
+Samuel S. Warren, of China, Maine, and continued the study in the office
+of William Clark, a noted lawyer in Hallowell, Maine, and, for a year,
+in the Law School of Harvard University, where he was the classmate of
+Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips and B.F. Thomas. In the autumn of 1834,
+he was admitted to the bar of Kennebec County, Maine. Beginning his
+professional career at Hallowell, he prosecuted it there with signal
+success till the summer of 1854, having for twenty years a practice not
+surpassed by that of any member of the Maine bar. During the sessions of
+1836, 1837, and again in that of 1853, he represented the citizens of
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page393" name="page393"></a>[pg 393]</span>
+
+  Hallowell in the lower house of the State Legislature. He was also for
+five years Attorney for Kennebec County. During his stay in Maine, he
+was repeatedly offered a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court
+of that State; but, having an unconquerable aversion to office of every
+kind, civil or political, he declined to accept the honor pressed upon
+him. In 1853 he was offered by his political friends, then the dominant
+party in the Legislature, a seat in the United States Senate; but he
+refused to be nominated. In the summer of 1854, in accordance with a
+long cherished resolve, which he had been prevented from executing
+before by a promise to his father that he would not leave Maine during
+that parent's lifetime, he removed to Cambridge, Mass., and opened a
+law-office in Boston. Here he at once entered upon a large and lucrative
+practice, both in the State and Federal courts, which kept steadily
+increasing for over twenty years, till declining health and partial
+deafness compelled him to withdraw from the courts of justice, and
+confine himself to office business. During this period, his opinion on
+abstruse and knotty points of law was often solicited by eminent counsel
+living outside of Massachusetts, and he sent written opinions to
+attorneys in nine different states. As Referee and Master in Chancery,
+he was called upon to arbitrate in a great number of difficult and
+complicated cases, involving the ownership and disposition of large
+amounts of property. His decisions in these vexed cases, which often
+involved the unravelling of tangled webs of testimony, and the
+consideration of the nicest and most delicate questions of law, were
+luminous and masterly, and so impartial withal, that the litigants must
+have often been convinced of their justness, if not contented,&mdash;<i>etaim
+contra quos statuit, aequos placatosque dimisit.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+In 1863 and 1864 Mr. Paine was nominated, without his consent, by the
+Democratic party of Massachusetts, a candidate for the office of
+Governor. With much reluctance he accepted the nomination, but, as he
+expected, and doubtless to his joy, failed of an election. In 1867, on
+the resignation of Chief Justice Bigelow, the office of Chief Justice of
+the Supreme Court of Massachusetts was offered by Governor Bullock to
+Mr. Paine, who, not wishing to give up his large and profitable practice
+at the bar, declined to accept. This decision, though a natural one, is
+much to be regretted by the citizens of this state. Coming from an
+eminently judicial mind, his decisions, had he sat on the bench, would
+have been models of close, cogent reasoning, clearness, and brevity,
+worthy of the best days of the Massachusetts judiciary.
+</p>
+<p>
+Shortly after his removal to this State Mr. Paine was associated with
+Rufus Choate and F.O.J. Smith in the defence of Judge Woodbury Davis, of
+Portland, Maine, who had been impeached by the Legislature of that State
+for misconduct in his judicial office. In an editorial article upon the
+trial, which appeared after its termination, in the Kennebec Journal,
+published at Augusta, the Hon. James G. Blaine, the writer, declared
+epigrammatically that, in the defence of Judge Chase, "Paine furnished
+the logic, Choate the rhetoric, and Smith the slang."
+</p>
+<p>
+From 1872 to 1883 Mr. Paine was Lecturer on the Law of Real Property at
+the Law School of the Boston University, an office whose duties he
+performed
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page394" name="page394"></a>[pg 394]</span>
+
+  with great credit to himself, and profit to those whom he addressed. So
+thoroughly was he master of his subject, difficult and intricate as it
+confessedly is, that in not a single instance, except during the
+lectures of the last year, did he take a note or scrap of memoranda into
+the class room.
+</p>
+<p>
+While he has always been a close and devoted student of the law, Mr.
+Paine has yet found time for general reading, and has hung for many an
+hour over the pages of the English classics with keen delight. For Homer
+and Virgil he still retains the relish of his early days, and, in the
+intervals of professional toil, has often slaked his thirst for the
+waters of Helicon in long and copious draughts. How well he appreciated
+the advantages of an acquaintance with literature, he showed early in a
+suggestive and instructive lecture on "Reading," which we heard him
+deliver before the Lyceum at Hallowell more than forty years ago. With
+his lamented friend Judge B.F. Thomas, he believes that a man cannot be
+a great lawyer who is nothing else,&mdash;that exclusive devotion to the
+study and practice of the law tends to acumen rather than to breadth, to
+subtlety rather than to strength. "The air is thin among the apices of
+the law, as on the granite needles of the Alps. Men must find
+refreshment and strength in the quiet valleys at their feet."
+</p>
+<p>
+With his brethren of the bar Mr. Paine has always held the friendliest
+relations, and he has enjoyed their highest esteem. To none, even the
+humblest of his fellow advocates, has he ever manifested any of the
+haughtiness of a Pinkney, or any of that ruggedness and asperity which
+gained for the morose and sullen Thurlow the nickname of <i>the
+tiger</i>. Amid the fiercest janglings and hottest contentions of the
+bar, he has never forgotten that courtesy which should mark the
+collision, not less than the friendly intercourse, of cultivated and
+polished minds. His victories, won easily by argumentative ability,
+tact, and intellectual keenness, unaided by passion, have strikingly
+contrasted with the costly victories of advocates less self-restrained.
+Though naturally witty and quick at retort, he has never used the weapon
+in a way to wound the feelings of an adversary. In examining and
+cross-examining witnesses, he has assumed their veracity, whenever it
+has been possible to do so; and though he has had the eye of a lynx and
+the scent of a hound for prevarication in all its forms, yet he has
+never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger, to
+confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness, or involve him in
+self-contradiction. Adopting a quiet, gentle, and straightforward,
+though full and careful examination, winning the good-will of the
+witness, and inspiring confidence in the questioner, Mr. Paine has been
+far more successful in extracting the truth, even from reluctant lips,
+than the most artful legal bully. He knows that the manoeuvres and
+devices which are best adapted to confuse an honest witness, are just
+what the dishonest one is best prepared for. It was not for all the
+blustering violence of the tempest, that the traveler would lay aside
+his cloak. The result was brought about by the mild and genial warmth of
+the sun.
+</p>
+<p>
+Few advocates have had more success with juries than the subject of this
+sketch. The secret of this success has been, not more the admirable
+lucidity and cogency of his addresses, than the confidence and trust
+with which his
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page395" name="page395"></a>[pg 395]</span>
+
+  reputation for fairness and truthfulness, and his evident abhorrence of
+exaggeration, have inspired his hearers. Another explanation is, that he
+has avoided that rock on which so many advocates wreck their
+cases,&mdash;prolixity. Knowing that, as Sir James Scarlett once said, when a
+lawyer exceeds a certain length of time, he is always doing mischief to
+his client,&mdash;that, if he drives into the heads of the jury unimportant
+matter, he drives out matter more important that he had previously
+lodged there,&mdash;Mr. Paine has taken care to press home the leading points
+of his case, giving slight attention to the others.
+</p>
+<p>
+That Mr. Paine has been animated in the pursuit of his profession by
+higher motives than those which fire the zeal of the mere "hired master
+of tongue-fence," is shown by the comparative smallness of his fees,
+especially in cases exacting great labor. Great as has been his success
+in winning verdicts, and sound as have been his opinions, it is doubtful
+whether there is another lawyer living of equal eminence, whose charges
+for legal service have been so uniformly moderate.
+</p>
+<p>
+Reference has been made to Mr. Paine's wit. Several striking examples
+might be cited; but two must suffice. Some years ago, when he was County
+Attorney, a man who had been indicted in Kennebec County for arson, was
+tried, and acquitted by the jury on the ground that he was an <i>idiot</i>.
+After the trial, the Judge before whom the case had been tried, sought
+to reconcile Mr. Paine to the verdict by some explanatory remarks. "Oh,
+I'm quite satisfied, your Honor," said Mr. Paine, "with the defendant's
+acquittal. He has been tried by a jury of his <i>peers</i>"&mdash;On another
+occasion, Mr. Paine was making a legal argument before an eminent judge,
+when he was interrupted by the latter, who said: "Mr. Paine, you know
+that that is not law." "I know it, your Honor," replied the advocate,
+with a deferential bow; "but it <i>was</i> law till your Honor just spoke."
+</p>
+<p>
+From 1849 to 1862, Mr. Paine was a member of the Board of Trustees of
+Waterville College. In 1851, he was elected member of the Maine
+Historical Society, and also of the American Academy. In 1854, his Alma
+Mater conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
+</p>
+<p>
+In the relation of marriage, Mr. Paine has been very happy. In May.
+1837, he was united to Miss Lucy E. Coffin, of Newburyport, a lady of
+rare endowments, both of head and heart.
+</p>
+<p>
+Few men have started in a professional career with a more vigorous and
+elastic constitution than Mr. Paine's. Endowed with an iron frame and
+nerves of <i>lignum vitae</i>, he very naturally felt in youth that his
+fund of physical energy was inexhaustible; but, like thousands of other
+professional men in this fiery and impatient age, he finds himself in
+the autumn of his life afflicted with bodily ills, which he feels that
+with reasonable care he might have escaped. Toiling in his profession
+year after year from January to December, with no recreation, no summer
+vacation, no disposition to follow the wise advice of Horace to
+Torquatus,&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i12">            rebus omissis</p>
+<p class="i2">  Atria servantem postico falle clientem,</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page396" name="page396"></a>[pg 396]</span>
+
+<p><br />
+  &mdash;working double tides, and crowding the work of eighty years into
+forty, Mr. Paine finds that, large as was his bank account with Nature,
+he has been overdrawing it for years, and that he has now to repay these
+drafts with compound interest. The lesson he would have young
+professional men learn from his experience, is, that they should account
+no time or money wasted, that contributes in any way to their physical
+health,&mdash;that gives tone to the stomach, or development to the muscles.
+Let them understand that, though suffering does not follow instantly
+upon the heels of transgression, yet Nature cannot be outraged with
+impunity. Though a generous giver she is a hard bargainer, and a most
+accurate bookkeeper, whose notice not the eighth part of a cent escapes;
+and though the items with which she debits one, taken singly are
+seemingly insignificant, and she seldom brings in "that little bill"
+till a late day, yet, added up at the end of three score years and ten,
+they may show a frightful balance against him, which can have no result
+but physical bankruptcy.
+</p>
+<p>
+In Mr. Paine's physiognomy the most noticeable features are the broad,
+massive, Websterian forehead, and the sparkling eyes.
+</p>
+<p>
+In summing up the characteristics of Mr. Paine as a lawyer and as a man,
+the writer, who was his pupil at Waterville Academy, and has enjoyed his
+friendship to this day, cannot do better than to cite the words of an
+acute observer who has known him intimately for many years. Chief
+Justice Appleton, of Maine, did not exaggerate, when he said: "He is a
+gentleman of a high order of intellect; of superior culture; in private
+life, one of the most genial of companions; in his profession, a
+profound and learned lawyer, as well as an accomplished advocate."
+</p>
+<p>
+To conclude,&mdash;if the subject of this imperfect sketch has occasion to
+regret his excessive devotion to his calling, he can have no other
+regrets. At the close of a long, most useful, and most honorable career,
+which has been marked throughout by the severest conscientiousness and
+the most scrupulous discharge of every professional duty, he is happily
+realizing that blessedness which Sir William Blackstone, when exchanging
+the worship of the Muses for that of Themis, prayed might crown the
+evening of his days:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Thus though my noon of life be past, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Yet let my setting sun at last </p>
+<p class="i2">   Find out the still, the rural cell, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Where sage Retirement loves to dwell! </p>
+<p class="i2">   There let me taste the homefelt bliss </p>
+<p class="i2">   Of innocence and inward peace; </p>
+<p class="i2">   Untainted by the guilty bribe, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Uncursed amid the harpy tribe; </p>
+<p class="i2">   No orphan cry to wound my ear, </p>
+<p class="i2">   My honor and my conscience clear; </p>
+<p class="i2">   Thus may I calmly meet my end, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Thus to the grave in peace descend." </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page397" name="page397"></a>[pg 397]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0003" id="h2H_4_0003"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    PICKETT'S CHARGE.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Charles A. Patch, Mass., Vols.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+In all great wars involving the destinies of nations, it is neither the
+number of battles, nor the names, nor the loss of life, that remain
+fixed in the mind of the masses; but simply the one decisive struggle
+which either in its immediate or remote sequence closes the conflict. Of
+the hundred battles of the great Napoleon, Waterloo alone lingers in the
+memory. The Franco-Prussian War, so fraught with changes to Europe,
+presents but one name that will never fade,&mdash;Sedan. Even in our own
+country, how few battles of the Revolution can we enumerate; but is
+there a child who does not know that Bunker Hill sounded the death-knell
+of English rule in the land? And now, but twenty years since the
+greatest conflict of modern times was closed at Appomattox, how few can
+we readily recall of the scores of blood-stained battle-fields on which
+our friends and neighbors fought and fell; but is there one, old or
+young, cultured or ignorant, of the North or of the South, that cannot
+speak of Gettysburg? But what is Gettysburg either in its first day's
+Federal defeat, or its second day's terrible slaughter around Little
+Round Top, without the <i>third</i> day's immortal charge by Pickett and
+his brave Virginians. In it we have the culmination of the Rebellion. It
+took long years after to drain <i>all</i> the life-blood from the foe,
+but never again did the wave of Rebellion rise so gallantly high as when
+it beat upon the crest of Cemetery Ridge.
+</p>
+<p>
+The storming of the heights of Inkerman, the charge of the noble Six
+Hundred, the fearful onslaught of the Guards at Waterloo, the scaling of
+Lookout Mountain,&mdash;have all been sung in story, and perhaps always will
+be; but they all pale beside the glory that will ever enshroud the
+heroes who, with perhaps not literally "cannon to right of them" and
+"cannon to left of them," but with a hundred cannon belching forth death
+in <i>front</i> of them, hurled themselves into the centre of a great
+army and had victory almost within their grasp.
+</p>
+<p>
+To describe this charge, we will go back to the evening of the 2nd of
+July, and recall upon what basis the cautious Lee could undertake so
+fearful a responsibility. The victorious Southrons fresh from their
+triumphs at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville had entered the North
+carrying consternation and dismay to every hamlet, with none to oppose;
+their forward march was one of spoil, and it was not till the 1st of
+July that they met their old foemen, the Army of the Potomac, in the
+streets of Gettysburg, and after a fierce conflict drove them back. The
+second day's conflict was a terrible slaughter, and at its close the
+Federal Army, although holding its position, was to a certain extent
+disheartened. Many of our best generals and commanding officers were
+killed or wounded, scores of regiments and batteries were nearly wiped
+out, Sickles' line was broken and driven in and its position was held by
+Longstreet. Little Round Top,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page398" name="page398"></a>[pg 398]</span>
+
+  the key of the position, was held only at a frightful loss of life, and
+Ewell upon the right had gained a footing upon the Ridge. The Rebel army
+was joyful and expectant of victory. The morning of the 3rd of July
+opened clear and bright, and one hundred thousand men faced each other
+awaiting the signal of conflict; but, except the pushing of Ewell from
+his position, the hours passed on relieved only by the rumbling of
+artillery carriages as they were massed by Lee upon Seminary Ridge, and
+by Meade upon Cemetery Ridge. At twelve o'clock Lee ascended the cupola
+of the Pennsylvania College, in quiet surveyed the Union lines, and
+decided to strike for Hancock's Centre. Meanwhile, Pickett with his
+three Virginia brigades had arrived from Chambersburg and taken cover in
+the woods of Seminary Ridge. What Lee's feelings must have been, as he
+looked at the hundred death-dealing cannon massed on Cemetery Hill, and
+the fifty thousand men waiting patiently in front and behind them, men
+whose valor he knew well in many a bitter struggle&mdash;and then looked at
+his handful of brave Virginians, three, small, decimated brigades which
+he was about to hurl into that vortex of death,&mdash;no one will ever know.
+The blunder that sent the Light Brigade to death at Balaklava was bad
+enough, but here were five thousand men waiting to seek victory where,
+only the day before ten thousand had lost their lives or their limbs in
+the same futile endeavor. Leaving the college, Lee called a council of
+his generals at Longstreet's headquarters, and the plan of attack was
+formed. It is said that the level-headed Longstreet opposed the plan,
+and if so it was but in keeping with his remarkable generalship. The
+attack was to be opened with artillery fire to demoralize and batter the
+Federal line, and was to be opened by a signal of two shots from the
+Washington Artillery. At half-past one the report of the first gun rang
+out on the still, summer air, followed a minute later by the second, and
+then came the roar and flash of one hundred and thirty-eight rebel
+cannon. Almost immediately one hundred Federal guns responded and the
+battle had begun. Shot and shell tore through the air, crashing through
+batteries, tearing men and horses to pieces; the very earth seemed to
+shake and the hills to reel as the terrible thunders re-echoed amongst
+them. For nearly an hour every conceivable form of ordnance known to
+modern gunnery hissed and shrieked, whistled and screamed, as it went
+forth on its death-mission till exhausted by excitement and heat the
+gunners slackened their fire and silence reigned again.
+</p>
+<p>
+Then Pickett and his brave legion stood up and formed for the
+death-struggle; three remnants of brigades consisting of Garnett's
+brigade:&mdash;the 8th, 18th, 19th, 28th, 56th Virginia; Armistead's
+brigade:&mdash;the 9th, 14th, 38th, 53rd, 57th Virginia; Kempers's
+brigade:&mdash;the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 11th, 24th Virginia. Their tattered flags
+bore the scars of a score of battles and from their ranks the merciless
+bullet had already taken two-thirds their number. In compact ranks,
+their front scarcely covering two of Hancock's brigades, with flags
+waving as if for a gala-day, Gen. Pickett saluted Longstreet and asked,
+"Shall I go forward, sir?" but it was not in Longstreet's heart to send
+those heroes of so many battles to certain death; and he turned away his
+head,&mdash;when Pickett with that proud, impetuous air which has earned him
+the title of the "Ney" of the Rebel army, exclaimed, "Sir! I
+<i>shall</i> lead my division forward!" The orders now
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page399" name="page399"></a>[pg 399]</span>
+
+  rang out, "<i>Attention</i>! <i>Attention</i>!" and the men, realizing
+the end was near, cried out to their comrades, "Good-by, boys! good-by!"
+Suddenly rang on the air the final order from Pickett himself, as his
+sabre flashed from its scabbard,&mdash;"<i>column forward! guide centre</i>!"
+And the brigades of Kemper, Garnett and Armistead moved towards Cemetery
+Ridge as one man. Soon Pettigrew's division emerged from the woods and
+followed in echelon on Pickett's left flank, and Wilcox with his Alabama
+division moved out to support his right flank&mdash;in all about fifteen
+thousand men. The selection of these supports shows a lack of judgment
+which it would almost seem impossible for Lee to have made. Pettigrew's
+division was composed mostly of new troops from North Carolina, and had
+been terribly used up in the first day's fight, and were in no condition
+to form part of a forlorn hope. Wilcox's troops had also received very
+severe punishment in the second day's engagement in his attack on the
+Ridge and should have been replaced by fresh well-tried brigades. But
+the movement had now begun and Lee with his generals about him watched
+anxiously for the result.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0002"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:250px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/421.jpg"><img src="images/421.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="MAJ. GEN. GEORGE E. PICKETT" /></a>
+<br />
+MAJ. GEN. GEORGE E. PICKETT
+</div>
+<p>
+It was nearly a mile to the Union lines, and as they advanced over the
+open plain the Federal artillery opened again, ploughing great lanes
+through their solid ranks, but they closed up to '<i>guide centre</i>'
+as if upon dress-parade; when half way over Pickett halted his division
+amidst a terrible fire of shot and shell, and changed his direction by
+an oblique movement coolly and beautifully made. But here occurred the
+greatest mistake of all. Wilcox paid no attention to this change of
+movement, but kept straight on to the front, thus opening a tremendous
+gap between the two columns and exposing Pickett's right to all the
+mishaps that afterwards overtook it. To those who have ever faced
+artillery fire it is marvellous and unexplainable how human beings could
+have advanced a mile under the terrific fire of a hundred cannon, every
+inch of air being laden with the missiles of death; but in splendid
+formation they still came bravely on till within range of the musketry;
+then the blue line of Hancock's corps arose and poured into their
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page400" name="page400"></a>[pg 400]</span>
+
+  ranks a murderous fire. With a wild yell the rebels pushed on,
+unfalteringly crossed the Federal line and laid hands upon eleven
+cannon.
+</p>
+<p>
+Men fired in each others faces; there were bayonet thrusts, cutting with
+sabres, hand to hand contests, oaths, curses, yells and hurrahs. The
+second corps fell back behind the guns to allow the use of grape and
+double canister, and as it tore through the rebel ranks at only a few
+paces distant the dead and wounded were piled in ghastly heaps. Still on
+they came up to the very muzzles of the guns; they were blown away from
+the cannon's mouth but yet they did not waver. Pickett had taken the key
+to the position and the glad shout of victory was heard, as, the very
+impersonation of a soldier, he still forced his troops to the crest of
+Cemetery Ridge. Kemper and Armistead broke through Hancock's line,
+scaled the hill and planted their flags on its crest. Just before
+Armistead was shot, he placed his flag upon a captured cannon and cried
+"<i>Give them the cold steel, boys</i>!"; but valor could do no more,
+the handful of braves had won immortality but could not conquer an army.
+Pettigrew's weak division was broken fleeing and almost annihilated.
+Wilcox, owing to his great mistake in separating his column was easily
+routed, and Stannard's Vermonters thrown into the gap were creating
+havoc on Pickett's flank. Pickett, seeing his supports gone, his
+generals, Kemper, Armistead and Garnett killed or wounded, every field
+officer of three brigades gone, three-fourths of his men killed or
+captured, himself untouched but broken-hearted, gave the order for
+retreat, but band of heroes as they were they fled not; but amidst that
+still continuous, terrible fire they slowly, sullenly, recrossed the
+plain,&mdash;all that was left of them, but few of five thousand.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0003"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:200px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/422.jpg"><img src="images/422.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="Position of troops at time of attack on left centre on 3rd day of battle of Gettysburg." /></a>
+<br />
+Position of troops at time of attack on left centre on 3rd day of battle of Gettysburg.
+</div>
+<p>
+Thus ended the greatest charge known to modern warfare. Made in a most
+unequal manner against a great army and amidst the most terrific
+cannonade known in wars, and yet so perfect was the discipline, so
+audacious the valor that had this handful of Virginians been properly
+supported they would perhaps
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page401" name="page401"></a>[pg 401]</span>
+
+  have rendered the Federal position untenable, and possibly have
+established the Southern Confederacy. While other battle-fields are
+upturned by the plough and covered with waving grain, Cemetery Ridge
+will forever proudly uphold its monuments telling of glory both to the
+Blue and the Gray, and our children's children while standing upon its
+crest will rehearse again of Pickett's wonderful charge.
+</p>
+<hr style="clear:both;" />
+<a name="h2H_4_0004" id="h2H_4_0004"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE PATRIOT, SAMUEL ADAMS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Edward P. Guild.</span>
+</h3>
+<a name="image-0004"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/423.jpg"><img src="images/423.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="SAMUEL ADAMS. FROM COPLEY'S PAINTING." /></a>
+<br />
+SAMUEL ADAMS. FROM COPLEY'S PAINTING.<a href="#note-1" name="noteref-1"><small>1</small></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+Three years ago the old State House in Boston was restored to its
+original architectural appearance. After having fallen a prey to the
+ruthless hand of commerce, been surmounted with a "Mansard roof,"
+disfigured by a legion of business signs, made a hitching place for
+scores of telegraph wires, and lastly been
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page402" name="page402"></a>[pg 402]</span>
+
+  threatened with entire demolition by the ever arrogant spirit of
+"business enterprise"; the sentiment of patriotic veneration asserted
+itself and came to the rescue. With an appropriation of $35,000 from the
+city, work was begun in the fall of 1881, and by the following July the
+ancient building had been restored to almost exactly its appearance in
+the last century. As the Old State House now stands, it is identical
+with the Town House which Boston first used for its town meeting May 13,
+1713. This was nine years before the birth of the man destined to become
+the foremost character in the Boston town meeting of the eighteenth
+century&mdash;Samuel Adams. Probably no other man who ever lived has been so
+identified with the history of the Old State House as was he. The town
+meetings were held in Faneuil Hall after 1742, but through the stormy
+years when the Assembly met in the old building, Samuel Adams was in
+constant attendance as clerk. His desk, on which he wrote the first
+sentences ever ventured for American independence, and by which he
+arose, and, with hands often tremulous with nervous energy, directed the
+exciting debates, is to-day in the old Assembly chamber in the western
+end of the building. In 1774 he went to Congress, but for a long period
+afterward the Old State House was again his field of labor, as senator,
+as lieutenant governor and then as governor.
+</p>
+<p>
+The life of Samuel Adams ought to be more familiar than it is to the
+patriotic young men of to-day, but some excuse is found in the fact that
+a popular, concise biography has, until lately, not been written. The
+excellent three volume work of Mr. Wells, Adams' great grandson,
+although admirable as an exhaustive biography, is too voluminous for the
+common reader; but since the appearance of Prof. Hosmer's recent book<a href="#note-2" name="noteref-2"><small>2</small></a>
+there can be no reason why any schoolboy should not have a clear idea of
+the life of the man who organized the Revolution.
+</p>
+<p>
+It is only as a patriot that Samuel Adams claims our attention. Although
+college bred he was a man of letters only so far as his pen could write
+patriotic resolutions and scathing letters against the government of
+King George. These letters were printed for the most part in the "Boston
+Gazette," published by Edes &amp; Gill in Court Street. As a business man he
+was never a success. For years he kept the old malt house on Purchase
+Street, but he gave the business little thought, for his mind was
+constantly engrossed in public matters, and at last he made no pretext
+of attending to any matter of private business, depending for support
+only upon his small salary as clerk of the assembly. No one will ever
+accuse Samuel Adams of any selfish ambition, and, although his every act
+will not bear the closest application of the square and rule, yet he
+never deceived nor used a doubtful method in the least degree for
+personal gain.
+</p>
+<p>
+Adams did not begin his public career early in life. In 1764 he was
+chosen a member of the committee to instruct the representatives just
+elected to the General Court, and the paper drafted on that occasion is
+the first document from his pen of which we now have any trace, and is
+memorable,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page403" name="page403"></a>[pg 403]</span>
+
+  moreover, because it contains the first public denial of the authority
+of the Stamp Act. Adams was now forty-two, his hair was already touched
+with gray, and "a peculiar tremulousness of the head and hands made it
+seem as if he were already on the threshold of old age." He had,
+however, a remarkably sound constitution, a medium sized, muscular
+frame, and clear, steel-gray eyes.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0005"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/425.jpg"><img src="images/425.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1793." /></a>
+<br />
+OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1793.
+</div>
+<p>
+Among those closely connected with Adams in the public service, which,
+from this time on, became his only thought, were John Hancock and James
+Otis. Adams contrasted strongly with both of these men. Hancock was the
+richest man in the province and as liberal as he was wealthy. In the
+general jubilation that followed the repeal of the Stamp Act, he opened
+a pipe of Madeira wine before his elegant mansion opposite the Common,
+and so long as it lasted it was freely dispensed to the crowd. The dress
+of Hancock when at home is described as a "red velvet cap, within which
+was one of fine linen, the edge of this turned up over the velvet one,
+two or three inches. He wore a blue damask gown lined with silk, a white
+plaited stock, a white silk embroidered waistcoat, black silk
+small-clothes, white silk stockings and red morocco slippers." Adams was
+in marked contrast with Otis in temperament. The former, always cool and
+collected and his words based on deliberate reason, was the extreme of
+the other who carried his arguments in a flood of impetuous eloquence.
+"Otis was a flame of fire," says Sewall. But although Otis was once
+almost the ideal of the people, his erratic tendencies at last unfitted
+him for a leader.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page404" name="page404"></a>[pg 404]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+One reason of Sam Adams' prestige with the masses was his common and
+familiar intercourse with mechanics and artisans. Hancock, Otis, Bowdoin
+and Curtis, on account of their wealth and ideas of aristocracy, kept
+more or less aloof from the workmen; while Adams, plainly clad and with
+familiar but dignified manner, was often found in the ship yards or at
+the rope walks engaged in earnest conversation with the homely
+craftsmen. Indeed, nothing pleased him more than to be talking with a
+ship carpenter as they sat side by side on a block of oak, or with some
+shopkeeper in a sheltered fence corner. Most of his writing was done in
+a little room in his Purchase Street house where night after night his
+busy mind and quill were kept at work on his trenchant letters for the
+"Gazette," which were signed with significant nom de plumes in Latin.
+</p>
+<p>
+The year 1768 was made notable by the arrival in Boston from England of
+the 14th and the 29th regiments. The main guard was quartered in King
+(now State) Street, with the cannon pointed toward the State House, and
+the troops occupied various houses in the vicinity. In the next year the
+Governor, Bernard, was recalled, and Thomas Hutchinson, although
+remaining nominally lieutenant governor, became acting chief magistrate.
+He now appeared the most conspicuous figure among the royalists, and
+Samuel Adams became more distinctly the leader of the patriots.
+Neglecting all other affairs, he was content to live on a pittance,
+which he was enabled to do by a frugal and helpful wife.
+</p>
+<p>
+Affairs were now approaching a crisis. A consignment of goods from
+England, sent in defiance of the non-importation agreements, was not
+allowed to land and had to be returned. One importer, a Scotchman, would
+not sign the agreements, so after much remonstrance, Samuel Adams arose
+in town meeting and grimly moved that the number present, about two
+thousand, should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, wait upon
+the obstinate merchant and use such persuasion as should be necessary to
+secure a compliance. But no vote was needed, for the Scotchman was
+present, and rushing to the front with knees trembling and in a
+squeaking voice, rolling his r's like a well-played drum, exclaimed:&mdash;
+"Mr. Mode-r-r-rater, I agr-r-ree, I agr-r-ree!" greatly to the amusement
+of the people.
+</p>
+<p>
+It was early in the next year, 1770, that the hostility between
+towns-people and soldiers led for the first time to the shedding of
+blood. In February a boy, Christopher Snyder, was shot and killed during
+a disturbance, and in March occurred the "Boston Massacre." The story has
+been many times told. Quarrels had grown frequent between the soldiers
+and the rope-walk hands, the soldiers usually getting the worst of it.
+On the evening of the 5th, an altercation began just below the Old State
+House, between the sentinel of the guard and a crowd of townsfolk. An
+alarm was rung from one of the steeples, and many citizens hurried to
+the place, most of them thinking that a fire had broken out. A sentry
+was at the corner of King and Exchange streets, where the Custom House
+stood, and he was assaulted by the boys with snowballs. Captain Preston
+with seven or eight men rushed to the scene, loaded their muskets and
+made ready to fire. The mob hooted, struck their muskets and dared them
+to fire. At last a volley came. Three were killed and eight wounded. At
+once there was a tumult. The
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page405" name="page405"></a>[pg 405]</span>
+
+  bells were all rung and the populace hurried to and fro. The bodies of
+the slain lay on the ground which was sprinkled with a light snow,
+serving to plainly reveal in the clear moon-light the stains of blood.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0006"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/427.jpg"><img src="images/427.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1801." /></a>
+<br />
+OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1801.
+</div>
+<p>
+The 29th regiment repaired to the spot prepared for firing, and there
+would have been a fierce contest but for the excellent conduct of the
+acting governor, Hutchinson. He took Captain Preston severely to task
+for firing at the people without the orders of a civil magistrate, and
+then, quickly working his way to the State House, took his stand in the
+balcony of the council-chamber looking down King Street, and made an
+address promising that the law should prevail and justice should be done
+to all. The next morning Hutchinson was waited upon by the selectmen who
+informed him that there would be no peace until the soldiers should
+depart. Hutchinson claimed, however, that the regiments were not under
+his command.
+</p>
+<p>
+A mass meeting was soon held in Faneuil Hall, and was addressed by
+Samuel Adams. It may readily be believed that he advocated no
+compromise, and a committee of fifteen was immediately appointed of
+which Adams was a member. According to instructions, they at once
+repaired to the council chamber, and demanded the instant removal of the
+troops. At three o'clock a regular town meeting assembled in Faneuil
+Hall, but, owing to the great number present, adjourned to the Old South
+Meeting House. Then the committee of fifteen
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page406" name="page406"></a>[pg 406]</span>
+
+  appeared making their way from the council-chamber to the meeting-house.
+Samuel Adams was at the head, and as the crowd made way on either hand
+he bared his head, and, inclining to the right and left, as he passed
+through the line, kept repeating: "Both regiments or none!" "Both
+regiments or none!"
+</p>
+<a name="image-0007"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:175px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/428.jpg"><img src="images/428.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="STATUE IN ADAMS SQUARE." /></a>
+<br />
+STATUE IN ADAMS SQUARE.
+</div>
+<p>
+In the presence of the dense multitude in the Old South, the governor's
+reply was rendered: the 29th regiment should go to the castle, but the
+14th must remain. Then the cry arose, "Both regiments or none!" and as
+the shout echoed from every quarter it was plain that the people had
+caught the meaning of the watchword, given shortly before by Adams. A
+new committee, also including Adams, was appointed and sent back to the
+governor, and as they stood in the council chamber the scene was one
+that John Adams pronounced long after as worthy a historical painting. A
+few sentences from Adams' address to Hutchinson are clear enough to show
+the intense earnestness and patriotism of the man.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "It is well known," he said, "that acting as governor of the Province,
+  you are by its charter the commander-in-chief of the military forces
+  within it; and as such, the troops now in the capital are subject to
+  your orders. If you, or Colonel Dalrymple under you, have the power to
+  remove one regiment, you have the power to remove both; and nothing
+  short of their total removal will satisfy the people or preserve the
+  peace of the Province. A Multitude highly incensed now wait the result
+  of this application. The voice of ten thousand freemen demands that
+  both regiments be forthwith removed. Their voice must be respected,
+  their demand obeyed. Fail not then at your peril to comply with this
+  requisition! On you alone rests the responsibility of this decision;
+  and if the just expectations of the people are disappointed, you must
+  be answerable to God and your country for the fatal consequences that
+  must ensue. The committee have discharged their duty, and it is for
+  you to discharge yours. They wait your final determination."
+</p>
+<p>
+Hutchinson for a long time stood firm, but yielded at last and the
+troops were removed.
+</p>
+<p>
+It is not the purpose of this paper to follow Samuel Adams through his
+active career in the years of the Revolution and the succeeding period.
+It is always Samuel Adams, the unswerving patriot, the adroit leader,
+the man of the people. It had long been felt in England that his was the
+most active spirit in the cause of the patriots, and there was much talk
+of effecting his arrest and bringing him to trial on the charge of
+treason, but the move was never made. Adams' courage never failed. He
+had long given up the idea of any compromise between the colonies and
+the Crown, and there is nothing conciliatory in his words or acts. When
+the tea was emptied into Boston Harbor it was easily
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page407" name="page407"></a>[pg 407]</span>
+
+  understood that Adams was the real leader in the action. No one familiar
+with the life of the great town meeting man, as Prof. Hosmer likes to
+call him, can doubt that he had the essential qualities of an adroit
+strategist. Cromwell once locked Parliament out, Adams once locked the
+Assembly in. He had secured a majority of the members to vote for a
+Continental Congress, but could the resolve be presented and brought to
+a final vote before Governor Gage could prorogue the Assembly, as he
+would use all speed to do, the instant the first knowledge of the scheme
+reached his ears? On the 17th of June, just one year before the Battle
+of Bunker Hill, that question was answered. The resolve was offered that
+day providing for the appointment of delegates to such a congress. Tory
+members at once essayed to leave the hall to dispatch the news to the
+governor, but the bolts were fast, and Samuel Adams had the key in his
+pocket. Two months later the delegates were on their way to
+Philadelphia,&mdash;Thomas Cushing, Samuel and John Adams and Robert Treat
+Paine.
+</p>
+<p>
+Events then transpired rapidly. So far, Samuel Adams was almost wholly
+alone in the idea of independence, but it was declared by Congress less
+than two years later. For more than twenty years longer, Adams continued
+in public life, but his greatest work was before the Declaration of
+Independence rather than after. There were times when the cause of the
+patriots must have fallen through but for the nerve and skill of this
+man. Bowdoin, Cushing, Hancock, Otis, and even John Adams could not have
+been thoroughly trusted in the last years of the colony to bring affairs
+to a successful issue. But Samuel Adams was fitted by intellect and
+character, adroitness and courage, tireless energy and by never failing
+devotion to the public good, to be the man for the time.
+</p>
+<p>
+When America had become a Republic, and Adams had returned from Congress
+to his native town, he served as presiding officer of the Senate, then
+as lieutenant governor, and, upon the death of Hancock, governor, to
+which office he was several times chosen by the people. He died in 1803,
+and his dust lies to-day in the old Granary Burying Ground, close by the
+common grave of the four victims of the Boston Massacre.
+</p>
+<p>
+The statue in bronze now standing in Adams Square is noble in design,
+and appropriate for situation. It is in almost the busiest position of
+the great city, and daily across its shadow pass tens of thousands of
+mechanics and artisans&mdash;the class of men with whom Samuel Adams used to
+love to hold intercourse. The Old State House and Faneuil Hall are only
+a stone's-throw distant from the statue, but the face is not looking in
+the direction of either; it is turned directly toward the visible shaft
+of granite on Bunker Hill&mdash;the monument which marks the first great
+battle in the struggle for that Independence toward which, in all his
+labors for so many years, the eyes of Samuel Adams were ever turned.
+</p>
+
+
+<a name="note-1"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>1</u> (<a href="#noteref-1">return</a>)<br />
+For the reproduction of the above portrait and the two
+following views of the Old State House, we are indebted to the courtesy
+of Messrs. Ticknor &amp; Co., the well-known Boston publishers.&mdash;Ed.
+</p>
+<a name="note-2"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>2</u> (<a href="#noteref-2">return</a>)<br />
+Samuel Adams. By James K. Hosmer, 1 vol., 442 pp. American
+Statesmen Series. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co. 1883.
+</p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page408" name="page408"></a>[pg 408]</span>
+</p>
+
+<a name="h2H_4_0005" id="h2H_4_0005"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    AUTHORITATIVE LITERATURE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By George Lowell Austin.</span>
+</h3>
+<h4>
+II.
+</h4>
+
+<p class="quote">
+  <span class="sc">The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln</span>, sixteenth
+  President of the United States: together with His State Papers,
+  including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations,
+  and the closing Scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J.
+  Raymond. To which are added Anecdotes and Personal Reminiscences of
+  President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter, with a steel portrait, and
+  other illustrations, 1 vol. octavo, pp. 808. New York: Derby and Miller,
+  1865.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During the Presidential canvass of 1864, the author of this volume
+prepared a work upon the administration of President Lincoln. That
+canvass resulted in the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, whose death occurred
+soon after his second inauguration. As the editor of the <i>New York
+Times</i>, Mr. Raymond possessed at the time ample facilities to prepare
+such a book as was needed to interest the public in the life of one
+whose work was at once as great as it was successful. Up to the day of
+its publication, this book was the best and most authoritative that had
+been published. Twenty years have since elapsed, and in many respects it
+still maintains a just superiority and a historical value that cannot be
+questioned. Its errors are of omission, rather than of commission; while
+its merits are so great as to render it indispensable to all future
+writers on the subject. Every public speech, message, letter, or
+document of any sort of Mr. Lincoln's, so far as accessible in 1865,
+will be found included in the volume. The rapidly occuring events of
+the civil war, with much of their secret history, are tersely and
+graphically described. The "Reminiscences" of Mr. Carpenter, covering
+about thirty pages, add interest to the volume.
+</p>
+
+<p class="quote">
+<span class="sc">Abraham Lincoln</span>: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the
+inner growth, special training and peculiar fitness of the Man for his
+work. By William O. Stoddard. Illustrated. 1 vol. octavo, pp. 508. New
+York: Fords, Howard &amp; Hurlbert, 1884.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Stoddard was one of President Lincoln's secretaries during the civil
+war, and very naturally his work ought to have strong claims upon the
+interest and attention of American readers. His book is not of a
+profound or critical character; but a singularly honest and candid and
+strictly personal biography, simply written for readers of all ages and
+degrees of intelligence. It sheds considerable light on the political
+history of the civil war and on the events which led to it. With the
+military history, it deals but little. Still its brief, vigorous and
+vivid sketches furnish an exceedingly fascinating bird's eye view of the
+great struggle. But its most valuable feature is the clearness with
+which it depicts Lincoln, the man,&mdash;his sagacity and patience at
+critical moments, his keen perception of "popular" sentiment and
+disposition, his <i>individuality</i>, his distinctive fitness for the
+tasks and burdens which fell upon him. This work, at once so accurate,
+so comprehensive, so discriminating and so well written, is one for all
+Americans,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page409" name="page409"></a>[pg 409]</span>
+
+  and particularly for younger readers. It has in it a charm possessed but
+by very few biographies, and a fascination that but few novels can
+surpass. To enjoy it and to profit by it, one need not always coincide
+with the author's judgments of men and measures, or his criticisms of
+military leaders and policies.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="sc">The Life of Abraham Lincoln</span>. By Isaac N. Arnold. 1 vol. octavo,
+pp. 462. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg &amp; Co., 1885.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This work also possesses strong claims upon our attention. It was
+completed only a few days before the death of its eminent author.
+Furthermore, Mr. Arnold knew President Lincoln better than almost any
+other man; they had been intimate friends for more than a quarter of a
+century, thinking, conversing and working together during all that time.
+When the civil war broke out, Mr. Arnold entered Congress; became one of
+the most trusted advisers of the President; and no one better than he
+knew and comprehended the latter's thoughts and intentions; even the
+cabinet officers and the private secretaries never approached so near to
+the heart and mind of President Lincoln as did his life long, trusted
+and admired friend. In 1867, Mr. Arnold published a "History of Abraham
+Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery" which is a work of rare interest
+and of exceptional historic value. But this work, in the judgment of the
+author, was unsatisfactory from the fact that, while it depicted well
+enough the <i>times</i>, it failed to portray the <i>life</i> of President
+Lincoln. The later volume meets the deficiency, and in fact leaves
+absolutely nothing to be desired. The spirit of tenderness broods over
+its charmful pages. Singularly unpretentious, its very simplicity is
+eloquent and inspiring, and makes the heart of the reader blend with the
+grand and noble heart of its subject. Its accuracy is unmarred; it
+explains all doubts that have ever existed in regard to Mr. Lincoln's
+motives and acts; it asserts nothing without proving it; it tells the
+plain, straightforward story, and leaves criticism to others. As a
+<i>personal</i> biography of Mr. Lincoln's life and character, this book
+is not only unsurpassed, but it deserves to rank as one of the classics
+in our native literature.
+</p>
+
+<p class="quote">
+<span class="sc">The Political Conspiracies Preceding the Rebellion</span>; or the True
+Story of Sumter and Pickens, By Thomas M. Anderson, Lieut. Col. U.S.A. 1
+vol. quarto, pp. 100. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The author assumes that there were "a number of conspiracies" antedating
+the immediate outbreak of the civil war, but makes no claim that the war
+was the result of such conspiracies. His narrative, then, is merely
+descriptive of the events which took place in the period between October
+1860 and April 1861, purely <i>resume</i> in character and wholly based
+upon the disclosures of the Official Records. The author allows himself
+to criticise men and acts rather freely, and at times captiously; and
+has evidently intended his book to be a defence of his brother, the hero
+of Sumter, against certain charges which were once made against him. The
+old hero needs no defender, even if we suppose that he ever merited
+criticism. The volume is a small one,&mdash;trustworthy as regards its
+statements and valuable for reference. It may profitably be read in
+conjunction with the second volume of Mr. Curtis's <i>Life</i> of <i>James
+Buchanan</i>, also with the small volume, by General Doubleday, entitled
+<i>The Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Pickens in 1860-61</i>.
+</p>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page410" name="page410"></a>[pg 410]</span>
+
+<p class="quote">
+<span class="sc">The Peninsular Campaign of General McClellan in 1862</span>. Papers read
+before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts in 1876-77-78
+and 80. Printed for the Society. Vol. I, octavo, pp. 249. Boston: James
+R. Osgood and Company, 1881.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Military Society of Massachusetts was organized in 1876, with the
+object of investigating questions relating to the civil war. Up to the
+date of the publication of this volume, about forty papers were read,
+six of them being devoted to the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, eleven
+to General Pope's campaign of 1862, three to the campaign of
+Chancellorsville, three to the Antietam campaign, sixteen to the
+campaign of 1864, and one each to the battle of Mobile Bay and Grouchy
+controversy,&mdash;all, with the exception of the last two, bearing upon the
+operations of the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and 1864, and including
+discussions from different standpoints of the objects and general plans
+of the several campaigns and battles in which it participated, and of
+the controverted questions that have arisen concerning them. The first
+printed volume of the Society contains the following papers:&mdash;"General
+McClellan's Plans for the campaign of 1862, and the Alleged Interference
+of the Government with them," by John C. Ropes, Esq: "The Siege of
+Yorktown," by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. John C. Palfrey, U.S.A.: "The Period
+which elapsed between the Fall of Yorktown and the Beginning of the
+Seven-Days-Battles," by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. Francis W. Palfrey, U.S.V. "The
+Seven-Days Battles&mdash;to Malvern Hill," by same author. "The Battle of
+Malvern Hill," by same author; "Comments on the Peninsular Campaign,"
+by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. Charles A. Whittier, U.S.V. All of these are earnest
+discussions,&mdash;but of unequal worth&mdash;of the various merits or demerits
+of General McClellan in the Peninsular campaign, or the attitude of the
+government toward him at that time. The ground is traversed as often
+before; all the old arguments are again brought into comparison, and
+a very small amount of <i>new</i> evidence is discovered. What has
+previously been said in many books and pamphlets and by a score of
+writers, is here said in one volume by three writers. But nothing
+appears to be <i>freshly</i> said, and, as usual, the conclusions
+reached are colored by the political likes or dislikes of their several
+writers. The sole merit of the volume lies in the fact that its papers
+embody a mass of very valuable material, gleaned from trustworthy
+sources, for the future historian. It is very safe to assume, however,
+that the future historian while expressing gratitude for their
+investigations, will not be tempted to place much weight upon the
+conclusions of the gentlemen who hold the monopoly of this volume but
+have not solved a single mooted question.
+</p>
+
+<p class="quote">
+<span class="sc">Life of James Buchanan</span>, Fifteenth President of the United
+States. By George Ticknor Curtis. 2 vols. octavo, pp. 625, 707. New
+York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1883.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The second volume of this exceedingly painstaking and meritorious
+biography sheds much light upon the events preceding, and those
+transpiring during, the civil war. As another writer has remarked,
+"there is something very pitiable, something almost tragic, in the
+figure of James Buchanan during the last months of his administration."
+He found himself wavering between two factions, between Right and Wrong.
+So long as he wavered, the South stood by him;
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page411" name="page411"></a>[pg 411]</span>
+
+  when he ceased to be a wary politician and manifested a decision of
+character such as the times demanded, the South turned against him as
+one man. His biographer proves conclusively that the weak and
+time-serving President was <i>opposed</i> to secession; but as
+positively proves without intending to do so, that he favored it by his
+singular unfitness and indifference in emergencies. When secession
+threatened, Mr. Buchanan took the ground that he would not precipitate
+war by applying force to prevent a State from seceding, but that he
+would defend the flag and property of the United States. With this
+policy in his heart, he permitted public property to be seized, without
+striking a blow; he discovered treason in his cabinet, and coolly
+allowed the traitors to consummate their work and to depart. The fact
+was, that he was a very weak man, and his biographer is the best
+authority for the statement. The work is important; it will always, as
+it richly merits, be consulted by students, and may be read with
+interest and profit by all.
+</p>
+<h4>
+(To be continued.)
+</h4>
+<hr />
+<a name="h2H_4_0006" id="h2H_4_0006"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    ASSESSMENT LIFE INSURANCE.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Sheppard Romans.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Life insurance, by whatever system, plan or method, has, for its
+fundamental basis, the laws governing the rates of mortality at the
+different ages. These fundamental laws have been developed and made
+clear by a vast amount of statistical data obtained from observations
+among persons insured in life insurance companies among annuitants,
+among inhabitants of various towns and cities, and among the whole
+population in certain countries, notably in England and in Belgium. One
+uniform, unvarying, certain law has been thus established, which is that
+the rate of mortality, or in other words the cost of insurance,
+increases as a man grows older. From this law there is no escape. We
+must accept the inevitable. Hence any system of insurance which is not
+in accordance with this first principle, this unalterable law of nature,
+is unsound, and any company, whether charging level premiums or natural
+premiums, which does not recognize and conform to this fundamental law
+of nature, is doomed to disaster and wreck, sooner or later.
+</p>
+<p>
+There are two methods of life insurance worthy of the name, and two
+only. The one is by payments accurately adjusted to the cost of
+insurance at each actual age, and which inevitably, unavoidably and
+inexorably, must increase with the age of the person insured, and the
+other is by level, or uniform payments extending over the whole duration
+of life or for a stated number of years. The first is the natural system
+and has been adopted <i>in part</i>, and imperfectly, by assessment
+companies; the second is the artificial system, and is the one which has
+been offered exclusively until lately, by all the regular life insurance
+companies. Properly carried out, the one is as sound in theory and as
+safe in practice as the
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page412" name="page412"></a>[pg 412]</span>
+
+  other. In fact, the artificial premiums are the exact mathematical or
+commuted equivalents of the natural premiums.
+</p>
+<p>
+Until within the last decade, the level premium system was practically
+the only one in use. Since then there have come into existence hundreds
+of co-operative or assessment companies. These institutions have had a
+wonderful growth. It is claimed that the number of members and the
+amounts insured, double those, respectively, in the old or regular
+companies.
+</p>
+<p>
+Assessment companies do not, strictly speaking, grant insurance. They
+are rather agencies, or trust companies, and their functions or
+covenants are to make assessments upon survivors when deaths occur, and
+to pay over the proceeds of such assessments to the beneficiaries of the
+deceased members. There is no definite promise to pay in full, and no
+obligation to pay more than the assessments yield. There is no capital,
+no risk, no <i>insurance!</i> It is a voluntary association of
+individuals. There is usually but little if any penalty for
+discontinuance of membership, and the permanence of such institutions
+depends mainly upon the volition of their members. They spring into
+existence suddenly by the voluntary association of a few individuals
+without capital or personal risk, and as suddenly they may go out of
+existence by the voluntary act or withdrawal of their members. A breath
+may create, a breath destroy.
+</p>
+<p>
+It must be evident then to the merest tyro, that the permanence and
+success of assessment companies depend upon the most rigid observance of
+those principles which science and sound business experience have
+demonstrated to be fundamental. Among these principles may be mentioned
+the following.
+</p>
+<p>
+1. Rates of assessments or payments adjusted to the cost of insurance at
+the actual age of each person. These rates must inevitably and
+inexorably increase with the age of the individual.
+</p>
+<p>
+2. The creation of a guaranty, or emergency fund, available not only to
+meet extra mortality, but as a cement to secure cohesion among the
+members, and prevent the exodus of the sound lives.
+</p>
+<p>
+3. An assessment in advance at issue of certificate, otherwise some
+persons will be insured for nothing and the cost will fall on the
+persistent members.
+</p>
+<p>
+As was well said by a contributor in your last number, assessment
+insurance has its defects, and these are well known to the managers of
+these institutions, and that great improvements have been made by the
+National Convention of assessment companies, which is composed of
+representatives from the best companies organized in almost every state.
+They recognize existing defects, they point out the remedies, and yet,
+but few seem to have the courage of their convictions. It is a fact
+beyond dispute, that with perhaps a half-dozen exceptions, the rates of
+assessment in every assessment company in the country remain constant as
+at the age of entry. That is to say, a man entering at the age of forty,
+pays the rate at forty only, as long as he remains a member. This is a
+direct violation of the inexorable law of nature which says, that as a
+man grows older the risk of dying, or in other words the cost of
+insurance, increases. It is all nonsense to urge that the <i>average</i>
+age and the average cost will be kept down by the influx of new members.
+The contract is made with the individual,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page413" name="page413"></a>[pg 413]</span>
+
+  and unless each person pays enough to compensate the company for the
+indemnity or insurance furnished to him, it follows of necessity, that
+others will be overcharged in order to meet the deficiency so
+occasioned. And this evil is intensified each year as the company grows
+older. When younger and fresher men find that they are overcharged in
+order to meet deficiencies arising from the act that older and inferior
+risks pay less than cost, they will either not enter, or, if members,
+will speedily desert and join an institution which is on a sounder and
+more equitable basis. No institution can be permanently successful which
+does not observe equity. I have no hesitation in saying that every
+assessment or corporation company which violates this fundamental law of
+nature by not making its rates of assessment increase with the age of
+the individuals insured, is <i>doomed</i>, and that disaster and wreck
+is only a question of time. This is not a new opinion. It's truth is
+attested by more than one wreck in this country already.
+</p>
+<p>
+In every level, or uniform premium, there is a provision for the payment
+to the company of the rate of insurance at the actual present age, (no
+matter at what age the insurance was affected) on the net amount at
+risk.
+</p>
+<p>
+The great danger for co-oporative or assessment companies lies in the
+facility with which such institutions may be organized, and by men
+without capital, character, experience or financial ability, who may
+thus be ushered into corporate existence by the indulgent laws of
+different states.
+</p>
+<p>
+The members of the National Association of assessment companies should
+see to it that the laws of the different states should be so amended as
+to require at least a small capital, say $25,000, as a guaranty of good
+faith and ability on the part of the promoters, and that no company
+should be admitted to membership unless its system was founded on sound
+principles as demonstrated by science and business experience.
+</p>
+<p>
+The managers of assessment companies should be careful lest their claims
+should prove to be unfounded. For instance, the writer of the article in
+your last number boldly asserts that it "is susceptible of mathematical
+demonstration that one or two million of dollars of reserve is adequate
+to perpetuate any well-conducted assessment company for all time,
+however large or small it may be, while the spectacle is presented to us
+of level premium companies holding fifty to one hundred millions of
+accumulations belonging to their policy holders, from which no possible
+benefit, in most cases, will ever accrue to them." On reflection he must
+see the absurdity of such statements.
+</p>
+<p>
+The level premium system is a combination of insurance and investments.
+The hundred millions are <i>investments</i>, and are necessary for the
+integrity of the level premium contracts. Any assessment company in
+which the rates do not increase as the members grow older should be
+compelled to have the full premium reserve required by state law and
+actuarial science to be held on level premium contracts. This is capable
+of mathematical demonstration.
+</p>
+<p>
+It must be borne in mind that the cost of insurance <i>proper</i>, that
+is, the provision to meet current death claims alone, is quite as high
+in the best assessment company as in a regular life insurance company,
+for this cost depends on the careful
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page414" name="page414"></a>[pg 414]</span>
+
+  selection of lives. The difference in the two institutions is that the
+former dispenses with the investment element, while the latter exacts it
+in connection with all their contracts. Hence the price to be paid is
+greater. But is not the <i>guarantee</i> also greater?
+</p>
+<p>
+The beneficiary under a death claim in an assessment company has for her
+security the <i>hope</i>, or promise if you please, that one thousand
+men will pay ten dollars each for her account. The beneficiary under a
+death claim in a regular life insurance company has for her security not
+only the actual payments of ten dollars each by one thousand men, but
+the definite promise to pay in full by an institution which has ample
+capital, assets, and surplus to back its contracts.
+</p>
+<p>
+Assessment insurance is yet on trial, and its only hope of permanent
+business lies in a rigid compliance with the laws of mortality and of
+sound business experience.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<a name="h2H_4_0007" id="h2H_4_0007"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE OLD STATE HOUSE.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Sidney Maxwell.</span>
+</h3>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   The Old State House! Within these antique walls </p>
+<p class="i2">   The early fathers of the hamlet met </p>
+<p class="i2">   And gravely argued of the town's affairs. </p>
+<p class="i2">   Another generation came; and in </p>
+<p class="i2">   This hall the Tory Council sat in state </p>
+<p class="i2">   While from the burning lips of Otis, or </p>
+<p class="i2">   The stem, defiant tongue of Adams sprang </p>
+<p class="i2">   That eloquence whose echoes thundered back </p>
+<p class="i2">   From Concord, Lexington, and Bunker's Hill! </p>
+<p class="i2">   Between those years and ours a century lies; </p>
+<p class="i2">   Those patriot's graves are deep with moss and mould, </p>
+<p class="i2">   And yet these walls&mdash;the same whose shadows fell </p>
+<p class="i2">   Athwart the crimson snow where Preston charged<a href="#note-3" name="noteref-3"><small>3</small></a>&mdash; </p>
+<p class="i2">   Still cast their shadows; not on troops, nor mob </p>
+<p class="i2">   Exasperated by their wrongs, but on </p>
+<p class="i2">   A jostling, hurrying throng&mdash;freeman each one, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Unless in bondage to himself. O Man: </p>
+<p class="i2">   Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate </p>
+<p class="i2">   This aged relic of the past because </p>
+<p class="i2">   It lies across thy path! From avarice </p>
+<p class="i2">   Redeemed; restored unto its former self,&mdash; </p>
+<p class="i2">   We hail thee, noble Sentry of the years, </p>
+<p class="i2">   And greet thee with a thousand loving cheers! </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<a name="note-3"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>3</u> (<a href="#noteref-3">return</a>)<br />
+The "Boston Massacre," March 5th, 1770.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page415" name="page415"></a>[pg 415]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0008" id="h2H_4_0008"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE PRECIOUS METALS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By David N. Balfour.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+From the earliest times to the commencement of the Christian Era, the
+amount of the gold and silver obtained from the surface and mines of the
+earth is estimated to be $5,084,000,000; from the latter event to the
+epoch of the discovery of America, $4,363,374,000 were obtained; from
+the date of the last event to the end of 1842, an addition of
+$8,500,000,000 was made; the extensive working of the Russian gold mines
+in 1843, and subsequent years, added to the close of 1852,
+$1,400,000,000 more; the quadruple discovery of the California gold
+mines in 1848, those of Australia in 1851, of New Zealand in 1861, and
+the silver mines of Nevada and other countries bordering upon the
+Pacific slope of the United States, added, at the close of 1884,
+$7,093,626,000, making a grand total at the present time of
+$26,441,000,000.
+</p>
+<p>
+The average loss by the attrition of coin is estimated by Prof. Bowen
+at one-fortieth of one per cent, per annum; and the average loss by
+consumption in the arts, and destruction by fire and shipwreck, at
+$9,000,000 per annum. The amount of the precious metals in existence is
+estimated to be $13,670,000,000, of which gold furnishes $8,166,000,000,
+and silver $5,504,000,000. Of the amount now in existence,
+$10,500,000,000 are estimated to be in coin and bullion, $2,000,000,000
+in watches, and the remainder in plate, jewelry, and ornaments. Of the
+amount now in existence, $9,448,000,000 is estimated to have been
+obtained from America, $1,908,000,000 from Asia (including Australia,
+New Zealand, and Oceanica); $1,004,000,000 from Europe, and
+$1,310,000,000 from Africa.
+</p>
+<p>
+The following statement will exhibit the product of the precious metals
+throughout the world in 1884:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Worldwide precious metal production, 1884">
+<tr><th>Countries.         </th><th>Gold. (America)  </th><th>       Silver.     </th><th>       Total. </th></tr>
+<tr><td>Alaska,            </td><td align="right">    $300,000     </td><td align="right">       $30,000     </td><td align="right">     $320,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>British Columbia,  </td><td align="right">   2,000,000     </td><td align="right">        80,000     </td><td align="right">    2,080,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>United States,     </td><td align="right">  30,800,000     </td><td align="right">    48,800,000     </td><td align="right">   79,600,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Mexico,            </td><td align="right">   1,000,000     </td><td align="right">    30,000,000     </td><td align="right">   31,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Guatemala,         </td><td align="right">      40,000     </td><td align="right">       200,000     </td><td align="right">      240,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Honduras,          </td><td align="right">      50,000     </td><td align="right">        50,000     </td><td align="right">      100,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>San Salvador,      </td><td align="right">     100,000     </td><td align="right">       150,000     </td><td align="right">      250,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Nicaragua,         </td><td align="right">     100,000     </td><td align="right">       100,000     </td><td align="right">      200,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Costa Rica,        </td><td align="right">      50,000     </td><td align="right">        50,000     </td><td align="right">      100,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Columbia,          </td><td align="right">   1,900,000     </td><td align="right">       500,000     </td><td align="right">    2,400,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Venezuela,         </td><td align="right">   3,000,000     </td><td align="right">       200,000     </td><td align="right">    3,200,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Guiana,            </td><td align="right">      75,000     </td><td align="right">        50,000     </td><td align="right">      125,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Brazil,            </td><td align="right">     400,000     </td><td align="right">        50,000     </td><td align="right">      450,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Bolivia,           </td><td align="right">      50,000     </td><td align="right">    12,980,000     </td><td align="right">   13,030,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Chili,             </td><td align="right">      60,000     </td><td align="right">     5,000,000     </td><td align="right">    5,060,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Argentine Republic,</td><td align="right">      50,000     </td><td align="right">       200,000     </td><td align="right">      250,000 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page416" name="page416"></a>[pg 416]</span>
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>Patagonia,         </td><td align="right">     $10,000     </td><td align="right">        $5,000     </td><td align="right">      $10,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Other countries,   </td><td align="right">      15,000     </td><td align="right">        45,000     </td><td align="right">       60,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>                   </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">    <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" /> </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Total,             </td><td align="right"> $40,000,000     </td><td align="right">   $98,480,000     </td><td align="right"> $138,480,000 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4"><h3>EUROPE.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><th>Countries.         </th><th>Gold. (America)  </th><th>       Silver.     </th><th>       Total. </th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>Russia,            </td><td align="right"> $22,000,000       </td><td align="right">   $300,000      </td><td align="right">$22,300,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Prussia,           </td><td align="right">     900,000       </td><td align="right">  8,000,000      </td><td align="right">  8,900,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Spain,             </td><td align="right">      70,000       </td><td align="right">  2,500,000      </td><td align="right">  2,570,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Austria,           </td><td align="right">     950,000       </td><td align="right">  1,500,000      </td><td align="right">  2,450,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Norway,            </td><td align="right">      60,000       </td><td align="right">    300,000      </td><td align="right">    360,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Other Countries,   </td><td align="right">      20,000       </td><td align="right">    320,000      </td><td align="right">    340,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>                   </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">    <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" /> </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Total,             </td><td align="right"> $24,000,000       </td><td align="right">$12,920,000      </td><td align="right">$36,920,000 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4"><h3>ASIA.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><th>Countries.         </th><th>Gold. (America)  </th><th>       Silver.     </th><th>       Total. </th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>Borneo,            </td><td align="right">     $700,000       </td><td align="right">  $470,000       </td><td align="right">$1,170,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>China,             </td><td align="right">      600,000       </td><td align="right">   450,000       </td><td align="right"> 1,050,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Japan,             </td><td align="right">      120,000       </td><td align="right">   353,000       </td><td align="right">   473,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>                   </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">    <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" /> </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Total,             </td><td align="right">   $1,420,000       </td><td align="right">$1,273,000       </td><td align="right">$2,693,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Australia,         </td><td align="right">  $26,000,000     </td><td align="right">     $80,000     </td><td align="right"> $26,080,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>New Zealand,       </td><td align="right">    4,000,000     </td><td align="right">     500,000     </td><td align="right">   4,500,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Africa,            </td><td align="right">    2,000,000     </td><td align="right">     500,000     </td><td align="right">   2,500,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Oceanica,          </td><td align="right">      580,000     </td><td align="right">     247,000     </td><td align="right">     827,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>                   </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">    <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" /> </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Grand Total,       </td><td align="right">  $98,000,000     </td><td align="right">$114,000,000     </td><td align="right">$212,000,000 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p>
+The following statement will exhibit the annual product of the precious
+metals at different periods:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Annual product of precious metals at different periods">
+
+<tr><th>Periods.         </th><th>Gold. </th><th>       Silver.     </th><th>       Total. </th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>A.D.   14,     </td><td align="right">         $800,000    </td><td align="right">    $4,200,000     </td><td align="right">   $5,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  500,     </td><td align="right">          200,000    </td><td align="right">     2,800,000     </td><td align="right">    3,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1000,     </td><td align="right">          120,000    </td><td align="right">       880,000     </td><td align="right">    1,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1492,     </td><td align="right">          100,000    </td><td align="right">       150,000     </td><td align="right">      250,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1550,     </td><td align="right">          800,000    </td><td align="right">     3,200,000     </td><td align="right">    4,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1600,     </td><td align="right">        2,000,000    </td><td align="right">     9,000,000     </td><td align="right">   11,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1700,     </td><td align="right">        5,000,000    </td><td align="right">    18,000,000     </td><td align="right">   23,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1800,     </td><td align="right">       17,000,000    </td><td align="right">    38,000,000     </td><td align="right">   55,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1843,     </td><td align="right">       52,000,000    </td><td align="right">    42,000,000     </td><td align="right">   94,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1850,     </td><td align="right">      106,000,000    </td><td align="right">    47,000,000     </td><td align="right">  153,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1853,     </td><td align="right">      236,000,000    </td><td align="right">    49,000,000     </td><td align="right">  285,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. 1863,     </td><td align="right">      208,000,000    </td><td align="right">    63,000,000     </td><td align="right">  271,000,000 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page417" name="page417"></a>[pg 417]</span>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The following statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals
+estimated to be in existence at different periods:
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Amount of precious metals estimated to be in existence at different periods">
+
+<tr><th>Periods.         </th><th>Gold. </th><th>       Silver.     </th><th>       Total. </th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>A.D.    14,   </td><td align="right">      $427,000,000  </td><td align="right">    $909,000,000  </td><td align="right">  $1,327,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.   500,   </td><td align="right">       100,000,000  </td><td align="right">     400,000,000  </td><td align="right">     500,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1000,   </td><td align="right">        65,000,000  </td><td align="right">     200,000,000  </td><td align="right">     265,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1492,   </td><td align="right">        57,000,000  </td><td align="right">     135,000,000  </td><td align="right">     192,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1550.   </td><td align="right">        76,000,000  </td><td align="right">     284,000,000  </td><td align="right">     360,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1600,   </td><td align="right">       105,000,000  </td><td align="right">     391,000,000  </td><td align="right">     496,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1700,   </td><td align="right">       351,000,000  </td><td align="right">   1,410,000,000  </td><td align="right">   1,761,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1800,   </td><td align="right">     1,125,000,000  </td><td align="right">   3,622,000,000  </td><td align="right">   4,747,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1843,   </td><td align="right">     1,975,000,000  </td><td align="right">   5,040,000,000  </td><td align="right">   7,015,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1850,   </td><td align="right">     2,368,000,000  </td><td align="right">   4,963,000,000  </td><td align="right">   7,331,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1853,   </td><td align="right">     2,942,000,000  </td><td align="right">   4,945,000,000  </td><td align="right">   7,887,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1863,   </td><td align="right">     5,107,000,000  </td><td align="right">   4,945,000,000  </td><td align="right">  10,052,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D.  1884,   </td><td align="right">     8,166,000,000  </td><td align="right">   5,504,000,000  </td><td align="right">  13,670,000,000 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+The following statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals
+estimated to have been obtained from the surface and mines of the earth,
+from the earliest times to the close of 1884:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Amount of precious metals estimated to have been obtained from the earth's surface and mines, through 1884">
+
+<tr><th>Periods.         </th><th>Gold. </th><th>       Silver.     </th><th>       Total. </th></tr>
+<tr><td>    A.C.       </td><td align="right">   $2,171,000,000  </td><td align="right"> $2,913,000,000  </td><td align="right"> $5,084,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>A.D. to 1492,  </td><td align="right">    3,842,374,000  </td><td align="right">    521,000,000  </td><td align="right">  4,363,374,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>1493 to 1842,  </td><td align="right">    2,700,000,000  </td><td align="right">  5,800,000,000  </td><td align="right">  8,500,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>1843 to 1852,  </td><td align="right">      900,000,000  </td><td align="right">    500,000,000  </td><td align="right">  1,400,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>1853 to 1862,  </td><td align="right">    1,869,000,000  </td><td align="right">    560,000,000  </td><td align="right">  2,429,000,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>1863 to 1884,  </td><td align="right">    3,145,626,000  </td><td align="right">  1,519,000,000  </td><td align="right">  4,664,626,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>                   </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">    <hr class="full" />     </td><td align="right">  <hr class="full" /> </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Grand Total,   </td><td align="right">  $14,628,000,000  </td><td align="right">$11,813,000,000  </td><td align="right">$26,441,000,000 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+During the first period (prior to the commencement of the Christian
+Era,) the annual product of the precious metals was $2,000,000; during
+the second period (prior to the discovery of America,) it was
+$3,000,000; during the third period (prior to the extensive working of
+the Russian gold mines, in 1843,) it was $26,000,000; during the fourth
+period (prior to the double discovery of the California gold mines in
+1858, and the Australia gold mines in 1851,) it was $140,000,000; during
+the fifth period (which immediately succeeded afore-mentioned
+discoveries,) it was $243,000,000; during the sixth period (immediately
+succeeding the double discovery of the New Zealand gold mines in 1861,
+and the silver mines of Nevada and other countries bordering on the
+Pacific slope of the United States,) it was $212,000,000. The annual
+products of the precious metals attained its acme in 1853, when it was
+$285,000,000. The increase in the amount of the precious metals in
+existence has been greater during the last forty-years than during the
+previous two hundred and ninety-four. Of the amount ($6,441,000,000) of
+the precious metals estimated to have been obtained from the surface and
+mines of the earth, from the earliest times to the close of 1884,
+$12,100,000,000 are estimated to have been obtained from America
+$6,724,000,000 from Asia (including Australia, New Zealand and
+Oceanica), $3,751,000,000 from Europe, and $2,866,000,000 from Africa.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page418" name="page418"></a>[pg 418]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0009" id="h2H_4_0009"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    AMESBURY: THE HOME OF WHITTIER.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Frances C. Sparhawk.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Amesbury is only a town. It has defects that would strike a stranger,
+and beauties that one who has learned to love them never forgets; they
+linger in glimpses of wood and hill and river and lake, and often rise
+unbidden before the mind's eye. The poet Whittier says that those who
+are born under the shadow of Powow Hill always return sometime, no
+matter how far they may have wandered. He himself, though not Amesbury
+born, has found it impossible to desert the old home, full of
+associations and surrounded by old friends. He always votes in Amesbury,
+and he often spends weeks at a time in his old home. The river that he
+has sung, the lake that he has re-christened, the walks and drives with
+which he is so familiar, all exercise their spell upon him; he loves
+them, just as he loves the warm hearts that he has found there and
+helped to make warm and true.
+</p>
+<p>
+But what a stranger would first notice in coming into town is, that the
+houses, instead of being on land regularly laid out for building, seem
+to have grown up here and there and everywhere, a good deal in
+accordance with their own sweet wills, and without the smallest regard
+to surroundings.
+</p>
+<p>
+But there are handsome houses in Amesbury, and these are growing more
+numerous every year. The people themselves would assert that the walks
+and drives about the village, the hills and the river are the things to
+be longest remembered about the place. If they were inclined to
+boasting, they might say also that they had as good a right as any
+people in America to be considered of ancient stock, for some of the
+names of the earliest settlers are the familiar names in the town
+to-day, and few towns in America are older than Amesbury. The names
+Barnard, Challis, Weed, Jones, and Hoyt, appear on the first board of
+"Prudenshall," and that of Richard Currier as town clerk. This was in
+April, 1668, the year after the new town was named.
+</p>
+<p>
+Early in 1735 the settlement of Newbury (then spelled Newberry) was
+begun. In a little over three years a colony was sent out across the
+Merrimac. The plantation was at first called merely from the name of the
+river. In 1639 it was named Colchester by the General Court; but October
+7, 1640, this name was changed to Salisbury, so that in 1638, almost two
+hundred and fifty years ago, Salisbury began to be settled. It seemed as
+if there was need of new settlements at that time to counteract the
+depletions in the Old World, for the Thirty Years' War was still
+impoverishing Germany; Richelieu was living to rule France in the name
+of his royal master, Louis XIII; England was gathering up those forces
+of good and evil which from resisting tyranny at last grew intoxicated
+with power, and so came to play the tyrant and regicide. For it was
+about that time that Charles I had disbanded his army, trusting to the
+divinity that, in the eyes of the Stuarts, did ever hedge a king, and at
+the same time thrown away his honor by
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page419" name="page419"></a>[pg 419]</span>
+
+  pledging himself to what he never meant to perform. While this farce,
+which preceded the tragedy, was being set upon the stage of history,
+here, three thousand miles away, nature had begun to build up the waste,
+and to prophesy growth.
+</p>
+<p>
+Salisbury, and afterwards Amesbury, were named from the two towns so
+famous in England, the Salisbury Plain of Druidical memory, on which is
+the celebrated Stonehenge, and near by, the Amesbury where was one of
+the oldest monasteries in England. It is supposed that the towns were so
+named because many of the new settlers came from those old English
+towns. The latter name used to be spelled Ambresbury, and Tennyson in
+his "Idylls of the King" spells Almesbury. After the discovery by Modred
+of the guilt of King Arthur's fair and false wife, he says:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Queen Guinevere had fled the court and sat </p>
+<p class="i2">   There in the holyhouse at Almesbury </p>
+<p class="i2">   Weeping." </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Describing her flight, he tells us that she sent Lancelot
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">  "Back to his land, but she to Almesbury</p>
+<p class="i2">  Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+There Arthur sees her for the last time and mourns over her before he
+goes forth to his last battle with Modred.
+</p>
+<p>
+On the whole, it is not strange, considering its associations, and
+moreover the fact that this town in Massachusetts is the only Amesbury
+in America while so many other names are duplicated, that the people of
+Amesbury are not willing to merge the name of their town into that of
+the elder sister, even when those parts called in each "the Mills" are
+so closely united in interests and in appearance that no stranger could
+recognize them as two towns. It is only the Powow that makes the
+dividing line here. Blocks of offices and stores on both sides of the
+street, among them the post-office, common to both towns, hide the
+narrow stream at that point, and further up and down the towering walls
+of the factories make it unobserved. It is not here that one sees the
+Powow. But there is, or a little time ago there was, a place not far off
+from this main street where the river is still harassed, yet as it slips
+past in its silent toil with a few trees hanging low on the right, it
+has a fascination in spite of its prosaic surroundings; it takes
+naturally to picturesqueness and freedom.
+</p>
+<p>
+One of Whittier's early poems speaks of an Indian re-visiting the stream
+that his forefathers loved, and standing on Powow Hill, where the chiefs
+of the Naumkeaks, and of the other tribes held their powows. Here for a
+moment, says the poem, a gleam of gladness came to him as he stooped to
+drink of the fountain and seated himself under an oak.
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Far behind was Ocean striving </p>
+<p class="i4">     With his chains of sand; </p>
+<p class="i2">   Southward, sunny glimpses giving </p>
+<p class="i4">     'Twixt the swells of land, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Of its calm and silvery track </p>
+<p class="i2">   Rolled the tranquil Merrimack." </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page420" name="page420"></a>[pg 420]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+The Indian's feeling about "These bare hills, this conquered river," was
+not strange. But to us it naturally occurs that we are more likely to
+wake up with our scalps on our heads, instead of sleeping our last
+sleep, while they dangle at a red man's girdle. Yet the very state of
+warfare that at that time existed between the races showed that in the
+settlers themselves was an element of savagery not yet eliminated. For
+in all this fierce strife of the tomahawk and the gun, the Quaker
+ancestors of the poet Whittier who met the Indians, armed only with
+kindness and the high courage of their peaceful convictions, were
+treated by the red men as friends and superiors. In the raids of general
+devastation they were unmolested. Their descendant has a natural right
+to express the pathos of the Indian's lot.
+</p>
+<p>
+There is a fine exhibition of human nature in the records of the first
+settlement of Amesbury. The place was called "Salisbury new-town" until
+1669, and was merely an offshoot of the latter, though much larger in
+extent than it is today, for now it is only about six miles by three.
+Then it reached up into what is now Newton, N.H. But why should not the
+people of those days have been generous as to the size of townships, for
+as to land, they had the continent before them where to choose?
+</p>
+<p>
+But in regard to the human nature. The settlers of Salisbury went at
+first only beyond the salt marshes, their town being what is now East
+Salisbury. The forests beyond had a threatening look, and were much
+too near. It was determined, therefore, to drive them back by having
+clearings and settlements across the Powow. So, December 26, 1642, about
+three years after this little colony had crossed the Merrimack, a town
+meeting was held in which it was voted:&mdash;"Yere shall thirtie families
+remove to the west side of ye Powowas river." This motion was very easy
+to carry. But it had not been voted what families were to move on beyond
+the immediate protection of the small colony at East Salisbury. Who was
+to go? Every man sat still in his place and nodded to his neighbor with
+a "Thou art the man," in manner if not in words. It seems to us a very
+little thing to give or take the advice, "Go West young man,&mdash;or woman."
+But it was very different then. To do it meant, besides living encircled
+by forests, to be obliged to go on Sunday through these forests, worse
+than lonely, to the meeting-house at East Salisbury, and always with the
+possibility of being at any moment obliged to flee all the distance to
+that town for comparative safety, perhaps of being obliged to flee in
+the night. Signals of alarm were arranged by the General Court. Alarm
+was to be given "by distinctly discharging three muskets, or by
+continual beat of the drum, or firing the beacon, or discharging a pesse
+of ordnance, and every trained soldier is to take the alarm immediately
+on paine of five pound." It was also ordered, "That every town provide a
+sufficient place for retreat for their wives and children to repaire to,
+as likewise to keepe safe the ammunition thereof." And also, "That all
+watches throughout this country bee set at sunset at the beat of the
+drums, &amp; not bee discharged till the beate of the drum at sunne rising."
+</p>
+<p>
+But those old Puritans were not men to be bundled by any of the
+weaknesses of human nature. In ten days, when it was found that nobody
+had
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page421" name="page421"></a>[pg 421]</span>
+
+  started "westward, ho!" another town-meeting was held, in which, in
+spite of the dangers to be encountered by the new colony, the first vote
+was re-affirmed, and it was decided that "the thirtie families be chosen
+by ye seven men," probably the selectmen. And to ensure the matter, it
+was determined that this vote should not be repealed except by the
+consent of every freeman in the town. So, in the spring, this tiny
+colony went out to Salisbury new-town.
+</p>
+<p>
+In 1647, a law was passed requiring every township of fifty families to
+maintain a school. This is the way that the preamble reads:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"It being one chiefe pr'ject of y't ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men
+from ye knowledge of ye Scriptures, as in former times by keeping ym in
+an unknown tongue, so in these latt'r times by pr'suading from ye use of
+tongues yt so at least ye true sense &amp; meaning of ye original might be
+clouded by false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, yt learning may not
+be buried in ye grave of o'r fath'rs in ye church &amp; commonwealth, the
+Lord assisting our endeavor. It is therefore resolved," &amp;c.
+</p>
+<p>
+It seems overturning the cornerstone of our forefathers' intentions to
+banish from our schools the Scriptures, those finest examples of the
+strength and beauty of the English language, to say nothing of their
+lessons in individual self-government, which is the only foundation that
+a republic can be built upon.
+</p>
+<p>
+From this old law have grown up all the public schools of Amesbury.
+There is now a high school, and there are, of course, the required
+number of small schools; some of these in the outlying districts having
+very few scholars.
+</p>
+<p>
+Several years ago Mr. Whittier, who has the keenest sense of humor, told
+a friend that in one of these the whole number of pupils was three,
+average attendance one and a half! He was deeply interested in that half
+child.
+</p>
+<p>
+Amesbury has among its attractions a Lion's Mouth! In the old days of
+Indian ambushes it must have earned its right to the name. But now the
+only existing danger is lest one should be eaten up&mdash;with kindness.
+It is a short mile from the mills, and a pleasant walk in spite of its
+ending! At last there comes a little hollow with a large farm-house on
+the left, and a grass road winding past it at right angles with the main
+road and leading into beautiful woods. These woods are the very jaws of
+the lion; and it is very hard, on a hot summer's day, for those who go
+into them to come out again. A few rods up the road from the hollow are
+other houses. People bearing some of the earliest recorded names in
+Amesbury, descendants of the brave pioneers, are to be found here, or
+having departed this life, have left good records behind them. One of
+these latter lived here in the pleasantest way. He and his wife carried
+on their large farm in an ideal manner; everything was upon a generous
+scale. There was money enough not to wear out life in petty economies,
+and largeness of soul enough not to put the length of a bank account
+against the beauties and refinements of life. The loss of their only
+child, and a few years afterward of their grand-daughter, one of the
+loveliest children earth ever held, was&mdash;not compensated for, that
+can never be, but made much less dreary by a friendship of many years'
+standing between them and their summer neighbors. In this case, too, the
+gentleman is a native of Amesbury, proud and fond of his birthplace.
+Every
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page422" name="page422"></a>[pg 422]</span>
+
+  summer he comes to the cottage of this friend, a charming little house
+only a few rods from the larger one, and spends the summer here with his
+family and servants. He has made a great deal of money in New York, but
+fortunately, not too much, for it has not built up a Chinese wall around
+his heart; his new friends are dear, but his early friends are still the
+dearest.
+</p>
+<p>
+Between the Mills and this formidable Mouth of the Lion, is the Quaker
+Meeting House, a modest, sober-hued building on a triangular green, on
+which, before it was fenced in, the boys delighted to play ball on the
+days and at the hours (for the Quakers have meeting Thursday also) on
+which the grave worshippers were not filing into what cannot fairly be
+called the house of silence, because it has been known to echo to
+exhortations as earnest, if not as vehement as one may hear from any
+pulpit. Still, there are sometimes long intervals of silence, and then
+the consciousness that silent self-examination is one purpose of the
+coming together, gives an impressiveness to the simple surroundings. It
+must have been here that Mr. Whittier learned to interpret so
+wonderfully that silent prayer of Agassiz for guidance when he opened
+his famous school from which he was so soon called to a higher life.
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Then the Master in his place </p>
+<p class="i2">   Bowed his head a little space </p>
+<p class="i2">   And the leaves by soft airs stirred </p>
+<p class="i2">   Lapse of wave and cry of bird </p>
+<p class="i2">   Left the solemn hush unbroken </p>
+<p class="i2">   Of that wordless prayer unspoken </p>
+<p class="i2">   While its wish, on earth unsaid, </p>
+<p class="i6">       Rose to Heaven interpreted. </p>
+<p class="i6">       As in life's best hours we hear </p>
+<p class="i6">       By the spirit's finer ear </p>
+<p class="i6">       His low voice within us, thus </p>
+<p class="i6">       The All-Father heareth us: </p>
+<p class="i6">       And his holy ear we pain </p>
+<p class="i6">       With our noisy words and vain. </p>
+<p class="i6">       Not for him our violence </p>
+<p class="i6">       Storming at the gates of sense, </p>
+<p class="i6">       His the primal language, his </p>
+<p class="i6">       The eternal silences." </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Whittier always goes to this meeting when he is well enough. The May
+Quarterly Meetings of the Society of Friends are held at Amesbury. There
+are a good many members of this Society in the town, and there is among
+them a hospitality, a kindness, and a cordiality that added to their
+quiet ways and the refined dress of the women makes them interesting.
+</p>
+<p>
+It goes without saying that Amesbury has also the allotment of churches
+of other denominations usual to New England towns.
+</p>
+<p>
+Thirty years ago and more, the Amesbury and Salisbury Mills were two
+distinct companies. The agent of the former mills, Mr. Joshua Aubin, was
+a gentleman of fine presence. After he left Amesbury, he sent to the
+town as a gift the nucleus of its present Public Library, which,
+although not absolutely free
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page423" name="page423"></a>[pg 423]</span>
+
+  has only a nominal subscription to pay the services of the librarian,
+and for keeping the books in order.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0008"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:250px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/445.jpg"><img src="images/445.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="John G. Whittier" /></a>
+<br />
+John G. Whittier
+</div>
+<p>
+Mr. James Horton, agent of the Salisbury mills, was more of the
+rough-and-ready type of man, a little bluff, but frank and kind-hearted.
+Both gentlemen as it happened, lived in Amesbury and were of one mind in
+regard to the character of their operatives. It was before the influx
+of foreign labor, and the men and women in the mills belonged to
+respectable, often well-to-do American families. Rowdyism was a thing
+unknown to them, and as to drunkenness, if that fault was found once in
+an operative, he was reprimanded; if it occurred again, he was at once
+discharged. And so Amesbury, though a manufacturing town, was in its
+neatness and orderliness an exquisite little village with the Powow Hill
+at its back and the hem of its robe laved by two beautiful rivers. After
+Mr. Aubin's ill health had made him resign his place, the father of
+Prof. Langley, well-known to science, was agent for a time, and carried
+on matters in the spirit of his predecessors. But there came a change,
+the mills were united under one control, and an agent was sent to
+Amesbury for the purpose of forcibly illustrating the fact that
+corporations have no souls. He did it admirably. Work was started at
+high pressure, there came a rush of foreigners into the place, many of
+the old towns people moved away in disgust, and the new took the place
+of the old as suddenly as if an evil magician had waved his wand
+and cried: "Presto!" But this agent soon gave evidence that great
+unscrupulousness doesn't pay, even as a financial investment. After
+several other short regimes the present agent, Mr. Steere, came to
+Amesbury, and the corporation has found it worth while to keep him.
+The effect of the sudden influx of foreign population into Amesbury
+has never done away with; it has its "Dublin" in a valley where the
+corporation built houses for its operatives. And with what indifference
+to cleanliness, or health these were built! The poor operatives were
+crowded together in a way that would make neatness difficult to the most
+fastidious. A physician in Amesbury
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page424" name="page424"></a>[pg 424]</span>
+
+  who considered the poor, presented this state of things so strongly and
+so persistently to the agent, spoke so forcibly of the moral degradation
+that such herding increased, or induced, that when it became necessary
+to build new tenements they were much better arranged. Every
+manufacturing town in New England has now its unwholesome because
+untaught population, a danger signal on the line of progress of the
+republic. It is only popular education that can remove this obstruction
+of ignorance. The foreign population of Amesbury today is large, and
+although it gives hands to the mills, it adds neither to the beauty nor
+the interest of the town. But it gives a mission to those who believe in
+the possibilities of human nature, and the right of every man to have a
+chance at life, even if the way he takes it be not agreeable to his
+cultivated neighbor.
+</p>
+<p>
+The mills in the days of their greatest prosperity were all woolen mills:
+now a part of them are cotton mills. They are all running, and,
+although not with the remarkable success of a score of years ago, have a
+future before them.
+</p>
+<p>
+The making of felt hats, now so important a business, was started here
+a number of years ago by a gentleman who built a hat factory near his
+house at the Ferry. He was a gentleman in that true sense in which,
+added to his nerve and will (and he had abundance of both) were those
+knightly qualities of generosity and kindliness that have made his
+memory dear, while the Bayley Hat Company, called after him as its
+founder, bears witness to his business ability.
+</p>
+<p>
+The great, oblong, many-windowed carriage manufactories meet one at
+every turn, and often the smithy stands near with its clangor. This
+business used to be confined to West Amesbury, now Merrimac. At the
+beginning of the century it was started on an humble scale by two young
+men, one a wood-worker, the other a plater, while another young man was
+trimmer for them. One of the firm lived in West Amesbury, the other in
+South Amesbury, now Merrimac Port, and after each had built his share of
+the carriage, it was found a little difficult to bring the different
+parts together. This was the beginning, and now Amesbury ships its
+carriages over the world. One of the first to bring this business from
+what was then West Amesbury to the Mills was a young man who in the
+beginning of the war had been unfortunate in business. He gave his
+creditors all he had, and went to the front. After serving his time
+there he came home, went into the carriage business, made money this
+time instead of losing it, and paid up his old creditors one hundred
+cents on the dollar. He deserves a big factory and success. And he has
+both. And he is not the only one of whom good things could be said.
+</p>
+<p>
+They have a Wallace G.A.R. Post in Amesbury, not in commemoration of the
+Wallace of old Scottish fame, but of a man no less patriotic and brave
+who lived among themselves, an Englishman, a shoemaker. He was lame, but
+so anxious during the Rebellion to have his share in the struggle for
+the Union that he tried to get a place on board a gunboat, saying that
+he could "sit and shoot." As this was impossible, the town sent him to
+Boston as its representative, and he was in the Legislature when the
+members voted themselves an increase of pay. Mr. Wallace believed the
+thing illegal. He took the money in trust. One day after his return to
+Amesbury he limped up to his physician (the same one who
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page425" name="page425"></a>[pg 425]</span>
+
+  had brought about the better construction of the new corporation houses)
+and handed him fifty dollars of this over pay, to be used at his
+discretion among the poor, explaining as he did so where the money came
+from, that he felt that it belonged to Amesbury, and that he returned a
+part through this channel.
+</p>
+<p>
+Half way between the Mills and the Ferry stands an old well that a
+native of Amesbury dug by the roadside for the benefit of travellers
+because he had once been a captive in Arabian deserts, and had known the
+torments of thirst. Here was a man to whom the uses of adversity had
+been sweet, for they had taught him humanity. Mrs. Spofford has written
+an appropriate poem upon this incident.
+</p>
+<p>
+The elms in Amesbury are very beautiful, and they are found everywhere;
+but on the ferry road there are magnificent ones not far from the river.
+They are growing on each side of the road, arching it over with their
+graceful boughs.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0009"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/447.jpg"><img src="images/447.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="WHITTIER'S HOME, AMESBURY." /></a>
+<br />
+WHITTIER'S HOME, AMESBURY.
+</div>
+<p>
+The Ferry proper near which was born Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers
+of the Declaration of Independence, is at the foot of the street that
+runs from the Mills down to the river. In old times there was a
+veritable ferry here a few rods above where the Powow empties into the
+Merrimack. This ferry is mentioned in the records, two years after the
+town had been set upon its feet. In a book written about Amesbury by Mr.
+Joseph Merrill, a native of the town, it is stated that the town
+petitioned the general Court for leave to keep a Ferry over the river at
+this place. This is the record from the same source:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"The County Court held at Hampton, ye 13th of ye 8th month 1668, Mr.
+Edward Goodwin being presented by ye Selectmen of ye town of Amesbury to
+Court to keep ye Ferry over Merrimac river about ye mouth of ye Powow
+river
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page426" name="page426"></a>[pg 426]</span>
+
+  where ye said Goodwin now dwelleth, the Court do allow and approve of ye
+sd person for one year next following and until ye Court shall take
+further orders therein, and ye prices to be as followeth so, for every
+single passenger two pence, for a horse and man six pence, and for all
+great cattle four pence, for sheep and other small cattle under two
+years old two pence per head."
+</p>
+<p>
+In 1791 there came up a question of a bridge being built across the
+Merrimac. A town meeting was called to oppose the measure, and in this
+it was argued that a bridge would throw into disuse the ferry with which
+much pains had been taken. Precious old fogies! In those days, too, they
+lived, for they were as old as the centuries. Nothing of the mushroom
+about them. There is a tradition that once in Revolutionary days,
+Washington was carried across this ferry. But it is impossible to say
+what the tradition is founded upon, and how much it is worth.
+</p>
+<p>
+As to the river, there are rivers and rivers, as the saying is; at some
+we marvel, some we fear and to some we make pilgrimages as to the Mecca
+of the faithful. But the Merrimac is a river to be loved, and to be
+loved the better the more familiar it is. What its poet, Whittier, says
+about it must be literally true:
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">  "Our river by its valley born</p>
+<p class="i2">  Was never yet forgotten."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+It is worth while to try to imagine it as he writes it in "Cobbler
+Keezer's Vision" two hundred and more years ago, when that old fellow
+was so amazed at the prospect of mirth and pleasure among the
+descendants of the stern Puritans that he dropped his lapstone into the
+water in bewilderment.
+</p>
+<p>
+This was the time when
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Woodsy and wild and lonesome, </p>
+<p class="i4">     The swift stream wound away, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Through birches and scarlet maples </p>
+<p class="i4">     Flashing in foam and spray." </p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Down on the sharp-horned ledges </p>
+<p class="i4">     Plunging in steep cascade, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Tossing its white-maned waters </p>
+<p class="i4">     Against the hemlock's shade." </p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Woodsy and wild and lonesome, </p>
+<p class="i4">     East and west and north and south; </p>
+<p class="i2">   Only the village of fishers </p>
+<p class="i4">     Down at the river's mouth;" </p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "Only here and there a clearing, </p>
+<p class="i4">     With its farm-house rude and new, </p>
+<p class="i2">   And tree-stumps, swart as Indians, </p>
+<p class="i4">     Where the scanty harvest grew." </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+What a picture that is! And then behind these tree-stumps, the great
+forest with its possibilities of comfort and even of competence in its
+giant timbers,&mdash;when they were fairly floored, but; as it stood, a
+threatening foe with a worse enemy in its depths than the darkness of
+its shadows, or the wild beasts.
+</p>
+<p>
+Several of Mr. Whittier's songs of the Merrimac were written for
+picnics, given at the Laurels on the Newbury side of the river by a
+gentlemen and his wife from Newburyport. They were early abolitionists,
+friends and hosts of Garrison,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page427" name="page427"></a>[pg 427]</span>
+
+  of George Thompson and others of that brave band, and of course friends
+of the poet. This hospitable couple gave a picnic here every June for
+twenty years. The first was a little party of perhaps half-a-dozen
+people, the twenty-first was a large assembly. Mr. Whittier was present
+at these picnics whenever able, and, as has been said, sometimes wrote a
+poem to be read there. He never reads in public himself.
+</p>
+<p>
+Although the Powow river has been made so emphatically a stream of use,
+there are glimpses of a native beauty in it that its hard fate has never
+obliterated; these are still there, as one stands upon the little bridge
+that spans its last few rods of individual life and looks up the stream
+upon a wintry landscape, or upon summer fields, and longingly toward the
+bend.
+</p>
+<p>
+Whether the Powow has any power to set in motion the wheels of fancy as
+it does the wheels of the factories it is impossible to say, but this
+much is certain; on its banks was born an artist who has made his name
+known on the banks of the Seine. The father of Mr. Charles Davis, our
+young artist of great promise and of no mean performance, was for years
+a teacher in Amesbury, and the garden of the house where this son was
+born bordered upon the Powow.
+</p>
+<a name="image-0010"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/449.jpg"><img src="images/449.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="THE OLD SANDY HILL MEETING HOUSE" /></a>
+<br />
+THE OLD SANDY HILL MEETING HOUSE
+</div>
+<p>
+At Pond Hills, between Amesbury and Merrimac, is lake Attitash, which,
+before Mr. Whittier took pity upon it, rejoiced in the name of Kimball's
+Pond. There is a slight suspicion that it is still occasionally called
+by its old name. In dry seasons the water is used by the mills. But the
+blue lake is as beautiful as if it were never useful. On its shore
+enough grand old pines are left to dream under of forests primeval, of
+Indian wigwams, and of canoes on the bright water; for the red men knew
+very well the hiding places of the perch and of the pickerel. So did the
+white men who chose the region of the Merrimac for their new home. In
+the "Maids of Attitash" is described the lake where
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   "In sky and wave the white clouds swam, </p>
+<p class="i2">   And the blue hills of Nottingham </p>
+<p class="i4">     Through gaps of leafy green </p>
+<p class="i4">     Across the lake were seen." </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page428" name="page428"></a>[pg 428]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+All these are still here, but one misses the maidens who ought to be
+sitting there
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">  "In the shadow of the ash</p>
+<p class="i2">  That dreams its dream in Attitash."</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+No doubt they are about here somewhere, only it takes a poet's eye to
+find them. And yet it was not very far from here that there lived a few
+years ago a young girl, a descendant of one of the early settlers of
+Amesbury, who on her engagement said to a friend proudly:&mdash;"I am going
+to marry a poor man, and I am going to help him." And so she always
+nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition. The courage of the
+old Puritans has not died out here any more than the old beauty has
+deserted the land.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<a name="h2H_4_0010" id="h2H_4_0010"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    KATE FIELD'S NEW DEPARTURE.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Edward Increase Mather.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Miss Kate Field has been so exclusively identified with artistic and
+literary success that her new departure as a lecturer on existing
+political evils has excited no little surprise and comment. An
+exceptional degree of public interest as well as of purely private and
+personal regard has followed her almost, indeed, from childhood; partly
+due, it may be, to a certain indefinable magnetism of temperament which
+always makes the place where she chances to be at the time seem a social
+centre, and somewhat, too, from a life that has not been without its
+picturesque setting of scenery and circumstance. "Kate Field was started
+right,"&mdash;remarked Miss Frances E. Willard of her one day. "As a child
+Walter Savage Landor held her on his knee and taught her, and she grew
+up in the atmosphere of Art." The chance observation made only <i>en
+passant</i>, never the less touched a salient truth in that vital manner
+in which Miss Willard's words are accustomed to touch truth. She was,
+indeed, "started right." The only child of gifted parents, endowed with
+a rare combination of intellectual and artistic talent; with a nobility
+and genuineness of nature that has ever been one of her most marked
+characteristics; attuned by temperament to all that is fine, and high,
+and beautiful,&mdash;it is little wonder that her life has presented a series
+of advancing achievements. She has studied, and read, and thought; she
+has travelled, and "sipped the foam of many lives;" and a polished and
+many-sided culture has added its charm to a woman singularly charming by
+nature and possessed of the subtle gift of fascination. When very young
+she studied music and modern languages abroad in Florence, and in
+London. To music she especially devoted herself studying under Garcia
+and under William Shakespeare, the great English tenor, whose favorite
+pupil she is said to have been. Walter Savage Landor conceived a great
+fondness for her, gave her lessons in Latin, and left her at his death a
+valuable portfolio of old drawings. In some verses addressed "To K.F."
+he alludes to her as:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Modest as winged angels are, </p>
+<p class="i2">   And no less brave and no less fair. </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page429" name="page429"></a>[pg 429]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="image-0011"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:250px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/451.jpg"><img src="images/451.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="MISS KATE FIELD." /></a>
+<br />
+MISS KATE FIELD.
+</div>
+<p>
+His interest was richly repaid by the young girl who, after his death,
+wrote reminiscences of Landor in a manner whose sympathetic brilliancy
+of interpretation added an enduring lustre to his life and achievement.
+In her early girlhood as, indeed, in her womanhood, her brilliancy and
+charm won all hearts. It was in Florence that she met George Eliot, and
+a moon-light evening at the Trollope villa, where Marion Lewes led the
+girl, dream-enchanted, out on the fragrant and flowery terrace, left its
+picture in her memory, and exquisitely did she portray it in a paper on
+George Eliot at the time of her death. By temperament and cultivation
+Miss Field is admirably adapted to interpret to the world its masters,
+its artists. Her dramatic criticism on Ristori ranks among the finest
+ever written of the stage; her "Pen Photographs of Dickens's Readings"
+have permanently recorded that memorable tour. Her Life of Fechter wins
+its praise from the highest literary authorities in our own country and
+London. She has published a few books, made up from her fugitive
+articles in the <i>Tribune</i>, the <i>London Times</i>, the <i>Athenæum</i>, and
+the magazines, and more of this literature would be eminently refreshing
+and acceptable. It is no exaggeration to say that among the American
+writers of to-day no one has greater breadth, vigor, originality
+and power than Kate Field. She is by virtue of wide outlook and
+comprehension of important matters, entirely free from the tendency to
+petty detail and trivial common-place that clogs the minds and pens of
+many women-writers. Her foreign letters to the <i>Tribune</i> discussed
+questions of political significance and international interest. Miss
+Field is a woman of so many resources that she has never made of her
+writing a trade, but has used it as an art; and she never writes unless
+she has something to say. This fact teaches a moral that the woman of
+the period may do well to contemplate.
+</p>
+<p>
+Yet with all the varied charms of foreign life, passed in the most
+cultivated
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page430" name="page430"></a>[pg 430]</span>
+
+  and refined social circles of Europe, Kate Field never forgot that she
+was an American, and patriotism grew to be a passion with her. She
+became a student of English and American politics, and her revelations
+of the ponderous machinery of the British Parliament, in a series of
+strong and brilliant press letters, now collected into the little volume
+called "Hap-Hazzard," was as fine and impressive in its way as is her
+dramatic criticism or literary papers. All this, perhaps, had paved the
+way for her to enter into a close and comprehensive study of the subject
+which she is now so ably discussing in her notable lectures on the
+social and the political crimes of Utah. The profound and serious
+attention which she is now giving to this problem stamps her lectures as
+among the most potent political influences of the time. Miss Field's
+discussion of Mormonism is one of those events which seem pre-determined
+by the law of the unconscious, and which seem to choose the individual
+rather than to be chosen by him. In the summer of 1883, by way of a
+change from continental travel, Miss Field determined to hitch her wagon
+to a star and journey westward. She lingered for a month in Denver where
+she received distinguished social attention and where, by special
+request, she gave her lecture on an "Evening with Dickens" and her
+charming "Musical Monologue." Of this Dickens' lecture a western journal
+said:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "Charles Dickens was the novelist of humanity, and Kate Field is,
+  to-day, his most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter. Those who
+  were so fortunate as to attend her reading last evening enjoyed an
+  intellectual pleasure not soon forgotten. They saw a slender, graceful
+  woman, dressed in creamy white, with soft laces falling about her; with
+  low, broad brow, and earnest, sympathetic eyes, under a cloud of soft
+  dark hair. With a rich and finely modulated voice of remarkable power
+  of expression, she held her audience for two hours spellbound by the
+  magic of her genius."
+</p>
+<p>
+In Colorado Miss Field enjoyed an unique and picturesque holiday.
+Picnics and excursions were gotten up in her honor; special trains were
+run; she rode on horseback with gay parties of friends twenty-five miles
+a day; she joined friends from New York who were camping out on "The
+Needles," and she made a visit to the San Juan Silver-mining district.
+Among other diversions she had the honor of naming a new watering place,
+located on "The Divide," an hour by rail from Denver, to which, in honor
+of General Palmer who has practically "made" that region, Miss Field
+gave the name of Palmero, the Spanish for Palmer.
+</p>
+<p>
+How unconsciously Miss Field came to study the problem presented by the
+peculiar institutions of Utah is curiously indicated in a letter from
+Salt Lake City, under date of Jan. 16, 1884, which she wrote to the
+Boston <i>Herald</i>, and which opens thus:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "I know of nothing that would do Bostonians so much good as a prolonged
+  trip across this continent, giving themselves sufficient time to tarry
+  at different points and study the people. For myself&mdash;about half a
+  Bostonian&mdash;I became so ashamed of sailing east year after year, that
+  last summer I made up my mind to hitch my wagon to the star of empire
+  and learn as much of my own country as I knew of Europe. I started from
+  New York in July, expecting to be absent three months, and in that
+  period obtain an intelligent idea of the far West. After passing two
+  months and a half in wonderful Colorado and only seeing a fraction of
+  the Centennial state, I began to realize that in two years I might,
+  with diligence, get a tolerable idea of this republic
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page431" name="page431"></a>[pg 431]</span>
+
+  west of the Mississippi. Cold weather setting in, and the fall of snow
+  rendering mountain travelling in Colorado neither safe nor agreeable, I
+  came to Utah over the wonderful Denver &amp; Rio Grande railroad, intending
+  to pass a week prior to visiting New Mexico and Arizona. My
+  week expired on the 22nd day of October and still I linger among the
+  'saints.' I am regarded as more or less demented by eastern friends. If
+  becoming interested in a most extraordinary anomaly to such an extent
+  as to desire to study it and to be able to form an intelligent opinion
+  therein is being demented, then I am mad indeed, for I've not yet got
+  to the bottom of the Utah problem, and if I lived here years, there
+  would still be much to learn. Despite this last discouraging fact,
+  I have improved my opportunities and am able to paragraph what has come
+  under my own observation or been acquired by absorption of Mormon and
+  Gentile literature. If the commissioners sent here by Congress to
+  investigate the Mormon question, at an annual expense of forty thousand
+  dollars per annum, had studied this question as earnestly as I have,
+  they never would have told the country that polygamy is dying out. One
+  or two members of that commission know better, and sooner or later they
+  must tell the truth or stultify their own souls."
+</p>
+<p>
+This extract reveals how deeply the anomaly of Mormon life had at once
+impressed her. Miss Field was too keen and cultivated an observer not to
+see beneath the surface of this phase of living a problem whose roots
+struck deep into national prosperity and safety. The distinguished
+essayist and critic, Mr. Edwin P. Whipple, said of her study of
+Mormonism:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  She undertook a perfectly original method of arriving at the truth, by
+  intimate conversations with Mormon husbands and wives, as well as with
+  the most intelligent of the "Gentiles." She discarded from her mind
+  pre-conceptions and all prejudices which discolor and distort objects
+  which should be rigidly investigated, and looked at the mass of facts
+  before her in what Bacon calls "dry light." Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
+  elder, was accustomed to account for the failures and ruin of the
+  brilliant young brokers who tried to corner the stocks in which he had
+  an interest, by declaring that "these dashing young fellars didn't see
+  things as they be." Miss Field saw things in Utah "as they be." She
+  collected facts of personal observation, analyzed and generalized them,
+  and, by degrees, her sight became insight, and the passage from insight
+  to foresight is rapid. After thorough investigation, her insight
+  enabled her to penetrate into the secret of that "mystery of iniquity"
+  which Mormonism really is; while her foresight showed her what would
+  be the inevitable result of the growth and diffusion of such a horrible
+  creed.
+</p>
+<p>
+The winter lapsed into spring and still she lingered in Salt Lake City.
+She relinquished all pleasure for the real work of studying deeply the
+anomaly of a Polygamous hierarchy thriving in the heart of the Republic.
+Every facility was accorded to her by United States officials, military
+officers, leading Gentiles and Apostates. Prominent "Latter Day Saints"
+offered her marked courtesy. She pursued this research unremittingly for
+eight months and when, at last, she left Salt Lake City, the leading
+Gentile paper, the Tribune, devoted a leading editorial to Miss Field's
+marvellously thorough study of Mormon conditions, and, on her departure,
+said:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "Miss Field is probably the best posted person, outside the high
+  Mormon church officials, and others who have been in the church, on
+  this institution, in the world, and its effects upon men, women and
+  governments. With a fixedness of purpose which nothing could swerve,
+  and with an energy which neither storm, mud, snow, cold looks, the
+  persuasions or even the loss of friends, could for a moment dampen, she
+  has held on her course. In the tabernacle, in the ward meeting house,
+  in the homes of high Mormons, and, when these were closed to her, in
+  the homes of the poor, she has worked upon the theme, while every scrap
+  of history which offered
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page432" name="page432"></a>[pg 432]</span>
+
+    to give any light upon the Mormon organization she has devoured.
+  Mormonism has been to her like a fever. It has run its course and now
+  she is going away. If she proposes to lecture, she ought to be able to
+  prepare a better lecture on Mormonism than she has ever yet delivered;
+  if a book is in process of incubation it ought to be of more value than
+  any former book on this subject. Lecture or book will be intense enough
+  to satisfy all demands. The 'Tribune' gives the world notice in advance
+  that Miss Field has a most intimate knowledge of the Mormon kingdom."
+</p>
+<p>
+Returning to the East she stopped on the way in Missouri and at Nauvoo,
+Illinois, looking up all the old camping-grounds of Mormonism, and
+meeting and interviewing people who had been connected with it,
+including two sons of Joseph Smith, Miss Field opened her course of
+lectures on this subject in Boston last November, before a brilliant and
+distinguished audience, including the Governor and other officials of
+state, Harvard University professors, and men and women eminent in art,
+literature and society. She dealt with the political crimes of the
+Mormons, arguing that the great wrong was not, as many had believed,
+polygamy, but treason! Polygamy, though "the cornerstone of the Mormon
+church," was not inserted in its printed articles of faith and was not
+taught until the unwary had been "gathered to Zion." The monstrosity of
+the "revelation" on celestial marriage; the tragic unhappiness of Mormon
+women; the elastic conscience of John Taylor, "prophet, seer and
+revelator" to God's chosen people, were vividly depicted. Her extracts
+from Brigham Young's sermons, and from those of his counsellors, are
+forcible arguments on the Gentile side. Indeed, throughout her entire
+discourse, Miss Field clinches every statement with Mormon proof, rarely
+going to Gentile authorities for vital facts connected with her subject.
+The lecturer's sense of humor betrayed itself now and then, when, with
+fervor, she related an incident in her own experience, or quoted a "Song
+of Zion." The refrain of one of these songs still rings in our ears:
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   Then, oh, let us say </p>
+<p class="i2">   God bless the wife that strives </p>
+<p class="i2">   And aids her husband all she can </p>
+<p class="i2">   To obtain a dozen wives! </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+The prodigious contrast between the preaching and practice of polygamy
+was fully displayed. Mormons claim that there is a vast difference
+between bigamy and polygamy; that only good men are allowed to take
+plural wives; that no saint takes more wives than he can support, and
+that a muchly married "man of God" exercises the most rigid impartiality
+in the bestowal of his affections upon his various women. Miss Field
+upsets these beautiful theories by graphic pictures drawn from life, and
+cited Brigham Young himself as "a bright and shining lie to the boast of
+impartiality." Brigham Young's coup d'etat in granting woman suffrage in
+1871 was illuminated, and emphasized by the assertions:&mdash;"A territory
+that has abolished the right of dower, that proclaims polygamy to be
+divine, that has no laws against bigamy and kindred crimes, that has no
+just appreciation of woman, is unworthy of self-respecting humanity,
+woman suffrage or no woman suffrage." Miss Field makes in these lectures
+a telling exposition of the doctrine of
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page433" name="page433"></a>[pg 433]</span>
+
+  blood atonement, passing on to these Mormon missionaries and their
+methods, and the people who become "fascinated with the idea of direct
+communication with heaven through the medium of a prophet," and to whom
+the missionary brethren prudently "leave the mysteries of polygamy to
+the imagination," while they inculcate the importance of "gathering to
+Zion." She outlined the educational status and the discouragement given
+by Brigham Young to all educational progress. Of Mormon treason she
+says:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"Five years after the United States had established the Territory of
+Utah its people were in armed rebellion because the government dared to
+send a Gentile governor and national troops to Utah."
+</p>
+<p>
+Nor does she spare the United States in its responsibility for these
+crimes. "The United States to-day," said Miss Field, "is responsible for
+thirty years' growth of polygamy, with its attendant degradation of
+woman and brutalization of man." As an illustration of this conclusion,
+she told a most interesting story of which Governor Harding of Utah,
+Brigham Young, Benjamin Halliday, Postmaster General Blair, Abraham
+Lincoln and William H. Seward were the characters. The story is a
+dramatic and significant bit of Mormon history, related for the first
+time. It led up to an earnest and eloquent peroration of which the final
+words were: "'I'll believe polygamy is wrong when Congress breaks it up;
+not before!' exclaims a plural wife. Men and women of New England! You
+who forge public opinion; you who sounded the death knell of slavery,
+what are you going to do about it!"
+</p>
+<p>
+William Lloyd Garrison used to tell his friends that it was worth an
+admission fee just to see Kate Field on the platform, as she made so
+lovely a picture. Her attitudes&mdash;for they are too spontaneous and
+unconscious to be termed poses&mdash;are the impersonation of grace, and,
+aside from the enjoyment of the intellectual quality and searching
+political analysis of her lectures, is that of the artistic effect.
+She gave a course of three lectures on this "Mormon Monster." They were
+efforts whose invincible logic, graphic presentation and thrilling power
+held spellbound her audience. They were a drama of social and political
+life, and almost unprecedented on the lyceum platform was this eloquence
+and splendor of oratory, combined with the trained thought, the
+scholarly acquirement, and the finished eloquence of its delivery. This
+course of lectures finished there was a popular call for Miss Field to
+repeat one at Tremont Temple which, by invitation of Governor Robinson,
+the Mayor and a number of distinguished citizens, she consented to do.
+The triumph was repeated. From Boston she was invited to lecture in
+Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Washington. Press and people were alike
+enthusiastic. It is to the work of Miss Kate Field more than to any
+other cause, that the present disintegration of Mormon treason is due.
+Other travellers in Utah have made but the briefest stays, and have been
+ready to gloss over the tale. Miss Field is telling the truth about it,
+and she does it with a courage, a vigor, an honesty, and a power that
+renders it one of the most potent influences in the national life of the
+times. Kate Field holds to-day the first place on the Lyceum platform of
+America. She has a rare combination of judicial and executive qualities.
+She is singularly free from exaggeration, and her
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page434" name="page434"></a>[pg 434]</span>
+
+  sense of justice is never deflected by personal feeling or emotional
+impulse. She has that exceptional balance of the intellectual and
+artistic forces that enables her to give to her lecture a superb
+literary quality, and to deliver it with faultless grace of manner and
+an impressiveness of presence rarely equalled. In Kate Field America has
+a woman worthy to be called an orator.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<a name="h2H_4_0011" id="h2H_4_0011"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE MONUMENT AND HOMESTEAD OF REBECCA NURSE.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Elizabeth Porter Gould.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Perhaps the greatest incentive to ideal living in a changing world is
+the firmly held conviction that truth will finally vindicate itself.
+When this vindication is made apparent, as in the case of Rebecca
+Nurse, one of the most striking martyrs of the Salem witchcraft days of
+1692, the cause of human progress seems assured. For it is thus seen
+that truth has within itself a living seed which in its development
+is destined to become man's guide to further knowledge and growth.
+This idea was impressed upon me anew as I stood before the granite
+monument, some eight and a half feet high, erected this past summer in
+Danvers,&mdash;originally Salem,&mdash;to the memory of Mrs. Rebecca Nurse, by
+her descendants. A carpet of green grass surrounded it, and a circle of
+nearly twenty pine trees guarded it as sentinels. The pines were singing
+their summer requiem as I read on the front of the monument these
+words:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   REBECCA NURSE, </p>
+<p class="i2">   YARMOUTH, ENGLAND, </p>
+<p class="i2">   1621. </p>
+<p class="i2">   SALEM, MASS., </p>
+<p class="i2">   1692. </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">   O Christian martyr, who for Truth could die </p>
+<p class="i2">   When all about thee owned the hideous lie, </p>
+<p class="i2">   The world, redeemed from Superstition's sway, </p>
+<p class="i2">   Is breathing freer for thy sake to-day. </p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+I lingered a moment over these fitting lines of Whittier, whose charming
+home, "Oak Knoll," a short distance off, had just given me a restful
+pleasure. Then I walked around to the other side of the monument, where
+I read, with mingled feelings, the following words:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">    Accused of witchcraft</p>
+<p class="i4">      She declared,</p>
+<p class="i2">  "I am innocent, and God will</p>
+<p class="i4">    clear my innocency."</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page435" name="page435"></a>[pg 435]</span>
+
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">  Once acquitted yet falsely</p>
+<p class="i2">  condemned, she suffered</p>
+<p class="i4">    death July 19, 1692.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">  In loving memory of her</p>
+<p class="i4">    Christian character,</p>
+<p class="i2">  even then truly attested by</p>
+<p class="i4">    forty of her neighbors,</p>
+<p class="i2">  this monument is erected.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+These last lines reminded me of the fact that the paper with its forty
+signatures, testifying to the forty years' acquaintance of the good
+character of Rebecca Nurse, was still in existence. Alas! why couldn't
+such a testimony of neighbors and friends have saved her? But it was not
+so to be. The government of the colony, the influence of the magistracy,
+and public opinion elsewhere, overpowered all friendly and family help;
+and on the 19th July, 1692, at the advanced age of seventy-one years,
+Rebecca Nurse was hung on Gallows hill.
+</p>
+<p>
+As I left the monument, which is in the old family burying-ground, and
+wandered up the time-honored lane towards the homestead where she was
+living when arrested, the March before, my thoughts would go back to
+those dreadful days. I thought of this venerable mother's surprise and
+wonder, as she learned of the several distinct indictments against her,
+four of which, for having practised "certain detestable acts called
+witchcraft" upon Ann Putnam, Mary Walcot, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Abigail
+Williams, were still to be found in the Salem records. I thought of the
+feelings of this old and feeble woman as she was borne to the Salem
+jail, then a month later sent off, with other prisoners, to the jail
+in Boston (then a whole day's journey), to be sent back to Salem for
+her final doom. I pictured her on trial, when, in the presence of her
+accusers, the "afflicted girls," and the assembled crowd, she constantly
+declared her innocence ("I am innocent, and God will clear my
+innocency"), and showed a remarkable power in refuting the questions of
+the magistrate. I thought of her Christian faith and courage, when, upon
+seeing all the assembly, and even the magistrate, putting faith in the
+"afflicted girls'" diabolical tantrums (what else can I call them?) as
+there enacted, and now preserved in the records of the trial, she calmiy
+said, "I have got nobody to look to but God." I again pictured her, as,
+just before the horrors of execution, she was taken from the prison to
+the meeting-house, by the sheriff and his men, to receive before a great
+crowd of spectators the added disgrace of excommunication from the
+Church.
+</p>
+<p>
+But I could picture no more. My heart rebelled. And as I had now reached
+the old homestead on the hill I paused a moment, before entering, to
+rest under the shade of the trees and to enjoy the extensive views of
+the surrounding country. This comforted my troubled feelings, and
+suggested the thought that in the fourteen years that Rebecca Nurse had
+lived there she must have often come under the shade of the trees,
+perhaps after hours of hard work and care, to commune alone with her
+God. How could I help
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page436" name="page436"></a>[pg 436]</span>
+
+  thinking so when there came up before me her answer to the magistrate's
+question, "Have you familiarity with these spirits?"&mdash;"No, I have none
+but with God alone." Surely, to one who knew Him as she did, who in calm
+strength could declare her innocence when many around her, as innocent
+as she, were frightened into doubt and denial, the quiet and rest of
+nature must have been a necessary means of courage and strength.
+</p>
+<p>
+Then what did not the old house, with its sloping roof, tell me, as it
+still stood where Townsend Bishop had built it in 1636, upon receiving a
+grant of three hundred acres? Yes, this old "Bishop's mansion," as the
+deed calls it, had felt the joys and sorrows of our common human life
+for almost two hundred and fifty years. It had known the friends whom
+Townsend Bishop, as one of the accomplished men of Salem village, had
+gathered about him in the few years that he had lived there. It must
+have heard some of Hugh Peters' interesting experiences, since, as
+pastor of the First Church those very years (1636-1641), he was a
+frequent visitor. Why couldn't one think that Roger Williams had often
+come to compare notes on house-building, since he owned the "old witch
+house" (still standing on the corner of Essex and North streets) at the
+same time that Mr. Bishop was building his house? It certainly was a
+pleasure to remember that Governor Endicott once owned and lived on this
+farm. He bought it in 1648, for one hundred and sixty pounds, of Henry
+Checkering, to whom Mr. Bishop had sold it seven years before.
+</p>
+<p>
+I recalled many other things, that summer day, concerning this ancient
+place. Shall I not tell them? While the Governor lived on it he
+continued his good work for the general opening of the country around
+about. Among other things he laid out the road that passes its
+entrance-gate to-day.
+</p>
+<p>
+Here his son John brought his youthful Boston bride, and gave to her the
+place as a "marriage-gift." Then, some years later, she, the widow of
+John, having become the bride of a Mr. James Allen, gave it to him as a
+"marriage-gift;" and upon her death, in 1673, he became the possessor.
+Five years later he sold it to Francis Nurse, the husband of Rebecca,
+for four hundred pounds. Mr. Nurse was an early settler of Salem, a
+"tray-maker," whose articles were much used. He was a man of good
+judgment, and respected by his neighbors. He was then fifty-eight years
+of age, and his wife fifty-seven. They had four sons and four daughters.
+The peculiar terms of the purchase had always seemed interesting to me;
+for the purchase-money of four hundred pounds was not required to be
+paid until the expiration of twenty-one years. In the meantime a
+moderate rent of seven pounds a year for the first twelve years, and ten
+pounds for each of the remaining nine years, was determined upon.
+Suitable men were appointed to estimate the value of what Mr. Nurse
+should add to the estate while living upon it, by clearing meadows,
+erecting buildings, or making other improvements. This value over one
+hundred and fifty pounds was to be paid to him. These various sums, if
+paid over to Mr. Allen before the twenty-one years had expired, would
+make a proportionate part of the farm at Mr. Nurse's disposal.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page437" name="page437"></a>[pg 437]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+The low rent and the industrious, frugal habits of Mr. Nurse and his
+family, added to the fact that not a dollar was required to be paid down
+at first, led to the making of such good improvements that before half
+the time had elapsed a value was created large enough to pay the whole
+four hundred pounds to Mr. Allen. When Mr. Nurse thus became owner of
+this estate he gave to his children, who had already good homes within
+its boundaries, the larger half of the farm, while he reserved for
+himself the homestead and the rest of the land. By the deeds he gave
+them, they were required to maintain a roadway to connect with the old
+homestead and with the homes of each other.
+</p>
+<p>
+While the different members of the Nurse family were thus working hard
+for the money to buy the place there was hanging over its owner the
+shadow of litigation for its possession. But this was Mr. Allen's
+affair, not theirs, so they went on their way in peace. Indeed, it has
+been thought that their steady success in life was one cause of their
+future trouble. They became objects of envy to those restless ones less
+favored. And so, when the opportunity came to merely whisper a name for
+the "afflicted girls" to take up, Rebecca Nurse's fate was in the hands
+of an enemy. A striking example of the innocent suffering for the
+guilty. Does not vicarious suffering seem to be an important factor in
+the development of the race? Two years after, this faithful wife and
+mother had been led from her peaceful home to suffer the agonies of
+prisons, trials, and hanging. When the children had all married, the
+father gave up the homestead to his son Samuel, and divided his
+remaining property among his sons and daughters. He died soon after,
+in 1695. He was a kind, true father, whose requests after death were
+heeded. This homestead was in the Nurse name as late as 1784, when it
+was owned by a great-grandson of Rebecca. He sold it to Phineas Putnam,
+a descendant of old Nathaniel Putnam, who, in the hour of need, wrote
+the paper for the forty signatures above mentioned. The estate descended
+to the great-grandson of Phineas, Orin Putnam, who, in 1836, married the
+daughter of Allen Nurse. And thus a direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse
+was again placed to preside over the ancestral farm, and to their
+descendants it belongs to-day.
+</p>
+<p>
+After thus thinking over this interesting history of the old place,
+as I reclined under the shade of its trees, I was better prepared to
+enjoy the kind hospitality which it then offered me. I felt a peculiar
+pleasure in stepping into the same little front porch which Townsend
+Bishop had built so many years ago. And upon ascending the stairs I
+found myself lingering a while by the old original balusters, the
+building of which Roger Williams had perhaps viewed with interest. Upon
+reaching the attic it was a pleasure, indeed, to see in this new world
+the frame-work of a house which for two hundred and fifty years had
+stood so well the test of nature in all her moods. No saw was used in
+shaping those oaken timbers. They knew only the broad-axe. From this
+attic I descended to the sitting-room, to spend a while under the same
+low beams which had greeted the first visitors of the house. Here I
+imagined the Nurse family living in quiet and peace. Here I
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page438" name="page438"></a>[pg 438]</span>
+
+  pictured the son Samuel, as, later, he wondered over and over again how
+he could remove the reproach which was on his mother's name. And I
+thought that to him his descendants owed much, for it was mainly to his
+pleadings that the General Court exonerated her in 1710, and the Church
+in 1712.
+</p>
+<p>
+While sitting there I learned of some alterations which had been made
+from time to time: how the front of the house, before which the old
+roadway used to be, had been widened by extending the western end beyond
+the porch.
+</p>
+<p>
+As I came out of the house upon the green grass around it, I enjoyed
+again the grand outlook over the surrounding country,&mdash;the same which in
+the days of agony had strengthened human souls,&mdash;and then walked down
+the hill, by the family burying-ground, out through the entrance-gate
+into Collins street, the public thoroughfare.
+</p>
+<p>
+I left the monument and its interesting associations that August day of
+1885 (it was dedicated only the July 30 before) with the feeling that as
+the present descendants of Rebecca Nurse owe much to her son Samuel, so
+their future descendants will be indebted to them for the appropriate
+manner in which they have still further striven to vindicate before the
+world the innocence of a much-wronged ancestor.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page439" name="page439"></a>[pg 439]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0012" id="h2H_4_0012"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    THE PRESENT RESOURCES OF MASSACHUSETTS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By H.K.M.</span>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Massachusetts is a busy state. The old time factory bell has not
+entirely given way to the steam whistle, nor the simple village spire to
+the more pretentious ecclesiastical tower of to-day, yet the energizing
+force of material prosperity has quickened the blood in nearly every
+hamlet, modernized the old, or built up a new, so that throughout the
+state there is a substantial freshness indicative of progressive thrift.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Tenth Census of the United States classifies the entire
+working population of the state in four divisions of labor as
+follows:&mdash;Agriculture, 64,973; Professional and Personal services,
+170,160; Trade and Transportation, 115,376; Mechanical, 370,265; with a
+total population of 1,941,465.<a href="#note-4" name="noteref-4"><small>4</small></a> The aggregate steam and water power in
+1880 was 309,759 horse power; the motive power of 14,352 manufacturing
+establishments having an invested capital of $303,806,185; paying
+$128,315,362 in wages to 370,265 persons who produced a product value of
+$631,135,284. These results, in proportion to area and population, place
+Massachusetts first in the Union as a manufacturing state. In mechanical
+science a complete cotton mill has been considered the cap stone of
+human ingenuity. In 1790 Mr. Samuel Slater established in Pawtucket,
+R.I., the first successful cotton mill in the United States, but the
+saw gin, a Massachusetts invention of Mr. Eli Whitney in 1793, laid the
+foundation of the cotton industry throughout the world.
+</p>
+<p>
+There are 956 cotton mills in the United States with an invested capital
+of $208,280,346, with a wage account of $42,040,510. The relative
+importance of the four leading states in the manufacture of cotton goods
+is shown as follows:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Relative
+importance of the four leading states in the manufacture of cotton goods">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>    206      </td><td> Mass.    </td><td align="right">$74,118,801   </td><td align="right">$16,240,908    </td><td align="right">$74,780,835 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    133      </td><td> R.I.     </td><td align="right"> 29,260,734   </td><td align="right">  5,623,933    </td><td align="right"> 24,609,461 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     97      </td><td> Conn.    </td><td align="right"> 21,104,200   </td><td align="right">  3,750,017    </td><td align="right"> 17,050,126 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     41      </td><td> N.H.     </td><td align="right"> 19,993,584   </td><td align="right">  4,322,622    </td><td align="right"> 18,226,573 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+As in cotton, so also in the manufacture of woolen goods has
+Massachusetts maintained from the first the leading position. In 1794
+in Byfield parish, Newbury, Mass., the first woolen mill went into
+successful operation. In 1804 a good quality of gray mixed broadcloth
+was made at Pittsfield, Mass., and it is said that in 1808 President
+Madison's inaugural suit of black broadcloth was made there.
+</p>
+<p>
+The five leading states in the production of woolen goods are thus
+classified:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="The five leading states in the production of woolen goods">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>    167      </td><td> Mass.    </td><td align="right">$24,680,782    </td><td align="right">$7,457,115    </td><td align="right">$45,099,203 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    324      </td><td> Penn.    </td><td align="right"> 18,780,604    </td><td align="right"> 5,254,328    </td><td align="right"> 32,341,291 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     78      </td><td> Conn.    </td><td align="right">  7,907,452    </td><td align="right"> 2,342,935    </td><td align="right"> 16,892,284 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     50      </td><td> R.I.     </td><td align="right">  8,448,700    </td><td align="right"> 2,480,907    </td><td align="right"> 15,410,450 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    159      </td><td> N.Y.     </td><td align="right">  8,266,878    </td><td align="right"> 1,774,143    </td><td align="right">  9,874,973 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page440" name="page440"></a>[pg 440]</span>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In its kindred industry, dyeing and finishing textiles, Massachusetts is
+a controlling force; as seen in the classification of the three leading
+states in this department of labor:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="classification of the three leading
+states in dyeing and finishing textiles">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>28      </td><td> Mass.     </td><td align="right">$8,613,500    </td><td align="right">$1,815,431    </td><td align="right"> $9,482,939 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>16      </td><td> R.I.      </td><td align="right"> 5,912,500    </td><td align="right"> 1,093,727    </td><td align="right">  6,874,254 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>60      </td><td> Penn.     </td><td align="right"> 3,884,846    </td><td align="right"> 1,041,309    </td><td align="right">  6,259,852 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Nearly one half of the entire American production of felt goods comes
+from her, as indicated in the classification of the four leading
+states:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="American production of felt goods, four leading states">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>11      </td><td> Mass.     </td><td align="right">  $820,000      </td><td align="right">$163,440    </td><td align="right"> $1,627,320 </td></tr>
+<tr><td> 6      </td><td> N.J.      </td><td align="right">   313,000      </td><td align="right">  86,170    </td><td align="right">    685,386 </td></tr>
+<tr><td> 4      </td><td> N.Y.      </td><td align="right">   157,500      </td><td align="right">  35,289    </td><td align="right">    257,450 </td></tr>
+<tr><td> 1      </td><td> Penn.     </td><td align="right">   150,000      </td><td align="right">  80,000    </td><td align="right">    450,000 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Massachusetts is also an all-important factor in the total production of
+American carpets. The 59 mills in the United States made in 1880 a
+wholesale product valued at $31,792,802. Massachusetts made the most
+Brussels, 1,884,723 yards; Pennsylvania came next with 919,476 yards.
+She came next to New York in yards of Tapestry, and next to Connecticut
+in Wiltons, a good second in these important grades. The three leading
+carpet states are thus classified:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Three leading carpet production states">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>     10      </td><td> N.Y.      </td><td align="right">$6,422,158    </td><td align="right">$1,952,391    </td><td align="right"> $8,419,254 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    172      </td><td> Penn.     </td><td align="right"> 7,210,483    </td><td align="right"> 3,035,971    </td><td align="right"> 14,304,660 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>      7      </td><td> Mass.     </td><td align="right"> 4,637,646    </td><td align="right"> 1,223,303    </td><td align="right">  6,337,629 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p>
+In the manufacture of Boots and Shoes Massachusetts stands conspicuously
+at the front; her position in this great industry is clearly seen in the
+three states controlling this special product:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Three states producing boots and shoes">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Factories. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>    982      </td><td> Mass.    </td><td align="right">$21,098,133   </td><td align="right">$24,875,106    </td><td align="right">$95,900,510 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    272      </td><td> N.Y.     </td><td align="right">  6,227,537   </td><td align="right">  4,902,132    </td><td align="right"> 18,979,259 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    145      </td><td> Penn.    </td><td align="right">  3,627,840   </td><td align="right">  2,820,976    </td><td align="right">  9,590,002 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+One evidence that Massachusetts is not sitting down all the time is the
+fact that she stands up to manufacture so many chairs. From a small
+beginning of wood and flag seated chairs, Mr. James M. Comee in 1805,
+with his foot lathe, in one room of his dwelling in Gardner. Mass., laid
+the foundation of this important industry, which has given the town of
+Gardner, where over 1,000,000 of chairs are annually made, a world wide
+reputation.
+</p>
+<p>
+The relative positions of the five leading chair states:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Five states leading chair manufacture">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Factories. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>     62      </td><td> Mass.     </td><td align="right">$1,948,600    </td><td align="right">$1,028,087    </td><td align="right"> $3,290,837 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     62      </td><td> N.Y.      </td><td align="right">   991,000    </td><td align="right">   472,974    </td><td align="right">  1,404,138 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     45      </td><td> Penn.     </td><td align="right">   111,700    </td><td align="right">   143,037    </td><td align="right">    437,010 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     37      </td><td> Ohio      </td><td align="right">   497,026    </td><td align="right">   321,918    </td><td align="right">    821,702 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     37      </td><td> Ind.      </td><td align="right">   395,850    </td><td align="right">   232,005    </td><td align="right">    632,746 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page441" name="page441"></a>[pg 441]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+In the currying of leather Massachusetts is a notable leader:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Currying of leather">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Establishments. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>     194      </td><td>    Mass.  </td><td align="right">$4,308,169    </td><td align="right">$1,939,122    </td><td align="right">$23,282,775 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     185      </td><td>    N.Y.   </td><td align="right"> 1,720,356    </td><td align="right">   366,426    </td><td align="right">  6,192,002 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     455      </td><td>    Penn.  </td><td align="right"> 2,570,969    </td><td align="right">   334,950    </td><td align="right">  7,852,177 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>      56      </td><td>    N.J.   </td><td align="right"> 1,983,746    </td><td align="right">   762,697    </td><td align="right">  8,727,128 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>      61      </td><td>    Wis.   </td><td align="right"> 1,299,425    </td><td align="right">   281,412    </td><td align="right">  4,496,729 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>      18      </td><td>    Ill.   </td><td align="right">   534,786    </td><td align="right">   141,096    </td><td align="right">  2,391,380 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Her position in the manufacturing of worsted goods is also an all
+important one:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="manufacture of worsted goods">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>    23      </td><td> Mass.     </td><td align="right">$6,195,247    </td><td align="right">$1,870,030    </td><td align="right">$10,466,016 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    28      </td><td> Penn.     </td><td align="right"> 4,959,639    </td><td align="right"> 1,473,958    </td><td align="right"> 10,072,473 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    11      </td><td> R.I.      </td><td align="right"> 4,567,416    </td><td align="right"> 1,222,350    </td><td align="right">  6,177,754 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Again we find her at the head of another very important industry, the
+manufacture of paper.
+</p>
+<p>
+The five leading states in production are given their relative positions.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Five leading paper production states">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Mills. </th><th> State. </th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Wages Paid. </th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>     96      </td><td> Mass.    </td><td align="right">$11,722,046    </td><td align="right">$2,467,359    </td><td align="right">$15,188,196 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    168      </td><td> N.Y.     </td><td align="right">  6,859,565    </td><td align="right"> 1,217,580    </td><td align="right">  8,524,279 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     60      </td><td> Ohio     </td><td align="right">  4,804,274    </td><td align="right">   839,231    </td><td align="right">  5,108,194 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     78      </td><td> Penn.    </td><td align="right">  4,099,000    </td><td align="right">   752,151    </td><td align="right">  5,355,912 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>     65      </td><td> Conn.    </td><td align="right">  3,168,931    </td><td align="right">   656,000    </td><td align="right">  4,337,550 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+In 1880 Massachusetts manufactured 27,638 tons of printing paper, 24,746
+tons of writing paper, 10,255 tons of wrapping paper, 945 tons of wall
+paper, 3,706,010 pounds of colored paper, 255,000 pounds of bank note
+paper, 878,000 pounds of tissue paper, and 27,607,706 pounds of all
+other kinds of paper.
+</p>
+<p>
+She manufactures more shovels than any other state, about 120,000 dozen
+annually. Rhode Island comes next with about one-half the quantity, and
+Ohio stands third, her product being about 7,000 dozen annually.
+</p>
+<p>
+It also falls to her lot to manufacture more Hay and Straw cutters,
+about 6,000 annually. In the manufacture of hard soap Massachusetts
+falls a little behind some of her sister states, but she comes smilingly
+to the front with her 16,000,000 pounds of soft soap, about one half of
+the total production. New York brings her annual offering of about 5,000
+pounds.
+</p>
+<p>
+The 4,000 boats she annually builds constitute nearly one half of the
+number built in the United States.
+</p>
+<p>
+There are 131,426 persons in the United States engaged in the fisheries.
+</p>
+<p>
+The prominent share of Massachusetts in this industry is seen in the
+classification of the five leading states.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Fishery production, five leading states">
+
+<tr><th> State. </th><th>No. of Persons Employed.</th><th> Capital Invested.</th><th> Value of Product.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>    Mass.       </td><td align="right"> 20,117             </td><td align="right">$14,334,450      </td><td align="right"> $8,141,750 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    Md.         </td><td align="right"> 26,008             </td><td align="right">  6,342,443      </td><td align="right">  5,221,715 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    N.Y.        </td><td align="right">  7,266             </td><td align="right">  2,629,585      </td><td align="right">  4,380,565 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    Me.         </td><td align="right"> 11,071             </td><td align="right">  3,375,994      </td><td align="right">  3,614,178 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    Vir.        </td><td align="right"> 18,864             </td><td align="right">  1,914,119      </td><td align="right">  3,124,444 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p>
+She has invested:&mdash;Over $1,000,000 in the manufacture of Baskets and
+Rattan goods; over $1,600,000 in the manufacture of Brick and Tile; over
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page442" name="page442"></a>[pg 442]</span>
+
+  $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Wagons and Carriages; over $5,000,000
+in the manufacture of Men's Clothing; over $1,500,000 in the manufacture
+of Cordage and Twine; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Cutlery;
+over $3,000,000 in the manufacture of Fire Arms; over $16,000,000 in the
+Foundries and Machine Shops; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of
+Furniture; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Iron Nails and Spikes;
+over $6,000,000 in the manufacture of Iron and Steel; over $1,500,000 in
+the manufacture of Jewelry; over $3,000,000 in the manufacture of
+Liquors, Malt; over $3,000,000 in Slaughtering and Packing; over
+$2,000,000 in Straw goods; over $2,000,000 in Sugar and Molasses,
+refined; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Watches; over $2,000,000
+in the manufacture of Wire, and over $11,000,000 in unclassified
+industries.
+</p>
+<p>
+The limitations of this article will only allow brief reference to a few
+of the leading industries of Massachusetts. The facts presented give her
+a commanding position in the sisterhood of manufacturing States, while
+the condition of her operatives, their moral and intellectual character,
+has no parallel in any other manufacturing district in the world.
+</p>
+<p>
+On her well known but dangerous coast special provisions are made to aid
+the mariner; so likewise upon her more dangerous coast of sin we find
+2,397 ministerial light houses whose concentrated spiritual lens-power
+upon an area of 8,040 square miles, make the rocks of total depravity
+loom up far above the white capped waves of theological doubt. The lower
+law being less important than the higher, it takes but 1,984 lawyers to
+successfully mystify the juries of the Commonwealth. Of physicians and
+surgeons there are 2,845. It requires the constant services of 2,463
+persons to entertain us with music, and just one less, 2,462 barbers,
+who are in daily tonsorial conflict with our hair, either rebuking it
+where it does grow, or teasing it to come forth where heretofore the
+dome has been hairless.
+</p>
+<p>
+Of the 4,000,000 farms of 536,081,835 acres in the United States, 38,406
+farms of 3,359,097 acres valued at $146,197,415 yielding an annual
+income of $24,160,881 lie within the borders of the state. Her 150,435
+cows produce 29,662,953 gallons of milk, which is the foundation of her
+annual product of 9,655,587 pounds of butter, and 829,528 pounds of
+cheese. She would be unjust to her traditional sense of justice were she
+to send her beans out into the world single handed, with true paternal
+solicitude she provides them with the charmed society of 80,123 swine,
+thus hand in hand Massachusetts' pork and beans stride up and down the
+earth, supremely content in the joyous ecstasy of their Puritan conceit.
+While Massachusetts has well known agricultural tendencies, and her
+Agricultural college is one of the most important factors in her system
+of practical instruction, it cannot be claimed that she is a controlling
+element in the agricultural interests of the country. Of all her
+influences for good, perhaps her educational interests would command the
+greater prominence. She has ever regarded the instruction of her youth
+as one of her most sacred trusts, and in all the details of her public
+school system she ranks second to no state in the Union.
+</p>
+<p>
+In the various departments of technical instruction, she has a national
+reputation. Her colleges and universities so richly endowed secure the
+highest
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page443" name="page443"></a>[pg 443]</span>
+
+  attainable advantages. These privileges supplemented by the free public
+libraries of the state, place possibilities within the reach of every
+young man or young woman, the value of which cannot be approximated by
+human estimate.
+</p>
+<p>
+Six of the leading states are thus classified:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Schools, six leading states">
+
+<tr><th>  Public Schools.    </th><th> State.       </th><th>  School Buildings.    </th><th>Sittings Provided.  </th><th>   School Property.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>    6,604    </td><td>Mass.   </td><td align="right">    3,343    </td><td align="right"> 319,749   </td><td align="right">$21,660,392 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>   15,203    </td><td>Ill.    </td><td align="right">   11,880    </td><td align="right"> 694,106   </td><td align="right"> 15,876,572 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>   11,623    </td><td>Ind.    </td><td align="right">    9,679    </td><td align="right"> 437,050   </td><td align="right"> 11,907,541 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>   18,615    </td><td>N.Y.    </td><td align="right">   11,927    </td><td align="right"> 763,817   </td><td align="right"> 31,235,401 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>   16,473    </td><td>Ohio    </td><td align="right">   12,224    </td><td align="right"> 676,664   </td><td align="right"> 21,643,515 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>   18,618    </td><td>Penn.   </td><td align="right">   12,857    </td><td align="right"> 961,074   </td><td align="right"> 25,919,397 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+The following institutions for higher education have about $5,000,000
+invested in grounds and buildings, about $9,000,000 in endowments,
+yielding an annual income of about $1,000,000, having about 4,000
+students and about 400,000 volumes in libraries, Universities and
+Colleges.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Institutions of higher education and their established dates">
+
+<tr><td colspan="2"><h3>  UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  Amherst College, organized                       </td><td>1821 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Boston College, organized                        </td><td>1864 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Boston University, organized                     </td><td>1872 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  College of the Holy Cross, organized             </td><td>1843 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Tufts College, organized                         </td><td>1852 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Harvard College, organized                       </td><td>1636 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Williams College, organized                      </td><td>1793 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">  <h3>COLLEGES FOR WOMEN.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, organized         </td><td>1837 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Sophia Smith College, organized                  </td><td>1872 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Wellesley College, organized                     </td><td>1874 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">  <h3>THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  Andover Theological Seminary, organized          </td><td>1808 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Boston University School of Theology, organized  </td><td>1847 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Divinity School of Harvard University, organized </td><td>1816 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Episcopal Theological School, organized          </td><td>1867 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Tufts College Divinity School, organized         </td><td>1867 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Newton Theological Institution, organized        </td><td>1825 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  New Church Theological School, organized         </td><td>1866 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">  <h3>LAW SCHOOLS.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  Boston University School of Law, organized       </td><td>1872 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Law School of Harvard University, organized      </td><td>1817 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">  <h3>SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  Boston University School of Medicine, organized  </td><td>1869 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Harvard Medical School, organized                </td><td>1782 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  New England Female Medical College, organized    </td><td>1850 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Boston Dental College, organized                 </td><td>1868 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Dental School Harvard College, organized         </td><td>1867 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, organized     </td><td>1823 </td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page444" name="page444"></a>[pg 444]</span>
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2"><h3>THE SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE.</h3></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>Massachusetts Agricultural  College, organized      </td><td>1867 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology, organized    </td><td>1861 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Lawrence Scientific School, organized               </td><td>1848 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial
+          Science, organized                                </td><td>1868 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+While Massachusetts is a model state in all her educational interests,
+we do not forget that there are 75,635 persons in the state who cannot
+read, and 92,980 persons who cannot write, but of the 990,160 native
+white persons of ten years and upwards only 6,933 are unable to write,
+being seven-tenths of one per cent., the lowest ratio of any state.
+Arkansas, per cent, being 25.0; Alabama, 24.7; Georgia, 22.9; Kentucky,
+22.0; No. Carolina, 31.0; So. Carolina, 21.9; Tenn., 27.3; West
+Virginia, 18.2; Connecticut, 5.5; Illinois, 5.9; New Hampshire 5;
+Pennsylvania, 6.7; New York, 5.3.
+</p>
+<p>
+There are 15,416 colored persons in the state, of 10 years and upwards;
+of this number 2,322 are unable to write, but from 10 to 14 years of
+age, both inclusive, these being 1,504, but 31 persons are reported as
+unable to write, or 2.1 per cent. South Carolina out of a colored
+population of 75,981 between the same ages, reports 57,072 persons as
+unable to write or 74.1 per cent. There are 1,886 colored persons in the
+state between the ages of 15 and 20, and only 70 are reported as unable
+to write, or 3.7 per cent.; we find this also the lowest ratio of any
+state.
+</p>
+<p>
+South Carolina's per cent. being 71.9; Alabama, 64.9; Georgia, 76.4;
+Texas, 69.2; and North Carolina, 68.5.
+</p>
+<p>
+Her density of population makes it exceedingly convenient for her 52,799
+domestic servants to compose notes over neighborly fences. Her 281,188
+dwelling houses house 379,710 families, placing 6.34 persons to the
+credit of each dwelling, and 4.70 persons to each family. This density
+gives her 221.78 persons to a square mile, a far greater ratio than any
+state except Rhode Island. This neighborly proximity has its social
+tendencies, which may account in part for the hospitable amenities which
+are a rightful part of Massachusetts' well known loyalty to a higher
+regard for the purest type of home, a comparative statement of the
+density of population of a few states.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="State population densities, per square mile">
+
+<tr><th>  State.                </th><th>Square Miles.   </th><th>Persons to Square Miles. </th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  Rhode Island,         </td><td align="right">     1,085      </td><td align="right">254.87 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Massachusetts,        </td><td align="right">     8,040      </td><td align="right">221.78 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Connecticut,          </td><td align="right">     4,845      </td><td align="right">128.52 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Georgia,              </td><td align="right">    58,980      </td><td align="right"> 26.15 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Illinois,             </td><td align="right">    56,000      </td><td align="right"> 54.96 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Iowa,                 </td><td align="right">    55,475      </td><td align="right"> 29.29 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Maine,                </td><td align="right">    29,895      </td><td align="right"> 21.71 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Michigan,             </td><td align="right">    57,430      </td><td align="right"> 28.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  New Hampshire,        </td><td align="right">     9,005      </td><td align="right"> 38.53 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  New York,             </td><td align="right">    47,620      </td><td align="right">106.74 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Pennsylvania,         </td><td align="right">    44,985      </td><td align="right"> 95.21 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  West Virginia,        </td><td align="right">    24,645      </td><td align="right"> 25.09 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+As inseparable as night is from day, so also are the ills of life from
+life itself. Massachusetts is no exception to the inexorable law which
+defines the conditions
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page445" name="page445"></a>[pg 445]</span>
+
+  of human society; but through her public and private charities so wisely
+administered, she humanely softens the asperities which shadow the life
+of her unfortunates. To her lot fall 1,733 idiotic persons, 978 deaf
+mutes, 5,127 insane, 1,500 of whom are cared for at home, and 3,659
+prisoners, 1,484 of whom are of foreign birth. Human life teaches that
+the boundary lines of a smile and tear are the same, for where happiness
+is, there sorrow dwells. In the general estimate of 391,960 annual
+deaths in the United States, about 33,000 occur in Massachusetts.
+</p>
+<p>
+One evidence of her unswerving faith in the national credit is seen by
+her holdings in U.S. registered bonds. The four leading states are
+reported as follows:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Four leadings states holding U.S. registered bonds">
+
+<tr><th> No. of Persons. </th><th> State. </th><th>Per cent. of Bondholders.</th><th>Amount.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="right">  16,885       </td><td>Massachusetts,  </td><td align="right">  23.05             </td><td align="right">$45,138,750 </td></tr>
+<tr><td align="right">  10,408       </td><td>Pennsylvania,   </td><td align="right">  14.23             </td><td align="right"> 40,223,050 </td></tr>
+<tr><td align="right">  14,803       </td><td>New York,       </td><td align="right">  20.24             </td><td align="right">210,264,250 </td></tr>
+<tr><td align="right">   4,130       </td><td>Ohio,           </td><td align="right">   5.65             </td><td align="right"> 16,445,050 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+In the classification of the four leading states, of assessed valuation
+and taxation, it appears that the assessed valuation of her personal
+property exceeds that of any state.
+</p>
+<p>
+The four leading states are thus classified:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Four leading states in personal property evaluation">
+
+<tr><th> State.</th><th> Area Sq. M. </th><th> Real Estate. </th><th>Personal Property. </th><th> Total. </th><th> Total Tax.</th></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  N.Y.  </td><td align="right">47.620 </td><td align="right">$2,329,282,359 </td><td align="right">$323,657,647 </td><td align="right">$2,651,940,006 </td><td align="right">$56,392,975 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Penn. </td><td align="right">44,985 </td><td align="right"> 1,540,007,657 </td><td align="right"> 143,451,059 </td><td align="right"> 1,683,459,016 </td><td align="right"> 28,604,334 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Mass. </td><td align="right"> 8,040 </td><td align="right"> 1,111,160,072 </td><td align="right"> 473,596,730 </td><td align="right"> 1,584,756,802 </td><td align="right"> 24,326,877 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Ohio  </td><td align="right">40,760 </td><td align="right"> 1,093,677,705 </td><td align="right"> 440,682,803 </td><td align="right"> 1,534,360,508 </td><td align="right"> 25,756,658 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+The grandest monument of human skill in modern railway science is
+unquestionably the St. Gothard Tunnel which connects the valley of the
+Reuss with the valley of the Ticino, which is from 5,000 to 6,500 feet
+below the Alpine peaks of St. Gothard, being a little over 9-&frac14; miles
+in length, costing over $47,000,000, one-half of which was paid by the
+governments of Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Until its completion in
+1880, there was but one railway tunnel, Mont Cenis, that outranked our
+own Hoosac Tunnel of nearly 5 miles in length and costing about
+$10,000,000.
+</p>
+<p>
+The service, equipment, and management of Massachusetts' railway system
+is well nigh perfect. Out of 4,100 miles of track in the state, 2,453
+are laid with the steel rail. Including the 1,150 engines, 1,554
+passenger cars, 394 baggage cars, and 24,418 freight cars, the total
+cost of railroad equipment in the state has been $178,862,870; from this
+investment the total earnings in 1884 reached $33,020,816 from which
+$4,568,274 were paid in dividends. The number of passengers carried were
+57,589,200 and 17,258,726 tons of freight moved. One of the most
+important elements in her system is the Boston and Albany. Its engine
+service the past year was 5,680,060 miles, the company carried 94,721
+through passengers and 8,699,691 way, whose total earnings were
+$8,148,713.34 and total expenses were $5,785,876.98.
+</p>
+<p>
+In this connection we would refer to the city and suburban tramway
+service, which has taken an important part in the development of the
+state. The total
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page446" name="page446"></a>[pg 446]</span>
+
+  cost of the 336 miles of road and equipment, including 8,987 horses and
+1,918 passenger cars is stated at $9,093,935. Number of passengers
+carried in 1884 was 94,894,259, gross earnings $4,788,096, operating
+expenses $3,985,617, total available income $924,440. When we consider
+that the street railway service carried more than 37,000,000 passengers
+in excess of the steam railways, we realize its importance.
+</p>
+<p>
+While there are 66,205 more females than males in the state, in the
+wider distribution of the sexes their equality indicates that it could
+not happen by chance, and that marriage of one man to one woman was
+intended.
+</p>
+<p>
+An authentic estimate of the numerical proportions of the sexes is as
+follows:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+United States, 983 women to 1,000 men; America, (at large) 980 women to
+1,000 men; Scotland, 1,096 women to 1,000 men; Ireland, 1,050 women to
+1,000 men; England and Wales, 1,054 women to 1,000 men; France, 1,007
+women to 1,000 men; Prussia, 1,030 women to 1,000 men; Greece, 940 women
+to 1,000 men; Europe, (at large) 1,021 women to 1,000 men; Africa,
+(estimated) 975 women to 1,000 men; Asia, 940 women to 1,000 men;
+Australia, 985 women to 1,000 men. In an aggregate of 12,000 men there
+is a surplus of about 161 women.
+</p>
+<p>
+Massachusetts has been making notable history ever since 1620, and in
+picking out here and there a few of the influences which have tended to
+develope her material resources, we would not be unmindful of those
+Christian influences which are also a part of her imperishable history.
+</p>
+<p>
+To the lover of nature, perhaps no state in range of rugged coast and
+water views blended with mountainous background, can offer more pleasing
+bits of picturesque scenery. The historic hills of Berkshire and the
+beautiful Connecticut River, with its 50 miles of sweep through the
+state, ever hurrying on to the sea, have inspired the tireless shuttles
+of descriptive imagery to weave some of the finest threads in American
+thought.
+</p>
+<p>
+Nowhere within the range of human vision can the eye find a more
+restful scene of quiet simplicity and softer blending of river, hill and
+foliage, than in the valley of the Deerfield on any sunny summer day.
+Let him who would have a sterner scene of majestic grandeur stand upon
+the storm-beaten cliffs of some rock-fringed coast, while the
+silver-crested sea and the dark, deep toned clouds, like mercy and
+righteousness, kiss each other.
+</p>
+<p>
+To us who love Massachusetts, her principles, her institutions, her
+hills, valleys and rocks, her future is but the lengthening out of a
+perfect present; and at last, when the scroll of states is finally
+rolled up, may her eternal record stand for the highest type of
+Christian citizenship.
+</p>
+
+<a name="note-4"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>4</u> (<a href="#noteref-4">return</a>)<br />
+Census of 1885.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page447" name="page447"></a>[pg 447]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0013" id="h2H_4_0013"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    ELIZABETH.<a href="#note-5" name="noteref-5"><small>5</small></a>
+</h2>
+<h4>
+    A ROMANCE OF COLONIAL DAYS.
+</h4>
+<h3>
+<span class="sc">By Frances C. Sparhawk</span>, Author of "A Lazy Man's Work."
+</h3>
+<a name="h2HCH0001" id="h2HCH0001"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    CHAPTER  XXVI.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+    A GRAVE DECISION.
+</h3>
+<p>
+After the greetings were over, Elizabeth, looking at Stephen Archdale,
+realized fully the difficulties of her task. She was to go through with
+it alone she perceived, for her father had turned away and taken up a
+spyglass that had been brought him at the moment, and was absorbed in
+looking through it at the new fascine battery. Evidently he expected her
+to give Captain Archdale the history of the facts and conclusions that
+had brought her father and herself to Louisburg. As she looked at the
+young man in his strength, she felt more than ever the necessity for
+speaking. He knew well enough that Mr. Edmonson hated him, and that was
+necessary to be known. And yet, speech was hard, for even though he
+could never imagine Edmonson's contemptible insinuations, still before
+he believed in his own danger he might have to learn his enemy's foiled
+purpose toward herself; and to be sought for her fortune was not a thing
+that Elizabeth felt proud of. Her head drooped a little as the young man
+stood watching her, and the color began to come into her face. Then the
+courage that was in her, and the power that she had of rising above
+petty considerations into grandeur, came upon her like an access of
+physical strength. The strong necessity filled her, and the thought that
+she might be bringing life where she had almost brought death, at least
+death of joy, lighted her face. Still she hesitated for a moment, but it
+was only to study how she should begin. Shall she give him Katie's
+letter at once, and in her name warn him to take care of the life that
+was of so much value to his betrothed? No, for with Katie's letter in
+his hand, he could not listen carefully to Elizabeth's words, he could
+think only of what was within. His thoughts would refuse to have to do
+with danger; they would be busy with joy. That must wait.
+</p>
+<p>
+"We have come here, my father and I," she began, "to say one word to
+you, Captain Archdale. We talked it over, and we saw no other way."
+</p>
+<p>
+"You are pale," cried Stephen suddenly. "You must be very tired. Let us
+sit down here while you tell me." And he pointed to a coil of rope at
+hand. But she shook her head.
+</p>
+<p>
+"I am not tired, thank you; I am disappointed that I can't go back
+immediately, that I must wait until to-morrow, when the dispatches will
+be ready."
+</p>
+<p>
+"You need not," he cried. "The General shall let you go if you wish it.
+I will insist upon it. The dispatches can go some other way. If the
+Governor
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page448" name="page448"></a>[pg 448]</span>
+
+  wants news in such haste, he would do better to send us some powder to
+make them out of. He was enough in a hurry to get us off, to give us
+something to do after we are here."
+</p>
+<p>
+"I should think you had something to do," she said pointing to the
+battlements of Louisburg which at that distance and from that angle
+looked as if no shot had ever been fired against them. "But don't on any
+account speak to the General. We are glad to do even so little for the
+cause. And perhaps it's not that that makes me pale. I don't know. I
+have a warning hard to deliver to you. I have come hundreds of miles to
+do it. I will give it to you immediately, for you may need it at any
+moment." She drew closer to him, and laid one hand upon his arm as if to
+prevent his losing by any chance the words she had to say. Her gesture
+had an impressiveness that made him realize as much as her face did how
+terribly in earnest she was.
+</p>
+<p>
+"It must be something about Katie," he thought. And the vision of Lord
+Bulchester rose before him clearly.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Listen," said Elizabeth absorbed in her attempt to make him feel what
+she feared would seem incredible to him. "Stray shots have picked off
+many superfluous kings in the world&mdash;and men and the world not been the
+wiser. This is what some one said when the war was being talked of, said
+at your house, and said in speaking of you."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Said it to you?" interposed Archdale with a quick breath.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Oh, no, but about you, I am sure, <i>sure</i>, though it has taken me
+all this time to find it out. And,&mdash;oh, wait a moment,&mdash;the man who said
+it was your guest then, and he is here now, else we should not have
+come; he is here, perhaps he is close by you every day, and he,&mdash;he is
+meaning the shot for you." She waited a moment drawing a breath of
+relief that she had begun. "You know he is your enemy?" she went on with
+a longing to be spared explanations.
+</p>
+<p>
+She was spared them.
+</p>
+<p>
+"I do know it," said Archdale looking at her, and as she met his eyes a
+great relief swept over her. Her warning had been heard and believed,
+she was sure of that. She heard Archdale thanking her, and assuring her
+that he would give good heed to her warning. And she had not had to tell
+why Edmonson hated him, she had not even been obliged to utter the name
+that she was coming to hate. "Do you know?" she had asked wonderingly,
+and he had told it to her. Did he know the man so thoroughly, then? And
+were there other causes of hatred, possibly money causes, that had
+spared her?
+</p>
+<p>
+She had told her listener more than she dreamed, far more than her
+words. She had stood before him in the noblest guise a human being can
+wear, that of a preserver from evil fate; she had looked at him out of
+holy depths in her clear eyes, she had turned upon him a face in which
+expression had marvellously brought out physical beauty. Also, in her
+unconsciousness that he knew the reason of his danger, she had looked at
+him with a wonder at his ready credulity before there had come her smile
+of relief that she need speak no more. He knew Edmonson's story, knew
+how this play at marriage between Elizabeth and himself had interfered
+with the other's plans, guessed the further truth, looked at
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page449" name="page449"></a>[pg 449]</span>
+
+  her, and muttered under his breath:&mdash;"Poor fellow!" It was with his own
+eyes, and not another man's that Archdale saw Elizabeth. Yet, it was not
+in human nature that she should not seem the more interesting as she
+stood there, since he had learned his own life to be in danger because
+another man had found her so desirable, and so unapproachable. Watching
+Elizabeth, he acquitted Edmonson of mercenary motives, whatever they
+might once have been. His appreciation had no thought of appropriation
+in it. Katie was his love. But comprehension of Elizabeth made him glad
+that their mistake had saved her from Edmonson. And then again after a
+moment he muttered under his breath:&mdash;"Poor fellow!"
+</p>
+<p>
+"You are very, very kind," he said to her.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Don't think me rude," she answered with a smile. "But, you know we must
+have done this for any one. Only,"&mdash;and her voice became earnest again,
+"I was very grateful that the least thing came to me for you and Katie.
+I have not done with Katie yet" she added, "here is something that I
+have brought you from her." And she handed him a letter. "She gave me
+this as I was leaving," she said.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Thank you," he said again, and holding it clasped in his hand, stood
+not looking at it, but as if he still had something to say. "Has
+Bulchester gone yet, Mistress Royal?" he asked abruptly at last.
+</p>
+<p>
+"No. But I think that he must be very hard to send away, and Katie you
+know hates to say anything unkind. She doesn't see that it is the
+kindest way in the end. We shall not go until to-morrow, you know. If
+you have any letters, we shall be so glad to take them."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Thank you once more." He stood still a moment. "The earl may be wise to
+stay on the field," he said. "I may be swept off conveniently. Yes, he
+is wise to wait and see what the fortunes of war will do for him."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Oh! Mr. Archdale," cried Elizabeth, between indignation and tears at
+his want of faith. "How can you not trust her? Your letter that she was
+so eager to send will prove how wrong you are." Here Mr. Royal sauntered
+up, and the conversation turned upon the scene before them.
+</p>
+<p>
+But in the midst of Archdale's description of one of their skirmishes a
+signal was given from the new battery. "They are signalling for me," he
+said. "My place is in command of those guns. I am sorry to leave my
+story half told, but I must go. I shall try to see you to-morrow." And
+with a hasty farewell he sprang into the boat. As he was rowed away,
+Elizabeth saw him put his hand into the pocket where he had slipped
+Katie's letter, and draw this out.
+</p>
+<p>
+She sat down again in her favorite place on deck, laid her arms on the
+railing of the schooner and her face upon them. Now that her errand was
+done, she became aware that she was very tired. She sat so quiet that
+she seemed to be asleep. But she was only in a day-dream in which the
+thought of which she was most conscious was wonder that Archdale could
+doubt Katie. Had she not always been a coquette? And had she not always
+loved him? Yet Elizabeth wished that she could have said that Lord
+Bulchester had gone, wished that she could have seen Stephen Archdale's
+face brighten a little before he left them, perhaps forever; she had not
+forgotten the danger of his post. Nancy softly drew
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page450" name="page450"></a>[pg 450]</span>
+
+  her chair close. But Elizabeth made no movement. She sat with her face
+still buried, thinking, remembering, longing to be at home again,
+counting the hours until they should probably sail.
+</p>
+<p>
+Suddenly she started up. For there had come light that she saw through
+the dark folds that she had been pressing her eyes against. To her there
+was a sound as if the heavens were being rent, and she felt a trembling
+of the earth, as if it shook with terror at the spectacle. She stood a
+moment bewildered. It seemed as if the light never paled at all, but
+only changed its place sometimes; the roar was terrific, it never
+ceased, or lulled, and the water beneath them tossed and hissed in rage
+at its bed being so shaken. Nancy's hand sought her companion's with a
+reassuring pressure, for speech was impossible. But Elizabeth had only
+been unprepared. She recovered herself and smiled her thanks. Then she
+sat down again with her face toward the city and watched this cannonade,
+terrible to men grown grey in the service, as officers from the fleet
+bore witness, and to the enemy deadly.
+</p>
+<p>
+For the fascine battery had opened fire.
+</p>
+<p>
+At midnight General Pepperell sent for Archdale to detail him for
+special service the next day.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Why! what's the matter?" he cried, looking at the young man as he came
+into the tent.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Nothing, General Pepperell. I am quite ready for service," replied
+Stephen haughtily.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Ah!&mdash;Yes. Glad of that," returned the General, and he went on to give
+his orders, watching the other's pale face as he did so, and reading
+there strong emotion of some kind.
+</p>
+<p>
+When he was alone, and his dispatches had all been written, he sat
+musing for a time, as little disturbed by the glare and the thunder
+about him as if stillness were an unknown thing. His cogitations did not
+seem satisfactory, for he frowned more than once. "What's the matter
+with the fellow?" he muttered. "Something has gone wrong. I've seen an
+uneasiness for a long time. Now the blow has fallen. Poor fellow! he
+doesn't take life easy. The news is it, I wonder? or the letter?" He sat
+for a while carefully nursing his left knee, while his thoughts
+gradually went back to military matters, and worked there diligently. At
+last he straightened himself, clapped this same knee with vigor, put
+both feet to the ground and, rising, took up from his improvised
+table&mdash;a log turned endwise,&mdash;a paper upon which he made a note with a
+worn pencil from his pocket. "Yes," he cried, "I can do that. It's the
+only thing I can do. And I need it so much they will not mind." He
+finished by a smile. "Strange I hadn't thought of it before," he said.
+</p>
+<p>
+Then he threw himself down upon his bed of boughs and moss, and with the
+terrific din about him slept the sleep of weariness. At sunrise,
+according to his directions, an orderly roused him.
+</p>
+<p>
+Archdale had already gone with his reconnoitering party. His heart was
+bitter against the conditions of his life, and he felt that it would be
+no misfortune, perhaps quite the contrary, if Edmonson's plan were not
+interfered with. "It's
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page451" name="page451"></a>[pg 451]</span>
+
+  beyond her comprehension," he said to himself. "How confident she was.
+What will she say when she knows?"
+</p>
+<p>
+In the morning, Elizabeth standing beside her father turned a tired face
+toward the shore as she watched General Pepperell's approach. Sleep had
+been impossible to her in the strangeness and terror of her surroundings.
+</p>
+<p>
+"You are very thoughtful to come to bid us good-bye," she said, giving
+him her hand as he stepped on board.
+</p>
+<p>
+He smiled, and still holding it, asked after a moment's hesitation,
+"Should you be very much disappointed if I begged you not to return this
+morning?"
+</p>
+<p>
+She certainly looked so for a moment, before she answered: "If it will
+help, if I can be of any use, I am ready to stay. Are there soldiers in
+the hospitals? Can we do anything for them, Nancy and I?"
+</p>
+<p>
+He caught at the diversion readily. "The hospitals? Yes, I should be
+very glad, infinitely obliged to you, if you would pay them a visit.
+I've not a doubt that your suggestions would make the poor fellows more
+comfortable, and there are a number of new ones there this morning.
+I'm sorry to say our health record is discouraging. Not that I'm
+discouraged, but I want to put this business through as quickly as
+possible." Then he turned to Mr. Royal. "I must tell you both," he said,
+"that I came to you this morning bent upon purposes of destruction,
+(though, happily, not to yourselves,) and not purposes of health, except
+of saving lives by making the work as short as possible. I should like
+this schooner. I have an immediate use for it, and in two days, or, at
+the outside, three, I'm going to send to Boston. Will you permit me to
+take this as a fire-ship, and will you remain under my especial care
+until this other vessel sails?" He turned to Elizabeth as he spoke. "If
+you consent," he said to her, "I am quite sure your father will. It will
+be a great favor to me, and I hope to the cause, if you do. But I won't
+insist upon it. If you say so you shall go this morning."
+</p>
+<p>
+Elizabeth glanced at her father, "But I don't say so," she answered.
+"I am compelled to stay if my father consents. It's not you that make
+me but a stronger power. You won't be offended if I call patriotism a
+stronger power?" And she smiled at him.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Thank you, my dear," he said with a gravity which showed that she had
+touched him. "You shall not regret your sacrifice."
+</p>
+<p>
+In the course of conversation he told Mr. Royal that Archdale had been
+sent off at dawn upon an exploring expedition. "I want to find out how
+near to us the Indians are," he said, "they are hanging about somewhere.
+You will not see him to-day."
+</p>
+<p>
+That morning, Elizabeth was rowed ashore with Nancy, and under an escort
+they went to the hospitals; not for a visit of inspection, as it turned
+out, but as workers. Nancy had had experience in illness, and Elizabeth
+was an apt pupil. Before the day was over the poor fellows lying there
+felt a change. There were no luxuries to be had for them, but their beds
+were made a little softer with added moss and leaves, the relays of
+fresh water from the brook running through the encampment were
+increased. One dying man had closed his eyes in the
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page452" name="page452"></a>[pg 452]</span>
+
+  conviction that the last words he had sent to his mother would reach
+her; he had watched Elizabeth write them down, and she had promised to
+put a lock of his hair into the letter. He was sure that she would do
+it, and he died happier for the thought. Altogether, in many ways the
+comfortless tents grew less comfortless, for Elizabeth interpreted
+literally the general's permission to do here what she chose. The eyes
+of the soldiers followed both women with delight, and one rugged fellow,
+a backwoods man, whose cheerfulness not even a broken leg and a great
+gash in his forehead could destroy, volunteered the statement: "By
+George! whether in peace or war we need our women." This was responded
+to by a cheer from the inmates of his tent. The demonstration was all
+the more touching, because its endeavor to be rousing was marred in the
+execution by the physical weakness of the cheerers.
+</p>
+<p>
+They spent that night on shore. Elizabeth's tent was next her father's
+and a few rods from the general quarters. As Mr. Royal left her, she
+stood a moment at the swinging door of her strange room, and looked at
+the stars and at the scene so new to her on which they were shining.
+Then leaving it reluctantly, for it fascinated her, she laid down upon
+the woodland couch prepared for her, and was soon as soundly asleep as
+her maid near by, while around the tent patrolled the special guard set
+by General Pepperell.
+</p>
+<p>
+The next day also was spent in the hospital. In the course of the
+afternoon, Nancy, looking over the Bay in a vain search for the schooner
+which had brought them, said; "I wonder how we really shall get home,
+and when?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"As General Pepperell promised us," answered her mistress. "And probably
+we shall leave to-morrow. I expect to hear from him about it then. So
+does my father; he was speaking of it this morning."
+</p>
+<p>
+They were right; the next day the General told them that the
+"Smithhurst" would sail that afternoon with prisoners of war from the
+"Vigilant," a captured French vessel. "She is one of the ships that
+Governor Shirley has sent for to guard the coast," he said to Elizabeth
+speaking of the "Smithhurst." "She goes to Boston first to report and
+discharge her prisoners. Be ready at four o'clock. If I can, I will take
+you to the vessel myself; but if that is impossible, everything is
+arranged for your comfort. Your father is at the battery, I have just
+left him there. He is undeniably fond of powder. I've told him about
+this." Elizabeth was in one of the hospital tents when Pepperell came to
+her with this news. She staid there with Nancy all the morning, and at
+noon when her father came and took her away for awhile to rest, she had
+an earnest talk with him upon some subject that left her grave and
+pleased.
+</p>
+<p>
+After a time she went back to the hospitals again. At the last moment
+the General sent an escort with word that he had been detained. Just
+before this message arrived, Elizabeth called her maid aside.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Nancy," she said, "you see how many of our soldiers are here, hundreds
+of them, almost thousands. They are fighting for our homes, even if the
+battle-ground is so far away. And see how many have been sent in, in the
+short time we have been here. Do you want to desert them? Tell me how
+you feel? Shall we go back to our comfortable home, and leave all this
+suffering behind us,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page453" name="page453"></a>[pg 453]</span>
+
+  when we might do our little to help? Shall we, Nancy? I have no right to
+insist upon your staying; but don't you think we ought to stay? and
+won't you stay with me?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"Indeed I will," was the quick answer. "I hated to leave the poor
+fellows, but I did not see what else to do. The General won't like it
+one bit though. And your father, Mistress Elizabeth?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"The General has no authority over me. I'm not one of his soldiers. And
+as to my father, it's all right with him."
+</p>
+<p>
+Yet she felt very desolate when the ship which was to have carried them
+had gone with its companion vessel, and from the door of one of the
+hospital tents she stood watching the white sails in the distance. But
+it was not that resolution had failed her; for she would have made the
+same decision over again if she had been called upon at the moment.
+</p>
+<a name="h2HCH0002" id="h2HCH0002"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    CHAPTER XXVII.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+    THE NIGHT ATTACK.
+</h3>
+<p>
+As Elizabeth stood at the door of the hospital tent looking after the
+Smithhurst, General Pepperell came along, alone, in a brown study, his
+brows knit and his face troubled. For though the French ship-of-war,
+"Vigilant" had been captured, Louisburg had not, and every day was
+adding to the list of soldiers in the hospitals. But when he saw her, he
+stopped, and his expression, at first of surprise, changed to anger.
+</p>
+<p>
+"What does this mean?" he said abruptly. "The ship has sailed. I sent
+you word in time."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes," she answered.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Then what does it mean?" he reiterated, "Why are you here?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"It means," she returned, resenting the authority of his tone, "that
+when New England men are fighting and suffering and dying for their
+country, New England women have not learned how to leave them in their
+need, and sail away to happy homes. That's what it means, General
+Pepperell." As she spoke she saw Archdale behind the General; he had
+come up hastily as Pepperell stood there.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Thought you were in a desperate hurry to be off," said Pepperell dryly.
+</p>
+<p>
+Elizabeth blushed. She was convicted of changeableness, and she felt
+that she had been impatient. "Forgive me," she said. "So I was. But I
+did not realize then what I ought to do."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Um! Where's your father?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"Just gone out in the dispatch boat to the fleet."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Does he know of this&mdash;this enterprise? Of course, though," he corrected
+himself, "since he has not sailed."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes, of course," she said. "He stays with me. But," she added, "I
+suppose he expected me to ask you about it first."
+</p>
+<p>
+"And you knew I wouldn't consent&mdash;hey?"
+</p>
+<p>
+The girl smiled without speaking. "Mr. Royal is over-indulgent," he went
+on decidedly.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page454" name="page454"></a>[pg 454]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+"Perhaps," answered Elizabeth, "He thinks that a little over-indulgence
+in being useful will not be bad for me. You assured both Nancy and me
+that we were doing good service, real service, and that you should be
+sorry to lose us."
+</p>
+<p>
+"So you have done, and I shall be sorry to lose you, both personally and
+for the cause. Nevertheless, I shall send you home at once. Your father
+would never have consented to your staying if he had realized the
+danger. I never know where the shells will burst. I'll stop work upon
+that schooner that you came in, and send you home again in it. It's
+fitting up now as a fire-ship, but it can be made fairly comfortable.
+Your safety must be considered."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Why is my safety of any more importance than the soldiers'? No,
+General, you have no right to send me away. I refuse to go. I am not
+speaking of military right, understand, but of moral right."
+</p>
+<p>
+Pepperell gave a low whistle.
+</p>
+<p>
+"That's it, is it?" he said. "One thing, however; if you stay, you must
+submit to my orders. You are under military law."
+</p>
+<p>
+"I surely will. And now thank you," she returned with a smile so winning
+that, although for her own sake Pepperell had been angry, he relented.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Oh, of course, it's very good in you, my dear," he said. "Don't think I
+forget that."
+</p>
+<p>
+Capt. Archdale had been standing a little apart looking out to sea
+during a conversation in which he had no place. Now as he perceived the
+General about to move on, he came forward and spoke to Elizabeth. "You
+know that you are running a great risk?" he said to her gravely.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes," she answered him, "or at least somewhat of a risk. When did you
+come back from your reconnoitering party?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"The night before last," he said, not pursuing a subject that she did
+not wish to discuss with him. Elizabeth heard something hard in his
+voice, and saw a new sternness in his face that made her wonder suddenly
+if Katie's letter had lacked any kindness that Stephen deserved from her
+as he stood in the midst of danger and death. Could she have shown
+coquetry, or in any way teased him now?
+</p>
+<p>
+"Well, good-by for the present, my dear, and Heaven keep you," said the
+General, giving her hand a cordial pressure. Archdale bowed, and the two
+went on, Pepperell at first full of praises of Elizabeth's courage,
+though he regretted her decision. But life and death hung upon his skill
+and promptness, and he had little time for thoughts of anything but his
+task. Henceforth he only took care that Mr. Royal and his daughter were
+as well protected, and as well cared for as circumstances permitted.
+</p>
+<p>
+Yet, one evening soon afterward, he saw something which for the moment
+interested him very much. Elizabeth, with Nancy Foster who was now more
+companion than maid, was walking slowly toward her tent. Both were
+looking at the gorgeous sunset. Its brilliancy, vying with that of the
+deadly fireworks, offered a contrast all the more striking in its
+restfulness and happy promise. The two women had grown somewhat
+accustomed to the cannonade, and as they went on they seemed to be
+talking without noticing it. Just then a figure in captain's
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page455" name="page455"></a>[pg 455]</span>
+
+  uniform came quickly up the slope toward them, and with a most
+respectful salute, stood bare-headed before Elizabeth.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Edmonson," commented the General even before he caught sight of
+his face. "Nobody else has that perfection of manner. Stephen won't
+condescend to it. Edmonson is the most graceful fellow I know. And, upon
+honor, I believe he is the most graceless. But his theories can't harm
+that woman." Yet as Pepperell stood watching the young man's expression
+now that it was turned toward him, and understood by his gestures the
+eager flow of words that was greeting Elizabeth, he held his breath a
+moment with a new perception, muttered a little, and stood staring with
+the frown deepening on his face. He wanted to catch her answering look,
+but she had turned about in speaking and her back was toward him. In an
+impatient movement at this, he changed his own range of vision somewhat,
+and all at once caught sight of another face, also bent upon Elizabeth
+with eager curiosity to catch her expression. Pepperell turned away
+delighted. "After all, he's not too much of a grand seigneur to have
+a little human curiosity," he chuckled, watching the new figure. "Yes,
+we'll do very well to go on a reconnoitering expedition together, you
+and I, Captain Archdale!" And he laughed to himself as he slipped
+quietly away, without having been perceived. "More news to write to
+pretty Mistress Katie," he commented, still full of amusement. Then
+his thoughts went back again to the problem that was growing daily
+more perplexing. And as he was again becoming absorbed in it, he was
+conscious of an undercurrent of wonder that he could ever have laughed.
+The thing next to be done was to make an attack up Island Battery, the
+one most serviceable to the enemy, most annoying to themselves. So long
+as that belched forth its fires against them, Warren's fleet must remain
+outside, and there could be no combined attack upon the city, and
+Louisburg was still unconquerable. Any day might bring a French fleet to
+its rescue, and then the game was up. Beyond question, Island Battery
+must be attacked, but it was a difficult and dangerous attempt, and
+Pepperell sat with his head upon his hand, thinking of the men that must
+fall even if it were successful. Still, every day now some among the
+soldiers were smitten down by disease and the French ships were nearer.
+It was only a question of sacrificing a part of his army or the whole of
+it. Warren was right to urge the measure, and it must be pressed upon
+his Council. But Pepperell felt as if he were being asked to sign a
+hundred death-warrants.
+</p>
+<p>
+It was not quite time for the members of his Council to assemble. He
+went to the nearest battery where the firing was hottest, sighted the
+direction of the guns, examined the state of the city walls where these
+had been played upon by them, cheered the gunners with his praise, even
+jested with one of them, and left the men more full of confidence in
+him, more desirous than ever to please him, and, if possible, more
+resolved to win the day. Not a trace of anxiety in his face or his tones
+had betrayed the weight that was upon him. Then he went back to his
+tent. The Council had assembled. When he took his place at the head,
+he had forgotten the incident that a few minutes before had moved him
+to laughter.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page456" name="page456"></a>[pg 456]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+Archdale stood motionless. The underbrush hid him from the speakers, and
+he was too far off to hear a word. It seemed to him that Elizabeth
+wished to shorten the interview, for soon Edmonson with another of his
+inimitable bows retired and she passed on. As Stephen caught sight of
+her face he saw that it was troubled. "He shall not persecute her," he
+said to himself. Nancy had gone on while Edmonson was speaking to her
+mistress, and now Elizabeth following was almost at the door of her
+temporary home, when a hand was laid heavily upon Archdale's shoulder,
+and Vaughan's hearty voice cried;&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"Come on! I'm going to speak to our charming, brave young lady there.
+I want to tell her how proud of her courage I am. Come on! he repeated.
+Stephen followed. He had not taken her determination in this way. He
+thought her unwise and rash, and hated to have her there. And yet he
+could not deny that the camp had seemed a different place since she had
+entered it.
+</p>
+<p>
+"You take it that way," he said to Vaughan. "But I think we should be
+feeling that she may get hit some of these days, or be down with fever."
+</p>
+<p>
+"We'll hope not," returned the other cheerfully. "Let us look on the
+bright side. She is doing a work of mercy, and we will trust that a
+merciful Providence will protect her. We were just talking about you,
+Mistress Royal," he continued, striding up to Elizabeth and grasping her
+hand warmly. "Stephen, here, says he's always thinking you'll get hit
+somehow, or get a fever. I say, look on the bright side of things,
+'trust in the Lord,' as old Cromwell used to put it."
+</p>
+<p>
+"'And keep your powder dry,'" finished Archdale. "It's not safe to quote
+things by halves. Decidedly, this staying is not a prudent thing."
+</p>
+<p>
+"I didn't know that beseiging Louisburg could be called a prudent
+thing," she returned. "And so we're all in the same boat."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Ha! ha!" laughed Vaughan. "You have him there, Mistress Royal. He's
+always in the hottest places himself; he likes them best."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Somebody else likes them, too; somebody else who can capture Royal
+Battery with thirteen men," said Elizabeth. "I knew long ago that you
+were a genuine war-horse, Colonel Vaughan. Give me credit for my
+discernment."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes, yes, I remember," assented the other with the embarrassment of
+courage at finding itself commended. "But, really, against such a
+cowardly crew as those fellows were, there's no credit at all to be
+gained."
+</p>
+<p>
+She made him a bright reply, and Archdale listened in silence as they
+talked. But she noticed his gloomy face, and secretly wondered if it
+was anxiety about Edmonson that troubled him, or if possibly, he was
+displeased with Katie. But she put away for the second time the latter
+suggestion. The girl had never looked prettier or been more affectionate
+than when she had said good-by to her and given her the letter for
+"poor, brave Stephen," as she had tearfully called him. Archdale could
+not help listening to Elizabeth; there seemed to be a witchery about her
+whenever she opened her lips. It was probable that Edmonson felt it, he
+thought. And he began to wonder how things would all end. Perhaps they
+should all be shot and the affair wind up like some old tragedy where
+the board is swept clean for the next players. For his part, too much
+had
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page457" name="page457"></a>[pg 457]</span>
+
+  gone from his life to make the rest of it of interest. Elizabeth turned
+to him.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Are you busy?" she asked. "I mean are you on duty?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"No," he answered, wondering what was coming, and noticing that her
+tall, slight figure seemed all the more elegant for the simplicity of
+her dress. "Can I do anything for you?" he added.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes, thank you," she answered, "You can, if you are willing. I am going
+to get some medicine that the doctors have asked me to keep, because it
+is very powerful, and they were afraid lest some of the men would be
+careless with it. Nancy is bringing the bandages. Here she is now. Thank
+you," as the girl put a phial into her hand. "There is extra work to be
+done to-day," she went on, turning again to Archdale, "and we are short
+of hands. If you don't mind, and will come, we shall be glad of your
+help."
+</p>
+<p>
+Captain Archdale playing at nurse with private soldiers! The young man
+did not fancy the idea at all; he would much rather have led a forlorn
+hope.
+</p>
+<p>
+But no forlorn hope offered, and this did. Of course he would do
+anything for Mistress Royal, but this was not for her at all. He had
+half a mind to excuse himself. As the suggestion came to him, he looked
+into the steady eyes that were watching him fathoming his reluctance,
+ready for approval or for scorning as the answer might be. His look took
+in her whole appearance, and set him wondering if the privates, some of
+whom had been even his neighbors and his boyish playfellows, could
+offend his dignity more than hers? He began to wonder how her eyes would
+change if they looked at him approvingly.
+</p>
+<p>
+"I will go with pleasure, if you'll put up with an awkward fellow," he
+answered. And Colonel Vaughan who was looking on was not aware that he
+had hesitated.
+</p>
+<p>
+Elizabeth's eyes darkened. She smiled and nodded her head slightly, as
+if to say, "I knew you would do it." But after this the trace of a smile
+lurked for a moment in the corners of her mouth, as if she might have
+added: "I know, too, what it has cost you." But she said nothing at all
+to Archdale. She bade good-by to Colonel Vaughan who protested that he
+wished he was not upon duty, and turned again toward the hospital.
+Suddenly Archdale thought that she might have been asking the same thing
+of Edmonson when she had been talking with him just before. If she had,
+it was very certain that Edmonson had found an engagement immediately.
+Upon the whole, Archdale was satisfied to have done what the other would
+not do. So that it was just as well he did not know that that other had
+not been asked.
+</p>
+<p>
+Was there ever another woman in the world like this one, he asked
+himself late that night, recalling that she had been for hours beside
+him, treating him just as if he were a crook to raise a soldier's head,
+if she wanted to rearrange his pillow, or a machine to reel off bandages
+round that poor Melvin's shattered arm, or to do any other trying
+service, and never even imagine that he would like to be thanked or
+treated humanely, while every look and word and thought of hers was for
+the soldiers. It was so different from what he had always found, and yet
+there was the nobleness of self-forgetfulness in the difference. But for
+all this vivid memory of those hours, it was imagination rather than
+recollection that
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page458" name="page458"></a>[pg 458]</span>
+
+  occupied him most with her when she had left him. For he was picturing
+how she would look, and what she would say, when she read the letter
+that he had slipped into her hand as she was going away. He recalled her
+look of amazement, her beginning:&mdash;"Why, it's&mdash;" and then breaking off
+abruptly, perceiving that only peculiar circumstances could have made
+him give her Katie's letter to read, and perhaps divining the truth. For
+she had suddenly became very grave and had replied absently to his
+good-night, as on her father's she had turned from the hospital. The
+young man, wondering how she would receive the news of Katie's
+treachery, asked himself what she could find now in excuse for the girl
+who had used her faithful friend as the unconscious messenger of her
+broken plight? Stephen knew well enough that the old glamour would come
+back, but to-night he was full only of indignation against Katie. To
+have used Elizabeth as she had done was an added sin.
+</p>
+<p>
+"I wish Bulchester joy of her," he muttered, then with a sharp breath
+recollected that this was only a respite, that he should not always feel
+too scornful for pain.
+</p>
+<p>
+Three nights after this there was a silent and solemn procession down to
+the shore. Island Battery was to be attacked. Here was Archdale's
+forlorn hope ready for him, if he wanted it now. Every chance of success
+depended upon secrecy. The venture was so desperate that the General
+could not make up his mind to pick out the men himself, he called for
+volunteers. They came forward readily, incited, not only by courage and
+the desire to end the siege, but by ambition to be distinguished among
+their comrades who stood about them in hushed expectation. Every soldier
+off duty and able to crawl to the shore, and some who should not have
+attempted it were there. Among this crowd stood two women, scarcely
+apart from the others, and yet everywhere that they moved, given place
+to with the unobtrusive courtesy that has always marked American men, so
+that one woman in a host of them feels herself, should danger come, in
+an army of protectors, and otherwise alone. Elizabeth had meant to be
+here earlier, and to put herself by the General's side, for her father
+had gone with dispatches to the fleet, but her duties had detained her,
+and now she was separated from him by nearly a regiment. She stood
+silent in an anxiety that did not lessen because she told herself that
+it was foolish.
+</p>
+<p>
+Captain Brooks was to command the expedition, and the number of men
+needed to accompany him was fast being made up from the eager
+volunteers. In the dimness she recognized Archdale by an unconscious
+haughtiness of bearing, and Edmonson's voice, though lowered to suit the
+demands of the hour, made her shiver. Yet why? Of course they both were
+here; volunteers were stepping out from the ranks of their companies.
+But they themselves were not going, neither would they be left here
+alone together. Boat after boat with scaling ladders was filled with
+soldiers and shoved off, some of them out of sight in the dimness where
+the men, lying on their oars, waited for their comrades. In this way one
+after another disappeared. Things went on well. Elizabeth began to be
+reassured, to be occupied with the scene about her, to remember the
+importance of the expedition and how many times it had been
+unsuccessfully
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page459" name="page459"></a>[pg 459]</span>
+
+  attempted. She began to think of the attack, of the result, and of the
+soldiers, to rejoice in them, to be proud of them, and to tremble for
+them, as one who has no individual interest at stake.
+</p>
+<p>
+It was only at night that the attempt could be made, only in certain
+states of the tide, and still at the best time it was a terrible
+venture; the work was new for the troops; the walls were high, the enemy
+was vigilant. With a sigh she saw another boat shove off to its fate.
+</p>
+<p>
+The volunteering slackened, either because so many of the men left were
+aware that fatigue and illness had undermined their strength, or because
+the night had grown lowering and the ominous roar of breakers reached
+them from their landing place. Finally a distinct pause came in answer
+to the call: "Who next?"&mdash;a pause that lasted a minute, and that, had it
+lasted another, would have meant discouragement, and perhaps despair.
+</p>
+<p>
+"I," said a firm voice, and Elizabeth saw Stephen Archdale step into the
+boat. A strange feeling came over her for a moment, then a wave of
+admiration for his heroism. If he were to die, it would be a soldier's
+death. Yet, there would be so many to mourn him. If he went to his death
+in this way, how would Katie feel? General Pepperell started forward, as
+if to prevent his embarking, then restrained himself. The men responded
+rapidly after this example, until the boat needed only one more. Then
+there fell upon Elizabeth's ears, a name more frightful to her than the
+boom of the surf or the roar of cannon, and Edmonson stepped in and
+seated himself opposite Archdale.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Two captains in one boat!" she heard a soldier remonstrate.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Nonsense! we're full. Shove off instantly, you laggards. Every minute
+tells," said the newcomer in a hoarse undertone.
+</p>
+<p>
+Elizabeth sprang forward. "No, no," she cried impetuously, forgetting
+everything but the terror.
+</p>
+<p>
+But the calling of the names was going on again, and her voice was
+unheard, except by a few who stood near her. Before she could make her
+way up to the General, the boat pulled by the vigorous strokes of the
+men who had been taunted as laggards, had shot out of sight. "Oh! bring
+them back, bring back that last boat," she implored Pepperell in such
+distress that he, knowing her a woman not given to idle fears, felt a
+sense of impending evil as he answered:
+</p>
+<p>
+"My dear, I cannot. No boat is sure of meeting it in the dark, and to
+call would endanger the expedition."
+</p>
+<p>
+There was no use in explaining now. She would have occasion enough to do
+it sometime, she feared; and then it would be useless. To-night she
+could say nothing. All these days she had dreaded what might come, for
+it did not seem to her that Captain Archdale took any care at all.
+Still, in the camp, out of general action, and surrounded by others,
+there had been comparative safety.
+</p>
+<p>
+Now the hour, the place, and the purpose had met. Through the darkness
+Stephen Archdale was going to his doom.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page460" name="page460"></a>[pg 460]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2HCH0003" id="h2HCH0003"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    CHAPTER XXVIII.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+    A WOUNDED MAN.
+</h3>
+<p>
+The General sent Elizabeth away very kindly. She sent the weary Nancy to
+bed and went back to the hospital. But anxiety mastered her so that she
+could not keep her hands from trembling or her voice from faltering when
+there was most need for steadiness.
+</p>
+<p>
+"You are exhausted, Mistress Royal, you ought not to be here," said one
+of the surgeons sternly. "Go and rest."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Oh, please let me stay," she pleaded with a humility so new that he
+looked at her with curiosity.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Hush!" said his assistant making an excuse to draw him aside. "Don't
+you know she's been watching the men set out for the Fort?"
+</p>
+<p>
+Elizabeth found words of comfort for a soldier who was mourning because
+his wife would have no one to look after her, if he died. "I will help
+her," she said. And then, by the light of the flaring candle, she wrote
+down the woman's address. She repeated verses of Scripture for some who
+asked her for them, and found a little steadiness of voice in doing it.
+But through everything she saw Archdale's vigorous form and heard
+Edmonson's passionate voice and his words. With such a marksman, and at
+such range, how could a shot stray!
+</p>
+<p>
+But she dreaded still more the time when the expedition should return.
+To-night she bitterly regretted that the General had not been told her
+errand, and saw that when Mr. Royal urged it, it had been the wish to
+save her that had made Stephen Archdale ask him not to do it.
+</p>
+<p>
+Three hours after the start she heard that the expedition had failed.
+All that was left was returning, the wounded would soon be brought in.
+Her little strength deserted her for the moment She sank down helpless
+in the shadow. Then she rose and went forward.
+</p>
+<p>
+As the boat lay rocking on the waves waiting for the others, Archdale
+took his bearings. Leaning towards the stern, he said to one of his
+men:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"Greene will you change places with me?" If the man had thought the
+request more than a whim, he would have supposed it to be because the
+captain considered his new choice a more dangerous post. Archdale
+seating himself again glanced toward the bow. He was now on the same
+side with Edmonson and the fourth man from him. It would be somewhat
+difficult to have the latter's gun go off by accident and be sure of its
+mark, and Greene was safe so far as exemption from an enemy at hand was
+concerned. Archdale would have preferred Edmonson's left hand but when
+it came to disembarking, his enemy should precede him.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Better cushions?" asked Edmonson with a sneering laugh under which he
+tried to hide his anger. "Can't see any other motive for your running
+the risk of capsizing us."
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page461" name="page461"></a>[pg 461]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+"It is very presumptuous to do anything for which Captain Edmonson
+cannot see the motive," returned Archdale haughtily.
+</p>
+<p>
+"By Heavens!" cried Edmonson in another moment "You're bound to die in
+character if it come to a question of dying and of course it will with
+some of us."
+</p>
+<p>
+Stephen made no answer. He felt more strongly than ever that he needed
+good eyes and firm nerves. To be killed like a rat in a trap! His blood
+ran too warm in his veins to submit tamely to this. When the struggle
+should come yonder it mattered little whether it was by Edmonson's shot
+or another's, for if he fell in the heat of the conflict it would always
+be said that he died a soldier's death. And if he lived to come back
+Edmonson, should take boat first. He turned himself slightly toward his
+foe, and sat silent and observant.
+</p>
+<p>
+Had Elizabeth noticed them enter the boat together? He had thought of
+saying good-by, for his volunteering was no sudden resolve, but had been
+his determination from the first. But if he died, what real difference
+would that make to her? And if he came back, the leave taking would seem
+an absurdity. He seemed still to see the outline of her slender figure,
+as with her shawl wrapped about her like a mantle she had stood
+bare-headed in the cold May evening.
+</p>
+<p>
+Had he dreamed that Edmonson had learned of Katie's desertion, and was
+full of rage at every word of courtesy or interest that he spoke to
+Elizabeth, he would have felt his chance of life still less.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Can't you hitch along, you fellow next me?" cried Edmonson. "I'm so
+cramped here I can't move a muscle, and I suspect we shall want them all
+in good order pretty soon. We are coming up to the old walls. Swift and
+steady, boys. Every man be ready with his muskets."
+</p>
+<p>
+As he spoke, he took up his own weapon and examined it in the dimness.
+Then, still holding it in his right hand, he laid that arm along the
+edge of the boat as if to relieve it from the cramped position he had
+complained of. Archdale saw that the muzzle was pointed directly at him
+and that the hand which held it in apparent carelessness was working
+almost imperceptibly towards the trigger. That would not be touched
+quite yet, however, a shot now would alarm the garrison and be
+inexcusable. The accident would happen in the excitement of landing.
+Archdale's left hand that he with as great indifference as Edmonson's
+laid upon the boat's edge was steady. He leaned forward a little to be
+out of range, and they went on in silence.
+</p>
+<p>
+The clouds grew denser, the waves swelled more and more at the violence
+of the wind, and the storm, nearer every minute, seemed about to unite
+with the fiery storm that awaited the devoted band.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Look," said Archdale suddenly, "I believe they have discovered us." He
+raised his left hand as he spoke, and pointed to the Battery. Lights
+were glancing there, and something had given it an air of ponderous
+observation, as if eyes were looking through the walls and movements
+going on behind them. All the men scanned the battery earnestly except
+the speaker whose eyes were watchfully turned upon his neighbor, and who
+for reward saw Edmonson's fingers covertly placing themselves on the
+trigger, while his face was still toward the fortifications.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page462" name="page462"></a>[pg 462]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes, it's all up with us," cried the latter, "we are discovered,"
+In the movement of speech he was turning to Archdale, preparatory to
+dropping measuring eyes upon the musket, when the latter called out:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"See! they are going to fire." And with the words he dropped his left
+arm with a swift and accidental sweep by which his hand hitting forcibly
+against Edmonson's which was unprepared, struck it off the boat into the
+water. The pistol sent its ball spinning into the sea, running along
+Archdale's sleeve as it passed. The pistol itself lay under the water
+for the instant that Edmonson's hand rested there. The flintlock was
+wet, the weapon was useless.
+</p>
+<p>
+Its owner turned upon his clumsy companion in a rage. But before he
+could speak the guns of the battery blazed out, and in the iron shower
+that followed there was no thought for anything but that of saving
+themselves as much as possible.
+</p>
+<p>
+Round shot would have danced over the water and left them comparatively
+safe; but in the deadly hail of langrage such escape was impossible.
+Every moment of it inflicted torturing wounds or death. The boats were
+beeched with all speed at the foot of the monster which belched forth
+this red hot torrent wounding wherever it fell. But they had been thrown
+into confusion, and while some of them struggled to the shore, the
+occupants of others in their terror drew back out of harm's way, and
+left their comrades to their fate. Edmonson's was not the only flintlock
+wet, as the soldiers, weary and dispirited, toiled up from the surf.
+They tried their scaling ladders, they fought for a time with that
+desperate courage which never forsook them. Their captain cheered them
+with his bravest words and deeds, and Archdale and Edmonson were
+foremost in every post of danger until one fell badly wounded.
+</p>
+<p>
+But from the first the expedition was doomed. After an hour's conflict
+the recall was sounded, and the remnant of the scaling party straggled
+and staggered to their boats, some carrying wounded comrades, some
+themselves wounded and faint. But many had been taken prisoners by the
+French, and many lay dead and dying. Elizabeth stood waiting for the
+wounded to be brought in, and for the roll of the dead. The first man
+who came walking steadily toward her, turning about at every few steps
+to see that the men behind him were carrying their burden on their
+stretchers carefully, was Archdale.
+</p>
+<p>
+"You?" she said wonderingly. "I thought&mdash;I was afraid&mdash;."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes, I have come back," he answered; "and it is through your warning.
+Such as my life is, you have saved it."
+</p>
+<h4>
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+</h4>
+
+<a name="note-5"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>5</u> (<a href="#noteref-5">return</a>)<br />
+Copyright, 1884, by Frances C. Sparhawk.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page463" name="page463"></a>[pg 463]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0017" id="h2H_4_0017"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    EDITOR'S TABLE.
+</h2>
+<p>
+It is surprising how few people, comparatively speaking, are aware of
+the fact, that the history of Boston has been treated as the history of
+no other city in this country has been. The year 1880 was the two
+hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding, and, commemorative of
+that year, a work, in four beautiful quarto volumes, has been issued in
+this city by Messrs. Ticknor and Company. The object of this work, and
+the importance attached to it is what leads us to speak of it in this
+place and at this time. This object is primarily to present the leading
+historical phases of the town's and city's life and developement,
+together with the traces of previous occupation, and the natural history
+of the locality. To accomplish this almost herculean task, the sections
+were assigned to writers well-known in their respective spheres,&mdash;many
+of them of national reputation,&mdash;who from study and associations were
+in a measure identified with their subjects. The entire work was
+critically edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University,
+with the co-operation of a committee appointed at a meeting of the
+gentlemen interested, consisting of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
+D.D., Samuel A. Green, M.D. and Charles Deane, LL.D. Now, it is not
+our purpose to enter into any description of this carefully planned,
+skilfully written, beautifully illustrated, printed and bound specimen
+of the art of book-making; but rather, again to call attention to its
+great merits and claims upon the interested public. The work deals
+almost exclusively with facts, and impartially also, and these facts are
+alike valuable to the man of letters, the man of science, the historian,
+the student, and the vast public whose patriotism invites them to
+seek the story of their city. A better conceived work has never been
+published on this continent; but it is unnecessary to commend what
+easily commends itself to the eye, the mind, and the purse of well-to-do
+people.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+There is need of a more careful study of politics on the part of the
+people of this country. The recent elections in this State and in other
+States again recalls this need, and have again shown that altogether too
+many men cast their ballots, not in accordance with their intelligence
+or with their convictions, but as they are told to cast them. The first
+duty of an American citizen should be a thorough acquaintance with
+American political institutions, their origin, their growth and
+progress, their utility or their worthlessness. The right of suffrage is
+one of the inalienable rights of the people. It is one of their most
+sacred rights also, and ought not to be exercised except under most
+careful, candid and conscientious conditions.
+</p>
+<p>
+One cannot suppose, even for a moment, that our people are not aware of
+the accuracy of these assertions. We are not advocates of property
+ownership as a qualification of voting, nor would we seek to lay down
+any arbitrary <i>sine qua non</i>, to be rigidly adhered to in our
+system of voting. But, is it enough that a man should know how to read
+and write before he can cast a ballot? Do these qualifications comprise
+everything that is necessary to a proper and safe exercise of the right
+of suffrage? If so, then politics can never be formulated as a science,
+and politicians can never be regarded other than what many of them seem
+to be,&mdash;tricksters trading on the incredulity and ignorance of the
+masses. It is only when people understand <i>how</i> and <i>why</i> they
+vote, that they can vote intelligently.
+</p>
+<p>
+It may not be generally known that we have in this state, with allied
+organizations in other states, a Society for "Political Education,"
+carrying on its work by furnishing and circulating at a low price sound
+economic and political literature. Its aim is to publish at least four
+pamphlets a year on subjects of vital importance. During the present
+year, the "Standard Silver Dollar and the Coinage Law of 1878" has been
+treated by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, secretary of the society; "Civil
+Service Reform in Cities and States," by Edward M. Shepard; "What makes
+the Rate of Wages," by Edward Atkinson, and others have also been
+published,&mdash;in all sixteen pamphlets since the foundation of the
+Society.
+</p>
+<p>
+The first Secretary of the Society was Richard L. Dugdale, the author of
+the remarkable
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page464" name="page464"></a>[pg 464]</span>
+
+  social study called "The Jukes." The twelfth number of the Economic
+Tracts of the Society gives a sketch of his life, and from it the
+following quotation is pertinent:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"The education of the people in true politics, it seemed to Mr. Dugdale
+and his associates, would not only greatly aid popular judgment on
+political questions, but would be a necessary preliminary to the
+election of public representatives and officers upon real issues. If
+elections were so held, successful candidates would come generally to be
+men competent to consider and expert in dealing with questions of state
+and administration. And if legislators and executives were so competent
+and expert, and were not merely men accomplished in intrigue or active
+in party contests, we should have from them conscientious and
+intelligent social reforms. Legislative committees, governors, mayors,
+commissioners of charities and corrections, superintendents of prisons,
+reformatories, almshouses, and hospitals, would then patiently listen
+and intelligently act upon discussions and of the condition of the
+extremely poor and the vicious, and especially of children and young men
+and women not yet hopelessly hardened."
+</p>
+<p>
+Few persons will deny that such a work as this needs everywhere to be
+done so that the charities of the country shall no longer be
+administered in the interests of a party.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Society has been in active operation about four years, and its
+success has thus far been most gratifying. It has already induced
+hundreds of people to make a careful study of American history and
+politics, and its influence is now felt throughout the length and
+breadth of this land. The very fact of such an effort is one of the
+encouraging signs of the times, and should be encouraged by all who aim
+for the welfare of the Republic.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+But there is still another open field for work in this direction, and
+this perhaps lies more in the power of the people themselves. We allude
+to the necessity of public lectures, in every community, on the great
+themes pertaining to American politics and history. It must be evident
+to every observer that our so-called "Lyceum Courses" are to-day sadly
+deficient in efforts to educate the people. There is a perfect craze
+at the present time for concerts, readings, and a similar order of
+entertainments,&mdash;all of which are doubtless good enough of their kind
+and are capable of exerting a certain moral influence that cannot be
+questioned. But is it plausible that such pabulum meets all the needs of
+those people who frequent these entertainments? If it does, the fault
+lies with the people and not with those who are capable of amusing them.
+</p>
+<p>
+We would suggest to the public-spirited ladies and gentlemen living in
+our towns and cities to try the following experiment;&mdash;Plan a <i>lecture</i>
+course, to be filled by public speakers residing in your own
+communities. Establish a course of say four, six, eight, or a dozen
+evenings, and let only those questions be discussed which pertain to
+history, political economy, and politics. We venture the assertion that
+such a course, conducted thoroughly in an unpartisan spirit, would be
+well patronized, and would exert an influence for good. Never was there
+a better time to try the experiment than now.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+The death of <span class="sc">General George B. McClellan</span> at Newark, N.J.,
+October 29, reminds us how narrow is becoming the circle of living
+generals who took part in the great Civil War. It is two decades only
+since the struggle ceased; but, one by one, the famous leaders have
+passed away, and now McClellan has gone&mdash;the first to follow his great
+commander, Grant.
+</p>
+<p>
+It is not easy to comment upon the career of General McClellan without
+evoking, either from his admirers or his censors, the criticism of being
+unfair. To many, especially to the soldiers who fought under his
+leadership, he became an ideal of soldierly virtue, and has always held
+a warm place in their hearts; while to many others his military and
+civil career alike have seemed worthy only of disapprobation.
+</p>
+<p>
+It was natural that General McClellan should have a large and devoted
+following, for he was a man gifted with those personal qualities that
+always win popularity to their possessor, so that among the soldiers of
+the Army of the Potomac, and among those in civil life with whom he came
+in contact, he was usually regarded with admiration. As a military
+commander, it must be conceded by his most determined critics, even,
+that he possessed certain qualities unsurpassed by
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page465" name="page465"></a>[pg 465]</span>
+
+  those of any other general in the war. This was true of his ability as
+an organizer of volunteer troups, in which capacity he probably rendered
+more effectual service than any other man in the Union army. He was also
+well versed in the science of war, and was a strategist of a higher
+order than has generally been conceded. As is often the case, he failed
+to receive just recognition of his really great abilities, because he
+lacked the needed complementary qualities. McClellan could admirably
+plan a campaign, and could perhaps have carried it to a brilliant issue,
+had all the circumstances conformed to his plan, but this not happening,
+he seemed unable to adapt his plan to the circumstances. Other generals
+with inferior plans would succeed by taking some sudden advantage at a
+critical time; McClellan on the contrary must either carry out his
+carefully arranged programme, or acknowledge himself foiled.
+</p>
+<p>
+That General McClellan was not a firm patriot is an assertion not
+entitled to any weight whatever. He was devoted to the cause of the
+Union, and in his career as a general we believe he should be given the
+credit of performing his duty to the best of his ability. That he could
+not triumph over unexpected obstacles was doubtless a cause of regret to
+him more than to any one else.
+</p>
+<p>
+General McClellan has been accused of an undue ambition for political
+preferment, and it must be admitted that he would have succeeded better
+in those positions to which he attained, had he been less solicitous for
+the future; but it is not yet proved that he ever enlisted unworthy or
+dishonorable means in the cause of his personal advancement.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page466" name="page466"></a>[pg 466]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0018" id="h2H_4_0018"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    HISTORICAL RECORD.
+</h2>
+<p>
+September 30.&mdash;Republican State Convention held in Springfield. The
+following ticket was nominated: Governor, Geo. D. Robinson of Chicopee;
+Lieut. Governor, Oliver Ames of Easton; Secretary of State, Henry B.
+Pierce of Abington; Treasurer, A.W. Beard of Boston; Auditor, Chas. R.
+Ladd of Springfield; Attorney General, Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence.
+With the exception of the office of treasurer, the ticket is the same as
+that of last year.
+</p>
+<p>
+October 1.&mdash;The Converse Memorial library building was formerly
+presented to the city of Malden by its donor, Hon. Elisha S. Converse.
+Hon. John D. Long made the dedicatory address. The building cost
+$100,000, and is one of the finest examples of architecture in the
+state.
+</p>
+<p>
+October 7.&mdash;Democratic State Convention at Worcester. The following
+ticket was nominated: Governor, Frederick O. Prince of Boston;
+Lieutenant-Governor, H.H. Gilmore of Cambridge; Secretary of State,
+Jeremiah Crowley of Lowell; Attorney General, Henry K. Braley of Fall
+River; Treasurer, Henry M. Cross of Newburyport.
+</p>
+<p>
+October 8.&mdash;Eight monuments were unveiled upon the battle-field of
+Gettysburg by Massachusetts veterans. The regiments which have erected
+these monuments and the principal speakers upon the occasion, were as
+follows:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+The Twelfth Infantry. The monument is on Seminary Ridge. Col. Cook of
+Gloucester presided, George Kimball of Boston delivered the principal
+address, and comrade Gilman read a poem.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Eleventh Infantry dedicated its monument on the Emmittsburg Road,
+Capt. W.T. Monroe presided, and James H. Croft of Boston made the
+address.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Nineteenth Infantry monument on Cemetery Ridge was dedicated; J.W.
+Sawyer, presiding, Lieut. Geo. M. Barry and C.C. Coffin making
+addresses.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Third Battery has erected a monument. Formal exercises were not held
+here at this time, but the dedication was made with remarks by comrade
+Patch.
+</p>
+<p>
+The First Battery dedicated a monument in the National Cemetery. Remarks
+were made by G.H. Patch and H.I. Hall.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Eighteenth Infantry. The monument stands near the wheat field, and
+was dedicated with an address by Col. Wm. B. White of Quincy.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Second Sharpshooters. The monument is in the form of a statue and
+was dedicated. N.S. Sweet gave the address.
+</p>
+<p>
+The First Cavalry dedicated a monument near the Round Tops, Major Chas.
+G. Davis, delivered the address.
+</p>
+<p>
+October 13-16.&mdash;Seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions observed in Boston. The annual sermon
+was preached the 13th in Tremont Temple by Rev. Geo. Leon Walker D.D. of
+Hartford. A special discourse was delivered the 14th in the same hall by
+Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D. of Brooklyn. The attendance was the largest in
+the history of the Board, taxing the fullest capacity of Tremont Temple,
+Music Hall, and various churches simultaneously. Over 10,000 people were
+present on one evening and many were turned away. The Rev. Mark Hopkins,
+D.D. was re-elected president of the Board.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<a name="h2H_4_0019" id="h2H_4_0019"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    OBITUARY.
+</h2>
+<p>
+September 26.&mdash;<span class="sc">Hon. Waldo Colburne</span>, a Justice of the Supreme
+Judicial Court of Massachusetts, died at his home in Dedham, at the age
+of 60 years.
+</p>
+<p>
+Judge Colburn was born in Dedham, Nov. 13, 1824, and at 15 years of age
+he entered Phillips Academy at Andover, graduating therefrom in 1842 in
+the "English Department and
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page467" name="page467"></a>[pg 467]</span>
+
+  Teachers' Seminary," which at that time was entirely distinct from the
+classical course. In the following year he entered the classical
+department, where he remained until the summer of 1845, when he left the
+academy and for the two years following engaged in various pursuits,
+chiefly, however, civil engineering and surveying. On May 13, 1847, he
+entered the law office of Ira Cleveland, Esq., at Dedham, and on May 3,
+1850, was admitted to the Norfolk County Bar. In the meantime he had
+spent some time at the Harvard Law School, and soon took a leading
+position in Norfolk county, which he always maintained. On May 27, 1875,
+he was appointed one of the Judges of the Superior Court by Gov. Gaston,
+and on Nov. 10, 1882, Gov. Long selected him to fill a vacancy existing
+in the Supreme Court. Judge Colburn was a Democrat, and had filled
+several positions of trust and responsibility in his native town. In
+1853 and 1854 he represented Dedham in the Massachusetts House of
+Representatives, and as Chairman of the committee on Railroads earnestly
+opposed the loaning of the State's credit to the Hoosac Tunnel scheme.
+In 1870 he was a member of the Senate from the Second Norfolk District,
+and as a member of the Judiciary Committee drafted the well-known
+corporation act. He was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Dedham
+from 1855 to 1864, and during the war his services were important and
+valuable. He was President of the Dedham Institution for Savings and a
+director of the Dedham National Bank.
+</p>
+<p>
+Judge Colburn was naturally a man of robust constitution and excellent
+health, and, until his prostration shortly before his death, had never
+been obliged to neglect his official duties for a day on account of
+sickness.
+</p>
+<p>
+October 6.&mdash;Hon. Thomas Talbot, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts, died at
+this home in Billerica at the age of sixty-seven years. He was born at
+Cambridge, N.Y. Sept. 7, 1818, and subsequently removed with the family
+to Danby, Vt. After the death of the father, the family removed to
+Northampton, Mass. and Thomas at the age of thirteen began work in a
+woolen factory. In the winters of 1837 and 1838 he attended an academy
+at Cummington. Soon after, he joined his father in North Billerica, and
+the long manufactoring career of C.P. Talbot &amp; Co. was begun. The firm
+still continues in the manufacture of woolen flannels, employing between
+two and three hundred hands.
+</p>
+<p>
+Mr. Talbot's first public service of note was as Representative from
+Billerica in the Legislature of 1852, and he was a member of the
+Constitutional Convention the following year. He was elected a member of
+the Executive Council in 1864, and served five years in that honorable
+capacity in association with Governors Andrew, Bullock and Claflin. In
+1872 Mr. Talbot was elected by the Republicans as Lieutenant Governor
+upon the same ticket with Hon. William B. Washburn, who was elected as
+Governor. Re-elected with Governor Washburn in 1873, he became Acting
+Governor when, during the legislative session of 1874, Governor Washburn
+was elected as United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
+death of Hon. Charles Sumner. One of the first important acts of his
+official life after this event was the approval of the "Ten-Hour bill."
+</p>
+<p>
+In the same year Mr. Talbot received the Republican nomination for
+Governor but was defeated by Hon. William Gaston. In 1878 he again had
+the nomination, and was elected over Gen. Butler, Judge Abbott and A.A.
+Miner.
+</p>
+<p>
+He was presidential elector in 1876 and 1884, and was chairman of the
+State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity from its establishment in 1879
+to 1884.
+</p>
+<p>
+Mr. Talbot was strictly a temperance man and was a professed
+Prohibitionist.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page468" name="page468"></a>[pg 468]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_4_0020" id="h2H_4_0020"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    AMONG THE BOOKS.
+</h2>
+<p>
+The preparation of elaborately illustrated editions of standard poems
+especially for the holiday trade has become a very prominent feature of
+the book publishing business. Every year seems to mark an increased
+beauty and variety in the work which the artist contributes to these
+holiday books, and many classic works of literature are read with
+clearer meaning and vastly greater delight, by reason of the intelligent
+interpretations often given in the illustrations of our best artists of
+the day.
+</p>
+<p>
+Among the most tasteful as well as sumptuous art volumes of the last
+three years have been James R. Osgood &amp; Co.'s "The Lady of the Lake,"
+"The Princess," and "Marmion." For a similar book for this season,
+Messrs, Ticknor &amp; Co., the successors of the old firm, have taken as a
+subject Lord Byron's <i>Childe Harold</i>.<a href="#note-6" name="noteref-6"><small>6</small></a> Of the poem nothing need
+be said here, for it is universally accepted as Byron's greatest and
+best; but of the illustrations, pages of praise could easily be written.
+The poem itself has been a fertile theme for the artists, for the scene
+is made to shift from one to another of the most beautiful and romantic
+localities of the Rhine, of Spain, Italy and Greece, and most of the
+illustrations are true representations of castles, ruins, palaces and
+natural scenery in these ancient countries.
+</p>
+<p>
+All of the illustrations in the volume are from wood, in the production
+of which the most famous American artists and engravers have given their
+best work, all of it having been under the supervision of Mr A.V.S.
+Anthony.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+Scarcely a year has elapsed since the appearance of the first volume of
+Mr. <span class="sc">Blaine's</span> <i>Twenty Years in Congress</i>, which details the
+history of our time from the outbreak of Secession to the death of
+President Lincoln. To maintain the interest attached to that work, a
+second and concluding volume ought to have been published ere this.
+Indeed, the public had a right to expect it. But, now, another bid for
+public consideration and favor has been put forth under the rather
+attractive title of <i>Three Decades of Federal Legislation</i>.<a href="#note-7" name="noteref-7"><small>7</small></a> The
+author is the Hon. S.S. Cox of New York, at one time a formidable
+opponent of Mr. <span class="sc">Blaine</span> in the halls of Congress, and at the
+present time American minister to Turkey.
+</p>
+<p>
+Mr. <span class="sc">Cox</span> was a member of Congress for twenty-four years, his
+four terms from an Ohio district covering the war and the period
+immediately preceding it. As a politician, he was always ranked on the
+Democratic side, and was universally regarded as one of the closest,
+most competent and most conscientious observer of men and things. His
+acknowledged literary skill and his passion for accuracy rendered it
+almost certain that his history would be both fascinating and truthful.
+Contemporary history is at the present moment in high favor. All
+intelligent people realize that the records of the last fifty years are
+of more vital importance to living Americans than are the annals of all
+previous eras. Hence, when a man so thoroughly equipped with the gifts
+of mind and of expression as Mr. Cox has shown himself to be in earlier
+books from his pen,&mdash;we say when such a man sets out to relate the story
+of his time, it follows without further argument that his work will not
+only be sought but will be read.
+</p>
+<p>
+The narrative covers the eventful work of Congress for the past thirty
+years, and gives a much fuller inside view of Federal legislation during
+this period than can be obtained from Mr. <span class="sc">Blaine's</span> more pretentious
+work. No period in our national history is so full of interest as the
+times of which our author writes. The revolt from English rule and the
+establishment of our national government was one of the grandest epochs
+in history. In that period were determined the issue of national
+independence; in this epoch of even greater magnitude, the issue of
+national existence. Both periods alike witnessed the most terrible
+conflicts of armies, of bloodshed and suffering in both periods was
+shown the exercise of the
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page469" name="page469"></a>[pg 469]</span>
+
+  highest and most brilliant statesmanship; and in both periods the
+Federal Legislature was witness to events scarcely less exciting and
+decisive than occurred on hundreds of bloody battle-fields. The exciting
+period of Secession, the departure of Senators and Representatives from
+Congress, the proclamation of war, the call for troops, the great
+uprising of the people of all sections, North and South, against each
+other, the act of Emancipation, the sanguinary battles of, and the close
+of the war, the return of peace, the assassination of President Lincoln,
+the election of Grant, the Electoral Commission and the seating of
+Hayes, the resumption of specie payments and a host of other equally
+impressive episodes and events, find in Mr. Cox an impartial historian.
+Of the importance of such a work, there is no need of saying anything,
+and it is quite enough to remark that the book taken all in all, is
+perhaps the most important, because of its impartiality and accuracy,
+that has so far been published during the present year.
+</p>
+<p>
+We have alluded to the fact that the author was a prominent actor in
+nearly all the legislation of this long period, and that he consequently
+possesses that personal and absolute knowledge which comes from actual
+participation. The following extract which is taken at random from page
+117 of the volume discloses something of the author's happy faculty of
+seeing and describing things as they occurred to him. He says:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"Being upon the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of
+Representatives when the Trent affair occurred, the writer attended a
+dinner given by the Secretary at this then happy home. This was at a
+time when men held their breath in trepidation, lest Great Britain and
+the Powers of Europe might make the Trent matter the pretext to
+consummate their recognition of Southern independence. Some feared that
+a disparted Republic would have to give way before the jealous
+encroachments of those who sought to divide our country as they
+endeavored to imperialize Mexico.
+</p>
+<p>
+"The delightful interchanges of thought between the persons at that
+dinner are not so important as the fact that transpired toward its
+close. After the ceremonies of introduction, and the tenders of
+politeness to Mrs. Frederick W. Seward and Miss Olive Risley&mdash;the
+adopted daughter of the house&mdash;the guests who had been received by these
+ladies moved to the hospitable dining-hall. On the right of Mr. Seward
+was seated burly English heartiness incarnated in Mr. Anthony Trollope,
+the novelist. His presence was almost a surprise, if not a satire on the
+occasion, as it concluded. At the other end of the table sat John J.
+Crittenden. He was then chairman of Foreign Affairs in the House. The
+author was on his right, as he was nearer by sympathy to him than others
+on the committee. He used to say to the writer: 'My young friend, when I
+was of your age, I did all the work and the older members received the
+merit marks. You may do the work, sir, and I will take the credit.' With
+his grave humor and hearty confidence, he was wont to parcel out to the
+writer no inconsiderable quantity of the work of this most arduous of
+committees. Thus it happened that a bill for the relief of the owners of
+the Perthshire, seized by us, came to the hand of the writer for a
+report. The chairman was not a little astonished when he found that his
+subbordinate, on the 17th of December, 1861, was dilating on the Trent
+case, and quoting Robinson's Reports to justify the detention of the
+contraband plenipotentiaries, upon British precedents and conduct."
+</p>
+<p>
+From the foregoing selection, it will readily be seen that the author's
+style is strong, clear, rapid, and stimulating, his judgment sound and
+unprejudiced, and his materials authentic. His condition, experiences,
+and industry combine to throw new light on the events of the most
+remarkable epoch in natural history, and the volume, independent of Mr.
+Cox's reputation, is bound to be a success. It is at once the most
+picturesque and harmonious political history of our times that has thus
+far been written, and will, also, be generally looked upon as a solid
+and substantial contribution to American literature. We feel that we
+cannot commend it too highly.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+In the Century magazine, last spring, Gen. George B. McClellan undertook
+to present his explanation of the failure of the Army of the Potomac
+while under his command. In his article, he assaulted the memories of
+Lincoln and Stanton, and attempted much more than he accomplished,&mdash;at
+least, so thinks the <span class="sc">Hon. William D. Kelley</span>, who examines McClellan's
+statements in a book recently published. It bears the simple title,
+<i>Lincoln</i>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page470" name="page470"></a>[pg 470]</span>
+
+<i>and Stanton</i>.<a href="#note-8" name="noteref-8"><small>8</small></a> Of this volume, which for the first time makes
+many fresh disclosures, we hope to have something to say at another
+time.
+</p>
+<p>
+Senator <span class="sc">Sumner</span> was once asked by Lord Brougham the origin and
+meaning of "caucus," and he replied: "It is difficult to assign any
+elementary to the word, but the most approved one referred its origin to
+the very town, and about the time (1772), of his lordship's birth."
+There is a tradition in Boston that "caucus" was a common word here
+before the Revolutionary war broke out, and that it originated in a feud
+between the British troops on the one side and the rope-walkers and
+calkers on the other. Bloody collisions, it is said, occurred between
+them. The latter held meetings in the <i>calkers' hall</i> in the lower
+part of the city, at which resolutions were adopted and speeches made
+denouncing the soldiers, who, on their part deriding the wordy war
+offered, sneeringly snubbed their opponents "The Calkers," which by an
+easy corruption became "the caucus," and finally a term to denote the
+meetings.
+</p>
+<p>
+Whether this be the origin or not of the word, one thing is certain&mdash;Mr.
+George W. <span class="sc">Lawton</span> has done a most commendable thing in the
+publication of his little book on <i>The American Caucus System</i>.<a href="#note-9" name="noteref-9"><small>9</small></a>
+It is exceedingly useful, and the wonder is for us why some such work
+has not earlier issued from the press, for it meets the requirements of
+the multitudinous politicians and others who are never absent on "caucus
+nights." The author begins at the beginning of his theme, and shows how
+easily men, that is, mankind in general, choose to be controlled by
+political power, and to bear its burdens; he then establishes the axiom
+that the direction of political power is with the caucus, and goes on
+still further to explain what gives the caucus its authority, to compare
+caucus nominations with self-nominations, and then historically to trace
+the growth of the caucus, and, lastly, to describe the proceedings of,
+and how to conduct, a caucus meeting. From first to last, these pages
+are suggestive, timely, and embody a great deal of good sound sense.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+The late Mr. Walter Bagehot left behind him some materials for a book
+which promised to make a landmark in the history of economics, by
+separating the use of the older, or Ricardian, economic reasonings from
+their abuse, and freeing them from the discredit into which they had
+fallen through being often misapplied. Unfortunately he did not complete
+more than the examination of two of their postulates, namely, the
+transferability of capital and labor. These were originally published in
+the <i>Fortnightly Review</i>, in 1876, and are now republished, with
+some other materials for the author's proposed work, under the title of
+<i>The Postulates of English Political Economy</i>.<a href="#note-10" name="noteref-10"><small>10</small></a> These essays,
+which emanated from a well-trained, scientific mind, an independent
+thinker, and one who was perfectly free in his criticisms, deal almost
+exclusively with one side of what the author wished and intended to say;
+but as they stand, they prove that had he lived he would have shed much
+light on the problem, how the rapid changes of modern city life may help
+us to understand, by analogy and indirect inference, the slow changes of
+a backward people.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+The pathos and humor which have immortalized many of <span class="sc">Will
+Carleton's</span> earlier poems enter again into his <i>City
+Ballads</i>.<a href="#note-11" name="noteref-11"><small>11</small></a> If ever a poet comprehended the human heart and the
+mainspring of its responses, it is he who gave us that
+wonderfully-common-place (by reason only of its theme) but delightful
+versification, "Betsey and I are out." His new collection embraces
+several pieces almost as striking in their character; and their
+wholesomeness and truthfulness of sentiment will win for them many
+readers. None of these poems are fanciful pictures of life which does
+not exist; but they are, on the
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page471" name="page471"></a>[pg 471]</span>
+
+contrary, faithful to the actualities of the living present. They
+portray metropolitan life as in a mirror, and depict the mishaps of the
+inexperienced therein in a way that is at once healthful and conducive
+to practical morality. Every poem is a story, which carries within
+itself a lesson not easily forgotten, and as a poem is almost invariably
+characterized by a pleasant rhythm and animation. The illustrations&mdash;and
+they are numerous&mdash;are excellent; indeed, one would not wish them to be
+better. These poems and pictures will find entrance into many homes ere
+the holiday season is ended.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+One of the most astonishing successes, in a literary line, of recent
+years is Col. Higginson's "Young Folks' History of the United States."
+Published originally as a book for general readers, its superlative
+merits commended themselves to teachers, then led to the introduction of
+the work, as a text-book of history, into very many schools. No other
+work of the kind, we believe, has met with such signal favor or so
+richly deserves it. So far as it goes, it is by all odds the <i>ne plus
+ultra</i> for school use.
+</p>
+<p>
+The same author has recently published what he terms <i>A Larger History
+of the United States</i>,<a href="#note-12" name="noteref-12"><small>12</small></a> which, however, ends only with the close
+of President Jackson's administration. So far we fail to discover any
+<i>raison d'etre</i> of the volume, unless its purpose is distinctly to
+bring together in a re-arranged form the series of illustrated papers on
+American history contributed by Mr. Higginson to Harper's Magazine
+during the past two years. If such is the author's purpose, then we have
+no fault to find with the work. But the term "<i>Larger</i> History" is,
+in this case, a misnomer. The book does <i>not</i> contain as much
+matter as the earlier work to which we have alluded, and it is not, so
+far as we can make out, written for older readers. It does not strike
+one as being a history at all,&mdash;that is, a straightforward, logical, and
+continuous narrative coinciding with those exemplar types of historical
+writing bequeathed to us by Macaulay or by Motley. The book ends, as we
+have said, with the close of Jackson's administration; but we glean very
+little concerning the <i>administration</i> and we are told much
+relative to "Old Hickory."
+</p>
+<p>
+Now, then, this may seem like finding fault with Mr. Higginson's book.
+If so, we have plainly asserted our reasons. But with his subject
+matter, and with his manner of treating it, everybody must be pleased.
+We have never read more charmful essays on the First Americans, the
+Visit of the Vikings, the Spanish Discoverers, the French Voyageurs, the
+Dawning of Independence, and the Great Western March, than appear
+between the covers of this beautiful volume. They are full of meat, and
+have the savor of fresh and studious investigation, and we feel grateful
+to their author for having provided so tempting a feast. What he says
+and the way he says it make us the more to regret the unfortunate title
+of his book.
+</p>
+<p>
+The illustrations, which are numerous, are veritable works of art, and
+we do not believe that any other American book can exhibit a finer or
+more valuable series of portraits of American statesmen. This feature
+alone should commend it to lovers of fine books, of which the present
+issue is decidedly one. We are not informed whether a second volume is
+forthcoming.
+</p>
+
+<a name="note-6"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>6</u> (<a href="#noteref-6">return</a>)<br />
+Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romance. By Lord Byron.
+Boston: Ticknor &amp; Co. Price, in cloth, $6.00.
+</p>
+<a name="note-7"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>7</u> (<a href="#noteref-7">return</a>)<br />
+Three Decades of Federal Legislation, from 1855 to 1885. By
+the Hon. S.S. Cox, 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 726. Illustrated. Providence, R.I.;
+J.A. &amp; R.A. Reid, 1885. Price, $5.00, (sold only by subscription.)
+</p>
+<a name="note-8"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>8</u> (<a href="#noteref-8">return</a>)<br />
+<span class="sc">Lincoln and Stanton</span>. A study of the war
+administration of 1861 and 1862, with special consideration of some
+recent statements of Gen. George B. McClellan, By Wm. D. Kelley. 8vo,
+pp. 88. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Price, $1.00.
+</p>
+<a name="note-9"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>9</u> (<a href="#noteref-9">return</a>)<br />
+The American Caucus System; its origin, purpose, and
+utility. By George W. Lawton. 1 vol. pp. 107. New York: G.P. Putnam's
+Sons, 1885. Price, $1.00.
+</p>
+<a name="note-10"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>10</u> (<a href="#noteref-10">return</a>)<br />
+The Postulates of English Political Economy. By the late
+Walter Bagehot, with a preface by Alfred Marshall. 1 vol. pp. 114. New
+York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Price $1.00.
+</p>
+<a name="note-11"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>11</u> (<a href="#noteref-11">return</a>)<br />
+<span class="sc">City Ballads</span>. By Will Carleton, author of "Farm
+Ballads," "Farm Legends," etc. Illustrated. Square 8 vo, pp. 180. New
+York: Harper &amp; Brothers. Price $2.00.
+</p>
+<a name="note-12"><!--Note--></a>
+<p class="foot">
+<u>12</u> (<a href="#noteref-12">return</a>)<br />
+A Larger History of the United States of America to the
+close of President Jackson's administration. By Thomas Wentworth
+Higginson. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, Portraits, and other Engravings.
+1 vol. 8vo, pp. 470. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1886. Price, $3.00.
+</p>
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page472" name="page472"></a>[pg 472]</span>
+</p>
+<a name="h2H_NOTE" id="h2H_NOTE"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    NOTES AND QUERIES.
+</h2>
+<p>
+At the request of many of our readers, this new Department is initiated.
+Please address all queries and answers simply,&mdash;<span class="sc">Editor of the Bay State
+Monthly</span>, 43 Milk St., Boston.
+</p>
+<p>
+1.&mdash;In one of the old Readers, I find a selection, not credited to any
+author, and beginning as follows:&mdash;"Born, sir, in a land of liberty;
+having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict
+to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to
+secure its permanent establishment in my country, my anxious
+recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are
+irresistibly excited, whensoever in any country, I see an oppressed
+nation unfurl the banners of freedom." Will some one of your readers
+inform me who was the author of these words, and what was the occasion
+for their utterance?&mdash;W.T.D.
+</p>
+<p>
+2.&mdash;Sullivan, in his <i>Familiar Letters</i>, states (p. 26) that:
+"General Washington is well known to have expressed his heartfelt
+satisfaction that the important State of Massachusetts had acceded to
+the Union. There is much <i>secret history</i> as to the efforts made to
+procure the rejection (of the constitution) on the one side, and the
+adoption on the other." Where can I find the fullest account of this
+"secret history?"&mdash;STUDENT.
+</p>
+<p>
+3.&mdash;Who was the first American woman to publicly espouse the cause of
+Anti-Slavery? I have lately seen several names mentioned?&mdash;M.S.
+</p>
+<p>
+4.&mdash;"Where can I find the best account of the Know-Nothings, that
+figured in American politics some years ago?"
+</p>
+<p>
+5.&mdash;The late Epes Sargent, in one of his sketches, says:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"Semmes took a pinch of snuff, and replied,&mdash;'You remember <i>Mrs.
+Glasse's</i> well-known receipt for cooking a hare&mdash;First catch your
+hare!'"&mdash;<i>Who was Mrs Glasse?</i>&mdash;LATIN SCHOOL.
+</p>
+<p>
+6.&mdash;Where can I find a full account of the history of the Indian tribes
+of early Massachusetts? The various State Histories say but little about
+them.&mdash;ANTIQUARY.
+</p>
+<p>
+7.&mdash;Has the life of Robert Rantoul Jr. ever been written? If so, by
+whom?&mdash;H.A.D.
+</p>
+<p>
+8.&mdash;Most of our States have one capital; some have two&mdash;Providence and
+Newport, in Rhode Island for instance. Why two?
+</p>
+<p>
+9.&mdash;In Chandler Robbins' "History of the Second Church," under date of
+Oct. 7. 1762, occurs the following: "Voted that the singers sound the
+base at the end of the lines whenever they think proper." What is the
+explanation of this custom?
+</p>
+<p>
+10.&mdash;Bartlett does not give this: "To fleet the time carelessly, as they
+did in the golden world." Where is it to be found?&mdash;ELHEGOS.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<!-- ADS BEGIN HERE -->
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx1" name="pagexxx1"></a>[pg xxx1]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<p>
+"<b><i>Undoubtedly the most remarkable series of articles ever published
+in a magazine, and their popularity is in, accord with their
+merit</i></b>."&mdash;<span class="sc">Brooklyn Eagle</span>.
+</p>
+<p style="border: thin solid black; padding: 1em;">
+<i>Of the numbers of</i> <span class="sc">The Century</span> <i>from November, 1884 to April
+1885, six issues, more than a million and a quarter copies have already
+been published</i>.
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE WAR PAPERS</b>
+<br />IN
+<br />THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
+</h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:125px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/ad001.jpg"><img src="images/ad001.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+With the number for November, 1884, the first issue of a new volume,
+there began to appear in this magazine a series of separate papers, the
+object of which is to tell in clear and graphic manner the stories of
+the great battles of the War for the Union; the authors being leading
+officers on both the Federal and Confederate sides, often the first in
+command, and always a participant in the engagement under consideration.
+The extraordinary increase in the circulation of the magazine since
+these papers were begun, and the reception by the public and the press
+of the material already printed, indicate the wide-spread popular
+interest in the plan.
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE NOVEMBER CENTURY</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+contains the paper by General G.T. Beauregard, of the Confederate
+army, describing "The Battle of Bull Run," with more than twenty
+illustrations, including portraits of McDowell, Johnston, "Stonewall"
+Jackson, and others. General Beauregard not only describes the battle,
+but touches upon his relations with Mr. Jefferson Davis, and the general
+conduct of the war.
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE DECEMBER CENTURY</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+contains the graphic description of "The Capture of Fort Donelson," by
+General Lew Wallace, with portraits of Buckner, Floyd, Pillow, and
+others among the illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of General
+Grant, from a little-known photograph; also an autographic reproduction
+of General Grant's famous "Unconditional Surrender" letter, written to
+the Confederate commander at Fort Donelson.
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE JANUARY CENTURY</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+contains an illustrated article by Rear-Admiral Walke, describing the
+"Operations of the Western Flotilla," including engagements at Belmont,
+Fort Henry, Fort Pillow, Fort Donelson, Memphis, and Island No. 10.
+Captain James B. Eads (who built the gun-boats) contributes to the same
+number a paper on "Recollections of Foote and the Gun-boats."
+</p>
+<p>
+<i>New readers of</i> <span class="sc">The Century</span> <i>desiring to secure these three
+numbers, November, December, and January, and thus begin the War Series
+and Mr. Howells's new novel, "The Rise of Silas Lapham," can obtain them
+for $1.00 of the publishers (who will send them to any address,
+post-paid, on receipt of price), or of dealers everywhere. New editions
+will be printed as rapidly as the demand requires. November is now in
+its sixth edition.</i>
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE FEBRUARY CENTURY,</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+the Midwinter number, contains a remarkable list of attractions,
+including a richly illustrated paper on "Winter Sports in Canada," an
+illustrated story by Mark Twain, entitled "Royalty on the Mississippi,"
+etc., etc. In this issue appears
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE FIRST OF GENERAL GRANT'S ARTICLES</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+in the war series, being his long-looked-for paper on "The Battle of
+Shiloh." For reasons which he recounts in the opening of the article,
+general Grant never made to the Government the usual full report
+touching this engagement. The paper is a comprehensive treatment of his
+relations to the battle, including much of picturesque and personal
+interest concerning its progress and a discussion of the main points of
+controversy, together with his own estimates of the military character
+and services of certain of the leading officers in both the Union and
+Confederate sides.
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE CONFEDERATE SIDE AT "SHILOH"</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+will be described in this February number in two interesting articles,
+one by the son of the Confederate leader, General Albert Sidney
+Johnston, killed at Shiloh, and the other by Colonel Jordan, of general
+Beauregard's staff. These, with General Grant's article, are among the
+most notable contributions ever made to magazine literature. The
+illustrations are more than twenty-five in number.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx2" name="pagexxx2"></a>[pg xxx2]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>FURTHER PAPERS BY GENERAL GRANT.</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+In his second paper General Grant will cover an entire year of his
+service in the war, including the different campaigns against Vicksburg,
+and its capitulation. In his third paper he will deal with the battle of
+Chattanooga, including the strategy of the campaign from the time of his
+assumption of the command. A fourth paper, on the Wilderness campaign,
+will follow.
+</p>
+<p>
+While largely engaged with the main features of the campaigns described,
+General Grant has not failed to take note of significant and
+characteristic details. These papers will be illustrated with the same
+regard for thoroughness and accuracy which has characterized the
+illustrations of the articles in the war series already published.
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE "MONITOR" AND "MERRIMAC,"</b>
+<br />
+IN
+<br />
+<b>THE MARCH CENTURY.</b>
+</h2>
+<a name="image-0013"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:175px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/ad002.jpg"><img src="images/ad002.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+The story of this famous fight is described in the March <span class="sc">Century</span> by Col.
+John Taylor Wood, fourth officer of the "Merrimac" in the second day's
+fight, and now the senior surviving officer. Col. Wood was afterward
+commander of the privateer "Tallahassee." The Federal side of the battle
+is told by Commander S.D. Greene, U.S.N. (whose death has just
+occurred), who was the executive officer of the "Monitor," and operated
+the guns within the turret. General R.E. Colston, commander of the
+Confederate forces opposite Newport News, contributes an eyewitness's
+account of the same battle, describing, also, the "Merrimac's"
+engagement with the Federal fleet before the arrival of the "Monitor."
+A paper will soon appear on
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>"THE MONITOR," BY CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON,</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+making record of the circumstances attending the invention of that
+famous craft, and treating also of the engagement at Hampton Roads.
+Readers of the articles in the March number will be especially
+interested in the inventor's story.
+</p>
+<p>
+In the April <span class="sc">Century</span> will be printed two important papers on
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS,</b>
+<br />
+BY
+<br />
+<b>ADMIRAL PORTER AND GEORGE W. CABLE.</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+Admiral Porter, with whom, as he relates, the expedition against New
+Orleans originated, and who was in command of the mortar-fleet during
+the action, describes the Federal side of "The Opening of the Lower
+Mississippi"; while George W. Cable, the novelist, and at the time a
+resident of New Orleans, writes of the condition of the city and the
+circumstances attending its occupation. The illustrations will include a
+number of battle-scenes from sketches made by Admiral Porter.
+</p>
+<p>
+In the May and June numbers the papers in the War Series will be largely
+devoted to
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN</b>
+<br />
+BY
+<br />
+<b>GEN. G.B. McCLELLAN AND GEN. J.E. JOHNSTON.</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+General McClellan will contribute two papers, the first of a general
+nature on the Peninsular Campaign, and the second (to appear later) on
+the battle of Antietam, thus covering the period of his command of the
+Army of the Potomac. General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the
+entire Confederate forces opposed to McClellan in the Peninsular
+engagements until the battle of Seven Pines, when in consequence of a
+wound he was succeeded by General Lee, will cover, in his papers, the
+period from Manassas to Seven Pines, dealing with both battles, and with
+his relations and differences with the President of the Confederacy. The
+engagements at Gaines's Mill and Malvern Hill, in this campaign, will be
+described in papers by
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER AND GEN. D.H. HILL,</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+who were prominently engaged against each other in both actions. These
+will be well supplemented by the "Recollections of a Private."
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>OTHER WAR PAPERS</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+by Generals Longstreet, Pope, Gordon, Rosecrans, Buell, Hunt,
+Pleasonton, Newton, and other prominent leaders, will appear in later
+numbers.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx3" name="pagexxx3"></a>[pg xxx3]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SERIES</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+will receive the most careful attention, and in this particular it is
+thought that the series will possess an unequaled historical interest.
+<span class="sc">The Century</span> has at its disposal a very large quantity of maps and plans,
+portraits of general officers of both sides, authentic paintings and
+drawings, and especially photographs of camp scenes, battle-fields,
+famous localities, etc. A strict regard for accuracy will guide the
+preparation of the illustrations.
+</p>
+<p>
+In connection with this series is appearing a number of briefer
+sketches, entitled
+</p>
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>"RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE,"</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+reflecting with interesting and life-like details the experiences of the
+common soldier from the time of enlistment to the muster-out: the drill,
+the march, the bivouac, the skirmish, the charge, the pursuit, the
+retreat, etc., etc. Auxiliary branches of the service will also be
+treated in this supplementary way, and in several instances briefer
+supplementary papers will chronicle special incidents or consider
+special phases of an engagement. Personal reminiscences of several of
+the most prominent military leaders, now dead, will also give variety to
+the scheme.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<b>OTHER FEATURES OF "THE CENTURY"</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+include W.D. Howells's new novel of an American business man, "The Rise
+of Silas Lapham"; a novel, by Henry James, "The Bostonians," begun in
+the February number; a series of papers, by W.D. Howells, descriptive
+of some cities of Italy, illustrated with reproductions of etchings,
+by Joseph Pennell; a series of brilliantly illustrated articles on
+"The New Astronomy" (a paper in this series appears in the March number);
+articles on "The New North-west," on Architecture, History, French and
+American Art, etc., etc., and short stories by the best writers&mdash;many of
+them to be illustrated. The War Series will not be allowed to interfere
+in any way with the general features of the magazine.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<b>SUBSCRIPTIONS</b> may begin at any time, but in order to get the
+first chapters of Mr. W.D. Howells's novel, "The Rise of Silas Lapham,"
+and to commence the War Series, new subscribers should date from the
+November number. The subscription price of <span class="sc">The Century</span> is $4.00 a year,
+and single numbers can be purchased of book-sellers and news-dealers
+everywhere at 35 cents each. All dealers receive subscriptions, or
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+<a href="images/ad003.jpg"><img src="images/ad003.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="FROM 'RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.'" /></a>
+<br />
+FROM 'RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.'
+</div>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">The Century</span> <i>is beyond question the first among magazines in the
+English language. The people of the South owe it especial thanks not
+only for the fairness of its spirit toward this section, but because it
+opened its pages to many of our best writers and made them known to the
+world.</i>&mdash;THE APPEAL, MEMPHIS, TENN.
+</p>
+<p>
+<i>The time has now come when this portion of our national history can
+be discussed by the actors in it, whether they wore the blue or the
+gray, and different versions can be judged without
+partiality.</i>&mdash;ARGUS, ALBANY, N.Y.
+</p>
+<p>
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+notable historic contribution of the day.</i>&mdash;CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA,
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+coming year.</i>&mdash;COURIER-GAZETTE, ROCKLAND, MAINE.
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+struggle</i>, <span class="sc">The Century</span> <i>did the best piece of journalistic work
+that has been done in this country for many a year.</i>&mdash;THE CHRISTIAN
+UNION, N.Y.
+</p>
+<p>
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+will never lose its interest to the students of history. These articles
+cannot fail to be of great interest to all careful readers both North
+and South.</i>&mdash;PRESS, PARAGOULD, ARK.
+</p>
+<p>
+<i>A series of important papers, the like of which has never before been
+attempted, and which possess the peculiar quality of interesting every
+person in the land.</i>&mdash;THE BEACON, BOSTON, MASS.
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+making hearts happier, lives better, and homes brighter the world
+over.</i>&mdash;THE LITERARY WORLD, BOSTON, MASS.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx4" name="pagexxx4"></a>[pg xxx4]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<p>
+<b><i>The Century Co. are among the benefactors of the human race. It is
+not too much to say that while "The Century" stands at the head of
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+publication for boys and girls the present generation has
+seen.</i></b>&mdash;THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, ENGLAND.
+</p>
+<h1>
+"Driven Back to Eden,"
+</h1>
+
+<a name="image-0015"><!--IMG--></a>
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+</div>
+
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+</p>
+
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
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+<li style="margin-left:2em;">    "Children of the Cold," a series by Lieut. Fred'k Schwatka,</li>
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+</ul>
+
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+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx5" name="pagexxx5"></a>[pg xxx5]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/510a.jpg"><img src="images/510a.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="COLUMBIA BICYCLES and TRICYCLES" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>  COLUMBIA BICYCLES and TRICYCLES:<br />
+  FOR ROAD USE;
+</h2>
+<center>
+  STANCH AND RELIABLE<br />
+  THE POPULAR STEEDS FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE<br />
+  FINEST MATERIALS, SKILLFUL WORKMANSHIP<br />
+  STRONG, GRACEFUL&mdash;EVERY PART INTERCHANGEABLE
+</center><center>
+  SEND 3 CENT STAMP FOR ILLUSTRATED 36 PAGE CATALOGUE<br />
+  THE POPE MFG. CO.<br />
+  597 Washington St. Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+<p>
+  &quot;If I could not get another bicycle I would not give mine for its weight
+  in solid gold. For fifteen years I lost from three to eight days every
+  month with stubborn sick headache. Since I have been riding the bicycle
+  I have lost only two days from that cause, and I haven't spent a dollar
+  for a doctor.&quot;
+  REV. GEO. F. PENTECOST"
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/507.jpg"><img src="images/507.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="ECONOMIST SUMMER COOK STOVE" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2> ECONOMIST SUMMER COOK STOVE </h2>
+<center>
+  IS SAFE, ODORLESS, CLEANER,<br />
+  EASIER TO CONTROL,<br />
+  GIVES LESS HEAT IN ROOM,<br />
+  &amp; IS CHEAPER TO RUN THAN ANY<br />
+  OIL, GAS, OR GASOLINE STOVE MADE.<br />
+  <span style="font-size:150%;">BURNS COAL, WOOD, OR COKE.</span>
+</center><center>
+  SEND FOR CIRCULARS.<br />
+  MADE ONLY BY HOBBS, GORDON &amp; CO. CONCORD, N.H.<br />
+  Price $16.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<table border="0" width="100%" align="center" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="35%">
+<h2>BOSTON</h2>
+
+<h3>BRIDGE WORKS,</h3>
+
+<h4><i>D.H. ANDREWS, Engineer.</i></h4>
+<p class="center">
+Builders of Wrought Iron Bridges and Roofs.
+</p><p class="center">
+Office: <b>13 PEMBERTON SQ., BOSTON.</b>
+</p><p class="center">
+Works: Cambridgeport, Mass.
+</p>
+
+</td><td valign="top" width="65%">
+
+<h3>
+  OWNERS OF HORSES
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Will find it to their advantage to use
+<br />
+  <b>Marden's Worm Destroyer.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  This medicine not only rids the horse of Worms and Bots, but also acts
+  as a Tonic and Blood Purifyer, improving the condition, and giving the
+  animal a shining coat.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>Price, $1.00 a Box.</b>
+</center>
+<center>
+  <i>W.P. UNDERHILL &amp; CO.,</i><br />
+  No. 132 No. Main St.,&mdash;CONCORD, N.H.<br />
+  Wholesale agents for the United States.
+</center>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h3>
+  <i>E.H. ROLLINS &amp; SON</i>,
+<br />
+  CONCORD, N.H., OFFER
+<br />
+  <i>REGISTERED</i>
+<br />
+  <b>10 Per Cent. County Warrants</b>
+<br />
+  <b>IN SUMS FROM $100 TO $500.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">Municipal Bonds</span>, School, Water, Funding and Public Building, paying
+  <b>6</b>, <b>7</b> and <b>8</b> per cent.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">Farm Mortgages</span> upon farms in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Dakota
+  paying <b>8</b> per cent. Our Company will guarantee any of these loans
+  at <b>7</b> per cent.
+</p>
+<p>
+  We have now on hand some conservative County Bonds in sums of
+  <b>$100</b> and <b>$500</b>, which would make a good investment for
+  those desiring to invest a small sum.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "All our securities are taken and examined by members of our house in
+  the west. Principal and interest of all we sell payable at our office.
+  If desired one of our firm will visit you."
+</p>
+<p>
+  All questions promptly answered and papers sent for inspection.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>SEND FOR CIRCULAR</i>
+<br />
+  <b>7 BAILEY'S BLOCK, CONCORD, N.H.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  FEBRUARY 17, 1875.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx6" name="pagexxx6"></a>[pg xxx6]</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<center>
+  <i>INCORPORATED 1830.</i>
+<br />
+  <b>New Hampshire Savings Bank,</b>
+<br />
+  IN CONCORD.
+</center>
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="Assets">
+<tr><td>    Deposits      </td><td align="right">$360,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    Guaranty Fund </td><td align="right"> 125,000 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>    Surplus       </td><td align="right"> 100,000 </td></tr>
+</table>
+<p><span class="sc">Samuel S. Kimball</span>, Pres't. <span class="sc">W.P. Fiske</span>, Treas.</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>FOR SALE.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  A complete set of the <i>Granite Monthly</i>. Seven volumes, bound in
+  cloth; price $18.00.
+</p>
+<center>
+  JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,<br />
+  31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>First National Bank,</b>
+<br />
+CONCORD, N.H.
+<br />
+United States Depository. Transacts a General Banking Business.
+<br />
+<i>CAPITAL, $150,000. SURPLUS, $120,000.</i>
+<br />
+<span class="sc">Wm. F. Thayer</span>, Pres't. <span class="sc">C. G. Remick</span>, Act'g Cash'r.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>H.C. BAILEY,</b>
+<br />
+PHOTOGRAPHER
+<br />
+DEPOT STREET, CONCORD, N.H.,
+<br />
+<b>Cards, Cabinets and Imperials,</b>
+<br />
+made by the new instantaneous process exclusively. Permanent
+engagement of a first-class operator. Every picture warranted.
+Connected by telephone.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<p>
+<b>HELP</b> for working people. Send 10 cents postage, and we will mail
+  you <i>free</i>, a royal, valuable sample box of goods that will put you
+  in the way of making more money in a few day than you ever thought
+  possible at any business. Capital not required. You can live at home and
+  work in spare time only, or all the time. All of both sexes, of all
+  ages, grandly successful. 50 cents to $5 easily earned every evening.
+  That all who want work may test the business, we make this unparalleled
+  offer: To all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the
+  trouble of writing us. Full particulars, directions, etc., sent free.
+  Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay.
+  Address <span class="sc">Stinson &amp; Co.</span>, Portland, Me.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>WOODWORTH, DOW &amp; CO.,</b>
+<br />
+ <i>MANUFACTURERS OF MEAL</i>
+<br />
+and Wholesale Dealers in
+<br />
+<b>Flour, Groceries, Lime &amp; Cement,</b>
+<br />
+<b>Concord, N.H.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center><b>FOR SALE.</b></center>
+<p class="center">Volumes 1 and 2 of BAY STATE MONTHLY bound in cloth. Price, $2.00 each.</p>
+<center>
+JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,
+<br />
+31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>EDEN MUSEE,</b> 55 WEST 23D ST.
+<br />
+  NEW YORK.
+<br />
+OPEN FROM 11 TO 11. SUNDAYS 1 TO 11.
+<br />
+Lifelike Tableaux in Wax, Stereoscopes, Concerts.
+<br />
+  NEW ATTRACTIONS CONSTANTLY ADDED.
+<br />
+  MORLEY'S FATA MORGANA.
+<br />
+  Concerts Afternoon and Evening.
+<br />
+  Admission to all, 50 cents. Children, 25 cents.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<p><b>$200,000</b> <i>in presents given away.</i> Send us 5 cents postage,
+  and by mail you will get <i>free</i> a package of goods of large value,
+  that will start you in work that will at once bring you in money faster
+  than anything else in America. All about the $200,000 in presents with
+  each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all
+  the time, or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes.
+  Fortunes for all workers absolutely assured. Don't delay. <span class="sc">H.
+  Hallett &amp; Co.</span>, Portland, Maine.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<p>
+<b>WANTED.</b> New England Town Histories in exchange for volumes I and II
+  of the "<span class="sc">Bay State Monthly</span>."
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>National State Capital Bank,</b>
+<br />
+  <i>CONCORD, N.H.</i>
+<br />
+  <i>Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $75,000.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Collections made on liberal terms. Investment Securities bought and
+  sold. Safe Deposit Boxes for rent.
+</p>
+<center>
+<span class="sc">L. Downing, Jr.</span>, Pres't. <span class="sc">J.E. Fernald</span>, Cashier.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<p>
+<b>A Prize.</b> Send six cents for postage, and receive free, a costly
+  box of goods which will help you to more money right away than anything
+  else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The
+  broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once
+  address, <span class="sc">True &amp; Co.</span>, Augusta, Maine.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>Loan and Trust Savings Bank,</b>
+<br />
+  <i>CONCORD, N.H.</i>
+<br />
+  <span class="sc">J.E. SARGENT</span>, President. <span class="sc">Geo. A. Fernald</span>, Treasurer.
+<br />
+  <span class="sc">Chartered 1872.</span>
+<br />
+  <i>Resources March 1, 1885, $1,687,203.95</i>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center><b>FOR SALE.</b></center>
+
+<p>A few volumes 5, 6, and 7 of <i>Granite Monthly</i> (a New Hampshire
+  magazine). Bound in Cloth. Price $2.00 each. Early volumes out of print.
+</p>
+<center>
+JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,
+<br />
+  31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>The Gillette Portrait Copying Co.,</b>
+<br />
+  (Formerly Boston, Mass.)
+<br />
+  <b>ARTISTIC PORTRAITS,</b>
+</center>
+<p>  In Water Colors. Crayon, India Ink, Pastelle, Croetalevis, and Oil
+  Colors, from small likenesses of every description. Superior inducements
+  to soliciting agents.
+</p>
+<center><i>CONCORD, N.H.</i></center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<b>"BREAD PILLS: A Study of Mind-Cure."</b>
+</center>
+<p>  Thousands of intelligent people throughout the country are anxious to
+  know what "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" or modern "MIND-CURE" teachers, and how
+  the healing is done.
+</p>
+<center>
+<b>Bread Pills: a Study of Mind-Cure,</b>
+<br />
+  BY C.M. BARROWS,
+</center>
+<p>  Answers these questions satisfactorily, and gives just the information
+  which the public demands.
+</p>
+<center>
+<b>THE BOOK OF THE SEASON.</b>
+<br />
+Do not fail to read
+<br />
+  BREAD PILLS.
+<br />
+For sale by all newsdealers,
+<br />
+  PRICE, 35 CENTS.
+</center>
+<p>  Mailed to any address on receipt of 35 cents by <span class="sc">Mutual News
+  Co.</span>, Boston, Agents.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<p>  <b>WIN</b> more money than at anything else by taking an agency for the
+  best selling book out. Beginners succeed grandly. None fail. Terms free.
+  <span class="sc">Hallett Book Co.</span>, Portland, Maine.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx7" name="pagexxx7"></a>[pg xxx7]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2><b>BOSTON TRAVELLER.</b></h2>
+<h3>
+  THE BEST FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
+<br />
+  AND
+<br />
+  <i>The Best Advertising Medium in New England.</i>
+</h3>
+<h4 style="padding:0;margin:0;">  BOSTON EVENING TRAVELLER,</h4><center>Five Editions Daily.</center>
+<h4 style="padding:0;margin:0;">  BOSTON TRAVELLER,</h4><center> (Semi-Weekly), Tuesdays and Thursdays.</center>
+<h4 style="padding:0;margin:0;">  AMERICAN TRAVELLER,</h4><center> Thursdays.</center>
+
+<center>
+  Daily, $9 Per Annum. Semi-Weekly, $3 Per Annum. Weekly, $1.50 Per Annum.
+<br />
+  <span style="font-size:170%;">&#9758; SAMPLE COPIES FREE.</span>
+</center>
+<p>
+  The Evening Traveller is delivered by carriers in Boston and Suburbs for
+  75 cents a month. Send orders to
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>R. WORTHINGTON &amp; CO., Publishers</i>, <span class="sc">Boston, Mass.</span>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>STONINGTON LINE.</b>
+<br />
+  INSIDE ROUTE TO NEW YORK, CONNECTING WITH
+<br />
+  Philadelphia, Baltimore, &amp; Washington,
+<br />
+  AND ALL POINTS
+<br />
+  <b>SOUTH AND WEST,</b>
+<br />
+  Avoiding Point Judith.
+<br />
+  Via Providence and Stonington, connecting with the elegant Steamers
+<br />
+  <b>Stonington and Narraganset.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Express trains leave Boston &amp; Providence Railway Station, Columbus
+  Avenue and Park Square,
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>DAILY AT 6.30 P.M. (Sundays Excepted.)</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Connect at Stonington with the above named Steamers in time for an early
+  supper, and arrive in New York the following morning in time for the
+  <i>early trains South and West.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AHEAD OF ALL OTHER LINES.</b>
+<br />
+  Tickets, Staterooms, etc., secured at
+<br />
+  <b>214 Washington Street, corner of State,</b>
+<br />
+  AND AT
+<br />
+  <b>BOSTON &amp; PROVIDENCE RAILROAD STATION.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Regular landing in New York, Pier 33, North River Steamer leaves the
+  Pier at 4:30 P.M., arriving in Boston the following morning in ample
+  time to connect with all the early Northern and Eastern trains.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">A.A. Folsom</span>, Superintendent B. &amp; P.R.R.<br />
+    <span class="sc">F.W. Popple</span>, General Passenger Agent.<br />
+      <span class="sc">J.W. Richardson</span>, Agent, Boston.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  COOLIDGE HOUSE,
+<br />
+  BOWDOIN SQUARE, BOSTON.
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  The Coolidge is a centrally-located, thoroughly quiet and comfortable
+  Family Hotel, with rooms arranged in suites, consisting of Parlor,
+  Bedroom, and Bath; having an elevator, and combining all the luxuries
+  and conveniences of the larger hotels, with the quietness and retirement
+  of a private house; affording <i>most excellent accommodations at
+  moderate charges.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>COOLIDGE CAFE,</b>
+<br />
+  <b>EXCLUSIVELY FOR GENTLEMEN.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Fitted up with the most complete and approved system of Broilers now in
+  use, after the style of Spiers &amp; Pond's Celebrated London Chop-Houses,
+  and those so desiring, can select a steak or chop and see the same
+  cooked on "The Silver Grill."
+</p>
+<center>
+  A Perfect Restaurant in Every Respect.
+<br />
+  <i>The Best Material, Cooking, and Service.</i>
+<br />
+  <b>I.N. ANDREWS &amp; CO.</b>
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx8" name="pagexxx8"></a>[pg xxx8]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>  BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG </h2>
+
+<a name="image-xxx8"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/ad005.jpg"><img src="images/ad005.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<center>
+  Residents of, and visitors to Boston, should not miss seeing the
+  wonderful
+<br />
+  CYCLORAMA BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
+<br />
+  now on exhibition at
+<br />
+  NO. 541 TREMONT STREET.
+</center>
+<p>
+  The building is large and substantial, built of brick and iron, and is
+  fire-proof. It is circular in shape and is ornamented by turreted walls
+  and towers, constructed after the manner of the old feudal castles.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The vestibule, parlors and offices at the entrance are decorated and
+  furnished in good style and all the appointments and accessories are in
+  keeping.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The spectator passes through a narrow passage and up a winding stairway
+  to a circular platform in the centre of the structure, whence the
+  picture is seen. No words can adequately describe the wonderful effects
+  of this life-like portrayal of the great battle. It tells in the most
+  vivid manner possible the whole story of that dreadful afternoon <i>July
+  3, 1863.</i> All around him are evidences of the terrible battle. Behind
+  fences, stone walls and trees, in trenches and in open fields are seen
+  soldiers of the blue and gray engaged in the awful struggle.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The officers who were in command on that day are easily distinguished on
+  the canvas. Old soldiers who have seen the painting pronounce it as
+  accurate as if photographed on the field.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Passing down another winding stairway we find ourselves in front of
+  another painting called the
+</p>
+<h3>
+  UPRISING OF THE NORTH,
+</h3>
+<p>
+  representing the northern troops passing through Washington on their way
+  to the front, reviewed by President Lincoln, who stands on a marble
+  rostrum, surrounded by his associates in office, while the war governor,
+  John A. Andrew, superintends, the breaking of the fetters from the
+  slaves and arming them for the country's service. Near by are seen the
+  troops from New England, led by General B.F. Butler, while on all sides
+  mothers, sisters and friends are seen wishing them God speed.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Both of these paintings are the work of the celebrated French artist, M.
+  Paul Philippoteaux, whose work every visitor to Paris has seen and will
+  remember.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx9" name="pagexxx9"></a>[pg xxx9]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>
+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+<br />
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <span class="sc">By Col. Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.</span>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Cloth, $6. Sheep, $7.50. Half Calf (various styles) or Half Mor., $9
+  Half Russia or Full Mor., $12.
+</center>
+<center>
+  <b>A.S. Barnes &amp; Co., Publishers, New York and Chicago. Author's
+  address, 32 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.</b>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
+  VOLUME:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.&mdash;<i>Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.&mdash;<i>Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.&mdash;<i>Henry Day, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.&mdash;<i>Geo.
+  Bancroft</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
+  and thoughtful perusal of this work.&mdash;<i>Benson J. Lossing</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The maps are just splendid.&mdash;<i>Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The book is invaluable and should be in every library.&mdash;<i>Wm. L. Stone,
+  N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Of permanent standard authority.&mdash;<i>Gen. De Peister, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Indicates such profound erudition and ability in the discussion as
+  leaves nothing to be desired.&mdash;<i>Sen. Oscar de La Fayette, Paris</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  I have read the volume with pleasure and profit.&mdash;<i>Z. Chandler</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The volume is superb and will give the author enduring fame.&mdash;<i>B.
+  Gratz Brown, St. Louis</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It should have a place in every gentleman's library, and is just the
+  book which young men of Great Britain and America should know by
+  heart.&mdash;<i>London Telegraph</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which
+  the century has produced.&mdash;<i>Army and Navy Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague
+  period of military history.&mdash;<i>Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff
+  College, England</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.&mdash;<i>Lord Derby, late Brit.
+  Sec. of State</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.&mdash;<i>A. de
+  Rochambeau, Paris</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.&mdash;<i>Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.&mdash;<i>Harper's
+  Magazine</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.&mdash;<i>The Nation</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
+  treasures.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.&mdash;<i>Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.&mdash;<i>Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Published by <b>A.S. BARNES &amp; CO., 111 &amp; 113 William Street, New York</b>.
+</center>
+<p>
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
+  well as for its fitness as a companion to all Histories of the United
+  States, with confidence that it will prove a valuable specialty to all.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The <span class="sc">Red</span> Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
+  the convenience of Teachers and Scholars.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The &para; and Page references to various School Histories, which mention the
+  Battles make it available for use by Teachers throughout the United
+  States.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The volume contains the 41 maps which were the result of thirty years of
+  study, and are found in his standard volume, "Battles of the American
+  Revolution."
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">The Secretary of War</span> has placed the "<span class="sc">Battle Maps and Charts</span>" at <span class="sc">Army
+  Post Schools</span>, at government expense.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">Five Steel Engravings of Washington</span> accompany the volume. The <span class="sc">St. Memin</span>
+  (crayon) as frontispiece, engraved by Hall &amp; Sons; also <span class="sc">Peale's</span> painting
+  (1772), <span class="sc">Houdon's</span> bust (1784). <span class="sc">Trumbull's</span> painting (1792) and <span class="sc">Stuart's</span>
+  painting (1796) are furnished, in steel.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Price, $1.25. Sent, post-paid, to School Superintendents and Teachers,
+  for introduction, upon receipt of $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Liberal terms made with Schools, Military and Civil, Army Officers and
+  Posts, State Militia, and the Trade.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  NOTICES.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Invaluable to the student of American History.&mdash;<i>Baltimore (Md.)
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Deserves a welcome in every school district, as well as in every
+  historical library in the land.&mdash;<i>Army and Navy Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  In our opinion, General Carrington's work is an authority, showing great
+  labor and careful study, and it should become a national text-book, and
+  find a place in all public and private libraries.&mdash;<i>Indianapolis
+  (Ind.) Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Each map is accompanied with a statement of the generals and number of
+  men engaged on both sides, to which is appended the reason for such
+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
+  authority in military matters.&mdash;<i>The Educator (New Haven, Ct.)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A valuable compilation from the author's large work, and cannot fail to
+  make a more lasting impression upon the reader's mind than could be
+  derived from the perusal of many volumes of history.&mdash;<i>N.Y.
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
+  original system, so as to present a singularly clear view of the history
+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
+  losses on each side, and the incidents of the battle.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Evening
+  Post</i>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx10" name="pagexxx10"></a>[pg xxx10]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h2>
+  PHOTO-ELECTROTYPE
+</h2>
+<center>
+  Is the name of a new process of
+</center>
+<h3>
+  <b><i>ENGRAVING BY PHOTOGRAPHY</i></b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <b>at less than</b>
+</center>
+<h4>
+  ONE-HALF THE COST OF WOOD ENGRAVING!
+</h4>
+<p>
+  The plates are equal to the finest wood cuts, and in point of depth,
+  superior. We furnish an electrotype all ready for the printer's use.
+</p>
+<p>
+  We can do every description of work, Machinery, Furniture, Buildings,
+  Autograph Letters, Illustrations for Trade Catalogues, etc.
+</p>
+<p>
+  For specimen sheet of our work and further particulars address
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>PHOTO-ELECTROTYPE CO.,</b>
+<br />
+  <b>63 OLIVER STREET, BOSTON.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <b><i>ANTIQUE</i></b>
+<br />
+  <b>Views of Ye Town of Boston.</b>
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  BY JAMES H. STARK.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  This is the title of one of the most valuable contributions to the
+  HISTORY of BOSTON that has been made in many years. It embraces a series
+  of upwards of ONE HUNDRED VIEWS of OLD BOSTON, that have been gathered
+  from private and public collections, and most faithfully reproduced by
+  the Photo-Electrotype Engraving Company's process of Boston.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Book is handsomely BOUND IN CLOTH. On the front cover is a view of
+  the Old State House, embossed in gold; on the back cover is a veneer
+  made from the Old Elm, on which is printed a view of the old tree, and
+  an autograph letter from Mayor Cobb (who was mayor of Boston at the time
+  of the destruction of the tree), certifying to its authenticity. It is a
+  book of 400 pages, imperial octavo, and a limited number is offered at
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>$6.00 PER COPY.</b>
+<br />
+  ADDRESS PHOTO-ELECTROTYPE CO., ... 63 OLIVER STREET, BOSTON.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <span class="sc">Stark's Illustrated</span>
+<br />
+  <b>BERMUDA GUIDE.</b>
+</h2>
+<p>
+  The Bermuda Islands are coming more prominently before the public each
+  season, as a health resort and winter watering place. Although it is but
+  sixty-five hours' sail from New York to these coral islands, yet they
+  are strangely unfamiliar to most well informed Americans. Speaking our
+  own language, having the same origin, with manners and customs prevalent
+  in New England a century ago, it is only now that these islands and
+  their inhabitants have attracted much attention and led the public to
+  inquire concerning them.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It is to satisfy this demand and also to bring to the notice of those
+  unacquainted with the beauties of these semi-tropical islands that the
+  writer has been led to issue this work, which is the first illustrated
+  guide-book and history of Burmuda yet published. The book contains two
+  hundred pages, and is embellished with sixteen photo-mechanical prints
+  made by a new process from negatives (taken by the author during the
+  past winter) of the finest scenery in Bermuda. This is a new feature in
+  the matter of book illustrations, and it makes the work both
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>BOUND IN CLOTH, PRICE $2.00, POST-PAID</i>
+<br />
+  ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO
+</center>
+<center>
+  <b>PHOTO-ELECTROTYPE COMPANY,</b>
+  <i>No. 63 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass.</i>
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx11" name="pagexxx11"></a>[pg xxx11]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h2>
+  <b>THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.</b>
+</h2>
+<center>
+  Volume I.&mdash;1884. Bound in cloth, royal 8vo.,
+<br />
+  420 pages. Price, $2.00.
+<br />
+  <b>WITH</b>
+<br />
+  6 PORTRAITS ON STEEL, 10 MAPS, AND 107 ILLUSTRATIONS.
+</center>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  <b>PRESS NOTICES.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  "A creditable addition to Massachusetts literature."&mdash;<i>Boston
+  Globe</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The first six numbers form a volume of genuine historic value and
+  interest."&mdash;<i>Transcript</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "An admirable issue."&mdash;<i>Malden City Press</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Replete with sketches which should be read in every
+  household."&mdash;<i>Winchendon Courier</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Furnishing much valuable historical and biographical
+  matter."&mdash;<i>Boston Commonwealth</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Working its way to popular favor."&mdash;<i>The Weekly News</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The Bay State Monthly is just what is needed in New England."&mdash;<i>The
+  Gorham Mountaineer</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "New England societies will not be able to dispense with this
+  magazine."&mdash;<i>St. Paul Pioneer-Press</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Crammed full of historic facts; should be in every
+  family."&mdash;<i>Brockton Eagle</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A conspicuous article is 'Bunker Hill' (with map), by General
+  Carrington, U.S.A."&mdash;<i>Southbridge Journal.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Has made a firm footing and held its ground well."&mdash;<i>Newport News and
+  Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Filled with instructive literary matter, and a very reliable
+  map."&mdash;<i>Essex Banner</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "One of the most popular in the list of monthlies."&mdash;<i>The Moniter
+  (Chatham)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Handsomely gotten up, and reading-matter is interesting."&mdash;<i>Holyoke
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The steady improvement in this magazine is gratifying."&mdash;<i>Medford
+  Mercury</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Deserves the support of every true American, and every Massachusetts
+  citizen."&mdash;<i>The Watchman</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Edited ably, growing healthily, and presents features of peculiar
+  interest."&mdash;<i>Congregationalist</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Improves with each number."&mdash;<i>New England Home Journal
+  (Worcester)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Should be in every household in Massachusetts,"&mdash;<i>Barre Gazette</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "One of the noted historical magazines of the day."&mdash;<i>Norfolk County
+  Register</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Of that interest to the whole country that the cultured productions of
+  cultured Boston have usually been."&mdash;<i>Courier and Journal (Louisville,
+  Ky.)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "An important blank in our periodical literature has been
+  filled."&mdash;<i>Chicago News</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Destined to take place in the first rank."&mdash;<i>Watertown
+  Enterprise</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Invites the support of Massachusetts people from Berkshire to
+  Barnstable."&mdash;<i>Lowell Morning Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Already a success."&mdash;<i>Cape Cod Bee (Barnstable)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "'The Rent Veil,' by Henry B. Carrington, is a strikingly fine
+  production, possessing a Miltonian stateliness, and breathing a spirit
+  of veneration."&mdash;<i>New York Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Replete with choice literary productions."&mdash;<i>Gardner Record.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Keeps up the character established by the first number."&mdash;<i>Vox Populi
+  (Lowell)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Should be in the hands of all who desire to know the Bay
+  State."&mdash;<i>Westborough Chronotype.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Of special interest to the citizens of Massachusetts."&mdash;<i>Worcester
+  Spy</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A distinctive Massachusetts magazine."&mdash;<i>Waltham Record</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Both in appearance and contents creditable to the publishers."&mdash;<i>New
+  York Literary Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Does credit to publishers and contributors."&mdash;<i>East Boston Argus.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The list of contributors is enough to sell the magazine."&mdash;<i>Scituate
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Is destined to be popular and a valuable addition to the literary
+  world."&mdash;<i>Home Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Rich in contents."&mdash;<i>Indianapolis Times.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A worthy representative of the literary and typographical excellence of
+  cultured Boston."&mdash;<i>Weekly Advocate.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Of fine appearance and high promise."&mdash;<i>Lawrence American</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Replete with choice literary contributions."&mdash;<i>Salem Register</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "We predict a bright future for The Bay State Monthly."&mdash;<i>Norwood
+  Review</i>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx12" name="pagexxx12"></a>[pg xxx12]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>  <b>Globe Theatre.</b> </h2>
+<center>  MR. JOHN STETSON,&mdash;Proprietor and Manager.</center>
+<h3>  <b>THE MODEL THEATRE OF BOSTON.</b> </h3>
+<center>
+  ALL THE<br />
+  <span style="font-size: 200%;">LEADING<br />ATTRACTIONS</span><br />
+  Presented during the season.
+</center>
+<center>  <i>Best Seats, One Dollar.</i></center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  BOSTON THEATRE.
+</h2>
+<center>
+  TOMPKINS &amp; HILL, Proprietors.
+  EUGENE TOMPKINS, Manager
+</center>
+<h3>
+  <b>ALL GREAT ATTRACTIONS,</b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <b>Dramatic, Lyric, and Minstrelsy,</b><br />
+    of the best class offered, in regular succession.
+<br />
+  <i>SEE DAILY NEWSPAPERS.</i>
+</center>
+<hr />
+<center>
+  <i>German Opera Season</i>,<br />
+  <span class="sc">Walter Damrosch</span>, Director,<br />
+  <b>Beginning April 6.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  MONDAY, April 6&mdash;"The Prophet." Frl. Brandt, Frau Materna, Schott,
+  Koegel and Standigl.
+</p>
+<p>
+  TUESDAY, April 7, and SATURDAY MATINEE, April 11&mdash;"Tannhauser." Frau
+  Materna, Frl. Slach, Schott, Robinson, and Koegel.
+</p>
+<p>
+  WEDNESDAY, April 8&mdash;"Fidelio." Frl. Brandt, Frl. Slach, Udvardy,
+  Standigl, Miller, and Kemlitz.
+</p>
+<p>
+  THURSDAY, April 9&mdash;"Lohengrin." Frl. Brandt, Frl. Slach, Schott,
+  Robinson and Koegel.
+</p>
+<p>
+  FRIDAY, April 10&mdash;"La Juive." Frau Materna, Frl. Slach, Udvardy, Koegel,
+  Kemlitz.
+</p>
+<p>
+  SATURDAY, April 11, Evening&mdash;"Gluck's Orpheus." (First time in America).
+  Frl. Brandt, Frl. Slach and Frl. Hoch. Chorus largely augmented by
+  singers from local societies.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>The New York Symphony Orchestra</i>,
+</center>
+<p>
+  To begin at 7.45 P.M. Tickets now on sale, with reserved seats, at
+  $1.50, $2 and $3.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <i>Boston Museum</i>.
+</h2>
+<center>
+  Wednesday afternoon at 2 and Evening at 8,<br />
+  <span style="font-size:200%;"><b>THE GUV'NOR,</b></span><br />
+  Only times this season.
+</center>
+<hr />
+<p>
+  Thursday, FAST DAY, 2 performances, also Friday Evening at 8 and
+  Saturday Afternoon at 2,
+</p>
+<center> <span style="font-size:200%;"> <i>Ticket of Leave Man</i>,</span><br />
+  with remarkable cast.
+</center>
+<hr />
+<p>
+  Saturday Evening at 8, benefit of Mr. Charles Barron, who will appear in
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span style="font-size:200%;"><i>The Three Guardsmen</i></span><br />
+  &mdash;and&mdash;<br />
+  <span style="font-size:200%;">A REGULAR FIX,</span>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Mr. Sol Smith Russell introducing his laughable specialties between the
+  two plays.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<center>
+  &#9758; Monday, April 6, Redmund-Barry Co. in<br />
+  <span style="font-size:200%;"><i>A Midnight Marriage.</i></span>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <span style="font-size:200%;">WANTED.</span>
+<br />
+  Agents to secure subscriptions and advertisements for this magazine.
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <i>EXCELLENT TERMS.</i></span><br />
+  ADDRESS<br />
+  BAY STATE MONTHLY,<br />
+  31 MILK STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  ARTHUR P. DODGE</span>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <b>Attorney and Counsellor at Law,</b></span><br />
+  <i>31 MILK ST., ROOM 46</i>,
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Notary Public.
+<br />
+  Commissioner for New Hampshire.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <b>JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,</b></span><br />
+  Publishers, Printers, Stereotypes, and Electrotypers,<br />
+  31 MILK ST. BOSTON, MASS.
+  <hr />
+  <b>FINE BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.</b><br />
+  <b>Reasonable Terms.</b><br />
+  <i>ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED.</i>
+  <hr />
+  PUBLISHERS OF<br />
+  <i>THE BAY STATE MONTHLY,</i><br />
+  A Massachusetts Magazine.<br />
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page1" name="page1"></a>[pg 1]</span>
+</p>
+
+<a name="h2H_4_0022" id="h2H_4_0022"><!-- H2 anchor --></a>
+
+<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h2>
+    PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT.
+</h2>
+<p>
+The removal of the general office of the American Express Company to the
+corner of Franklin and Hawley Streets, Boston, is an event in the
+history of a famous corporation. From very small beginnings, the company
+has built up a business which now extends into nearly every section of
+the United States and Canada, covering about forty thousand miles of
+railroad and having between five thousand and six thousand agencies,
+besides interests in, and connections with many other expresses in
+various parts of the country.
+</p>
+<p>
+The American Express Company began business in 1847. The United States
+and Canada Express was founded in 1842, and the Eastern Express in 1854.
+The American has now absorbed both of the other companies, besides
+several smaller ones. The company's growth in the last few years has
+been phenomenally rapid. Only five years ago the company employed only
+twenty-four horses in Boston, now they have one hundred and twenty-five.
+Boston now has equal express facilities with New York, and similar rates
+are established from the two cities to points in the West, a fact which
+Boston business men may well appreciate. A fast express is run through
+to the West, which is of great value to shippers of goods and other
+products requiring speedy delivery in season. Another result of the
+efforts of this company is seen in the fact that a package may be sent
+from a point in Maine or New Brunswick to Chicago at no higher rate than
+was formerly charged to Boston.
+</p>
+<p>
+The new offices in this city occupy three floors fifty by one hundred
+feet each, arranged with every facility for transacting the large
+business from this point.
+</p>
+<p>
+The general offices of the company are in New York City, but among its
+prominent directors is B.P. Cheney, Esq., who is well known as one of
+New England's ablest financiers and managers. Many business men in
+Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont are shareholders in the
+company. The executive departments are ably filled by Mr. James
+Eggleston, the General Superintendent for New England, assisted in
+Boston by H.W. Dwight, Superintendent, of Boston; J.W. Baldwin, Office
+Manager, and O.J. Freeborn, City Superintendent. Outside of Boston, Mr.
+G.H. Babbitt of Bellows Falls, Vermont, is Assistant General
+Superintendent of the United States and Canada division; Mr. F.W. Carr
+of Bangor, Superintendent of Maine and New Brunswick division (Eastern
+Express Company); J.G. Towne, Boston, Superintendent of Massachusetts
+division; M.J. Pratt, Concord, New Hampshire, Superintendent of New
+Hampshire division, and F. Richardson, St. Johnsbury, Vermont,
+Superintendent of Vermont division, all of whom are gentlemen well and
+favorably known to the public generally and men of long experience in
+the express business.
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <b>JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,</b></span><br />
+  Publishers, Printers, Stereotypes, and Electrotypers,<br />
+  31 MILK ST. BOSTON, MASS.
+  <hr />
+  <b>FINE BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.</b><br />
+  <b>Reasonable Terms.</b><br />
+  <i>ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED.</i>
+  <hr />
+  PUBLISHERS OF<br />
+  <i>THE BAY STATE MONTHLY,</i><br />
+  A Massachusetts Magazine.<br />
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <span style="font-size:200%;">WANTED.</span>
+<br />
+  Agents to secure subscriptions and advertisements for this magazine.
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <i>EXCELLENT TERMS.</i></span><br />
+  ADDRESS<br />
+  BAY STATE MONTHLY,<br />
+  31 MILK STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center><b>FOR SALE.</b></center>
+
+<p>A few volumes 5, 6, and 7 of <i>Granite Monthly</i> (a New Hampshire
+  magazine). Bound in Cloth. Price $2.00 each. Early volumes out of print.
+</p>
+<center>
+JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,
+<br />
+  31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center><b>FOR SALE.</b></center>
+<p>Volumes 1 and 2 of BAY STATE MONTHLY bound in cloth. Price, $2.00 each.</p>
+<center>
+JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,
+<br />
+31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/507.jpg"><img src="images/507.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="ECONOMIST SUMMER COOK STOVE" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2> ECONOMIST SUMMER COOK STOVE </h2>
+<center>
+  IS SAFE, ODORLESS, CLEANER,<br />
+  EASIER TO CONTROL,<br />
+  GIVES LESS HEAT IN ROOM,<br />
+  &amp; IS CHEAPER TO RUN THAN ANY<br />
+  OIL, GAS, OR GASOLINE STOVE MADE.<br />
+  <span style="font-size:150%;">BURNS COAL, WOOD, OR COKE.</span>
+</center><center>
+  SEND FOR CIRCULARS.<br />
+  MADE ONLY BY HOBBS, GORDON &amp; CO. CONCORD, N.H.<br />
+  Price $16.
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page2" name="page2"></a>[pg 2]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h2>
+  <b>THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.</b>
+</h2>
+<center>
+  Volume I.&mdash;1884. Bound in cloth, royal 8vo.,
+<br />
+  420 pages. Price, $2.00.
+<br />
+  <b>WITH</b>
+<br />
+  6 PORTRAITS ON STEEL, 10 MAPS, AND 107 ILLUSTRATIONS.
+</center>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  <b>PRESS NOTICES.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  "A creditable addition to Massachusetts literature."&mdash;<i>Boston
+  Globe</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The first six numbers form a volume of genuine historic value and
+  interest."&mdash;<i>Transcript</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "An admirable issue."&mdash;<i>Malden City Press</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Replete with sketches which should be read in every
+  household."&mdash;<i>Winchendon Courier</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Furnishing much valuable historical and biographical
+  matter."&mdash;<i>Boston Commonwealth</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Working its way to popular favor."&mdash;<i>The Weekly News</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The Bay State Monthly is just what is needed in New England."&mdash;<i>The
+  Gorham Mountaineer</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "New England societies will not be able to dispense with this
+  magazine."&mdash;<i>St. Paul Pioneer-Press</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Crammed full of historic facts; should be in every
+  family."&mdash;<i>Brockton Eagle</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A conspicuous article is 'Bunker Hill' (with map), by General
+  Carrington, U.S.A."&mdash;<i>Southbridge Journal.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Has made a firm footing and held its ground well."&mdash;<i>Newport News and
+  Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Filled with instructive literary matter, and a very reliable
+  map."&mdash;<i>Essex Banner</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "One of the most popular in the list of monthlies."&mdash;<i>The Moniter
+  (Chatham)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Handsomely gotten up, and reading-matter is interesting."&mdash;<i>Holyoke
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The steady improvement in this magazine is gratifying."&mdash;<i>Medford
+  Mercury</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Deserves the support of every true American, and every Massachusetts
+  citizen."&mdash;<i>The Watchman</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Edited ably, growing healthily, and presents features of peculiar
+  interest."&mdash;<i>Congregationalist</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Improves with each number."&mdash;<i>New England Home Journal
+  (Worcester)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Should be in every household in Massachusetts,"&mdash;<i>Barre Gazette</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "One of the noted historical magazines of the day."&mdash;<i>Norfolk County
+  Register</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Of that interest to the whole country that the cultured productions of
+  cultured Boston have usually been."&mdash;<i>Courier and Journal (Louisville,
+  Ky.)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "An important blank in our periodical literature has been
+  filled."&mdash;<i>Chicago News</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Destined to take place in the first rank."&mdash;<i>Watertown
+  Enterprise</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Invites the support of Massachusetts people from Berkshire to
+  Barnstable."&mdash;<i>Lowell Morning Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Already a success."&mdash;<i>Cape Cod Bee (Barnstable)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "'The Rent Veil,' by Henry B. Carrington, is a strikingly fine
+  production, possessing a Miltonian stateliness, and breathing a spirit
+  of veneration."&mdash;<i>New York Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Replete with choice literary productions."&mdash;<i>Gardner Record.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Keeps up the character established by the first number."&mdash;<i>Vox Populi
+  (Lowell)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Should be in the hands of all who desire to know the Bay
+  State."&mdash;<i>Westborough Chronotype.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Of special interest to the citizens of Massachusetts."&mdash;<i>Worcester
+  Spy</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A distinctive Massachusetts magazine."&mdash;<i>Waltham Record</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Both in appearance and contents creditable to the publishers."&mdash;<i>New
+  York Literary Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Does credit to publishers and contributors."&mdash;<i>East Boston Argus.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The list of contributors is enough to sell the magazine."&mdash;<i>Scituate
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Is destined to be popular and a valuable addition to the literary
+  world."&mdash;<i>Home Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Rich in contents."&mdash;<i>Indianapolis Times.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A worthy representative of the literary and typographical excellence of
+  cultured Boston."&mdash;<i>Weekly Advocate.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Of fine appearance and high promise."&mdash;<i>Lawrence American</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Replete with choice literary contributions."&mdash;<i>Salem Register</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "We predict a bright future for The Bay State Monthly."&mdash;<i>Norwood
+  Review</i>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page3" name="page3"></a>[pg 3]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>  <b>BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.</b> </h2>
+<h3>  <b><i>DAILY AND WEEKLY.</i></b> </h3>
+<h4>  QUARTO SHEET,&mdash;56 COLUMNS. </h4>
+<center>
+  THE LARGEST, CHEAPEST, AND BEST FAMILY NEWSPAPER IN NEW ENGLAND.
+</center>
+<center>
+  <span style="font-size:150%;">THE DAILY EVENING TRANSCRIPT</span><br /> has been carried on for nearly fifty-five
+  years as an
+<br />
+  <i>INDEPENDENT JOURNAL</i>,
+</center>
+<p>
+  discussing and considering questions of political and social interest,
+  according to the best opinions and convictions of its conductors in
+  advocating the good, condemning the bad, exposing the fallacies of
+  mistaken policy, and promoting the general welfare of the people. It
+  aims at promptness in giving the news of the day, and at completeness in
+  all that should be features of a first-class newspaper; endeavors in
+  every department of reading matter to maintain a judicious reputation
+  for avoiding everything that may be considered objectionable to good
+  taste; seeks to favor progress, promote public spirit, and to encourage
+  enterprise. The perfect success of the Transcript as a favorite New
+  England journal, conducted according to the above-sketched platform of
+  ideas, gives its managers reasonable assurance in believing that faith
+  has been honestly kept by the newspaper in meeting in those respects the
+  expectations of its wide-spread circle of patrons.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Daily Transcript is sent to mail subscribers for $9.00 per year in
+  advance, and $4.50 for six months.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span style="font-size:150%;"><b><i>Single Copies, Three Cents.</i></b></span>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center><span style="font-size:150%;">THE WEEKLY TRANSCRIPT</span></center>
+<p>
+is published every Tuesday morning, in a Quarto Form, comprising
+fifty-six columns, at Two DOLLARS per annum, including postage. Single
+copies for mailing, five cents. It contains the choicest
+</p>
+<center><span style="font-size:150%;">LITERARY MISCELLANY,</span></center>
+<p>
+and is made up with special reference to the varied tastes and
+requirements of the home circle. In a word, it is a first-class
+</p>
+<center><span style="font-size:150%;">FAMILY NEWSPAPER,</span></center>
+<p>
+giving, in addition to its literary contents, the principal news of the
+week, stock reports etc., etc. It is an excellent medium for advertisers
+to reach country patrons.
+</p>
+<center>  <i>TERMS FOR WEEKLY</i></center>
+<p>  Subscriptions can begin when order is received.</p>
+<table border="0" align="center" summary="prices">
+<tr><td>  One copy one year (in advance) </td><td align="right">$2.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Five copies to one address, one year (in advance)   </td><td align="right"> 7.50 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<center>  <i>BOSTON TRANSCRIPT COMPANY</i>,<br />
+324 Washington Street. WM. DURANT, <i>Treasurer</i>.
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page4" name="page4"></a>[pg 4]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>  <b>Globe Theatre.</b> </h2>
+<center>  MR. JOHN STETSON,&mdash;Proprietor and Manager.</center>
+<h3>  <b>THE MODEL THEATRE OF BOSTON.</b> </h3>
+<center>
+  ALL THE<br />
+  <span style="font-size: 200%;">LEADING<br />ATTRACTIONS</span><br />
+  Presented during the season.
+</center>
+<center>  <i>Best Seats, One Dollar.</i></center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:150%;">  "IT IS AN ACKNOWLEDGED FACT"</span><br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  THAT "THE CONCORD HARNESS,"<br /></span>
+<span style="font-size:150%;">  <b>MADE BY J.R. HILL &amp; CO.,</b></span>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Concord N.H., are the best and cheapest harness for the money that are made
+  in this country. Order a sample and see for yourself.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>Correspondence Solicited.  J.B. HILL &amp; CO., CONCORD, N.H.</i>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>  <b>Facial Development.</b> </h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:75px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/510b.jpg"><img src="images/510b.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+  I will mail to you a code of rules for developing the muscles of the
+  cheeks and neck, making them look plump and rosy; also rules for using
+  dumb-bells to develop every muscle of arm and body, all for 50 cents. To
+  avoid mistake mention <span class="sc">Bay State Monthly</span>. <span class="sc">Prof. E.L. Dowd</span>.
+</p>
+<center>
+  Home School for Physical Culture, 19 East 14th St., N.Y. City.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/510c.jpg"><img src="images/510c.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="Tailoring Done as it should be. H. E. FALES &amp; Co. 375 Washington Street Boston" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>  Tailoring </h2>
+<center>  Done as it should be.</center>
+<h3>  H. E. FALES &amp; Co.</h3>
+<center>  375 Washington Street<br />
+  Boston</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>FOR SALE.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  A complete set of the <i>Granite Monthly</i>. Seven volumes, bound in
+  cloth; price $18.00.
+</p>
+<center>
+  JOHN N. McCLINTOCK &amp; CO.,<br />
+  31 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/510a.jpg"><img src="images/510a.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="COLUMBIA BICYCLES and TRICYCLES" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>  COLUMBIA BICYCLES and TRICYCLES:<br />
+  FOR ROAD USE;
+</h2>
+<center>
+  STANCH AND RELIABLE<br />
+  THE POPULAR STEEDS FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE<br />
+  FINEST MATERIALS, SKILLFUL WORKMANSHIP<br />
+  STRONG, GRACEFUL&mdash;EVERY PART INTERCHANGEABLE
+</center><center>
+  SEND 3 CENT STAMP FOR ILLUSTRATED 36 PAGE CATALOGUE<br />
+  THE POPE MFG. CO.<br />
+  597 Washington St. Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+<p>
+  &quot;If I could not get another bicycle I would not give mine for its weight
+  in solid gold. For fifteen years I lost from three to eight days every
+  month with stubborn sick headache. Since I have been riding the bicycle
+  I have lost only two days from that cause, and I haven't spent a dollar
+  for a doctor.&quot;
+  REV. GEO. F. PENTECOST"
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<p class="center">
+  <b>WANTED</b>, New England Town Histories in exchange for volumes I and
+  II of the "<span class="sc">Bay State Monthly.</span>"
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  BOSTON THEATRE.
+</h2>
+<center>
+  TOMPKINS &amp; HILL, Proprietors.
+  EUGENE TOMPKINS, Manager
+</center>
+<h3>
+  <b>ALL GREAT ATTRACTIONS,</b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <b>Dramatic, Lyric, and Minstrelsy,</b><br />
+    of the best class offered, in regular succession.
+<br />
+  <i>SEE DAILY NEWSPAPERS.</i>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  ARTHUR P. DODGE</span>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <b>Attorney and Counsellor at Law,</b></span><br />
+  <i>31 MILK ST., ROOM 46</i>,
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Notary Public.
+<br />
+  Commissioner for New Hampshire.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page5" name="page5"></a>[pg 5]</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Alaska</span>: Its Southern Coast. And the Sitkan Archipelago. By Eliza Ruhamah
+Scidmore. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.50. In this well-written and
+exceedingly interesting volume the author opens up to us a country which
+notwithstanding so much has been said of it, is yet very imperfectly
+known. Although it is nine times as large as New England, and twice as
+large as Texas, it is the popular impression that it is all a barren,
+inhospitable region, wrapped in snow and ice the greater part of the
+year, and that a visitor to its settlements must undergo perils almost
+equal to those of the Greely relief expedition. Miss Scidmore in her
+book dispels this illusion in the most summary manner. She spent two
+summers in Alaska, and therefore speaks from personal knowledge. She
+tells us that the winters at Sitka are milder than those in New York,
+while the summers are delightfully cool and temperate. Some of the
+grandest scenery of the continent is to be found along the Alaska coast,
+in the region of the Alexander or Sitkan Archipelago, and the monthly
+mail steamer is crowded with tourists during the summer season. It is
+one of the easiest and most delightful trips to go up the coast by the
+inside passage and cruise through the archipelago; and in voyaging past
+the unbroken wilderness of the island shores, the tourist feels quite
+like an explorer penetrating unknown lands. The mountain range that
+walls the Pacific coast from the Antarctic to the Arctic gives a bold
+and broken front to the mainland, and every one of the eleven hundred
+islands of the archipelago is but a submerged spur or peak of the great
+range. Many of the islands are larger than Massachusetts or New Jersey,
+but none of them have been wholly explored, nor is the survey of their
+shores completed. The Yosemite walls and cascades are repeated in mile
+after mile of deep salt water channels, and from the deck of an ocean
+steamer one views scenes not paralleled after long rides and climbs in
+the heart of the Sierras. The gorges and cañons of Colorado are
+surpassed; mountains that tower above Pike's Peak rise in steep incline
+from the still level of the sea; and the shores are clad in forests and
+undergrowth dense and impassable as the tangle of a Florida swamp.
+</p>
+<p>
+On her first visit to Sitka the author spent a week at Victoria,
+Vancouver's Island, a place which she describes as a veritable paradise.
+The drives about the town, she says, along the island shores, and
+through the woods, are beautiful, and the heavy, London-built carriages
+roll over hard and perfect English highways. Ferns were growing ten and
+twelve feet high by the roadside. Wild rose-bushes are matted together
+by the acre in the clearings about the town, and in June they weight the
+air with their perfume, as they did a century ago, when Marchand, the
+old French voyager, compared the region to the rose-covered slopes of
+Bulgaria. The honeysuckle attains the greatest perfection in this
+climate, and covers and smothers the cottages and trellises with
+thickly-set blossoms. Even the currant-bushes grow to unusual height,
+and in many gardens they are trained on arbors and hang their red, ripe
+clusters high overhead.
+</p>
+<p>
+The old Russian town of Sitka, the most northern on the Pacific coast,
+she describes as a straggling, peaceful sort of town, edging along shore
+at the foot of high mountains, and sheltered from the surge and turmoil
+of the ocean by a sea-wall of rocky, pine-covered islands. The moss has
+grown greener and thicker on the roofs of the solid old wooden houses
+that are relics of Russian days, the paint has worn thinner everywhere,
+and a few more houses tumbling into ruins complete the scenes of
+picturesque decay. Twenty years ago there were one hundred and
+twenty-five buildings in the town proper, and it is doubtful if a dozen
+have been erected since.
+</p>
+<p>
+Miss Scidmore's descriptions of the various places she visited and the
+curious things she saw are vivid and picturesque, and one can learn more
+of both from her pages than from all the official reports that have been
+published. It is a book that ought to have a wide popularity. It is well
+illustrated and contains a map reduced from the last general chart of
+Alaska published by the Coast Survey.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Boy Life in the United States Navy</span>. By a Naval Officer. Boston: D.
+Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.25. It is difficult to write a book of boy's
+adventures without falling into what is popularly called sensational
+writing, that is the description of improbable incidents to arouse and
+excite the imagination without any purpose beyond that result. The
+writer of the present volume, while making an intensely interesting
+story, has avoided this danger, and his narrative gives a not overdrawn
+description of the life of a boy on a vessel in the United States Navy.
+Joe Bently is the son of a Maine farmer, with a strong distaste for the
+life to which he has been brought up and an equally strong love for the
+sea. His desire to become a sailor has always been repressed by his
+father, who, though loving his son, has no sympathy with him in this one
+respect.
+</p>
+<p>
+Mr. Bently at last gives his consent, and Joe enlists as an apprentice
+in the Navy. The story of his journey, his examination, his experiences,
+on board ship and his adventures while lying in foreign ports is very
+graphically told, and the boy who reads it gets a clear and actual idea
+of what a boy must go through on board a man-of-war before he can
+graduate as an "able-bodied seaman." The writer shows a thorough
+acquaintance with every thing on board ship, even to the minutest
+details. The book ends with the promotion of Joe, and a promise to
+continue his adventures in another volume.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page6" name="page6"></a>[pg 6]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">The Evolution of Dodd</span>. By W.H. Smith. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price
+$1.00. Here is a book we should rejoice to see in the hands of every
+teacher of youth in the country. It is a living, breathing protest
+against certain features of the present school systems which obtain in
+various parts of the country, from that of the kindergarten to the
+grammar school. The points of the author are so well taken, that the
+reader is forced not only to admit the reality of the evils he
+denounces, but to acknowledge the justice of the conclusions at which he
+arrives.
+</p>
+<p>
+In the evolution of character the public school has come to be a most
+important factor. To it has been assigned a task equal to any other
+agency that deals with human nature. But in multitudes of cases it has
+become a mere mill for grinding out graduates. The "system" has largely
+lost sight of the grandest thing in all the world&mdash;the individual soul.
+It addresses itself to child-humanity collectively, as if characters
+were manufactured, like pins, by the million, and all alike, and it
+attempts to grind out this great mass, each individual like every other,
+as if its members could be made interchangeable like the parts of a
+government musket.
+</p>
+<p>
+To illustrate his ideas, the author selects a representative boy, Dodd
+Weaver, the eldest son of a Methodist clergyman, and carries him through
+the various schools and grades of schools from the time of his entrance
+to his graduation. He does not make him a model boy to begin with, and
+strive to show how he was spoiled by the school system. On the contrary
+he endows him with a good many disagreeable qualities; he makes him
+bright, sharp, and full of vitality, with a strong bent for mischief. He
+is high-tempered, quarrelsome, and disobedient, and yet in the hands of
+one who understands his mental peculiarities plastic as dough. It is the
+aim of the author to show how utterly useless it is to treat such
+boys&mdash;and our schools are full of them&mdash;in exactly the same manner as
+those of different character and temperament, and to demand that
+teachers have the right to adapt their methods according to individual
+demands. He says:
+</p>
+<p>
+It is not a system&mdash;any set of rules or formularies&mdash;that can make our
+school, any more than it is forms and ceremonies that make our churches.
+These may all be well enough in their proper places, but there is
+nothing, absolutely nothing, in them, <i>per se</i>. It is the
+righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees in the one case, and the dry
+bones of pedagogy in the other.
+</p>
+<p>
+The evil arises, in the schools as in the churches, from believing and
+acting as if there were something in the system itself.
+</p>
+<p>
+If human nature were a fixed quantity, if any two children were alike,
+or anywhere nearly alike, if a certain act done for a child always
+brought forth the same result, then it might be possible to form an
+absolute system of pedagogy, as, with fixed elements, there is formed
+the science of chemistry. But the quick atoms of spirit that manifest
+their affinities under the eye of that alchemist, the teacher, are far
+more subtle than the elements that go into the crucible in any other of
+Nature's laboratories.
+</p>
+<p>
+A chemist will distil for you the odor of a blown rose, or catch and
+hold captive the breath of the morning meadow, and do it always just the
+same, and ever with like results; but there is no art by which anything
+analogous can be wrought in human life. Here a new element comes in that
+entirely changes that economy of Nature in this regard. The
+individuality of every human soul is this new factor, and because of it,
+of its infinite variability&mdash;because no two atoms that are cast into the
+crucible of life are ever the same, or can be wrought into character by
+the same means&mdash;because of this, no fixed rules can ever be laid down
+for evolving a definite result, in the realm of soul, by never-varying
+means.
+</p>
+<p>
+And this is where many teachers are at fault. They put their faith in a
+system, a mill through which all children shall be run, and in passing
+through which each child shall receive the same treatment, and from
+which they shall all emerge, stamped with the seal of the institution,
+"uniformity."
+</p>
+<p>
+This is the prime idea that lies at the foundation of the popular system
+of education&mdash;to make children uniform. This very thing that God and
+Nature have set themselves against&mdash;no two faces, or forms, or statures;
+no two minds, or hearts, or souls being alike, as designed by the
+Creator, and as fashioned by Nature's hand&mdash;to make all these alike was
+the aim of the system under which Dodd began to be evolved, and with
+which he began to clash at once.
+</p>
+<p>
+But it is not the system only which is at fault. Hot with the
+indignation bred from a discussion of its shortcomings, the author turns
+suddenly upon the parents of the innumerable Dodds in the schools of the
+country:
+</p>
+<p>
+And for you, who send your six-year-olds to school with a single hook,
+and grumble because you have to buy even so much of an outfit, what are
+you going to do about it when your boy drains all the life out of the
+little volume in a couple of weeks or a month? He knows the stories by
+heart, and after that he says them over, day by day, because he must,
+and not in the least because he cares to.
+</p>
+<p>
+What are you going to do about this? It is largely your business. You
+cannot shirk it and say that you send the boy to school, and it is the
+teacher's business to take care of him.
+</p>
+<p>
+The remedy for the wrongs and faults of the system is, in his opinion,
+to recognize the individuality of children in the schoolroom to study
+the mental peculiarities and needs of each, and to do away with the
+system so far as it interferes with the liberty of the teacher to adapt
+his means to the proper ends to be attained. It is demanded that
+teachers be selected on the sole ground of fitness and adaptability, and
+not because of favoritism or the mere fact that their book education is
+sufficient, and it is further insisted that parents interest themselves
+to see and demand that the best that can be done is done for their
+children. These are the means suggested in the way of reform, and they
+seem adequate in a large degree to accomplish what is desired. We
+commend the book to teachers and parents.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page7" name="page7"></a>[pg 7]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Money in Politics</span>. By J.K. Upton. With an introduction by Edward
+Atkinson. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.00. The author of this
+comprehensive and valuable work was for several years Assistant
+Secretary of the United States Treasury, and in that responsible
+position had admirable facilities for studying the question of money as
+affected by congressional acts from the earliest history of the republic
+down to the present, and he has made good use of his opportunities in
+this book which is a succinct narration of the numerous changes made in
+American money beginning with the continental issues, in fact, earlier,
+the colonial money. The work is, therefore, a history of American coin
+and the numerous issues of paper that served as money. To the student
+there is in this book a fund of information extremely interesting,
+particularly at this time when the popular will is likely to compel
+farther legislation. A topic of present interest, is the silver dollar,
+to which the author devotes a chapter historical in its character, and
+another chapter concerning circulation of this coin. In the former
+chapter he begins with the Spanish milled dollar, "the Mexican pillar
+piece," which was the first silver dollar known in American commerce,
+and had, in colonial times, 386.7-8 grains of pure silver. In 1785 the
+American standard was fixed at 375.64 grains of pure silver which became
+the unit of account, the standard dollar. In 1792, after a Congress of
+the States was organized, the standard dollar was required to contain
+371.25 grains of pure silver, or, with the admixture of baser metal, the
+standard of silver coin 416 grains, the pure silver rated by itself as
+before. These facts are of interest as showing the origin of the
+American dollar recognized as the standard down to 1873.
+</p>
+<p>
+The chapters on "Circulation of the Silver Dollar" and "The Trade
+Dollar" are interesting and timely, inasmuch as the questions considered
+are now before Congress, or at least with the committees, and
+legislation of some kind will be demanded within the next year. There
+is, even now, a proposition embodied in a bill to suspend coinage of the
+silver dollar, because it has been found impossible to put the great sum
+coined directly in circulation. A great part of it has been made the
+basis of silver certificates, a kind of currency that, by and by, will
+bring distress to commercial interests if the issues are maintained, or
+if they are materially increased. Mr. Upton treats all these matters
+with very clear understanding of every question, and with certain
+facility of expression that appeals directly to the reader who has only
+common understanding of money affairs. From beginning to end the book is
+a rich mine of facts, of historical matter, and of statements that have
+undergone the scrutiny of the wisest financier during the critical
+period between the appreciation of values, with the disturbing
+influences of war, and the return of true values with resumption of
+specie payment which was effected with gold. While the work must have
+absorbing interest for that extended school of economists that has made
+finance a special study in the past dozen years, it will prove very
+useful to representatives in Congress, who may find here in compact form
+facts of history with which they should have familiar acquaintance
+before they attempt legislation intended to correct the errors
+incorporated in our money system.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">The Old Stone House</span>. By Anne March (Constance Fenimore Woolson). Boston:
+D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.50. This capital story, by one of the
+brightest American writers of fiction, has been placed by the publishers
+in their Young Folks' Library Series, where it ought to find a new lease
+of popularity. The Old Stone House is the home of five young people,
+representing three families. They are all orphans, and are living with a
+widowed aunt, whose single and constant aim is to educate them into real
+men and women. The young cousins, who dearly love each other, differ in
+tastes and temperament, but not in such ways as to interfere with each
+other's enjoyments. The younger ones are jolly and fun-loving, and no
+occasion for having a good time is left unimproved. The main interest of
+the story, however, lies with the eldest of the cousins, Sybil
+Warrington, a girl of strong feelings but quiet exterior, whose ambition
+to shine in society is held in check by a feeling that something higher
+and better is required of her. The story of her struggles is quietly but
+effectively told, and will have a peculiar interest for young girls.
+Miss Woolson has written much, and her work has given her a very
+enviable reputation both in this country and in Europe, but in all her
+writings there is nothing more earnest.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">How Success is Won</span>. By Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. With Portraits. Boston: D.
+Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.00. This handsome volume is made up of
+biographies of twelve men who have achieved distinguished successes in
+the various directions in which they turned their respective energies.
+Mrs. Bolton not only rehearses the main incidents of their lives, but
+shows that in every case the success and honors attained were the result
+of industry, economy and high moral principle. Among those selected to
+illustrate how success may be won under different circumstances are
+Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, Henry M. Stanley and
+Alexander H. Stephens. The several sketches are bright and pointed, and
+the portraits which illustrate them add to their value.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Rochester (N.Y.) <i>Herald</i> speaks of this extremely interesting
+book as "a singular collection of names, wide apart in many respects,
+but they represent men whom it is interesting to read about."
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page8" name="page8"></a>[pg 8]</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Anna Maria's Housekeeping</span>. By Mrs. S.D. Power. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co.
+Price $1.00. If we were asked to recommend any one single book to a
+young housekeeper which should serve as a domestic guide, counsellor and
+friend, we should unhesitatingly name <i>Anna Maria's Housekeeping</i>.
+So far as our knowledge extends, there is no other book which so exactly
+and thoroughly fulfils the needs implied in those titles. It is no mere
+collection of receipts, but a complete and common-sense treatise on the
+whole science of housekeeping, tersely and clearly written, with a
+flavor of experience about it that makes one accept it as authoritative.
+It is a staff upon which the young housekeeper may confidently lean, and
+by the aid of which she may overcome obstacles which without it would
+seem insurmountable. Mrs. Power does not believe in a house keeping
+itself. It requires continual care and oversight, and a clear knowledge
+of what is to be done. She believes, too, that a house can be well kept
+as easily as badly kept, and that a bright, clean, well-ordered home has
+a deal to do with molding the temper and even character of its members.
+"It is no small thing," she says, "to stand at the head of affairs, and
+be the motive power on which depend the welfare and credit, the health,
+temper and spirit of the whole family. When in midlife you come to find
+how essential the comfort of a well-kept home is to the bodily strength
+and good conditions, to a sound mind and spirit, and useful days, you
+will reverence the good housekeeper as I do, above poet or artist,
+beauty or genius." In the opening chapter of the book the author
+instructs Anna Maria in the art of "How to Make Home-work Easier." In
+the succeeding chapters she takes up the various kinds of work there is
+to be done about the house, and describes the easiest methods of doing
+it. "No attitudinizing," she remarks, "no fine lady affectations over
+the griddles and saucepans; instead, cultivate the fine character which
+acts up to the need of the hour swiftly, promptly, but with quiet and
+certainty." Her definition of "good food" is to the point. "It is not,"
+she says, "rich food, nor even the tolerable fare which is just
+undercooked and flavorless enough to tax digestion more than it ought.
+It is the best of everything cooked in the nicest possible way, and with
+pleasant variety." Passing from the kitchen the care of the different
+rooms of the house is taken up&mdash;the chambers, the sitting-room and the
+storeroom; instructions are given for making "blue Monday" less blue;
+the arts of starching and ironing are discussed; and a chapter is given
+to the mending and darning basket. Other portions of the book are
+devoted to "Company Days," "Shopping," "Sickness in the House," "Making
+the best of Things," and "Helps that are Helps," the servant-girl
+question forming the subject of the closing chapter. The volume is very
+handsomely brought out, but even were it not, it would be worth its
+weight in gold to the young and inexperienced housekeeper.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Gertrude's Diary</span>. By Pansy. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price
+60 cts. A new book by Pansy is always hailed with delight, and that
+delight generally mingled with wonder can possibly write so much and yet
+keep the freshness and brightness which runs through all her books.
+Gertrude is a girl of fifteen, wide awake, full of life, generally good
+tempered, and yet with as many faults as most girls of her age have;
+faults which arise more from thoughtlessness than from intent. She is
+one of four who agree to keep diaries, in accordance with a suggestion
+made by their Sunday-school teacher, and she records with impartiality
+all her good and bad times, her trials and her triumphs. Aside from its
+interest, it contains suggestions which cannot fail to make an
+impression upon the mind of any young girl who reads it, and to
+strengthen her in like temptations and under the same conditions. A
+pleasant story runs through the diary.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Many Colored Threads</span>. From the Writings of Goethe. Selected by Carrie
+Adelaide Cooke. With an Introduction by Kev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D.
+Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.00. No other volume of the Spare
+Minute Series contains more real meat than this. Goethe was
+epigrammatic, and his ideas took the concentrated form of bullets,
+instead of scattering like shot. We doubt if there is another author,
+always excepting Shakespeare, from whose books so many noble and
+complete thoughts can be extracted. In the two hundred and fifty pages
+of this volume are more than a thousand of these gems, each worth; its
+setting. Dr. McKenzie says aptly of Goethe that he is able by virtue of
+his own genius to set more than the common man and to put his visions
+and his reflections in such form that others who would never have seen
+the tilings for themselves or been able to think deeply upon them, can
+have the benefit of his generous study and thought. He was many-sided.
+His mind took a wide range and seemed almost equally at home in many
+places. The real and the ideal both interested him and were cherished by
+him. Science and art, philosophy and poetry, engaged his attention and
+were enriched by his handiwork. In this versatility of his power and the
+manifoldness of their application he was remarkable. Out of this breadth
+of study came varied and large thoughts of the world and of human life.
+He had the faculties with which nature and humanity and divine power
+could breathe their inspiration for the world's instruction and delight,
+and that they were fully employed no-one who turns over the pages of
+this collection can doubt. A brief biography of Goethe takes the place
+of a preface, and there is an index of subjects.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page9" name="page9"></a>[pg 9]</span>
+</p>
+<h4>
+MR. CHARLES LANMAN THE AUTHOR OF "THE LEADING MEN OF JAPAN."
+</h4>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Mary Cole Baker</span> writes in the Washington (D.C.) <i>Republic:</i> "Mr.
+Lanman is well known both in England and America as the writer of some
+of the most delightful descriptive books in the English language. To the
+facile wielding of his pen he adds an equally adroit and skilful use of
+the pencil, and his admirable results in these combined pursuits won for
+him from his friend and brother of the quill, Washington Irving, the apt
+and deserved soubriquet of 'the picturesque explorer of America.' To the
+pleasure which Mr. Lanman derived from these pursuits he added a
+sportsman's love for the field and took genuine delight in the
+'contemplative art' of angling. He was the first American to cast the
+artificial fly in the Saguenay region and to describe for the angler the
+charms of that since famous locality. He has followed this sport in
+nearly every State in the Union, never without his sketching materials,
+which he used unstintingly. The results of these labors are many
+hundreds of sketches of American scenery, invaluable now that the march
+of civilization has so completely changed the face of a large part of
+the country. It is delightful to find a man who has been able to get so
+much good from life as has Mr. Lanman. One would think that the writing
+and illustrating of more than thirty books, some of which are in two
+large octavo volumes, was the work of a lifetime. But this has been to
+Mr. Lanman his recreation. The fact that his books have been successful
+pecuniarily has not prevented him from following the duties of the
+various governmental positions in which he has been placed. No sinecures
+they either&mdash;librarian at different times of the House of
+Representatives, the War Department, of copyrights in the State
+Department and of the Interior Department, secretary to Daniel Webster,
+at the head of the returns of office of the Interior Department, and for
+the last ten years the American Secretary to the Japanese Legation at
+Washington. A lover of social intercourse, Mr. Lanman has led the
+typical busy life of the American, untouched by the direful and
+disastrous ills it is supposed to bring. He is now engaged in editing
+fourteen of his books for reproduction in uniform style, and a new book,
+<i>The Leading Men of Japan</i>, is ready for issue." 12mo, $1.50.
+Boston: D. Lothrop, &amp; Co., Publishers.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<span class="sc">Couldn't be Bought: and Other Stories</span>. By Faye Huntington. Illustrated.
+Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price 75 cts. A delightful collection of short
+stories for boys and girls, adapted to the Sunday-school library. The
+volume takes its name from the leading story. The author has a pleasant
+and attractive style, and her stories have a large amount of "telling"
+force in them.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">China</span>. By Prof. R.K. Douglas, of the British Museum. Edited by Arthur
+Gilman, M.A. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co. Price $1.50. This
+volume comes just at a time when there is a strong demand for something
+brief, exact and authoritative in the way of Chinese history. Current
+events have brought China before the world as one of the really great
+powers, and one which in time will be able not only to defend herself
+against the aggressions of other nations but will be perfectly able to
+take the offensive should occasion require. In the arts of diplomacy the
+Chinese are a match for the keenest statesman of Europe, and since the
+beginning of the present troubles with France they have developed a
+military talent which is perfectly surprising. With the growth of the
+military spirit it would not be strange if, in the course of the next
+generation China should hold as distinct and important a place among the
+warlike powers as France or England.
+</p>
+<p>
+The author of the volume before us had exceptional advantages for making
+such a book as just now the public demand and need. He was for several
+years a resident of China in an official capacity, and studied the
+people and their mode of life from actual observation. In preparing the
+book he also freely availed himself of the labors of others where they
+seemed capable of adding value to the narrative. In his preface he
+acknowledges his indebtedness to Doctor Legge's "Chinese Classics,"
+Archdeacon Gray's work on "China," Doolittle's "Social Life of the
+Chinese," Denys's "Chinese Folklore," Mayers's "Chinese Reader's
+Manual," Sir John Davis's "Poetry of the Chinese," as well as to the
+important linguistic, religious and topographical writings of Doctor
+Edkins of Peking, and particularly to the late Professor S. Wells
+Williams, of Yale College, whose work on the <i>Middle Kingdom</i>
+contains more information of value than any other single volume in our
+language.
+</p>
+<p>
+The various chapters of the work deal with the history of the empire in
+brief, its government, religions, its educational system, the nurture of
+the young, superstitions, funeral and wedding rites, the language, food
+and dress, honors, architecture, music, medicine and other subjects. It
+has been critically read by the young Chinese scholar, Mr. Yan Phou Lee,
+of Yale College, who has suggested a few notes. Its completeness is
+added to by an analytic table of contents and an index.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc">In the Woods and Out</span>. By Pansy. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop &amp; Co.
+Price $1.00. In the score or more of short stories which make up this
+volume Pansy is at her best. She never writes for the mere sake of
+filling up, but always, in the briefest of her sketches, she has
+something worth telling and worth remembering. There isn't a thing in
+the book which will not be read twice, and certain of the stones will be
+perennial favorites with the younger class of readers.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page10" name="page10"></a>[pg 10]</span>
+</p>
+<h4>
+PHILOSOPHIÆ QUÆSTOR.
+</h4>
+<p>
+The seeker of philosophical truth, which is described as the shadowy
+figure of a young girl, is, throughout, very expressive of desire and
+appreciation. The impressions she receives are those to which such a
+condition are most sensitive&mdash;the higher and more refined ones&mdash;and the
+responsive thoughts concern the nature and character of what is heard or
+felt. The elevation into classic importance of Concord, its
+philosophers, and its School of Philosophy is due to the influence of
+their history and teachings in American literature, and it is pleasant
+to recognize in this work such reverence of their classicism. Mrs.
+Anagnos has written a prose poem in which the last two sessions of the
+Concord School of Philosophy, which include that in memory of Emerson,
+and its lecturers excite her feeling and inspire her thought. It is sung
+in lofty strains that resemble those of the sacred woods and fount, and
+themselves are communicative of their spirit. It will be welcomed as an
+appropriate souvenir.&mdash;<i>Boston Globe</i>.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h4>
+OUR NATIONAL FINANCES.
+</h4>
+<p>
+Mr. J.K. Upton used to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the
+United States. Few men, therefore, have had better opportunities to
+inform themselves about our national finances. His volume, <i>Money in
+Politics</i>, published by D. Lothrop &amp; Co., price $1.25, is a full
+history of the financial policy and legislation of this country. It is
+of the utmost value as a record, a book of reference, and an expression
+of sound theories. The intelligent reader cannot repress a feeling of
+shame that our national history in respect to finance should have been
+characterized by such continual bungling. The saddest feature in the
+case is the crass ignorance which Congress usually has displayed. Much
+of our legislation about money matters has been the merest
+experimenting, if not worse than this&mdash;the deliberate effort to enrich
+some one class of business men at the expense of the nation.
+</p>
+<p>
+He utters a solemn warning of the dangers to which we now are exposed
+through our present acts of coinage and legal tender, whereby our gold
+coin sooner or later must be driven from the country and our standard
+must become a silver dollar of light weight and uncertain value. He also
+shows conclusively the futility of legislation in causing two substances
+to become and remain of the same value. Mr. Edward Atkinson has
+furnished the introduction to the book, in which he commends it warmly.
+While Congress continues to permit the coinage of $2,000,000 in silver a
+month, for which there is no demand and the coinage of which merely
+furnishes a market for the wares of a few owners of silver mines, it is
+difficult to overstate the need that such books as this should be
+circulated and studied attentively throughout the nation. Mr. Atkinson
+makes an impressive comment, which we quote:
+</p>
+<p>
+"The productions of the hen-yards of the United States, according to the
+census statistics, was, in 1879, 456,910,916 dozen eggs, and, if hens
+have now increased in the ratio of population, it is now 500,000,000
+dozen, which at only ten cents a dozen, would exceed the value of the
+products of the silver mines.
+</p>
+<p>
+"It would be vastly more reasonable for Congress to order the compulsory
+purchase of two million dollars' worth of eggs per month," in order to
+sustain the hen products of the United States, "than it is to buy two
+million dollars' worth of silver; because the eggs could be used, or
+else would rot, while the silver cannot be used, and is expensive to
+store and to watch (pp. xvi-xvii)."&mdash;<i>Congregationalist</i>.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h4>
+ILLITERACY AND MORMONISM.
+</h4>
+<p>
+Of <i>Illiteracy and Mormonism</i>, a brochure from the pen of Doctor
+Henry Randall Waite, just published by D. Lothrop &amp; Co., the <i>Boston
+Daily Transcript</i> in an advance notice, says:
+</p>
+<p>
+"In view of the present great interest in the problems treated, and the
+value of the material which it offers as an aid to their solution, the
+book is especially timely. Doctor Waite, who was for some time editor of
+the <i>International Review</i>, and whose work is well-known to readers
+of the standard American periodicals, is one of the clearest-headed of
+our younger writers on politico-economic subjects, and his views as here
+set forth demand thoughtful consideration and respect. He brings to the
+treatment of the subjects included in the title the special knowledge
+gained in his important official position as statistician of the late
+census, in charge of some of the most important branches, including
+education, illiteracy and religious organizations."
+</p>
+<p>
+The Dover (N.H.) <i>Star</i>, says:
+</p>
+<p>
+"He makes the best argument for the Constitutionality of National Aid
+[to education] which we have yet seen. It will bear careful
+consideration by members of Congress."
+</p>
+<p>
+The <i>Boston Daily Herald</i> refers to the author's views as follows:
+</p>
+<p>
+"One of the most original and valuable contributions yet made to the
+discussion of the project of extending federal aid to common school
+education in the States * * * The moderation of its tone and the
+conservatism of its suggestions will commend it to all thoughtful
+students of this problem, while its statistics, many of which, in their
+arrangement and application, are substantially new, should have a direct
+influence in shaping the final action of Congress * * * Mr. Waite has
+given long and careful study to this subject in all its bearings, and he
+writes with an equipment of information and reflection which has been
+palpably lacking in much of the Senatorial discussion of it."
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page11" name="page11"></a>[pg 11]</span>
+</p>
+<h4>
+ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS.
+</h4>
+<p>
+The <i>New York Independent</i>, after referring to the various books on
+Arctic explorations and adventure&mdash;the narratives of Kane and Hayes and
+Gilder and De Long&mdash;says of Dr. Nourse's work: "The field of Arctic
+authorship was not yet, however, covered by any of these works, and it
+is to the credit of Professor Nourse that he saw what remained to be
+done. In the work before us he comes into no competition with the
+literary workers who have preceded him. No one will be the less disposed
+to read Dr. Kane's chapters, or to peruse Mr. Gilder's, for having read
+Professor Nourse; nor, on the other hand, will these works prejudice
+Professor Nourse's chance to be read. His book stands on ground of its
+own, as the one complete and competent survey of what American explorers
+have done in the polar zones.... Professor Nourse's volume is embellished
+with numerous good illustrations, and provided with an excellent and
+indispensable circumpolar map. It deserves the successful sale we
+understand it is already receiving."
+</p>
+<p>
+The <i>Literary World</i> in a review of the book says "it is an
+encyclopaedic review of the whole subject of American enterprise in
+Arctic seas," and adds: "Professor Nourse's book bears the credentials
+of accuracy and authority, is well printed and bound, has numerous
+engravings and useful maps, including some portraits on steel, has a
+suitable index and table of contents, and furthermore is provided with a
+bibliography of chief publications on Arctic research since 1818. In
+every respect, then, it is a well-made book, a solid contribution to
+popular reading."
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h4>
+BACCALAUREATE SERMONS.
+</h4>
+<p>
+D. Lothrop &amp; Co., of Boston, have published in book form nineteen
+baccalaureate sermons preached at Harvard College, by Dr. A.P. Peabody,
+the new Professor of Christian Morals. Dr. Peabody's reputation, as a
+vigorous thinker and manly preacher, is as wide as this Republic; and
+the volume of sermons before us is something more than a series of
+homilies. It is a collection of addresses to young men&mdash;students just
+ready to embark on the perilous sea of life&mdash;which may be profitably
+read by every citizen of our country. The preacher does not address
+himself to any single side of human life. He counsels the students in
+their duties as men in all the relations of life. And in the selection
+of themes he embraces a great variety of topics. In the discourse on
+"Hebrew, Latin and Greek," for example, he takes the first-named tongue
+as standing for religion, the second for beauty and the third for
+strength. On this triad be formulates not only an intellectual cult but
+a practical rule of life. Another notable sermon is on "The Sovereignty
+of Law," an admirable disquisition on the supremacy of law in the
+intellectual life, the physical existence, the domain of morals and in
+every department of human activity. Dr. Peabody's style is forcible and
+virile, and his compactness of statement, enables him to put "infinite
+riches in a little room."&mdash;<i>Chicago Tribune.</i>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h4>
+A BOY'S WORKSHOP.
+</h4>
+<p>
+Every boy with a jack-knife in his pocket and his head full of plans
+will fall to with delight on anything that gives him plenty to do in the
+boyish line. This is the merit of a little manual just published by the
+Messrs. D. Lothrop &amp; Co., <i>A Boy's Workshop, with Plans and Designs
+for Indoor and Outdoor Work</i>, by a "Boy and his Friends"; with an
+introduction by Henry Randall Waite. The little manual goes to work
+intelligibly, describing the shop, and the tools, giving hints and
+accurate directions how to make a great variety of things whose uses
+will be at once apparent to the boyish mind, and suggestions as to other
+mysteries, the key to which makes any boy who possesses it a king among
+his mates.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h4>
+HOW SUCCESS IS WON.
+</h4>
+<p>
+"How Success is Won," by Sarah K. Bolton (D. Lothrop &amp; Co.), is a
+collection of twelve brief biographies intended to make clear to the
+young the character and conduct that have resulted in the success of
+Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, John Wanamaker, Henry M.
+Stanley, Johns Hopkins, William M. Hunt, Elias Howe, Jr., Alexander H.
+Stephens, Thomas A. Edison, Dr. W.T.G. Morton and the Rev. John H.
+Vincent. The sketches are gracefully and interestingly written, and the
+little volume is in every way to be commended.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Com. Adv.</i>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h4>
+THE GRAY MASQUE.
+</h4>
+<p>
+The Gray Masque of Mrs. Mary Barker Dodge (D. Lothrop &amp; Co., Boston) has
+won a series of splendid notices; yet, so far as we know, sufficient
+stress has not been laid upon the keynote of the volume. <i>Love</i>, in
+its varying phases, sounds through the majority of the verses like the
+refrain of a song. Sometimes sad, sometimes solemn, oftener gay and
+hopeful, the differing themes take up, one after another, the burden of
+the initial poem; and answer, in separate ways, the question there
+propounded, until the many-sided revelation is found to be fittingly
+illustrated on the cover by the winged boy, who throws aside the masque
+of mortality, and, soaring aloft, leaves behind him every earthly doubt
+and care. The "Dedication" and the concluding poem, the first emotional
+in its simplicity, the last intellectual in its subtlety, mark the
+breadth as well as the limits of Mrs. Dodge's poetical
+expression.&mdash;<i>Baldwin's Monthly.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page12" name="page12"></a>[pg 12]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+
+<table border="0" summary="" width="100%">
+
+<tr><td colspan="4">
+
+<h2><b>WIDE AWAKE.</b></h2>
+<center>  Only $3.00 a Year.  25 cts. a number.</center>
+
+<p>
+  The best, the largest, the most entertaining, the most beautifully
+  illustrated, and the widest in range, of all magazines for young people.
+  It is the official organ of the C.Y.F.R.U., and, as heretofore, will
+  publish the Required Readings, and all needed information for members of
+  the Union. The magazine proper will be even more brilliant and valuable
+  than before during the next year.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Ideal literature and ideal art for young people and the family, for
+  entertainment, for the healthful training of the body and the liberal
+  education for the mind, fill this magazine each month from cover to
+  cover. It has won recognition from the American and English press as the
+  largest and best, the most beautiful and original, and the most ably
+  edited magazine of its class in the world. It gives each month original
+  music by eminent composers.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "<span class="sc">Wide Awake</span>" is the wonder of all the wonderfully beautiful children's
+  magazines and books of America. Without dispute the largest, handsomest,
+  most artistic and best young people's periodical ever issued. There is
+  no juvenile magazine published in the country so carefully
+  edited."&mdash;<i>Boston Transcript.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A treasure of good morals."&mdash;<i>N.Y. Tribune.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "At the head of juvenile periodical stands <span class="sc">Wide Awake</span> all the
+  time."&mdash;<i>Phil. Inquirer.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A whole family library in itself."&mdash;<i>Putnam Patriot.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Unsurpassed in skilful adaptation to young folks' needs."&mdash;<i>Chicago
+  Standard.</i>
+</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td width="25%" valign="top">
+
+<h2>  <b>THE PANSY</b></h2>
+<h3>
+  Edited by Mrs. G.R. Alden (Pansy).
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <i>$1.00 a year; 10 cts. a number.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  For both week-day and Sunday reading, <span class="sc">The Pansy</span> holds the first place in
+  the hearts of the children, and in the approval of earnest-minded
+  parents.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Among pictorial periodicals especially designed for Boys and Girls, it
+  stands royal leader, and as a Christian Home Magazine for young folks,
+  it is without question the best and the most attractive magazine in the
+  world. Pansy's own bright, quick-seeing spirit inspires all her
+  contributors. Very fully illustrated.
+</p>
+
+</td><td colspan="2">
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/518.jpg"><img src="images/518.jpg" style="width:150px;"
+alt="LOTHROP'S POPULAR ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINES." /></a>
+</div>
+
+</td><td width="25%" valign="top">
+
+<h2>
+  <b>Chautauqua Young Folks' Journal.</b>
+</h2>
+<p class="quote">
+  <i>75 cts. a year; 7 cts. a number.</i>
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  This new periodical is intensely interesting to both old and young, as
+  well as practical. It contains the Course of the C.Y.F.R.U. Readings
+  (issued also in <span class="sc">Wide Awake</span>) and additional features of varied interest.
+  Beginning with the December issue, the <span class="sc">Chautauqua Young Folks' Journal</span>
+  gives a fine illustrated historical serial story. It is a stirring tale
+  of old Knickerbocker New York, and its accounts are as true as they are
+  exciting. It is written by Elbridge S. Brooks, and is entitled, "In
+  Leisler's Time." Send for a circular giving full information about the
+  C.Y.F.R.U. Reading Course.
+</p>
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4"><hr class="full" /></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" width="50%" valign="top">
+
+<h2>
+  <b>Our Little Men and Women.</b>
+</h2>
+<center>
+  <i>$1.00 a year; 10 cents a number.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  For the youngest readers no magazine approaches this in number and
+  beauty of illustration (each volume containing 75 full-page pictures)
+  and in the peculiar fitness of the accompanying text. It is especially
+  adapted for use as Supplementary Reading in schools. It is always
+  bright, always fresh and attractive.
+</p>
+
+</td><td colspan="2" width="50%" valign="top">
+
+<h2>
+  <b>BABYLAND</b>
+</h2>
+<center>
+  <i>50 cents a year; 5 cents a number.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  The only periodical of its kind in the world.
+</p>
+<p>
+  As for seven years past, this exquisite magazine for the nursery is
+  still unrivalled in its monthly merry-making for the wee folks. Large
+  pages, large pictures, large type. Each month its pictures are more
+  enticing, its stories are sweeter, its jingles gayer.
+</p>
+
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>
+  Splendid premiums for new subscriptions. Agents wanted. Liberal pay.
+  Send stamps for specimen copies. Circulars free. Address
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>D. Lothrop &amp; Co., Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston.</b>
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page13" name="page13"></a>[pg 13]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>LOTHROP'S SPARE MINUTE SERIES.</h3>
+<p>
+  "The significance of the name of this series is seen from the fact that
+  <span class="sc">Thoughts That Breathe</span>, 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, $6.00. 6 vols, imitation half calf.
+  $7.50. 6 vols, full imitation calf. $9.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc"><u>Right to the Point.</u></span> From the writings of Theodore L. Cuyler,
+  D.D., selected by Mary Storrs Haynes. With an introduction by Rev.
+  Newman Hall.
+</p>
+<p>
+  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 readings can never be
+  wasted.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc"><u>Thoughts That Breathe.</u></span> 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.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc"><u>Cheerful Words.</u></span> From George MacDonald. Introduction by James T.
+  Fields.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc"><u>The Might of Right.</u></span> From Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone. Introduction
+  by John D. Long.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc"><u>True Manliness.</u></span> From Thomas Hughes. Introduction by James
+  Russell Lowell.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc"><u>Living Truths.</u></span> From Charles Kingsley. Introduction by W.D.
+  Howells.
+</p>
+
+<h3>LOTHROP'S CHOICE NEW EDITIONS OF FAMOUS S.S. BOOKS IN SETS.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<u>"Bronckton Series."</u> <span class="sc">So as by Fire</span>, by Margaret Sidney. A bright
+story full of life and interest, as are all the writings by this popular
+author.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span class="sc"><u>Half Year at Bronckton</u>,</span> by the same author. Earnest, yet lively,
+this is just the book for all boys old enough to be subjected to the
+temptations of school life.
+</p>
+<p>
+The other books of this series, "Tempter Behind," by John Saunders, "For
+Mack's Sake," by S.J. Burke, and "Class of '70," by Helena V. Morrison,
+are all worthy of a place in every Sunday-school library.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="price list">
+<tr><td>  Amaranth Library. 4 vols., 12mo, illust.                          </td><td align="right">$6.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Books by the author of Andy Luttrell.  6 vols., 12mo, illust.     </td><td align="right"> 7.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Julia A. Eastman's Books. 6 vols., 12mo, illust                   </td><td align="right"> 7.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Ella Farman's Books. 9 vols., large 16mo, illust.                 </td><td align="right">10.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Pansy Series. 4 vols.                                             </td><td align="right"> 3.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Mudge (Rev. Z.A.) Works. 3 vols.                                  </td><td align="right"> 3.75 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Porter (Mrs. A.E.) Books. 5 vols.                                 </td><td align="right"> 6.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Capron (M.J.) Books. 4 vols.                                      </td><td align="right"> 6.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Mrs. E.D. Kendall's Books. 3 vols., 12mo, illust.                 </td><td align="right"> 3.75 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Our Boys' Library. 5 vols., illust.                               </td><td align="right"> 6.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Our Girls' Library. 5 vols., illust.                              </td><td align="right"> 6.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Mrs. A.E. Porter's Books. 5 vols., 12mo, illust.                  </td><td align="right"> 6.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Snow Family Library. 5 vols., illust.                             </td><td align="right"> 5.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Sturdy Jack Series. 6 vols., 12mo, illust.                        </td><td align="right"> 4.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  To-day Series. New and of extraordinary excellence. 6 vols., illust. </td><td align="right">7.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Child Life Series. 26 vols., illust. Each                         </td><td align="right"> 1.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Hill Rest Series. 3 vols., 16mo, illust.                          </td><td align="right"> 3.75 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Uncle Max Series. 8 vols., illust.                                </td><td align="right"> 6.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Yensie Walton Books. 5 vols., 12mo, illust.                       </td><td align="right"> 7.50 </td></tr>
+
+</table>
+
+<h3>LOTHROP'S YOUNG FOLKS' LIBRARY.</h3>
+
+<p>
+  Nothing at once so good and cheap is anywhere to be found. These choice
+  16mo volumes of 300 to 500 pages, clear type, carefully printed, with
+  handsome and durable covers of manilla paper, and embracing some of the
+  best stories by popular American authors, are published at the low price
+  of 25 cents per volume, and mailed postpaid. One number issued each
+  month. No second edition will be printed in this style. The regular
+  edition is issued in cloth bindings at $1,25 to $1.75 per volume. Among
+  the numbers already published at 25 cents each as above are
+</p>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  1. Tip Lewis and his Lamp, by <span class="sc">Pansy.</span></li>
+<li>  2. Margie's Mission, by <span class="sc">Marie Oliver.</span></li>
+<li>  3. Kitty Kent's Troubles, by <span class="sc">Julia A. Eastman.</span></li>
+<li>  4. Mrs. Hurd's Niece, by <span class="sc">Ella Farman Pratt</span>, Editor of <span class="sc">Wide Awake.</span></li>
+<li>  5. Evening Rest, by <span class="sc">Rev. J.L. Pratt.</span></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+  Other equally charming stories will follow each month. The Library is
+  especially commended to Sunday-school superintendents or those
+  interested in securing choice Sunday-school books at lowest prices.
+  Attention is called to the necessity of early orders, as when the
+  present editions are exhausted, no more copies of the several volumes
+  can be had at the same price.
+</p>
+
+<h3>LOTHROP'S STANDARD BOOKS FOR YOUTHS.</h3>
+
+<p>  Admirable books in history, biography and story.</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="price list">
+<tr><td>  Fern Glen Series. 31 vols., illust. Each    </td><td align="right"> 1.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Young Folks' Series. 33 vols., illust. Each </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Popular Biographies. 18 vols., illust. Each </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Young Folks' Histories, by <span class="sc">Miss Yonge</span> and others.
+            10 vols., illust. Each                    </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Yonge's Historical Stories. 4 vols., illust. Each </td><td align="right"> 1.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  The $1000 Prize Books. A fresh edition in new style of binding.
+            16 vols., 12mo.                           </td><td align="right">24.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  The new $500 Prize Series. A fresh edition in new style of
+          binding. 13 vols., 12mo.                    </td><td align="right">16.75 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  The Original $500 Prize Series. A fresh edition in new style
+          of binding. 8 vols., 12mo.                  </td><td align="right">12.00 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<h3>LOTHROP'S TEMPERANCE LIBRARY.</h3>
+
+<p>
+No Sunday-school library is complete without some well-chosen volumes
+showing the evils of intemperance, the great curse which good men and
+women are everywhere endeavoring to remove.
+</p>
+<p>
+D. Lothrop &amp; Co. publish among others the following admirable temperance
+books.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="price list">
+<tr><td>  The only way Out. By J.W. Willing.            </td><td align="right">$1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  John Bremm. By A.A. Hopkins.                  </td><td align="right"> 1.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Sinner and Saint. By A.A. Hopkins.            </td><td align="right"> 1.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  The Tempter Behind. By John Saunders.         </td><td align="right"> 1.25 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Good Work. By Mary D. Chellis.                </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Mystery of the Lodge. By Mary D. Chellis.     </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Finished or Not. By the author of "Fabrics."  </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Modern Prophets. By Pansy and Faye Huntington.</td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  May Bell. By Hubert Newbury.                  </td><td align="right"> 1.50 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+<span class="sc"><u>Temperance Reformation,</u></span> The, and Its Claims upon the Christian
+Church. By Rev. James Smith, of Scotland. 8 vo. $2.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+Sunday-school teachers and superintendents will find the above books
+admirably adapted to the purpose of teaching great moral lessons, while
+they are also full of pleasure and interest to young readers.
+</p>
+
+<h3>LOTHROP'S POPULAR LOW-PRICE LIBRARIES.</h3>
+<p>
+Among attractive and valuable Libraries issued in sets at prices which
+place them not only beyond competition, but within the easy reach of
+all, are
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" summary="price list">
+<tr><td>  Best Way Series. 3 vols., illust.                          </td><td align="right"> $1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Half Hour Library, by <span class="sc">Pansy</span>. 8 vols., illust. </td><td align="right">3.20 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Little People's Home Library. 12 vols., illust.            </td><td align="right">  3.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Little Pansy Series. 10 vols., illust. Cloth, $4.00; boards.</td><td align="right"> 3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Little May's Picture Library. 12 vols., illust.            </td><td align="right">  2.40 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Mother's Boys and Girls, by <span class="sc">Pansy</span>. 12 vols., illust. </td><td align="right">3.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Rainy Day Library. 8 vols., illust                       </td><td align="right">    4.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Spring Blossom. 12 vols., illust.                        </td><td align="right">    3.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Stories from the Bible, 1st and 2d Series. Each          </td><td align="right">     .15 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Twisty Clover Series. 6 vols., illust.                   </td><td align="right">    1.20 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Happy Thought Library. 6 vols., large 18mo. illust.      </td><td align="right">    3.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Little Neighbor Series. 6 vols., large 18mo, illust.     </td><td align="right">    1.50 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  May and Tom Library. 5 vols., 18mo, illust.              </td><td align="right">    3.00 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Sunny Dell Series. 6 vols., 18mo, illust.                </td><td align="right">    3.60 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Side by Side Library. 3 vols., 16mo, illust.             </td><td align="right">    1.80 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page14" name="page14"></a>[pg 14]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h3>  LOTHROP'S POPULAR PANSY BOOKS.</h3>
+<p>
+  The works of this popular author are universally acknowledged to be
+  among the very best of all books for Sunday-school reading. Earnest,
+  hopeful, practical, full of the spirit of Christian faith and courage,
+  they are also in the highest degree interesting.
+</p>
+
+<h3>   COMPLETE LIST OF THE PANSY BOOKS. </h3>
+
+<center>   <i>Each volume, 12mo,</i> $1.50. </center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Chautauqua Girls at Home.</li>
+<li>   Divers Women.</li>
+<li>   Echoing and Re-echoing.</li>
+<li>   Endless Chain (An).</li>
+<li>   Ester Ried.</li>
+<li>   Ester Ried Yet Speaking.</li>
+<li>   Four Girls at Chautauqua.</li>
+<li>   From different Standpoints.</li>
+<li>   Hall in the Grove (The).</li>
+<li>   Household Puzzles.</li>
+<li>   Julia Ried.</li>
+<li>   King's Daughter (The).</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Links in Rebecca's Life.</li>
+<li>   Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On.</li>
+<li>   Modern Prophets.</li>
+<li>   Man of the House (The).</li>
+<li>   New Graft on the Family Tree (A).</li>
+<li>   Pocket Measure (The).</li>
+<li>   Ruth Erskine's Crosses.</li>
+<li>   Randolphs (The).</li>
+<li>   Sidney Martin's Christmas.</li>
+<li>   Those Boys.</li>
+<li>   Three People.</li>
+<li>   Tip Lewis and his Lamp.</li>
+<li>   Wise and Otherwise.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>   <i>Each volume, 12mo</i> $1.25. </center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Cunning Workmen.</li>
+<li>   Dr. Deane's Way.</li>
+<li>   Grandpa's Darlings.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Miss Priscilla Hunter and my Daughter Susan.</li>
+<li>   Mrs. Deane's Way.</li>
+<li>   What she Said.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>   <i>Each volume, 12mo,</i> $1.25</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Five Friends.</li>
+<li>   Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening.</li>
+<li>   Next Things.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Pansy's Scrap Book,</li>
+<li>   Some young Heroines.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>   <i>Each volume, 16mo.</i> 75 cents.</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Getting Ahead.</li>
+<li>   Mary Burton Abroad.</li>
+<li>   Pansies.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Six little Girls</li>
+<li>   That Boy Bob.</li>
+<li>   Two Boys.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>   <i>Each volume 16mo,</i> 75 cents.</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Bernie's White Chicken.</li>
+<li>   Docia's Journal.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Helen Lester.</li>
+<li>   Jessie Wells.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>   MISCELLANEOUS.</h3>
+
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   Hedge Fence (A)., 16mo, 60c.</li>
+<li>   Side by Side, 16mo, 60c.</li>
+<li>   Pansy's Picture Book. 4to, boards, 1.50; cloth 2.00</li>
+<li>   The little Pansy Series. 10 vols., boards, 3.00; cloth 4.00</li>
+<li>   Mother's Boys and Girls Library. 12 vols., quarto, boards. 3.00</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>
+  PANSY'S NEW BOOKS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Among the new books by this favorite author, which Sunday-school
+  Superintendents and all readers of her previous books will wish to
+  order, are
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>A HEDGE FENCE.</u> 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.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>AN ENDLESS CHAIN.</u> 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.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>SIDE BY SIDE.</u> Short illustrated stories from Bible texts for the
+  help of boys and girls in their everyday duties. 16mo, cloth, 60 c.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>CHRISTIE'S CHRISTMAS.</u> 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.
+</p>
+<p>
+  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. Cloth, Illustrated $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  In fact all of Pansy's books have some special charm or attraction which
+  makes them a power for good whenever read.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  LOTHROP'S SELECT SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <i>Every book in these marvellously cheap libraries will bear the
+  closest criticism</i>. Each is fresh and interesting in matter,
+  unexceptional in tone and excellent in literary style. These libraries
+  as a whole, considering their character and cost <i>have no
+  superiors</i>.
+</p>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 12, 20 vols., $5.00 net.</li>
+<li>  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 9, 50 vols., $25.00 net.</li>
+<li>  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 10, 12 vols., $5.00 net.</li>
+<li>  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 11, 20 vols., $10.00 net.</li>
+<li>  Pansy's Primary Library, 30 vols., 7.50 net.</li>
+<li>  Select Primary Sunday-school Library, 36 vols., in extra cloth binding, 5.50 net.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>
+  LOTHROP'S BOOKS FOR SUPERINTENDENTS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <u>BIBLE READER, THE.</u> By Rev. H. V. Dexter, D. D. 16mo., .50
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>BIBLE LESSONS FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERTS AND ANNIVERSARIES.</u> By
+  Edmund Clark, 18 numbers 5 cts. each. Bound in 16mo. vol, cloth, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>BIBLE PICTURES.</u> By Rev. Geo. B. Ide, D. D. 12mo, $2.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>FIFTY YEARS WITH THE SABBATH-SCHOOL.</u> By Rev. Asa Bullard, D.D.
+  12mo, cloth, $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>SELF-GIVING.</u> A story of Christian missions. By Rev. W.F.
+  Bainbridge. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>ROCK OF AGES.</u> By Rev. S.F. Smith, D.D. A choice collection of
+  religious poems. 18mo, cloth, gilt edges, $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>STUDY OF NAHUM (A).</u> By Professor Thom. H. Rich. 16mo, $.40
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>STORY OF THE PRAYERS OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY (The).</u> By Hezekiah
+  Butterworth. 12mo. illustrated $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>WALK TO EMMAUS.</u> By Rev. Nehemiah Adams. Charming specimens of
+  sermon literature. 12mo, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>WARS OF THE JEWS.</u> By Flavine Josephus. Translated by William
+  Whiston, M.A. 8vo, cloth, plain, $1.00. Extra cloth, gilt top, fully
+  illustrated, $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT [The];</u> or, The New Birth. By Prof. Austin
+  Phelps, D.D. 16mo, $1.25.
+</p>
+
+<h3>
+  LOTHROP'S BOOKS FOR ANNIVERSARIES AND CONCERTS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  It is often a difficult matter to determine what to use for
+  Sunday-school anniversaries, etc. To those in doubt, we would suggest
+  the use of the following capital aids:
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>BIBLE LESSONS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS, CONCERTS AND ANNIVERSARIES.</u> By
+  Edmund Clark. 18 numbers, 5 cents each. Bound in one 16mo volume, cloth,
+  $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>HELP FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERTS.</u> By A.P. and M.T. Folsom. A
+  choice collection of poems. 16mo, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <u>ENTERTAINMENTS.</u> By Lizzie W. Champney. For concerts, exhibitions,
+  church festivals, etc. 15mo, Illustrated. $1.00
+</p>
+<h3>
+  A THOUSAND OTHER CHOICE BOOKS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  The above, and a thousand other choice books which cannot be mentioned
+  here, make up a list from which superintendents and teachers can easily
+  select a VALUABLE LIBRARY at a low price. Send for full catalogue,
+  mailed free, and for special terms to those ordering any number of
+  volumes. Any book sent postage paid on receipt of price.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page15" name="page15"></a>[pg 15]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>  <b>ELLA FARMAN'S BOOKS.</b></h3>
+<p>
+  Ella Farman is the editor of <span class="sc">Wide Awake</span>, and her books are full of
+  sympathy with girl-life, always sunshiny and hopeful, always pointing
+  out new ways to do things and unexpected causes for happiness and
+  gladness.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>9 vols. 12mo. Illust. $10.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Annie Maylie.</li>
+<li>  A Little Woman.</li>
+<li>  A Girl's Money.</li>
+<li>  A White Hand.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Grandma Crosby's Household.</li>
+<li>  Good-for-Nothing Polly.</li>
+<li>  How Two Girls Tried Farming.</li>
+<li>  Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow.</li>
+<li>  Mrs. Hurd's Niece.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>JULIA A. EASTMAN'S BOOKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Miss Eastman has a large circle of young admirers. She carries off the
+  palm as a writer of school-life stories, and teachers are always glad to
+  find their scholars reading her books. Miss Eastman's style is
+  characterized by quick movement, sparkling expression, and incisive
+  knowledge of human nature.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $7.50</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Kitty Kent.</li>
+<li>  Young Rick.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Romneys of Ridgemont, Short Comings and Long Goings. (The).</li>
+<li>  Striking for the Right.</li>
+<li>  School Days of Beulah Romney.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>REV. J.L. PRATT'S BOOKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  This set of books is valuable for its fitness to the needs of young
+  people who have come to the age when they begin to examine for
+  themselves into religious beliefs and opinions. They are interesting as
+  stories, abounding with beautiful descriptions and delicate portraitures
+  of character, and are everywhere favorites with the thoughtful and
+  meditative.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>4 vols. 12mo. Illust. $6.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Evening Rest.</li>
+<li>  Bonnie Ærie.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Branches of Palm.</li>
+<li>  Broken Fetters.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>MRS. A. E. PORTER'S BOOKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Mrs. Porter is a favorite author with adult readers, as well as with
+  children. Her stories, always dealing largely with home-life, are well
+  calculated to make truthfulness and steadfastness and Christian living
+  the subjects of youthful admiration and imitation.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>5 vols. 12mo. Illust. $6.25.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  This One Thing I Do.</li>
+<li>  Millie Lee.</li>
+<li>  Sunset Mountain.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  My Hero.</li>
+<li>  Glencoe Parsonage.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>BY AUTHOR OF ANDY LUTTRELL</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Powerful books, dealing with knotty problems, and positive in their
+  religious teaching. They are perennial favorites with all classes of
+  readers.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $7.50.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Andy Luttrell.</li>
+<li>  Barbara.</li>
+<li>  Talbury Girls.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Strawberry Hill.</li>
+<li>  Silent Tom.</li>
+<li>  Hidden Treasure.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>MRS. E.D. KENDALL'S WORKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Each full of earnestness of purpose, and impressing a life lesson on the
+  reader's mind. Excellent for boys.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $3.75.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Judge's Sons.</li>
+<li>  The Stanifords of Staniford's Folly.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Master and Pupil.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>MARY J. CAPRON'S BOOKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  These books are thoroughly healthy and stimulating, and admirably
+  adapted to put into the hands of thoughtful young people to lead them to
+  right ideas on the fundamental truths of the religious life.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>4 vols. 12mo. Illust. $5.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Plus and Minus.</li>
+<li>  Gold and Gilt.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Maybee's Stepping Stones.</li>
+<li>  Mrs. Thorne's Guests.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>REV. Z.A. MUDGE'S WORKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  This well known author's works are among the most popular in the
+  Sunday-school library.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $3.75.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Shell Cove.</li>
+<li>  Luck of Alden Farm.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Boat Builders.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>CHARLOTTE M. YONGE'S HISTORIES.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Miss Yonge, while always boldly and continuously outlining the course of
+  historical events, has the knack of seizing upon incidents which reveal
+  the true character of historical personages. These histories are
+  attractive as romance and possess a peculiar power of impressing the
+  memory, being written from a Christian standpoint they are very
+  desirable books for Sunday-school libraries.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $9.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Young Folks' History of Germany.</li>
+<li>  Young Folks' History of Greece.</li>
+<li>  Young Folks' History of Rome.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Young Folks' History of England.</li>
+<li>  Young Folks' History of France.</li>
+<li>  Young Folks' Bible History.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>SPARE MINUTE SERIES</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  These are bright and pithy and soul-stirring volumes, quickening the
+  intellect of the reader and warming the heart.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>4 vols. 12mo. $4.00.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Thoughts that Breathe. <i>From</i> Dean Stanley. Introduction by
+  Phillips Brooks.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Cheerful Words. <i>From</i> George MacDonald. Introduction by James T.
+  Fields.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Might of Right. <i>From</i> Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone. Introduction
+  by John D. Long.
+</p>
+<p>
+  True Manliness. <i>From</i> Thomas Hughes. Introduction by James Russell
+  Lowell.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  <b>W.H.G. KINGSTON'S BOOKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  These stories are intensely interesting and graphic and enforce the
+  highest and most practical lessons.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $8.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Voyage of the Steadfast.</li>
+<li>  Charley Laurel.</li>
+<li>  Virginia.</li>
+<li>  Little Ben Hadden.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Young Whaler.</li>
+<li>  Fisher Boy.</li>
+<li>  Peter the Ship Boy.</li>
+<li>  Ralph and Dick.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>BUNGENER HISTORICAL SERIES.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  From the French of L.L.F. Bungener. These works are of thrilling
+  interest, illustrating the religious struggles, heroism and social life
+  of the times of Louis XIV. and XV.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>4 Vols. 12mo. Illust. $5.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Bourdaloue and Louis XIV.</li>
+<li>  Louis XV. and his Times.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Rabaut and Bridaine.</li>
+<li>  The Tower of Constancy.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>BANVARD'S AMERICAN HISTORY.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Every library should be furnished with this series of American
+  Histories.&mdash;<i>New England Farmer</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  No more interesting and instructive reading can be put into the hands of
+  youth.&mdash;<i>Portland Transcript</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Every American should own these books.&mdash;<i>Scientific American</i>.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>5 vols. 12mo. Illust. $5.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Southern Explorers.</li>
+<li>  Soldiers and Patriots.</li>
+<li>  Pioneers of the New World.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Plymouth and the Pilgrims.</li>
+<li>  First Explorers of North America.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>
+  <b>DR. NEHEMIAH ADAMS' WORKS.</b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <i>12 vols. 12mo. $12.00.</i>
+</center>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  At Eventide.</li>
+<li>  Agnes; or, the Litte Key.</li>
+<li>  Bertha.</li>
+<li>  Broadcast.</li>
+<li>  Christ a Friend.</li>
+<li>  Communion Sabbath.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Catherine.</li>
+<li>  Cross in the Cell.</li>
+<li>  Endless Punishment.</li>
+<li>  Evenings wish the Doctrines.</li>
+<li>  Friends of Christ.</li>
+<li>  Under the Mizzen-Mast.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>
+  D. LOTHROP &amp; CO., Publishers, 32 Franklin St., Boston.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page16" name="page16"></a>[pg 16]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h3>MARGARET SIDNEY'S BOOKS.</h3>
+<p>
+  The brightness and versatility of this charming writer are well shown in
+  the following stories which cover a wide range, and are attractive to
+  all ages, from wide awake schoolboys and eager schoolgirls to thoughtful
+  readers of maturer years. As a delineator of character, especially that
+  of the New England type, she has few superiors, and her pictures of
+  child life are especially pleasing.
+</p>
+<p>
+  FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS, AND HOW THEY GREW.
+  Extra cloth binding, very elegant die in colors and gold.
+  12mo, illust. 1.50
+</p>
+<p>
+  PETTIBONE NAME (The). V.I.F. Series,
+  12mo, cloth. 1.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  SO AS BY FIRE.
+  12mo, illust. 1.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  WHO TOLD IT TO ME.
+  Double chromo cover, fully illustrated. 1.25; Extra cloth binding. 1.75
+</p>
+<p>
+  WHAT THE SEVEN DID.
+  Quarto, fully illustrated, board cover designed by J. Wells Champney,
+  1.75; extra cloth, very elegant side and back stamp. 2.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  HALF YEAR AT BRONCKTON.
+  16mo, illust. 1.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  HOW THEY WENT TO EUROPE.
+  16mo, illust. 1.00
+</p>
+<p>
+  GOLDEN WEST (The), as seen by the Ridgway Club.
+  Quarto, illustrated, boards, 1.75; extra cloth binding. 2.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  (Nearly ready).
+</p>
+<h3>EDWARD A. RAND'S BOOKS.</h3>
+<p>
+  Mr. Rand's strong, helpful, interesting stories have made him such a
+  favorite among boys and among all other who read his books, as to make
+  comment upon them almost needless. The racy incidents and sparkling
+  style which characterize his stories, arouse interest at once, and there
+  is in them an under-current of earnestness, and an influence for good
+  which will remain after the stories are forgotten.
+</p>
+<p>
+  ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.
+  Chromo board cover, 1.75; extra cloth binding. 2.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  BARK CABIN ON KEARSARGE.
+  16mo, cloth, illust. 1.00
+</p>
+<p>
+  TENT IN THE NOTCH, THE.
+  16mo, cloth, gilt. 1.00
+</p>
+<p>
+  ROY'S DORY AT THE SEASHORE. A sequel to "Pushing Ahead."
+  Large 16mo, cloth, illust. 1.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  ALL ABOARD FOR THE LAKES AND MOUNTAINS.
+  Boards, 1.75; extra cloth. 2.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  PUSHING AHEAD; or, Big Brother Dave.
+  16mo. 1.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  LITTLE BROWN-TOP: and the People under It.
+  12mo, illust. 1.25
+</p>
+<h3>MARIE OLIVER'S STORIES.</h3>
+<p>
+  As a writer of fascinating stories for girls, Marie Oliver has a host of
+  admirers who watch eagerly for any new book from her pen, and find in
+  her a friendly and wise helper.
+</p>
+<p>
+  MARIE OLIVER'S STORIES.
+  4 volumes, 12mo, cloth, illustrated. 6.00
+</p>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Margie's Mission.</li>
+<li>  Old and New Friends.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Ruby Hamilton.</li>
+<li>  Seba's Discipline.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>THE BAINBRIDGE BOOKS.</h3>
+<p>
+  These books, written by the Rev. W.F. Bainbridge and his wife, are
+  the outcome of their experience in a trip around the world undertaken
+  because of their interest in Christian Missions. They not only abound
+  in interesting descriptions of the numerous places visited, but present
+  such a record of lofty purposes and noble endeavors as will furnish
+  inspiration to all readers.
+</p>
+<p>
+  AROUND THE WORLD TOUR OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. By W. F. BAINBRIDGE.
+  With maps of Prevailing Religions and all Leading Mission Stations.
+  8vo cloth. 2.00
+</p>
+<p>
+  ROUND THE WORLD LETTERS. By LUCY SEAMAN BAINBRIDGE.
+  8vo, cloth, illustrated. 1.50
+</p>
+<p>
+  SELF-GIVING. A story of Christian Missions. By REV. W. F. BAINBRIDGE.
+  12mo, cloth, illust. 1.50
+</p>
+<h3>MRS. S.R. GRAHAM CLARK'S BOOKS.</h3>
+<p>
+  There is not a book on the list of Mrs. Clark's delightfully
+  entertaining writings which is not thoroughly good from whatever
+  point of view considered.
+</p>
+<p>
+  YENSIE WALTON BOOKS.
+  12mo, cloth, illust $1.50 each. 5 volumes. 7.50
+</p>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Yensie Walton.</li>
+<li>  Our Street.</li>
+<li>  Yensie Walton's Womanhood.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  The Triple E.</li>
+<li>  Achor.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>MISS YONGE'S HISTORICAL STORIES.</h3>
+<p>
+  There are very many, especially
+  among the young, who are not attracted to the study of history, as
+  presented in ordinary historical works, but who are attracted to it
+  through the reading of books in which it is interwoven with romance. All
+  such will be charmed with Miss Yonge's Historical Stories, which
+  instruct while they interest, and are written in the fascinating style
+  which has made her one of the most popular writers of the day.
+</p>
+<p>
+  YONGE'S HISTORICAL STORIES.
+  4 vols, 12mo. 5.00
+</p>
+
+<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  The Little Duke.</li>
+<li>  The Prince and the Page.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Lances of Lynwood.</li>
+<li>  Golden Deeds.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<h3>THE FAMILY FLIGHTS.</h3>
+<center>
+  By Rev. E.E. Hale and Miss Susan Hale.
+</center>
+<p>
+  Fresh, piquant, graphic, full of delicate humor, marked by grace in
+  diction and thorough scholarship, these books are not only unsurpassed,
+  but unequalled by any books of similar character. They treat of the
+  interesting features of the various countries named, including history,
+  geography, natural scenery, popular characteristics and customs, and
+  much else that will prove of real interest and value to the reader. The
+  authors have drawn their material from original sources, the countries
+  referred to having been actually visited, and the descriptions embody
+  the results of personal observation. The illustrations are not only
+  numerous and excellent, but in perfect harmony with the text. While
+  specially attractive to the young, adult readers who have themselves
+  visited the lands described, are among the most appreciative and
+  enthusiastic readers of these books.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME.
+  8vo, cloth, gilt. 2.50
+</p>
+<p>
+  A FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE, GERMANY, NORWAY AND SWITZERLAND.
+  8vo, illuminated board covers and linings, 2.00; extra cloth, gilt. 2.50
+</p>
+<p>
+  A FAMILY FLIGHT OVER EGYPT AND SYRIA.
+  8vo, illuminated board covers and linings, 2.00; extra cloth, gilt. 2.50
+</p>
+<p>
+  A FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH SPAIN.
+  8vo, illuminated board covers and linings, 2.00; extra cloth, gilt, 2.50
+</p>
+<p>
+  A FAMILY FLIGHT TO MEXICO. Uniform with the above. In preparation.
+</p>
+<h3>ABBY MORTON DIAZ'S BOOK.</h3>
+<p>
+  Bright and keen as steel, Mrs. Diaz invests all that she writes with a
+  peculiar charm, whether it be a fantastic story of kittens that will
+  make the little ones wild with glee, a series of "jolly" books for older
+  boys and girls, or a thoughtful treatise on the serious questions which
+  most interest the mothers in every home.
+</p>
+<p>
+  CHRONICLES OF THE STIMPCETT FAMILY.
+  Quarto, chromo lithograph cover. 1.25
+</p>
+<p>
+  KING GRIMALKUM AND PUSSYANITA; or, The Cats' Arabian Nights.
+  Quarto, illust. 1.25
+</p>
+<h3>
+  POLLY COLOGNE SERIES. 3 vols. 3.00
+</h3>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  Polly Cologne.</li>
+<li>  The Jimmyjohns.</li>
+<li>  A Story Book for Children.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>  WILLIAM HENRY BOOKS. 3 volumes. 3.00</h3>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>  William Henry Letters.</li>
+<li>  Lucy Maria.</li>
+<li>  William Henry and his Friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+  DOMESTIC PROBLEMS: Work and Culture in the Household. 1.00
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>[pg 17]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3> D. LOTHROP &amp; COMPANY'S</h3>
+<h2> BULLETIN OF NEW BOOKS. </h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  History of China.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Robert K. Douglass.</b> 12MO, CLOTH, ILLUSTRATED, $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Until this book appeared, a thoroughly good one-volume history of the
+  "Walled Kingdom" for popular use, was not to be had. There have been
+  many works upon China and the Chinese, but of these few have attempted
+  to summarize the history of that great empire and its citizens in a
+  single comprehensive work, and none have done so with such success as to
+  meet the popular need. In this volume we have an authentic, scholarly
+  and most interesting summary of Chinese history from the earliest period
+  to the present time. In addition to the careful editing of Mr. Arthur
+  Gilman, the book has had the advantage of the critical abilities of the
+  young Chinese scholar, Mr. Yan Phou Lee, of Yale College. The volume is
+  richly illustrated with appropriate engravings, and will rank among
+  standard books.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Southern Alaska and the Sitkan Archipelago.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Eliza Ruhama Scidmore.</b> FULLY ILLUSTRATED, 12MO, CLOTH, $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  No book yet published bears any comparison with this volume in respect
+  of valuable and authentic information relating to the history,
+  geography, topography, climate, natural scenery, inhabitants, and rich
+  resources of this wonderful <i>terra incognita</i>. The author, who is a
+  writer of well-known reputation, has had exceptional opportunities for
+  the preparation of her attractive work, having visited the regions
+  described, at different periods, under most favorable circumstances, and
+  having had access to the government documents relating to the history
+  and surveys of Alaska, aside from the kindly assistance of the experts
+  and scientists best acquainted with that marvellous region. Her book has
+  all of the interest of a delightfully written story of adventures in a
+  comparatively unknown region, and with the additional value which it
+  possesses as the only approach thus far made to trustworthy treatise
+  upon the history and resources of Alaska it will commend itself to all
+  persons interested in that country, either as students or
+  <i>voyageurs</i>.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Many Colored Threads.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>Selections from the writings of Goethe, edited by Carrie Adelaide
+  Cook.</b> EXTRA CLOTH, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Those familiar with the writings of the great German author, and those
+  who know little of them, will be alike interested in this collection of
+  "best thoughts." Eloquence, pathos, romance, philosophy&mdash;a wide range of
+  sentiment and feeling, characteristic of the life of Goethe&mdash;are
+  revealed in these selections. The book is a worthy companion to the six
+  preceding volumes of the widely-circulated "Spare Minute
+  Series"&mdash;<i>Thoughts that Breathe</i>, Dean Stanley; <i>Cheerful
+  Words</i>, George MacDonald; <i>The Might of Right</i>, Gladstone;
+  <i>True Manliness</i>, Thos. Hughes; <i>Living Truths</i>, Charles
+  Kingsley; <i>Right to the Point</i>, Dr. Cuyler.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Wide Awake, Volume I.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  PLAIN CLOTH BINDING, $1.75; EXTRA BINDING, COVERS STAMPED IN COLORS AND
+  GOLD, $2.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Including Charles Egbert Craddock's serial story "Down the Ravine," with
+  other serials by famous authors, and nearly three hundred original
+  illustrations by celebrated artists.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>[pg 18]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  Baccalaureate Sermons.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Rev. A.B. Peabody, D.D.LL.D.</b> 12MO, $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The sermons contained in this volume, delivered before the graduating
+  classes of Harvard University, it is safe to say are not excelled by any
+  productions of their kind. They are not only rarely appropriate, as
+  discourses addressed to educated young men upon the threshold of active
+  life, but are models of logical thought, and graceful rhetoric worthy
+  the study of all ministers.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Interrupted.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Pansy (Mrs. G.R. Alden).</b> EXTRA CLOTH, 12MO, $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It has all the charm of this most popular author's fascinating style,
+  grown riper each year, and possessing more of the peculiar power by
+  which she adapts herself to her varied audience. More than a hundred
+  thousand of Pansy's books are sold every year.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Within the Shadow.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Dorothy Holroyd.</b> 12MO, CLOTH, $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The most successful book of the year." "The plot is ingenious, yet not
+  improbable, the character drawing strong and vigorous, the story
+  throughout one of brilliancy and power." "The book cannot help making a
+  sensation."&mdash;<i>Boston Transcript.</i> "The author is an original and
+  vigorous writer, and at once takes rank with the best writers of
+  American fiction."&mdash;<i>Toledo Journal.</i> "A story of such brilliancy
+  and power as to at once entitle its author to recognition as a writer of
+  high ability."&mdash;<i>Journal Press</i>, St. Cloud. "The author has skill
+  in invention with the purest sentiment and good natural
+  style."&mdash;<i>Boston Globe.</i>
+</p>
+<h3>
+  How Success is Won.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>(Little Biographies. Third Series.) By Sarah K. Bolton.</b> PRICE, $1.
+</p>
+<p>
+  This is the best of the recent books of this popular class of biography;
+  all its "successful men" are Americans, and with two or three exceptions
+  they are living and in the full tide of business and power. In each
+  case, the facts have been furnished to the author by the subject of the
+  biography, or by family friends; and Mrs. Bolton has chosen from this
+  authentic material those incidents which most fully illustrate the
+  successive steps, and the ruling principles, by which success has been
+  gained. A portrait accompanies each biography.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  In Case of Accident.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Dr. D.A. Sargent.</b> ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, 60 CENTS.
+</p>
+<p>
+  This little handbook is worth its weight in gold, and should be found on
+  the most convenient shelf of every family library. The author is
+  connected with the Harvard College Gymnasium, and the contents of the
+  volume are made up of practical talks delivered before the ladies' class
+  of the Gymnasium. His aim is to give such practical information as will
+  aid to self-preservation in times of danger, and to teach a few of the
+  simplest methods of meeting the common accidents and emergencies of
+  life. The illustrations are numerous and excellent.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  The Arnold Birthday Book.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>Edited by his Daughters.</b> $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  With an autograph introductory poem by Edwin Arnold, and choice
+  quotations from his poems for every day. The many admirers of the "Light
+  of Asia" will gladly welcome this graceful souvenir of the author, which
+  is handsomely illustrated and daintily finished.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>[pg 19]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  The Evolution of Dodd.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By William Hawley Smith.</b> EXTRA CLOTH, 12MO, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  This remarkable book is destined to create as great a stir, in its way,
+  as "Ginx's Baby," although written in an entirely different style. It
+  treats of phases of young life as seen through the spectacles of a
+  keen-eyed man, sharp enough to let none of the intricacies of the newer
+  systems of education evade him. It should be read by every parent,
+  teacher, and public school officer in this or any other country. While
+  for pure amusement in watching Dodd's evolution, it is one of the
+  richest books of the season.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Red Letter Stories.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>Translated from the German by Miss Lucy Wheelock.</b> PRICE 60 CENTS.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Madame Johanna Spyri is pronounced by competent critics the best living
+  German writer for children. Miss Lucy Wheelock of the Chauncy Hall
+  School, Boston, has gracefully translated some of her most charming
+  tales, under the above title. This delightful volume, prettily bound and
+  illustrated, is one of the best selling books of the season.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  The Gray Masque and Other Poems.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Mary B. Dodge.</b> ILLUSTRATED, EXTRA CLOTH, $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The name of this author, whose reputation is already established, will
+  be at once recognized in connection with some of the choicest bits of
+  poetry contributed to recent periodical literature, such as "Indian
+  Summer," "My Baby," "Frozen Crew," etc., all of which, with many new and
+  equally excellent poems, are offered to the public in this unusually
+  attractive volume.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Memorial of Rev. Warren H. Cudworth.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By His Sister;</b> WITH PORTRAIT, 380 PAGES, $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Simply told and remarkably interesting is this story of the life of one
+  of the most saintly of Christian men. It will be welcomed and read with
+  satisfaction by all who knew him, and to those who never saw him, it
+  will be full of suggestive thought.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Money in Politics.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Hon. J.K. Upton.</b> LATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES
+  TREASURY. EXTRA CLOTH, GILT TOP. 12MO, $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  This volume presents a complete history of money, or the circulating
+  medium, in the United States, from the colonial days to the present
+  time. Mr. Edward Atkinson, in his introduction, pronounces it the most
+  valuable work of the kind yet published.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Lift up Your Hearts.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>Compiled and arranged by Rose Porter.</b> 25 CENTS.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Helpful thoughts for overcoming the world. A vest pocket volume, in
+  dainty, flexible covers, printed in sepia. Bound in red cloth.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  A Romance of the Revolution.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>(A Double Masquerade.) By Rev. Charles R. Talbot.</b> EXTRA CLOTH, 12MO,
+  $1.25.
+</p>
+<p>
+  With illustrations by Share, Merrill and Taylor made from careful
+  studies. The portion describing the battle of Bunker Hill, as seen by
+  the boys, has been said to be one of the most graphic and telling
+  accounts ever written of that famous conflict.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>[pg 20]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  Health at Home Library.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>Or, Mental and Physical Hygiene. By J. Mortimer Granville.</b>
+</p>
+<p>
+  5 VOLS., 16MO, CLOTH, SOLD SEPARATELY, EACH SIXTY CENTS, THE LIBRARY $3.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  I. THE SECRET OF A CLEAR HEAD, chapters on temperature, habits,
+  pleasures, etc.
+</p>
+<p>
+  II. SLEEP AND SLEEPLESSNESS, chapters on the nature of sleep, going to
+  sleep, sleeping, awakening, sleeplessness, sleep and food.
+</p>
+<p>
+  III. THE SECRET OF A GOOD MEMORY, chapters on what memory is, how it
+  works, taking in, storing, remembering, etc.
+</p>
+<p>
+  IV. COMMON MIND TROUBLES, chapters on defects in memory, confusion of
+  thought, sleeplessness, hesitancy and errors in speech, low spirits, etc.
+</p>
+<p>
+  V. HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF LIFE, chapters on what constitutes health, on
+  feeling, breathing, drinking, eating, overwork, change, etc.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Philosophiæ Quæstor.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>Or, Days at Concord. By Julia R. Anagnos.</b> 12MO, 60 CENTS.
+</p>
+<p>
+  In this interesting book Mrs. Anagnos, one of the accomplished daughters
+  of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, presents under cover of a pleasing narrative, a
+  sketch of the memorable Emerson and other sessions of the Concord School
+  of Philosophy. It has for its frontispiece an excellent picture of the
+  building occupied by this renowned school.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Illiteracy and Mormonism.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Henry Randall Waite, Ph.D.</b>, LATE STATISTICIAN UNITED STATES
+  CENSUS, SECRETARY INTER-STATE COMMISSION ON FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION.
+  12MO, ANTIQUE PAPER COVERS, 25 CENTS.
+</p>
+<p>
+  These papers, as they appeared, in substance, in the <i>Princeton
+  Review</i>, attracted wide attention, and were characterized as "broad,
+  scholarly, and statesmanlike," and as "the most thoughtful and
+  conclusive arguments upon these subjects yet presented." "They demand
+  thoughtful consideration and respect."&mdash;<i>Boston Transcript</i>.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Stories from the Pansy.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  SECOND SERIES, FULLY ILLUSTRATED, SIX VOLUMES IN A NEAT BOX, THE SET
+  $1.80.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A library of delightful short stories in which instruction is pleasingly
+  blended with entertainment. These stories, culled from the writings of
+  well-known authors, will command the favor of parents seeking the best
+  books for their children, and of those who desire the most acceptable
+  books for Sunday-school libraries.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  In the Woods and Out.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>By Pansy</b>. ILLUSTRATED, 12MO, CLOTH, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Here is a book admirably suited to the needs of that large class of
+  young folks who wish at times to read, or have read to them, the
+  choicest of short tales. Mothers and older sisters will make a note of
+  this, and for the twilight hour when the young folks clamor for "a
+  story," will provide themselves with "In the Woods and Out."
+</p>
+<h3>
+  Couldn't be Bought.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  <b>A Book for the Sunday-school Library. By Faye Huntington</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  16MO, CLOTH, ILLUSTRATED, 75 CENTS.
+</p>
+<p>
+  For genuine excellence in both manner and sentiment, few writers of
+  books for the young excel the author of this excellent character study.
+  It is a book which will be equally interesting and profitable.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx13" name="pagexxx13"></a>[pg xxx13]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h3>
+  <b><i>FALL TERM</i></b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  OF THE
+</center>
+<h3>
+  <b>NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY</b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  OF
+<br />
+  <b>Music begins Sept. 10,1885.</b>
+<br />
+  NEW CLASSES
+<br />
+ Will be formed for beginners as well as for advanced
+</center>
+<p>
+  MUSIC Voice, Piano, Organ, Violin, Orchestral Instruments, Harmony,
+  Theory and Timing.
+</p>
+<p>
+  ART Drawing, Painting, Portraiture, Modeling, Wood Carving and
+  Embroidery.
+</p>
+<p>
+  ORATORY Vocal Technique, Elocution, Dramatic and Forensic Art
+</p>
+<p>
+  LANGUAGES French, German and Italian.
+</p>
+<p>
+  ENGLISH BRANCHES Arithmetic, Algebra, Grammar, Rhetoric, English
+  Literature and Latin.
+</p>
+<p>
+  PHYSICAL CULTURE A well equipped Gymnasium.
+</p>
+<p>
+  HOME Elegant accommodations for Lady Students, $4.50 to $7.50 per week,
+  including steam heat and electric light in every room, elevator, etc.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Classes in Sight Singing, Church Music, Glees, Chorus Work, Analysis of
+  Symphonies, Lectures on Music, Art and Literature by eminent
+  specialists, concerts, recitals, etc., amounting in all to 180 hours per
+  term, <i>Free</i> to all regular Students in any department. Send for
+  beautiful illustrated calendar, free, to
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span style="font-size:150%;"><b>E. TOURJEE</b>, Director,</span><br />
+  <i>Franklin Sq., Boston, Mass.</i>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h3>
+  CHARLES K. WADHAM &amp; CO.,
+</h3>
+<center>
+  166 DEVONSHIRE STREET,<br />
+  BOSTON, MASS.
+<br />
+  WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER OF
+<br />
+  <span style="font-size:150%;">BLANK BOOKS,</span>
+</center>
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:150%;">  <i>Scrap Albums</i></span>
+<br />
+  &mdash;&mdash;AND&mdash;&mdash;
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:150%;">  <i>Fine Stationery.</i></span><br />
+</center>
+<center>
+  A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF<br />
+<span style="font-size:150%;">  PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS</span>
+<br />
+  &mdash;&mdash;AND&mdash;&mdash;
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:150%;">  GENERAL STATIONERS' GOODS</span>
+</center>
+<p>
+  <i>Pocket Books, Christmas Novelties in great variety.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:175px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/527.jpg"><img src="images/527.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="GLOBE LETTER FILING CABINETS" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>GLOBE LETTER FILING
+<br />
+<i>CABINETS</i>.</h3>
+<center><i>Most Perfect System Known.</i></center>
+<p>  All sizes Black Walnut Cabinets in stock, from 6 to 60 Files.</p>
+<p>Over $20,000 worth in use <b>in Boston</b> alone.</p>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>    <i>Quick Reference</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>No Mutilation of Papers</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>Rapid Filing</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>Handsome Workmanship</i>.</li>
+</ul>
+<center>
+<span style="font-size: 200%;">  W.W. EDWARDS,</span><br /> <b>SELLING AGENT,</b>
+<br />
+<b><i>The Globe Files Company</i>, 166 Devonshire St., Boston.</b>
+</center>
+<table border="0" width="100%" align="center" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>SCRAP FILES.</li>
+<li>PAMPHLET CASES.</li>
+<li>DOCUMENT BOXES.</li>
+<li>NICKLE CLIP BOARDS.</li>
+</ul></td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>ROLL TOP DESKS.</li>
+<li>CLOTH BOXES, all sizes.</li>
+<li>LAWYERS FILING CASES.</li>
+<li>CASES for Price Lists, etc.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+<center>
+<b>ESTIMATES</b> Furnished of filing devices for Banks, Railroads,
+Mercantile Firms, Insurance Companies, etc.
+<br />
+<i>N.B. Correspondence Solicited.</i>
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx14" name="pagexxx14"></a>[pg xxx14]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:175px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/528.jpg"><img src="images/528.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="VICTOR L. CHANDLER ENGRAVER ON WOOD" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>
+VICTOR L. CHANDLER <br />
+ENGRAVER ON WOOD </h2>
+<h3>   43 MILK ST. <br />
+BOSTON <br />
+MASS. </h3>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/510a.jpg"><img src="images/510a.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="COLUMBIA BICYCLES and TRICYCLES" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>  COLUMBIA BICYCLES and TRICYCLES:<br />
+  FOR ROAD USE;
+</h2>
+<center>
+  STANCH AND RELIABLE<br />
+  THE POPULAR STEEDS FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE<br />
+  FINEST MATERIALS, SKILLFUL WORKMANSHIP<br />
+  STRONG, GRACEFUL&mdash;EVERY PART INTERCHANGEABLE
+</center><center>
+  SEND 3 CENT STAMP FOR ILLUSTRATED 36 PAGE CATALOGUE<br />
+  THE POPE MFG. CO.<br />
+  597 Washington St. Boston, Mass.
+</center>
+<p>
+  &quot;If I could not get another bicycle I would not give mine for its weight
+  in solid gold. For fifteen years I lost from three to eight days every
+  month with stubborn sick headache. Since I have been riding the bicycle
+  I have lost only two days from that cause, and I haven't spent a dollar
+  for a doctor.&quot;
+  REV. GEO. F. PENTECOST"
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h3>RUBBER CLOTHING COMPANY.</h3>
+<center>
+  F.M. SHEPARD, <i>Pres</i>. J.A. MINOTT, <i>Sec</i>.<br />
+  J. FRANCIS HAYWARD, <i>Manager</i><br />
+  <i>at Boston.</i>
+<br />
+  <i>No. 160 Congress, cor. Franklin Street</i>,
+<br />
+  <b>Boston, Mass.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h3>
+  CHARLES H. NORTH &amp; CO.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  PACKERS AND CURERS OF
+<br />
+  PORK, BEEF, LARD, HAMS, BACON, LIVE AND DRESSED HOGS, ETC.
+<br />
+  <i>33 &amp; 34 NORTH MARKET ST.</i>,
+<br />
+  CHARLES H. NORTH, S. HENRY SKILTON, <b>Boston, U.S.A.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  ARTHUR P. DODGE</span>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">  <b>Attorney and Counsellor at Law,</b></span><br />
+  <i>31 MILK ST., ROOM 46</i>,
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Notary Public.
+<br />
+  Commissioner for New Hampshire.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+Bay State Monthly Company, Publishers and Printers, 43 Milk Street, Boston.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx15" name="pagexxx15"></a>[pg xxx15]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>
+  THE
+<br />
+  New England Business Directory
+<br />
+  <i>AND GAZETTEER</i>
+<br />
+  For 1885.
+</h2>
+<center>
+  &#9758; <i>A very Valuable Book of Reference to every Business Man.</i> &#9756;
+<br />
+  CONTAINING CAREFULLY COLLECTED LISTS OF THE
+<br />
+  Merchants, Manufacturers, Professional and other Business Men throughout
+  the six New England States, classified by Business, Town, and Post-Office.
+<br />
+  ALSO
+<br />
+  Banks, Savings Banks, Insurance, Manufacturing, Gas-Light and other
+  Incorporated Companies. Post-Offices, Newspapers, Colleges, Academies,
+  Expresses, Railroads, Together with other useful information often
+  required in the COUNTING-ROOM.
+</center>
+<h3>
+  A COMPLETE NEW ENGLAND GAZETTEER
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Is a prominent feature of this edition, comprising a concise description
+  of the Cities, Towns, Villages and Post-Offices, showing Population,
+  Telegraph and Railroad Stations, Money Order Offices, etc.
+<br />
+  <i>A Colored Map of New England Accompanies Each Book</i>.
+br />
+  The whole forming a large Octavo Volume of 1892 pages, handsomely
+  printed on fine paper, and substantially bound.
+<br />
+  <b>PRICE SIX DOLLARS.</b>
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:150%;"><b><i>Sampson, Murdoch, &amp; Co.</i>,</b></span>
+<br />
+  (Formerly Sampson, Davenport, &amp; Co.)
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:125%;"><b>PUBLISHERS, 155 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.</b></span>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  COOLIDGE HOUSE,
+<br />
+  BOWDOIN SQUARE, BOSTON.
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  The Coolidge is a centrally-located, thoroughly quiet and comfortable
+  Family Hotel, with rooms arranged in suites, consisting of Parlor,
+  Bedroom, and Bath; having an elevator, and combining all the luxuries
+  and conveniences of the larger hotels, with the quietness and retirement
+  of a private house; affording <i>most excellent accommodations at
+  moderate charges.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>COOLIDGE CAFE,</b>
+<br />
+  <b>EXCLUSIVELY FOR GENTLEMEN.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Fitted up with the most complete and approved system of Broilers now in
+  use, after the style of Spiers &amp; Pond's Celebrated London Chop-Houses,
+  and those so desiring, can select a steak or chop and see the same
+  cooked on "The Silver Grill."
+</p>
+<center>
+  A Perfect Restaurant in Every Respect.
+<br />
+  <i>The Best Material, Cooking, and Service.</i>
+<br />
+  <b>I.N. ANDREWS &amp; CO.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>STONINGTON LINE.</b>
+<br />
+  INSIDE ROUTE TO NEW YORK, CONNECTING WITH
+<br />
+  Philadelphia, Baltimore, &amp; Washington,
+<br />
+  AND ALL POINTS
+<br />
+  <b>SOUTH AND WEST,</b>
+<br />
+  Avoiding Point Judith.
+<br />
+  Via Providence and Stonington, connecting with the elegant Steamers
+<br />
+  <b>Stonington and Narraganset.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Express trains leave Boston &amp; Providence Railway Station, Columbus
+  Avenue and Park Square,
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>DAILY AT 6.30 P.M. (Sundays Excepted.)</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Connect at Stonington with the above named Steamers in time for an early
+  supper, and arrive in New York the following morning in time for the
+  <i>early trains South and West.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AHEAD OF ALL OTHER LINES.</b>
+<br />
+  Tickets, Staterooms, etc., secured at
+<br />
+  <b>214 Washington Street, corner of State,</b>
+<br />
+  AND AT
+<br />
+  <b>BOSTON &amp; PROVIDENCE RAILROAD STATION.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Regular landing in New York, Pier 33, North River Steamer leaves the
+  Pier at 4:30 P.M., arriving in Boston the following morning in ample
+  time to connect with all the early Northern and Eastern trains.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">A.A. Folsom</span>, Superintendent B. &amp; P.R.R.<br />
+    <span class="sc">F.W. Popple</span>, General Passenger Agent.<br />
+      <span class="sc">J.W. Richardson</span>, Agent, Boston.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx16" name="pagexxx16"></a>[pg xxx16]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>
+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+<br />
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <span class="sc">By Col. Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.</span>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Cloth, $6. Sheep, $7.50. Half Calf (various styles) or Half Mor., $9
+  Half Russia or Full Mor., $12.
+</center>
+<center>
+  <b>A.S. Barnes &amp; Co., Publishers, New York and Chicago. Author's
+  address, 32 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.</b>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
+  VOLUME:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.&mdash;<i>Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.&mdash;<i>Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.&mdash;<i>Henry Day, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.&mdash;<i>Geo.
+  Bancroft</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
+  and thoughtful perusal of this work.&mdash;<i>Benson J. Lossing</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The maps are just splendid.&mdash;<i>Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The book is invaluable and should be in every library.&mdash;<i>Wm. L. Stone,
+  N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Of permanent standard authority.&mdash;<i>Gen. De Peister, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Indicates such profound erudition and ability in the discussion as
+  leaves nothing to be desired.&mdash;<i>Sen. Oscar de La Fayette, Paris</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  I have read the volume with pleasure and profit.&mdash;<i>Z. Chandler</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The volume is superb and will give the author enduring fame.&mdash;<i>B.
+  Gratz Brown, St. Louis</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It should have a place in every gentleman's library, and is just the
+  book which young men of Great Britain and America should know by
+  heart.&mdash;<i>London Telegraph</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which
+  the century has produced.&mdash;<i>Army and Navy Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague
+  period of military history.&mdash;<i>Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff
+  College, England</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.&mdash;<i>Lord Derby, late Brit.
+  Sec. of State</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.&mdash;<i>A. de
+  Rochambeau, Paris</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.&mdash;<i>Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.&mdash;<i>Harper's
+  Magazine</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.&mdash;<i>The Nation</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
+  treasures.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.&mdash;<i>Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.&mdash;<i>Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Published by <b>A.S. BARNES &amp; CO., 111 &amp; 113 William Street, New York</b>.
+</center>
+<p>
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
+  well as for its fitness as a companion to all Histories of the United
+  States, with confidence that it will prove a valuable specialty to all.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The <span class="sc">Red</span> Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
+  the convenience of Teachers and Scholars.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The &para; and Page references to various School Histories, which mention the
+  Battles make it available for use by Teachers throughout the United
+  States.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The volume contains the 41 maps which were the result of thirty years of
+  study, and are found in his standard volume, "Battles of the American
+  Revolution."
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">The Secretary of War</span> has placed the "<span class="sc">Battle Maps and Charts</span>" at <span class="sc">Army
+  Post Schools</span>, at government expense.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">Five Steel Engravings of Washington</span> accompany the volume. The <span class="sc">St. Memin</span>
+  (crayon) as frontispiece, engraved by Hall &amp; Sons; also <span class="sc">Peale's</span> painting
+  (1772), <span class="sc">Houdon's</span> bust (1784). <span class="sc">Trumbull's</span> painting (1792) and <span class="sc">Stuart's</span>
+  painting (1796) are furnished, in steel.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Price, $1.25. Sent, post-paid, to School Superintendents and Teachers,
+  for introduction, upon receipt of $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Liberal terms made with Schools, Military and Civil, Army Officers and
+  Posts, State Militia, and the Trade.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  NOTICES.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Invaluable to the student of American History.&mdash;<i>Baltimore (Md.)
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Deserves a welcome in every school district, as well as in every
+  historical library in the land.&mdash;<i>Army and Navy Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  In our opinion, General Carrington's work is an authority, showing great
+  labor and careful study, and it should become a national text-book, and
+  find a place in all public and private libraries.&mdash;<i>Indianapolis
+  (Ind.) Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Each map is accompanied with a statement of the generals and number of
+  men engaged on both sides, to which is appended the reason for such
+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
+  authority in military matters.&mdash;<i>The Educator (New Haven, Ct.)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A valuable compilation from the author's large work, and cannot fail to
+  make a more lasting impression upon the reader's mind than could be
+  derived from the perusal of many volumes of history.&mdash;<i>N.Y.
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
+  original system, so as to present a singularly clear view of the history
+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
+  losses on each side, and the incidents of the battle.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Evening
+  Post</i>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx17" name="pagexxx17"></a>[pg xxx17]</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/531.jpg"><img src="images/531.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="CREOSOTE STAINS." /></a>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Intentionally commented out text from above image
+<p>
+  CREOSOTE STAINS.<br />
+  Patented Apr. 29th, 1884.<br />
+  for<br />
+  Shingles, Clapboards &<br />
+  other exterior woodwork.<br />
+  Sam'l Cabot Jr.<br />
+  Sole Manufacturer<br />
+  70 Kilby St. Boston.<br />
+  Descriptive Circular by mail on application.
+</p>
+<h2>  &mdash;&mdash;CABOT'S&mdash;&mdash;
+<br />  CREOSOTE STAINS</h2>
+<center>  &mdash;&mdash;ON&mdash;&mdash;</center>
+<h2>  EXTERIOR WOOD WORK.</h2>
+-->
+
+<p>
+  These Stains have been <i>Largely</i> and <i>Successfully</i> used
+  during the past few seasons.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Owing to the strange PRESERVATIVE POWER of the Creosote, wood treated
+  with this Stain <i>cannot decay</i> but simply wears away from the force
+  of the weather.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Stain in weathering does not become shabby like paint; but the
+  surfaces assume weather beaten grays, very <i>soft</i> and
+  <i>harmonious</i>, and varying slightly according to the original hue.
+  The Stain may be renewed at any time with <i>little trouble</i> or
+  expense, as the natural hues which nature gives in combination with the
+  stain are allowed to stay.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Houses treated with these Stains may be seen at almost any of the
+  <i>seaside</i> and <i>suburban</i> resorts of NEW ENGLAND, and on the
+  NEW JERSEY and LONG ISLAND COASTS.
+</p>
+<center>
+  FOR ARTISTIC COLORING EFFECTS THEY ARE FAR SUPERIOR<br />
+  TO PAINT, WHILE THEIR PRESERVATIVE POWER<br />
+  MAKES THEM DOUBLY VALUABLE.
+</center>
+<hr />
+<center>
+  For full descriptive circular, samples and price-list, address
+<br />
+<span style="font-size:200%;">
+  SAMUEL CABOT,<br />
+  70 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass.</span>
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx18" name="pagexxx18"></a>[pg xxx18]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<!-- Intentionally commented out text content of following image
+<h2>
+  SIMPSON<br />
+  SPRING WATER.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  SPRING HOUSE
+  <i>AND</i>
+  <b><i>Bottling Establishment</i></b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  SO. EASTON, MASS.
+</center>
+-->
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/532.jpg"><img src="images/532.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="Map" /></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+This is the Purest and Most Effective of all Medicinal Spring Waters.
+Possessing remarkable Curative Properties for diseases of the
+<i>STOMACH</i>, <i>LIVER</i>, <i>KIDNEYS</i> and <i>BLADDER</i>.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>A MILD CATHARTIC AND ACTIVE DIURETIC.</h3>
+<center>
+<b>PROF. RAPHAEL PUMPELLY</b>, Chemist National Board of Health.
+</center>
+<p>
+[NOTE.&mdash;This analysis, with a letter of recommendation from Prof.
+Pumpelly, was read before the Newport Sanitary Protective Society,
+Jan. 12, 1884.]
+</p>
+<center>  <i>PARTS IN 1,000,000</i></center>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="50%" summary="residue, parts per million">
+<tr><td>  Total Residue                     </td><td align="right">44.6 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Silica                            </td><td align="right">11.5 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Iron and Alumina                  </td><td align="right"> 0.7 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Lime                              </td><td align="right">10.5 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Magnesia                          </td><td align="right"> 1.5 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Chlorine                          </td><td align="right"> 4.6 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Ammonia                           </td><td align="right"> 0.06 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Albumoid Ammonia                  </td><td align="right"> 0.06 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+The above analysis shows a total residue of about 2.6 grains in one
+gallon of 231 cubic inches.
+</p>
+<p>
+The object of the above analysis is to show the great purity of this
+water. Its curative properties cannot be determined by a chemical
+analysis. No combination of the above-mentioned minerals alone would
+produce the same effects. The Spring possesses a peculiarity and an
+individuality of its own which no one ever has been able to explain. It
+is one of Nature's remedies. Its medicinal effects can only be
+determined by a thorough trial.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;">
+BOSTON, April 24, 1885.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Messrs. HOWARD BROS.,
+</p>
+<p>
+  <i>Dear Sirs</i>,&mdash;"After many careful trials of the Simpson Spring
+  Water in urinary disorders, extending over one year, I am convinced
+  (despite my previous prejudices, excited by the extravagant claims made
+  for other Springs,) that its <i>properties</i> are
+  <i>characteristic</i>, and as <i>clinically trustworthy</i> as are those
+  of terebinthina, lithia, or many other of the partially proven drugs. I
+  have found it surprisingly gratifying as an adjuvant in the cure of
+  albuminuria, and in lowering the specific gravity of the urine in
+  Saccharine Diabetes its action is promptly and lastingly helpful. It is
+  mildly cathartic and an active diuretic."
+</p>
+<p>
+  DR. J. HEBER SMITH,<br />
+  <i>Professor of Materia Medica in the Boston University School of Medicine.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Families and dealers supplied with the water in cases of bottles and
+  Patent Boxed Glass Demijohns by
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b><i>HOWARD BROS., Managers</i>,</b><br />
+  117 DEVONSHIRE ST., BOSTON, (Opp. Post Office.)
+<br />
+  &mdash;OR&mdash;
+<br />
+  GEO. W. BANKER, Gen'l Agent, 41 Platt Street, New York.
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx19" name="pagexxx19"></a>[pg xxx19]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<table summary="" width="100%" border="0" align="center">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="25%">
+<h3>   FIRE AND MARINE. </h3>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<h2>   H.E. Abbott <br />
+Insurance Agency. </h2>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="25%">
+<h3>   LIFE AND ACCIDENT. </h3>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>   THIS AGENCY REPRESENTS </center>
+
+<table summary="" width="100%" border="0" align="center">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   ROYAL INSURANCE CO., of Liverpool </li>
+<li>   SUN FIRE OFFICE, of London </li>
+<li>   HANOVER, of New York </li>
+<li>   WASHINGTON, of Boston </li>
+<li>   QUINCY MUTUAL, of Quincy </li>
+<li>   NORTHERN, of London </li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>   FIRE ASSOCIATION, of Philadelphia </li>
+<li>   PENNSYLVANIA, of Philadelphia </li>
+<li>   TRADER'S, of Chicago </li>
+<li>   DORCHESTER MUTUAL of Boston </li>
+<li>   OLD WORCESTER  MUTUAL, of Worcester. </li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<center>
+And other first-class Companies which have established a <i>reputation
+second to none for liberal adjustment and prompt payment in case of loss.</i>
+</center>
+<center>
+<span style="font-size: 150%;">OFFICES</span> <br />
+ADVERTISER BUILDING, BOSTON. <br />
+WASHINGTON STREET, BROOKLINE.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:100px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/533.jpg"><img src="images/533.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="LACTART ACID OF MILK. A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE." /></a>
+</div>
+<h2><i>LACTART.</i></h2>
+<center>
+  (<b>MILK ACID.</b>)<br />
+  &mdash;&mdash;FOR&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+  Sideboard, Dining Table, Soda Fountain.<br />
+  <i>A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Lactart makes a delicious and peculiarly refreshing drink, with water
+  and sugar only. More healthful and agreeable, as well as more economical
+  than lemonade or <i>ANY OTHER ACID BEVERAGE</i>. It possesses remarkable
+  hygienic virtues and will be found specially efficacious in DYSPEPSIA
+  and LIVER TROUBLES, also NERVOUS AFFECTIONS, WAKEFULNESS and other ills.
+  NO HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT. See descriptive circular with each
+  bottle or mailed on application. <i>SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AVERY LACTATE CO., 173 Devonshire St.,<br /> BOSTON, MASS.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h3>
+  REMOVED TO 98 FRONT ST.<br />
+  <i>Kyes and Woodbury</i>,<br />
+  Designers and Wood Engravers,<br />
+  WORCESTER, MASS.
+</h3>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  Established by ISAIAH THOMAS in 1770.<br />
+  The oldest Book and Job Printing Office in the United States.
+</center>
+<h3>
+  BOOK AND JOB PRINTING<br />
+  OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <i>Neatly and Promptly Executed and at Fair Prices.</i>
+<br />
+  DANIEL SEAGRAVE,<br />
+  442 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>CHARLES HAMILTON,</b><br />
+  <i>BOOK, JOB &amp; CARD PRINTER</i>,<br />
+  311 MAIN STREET,<br />
+  WORCESTER, MASS.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  THE SOUTH.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <b>A Journal of Southern and Southwestern Progress.</b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <i>ESTABLISHED 1871.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  The South is conducted with candor and independence, and is invaluable
+  to all who are interested in the industrial developement of the Southern
+  States.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Published by the South Publishing Co., 85 Warren St., New York. Branch
+  offices: <i>Advertiser Building, Boston, Mass.</i>, Ocala, Fla., Atlanta,
+  Ga., Lamar, Mo., Huntsville, Ala., Raleigh, N.C., London, Eng.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx20" name="pagexxx20"></a>[pg xxx20]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  CANTON BLEACH.
+</h1>
+<p>
+  The goods are full strength; i.e., they are not injured by strong
+  chemicals, the coloring matter only being removed, and the fibre being
+  left uninjured.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The goods are not artificially weighted; i.e., they contain nothing but
+  pure cotton, no sizing, clay, or chemicals to make it appear heavy, and
+  which all disappear when the cloth is washed.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The goods have the softest and best finish; i.e., you can sew through
+  any number of thicknesses which you can get into the sewing-machine, the
+  needle passing through with ease.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is
+  required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached
+  by the old process.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Do not purchase cotton goods until you have <i>examined the</i>
+  "<i>Canton Bleach</i>." Be sure and demand of retailers generally to
+  <i>see the goods</i>; and do not fail, before purchasing a yard of
+  cotton goods, <i>to see if the stamp</i> "Canton Bleach" is on it.
+</p>
+<p>
+  NOTICE.&mdash;Your attention is called to this new bleach as seen on cotton
+  goods, which are now for sale by <span class="sc">Messrs. C.F. Hovey &amp; Co.</span>, <span class="sc">Shepard,
+  Norwell &amp; Co.</span>, <span class="sc">Hogg, Brown &amp; Taylor</span>, <span class="sc">Chandler &amp; Co.</span>, <span class="sc">R.H. White &amp; Co.</span>,
+  <span class="sc">Jordan, Marsh &amp; Co.</span>, and others.
+</p>
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/534.jpg"><img src="images/534.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CANTON JUNCTION, MASS.
+  BLEACHED BY &quot;TOPPAN PROCESS.&quot;
+  PATENTED AUG. 29, 1882
+
+  TRIUMPH SOAP
+  CANTON MAN'F'G CO
+  TRADEMARK" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+  Contains no Rosin, Sal-Soda or Lime; is not made from Grease, and
+  contains nothing injurious to the skin or the finest fabric. Is entirely
+  pure. Will not full or harden woolens. Insures a pure and lasting white.
+  Used like any soap, and by everybody, even inexperienced hands, with
+  perfect success. Contains no bleaching powder or anything of like
+  nature, Removes easily all stains met with in the laundry. Is a true
+  odorless, antiseptic and sanitary soap, rendering it valuable for sick
+  rooms and hospitals.
+</p>
+<p>
+  If you cannot get it of your grocer, send direct to the office of the
+  Company. Manufactured under Patent Jan. 23, 1877, and for sale by the
+</p>
+<h3>
+  CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY,<br />
+  160 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">Edward W. Howe</span>, Treas.
+  <span class="sc">Jas. L. Little, Jr.</span>, Pres.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx21" name="pagexxx21"></a>[pg xxx21]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<!--
+<h1>
+  NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
+</h1>
+-->
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/535.jpg"><img src="images/535.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="New England Conservatory of Music Franklin Square Boston" /></a>
+</div>
+<!--
+<h3>
+  New England Conservatory of Music<br />
+  Franklin Square Boston
+</h3>
+-->
+<center>
+  <i>Largest and Best-Appointed School of Music, Literature and Art in the
+  World.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  MUSIC is taught in all its departments, Instrumental and Vocal,
+  including Pianoforte, Organ, Violin, and all Orchestral and Band
+  Instruments, Voice Culture and Singing, Harmony, Theory and
+  Orchestration, Church Music, Oratorio and Chorus Practice, Art of
+  Conducting; also, Tuning and Repairing Pianos and Organs. All under the
+  very best teachers, in classes and private.
+</p>
+<p>
+  SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS.&mdash;Drawing, Painting, and Modeling from Casts and
+  from Nature, in Crayon, Water and Oil Colors; Portraiture and China
+  Decorating with some of the best artists in the country. In classes and
+  private.
+</p>
+<p>
+  COLLEGE OF ORATORY.&mdash;Vocal Technique, Elocution, Rhetorical Oratory,
+  Dramatic and Lyric Art.
+</p>
+<p>
+  SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.&mdash;French, German and Italian, under best
+  foreign professors.&mdash;Thorough course leading to Diploma.
+</p>
+<p>
+  SCHOOL OF GENERAL LITERATURE.&mdash;Common and higher English branches,
+  Latin, Mathematics and Literature.
+</p>
+<p>
+  THE NEW HOME is located in the heart of Boston, confessedly the Musical,
+  Literary and Artistic Centre of America. The beautiful park in front,
+  and the surrounding broad streets make it both healthful and delightful.
+  It is splendidly equipped for both Home and the Schools, furnishing Home
+  accommodations for 500 lady students, and Class Accommodations for 3000
+  lady and gentleman students.
+</p>
+<p>
+  COLLATERAL ADVANTAGES. Well equipped Gymnasium, resident physician,
+  large musical and general library; and free classes, lectures by eminent
+  specialists, recitals, concerts, etc., amounting to 180 hours per term.
+</p>
+<p>
+  RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FACULTIES.&mdash;The maestro Augusto Rotoli, the
+  great Italian Tenor and singing teacher; Herr Carl Faelten, foremost
+  pianist and teacher; Leandro Campanari, Violin Virtuoso teacher; Prof.
+  W. J. Rolfe, the eminent Shakespearean Scholar and Critic; Mr. William
+  Willard, the famous portrait painter; Mlle. Emilie Faller, artist from
+  Paris, and Mr. Jas. E. Phillips, steward and caterer, of 20 years'
+  experience.
+</p>
+<p>
+  2003 students, from 55 states, territories, British Provinces and
+  foreign countries in attendance last year.
+</p>
+<p>
+  TUITION, $5 to $20 per Term. Board and room, $4.50 to $7.50 per week.
+  Steam heat and Electric light in all rooms.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>Fall Term Begins September 10, 1885.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Send for new and beautifully illustrated Calendar, free, to,
+  E. TOURJEE, DIR.,
+  FRANKLIN SQUARE, BOSTON.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx22" name="pagexxx22"></a>[pg xxx22]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/536.jpg"><img src="images/536.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="THE OLD CORNER BOOKSTORE" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+  THE OLD CORNER BOOK STORE.
+</h2>
+<p>
+  The above illustration, especially prepared by Harper and Brothers for
+  George P. Lathrop's article on "Literary and Social Life in Boston,"
+  that appeared in <i>Harper's Monthly Magazine</i> for February, is a
+  good representation of the outward appearance of the quaint and
+  picturesque old building standing on the corner of Washington and School
+  Streets.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Famous as the "Corner Store" is as an old landmark, it is justly more
+  famous as the intellectual birthplace of many of the best known works in
+  American literature, the firm of Ticknor &amp; Fields&mdash;whose publishing
+  foresight and enterprise have imperishably connected their names with
+  American authors&mdash;having occupied it during one of the most brilliant
+  chapters of American literary history.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Under the energetic auspices of Cupples, Upham &amp; Co., it has become one
+  of the most complete retail book establishments in the country, and so
+  popular a resort that all Boston may with a little exaggeration be said
+  to pass through it in a day. To every stranger it is, from its present
+  literary attractiveness, a place not to be overlooked. The literary men
+  of Boston make it their lounging-place and chief rendezvous. To stroll
+  into the "Old Corner" for a chat, a glimpse at the last new book and
+  magazine, is with them a daily duty, as it is with the Bostonian
+  generally. It is a popular shopping-place with ladies, who patronize its
+  church department for works of devotion, prayer books, hymnals, and
+  Bibles. The reason of the extensive patronage which the establishment
+  receives from all classes of readers is due to its admirable department
+  system. It has a department for medical, scientific, and agricultural
+  works; another for maps, globes, and guide books; another for
+  theological literature; another for books in fine bindings, illustrated
+  works, etc; another for sporting and yachting books, and out-door
+  literature generally; one for juvenile books; another for English books,
+  as well as one for American miscellaneous works; and, lastly, special
+  counters for newspapers, periodicals, and novels. It is seldom without
+  the last "new thing" in English, French, or American literature.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The firm does an extensive importing business, and pays special
+  attention to the supplying of Town Libraries and Clubs.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx23" name="pagexxx23"></a>[pg xxx23]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2>
+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+<br />
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <span class="sc">By Col. Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.</span>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Cloth, $6. Sheep, $7.50. Half Calf (various styles) or Half Mor., $9
+  Half Russia or Full Mor., $12.
+</center>
+<center>
+  <b>A.S. Barnes &amp; Co., Publishers, New York and Chicago. Author's
+  address, 32 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.</b>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
+  VOLUME:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.&mdash;<i>Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.&mdash;<i>Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.&mdash;<i>Henry Day, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.&mdash;<i>Geo.
+  Bancroft</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
+  and thoughtful perusal of this work.&mdash;<i>Benson J. Lossing</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The maps are just splendid.&mdash;<i>Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The book is invaluable and should be in every library.&mdash;<i>Wm. L. Stone,
+  N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Of permanent standard authority.&mdash;<i>Gen. De Peister, N.Y.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Indicates such profound erudition and ability in the discussion as
+  leaves nothing to be desired.&mdash;<i>Sen. Oscar de La Fayette, Paris</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  I have read the volume with pleasure and profit.&mdash;<i>Z. Chandler</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The volume is superb and will give the author enduring fame.&mdash;<i>B.
+  Gratz Brown, St. Louis</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  It should have a place in every gentleman's library, and is just the
+  book which young men of Great Britain and America should know by
+  heart.&mdash;<i>London Telegraph</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which
+  the century has produced.&mdash;<i>Army and Navy Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague
+  period of military history.&mdash;<i>Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff
+  College, England</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.&mdash;<i>Lord Derby, late Brit.
+  Sec. of State</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.&mdash;<i>A. de
+  Rochambeau, Paris</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.&mdash;<i>Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.&mdash;<i>Harper's
+  Magazine</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.&mdash;<i>The Nation</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
+  treasures.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.&mdash;<i>Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.&mdash;<i>Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  Published by <b>A.S. BARNES &amp; CO., 111 &amp; 113 William Street, New York</b>.
+</center>
+<p>
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
+  well as for its fitness as a companion to all Histories of the United
+  States, with confidence that it will prove a valuable specialty to all.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The <span class="sc">Red</span> Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
+  the convenience of Teachers and Scholars.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The &para; and Page references to various School Histories, which mention the
+  Battles make it available for use by Teachers throughout the United
+  States.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The volume contains the 41 maps which were the result of thirty years of
+  study, and are found in his standard volume, "Battles of the American
+  Revolution."
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">The Secretary of War</span> has placed the "<span class="sc">Battle Maps and Charts</span>" at <span class="sc">Army
+  Post Schools</span>, at government expense.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">Five Steel Engravings of Washington</span> accompany the volume. The <span class="sc">St. Memin</span>
+  (crayon) as frontispiece, engraved by Hall &amp; Sons; also <span class="sc">Peale's</span> painting
+  (1772), <span class="sc">Houdon's</span> bust (1784). <span class="sc">Trumbull's</span> painting (1792) and <span class="sc">Stuart's</span>
+  painting (1796) are furnished, in steel.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Price, $1.25. Sent, post-paid, to School Superintendents and Teachers,
+  for introduction, upon receipt of $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Liberal terms made with Schools, Military and Civil, Army Officers and
+  Posts, State Militia, and the Trade.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  NOTICES.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  Invaluable to the student of American History.&mdash;<i>Baltimore (Md.)
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Deserves a welcome in every school district, as well as in every
+  historical library in the land.&mdash;<i>Army and Navy Journal</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  In our opinion, General Carrington's work is an authority, showing great
+  labor and careful study, and it should become a national text-book, and
+  find a place in all public and private libraries.&mdash;<i>Indianapolis
+  (Ind.) Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Each map is accompanied with a statement of the generals and number of
+  men engaged on both sides, to which is appended the reason for such
+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
+  authority in military matters.&mdash;<i>The Educator (New Haven, Ct.)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A valuable compilation from the author's large work, and cannot fail to
+  make a more lasting impression upon the reader's mind than could be
+  derived from the perusal of many volumes of history.&mdash;<i>N.Y.
+  Herald</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
+  original system, so as to present a singularly clear view of the history
+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
+  losses on each side, and the incidents of the battle.&mdash;<i>N.Y. Evening
+  Post</i>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx24" name="pagexxx24"></a>[pg xxx24]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage" style="line-height: 300%;">
+<h3>
+  ESTABLISHED 1871.
+</h3>
+<h1>
+  THE SOUTH
+</h1>
+<h2>
+  <b>A Journal of Southern and Southwestern Progress</b>.
+</h2>
+<center>
+  The SOUTH is the oldest journal in the<br />
+  country devoted exclusively to the<br />
+  developement of the Southern States,<br />
+  and is indispensable to<br />
+  business men.
+</center>
+<center>
+  Subscription Price, $3.00 a year.
+</center>
+<h3>
+  <i>The South Publishing Company</i><br />
+  85 WARREN STREET, NEW YORK.
+</h3>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx25" name="pagexxx25"></a>[pg xxx25]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>   S.M. SPENCER'S </h1>
+<h2>   <b>STENCIL AND RUBBER STAMP WORKS,</b> 112 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. </h2>
+
+<ul style="list-style:none;">
+<li>SEAL PRESSES,</li>
+<li>WAX SEALS,</li>
+<li>STEEL STAMPS,</li>
+<li>STEEL ALPHABETS and FIGURES,</li>
+<li>BRASS ALPHABETS,</li>
+<li>COMBINATION NUMBERING WHEELS,</li>
+<li>BRUSHES,</li>
+<li>INK, ALL COLORS,</li>
+<li>INDELIBLE INK,</li>
+<li>RUBBER STAMP INK,</li>
+<li>SELF-INKING PADS,</li>
+<li>KEY CHECKS,</li>
+<li>BAGGAGE and HOTEL CHECKS,</li>
+<li>BRASS CHECKS,</li>
+<li>RUBBER STAMPS, (with 120 styles of letters to select from.)</li>
+<li>SELF-INKING RUBBER STAMPS, (more than 30 different styles.)</li>
+<li>DATING &amp; RECEIPTING STAMPS, (10 different styles.)</li>
+<li>PENCIL and POCKET STAMPS,</li>
+<li>PRINTING WHEELS,</li>
+<li>METAL BODIED RUBBER FACED TYPE, (for hand printing.)</li>
+<li>SHOE LINING STAMPS,</li>
+<li>AUTOMATIC NUMBERING STAMPS,</li>
+<li>RUBBER NUMBERING STAMPS,</li>
+<li>STENCIL DIES,</li>
+<li>BURNING BRANDS.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>   AGENTS' OUTFITS For Stencils, Key Checks, and Rubber Stamp Work, and
+all reliable goods connected with the business wholesale and retail.
+</p>
+
+<center>   <i>Send for illustrated catalogue. All goods first-class and warranted
+in every respect.</i> </center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:175px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/527.jpg"><img src="images/527.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="GLOBE LETTER FILING CABINETS" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>GLOBE LETTER FILING
+<br />
+<i>CABINETS</i>.</h3>
+<center><i>Most Perfect System Known.</i></center>
+<p>  All sizes Black Walnut Cabinets in stock, from 6 to 60 Files.</p>
+<p>Over $20,000 worth in use <b>in Boston</b> alone.</p>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>    <i>Quick Reference</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>No Mutilation of Papers</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>Rapid Filing</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>Handsome Workmanship</i>.</li>
+</ul>
+<center>
+<span style="font-size: 200%;">  W.W. EDWARDS,</span><br /> <b>SELLING AGENT,</b>
+<br />
+<b><i>The Globe Files Company</i>, 166 Devonshire St., Boston.</b>
+</center>
+<table border="0" width="100%" align="center" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>SCRAP FILES.</li>
+<li>PAMPHLET CASES.</li>
+<li>DOCUMENT BOXES.</li>
+<li>NICKLE CLIP BOARDS.</li>
+</ul></td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>ROLL TOP DESKS.</li>
+<li>CLOTH BOXES, all sizes.</li>
+<li>LAWYERS FILING CASES.</li>
+<li>CASES for Price Lists, etc.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+<center>
+<b>ESTIMATES</b> Furnished of filing devices for Banks, Railroads,
+Mercantile Firms, Insurance Companies, etc.
+<br />
+<i>N.B. Correspondence Solicited.</i>
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx26" name="pagexxx26"></a>[pg xxx26]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  THE LARGEST AND BEST HOUSE TO BUY SHADE GOODS FROM.
+</h3>
+<h1>
+  CUSHMAN BROS., <span style="font-size:75%!important;">AND</span> CO.,
+</h1>
+<center>
+  MANUFACTURERS OF
+</center>
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/540b.jpg"><img src="images/540b.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="CUSHMAN'S SELF-ACTING SHADE ROLLER." /></a>
+</div>
+
+<center>
+  <b>Shade Rollers, Window Shades, Brass and Nickel Shade Trimmings,
+  Hollands and Upholsterer's Hardware.</b>
+</center>
+<center>
+  IMPORTERS OF
+</center>
+<h3>
+  KING'S FIRST QUALITY SCOTCH HOLLANDS.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  82, 84 &amp; 86 HAWLEY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+<p>
+  &#9758; An inspection of our stock is cordially invited.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <b>ARTISTS' MATERIALS.</b>
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <i>Decorative Art Goods.</i><br />
+  <b>Mathematical Instruments,</b><br />
+  <b>Architects' &amp; Engineers Supplies, etc., etc.</b>
+</h3>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  FROST AND ADAMS, IMPORTERS
+</h2>
+<center>
+  <b>No. 37 Cornhill, Boston.</b>
+<br />
+  F.S. FROST.
+  H.A. LAWRENCE.
+</center>
+<p>
+  Illustrated catalogue free.
+  Mention this magazine.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h3>  BAY STATE MONTHLY COMPANY</h3>
+<h2>  <b>Publishers</b><br /> AND<br /> <b>Printers,</b></h2>
+<center>  43 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. </center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>  ESTABLISHED 1884</center>
+<div class="figure" style="width:150px; float:right;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/540a.jpg"><img src="images/540a.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="H.C. WHITCOMB &amp; CO. ELECTROTYPERS, 42, ARCH STREET, BOSTON." /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+  <b>ELECTROTYPES</b>
+</h2>
+<center>
+  FROM
+<br />
+  <b>Wood or Photo-Engraved Cuts and Type Forms.</b>
+<br />
+  Type Composition and Engraving for Electrotyping.
+<br />
+  <b>Telephone Connection.  Passenger Elevator.</b>
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx27" name="pagexxx27"></a>[pg xxx27]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:100px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/533.jpg"><img src="images/533.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="LACTART ACID OF MILK. A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE." /></a>
+</div>
+<h2><i>LACTART.</i></h2>
+<center>
+  (<b>MILK ACID.</b>)<br />
+  &mdash;&mdash;FOR&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+  Sideboard, Dining Table, Soda Fountain.<br />
+  <i>A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Lactart makes a delicious and peculiarly refreshing drink, with water
+  and sugar only. More healthful and agreeable, as well as more economical
+  than lemonade or <i>ANY OTHER ACID BEVERAGE</i>. It possesses remarkable
+  hygienic virtues and will be found specially efficacious in DYSPEPSIA
+  and LIVER TROUBLES, also NERVOUS AFFECTIONS, WAKEFULNESS and other ills.
+  NO HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT. See descriptive circular with each
+  bottle or mailed on application. <i>SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AVERY LACTATE CO., 173 Devonshire St.,<br /> BOSTON, MASS.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>STONINGTON LINE.</b>
+<br />
+  INSIDE ROUTE TO NEW YORK, CONNECTING WITH
+<br />
+  Philadelphia, Baltimore, &amp; Washington,
+<br />
+  AND ALL POINTS
+<br />
+  <b>SOUTH AND WEST,</b>
+<br />
+  Avoiding Point Judith.
+<br />
+  Via Providence and Stonington, connecting with the elegant Steamers
+<br />
+  <b>Stonington and Narraganset.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Express trains leave Boston &amp; Providence Railway Station, Columbus
+  Avenue and Park Square,
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>DAILY AT 6.30 P.M. (Sundays Excepted.)</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Connect at Stonington with the above named Steamers in time for an early
+  supper, and arrive in New York the following morning in time for the
+  <i>early trains South and West.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AHEAD OF ALL OTHER LINES.</b>
+<br />
+  Tickets, Staterooms, etc., secured at
+<br />
+  <b>214 Washington Street, corner of State,</b>
+<br />
+  AND AT
+<br />
+  <b>BOSTON &amp; PROVIDENCE RAILROAD STATION.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Regular landing in New York, Pier 33, North River Steamer leaves the
+  Pier at 4:30 P.M., arriving in Boston the following morning in ample
+  time to connect with all the early Northern and Eastern trains.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">A.A. Folsom</span>, Superintendent B. &amp; P.R.R.<br />
+    <span class="sc">F.W. Popple</span>, General Passenger Agent.<br />
+      <span class="sc">J.W. Richardson</span>, Agent, Boston.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  COOLIDGE HOUSE,
+<br />
+  BOWDOIN SQUARE, BOSTON.
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  The Coolidge is a centrally-located, thoroughly quiet and comfortable
+  Family Hotel, with rooms arranged in suites, consisting of Parlor,
+  Bedroom, and Bath; having an elevator, and combining all the luxuries
+  and conveniences of the larger hotels, with the quietness and retirement
+  of a private house; affording <i>most excellent accommodations at
+  moderate charges.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>COOLIDGE CAFE,</b>
+<br />
+  <b>EXCLUSIVELY FOR GENTLEMEN.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Fitted up with the most complete and approved system of Broilers now in
+  use, after the style of Spiers &amp; Pond's Celebrated London Chop-Houses,
+  and those so desiring, can select a steak or chop and see the same
+  cooked on "The Silver Grill."
+</p>
+<center>
+  A Perfect Restaurant in Every Respect.
+<br />
+  <i>The Best Material, Cooking, and Service.</i>
+<br />
+  <b>I.N. ANDREWS &amp; CO.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/541b.jpg"><img src="images/541b.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="Banjo" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>
+  THE FAIRBANKS AND COLE BANJOS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  All interested are respectfully requested to carefully examine our
+  banjos before purchasing. GOLD MEDAL AT NEW ORLEANS, 1884, 1885. Send
+  for our price-list of banjos, music and instruction.
+</p>
+<h2>  <b>FAIRBANKS</b> AND <b>COLE,</b> </h2>
+<center>
+  <i>MUSIC MAKERS, TEACHERS, AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS</i>,<br />
+  121 COURT STREET. BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx28" name="pagexxx28"></a>[pg xxx28]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  CANTON BLEACH.
+</h1>
+<p>
+  The goods are full strength; i.e., they are not injured by strong
+  chemicals, the coloring matter only being removed, and the fibre being
+  left uninjured.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The goods are not artificially weighted; i.e., they contain nothing but
+  pure cotton, no sizing, clay, or chemicals to make it appear heavy, and
+  which all disappear when the cloth is washed.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The goods have the softest and best finish; i.e., you can sew through
+  any number of thicknesses which you can get into the sewing-machine, the
+  needle passing through with ease.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is
+  required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached
+  by the old process.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Do not purchase cotton goods until you have <i>examined the</i>
+  "<i>Canton Bleach</i>." Be sure and demand of retailers generally to
+  <i>see the goods</i>; and do not fail, before purchasing a yard of
+  cotton goods, <i>to see if the stamp</i> "Canton Bleach" is on it.
+</p>
+<p>
+  NOTICE.&mdash;Your attention is called to this new bleach as seen on cotton
+  goods, which are now for sale by <span class="sc">Messrs. C.F. Hovey &amp; Co.</span>, <span class="sc">Shepard,
+  Norwell &amp; Co.</span>, <span class="sc">Hogg, Brown &amp; Taylor</span>, <span class="sc">Chandler &amp; Co.</span>, <span class="sc">R.H. White &amp; Co.</span>,
+  <span class="sc">Jordan, Marsh &amp; Co.</span>, and others.
+</p>
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/534.jpg"><img src="images/534.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CANTON JUNCTION, MASS.
+  BLEACHED BY &quot;TOPPAN PROCESS.&quot;
+  PATENTED AUG. 29, 1882
+
+  TRIUMPH SOAP
+  CANTON MAN'F'G CO
+  TRADEMARK" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+  Contains no Rosin, Sal-Soda or Lime; is not made from Grease, and
+  contains nothing injurious to the skin or the finest fabric. Is entirely
+  pure. Will not full or harden woolens. Insures a pure and lasting white.
+  Used like any soap, and by everybody, even inexperienced hands, with
+  perfect success. Contains no bleaching powder or anything of like
+  nature, Removes easily all stains met with in the laundry. Is a true
+  odorless, antiseptic and sanitary soap, rendering it valuable for sick
+  rooms and hospitals.
+</p>
+<p>
+  If you cannot get it of your grocer, send direct to the office of the
+  Company. Manufactured under Patent Jan. 23, 1877, and for sale by the
+</p>
+<h3>
+  CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY,<br />
+  160 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">Edward W. Howe</span>, Treas.
+  <span class="sc">Jas. L. Little, Jr.</span>, Pres.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx29" name="pagexxx29"></a>[pg xxx29]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h2>  An Entirely New Edition of Lord Byron's</h2>
+<h1>  CHILDE HAROLD,</h1>
+<center><span class="sc">With Numerous New and Beautiful Illustrations on Wood.</span></center>
+<center>
+  THE DRAWINGS BY
+</center>
+<p>
+  Harry Fenn, F. Myruck, S.L. Smith, G.G. Harley, E.H. Garrett, G. Perkins,
+  F.B. Schell, J.D. Woodward, and L.S. Ipsen.
+</p>
+<center><i>Drawn and Engraved under the Supervision of A.V.S. Anthony.</i></center>
+<p>
+  <span class="sc">Price in Cloth, $6.00; in Antique Morocco on Tree Calf, $10.00, in
+  Crushed Levant, with Silk Linings, $25.00.</span>
+</p>
+<p>
+  "<span class="sc">Childe Harold</span>" is the most famous of the poems of Lord Byron, and
+  abounds in the most picturesque and attractive scenes and subjects for
+  illustration; including the beautiful scenery of the Rhine, and of Italy
+  and Greece, and the rich treasures of art and history in the classic
+  countries around the Mediterranean.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The best American artists have drawn these illustrations, <i>con
+  amore</i>, producing a great number of very choice examples of the high
+  perfection which wood-engraving has reached in the New World. The
+  general supervision of the work has devolved upon Mr. <span class="sc">A.V.S. Anthony</span>,
+  who held the same relation to the recent magnificent editions of
+  "Lucille" "The Lady of the Lake," "The Princess," and "Marmion;" thus
+  ensuring the utmost accuracy in study, taste in composition, and
+  elegance in finish.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Publishers believe that in this form and with this elegance of
+  finish the work will be widely welcomed as a Fine Art Edition, and
+  become the
+</p>
+<h3>  LEADING HOLIDAY GIFT-BOOK OF THE YEAR.</h3>
+<p>
+  "In every respect a beautiful book. It is printed from new plates and
+  its many illustrations have been furnished by artists famous in their
+  line. It is even more attractive than its handsome predecessors, the
+  'Marmion' and the Lady of the Lake."&mdash;Boston Traveller.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "The most talked of Book since 'Daniel Deronda.'"
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>The Rise of Silas Lapham</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">William D. Howells</span>. 1 vol. 12mo.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "No novel since 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' has been so extensively read by
+  business men. Mr. Howell's literary work has broadened and deepened into
+  this, the latest and most important, and we think his best work,"&mdash;says
+  the <i>New Jerusalem Messenger</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>For a Woman</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">Nora Terry</span>, 1 vol. 16mo. $1.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  An admirable Story of modern life in America.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Her prose is always as charming as her poetry, which is saying a great
+  deal.&mdash;<i>Boston Transcript</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Nora Perry is the only poet of pure passion in America."&mdash;D.A. WASSON,
+  in <i>Boston Transcript</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>Social Silhouettes</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">Edgar Fawcett</span>. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "All Gotham is busy gossiping over Edgar Fawcett's series of social
+  Silhouettes,' and everybody has his pet theory as to whom is deliniated
+  in each portrait."&mdash;<i>New Orleans Times Democrat</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery of New Orleans</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">Wm. Miller Owen</span>, First Lieutenant and Adjutant B.W.A. Illustrated
+  with 8 maps and four engravings. 8 vo. $3.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A stirring narrative of events during the late Civil War, from Bull Run
+  to Seven Pines, Antietam and Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
+  Gettysburg, Chickamaugu, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomatox and Spanish
+  Fort. Compiled by the adjutant from his diary and from documents and
+  Orders.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "It is indeed, the most interesting, authentic and reliable contribution
+  to our war literature yet seen."&mdash;<i>New Orleans Times Democrat</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>The Haunted Adjutant; and Other Stories</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">Edmund Quincy</span>. Edited by his son, Edmund Quincy. 12mo. $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Mr. Quincy possessed the Imaginative faculty, and the instructive
+  faculty in larger measure than any of his countrymen, Hawthorne, perhaps
+  excepted, and Hawthorne, if his equal, was not his superior."&mdash;<i>Boston
+  Traveller</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>Aulnay Tower</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">Blanche Willis Howard</span>. 12mo. $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "A story which, for absorbing interest, brilliancy of style, charm of
+  graphic character drawing, and exquisite literary quality, will hold its
+  rank among the best work in American fiction."&mdash;<i>Boston Traveller</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>Love; or, A Name</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By <span class="sc">Julian Hawthorne</span>. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "Mr. Hawthorne has a more powerful imagination than any contemporary
+  write of fiction."&mdash;<i>The Academy (London)</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <b>A Narrative of Military Service</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  By Gen. <span class="sc">W.B. Hazen</span>. 1 vol. 8 vo. With Maps, Plans and Illustrations.
+  $3.00.
+</p>
+<p>
+  "There can be no doubt, we think, that it will be eagerly read,
+  particularly by the brave soldiers whom he led at Shiloh, who held the
+  crest at Stone Ridge, who stood firm under his eye at Chickamauga, who
+  floated with him by night under the shadow of Lookout Mountain down to
+  Brown's Ferry, who received his order to climb the fence of Mission
+  Ridge who helped to take Atlanta, who marched to the sea, who swarmed
+  over the parapets of Fort McAllister, who made the triumphant campaign
+  of the Carolinas, and passed in review before the President."&mdash;<i>New
+  York Mail and Express</i>.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <i>For sale by Booksellers. Sent post-paid on receipt of price, by the
+  Publishers</i>.
+</center>
+<h2>
+  TICKNOR &amp; CO., Boston.
+</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx30" name="pagexxx30"></a>[pg xxx30]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+<h2>  American History, Statesmanship, and Literature.</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>  American Commonwealths.</h3>
+<center>  Edited by <span class="sc">Horace E. Scudder.</span></center>
+<p>
+  "It is clear that this series will occupy an entirely new place in our
+  historical literature. Written by competent and aptly chosen authors,
+  from fresh materials, in convenient form, and with a due regard to
+  proportion and proper emphasis, they promise to supply most
+  satisfactorily a positive want."&mdash;<i>Boston Journal.</i>
+</p>
+<ul style="list-style:none;">
+<li>     I. <i>VIRGINIA</i>. By JOHN ESTEN COOKE. </li>
+<li>    II. <i>OREGON</i>. By WILLIAM BARROWS. </li>
+<li>   III. <i>MARYLAND</i>. By WILLIAM HAND BROWNE. </li>
+<li>    IV. <i>KENTUCKY</i>. By Prof. N.S. SHALER. </li>
+<li>     V. <i>MICHIGAN</i>. By Judge THOMAS M. COOLEY. </li>
+<li>    VI. <i>KANSAS</i>. By Prof. LEVERETT W. SPRING. </li>
+</ul>
+<p>   (Other volumes in preparation.) Each volume, 16mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25. </p>
+
+<h3>   American Statesmen. </h3>
+<center>Edited by <span class="sc">John T. Morse, Jr.</span></center>
+<ul style="list-style:none;">
+<li>      I. <i>JOHN QUINCY ADAMS</i>. By JOHN T. MORSE, JR. </li>
+<li>     II. <i>ALEXANDER HAMILTON</i>. By HENRY CABOT LODGE. </li>
+<li>    III. <i>JOHN C. CALHOUN</i>. By Dr. H. VON HOLST. </li>
+<li>     IV. <i>ANDREW JACKSON</i>. By Pres. WM. G. SUMNER. </li>
+<li>      V. <i>JOHN RANDOLPH</i>. By HENRY ADAMS. </li>
+<li>     VI. <i>JAMES MONROE</i>. By Prof. D.C. GILMAN. </li>
+<li>    VII. <i>THOMAS JEFFERSON</i>. By JOHN T. MORSE, JR. </li>
+<li>   VIII. <i>DANIEL WEBSTER</i>. By HENRY CABOT LODGE. </li>
+<li>     IX. <i>ALBERT GALLATIN</i>. By JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS. </li>
+<li>      X. <i>JAMES MADISON</i>. By SYDNEY HOWARD GAY. </li>
+<li>     XI. <i>JOHN ADAMS</i>. By JOHN T. MORSE, JR. </li>
+<li>    XII. <i>JOHN MARSHALL</i>. By ALLAN B. MAGRUDER. </li>
+<li>   XIII. <i>SAMUEL ADAMS</i>. By JAMES K. HOSMER. </li>
+</ul>
+<p>   (Other volumes in preparation.) Each volume, 16mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25. </p>
+
+<h3>   American Men of Letters. </h3>
+<center>   Edited by <span class="sc">Charles Dudley Warner.</span> </center>
+<ul style="list-style:none;">
+<li>      I. <i>WASHINGTON IRVING</i>. By CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. </li>
+<li>     II. <i>NOAH WEBSTER</i>. By HORACE E. SCUDDER. </li>
+<li>    III. <i>HENRY D. THOREAU</i>. By FRANK B. SANBORN. </li>
+<li>     IV. <i>GEORGE RIPLEY</i>. By OCTAVIUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM. </li>
+<li>      V. <i>JAMES FENIMORE COOPER</i>. By Prof. T.R. LOUNSBURY. </li>
+<li>     VI. <i>MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI</i>. By T.W. HIGGINSON. </li>
+<li>    VII. <i>RALPH WALDO EMERSON</i>. By O.W. HOLMES. </li>
+<li>   VIII. <i>EDGAR ALLAN POE</i>. By G.E. WOODBERRY. </li>
+<li>     IX. <i>NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS</i>. By H.A. BEERS. </li>
+</ul>
+<p>   (Other volumes in preparation.) Each volume, with portrait, 16mo, gilt
+  top, $1.25. </p>
+
+<p>
+  "Mr. Morse and Mr. Warner, through the enterprise of their Boston
+  publishers, are doing in their two biographical series a service to the
+  public, the full extent of which, while well rewarded in a commercial
+  sense, is doubtless not generally and rightfully appreciated. Honest and
+  truly important work it is that they and their colleagues are
+  doing."&mdash;<i>New York Times</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  &#x2042; <i>For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by
+  the publishers</i>.
+</p>
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+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx31" name="pagexxx31"></a>[pg xxx31]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>TEN DOLLARS ENOUGH</h1>
+<hr />
+<p class="center">
+AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF VOL. II, IN NOVEMBER,
+</p>
+<h2>   GOOD-HOUSEKEEPING </h2>
+<p class="center">
+Will appear in new type cut and cast expressly for its publishers, and
+will have as a leading feature the first instalment of a new Serial by
+CATHERINE OWEN, Author of "Culture and Cooking," and one of the most
+practical writers of the day on Household Affairs, entitled:
+</p>
+<h1>   "Ten Dollars Enough." </h1>
+<p class="center">   <u>Keeping House Well on Ten Dollars a Week.</u> </p>
+
+<p class="center" style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+<u><b>HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE. HOW IT MAY BE DONE AGAIN.</b></u>
+</p>
+
+<h2>   OUR PRIZE PAPERS. </h2>
+<p>
+The awards of $500, for our Series of Prize Papers, the entries for
+which closed September 1, are as follows:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+<span style="float:left; font-size: 200%;">$250.</span> "<b>How to Eat, Drink, and Sleep as Christians Should</b>." A
+series of Six Papers. "<span class="sc">Margaret Sidney</span>" (Mrs. D. Lothrop), Boston. One
+of the most popular and promising writers of the day.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span style="float:left; font-size: 200%;">$200.</span> "<b>Mistress Work and Maid Work.&mdash;Which is Mistress, and Which is
+Servant</b>." A Series of Six Papers. <span class="sc">Mrs. E.J. Gurley</span>, Waco, Texas.
+</p>
+<p>
+<span style="float:left; font-size: 200%;">$50.</span> "<b>Bread: How to Make it Well and Economically, and How to Eat it
+Healthfully</b>." Mrs. <span class="sc">Helen Campbell</span>, Orange N.J. (Author of "The
+Easiest Way in Housekeeping and in Cooking," and other valuable
+household writings for the press.)
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">
+These and the following will have prominent place in our regular
+Semi-Monthly
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">   <b>BILL-OF-FARE</b> <br />
+during the publication of the volume.
+</p>
+<p>
+"<b>Fifty Recipes for Making all kinds of Bread</b>." <span class="sc">By Catherine Owen</span>.
+</p>
+<p>
+"<b>Puff Paste</b>," Illustrated. By Mrs. <span class="sc">Emma P. Ewing</span>, Dean of the
+School of Domestic Economy of the Iowa Agricultural College.
+</p>
+<p>
+"<b>Visitor and Visited</b>." By "<span class="sc">Marion Harland</span>."
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+<b>Besides the usual amount of interesting and instructive reading for
+Household Entertainment and Instruction by well-known writers.</b>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2>   SOME OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS, </h2>
+
+<p class="center">
+<b>Many of whom are among the most noted and noteworthy writers or
+housekeepers of our time</b>:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" summary="Some of our Contributors">
+<tr style="font-size:80%; font-variant:small-caps;"><td valign="top" width="33%">
+
+<p>Maria Parloa, </p>
+<p>"Marion Harland," </p>
+<p>Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Hattie Tremaine Terry, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson Scovil, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Carrie W. Bronson, </p>
+<p>Mrs. H. Annette Poole, </p>
+<p>Mary E. Dewey, </p>
+<p>"Margaret Sidney," </p>
+<p>Assis F. Judd, </p>
+<p>Lucretia P. Hale, </p>
+<p>Marian S. Devereux, </p>
+<p>Hester M. Poole, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Frona E. Wait, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Katharine B. Foot, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick, </p>
+<p>Mrs. C.A.K. Poore, </p>
+<p>Dora Read Goodale, </p>
+<p>Josephine Canning, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Georginana H.S. Hull, </p>
+
+</td><td valign="top" width="33%">
+
+<p>Mrs. D.H.R. Goodals, </p>
+<p>Sarah J. Blanchard. </p>
+<p>Mrs. S.O. Johnson, </p>
+<p>"Adelaide Preston," </p>
+<p>Mrs. Helen Campbell, </p>
+<p>"Catherine Owen," </p>
+<p>Anna L. Dawes, </p>
+<p>"Shirley Dare," </p>
+<p>Mrs. Susan Teall Perry, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Ellen Bliss Hooker, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Margaret E. White, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Agnes B. Ormsbee, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Ellis P. Ewing, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Henrietta Davis, </p>
+<p>Anna Barrows, </p>
+<p>"Ella Guernsey," </p>
+<p>Mrs. Eva M. Niles, </p>
+<p>Ruth Hall, </p>
+
+</td><td valign="top" width="33%">
+
+<p>Mrs. C.S. Fox, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Harriet H. Robinson, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Helen N. Packard, </p>
+<p>Mrs. L.A. France, </p>
+<p>Margaret Evginge, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Sarah DeW. Gamwell, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Eliza R. Parker, </p>
+<p>Amelia A. Whitfield, M.D. </p>
+<p>Lavinia S. Goodwin, </p>
+<p>Mrs. Mary Currier Parsons, </p>
+<p>E.C. Gardner, </p>
+<p>Milton Bradley, </p>
+<p>Clark W. Bryan, </p>
+<p>Dr. S.W. Bowles, </p>
+<p>Rev. F.H. Rowley, </p>
+<p>Wm. Paul Gerhard, </p>
+<p>J.H. Carmichael, M.D. </p>
+<p>Newell Lovejoy, </p>
+<p>Dr. F.M. Hexamer. </p>
+
+</td></tr></table>
+
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+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx32" name="pagexxx32"></a>[pg xxx32]</span>
+</p>
+
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+
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+</p>
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+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">
+  1. Uncle Tom's Cabin. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, cloth, price, $1.00.
+</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>  2. Virginia. By John Esten Cooke.</td>
+<td valign="top" rowspan="6" width="50%">
+<p class="center">
+  <i>American Commonwealths</i>.
+</p><p class="center">
+  <i>Edited by Horace E. Scudder</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  A series of volumes narrating the history of such States of the Union as
+  have exerted a positive influence in the shaping of the national
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+</p>
+</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  3. Oregon. By Rev. William Barrows.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  4. Maryland. By William Hand Browne.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  5. Kentucky. By Prof. N.S. Shaler.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  6. Kansas. By Prof. Leverett W. Spring.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  7. Michigan. By Hon. T.M. Cooley.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>  8. Washington Irving. By C.D. Warner.</td>
+<td valign="top" rowspan="9">
+<p class="center">
+  <i>American Men of Letters</i>.
+</p><p class="center">
+  <i>Edited by Charles Dudley Warner</i>.
+</p><p>
+  A series of biographies of distinguished American authors, having all
+  the special interest of biography, and the larger interest and value
+  of illustrating the different phases of American literature, and the
+  social, political, and moral influences which have moulded these authors
+  and the generation to which they belonged.
+</p><p>
+  The volumes contain Portraits of their subjects. Each volume, uniform.
+  16mo, gilt top, $1.25.
+</p></td></tr>
+<tr><td>  9. Noah Webster. By Horace E. Scudder.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  10. Henry D. Thoreau. By F.B. Sanborn.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  11. George Ripley. By O.B. Frothingham.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  12. J.F. Cooper. By Prof. T.R. Lounsbury.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  13. Margaret F. Ossoli. By T.W. Higginson.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  14. Ralph W. Emerson. By O.W. Holmes.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  15. Edgar A. Poe. By Geo. E. Woodberry.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  16. Nathaniel P. Willis. By Henry A. Beers.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>  17. John Quincy Adams. By J.T. Morse, Jr.</td>
+<td valign="top" rowspan="14">
+<p class="center">
+  <i>American Statesmen</i>.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  <i>Edited by John T. Morse, Jr.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The object of this series of lives of American Statesmen is to furnish
+  volumes which shall embody the compact result of extensive study of the
+  many influences which have combined to shape the political history of
+  our country.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  Each volume, uniform, 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.
+</p>
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  18. Alexander Hamilton. By H.C. Lodge.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  19. John C. Calhoun. By Dr. H. Von Hoist.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  20. Andrew Jackson. By Prof. W.G. Sumner.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  21. John Randolph. By Henry Adams.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  22. James Monroe. By Pres. D.C. Gilman.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  23. Thomas Jefferson. By J.T. Morse, Jr.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  24. Daniel Webster. By H.C. Lodge.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  25. Albert Gallatin. By John A. Stevens.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  26. James Madison. By Sidney H. Gay.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  27. John Adams. John. T. Morse, Jr.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  28. John Marshall. By Allan B. Magruder.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  29. Samuel Adams. By James K. Hosmer.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  30. Martin Van Buren. By Wm. Dorsheimer.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">  31. The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips. By George L. Austin. Price $1.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2">  32. The Life and Deeds of Gen. U.S. Grant. By P.C. Headly and G.L. Austin. Price $1.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2">  33. The Life of Henry W. Longfellow. By Francis H. Underwood. Price $1.50</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>  34. Oliver Wendell Holmes.</td>
+<td valign="top" rowspan="7">
+<p class="center">
+  <i>Atlantic Portraits</i>.
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+  Life-size Portraits of the following American authors, lithographed in
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+  picture measures 34 by 30 inches, and is forwarded by mail, carefully
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+</p>
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  35. James Russell Lowell.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  36. William Cullen Bryant.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  37. John G. Whittier.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  38. Henry W. Longfellow.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  39. Nathaniel Hawthorne.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  40. Ralph Waldo Emerson.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="2">41. Four Elegant steel plate portraits to be selected from the following list:&mdash;</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>  The Great War Governor, John A. Andrew. </td>
+<td valign="top" rowspan="6">
+These are real Steel Plate Portraits, superbly printed upon heavy fine
+plate paper, 9 1-2 by 12 inches. Lowest cash price of each, 25 cents.
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Ex-Governor John D. Long. </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Ex-Governor William Gaston. </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Gen. U.S. Grant. </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  President James A. Garfield. </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  President Grover Cleveland. </td></tr>
+
+</table>
+
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+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx33" name="pagexxx33"></a>[pg xxx33]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  <b>COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.</b>
+</h3>
+<p>
+  The following expressions of editorial opinions are entirely from press
+  notices of the August and September (1885) numbers:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+  Its portraits are excellent.&mdash;<i>Daily Gate City</i> (Keokuk Ia.)
+</p>
+<p>
+  Should be well patronized by people of this state.&mdash;<i>The Republic</i>
+  (Boston)
+</p>
+<p>
+  The whole magazine seems to us delightfully provincial.&mdash;<i>Chicago
+  Advance.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Now takes its place among the most important magazines.&mdash;<i>Philadelphia
+  Press.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The literary contents are brilliant and interesting.&mdash;<i>Washington</i>
+  (D.C.) <i>Sunday Gazette.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  It is a monthly that should be in every Massachusetts
+  home.&mdash;<i>Webster</i> (Mass.) <i>Eagle</i>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The illustrations are drawn and engraved with admirable
+  clearness.&mdash;<i>Boston Evening Transcript.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Its ability and breadth of interest entitle it to a continent of
+  readers.&mdash;<i>Brooklyn Daily Times.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The articles (Sept.) are varied, carefully prepared and full of
+  interest.&mdash;<i>Boston Daily Advertiser.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  For interesting, finely illustrated reading material this monthly is
+  unsurpassed.&mdash;<i>Times</i> (Webster, Mass.)
+</p>
+<p>
+  The illustrations are superior, among the best we have seen in any
+  magazine.&mdash;<i>Pittsburg Christian Advocate.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Full of reminiscences and history of the grand old New England
+  Commonwealth.&mdash;<i>Buffalo Christian Advocate.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  If the <i>Bay State</i> keeps up to the mark of this number (Sept.) it
+  will fairly rank with the best magazines.&mdash;<i>Philadelphia American.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  We emphasize again, this magazine should be liberally supported for its
+  historical value.&mdash;<i>Dorchester Beacon</i> (Boston.)
+</p>
+<p>
+  It looks as though there was a bright future for this representative of
+  the literature of the old Bay State.&mdash;<i>Fall River</i> (Mass.)
+  <i>Monitor.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  It is an excellent magazine, beautifully printed, charmingly
+  illustrated, and always filled with attractive articles.&mdash;<i>Salem</i>
+  (Mass.) <i>Register.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Bay State Monthly has leaped into a first class magazine, in all
+  respects second to none in the country.&mdash;<i>Peabody</i> (Mass.)
+  <i>Reporter.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  This magazine has increased wonderfully in appearance as well as in text
+  * * is a credit to our state and should be well supported.&mdash;<i>Salem</i>
+  (Mass.) <i>Observer.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The magazine deserves well of every one who would be informed of the
+  colonial history of New England.&mdash;<i>Newark</i> (N.J.) <i>Daily
+  Advertiser.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Bay State Monthly has a delightful New England flavor * * and is
+  taking more and more a hitherto unoccupied field.&mdash;<i>Boston Herald.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Bay State Monthly steadily grows in usefulness and interest * *.
+  This magazine deserves a generous support.&mdash;<i>N.E. Homestead</i>
+  (Springfield Mass.)
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Bay State fills a needed place in its local history and biography
+  and deserves the success that undoubtedly awaits it.&mdash;<i>Boston Evening
+  Traveller.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Several of its papers have sterling merit, and all are able and
+  entertaining and give promise to the magazine of an individuality that
+  will make it a power.&mdash;<i>Boston Daily Globe.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Bay State Monthly has improved the most rapidly and attained the
+  highest rank of any similar venture in the history of American
+  periodical literature.&mdash;<i>Somerville Journal.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  The Bay State Monthly is one of the standard publications of its class.
+  It is not surpassed by any of its elders in the matter of chaste
+  typography and beauty of illustration, while its literary conception and
+  display are of intrinsic worth.&mdash;<i>Gazette and Chronicle.</i>
+  (Pawtucket R.I.)
+</p>
+<p>
+  We feel sure that all who read the September issue of this monthly will
+  unite in paying tribute to the excellent quality of the reading
+  material, the artistic merit of the wood engraving, the aptness of the
+  subjects chosen for presentation, and the earnestness and faithfulness
+  with which Editor and Publisher do their work.&mdash;<i>Providence
+  Journal.</i>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx34" name="pagexxx34"></a>[pg xxx34]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage" style="line-height: 300%;">
+<h3>
+  ESTABLISHED 1871.
+</h3>
+<h1>
+  THE SOUTH
+</h1>
+<h2>
+  <b>A Journal of Southern and Southwestern Progress</b>.
+</h2>
+<center>
+  The SOUTH is the oldest journal in the<br />
+  country devoted exclusively to the<br />
+  developement of the Southern States,<br />
+  and is indispensable to<br />
+  business men.
+</center>
+<center>
+  Subscription Price, $3.00 a year.
+</center>
+<h3>
+  <i>The South Publishing Company</i><br />
+  85 WARREN STREET, NEW YORK.
+</h3>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx35" name="pagexxx35"></a>[pg xxx35]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:175px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/528.jpg"><img src="images/528.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="VICTOR L. CHANDLER ENGRAVER ON WOOD" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>
+VICTOR L. CHANDLER <br />
+ENGRAVER ON WOOD </h2>
+<h3>   43 MILK ST. <br />
+BOSTON <br />
+MASS. </h3>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  Are You Out Of <b>PAPER?</b> Or Stationery Of Any Kind?
+</h2>
+<p>
+  If so come to our store. If you cannot do that conveniently, drop us a
+  postal and we will send you FREE a complete set of samples of the best
+  Foreign and American writing papers with prices, and full information as
+  to sheets to the pound, sizes, cost of envelopes to match, etc. Papers
+  from 17 cents to $1.00 per pound. By mail 17 cents per pound extra.
+</p>
+<h3>  WARD &amp; GAY,</h3>
+<center>
+  <b>Paper Merchants</b> AND <b>Stationers,</b><br />
+  184 Devonshire St., Boston.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/510c.jpg"><img src="images/510c.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="Tailoring Done as it should be. H. E. FALES &amp; Co. 375 Washington Street Boston" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>  Tailoring </h2>
+<center>  Done as it should be.</center>
+<h3>  H. E. FALES &amp; Co.</h3>
+<center>  375 Washington Street<br />
+  Boston</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx36" name="pagexxx36"></a>[pg xxx36]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  THE LARGEST AND BEST HOUSE TO BUY SHADE GOODS FROM.
+</h3>
+<h1>
+  CUSHMAN BROS., AND CO.,
+</h1>
+<center>
+  MANUFACTURERS OF
+</center>
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/540b.jpg"><img src="images/540b.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="CUSHMAN'S SELF-ACTING SHADE ROLLER." /></a>
+</div>
+
+<center>
+  <b>Shade Rollers, Window Shades, Brass and Nickel Shade Trimmings,
+  Hollands and Upholsterer's Hardware.</b>
+</center>
+<center>
+  IMPORTERS OF
+</center>
+<h3>
+  KING'S FIRST QUALITY SCOTCH HOLLANDS.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  82, 84 &amp; 86 HAWLEY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+<p>
+  &#9758; An inspection of our stock is cordially invited.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <b>ARTISTS' MATERIALS.</b>
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <i>Decorative Art Goods.</i><br />
+  <b>Mathematical Instruments,</b><br />
+  <b>Architects' &amp; Engineers Supplies, etc., etc.</b>
+</h3>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  FROST AND ADAMS, IMPORTERS
+</h2>
+<center>
+  <b>No. 37 Cornhill, Boston.</b>
+<br />
+  F.S. FROST.
+  H.A. LAWRENCE.
+</center>
+<p>
+  Illustrated catalogue free.
+  Mention this magazine.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <b>Mayo's Vegetable Anaesthetic.</b>
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<p>
+  A perfectly safe and pleasant substitute for chloroform, ether, and all
+  other anaesthetics. Discovered by Dr. U.K. Mao, April, 1884, and since
+  administered by him and others in over 106,000 cases successfully.
+  Compounded from nervines which impart oxygen to sustain life, (Nitrous
+  oxide gas, as administered, is destitute of this and tends to produce
+  convulsions and suffocation). The youngest child, the most sensitive
+  lady, and those having heart disease and lung complaint, inhale this
+  vapor with impunity. It stimulates the circulation and builds up the
+  tissues. Recommended in midwifery and all cases of nervous prostration.
+  Physicians, surgeons, dentists and private families supplied. For
+  further information, pamphlets, testimonials, etc., apply to Dr. U.K.
+  MAYO, Dentist, 378 Tremont street, Boston, Mass.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<center>
+  INDORSEMENT OF THE LATE DR. THORNDIKE.
+</center>
+<p>
+  BOSTON, August 15, 1883.
+</p>
+<p>
+  This certifies that I removed in the back of Mr. J.D. Moore a tumor
+  weighing two pounds and three-quarters. The time occupied was twenty-two
+  minutes. The patient was insensible during the whole operation, and came
+  out from the influence of the anaesthetic speedily and perfectly,
+  without nausea or any ill effects. The agent used was prepared by Dr.
+  U.K. Mayo, the dentist, a new discovery of his own. I consider this
+  anaesthetic the safest the world has yet seen.
+</p>
+<p>
+  WM. H. THORNDIKE, M.D., 92 Boylston, Street.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx37" name="pagexxx37"></a>[pg xxx37]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>   S.M. SPENCER'S </h1>
+<h2>   <b>STENCIL AND RUBBER STAMP WORKS,</b> 112 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. </h2>
+
+<ul style="list-style:none;">
+<li>SEAL PRESSES,</li>
+<li>WAX SEALS,</li>
+<li>STEEL STAMPS,</li>
+<li>STEEL ALPHABETS and FIGURES,</li>
+<li>BRASS ALPHABETS,</li>
+<li>COMBINATION NUMBERING WHEELS,</li>
+<li>BRUSHES,</li>
+<li>INK, ALL COLORS,</li>
+<li>INDELIBLE INK,</li>
+<li>RUBBER STAMP INK,</li>
+<li>SELF-INKING PADS,</li>
+<li>KEY CHECKS,</li>
+<li>BAGGAGE and HOTEL CHECKS,</li>
+<li>BRASS CHECKS,</li>
+<li>RUBBER STAMPS, (with 120 styles of letters to select from.)</li>
+<li>SELF-INKING RUBBER STAMPS, (more than 30 different styles.)</li>
+<li>DATING &amp; RECEIPTING STAMPS, (10 different styles.)</li>
+<li>PENCIL and POCKET STAMPS,</li>
+<li>PRINTING WHEELS,</li>
+<li>METAL BODIED RUBBER FACED TYPE, (for hand printing.)</li>
+<li>SHOE LINING STAMPS,</li>
+<li>AUTOMATIC NUMBERING STAMPS,</li>
+<li>RUBBER NUMBERING STAMPS,</li>
+<li>STENCIL DIES,</li>
+<li>BURNING BRANDS.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>   AGENTS' OUTFITS For Stencils, Key Checks, and Rubber Stamp Work, and
+all reliable goods connected with the business wholesale and retail.
+</p>
+
+<center>   <i>Send for illustrated catalogue. All goods first-class and warranted
+in every respect.</i> </center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:175px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/527.jpg"><img src="images/527.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="GLOBE LETTER FILING CABINETS" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>GLOBE LETTER FILING
+<br />
+<i>CABINETS</i>.</h3>
+<center><i>Most Perfect System Known.</i></center>
+<p>  All sizes Black Walnut Cabinets in stock, from 6 to 60 Files.</p>
+<p>Over $20,000 worth in use <b>in Boston</b> alone.</p>
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>    <i>Quick Reference</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>No Mutilation of Papers</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>Rapid Filing</i>.</li>
+<li>    <i>Handsome Workmanship</i>.</li>
+</ul>
+<center>
+<span style="font-size: 200%;">  W.W. EDWARDS,</span><br /> <b>SELLING AGENT,</b>
+<br />
+<b><i>The Globe Files Company</i>, 166 Devonshire St., Boston.</b>
+</center>
+<table border="0" width="100%" align="center" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>SCRAP FILES.</li>
+<li>PAMPHLET CASES.</li>
+<li>DOCUMENT BOXES.</li>
+<li>NICKLE CLIP BOARDS.</li>
+</ul></td>
+<td valign="top" width="50%">
+<ul style="list-style: none;">
+<li>ROLL TOP DESKS.</li>
+<li>CLOTH BOXES, all sizes.</li>
+<li>LAWYERS FILING CASES.</li>
+<li>CASES for Price Lists, etc.</li>
+</ul>
+</td></tr></table>
+<center>
+<b>ESTIMATES</b> Furnished of filing devices for Banks, Railroads,
+Mercantile Firms, Insurance Companies, etc.
+<br />
+<i>N.B. Correspondence Solicited.</i>
+</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx38" name="pagexxx38"></a>[pg xxx38]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="100%" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<p>
+Surprises and pleases all.
+</p>
+<p>
+A novice can produce work without basting, that skilled operators dare
+not attempt on under-feed machines.
+</p>
+<p>
+No change is made in running, from finest muslin to heavy leather.
+</p>
+<p>
+It is readily applied to any specialties that cannot be handled by
+others.
+</p>
+<p>
+Simplicity in construction is one of our important points, as we gain
+strength and durability, and a perfect working machine at all times.
+</p>
+</td>
+<td valign="top">
+<h2> THE NEW HIGH ARM</h2>
+<h1> DAVIS</h1>
+<h2> VERTICAL FEED</h2>
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/552a.jpg"><img src="images/552a.jpg" style="width:200px;"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+</td>
+<td valign="top">
+<p>
+Time and labor saved in dressmaking, as it has the largest variety and
+most perfect working attachments.
+</p>
+<p>
+This feed is absolutely perfect, and no care is required on the part of
+the operator in passing over seams or uneven places.
+</p>
+<p>
+Will not full or stretch the softest of fabrics.
+</p>
+<p>
+The stitch is very elastic, and the same on both sides.
+</p>
+<p>
+One-half hour spent at any of our offices will more than verify our
+statements.
+</p>
+<p>
+Do not fail to examine the <b>Davis</b> before purchasing.
+</p>
+</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="3"><h1> <i>SEWING MACHINE</i>.</h1></td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p class="center">  BOSTON:<br/>   158 Tremont St. </p></td>
+<td><p class="center">  CLEVELAND:<br /> 113-121 North Side Public Sq.</p></td>
+<td><p class="center">  CHICAGO:<br />  46-50 Jackson St. </p></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>HOLYOKE, MASS.</h2>
+<h1>  WINDSOR HOTEL.</h1>
+
+<p>  GEO. H. BOWKER, Proprietor,</p>
+<p style="text-align:right;">  First-class in all its appointments.</p>
+<p>  Free carriage to and from all trains.</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:200px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<h2>"IT STANDS AT THE HEAD."</h2>
+<a href="images/552b.jpg"><img src="images/552b.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="IT STANDS AT THE HEAD -- The &quot;Caligraph.&quot;" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+The "Caligraph" received the only medal awarded type-bar writing
+machines at the WORLD'S FAIR. To silence the assertions and claims of
+our worthy competitor, we publish the following:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  "New Orleans World's Fair, June 10, 1885
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "To whom it may concern,&mdash;The 'Caligraph' manufactured by the American
+  Writing Co. received the medal.
+</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  "L.D. CARROLL, Depart. of Awards."
+</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  "New Orleans, June 20, 1885.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "The Remington type-writer received no award.
+</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  "GUS. A. BREAUX, Chairman of Awards."
+</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  "New Orleans, June 30, 1885.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "Jury on type-writers was Coleman, Cook and Thoens. Report published by
+  Remington is <i>unauthorized and not official</i>.
+</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  "GUS. A. BREAUX, Chairman of Dep't of Awards."
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">
+  For circulars and specimens of writing, apply to THE AMERICAN WRITING
+  MACHINE CO., Hartford, Conn.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  New York Office, 237 Broadway.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  <b>W.M. BELCHER &amp; CO.</b> New England Agent, BOSTON, MASS.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx39" name="pagexxx39"></a>[pg xxx39]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  THE<br /> MASSACHUSETTS RELIEF<br /> ASSOCIATION.
+</h1>
+<h2>
+  (Incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts.)
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  31 Milk <span style="font-size:75%;">(Elevator)</span>, 8 Hawley, 9 Arch Sts., Rooms 49 &amp; 50, BOSTON.
+</h3>
+<h4>
+  JNO. F. WOOD, <i>Pres't</i>. R.T. RYDER, <i>Sec'y</i>. JOHN PEARCE, <i>Treas.</i>
+</h4>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote">
+  <i>Issue in one Certificate, Insurance as desired of from $1,000 to
+  $5,000, payable at Death, but covering Sickness, Accident and Total
+  Disability for Life.</i>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  <b>SPECIAL FEATURES</b>.
+</h2>
+<p class="quote">
+  In case of Sickness or Accident, the afflicted member is entitled to
+  from <b>$5</b> to <b>$25</b> per week, according to the amount of
+  Insurance, while totally incapacitated for work.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  If, from any cause, a member is totally disabled for life, the whole
+  amount of Insurance money, as in case of death, is paid at once to him
+  while living.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  This is just what has long been wanted. It covers all contingencies of
+  life and is not expensive.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Full particulars how to become a member, together with blank forms will
+  be sent to any address upon application.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  A FEW GOOD AGENTS ALWAYS WANTED.
+</h2>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+  <h1>REDUCTION OF FARE TO NEW YORK</h1>
+  <h3>VIA</h3>
+  <h2>FALL RIVER LINE.</h2>
+
+<h4>
+  <b>Only $3.00</b> For First Class Limited Tickets.
+</h4>
+<p class="quote">
+  Special express leaves Boston from <b>OLD COLONY STATION</b> week days
+  at 6 P.M.; Sundays at 7 P.M., connecting at Fall River (49 miles) in 80
+  minutes with the steamers <b>PILGRIM</b> and <b>BRISTOL</b>. Annex
+  steamers connect at wharf in New York for Brooklyn and Jersey City.
+  Tickets, staterooms and berths secured at No. 3 Old State House, corner
+  of Washington and State Streets, and the Old Colony Station.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b><i><span style="font-size:150%;">J.R. KENDRICK</span>, General Manager.</i></b>
+  <b><i><span style="font-size:150%;">L.H. PALMER</span>, Agent, 3 Old State House.</i></b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx40" name="pagexxx40"></a>[pg xxx40]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:100px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/533.jpg"><img src="images/533.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="LACTART ACID OF MILK. A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE." /></a>
+</div>
+<h2><i>LACTART.</i></h2>
+<center>
+  (<b>MILK ACID.</b>)<br />
+  &mdash;&mdash;FOR&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+  Sideboard, Dining Table, Soda Fountain.<br />
+  <i>A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Lactart makes a delicious and peculiarly refreshing drink, with water
+  and sugar only. More healthful and agreeable, as well as more economical
+  than lemonade or <i>ANY OTHER ACID BEVERAGE</i>. It possesses remarkable
+  hygienic virtues and will be found specially efficacious in DYSPEPSIA
+  and LIVER TROUBLES, also NERVOUS AFFECTIONS, WAKEFULNESS and other ills.
+  NO HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT. See descriptive circular with each
+  bottle or mailed on application. <i>SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AVERY LACTATE CO., 173 Devonshire St.,<br /> BOSTON, MASS.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>STONINGTON LINE.</b>
+<br />
+  INSIDE ROUTE TO NEW YORK, CONNECTING WITH
+<br />
+  Philadelphia, Baltimore, &amp; Washington,
+<br />
+  AND ALL POINTS
+<br />
+  <b>SOUTH AND WEST,</b>
+<br />
+  Avoiding Point Judith.
+<br />
+  Via Providence and Stonington, connecting with the elegant Steamers
+<br />
+  <b>Stonington and Narraganset.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Express trains leave Boston &amp; Providence Railway Station, Columbus
+  Avenue and Park Square,
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>DAILY AT 6.30 P.M. (Sundays Excepted.)</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Connect at Stonington with the above named Steamers in time for an early
+  supper, and arrive in New York the following morning in time for the
+  <i>early trains South and West.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AHEAD OF ALL OTHER LINES.</b>
+<br />
+  Tickets, Staterooms, etc., secured at
+<br />
+  <b>214 Washington Street, corner of State,</b>
+<br />
+  AND AT
+<br />
+  <b>BOSTON &amp; PROVIDENCE RAILROAD STATION.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Regular landing in New York, Pier 33, North River Steamer leaves the
+  Pier at 4:30 P.M., arriving in Boston the following morning in ample
+  time to connect with all the early Northern and Eastern trains.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">A.A. Folsom</span>, Superintendent B. &amp; P.R.R.<br />
+    <span class="sc">F.W. Popple</span>, General Passenger Agent.<br />
+      <span class="sc">J.W. Richardson</span>, Agent, Boston.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  COOLIDGE HOUSE,
+<br />
+  BOWDOIN SQUARE, BOSTON.
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  The Coolidge is a centrally-located, thoroughly quiet and comfortable
+  Family Hotel, with rooms arranged in suites, consisting of Parlor,
+  Bedroom, and Bath; having an elevator, and combining all the luxuries
+  and conveniences of the larger hotels, with the quietness and retirement
+  of a private house; affording <i>most excellent accommodations at
+  moderate charges.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>COOLIDGE CAFE,</b>
+<br />
+  <b>EXCLUSIVELY FOR GENTLEMEN.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Fitted up with the most complete and approved system of Broilers now in
+  use, after the style of Spiers &amp; Pond's Celebrated London Chop-Houses,
+  and those so desiring, can select a steak or chop and see the same
+  cooked on "The Silver Grill."
+</p>
+<center>
+  A Perfect Restaurant in Every Respect.
+<br />
+  <i>The Best Material, Cooking, and Service.</i>
+<br />
+  <b>I.N. ANDREWS &amp; CO.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/541b.jpg"><img src="images/541b.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="Banjo" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>
+  THE FAIRBANKS AND COLE BANJOS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  All interested are respectfully requested to carefully examine our
+  banjos before purchasing. GOLD MEDAL AT NEW ORLEANS, 1884, 1885. Send
+  for our price-list of banjos, music and instruction.
+</p>
+<h2>  <b>FAIRBANKS</b> AND <b>COLE,</b> </h2>
+<center>
+  <i>MUSIC MAKERS, TEACHERS, AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS</i>,<br />
+  121 COURT STREET. BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx41" name="pagexxx41"></a>[pg xxx41]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<!--
+<h2>
+  SIMPSON<br />
+  SPRING WATER.
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  SPRING HOUSE
+  <i>AND</i>
+  <b><i>Bottling Establishment</i></b>
+</h3>
+<center>
+  SO. EASTON, MASS.
+</center>
+-->
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/532.jpg"><img src="images/532.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="Map" /></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+This is the Purest and Most Effective of all Medicinal Spring Waters.
+Possessing remarkable Curative Properties for diseases of the
+<i>STOMACH</i>, <i>LIVER</i>, <i>KIDNEYS</i> and <i>BLADDER</i>.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>A MILD CATHARTIC AND ACTIVE DIURETIC.</h3>
+<center>
+<b>PROF. RAPHAEL PUMPELLY</b>, Chemist National Board of Health.
+</center>
+<p>
+[NOTE.&mdash;This analysis, with a letter of recommendation from Prof.
+Pumpelly, was read before the Newport Sanitary Protective Society,
+Jan. 12, 1884.]
+</p>
+<center>  <i>PARTS IN 1,000,000</i></center>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="50%" summary="residue, parts per million">
+<tr><td>  Total Residue                     </td><td align="right">44.6 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Silica                            </td><td align="right">11.5 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Iron and Alumina                  </td><td align="right"> 0.7 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Lime                              </td><td align="right">10.5 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Magnesia                          </td><td align="right"> 1.5 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Chlorine                          </td><td align="right"> 4.6 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Ammonia                           </td><td align="right"> 0.06 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  Albumoid Ammonia                  </td><td align="right"> 0.06 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+The above analysis shows a total residue of about 2.6 grains in one
+gallon of 231 cubic inches.
+</p>
+<p>
+The object of the above analysis is to show the great purity of this
+water. Its curative properties cannot be determined by a chemical
+analysis. No combination of the above-mentioned minerals alone would
+produce the same effects. The Spring possesses a peculiarity and an
+individuality of its own which no one ever has been able to explain. It
+is one of Nature's remedies. Its medicinal effects can only be
+determined by a thorough trial.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  Messrs. HOWARD BROS.,                                                                           BOSTON, April 24, 1885.
+</p>
+<p>
+  <i>Dear Sirs</i>,&mdash;"After many careful trials of the Simpson Spring
+  Water in urinary disorders, extending over one year, I am convinced
+  (despite my previous prejudices, excited by the extravagant claims made
+  for other Springs,) that its <i>properties</i> are
+  <i>characteristic</i>, and as <i>clinically trustworthy</i> as are those
+  of terebinthina, lithia, or many other of the partially proven drugs. I
+  have found it surprisingly gratifying as an adjuvant in the cure of
+  albuminuria, and in lowering the specific gravity of the urine in
+  Saccharine Diabetes its action is promptly and lastingly helpful. It is
+  mildly cathartic and an active diuretic."
+</p>
+<p>
+  DR. J. HEBER SMITH,<br />
+  <i>Professor of Materia Medica in the Boston University School of Medicine.</i>
+</p>
+<p>
+  Families and dealers supplied with the water in cases of bottles and
+  Patent Boxed Glass Demijohns by
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b><i>HOWARD BROS., Managers</i>,</b><br />
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+<br />
+  &mdash;OR&mdash;
+<br />
+  GEO. W. BANKER, Gen'l Agent, 41 Platt Street, New York.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx42" name="pagexxx42"></a>[pg xxx42]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  CANTON BLEACH.
+</h1>
+<p>
+  The goods are full strength; i.e., they are not injured by strong
+  chemicals, the coloring matter only being removed, and the fibre being
+  left uninjured.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The goods are not artificially weighted; i.e., they contain nothing but
+  pure cotton, no sizing, clay, or chemicals to make it appear heavy, and
+  which all disappear when the cloth is washed.
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+<p>
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+</p>
+<p>
+  Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is
+  required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached
+  by the old process.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Do not purchase cotton goods until you have <i>examined the</i>
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+</p>
+<p>
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+</p>
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/534.jpg"><img src="images/534.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CANTON JUNCTION, MASS.
+  BLEACHED BY &quot;TOPPAN PROCESS.&quot;
+  PATENTED AUG. 29, 1882
+
+  TRIUMPH SOAP
+  CANTON MAN'F'G CO
+  TRADEMARK" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+  Contains no Rosin, Sal-Soda or Lime; is not made from Grease, and
+  contains nothing injurious to the skin or the finest fabric. Is entirely
+  pure. Will not full or harden woolens. Insures a pure and lasting white.
+  Used like any soap, and by everybody, even inexperienced hands, with
+  perfect success. Contains no bleaching powder or anything of like
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+  odorless, antiseptic and sanitary soap, rendering it valuable for sick
+  rooms and hospitals.
+</p>
+<p>
+  If you cannot get it of your grocer, send direct to the office of the
+  Company. Manufactured under Patent Jan. 23, 1877, and for sale by the
+</p>
+<h3>
+  CANTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY,<br />
+  160 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">Edward W. Howe</span>, Treas.
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+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx43" name="pagexxx43"></a>[pg xxx43]</span>
+</p>
+
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+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx45" name="pagexxx45"></a>[pg xxx45]</span>
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+  Henry W. Longfellow in His Library
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+<p class="center">
+  At "Craigie House," Old Cambridge, Mass.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote">
+  &#x2042; <b>The following are a few endorsements among many others of like
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+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <i>John. J. Platt, the poet says</i>: The likeness is an excellent one.
+  It represents our beloved and lamented poet in his most familiar
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+  <i>The Boston Daily Globe says</i>: <span class="sc">Hollyer</span> has certainly achieved an
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+  ARTIST PROOFS, size 27x37 inches, printed on India Paper, <i>limited to
+  125 impressions, </i>and numbered consecutively 1 to 125, and each
+  impression <i>signed</i> by the artist, each ... $50.00
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  PROOFS BEFORE LETTER, size 25x35 inches, printed on India Paper,
+  <i>limited to</i> 250 <i>impressions</i>, and numbered consecutively 1
+  to 250, each ... 30.00
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  INDIA PROOFS, LETTERED, size 24x33 inches, <i>limited to</i> 500
+  <i>impressions</i>, and numbered consecutively 1 to 500, each ... 15.00
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  PROOF IMPRESSIONS, size 24x32 inches, each ... 7.50
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote">
+  Any one sending us the name of a new subscriber, with $3.00, for one
+  year's subscription to <span class="sc">The Bay State Monthly</span>, before January 1, 1836,
+  may, if desired, order the above engraving (proof impression), instead
+  of any of the premiums described on the opposite page.
+</p>
+<p class="quote" style="font-family: sans-serif;">
+  <b><i>THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER, AS THESE ENGRAVINGS HAVE NEVER
+  BEFORE SEEN SOLD FOR LESS THAN $7.50 EACH.</i></b>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="center">
+  <i>We will sell a limited number of these engravings at the price of</i>
+  85 <i>cents each.</i>
+</p>
+<h2>
+  BAY STATE MONTHLY CO., 43 Milk Street, Boston.
+</h2>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx46" name="pagexxx46"></a>[pg xxx46]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  <b>THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY <span style="font-size:75%;">FOR</span> 1886</b>
+</h1>
+<h3>
+  <i>WILL CONTAIN SERIAL STORIES BY</i>
+</h3>
+<p class="center">
+  <b>HENRY JAMES.</b>
+<br />
+  ["The Princess Casamassima" will continue until August, 1886.]
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  <b>CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK,</b>
+<br />
+  Author of "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," "In the Tennessee
+  Mountains," etc.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  <b>WILLIAM H. BISHOP,</b>
+<br />
+  Author of "The House of a Merchant Prince."
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="center">
+  <b>MR. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL</b>
+<br />
+  Will write for <span class="sc">The Atlantic Monthly</span> during 1886.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  <b>MR. JOHN FISKE</b>
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Will contribute six or more papers on United States History, covering
+  the period from the Revolution to the adoption of the Constitution.
+  These papers discuss a portion of American history very imperfectly
+  known, and cannot fail to be exceedingly engaging by reason of Mr.
+  Fiske's ample knowledge and perfectly clear style.
+</p>
+<p class="center">
+  <b>MR. PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON,</b>
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  The distinguished English writer, will furnish a series of articles
+  comparing French and English people, character, opinions, customs, etc.
+  Mr. Hamerton is peculiarly qualified, by his intimate knowledge of the
+  French as well as of his fellow-countrymen, to write on this subject.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  TERMS: $4.00 a year, in advance, POSTAGE FREE; 35 cents a number. With
+  superb life-size portrait of Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant,
+  Whittier, Lowell, or Holmes, $5.00; each additional portrait, $1.00.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <i>Postal notes and money are at the risk of the sender, and therefore
+  remittances should be made by money-order, draft, or registered letter
+  to</i>
+</p>
+<h2>  HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,</h2>
+<h3>  4 PARK STREET, BOSTON, MASS.</h3>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<table summary="" align="center" border="0">
+<tr><td valign="top">
+
+<h2>
+  CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK'S
+</h2>
+<h2>
+  Remarkable Stories.
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS.
+</h3>
+<p class="quote">
+  <span style="font-size:200%;">&#9758;</span> <i>SEVENTH THOUSAND</i>. $1.25.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  This is one of the most noteworthy of American novels. The striking
+  figure and fate of "the prophet," the cave and stealthy operations of
+  the "moonshiners," and the engaging love story which runs as a golden
+  thread through it all, are depicted with great power and fascination.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS.
+</h2>
+<p class="quote">
+  Eight short stories of marvellous power and beauty. $1.25.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <span style="font-size:200%;">&#9758;</span> <i>THIRTEENTH EDITION.</i>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  DOWN THE RAVINE.
+</h2>
+<p class="quote">
+  With Illustrations. $1.00.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  A very engaging story of East Tennessee life, equally interesting to
+  parents and children.
+</p>
+
+</td><td valign="top">
+
+<h3>
+  Life and Letters of Louis Agassiz.
+</h3>
+<p class="quote">
+  By <b>Elizabeth C. Agassiz</b>. With Portraits and several
+  Illustrations. 2 vols. crown 8vo, $4.00.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Mrs. Agassiz has written in the most delightful manner the story of the
+  great naturalist's life, and has woven into the narrative a large number
+  of his letters, the whole forming a peculiarly attractive biography and
+  a work of remarkable value and interest to all students of Natural
+  History.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  THE BIGLOW PAPERS.
+</h2>
+<p class="quote">
+  By <b>James Russell Lowell.</b> First and Second Series. In the
+  Riverside Aldine Series. 2 vols. 16mo, $2.00.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  "The greatest of all American humorists is James Russell Lowell, and
+  greatest of all American books of humor is the Biglow
+  Papers."&mdash;<i>North British Review.</i>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  Two Years Before the Mast.
+</h3>
+<p class="quote">
+  Sailor Life in a Voyage around Cape Horn to and from San Francisco, and
+  in California. By <b>Richard H. Dana, Jr.</b> New Popular Edition. Price
+  reduced from $1.50 to $1.00.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  LARS: A Pastoral of Norway.
+</h3>
+<p class="quote">
+  By <b>Bayard Taylor</b>. In Riverside Literature Series. With a
+  Biographical Sketch and Notes. Paper, 15 cents.
+</p>
+
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="quote">
+&#x2042; <i>For sale by all Booksellers. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt
+  of price, by the Publishers</i>,
+</p>
+<h2>
+  <b>HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN &amp; CO., Boston, Mass.</b>
+</h2>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx47" name="pagexxx47"></a>[pg xxx47]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  <b>SPRINGER BROS.,</b>
+</h1>
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left; clear:left;">
+<a href="images/561a.jpg"><img src="images/561a.jpg" style="width:200px;" alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+  Respectfully invite the attention of Ladies to their extensive and
+  attractive display of
+</p>
+<h2>
+  Fashionable Cloaks,
+</h2>
+<h3 style="text-align:left;">
+&nbsp;    Short Wraps,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;      Newmarkets,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;        Plush Sacques,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;          Walking-Jackets
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+  And Ladies Outside Garments of every description just opened at the
+</p>
+<h2>
+  NEW RETAIL DEPARTMENT<br />
+  FOR THE<br />
+  Fall and Winter Season of 1885-86.
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<p>
+  Ladies who have never yet visited this establishment will be surprised
+  at the elegance of the spacious salesrooms and the superior grades of
+  goods therein displayed.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  SPRINGER BROS.,</h2>
+<h4>  Importers, Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers.</h4>
+<h3>  <b>Chauncy Street, Essex Street and Harrison Avenue,</b><br />
+  (One Block from Washington Street.) <b>BOSTON</b>.</h3>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<table width="100%" summary="">
+<tr><td valign="top">
+<a name="image-0040"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/561b.jpg"><img src="images/561b.jpg" style="width:200px;"
+alt="ADAMSON'S BOTANIC COUGH BALM
+  FOR THE CURE OF COUGHS, COLDS, SORE THROAT, HOARSENESS, CROUP,
+  ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, BLEEDING AND SORENESS OF LUNGS AND WHOOPING COUGH,
+  AND ALL DISEASES LEADING TO CONSUMPTION.
+  Pleasant, and Cures as by Magic.
+  Sold by Druggists &amp; Medicine Dealers Everywhere.
+  Price, 10, 35 &amp; 75 cts.
+  F.W. Kinsman &amp; Co., PROPRIETORS 343 4th Av. New York" /></a>
+</div>
+
+</td><td valign="top" style="border-left: thin solid black;">
+
+<a name="image-0041"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure">
+<a href="images/561c.jpg"><img src="images/561c.jpg" style="width:200px;"
+alt="RELIEF AND SHOULDER AND SKIRT SUPPORTING CORSETS" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>   SOLD AND FITTED BY MRS. L. LANDON,<br /> 25 WINTER ST., ROOM 22, </h3>
+<h4>   FORMERLY WITH<br /> MME. GRISWOLD. </h4>
+</td>
+</tr></table>
+
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx48" name="pagexxx48"></a>[pg xxx48]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h1>
+  THE<br /> MASSACHUSETTS RELIEF<br /> ASSOCIATION.
+</h1>
+<h2>
+  (Incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts.)
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  31 Milk <span style="font-size:75%;">(Elevator)</span>, 8 Hawley, 9 Arch Sts., Rooms 49 &amp; 50, BOSTON.
+</h3>
+<h4>
+  JNO. F. WOOD, <i>Pres't</i>. R.T. RYDER, <i>Sec'y</i>. JOHN PEARCE, <i>Treas.</i>
+</h4>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote">
+  <i>Issue in one Certificate, Insurance as desired of from $1,000 to
+  $5,000, payable at Death, but covering Sickness, Accident and Total
+  Disability for Life.</i>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  <b>SPECIAL FEATURES</b>.
+</h2>
+<p class="quote">
+  In case of Sickness or Accident, the afflicted member is entitled to
+  from <b>$5</b> to <b>$25</b> per week, according to the amount of
+  Insurance, while totally incapacitated for work.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  If, from any cause, a member is totally disabled for life, the whole
+  amount of Insurance money, as in case of death, is paid at once to him
+  while living.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  This is just what has long been wanted. It covers all contingencies of
+  life and is not expensive.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Full particulars how to become a member, together with blank forms will
+  be sent to any address upon application.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  A FEW GOOD AGENTS ALWAYS WANTED.
+</h2>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+  <h1>REDUCTION OF FARE TO NEW YORK</h1>
+  <h3>VIA</h3>
+  <h2>FALL RIVER LINE.</h2>
+
+<h4>
+  <b>Only $3.00</b> For First Class Limited Tickets.
+</h4>
+<p class="quote">
+  Special express leaves Boston from <b>OLD COLONY STATION</b> week days
+  at 6 P.M.; Sundays at 7 P.M., connecting at Fall River (49 miles) in 80
+  minutes with the steamers <b>PILGRIM</b> and <b>BRISTOL</b>. Annex
+  steamers connect at wharf in New York for Brooklyn and Jersey City.
+  Tickets, staterooms and berths secured at No. 3 Old State House, corner
+  of Washington and State Streets, and the Old Colony Station.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b><i><span style="font-size:150%;">J.R. KENDRICK</span>, General Manager.</i></b>
+  <b><i><span style="font-size:150%;">L.H. PALMER</span>, Agent, 3 Old State House.</i></b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx49" name="pagexxx49"></a>[pg xxx49]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:100px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/533.jpg"><img src="images/533.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="LACTART ACID OF MILK. A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE." /></a>
+</div>
+<h2><i>LACTART.</i></h2>
+<center>
+  (<b>MILK ACID.</b>)<br />
+  &mdash;&mdash;FOR&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+  Sideboard, Dining Table, Soda Fountain.<br />
+  <i>A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY.</i>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Lactart makes a delicious and peculiarly refreshing drink, with water
+  and sugar only. More healthful and agreeable, as well as more economical
+  than lemonade or <i>ANY OTHER ACID BEVERAGE</i>. It possesses remarkable
+  hygienic virtues and will be found specially efficacious in DYSPEPSIA
+  and LIVER TROUBLES, also NERVOUS AFFECTIONS, WAKEFULNESS and other ills.
+  NO HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT. See descriptive circular with each
+  bottle or mailed on application. <i>SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AVERY LACTATE CO., 173 Devonshire St.,<br /> BOSTON, MASS.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  <b>STONINGTON LINE.</b>
+<br />
+  INSIDE ROUTE TO NEW YORK, CONNECTING WITH
+<br />
+  Philadelphia, Baltimore, &amp; Washington,
+<br />
+  AND ALL POINTS
+<br />
+  <b>SOUTH AND WEST,</b>
+<br />
+  Avoiding Point Judith.
+<br />
+  Via Providence and Stonington, connecting with the elegant Steamers
+<br />
+  <b>Stonington and Narraganset.</b>
+</center>
+<p>
+  Express trains leave Boston &amp; Providence Railway Station, Columbus
+  Avenue and Park Square,
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>DAILY AT 6.30 P.M. (Sundays Excepted.)</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Connect at Stonington with the above named Steamers in time for an early
+  supper, and arrive in New York the following morning in time for the
+  <i>early trains South and West.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>AHEAD OF ALL OTHER LINES.</b>
+<br />
+  Tickets, Staterooms, etc., secured at
+<br />
+  <b>214 Washington Street, corner of State,</b>
+<br />
+  AND AT
+<br />
+  <b>BOSTON &amp; PROVIDENCE RAILROAD STATION.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Regular landing in New York, Pier 33, North River Steamer leaves the
+  Pier at 4:30 P.M., arriving in Boston the following morning in ample
+  time to connect with all the early Northern and Eastern trains.
+</p>
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">A.A. Folsom</span>, Superintendent B. &amp; P.R.R.<br />
+    <span class="sc">F.W. Popple</span>, General Passenger Agent.<br />
+      <span class="sc">J.W. Richardson</span>, Agent, Boston.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<center>
+  COOLIDGE HOUSE,
+<br />
+  BOWDOIN SQUARE, BOSTON.
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  The Coolidge is a centrally-located, thoroughly quiet and comfortable
+  Family Hotel, with rooms arranged in suites, consisting of Parlor,
+  Bedroom, and Bath; having an elevator, and combining all the luxuries
+  and conveniences of the larger hotels, with the quietness and retirement
+  of a private house; affording <i>most excellent accommodations at
+  moderate charges.</i>
+</p>
+<center>
+  <b>COOLIDGE CAFE,</b>
+<br />
+  <b>EXCLUSIVELY FOR GENTLEMEN.</b>
+</center>
+<p class="quote">
+  Fitted up with the most complete and approved system of Broilers now in
+  use, after the style of Spiers &amp; Pond's Celebrated London Chop-Houses,
+  and those so desiring, can select a steak or chop and see the same
+  cooked on "The Silver Grill."
+</p>
+<center>
+  A Perfect Restaurant in Every Respect.
+<br />
+  <i>The Best Material, Cooking, and Service.</i>
+<br />
+  <b>I.N. ANDREWS &amp; CO.</b>
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/541b.jpg"><img src="images/541b.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="Banjo" /></a>
+</div>
+<h3>
+  THE FAIRBANKS AND COLE BANJOS.
+</h3>
+<p>
+  All interested are respectfully requested to carefully examine our
+  banjos before purchasing. GOLD MEDAL AT NEW ORLEANS, 1884, 1885. Send
+  for our price-list of banjos, music and instruction.
+</p>
+<h2>  <b>FAIRBANKS</b> AND <b>COLE,</b> </h2>
+<center>
+  <i>MUSIC MAKERS, TEACHERS, AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS</i>,<br />
+  121 COURT STREET. BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx50" name="pagexxx50"></a>[pg xxx50]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:100px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/564.jpg"><img src="images/564.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="(Flower)" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2>A Splendid Christmas Gift!</h2>
+<h1>Ladies Do Your Own Stamping!</h1>
+<h3>With our New ONE DOLLAR Outfit</h3>
+<h4>You can <i><b>SAVE MONEY</b></i> by doing your own Stamping</h4>
+<h4>You can <i><b>MAKE MONEY</b></i> by doing it for others.</h4>
+<h3>Good <b>$5</b> Stamping Outfit for <b>$1.00</b></h3>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="100%" summary="Kit contents and cost per item" style="clear:both;">
+<tr><td>  35 Parchment Stamping Patterns full size, retail price 10c each.</td><td> $3.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>  26 Initials, size 1-&frac12; in. for Hatbands, Handkerchiefs, &amp;c.    </td><td>  .75 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  1 Illustrated Book of Instruction in Kensington Embroidery Work.</td><td>  .10 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  1 Felt Stamping Pad, imp, pat.                                  </td><td>  .15 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  1 Box best Stamping Powder                                      </td><td>  .15 </td></tr>
+<tr><td>  1 Felt Tidy, with design stamped all ready to work, with 4 knots
+          of silk and needle                                              </td><td>  .35 </td></tr>
+<tr><td></td><td><hr class="full" /></td></tr>
+<tr><td>                                             <b>Retail Value</b>  </td><td>$5.00 </td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Teaches also How to Stamp Plush Felt, &amp;c. Teaches the <b>Kensington,
+Plush Ribbon</b> and other stitches. Also How to Do Kensington, Lustre
+Painting, &amp;c. The patterns contained in this outfit are all useful and
+desirable for stamping Hatbands, Lamp and Table-Mats, Tidies, Doylies
+Towel Racks Lambrequins, Splashers, etc.
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" align="center" width="100%" summary="Items">
+<tr><td width="40%" valign="top">
+
+<p style="text-indent:0;">
+1 vine of Roses, 2-&frac12; in. wide<br />
+1 little Girl, 5 in. high<br />
+1 Kitten, 3-&frac12; in. high<br />
+1 little Butterfly<br />
+1 little Bird<br />
+1 Bird, 4x5 inches<br />
+1 design, Two Owls on Branch<br />
+1 Star and Anchor<br />
+1 design of Child's Face<br />
+1 Sprig of Daisies, 4x5 in.<br />
+1 single Rose and Bud, 2x2 in.<br />
+1 bunch of Pansies, 4x5 in.<br />
+1 bunch of Roses &amp; Buds, 3x5 in.<br />
+1 sprig of Golden Rod, 4 in. high<br />
+1 sprig of Daisies, 4 in. high<br />
+1 sprig of Smilax, 5 in. high<br />
+1 single Buttercup, 2x2 in.<br />
+1 sprig of Asters, 2x3-&frac12; in.<br />
+</p>
+</td><td width="60%" valign="top">
+<p style="text-indent:0;">
+1 sprig of Barberries, 3 in. high<br />
+1 vine of Leaves, 1-&frac12; in. wide<br />
+1 growing design of Violets, for Lambrequins, &amp;c. 6 inches high<br />
+1 single Daisy and Forget-me-not, 2x2 in.<br />
+1 sprig of Bachelor's Button, 3-&frac12; in. high<br />
+1 cluster of Strawberries, 2-&frac12;x3 in.<br />
+1 sprig of Forget-me-nots, 1-&frac12;x2 in.<br />
+1 bouquet of Daisies and Forget-me-nots 5x6 in.<br />
+1 vine of Daisies and Ferns, 5-&frac12; in. wide<br />
+1 vine of Point Russe Stitches, 1-&frac14; in. wide<br />
+Snow-flake designs for Crazy Patchwork<br />
+1 strip of Scallops for Skirts, Infant's Blanket &amp;c<br />
+1 vine with Scallop, 2-&frac12; in. wide<br />
+1 Braiding Vine, 2 in. wide<br />
+1 Braiding Vine, 1-&frac12; in. wide<br />
+Design for Crying Child for Tidy in outline<br />
+1 outline design, Boy and Girl Skating, 7 in. high
+</p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>
+<b>With the Outfit You Can Learn the Art of the Kensington
+Embroidery.</b> You can learn <b>Perforated Stamping</b>, and do your
+own stamping. You can adorn your house with hundreds of beautiful
+articles of Kensington Embroidery. You can teach the art of Kensington
+Embroidery and Stamping and do embroidery for others. Many young ladies
+who begin business with our Embroidery Outfit, are now doing a very
+pretty and paying business in their own houses. <b>REMEMBER</b> the
+entire Outfit will be sent in a box for only <b>ONE DOLLAR</b>,
+<b>TWO</b> outfits $1.75, <b>FOUR</b> outfits for <b>ONLY THREE
+DOLLARS</b>. Get three of your friends to send with you and get your own
+<b>OUTFIT FREE!</b> Send Postal Note, Money Order or Registered Letter.
+Postage Stamps taken. Send all orders to <b>World Man'f'g Co. 122 Nassau
+Street, New York.</b>
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p>
+<i>It is seldom that we have an opportunity to direct attention to
+anything so really worthy of notice as this Complete Stamping Outfit.
+While the price is almost ridiculously low for the entire outfit, the
+number, excellence and variety of the articles furnished almost exceeds
+belief. Even for a family to do its own stamping the outfit would be of
+great service; but when it is realised, that by means of the
+instruction, samples and materials that are included as "Outfits," any
+lady can easily become a proficient in making choice Kensington Lace of
+most elegant and graceful patterns, and become skilled in executing
+every description of perforated stamping and thus make a nice addition
+to her income in a very easy and pleasant way, it would seem that
+scarcely anyone would neglect taking advantage of so favorable an
+opportunity. These stamping outfits are particularly appropriate for
+holiday presents and, in our opinion, well worthy of attentive,
+consideration.</i>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx51" name="pagexxx51"></a>[pg xxx51]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage" style="line-height: 2.5em;">
+
+<h1>
+  THE
+<br />
+  <span class="sc">Provident Savings Life Assurance</span>
+<br />
+  <span class="sc">Society.</span>
+</h1>
+
+<h3>
+  OFFICE:
+<br />
+  BRYANT BUILDING, 55 LIBERTY STREET,
+</h3>
+<center>
+  NEW YORK.
+</center>
+<center style="font-size:200%;">
+  <u>RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCE</u>
+</center>
+<p style="line-height: 2.5em;">
+  COMBINES THE CHEAPNESS AND CONVENIENCE AFFORDED BY THE BEST ASSESSMENT
+  SOCIETIES, WITH THE SECURITY AND PERMANENCE OF THE LEVEL PREMIUM LIFE
+  INSURANCE COMPANIES.
+</p>
+<p style="line-height: 2.5em;">
+  THE SAFEST, MOST ECONOMICAL, AND MOST EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE
+  OBTAINABLE.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+  <span class="sc">Sheppard Homans, president.</span>
+<br />
+  <span class="sc">Wm. E. Stevens, secretary.</span>
+</center>
+<hr />
+<center>
+  &#9758; SEND FOR CIRCULAR, OR CALL IN PERSON. &#9756;
+</center>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx52" name="pagexxx52"></a>[pg xxx52]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h2 style="text-decoration: underline;">
+  "GET THE BEST!!"
+</h2>
+
+<h1>
+<span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 50%;">THE</span>
+POPULAR *&nbsp;*&nbsp;*&nbsp;*&nbsp;*
+<br />
+*&nbsp;*&nbsp;*&nbsp;*&nbsp;*&nbsp;EDUCATOR
+</h1>
+
+<h3>
+  Used in Thousands of Schools,
+</h3>
+<h2>
+  <b><i>Should be in the Hands of Every Live Teacher.</i></b>
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  MONTHLY, $1.00 A YEAR.
+</h3>
+<hr />
+
+<h4>   WHAT IS SAID OF IT. </h4>
+
+<p class="quote">
+  PROF. W.H. PAYNE, <i>University of Michigan</i>. I have received copies
+  of the last EDUCATOR. I think it the best issue of an educational
+  journal I have ever seen.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  SUPT. JOHN JONES. JR., <i>Marengo, Iowa</i>. I believe the POPULAR
+  EDUCATOR equal to the best. We are very much pleased with it.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  SUPT. A.P. STONE, <i>Mass</i>. An excellent and needed paper.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  CHARLES F. KING., <i>Boston Manager, School of Methods, Saratoga
+  Springs, N.Y.</i> The POPULAR EDUCATOR shows in its beautiful type,
+  convenient size, attractive appearance of each page, the number and
+  completeness of each department, the work of the most thorough editorial
+  supervision. Its writers are selected from the best in the country and
+  each one is a live, wide-awake, practical teacher.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  W.A. COCHRAN, <i>Co. Supt. of Schools, Indiana, Pa.</i> Am highly
+  pleased with the paper.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  SUPT. M.E. HARD, <i>Gallipolis, Ohio.</i> It is the best paper for the
+  young teacher I have ever seen.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  S.D. ANGLIN, <i>Co. Supt., Warsaw, Ind.</i> It has the "True Ring." Shall
+  be pleased to see a copy in the hands of every teacher in this county.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  AMOS BURNS, <i>Co. Supt., Columbus, Ind.</i> Like it very much.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  PROF. A.P. BOURLAND, <i>So. Western University, Tenn.</i> From no other
+  school journal do I get so much valuable practical aid.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Miss O.A. EVERS, <i>Principal, N.H. Training School, Manchester,
+  N.H.</i> You have "Out-Heroded Herod." It is the best of any educational
+  paper I have ever read. I cannot see how you get so much together, and
+  not a grain of chaff.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  LEROY T. WEEKS, <i>Portis, Kan</i>. Cannot do without it. Use it in the
+  school-room in many ways.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  AARON SHEELY, <i>Co. Supt. of Schools, Adams Co., Pa.</i> It is the
+  freshest, most practical and best educational journal published in this
+  country.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<table border="0" summary="">
+<tr><td>
+<h2>
+  <b>TEACHERS' HAND-BOOK SERIES.</b>
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  Popular School-Room Helps.
+</h3>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote">
+  <b>PRIMARY READING: How to teach it.</b> 15c. Boston Method. Arranged by
+  the Supervisors of the Boston schools. Price 15 cents. The most
+  practical work ever published on this subject.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b>INFORMATION LESSONS: Nat. Hist.</b> 15c. Animals, Plants, Minerals,
+  Theory and practice combined, with model lessons for the school-room.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b>ELEMENTARY SCIENCE: Model Lessons.</b> 15c. Practical and
+  progressive, yet simple and suggestive.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b>NEW SCHOOL-ROOM SPEAKER. 15c.</b> New Dialogues, Declamations, and
+  Recitations. Especially suitable for use in the school-room.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b>RECITATION CARDS. 10c.</b> Containing memory gems for Bands of Mercy,
+  Arbor Days, Temperance, &amp;c. Also, Motion songs and Recitations for
+  distribution among the class.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  <b>LANGUAGE LESSON CARDS.</b> 12c. Containing pictures of Animals,
+  Birds, Insects, &amp;c., with suggestive questions, enclosed in strong
+  envelope.
+</p>
+<h3>
+  <b>EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.,<br /> 43 MILK STREET.</b>
+</h3>
+
+</td><td>
+
+<h2>
+  <b>TO ADVERTISERS!</b>
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<h3>
+  <b>Read the Following Statement.</b>
+</h3>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  Sept. 19, 1885.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  I hereby certify that the subscription list of the POPULAR EDUCATOR
+  has increased over a thousand names, each month, during the last
+  three months.
+</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  <span class="sc">C.M. Lander</span>,<br /> 50 Bromfield Street,<br /> Boston, Contractor for Mailing.
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Suffolk, ss.:
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Personally appears before me at Boston, this nineteenth day of
+  September. 1885, C.M. Lander, who swears the forgoing statement, by him
+  made, to be true.
+</p>
+<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;">
+  <span class="sc">Rufus G. Fairbanks</span>,<br /> Justice of the Peace.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="quote">
+  Increase of circulation from October to November ... <b>800</b>
+</p>
+<p class="quote">
+  Educational advertisers will find this live periodical a good medium.
+  The rates are very <i>low</i>. Samples and terms sent on application.
+  Address the
+</p>
+<h3>
+  <b>EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.,</b><br /> 43 MILK STREET, BOSTON.
+</h3>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx53" name="pagexxx53"></a>[pg xxx53]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+
+<h1>  <b>HORACE PARTRIDGE &amp; CO.</b> </h1>
+<h2>  497 &amp; 499 Washington St. <b>BOSTON</b>. 51 to 57 Hanover St., </h2>
+<h2>  HEADQUARTERS </h2>
+
+<h3>  &mdash;FOR&mdash; </h3>
+
+<h1>  TOYS, Games ==AND== Fancy Goods, </h1>
+
+<p>
+Being the largest Importers of Toys and Games in the United States, with
+a Branch House in Frankfort, Germany, our facilities for securing all
+leading novelties as they appear in the European markets, and for
+furnishing same to our customers at very lowest prices, are unsurpassed.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align:right;">  HORACE PARTRIDGE &amp; CO. </p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<a name="image-0044"><!--IMG--></a>
+<div class="figure" style="width:100px;float:left;">
+<a href="images/567.jpg"><img src="images/567.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="(doll)" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h3>   <b>AN ARTISTIC VADE MECUM.</b> </h3>
+<h1>   <b>THE LADIES' COMPLETE GUIDE TO FANCY WORK</b> </h1>
+<h3>   <b>AND HOME DECORATION.</b> </h3>
+<h2>   The Most Complete Work of the Kind Ever Issued. </h2>
+<h3>   Over 500 Illustrations. Price only 25 Cents. </h3>
+
+<p>
+The rules and patterns given are so clearly and plainly illustrated and
+described that a very <i>small child</i> can work many of them. With
+this book as an aid, every home in the land, no matter how humble, may
+be as handsomely embellished as the mansion of the most wealthy, and at
+a <b>Trifling Cost</b>. Plain and concise directions are given for doing
+<b>Kensington and Outline Embroidery, Artistic Needlework, Painting on
+Silk, Velvet, and Satin, China Decorating, Darned Lace, Knitted Luce,
+Crazy Patchwork, Macreme Crochet, Java Canvas Work, Feather Work, Point
+Russe, Cross Stitch, Indian Work, and Turkish Drapery, Wax Flowers,
+etc., etc.</b> Among the hundred of designs given are those for
+</p>
+
+<table border="0" width="90%" align="center" summary="List of items" >
+<tr><td>
+<p style="text-indent:0;"> LAMBREQUINS, <br /> MONOGRAMS, <br />
+INITIALS, <br /> BORDERS, <br /> CORNERS, <br /> NORMANDY LACE, <br />
+EDGINGS, <br /> TABLE MATS, <br /> LAMP MATS, <br /> HOODS, <br />
+QUILTS, <br /> VALANCES, <br /> PIANO COVERS, <br /> PORTFOLIOS, <br />
+PANELS, Etc. </p>
+</td><td>
+<p style="text-indent:0;"> DOYLIES, <br /> TIDIES, <br /> OTTOMANS, <br />
+WORK BASKETS, <br /> BABY'S BASKETS, <br /> SCRAP BASKETS, <br />
+BRUSH CASES, <br /> LAMP SCREENS, <br /> TOILET CUSHIONS, <br /> TOILET
+CASES, <br /> PENWIPERS, <br /> THERMOMETERS, <br /> NEEDLE CASES, <br />
+HANDBAGS, <br /> JEWEL CASES, Etc. </p>
+</td><td>
+<p style="text-indent:0;"> WORK STANDS, <br /> SOFA PILLOWS, <br />
+PURSES, <br /> FOOTSTOOLS, <br /> PICTURE FRAMES, <br /> PILLOW CASES,
+<br /> COUNTERPANES, <br /> LETTER CASES, <br /> HAND SCREENS, <br />
+TOILET MIRRORS, <br /> BANNERS, <br /> GLOVE SACHETS, <br /> PAPER
+FLOWERS, <br /> RUSTIC WORK, <br /> COLLAR and CUFF BOXES. </p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p style="text-indent:0;">
+and many others. <b>Everything in the line of Fancy Work ever thought of
+is represented</b>, and the satisfaction of every taste.
+</p>
+<p>
+Aside from the fascination of "doing fancy work," <i>money can be
+made</i> by selling the articles to Fancy Goods and Dry Goods Stores, or
+by teaching others how to make them. In the large cities ladies pay a
+high price for learning no more than this book will teach. Those
+desiring <i>genteel employment</i> will find the "<b>LADIES' COMPLETE
+GUIDE TO FANCY WORK</b>" a veritable friend. It is a handsome book,
+printed on cream tinted super calendered paper. Sent postpaid for <b>25
+Cents. FIVE COPIES FOR ONE DOLLAR</b>. Get four friends to send with
+you, and you get your book <b>FREE</b>.
+</p>
+<h3>
+   <b>Address, PEOPLES' PUB. CO., Boston, Mass.</b>
+</h3>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx54" name="pagexxx54"></a>[pg xxx54]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<h3>
+  THE LARGEST AND BEST HOUSE TO BUY SHADE GOODS FROM.
+</h3>
+<h1>
+  CUSHMAN BROS., AND CO.,
+</h1>
+<center>
+  MANUFACTURERS OF
+</center>
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/540b.jpg"><img src="images/540b.jpg" style="width:300px;"
+alt="CUSHMAN'S SELF-ACTING SHADE ROLLER." /></a>
+</div>
+
+<center>
+  <b>Shade Rollers, Window Shades, Brass and Nickel Shade Trimmings,
+  Hollands and Upholsterer's Hardware.</b>
+</center>
+<center>
+  IMPORTERS OF
+</center>
+<h3>
+  KING'S FIRST QUALITY SCOTCH HOLLANDS.
+</h3>
+<center>
+  82, 84 &amp; 86 HAWLEY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
+</center>
+<p>
+  &#9758; An inspection of our stock is cordially invited.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <b>ARTISTS' MATERIALS.</b>
+</h2>
+<h3>
+  <i>Decorative Art Goods.</i><br />
+  <b>Mathematical Instruments,</b><br />
+  <b>Architects' &amp; Engineers Supplies, etc., etc.</b>
+</h3>
+<hr />
+<h2>
+  FROST AND ADAMS, IMPORTERS
+</h2>
+<center>
+  <b>No. 37 Cornhill, Boston.</b>
+<br />
+  F.S. FROST.
+  H.A. LAWRENCE.
+</center>
+<p>
+  Illustrated catalogue free.
+  Mention this magazine.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  <b>Mayo's Vegetable Anaesthetic.</b>
+</h2>
+<hr />
+<p>
+  A perfectly safe and pleasant substitute for chloroform, ether, and all
+  other anaesthetics. Discovered by Dr. U.K. Mao, April, 1884, and since
+  administered by him and others in over 106,000 cases successfully.
+  Compounded from nervines which impart oxygen to sustain life, (Nitrous
+  oxide gas, as administered, is destitute of this and tends to produce
+  convulsions and suffocation). The youngest child, the most sensitive
+  lady, and those having heart disease and lung complaint, inhale this
+  vapor with impunity. It stimulates the circulation and builds up the
+  tissues. Recommended in midwifery and all cases of nervous prostration.
+  Physicians, surgeons, dentists and private families supplied. For
+  further information, pamphlets, testimonials, etc., apply to Dr. U.K.
+  MAYO, Dentist, 378 Tremont street, Boston, Mass.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<center>
+  INDORSEMENT OF THE LATE DR. THORNDIKE.
+</center>
+<p>
+  BOSTON, August 15, 1883.
+</p>
+<p>
+  This certifies that I removed in the back of Mr. J.D. Moore a tumor
+  weighing two pounds and three-quarters. The time occupied was twenty-two
+  minutes. The patient was insensible during the whole operation, and came
+  out from the influence of the anaesthetic speedily and perfectly,
+  without nausea or any ill effects. The agent used was prepared by Dr.
+  U.K. Mayo, the dentist, a new discovery of his own. I consider this
+  anaesthetic the safest the world has yet seen.
+</p>
+<p>
+  WM. H. THORNDIKE, M.D., 92 Boylston, Street.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx55" name="pagexxx55"></a>[pg xxx55]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:left;width:175px;margin-left:0;padding-left:0;">
+<a href="images/528.jpg"><img src="images/528.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="VICTOR L. CHANDLER ENGRAVER ON WOOD" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>
+VICTOR L. CHANDLER <br />
+ENGRAVER ON WOOD </h2>
+<h3>   43 MILK ST. <br />
+BOSTON <br />
+MASS. </h3>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<h2>
+  Are You Out Of <b>PAPER?</b> Or Stationery Of Any Kind?
+</h2>
+<p>
+  If so come to our store. If you cannot do that conveniently, drop us a
+  postal and we will send you FREE a complete set of samples of the best
+  Foreign and American writing papers with prices, and full information as
+  to sheets to the pound, sizes, cost of envelopes to match, etc. Papers
+  from 17 cents to $1.00 per pound. By mail 17 cents per pound extra.
+</p>
+<h3>  WARD &amp; GAY,</h3>
+<center>
+  <b>Paper Merchants</b> AND <b>Stationers,</b><br />
+  184 Devonshire St., Boston.
+</center>
+
+<hr class="interad" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="float:right;width:100px;margin-right:0;padding-right:0;">
+<a href="images/510c.jpg"><img src="images/510c.jpg" style="width:100%;"
+alt="Tailoring Done as it should be. H. E. FALES &amp; Co. 375 Washington Street Boston" /></a>
+</div>
+<h2>  Tailoring </h2>
+<center>  Done as it should be.</center>
+<h3>  H. E. FALES &amp; Co.</h3>
+<center>  375 Washington Street<br />
+  Boston</center>
+
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagexxx56" name="pagexxx56"></a>[pg xxx56]</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="adpage">
+
+<div class="figure" >
+<a href="images/570.jpg"><img src="images/570.jpg" style="width:350px;"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<!--
+<center>
+IMPERIAL GRANUM, THE GREAT MEDICINAL FOOD.
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+<p>
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+</center>
+<p>
+AN INCOMPARABLE ALIMENT FOR THE GROWTH AND PROTECTION OF INFANTS AND
+CHILDREN.
+</p>
+<center>
+A SUPERIOR NUTRITIVE IN CONTINUED FEVERS.
+</center>
+<center>
+A RELIABLE REMEDIAL AGENT IN ALL DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES.
+</center>
+-->
+</div>
+
+<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 9, 2006 [EBook #17726]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BAY STATE MONTHLY ***
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+
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+
+Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, David Garcia and the Online
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+
+[Illustration: Henry W. Paine]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.
+
+_A Massachusetts Magazine._
+
+VOL. III. NOVEMBER, 1885. NO. VI.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HENRY W. PAINE.
+
+BY PROF. WILLIAM MATHEWS, LL.D.
+
+
+Among the callings acknowledged to be not only useful, but indispensable
+to society, there is no one, except the medical, which has been oftener
+the butt of vulgar ridicule and abuse than the legal. "Lawyers and
+doctors," says a writer on Wit and Humor in the _British Quarterly
+Review_, "are the chief objects of ridicule in the jest-books of all
+ages." But whatever may be the disadvantages of the Law as a profession,
+in spite of the aspersions cast upon it by disappointed suitors,
+over-nice moralists, and malicious wits, it can boast of one signal
+advantage over all other business callings,--that eminence in it is
+always a test of ability and acquirement. While in every other
+profession quackery and pretension may gain for men wealth and honor,
+forensic renown can be won only by rare natural powers aided by profound
+learning and varied experience in trying causes. The trickster and the
+charlatan, who in medicine and even in the pulpit find it easy to dupe
+their fellow-men, find at the bar that all attempts to make shallowness
+pass for depth, impudence for wit, and fatal for wisdom, are instantly
+baffled. Not only is an acute, sagacious, and austere bench a perilous
+foe to the trickery of the ignorant or half-prepared advocate, but the
+veteran practitioners around him are quick to detect every sign of
+mental weakness, disingenuous artifice, or disposition to substitute
+sham for reality. Forensic life is, to a large extent, life in the broad
+glare of day, under the scrutiny of keen-eyed observers and merciless
+critics. In every cause there are two attorneys engaged, of whom one is
+a sentinel upon the other; and a blunder, a slip, an exaggeration, or a
+misrepresentation, never escapes without instant exposure. The popular
+reputation of a lawyer, it has been well said, is but the winnowed and
+sifted judgment which reaches the world through the bar, and is
+therefore made up after severe ordeal and upon standard proof.
+
+These observations are deemed not inappropriate as an introduction to a
+sketch of the life of one of the most eminent lawyers of New England,
+whose career may be regarded as signally worthy of imitation.
+
+HENRY WILLIAM PAINE was born August 30th, 1810, in Winslow,
+Maine. His father, Lemuel Paine, a native of Foxborough, Mass., was a
+graduate of Brown University, and a lawyer by profession, who began
+practice in Winslow, Maine, in partnership with Gen. Ripley, afterwards
+the hero of Lundy's Lane. Owing to poor health, Mr. Paine, sen., soon
+abandoned the law for other pursuits. He was familiar with the
+representative English authors, and specially fond of the Greek language
+and literature, which he cultivated during his life. He had a tenacious
+memory, and could quote Homer by the page. Henry Paine's mother, Jane
+Thomson Warren, was the daughter of Ebenezer T. Warren, of Foxborough,
+the brother of General Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill. Of the
+three children of Lemuel and Jane T. (Warren) Paine, Henry William was
+the second.
+
+After the usual preparatory education, Mr. Paine entered Waterville
+College (now Colby University) in 1826, and graduated in 1830, at the
+age of twenty, with the highest honor of his class. During the last year
+of the college course, he was principal of Waterville Academy, then just
+founded for the preparation of young men for college. He spent eight
+hours a day in charge of his pupils, of whom there were eighty-two, and
+at the same time kept up with his class in the college studies. As a
+teacher he was greatly beloved and respected by his pupils, whose
+affection was won by no lack of discipline, but by his kindly sympathy,
+encouragement, and watchful aid in their studies. He had an eye that
+could beam with tenderness, or dart lightnings; and it was a fine moral
+spectacle, illustrating the superiority of mental over physical force,
+to see a bully of the school, almost twice his size, and who,
+apparently, could have crushed him if he chose, quail under his eagle
+gaze, when arraigned at the principal's desk for a misdemeanor. It is
+doubtful if ever he flogged a scholar; but he sometimes brought the
+ruler down upon the desk with a force that made the schoolroom ring, and
+inspired the lawless with a very wholesome respect for his authority.
+The fact that from that day to this his office has always been a kind of
+Mecca, to which his old pupils, whether dwellers in "Araby the Blest" or
+in the sandy wastes of life, have made pious pilgrimages, shows how
+deeply he was loved and how highly he was honored as a teacher.
+
+Immediately after graduation Mr. Paine was appointed a Tutor of
+Waterville College, and discharged the duties of that office for a year.
+He then began the study of law in the office of his uncle, the late
+Samuel S. Warren, of China, Maine, and continued the study in the office
+of William Clark, a noted lawyer in Hallowell, Maine, and, for a year,
+in the Law School of Harvard University, where he was the classmate of
+Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips and B.F. Thomas. In the autumn of 1834,
+he was admitted to the bar of Kennebec County, Maine. Beginning his
+professional career at Hallowell, he prosecuted it there with signal
+success till the summer of 1854, having for twenty years a practice not
+surpassed by that of any member of the Maine bar. During the sessions of
+1836, 1837, and again in that of 1853, he represented the citizens of
+Hallowell in the lower house of the State Legislature. He was also for
+five years Attorney for Kennebec County. During his stay in Maine, he
+was repeatedly offered a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court
+of that State; but, having an unconquerable aversion to office of every
+kind, civil or political, he declined to accept the honor pressed upon
+him. In 1853 he was offered by his political friends, then the dominant
+party in the Legislature, a seat in the United States Senate; but he
+refused to be nominated. In the summer of 1854, in accordance with a
+long cherished resolve, which he had been prevented from executing
+before by a promise to his father that he would not leave Maine during
+that parent's lifetime, he removed to Cambridge, Mass., and opened a
+law-office in Boston. Here he at once entered upon a large and lucrative
+practice, both in the State and Federal courts, which kept steadily
+increasing for over twenty years, till declining health and partial
+deafness compelled him to withdraw from the courts of justice, and
+confine himself to office business. During this period, his opinion on
+abstruse and knotty points of law was often solicited by eminent counsel
+living outside of Massachusetts, and he sent written opinions to
+attorneys in nine different states. As Referee and Master in Chancery,
+he was called upon to arbitrate in a great number of difficult and
+complicated cases, involving the ownership and disposition of large
+amounts of property. His decisions in these vexed cases, which often
+involved the unravelling of tangled webs of testimony, and the
+consideration of the nicest and most delicate questions of law, were
+luminous and masterly, and so impartial withal, that the litigants must
+have often been convinced of their justness, if not contented,--_etaim
+contra quos statuit, aequos placatosque dimisit._
+
+In 1863 and 1864 Mr. Paine was nominated, without his consent, by the
+Democratic party of Massachusetts, a candidate for the office of
+Governor. With much reluctance he accepted the nomination, but, as he
+expected, and doubtless to his joy, failed of an election. In 1867, on
+the resignation of Chief Justice Bigelow, the office of Chief Justice of
+the Supreme Court of Massachusetts was offered by Governor Bullock to
+Mr. Paine, who, not wishing to give up his large and profitable practice
+at the bar, declined to accept. This decision, though a natural one, is
+much to be regretted by the citizens of this state. Coming from an
+eminently judicial mind, his decisions, had he sat on the bench, would
+have been models of close, cogent reasoning, clearness, and brevity,
+worthy of the best days of the Massachusetts judiciary.
+
+Shortly after his removal to this State Mr. Paine was associated with
+Rufus Choate and F.O.J. Smith in the defence of Judge Woodbury Davis, of
+Portland, Maine, who had been impeached by the Legislature of that State
+for misconduct in his judicial office. In an editorial article upon the
+trial, which appeared after its termination, in the Kennebec Journal,
+published at Augusta, the Hon. James G. Blaine, the writer, declared
+epigrammatically that, in the defence of Judge Chase, "Paine furnished
+the logic, Choate the rhetoric, and Smith the slang."
+
+From 1872 to 1883 Mr. Paine was Lecturer on the Law of Real Property
+at the Law School of the Boston University, an office whose duties he
+performed with great credit to himself, and profit to those whom he
+addressed. So thoroughly was he master of his subject, difficult and
+intricate as it confessedly is, that in not a single instance, except
+during the lectures of the last year, did he take a note or scrap of
+memoranda into the class room.
+
+While he has always been a close and devoted student of the law, Mr.
+Paine has yet found time for general reading, and has hung for many an
+hour over the pages of the English classics with keen delight. For Homer
+and Virgil he still retains the relish of his early days, and, in the
+intervals of professional toil, has often slaked his thirst for the
+waters of Helicon in long and copious draughts. How well he appreciated
+the advantages of an acquaintance with literature, he showed early in a
+suggestive and instructive lecture on "Reading," which we heard him
+deliver before the Lyceum at Hallowell more than forty years ago. With
+his lamented friend Judge B.F. Thomas, he believes that a man cannot be
+a great lawyer who is nothing else,--that exclusive devotion to the
+study and practice of the law tends to acumen rather than to breadth, to
+subtlety rather than to strength. "The air is thin among the apices of
+the law, as on the granite needles of the Alps. Men must find
+refreshment and strength in the quiet valleys at their feet."
+
+With his brethren of the bar Mr. Paine has always held the friendliest
+relations, and he has enjoyed their highest esteem. To none, even the
+humblest of his fellow advocates, has he ever manifested any of the
+haughtiness of a Pinkney, or any of that ruggedness and asperity which
+gained for the morose and sullen Thurlow the nickname of _the
+tiger_. Amid the fiercest janglings and hottest contentions of the
+bar, he has never forgotten that courtesy which should mark the
+collision, not less than the friendly intercourse, of cultivated and
+polished minds. His victories, won easily by argumentative ability,
+tact, and intellectual keenness, unaided by passion, have strikingly
+contrasted with the costly victories of advocates less self-restrained.
+Though naturally witty and quick at retort, he has never used the weapon
+in a way to wound the feelings of an adversary. In examining and
+cross-examining witnesses, he has assumed their veracity, whenever it
+has been possible to do so; and though he has had the eye of a lynx and
+the scent of a hound for prevarication in all its forms, yet he has
+never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger, to
+confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness, or involve him in
+self-contradiction. Adopting a quiet, gentle, and straightforward,
+though full and careful examination, winning the good-will of the
+witness, and inspiring confidence in the questioner, Mr. Paine has been
+far more successful in extracting the truth, even from reluctant lips,
+than the most artful legal bully. He knows that the manoeuvres and
+devices which are best adapted to confuse an honest witness, are just
+what the dishonest one is best prepared for. It was not for all the
+blustering violence of the tempest, that the traveler would lay aside
+his cloak. The result was brought about by the mild and genial warmth of
+the sun.
+
+Few advocates have had more success with juries than the subject of this
+sketch. The secret of this success has been, not more the admirable
+lucidity and cogency of his addresses, than the confidence and trust
+with which his reputation for fairness and truthfulness, and his
+evident abhorrence of exaggeration, have inspired his hearers. Another
+explanation is, that he has avoided that rock on which so many advocates
+wreck their cases,--prolixity. Knowing that, as Sir James Scarlett once
+said, when a lawyer exceeds a certain length of time, he is always doing
+mischief to his client,--that, if he drives into the heads of the jury
+unimportant matter, he drives out matter more important that he had
+previously lodged there,--Mr. Paine has taken care to press home the
+leading points of his case, giving slight attention to the others.
+
+That Mr. Paine has been animated in the pursuit of his profession by
+higher motives than those which fire the zeal of the mere "hired master
+of tongue-fence," is shown by the comparative smallness of his fees,
+especially in cases exacting great labor. Great as has been his success
+in winning verdicts, and sound as have been his opinions, it is doubtful
+whether there is another lawyer living of equal eminence, whose charges
+for legal service have been so uniformly moderate.
+
+Reference has been made to Mr. Paine's wit. Several striking examples
+might be cited; but two must suffice. Some years ago, when he was County
+Attorney, a man who had been indicted in Kennebec County for arson, was
+tried, and acquitted by the jury on the ground that he was an _idiot_.
+After the trial, the Judge before whom the case had been tried, sought
+to reconcile Mr. Paine to the verdict by some explanatory remarks. "Oh,
+I'm quite satisfied, your Honor," said Mr. Paine, "with the defendant's
+acquittal. He has been tried by a jury of his _peers_"--On another
+occasion, Mr. Paine was making a legal argument before an eminent judge,
+when he was interrupted by the latter, who said: "Mr. Paine, you know
+that that is not law." "I know it, your Honor," replied the advocate,
+with a deferential bow; "but it _was_ law till your Honor just spoke."
+
+From 1849 to 1862, Mr. Paine was a member of the Board of Trustees of
+Waterville College. In 1851, he was elected member of the Maine
+Historical Society, and also of the American Academy. In 1854, his Alma
+Mater conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
+
+In the relation of marriage, Mr. Paine has been very happy. In May.
+1837, he was united to Miss Lucy E. Coffin, of Newburyport, a lady of
+rare endowments, both of head and heart.
+
+Few men have started in a professional career with a more vigorous and
+elastic constitution than Mr. Paine's. Endowed with an iron frame and
+nerves of _lignum vitae_, he very naturally felt in youth that his
+fund of physical energy was inexhaustible; but, like thousands of other
+professional men in this fiery and impatient age, he finds himself in
+the autumn of his life afflicted with bodily ills, which he feels that
+with reasonable care he might have escaped. Toiling in his profession
+year after year from January to December, with no recreation, no summer
+vacation, no disposition to follow the wise advice of Horace to
+Torquatus,--
+
+            rebus omissis
+  Atria servantem postico falle clientem,
+
+--working double tides, and crowding the work of eighty years into
+forty, Mr. Paine finds that, large as was his bank account with Nature,
+he has been overdrawing it for years, and that he has now to repay these
+drafts with compound interest. The lesson he would have young
+professional men learn from his experience, is, that they should account
+no time or money wasted, that contributes in any way to their physical
+health,--that gives tone to the stomach, or development to the muscles.
+Let them understand that, though suffering does not follow instantly
+upon the heels of transgression, yet Nature cannot be outraged with
+impunity. Though a generous giver she is a hard bargainer, and a most
+accurate bookkeeper, whose notice not the eighth part of a cent escapes;
+and though the items with which she debits one, taken singly are
+seemingly insignificant, and she seldom brings in "that little bill"
+till a late day, yet, added up at the end of three score years and ten,
+they may show a frightful balance against him, which can have no result
+but physical bankruptcy.
+
+In Mr. Paine's physiognomy the most noticeable features are the broad,
+massive, Websterian forehead, and the sparkling eyes.
+
+In summing up the characteristics of Mr. Paine as a lawyer and as a man,
+the writer, who was his pupil at Waterville Academy, and has enjoyed his
+friendship to this day, cannot do better than to cite the words of an
+acute observer who has known him intimately for many years. Chief
+Justice Appleton, of Maine, did not exaggerate, when he said: "He is a
+gentleman of a high order of intellect; of superior culture; in private
+life, one of the most genial of companions; in his profession, a
+profound and learned lawyer, as well as an accomplished advocate."
+
+To conclude,--if the subject of this imperfect sketch has occasion to
+regret his excessive devotion to his calling, he can have no other
+regrets. At the close of a long, most useful, and most honorable career,
+which has been marked throughout by the severest conscientiousness and
+the most scrupulous discharge of every professional duty, he is happily
+realizing that blessedness which Sir William Blackstone, when exchanging
+the worship of the Muses for that of Themis, prayed might crown the
+evening of his days:--
+
+  "Thus though my noon of life be past,
+  Yet let my setting sun at last
+  Find out the still, the rural cell,
+  Where sage Retirement loves to dwell!
+  There let me taste the homefelt bliss
+  Of innocence and inward peace;
+  Untainted by the guilty bribe,
+  Uncursed amid the harpy tribe;
+  No orphan cry to wound my ear,
+  My honor and my conscience clear;
+  Thus may I calmly meet my end,
+  Thus to the grave in peace descend."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+PICKETT'S CHARGE.
+
+BY CHARLES A. PATCH, MASS., VOLS.
+
+
+In all great wars involving the destinies of nations, it is neither the
+number of battles, nor the names, nor the loss of life, that remain
+fixed in the mind of the masses; but simply the one decisive struggle
+which either in its immediate or remote sequence closes the conflict. Of
+the hundred battles of the great Napoleon, Waterloo alone lingers in the
+memory. The Franco-Prussian War, so fraught with changes to Europe,
+presents but one name that will never fade,--Sedan. Even in our own
+country, how few battles of the Revolution can we enumerate; but is
+there a child who does not know that Bunker Hill sounded the death-knell
+of English rule in the land? And now, but twenty years since the
+greatest conflict of modern times was closed at Appomattox, how few can
+we readily recall of the scores of blood-stained battle-fields on which
+our friends and neighbors fought and fell; but is there one, old or
+young, cultured or ignorant, of the North or of the South, that cannot
+speak of Gettysburg? But what is Gettysburg either in its first day's
+Federal defeat, or its second day's terrible slaughter around Little
+Round Top, without the _third_ day's immortal charge by Pickett and
+his brave Virginians. In it we have the culmination of the Rebellion. It
+took long years after to drain _all_ the life-blood from the foe,
+but never again did the wave of Rebellion rise so gallantly high as when
+it beat upon the crest of Cemetery Ridge.
+
+The storming of the heights of Inkerman, the charge of the noble Six
+Hundred, the fearful onslaught of the Guards at Waterloo, the scaling of
+Lookout Mountain,--have all been sung in story, and perhaps always will
+be; but they all pale beside the glory that will ever enshroud the
+heroes who, with perhaps not literally "cannon to right of them" and
+"cannon to left of them," but with a hundred cannon belching forth death
+in _front_ of them, hurled themselves into the centre of a great
+army and had victory almost within their grasp.
+
+To describe this charge, we will go back to the evening of the 2nd of
+July, and recall upon what basis the cautious Lee could undertake so
+fearful a responsibility. The victorious Southrons fresh from their
+triumphs at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville had entered the North
+carrying consternation and dismay to every hamlet, with none to oppose;
+their forward march was one of spoil, and it was not till the 1st of
+July that they met their old foemen, the Army of the Potomac, in the
+streets of Gettysburg, and after a fierce conflict drove them back. The
+second day's conflict was a terrible slaughter, and at its close the
+Federal Army, although holding its position, was to a certain extent
+disheartened. Many of our best generals and commanding officers were
+killed or wounded, scores of regiments and batteries were nearly wiped
+out, Sickles' line was broken and driven in and its position was held by
+Longstreet. Little Round Top, the key of the position, was held only at
+a frightful loss of life, and Ewell upon the right had gained a footing
+upon the Ridge. The Rebel army was joyful and expectant of victory. The
+morning of the 3rd of July opened clear and bright, and one hundred
+thousand men faced each other awaiting the signal of conflict; but,
+except the pushing of Ewell from his position, the hours passed on
+relieved only by the rumbling of artillery carriages as they were massed
+by Lee upon Seminary Ridge, and by Meade upon Cemetery Ridge. At twelve
+o'clock Lee ascended the cupola of the Pennsylvania College, in quiet
+surveyed the Union lines, and decided to strike for Hancock's Centre.
+Meanwhile, Pickett with his three Virginia brigades had arrived from
+Chambersburg and taken cover in the woods of Seminary Ridge. What Lee's
+feelings must have been, as he looked at the hundred death-dealing
+cannon massed on Cemetery Hill, and the fifty thousand men waiting
+patiently in front and behind them, men whose valor he knew well in many
+a bitter struggle--and then looked at his handful of brave Virginians,
+three, small, decimated brigades which he was about to hurl into that
+vortex of death,--no one will ever know. The blunder that sent the
+Light Brigade to death at Balaklava was bad enough, but here were
+five thousand men waiting to seek victory where, only the day before
+ten thousand had lost their lives or their limbs in the same futile
+endeavor. Leaving the college, Lee called a council of his generals at
+Longstreet's headquarters, and the plan of attack was formed. It is said
+that the level-headed Longstreet opposed the plan, and if so it was but
+in keeping with his remarkable generalship. The attack was to be opened
+with artillery fire to demoralize and batter the Federal line, and was
+to be opened by a signal of two shots from the Washington Artillery. At
+half-past one the report of the first gun rang out on the still, summer
+air, followed a minute later by the second, and then came the roar and
+flash of one hundred and thirty-eight rebel cannon. Almost immediately
+one hundred Federal guns responded and the battle had begun. Shot and
+shell tore through the air, crashing through batteries, tearing men and
+horses to pieces; the very earth seemed to shake and the hills to reel
+as the terrible thunders re-echoed amongst them. For nearly an hour
+every conceivable form of ordnance known to modern gunnery hissed and
+shrieked, whistled and screamed, as it went forth on its death-mission
+till exhausted by excitement and heat the gunners slackened their fire
+and silence reigned again.
+
+Then Pickett and his brave legion stood up and formed for the
+death-struggle; three remnants of brigades consisting of Garnett's
+brigade:--the 8th, 18th, 19th, 28th, 56th Virginia; Armistead's
+brigade:--the 9th, 14th, 38th, 53rd, 57th Virginia; Kempers's
+brigade:--the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 11th, 24th Virginia. Their tattered flags
+bore the scars of a score of battles and from their ranks the merciless
+bullet had already taken two-thirds their number. In compact ranks,
+their front scarcely covering two of Hancock's brigades, with flags
+waving as if for a gala-day, Gen. Pickett saluted Longstreet and asked,
+"Shall I go forward, sir?" but it was not in Longstreet's heart to send
+those heroes of so many battles to certain death; and he turned away his
+head,--when Pickett with that proud, impetuous air which has earned him
+the title of the "Ney" of the Rebel army, exclaimed, "Sir! I _shall_
+lead my division forward!" The orders now rang out, "_Attention_!
+_Attention_!" and the men, realizing the end was near, cried out to
+their comrades, "Good-by, boys! good-by!" Suddenly rang on the air the
+final order from Pickett himself, as his sabre flashed from its
+scabbard,--"_column forward! guide centre_!" And the brigades of
+Kemper, Garnett and Armistead moved towards Cemetery Ridge as one man.
+Soon Pettigrew's division emerged from the woods and followed in echelon
+on Pickett's left flank, and Wilcox with his Alabama division moved out
+to support his right flank--in all about fifteen thousand men. The
+selection of these supports shows a lack of judgment which it would
+almost seem impossible for Lee to have made. Pettigrew's division was
+composed mostly of new troops from North Carolina, and had been terribly
+used up in the first day's fight, and were in no condition to form part
+of a forlorn hope. Wilcox's troops had also received very severe
+punishment in the second day's engagement in his attack on the Ridge and
+should have been replaced by fresh well-tried brigades. But the movement
+had now begun and Lee with his generals about him watched anxiously for
+the result.
+
+[Illustration: MAJ. GEN. GEORGE E. PICKETT]
+
+It was nearly a mile to the Union lines, and as they advanced over the
+open plain the Federal artillery opened again, ploughing great lanes
+through their solid ranks, but they closed up to '_guide centre_'
+as if upon dress-parade; when half way over Pickett halted his division
+amidst a terrible fire of shot and shell, and changed his direction by
+an oblique movement coolly and beautifully made. But here occurred the
+greatest mistake of all. Wilcox paid no attention to this change of
+movement, but kept straight on to the front, thus opening a tremendous
+gap between the two columns and exposing Pickett's right to all the
+mishaps that afterwards overtook it. To those who have ever faced
+artillery fire it is marvellous and unexplainable how human beings could
+have advanced a mile under the terrific fire of a hundred cannon, every
+inch of air being laden with the missiles of death; but in splendid
+formation they still came bravely on till within range of the musketry;
+then the blue line of Hancock's corps arose and poured into their ranks
+a murderous fire. With a wild yell the rebels pushed on, unfalteringly
+crossed the Federal line and laid hands upon eleven cannon.
+
+Men fired in each others faces; there were bayonet thrusts, cutting with
+sabres, hand to hand contests, oaths, curses, yells and hurrahs. The
+second corps fell back behind the guns to allow the use of grape and
+double canister, and as it tore through the rebel ranks at only a few
+paces distant the dead and wounded were piled in ghastly heaps. Still on
+they came up to the very muzzles of the guns; they were blown away from
+the cannon's mouth but yet they did not waver. Pickett had taken the key
+to the position and the glad shout of victory was heard, as, the very
+impersonation of a soldier, he still forced his troops to the crest of
+Cemetery Ridge. Kemper and Armistead broke through Hancock's line,
+scaled the hill and planted their flags on its crest. Just before
+Armistead was shot, he placed his flag upon a captured cannon and cried
+"_Give them the cold steel, boys_!"; but valor could do no more,
+the handful of braves had won immortality but could not conquer an army.
+Pettigrew's weak division was broken fleeing and almost annihilated.
+Wilcox, owing to his great mistake in separating his column was easily
+routed, and Stannard's Vermonters thrown into the gap were creating
+havoc on Pickett's flank. Pickett, seeing his supports gone, his
+generals, Kemper, Armistead and Garnett killed or wounded, every field
+officer of three brigades gone, three-fourths of his men killed or
+captured, himself untouched but broken-hearted, gave the order for
+retreat, but band of heroes as they were they fled not; but amidst that
+still continuous, terrible fire they slowly, sullenly, recrossed the
+plain,--all that was left of them, but few of five thousand.
+
+[Illustration: Position of troops at time of attack on left centre on
+3rd day of battle of Gettysburg.]
+
+Thus ended the greatest charge known to modern warfare. Made in a
+most unequal manner against a great army and amidst the most terrific
+cannonade known in wars, and yet so perfect was the discipline, so
+audacious the valor that had this handful of Virginians been properly
+supported they would perhaps have rendered the Federal position
+untenable, and possibly have established the Southern Confederacy.
+While other battle-fields are upturned by the plough and covered with
+waving grain, Cemetery Ridge will forever proudly uphold its monuments
+telling of glory both to the Blue and the Gray, and our children's
+children while standing upon its crest will rehearse again of Pickett's
+wonderful charge.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE PATRIOT, SAMUEL ADAMS.
+
+BY EDWARD P. GUILD.
+
+
+[Illustration: SAMUEL ADAMS. FROM COPLEY'S PAINTING.[1]]
+
+Three years ago the old State House in Boston was restored to its
+original architectural appearance. After having fallen a prey to the
+ruthless hand of commerce, been surmounted with a "Mansard roof,"
+disfigured by a legion of business signs, made a hitching place for
+scores of telegraph wires, and lastly been threatened with entire
+demolition by the ever arrogant spirit of "business enterprise"; the
+sentiment of patriotic veneration asserted itself and came to the
+rescue. With an appropriation of $35,000 from the city, work was begun
+in the fall of 1881, and by the following July the ancient building had
+been restored to almost exactly its appearance in the last century. As
+the Old State House now stands, it is identical with the Town House
+which Boston first used for its town meeting May 13, 1713. This was nine
+years before the birth of the man destined to become the foremost
+character in the Boston town meeting of the eighteenth century--Samuel
+Adams. Probably no other man who ever lived has been so identified with
+the history of the Old State House as was he. The town meetings were
+held in Faneuil Hall after 1742, but through the stormy years when the
+Assembly met in the old building, Samuel Adams was in constant
+attendance as clerk. His desk, on which he wrote the first sentences
+ever ventured for American independence, and by which he arose, and,
+with hands often tremulous with nervous energy, directed the exciting
+debates, is to-day in the old Assembly chamber in the western end of the
+building. In 1774 he went to Congress, but for a long period afterward
+the Old State House was again his field of labor, as senator, as
+lieutenant governor and then as governor.
+
+The life of Samuel Adams ought to be more familiar than it is to the
+patriotic young men of to-day, but some excuse is found in the fact that
+a popular, concise biography has, until lately, not been written. The
+excellent three volume work of Mr. Wells, Adams' great grandson,
+although admirable as an exhaustive biography, is too voluminous for the
+common reader; but since the appearance of Prof. Hosmer's recent book[2]
+there can be no reason why any schoolboy should not have a clear idea of
+the life of the man who organized the Revolution.
+
+It is only as a patriot that Samuel Adams claims our attention. Although
+college bred he was a man of letters only so far as his pen could write
+patriotic resolutions and scathing letters against the government of
+King George. These letters were printed for the most part in the "Boston
+Gazette," published by Edes & Gill in Court Street. As a business man he
+was never a success. For years he kept the old malt house on Purchase
+Street, but he gave the business little thought, for his mind was
+constantly engrossed in public matters, and at last he made no pretext
+of attending to any matter of private business, depending for support
+only upon his small salary as clerk of the assembly. No one will ever
+accuse Samuel Adams of any selfish ambition, and, although his every act
+will not bear the closest application of the square and rule, yet he
+never deceived nor used a doubtful method in the least degree for
+personal gain.
+
+Adams did not begin his public career early in life. In 1764 he was
+chosen a member of the committee to instruct the representatives just
+elected to the General Court, and the paper drafted on that occasion is
+the first document from his pen of which we now have any trace, and is
+memorable, moreover, because it contains the first public denial of the
+authority of the Stamp Act. Adams was now forty-two, his hair was
+already touched with gray, and "a peculiar tremulousness of the head and
+hands made it seem as if he were already on the threshold of old age."
+He had, however, a remarkably sound constitution, a medium sized,
+muscular frame, and clear, steel-gray eyes.
+
+[Illustration: OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1793.]
+
+Among those closely connected with Adams in the public service, which,
+from this time on, became his only thought, were John Hancock and James
+Otis. Adams contrasted strongly with both of these men. Hancock was the
+richest man in the province and as liberal as he was wealthy. In the
+general jubilation that followed the repeal of the Stamp Act, he opened
+a pipe of Madeira wine before his elegant mansion opposite the Common,
+and so long as it lasted it was freely dispensed to the crowd. The dress
+of Hancock when at home is described as a "red velvet cap, within which
+was one of fine linen, the edge of this turned up over the velvet one,
+two or three inches. He wore a blue damask gown lined with silk, a white
+plaited stock, a white silk embroidered waistcoat, black silk
+small-clothes, white silk stockings and red morocco slippers." Adams was
+in marked contrast with Otis in temperament. The former, always cool and
+collected and his words based on deliberate reason, was the extreme of
+the other who carried his arguments in a flood of impetuous eloquence.
+"Otis was a flame of fire," says Sewall. But although Otis was once
+almost the ideal of the people, his erratic tendencies at last unfitted
+him for a leader.
+
+One reason of Sam Adams' prestige with the masses was his common and
+familiar intercourse with mechanics and artisans. Hancock, Otis, Bowdoin
+and Curtis, on account of their wealth and ideas of aristocracy, kept
+more or less aloof from the workmen; while Adams, plainly clad and with
+familiar but dignified manner, was often found in the ship yards or at
+the rope walks engaged in earnest conversation with the homely
+craftsmen. Indeed, nothing pleased him more than to be talking with a
+ship carpenter as they sat side by side on a block of oak, or with some
+shopkeeper in a sheltered fence corner. Most of his writing was done in
+a little room in his Purchase Street house where night after night his
+busy mind and quill were kept at work on his trenchant letters for the
+"Gazette," which were signed with significant nom de plumes in Latin.
+
+The year 1768 was made notable by the arrival in Boston from England of
+the 14th and the 29th regiments. The main guard was quartered in King
+(now State) Street, with the cannon pointed toward the State House, and
+the troops occupied various houses in the vicinity. In the next year the
+Governor, Bernard, was recalled, and Thomas Hutchinson, although
+remaining nominally lieutenant governor, became acting chief magistrate.
+He now appeared the most conspicuous figure among the royalists, and
+Samuel Adams became more distinctly the leader of the patriots.
+Neglecting all other affairs, he was content to live on a pittance,
+which he was enabled to do by a frugal and helpful wife.
+
+Affairs were now approaching a crisis. A consignment of goods from
+England, sent in defiance of the non-importation agreements, was not
+allowed to land and had to be returned. One importer, a Scotchman, would
+not sign the agreements, so after much remonstrance, Samuel Adams arose
+in town meeting and grimly moved that the number present, about two
+thousand, should resolve itself into a committee of the whole, wait upon
+the obstinate merchant and use such persuasion as should be necessary to
+secure a compliance. But no vote was needed, for the Scotchman was
+present, and rushing to the front with knees trembling and in a
+squeaking voice, rolling his r's like a well-played drum, exclaimed:--
+"Mr. Mode-r-r-rater, I agr-r-ree, I agr-r-ree!" greatly to the amusement
+of the people.
+
+It was early in the next year, 1770, that the hostility between
+towns-people and soldiers led for the first time to the shedding of
+blood. In February a boy, Christopher Snyder, was shot and killed during
+a disturbance, and in March occurred the "Boston Massacre." The story has
+been many times told. Quarrels had grown frequent between the soldiers
+and the rope-walk hands, the soldiers usually getting the worst of it.
+On the evening of the 5th, an altercation began just below the Old State
+House, between the sentinel of the guard and a crowd of townsfolk. An
+alarm was rung from one of the steeples, and many citizens hurried to
+the place, most of them thinking that a fire had broken out. A sentry
+was at the corner of King and Exchange streets, where the Custom House
+stood, and he was assaulted by the boys with snowballs. Captain Preston
+with seven or eight men rushed to the scene, loaded their muskets and
+made ready to fire. The mob hooted, struck their muskets and dared them
+to fire. At last a volley came. Three were killed and eight wounded.
+At once there was a tumult. The bells were all rung and the populace
+hurried to and fro. The bodies of the slain lay on the ground which was
+sprinkled with a light snow, serving to plainly reveal in the clear
+moon-light the stains of blood.
+
+[Illustration: OLD STATE HOUSE IN 1801.]
+
+The 29th regiment repaired to the spot prepared for firing, and there
+would have been a fierce contest but for the excellent conduct of the
+acting governor, Hutchinson. He took Captain Preston severely to task
+for firing at the people without the orders of a civil magistrate, and
+then, quickly working his way to the State House, took his stand in the
+balcony of the council-chamber looking down King Street, and made an
+address promising that the law should prevail and justice should be done
+to all. The next morning Hutchinson was waited upon by the selectmen who
+informed him that there would be no peace until the soldiers should
+depart. Hutchinson claimed, however, that the regiments were not under
+his command.
+
+A mass meeting was soon held in Faneuil Hall, and was addressed by
+Samuel Adams. It may readily be believed that he advocated no
+compromise, and a committee of fifteen was immediately appointed of
+which Adams was a member. According to instructions, they at once
+repaired to the council chamber, and demanded the instant removal of the
+troops. At three o'clock a regular town meeting assembled in Faneuil
+Hall, but, owing to the great number present, adjourned to the Old South
+Meeting House. Then the committee of fifteen appeared making their way
+from the council-chamber to the meeting-house. Samuel Adams was at the
+head, and as the crowd made way on either hand he bared his head, and,
+inclining to the right and left, as he passed through the line, kept
+repeating: "Both regiments or none!" "Both regiments or none!"
+
+[Illustration: STATUE IN ADAMS SQUARE.]
+
+In the presence of the dense multitude in the Old South, the governor's
+reply was rendered: the 29th regiment should go to the castle, but the
+14th must remain. Then the cry arose, "Both regiments or none!" and as
+the shout echoed from every quarter it was plain that the people had
+caught the meaning of the watchword, given shortly before by Adams. A
+new committee, also including Adams, was appointed and sent back to the
+governor, and as they stood in the council chamber the scene was one
+that John Adams pronounced long after as worthy a historical painting. A
+few sentences from Adams' address to Hutchinson are clear enough to show
+the intense earnestness and patriotism of the man.
+
+  "It is well known," he said, "that acting as governor of the Province,
+  you are by its charter the commander-in-chief of the military forces
+  within it; and as such, the troops now in the capital are subject to
+  your orders. If you, or Colonel Dalrymple under you, have the power to
+  remove one regiment, you have the power to remove both; and nothing
+  short of their total removal will satisfy the people or preserve the
+  peace of the Province. A Multitude highly incensed now wait the result
+  of this application. The voice of ten thousand freemen demands that
+  both regiments be forthwith removed. Their voice must be respected,
+  their demand obeyed. Fail not then at your peril to comply with this
+  requisition! On you alone rests the responsibility of this decision;
+  and if the just expectations of the people are disappointed, you must
+  be answerable to God and your country for the fatal consequences that
+  must ensue. The committee have discharged their duty, and it is for
+  you to discharge yours. They wait your final determination."
+
+
+Hutchinson for a long time stood firm, but yielded at last and the
+troops were removed.
+
+It is not the purpose of this paper to follow Samuel Adams through his
+active career in the years of the Revolution and the succeeding period.
+It is always Samuel Adams, the unswerving patriot, the adroit leader,
+the man of the people. It had long been felt in England that his was the
+most active spirit in the cause of the patriots, and there was much talk
+of effecting his arrest and bringing him to trial on the charge of
+treason, but the move was never made. Adams' courage never failed. He
+had long given up the idea of any compromise between the colonies and
+the Crown, and there is nothing conciliatory in his words or acts. When
+the tea was emptied into Boston Harbor it was easily understood that
+Adams was the real leader in the action. No one familiar with the life
+of the great town meeting man, as Prof. Hosmer likes to call him, can
+doubt that he had the essential qualities of an adroit strategist.
+Cromwell once locked Parliament out, Adams once locked the Assembly in.
+He had secured a majority of the members to vote for a Continental
+Congress, but could the resolve be presented and brought to a final vote
+before Governor Gage could prorogue the Assembly, as he would use all
+speed to do, the instant the first knowledge of the scheme reached his
+ears? On the 17th of June, just one year before the Battle of Bunker
+Hill, that question was answered. The resolve was offered that day
+providing for the appointment of delegates to such a congress. Tory
+members at once essayed to leave the hall to dispatch the news to
+the governor, but the bolts were fast, and Samuel Adams had the key
+in his pocket. Two months later the delegates were on their way to
+Philadelphia,--Thomas Cushing, Samuel and John Adams and Robert Treat
+Paine.
+
+Events then transpired rapidly. So far, Samuel Adams was almost wholly
+alone in the idea of independence, but it was declared by Congress less
+than two years later. For more than twenty years longer, Adams continued
+in public life, but his greatest work was before the Declaration of
+Independence rather than after. There were times when the cause of the
+patriots must have fallen through but for the nerve and skill of this
+man. Bowdoin, Cushing, Hancock, Otis, and even John Adams could not have
+been thoroughly trusted in the last years of the colony to bring affairs
+to a successful issue. But Samuel Adams was fitted by intellect and
+character, adroitness and courage, tireless energy and by never failing
+devotion to the public good, to be the man for the time.
+
+When America had become a Republic, and Adams had returned from Congress
+to his native town, he served as presiding officer of the Senate, then
+as lieutenant governor, and, upon the death of Hancock, governor, to
+which office he was several times chosen by the people. He died in 1803,
+and his dust lies to-day in the old Granary Burying Ground, close by the
+common grave of the four victims of the Boston Massacre.
+
+The statue in bronze now standing in Adams Square is noble in design,
+and appropriate for situation. It is in almost the busiest position of
+the great city, and daily across its shadow pass tens of thousands of
+mechanics and artisans--the class of men with whom Samuel Adams used to
+love to hold intercourse. The Old State House and Faneuil Hall are only
+a stone's-throw distant from the statue, but the face is not looking in
+the direction of either; it is turned directly toward the visible shaft
+of granite on Bunker Hill--the monument which marks the first great
+battle in the struggle for that Independence toward which, in all his
+labors for so many years, the eyes of Samuel Adams were ever turned.
+
+
+[Footnote 1: For the reproduction of the above portrait and the two
+following views of the Old State House, we are indebted to the courtesy
+of Messrs. Ticknor & Co., the well-known Boston publishers.--Ed.]
+
+[Footnote 2: Samuel Adams. By James K. Hosmer, 1 vol., 442 pp. American
+Statesmen Series. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1883.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORITATIVE LITERATURE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
+
+BY GEORGE LOWELL AUSTIN.
+
+
+II.
+
+
+  THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, sixteenth
+  President of the United States: together with His State Papers,
+  including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations,
+  and the closing Scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J.
+  Raymond. To which are added Anecdotes and Personal Reminiscences of
+  President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter, with a steel portrait, and
+  other illustrations, 1 vol. octavo, pp. 808. New York: Derby and Miller,
+  1865.
+
+
+During the Presidential canvass of 1864, the author of this volume
+prepared a work upon the administration of President Lincoln. That
+canvass resulted in the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, whose death occurred
+soon after his second inauguration. As the editor of the _New York
+Times_, Mr. Raymond possessed at the time ample facilities to prepare
+such a book as was needed to interest the public in the life of one
+whose work was at once as great as it was successful. Up to the day of
+its publication, this book was the best and most authoritative that had
+been published. Twenty years have since elapsed, and in many respects it
+still maintains a just superiority and a historical value that cannot be
+questioned. Its errors are of omission, rather than of commission; while
+its merits are so great as to render it indispensable to all future
+writers on the subject. Every public speech, message, letter, or
+document of any sort of Mr. Lincoln's, so far as accessible in 1865,
+will be found included in the volume. The rapidly occuring events of
+the civil war, with much of their secret history, are tersely and
+graphically described. The "Reminiscences" of Mr. Carpenter, covering
+about thirty pages, add interest to the volume.
+
+
+  ABRAHAM LINCOLN: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the
+  inner growth, special training and peculiar fitness of the Man for his
+  work. By William O. Stoddard. Illustrated. 1 vol. octavo, pp. 508. New
+  York: Fords, Howard & Hurlbert, 1884.
+
+
+Mr. Stoddard was one of President Lincoln's secretaries during the civil
+war, and very naturally his work ought to have strong claims upon the
+interest and attention of American readers. His book is not of a
+profound or critical character; but a singularly honest and candid and
+strictly personal biography, simply written for readers of all ages and
+degrees of intelligence. It sheds considerable light on the political
+history of the civil war and on the events which led to it. With the
+military history, it deals but little. Still its brief, vigorous and
+vivid sketches furnish an exceedingly fascinating bird's eye view of the
+great struggle. But its most valuable feature is the clearness with
+which it depicts Lincoln, the man,--his sagacity and patience at
+critical moments, his keen perception of "popular" sentiment and
+disposition, his _individuality_, his distinctive fitness for the
+tasks and burdens which fell upon him. This work, at once so accurate,
+so comprehensive, so discriminating and so well written, is one for all
+Americans, and particularly for younger readers. It has in it a charm
+possessed but by very few biographies, and a fascination that but few
+novels can surpass. To enjoy it and to profit by it, one need not always
+coincide with the author's judgments of men and measures, or his
+criticisms of military leaders and policies.
+
+
+  THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Isaac N. Arnold. 1 vol. octavo,
+  pp. 462. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1885.
+
+
+This work also possesses strong claims upon our attention. It was
+completed only a few days before the death of its eminent author.
+Furthermore, Mr. Arnold knew President Lincoln better than almost any
+other man; they had been intimate friends for more than a quarter of a
+century, thinking, conversing and working together during all that time.
+When the civil war broke out, Mr. Arnold entered Congress; became one of
+the most trusted advisers of the President; and no one better than he
+knew and comprehended the latter's thoughts and intentions; even the
+cabinet officers and the private secretaries never approached so near to
+the heart and mind of President Lincoln as did his life long, trusted
+and admired friend. In 1867, Mr. Arnold published a "History of Abraham
+Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery" which is a work of rare interest
+and of exceptional historic value. But this work, in the judgment of the
+author, was unsatisfactory from the fact that, while it depicted well
+enough the _times_, it failed to portray the _life_ of President
+Lincoln. The later volume meets the deficiency, and in fact leaves
+absolutely nothing to be desired. The spirit of tenderness broods over
+its charmful pages. Singularly unpretentious, its very simplicity is
+eloquent and inspiring, and makes the heart of the reader blend with the
+grand and noble heart of its subject. Its accuracy is unmarred; it
+explains all doubts that have ever existed in regard to Mr. Lincoln's
+motives and acts; it asserts nothing without proving it; it tells the
+plain, straightforward story, and leaves criticism to others. As a
+_personal_ biography of Mr. Lincoln's life and character, this book
+is not only unsurpassed, but it deserves to rank as one of the classics
+in our native literature.
+
+
+  THE POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES PRECEDING THE REBELLION; or the True
+  Story of Sumter and Pickens, By Thomas M. Anderson, Lieut. Col. U.S.A. 1
+  vol. quarto, pp. 100. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883.
+
+
+The author assumes that there were "a number of conspiracies" antedating
+the immediate outbreak of the civil war, but makes no claim that the war
+was the result of such conspiracies. His narrative, then, is merely
+descriptive of the events which took place in the period between October
+1860 and April 1861, purely _resume_ in character and wholly based
+upon the disclosures of the Official Records. The author allows himself
+to criticise men and acts rather freely, and at times captiously; and
+has evidently intended his book to be a defence of his brother, the hero
+of Sumter, against certain charges which were once made against him. The
+old hero needs no defender, even if we suppose that he ever merited
+criticism. The volume is a small one,--trustworthy as regards its
+statements and valuable for reference. It may profitably be read in
+conjunction with the second volume of Mr. Curtis's _Life_ of _James
+Buchanan_, also with the small volume, by General Doubleday, entitled
+_The Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Pickens in 1860-61_.
+
+
+  THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN OF GENERAL MCCLELLAN IN 1862. Papers read
+  before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts in 1876-77-78
+  and 80. Printed for the Society. Vol. I, octavo, pp. 249. Boston: James
+  R. Osgood and Company, 1881.
+
+
+The Military Society of Massachusetts was organized in 1876, with the
+object of investigating questions relating to the civil war. Up to the
+date of the publication of this volume, about forty papers were read,
+six of them being devoted to the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, eleven
+to General Pope's campaign of 1862, three to the campaign of
+Chancellorsville, three to the Antietam campaign, sixteen to the
+campaign of 1864, and one each to the battle of Mobile Bay and Grouchy
+controversy,--all, with the exception of the last two, bearing upon the
+operations of the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and 1864, and including
+discussions from different standpoints of the objects and general plans
+of the several campaigns and battles in which it participated, and of
+the controverted questions that have arisen concerning them. The first
+printed volume of the Society contains the following papers:--"General
+McClellan's Plans for the campaign of 1862, and the Alleged Interference
+of the Government with them," by John C. Ropes, Esq: "The Siege of
+Yorktown," by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. John C. Palfrey, U.S.A.: "The Period
+which elapsed between the Fall of Yorktown and the Beginning of the
+Seven-Days-Battles," by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. Francis W. Palfrey, U.S.V. "The
+Seven-Days Battles--to Malvern Hill," by same author. "The Battle of
+Malvern Hill," by same author; "Comments on the Peninsular Campaign,"
+by Bvt.-Brig.-Gen. Charles A. Whittier, U.S.V. All of these are earnest
+discussions,--but of unequal worth--of the various merits or demerits
+of General McClellan in the Peninsular campaign, or the attitude of the
+government toward him at that time. The ground is traversed as often
+before; all the old arguments are again brought into comparison, and
+a very small amount of _new_ evidence is discovered. What has
+previously been said in many books and pamphlets and by a score of
+writers, is here said in one volume by three writers. But nothing
+appears to be _freshly_ said, and, as usual, the conclusions
+reached are colored by the political likes or dislikes of their several
+writers. The sole merit of the volume lies in the fact that its papers
+embody a mass of very valuable material, gleaned from trustworthy
+sources, for the future historian. It is very safe to assume, however,
+that the future historian while expressing gratitude for their
+investigations, will not be tempted to place much weight upon the
+conclusions of the gentlemen who hold the monopoly of this volume but
+have not solved a single mooted question.
+
+
+  LIFE OF JAMES BUCHANAN, Fifteenth President of the United
+  States. By George Ticknor Curtis. 2 vols. octavo, pp. 625, 707. New
+  York: Harper & Brothers, 1883.
+
+
+The second volume of this exceedingly painstaking and meritorious
+biography sheds much light upon the events preceding, and those
+transpiring during, the civil war. As another writer has remarked,
+"there is something very pitiable, something almost tragic, in the
+figure of James Buchanan during the last months of his administration."
+He found himself wavering between two factions, between Right and Wrong.
+So long as he wavered, the South stood by him; when he ceased to be a
+wary politician and manifested a decision of character such as the times
+demanded, the South turned against him as one man. His biographer proves
+conclusively that the weak and time-serving President was _opposed_
+to secession; but as positively proves without intending to do so, that
+he favored it by his singular unfitness and indifference in emergencies.
+When secession threatened, Mr. Buchanan took the ground that he would
+not precipitate war by applying force to prevent a State from seceding,
+but that he would defend the flag and property of the United States.
+With this policy in his heart, he permitted public property to be
+seized, without striking a blow; he discovered treason in his cabinet,
+and coolly allowed the traitors to consummate their work and to depart.
+The fact was, that he was a very weak man, and his biographer is the
+best authority for the statement. The work is important; it will always,
+as it richly merits, be consulted by students, and may be read with
+interest and profit by all.
+
+(To be continued.)
+
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+
+
+
+
+ASSESSMENT LIFE INSURANCE.
+
+BY SHEPPARD ROMANS.
+
+
+Life insurance, by whatever system, plan or method, has, for its
+fundamental basis, the laws governing the rates of mortality at the
+different ages. These fundamental laws have been developed and made
+clear by a vast amount of statistical data obtained from observations
+among persons insured in life insurance companies among annuitants,
+among inhabitants of various towns and cities, and among the whole
+population in certain countries, notably in England and in Belgium. One
+uniform, unvarying, certain law has been thus established, which is that
+the rate of mortality, or in other words the cost of insurance,
+increases as a man grows older. From this law there is no escape. We
+must accept the inevitable. Hence any system of insurance which is not
+in accordance with this first principle, this unalterable law of nature,
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+premiums, which does not recognize and conform to this fundamental law
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+
+There are two methods of life insurance worthy of the name, and two
+only. The one is by payments accurately adjusted to the cost of
+insurance at each actual age, and which inevitably, unavoidably and
+inexorably, must increase with the age of the person insured, and the
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+of life or for a stated number of years. The first is the natural system
+and has been adopted _in part_, and imperfectly, by assessment
+companies; the second is the artificial system, and is the one which has
+been offered exclusively until lately, by all the regular life insurance
+companies. Properly carried out, the one is as sound in theory and as
+safe in practice as the other. In fact, the artificial premiums are the
+exact mathematical or commuted equivalents of the natural premiums.
+
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+the only one in use. Since then there have come into existence hundreds
+of co-operative or assessment companies. These institutions have had a
+wonderful growth. It is claimed that the number of members and the
+amounts insured, double those, respectively, in the old or regular
+companies.
+
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+are rather agencies, or trust companies, and their functions or
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+to pay over the proceeds of such assessments to the beneficiaries of the
+deceased members. There is no definite promise to pay in full, and no
+obligation to pay more than the assessments yield. There is no capital,
+no risk, no _insurance!_ It is a voluntary association of
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+depends mainly upon the volition of their members. They spring into
+existence suddenly by the voluntary association of a few individuals
+without capital or personal risk, and as suddenly they may go out of
+existence by the voluntary act or withdrawal of their members. A breath
+may create, a breath destroy.
+
+It must be evident then to the merest tyro, that the permanence and
+success of assessment companies depend upon the most rigid observance of
+those principles which science and sound business experience have
+demonstrated to be fundamental. Among these principles may be mentioned
+the following.
+
+1. Rates of assessments or payments adjusted to the cost of insurance at
+the actual age of each person. These rates must inevitably and
+inexorably increase with the age of the individual.
+
+2. The creation of a guaranty, or emergency fund, available not only to
+meet extra mortality, but as a cement to secure cohesion among the
+members, and prevent the exodus of the sound lives.
+
+3. An assessment in advance at issue of certificate, otherwise some
+persons will be insured for nothing and the cost will fall on the
+persistent members.
+
+As was well said by a contributor in your last number, assessment
+insurance has its defects, and these are well known to the managers of
+these institutions, and that great improvements have been made by the
+National Convention of assessment companies, which is composed of
+representatives from the best companies organized in almost every state.
+They recognize existing defects, they point out the remedies, and yet,
+but few seem to have the courage of their convictions. It is a fact
+beyond dispute, that with perhaps a half-dozen exceptions, the rates of
+assessment in every assessment company in the country remain constant as
+at the age of entry. That is to say, a man entering at the age of forty,
+pays the rate at forty only, as long as he remains a member. This is a
+direct violation of the inexorable law of nature which says, that as a
+man grows older the risk of dying, or in other words the cost of
+insurance, increases. It is all nonsense to urge that the _average_
+age and the average cost will be kept down by the influx of new members.
+The contract is made with the individual, and unless each person pays
+enough to compensate the company for the indemnity or insurance
+furnished to him, it follows of necessity, that others will be
+overcharged in order to meet the deficiency so occasioned. And this evil
+is intensified each year as the company grows older. When younger and
+fresher men find that they are overcharged in order to meet deficiencies
+arising from the act that older and inferior risks pay less than cost,
+they will either not enter, or, if members, will speedily desert and
+join an institution which is on a sounder and more equitable basis. No
+institution can be permanently successful which does not observe equity.
+I have no hesitation in saying that every assessment or corporation
+company which violates this fundamental law of nature by not making its
+rates of assessment increase with the age of the individuals insured, is
+_doomed_, and that disaster and wreck is only a question of time.
+This is not a new opinion. It's truth is attested by more than one wreck
+in this country already.
+
+In every level, or uniform premium, there is a provision for the payment
+to the company of the rate of insurance at the actual present age, (no
+matter at what age the insurance was affected) on the net amount at
+risk.
+
+The great danger for co-oporative or assessment companies lies in the
+facility with which such institutions may be organized, and by men
+without capital, character, experience or financial ability, who may
+thus be ushered into corporate existence by the indulgent laws of
+different states.
+
+The members of the National Association of assessment companies should
+see to it that the laws of the different states should be so amended as
+to require at least a small capital, say $25,000, as a guaranty of good
+faith and ability on the part of the promoters, and that no company
+should be admitted to membership unless its system was founded on sound
+principles as demonstrated by science and business experience.
+
+The managers of assessment companies should be careful lest their claims
+should prove to be unfounded. For instance, the writer of the article in
+your last number boldly asserts that it "is susceptible of mathematical
+demonstration that one or two million of dollars of reserve is adequate
+to perpetuate any well-conducted assessment company for all time,
+however large or small it may be, while the spectacle is presented to us
+of level premium companies holding fifty to one hundred millions of
+accumulations belonging to their policy holders, from which no possible
+benefit, in most cases, will ever accrue to them." On reflection he must
+see the absurdity of such statements.
+
+The level premium system is a combination of insurance and investments.
+The hundred millions are _investments_, and are necessary for the
+integrity of the level premium contracts. Any assessment company in
+which the rates do not increase as the members grow older should be
+compelled to have the full premium reserve required by state law and
+actuarial science to be held on level premium contracts. This is capable
+of mathematical demonstration.
+
+It must be borne in mind that the cost of insurance _proper_, that
+is, the provision to meet current death claims alone, is quite as high
+in the best assessment company as in a regular life insurance company,
+for this cost depends on the careful selection of lives. The difference
+in the two institutions is that the former dispenses with the investment
+element, while the latter exacts it in connection with all their
+contracts. Hence the price to be paid is greater. But is not the
+_guarantee_ also greater?
+
+The beneficiary under a death claim in an assessment company has for her
+security the _hope_, or promise if you please, that one thousand
+men will pay ten dollars each for her account. The beneficiary under a
+death claim in a regular life insurance company has for her security not
+only the actual payments of ten dollars each by one thousand men, but
+the definite promise to pay in full by an institution which has ample
+capital, assets, and surplus to back its contracts.
+
+Assessment insurance is yet on trial, and its only hope of permanent
+business lies in a rigid compliance with the laws of mortality and of
+sound business experience.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE OLD STATE HOUSE.
+
+BY SIDNEY MAXWELL.
+
+
+  The Old State House! Within these antique walls
+  The early fathers of the hamlet met
+  And gravely argued of the town's affairs.
+  Another generation came; and in
+  This hall the Tory Council sat in state
+  While from the burning lips of Otis, or
+  The stem, defiant tongue of Adams sprang
+  That eloquence whose echoes thundered back
+  From Concord, Lexington, and Bunker's Hill!
+  Between those years and ours a century lies;
+  Those patriot's graves are deep with moss and mould,
+  And yet these walls--the same whose shadows fell
+  Athwart the crimson snow where Preston charged[3]--
+  Still cast their shadows; not on troops, nor mob
+  Exasperated by their wrongs, but on
+  A jostling, hurrying throng--freeman each one,
+  Unless in bondage to himself. O Man:
+  Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate
+  This aged relic of the past because
+  It lies across thy path! From avarice
+  Redeemed; restored unto its former self,--
+  We hail thee, noble Sentry of the years,
+  And greet thee with a thousand loving cheers!
+
+
+[Footnote 3: The "Boston Massacre," March 5th, 1770.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE PRECIOUS METALS.
+
+BY DAVID N. BALFOUR.
+
+
+From the earliest times to the commencement of the Christian Era, the
+amount of the gold and silver obtained from the surface and mines of the
+earth is estimated to be $5,084,000,000; from the latter event to the
+epoch of the discovery of America, $4,363,374,000 were obtained; from
+the date of the last event to the end of 1842, an addition of
+$8,500,000,000 was made; the extensive working of the Russian gold mines
+in 1843, and subsequent years, added to the close of 1852,
+$1,400,000,000 more; the quadruple discovery of the California gold
+mines in 1848, those of Australia in 1851, of New Zealand in 1861, and
+the silver mines of Nevada and other countries bordering upon the
+Pacific slope of the United States, added, at the close of 1884,
+$7,093,626,000, making a grand total at the present time of
+$26,441,000,000.
+
+The average loss by the attrition of coin is estimated by Prof. Bowen
+at one-fortieth of one per cent, per annum; and the average loss by
+consumption in the arts, and destruction by fire and shipwreck, at
+$9,000,000 per annum. The amount of the precious metals in existence is
+estimated to be $13,670,000,000, of which gold furnishes $8,166,000,000,
+and silver $5,504,000,000. Of the amount now in existence,
+$10,500,000,000 are estimated to be in coin and bullion, $2,000,000,000
+in watches, and the remainder in plate, jewelry, and ornaments. Of the
+amount now in existence, $9,448,000,000 is estimated to have been
+obtained from America, $1,908,000,000 from Asia (including Australia,
+New Zealand, and Oceanica); $1,004,000,000 from Europe, and
+$1,310,000,000 from Africa.
+
+The following statement will exhibit the product of the precious metals
+throughout the world in 1884:--
+
+
+  Countries.         Gold. (America)         Silver.            Total.
+  Alaska,                $300,000            $30,000          $320,000
+  British Columbia,     2,000,000             80,000         2,080,000
+  United States,       30,800,000         48,800,000        79,600,000
+  Mexico,               1,000,000         30,000,000        31,000,000
+  Guatemala,               40,000            200,000           240,000
+  Honduras,                50,000             50,000           100,000
+  San Salvador,           100,000            150,000           250,000
+  Nicaragua,              100,000            100,000           200,000
+  Costa Rica,              50,000             50,000           100,000
+  Columbia,             1,900,000            500,000         2,400,000
+  Venezuela,            3,000,000            200,000         3,200,000
+  Guiana,                  75,000             50,000           125,000
+  Brazil,                 400,000             50,000           450,000
+  Bolivia,                 50,000         12,980,000        13,030,000
+  Chili,                   60,000          5,000,000         5,060,000
+  Argentine Republic,      50,000            200,000           250,000
+  Patagonia,              $10,000             $5,000           $10,000
+  Other countries,         15,000             45,000            60,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Total,              $40,000,000        $98,480,000      $138,480,000
+
+
+
+  EUROPE.
+
+  Countries.       Gold. (America)           Silver.            Total.
+
+  Russia,             $22,000,000           $300,000       $22,300,000
+  Prussia,                900,000          8,000,000         8,900,000
+  Spain,                   70,000          2,500,000         2,570,000
+  Austria,                950,000          1,500,000         2,450,000
+  Norway,                  60,000            300,000           360,000
+  Other Countries,         20,000            320,000           340,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Total,              $24,000,000        $12,920,000       $36,920,000
+
+
+  ASIA.
+
+  Countries.       Gold. (America)           Silver.            Total.
+
+  Borneo,                 $700,000          $470,000        $1,170,000
+  China,                   600,000           450,000         1,050,000
+  Japan,                   120,000           353,000           473,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Total,                $1,420,000        $1,273,000        $2,693,000
+
+  Australia,           $26,000,000           $80,000       $26,080,000
+  New Zealand,           4,000,000           500,000         4,500,000
+  Africa,                2,000,000           500,000         2,500,000
+  Oceanica,                580,000           247,000           827,000
+                       __________         __________       ___________
+  Grand Total,         $98,000,000      $114,000,000      $212,000,000
+
+
+The following statement will exhibit the annual product of the precious
+metals at different periods:--
+
+
+  Periods.                   Gold.           Silver.            Total.
+
+  A.D.   14,              $800,000        $4,200,000        $5,000,000
+  A.D.  500,               200,000         2,800,000         3,000,000
+  A.D. 1000,               120,000           880,000         1,000,000
+  A.D. 1492,               100,000           150,000           250,000
+  A.D. 1550,               800,000         3,200,000         4,000,000
+  A.D. 1600,             2,000,000         9,000,000        11,000,000
+  A.D. 1700,             5,000,000        18,000,000        23,000,000
+  A.D. 1800,            17,000,000        38,000,000        55,000,000
+  A.D. 1843,            52,000,000        42,000,000        94,000,000
+  A.D. 1850,           106,000,000        47,000,000       153,000,000
+  A.D. 1853,           236,000,000        49,000,000       285,000,000
+  A.D. 1863,           208,000,000        63,000,000       271,000,000
+
+
+The following statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals
+estimated to be in existence at different periods:
+
+
+  Periods.                   Gold.           Silver.            Total.
+
+  A.D.    14,         $427,000,000      $909,000,000    $1,327,000,000
+  A.D.   500,          100,000,000       400,000,000       500,000,000
+  A.D.  1000,           65,000,000       200,000,000       265,000,000
+  A.D.  1492,           57,000,000       135,000,000       192,000,000
+  A.D.  1550.           76,000,000       284,000,000       360,000,000
+  A.D.  1600,          105,000,000       391,000,000       496,000,000
+  A.D.  1700,          351,000,000     1,410,000,000     1,761,000,000
+  A.D.  1800,        1,125,000,000     3,622,000,000     4,747,000,000
+  A.D.  1843,        1,975,000,000     5,040,000,000     7,015,000,000
+  A.D.  1850,        2,368,000,000     4,963,000,000     7,331,000,000
+  A.D.  1853,        2,942,000,000     4,945,000,000     7,887,000,000
+  A.D.  1863,        5,107,000,000     4,945,000,000    10,052,000,000
+  A.D.  1884,        8,166,000,000     5,504,000,000    13,670,000,000
+
+
+The following statement will exhibit the amount of the precious metals
+estimated to have been obtained from the surface and mines of the earth,
+from the earliest times to the close of 1884:--
+
+
+  Periods.                   Gold.           Silver.            Total.
+
+      A.C.          $2,171,000,000    $2,913,000,000    $5,084,000,000
+  A.D. to 1492,      3,842,374,000       521,000,000     4,363,374,000
+  1493 to 1842,      2,700,000,000     5,800,000,000     8,500,000,000
+  1843 to 1852,        900,000,000       500,000,000     1,400,000,000
+  1853 to 1862,      1,869,000,000       560,000,000     2,429,000,000
+  1863 to 1884,      3,145,626,000     1,519,000,000     4,664,626,000
+                    ______________    ______________    ______________
+  Grand Total,     $14,628,000,000   $11,813,000,000   $26,441,000,000
+
+
+During the first period (prior to the commencement of the Christian
+Era,) the annual product of the precious metals was $2,000,000; during
+the second period (prior to the discovery of America,) it was
+$3,000,000; during the third period (prior to the extensive working of
+the Russian gold mines, in 1843,) it was $26,000,000; during the fourth
+period (prior to the double discovery of the California gold mines in
+1858, and the Australia gold mines in 1851,) it was $140,000,000; during
+the fifth period (which immediately succeeded afore-mentioned
+discoveries,) it was $243,000,000; during the sixth period (immediately
+succeeding the double discovery of the New Zealand gold mines in 1861,
+and the silver mines of Nevada and other countries bordering on the
+Pacific slope of the United States,) it was $212,000,000. The annual
+products of the precious metals attained its acme in 1853, when it was
+$285,000,000. The increase in the amount of the precious metals in
+existence has been greater during the last forty-years than during the
+previous two hundred and ninety-four. Of the amount ($6,441,000,000) of
+the precious metals estimated to have been obtained from the surface and
+mines of the earth, from the earliest times to the close of 1884,
+$12,100,000,000 are estimated to have been obtained from America
+$6,724,000,000 from Asia (including Australia, New Zealand and
+Oceanica), $3,751,000,000 from Europe, and $2,866,000,000 from Africa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AMESBURY: THE HOME OF WHITTIER.
+
+BY FRANCES C. SPARHAWK.
+
+
+Amesbury is only a town. It has defects that would strike a stranger,
+and beauties that one who has learned to love them never forgets; they
+linger in glimpses of wood and hill and river and lake, and often rise
+unbidden before the mind's eye. The poet Whittier says that those who
+are born under the shadow of Powow Hill always return sometime, no
+matter how far they may have wandered. He himself, though not Amesbury
+born, has found it impossible to desert the old home, full of
+associations and surrounded by old friends. He always votes in Amesbury,
+and he often spends weeks at a time in his old home. The river that he
+has sung, the lake that he has re-christened, the walks and drives with
+which he is so familiar, all exercise their spell upon him; he loves
+them, just as he loves the warm hearts that he has found there and
+helped to make warm and true.
+
+But what a stranger would first notice in coming into town is, that the
+houses, instead of being on land regularly laid out for building, seem
+to have grown up here and there and everywhere, a good deal in
+accordance with their own sweet wills, and without the smallest regard
+to surroundings.
+
+But there are handsome houses in Amesbury, and these are growing more
+numerous every year. The people themselves would assert that the walks
+and drives about the village, the hills and the river are the things to
+be longest remembered about the place. If they were inclined to
+boasting, they might say also that they had as good a right as any
+people in America to be considered of ancient stock, for some of the
+names of the earliest settlers are the familiar names in the town
+to-day, and few towns in America are older than Amesbury. The names
+Barnard, Challis, Weed, Jones, and Hoyt, appear on the first board of
+"Prudenshall," and that of Richard Currier as town clerk. This was in
+April, 1668, the year after the new town was named.
+
+Early in 1735 the settlement of Newbury (then spelled Newberry) was
+begun. In a little over three years a colony was sent out across the
+Merrimac. The plantation was at first called merely from the name of the
+river. In 1639 it was named Colchester by the General Court; but October
+7, 1640, this name was changed to Salisbury, so that in 1638, almost two
+hundred and fifty years ago, Salisbury began to be settled. It seemed as
+if there was need of new settlements at that time to counteract the
+depletions in the Old World, for the Thirty Years' War was still
+impoverishing Germany; Richelieu was living to rule France in the name
+of his royal master, Louis XIII; England was gathering up those forces
+of good and evil which from resisting tyranny at last grew intoxicated
+with power, and so came to play the tyrant and regicide. For it was
+about that time that Charles I had disbanded his army, trusting to the
+divinity that, in the eyes of the Stuarts, did ever hedge a king, and at
+the same time thrown away his honor by pledging himself to what he never
+meant to perform. While this farce, which preceded the tragedy, was
+being set upon the stage of history, here, three thousand miles away,
+nature had begun to build up the waste, and to prophesy growth.
+
+Salisbury, and afterwards Amesbury, were named from the two towns so
+famous in England, the Salisbury Plain of Druidical memory, on which is
+the celebrated Stonehenge, and near by, the Amesbury where was one of
+the oldest monasteries in England. It is supposed that the towns were so
+named because many of the new settlers came from those old English
+towns. The latter name used to be spelled Ambresbury, and Tennyson in
+his "Idylls of the King" spells Almesbury. After the discovery by Modred
+of the guilt of King Arthur's fair and false wife, he says:--
+
+  "Queen Guinevere had fled the court and sat
+  There in the holyhouse at Almesbury
+  Weeping."
+
+
+Describing her flight, he tells us that she sent Lancelot
+
+  "Back to his land, but she to Almesbury
+  Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald."
+
+
+There Arthur sees her for the last time and mourns over her before he
+goes forth to his last battle with Modred.
+
+On the whole, it is not strange, considering its associations, and
+moreover the fact that this town in Massachusetts is the only Amesbury
+in America while so many other names are duplicated, that the people of
+Amesbury are not willing to merge the name of their town into that of
+the elder sister, even when those parts called in each "the Mills" are
+so closely united in interests and in appearance that no stranger could
+recognize them as two towns. It is only the Powow that makes the
+dividing line here. Blocks of offices and stores on both sides of the
+street, among them the post-office, common to both towns, hide the
+narrow stream at that point, and further up and down the towering walls
+of the factories make it unobserved. It is not here that one sees the
+Powow. But there is, or a little time ago there was, a place not far off
+from this main street where the river is still harassed, yet as it slips
+past in its silent toil with a few trees hanging low on the right, it
+has a fascination in spite of its prosaic surroundings; it takes
+naturally to picturesqueness and freedom.
+
+One of Whittier's early poems speaks of an Indian re-visiting the stream
+that his forefathers loved, and standing on Powow Hill, where the chiefs
+of the Naumkeaks, and of the other tribes held their powows. Here for a
+moment, says the poem, a gleam of gladness came to him as he stooped to
+drink of the fountain and seated himself under an oak.
+
+  "Far behind was Ocean striving
+    With his chains of sand;
+  Southward, sunny glimpses giving
+    'Twixt the swells of land,
+  Of its calm and silvery track
+  Rolled the tranquil Merrimack."
+
+
+The Indian's feeling about "These bare hills, this conquered river," was
+not strange. But to us it naturally occurs that we are more likely to
+wake up with our scalps on our heads, instead of sleeping our last
+sleep, while they dangle at a red man's girdle. Yet the very state of
+warfare that at that time existed between the races showed that in the
+settlers themselves was an element of savagery not yet eliminated. For
+in all this fierce strife of the tomahawk and the gun, the Quaker
+ancestors of the poet Whittier who met the Indians, armed only with
+kindness and the high courage of their peaceful convictions, were
+treated by the red men as friends and superiors. In the raids of general
+devastation they were unmolested. Their descendant has a natural right
+to express the pathos of the Indian's lot.
+
+There is a fine exhibition of human nature in the records of the first
+settlement of Amesbury. The place was called "Salisbury new-town" until
+1669, and was merely an offshoot of the latter, though much larger in
+extent than it is today, for now it is only about six miles by three.
+Then it reached up into what is now Newton, N.H. But why should not the
+people of those days have been generous as to the size of townships, for
+as to land, they had the continent before them where to choose?
+
+But in regard to the human nature. The settlers of Salisbury went at
+first only beyond the salt marshes, their town being what is now East
+Salisbury. The forests beyond had a threatening look, and were much
+too near. It was determined, therefore, to drive them back by having
+clearings and settlements across the Powow. So, December 26, 1642, about
+three years after this little colony had crossed the Merrimack, a town
+meeting was held in which it was voted:--"Yere shall thirtie families
+remove to the west side of ye Powowas river." This motion was very easy
+to carry. But it had not been voted what families were to move on beyond
+the immediate protection of the small colony at East Salisbury. Who was
+to go? Every man sat still in his place and nodded to his neighbor with
+a "Thou art the man," in manner if not in words. It seems to us a very
+little thing to give or take the advice, "Go West young man,--or woman."
+But it was very different then. To do it meant, besides living encircled
+by forests, to be obliged to go on Sunday through these forests, worse
+than lonely, to the meeting-house at East Salisbury, and always with the
+possibility of being at any moment obliged to flee all the distance to
+that town for comparative safety, perhaps of being obliged to flee in
+the night. Signals of alarm were arranged by the General Court. Alarm
+was to be given "by distinctly discharging three muskets, or by
+continual beat of the drum, or firing the beacon, or discharging a pesse
+of ordnance, and every trained soldier is to take the alarm immediately
+on paine of five pound." It was also ordered, "That every town provide a
+sufficient place for retreat for their wives and children to repaire to,
+as likewise to keepe safe the ammunition thereof." And also, "That all
+watches throughout this country bee set at sunset at the beat of the
+drums, & not bee discharged till the beate of the drum at sunne rising."
+
+But those old Puritans were not men to be bundled by any of the
+weaknesses of human nature. In ten days, when it was found that nobody
+had started "westward, ho!" another town-meeting was held, in which, in
+spite of the dangers to be encountered by the new colony, the first vote
+was re-affirmed, and it was decided that "the thirtie families be chosen
+by ye seven men," probably the selectmen. And to ensure the matter,
+it was determined that this vote should not be repealed except by the
+consent of every freeman in the town. So, in the spring, this tiny
+colony went out to Salisbury new-town.
+
+In 1647, a law was passed requiring every township of fifty families to
+maintain a school. This is the way that the preamble reads:--
+
+"It being one chiefe pr'ject of yt ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men
+from ye knowledge of ye Scriptures, as in former times by keeping ym in
+an unknown tongue, so in these latt'r times by pr'suading from ye use of
+tongues yt so at least ye true sense & meaning of ye original might be
+clouded by false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, yt learning may not
+be buried in ye grave of o'r fath'rs in ye church & commonwealth, the
+Lord assisting our endeavor. It is therefore resolved," &c.
+
+It seems overturning the cornerstone of our forefathers' intentions to
+banish from our schools the Scriptures, those finest examples of the
+strength and beauty of the English language, to say nothing of their
+lessons in individual self-government, which is the only foundation that
+a republic can be built upon.
+
+From this old law have grown up all the public schools of Amesbury.
+There is now a high school, and there are, of course, the required
+number of small schools; some of these in the outlying districts having
+very few scholars.
+
+Several years ago Mr. Whittier, who has the keenest sense of humor, told
+a friend that in one of these the whole number of pupils was three,
+average attendance one and a half! He was deeply interested in that half
+child.
+
+Amesbury has among its attractions a Lion's Mouth! In the old days of
+Indian ambushes it must have earned its right to the name. But now the
+only existing danger is lest one should be eaten up--with kindness.
+It is a short mile from the mills, and a pleasant walk in spite of its
+ending! At last there comes a little hollow with a large farm-house on
+the left, and a grass road winding past it at right angles with the main
+road and leading into beautiful woods. These woods are the very jaws of
+the lion; and it is very hard, on a hot summer's day, for those who go
+into them to come out again. A few rods up the road from the hollow are
+other houses. People bearing some of the earliest recorded names in
+Amesbury, descendants of the brave pioneers, are to be found here, or
+having departed this life, have left good records behind them. One of
+these latter lived here in the pleasantest way. He and his wife carried
+on their large farm in an ideal manner; everything was upon a generous
+scale. There was money enough not to wear out life in petty economies,
+and largeness of soul enough not to put the length of a bank account
+against the beauties and refinements of life. The loss of their only
+child, and a few years afterward of their grand-daughter, one of the
+loveliest children earth ever held, was--not compensated for, that
+can never be, but made much less dreary by a friendship of many years'
+standing between them and their summer neighbors. In this case, too, the
+gentleman is a native of Amesbury, proud and fond of his birthplace.
+Every summer he comes to the cottage of this friend, a charming little
+house only a few rods from the larger one, and spends the summer here
+with his family and servants. He has made a great deal of money in New
+York, but fortunately, not too much, for it has not built up a Chinese
+wall around his heart; his new friends are dear, but his early friends
+are still the dearest.
+
+Between the Mills and this formidable Mouth of the Lion, is the Quaker
+Meeting House, a modest, sober-hued building on a triangular green, on
+which, before it was fenced in, the boys delighted to play ball on the
+days and at the hours (for the Quakers have meeting Thursday also) on
+which the grave worshippers were not filing into what cannot fairly be
+called the house of silence, because it has been known to echo to
+exhortations as earnest, if not as vehement as one may hear from any
+pulpit. Still, there are sometimes long intervals of silence, and then
+the consciousness that silent self-examination is one purpose of the
+coming together, gives an impressiveness to the simple surroundings. It
+must have been here that Mr. Whittier learned to interpret so
+wonderfully that silent prayer of Agassiz for guidance when he opened
+his famous school from which he was so soon called to a higher life.
+
+  "Then the Master in his place
+  Bowed his head a little space
+  And the leaves by soft airs stirred
+  Lapse of wave and cry of bird
+  Left the solemn hush unbroken
+  Of that wordless prayer unspoken
+  While its wish, on earth unsaid,
+      Rose to Heaven interpreted.
+      As in life's best hours we hear
+      By the spirit's finer ear
+      His low voice within us, thus
+      The All-Father heareth us:
+      And his holy ear we pain
+      With our noisy words and vain.
+      Not for him our violence
+      Storming at the gates of sense,
+      His the primal language, his
+      The eternal silences."
+
+
+Mr. Whittier always goes to this meeting when he is well enough. The May
+Quarterly Meetings of the Society of Friends are held at Amesbury. There
+are a good many members of this Society in the town, and there is among
+them a hospitality, a kindness, and a cordiality that added to their
+quiet ways and the refined dress of the women makes them interesting.
+
+It goes without saying that Amesbury has also the allotment of churches
+of other denominations usual to New England towns.
+
+Thirty years ago and more, the Amesbury and Salisbury Mills were two
+distinct companies. The agent of the former mills, Mr. Joshua Aubin,
+was a gentleman of fine presence. After he left Amesbury, he sent to
+the town as a gift the nucleus of its present Public Library, which,
+although not absolutely free has only a nominal subscription to pay the
+services of the librarian, and for keeping the books in order.
+
+[Illustration: John G. Whittier]
+
+Mr. James Horton, agent of the Salisbury mills, was more of the
+rough-and-ready type of man, a little bluff, but frank and kind-hearted.
+Both gentlemen as it happened, lived in Amesbury and were of one mind in
+regard to the character of their operatives. It was before the influx
+of foreign labor, and the men and women in the mills belonged to
+respectable, often well-to-do American families. Rowdyism was a thing
+unknown to them, and as to drunkenness, if that fault was found once in
+an operative, he was reprimanded; if it occurred again, he was at once
+discharged. And so Amesbury, though a manufacturing town, was in its
+neatness and orderliness an exquisite little village with the Powow Hill
+at its back and the hem of its robe laved by two beautiful rivers. After
+Mr. Aubin's ill health had made him resign his place, the father of
+Prof. Langley, well-known to science, was agent for a time, and carried
+on matters in the spirit of his predecessors. But there came a change,
+the mills were united under one control, and an agent was sent to
+Amesbury for the purpose of forcibly illustrating the fact that
+corporations have no souls. He did it admirably. Work was started at
+high pressure, there came a rush of foreigners into the place, many of
+the old towns people moved away in disgust, and the new took the place
+of the old as suddenly as if an evil magician had waved his wand
+and cried: "Presto!" But this agent soon gave evidence that great
+unscrupulousness doesn't pay, even as a financial investment. After
+several other short regimes the present agent, Mr. Steere, came to
+Amesbury, and the corporation has found it worth while to keep him.
+The effect of the sudden influx of foreign population into Amesbury
+has never done away with; it has its "Dublin" in a valley where the
+corporation built houses for its operatives. And with what indifference
+to cleanliness, or health these were built! The poor operatives were
+crowded together in a way that would make neatness difficult to the most
+fastidious. A physician in Amesbury who considered the poor, presented
+this state of things so strongly and so persistently to the agent, spoke
+so forcibly of the moral degradation that such herding increased, or
+induced, that when it became necessary to build new tenements they were
+much better arranged. Every manufacturing town in New England has now
+its unwholesome because untaught population, a danger signal on the line
+of progress of the republic. It is only popular education that can
+remove this obstruction of ignorance. The foreign population of Amesbury
+today is large, and although it gives hands to the mills, it adds
+neither to the beauty nor the interest of the town. But it gives a
+mission to those who believe in the possibilities of human nature, and
+the right of every man to have a chance at life, even if the way he
+takes it be not agreeable to his cultivated neighbor.
+
+The mills in the days of their greatest prosperity were all woolen mills:
+now a part of them are cotton mills. They are all running, and,
+although not with the remarkable success of a score of years ago, have a
+future before them.
+
+The making of felt hats, now so important a business, was started here
+a number of years ago by a gentleman who built a hat factory near his
+house at the Ferry. He was a gentleman in that true sense in which,
+added to his nerve and will (and he had abundance of both) were those
+knightly qualities of generosity and kindliness that have made his
+memory dear, while the Bayley Hat Company, called after him as its
+founder, bears witness to his business ability.
+
+The great, oblong, many-windowed carriage manufactories meet one at
+every turn, and often the smithy stands near with its clangor. This
+business used to be confined to West Amesbury, now Merrimac. At the
+beginning of the century it was started on an humble scale by two young
+men, one a wood-worker, the other a plater, while another young man was
+trimmer for them. One of the firm lived in West Amesbury, the other in
+South Amesbury, now Merrimac Port, and after each had built his share of
+the carriage, it was found a little difficult to bring the different
+parts together. This was the beginning, and now Amesbury ships its
+carriages over the world. One of the first to bring this business from
+what was then West Amesbury to the Mills was a young man who in the
+beginning of the war had been unfortunate in business. He gave his
+creditors all he had, and went to the front. After serving his time
+there he came home, went into the carriage business, made money this
+time instead of losing it, and paid up his old creditors one hundred
+cents on the dollar. He deserves a big factory and success. And he has
+both. And he is not the only one of whom good things could be said.
+
+They have a Wallace G.A.R. Post in Amesbury, not in commemoration of the
+Wallace of old Scottish fame, but of a man no less patriotic and brave
+who lived among themselves, an Englishman, a shoemaker. He was lame, but
+so anxious during the Rebellion to have his share in the struggle for
+the Union that he tried to get a place on board a gunboat, saying that
+he could "sit and shoot." As this was impossible, the town sent him to
+Boston as its representative, and he was in the Legislature when the
+members voted themselves an increase of pay. Mr. Wallace believed the
+thing illegal. He took the money in trust. One day after his return to
+Amesbury he limped up to his physician (the same one who had brought
+about the better construction of the new corporation houses) and handed
+him fifty dollars of this over pay, to be used at his discretion among
+the poor, explaining as he did so where the money came from, that he
+felt that it belonged to Amesbury, and that he returned a part through
+this channel.
+
+Half way between the Mills and the Ferry stands an old well that a
+native of Amesbury dug by the roadside for the benefit of travellers
+because he had once been a captive in Arabian deserts, and had known the
+torments of thirst. Here was a man to whom the uses of adversity had
+been sweet, for they had taught him humanity. Mrs. Spofford has written
+an appropriate poem upon this incident.
+
+The elms in Amesbury are very beautiful, and they are found everywhere;
+but on the ferry road there are magnificent ones not far from the river.
+They are growing on each side of the road, arching it over with their
+graceful boughs.
+
+[Illustration: WHITTIER'S HOME, AMESBURY.]
+
+The Ferry proper near which was born Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers
+of the Declaration of Independence, is at the foot of the street that
+runs from the Mills down to the river. In old times there was a
+veritable ferry here a few rods above where the Powow empties into the
+Merrimack. This ferry is mentioned in the records, two years after the
+town had been set upon its feet. In a book written about Amesbury by Mr.
+Joseph Merrill, a native of the town, it is stated that the town
+petitioned the general Court for leave to keep a Ferry over the river at
+this place. This is the record from the same source:--
+
+"The County Court held at Hampton, ye 13th of ye 8th month 1668, Mr.
+Edward Goodwin being presented by ye Selectmen of ye town of Amesbury to
+Court to keep ye Ferry over Merrimac river about ye mouth of ye Powow
+river where ye said Goodwin now dwelleth, the Court do allow and approve
+of ye sd person for one year next following and until ye Court shall
+take further orders therein, and ye prices to be as followeth so, for
+every single passenger two pence, for a horse and man six pence, and for
+all great cattle four pence, for sheep and other small cattle under two
+years old two pence per head."
+
+In 1791 there came up a question of a bridge being built across the
+Merrimac. A town meeting was called to oppose the measure, and in this
+it was argued that a bridge would throw into disuse the ferry with which
+much pains had been taken. Precious old fogies! In those days, too, they
+lived, for they were as old as the centuries. Nothing of the mushroom
+about them. There is a tradition that once in Revolutionary days,
+Washington was carried across this ferry. But it is impossible to say
+what the tradition is founded upon, and how much it is worth.
+
+As to the river, there are rivers and rivers, as the saying is; at some
+we marvel, some we fear and to some we make pilgrimages as to the Mecca
+of the faithful. But the Merrimac is a river to be loved, and to be
+loved the better the more familiar it is. What its poet, Whittier, says
+about it must be literally true:
+
+  "Our river by its valley born
+  Was never yet forgotten."
+
+
+It is worth while to try to imagine it as he writes it in "Cobbler
+Keezer's Vision" two hundred and more years ago, when that old fellow
+was so amazed at the prospect of mirth and pleasure among the
+descendants of the stern Puritans that he dropped his lapstone into the
+water in bewilderment.
+
+This was the time when
+
+  "Woodsy and wild and lonesome,
+    The swift stream wound away,
+  Through birches and scarlet maples
+    Flashing in foam and spray."
+
+  "Down on the sharp-horned ledges
+    Plunging in steep cascade,
+  Tossing its white-maned waters
+    Against the hemlock's shade."
+
+  "Woodsy and wild and lonesome,
+    East and west and north and south;
+  Only the village of fishers
+    Down at the river's mouth;"
+
+  "Only here and there a clearing,
+    With its farm-house rude and new,
+  And tree-stumps, swart as Indians,
+    Where the scanty harvest grew."
+
+
+What a picture that is! And then behind these tree-stumps, the great
+forest with its possibilities of comfort and even of competence in its
+giant timbers,--when they were fairly floored, but; as it stood, a
+threatening foe with a worse enemy in its depths than the darkness of
+its shadows, or the wild beasts.
+
+Several of Mr. Whittier's songs of the Merrimac were written for
+picnics, given at the Laurels on the Newbury side of the river by a
+gentlemen and his wife from Newburyport. They were early abolitionists,
+friends and hosts of Garrison, of George Thompson and others of that
+brave band, and of course friends of the poet. This hospitable couple
+gave a picnic here every June for twenty years. The first was a little
+party of perhaps half-a-dozen people, the twenty-first was a large
+assembly. Mr. Whittier was present at these picnics whenever able, and,
+as has been said, sometimes wrote a poem to be read there. He never
+reads in public himself.
+
+Although the Powow river has been made so emphatically a stream of use,
+there are glimpses of a native beauty in it that its hard fate has never
+obliterated; these are still there, as one stands upon the little bridge
+that spans its last few rods of individual life and looks up the stream
+upon a wintry landscape, or upon summer fields, and longingly toward the
+bend.
+
+Whether the Powow has any power to set in motion the wheels of fancy as
+it does the wheels of the factories it is impossible to say, but this
+much is certain; on its banks was born an artist who has made his name
+known on the banks of the Seine. The father of Mr. Charles Davis, our
+young artist of great promise and of no mean performance, was for years
+a teacher in Amesbury, and the garden of the house where this son was
+born bordered upon the Powow.
+
+[Illustration: THE OLD SANDY HILL MEETING HOUSE]
+
+At Pond Hills, between Amesbury and Merrimac, is lake Attitash, which,
+before Mr. Whittier took pity upon it, rejoiced in the name of Kimball's
+Pond. There is a slight suspicion that it is still occasionally called
+by its old name. In dry seasons the water is used by the mills. But the
+blue lake is as beautiful as if it were never useful. On its shore
+enough grand old pines are left to dream under of forests primeval, of
+Indian wigwams, and of canoes on the bright water; for the red men knew
+very well the hiding places of the perch and of the pickerel. So did the
+white men who chose the region of the Merrimac for their new home. In
+the "Maids of Attitash" is described the lake where
+
+  "In sky and wave the white clouds swam,
+  And the blue hills of Nottingham
+    Through gaps of leafy green
+    Across the lake were seen."
+
+
+All these are still here, but one misses the maidens who ought to be
+sitting there
+
+  "In the shadow of the ash
+  That dreams its dream in Attitash."
+
+
+No doubt they are about here somewhere, only it takes a poet's eye to
+find them. And yet it was not very far from here that there lived a few
+years ago a young girl, a descendant of one of the early settlers of
+Amesbury, who on her engagement said to a friend proudly:--"I am going
+to marry a poor man, and I am going to help him." And so she always
+nobly did, in ways different from tawdry ambition. The courage of the
+old Puritans has not died out here any more than the old beauty has
+deserted the land.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+KATE FIELD'S NEW DEPARTURE.
+
+BY EDWARD INCREASE MATHER.
+
+
+Miss Kate Field has been so exclusively identified with artistic and
+literary success that her new departure as a lecturer on existing
+political evils has excited no little surprise and comment. An
+exceptional degree of public interest as well as of purely private and
+personal regard has followed her almost, indeed, from childhood; partly
+due, it may be, to a certain indefinable magnetism of temperament which
+always makes the place where she chances to be at the time seem a social
+centre, and somewhat, too, from a life that has not been without its
+picturesque setting of scenery and circumstance. "Kate Field was started
+right,"--remarked Miss Frances E. Willard of her one day. "As a child
+Walter Savage Landor held her on his knee and taught her, and she grew
+up in the atmosphere of Art." The chance observation made only _en
+passant_, never the less touched a salient truth in that vital manner
+in which Miss Willard's words are accustomed to touch truth. She was,
+indeed, "started right." The only child of gifted parents, endowed with
+a rare combination of intellectual and artistic talent; with a nobility
+and genuineness of nature that has ever been one of her most marked
+characteristics; attuned by temperament to all that is fine, and high,
+and beautiful,--it is little wonder that her life has presented a series
+of advancing achievements. She has studied, and read, and thought; she
+has travelled, and "sipped the foam of many lives;" and a polished and
+many-sided culture has added its charm to a woman singularly charming by
+nature and possessed of the subtle gift of fascination. When very young
+she studied music and modern languages abroad in Florence, and in
+London. To music she especially devoted herself studying under Garcia
+and under William Shakespeare, the great English tenor, whose favorite
+pupil she is said to have been. Walter Savage Landor conceived a great
+fondness for her, gave her lessons in Latin, and left her at his death a
+valuable portfolio of old drawings. In some verses addressed "To K.F."
+he alludes to her as:--
+
+  Modest as winged angels are,
+  And no less brave and no less fair.
+
+
+[Illustration: MISS KATE FIELD.]
+
+His interest was richly repaid by the young girl who, after his death,
+wrote reminiscences of Landor in a manner whose sympathetic brilliancy
+of interpretation added an enduring lustre to his life and achievement.
+In her early girlhood as, indeed, in her womanhood, her brilliancy and
+charm won all hearts. It was in Florence that she met George Eliot, and
+a moon-light evening at the Trollope villa, where Marion Lewes led the
+girl, dream-enchanted, out on the fragrant and flowery terrace, left its
+picture in her memory, and exquisitely did she portray it in a paper on
+George Eliot at the time of her death. By temperament and cultivation
+Miss Field is admirably adapted to interpret to the world its masters,
+its artists. Her dramatic criticism on Ristori ranks among the finest
+ever written of the stage; her "Pen Photographs of Dickens's Readings"
+have permanently recorded that memorable tour. Her Life of Fechter wins
+its praise from the highest literary authorities in our own country and
+London. She has published a few books, made up from her fugitive
+articles in the _Tribune_, the _London Times_, the _Athenaeum_, and
+the magazines, and more of this literature would be eminently refreshing
+and acceptable. It is no exaggeration to say that among the American
+writers of to-day no one has greater breadth, vigor, originality
+and power than Kate Field. She is by virtue of wide outlook and
+comprehension of important matters, entirely free from the tendency to
+petty detail and trivial common-place that clogs the minds and pens of
+many women-writers. Her foreign letters to the _Tribune_ discussed
+questions of political significance and international interest. Miss
+Field is a woman of so many resources that she has never made of her
+writing a trade, but has used it as an art; and she never writes unless
+she has something to say. This fact teaches a moral that the woman of
+the period may do well to contemplate.
+
+Yet with all the varied charms of foreign life, passed in the most
+cultivated and refined social circles of Europe, Kate Field never forgot
+that she was an American, and patriotism grew to be a passion with her.
+She became a student of English and American politics, and her
+revelations of the ponderous machinery of the British Parliament, in a
+series of strong and brilliant press letters, now collected into the
+little volume called "Hap-Hazzard," was as fine and impressive in its
+way as is her dramatic criticism or literary papers. All this, perhaps,
+had paved the way for her to enter into a close and comprehensive study
+of the subject which she is now so ably discussing in her notable
+lectures on the social and the political crimes of Utah. The profound
+and serious attention which she is now giving to this problem stamps her
+lectures as among the most potent political influences of the time. Miss
+Field's discussion of Mormonism is one of those events which seem
+pre-determined by the law of the unconscious, and which seem to choose
+the individual rather than to be chosen by him. In the summer of 1883,
+by way of a change from continental travel, Miss Field determined to
+hitch her wagon to a star and journey westward. She lingered for a month
+in Denver where she received distinguished social attention and where,
+by special request, she gave her lecture on an "Evening with Dickens"
+and her charming "Musical Monologue." Of this Dickens' lecture a western
+journal said:--
+
+  "Charles Dickens was the novelist of humanity, and Kate Field is,
+  to-day, his most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter. Those who
+  were so fortunate as to attend her reading last evening enjoyed an
+  intellectual pleasure not soon forgotten. They saw a slender, graceful
+  woman, dressed in creamy white, with soft laces falling about her; with
+  low, broad brow, and earnest, sympathetic eyes, under a cloud of soft
+  dark hair. With a rich and finely modulated voice of remarkable power
+  of expression, she held her audience for two hours spellbound by the
+  magic of her genius."
+
+
+In Colorado Miss Field enjoyed an unique and picturesque holiday.
+Picnics and excursions were gotten up in her honor; special trains were
+run; she rode on horseback with gay parties of friends twenty-five miles
+a day; she joined friends from New York who were camping out on "The
+Needles," and she made a visit to the San Juan Silver-mining district.
+Among other diversions she had the honor of naming a new watering place,
+located on "The Divide," an hour by rail from Denver, to which, in honor
+of General Palmer who has practically "made" that region, Miss Field
+gave the name of Palmero, the Spanish for Palmer.
+
+How unconsciously Miss Field came to study the problem presented by the
+peculiar institutions of Utah is curiously indicated in a letter from
+Salt Lake City, under date of Jan. 16, 1884, which she wrote to the
+Boston _Herald_, and which opens thus:--
+
+  "I know of nothing that would do Bostonians so much good as a prolonged
+  trip across this continent, giving themselves sufficient time to tarry
+  at different points and study the people. For myself--about half a
+  Bostonian--I became so ashamed of sailing east year after year, that
+  last summer I made up my mind to hitch my wagon to the star of empire
+  and learn as much of my own country as I knew of Europe. I started from
+  New York in July, expecting to be absent three months, and in that
+  period obtain an intelligent idea of the far West. After passing two
+  months and a half in wonderful Colorado and only seeing a fraction of
+  the Centennial state, I began to realize that in two years I might,
+  with diligence, get a tolerable idea of this republic west of the
+  Mississippi. Cold weather setting in, and the fall of snow rendering
+  mountain travelling in Colorado neither safe nor agreeable, I came to
+  Utah over the wonderful Denver & Rio Grande railroad, intending to
+  pass a week prior to visiting New Mexico and Arizona. My week expired
+  on the 22nd day of October and still I linger among the 'saints.'
+  I am regarded as more or less demented by eastern friends. If becoming
+  interested in a most extraordinary anomaly to such an extent as to
+  desire to study it and to be able to form an intelligent opinion
+  therein is being demented, then I am mad indeed, for I've not yet got
+  to the bottom of the Utah problem, and if I lived here years, there
+  would still be much to learn. Despite this last discouraging fact,
+  I have improved my opportunities and am able to paragraph what has
+  come under my own observation or been acquired by absorption of Mormon
+  and Gentile literature. If the commissioners sent here by Congress to
+  investigate the Mormon question, at an annual expense of forty thousand
+  dollars per annum, had studied this question as earnestly as I have,
+  they never would have told the country that polygamy is dying out. One
+  or two members of that commission know better, and sooner or later they
+  must tell the truth or stultify their own souls."
+
+
+This extract reveals how deeply the anomaly of Mormon life had at once
+impressed her. Miss Field was too keen and cultivated an observer not to
+see beneath the surface of this phase of living a problem whose roots
+struck deep into national prosperity and safety. The distinguished
+essayist and critic, Mr. Edwin P. Whipple, said of her study of
+Mormonism:--
+
+  She undertook a perfectly original method of arriving at the truth, by
+  intimate conversations with Mormon husbands and wives, as well as with
+  the most intelligent of the "Gentiles." She discarded from her mind
+  pre-conceptions and all prejudices which discolor and distort objects
+  which should be rigidly investigated, and looked at the mass of facts
+  before her in what Bacon calls "dry light." Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
+  elder, was accustomed to account for the failures and ruin of the
+  brilliant young brokers who tried to corner the stocks in which he had
+  an interest, by declaring that "these dashing young fellars didn't see
+  things as they be." Miss Field saw things in Utah "as they be." She
+  collected facts of personal observation, analyzed and generalized them,
+  and, by degrees, her sight became insight, and the passage from insight
+  to foresight is rapid. After thorough investigation, her insight
+  enabled her to penetrate into the secret of that "mystery of iniquity"
+  which Mormonism really is; while her foresight showed her what would
+  be the inevitable result of the growth and diffusion of such a horrible
+  creed.
+
+
+The winter lapsed into spring and still she lingered in Salt Lake City.
+She relinquished all pleasure for the real work of studying deeply the
+anomaly of a Polygamous hierarchy thriving in the heart of the Republic.
+Every facility was accorded to her by United States officials, military
+officers, leading Gentiles and Apostates. Prominent "Latter Day Saints"
+offered her marked courtesy. She pursued this research unremittingly for
+eight months and when, at last, she left Salt Lake City, the leading
+Gentile paper, the Tribune, devoted a leading editorial to Miss Field's
+marvellously thorough study of Mormon conditions, and, on her departure,
+said:--
+
+  "Miss Field is probably the best posted person, outside the high
+  Mormon church officials, and others who have been in the church, on
+  this institution, in the world, and its effects upon men, women and
+  governments. With a fixedness of purpose which nothing could swerve,
+  and with an energy which neither storm, mud, snow, cold looks, the
+  persuasions or even the loss of friends, could for a moment dampen, she
+  has held on her course. In the tabernacle, in the ward meeting house,
+  in the homes of high Mormons, and, when these were closed to her, in
+  the homes of the poor, she has worked upon the theme, while every scrap
+  of history which offered to give any light upon the Mormon organization
+  she has devoured. Mormonism has been to her like a fever. It has run
+  its course and now she is going away. If she proposes to lecture, she
+  ought to be able to prepare a better lecture on Mormonism than she has
+  ever yet delivered; if a book is in process of incubation it ought to
+  be of more value than any former book on this subject. Lecture or book
+  will be intense enough to satisfy all demands. The 'Tribune' gives the
+  world notice in advance that Miss Field has a most intimate knowledge
+  of the Mormon kingdom."
+
+
+Returning to the East she stopped on the way in Missouri and at Nauvoo,
+Illinois, looking up all the old camping-grounds of Mormonism, and
+meeting and interviewing people who had been connected with it,
+including two sons of Joseph Smith, Miss Field opened her course of
+lectures on this subject in Boston last November, before a brilliant and
+distinguished audience, including the Governor and other officials of
+state, Harvard University professors, and men and women eminent in art,
+literature and society. She dealt with the political crimes of the
+Mormons, arguing that the great wrong was not, as many had believed,
+polygamy, but treason! Polygamy, though "the cornerstone of the Mormon
+church," was not inserted in its printed articles of faith and was not
+taught until the unwary had been "gathered to Zion." The monstrosity of
+the "revelation" on celestial marriage; the tragic unhappiness of Mormon
+women; the elastic conscience of John Taylor, "prophet, seer and
+revelator" to God's chosen people, were vividly depicted. Her extracts
+from Brigham Young's sermons, and from those of his counsellors, are
+forcible arguments on the Gentile side. Indeed, throughout her entire
+discourse, Miss Field clinches every statement with Mormon proof, rarely
+going to Gentile authorities for vital facts connected with her subject.
+The lecturer's sense of humor betrayed itself now and then, when, with
+fervor, she related an incident in her own experience, or quoted a "Song
+of Zion." The refrain of one of these songs still rings in our ears:
+
+  Then, oh, let us say
+  God bless the wife that strives
+  And aids her husband all she can
+  To obtain a dozen wives!
+
+
+The prodigious contrast between the preaching and practice of polygamy
+was fully displayed. Mormons claim that there is a vast difference
+between bigamy and polygamy; that only good men are allowed to take
+plural wives; that no saint takes more wives than he can support, and
+that a muchly married "man of God" exercises the most rigid impartiality
+in the bestowal of his affections upon his various women. Miss Field
+upsets these beautiful theories by graphic pictures drawn from life, and
+cited Brigham Young himself as "a bright and shining lie to the boast of
+impartiality." Brigham Young's coup d'etat in granting woman suffrage in
+1871 was illuminated, and emphasized by the assertions:--"A territory
+that has abolished the right of dower, that proclaims polygamy to be
+divine, that has no laws against bigamy and kindred crimes, that has no
+just appreciation of woman, is unworthy of self-respecting humanity,
+woman suffrage or no woman suffrage." Miss Field makes in these lectures
+a telling exposition of the doctrine of blood atonement, passing on to
+these Mormon missionaries and their methods, and the people who become
+"fascinated with the idea of direct communication with heaven through
+the medium of a prophet," and to whom the missionary brethren prudently
+"leave the mysteries of polygamy to the imagination," while they
+inculcate the importance of "gathering to Zion." She outlined the
+educational status and the discouragement given by Brigham Young to all
+educational progress. Of Mormon treason she says:--
+
+"Five years after the United States had established the Territory of
+Utah its people were in armed rebellion because the government dared to
+send a Gentile governor and national troops to Utah."
+
+Nor does she spare the United States in its responsibility for these
+crimes. "The United States to-day," said Miss Field, "is responsible for
+thirty years' growth of polygamy, with its attendant degradation of
+woman and brutalization of man." As an illustration of this conclusion,
+she told a most interesting story of which Governor Harding of Utah,
+Brigham Young, Benjamin Halliday, Postmaster General Blair, Abraham
+Lincoln and William H. Seward were the characters. The story is a
+dramatic and significant bit of Mormon history, related for the first
+time. It led up to an earnest and eloquent peroration of which the final
+words were: "'I'll believe polygamy is wrong when Congress breaks it up;
+not before!' exclaims a plural wife. Men and women of New England! You
+who forge public opinion; you who sounded the death knell of slavery,
+what are you going to do about it!"
+
+William Lloyd Garrison used to tell his friends that it was worth an
+admission fee just to see Kate Field on the platform, as she made so
+lovely a picture. Her attitudes--for they are too spontaneous and
+unconscious to be termed poses--are the impersonation of grace, and,
+aside from the enjoyment of the intellectual quality and searching
+political analysis of her lectures, is that of the artistic effect.
+She gave a course of three lectures on this "Mormon Monster." They were
+efforts whose invincible logic, graphic presentation and thrilling power
+held spellbound her audience. They were a drama of social and political
+life, and almost unprecedented on the lyceum platform was this eloquence
+and splendor of oratory, combined with the trained thought, the
+scholarly acquirement, and the finished eloquence of its delivery. This
+course of lectures finished there was a popular call for Miss Field to
+repeat one at Tremont Temple which, by invitation of Governor Robinson,
+the Mayor and a number of distinguished citizens, she consented to do.
+The triumph was repeated. From Boston she was invited to lecture in
+Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Washington. Press and people were alike
+enthusiastic. It is to the work of Miss Kate Field more than to any
+other cause, that the present disintegration of Mormon treason is due.
+Other travellers in Utah have made but the briefest stays, and have been
+ready to gloss over the tale. Miss Field is telling the truth about it,
+and she does it with a courage, a vigor, an honesty, and a power that
+renders it one of the most potent influences in the national life of the
+times. Kate Field holds to-day the first place on the Lyceum platform of
+America. She has a rare combination of judicial and executive qualities.
+
+She is singularly free from exaggeration, and her sense of justice is
+never deflected by personal feeling or emotional impulse. She has that
+exceptional balance of the intellectual and artistic forces that enables
+her to give to her lecture a superb literary quality, and to deliver it
+with faultless grace of manner and an impressiveness of presence rarely
+equalled. In Kate Field America has a woman worthy to be called an
+orator.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE MONUMENT AND HOMESTEAD OF REBECCA NURSE.
+
+BY ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD.
+
+
+Perhaps the greatest incentive to ideal living in a changing world is
+the firmly held conviction that truth will finally vindicate itself.
+When this vindication is made apparent, as in the case of Rebecca
+Nurse, one of the most striking martyrs of the Salem witchcraft days of
+1692, the cause of human progress seems assured. For it is thus seen
+that truth has within itself a living seed which in its development
+is destined to become man's guide to further knowledge and growth.
+This idea was impressed upon me anew as I stood before the granite
+monument, some eight and a half feet high, erected this past summer in
+Danvers,--originally Salem,--to the memory of Mrs. Rebecca Nurse, by
+her descendants. A carpet of green grass surrounded it, and a circle of
+nearly twenty pine trees guarded it as sentinels. The pines were singing
+their summer requiem as I read on the front of the monument these
+words:--
+
+  REBECCA NURSE,
+  YARMOUTH, ENGLAND,
+  1621.
+  SALEM, MASS.,
+  1692.
+
+  O Christian martyr, who for Truth could die
+  When all about thee owned the hideous lie,
+  The world, redeemed from Superstition's sway,
+  Is breathing freer for thy sake to-day.
+
+
+I lingered a moment over these fitting lines of Whittier, whose charming
+home, "Oak Knoll," a short distance off, had just given me a restful
+pleasure. Then I walked around to the other side of the monument, where
+I read, with mingled feelings, the following words:--
+
+    Accused of witchcraft
+      She declared,
+  "I am innocent, and God will
+    clear my innocency."
+
+  Once acquitted yet falsely
+  condemned, she suffered
+    death July 19, 1692.
+
+  In loving memory of her
+    Christian character,
+  even then truly attested by
+    forty of her neighbors,
+  this monument is erected.
+
+
+These last lines reminded me of the fact that the paper with its forty
+signatures, testifying to the forty years' acquaintance of the good
+character of Rebecca Nurse, was still in existence. Alas! why couldn't
+such a testimony of neighbors and friends have saved her? But it was not
+so to be. The government of the colony, the influence of the magistracy,
+and public opinion elsewhere, overpowered all friendly and family help;
+and on the 19th July, 1692, at the advanced age of seventy-one years,
+Rebecca Nurse was hung on Gallows hill.
+
+As I left the monument, which is in the old family burying-ground, and
+wandered up the time-honored lane towards the homestead where she was
+living when arrested, the March before, my thoughts would go back to
+those dreadful days. I thought of this venerable mother's surprise and
+wonder, as she learned of the several distinct indictments against her,
+four of which, for having practised "certain detestable acts called
+witchcraft" upon Ann Putnam, Mary Walcot, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Abigail
+Williams, were still to be found in the Salem records. I thought of the
+feelings of this old and feeble woman as she was borne to the Salem
+jail, then a month later sent off, with other prisoners, to the jail
+in Boston (then a whole day's journey), to be sent back to Salem for
+her final doom. I pictured her on trial, when, in the presence of her
+accusers, the "afflicted girls," and the assembled crowd, she constantly
+declared her innocence ("I am innocent, and God will clear my
+innocency"), and showed a remarkable power in refuting the questions of
+the magistrate. I thought of her Christian faith and courage, when, upon
+seeing all the assembly, and even the magistrate, putting faith in the
+"afflicted girls'" diabolical tantrums (what else can I call them?) as
+there enacted, and now preserved in the records of the trial, she calmiy
+said, "I have got nobody to look to but God." I again pictured her, as,
+just before the horrors of execution, she was taken from the prison to
+the meeting-house, by the sheriff and his men, to receive before a great
+crowd of spectators the added disgrace of excommunication from the
+Church.
+
+But I could picture no more. My heart rebelled. And as I had now reached
+the old homestead on the hill I paused a moment, before entering, to
+rest under the shade of the trees and to enjoy the extensive views of
+the surrounding country. This comforted my troubled feelings, and
+suggested the thought that in the fourteen years that Rebecca Nurse had
+lived there she must have often come under the shade of the trees,
+perhaps after hours of hard work and care, to commune alone with her
+God. How could I help thinking so when there came up before me her
+answer to the magistrate's question, "Have you familiarity with these
+spirits?"--"No, I have none but with God alone." Surely, to one who knew
+Him as she did, who in calm strength could declare her innocence when
+many around her, as innocent as she, were frightened into doubt and
+denial, the quiet and rest of nature must have been a necessary means of
+courage and strength.
+
+Then what did not the old house, with its sloping roof, tell me, as it
+still stood where Townsend Bishop had built it in 1636, upon receiving a
+grant of three hundred acres? Yes, this old "Bishop's mansion," as the
+deed calls it, had felt the joys and sorrows of our common human life
+for almost two hundred and fifty years. It had known the friends whom
+Townsend Bishop, as one of the accomplished men of Salem village, had
+gathered about him in the few years that he had lived there. It must
+have heard some of Hugh Peters' interesting experiences, since, as
+pastor of the First Church those very years (1636-1641), he was a
+frequent visitor. Why couldn't one think that Roger Williams had often
+come to compare notes on house-building, since he owned the "old witch
+house" (still standing on the corner of Essex and North streets) at the
+same time that Mr. Bishop was building his house? It certainly was a
+pleasure to remember that Governor Endicott once owned and lived on this
+farm. He bought it in 1648, for one hundred and sixty pounds, of Henry
+Checkering, to whom Mr. Bishop had sold it seven years before.
+
+I recalled many other things, that summer day, concerning this ancient
+place. Shall I not tell them? While the Governor lived on it he
+continued his good work for the general opening of the country around
+about. Among other things he laid out the road that passes its
+entrance-gate to-day.
+
+Here his son John brought his youthful Boston bride, and gave to her the
+place as a "marriage-gift." Then, some years later, she, the widow of
+John, having become the bride of a Mr. James Allen, gave it to him as a
+"marriage-gift;" and upon her death, in 1673, he became the possessor.
+Five years later he sold it to Francis Nurse, the husband of Rebecca,
+for four hundred pounds. Mr. Nurse was an early settler of Salem, a
+"tray-maker," whose articles were much used. He was a man of good
+judgment, and respected by his neighbors. He was then fifty-eight years
+of age, and his wife fifty-seven. They had four sons and four daughters.
+The peculiar terms of the purchase had always seemed interesting to me;
+for the purchase-money of four hundred pounds was not required to be
+paid until the expiration of twenty-one years. In the meantime a
+moderate rent of seven pounds a year for the first twelve years, and ten
+pounds for each of the remaining nine years, was determined upon.
+Suitable men were appointed to estimate the value of what Mr. Nurse
+should add to the estate while living upon it, by clearing meadows,
+erecting buildings, or making other improvements. This value over one
+hundred and fifty pounds was to be paid to him. These various sums, if
+paid over to Mr. Allen before the twenty-one years had expired, would
+make a proportionate part of the farm at Mr. Nurse's disposal.
+
+The low rent and the industrious, frugal habits of Mr. Nurse and his
+family, added to the fact that not a dollar was required to be paid down
+at first, led to the making of such good improvements that before half
+the time had elapsed a value was created large enough to pay the whole
+four hundred pounds to Mr. Allen. When Mr. Nurse thus became owner of
+this estate he gave to his children, who had already good homes within
+its boundaries, the larger half of the farm, while he reserved for
+himself the homestead and the rest of the land. By the deeds he gave
+them, they were required to maintain a roadway to connect with the old
+homestead and with the homes of each other.
+
+While the different members of the Nurse family were thus working hard
+for the money to buy the place there was hanging over its owner the
+shadow of litigation for its possession. But this was Mr. Allen's
+affair, not theirs, so they went on their way in peace. Indeed, it has
+been thought that their steady success in life was one cause of their
+future trouble. They became objects of envy to those restless ones less
+favored. And so, when the opportunity came to merely whisper a name for
+the "afflicted girls" to take up, Rebecca Nurse's fate was in the hands
+of an enemy. A striking example of the innocent suffering for the
+guilty. Does not vicarious suffering seem to be an important factor in
+the development of the race? Two years after, this faithful wife and
+mother had been led from her peaceful home to suffer the agonies of
+prisons, trials, and hanging. When the children had all married, the
+father gave up the homestead to his son Samuel, and divided his
+remaining property among his sons and daughters. He died soon after,
+in 1695. He was a kind, true father, whose requests after death were
+heeded. This homestead was in the Nurse name as late as 1784, when it
+was owned by a great-grandson of Rebecca. He sold it to Phineas Putnam,
+a descendant of old Nathaniel Putnam, who, in the hour of need, wrote
+the paper for the forty signatures above mentioned. The estate descended
+to the great-grandson of Phineas, Orin Putnam, who, in 1836, married the
+daughter of Allen Nurse. And thus a direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse
+was again placed to preside over the ancestral farm, and to their
+descendants it belongs to-day.
+
+After thus thinking over this interesting history of the old place,
+as I reclined under the shade of its trees, I was better prepared to
+enjoy the kind hospitality which it then offered me. I felt a peculiar
+pleasure in stepping into the same little front porch which Townsend
+Bishop had built so many years ago. And upon ascending the stairs I
+found myself lingering a while by the old original balusters, the
+building of which Roger Williams had perhaps viewed with interest. Upon
+reaching the attic it was a pleasure, indeed, to see in this new world
+the frame-work of a house which for two hundred and fifty years had
+stood so well the test of nature in all her moods. No saw was used in
+shaping those oaken timbers. They knew only the broad-axe. From this
+attic I descended to the sitting-room, to spend a while under the same
+low beams which had greeted the first visitors of the house. Here I
+imagined the Nurse family living in quiet and peace. Here I pictured the
+son Samuel, as, later, he wondered over and over again how he could
+remove the reproach which was on his mother's name. And I thought that
+to him his descendants owed much, for it was mainly to his pleadings
+that the General Court exonerated her in 1710, and the Church in 1712.
+
+While sitting there I learned of some alterations which had been made
+from time to time: how the front of the house, before which the old
+roadway used to be, had been widened by extending the western end beyond
+the porch.
+
+As I came out of the house upon the green grass around it, I enjoyed
+again the grand outlook over the surrounding country,--the same which in
+the days of agony had strengthened human souls,--and then walked down
+the hill, by the family burying-ground, out through the entrance-gate
+into Collins street, the public thoroughfare.
+
+I left the monument and its interesting associations that August day of
+1885 (it was dedicated only the July 30 before) with the feeling that as
+the present descendants of Rebecca Nurse owe much to her son Samuel, so
+their future descendants will be indebted to them for the appropriate
+manner in which they have still further striven to vindicate before the
+world the innocence of a much-wronged ancestor.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE PRESENT RESOURCES OF MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+BY H.K.M.
+
+
+Massachusetts is a busy state. The old time factory bell has not
+entirely given way to the steam whistle, nor the simple village spire to
+the more pretentious ecclesiastical tower of to-day, yet the energizing
+force of material prosperity has quickened the blood in nearly every
+hamlet, modernized the old, or built up a new, so that throughout the
+state there is a substantial freshness indicative of progressive thrift.
+
+The Tenth Census of the United States classifies the entire
+working population of the state in four divisions of labor as
+follows:--Agriculture, 64,973; Professional and Personal services,
+170,160; Trade and Transportation, 115,376; Mechanical, 370,265; with a
+total population of 1,941,465.[4] The aggregate steam and water power in
+1880 was 309,759 horse power; the motive power of 14,352 manufacturing
+establishments having an invested capital of $303,806,185; paying
+$128,315,362 in wages to 370,265 persons who produced a product value of
+$631,135,284. These results, in proportion to area and population, place
+Massachusetts first in the Union as a manufacturing state. In mechanical
+science a complete cotton mill has been considered the cap stone of
+human ingenuity. In 1790 Mr. Samuel Slater established in Pawtucket,
+R.I., the first successful cotton mill in the United States, but the
+saw gin, a Massachusetts invention of Mr. Eli Whitney in 1793, laid the
+foundation of the cotton industry throughout the world.
+
+There are 956 cotton mills in the United States with an invested capital
+of $208,280,346, with a wage account of $42,040,510. The relative
+importance of the four leading states in the manufacture of cotton goods
+is shown as follows:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+    206        Mass.     $74,118,801    $16,240,908     $74,780,835
+    133        R.I.       29,260,734      5,623,933      24,609,461
+     97        Conn.      21,104,200      3,750,017      17,050,126
+     41        N.H.       19,993,584      4,322,622      18,226,573
+
+
+As in cotton, so also in the manufacture of woolen goods has
+Massachusetts maintained from the first the leading position. In 1794
+in Byfield parish, Newbury, Mass., the first woolen mill went into
+successful operation. In 1804 a good quality of gray mixed broadcloth
+was made at Pittsfield, Mass., and it is said that in 1808 President
+Madison's inaugural suit of black broadcloth was made there.
+
+The five leading states in the production of woolen goods are thus
+classified:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+    167        Mass.     $24,680,782     $7,457,115     $45,099,203
+    324        Penn.      18,780,604      5,254,328      32,341,291
+     78        Conn.       7,907,452      2,342,935      16,892,284
+     50        R.I.        8,448,700      2,480,907      15,410,450
+    159        N.Y.        8,266,878      1,774,143       9,874,973
+
+
+In its kindred industry, dyeing and finishing textiles, Massachusetts is
+a controlling force; as seen in the classification of the three leading
+states in this department of labor:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     28        Mass.      $8,613,500     $1,815,431      $9,482,939
+     16        R.I.        5,912,500      1,093,727       6,874,254
+     60        Penn.       3,884,846      1,041,309       6,259,852
+
+
+Nearly one half of the entire American production of felt goods comes
+from her, as indicated in the classification of the four leading
+states:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     11        Mass.        $820,000       $163,440      $1,627,320
+      6        N.J.          313,000         86,170         685,386
+      4        N.Y.          157,500         35,289         257,450
+      1        Penn.         150,000         80,000         450,000
+
+
+Massachusetts is also an all-important factor in the total production of
+American carpets. The 59 mills in the United States made in 1880 a
+wholesale product valued at $31,792,802. Massachusetts made the most
+Brussels, 1,884,723 yards; Pennsylvania came next with 919,476 yards.
+She came next to New York in yards of Tapestry, and next to Connecticut
+in Wiltons, a good second in these important grades. The three leading
+carpet states are thus classified:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     10        N.Y.       $6,422,158     $1,952,391      $8,419,254
+    172        Penn.       7,210,483      3,035,971      14,304,660
+      7        Mass.       4,637,646      1,223,303       6,337,629
+
+
+In the manufacture of Boots and Shoes Massachusetts stands conspicuously
+at the front; her position in this great industry is clearly seen in the
+three states controlling this special product:--
+
+   No. of                  Capital          Wages          Value
+ Factories.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+    982        Mass.     $21,098,133    $24,875,106     $95,900,510
+    272        N.Y.        6,227,537      4,902,132      18,979,259
+    145        Penn.       3,627,840      2,820,976       9,590,002
+
+
+One evidence that Massachusetts is not sitting down all the time is the
+fact that she stands up to manufacture so many chairs. From a small
+beginning of wood and flag seated chairs, Mr. James M. Comee in 1805,
+with his foot lathe, in one room of his dwelling in Gardner. Mass., laid
+the foundation of this important industry, which has given the town of
+Gardner, where over 1,000,000 of chairs are annually made, a world wide
+reputation.
+
+The relative positions of the five leading chair states:--
+
+   No. of                  Capital          Wages          Value
+ Factories.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     62        Mass.      $1,948,600     $1,028,087      $3,290,837
+     62        N.Y.          991,000        472,974       1,404,138
+     45        Penn.         111,700        143,037         437,010
+     37        Ohio          497,026        321,918         821,702
+     37        Ind.          395,850        232,005         632,746
+
+
+In the currying of leather Massachusetts is a notable leader:--
+
+       No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  Establishments.  State.   Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+       194          Mass.   $4,308,169     $1,939,122     $23,282,775
+       185          N.Y.     1,720,356        366,426       6,192,002
+       455          Penn.    2,570,969        334,950       7,852,177
+        56          N.J.     1,983,746        762,697       8,727,128
+        61          Wis.     1,299,425        281,412       4,496,729
+        18          Ill.       534,786        141,096       2,391,380
+
+
+Her position in the manufacturing of worsted goods is also an all
+important one:--
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     23        Mass.      $6,195,247     $1,870,030     $10,466,016
+     28        Penn.       4,959,639      1,473,958      10,072,473
+     11        R.I.        4,567,416      1,222,350       6,177,754
+
+
+Again we find her at the head of another very important industry, the
+manufacture of paper.
+
+The five leading states in production are given their relative positions.
+
+     No.                   Capital          Wages          Value
+  of Mills.   State.      Invested.         Paid.       of Product.
+
+     96        Mass.     $11,722,046     $2,467,359     $15,188,196
+    168        N.Y.        6,859,565      1,217,580       8,524,279
+     60        Ohio        4,804,274        839,231       5,108,194
+     78        Penn.       4,099,000        752,151       5,355,912
+     65        Conn.       3,168,931        656,000       4,337,550
+
+
+In 1880 Massachusetts manufactured 27,638 tons of printing paper, 24,746
+tons of writing paper, 10,255 tons of wrapping paper, 945 tons of wall
+paper, 3,706,010 pounds of colored paper, 255,000 pounds of bank note
+paper, 878,000 pounds of tissue paper, and 27,607,706 pounds of all
+other kinds of paper.
+
+She manufactures more shovels than any other state, about 120,000 dozen
+annually. Rhode Island comes next with about one-half the quantity, and
+Ohio stands third, her product being about 7,000 dozen annually.
+
+It also falls to her lot to manufacture more Hay and Straw cutters,
+about 6,000 annually. In the manufacture of hard soap Massachusetts
+falls a little behind some of her sister states, but she comes smilingly
+to the front with her 16,000,000 pounds of soft soap, about one half of
+the total production. New York brings her annual offering of about 5,000
+pounds.
+
+The 4,000 boats she annually builds constitute nearly one half of the
+number built in the United States.
+
+There are 131,426 persons in the United States engaged in the fisheries.
+
+The prominent share of Massachusetts in this industry is seen in the
+classification of the five leading states.
+
+    State.       No. of                  Capital           Value
+                 Persons                Invested.       of Product.
+                Employed.
+
+    Mass.         20,117              $14,334,450        $8,141,750
+    Md.           26,008                6,342,443         5,221,715
+    N.Y.           7,266                2,629,585         4,380,565
+    Me.           11,071                3,375,994         3,614,178
+    Vir.          18,864                1,914,119         3,124,444
+
+
+She has invested:--Over $1,000,000 in the manufacture of Baskets and
+Rattan goods; over $1,600,000 in the manufacture of Brick and Tile; over
+$2,000,000 in the manufacture of Wagons and Carriages; over $5,000,000
+in the manufacture of Men's Clothing; over $1,500,000 in the manufacture
+of Cordage and Twine; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Cutlery;
+over $3,000,000 in the manufacture of Fire Arms; over $16,000,000 in the
+Foundries and Machine Shops; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of
+Furniture; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Iron Nails and Spikes;
+over $6,000,000 in the manufacture of Iron and Steel; over $1,500,000 in
+the manufacture of Jewelry; over $3,000,000 in the manufacture of
+Liquors, Malt; over $3,000,000 in Slaughtering and Packing; over
+$2,000,000 in Straw goods; over $2,000,000 in Sugar and Molasses,
+refined; over $2,000,000 in the manufacture of Watches; over $2,000,000
+in the manufacture of Wire, and over $11,000,000 in unclassified
+industries.
+
+The limitations of this article will only allow brief reference to a few
+of the leading industries of Massachusetts. The facts presented give her
+a commanding position in the sisterhood of manufacturing States, while
+the condition of her operatives, their moral and intellectual character,
+has no parallel in any other manufacturing district in the world.
+
+On her well known but dangerous coast special provisions are made to aid
+the mariner; so likewise upon her more dangerous coast of sin we find
+2,397 ministerial light houses whose concentrated spiritual lens-power
+upon an area of 8,040 square miles, make the rocks of total depravity
+loom up far above the white capped waves of theological doubt. The lower
+law being less important than the higher, it takes but 1,984 lawyers to
+successfully mystify the juries of the Commonwealth. Of physicians and
+surgeons there are 2,845. It requires the constant services of 2,463
+persons to entertain us with music, and just one less, 2,462 barbers,
+who are in daily tonsorial conflict with our hair, either rebuking it
+where it does grow, or teasing it to come forth where heretofore the
+dome has been hairless.
+
+Of the 4,000,000 farms of 536,081,835 acres in the United States, 38,406
+farms of 3,359,097 acres valued at $146,197,415 yielding an annual
+income of $24,160,881 lie within the borders of the state. Her 150,435
+cows produce 29,662,953 gallons of milk, which is the foundation of her
+annual product of 9,655,587 pounds of butter, and 829,528 pounds of
+cheese. She would be unjust to her traditional sense of justice were she
+to send her beans out into the world single handed, with true paternal
+solicitude she provides them with the charmed society of 80,123 swine,
+thus hand in hand Massachusetts' pork and beans stride up and down the
+earth, supremely content in the joyous ecstasy of their Puritan conceit.
+While Massachusetts has well known agricultural tendencies, and her
+Agricultural college is one of the most important factors in her system
+of practical instruction, it cannot be claimed that she is a controlling
+element in the agricultural interests of the country. Of all her
+influences for good, perhaps her educational interests would command the
+greater prominence. She has ever regarded the instruction of her youth
+as one of her most sacred trusts, and in all the details of her public
+school system she ranks second to no state in the Union.
+
+In the various departments of technical instruction, she has a national
+reputation. Her colleges and universities so richly endowed secure the
+highest attainable advantages. These privileges supplemented by the free
+public libraries of the state, place possibilities within the reach of
+every young man or young woman, the value of which cannot be
+approximated by human estimate.
+
+Six of the leading states are thus classified:--
+
+  Public                 School      Sittings       School
+  Schools.    State.   Buildings.    Provided.     Property.
+
+    6,604     Mass.        3,343      319,749    $21,660,392
+   15,203     Ill.        11,880      694,106     15,876,572
+   11,623     Ind.         9,679      437,050     11,907,541
+   18,615     N.Y.        11,927      763,817     31,235,401
+   16,473     Ohio        12,224      676,664     21,643,515
+   18,618     Penn.       12,857      961,074     25,919,397
+
+
+The following institutions for higher education have about $5,000,000
+invested in grounds and buildings, about $9,000,000 in endowments,
+yielding an annual income of about $1,000,000, having about 4,000
+students and about 400,000 volumes in libraries, Universities and
+Colleges.
+
+
+UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
+
+  Amherst College, organized                        1821
+  Boston College, organized                         1864
+  Boston University, organized                      1872
+  College of the Holy Cross, organized              1843
+  Tufts College, organized                          1852
+  Harvard College, organized                        1636
+  Williams College, organized                       1793
+
+  COLLEGES FOR WOMEN.
+
+  Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, organized          1837
+  Sophia Smith College, organized                   1872
+  Wellesley College, organized                      1874
+
+  THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.
+
+  Andover Theological Seminary, organized           1808
+  Boston University School of Theology, organized   1847
+  Divinity School of Harvard University, organized  1816
+  Episcopal Theological School, organized           1867
+  Tufts College Divinity School, organized          1867
+  Newton Theological Institution, organized         1825
+  New Church Theological School, organized          1866
+
+  LAW SCHOOLS.
+
+  Boston University School of Law, organized        1872
+  Law School of Harvard University, organized       1817
+
+  SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.
+
+  Boston University School of Medicine, organized   1869
+  Harvard Medical School, organized                 1782
+  New England Female Medical College, organized     1850
+  Boston Dental College, organized                  1868
+  Dental School Harvard College, organized          1867
+  Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, organized      1823
+
+  THE SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE.
+
+  Massachusetts Agricultural  College, organized    1867
+  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, organized  1861
+  Lawrence Scientific School, organized             1848
+  Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial
+    Science, organized                              1868
+
+
+While Massachusetts is a model state in all her educational interests,
+we do not forget that there are 75,635 persons in the state who cannot
+read, and 92,980 persons who cannot write, but of the 990,160 native
+white persons of ten years and upwards only 6,933 are unable to write,
+being seven-tenths of one per cent., the lowest ratio of any state.
+Arkansas, per cent, being 25.0; Alabama, 24.7; Georgia, 22.9; Kentucky,
+22.0; No. Carolina, 31.0; So. Carolina, 21.9; Tenn., 27.3; West
+Virginia, 18.2; Connecticut, 5.5; Illinois, 5.9; New Hampshire 5;
+Pennsylvania, 6.7; New York, 5.3.
+
+There are 15,416 colored persons in the state, of 10 years and upwards;
+of this number 2,322 are unable to write, but from 10 to 14 years of
+age, both inclusive, these being 1,504, but 31 persons are reported as
+unable to write, or 2.1 per cent. South Carolina out of a colored
+population of 75,981 between the same ages, reports 57,072 persons as
+unable to write or 74.1 per cent. There are 1,886 colored persons in the
+state between the ages of 15 and 20, and only 70 are reported as unable
+to write, or 3.7 per cent.; we find this also the lowest ratio of any
+state.
+
+South Carolina's per cent. being 71.9; Alabama, 64.9; Georgia, 76.4;
+Texas, 69.2; and North Carolina, 68.5.
+
+Her density of population makes it exceedingly convenient for her 52,799
+domestic servants to compose notes over neighborly fences. Her 281,188
+dwelling houses house 379,710 families, placing 6.34 persons to the
+credit of each dwelling, and 4.70 persons to each family. This density
+gives her 221.78 persons to a square mile, a far greater ratio than any
+state except Rhode Island. This neighborly proximity has its social
+tendencies, which may account in part for the hospitable amenities which
+are a rightful part of Massachusetts' well known loyalty to a higher
+regard for the purest type of home, a comparative statement of the
+density of population of a few states.
+
+  State.                 Square Miles.    Persons to Square Miles.
+
+  Rhode Island,               1,085               254.87
+  Massachusetts,              8,040               221.78
+  Connecticut,                4,845               128.52
+  Georgia,                   58,980                26.15
+  Illinois,                  56,000                54.96
+  Iowa,                      55,475                29.29
+  Maine,                     29,895                21.71
+  Michigan,                  57,430                28.50
+  New Hampshire,              9,005                38.53
+  New York,                  47,620               106.74
+  Pennsylvania,              44,985                95.21
+  West Virginia,             24,645                25.09
+
+
+As inseparable as night is from day, so also are the ills of life from
+life itself. Massachusetts is no exception to the inexorable law which
+defines the conditions of human society; but through her public and
+private charities so wisely administered, she humanely softens the
+asperities which shadow the life of her unfortunates. To her lot fall
+1,733 idiotic persons, 978 deaf mutes, 5,127 insane, 1,500 of whom are
+cared for at home, and 3,659 prisoners, 1,484 of whom are of foreign
+birth. Human life teaches that the boundary lines of a smile and tear
+are the same, for where happiness is, there sorrow dwells. In the
+general estimate of 391,960 annual deaths in the United States, about
+33,000 occur in Massachusetts.
+
+One evidence of her unswerving faith in the national credit is seen by
+her holdings in U.S. registered bonds. The four leading states are
+reported as follows:--
+
+  No. of                         Per cent. of
+  Persons.      State.           Bondholders.           Amount.
+
+  16,885        Massachusetts,     23.05              $45,138,750
+  10,408        Pennsylvania,      14.23               40,223,050
+  14,803        New York,          20.24              210,264,250
+   4,130        Ohio,               5.65               16,445,050
+
+
+In the classification of the four leading states, of assessed valuation
+and taxation, it appears that the assessed valuation of her personal
+property exceeds that of any state.
+
+The four leading states are thus classified:--
+
+          Area        Real         Personal                      Total
+  State. Sq. M.      Estate.       Property.       Total.         Tax.
+
+  N.Y.   47.620  $2,329,282,359  $323,657,647  $2,651,940,006  $56,392,975
+  Penn.  44,985   1,540,007,657   143,451,059   1,683,459,016   28,604,334
+  Mass.   8,040   1,111,160,072   473,596,730   1,584,756,802   24,326,877
+  Ohio   40,760   1,093,677,705   440,682,803   1,534,360,508   25,756,658
+
+
+The grandest monument of human skill in modern railway science is
+unquestionably the St. Gothard Tunnel which connects the valley of the
+Reuss with the valley of the Ticino, which is from 5,000 to 6,500 feet
+below the Alpine peaks of St. Gothard, being a little over 9-1/4 miles
+in length, costing over $47,000,000, one-half of which was paid by the
+governments of Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Until its completion in
+1880, there was but one railway tunnel, Mont Cenis, that outranked our
+own Hoosac Tunnel of nearly 5 miles in length and costing about
+$10,000,000.
+
+The service, equipment, and management of Massachusetts' railway system
+is well nigh perfect. Out of 4,100 miles of track in the state, 2,453
+are laid with the steel rail. Including the 1,150 engines, 1,554
+passenger cars, 394 baggage cars, and 24,418 freight cars, the total
+cost of railroad equipment in the state has been $178,862,870; from this
+investment the total earnings in 1884 reached $33,020,816 from which
+$4,568,274 were paid in dividends. The number of passengers carried were
+57,589,200 and 17,258,726 tons of freight moved. One of the most
+important elements in her system is the Boston and Albany. Its engine
+service the past year was 5,680,060 miles, the company carried 94,721
+through passengers and 8,699,691 way, whose total earnings were
+$8,148,713.34 and total expenses were $5,785,876.98.
+
+In this connection we would refer to the city and suburban tramway
+service, which has taken an important part in the development of the
+state. The total cost of the 336 miles of road and equipment, including
+8,987 horses and 1,918 passenger cars is stated at $9,093,935. Number of
+passengers carried in 1884 was 94,894,259, gross earnings $4,788,096,
+operating expenses $3,985,617, total available income $924,440. When we
+consider that the street railway service carried more than 37,000,000
+passengers in excess of the steam railways, we realize its importance.
+
+While there are 66,205 more females than males in the state, in the
+wider distribution of the sexes their equality indicates that it could
+not happen by chance, and that marriage of one man to one woman was
+intended.
+
+An authentic estimate of the numerical proportions of the sexes is as
+follows:--
+
+United States, 983 women to 1,000 men; America, (at large) 980 women to
+1,000 men; Scotland, 1,096 women to 1,000 men; Ireland, 1,050 women to
+1,000 men; England and Wales, 1,054 women to 1,000 men; France, 1,007
+women to 1,000 men; Prussia, 1,030 women to 1,000 men; Greece, 940 women
+to 1,000 men; Europe, (at large) 1,021 women to 1,000 men; Africa,
+(estimated) 975 women to 1,000 men; Asia, 940 women to 1,000 men;
+Australia, 985 women to 1,000 men. In an aggregate of 12,000 men there
+is a surplus of about 161 women.
+
+Massachusetts has been making notable history ever since 1620, and in
+picking out here and there a few of the influences which have tended to
+develope her material resources, we would not be unmindful of those
+Christian influences which are also a part of her imperishable history.
+
+To the lover of nature, perhaps no state in range of rugged coast and
+water views blended with mountainous background, can offer more pleasing
+bits of picturesque scenery. The historic hills of Berkshire and the
+beautiful Connecticut River, with its 50 miles of sweep through the
+state, ever hurrying on to the sea, have inspired the tireless shuttles
+of descriptive imagery to weave some of the finest threads in American
+thought.
+
+Nowhere within the range of human vision can the eye find a more
+restful scene of quiet simplicity and softer blending of river, hill and
+foliage, than in the valley of the Deerfield on any sunny summer day.
+Let him who would have a sterner scene of majestic grandeur stand upon
+the storm-beaten cliffs of some rock-fringed coast, while the
+silver-crested sea and the dark, deep toned clouds, like mercy and
+righteousness, kiss each other.
+
+To us who love Massachusetts, her principles, her institutions, her
+hills, valleys and rocks, her future is but the lengthening out of a
+perfect present; and at last, when the scroll of states is finally
+rolled up, may her eternal record stand for the highest type of
+Christian citizenship.
+
+[Footnote 4: Census of 1885.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+ELIZABETH.[5]
+
+A ROMANCE OF COLONIAL DAYS.
+
+BY FRANCES C. SPARHAWK, Author of "A Lazy Man's Work."
+
+
+CHAPTER  XXVI.
+
+A GRAVE DECISION.
+
+
+After the greetings were over, Elizabeth, looking at Stephen Archdale,
+realized fully the difficulties of her task. She was to go through with
+it alone she perceived, for her father had turned away and taken up a
+spyglass that had been brought him at the moment, and was absorbed in
+looking through it at the new fascine battery. Evidently he expected her
+to give Captain Archdale the history of the facts and conclusions that
+had brought her father and herself to Louisburg. As she looked at the
+young man in his strength, she felt more than ever the necessity for
+speaking. He knew well enough that Mr. Edmonson hated him, and that was
+necessary to be known. And yet, speech was hard, for even though he
+could never imagine Edmonson's contemptible insinuations, still before
+he believed in his own danger he might have to learn his enemy's foiled
+purpose toward herself; and to be sought for her fortune was not a thing
+that Elizabeth felt proud of. Her head drooped a little as the young man
+stood watching her, and the color began to come into her face. Then the
+courage that was in her, and the power that she had of rising above
+petty considerations into grandeur, came upon her like an access of
+physical strength. The strong necessity filled her, and the thought that
+she might be bringing life where she had almost brought death, at least
+death of joy, lighted her face. Still she hesitated for a moment, but it
+was only to study how she should begin. Shall she give him Katie's
+letter at once, and in her name warn him to take care of the life that
+was of so much value to his betrothed? No, for with Katie's letter in
+his hand, he could not listen carefully to Elizabeth's words, he could
+think only of what was within. His thoughts would refuse to have to do
+with danger; they would be busy with joy. That must wait.
+
+"We have come here, my father and I," she began, "to say one word to
+you, Captain Archdale. We talked it over, and we saw no other way."
+
+"You are pale," cried Stephen suddenly. "You must be very tired. Let us
+sit down here while you tell me." And he pointed to a coil of rope at
+hand. But she shook her head.
+
+"I am not tired, thank you; I am disappointed that I can't go back
+immediately, that I must wait until to-morrow, when the dispatches will
+be ready."
+
+"You need not," he cried. "The General shall let you go if you wish it.
+I will insist upon it. The dispatches can go some other way. If the
+Governor wants news in such haste, he would do better to send us some
+powder to make them out of. He was enough in a hurry to get us off, to
+give us something to do after we are here."
+
+"I should think you had something to do," she said pointing to the
+battlements of Louisburg which at that distance and from that angle
+looked as if no shot had ever been fired against them. "But don't on any
+account speak to the General. We are glad to do even so little for the
+cause. And perhaps it's not that that makes me pale. I don't know. I
+have a warning hard to deliver to you. I have come hundreds of miles to
+do it. I will give it to you immediately, for you may need it at any
+moment." She drew closer to him, and laid one hand upon his arm as if to
+prevent his losing by any chance the words she had to say. Her gesture
+had an impressiveness that made him realize as much as her face did how
+terribly in earnest she was.
+
+"It must be something about Katie," he thought. And the vision of Lord
+Bulchester rose before him clearly.
+
+"Listen," said Elizabeth absorbed in her attempt to make him feel what
+she feared would seem incredible to him. "Stray shots have picked off
+many superfluous kings in the world--and men and the world not been the
+wiser. This is what some one said when the war was being talked of, said
+at your house, and said in speaking of you."
+
+"Said it to you?" interposed Archdale with a quick breath.
+
+"Oh, no, but about you, I am sure, _sure_, though it has taken me
+all this time to find it out. And,--oh, wait a moment,--the man who said
+it was your guest then, and he is here now, else we should not have
+come; he is here, perhaps he is close by you every day, and he,--he is
+meaning the shot for you." She waited a moment drawing a breath of
+relief that she had begun. "You know he is your enemy?" she went on with
+a longing to be spared explanations.
+
+She was spared them.
+
+"I do know it," said Archdale looking at her, and as she met his eyes a
+great relief swept over her. Her warning had been heard and believed,
+she was sure of that. She heard Archdale thanking her, and assuring her
+that he would give good heed to her warning. And she had not had to tell
+why Edmonson hated him, she had not even been obliged to utter the name
+that she was coming to hate. "Do you know?" she had asked wonderingly,
+and he had told it to her. Did he know the man so thoroughly, then? And
+were there other causes of hatred, possibly money causes, that had
+spared her?
+
+She had told her listener more than she dreamed, far more than her
+words. She had stood before him in the noblest guise a human being can
+wear, that of a preserver from evil fate; she had looked at him out of
+holy depths in her clear eyes, she had turned upon him a face in which
+expression had marvellously brought out physical beauty. Also, in her
+unconsciousness that he knew the reason of his danger, she had looked at
+him with a wonder at his ready credulity before there had come her smile
+of relief that she need speak no more. He knew Edmonson's story, knew
+how this play at marriage between Elizabeth and himself had interfered
+with the other's plans, guessed the further truth, looked at her, and
+muttered under his breath:--"Poor fellow!" It was with his own eyes, and
+not another man's that Archdale saw Elizabeth. Yet, it was not in human
+nature that she should not seem the more interesting as she stood there,
+since he had learned his own life to be in danger because another man
+had found her so desirable, and so unapproachable. Watching Elizabeth,
+he acquitted Edmonson of mercenary motives, whatever they might once
+have been. His appreciation had no thought of appropriation in it. Katie
+was his love. But comprehension of Elizabeth made him glad that their
+mistake had saved her from Edmonson. And then again after a moment he
+muttered under his breath:--"Poor fellow!"
+
+"You are very, very kind," he said to her.
+
+"Don't think me rude," she answered with a smile. "But, you know we must
+have done this for any one. Only,"--and her voice became earnest again,
+"I was very grateful that the least thing came to me for you and Katie.
+I have not done with Katie yet" she added, "here is something that I
+have brought you from her." And she handed him a letter. "She gave me
+this as I was leaving," she said.
+
+"Thank you," he said again, and holding it clasped in his hand, stood
+not looking at it, but as if he still had something to say. "Has
+Bulchester gone yet, Mistress Royal?" he asked abruptly at last.
+
+"No. But I think that he must be very hard to send away, and Katie you
+know hates to say anything unkind. She doesn't see that it is the
+kindest way in the end. We shall not go until to-morrow, you know. If
+you have any letters, we shall be so glad to take them."
+
+"Thank you once more." He stood still a moment. "The earl may be wise to
+stay on the field," he said. "I may be swept off conveniently. Yes, he
+is wise to wait and see what the fortunes of war will do for him."
+
+"Oh! Mr. Archdale," cried Elizabeth, between indignation and tears at
+his want of faith. "How can you not trust her? Your letter that she was
+so eager to send will prove how wrong you are." Here Mr. Royal sauntered
+up, and the conversation turned upon the scene before them.
+
+But in the midst of Archdale's description of one of their skirmishes a
+signal was given from the new battery. "They are signalling for me," he
+said. "My place is in command of those guns. I am sorry to leave my
+story half told, but I must go. I shall try to see you to-morrow." And
+with a hasty farewell he sprang into the boat. As he was rowed away,
+Elizabeth saw him put his hand into the pocket where he had slipped
+Katie's letter, and draw this out.
+
+She sat down again in her favorite place on deck, laid her arms on the
+railing of the schooner and her face upon them. Now that her errand was
+done, she became aware that she was very tired. She sat so quiet that
+she seemed to be asleep. But she was only in a day-dream in which the
+thought of which she was most conscious was wonder that Archdale could
+doubt Katie. Had she not always been a coquette? And had she not always
+loved him? Yet Elizabeth wished that she could have said that Lord
+Bulchester had gone, wished that she could have seen Stephen Archdale's
+face brighten a little before he left them, perhaps forever; she had not
+forgotten the danger of his post. Nancy softly drew her chair close.
+But Elizabeth made no movement. She sat with her face still buried,
+thinking, remembering, longing to be at home again, counting the hours
+until they should probably sail.
+
+Suddenly she started up. For there had come light that she saw through
+the dark folds that she had been pressing her eyes against. To her there
+was a sound as if the heavens were being rent, and she felt a trembling
+of the earth, as if it shook with terror at the spectacle. She stood a
+moment bewildered. It seemed as if the light never paled at all, but
+only changed its place sometimes; the roar was terrific, it never
+ceased, or lulled, and the water beneath them tossed and hissed in rage
+at its bed being so shaken. Nancy's hand sought her companion's with a
+reassuring pressure, for speech was impossible. But Elizabeth had only
+been unprepared. She recovered herself and smiled her thanks. Then she
+sat down again with her face toward the city and watched this cannonade,
+terrible to men grown grey in the service, as officers from the fleet
+bore witness, and to the enemy deadly.
+
+For the fascine battery had opened fire.
+
+At midnight General Pepperell sent for Archdale to detail him for
+special service the next day.
+
+"Why! what's the matter?" he cried, looking at the young man as he came
+into the tent.
+
+"Nothing, General Pepperell. I am quite ready for service," replied
+Stephen haughtily.
+
+"Ah!--Yes. Glad of that," returned the General, and he went on to give
+his orders, watching the other's pale face as he did so, and reading
+there strong emotion of some kind.
+
+When he was alone, and his dispatches had all been written, he sat
+musing for a time, as little disturbed by the glare and the thunder
+about him as if stillness were an unknown thing. His cogitations did not
+seem satisfactory, for he frowned more than once. "What's the matter
+with the fellow?" he muttered. "Something has gone wrong. I've seen an
+uneasiness for a long time. Now the blow has fallen. Poor fellow! he
+doesn't take life easy. The news is it, I wonder? or the letter?" He sat
+for a while carefully nursing his left knee, while his thoughts
+gradually went back to military matters, and worked there diligently. At
+last he straightened himself, clapped this same knee with vigor, put
+both feet to the ground and, rising, took up from his improvised
+table--a log turned endwise,--a paper upon which he made a note with a
+worn pencil from his pocket. "Yes," he cried, "I can do that. It's the
+only thing I can do. And I need it so much they will not mind." He
+finished by a smile. "Strange I hadn't thought of it before," he said.
+
+Then he threw himself down upon his bed of boughs and moss, and with the
+terrific din about him slept the sleep of weariness. At sunrise,
+according to his directions, an orderly roused him.
+
+Archdale had already gone with his reconnoitering party. His heart was
+bitter against the conditions of his life, and he felt that it would be
+no misfortune, perhaps quite the contrary, if Edmonson's plan were not
+interfered with. "It's beyond her comprehension," he said to himself.
+"How confident she was. What will she say when she knows?"
+
+In the morning, Elizabeth standing beside her father turned a tired face
+toward the shore as she watched General Pepperell's approach. Sleep had
+been impossible to her in the strangeness and terror of her surroundings.
+
+"You are very thoughtful to come to bid us good-bye," she said, giving
+him her hand as he stepped on board.
+
+He smiled, and still holding it, asked after a moment's hesitation,
+"Should you be very much disappointed if I begged you not to return this
+morning?"
+
+She certainly looked so for a moment, before she answered: "If it will
+help, if I can be of any use, I am ready to stay. Are there soldiers in
+the hospitals? Can we do anything for them, Nancy and I?"
+
+He caught at the diversion readily. "The hospitals? Yes, I should be
+very glad, infinitely obliged to you, if you would pay them a visit.
+I've not a doubt that your suggestions would make the poor fellows more
+comfortable, and there are a number of new ones there this morning.
+I'm sorry to say our health record is discouraging. Not that I'm
+discouraged, but I want to put this business through as quickly as
+possible." Then he turned to Mr. Royal. "I must tell you both," he said,
+"that I came to you this morning bent upon purposes of destruction,
+(though, happily, not to yourselves,) and not purposes of health, except
+of saving lives by making the work as short as possible. I should like
+this schooner. I have an immediate use for it, and in two days, or, at
+the outside, three, I'm going to send to Boston. Will you permit me to
+take this as a fire-ship, and will you remain under my especial care
+until this other vessel sails?" He turned to Elizabeth as he spoke. "If
+you consent," he said to her, "I am quite sure your father will. It will
+be a great favor to me, and I hope to the cause, if you do. But I won't
+insist upon it. If you say so you shall go this morning."
+
+Elizabeth glanced at her father, "But I don't say so," she answered.
+"I am compelled to stay if my father consents. It's not you that make
+me but a stronger power. You won't be offended if I call patriotism a
+stronger power?" And she smiled at him.
+
+"Thank you, my dear," he said with a gravity which showed that she had
+touched him. "You shall not regret your sacrifice."
+
+In the course of conversation he told Mr. Royal that Archdale had been
+sent off at dawn upon an exploring expedition. "I want to find out how
+near to us the Indians are," he said, "they are hanging about somewhere.
+You will not see him to-day."
+
+That morning, Elizabeth was rowed ashore with Nancy, and under an escort
+they went to the hospitals; not for a visit of inspection, as it turned
+out, but as workers. Nancy had had experience in illness, and Elizabeth
+was an apt pupil. Before the day was over the poor fellows lying there
+felt a change. There were no luxuries to be had for them, but their
+beds were made a little softer with added moss and leaves, the relays
+of fresh water from the brook running through the encampment were
+increased. One dying man had closed his eyes in the conviction that the
+last words he had sent to his mother would reach her; he had watched
+Elizabeth write them down, and she had promised to put a lock of his
+hair into the letter. He was sure that she would do it, and he died
+happier for the thought. Altogether, in many ways the comfortless tents
+grew less comfortless, for Elizabeth interpreted literally the general's
+permission to do here what she chose. The eyes of the soldiers followed
+both women with delight, and one rugged fellow, a backwoods man, whose
+cheerfulness not even a broken leg and a great gash in his forehead
+could destroy, volunteered the statement: "By George! whether in peace
+or war we need our women." This was responded to by a cheer from the
+inmates of his tent. The demonstration was all the more touching,
+because its endeavor to be rousing was marred in the execution by the
+physical weakness of the cheerers.
+
+They spent that night on shore. Elizabeth's tent was next her father's
+and a few rods from the general quarters. As Mr. Royal left her, she
+stood a moment at the swinging door of her strange room, and looked at
+the stars and at the scene so new to her on which they were shining.
+Then leaving it reluctantly, for it fascinated her, she laid down upon
+the woodland couch prepared for her, and was soon as soundly asleep as
+her maid near by, while around the tent patrolled the special guard set
+by General Pepperell.
+
+The next day also was spent in the hospital. In the course of the
+afternoon, Nancy, looking over the Bay in a vain search for the schooner
+which had brought them, said; "I wonder how we really shall get home,
+and when?"
+
+"As General Pepperell promised us," answered her mistress. "And probably
+we shall leave to-morrow. I expect to hear from him about it then. So
+does my father; he was speaking of it this morning."
+
+They were right; the next day the General told them that the
+"Smithhurst" would sail that afternoon with prisoners of war from the
+"Vigilant," a captured French vessel. "She is one of the ships that
+Governor Shirley has sent for to guard the coast," he said to Elizabeth
+speaking of the "Smithhurst." "She goes to Boston first to report and
+discharge her prisoners. Be ready at four o'clock. If I can, I will take
+you to the vessel myself; but if that is impossible, everything is
+arranged for your comfort. Your father is at the battery, I have just
+left him there. He is undeniably fond of powder. I've told him about
+this." Elizabeth was in one of the hospital tents when Pepperell came to
+her with this news. She staid there with Nancy all the morning, and at
+noon when her father came and took her away for awhile to rest, she had
+an earnest talk with him upon some subject that left her grave and
+pleased.
+
+After a time she went back to the hospitals again. At the last moment
+the General sent an escort with word that he had been detained. Just
+before this message arrived, Elizabeth called her maid aside.
+
+"Nancy," she said, "you see how many of our soldiers are here, hundreds
+of them, almost thousands. They are fighting for our homes, even if the
+battle-ground is so far away. And see how many have been sent in, in the
+short time we have been here. Do you want to desert them? Tell me how
+you feel? Shall we go back to our comfortable home, and leave all this
+suffering behind us, when we might do our little to help? Shall we,
+Nancy? I have no right to insist upon your staying; but don't you think
+we ought to stay? and won't you stay with me?"
+
+"Indeed I will," was the quick answer. "I hated to leave the poor
+fellows, but I did not see what else to do. The General won't like it
+one bit though. And your father, Mistress Elizabeth?"
+
+"The General has no authority over me. I'm not one of his soldiers. And
+as to my father, it's all right with him."
+
+Yet she felt very desolate when the ship which was to have carried them
+had gone with its companion vessel, and from the door of one of the
+hospital tents she stood watching the white sails in the distance. But
+it was not that resolution had failed her; for she would have made the
+same decision over again if she had been called upon at the moment.
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII.
+
+THE NIGHT ATTACK.
+
+
+As Elizabeth stood at the door of the hospital tent looking after the
+Smithhurst, General Pepperell came along, alone, in a brown study, his
+brows knit and his face troubled. For though the French ship-of-war,
+"Vigilant" had been captured, Louisburg had not, and every day was
+adding to the list of soldiers in the hospitals. But when he saw her, he
+stopped, and his expression, at first of surprise, changed to anger.
+
+"What does this mean?" he said abruptly. "The ship has sailed. I sent
+you word in time."
+
+"Yes," she answered.
+
+"Then what does it mean?" he reiterated, "Why are you here?"
+
+"It means," she returned, resenting the authority of his tone, "that
+when New England men are fighting and suffering and dying for their
+country, New England women have not learned how to leave them in their
+need, and sail away to happy homes. That's what it means, General
+Pepperell." As she spoke she saw Archdale behind the General; he had
+come up hastily as Pepperell stood there.
+
+"Thought you were in a desperate hurry to be off," said Pepperell dryly.
+
+Elizabeth blushed. She was convicted of changeableness, and she felt
+that she had been impatient. "Forgive me," she said. "So I was. But I
+did not realize then what I ought to do."
+
+"Um! Where's your father?"
+
+"Just gone out in the dispatch boat to the fleet."
+
+"Does he know of this--this enterprise? Of course, though," he corrected
+himself, "since he has not sailed."
+
+"Yes, of course," she said. "He stays with me. But," she added, "I
+suppose he expected me to ask you about it first."
+
+"And you knew I wouldn't consent--hey?"
+
+The girl smiled without speaking. "Mr. Royal is over-indulgent," he went
+on decidedly.
+
+"Perhaps," answered Elizabeth, "He thinks that a little over-indulgence
+in being useful will not be bad for me. You assured both Nancy and me
+that we were doing good service, real service, and that you should be
+sorry to lose us."
+
+"So you have done, and I shall be sorry to lose you, both personally and
+for the cause. Nevertheless, I shall send you home at once. Your father
+would never have consented to your staying if he had realized the
+danger. I never know where the shells will burst. I'll stop work upon
+that schooner that you came in, and send you home again in it. It's
+fitting up now as a fire-ship, but it can be made fairly comfortable.
+Your safety must be considered."
+
+"Why is my safety of any more importance than the soldiers'? No,
+General, you have no right to send me away. I refuse to go. I am not
+speaking of military right, understand, but of moral right."
+
+Pepperell gave a low whistle.
+
+"That's it, is it?" he said. "One thing, however; if you stay, you must
+submit to my orders. You are under military law."
+
+"I surely will. And now thank you," she returned with a smile so winning
+that, although for her own sake Pepperell had been angry, he relented.
+
+"Oh, of course, it's very good in you, my dear," he said. "Don't think I
+forget that."
+
+Capt. Archdale had been standing a little apart looking out to sea
+during a conversation in which he had no place. Now as he perceived the
+General about to move on, he came forward and spoke to Elizabeth. "You
+know that you are running a great risk?" he said to her gravely.
+
+"Yes," she answered him, "or at least somewhat of a risk. When did you
+come back from your reconnoitering party?"
+
+"The night before last," he said, not pursuing a subject that she did
+not wish to discuss with him. Elizabeth heard something hard in his
+voice, and saw a new sternness in his face that made her wonder suddenly
+if Katie's letter had lacked any kindness that Stephen deserved from her
+as he stood in the midst of danger and death. Could she have shown
+coquetry, or in any way teased him now?
+
+"Well, good-by for the present, my dear, and Heaven keep you," said the
+General, giving her hand a cordial pressure. Archdale bowed, and the two
+went on, Pepperell at first full of praises of Elizabeth's courage,
+though he regretted her decision. But life and death hung upon his skill
+and promptness, and he had little time for thoughts of anything but his
+task. Henceforth he only took care that Mr. Royal and his daughter were
+as well protected, and as well cared for as circumstances permitted.
+
+Yet, one evening soon afterward, he saw something which for the
+moment interested him very much. Elizabeth, with Nancy Foster who was
+now more companion than maid, was walking slowly toward her tent. Both
+were looking at the gorgeous sunset. Its brilliancy, vying with that
+of the deadly fireworks, offered a contrast all the more striking in
+its restfulness and happy promise. The two women had grown somewhat
+accustomed to the cannonade, and as they went on they seemed to be
+talking without noticing it. Just then a figure in captain's uniform
+came quickly up the slope toward them, and with a most respectful
+salute, stood bare-headed before Elizabeth.
+
+"Edmonson," commented the General even before he caught sight of
+his face. "Nobody else has that perfection of manner. Stephen won't
+condescend to it. Edmonson is the most graceful fellow I know. And, upon
+honor, I believe he is the most graceless. But his theories can't harm
+that woman." Yet as Pepperell stood watching the young man's expression
+now that it was turned toward him, and understood by his gestures the
+eager flow of words that was greeting Elizabeth, he held his breath a
+moment with a new perception, muttered a little, and stood staring with
+the frown deepening on his face. He wanted to catch her answering look,
+but she had turned about in speaking and her back was toward him. In an
+impatient movement at this, he changed his own range of vision somewhat,
+and all at once caught sight of another face, also bent upon Elizabeth
+with eager curiosity to catch her expression. Pepperell turned away
+delighted. "After all, he's not too much of a grand seigneur to have
+a little human curiosity," he chuckled, watching the new figure. "Yes,
+we'll do very well to go on a reconnoitering expedition together, you
+and I, Captain Archdale!" And he laughed to himself as he slipped
+quietly away, without having been perceived. "More news to write to
+pretty Mistress Katie," he commented, still full of amusement. Then
+his thoughts went back again to the problem that was growing daily
+more perplexing. And as he was again becoming absorbed in it, he was
+conscious of an undercurrent of wonder that he could ever have laughed.
+The thing next to be done was to make an attack up Island Battery, the
+one most serviceable to the enemy, most annoying to themselves. So long
+as that belched forth its fires against them, Warren's fleet must remain
+outside, and there could be no combined attack upon the city, and
+Louisburg was still unconquerable. Any day might bring a French fleet to
+its rescue, and then the game was up. Beyond question, Island Battery
+must be attacked, but it was a difficult and dangerous attempt, and
+Pepperell sat with his head upon his hand, thinking of the men that must
+fall even if it were successful. Still, every day now some among the
+soldiers were smitten down by disease and the French ships were nearer.
+It was only a question of sacrificing a part of his army or the whole of
+it. Warren was right to urge the measure, and it must be pressed upon
+his Council. But Pepperell felt as if he were being asked to sign a
+hundred death-warrants.
+
+It was not quite time for the members of his Council to assemble. He
+went to the nearest battery where the firing was hottest, sighted the
+direction of the guns, examined the state of the city walls where these
+had been played upon by them, cheered the gunners with his praise, even
+jested with one of them, and left the men more full of confidence in
+him, more desirous than ever to please him, and, if possible, more
+resolved to win the day. Not a trace of anxiety in his face or his tones
+had betrayed the weight that was upon him. Then he went back to his
+tent. The Council had assembled. When he took his place at the head,
+he had forgotten the incident that a few minutes before had moved him
+to laughter.
+
+Archdale stood motionless. The underbrush hid him from the speakers, and
+he was too far off to hear a word. It seemed to him that Elizabeth
+wished to shorten the interview, for soon Edmonson with another of his
+inimitable bows retired and she passed on. As Stephen caught sight of
+her face he saw that it was troubled. "He shall not persecute her," he
+said to himself. Nancy had gone on while Edmonson was speaking to her
+mistress, and now Elizabeth following was almost at the door of her
+temporary home, when a hand was laid heavily upon Archdale's shoulder,
+and Vaughan's hearty voice cried;--
+
+"Come on! I'm going to speak to our charming, brave young lady there.
+I want to tell her how proud of her courage I am. Come on! he repeated.
+Stephen followed. He had not taken her determination in this way. He
+thought her unwise and rash, and hated to have her there. And yet he
+could not deny that the camp had seemed a different place since she had
+entered it.
+
+"You take it that way," he said to Vaughan. "But I think we should be
+feeling that she may get hit some of these days, or be down with fever."
+
+"We'll hope not," returned the other cheerfully. "Let us look on the
+bright side. She is doing a work of mercy, and we will trust that a
+merciful Providence will protect her. We were just talking about you,
+Mistress Royal," he continued, striding up to Elizabeth and grasping her
+hand warmly. "Stephen, here, says he's always thinking you'll get hit
+somehow, or get a fever. I say, look on the bright side of things,
+'trust in the Lord,' as old Cromwell used to put it."
+
+"'And keep your powder dry,'" finished Archdale. "It's not safe to quote
+things by halves. Decidedly, this staying is not a prudent thing."
+
+"I didn't know that beseiging Louisburg could be called a prudent
+thing," she returned. "And so we're all in the same boat."
+
+"Ha! ha!" laughed Vaughan. "You have him there, Mistress Royal. He's
+always in the hottest places himself; he likes them best."
+
+"Somebody else likes them, too; somebody else who can capture Royal
+Battery with thirteen men," said Elizabeth. "I knew long ago that you
+were a genuine war-horse, Colonel Vaughan. Give me credit for my
+discernment."
+
+"Yes, yes, I remember," assented the other with the embarrassment of
+courage at finding itself commended. "But, really, against such a
+cowardly crew as those fellows were, there's no credit at all to be
+gained."
+
+She made him a bright reply, and Archdale listened in silence as they
+talked. But she noticed his gloomy face, and secretly wondered if it
+was anxiety about Edmonson that troubled him, or if possibly, he was
+displeased with Katie. But she put away for the second time the latter
+suggestion. The girl had never looked prettier or been more affectionate
+than when she had said good-by to her and given her the letter for
+"poor, brave Stephen," as she had tearfully called him. Archdale could
+not help listening to Elizabeth; there seemed to be a witchery about her
+whenever she opened her lips. It was probable that Edmonson felt it, he
+thought. And he began to wonder how things would all end. Perhaps they
+should all be shot and the affair wind up like some old tragedy where
+the board is swept clean for the next players. For his part, too much
+had gone from his life to make the rest of it of interest. Elizabeth
+turned to him.
+
+"Are you busy?" she asked. "I mean are you on duty?"
+
+"No," he answered, wondering what was coming, and noticing that her
+tall, slight figure seemed all the more elegant for the simplicity of
+her dress. "Can I do anything for you?" he added.
+
+"Yes, thank you," she answered, "You can, if you are willing. I am going
+to get some medicine that the doctors have asked me to keep, because it
+is very powerful, and they were afraid lest some of the men would be
+careless with it. Nancy is bringing the bandages. Here she is now. Thank
+you," as the girl put a phial into her hand. "There is extra work to be
+done to-day," she went on, turning again to Archdale, "and we are short
+of hands. If you don't mind, and will come, we shall be glad of your
+help."
+
+Captain Archdale playing at nurse with private soldiers! The young man
+did not fancy the idea at all; he would much rather have led a forlorn
+hope.
+
+But no forlorn hope offered, and this did. Of course he would do
+anything for Mistress Royal, but this was not for her at all. He had
+half a mind to excuse himself. As the suggestion came to him, he looked
+into the steady eyes that were watching him fathoming his reluctance,
+ready for approval or for scorning as the answer might be. His look took
+in her whole appearance, and set him wondering if the privates, some of
+whom had been even his neighbors and his boyish playfellows, could
+offend his dignity more than hers? He began to wonder how her eyes would
+change if they looked at him approvingly.
+
+"I will go with pleasure, if you'll put up with an awkward fellow," he
+answered. And Colonel Vaughan who was looking on was not aware that he
+had hesitated.
+
+Elizabeth's eyes darkened. She smiled and nodded her head slightly, as
+if to say, "I knew you would do it." But after this the trace of a smile
+lurked for a moment in the corners of her mouth, as if she might have
+added: "I know, too, what it has cost you." But she said nothing at all
+to Archdale. She bade good-by to Colonel Vaughan who protested that he
+wished he was not upon duty, and turned again toward the hospital.
+Suddenly Archdale thought that she might have been asking the same thing
+of Edmonson when she had been talking with him just before. If she had,
+it was very certain that Edmonson had found an engagement immediately.
+Upon the whole, Archdale was satisfied to have done what the other would
+not do. So that it was just as well he did not know that that other had
+not been asked.
+
+Was there ever another woman in the world like this one, he asked
+himself late that night, recalling that she had been for hours beside
+him, treating him just as if he were a crook to raise a soldier's head,
+if she wanted to rearrange his pillow, or a machine to reel off bandages
+round that poor Melvin's shattered arm, or to do any other trying
+service, and never even imagine that he would like to be thanked or
+treated humanely, while every look and word and thought of hers was for
+the soldiers. It was so different from what he had always found, and yet
+there was the nobleness of self-forgetfulness in the difference. But for
+all this vivid memory of those hours, it was imagination rather than
+recollection that occupied him most with her when she had left him. For
+he was picturing how she would look, and what she would say, when she
+read the letter that he had slipped into her hand as she was going away.
+He recalled her look of amazement, her beginning:--"Why, it's--" and
+then breaking off abruptly, perceiving that only peculiar circumstances
+could have made him give her Katie's letter to read, and perhaps
+divining the truth. For she had suddenly became very grave and had
+replied absently to his good-night, as on her father's she had turned
+from the hospital. The young man, wondering how she would receive the
+news of Katie's treachery, asked himself what she could find now in
+excuse for the girl who had used her faithful friend as the unconscious
+messenger of her broken plight? Stephen knew well enough that the old
+glamour would come back, but to-night he was full only of indignation
+against Katie. To have used Elizabeth as she had done was an added sin.
+
+"I wish Bulchester joy of her," he muttered, then with a sharp breath
+recollected that this was only a respite, that he should not always feel
+too scornful for pain.
+
+Three nights after this there was a silent and solemn procession down to
+the shore. Island Battery was to be attacked. Here was Archdale's
+forlorn hope ready for him, if he wanted it now. Every chance of success
+depended upon secrecy. The venture was so desperate that the General
+could not make up his mind to pick out the men himself, he called for
+volunteers. They came forward readily, incited, not only by courage and
+the desire to end the siege, but by ambition to be distinguished among
+their comrades who stood about them in hushed expectation. Every soldier
+off duty and able to crawl to the shore, and some who should not have
+attempted it were there. Among this crowd stood two women, scarcely
+apart from the others, and yet everywhere that they moved, given place
+to with the unobtrusive courtesy that has always marked American men, so
+that one woman in a host of them feels herself, should danger come, in
+an army of protectors, and otherwise alone. Elizabeth had meant to be
+here earlier, and to put herself by the General's side, for her father
+had gone with dispatches to the fleet, but her duties had detained her,
+and now she was separated from him by nearly a regiment. She stood
+silent in an anxiety that did not lessen because she told herself that
+it was foolish.
+
+Captain Brooks was to command the expedition, and the number of men
+needed to accompany him was fast being made up from the eager
+volunteers. In the dimness she recognized Archdale by an unconscious
+haughtiness of bearing, and Edmonson's voice, though lowered to suit the
+demands of the hour, made her shiver. Yet why? Of course they both were
+here; volunteers were stepping out from the ranks of their companies.
+But they themselves were not going, neither would they be left here
+alone together. Boat after boat with scaling ladders was filled with
+soldiers and shoved off, some of them out of sight in the dimness where
+the men, lying on their oars, waited for their comrades. In this way
+one after another disappeared. Things went on well. Elizabeth began
+to be reassured, to be occupied with the scene about her, to remember
+the importance of the expedition and how many times it had been
+unsuccessfully attempted. She began to think of the attack, of the
+result, and of the soldiers, to rejoice in them, to be proud of them,
+and to tremble for them, as one who has no individual interest at stake.
+
+It was only at night that the attempt could be made, only in certain
+states of the tide, and still at the best time it was a terrible
+venture; the work was new for the troops; the walls were high, the enemy
+was vigilant. With a sigh she saw another boat shove off to its fate.
+
+The volunteering slackened, either because so many of the men left were
+aware that fatigue and illness had undermined their strength, or because
+the night had grown lowering and the ominous roar of breakers reached
+them from their landing place. Finally a distinct pause came in answer
+to the call: "Who next?"--a pause that lasted a minute, and that, had it
+lasted another, would have meant discouragement, and perhaps despair.
+
+"I," said a firm voice, and Elizabeth saw Stephen Archdale step into the
+boat. A strange feeling came over her for a moment, then a wave of
+admiration for his heroism. If he were to die, it would be a soldier's
+death. Yet, there would be so many to mourn him. If he went to his death
+in this way, how would Katie feel? General Pepperell started forward, as
+if to prevent his embarking, then restrained himself. The men responded
+rapidly after this example, until the boat needed only one more. Then
+there fell upon Elizabeth's ears, a name more frightful to her than the
+boom of the surf or the roar of cannon, and Edmonson stepped in and
+seated himself opposite Archdale.
+
+"Two captains in one boat!" she heard a soldier remonstrate.
+
+"Nonsense! we're full. Shove off instantly, you laggards. Every minute
+tells," said the newcomer in a hoarse undertone.
+
+Elizabeth sprang forward. "No, no," she cried impetuously, forgetting
+everything but the terror.
+
+But the calling of the names was going on again, and her voice was
+unheard, except by a few who stood near her. Before she could make her
+way up to the General, the boat pulled by the vigorous strokes of the
+men who had been taunted as laggards, had shot out of sight. "Oh! bring
+them back, bring back that last boat," she implored Pepperell in such
+distress that he, knowing her a woman not given to idle fears, felt a
+sense of impending evil as he answered:
+
+"My dear, I cannot. No boat is sure of meeting it in the dark, and to
+call would endanger the expedition."
+
+There was no use in explaining now. She would have occasion enough to do
+it sometime, she feared; and then it would be useless. To-night she
+could say nothing. All these days she had dreaded what might come, for
+it did not seem to her that Captain Archdale took any care at all.
+Still, in the camp, out of general action, and surrounded by others,
+there had been comparative safety.
+
+Now the hour, the place, and the purpose had met. Through the darkness
+Stephen Archdale was going to his doom.
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII.
+
+A WOUNDED MAN.
+
+
+The General sent Elizabeth away very kindly. She sent the weary Nancy to
+bed and went back to the hospital. But anxiety mastered her so that she
+could not keep her hands from trembling or her voice from faltering when
+there was most need for steadiness.
+
+"You are exhausted, Mistress Royal, you ought not to be here," said one
+of the surgeons sternly. "Go and rest."
+
+"Oh, please let me stay," she pleaded with a humility so new that he
+looked at her with curiosity.
+
+"Hush!" said his assistant making an excuse to draw him aside. "Don't
+you know she's been watching the men set out for the Fort?"
+
+Elizabeth found words of comfort for a soldier who was mourning because
+his wife would have no one to look after her, if he died. "I will help
+her," she said. And then, by the light of the flaring candle, she wrote
+down the woman's address. She repeated verses of Scripture for some who
+asked her for them, and found a little steadiness of voice in doing it.
+But through everything she saw Archdale's vigorous form and heard
+Edmonson's passionate voice and his words. With such a marksman, and at
+such range, how could a shot stray!
+
+But she dreaded still more the time when the expedition should return.
+To-night she bitterly regretted that the General had not been told her
+errand, and saw that when Mr. Royal urged it, it had been the wish to
+save her that had made Stephen Archdale ask him not to do it.
+
+Three hours after the start she heard that the expedition had failed.
+All that was left was returning, the wounded would soon be brought in.
+Her little strength deserted her for the moment She sank down helpless
+in the shadow. Then she rose and went forward.
+
+As the boat lay rocking on the waves waiting for the others, Archdale
+took his bearings. Leaning towards the stern, he said to one of his
+men:--
+
+"Greene will you change places with me?" If the man had thought the
+request more than a whim, he would have supposed it to be because the
+captain considered his new choice a more dangerous post. Archdale
+seating himself again glanced toward the bow. He was now on the same
+side with Edmonson and the fourth man from him. It would be somewhat
+difficult to have the latter's gun go off by accident and be sure of its
+mark, and Greene was safe so far as exemption from an enemy at hand was
+concerned. Archdale would have preferred Edmonson's left hand but when
+it came to disembarking, his enemy should precede him.
+
+"Better cushions?" asked Edmonson with a sneering laugh under which he
+tried to hide his anger. "Can't see any other motive for your running
+the risk of capsizing us."
+
+"It is very presumptuous to do anything for which Captain Edmonson
+cannot see the motive," returned Archdale haughtily.
+
+"By Heavens!" cried Edmonson in another moment "You're bound to die in
+character if it come to a question of dying and of course it will with
+some of us."
+
+Stephen made no answer. He felt more strongly than ever that he needed
+good eyes and firm nerves. To be killed like a rat in a trap! His blood
+ran too warm in his veins to submit tamely to this. When the struggle
+should come yonder it mattered little whether it was by Edmonson's shot
+or another's, for if he fell in the heat of the conflict it would always
+be said that he died a soldier's death. And if he lived to come back
+Edmonson, should take boat first. He turned himself slightly toward his
+foe, and sat silent and observant.
+
+Had Elizabeth noticed them enter the boat together? He had thought of
+saying good-by, for his volunteering was no sudden resolve, but had been
+his determination from the first. But if he died, what real difference
+would that make to her? And if he came back, the leave taking would seem
+an absurdity. He seemed still to see the outline of her slender figure,
+as with her shawl wrapped about her like a mantle she had stood
+bare-headed in the cold May evening.
+
+Had he dreamed that Edmonson had learned of Katie's desertion, and was
+full of rage at every word of courtesy or interest that he spoke to
+Elizabeth, he would have felt his chance of life still less.
+
+"Can't you hitch along, you fellow next me?" cried Edmonson. "I'm so
+cramped here I can't move a muscle, and I suspect we shall want them all
+in good order pretty soon. We are coming up to the old walls. Swift and
+steady, boys. Every man be ready with his muskets."
+
+As he spoke, he took up his own weapon and examined it in the dimness.
+Then, still holding it in his right hand, he laid that arm along the
+edge of the boat as if to relieve it from the cramped position he had
+complained of. Archdale saw that the muzzle was pointed directly at him
+and that the hand which held it in apparent carelessness was working
+almost imperceptibly towards the trigger. That would not be touched
+quite yet, however, a shot now would alarm the garrison and be
+inexcusable. The accident would happen in the excitement of landing.
+Archdale's left hand that he with as great indifference as Edmonson's
+laid upon the boat's edge was steady. He leaned forward a little to be
+out of range, and they went on in silence.
+
+The clouds grew denser, the waves swelled more and more at the violence
+of the wind, and the storm, nearer every minute, seemed about to unite
+with the fiery storm that awaited the devoted band.
+
+"Look," said Archdale suddenly, "I believe they have discovered us." He
+raised his left hand as he spoke, and pointed to the Battery. Lights
+were glancing there, and something had given it an air of ponderous
+observation, as if eyes were looking through the walls and movements
+going on behind them. All the men scanned the battery earnestly except
+the speaker whose eyes were watchfully turned upon his neighbor, and who
+for reward saw Edmonson's fingers covertly placing themselves on the
+trigger, while his face was still toward the fortifications.
+
+"Yes, it's all up with us," cried the latter, "we are discovered,"
+In the movement of speech he was turning to Archdale, preparatory to
+dropping measuring eyes upon the musket, when the latter called out:--
+
+"See! they are going to fire." And with the words he dropped his left
+arm with a swift and accidental sweep by which his hand hitting forcibly
+against Edmonson's which was unprepared, struck it off the boat into the
+water. The pistol sent its ball spinning into the sea, running along
+Archdale's sleeve as it passed. The pistol itself lay under the water
+for the instant that Edmonson's hand rested there. The flintlock was
+wet, the weapon was useless.
+
+Its owner turned upon his clumsy companion in a rage. But before he
+could speak the guns of the battery blazed out, and in the iron shower
+that followed there was no thought for anything but that of saving
+themselves as much as possible.
+
+Round shot would have danced over the water and left them comparatively
+safe; but in the deadly hail of langrage such escape was impossible.
+Every moment of it inflicted torturing wounds or death. The boats were
+beeched with all speed at the foot of the monster which belched forth
+this red hot torrent wounding wherever it fell. But they had been thrown
+into confusion, and while some of them struggled to the shore, the
+occupants of others in their terror drew back out of harm's way, and
+left their comrades to their fate. Edmonson's was not the only flintlock
+wet, as the soldiers, weary and dispirited, toiled up from the surf.
+They tried their scaling ladders, they fought for a time with that
+desperate courage which never forsook them. Their captain cheered them
+with his bravest words and deeds, and Archdale and Edmonson were
+foremost in every post of danger until one fell badly wounded.
+
+But from the first the expedition was doomed. After an hour's conflict
+the recall was sounded, and the remnant of the scaling party straggled
+and staggered to their boats, some carrying wounded comrades, some
+themselves wounded and faint. But many had been taken prisoners by the
+French, and many lay dead and dying. Elizabeth stood waiting for the
+wounded to be brought in, and for the roll of the dead. The first man
+who came walking steadily toward her, turning about at every few steps
+to see that the men behind him were carrying their burden on their
+stretchers carefully, was Archdale.
+
+"You?" she said wonderingly. "I thought--I was afraid--."
+
+"Yes, I have come back," he answered; "and it is through your warning.
+Such as my life is, you have saved it."
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+[Footnote 5: Copyright, 1884, by Frances C. Sparhawk.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+EDITOR'S TABLE.
+
+
+It is surprising how few people, comparatively speaking, are aware of
+the fact, that the history of Boston has been treated as the history of
+no other city in this country has been. The year 1880 was the two
+hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding, and, commemorative of
+that year, a work, in four beautiful quarto volumes, has been issued in
+this city by Messrs. Ticknor and Company. The object of this work, and
+the importance attached to it is what leads us to speak of it in this
+place and at this time. This object is primarily to present the leading
+historical phases of the town's and city's life and developement,
+together with the traces of previous occupation, and the natural history
+of the locality. To accomplish this almost herculean task, the sections
+were assigned to writers well-known in their respective spheres,--many
+of them of national reputation,--who from study and associations were
+in a measure identified with their subjects. The entire work was
+critically edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University,
+with the co-operation of a committee appointed at a meeting of the
+gentlemen interested, consisting of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
+D.D., Samuel A. Green, M.D. and Charles Deane, LL.D. Now, it is not
+our purpose to enter into any description of this carefully planned,
+skilfully written, beautifully illustrated, printed and bound specimen
+of the art of book-making; but rather, again to call attention to its
+great merits and claims upon the interested public. The work deals
+almost exclusively with facts, and impartially also, and these facts are
+alike valuable to the man of letters, the man of science, the historian,
+the student, and the vast public whose patriotism invites them to
+seek the story of their city. A better conceived work has never been
+published on this continent; but it is unnecessary to commend what
+easily commends itself to the eye, the mind, and the purse of well-to-do
+people.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There is need of a more careful study of politics on the part of the
+people of this country. The recent elections in this State and in other
+States again recalls this need, and have again shown that altogether too
+many men cast their ballots, not in accordance with their intelligence
+or with their convictions, but as they are told to cast them. The first
+duty of an American citizen should be a thorough acquaintance with
+American political institutions, their origin, their growth and
+progress, their utility or their worthlessness. The right of suffrage is
+one of the inalienable rights of the people. It is one of their most
+sacred rights also, and ought not to be exercised except under most
+careful, candid and conscientious conditions.
+
+One cannot suppose, even for a moment, that our people are not aware of
+the accuracy of these assertions. We are not advocates of property
+ownership as a qualification of voting, nor would we seek to lay down
+any arbitrary _sine qua non_, to be rigidly adhered to in our
+system of voting. But, is it enough that a man should know how to read
+and write before he can cast a ballot? Do these qualifications comprise
+everything that is necessary to a proper and safe exercise of the right
+of suffrage? If so, then politics can never be formulated as a science,
+and politicians can never be regarded other than what many of them seem
+to be,--tricksters trading on the incredulity and ignorance of the
+masses. It is only when people understand _how_ and _why_ they
+vote, that they can vote intelligently.
+
+It may not be generally known that we have in this state, with allied
+organizations in other states, a Society for "Political Education,"
+carrying on its work by furnishing and circulating at a low price sound
+economic and political literature. Its aim is to publish at least four
+pamphlets a year on subjects of vital importance. During the present
+year, the "Standard Silver Dollar and the Coinage Law of 1878" has been
+treated by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, secretary of the society; "Civil
+Service Reform in Cities and States," by Edward M. Shepard; "What makes
+the Rate of Wages," by Edward Atkinson, and others have also been
+published,--in all sixteen pamphlets since the foundation of the
+Society.
+
+The first Secretary of the Society was Richard L. Dugdale, the author of
+the remarkable social study called "The Jukes." The twelfth number of
+the Economic Tracts of the Society gives a sketch of his life, and from
+it the following quotation is pertinent:--
+
+"The education of the people in true politics, it seemed to Mr. Dugdale
+and his associates, would not only greatly aid popular judgment on
+political questions, but would be a necessary preliminary to the
+election of public representatives and officers upon real issues. If
+elections were so held, successful candidates would come generally to be
+men competent to consider and expert in dealing with questions of state
+and administration. And if legislators and executives were so competent
+and expert, and were not merely men accomplished in intrigue or active
+in party contests, we should have from them conscientious and
+intelligent social reforms. Legislative committees, governors, mayors,
+commissioners of charities and corrections, superintendents of prisons,
+reformatories, almshouses, and hospitals, would then patiently listen
+and intelligently act upon discussions and of the condition of the
+extremely poor and the vicious, and especially of children and young men
+and women not yet hopelessly hardened."
+
+Few persons will deny that such a work as this needs everywhere to be
+done so that the charities of the country shall no longer be
+administered in the interests of a party.
+
+The Society has been in active operation about four years, and its
+success has thus far been most gratifying. It has already induced
+hundreds of people to make a careful study of American history and
+politics, and its influence is now felt throughout the length and
+breadth of this land. The very fact of such an effort is one of the
+encouraging signs of the times, and should be encouraged by all who aim
+for the welfare of the Republic.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But there is still another open field for work in this direction, and
+this perhaps lies more in the power of the people themselves. We allude
+to the necessity of public lectures, in every community, on the great
+themes pertaining to American politics and history. It must be evident
+to every observer that our so-called "Lyceum Courses" are to-day sadly
+deficient in efforts to educate the people. There is a perfect craze
+at the present time for concerts, readings, and a similar order of
+entertainments,--all of which are doubtless good enough of their kind
+and are capable of exerting a certain moral influence that cannot be
+questioned. But is it plausible that such pabulum meets all the needs of
+those people who frequent these entertainments? If it does, the fault
+lies with the people and not with those who are capable of amusing them.
+
+We would suggest to the public-spirited ladies and gentlemen living in
+our towns and cities to try the following experiment;--Plan a _lecture_
+course, to be filled by public speakers residing in your own
+communities. Establish a course of say four, six, eight, or a dozen
+evenings, and let only those questions be discussed which pertain to
+history, political economy, and politics. We venture the assertion that
+such a course, conducted thoroughly in an unpartisan spirit, would be
+well patronized, and would exert an influence for good. Never was there
+a better time to try the experiment than now.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The death of GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN at Newark, N.J.,
+October 29, reminds us how narrow is becoming the circle of living
+generals who took part in the great Civil War. It is two decades only
+since the struggle ceased; but, one by one, the famous leaders have
+passed away, and now McClellan has gone--the first to follow his great
+commander, Grant.
+
+It is not easy to comment upon the career of General McClellan without
+evoking, either from his admirers or his censors, the criticism of being
+unfair. To many, especially to the soldiers who fought under his
+leadership, he became an ideal of soldierly virtue, and has always held
+a warm place in their hearts; while to many others his military and
+civil career alike have seemed worthy only of disapprobation.
+
+It was natural that General McClellan should have a large and devoted
+following, for he was a man gifted with those personal qualities that
+always win popularity to their possessor, so that among the soldiers of
+the Army of the Potomac, and among those in civil life with whom he came
+in contact, he was usually regarded with admiration. As a military
+commander, it must be conceded by his most determined critics, even,
+that he possessed certain qualities unsurpassed by those of any other
+general in the war. This was true of his ability as an organizer of
+volunteer troups, in which capacity he probably rendered more effectual
+service than any other man in the Union army. He was also well versed
+in the science of war, and was a strategist of a higher order than has
+generally been conceded. As is often the case, he failed to receive just
+recognition of his really great abilities, because he lacked the needed
+complementary qualities. McClellan could admirably plan a campaign,
+and could perhaps have carried it to a brilliant issue, had all the
+circumstances conformed to his plan, but this not happening, he seemed
+unable to adapt his plan to the circumstances. Other generals with
+inferior plans would succeed by taking some sudden advantage at a
+critical time; McClellan on the contrary must either carry out his
+carefully arranged programme, or acknowledge himself foiled.
+
+That General McClellan was not a firm patriot is an assertion not
+entitled to any weight whatever. He was devoted to the cause of the
+Union, and in his career as a general we believe he should be given the
+credit of performing his duty to the best of his ability. That he could
+not triumph over unexpected obstacles was doubtless a cause of regret to
+him more than to any one else.
+
+General McClellan has been accused of an undue ambition for political
+preferment, and it must be admitted that he would have succeeded better
+in those positions to which he attained, had he been less solicitous for
+the future; but it is not yet proved that he ever enlisted unworthy or
+dishonorable means in the cause of his personal advancement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL RECORD.
+
+
+September 30.--Republican State Convention held in Springfield. The
+following ticket was nominated: Governor, Geo. D. Robinson of Chicopee;
+Lieut. Governor, Oliver Ames of Easton; Secretary of State, Henry B.
+Pierce of Abington; Treasurer, A.W. Beard of Boston; Auditor, Chas. R.
+Ladd of Springfield; Attorney General, Edgar J. Sherman of Lawrence.
+With the exception of the office of treasurer, the ticket is the same as
+that of last year.
+
+October 1.--The Converse Memorial library building was formerly
+presented to the city of Malden by its donor, Hon. Elisha S. Converse.
+Hon. John D. Long made the dedicatory address. The building cost
+$100,000, and is one of the finest examples of architecture in the
+state.
+
+October 7.--Democratic State Convention at Worcester. The following
+ticket was nominated: Governor, Frederick O. Prince of Boston;
+Lieutenant-Governor, H.H. Gilmore of Cambridge; Secretary of State,
+Jeremiah Crowley of Lowell; Attorney General, Henry K. Braley of Fall
+River; Treasurer, Henry M. Cross of Newburyport.
+
+October 8.--Eight monuments were unveiled upon the battle-field of
+Gettysburg by Massachusetts veterans. The regiments which have erected
+these monuments and the principal speakers upon the occasion, were as
+follows:--
+
+The Twelfth Infantry. The monument is on Seminary Ridge. Col. Cook of
+Gloucester presided, George Kimball of Boston delivered the principal
+address, and comrade Gilman read a poem.
+
+The Eleventh Infantry dedicated its monument on the Emmittsburg Road,
+Capt. W.T. Monroe presided, and James H. Croft of Boston made the
+address.
+
+The Nineteenth Infantry monument on Cemetery Ridge was dedicated; J.W.
+Sawyer, presiding, Lieut. Geo. M. Barry and C.C. Coffin making
+addresses.
+
+The Third Battery has erected a monument. Formal exercises were not held
+here at this time, but the dedication was made with remarks by comrade
+Patch.
+
+The First Battery dedicated a monument in the National Cemetery. Remarks
+were made by G.H. Patch and H.I. Hall.
+
+The Eighteenth Infantry. The monument stands near the wheat field, and
+was dedicated with an address by Col. Wm. B. White of Quincy.
+
+The Second Sharpshooters. The monument is in the form of a statue and
+was dedicated. N.S. Sweet gave the address.
+
+The First Cavalry dedicated a monument near the Round Tops, Major Chas.
+G. Davis, delivered the address.
+
+October 13-16.--Seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions observed in Boston. The annual sermon
+was preached the 13th in Tremont Temple by Rev. Geo. Leon Walker D.D. of
+Hartford. A special discourse was delivered the 14th in the same hall by
+Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D. of Brooklyn. The attendance was the largest in
+the history of the Board, taxing the fullest capacity of Tremont Temple,
+Music Hall, and various churches simultaneously. Over 10,000 people were
+present on one evening and many were turned away. The Rev. Mark Hopkins,
+D.D. was re-elected president of the Board.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+
+September 26.--HON. WALDO COLBURNE, a Justice of the Supreme
+Judicial Court of Massachusetts, died at his home in Dedham, at the age
+of 60 years.
+
+Judge Colburn was born in Dedham, Nov. 13, 1824, and at 15 years of age
+he entered Phillips Academy at Andover, graduating therefrom in 1842 in
+the "English Department and Teachers' Seminary," which at that time was
+entirely distinct from the classical course. In the following year he
+entered the classical department, where he remained until the summer of
+1845, when he left the academy and for the two years following engaged
+in various pursuits, chiefly, however, civil engineering and surveying.
+On May 13, 1847, he entered the law office of Ira Cleveland, Esq., at
+Dedham, and on May 3, 1850, was admitted to the Norfolk County Bar. In
+the meantime he had spent some time at the Harvard Law School, and soon
+took a leading position in Norfolk county, which he always maintained.
+On May 27, 1875, he was appointed one of the Judges of the Superior
+Court by Gov. Gaston, and on Nov. 10, 1882, Gov. Long selected him to
+fill a vacancy existing in the Supreme Court. Judge Colburn was a
+Democrat, and had filled several positions of trust and responsibility
+in his native town. In 1853 and 1854 he represented Dedham in the
+Massachusetts House of Representatives, and as Chairman of the committee
+on Railroads earnestly opposed the loaning of the State's credit to the
+Hoosac Tunnel scheme. In 1870 he was a member of the Senate from the
+Second Norfolk District, and as a member of the Judiciary Committee
+drafted the well-known corporation act. He was Chairman of the Board of
+Selectmen of Dedham from 1855 to 1864, and during the war his services
+were important and valuable. He was President of the Dedham Institution
+for Savings and a director of the Dedham National Bank.
+
+Judge Colburn was naturally a man of robust constitution and excellent
+health, and, until his prostration shortly before his death, had never
+been obliged to neglect his official duties for a day on account of
+sickness.
+
+October 6.--Hon. Thomas Talbot, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts, died at
+this home in Billerica at the age of sixty-seven years. He was born at
+Cambridge, N.Y. Sept. 7, 1818, and subsequently removed with the family
+to Danby, Vt. After the death of the father, the family removed to
+Northampton, Mass. and Thomas at the age of thirteen began work in a
+woolen factory. In the winters of 1837 and 1838 he attended an academy
+at Cummington. Soon after, he joined his father in North Billerica, and
+the long manufactoring career of C.P. Talbot & Co. was begun. The firm
+still continues in the manufacture of woolen flannels, employing between
+two and three hundred hands.
+
+Mr. Talbot's first public service of note was as Representative from
+Billerica in the Legislature of 1852, and he was a member of the
+Constitutional Convention the following year. He was elected a member of
+the Executive Council in 1864, and served five years in that honorable
+capacity in association with Governors Andrew, Bullock and Claflin. In
+1872 Mr. Talbot was elected by the Republicans as Lieutenant Governor
+upon the same ticket with Hon. William B. Washburn, who was elected as
+Governor. Re-elected with Governor Washburn in 1873, he became Acting
+Governor when, during the legislative session of 1874, Governor Washburn
+was elected as United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
+death of Hon. Charles Sumner. One of the first important acts of his
+official life after this event was the approval of the "Ten-Hour bill."
+
+In the same year Mr. Talbot received the Republican nomination for
+Governor but was defeated by Hon. William Gaston. In 1878 he again had
+the nomination, and was elected over Gen. Butler, Judge Abbott and A.A.
+Miner.
+
+He was presidential elector in 1876 and 1884, and was chairman of the
+State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity from its establishment in 1879
+to 1884.
+
+Mr. Talbot was strictly a temperance man and was a professed
+Prohibitionist.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AMONG THE BOOKS.
+
+
+The preparation of elaborately illustrated editions of standard poems
+especially for the holiday trade has become a very prominent feature of
+the book publishing business. Every year seems to mark an increased
+beauty and variety in the work which the artist contributes to these
+holiday books, and many classic works of literature are read with
+clearer meaning and vastly greater delight, by reason of the intelligent
+interpretations often given in the illustrations of our best artists of
+the day.
+
+Among the most tasteful as well as sumptuous art volumes of the last
+three years have been James R. Osgood & Co.'s "The Lady of the Lake,"
+"The Princess," and "Marmion." For a similar book for this season,
+Messrs, Ticknor & Co., the successors of the old firm, have taken as a
+subject Lord Byron's _Childe Harold_.[6] Of the poem nothing need
+be said here, for it is universally accepted as Byron's greatest and
+best; but of the illustrations, pages of praise could easily be written.
+The poem itself has been a fertile theme for the artists, for the scene
+is made to shift from one to another of the most beautiful and romantic
+localities of the Rhine, of Spain, Italy and Greece, and most of the
+illustrations are true representations of castles, ruins, palaces and
+natural scenery in these ancient countries.
+
+All of the illustrations in the volume are from wood, in the production
+of which the most famous American artists and engravers have given their
+best work, all of it having been under the supervision of Mr A.V.S.
+Anthony.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Scarcely a year has elapsed since the appearance of the first volume of
+Mr. BLAINE'S _Twenty Years in Congress_, which details the
+history of our time from the outbreak of Secession to the death of
+President Lincoln. To maintain the interest attached to that work, a
+second and concluding volume ought to have been published ere this.
+Indeed, the public had a right to expect it. But, now, another bid for
+public consideration and favor has been put forth under the rather
+attractive title of _Three Decades of Federal Legislation_.[7] The
+author is the Hon. S.S. Cox of New York, at one time a formidable
+opponent of Mr. BLAINE in the halls of Congress, and at the
+present time American minister to Turkey.
+
+Mr. COX was a member of Congress for twenty-four years, his
+four terms from an Ohio district covering the war and the period
+immediately preceding it. As a politician, he was always ranked on the
+Democratic side, and was universally regarded as one of the closest,
+most competent and most conscientious observer of men and things. His
+acknowledged literary skill and his passion for accuracy rendered it
+almost certain that his history would be both fascinating and truthful.
+Contemporary history is at the present moment in high favor. All
+intelligent people realize that the records of the last fifty years are
+of more vital importance to living Americans than are the annals of all
+previous eras. Hence, when a man so thoroughly equipped with the gifts
+of mind and of expression as Mr. Cox has shown himself to be in earlier
+books from his pen,--we say when such a man sets out to relate the story
+of his time, it follows without further argument that his work will not
+only be sought but will be read.
+
+The narrative covers the eventful work of Congress for the past thirty
+years, and gives a much fuller inside view of Federal legislation during
+this period than can be obtained from Mr. BLAINE'S more pretentious
+work. No period in our national history is so full of interest as the
+times of which our author writes. The revolt from English rule and the
+establishment of our national government was one of the grandest epochs
+in history. In that period were determined the issue of national
+independence; in this epoch of even greater magnitude, the issue of
+national existence. Both periods alike witnessed the most terrible
+conflicts of armies, of bloodshed and suffering in both periods was
+shown the exercise of the highest and most brilliant statesmanship;
+and in both periods the Federal Legislature was witness to events
+scarcely less exciting and decisive than occurred on hundreds of bloody
+battle-fields. The exciting period of Secession, the departure of
+Senators and Representatives from Congress, the proclamation of war, the
+call for troops, the great uprising of the people of all sections, North
+and South, against each other, the act of Emancipation, the sanguinary
+battles of, and the close of the war, the return of peace, the
+assassination of President Lincoln, the election of Grant, the Electoral
+Commission and the seating of Hayes, the resumption of specie payments
+and a host of other equally impressive episodes and events, find in Mr.
+Cox an impartial historian. Of the importance of such a work, there is
+no need of saying anything, and it is quite enough to remark that the
+book taken all in all, is perhaps the most important, because of its
+impartiality and accuracy, that has so far been published during the
+present year.
+
+We have alluded to the fact that the author was a prominent actor in
+nearly all the legislation of this long period, and that he consequently
+possesses that personal and absolute knowledge which comes from actual
+participation. The following extract which is taken at random from page
+117 of the volume discloses something of the author's happy faculty of
+seeing and describing things as they occurred to him. He says:--
+
+"Being upon the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of
+Representatives when the Trent affair occurred, the writer attended a
+dinner given by the Secretary at this then happy home. This was at a
+time when men held their breath in trepidation, lest Great Britain and
+the Powers of Europe might make the Trent matter the pretext to
+consummate their recognition of Southern independence. Some feared that
+a disparted Republic would have to give way before the jealous
+encroachments of those who sought to divide our country as they
+endeavored to imperialize Mexico.
+
+"The delightful interchanges of thought between the persons at that
+dinner are not so important as the fact that transpired toward its
+close. After the ceremonies of introduction, and the tenders of
+politeness to Mrs. Frederick W. Seward and Miss Olive Risley--the
+adopted daughter of the house--the guests who had been received by these
+ladies moved to the hospitable dining-hall. On the right of Mr. Seward
+was seated burly English heartiness incarnated in Mr. Anthony Trollope,
+the novelist. His presence was almost a surprise, if not a satire on the
+occasion, as it concluded. At the other end of the table sat John J.
+Crittenden. He was then chairman of Foreign Affairs in the House. The
+author was on his right, as he was nearer by sympathy to him than others
+on the committee. He used to say to the writer: 'My young friend, when I
+was of your age, I did all the work and the older members received the
+merit marks. You may do the work, sir, and I will take the credit.' With
+his grave humor and hearty confidence, he was wont to parcel out to the
+writer no inconsiderable quantity of the work of this most arduous of
+committees. Thus it happened that a bill for the relief of the owners of
+the Perthshire, seized by us, came to the hand of the writer for a
+report. The chairman was not a little astonished when he found that his
+subbordinate, on the 17th of December, 1861, was dilating on the Trent
+case, and quoting Robinson's Reports to justify the detention of the
+contraband plenipotentiaries, upon British precedents and conduct."
+
+From the foregoing selection, it will readily be seen that the author's
+style is strong, clear, rapid, and stimulating, his judgment sound and
+unprejudiced, and his materials authentic. His condition, experiences,
+and industry combine to throw new light on the events of the most
+remarkable epoch in natural history, and the volume, independent of Mr.
+Cox's reputation, is bound to be a success. It is at once the most
+picturesque and harmonious political history of our times that has thus
+far been written, and will, also, be generally looked upon as a solid
+and substantial contribution to American literature. We feel that we
+cannot commend it too highly.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In the Century magazine, last spring, Gen. George B. McClellan undertook
+to present his explanation of the failure of the Army of the Potomac
+while under his command. In his article, he assaulted the memories of
+Lincoln and Stanton, and attempted much more than he accomplished,--at
+least, so thinks the HON. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, who examines
+McClellan's statements in a book recently published. It bears the simple
+title, _Lincoln and Stanton_.[8] Of this volume, which for the
+first time makes many fresh disclosures, we hope to have something to
+say at another time.
+
+Senator SUMNER was once asked by Lord Brougham the origin and
+meaning of "caucus," and he replied: "It is difficult to assign any
+elementary to the word, but the most approved one referred its origin to
+the very town, and about the time (1772), of his lordship's birth."
+There is a tradition in Boston that "caucus" was a common word here
+before the Revolutionary war broke out, and that it originated in a feud
+between the British troops on the one side and the rope-walkers and
+calkers on the other. Bloody collisions, it is said, occurred between
+them. The latter held meetings in the _calkers' hall_ in the lower
+part of the city, at which resolutions were adopted and speeches made
+denouncing the soldiers, who, on their part deriding the wordy war
+offered, sneeringly snubbed their opponents "The Calkers," which by an
+easy corruption became "the caucus," and finally a term to denote the
+meetings.
+
+Whether this be the origin or not of the word, one thing is certain--Mr.
+George W. LAWTON has done a most commendable thing in the
+publication of his little book on _The American Caucus System_.[9]
+It is exceedingly useful, and the wonder is for us why some such work
+has not earlier issued from the press, for it meets the requirements of
+the multitudinous politicians and others who are never absent on "caucus
+nights." The author begins at the beginning of his theme, and shows how
+easily men, that is, mankind in general, choose to be controlled by
+political power, and to bear its burdens; he then establishes the axiom
+that the direction of political power is with the caucus, and goes on
+still further to explain what gives the caucus its authority, to compare
+caucus nominations with self-nominations, and then historically to trace
+the growth of the caucus, and, lastly, to describe the proceedings of,
+and how to conduct, a caucus meeting. From first to last, these pages
+are suggestive, timely, and embody a great deal of good sound sense.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The late Mr. Walter Bagehot left behind him some materials for a book
+which promised to make a landmark in the history of economics, by
+separating the use of the older, or Ricardian, economic reasonings from
+their abuse, and freeing them from the discredit into which they had
+fallen through being often misapplied. Unfortunately he did not complete
+more than the examination of two of their postulates, namely, the
+transferability of capital and labor. These were originally published in
+the _Fortnightly Review_, in 1876, and are now republished, with
+some other materials for the author's proposed work, under the title of
+_The Postulates of English Political Economy_.[10] These essays,
+which emanated from a well-trained, scientific mind, an independent
+thinker, and one who was perfectly free in his criticisms, deal almost
+exclusively with one side of what the author wished and intended to say;
+but as they stand, they prove that had he lived he would have shed much
+light on the problem, how the rapid changes of modern city life may help
+us to understand, by analogy and indirect inference, the slow changes of
+a backward people.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The pathos and humor which have immortalized many of WILL CARLETON'S
+earlier poems enter again into his _City Ballads_.[11] If ever a poet
+comprehended the human heart and the mainspring of its responses, it is
+he who gave us that wonderfully-common-place (by reason only of its
+theme) but delightful versification, "Betsey and I are out." His new
+collection embraces several pieces almost as striking in their
+character; and their wholesomeness and truthfulness of sentiment will
+win for them many readers. None of these poems are fanciful pictures of
+life which does not exist; but they are, on the contrary, faithful to
+the actualities of the living present. They portray metropolitan life
+as in a mirror, and depict the mishaps of the inexperienced therein in
+a way that is at once healthful and conducive to practical morality.
+Every poem is a story, which carries within itself a lesson not easily
+forgotten, and as a poem is almost invariably characterized by a
+pleasant rhythm and animation. The illustrations--and they are
+numerous--are excellent; indeed, one would not wish them to be better.
+These poems and pictures will find entrance into many homes ere the
+holiday season is ended.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One of the most astonishing successes, in a literary line, of recent
+years is Col. Higginson's "Young Folks' History of the United States."
+Published originally as a book for general readers, its superlative
+merits commended themselves to teachers, then led to the introduction of
+the work, as a text-book of history, into very many schools. No other
+work of the kind, we believe, has met with such signal favor or so
+richly deserves it. So far as it goes, it is by all odds the _ne plus
+ultra_ for school use.
+
+The same author has recently published what he terms _A Larger History
+of the United States_,[12] which, however, ends only with the close
+of President Jackson's administration. So far we fail to discover any
+_raison d'etre_ of the volume, unless its purpose is distinctly to
+bring together in a re-arranged form the series of illustrated papers on
+American history contributed by Mr. Higginson to Harper's Magazine
+during the past two years. If such is the author's purpose, then we have
+no fault to find with the work. But the term "_Larger_ History" is,
+in this case, a misnomer. The book does _not_ contain as much
+matter as the earlier work to which we have alluded, and it is not, so
+far as we can make out, written for older readers. It does not strike
+one as being a history at all,--that is, a straightforward, logical, and
+continuous narrative coinciding with those exemplar types of historical
+writing bequeathed to us by Macaulay or by Motley. The book ends, as we
+have said, with the close of Jackson's administration; but we glean very
+little concerning the _administration_ and we are told much
+relative to "Old Hickory."
+
+Now, then, this may seem like finding fault with Mr. Higginson's book.
+If so, we have plainly asserted our reasons. But with his subject
+matter, and with his manner of treating it, everybody must be pleased.
+We have never read more charmful essays on the First Americans, the
+Visit of the Vikings, the Spanish Discoverers, the French Voyageurs, the
+Dawning of Independence, and the Great Western March, than appear
+between the covers of this beautiful volume. They are full of meat, and
+have the savor of fresh and studious investigation, and we feel grateful
+to their author for having provided so tempting a feast. What he says
+and the way he says it make us the more to regret the unfortunate title
+of his book.
+
+The illustrations, which are numerous, are veritable works of art, and
+we do not believe that any other American book can exhibit a finer or
+more valuable series of portraits of American statesmen. This feature
+alone should commend it to lovers of fine books, of which the present
+issue is decidedly one. We are not informed whether a second volume is
+forthcoming.
+
+
+[Footnote 6: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romance. By Lord Byron.
+Boston: Ticknor & Co. Price, in cloth, $6.00.]
+
+[Footnote 7: Three Decades of Federal Legislation, from 1855 to 1885. By
+the Hon. S.S. Cox, 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 726. Illustrated. Providence, R.I.;
+J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1885. Price, $5.00, (sold only by subscription.)]
+
+[Footnote 8: LINCOLN AND STANTON. A study of the war
+administration of 1861 and 1862, with special consideration of some
+recent statements of Gen. George B. McClellan, By Wm. D. Kelley. 8vo,
+pp. 88. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Price, $1.00.]
+
+[Footnote 9: The American Caucus System; its origin, purpose, and
+utility. By George W. Lawton. 1 vol. pp. 107. New York: G.P. Putnam's
+Sons, 1885. Price, $1.00.]
+
+[Footnote 10: The Postulates of English Political Economy. By the late
+Walter Bagehot, with a preface by Alfred Marshall. 1 vol. pp. 114. New
+York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. Price $1.00.]
+
+[Footnote 11: CITY BALLADS. By Will Carleton, author of "Farm
+Ballads," "Farm Legends," etc. Illustrated. Square 8vo, pp. 180. New
+York: Harper & Brothers. Price $2.00.]
+
+[Footnote 12: A Larger History of the United States of America to the
+close of President Jackson's administration. By Thomas Wentworth
+Higginson. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, Portraits, and other Engravings.
+1 vol. 8vo, pp. 470. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886. Price, $3.00.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+NOTES AND QUERIES.
+
+At the request of many of our readers, this new Department is initiated.
+Please address all queries and answers simply,--EDITOR OF THE BAY STATE
+MONTHLY, 43 Milk St., Boston.
+
+
+1.--In one of the old Readers, I find a selection, not credited to any
+author, and beginning as follows:--"Born, sir, in a land of liberty;
+having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict
+to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to
+secure its permanent establishment in my country, my anxious
+recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are
+irresistibly excited, whensoever in any country, I see an oppressed
+nation unfurl the banners of freedom." Will some one of your readers
+inform me who was the author of these words, and what was the occasion
+for their utterance?--W.T.D.
+
+2.--Sullivan, in his _Familiar Letters_, states (p. 26) that:
+"General Washington is well known to have expressed his heartfelt
+satisfaction that the important State of Massachusetts had acceded to
+the Union. There is much _secret history_ as to the efforts made to
+procure the rejection (of the constitution) on the one side, and the
+adoption on the other." Where can I find the fullest account of this
+"secret history?"--STUDENT.
+
+3.--Who was the first American woman to publicly espouse the cause of
+Anti-Slavery? I have lately seen several names mentioned?--M.S.
+
+4.--"Where can I find the best account of the Know-Nothings, that
+figured in American politics some years ago?"
+
+5.--The late Epes Sargent, in one of his sketches, says:--
+
+"Semmes took a pinch of snuff, and replied,--'You remember _Mrs.
+Glasse's_ well-known receipt for cooking a hare--First catch your
+hare!'"--_Who was Mrs Glasse?_--LATIN SCHOOL.
+
+6.--Where can I find a full account of the history of the Indian tribes
+of early Massachusetts? The various State Histories say but little about
+them.--ANTIQUARY.
+
+7.--Has the life of Robert Rantoul Jr. ever been written? If so, by
+whom?--H.A.D.
+
+8.--Most of our States have one capital; some have two--Providence and
+Newport, in Rhode Island for instance. Why two?
+
+9.--In Chandler Robbins' "History of the Second Church," under date of
+Oct. 7. 1762, occurs the following: "Voted that the singers sound the
+base at the end of the lines whenever they think proper." What is the
+explanation of this custom?
+
+10.--Bartlett does not give this: "To fleet the time carelessly, as they
+did in the golden world." Where is it to be found?--ELHEGOS.
+
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+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+"_Undoubtedly the most remarkable series of articles ever published
+in a magazine, and their popularity is in, accord with their
+merit_."--BROOKLYN EAGLE.
+
+_Of the numbers of_ THE CENTURY _from November, 1884 to April
+1885, six issues, more than a million and a quarter copies have already
+been published_.
+
+
+THE WAR PAPERS IN THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+With the number for November, 1884, the first issue of a new volume,
+there began to appear in this magazine a series of separate papers, the
+object of which is to tell in clear and graphic manner the stories of
+the great battles of the War for the Union; the authors being leading
+officers on both the Federal and Confederate sides, often the first in
+command, and always a participant in the engagement under consideration.
+The extraordinary increase in the circulation of the magazine since
+these papers were begun, and the reception by the public and the press
+of the material already printed, indicate the wide-spread popular
+interest in the plan.
+
+THE NOVEMBER CENTURY contains the paper by General G.T. Beauregard, of
+the Confederate army, describing "The Battle of Bull Run," with more
+than twenty illustrations, including portraits of McDowell, Johnston,
+"Stonewall" Jackson, and others. General Beauregard not only describes
+the battle, but touches upon his relations with Mr. Jefferson Davis, and
+the general conduct of the war.
+
+THE DECEMBER CENTURY contains the graphic description of "The Capture of
+Fort Donelson," by General Lew Wallace, with portraits of Buckner,
+Floyd, Pillow, and others among the illustrations, and a frontispiece
+portrait of General Grant, from a little-known photograph; also an
+autographic reproduction of General Grant's famous "Unconditional
+Surrender" letter, written to the Confederate commander at Fort
+Donelson.
+
+THE JANUARY CENTURY contains an illustrated article by Rear-Admiral
+Walke, describing the "Operations of the Western Flotilla," including
+engagements at Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Pillow, Fort Donelson, Memphis,
+and Island No. 10. Captain James B. Eads (who built the gun-boats)
+contributes to the same number a paper on "Recollections of Foote and
+the Gun-boats."
+
+_New readers of_ THE CENTURY _desiring to secure these three
+numbers, November, December, and January, and thus begin the War Series
+and Mr. Howells's new novel, "The Rise of Silas Lapham," can obtain them
+for $1.00 of the publishers (who will send them to any address,
+post-paid, on receipt of price), or of dealers everywhere. New editions
+will be printed as rapidly as the demand requires. November is now in
+its sixth edition._
+
+THE FEBRUARY CENTURY, the Midwinter number, contains a remarkable list
+of attractions, including a richly illustrated paper on "Winter Sports
+in Canada," an illustrated story by Mark Twain, entitled "Royalty on
+the Mississippi," etc., etc. In this issue appears THE FIRST OF GENERAL
+GRANT'S ARTICLES in the war series, being his long-looked-for paper on
+"The Battle of Shiloh." For reasons which he recounts in the opening of
+the article, general Grant never made to the Government the usual full
+report touching this engagement. The paper is a comprehensive treatment
+of his relations to the battle, including much of picturesque and
+personal interest concerning its progress and a discussion of the main
+points of controversy, together with his own estimates of the military
+character and services of certain of the leading officers in both the
+Union and Confederate sides.
+
+THE CONFEDERATE SIDE AT "SHILOH" will be described in this February
+number in two interesting articles, one by the son of the Confederate
+leader, General Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh, and the other
+by Colonel Jordan, of general Beauregard's staff. These, with General
+Grant's article, are among the most notable contributions ever made to
+magazine literature. The illustrations are more than twenty-five in
+number.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+FURTHER PAPERS BY GENERAL GRANT.
+
+In his second paper General Grant will cover an entire year of his
+service in the war, including the different campaigns against Vicksburg,
+and its capitulation. In his third paper he will deal with the battle of
+Chattanooga, including the strategy of the campaign from the time of his
+assumption of the command. A fourth paper, on the Wilderness campaign,
+will follow.
+
+While largely engaged with the main features of the campaigns described,
+General Grant has not failed to take note of significant and
+characteristic details. These papers will be illustrated with the same
+regard for thoroughness and accuracy which has characterized the
+illustrations of the articles in the war series already published.
+
+
+THE "MONITOR" AND "MERRIMAC," IN THE MARCH CENTURY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The story of this famous fight is described in the March CENTURY by Col.
+John Taylor Wood, fourth officer of the "Merrimac" in the second day's
+fight, and now the senior surviving officer. Col. Wood was afterward
+commander of the privateer "Tallahassee." The Federal side of the battle
+is told by Commander S.D. Greene, U.S.N. (whose death has just
+occurred), who was the executive officer of the "Monitor," and operated
+the guns within the turret. General R.E. Colston, commander of the
+Confederate forces opposite Newport News, contributes an eyewitness's
+account of the same battle, describing, also, the "Merrimac's"
+engagement with the Federal fleet before the arrival of the "Monitor."
+A paper will soon appear on "THE MONITOR," BY CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON,
+making record of the circumstances attending the invention of that
+famous craft, and treating also of the engagement at Hampton Roads.
+Readers of the articles in the March number will be especially
+interested in the inventor's story.
+
+In the April CENTURY will be printed two important papers on THE CAPTURE
+OF NEW ORLEANS, BY ADMIRAL PORTER AND GEORGE W. CABLE.
+
+Admiral Porter, with whom, as he relates, the expedition against New
+Orleans originated, and who was in command of the mortar-fleet during
+the action, describes the Federal side of "The Opening of the Lower
+Mississippi"; while George W. Cable, the novelist, and at the time a
+resident of New Orleans, writes of the condition of the city and the
+circumstances attending its occupation. The illustrations will include
+a number of battle-scenes from sketches made by Admiral Porter.
+
+In the May and June numbers the papers in the War Series will be largely
+devoted to THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN BY GEN. G.B. McCLELLAN AND GEN. J.E.
+JOHNSTON.
+
+General McClellan will contribute two papers, the first of a general
+nature on the Peninsular Campaign, and the second (to appear later) on
+the battle of Antietam, thus covering the period of his command of the
+Army of the Potomac. General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the
+entire Confederate forces opposed to McClellan in the Peninsular
+engagements until the battle of Seven Pines, when in consequence of a
+wound he was succeeded by General Lee, will cover, in his papers, the
+period from Manassas to Seven Pines, dealing with both battles, and with
+his relations and differences with the President of the Confederacy. The
+engagements at Gaines's Mill and Malvern Hill, in this campaign, will be
+described in papers by GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER AND GEN. D.H. HILL, who
+were prominently engaged against each other in both actions. These will
+be well supplemented by the "Recollections of a Private."
+
+OTHER WAR PAPERS by Generals Longstreet, Pope, Gordon, Rosecrans, Buell,
+Hunt, Pleasonton, Newton, and other prominent leaders, will appear in
+later numbers.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SERIES will receive the most careful attention,
+and in this particular it is thought that the series will possess an
+unequaled historical interest. THE CENTURY has at its disposal a very
+large quantity of maps and plans, portraits of general officers of both
+sides, authentic paintings and drawings, and especially photographs of
+camp scenes, battle-fields, famous localities, etc. A strict regard for
+accuracy will guide the preparation of the illustrations.
+
+In connection with this series is appearing a number of briefer
+sketches, entitled "RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE," reflecting with
+interesting and life-like details the experiences of the common soldier
+from the time of enlistment to the muster-out: the drill, the march, the
+bivouac, the skirmish, the charge, the pursuit, the retreat, etc., etc.
+Auxiliary branches of the service will also be treated in this
+supplementary way, and in several instances briefer supplementary papers
+will chronicle special incidents or consider special phases of an
+engagement. Personal reminiscences of several of the most prominent
+military leaders, now dead, will also give variety to the scheme.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OTHER FEATURES OF "THE CENTURY" include W.D. Howells's new novel of an
+American business man, "The Rise of Silas Lapham"; a novel, by Henry
+James, "The Bostonians," begun in the February number; a series of
+papers, by W.D. Howells, descriptive of some cities of Italy,
+illustrated with reproductions of etchings, by Joseph Pennell; a series
+of brilliantly illustrated articles on "The New Astronomy" (a paper in
+this series appears in the March number); articles on "The New
+North-west," on Architecture, History, French and American Art, etc.,
+etc., and short stories by the best writers--many of them to be
+illustrated. The War Series will not be allowed to interfere in any way
+with the general features of the magazine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Subscriptions may begin at any time, but in order to get the
+first chapters of Mr. W.D. Howells's novel, "The Rise of Silas Lapham,"
+and to commence the War Series, new subscribers should date from the
+November number. The subscription price of THE CENTURY is $4.00 a year,
+and single numbers can be purchased of book-sellers and news-dealers
+everywhere at 35 cents each. All dealers receive subscriptions, or
+remittance may be made direct to the publishers by postal or express
+order, registered letter, bank check, or draft.
+
+THE CENTURY CO. 33 East 17th Street, New-York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: FROM "RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE."]
+
+
+THE CENTURY _is beyond question the first among magazines in the
+English language. The people of the South owe it especial thanks not
+only for the fairness of its spirit toward this section, but because it
+opened its pages to many of our best writers and made them known to the
+world._--THE APPEAL, MEMPHIS, TENN.
+
+_The time has now come when this portion of our national history can be
+discussed by the actors in it, whether they wore the blue or the gray,
+and different versions can be judged without partiality._--ARGUS,
+ALBANY, N.Y.
+
+_The great captains on both sides will make this series the most
+notable historic contribution of the day._--CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA.
+
+_Every soldier should be a subscriber to_ THE CENTURY _for the
+coming year._--COURIER-GAZETTE, ROCKLAND, MAINE.
+
+_In securing these articles from the leading generals of the great
+struggle_, THE CENTURY _did the best piece of journalistic work
+that has been done in this country for many a year._--THE CHRISTIAN
+UNION, N.Y.
+
+_The wounds and passions of the late war are rapidly healing, but it
+will never lose its interest to the students of history. These articles
+cannot fail to be of great interest to all careful readers both North
+and South._--PRESS, PARAGOULD, ARK.
+
+_A series of important papers, the like of which has never before been
+attempted, and which possess the peculiar quality of interesting every
+person in the land._--THE BEACON, BOSTON, MASS.
+
+_What a vast work for good in these several ways is the great
+magazine-publishing house of_ THE CENTURY Co. _doing; what an
+uplift is it giving to good taste, good morals, good politics, and good
+manners, as well as to the dissemination of useful knowledge, to the
+culture of "the masses," to the comfort and peace and pleasure of home,
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+  3, 1863._ All around him are evidences of the terrible battle. Behind
+  fences, stone walls and trees, in trenches and in open fields are seen
+  soldiers of the blue and gray engaged in the awful struggle.
+
+  The officers who were in command on that day are easily distinguished on
+  the canvas. Old soldiers who have seen the painting pronounce it as
+  accurate as if photographed on the field.
+
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+  another painting called the
+
+  UPRISING OF THE NORTH,
+  representing the northern troops passing through Washington on their way
+  to the front, reviewed by President Lincoln, who stands on a marble
+  rostrum, surrounded by his associates in office, while the war governor,
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+
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+  Paul Philippoteaux, whose work every visitor to Paris has seen and will
+  remember.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+
+  BY COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.
+
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+
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+  address, 32 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.
+
+
+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
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+
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.--_Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey_.
+
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.--_Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y._
+
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.--_Henry Day, N.Y._
+
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.--_Geo.
+  Bancroft_.
+
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
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+
+  The maps are just splendid.--_Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J._
+
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+  N.Y._
+
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+
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+  heart.--_London Telegraph_.
+
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+
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+  College, England_.
+
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+  Sec. of State_.
+
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+
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+  of Washington.--_Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England_.
+
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.--_Harper's
+  Magazine_.
+
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.--_N.Y. Times_.
+
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.--_The Nation_.
+
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
+  treasures.
+
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.--_Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J._
+
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.--_Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman_.
+--------------------------------------
+
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+
+  Published by A.S. BARNES & CO., 111 & 113 William Street, New York.
+
+
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
+  well as for its fitness as a companion to all Histories of the United
+  States, with confidence that it will prove a valuable specialty to all.
+
+  The RED Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
+  the convenience of Teachers and Scholars.
+
+  The ¶ and Page references to various School Histories, which mention the
+  Battles make it available for use by Teachers throughout the United
+  States.
+
+  The volume contains the 41 maps which were the result of thirty years of
+  study, and are found in his standard volume, "Battles of the American
+  Revolution."
+
+  THE SECRETARY OF WAR has placed the "BATTLE MAPS AND CHARTS" at ARMY
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+
+  FIVE STEEL ENGRAVINGS OF WASHINGTON accompany the volume. The ST. MEMIN
+  (crayon) as frontispiece, engraved by Hall & Sons; also PEALE'S painting
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+
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+
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+  find a place in all public and private libraries.--_Indianapolis
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+
+  Each map is accompanied with a statement of the generals and number of
+  men engaged on both sides, to which is appended the reason for such
+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
+  authority in military matters.--_The Educator (New Haven, Ct.)_.
+
+  A valuable compilation from the author's large work, and cannot fail to
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+  Herald_.
+
+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
+  original system, so as to present a singularly clear view of the history
+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
+  losses on each side, and the incidents of the battle.--_N.Y. Evening
+  Post_.
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+  Volume I.--1884. Bound in cloth, royal 8vo.,
+  420 pages. Price, $2.00.
+  WITH
+  6 PORTRAITS ON STEEL, 10 MAPS, AND 107 ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PRESS NOTICES.
+
+  "A creditable addition to Massachusetts literature."--_Boston
+  Globe_.
+
+  "The first six numbers form a volume of genuine historic value and
+  interest."--_Transcript_.
+
+  "An admirable issue."--_Malden City Press_.
+
+  "Replete with sketches which should be read in every
+  household."--_Winchendon Courier_.
+
+  "Furnishing much valuable historical and biographical
+  matter."--_Boston Commonwealth_.
+
+  "Working its way to popular favor."--_The Weekly News_.
+
+  "The Bay State Monthly is just what is needed in New England."--_The
+  Gorham Mountaineer_.
+
+  "New England societies will not be able to dispense with this
+  magazine."--_St. Paul Pioneer-Press_.
+
+  "Crammed full of historic facts; should be in every
+  family."--_Brockton Eagle_.
+
+  "A conspicuous article is 'Bunker Hill' (with map), by General
+  Carrington, U.S.A."--_Southbridge Journal._
+
+  "Has made a firm footing and held its ground well."--_Newport News and
+  Journal_.
+
+  "Filled with instructive literary matter, and a very reliable
+  map."--_Essex Banner_.
+
+  "One of the most popular in the list of monthlies."--_The Moniter
+  (Chatham)_.
+
+  "Handsomely gotten up, and reading-matter is interesting."--_Holyoke
+  Herald_.
+
+  "The steady improvement in this magazine is gratifying."--_Medford
+  Mercury_.
+
+  "Deserves the support of every true American, and every Massachusetts
+  citizen."--_The Watchman_.
+
+  "Edited ably, growing healthily, and presents features of peculiar
+  interest."--_Congregationalist_.
+
+  "Improves with each number."--_New England Home Journal
+  (Worcester)_.
+
+  "Should be in every household in Massachusetts,"--_Barre Gazette_.
+
+  "One of the noted historical magazines of the day."--_Norfolk County
+  Register_.
+
+  "Of that interest to the whole country that the cultured productions of
+  cultured Boston have usually been."--_Courier and Journal (Louisville,
+  Ky.)_.
+
+  "An important blank in our periodical literature has been
+  filled."--_Chicago News_.
+
+  "Destined to take place in the first rank."--_Watertown
+  Enterprise_.
+
+  "Invites the support of Massachusetts people from Berkshire to
+  Barnstable."--_Lowell Morning Times_.
+
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+
+  "'The Rent Veil,' by Henry B. Carrington, is a strikingly fine
+  production, possessing a Miltonian stateliness, and breathing a spirit
+  of veneration."--_New York Times_.
+
+  "Replete with choice literary productions."--_Gardner Record._
+
+  "Keeps up the character established by the first number."--_Vox Populi
+  (Lowell)_.
+
+  "Should be in the hands of all who desire to know the Bay
+  State."--_Westborough Chronotype._
+
+  "Of special interest to the citizens of Massachusetts."--_Worcester
+  Spy_.
+
+  "A distinctive Massachusetts magazine."--_Waltham Record_.
+
+  "Both in appearance and contents creditable to the publishers."--_New
+  York Literary Times_.
+
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+
+  "The list of contributors is enough to sell the magazine."--_Scituate
+  Herald_.
+
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+  world."--_Home Journal_.
+
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+
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+
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+  _German Opera Season_, WALTER DAMROSCH, Director, Beginning April 6.
+
+  MONDAY, April 6--"The Prophet." Frl. Brandt, Frau Materna, Schott,
+  Koegel and Standigl.
+
+  TUESDAY, April 7, and SATURDAY MATINEE, April 11--"Tannhauser." Frau
+  Materna, Frl. Slach, Schott, Robinson, and Koegel.
+
+  WEDNESDAY, April 8--"Fidelio." Frl. Brandt, Frl. Slach, Udvardy,
+  Standigl, Miller, and Kemlitz.
+
+  THURSDAY, April 9--"Lohengrin." Frl. Brandt, Frl. Slach, Schott,
+  Robinson and Koegel.
+
+  FRIDAY, April 10--"La Juive." Frau Materna, Frl. Slach, Udvardy, Koegel,
+  Kemlitz.
+
+  SATURDAY, April 11, Evening--"Gluck's Orpheus." (First time in America).
+  Frl. Brandt, Frl. Slach and Frl. Hoch. Chorus largely augmented by
+  singers from local societies.
+
+  _The New York Symphony Orchestra_,
+
+  To begin at 7.45 P.M. Tickets now on sale, with reserved seats, at
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+--------------------------------------
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+
+  THE BAY STATE MONTHLY.
+
+  Volume I.--1884. Bound in cloth, royal 8vo.,
+
+  420 pages. Price, $2.00.
+
+  WITH
+
+  6 PORTRAITS ON STEEL, 10 MAPS, AND 107 ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PRESS NOTICES.
+
+  "A creditable addition to Massachusetts literature."--_Boston Globe_.
+
+  "The first six numbers form a volume of genuine historic value and
+  interest."--_Transcript_.
+
+  "An admirable issue."--_Malden City Press_.
+
+  "Replete with sketches which should be read in every
+  household."--_Winchendon Courier_.
+
+  "Furnishing much valuable historical and biographical
+  matter."--_Boston Commonwealth_.
+
+  "Working its way to popular favor."--_The Weekly News_.
+
+  "The Bay State Monthly is just what is needed in New England."--_The
+  Gorham Mountaineer_.
+
+  "New England societies will not be able to dispense with this
+  magazine."--_St. Paul Pioneer-Press_.
+
+  "Crammed full of historic facts; should be in every
+  family."--_Brockton Eagle_.
+
+  "A conspicuous article is 'Bunker Hill' (with map), by General
+  Carrington, U.S.A."--_Southbridge Journal._
+
+  "Has made a firm footing and held its ground well."--_Newport News and
+  Journal_.
+
+  "Filled with instructive literary matter, and a very reliable
+  map."--_Essex Banner_.
+
+  "One of the most popular in the list of monthlies."--_The Moniter
+  (Chatham)_.
+
+  "Handsomely gotten up, and reading-matter is interesting."--_Holyoke
+  Herald_.
+
+  "The steady improvement in this magazine is gratifying."--_Medford
+  Mercury_.
+
+  "Deserves the support of every true American, and every Massachusetts
+  citizen."--_The Watchman_.
+
+  "Edited ably, growing healthily, and presents features of peculiar
+  interest."--_Congregationalist_.
+
+  "Improves with each number."--_New England Home Journal
+  (Worcester)_.
+
+  "Should be in every household in Massachusetts,"--_Barre Gazette_.
+
+  "One of the noted historical magazines of the day."--_Norfolk County
+  Register_.
+
+  "Of that interest to the whole country that the cultured productions of
+  cultured Boston have usually been."--_Courier and Journal (Louisville,
+  Ky.)_.
+
+  "An important blank in our periodical literature has been
+  filled."--_Chicago News_.
+
+  "Destined to take place in the first rank."--_Watertown
+  Enterprise_.
+
+  "Invites the support of Massachusetts people from Berkshire to
+  Barnstable."--_Lowell Morning Times_.
+
+  "Already a success."--_Cape Cod Bee (Barnstable)_.
+
+  "'The Rent Veil,' by Henry B. Carrington, is a strikingly fine
+  production, possessing a Miltonian stateliness, and breathing a spirit
+  of veneration."--_New York Times_.
+
+  "Replete with choice literary productions."--_Gardner Record._
+
+  "Keeps up the character established by the first number."--_Vox Populi
+  (Lowell)_.
+
+  "Should be in the hands of all who desire to know the Bay
+  State."--_Westborough Chronotype._
+
+  "Of special interest to the citizens of Massachusetts."--_Worcester
+  Spy_.
+
+  "A distinctive Massachusetts magazine."--_Waltham Record_.
+
+  "Both in appearance and contents creditable to the publishers."--_New
+  York Literary Times_.
+
+  "Does credit to publishers and contributors."--_East Boston Argus._
+
+  "The list of contributors is enough to sell the magazine."--_Scituate
+  Herald_.
+
+  "Is destined to be popular and a valuable addition to the literary
+  world."--_Home Journal_.
+
+  "Rich in contents."--_Indianapolis Times._
+
+  "A worthy representative of the literary and typographical excellence of
+  cultured Boston."--_Weekly Advocate._
+
+  "Of fine appearance and high promise."--_Lawrence American_.
+
+  "Replete with choice literary contributions."--_Salem Register_.
+
+  "We predict a bright future for The Bay State Monthly."--_Norwood
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+
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+  ALL THE LEADING ATTRACTIONS Presented during the season.
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+
+ALASKA: Its Southern Coast. And the Sitkan Archipelago. By Eliza Ruhamah
+Scidmore. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. In this well-written and
+exceedingly interesting volume the author opens up to us a country which
+notwithstanding so much has been said of it, is yet very imperfectly
+known. Although it is nine times as large as New England, and twice as
+large as Texas, it is the popular impression that it is all a barren,
+inhospitable region, wrapped in snow and ice the greater part of the
+year, and that a visitor to its settlements must undergo perils almost
+equal to those of the Greely relief expedition. Miss Scidmore in her
+book dispels this illusion in the most summary manner. She spent two
+summers in Alaska, and therefore speaks from personal knowledge. She
+tells us that the winters at Sitka are milder than those in New York,
+while the summers are delightfully cool and temperate. Some of the
+grandest scenery of the continent is to be found along the Alaska coast,
+in the region of the Alexander or Sitkan Archipelago, and the monthly
+mail steamer is crowded with tourists during the summer season. It is
+one of the easiest and most delightful trips to go up the coast by the
+inside passage and cruise through the archipelago; and in voyaging past
+the unbroken wilderness of the island shores, the tourist feels quite
+like an explorer penetrating unknown lands. The mountain range that
+walls the Pacific coast from the Antarctic to the Arctic gives a bold
+and broken front to the mainland, and every one of the eleven hundred
+islands of the archipelago is but a submerged spur or peak of the great
+range. Many of the islands are larger than Massachusetts or New Jersey,
+but none of them have been wholly explored, nor is the survey of their
+shores completed. The Yosemite walls and cascades are repeated in mile
+after mile of deep salt water channels, and from the deck of an ocean
+steamer one views scenes not paralleled after long rides and climbs in
+the heart of the Sierras. The gorges and canons of Colorado are
+surpassed; mountains that tower above Pike's Peak rise in steep incline
+from the still level of the sea; and the shores are clad in forests and
+undergrowth dense and impassable as the tangle of a Florida swamp.
+
+On her first visit to Sitka the author spent a week at Victoria,
+Vancouver's Island, a place which she describes as a veritable paradise.
+The drives about the town, she says, along the island shores, and
+through the woods, are beautiful, and the heavy, London-built carriages
+roll over hard and perfect English highways. Ferns were growing ten and
+twelve feet high by the roadside. Wild rose-bushes are matted together
+by the acre in the clearings about the town, and in June they weight the
+air with their perfume, as they did a century ago, when Marchand, the
+old French voyager, compared the region to the rose-covered slopes of
+Bulgaria. The honeysuckle attains the greatest perfection in this
+climate, and covers and smothers the cottages and trellises with
+thickly-set blossoms. Even the currant-bushes grow to unusual height,
+and in many gardens they are trained on arbors and hang their red, ripe
+clusters high overhead.
+
+The old Russian town of Sitka, the most northern on the Pacific coast,
+she describes as a straggling, peaceful sort of town, edging along shore
+at the foot of high mountains, and sheltered from the surge and turmoil
+of the ocean by a sea-wall of rocky, pine-covered islands. The moss has
+grown greener and thicker on the roofs of the solid old wooden houses
+that are relics of Russian days, the paint has worn thinner everywhere,
+and a few more houses tumbling into ruins complete the scenes of
+picturesque decay. Twenty years ago there were one hundred and
+twenty-five buildings in the town proper, and it is doubtful if a dozen
+have been erected since.
+
+Miss Scidmore's descriptions of the various places she visited and the
+curious things she saw are vivid and picturesque, and one can learn more
+of both from her pages than from all the official reports that have been
+published. It is a book that ought to have a wide popularity. It is well
+illustrated and contains a map reduced from the last general chart of
+Alaska published by the Coast Survey.
+
+
+BOY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY. By a Naval Officer. Boston: D.
+Lothrop & Co. Price $1.25. It is difficult to write a book of boy's
+adventures without falling into what is popularly called sensational
+writing, that is the description of improbable incidents to arouse and
+excite the imagination without any purpose beyond that result. The
+writer of the present volume, while making an intensely interesting
+story, has avoided this danger, and his narrative gives a not overdrawn
+description of the life of a boy on a vessel in the United States Navy.
+Joe Bently is the son of a Maine farmer, with a strong distaste for the
+life to which he has been brought up and an equally strong love for the
+sea. His desire to become a sailor has always been repressed by his
+father, who, though loving his son, has no sympathy with him in this one
+respect.
+
+Mr. Bently at last gives his consent, and Joe enlists as an apprentice
+in the Navy. The story of his journey, his examination, his experiences,
+on board ship and his adventures while lying in foreign ports is very
+graphically told, and the boy who reads it gets a clear and actual idea
+of what a boy must go through on board a man-of-war before he can
+graduate as an "able-bodied seaman." The writer shows a thorough
+acquaintance with every thing on board ship, even to the minutest
+details. The book ends with the promotion of Joe, and a promise to
+continue his adventures in another volume.
+
+
+THE EVOLUTION OF DODD. By W.H. Smith. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price
+$1.00. Here is a book we should rejoice to see in the hands of every
+teacher of youth in the country. It is a living, breathing protest
+against certain features of the present school systems which obtain in
+various parts of the country, from that of the kindergarten to the
+grammar school. The points of the author are so well taken, that the
+reader is forced not only to admit the reality of the evils he
+denounces, but to acknowledge the justice of the conclusions at which he
+arrives.
+
+In the evolution of character the public school has come to be a most
+important factor. To it has been assigned a task equal to any other
+agency that deals with human nature. But in multitudes of cases it has
+become a mere mill for grinding out graduates. The "system" has largely
+lost sight of the grandest thing in all the world--the individual soul.
+It addresses itself to child-humanity collectively, as if characters
+were manufactured, like pins, by the million, and all alike, and it
+attempts to grind out this great mass, each individual like every other,
+as if its members could be made interchangeable like the parts of a
+government musket.
+
+To illustrate his ideas, the author selects a representative boy, Dodd
+Weaver, the eldest son of a Methodist clergyman, and carries him through
+the various schools and grades of schools from the time of his entrance
+to his graduation. He does not make him a model boy to begin with, and
+strive to show how he was spoiled by the school system. On the contrary
+he endows him with a good many disagreeable qualities; he makes him
+bright, sharp, and full of vitality, with a strong bent for mischief. He
+is high-tempered, quarrelsome, and disobedient, and yet in the hands of
+one who understands his mental peculiarities plastic as dough. It is the
+aim of the author to show how utterly useless it is to treat such
+boys--and our schools are full of them--in exactly the same manner as
+those of different character and temperament, and to demand that
+teachers have the right to adapt their methods according to individual
+demands. He says:
+
+It is not a system--any set of rules or formularies--that can make our
+school, any more than it is forms and ceremonies that make our churches.
+These may all be well enough in their proper places, but there is
+nothing, absolutely nothing, in them, _per se_. It is the
+righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees in the one case, and the dry
+bones of pedagogy in the other.
+
+The evil arises, in the schools as in the churches, from believing and
+acting as if there were something in the system itself.
+
+If human nature were a fixed quantity, if any two children were alike,
+or anywhere nearly alike, if a certain act done for a child always
+brought forth the same result, then it might be possible to form an
+absolute system of pedagogy, as, with fixed elements, there is formed
+the science of chemistry. But the quick atoms of spirit that manifest
+their affinities under the eye of that alchemist, the teacher, are far
+more subtle than the elements that go into the crucible in any other of
+Nature's laboratories.
+
+A chemist will distil for you the odor of a blown rose, or catch and
+hold captive the breath of the morning meadow, and do it always just the
+same, and ever with like results; but there is no art by which anything
+analogous can be wrought in human life. Here a new element comes in that
+entirely changes that economy of Nature in this regard. The
+individuality of every human soul is this new factor, and because of it,
+of its infinite variability--because no two atoms that are cast into the
+crucible of life are ever the same, or can be wrought into character by
+the same means--because of this, no fixed rules can ever be laid down
+for evolving a definite result, in the realm of soul, by never-varying
+means.
+
+And this is where many teachers are at fault. They put their faith in a
+system, a mill through which all children shall be run, and in passing
+through which each child shall receive the same treatment, and from
+which they shall all emerge, stamped with the seal of the institution,
+"uniformity."
+
+This is the prime idea that lies at the foundation of the popular system
+of education--to make children uniform. This very thing that God and
+Nature have set themselves against--no two faces, or forms, or statures;
+no two minds, or hearts, or souls being alike, as designed by the
+Creator, and as fashioned by Nature's hand--to make all these alike was
+the aim of the system under which Dodd began to be evolved, and with
+which he began to clash at once.
+
+But it is not the system only which is at fault. Hot with the
+indignation bred from a discussion of its shortcomings, the author turns
+suddenly upon the parents of the innumerable Dodds in the schools of the
+country:
+
+And for you, who send your six-year-olds to school with a single hook,
+and grumble because you have to buy even so much of an outfit, what are
+you going to do about it when your boy drains all the life out of the
+little volume in a couple of weeks or a month? He knows the stories by
+heart, and after that he says them over, day by day, because he must,
+and not in the least because he cares to.
+
+What are you going to do about this? It is largely your business. You
+cannot shirk it and say that you send the boy to school, and it is the
+teacher's business to take care of him.
+
+The remedy for the wrongs and faults of the system is, in his opinion,
+to recognize the individuality of children in the schoolroom to study
+the mental peculiarities and needs of each, and to do away with the
+system so far as it interferes with the liberty of the teacher to adapt
+his means to the proper ends to be attained. It is demanded that
+teachers be selected on the sole ground of fitness and adaptability, and
+not because of favoritism or the mere fact that their book education is
+sufficient, and it is further insisted that parents interest themselves
+to see and demand that the best that can be done is done for their
+children. These are the means suggested in the way of reform, and they
+seem adequate in a large degree to accomplish what is desired. We
+commend the book to teachers and parents.
+
+
+MONEY IN POLITICS. By J.K. Upton. With an introduction by Edward
+Atkinson. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. The author of this
+comprehensive and valuable work was for several years Assistant
+Secretary of the United States Treasury, and in that responsible
+position had admirable facilities for studying the question of money as
+affected by congressional acts from the earliest history of the republic
+down to the present, and he has made good use of his opportunities in
+this book which is a succinct narration of the numerous changes made in
+American money beginning with the continental issues, in fact, earlier,
+the colonial money. The work is, therefore, a history of American coin
+and the numerous issues of paper that served as money. To the student
+there is in this book a fund of information extremely interesting,
+particularly at this time when the popular will is likely to compel
+farther legislation. A topic of present interest, is the silver dollar,
+to which the author devotes a chapter historical in its character, and
+another chapter concerning circulation of this coin. In the former
+chapter he begins with the Spanish milled dollar, "the Mexican pillar
+piece," which was the first silver dollar known in American commerce,
+and had, in colonial times, 386.7-8 grains of pure silver. In 1785 the
+American standard was fixed at 375.64 grains of pure silver which became
+the unit of account, the standard dollar. In 1792, after a Congress of
+the States was organized, the standard dollar was required to contain
+371.25 grains of pure silver, or, with the admixture of baser metal, the
+standard of silver coin 416 grains, the pure silver rated by itself as
+before. These facts are of interest as showing the origin of the
+American dollar recognized as the standard down to 1873.
+
+The chapters on "Circulation of the Silver Dollar" and "The Trade
+Dollar" are interesting and timely, inasmuch as the questions considered
+are now before Congress, or at least with the committees, and
+legislation of some kind will be demanded within the next year. There
+is, even now, a proposition embodied in a bill to suspend coinage of the
+silver dollar, because it has been found impossible to put the great sum
+coined directly in circulation. A great part of it has been made the
+basis of silver certificates, a kind of currency that, by and by, will
+bring distress to commercial interests if the issues are maintained, or
+if they are materially increased. Mr. Upton treats all these matters
+with very clear understanding of every question, and with certain
+facility of expression that appeals directly to the reader who has only
+common understanding of money affairs. From beginning to end the book is
+a rich mine of facts, of historical matter, and of statements that have
+undergone the scrutiny of the wisest financier during the critical
+period between the appreciation of values, with the disturbing
+influences of war, and the return of true values with resumption of
+specie payment which was effected with gold. While the work must have
+absorbing interest for that extended school of economists that has made
+finance a special study in the past dozen years, it will prove very
+useful to representatives in Congress, who may find here in compact form
+facts of history with which they should have familiar acquaintance
+before they attempt legislation intended to correct the errors
+incorporated in our money system.
+
+
+THE OLD STONE HOUSE. By Anne March (Constance Fenimore Woolson). Boston:
+D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. This capital story, by one of the
+brightest American writers of fiction, has been placed by the publishers
+in their Young Folks' Library Series, where it ought to find a new lease
+of popularity. The Old Stone House is the home of five young people,
+representing three families. They are all orphans, and are living with a
+widowed aunt, whose single and constant aim is to educate them into real
+men and women. The young cousins, who dearly love each other, differ in
+tastes and temperament, but not in such ways as to interfere with each
+other's enjoyments. The younger ones are jolly and fun-loving, and no
+occasion for having a good time is left unimproved. The main interest of
+the story, however, lies with the eldest of the cousins, Sybil
+Warrington, a girl of strong feelings but quiet exterior, whose ambition
+to shine in society is held in check by a feeling that something higher
+and better is required of her. The story of her struggles is quietly but
+effectively told, and will have a peculiar interest for young girls.
+Miss Woolson has written much, and her work has given her a very
+enviable reputation both in this country and in Europe, but in all her
+writings there is nothing more earnest.
+
+
+HOW SUCCESS IS WON. By Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. With Portraits. Boston: D.
+Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. This handsome volume is made up of
+biographies of twelve men who have achieved distinguished successes in
+the various directions in which they turned their respective energies.
+Mrs. Bolton not only rehearses the main incidents of their lives, but
+shows that in every case the success and honors attained were the result
+of industry, economy and high moral principle. Among those selected to
+illustrate how success may be won under different circumstances are
+Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, Henry M. Stanley and
+Alexander H. Stephens. The several sketches are bright and pointed, and
+the portraits which illustrate them add to their value.
+
+The Rochester (N.Y.) _Herald_ speaks of this extremely interesting
+book as "a singular collection of names, wide apart in many respects,
+but they represent men whom it is interesting to read about."
+
+
+ANNA MARIA'S HOUSEKEEPING. By Mrs. S.D. Power. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.
+Price $1.00. If we were asked to recommend any one single book to a
+young housekeeper which should serve as a domestic guide, counsellor and
+friend, we should unhesitatingly name _Anna Maria's Housekeeping_.
+So far as our knowledge extends, there is no other book which so exactly
+and thoroughly fulfils the needs implied in those titles. It is no mere
+collection of receipts, but a complete and common-sense treatise on the
+whole science of housekeeping, tersely and clearly written, with a
+flavor of experience about it that makes one accept it as authoritative.
+It is a staff upon which the young housekeeper may confidently lean, and
+by the aid of which she may overcome obstacles which without it would
+seem insurmountable. Mrs. Power does not believe in a house keeping
+itself. It requires continual care and oversight, and a clear knowledge
+of what is to be done. She believes, too, that a house can be well kept
+as easily as badly kept, and that a bright, clean, well-ordered home has
+a deal to do with molding the temper and even character of its members.
+"It is no small thing," she says, "to stand at the head of affairs, and
+be the motive power on which depend the welfare and credit, the health,
+temper and spirit of the whole family. When in midlife you come to find
+how essential the comfort of a well-kept home is to the bodily strength
+and good conditions, to a sound mind and spirit, and useful days, you
+will reverence the good housekeeper as I do, above poet or artist,
+beauty or genius." In the opening chapter of the book the author
+instructs Anna Maria in the art of "How to Make Home-work Easier." In
+the succeeding chapters she takes up the various kinds of work there is
+to be done about the house, and describes the easiest methods of doing
+it. "No attitudinizing," she remarks, "no fine lady affectations over
+the griddles and saucepans; instead, cultivate the fine character which
+acts up to the need of the hour swiftly, promptly, but with quiet and
+certainty." Her definition of "good food" is to the point. "It is not,"
+she says, "rich food, nor even the tolerable fare which is just
+undercooked and flavorless enough to tax digestion more than it ought.
+It is the best of everything cooked in the nicest possible way, and with
+pleasant variety." Passing from the kitchen the care of the different
+rooms of the house is taken up--the chambers, the sitting-room and the
+storeroom; instructions are given for making "blue Monday" less blue;
+the arts of starching and ironing are discussed; and a chapter is given
+to the mending and darning basket. Other portions of the book are
+devoted to "Company Days," "Shopping," "Sickness in the House," "Making
+the best of Things," and "Helps that are Helps," the servant-girl
+question forming the subject of the closing chapter. The volume is very
+handsomely brought out, but even were it not, it would be worth its
+weight in gold to the young and inexperienced housekeeper.
+
+
+GERTRUDE'S DIARY. By Pansy. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price
+60 cts. A new book by Pansy is always hailed with delight, and that
+delight generally mingled with wonder can possibly write so much and yet
+keep the freshness and brightness which runs through all her books.
+Gertrude is a girl of fifteen, wide awake, full of life, generally good
+tempered, and yet with as many faults as most girls of her age have;
+faults which arise more from thoughtlessness than from intent. She is
+one of four who agree to keep diaries, in accordance with a suggestion
+made by their Sunday-school teacher, and she records with impartiality
+all her good and bad times, her trials and her triumphs. Aside from its
+interest, it contains suggestions which cannot fail to make an
+impression upon the mind of any young girl who reads it, and to
+strengthen her in like temptations and under the same conditions. A
+pleasant story runs through the diary.
+
+
+MANY COLORED THREADS. From the Writings of Goethe. Selected by Carrie
+Adelaide Cooke. With an Introduction by Kev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D.
+Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. No other volume of the Spare
+Minute Series contains more real meat than this. Goethe was
+epigrammatic, and his ideas took the concentrated form of bullets,
+instead of scattering like shot. We doubt if there is another author,
+always excepting Shakespeare, from whose books so many noble and
+complete thoughts can be extracted. In the two hundred and fifty pages
+of this volume are more than a thousand of these gems, each worth; its
+setting. Dr. McKenzie says aptly of Goethe that he is able by virtue of
+his own genius to set more than the common man and to put his visions
+and his reflections in such form that others who would never have seen
+the tilings for themselves or been able to think deeply upon them, can
+have the benefit of his generous study and thought. He was many-sided.
+His mind took a wide range and seemed almost equally at home in many
+places. The real and the ideal both interested him and were cherished by
+him. Science and art, philosophy and poetry, engaged his attention and
+were enriched by his handiwork. In this versatility of his power and the
+manifoldness of their application he was remarkable. Out of this breadth
+of study came varied and large thoughts of the world and of human life.
+He had the faculties with which nature and humanity and divine power
+could breathe their inspiration for the world's instruction and delight,
+and that they were fully employed no-one who turns over the pages of
+this collection can doubt. A brief biography of Goethe takes the place
+of a preface, and there is an index of subjects.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MR. CHARLES LANMAN THE AUTHOR OF "THE LEADING MEN OF JAPAN."
+
+MARY COLE BAKER writes in the Washington (D.C.) _Republic:_ "Mr.
+Lanman is well known both in England and America as the writer of some
+of the most delightful descriptive books in the English language. To the
+facile wielding of his pen he adds an equally adroit and skilful use of
+the pencil, and his admirable results in these combined pursuits won for
+him from his friend and brother of the quill, Washington Irving, the apt
+and deserved soubriquet of 'the picturesque explorer of America.' To the
+pleasure which Mr. Lanman derived from these pursuits he added a
+sportsman's love for the field and took genuine delight in the
+'contemplative art' of angling. He was the first American to cast the
+artificial fly in the Saguenay region and to describe for the angler the
+charms of that since famous locality. He has followed this sport in
+nearly every State in the Union, never without his sketching materials,
+which he used unstintingly. The results of these labors are many
+hundreds of sketches of American scenery, invaluable now that the march
+of civilization has so completely changed the face of a large part of
+the country. It is delightful to find a man who has been able to get so
+much good from life as has Mr. Lanman. One would think that the writing
+and illustrating of more than thirty books, some of which are in two
+large octavo volumes, was the work of a lifetime. But this has been to
+Mr. Lanman his recreation. The fact that his books have been successful
+pecuniarily has not prevented him from following the duties of the
+various governmental positions in which he has been placed. No sinecures
+they either--librarian at different times of the House of
+Representatives, the War Department, of copyrights in the State
+Department and of the Interior Department, secretary to Daniel Webster,
+at the head of the returns of office of the Interior Department, and for
+the last ten years the American Secretary to the Japanese Legation at
+Washington. A lover of social intercourse, Mr. Lanman has led the
+typical busy life of the American, untouched by the direful and
+disastrous ills it is supposed to bring. He is now engaged in editing
+fourteen of his books for reproduction in uniform style, and a new book,
+_The Leading Men of Japan_, is ready for issue." 12mo, $1.50.
+Boston: D. Lothrop, & Co., Publishers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+COULDN'T BE BOUGHT: AND OTHER STORIES. By Faye Huntington. Illustrated.
+Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price 75 cts. A delightful collection of short
+stories for boys and girls, adapted to the Sunday-school library. The
+volume takes its name from the leading story. The author has a pleasant
+and attractive style, and her stories have a large amount of "telling"
+force in them.
+
+
+CHINA. By Prof. R.K. Douglas, of the British Museum. Edited by Arthur
+Gilman, M.A. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. This
+volume comes just at a time when there is a strong demand for something
+brief, exact and authoritative in the way of Chinese history. Current
+events have brought China before the world as one of the really great
+powers, and one which in time will be able not only to defend herself
+against the aggressions of other nations but will be perfectly able to
+take the offensive should occasion require. In the arts of diplomacy the
+Chinese are a match for the keenest statesman of Europe, and since the
+beginning of the present troubles with France they have developed a
+military talent which is perfectly surprising. With the growth of the
+military spirit it would not be strange if, in the course of the next
+generation China should hold as distinct and important a place among the
+warlike powers as France or England.
+
+The author of the volume before us had exceptional advantages for making
+such a book as just now the public demand and need. He was for several
+years a resident of China in an official capacity, and studied the
+people and their mode of life from actual observation. In preparing the
+book he also freely availed himself of the labors of others where they
+seemed capable of adding value to the narrative. In his preface he
+acknowledges his indebtedness to Doctor Legge's "Chinese Classics,"
+Archdeacon Gray's work on "China," Doolittle's "Social Life of the
+Chinese," Denys's "Chinese Folklore," Mayers's "Chinese Reader's
+Manual," Sir John Davis's "Poetry of the Chinese," as well as to the
+important linguistic, religious and topographical writings of Doctor
+Edkins of Peking, and particularly to the late Professor S. Wells
+Williams, of Yale College, whose work on the _Middle Kingdom_
+contains more information of value than any other single volume in our
+language.
+
+The various chapters of the work deal with the history of the empire in
+brief, its government, religions, its educational system, the nurture of
+the young, superstitions, funeral and wedding rites, the language, food
+and dress, honors, architecture, music, medicine and other subjects. It
+has been critically read by the young Chinese scholar, Mr. Yan Phou Lee,
+of Yale College, who has suggested a few notes. Its completeness is
+added to by an analytic table of contents and an index.
+
+IN THE WOODS AND OUT. By Pansy. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.
+Price $1.00. In the score or more of short stories which make up this
+volume Pansy is at her best. She never writes for the mere sake of
+filling up, but always, in the briefest of her sketches, she has
+something worth telling and worth remembering. There isn't a thing in
+the book which will not be read twice, and certain of the stones will be
+perennial favorites with the younger class of readers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PHILOSOPHIAE QUAESTOR.
+
+
+The seeker of philosophical truth, which is described as the shadowy
+figure of a young girl, is, throughout, very expressive of desire and
+appreciation. The impressions she receives are those to which such a
+condition are most sensitive--the higher and more refined ones--and the
+responsive thoughts concern the nature and character of what is heard or
+felt. The elevation into classic importance of Concord, its
+philosophers, and its School of Philosophy is due to the influence of
+their history and teachings in American literature, and it is pleasant
+to recognize in this work such reverence of their classicism. Mrs.
+Anagnos has written a prose poem in which the last two sessions of the
+Concord School of Philosophy, which include that in memory of Emerson,
+and its lecturers excite her feeling and inspire her thought. It is sung
+in lofty strains that resemble those of the sacred woods and fount, and
+themselves are communicative of their spirit. It will be welcomed as an
+appropriate souvenir.--_Boston Globe_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR NATIONAL FINANCES.
+
+
+Mr. J.K. Upton used to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the
+United States. Few men, therefore, have had better opportunities to
+inform themselves about our national finances. His volume, _Money in
+Politics_, published by D. Lothrop & Co., price $1.25, is a full
+history of the financial policy and legislation of this country. It is
+of the utmost value as a record, a book of reference, and an expression
+of sound theories. The intelligent reader cannot repress a feeling of
+shame that our national history in respect to finance should have been
+characterized by such continual bungling. The saddest feature in the
+case is the crass ignorance which Congress usually has displayed. Much
+of our legislation about money matters has been the merest
+experimenting, if not worse than this--the deliberate effort to enrich
+some one class of business men at the expense of the nation.
+
+He utters a solemn warning of the dangers to which we now are exposed
+through our present acts of coinage and legal tender, whereby our gold
+coin sooner or later must be driven from the country and our standard
+must become a silver dollar of light weight and uncertain value. He also
+shows conclusively the futility of legislation in causing two substances
+to become and remain of the same value. Mr. Edward Atkinson has
+furnished the introduction to the book, in which he commends it warmly.
+While Congress continues to permit the coinage of $2,000,000 in silver a
+month, for which there is no demand and the coinage of which merely
+furnishes a market for the wares of a few owners of silver mines, it is
+difficult to overstate the need that such books as this should be
+circulated and studied attentively throughout the nation. Mr. Atkinson
+makes an impressive comment, which we quote:
+
+"The productions of the hen-yards of the United States, according to the
+census statistics, was, in 1879, 456,910,916 dozen eggs, and, if hens
+have now increased in the ratio of population, it is now 500,000,000
+dozen, which at only ten cents a dozen, would exceed the value of the
+products of the silver mines.
+
+"It would be vastly more reasonable for Congress to order the compulsory
+purchase of two million dollars' worth of eggs per month," in order to
+sustain the hen products of the United States, "than it is to buy two
+million dollars' worth of silver; because the eggs could be used, or
+else would rot, while the silver cannot be used, and is expensive to
+store and to watch (pp. xvi-xvii)."--_Congregationalist_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ILLITERACY AND MORMONISM.
+
+
+Of _Illiteracy and Mormonism_, a brochure from the pen of Doctor
+Henry Randall Waite, just published by D. Lothrop & Co., the _Boston
+Daily Transcript_ in an advance notice, says:
+
+"In view of the present great interest in the problems treated, and the
+value of the material which it offers as an aid to their solution, the
+book is especially timely. Doctor Waite, who was for some time editor of
+the _International Review_, and whose work is well-known to readers
+of the standard American periodicals, is one of the clearest-headed of
+our younger writers on politico-economic subjects, and his views as here
+set forth demand thoughtful consideration and respect. He brings to the
+treatment of the subjects included in the title the special knowledge
+gained in his important official position as statistician of the late
+census, in charge of some of the most important branches, including
+education, illiteracy and religious organizations."
+
+The Dover (N.H.) _Star_, says:
+
+"He makes the best argument for the Constitutionality of National Aid
+[to education] which we have yet seen. It will bear careful
+consideration by members of Congress."
+
+The _Boston Daily Herald_ refers to the author's views as follows:
+
+"One of the most original and valuable contributions yet made to the
+discussion of the project of extending federal aid to common school
+education in the States ... The moderation of its tone and the
+conservatism of its suggestions will commend it to all thoughtful
+students of this problem, while its statistics, many of which, in their
+arrangement and application, are substantially new, should have a direct
+influence in shaping the final action of Congress ... Mr. Waite has
+given long and careful study to this subject in all its bearings, and he
+writes with an equipment of information and reflection which has been
+palpably lacking in much of the Senatorial discussion of it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS.
+
+
+The _New York Independent_, after referring to the various books on
+Arctic explorations and adventure--the narratives of Kane and Hayes and
+Gilder and De Long--says of Dr. Nourse's work: "The field of Arctic
+authorship was not yet, however, covered by any of these works, and it
+is to the credit of Professor Nourse that he saw what remained to be
+done. In the work before us he comes into no competition with the
+literary workers who have preceded him. No one will be the less disposed
+to read Dr. Kane's chapters, or to peruse Mr. Gilder's, for having read
+Professor Nourse; nor, on the other hand, will these works prejudice
+Professor Nourse's chance to be read. His book stands on ground of its
+own, as the one complete and competent survey of what American explorers
+have done in the polar zones.... Professor Nourse's volume is embellished
+with numerous good illustrations, and provided with an excellent and
+indispensable circumpolar map. It deserves the successful sale we
+understand it is already receiving."
+
+The _Literary World_ in a review of the book says "it is an
+encyclopaedic review of the whole subject of American enterprise in
+Arctic seas," and adds: "Professor Nourse's book bears the credentials
+of accuracy and authority, is well printed and bound, has numerous
+engravings and useful maps, including some portraits on steel, has a
+suitable index and table of contents, and furthermore is provided with a
+bibliography of chief publications on Arctic research since 1818. In
+every respect, then, it is a well-made book, a solid contribution to
+popular reading."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BACCALAUREATE SERMONS.
+
+
+D. Lothrop & Co., of Boston, have published in book form nineteen
+baccalaureate sermons preached at Harvard College, by Dr. A.P. Peabody,
+the new Professor of Christian Morals. Dr. Peabody's reputation, as a
+vigorous thinker and manly preacher, is as wide as this Republic; and
+the volume of sermons before us is something more than a series of
+homilies. It is a collection of addresses to young men--students just
+ready to embark on the perilous sea of life--which may be profitably
+read by every citizen of our country. The preacher does not address
+himself to any single side of human life. He counsels the students in
+their duties as men in all the relations of life. And in the selection
+of themes he embraces a great variety of topics. In the discourse on
+"Hebrew, Latin and Greek," for example, he takes the first-named tongue
+as standing for religion, the second for beauty and the third for
+strength. On this triad be formulates not only an intellectual cult but
+a practical rule of life. Another notable sermon is on "The Sovereignty
+of Law," an admirable disquisition on the supremacy of law in the
+intellectual life, the physical existence, the domain of morals and in
+every department of human activity. Dr. Peabody's style is forcible and
+virile, and his compactness of statement, enables him to put "infinite
+riches in a little room."--_Chicago Tribune._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A BOY'S WORKSHOP.
+
+
+Every boy with a jack-knife in his pocket and his head full of plans
+will fall to with delight on anything that gives him plenty to do in the
+boyish line. This is the merit of a little manual just published by the
+Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co., _A Boy's Workshop, with Plans and Designs
+for Indoor and Outdoor Work_, by a "Boy and his Friends"; with an
+introduction by Henry Randall Waite. The little manual goes to work
+intelligibly, describing the shop, and the tools, giving hints and
+accurate directions how to make a great variety of things whose uses
+will be at once apparent to the boyish mind, and suggestions as to other
+mysteries, the key to which makes any boy who possesses it a king among
+his mates.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOW SUCCESS IS WON.
+
+
+"How Success is Won," by Sarah K. Bolton (D. Lothrop & Co.), is a
+collection of twelve brief biographies intended to make clear to the
+young the character and conduct that have resulted in the success of
+Peter Cooper, John B. Gough, John G. Whittier, John Wanamaker, Henry M.
+Stanley, Johns Hopkins, William M. Hunt, Elias Howe, Jr., Alexander H.
+Stephens, Thomas A. Edison, Dr. W.T.G. Morton and the Rev. John H.
+Vincent. The sketches are gracefully and interestingly written, and the
+little volume is in every way to be commended.--_N.Y. Com. Adv._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GRAY MASQUE.
+
+
+The Gray Masque of Mrs. Mary Barker Dodge (D. Lothrop & Co., Boston)
+has won a series of splendid notices; yet, so far as we know, sufficient
+stress has not been laid upon the keynote of the volume. _Love_,
+in its varying phases, sounds through the majority of the verses like
+the refrain of a song. Sometimes sad, sometimes solemn, oftener gay and
+hopeful, the differing themes take up, one after another, the burden
+of the initial poem; and answer, in separate ways, the question there
+propounded, until the many-sided revelation is found to be fittingly
+illustrated on the cover by the winged boy, who throws aside the masque
+of mortality, and, soaring aloft, leaves behind him every earthly
+doubt and care. The "Dedication" and the concluding poem, the first
+emotional in its simplicity, the last intellectual in its subtlety,
+mark the breadth as well as the limits of Mrs. Dodge's poetical
+expression.--_Baldwin's Monthly._
+
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+
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+--------------------------------------
+
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+
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+  the hearts of the children, and in the approval of earnest-minded
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+
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+--------------------------------------
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+  Beginning with the December issue, the CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS' JOURNAL
+  gives a fine illustrated historical serial story. It is a stirring tale
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+--------------------------------------
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+
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+  THOUGHTS THAT BREATHE, for instance, has 300 pages, and contains 273
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+
+  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 readings can never be
+  wasted.
+
+  THOUGHTS 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. Gladstone. Introduction
+  by John D. Long.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+  author.
+
+  HALF YEAR AT BRONCKTON, by the same author. Earnest, yet lively,
+  this is just the book for all boys old enough to be subjected to the
+  temptations of school life.
+
+  The other books of this series, "Tempter Behind," by John Saunders, "For
+  Mack's Sake," by S.J. Burke, and "Class of '70," by Helena V. Morrison,
+  are all worthy of a place in every Sunday-school library.
+
+  Amaranth Library. 4 vols., 12mo, illust.                            $6.00
+  Books by the author of Andy Luttrell.  6 vols., 12mo, illust.        7.50
+  Julia A. Eastman's Books. 6 vols., 12mo, illust                      7.50
+  Ella Farman's Books. 9 vols., large 16mo, illust.                   10.00
+  Pansy Series. 4 vols.                                                3.00
+  Mudge (Rev. Z.A.) Works. 3 vols.                                     3.75
+  Porter (Mrs. A.E.) Books. 5 vols.                                    6.25
+  Capron (M.J.) Books. 4 vols.                                         6.00
+  Mrs. E.D. Kendall's Books. 3 vols., 12mo, illust.                    3.75
+  Our Boys' Library. 5 vols., illust.                                  6.25
+  Our Girls' Library. 5 vols., illust.                                 6.25
+  Mrs. A.E. Porter's Books. 5 vols., 12mo, illust.                     6.25
+  Snow Family Library. 5 vols., illust.                                5.00
+  Sturdy Jack Series. 6 vols., 12mo, illust.                           4.50
+  To-day Series. New and of extraordinary excellence. 6 vols., illust. 7.50
+  Child Life Series. 26 vols., illust. Each                            1.00
+  Hill Rest Series. 3 vols., 16mo, illust.                             3.75
+  Uncle Max Series. 8 vols., illust.                                   6.00
+  Yensie Walton Books. 5 vols., 12mo, illust.                          7.50
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S YOUNG FOLKS' LIBRARY.
+
+  Nothing at once so good and cheap is anywhere to be found. These choice
+  16mo volumes of 300 to 500 pages, clear type, carefully printed, with
+  handsome and durable covers of manilla paper, and embracing some of the
+  best stories by popular American authors, are published at the low price
+  of 25 cents per volume, and mailed postpaid. One number issued each
+  month. No second edition will be printed in this style. The regular
+  edition is issued in cloth bindings at $1,25 to $1.75 per volume. Among
+  the numbers already published at 25 cents each as above are
+
+  1. Tip Lewis and his Lamp, by PANSY.
+  2. Margie's Mission, by MARIE OLIVER.
+  3. Kitty Kent's Troubles, by JULIA A. EASTMAN.
+  4. Mrs. Hurd's Niece, by ELLA FARMAN PRATT, Editor of WIDE AWAKE.
+  5. Evening Rest, by REV. J.L. PRATT.
+
+  Other equally charming stories will follow each month. The Library is
+  especially commended to Sunday-school superintendents or those
+  interested in securing choice Sunday-school books at lowest prices.
+  Attention is called to the necessity of early orders, as when the
+  present editions are exhausted, no more copies of the several volumes
+  can be had at the same price.
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S STANDARD BOOKS FOR YOUTHS.
+  Admirable books in history, biography and story.
+
+  Fern Glen Series. 31 vols., illust. Each                           1.25
+  Young Folks' Series. 33 vols., illust. Each                        1.50
+  Popular Biographies. 18 vols., illust. Each                        1.50
+  Young Folks' Histories, by MISS YONGE and others.
+    10 vols., illust. Each                                           1.50
+  Yonge's Historical Stories. 4 vols., illust. Each                  1.25
+  The $1000 Prize Books. A fresh edition in new style of binding.
+    16 vols., 12mo.                                                 24.50
+  The new $500 Prize Series. A fresh edition in new style of
+    binding. 13 vols., 12mo.                                        16.75
+  The Original $500 Prize Series. A fresh edition in new style
+    of binding. 8 vols., 12mo.                                      12.00
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S TEMPERANCE LIBRARY.
+
+  No Sunday-school library is complete without some well-chosen volumes
+  showing the evils of intemperance, the great curse which good men and
+  women are everywhere endeavoring to remove.
+
+  D. Lothrop & Co. publish among others the following admirable temperance
+  books.
+
+  The only way Out. By J.W. Willing.             $1.50
+  John Bremm. By A.A. Hopkins.                    1.25
+  Sinner and Saint. By A.A. Hopkins.              1.25
+  The Tempter Behind. By John Saunders.           1.25
+  Good Work. By Mary D. Chellis.                  1.50
+  Mystery of the Lodge. By Mary D. Chellis.       1.50
+  Finished or Not. By the author of "Fabrics."    1.50
+  Modern Prophets. By Pansy and Faye Huntington.  1.50
+  May Bell. By Hubert Newbury.                    1.50
+
+  TEMPERANCE REFORMATION, The, and Its Claims upon the Christian
+  Church. By Rev. James Smith, of Scotland. 8vo. $2.50.
+
+  Sunday-school teachers and superintendents will find the above books
+  admirably adapted to the purpose of teaching great moral lessons, while
+  they are also full of pleasure and interest to young readers.
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S POPULAR LOW-PRICE LIBRARIES.
+
+  Among attractive and valuable Libraries issued in sets at prices which
+  place them not only beyond competition, but within the easy reach of
+  all, are
+
+  Best Way Series. 3 vols., illust.                           $1.50
+  Half Hour Library, by PANSY. 8 vols., illust.                3.20
+  Little People's Home Library. 12 vols., illust.              3.00
+  Little Pansy Series. 10 vols., illust. Cloth, $4.00; boards. 3.00
+  Little May's Picture Library. 12 vols., illust.              2.40
+  Mother's Boys and Girls, by PANSY. 12 vols., illust.         3.00
+  Rainy Day Library. 8 vols., illust                           4.00
+  Spring Blossom. 12 vols., illust.                            3.00
+  Stories from the Bible, 1st and 2d Series. Each               .15
+  Twisty Clover Series. 6 vols., illust.                       1.20
+  Happy Thought Library. 6 vols., large 18mo. illust.          3.00
+  Little Neighbor Series. 6 vols., large 18mo, illust.         1.50
+  May and Tom Library. 5 vols., 18mo, illust.                  3.00
+  Sunny Dell Series. 6 vols., 18mo, illust.                    3.60
+  Side by Side Library. 3 vols., 16mo, illust.                 1.80
+
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+
+
+  LOTHROP'S POPULAR PANSY BOOKS.
+
+  The works of this popular author are universally acknowledged to be
+  among the very best of all books for Sunday-school reading. Earnest,
+  hopeful, practical, full of the spirit of Christian faith and courage,
+  they are also in the highest degree interesting.
+
+  COMPLETE LIST OF THE PANSY BOOKS.
+  _Each volume, 12mo,_ $1.50.
+
+  Chautauqua Girls at Home.
+  Divers Women.
+  Echoing and Re-echoing.
+  Endless Chain (An).
+  Ester Ried.
+  Ester Ried Yet Speaking.
+  Four Girls at Chautauqua.
+  From different Standpoints.
+  Hall in the Grove (The).
+  Household Puzzles.
+  Julia Ried.
+  King's Daughter (The).
+  Links in Rebecca's Life.
+  Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On.
+  Modern Prophets.
+  Man of the House (The).
+  New Graft on the Family Tree (A).
+  Pocket Measure (The).
+  Ruth Erskine's Crosses.
+  Randolphs (The).
+  Sidney Martin's Christmas.
+  Those Boys.
+  Three People.
+  Tip Lewis and his Lamp.
+  Wise and Otherwise.
+
+  _Each volume, 12mo_ $1.25.
+
+  Cunning Workmen.
+  Dr. Deane's Way.
+  Grandpa's Darlings.
+  Miss Priscilla Hunter and my Daughter Susan.
+  Mrs. Deane's Way.
+  What she Said.
+
+  _Each volume, 12mo,_ $1.25
+
+  Five Friends.
+  Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening.
+  Next Things.
+  Pansy's Scrap Book,
+  Some young Heroines.
+
+  _Each volume, 16mo._ 75 cents.
+
+  Getting Ahead.
+  Mary Burton Abroad.
+  Pansies.
+  Six little Girls
+  That Boy Bob.
+  Two Boys.
+
+  _Each volume 16mo,_ 75 cents.
+
+  Bernie's White Chicken.
+  Docia's Journal.
+  Helen Lester.
+  Jessie Wells.
+
+  MISCELLANEOUS.
+
+  Hedge Fence (A)., 16mo, 60 c.
+  Side by Side, 16mo, 60 c.
+  Pansy's Picture Book. 4to, boards, 1.50; cloth 2.00
+  The little Pansy Series. 10 vols., boards, 3.00; cloth 4.00
+  Mother's Boys and Girls Library. 12 vols., quarto, boards. 3.00
+
+
+  PANSY'S NEW BOOKS.
+
+  Among the new books by this favorite author, which Sunday-school
+  Superintendents and all readers of her previous books will wish to
+  order, are
+
+  A HEDGE FENCE. 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 c.
+
+  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. Cloth, Illustrated $1.00.
+
+  In fact all of Pansy's books have some special charm or attraction which
+  makes them a power for good whenever read.
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S SELECT SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
+
+  _Every book in these marvellously cheap libraries will bear the
+  closest criticism_. Each is fresh and interesting in matter,
+  unexceptional in tone and excellent in literary style. These libraries
+  as a whole, considering their character and cost _have no
+  superiors_.
+
+  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 12, 20 vols., $5.00 net.
+  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 9, 50 vols., $25.00 net.
+  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 10, 12 vols., $5.00 net.
+  Select Sunday-school Library, No. 11, 20 vols., $10.00 net.
+  Pansy's Primary Library, 30 vols., 7.50 net.
+  Select Primary Sunday-school Library, 36 vols.,
+  in extra cloth binding, 5.50 net.
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S BOOKS FOR SUPERINTENDENTS.
+
+  BIBLE READER, THE. By Rev. H.V. Dexter, D. D. 16mo., .50
+
+  BIBLE LESSONS FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERTS AND ANNIVERSARIES. By
+  Edmund Clark, 18 numbers 5 cts. each. Bound in 16mo. vol, cloth, $1.00.
+
+  BIBLE PICTURES. By Rev. Geo. B. Ide, D.D. 12mo, $2.00.
+
+  FIFTY YEARS WITH THE SABBATH-SCHOOL. By Rev. Asa Bullard, D.D.
+  12mo, cloth, $1.25.
+
+  SELF-GIVING. A story of Christian missions. By Rev. W.F.
+  Bainbridge. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50.
+
+  ROCK OF AGES. By Rev. S.F. Smith, D.D. A choice collection of
+  religious poems. 18mo, cloth, gilt edges, $1.25.
+
+  STUDY OF NAHUM (A). By Professor Thom. H. Rich. 16mo, $.40
+
+  STORY OF THE PRAYERS OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY (The). By Hezekiah
+  Butterworth. 12mo. illustrated $1.50.
+
+  WALK TO EMMAUS. By Rev. Nehemiah Adams. Charming specimens of
+  sermon literature. 12mo, $1.00.
+
+  WARS OF THE JEWS. By Flavine Josephus. Translated by William
+  Whiston, M.A. 8vo, cloth, plain, $1.00. Extra cloth, gilt top, fully
+  illustrated, $1.50.
+
+  WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT [The]; or, The New Birth. By Prof. Austin
+  Phelps, D.D. 16mo, $1.25.
+
+
+  LOTHROP'S BOOKS FOR ANNIVERSARIES AND CONCERTS.
+
+  It is often a difficult matter to determine what to use for
+  Sunday-school anniversaries, etc. To those in doubt, we would suggest
+  the use of the following capital aids:
+
+  BIBLE LESSONS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS, CONCERTS AND ANNIVERSARIES. By
+  Edmund Clark. 18 numbers, 5 cents each. Bound in one 16mo volume, cloth,
+  $1.00.
+
+  HELP FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERTS. By A.P. and M.T. Folsom. A
+  choice collection of poems. 16mo, $1.00.
+
+  ENTERTAINMENTS. By Lizzie W. Champney. For concerts, exhibitions,
+  church festivals, etc. 15mo, Illustrated. $1.00
+
+
+  A THOUSAND OTHER CHOICE BOOKS.
+
+  The above, and a thousand other choice books which cannot be mentioned
+  here, make up a list from which superintendents and teachers can easily
+  select a VALUABLE LIBRARY at a low price. Send for full catalogue,
+  mailed free, and for special terms to those ordering any number of
+  volumes. Any book sent postage paid on receipt of price.
+
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+
+
+  ELLA FARMAN'S BOOKS.
+
+  Ella Farman is the editor of WIDE AWAKE, and her books are full of
+  sympathy with girl-life, always sunshiny and hopeful, always pointing
+  out new ways to do things and unexpected causes for happiness and
+  gladness.
+
+  _9 vols. 12mo. Illust. $10.00._
+
+  Annie Maylie.
+  A Little Woman.
+  A Girl's Money.
+  A White Hand.
+  Grandma Crosby's Household.
+  Good-for-Nothing Polly.
+  How Two Girls Tried Farming.
+  Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow.
+  Mrs. Hurd's Niece.
+
+  JULIA A. EASTMAN'S BOOKS.
+
+  Miss Eastman has a large circle of young admirers. She carries off the
+  palm as a writer of school-life stories, and teachers are always glad to
+  find their scholars reading her books. Miss Eastman's style is
+  characterized by quick movement, sparkling expression, and incisive
+  knowledge of human nature.
+
+  _6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $7.50_
+
+  Kitty Kent.
+  Young Rick.
+  Romneys of Ridgemont, Short Comings and Long Goings. (The).
+  Striking for the Right.
+  School Days of Beulah Romney.
+
+  REV. J.L. PRATT'S BOOKS.
+
+  This set of books is valuable for its fitness to the needs of young
+  people who have come to the age when they begin to examine for
+  themselves into religious beliefs and opinions. They are interesting as
+  stories, abounding with beautiful descriptions and delicate portraitures
+  of character, and are everywhere favorites with the thoughtful and
+  meditative.
+
+  _4 vols. 12mo. Illust. $6.00._
+
+  Evening Rest.
+  Bonnie AErie.
+  Branches of Palm.
+  Broken Fetters.
+
+  MRS. A.E. PORTER'S BOOKS.
+
+  Mrs. Porter is a favorite author with adult readers, as well as with
+  children. Her stories, always dealing largely with home-life, are well
+  calculated to make truthfulness and steadfastness and Christian living
+  the subjects of youthful admiration and imitation.
+
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+
+  This One Thing I Do.
+  Millie Lee.
+  Sunset Mountain.
+  My Hero.
+  Glencoe Parsonage.
+
+  BY AUTHOR OF ANDY LUTTRELL
+
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+  religious teaching. They are perennial favorites with all classes of
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+  Hidden Treasure.
+
+  MRS. E.D. KENDALL'S WORKS.
+
+  Each full of earnestness of purpose, and impressing a life lesson on the
+  reader's mind. Excellent for boys.
+
+  _3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $3.75._
+
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+  The Stanifords of Staniford's Folly.
+  Master and Pupil.
+
+  MARY J. CAPRON'S BOOKS.
+
+  These books are thoroughly healthy and stimulating, and admirably
+  adapted to put into the hands of thoughtful young people to lead them to
+  right ideas on the fundamental truths of the religious life.
+
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+
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+  Gold and Gilt.
+  Maybee's Stepping Stones.
+  Mrs. Thorne's Guests.
+
+  REV. Z.A. MUDGE'S WORKS.
+
+  This well known author's works are among the most popular in the
+  Sunday-school library.
+
+  _3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $3.75._
+
+  Shell Cove.
+  Luck of Alden Farm.
+  Boat Builders.
+
+  CHARLOTTE M. YONGE'S HISTORIES.
+
+  Miss Yonge, while always boldly and continuously outlining the course of
+  historical events, has the knack of seizing upon incidents which reveal
+  the true character of historical personages. These histories are
+  attractive as romance and possess a peculiar power of impressing the
+  memory, being written from a Christian standpoint they are very
+  desirable books for Sunday-school libraries.
+
+  _6 vols. 12mo. Illust. $9.00._
+
+  Young Folks' History of Germany.
+  Young Folks' History of Greece.
+  Young Folks' History of Rome.
+  Young Folks' History of England.
+  Young Folks' History of France.
+  Young Folks' Bible History.
+
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+
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+
+  _4 vols. 12mo. $4.00._
+
+  Thoughts that Breathe. _From_ Dean Stanley. Introduction by
+  Phillips Brooks.
+
+  Cheerful Words. _From_ George MacDonald. Introduction by James T.
+  Fields.
+
+  The Might of Right. _From_ Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone. Introduction
+  by John D. Long.
+
+  True Manliness. _From_ Thomas Hughes. Introduction by James Russell
+  Lowell.
+
+  W.H.G. KINGSTON'S BOOKS.
+
+  These stories are intensely interesting and graphic and enforce the
+  highest and most practical lessons.
+
+  _3 vols. 12mo. Illust. $8.00._
+
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+  Charley Laurel.
+  Virginia.
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+
+  From the French of L.L.F. Bungener. These works are of thrilling
+  interest, illustrating the religious struggles, heroism and social life
+  of the times of Louis XIV. and XV.
+
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+  Louis XV. and his Times.
+  Rabaut and Bridaine.
+  The Tower of Constancy.
+
+  BANVARD'S AMERICAN HISTORY.
+
+  Every library should be furnished with this series of American
+  Histories.--_New England Farmer_.
+
+  No more interesting and instructive reading can be put into the hands of
+  youth.--_Portland Transcript_.
+
+  Every American should own these books.--_Scientific American_.
+
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+  Soldiers and Patriots.
+  Pioneers of the New World.
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+  First Explorers of North America.
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+
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+  Agnes; or, the Litte Key.
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+  Broadcast.
+  Christ a Friend.
+  Communion Sabbath.
+  Catherine.
+  Cross in the Cell.
+  Endless Punishment.
+  Evenings wish the Doctrines.
+  Friends of Christ.
+  Under the Mizzen-Mast.
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+
+
+  FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS, AND HOW THEY GREW.
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+  12mo, illust. 1.50
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+  PETTIBONE NAME (The). V.I.F. Series,
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+
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+  MISS YONGE'S HISTORICAL STORIES. There are very many, especially
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+  through the reading of books in which it is interwoven with romance. All
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+
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+
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+
+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+
+  BY COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.
+
+  Cloth, $6. Sheep, $7.50. Half Calf (various styles) or Half Mor., $9
+  Half Russia or Full Mor., $12.
+
+  A.S. Barnes & Co., Publishers, New York and Chicago. Author's
+  address, 32 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.
+
+
+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
+  VOLUME:--
+
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.--_Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey_.
+
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.--_Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y._
+
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.--_Henry Day, N.Y._
+
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.--_Geo.
+  Bancroft_.
+
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
+  and thoughtful perusal of this work.--_Benson J. Lossing_.
+
+  The maps are just splendid.--_Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J._
+
+  The book is invaluable and should be in every library.--_Wm. L. Stone,
+  N.Y._
+
+  Of permanent standard authority.--_Gen. De Peister, N.Y._
+
+  Indicates such profound erudition and ability in the discussion as
+  leaves nothing to be desired.--_Sen. Oscar de La Fayette, Paris_.
+
+  I have read the volume with pleasure and profit.--_Z. Chandler_.
+
+  The volume is superb and will give the author enduring fame.--_B.
+  Gratz Brown, St. Louis_.
+
+  It should have a place in every gentleman's library, and is just the
+  book which young men of Great Britain and America should know by
+  heart.--_London Telegraph_.
+
+  The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which
+  the century has produced.--_Army and Navy Journal_.
+
+  Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague
+  period of military history.--_Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff
+  College, England_.
+
+  A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.--_Lord Derby, late Brit.
+  Sec. of State_.
+
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.--_A. de
+  Rochambeau, Paris_.
+
+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.--_Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England_.
+
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.--_Harper's
+  Magazine_.
+
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.--_N.Y. Times_.
+
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.--_The Nation_.
+
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
+  treasures.
+
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.--_Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J._
+
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.--_Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman_.
+--------------------------------------
+
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+
+  Published by A.S. BARNES & CO., 111 & 113 William Street, New York.
+
+
+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
+  well as for its fitness as a companion to all Histories of the United
+  States, with confidence that it will prove a valuable specialty to all.
+
+  The RED Lettering represents British Movements and Leading Topics, for
+  the convenience of Teachers and Scholars.
+
+  The ¶ and Page references to various School Histories, which mention the
+  Battles make it available for use by Teachers throughout the United
+  States.
+
+  The volume contains the 41 maps which were the result of thirty years of
+  study, and are found in his standard volume, "Battles of the American
+  Revolution."
+
+  THE SECRETARY OF WAR has placed the "BATTLE MAPS AND CHARTS" at ARMY
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+
+  FIVE STEEL ENGRAVINGS OF WASHINGTON accompany the volume. The ST. MEMIN
+  (crayon) as frontispiece, engraved by Hall & Sons; also PEALE'S painting
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+  Invaluable to the student of American History.--_Baltimore (Md.)
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+
+  Deserves a welcome in every school district, as well as in every
+  historical library in the land.--_Army and Navy Journal_.
+
+  In our opinion, General Carrington's work is an authority, showing great
+  labor and careful study, and it should become a national text-book, and
+  find a place in all public and private libraries.--_Indianapolis
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+
+  Each map is accompanied with a statement of the generals and number of
+  men engaged on both sides, to which is appended the reason for such
+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
+  authority in military matters.--_The Educator (New Haven, Ct.)_.
+
+  A valuable compilation from the author's large work, and cannot fail to
+  make a more lasting impression upon the reader's mind than could be
+  derived from the perusal of many volumes of history.--_N.Y.
+  Herald_.
+
+  Each map is accompanied by a page of text, arranged upon a compact and
+  original system, so as to present a singularly clear view of the history
+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
+  and subordinate commanders, the forces, nominal and available, the
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+  CARRINGTON'S BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
+  WITH 40 MAPS.
+
+  BY COL. HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., A.M., LL.D.
+
+  Cloth, $6. Sheep, $7.50. Half Calf (various styles) or Half Mor., $9
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+  THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM MORE THAN 1,000 ENDORSEMENTS OF THIS
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+
+  To me at least, it will be an authority. A book of permanent value, not
+  milk for babes but strong meat for men.--_Ex-Pres. T.D. Woolsey_.
+
+  Fills an important place in History, not before occupied.--_Wm. M.
+  Everts, N.Y._
+
+  The maps themselves are a History, invaluable, and never before
+  supplied.--_Henry Day, N.Y._
+
+  An entirely new field of Historical labor. A splendid volume, the result
+  of careful research, with the advantage of military experience.--_Geo.
+  Bancroft_.
+
+  It is an absolute necessity in our literature. No one can understand the
+  philosophy of the old War for Independence, until he has made a careful
+  and thoughtful perusal of this work.--_Benson J. Lossing_.
+
+  The maps are just splendid.--_Adj. Gen. W.L. Stryker, N.J._
+
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+
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+
+  The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which
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+
+  Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague
+  period of military history.--_Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff
+  College, England_.
+
+  A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.--_Lord Derby, late Brit.
+  Sec. of State_.
+
+  A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.--_A. de
+  Rochambeau, Paris_.
+
+  A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life
+  of Washington.--_Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England_.
+
+  A book not only to be read, but to be studied.--_Harper's
+  Magazine_.
+
+  The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial
+  impartiality.--_N.Y. Times_.
+
+  The record is accurate and impartial, and warrants the presumption that
+  the literature of the subject has been exhausted.--_The Nation_.
+
+  Will stand hereafter in the front rank of our most valuable historical
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+
+  The descriptions of battles are vivid. The actors seem to be alive, and
+  the actions real.--_Rev. Dr. Crane, N.J._
+
+  We are all indebted to you for the labor and expense of preparing this
+  volume, and I hope it will, in time, fully reimburse you.--_Gen. W.T.
+  Sherman_.
+
+--------------------------------------
+
+  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution.
+
+  By HENRY B. CARRINGTON, M.A., LL.D., U.S.A.
+
+  Published by A.S. BARNES & CO., 111 & 113 William Street, New York.
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+  The publishers issue this work for the use of teachers and scholars, as
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+  battle or engagement, with remarks by the author, who is excellent
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+  and significance of the engagement in question, the names of the chief
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+
+[Illustration: Map]
+
+
+  This is the Purest and Most Effective of all Medicinal Spring Waters.
+  Possessing remarkable Curative Properties for diseases of the
+  _STOMACH_, _LIVER_, _KIDNEYS_ and _BLADDER_.
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+  A MILD CATHARTIC AND ACTIVE DIURETIC.
+
+  PROF. RAPHAEL PUMPELLY, Chemist National Board of Health.
+
+  [NOTE.--This analysis, with a letter of recommendation from Prof.
+  Pumpelly, was read before the Newport Sanitary Protective Society,
+  Jan. 12, 1884.]
+
+  _PARTS IN 1,000,000_
+
+  Total Residue                      44.6
+  Silica                             11.5
+  Iron and Alumina                    0.7
+  Lime                               10.5
+  Magnesia                            1.5
+  Chlorine                            4.6
+  Ammonia                             0.06
+  Albumoid Ammonia                    0.06
+
+  The above analysis shows a total residue of about 2.6 grains in one
+  gallon of 231 cubic inches.
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+  It is one of Nature's remedies. Its medicinal effects can only be
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+
+
+  Messrs. HOWARD BROS.,
+                                                  BOSTON, April 24, 1885.
+
+  _Dear Sirs_,--"After many careful trials of the Simpson Spring
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+
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+  _Professor of Materia Medica in the Boston University School of
+    Medicine._
+
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