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diff --git a/17726.txt b/17726.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20abfba --- /dev/null +++ b/17726.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11668 @@ +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 *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, David Garcia and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by Cornell University Digital Collections) + + + + + + +[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.) + + * * * * * + + + + +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, +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 _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. + + * * * * * + +======================================================================= + + +"_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. 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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. 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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. 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