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THE

New England Magazine
AND

BAY STATE MONTHLY.
Old Series February, 1886. New
Series
Vol. IV. No. 2.
Vol. I. No.
2.

Copyright, 1886, by Bay State Monthly Company. All rights reserved.

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Contents
TUFTS COLLEGE.
THE MENDICANT.
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC IN MASSACHUSETTS.
ON DETACHED SERVICE.
A TOWN MEETING-HOUSE,
ABBOT ACADEMY.
THE ORIGINAL NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE.
IRISH HOME RULE AGITATION
ELIZABETH.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
EDUCATION.
HISTORICAL RECORD.
NECROLOGY.
LITERATURE AND ART.
INDEX TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

TUFTS COLLEGE.
BY REV. E. H. CAPEN, D.D.

Tufts College is situated on the most beautiful and commanding eminence in the
southeasterly part of Middlesex county, within the town of Medford and on the
borders of Somerville. This eminence was formerly called Walnut Hill, on
account, it is said, of the heavy growth of hickory timber with which it was
covered at the time of the settlement of the colony, but is now called College
Hill, on account of the institution which crowns it. The land on which the
College is built is a part of the farm which the late Charles Tufts received by
way of inheritance; and, when asked by his relatives what he would do with the
bleak hill over in Medford, he replied, "I will put a light on it." The tract of land
originally given by Mr. Tufts consisted of twenty acres. Subsequently he gave
his pledge to add other valuable tracts adjoining. This pledge has been fulfilled,
so that the plot of ground, belonging to the College, given by Mr. Tufts,
embraces upwards of one hundred acres. The late Deacon Timothy Cotting, of
Medford, also gave to the College at his decease, a piece of land lying near the
institution containing upwards of twenty acres. In consequence of the
munificence of Mr. Tufts, it was determined that the College should bear his
name.

President Capen.[A]
The definite impulse which resulted in the establishment of Tufts College may
be traced to the sermon preached by Hosea Ballou, 2d., D.D., before the
General Convention of Universalists, in the city of New York, September 15,
1847. In this sermon Dr. Ballou urged the "duty of general culture" and the
importance that a denomination should have "at least one college placed on a
permanent basis," with such clearness and emphasis that the movement at once
took organic shape and went forward without pause from that hour. Dr. Ballou
declared that one hundred thousand dollars was the least sum with which the
work could begin and have any prospect of success. The Rev. Otis A. Skinner
was appointed to obtain subscriptions to a fund to that amount. The sum was a
large one in the then condition of the Universalist body. But in an undertaking
of that kind, Mr. Skinner knew no such word as fail. It took years for the
accomplishment of his task; but in the summer of 1851 he was able to announce
that the subscription was completed. A meeting of the subscribers was held in
Boston on the sixteenth and seventeenth of September of that year. A board of
trustees was designated who subsequently fixed upon the present site of the
institution and determined its name. Application was made to the Legislature for
a charter, which was granted April 21, 1852. The original charter conferred the

power to grant every kind of degree usually given by colleges, "except medical
degrees." This restriction was removed by act of the Legislature, dated February
2, 1867.

COLLEGE CHAPEL.
In July, 1852, the Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer, D.D., was elected president of the
College. But he declined to accept the office on the terms prescribed, and in
May, 1853, the Rev. Hosea Ballou, 2d, D.D., was chosen to the office, which he
filled until his death in May, 1861. In July following his election the corner-
stone of the main College hall was laid by Dr. Ballou. The event was one of
great interest and significance, and drew together a large company of people
from different sections of the country. A year was spent by the president in
visiting the most prominent institutions of learning at home and abroad,
preparatory to organizing the new College, and laying out its course of study. In
the work of organization, Dr. Ballou received important and valuable assistance
from John P. Marshall, the present senior professor and dean of the College of
letters. The College was first regularly opened for the admission of students in
August, 1855, though a few students had been residing at the College and
receiving instruction from the president and Professor Marshall during the

previous year. In the
beginning the success
of the institution was
as marked as its
friends could
reasonably expect. But
the great anxiety
attending the
beginning and
development of so
important an
undertaking seriously
affected the health of
Dr. Ballou, and he was cut down before the College could avail itself of the
transcendent abilities which he brought to the discharge of his duties, and before
he could witness the almost unexampled material prosperity awaiting it.
President Eliot generously said not long since that the remarkable growth of
Harvard University in these later years is largely the fruit of the efforts of James
Walker, a fit contemporary and fellow-worker in the cause of education with Dr.
Ballou. Truly, other men labor and we enter into their labors. In an important
sense the College was the creature of Dr. Ballou's brain. He had so clear a
conception of the nature and scope of an institution of learning of the highest
grade suited to this latitude and these times, and he was so successful in
producing a conviction of its possibilities in the minds of rich men, that they
were ready to devote to it their all. But he died before the fruits of his labors had
begun to appear.

INTERIOR OF CHAPEL.
In the spring of 1862, the Rev. A. A. Miner, D.D., was elected to succeed Dr.
Ballou, and continued to hold the office until his resignation in February, 1875,
a period of nearly thirteen years. Dr. Miner did not take up his residence at the
College nor relinquish his connection with the School Street parish in Boston,
of which he was pastor. But he visited the College daily, or as often as his
presence was required. It was during his presidency and largely through his
instrumentality that the extraordinary material development of the College was
secured. Very soon after its establishment, Silvanus Packard, a prosperous
merchant and a parishioner of Dr. Miner, who was without children, announced
his intention of making Tufts College his child. He gave generously to it during
his lifetime, and, dying, bequeathed to it nearly the whole of his property,
amounting to nearly three hundred thousand dollars. The donations and legacies
of Mr. Packard exceed in amount those of any other benefactor. The one who
comes the nearest to him in the aggregate of his gifts is Dr. Wm. J. Walker. This
gentleman divided his princely estate between the following institutions:
Amherst College, the Museum of Natural History in Boston, Tufts College, and
Williams College. The share which Tufts College received in this distribution
was upwards of two hundred thousand dollars. The benefactions of Dr. Walker
are remarkable, if we remember that he was an alumnus of Harvard College, an

Episcopalian in religion, that his trusted friend and counsellor at the time he was
arranging for the disposal of his property was Thomas Hill, D.D., the president
of Harvard University, and that Tufts College was in the earliest stages of its
development. But notwithstanding these facts, sufficient in themselves to warp
the judgment of ordinary men, his vision was clear enough to enable him to see
that there was room for another great college to grow up in the neighborhood of
Boston, even under the shadow of that ancient and renowned university.

Another notable friend of Tufts College was Dr. Oliver Dean. In the beginning
he made very liberal offers, provided the institution should be placed in
Franklin. Subsequently he devoted the greater portion of his wealth to the
founding of Dean Academy, one of whose functions was to be the fitting of
young men for the College. He also showed still more distinctly his favor to the
College by contributing in all $90,000 to its funds.
But the College was especially fortunate in its infancy and when it was
practically without funds in having for its treasurer Thomas A. Goddard, a
wealthy merchant; a man utterly void of personal vanity, whose eyes swept over
the whole field, and who, wherever he saw that the cause could be promoted by
a timely benefaction, very simply and unostentatiously bestowed it. So when
the College was almost entirely without funds and had but a small part of the

income needed to meet its current expenses, he quietly paid the deficiency out
of his own pocket and preserved it from debt.
At the conclusion of the first half of the college year, 1874-75, Dr. Miner,
having previously resigned his pastorate in Boston, tendered his resignation of
the presidency of the College. Neither institution, however, was willing to
accept his resignation, and each sought to retain his entire services. After mature
deliberation he decided to accept the invitation of the parish, and his official
connection with the faculty of the College which he had held with distinguished
ability and success for thirteen years was thus permanently severed.
The Hon. Israel Washburn, Jr., the war Governor of Maine, was chosen as his
successor. But he promptly declined the office. The trustees then determined to
make a new departure and place an alumnus of the College at its head.
Accordingly the present incumbent, at that time pastor of the First Universalist
Church of Providence, R. I., and a graduate of the class of 1860, was elected to
the vacant chair in March, 1875, and was inaugurated on the second day of June
following. Whatever may be the ultimate verdict concerning the wisdom of the
trustees in the selection which was then made, no one will deny that the calling
of an alumnus to the post has had the effect of quickening the interest and
securing the co-operation of the graduates of the institution beyond anything
that could have been done.
I come now to speak briefly of certain changes in the internal life of the
College, many of which have taken place under my own eye, and with the
shaping of which in important respects, during these later years, I have had
something to do. In the matter of development few institutions in this country
have made greater progress. It is a long step from what the College was when I
knew it as a student, to its present condition; so that those who were only
acquainted with its life fifteen or twenty years ago would scarcely recognize it
as the same life to-day. Indeed the modifications which have been introduced
into its discipline and into its courses of study have aroused an interest in its
work outside of and beyond mere denominational lines, and are beginning to
attract to it students from many miscellaneous sources.
One of the chief difficulties in the way of local patronage has been the
overshadowing influence of Harvard University. It was scarcely to be expected
that an institution planted in such close proximity to that powerful and
venerable seat of learning would, in the beginning, attract students from its
immediate neighborhood. Many persons have thought that the location of the

College is a mistaken one on that account. But colleges are not made in one day
nor in one decade. It will take more than Leland Stanford's twenty millions of
endowment to give his University a solid and enduring fame. Colleges, indeed,
like all the great and permanent institutions by which society is upheld, and the
welfare and progress of humanity are secured, are the slow growth of
generations. The selection of the present site of the College cannot be regarded
as other than fortunate; first, because of its proximity to Boston, the most
important literary centre of the new world, where it may constantly feel the
pulsations of every intellectual movement that takes place in the domain of
thought; and, secondly, because, owing to its contact with the foremost college
in the land, it has been compelled to adopt and maintain the highest standards in
its work. The result of this is seen in the steady growth of recent years. During
the last five or six years there has been a good percentage of attendance from
schools in the immediate neighborhood of the College which have heretofore
sent their students almost exclusively to Harvard. Men have been drawn to the
College wholly without reference to denominational lines, simply because they
believed the College had advantages to offer unsurpassed by any institution in
the country. Within the last two years the College has made a gain in students of
at least forty per cent. The whole number who entered the different departments
in the year 1884-5 was sixty-one, and although the number entering in 1885-6
was somewhat less, yet the whole number in the College is greater than ever
before, namely, one hundred and forty, of whom twenty-six are in the Divinity
School, and the remainder in the College of letters.
The course of study originally adopted was substantially that of the leading
New England colleges. It has adhered throughout very firmly to its standard.
The ten associated colleges of Southern New England voted at their annual
meeting in 1879 that it is desirable to adopt a system of uniform requirements
for the admission of students. Tufts was one of the first to accept the scheme
proposed by the conference of examiners in the different institutions. The
faculty as originally constituted consisted of three professors beside the
president; and for many years, the entire work of the College was performed by
not more than five teachers. The gifts and benefactions of Dr. Walker, designed
mainly for the promotion of mathematics and related branches of study, enabled
the trustees to enlarge the facilities for instruction on the side of science. A
professorship of civil engineering was created in 1867. This department has
been enlarged gradually, until now men may receive complete courses of
professional instruction in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Some
very able engineers, holding important and responsible positions, have received

their training here. The subjects of natural history, physics, and chemistry have
each been assigned to separate chairs. The department of physics has two
excellent working laboratories. Besides the regular work in physics with the
College classes, original investigations are carried on under the direction of Dr.
Dolbear, the professor of physics, and assistant-professor Hooper. In the
department of chemistry, the organic research laboratory has been very carefully
equipped for that line of work, and offers facilities for original investigation
which will compare favorably with those of any similar laboratory in the
country. During the past year very considerable additions to chemical
knowledge have been made by Professor Michael and his able corps of
assistants. Of the department of natural history we shall speak later on.
The only degree given in the beginning as a reward for residence and study in
the College was that of Bachelor of Arts. But the presence of a large number of
students who were not prepared to take that course of study in full led to the
organization of two additional courses, one leading to the degree of Civil
Engineer, and the other to the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. The latter
course has received many modifications, and in the autumn of 1875 it was
determined to make it a four years course, the same in all respects as the regular
course, except that it omits Greek and substitutes instead of it the modern
languages and some elective work in science. Previous to 1875 the work of the
College was mainly prescribed, with but little opportunity for optional or
elective studies. At that time the scope of electives was greatly broadened.
There are now eleven full courses of electives open to students. From the
middle of the junior year, a very large percentage of the student's work is in
those lines which he chooses for himself. It was decided also, immediately after
the elective system went into effect, to confer special honors at the time of
graduation upon any student who attains distinction in any particular study and
in two cognate studies, under such rules as the faculty have prescribed. Another
important movement in the direction of sound scholarship was made about this
time. It was determined that the degree of Master of Arts, which, so far, had
been granted to all graduates of the degree of A.B. who applied for it after three
years from their graduation, should be conferred only upon such graduates of
the regular and philosophical courses as should pursue, during a residence of
not less than one year, under the direction of the faculty, a prescribed course of
study in at least two departments. The privilege of graduate study was also
opened to those holding like degrees from other colleges. The result of this
action has been to retain at the College for more protracted and profound study
ambitious and scholarly men out of every class.

The modifications of discipline have been no less important either in their
character or results. Formerly in all the New England colleges an elaborate
system of rules, enforced by an oversight, which often amounted to espionage,
was thought to be necessary to good order and the proper moral development of
young men. In the eyes of the students, the faculty of a college seemed to be
little else than a grand court of inquisition for the trial and punishment of
offences against discipline. In point of fact, a very large percentage of the time
of college officers was spent in that business. At Tufts, perhaps more
completely than in any other New England college, all this is changed. Formal
rules relating to conduct have been abolished. Men are put entirely upon their
honor, and are no longer watched. Since 1875, there has not been a single case
of a student summoned before the faculty or a committee of the faculty for
discipline. Under this policy the gain in the orderly behavior, moral tone, and
contentment of students has been immense. For eleven years only one student
has been sent away from the College for misconduct; and not more than one or
two, so far as I remember, have left the College because of dissatisfaction either
with its methods or its facilities; while the relative percentage of those who
graduate to those who enter has risen in twenty years from sixty-three per cent
to nearly eighty per cent, placing us, in this respect, in the front rank of New
England colleges.
The whole number of graduates is now about four hundred. Of this number
representatives may be found in the principal walks of almost every one of the
learned professions. As an indication of the quality of scholarship produced, it
may be remarked that the catalogue of 1885-6 shows that no less than nine of
the officers of instruction and government, including the president, are from its
own graduates. The board of trustees consists of twenty-nine persons. Of this
number ten are from the alumni of the College.
Silvanus Packard by will directed that the trustees should establish and maintain
out of the rents and profits of his estate, one theological professorship. The Rev.
Thomas J. Sawyer, D.D., was elected Packard Professor of Theology, and the
Divinity School, with Dr. Sawyer at its head, was organized and opened for the
admission of students in 1869. At first one professor was associated with Dr.
Sawyer and very soon another was added to the faculty. There are at present
four professors besides Dr. Sawyer in the Divinity School. The course of study,
at the opening of the school, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity was
three years. But so large a number of those applying for admission were found
to be deficient in elementary training that the course was lengthened to four
years for all, except college graduates.

In order to give greater encouragement to men having the Christian ministry in
view to secure college training before entering the Divinity School, after the
present year, while a preparatory course of one year for all who have not the
degree of A.B. will be retained, the degree of B.D. will be given exclusively to
college graduates. Upwards of sixty students, since the organization of the
School, have taken the prescribed course in theology and received the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity. Of this number nearly one half are in charge of important
parishes in Massachusetts, and others in different parts of the country are
occupying some of the most prominent and influential pulpits.
When the present site of the College was selected, the hill was without trees and
almost repulsive in its nakedness. The erection of the main college building and
the first dormitory only served to heighten its windswept appearance. But other
important buildings have been added; walks and driveways have been laid out;
trees have been planted and have attained, on the southerly slope, a thick and
heavy growth, and are beginning to get a hold upon the northerly side; the
reservoir of the Mystic Water Works is established upon the summit of the hill,
and, in effect, forms a part of the College grounds; so that, in the summer
season, there is no more beautiful or attractive spot in the whole region about
Boston than College Hill. In 1882-3 a very important feature was added to its
cluster of buildings by the erection of a stone chapel from funds provided by
Mary T. Goddard. The style of the edifice is Romanesque with a genuine
Lombardic tower. It is as graceful a piece of architecture as can be found in this
part of the country and is a worthy memorial of the woman, who, with her noble
husband, has been so efficient a promoter of the origin and growth of the
institution. Since the completion of the chapel, Mrs. Goddard has built and
finished at her own expense an excellent gymnasium.
One of the most important additions of recent years has been the founding of
the Barnum Museum of Natural History. In the spring of 1883, the writer
suggested to the Honorable P. T. Barnum that as he had been all his life engaged
in collecting rare objects in certain departments of natural history for the
purpose alike of popular amusement and instruction, it would be most
appropriate for him to leave behind him, as his monument, a natural history
museum in connection with the College of which he was one of the original
promoters and founders. The response was instantaneous. He directed me at
once to procure plans and specifications of a building which would admit of
indefinite extension, and submit to him an estimate of the cost. In accordance
with the foregoing scheme, the present museum building has been erected; and
a beginning has been made also in the endowment fund. The museum, which is

only the central portion of what is intended to be a much larger building, is a
structure of dignity and beauty. The first, or basement floor, which is almost
wholly above ground, is occupied by the steam-engine and by the necessary
laboratories and work-rooms. The second, or main floor has, besides a large
lecture-room, a grand vestibule, containing a marble bust of the donor, by
Thomas Ball. Here the larger and more important specimens of natural history
now belonging to the College are deposited. Here also the skin of Jumbo and
the skeleton of the white elephant are to find their ultimate resting-place. The
third floor comprises a large exhibition hall, fifty feet wide by seventy feet long,
with a gallery running completely around it. In addition to the important cabinet
already belonging to the College, Mr. Barnum authorized Prof. Henry A. Ward
to furnish a fine zoölogical collection. This collection comprising several
hundred choice specimens, selected with special reference to purposes of
instruction, has been received, mounted and set up in cases specially designed
for the purpose.
The library has had, on the whole, a very satisfactory growth. Dr. Ballou's
extraordinary love for books led him to bestow particular attention upon its
formation. He was unremitting in his solicitation of gifts from friends and
acquaintances and from publishers and booksellers. The interest awakened by
him has never flagged. There are now in the possession of the College upwards
of twenty thousand bound volumes, many of them rare and of great value, and
eight or nine thousand pamphlets. The collection has entirely outgrown the
quarters assigned to it, and needs a building specially adapted to its use. A
gentleman of ample fortune has privately assured the president that such a
building shall be supplied at an early day.
The College has been distinguished for its liberal policy towards those young
men who are obliged on account of limited means to struggle for their
education. The charge for tuition is $100 a year. But there are more than thirty
scholarships in the gift of the College. By means of these the tuition may be
cancelled for those who prove their worthiness by superior attainments. In
addition to these, gratuities are given in cases of need, so that the instruction is
practically free to all men of promise and fidelity whose circumstances require
it. It is a gratifying fact that some of the most distinguished and successful of its
graduates are from among those who have enjoyed its pecuniary favors, and
who would have found a liberal education impossible without them. Moreover,
on account of the isolation of the College, there being no villages in immediate
contact with it on either side, it is not only extremely favorable for study, but
admirably adapted to those who are obliged to practise economy. Probably there

is no institution in America where a student can have equal advantages at so low
a cost.

FOOTNOTES:
[A] The publishers have taken the liberty of incorporating in his article this portrait
of President Capen.

THE MENDICANT.
BY CLINTON SCOLLARD.

Like some way-weary mendicant came I
Unto the court where Love holds potent reign,
And there in desolation I was fain
Before the gateway to lie down and die.
But one came forth who heard my mournful cry,
Nor mocked nor spurned me with a cold disdain,
But cheered me, saying, "Do not nurse thy pain!
Be brave and bid the ghosts of dead days fly!"

Then I arose and cast the Past aside,
And felt within my breast a gladness great
That I dared meet the eyes that beamed above:
And all the future time was glorified,
For I, who was a beggar at the gate,
Became a dweller in the court of Love.

THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC IN
MASSACHUSETTS.
BY PAST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF GEO. S. MERRILL.

When the American Volunteer Army was disbanded in 1865, by reason of the
completion of the great work for which it was organized, had it been
individually suggested to each one of that million of men whose eager faces
were turned homeward, to become united in a veteran association, probably
ninety-nine out of a hundred would have responded, "No; I've had all that I
want of soldiering; no more for me."
And yet, so strong did the ties of war-comradeship prove; so tender were the
memories of camp and march, of bivouac and battle; so full of heart-stirring
events was the record of intimate service in the face of great peril, that even
before the final disbandment, among the earlier returning veterans, soldier
associations had already sprung into existence. Quite a number of these had
their origin in 1864, and even the date and place of birth of the Grand Army of
the Republic, with its membership of over three hundred thousand, is in doubt;
two States at least, Indiana and Illinois, claim its parentage; and while there are
absolutely no reliable data as to the place or exact time of the preliminary
meetings out of which the great organization grew, there is a tradition—if the
dim memories of only twenty years ago can be so called—that at a casual
meeting of returned volunteers in Illinois in the latter portion of 1865, it was
discovered that in the little group nearly all were possessed of certain
mysterious signs, grips, and pass-words, by which various small bands of firm
friends in rebel prisons had secretly bound themselves together for mutual
protection. To no men had the value of organization come more forcibly than to
these; and in this almost chance gathering was the beginning of the Grand Army
of the Republic. There was, early enough after the close of the war, another
reason beyond all questions of sentiment or association, demanding some form
of organization among the returned soldiers and sailors. Empty sleeves, single
legs, eyeless sockets, and emaciated bodies were too often coupled with
personal necessities, and the maimed and diseased in need of charity or
employment began to point out the larger and growing demand for organized
work in behalf of suffering and dependent ones; and to what hands could this be

so well committed as to those of old comrades in arms? The Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic holding the first regular charter was organized in Dakota,
Illinois, in the early spring of 1866, and in July following a department,
including then some forty posts, was organized in that State.
In October of the same year the association had extended into eight or nine
other States, and a call was issued for a convention to be held at Indianapolis,
Indiana, November 20, 1866, and here the National Encampment had its
organization.
Massachusetts was not represented in the gathering, the Grand Army at that
time having but just obtained a foothold in this State. In September, 1866, a
convention of returned soldiers and sailors representing nearly all the northern
States was held at Pittsburg, Penn. Among those present from Massachusetts
were Gen. Charles Devens, Gen. N. P. Banks, Major A. S. Cushman, and
Chaplain A. H. Quint. On reaching Pittsburg, the attention of the Massachusetts
comrades was attracted by badges worn by a large number of delegates,
particularly from Indiana and Illinois, bearing the legend, "Grand Army of the
Republic;" and so numerous were these badges that a spirit of inquiry was quite
naturally awakened as to the character and objects of this "Soldiers' Masonic
Order," as it was termed by the uninitiated. After some consultation, a number
of the Massachusetts delegates, including those we have named, were
informally inducted into the organization, in the parlor of B. F. Stevenson, who
at the first national encampment a few weeks later was made provisional
Commander-in-chief; the ritual and unwritten work was communicated to the
new members, and they were fully empowered to organize posts in
Massachusetts, General Devens being appointed provisional Grand Commander
of the department. On returning from Pittsburg there was something of a rivalry
for the organization of the first post. Comrade Cushman, who had been active in
the association of the "boys in blue," was especially enthusiastic; and, capturing
an old army associate upon the train homeward, he poured into his ears such an
account of the new organization, that as soon as they reached New Bedford,
they went out into the highways, and summoned a sufficient number of their
comrades; and on that very day, Oct. 4, they organized the first post of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Massachusetts. This still holds the initial
number, Wm. Logan Rodman Post, No. 1, of New Bedford. The charter fee was
at once forwarded to provisional Commander Devens, thus making sure of the
coveted distinction.

A day or two later, these comrades organized a second post at Nantucket and a
third at Taunton. Comrade Cushman exhibited such zeal and earnestness in this
work that provisional Commander Devens insisted on having that position
formally transferred; and the latter therefore resigned, and asked for the
appointment of Mr. Cushman in his stead, which was accordingly made. As in
the case of the national history of the Order, partially consequent thereon, but in
a larger degree because of the destruction of all the department records in the
great Boston fire, the early story of the Grand Army in Massachusetts is
incomplete in many details, but it appears certain that during the existence of
the provisional department under Comrade Cushman, ten posts were organized.
On the seventh of May, 1867, a permanent department was organized by a
delegate convention called at New Bedford, Commander Cushman being
elected Department, or, as then termed, Grand Commander.
Inspiring his new official associates with something of his own ardor,
Commander Cushman divided the state into ten districts, with a recruiting
officer to each, and the "missionary work" was so vigorously prosecuted that
the commander was able to welcome to the regular annual encampment in
January, 1868, the representatives of over forty posts, with a membership of
fully two thousand, while applications for nearly a score of additional posts
were nearly ready for consideration. During the year 1867, a visit of Gen. P. H.
Sheridan to Boston was made the occasion of a torchlight parade of the posts of
the Grand Army, and the fine appearance made by the organization on this first
public display attracted general attention, and was doubtless one means of
largely increasing the membership.
As has been stated, on account of the careless compilation of records at national
headquarters, and the substantial downfall of the posts in the West, where its
great strength was at first, the history of the early years of the order is left in
much uncertainty. But the organization had in the western states a wild, riotous
growth; the meagre reports extant naming two hundred thousand as the
membership in 1867; but the utter lack of organization, and the intrusion of
politics, left the order, almost as speedily as it had sprung into existence, a
complete wreck.
At the close of the year 1870, the department of Illinois, where the Grand Army
had its birth, had been reduced from over three hundred posts, and a
membership of forty thousand, to less than twenty-five posts, and these barely
existing in name; and two years later its entire membership was but two
hundred and thirty-eight. Indiana, with two hundred and seventy-nine posts, and

thirty thousand membership, had become utterly disorganized; Iowa, with one
hundred and forty-four posts, had ceased to have a recognized existence; the
thirty posts in Kansas had dwindled to nine; Minnesota had shrunk from
twenty-five to two posts; the one hundred and twenty-nine posts in Missouri
had no department existence; in Wisconsin, of seventy-nine, less than a dozen
were left, and in Pennsylvania, one hundred and forty-three out of two hundred
and twenty-four had been disbanded. At the session of the National
Encampment in May, 1870, the Adjutant-General reported that only three
departments, Massachusetts being one, could give the exact number of the
members upon their rolls, and the national headquarters were then involved in
over $3,000 of indebtedness.
But in Massachusetts, the founders of the Grand Army of the Republic wisely
bolted and double-barred the doors against the intrusion of partisan topics, and
the growth of the organization was steady and continuous. In January, 1868,
comrade A. B. R. Sprague was elected to succeed Commander Cushman, and at
the end of his term was able to report seventy-three posts, with a membership of
six thousand one hundred and eighty-nine.
How well the department of Massachusetts kept, through these early years, the
Grand Army banner in the front, is evidenced by the following:—
The percentage in this department alone of the entire membership in the United
States was, in 1872, 38 per cent; 1873, 42 per cent; 1874, 43 per cent; 1875, 38
per cent; 1876, 32 per cent; 1877, 33 per cent; 1878, 30 per cent; 1879, 21 per
cent.
From the latter year, because of the rapid growth in Pennsylvania and New
York, and of the reorganization and great increase of the departments in western
states, this percentage was rapidly decreased to six per cent in 1885, but for ten
successive years the official national reports accord to Massachusetts, in all
respects, the position of "the banner department." In April, 1868, Commander-
in-chief Logan issued his order for the observance annually of the thirtieth of
May as a Memorial Day, "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise
decorating the graves of those who died in defence of their country during the
late rebellion," and the ceremony into which so much of tenderness and
patriotic love has since been wrought, was most heartily inaugurated in this
department.
Comrade F. A. Osborn succeeded Commander Sprague, occupying the position
during the year 1869. Within his term, a new ritual, establishing three grades or

degrees, was adopted by the National Encampment, largely in compliance with
the desires of the members of the western departments, against the earnest
opposition of Massachusetts, where was a strong wish to "let well enough
alone." This change was the first adverse blow felt in this department, where not
only was the rapid and continuous growth of the organization retarded, but in a
single quarter ending Sept. 30, 1869, there was a net loss of one thousand seven
hundred and nine members. But this was partially recovered during the
subsequent three months, and the Assistant Adjutant-General was able to report
at the close of the year, one hundred and seventeen posts, with nine thousand
members. During this year there was put in operation the system of careful
inspection of the several posts by department officers, which has since become
a part of the national regulations, and which, from its inception in this
department, has contributed so largely to the efficiency and growth of the
organization. With the retrogression of the western departments, Massachusetts
in this year went to the front in point of numbers, as confessedly also in
perfection of organization and completeness of Grand Army work, and held that
position until 1880, when Pennsylvania passed her in point of membership. It
will be impossible in the limit of this article to speak in detail of each distinctive
year's administration, but the numerical loss of membership was not the most
serious result of the introduction of the grade system; among those who then
dropped out of the organization, disbelieving in the departure from the original
simplicity of forms, were some of the most active and influential members, the
loss of whose interest and personality was severely felt for years.
During 1870 and 1871, the growth was small, and high water mark for that
period was reached in the first quarter of 1873, when a membership of ten
thousand and seventy was reported. From this point came a reaction, the
numbers slowly and steadily diminishing for six years, the lowest point in
membership being reached in the spring of 1879, when there were but seven
thousand seven hundred and forty-eight upon the rolls.
From that time, slowly at first, but without retrogression, the membership has
risen to its present point, numbering eighteen thousand.
The question of an appropriate badge, which had received much consideration
by two successive National Encampments and their committees, was finally
settled by a resolution passed October 28, 1869, adopting the design now in use,
to be made of bronze from cannon captured during the war.

During one or two years of the Grand Army in this state, there was no organized
charity work, but the necessity for systematized action early became evident,
and in 1870 posts began the establishment of a relief fund, placed in the hands
of trustees, and administered by special committees; and in this direction
Massachusetts has grandly led all other departments, having expended in the
past fifteen years, from the various relief funds of posts, over $600,000.
This work has been most thoroughly systematized, in nearly every instance
cities being divided by wards, and large towns into districts, with a special
investigating committee for each, and, from the intimacy of association, the
knowledge of records, and the veterans' natural hatred of shams, a like amount
of money could hardly have been as judiciously or economically disbursed
through any other channels; while from no hands could aid to the family or
dependent ones of a needy veteran come with so little of the chilliness of
reluctant charity as from those of old comrades-in-arms.
Unlike most, perhaps every other charitable society, the larger part of this
money has, continually, from the first, been expended in behalf of those who are
not of its membership.
From time to time the posts have appealed to the public, by fairs, concerts,
lectures, and like entertainments, for the means to replenish their relief funds,
and the response has ever been worthy the generosity and patriotism of the
Commonwealth.
At the present time, the posts have in these funds about $120,000.
With the incoming of Commander Horace Binney Sargent, in 1876, the Grand
Army entered upon a new and broader field in its work of fraternal charity;
large as had been the liberality of Massachusetts towards its veterans, the
Commonwealth yet lacked for its own what the national government had
established for the helpless and needy wards of the Republic,—a Soldiers and
Sailors Home. With the same earnestness and fervor which had made him the
trusted military confidant of Governor Andrew, and later, a splendid
commanding officer in the field, Commander Sargent threw himself into the
work of securing this great need of the Commonwealth. The times were far
from auspicious; business was suffering from severe depression, property
values were feeling the apparent shrinkage incident to the approach to a coin
basis, Comrade Sargent personally being among the foremost sufferers, while
the strength of the Grand Army was from these causes constantly diminishing;
and, at the outset, not a few of the members of the organization doubted the

necessity for, or feared the failure of, the project. But there was contagion in the
fiery enthusiasm and terrible earnestness of Commander Sargent, and, slowly at
first, but surely, the plan won its way. Breaking their hitherto and since
invariable rule of "one term" elections of department commander, the comrades
in Massachusetts a second and a third time re-elected Commander Sargent, and,
before the close of the latter term, he saw the beginning of the end in the
establishment of a Soldiers Home on Powder Horn Hill, Chelsea.
The work had been of slow growth; the posts were appealed to, public meetings
were held, and at camp-fires and other gatherings the necessity for the
procurement of a Home was strongly urged; but during the earlier months there
were only a few tangible evidences of prospective success, here and there a
small contributor, so that many who had been enthusiastic became downcast
and discouraged. But there was one comrade whose faith failed not, and when
the workers wearied, Comrade Sargent became only the more resolute and
determined. During his second term, he was able to announce the receipt of a
small bequest in the will of a generous lady, and this afforded the basis for yet
more persistent appeals to the public. An act of incorporation was procured
from the legislature, by which the control of the institution was placed in the
hands of the Grand Army, by the selection of a majority of the trustees from this
organization. With the small amount of money secured, a beginning was made
by the purchase of the property now used as a Home, and on the eighth day of
June, 1881, the dedicatory exercises were held, and the Home opened July 25 of
the following year. Already, however, a movement had been inaugurated for a
grand bazaar in December, at the Mechanics' Building in Boston. Gen. Sargent,
who had been chosen President of the Board of Trustees, which position he
filled until his removal from the state, succeeded in interesting a large number
of the leading citizens of the state, and was fortunate in calling to his aid as
chief marshal, Col. A. A. Rand, to whose admirable organizing powers much of
the success of the bazaar was due. The women, always loyal to the veterans,
went enthusiastically into the work, the posts joined heartily, and the general
public responded liberally, and at the end nearly fifty thousand dollars was
turned over to the Treasurer of the Home, which, with the addition of $10,000,
the munificent gift of Capt. J. B. Thomas, enabled the managers to pay the
balance of the purchase money upon the property, and largely increase the
number of inmates. For more than five years past, the deserving applicants have
been in excess of the capacity of the Home, and there was also an imperative
necessity for enlarged hospital accommodations.

In 1884, therefore, steps were initiated for the Carnival, held in Boston in
February, 1885. By another bit of good fortune, Col. A. C. Wellington was
secured as chief marshal, and again success crowned the effort, over sixty
thousand dollars being realized as the net result. The legislature makes an
annual appropriation of $15,000 towards the support of the Home, which now
contains one hundred and ten inmates, to be increased about thirty upon the
completion of the new hospital building.
Since the institution of the Grand Army in Massachusetts, its commanders have
been as follows:—
1866, provisional, Chas. Devens, A. S. Cushman; 1867, A. S. Cushman; 1868,
A. B. R. Sprague; 1869, Francis A. Osborne; 1870, James L. Bates; 1871,
William Cogswell; 1872, Henry R. Sibley; 1873, A. B. Underwood; 1874, J. W.
Kimball; 1875, Geo. S. Merrill; 1876-77-78, Horace Binney Sargent; 1879, J.
G. B. Adams; 1880, John A. Hawes; 1881, Geo. W. Creasey; 1882, Geo. H.
Patch; 1883, Geo. S. Evans; 1884, John D. Billings; 1885, John W. Hersey;
1886, Richard F. Tobin.
The Assistant Adjutant-Generals, to whose systematic work this department has
been so greatly indebted for its efficiency, have been Thomas Sherwin, Henry
B. Peirce, James F. Meech, and Alfred C. Munroe.
Having for eight years led in members and excellency all the departments of the
country, with its record of over $600,000, expended in its relief work, with
$120,000 now held for that purpose, with a membership of nearly eighteen
thousand, and possessing the only Soldiers Home in the nation, established
solely through its own efforts and still maintained in its hands, the Grand Army
of Massachusetts has a right to be proud of its exemplification of the virtues of
"Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty."

ON DETACHED SERVICE.
AN EPISODE OF THE CIVIL WAR.

BY CHARLES A. PATCH, MASS. VOLS.

Most sketches of battle-scenes, in their voluminous details of movements and
vivid descriptions of action, so completely hide the actual feelings of the men
engaged that the inexperienced may be pardoned the thought, that, having
donned the insignia of a soldier, a man instantly becomes filled with martial
ardor, and eager to face the most withering fire of musketry or artillery. But the
reality is far different; very few men are so constituted, or are so reckless of
their lives, that they can listen to the unearthly screech of the shell or the crash
of solid shot, mingled with the sickening thud of grape and bullets, without a
shiver of weakness creeping through their systems, and a helpless knocking of
their knees together. It is a military fact that lines of combatants as they go into
position are not made up of heroes, and regiments which won renown in such
scenes of carnage as Fredericksburg, or Gettysburg, or the Wilderness, were
composed of plain, quiet men, who were faint-hearted and homesick when
forming in front of flashing batteries or heavy bodies of opposing troops. It was
only when completely involved in the struggle, after the madness of excitement
had overcome the real man, that they proved themselves to be, what we now
know them, heroes. But it very often happened that troops were placed in
positions where neither glory nor honor could redound to them, however brave
they might be, and where the results of such movements were not at all in
keeping with the loss of life incurred. This little sketch covers somewhat such
an occasion, where troops comparatively new in the service were ordered to
perform work which seemed uncalled-for and extra hazardous, and of so little
consequence that no record will ever be made of it, although lives were lost in
its accomplishment. An inside view is simply given of the true feelings and
actions of men at such times, and necessarily lacks the glow of enthusiasm
which is thrown around the picture of the historic battle. But to the story.
If there was one feature in the South which annoyed the Federal commanders
more than another it was the railroad system. Through its medium they were
enabled to supply their armies from the great plantation centres where war was

unknown. With a railroad at the back of each army, they were enabled to move
with small wagon trains, and could utilize troops that would otherwise have
been detached as guards. By its potent power, also, the troops were hurried from
point to point of the Confederacy, thus keeping the Federal armies so long
outside the charmed circle of the seceded States. With worn-out rails, scant
supply of carriage-material, and wheezy engines, they performed herculean
labor throughout the war. Consequently it became the favorite pastime and the
almost sole business of Union cavalry to destroy or attempt destruction of
railroad communication. Thousands upon thousands of valuable lives were
sacrificed in such movements, and without any material damage to the fighting
centre of the Confederacy.
Our department commander, becoming infatuated with this method of making
war upon the South, was urging his corps towards a well-known railroad
junction one clear, cool day in December, '62. We were some fifty miles from
our base, and bodies of the enemy were continually harassing our line of march,
sometimes meeting us in sharp conflict, and at all times impeding our progress
by road-obstruction. Already the killed and wounded were counted by hundreds,
and the coveted goal still far away. As we plodded wearily along, wondering
what would happen next, one of the division staff dashed up to our brigadier
and ordered him to detach one of his regiments and send it to support cavalry
that had seized a bridge some miles to our right. It was the fortune of our
regiment to be detached for the service, and we marched into a wood-road,
rather depressed in feelings, and sadly missing that sense of security which the
fellowship of a large body of men gives to the soldier. On we went for about
three miles through dense woods that chilled one's very marrow with their
gloom. Occasional glimpses of bits of blue sky through the overarching
branches were the only reminders that the outside world remained as it used to
be. Once or twice we passed small openings in which some poor white had
located, and where half-naked children were the only signs of civilization, or,
rather, uncivilization, till, at last, under the guidance of a scout, we filed into a
clearing about a quarter of a mile from the bridge. Through the woods we could
see two guns planted in the road at the bridgehead, and a squadron of
dismounted cavalry supporting them. The smoke rising from the partially burnt
timbers, and the frequent interchange of rifle and carbine shots, with now and
then the roar of artillery, gave ample evidence that business would soon be
lively in that locality. The outlook was not at all enlivening; our regiment was
small in number, the woods dark and treacherous,—the main army adding mile
upon mile to the interval between us,—and we were very forcibly impressed

that even railroad-smashing, in plenty of company, was far better than bridge-
burning with such lonesome surroundings.
While chewing the cud of reflection, and anxiously considering the situation, a
major of cavalry appeared from the woods calling for assistance, and cold
perspiration covered us as our captain was ordered to place his company under
the major's direction. Command was given to "Fall in," which we did with very
solemn faces, and whisperings went through the ranks that we guessed it was all
up with us; but the order to "March" called us to duty and we proceeded down
the road accompanied by a battery, which had at that moment arrived and
proved a welcome addition to our meagre force. Halting in a clump of trees, a
short distance from the river, we divested ourselves of all luggage and then
made our way through the woods to the edge of a field that bordered on the
river bank; quietness reigned as we deployed as skirmishers, and just before we
advanced, the cavalryman pleasantly informed us that when the line struck a
certain stump, we should get abundant notice of our Confederate friends'
proximity. Not in the least overjoyed at this information, we crept slowly
forward, all eyes and ears, and as the extreme left came into line with the stump,
the heavens opened, or at least we thought they had, and six pieces of artillery
sent their compliments in the shape of so many barrelsful of grape. One grand
whir-r-r-r went over us, around us, and, in imagination, through us; it took but
the sixtieth part of a minute for fifty men to flatten themselves upon the earth
and wish they had never gone to the war. No time was wasted in examining the
topography of the position, or in looking for safer quarters, our military
discipline showing itself in the unanimity with which we then and there dropped
as one man. In the short interval between the first and second discharges of
grape, one of those incidents occurred which often turns the seriousness of
battle into a seeming frolic. While considering the expediency of advancing, our
attention was drawn to the antics of several cattle, which had been quietly
grazing near by, now so thoroughly astonished at the strange proceedings that
they were literally attempting to carry out the old Mother Goose rhyme of
"jumping over the moon." With tails stiff as crowbars and hind legs higher than
their heads, they were cavorting around the field, bellowing with fright, and
making such an extremely ludicrous spectacle, that, in our excited condition, it
was more than we could bear, and almost hysterical laughter weakened us so
that we were hardly able to move. But the range of the enemy's guns was too
accurate to admit of a long stay in this locality, so we pushed on, rolling or
crawling, to the thin line of trees by the river, continual discharges of grape
adding increased momentum to our movements, and solid shot from our own

battery crossing us so closely that it made the neighborhood more dangerous
than social. Drawing long breaths of relief at last, behind the partial shelter of a
rail fence, we began to make as close investigation of our opponents across the
stream as the difficulties of the position would allow. We found the country
thickly inhabited, every stump and tree sheltering its quota of men in gray, and
six ugly-looking cannon at work upon our position with a rapidity and precision
that was certainly commendable to them, if not fully appreciated by us.
However, we soon lost our fears and misgivings in our eagerness to make the
climate as warm for them as they had so far made it for us, and we settled down
to our work with a vim that would have made old veterans envious. The river
was so narrow that every movement on either side was visible, and, lying flat
upon the ground, we fired for hours at any signs of life, and were continually
answered by the zip-zip of bullets as they flew past our heads, or buried
themselves in the rails above us. Thus the conflict continued; grape and solid
shot tore frantically over us, plowing up the dirt and crashing through the woods
in the rear, filling our ears with the most frightful din. Our greatest difficulty
was in loading, for if so much as a hand was exposed to view, such a rain of
lead would be sent our way that it took some minutes to assure one's self that he
was not killed. Once in a while, the word would be passed along, "George is
wounded," "Ned is killed," or, "Serg't Smith" has a hole through his arm, and
we would instinctively get closer to the ground and flatten ourselves out as thin
as possible. Hunger and thirst also began to tell on us, and we longed for the
darkness to come, but our opponents with their larger force held us to our work,
seeming loth to have us depart.
About dusk the order was given to fall back quickly and quietly, but how to do
it safely in the face of a regiment of Confederates was a puzzle to be solved;
edging backward till at fair distance from the fence, we suddenly rose and
scampered, in knots of two or three, at break-neck speed for the other side of the
field, with bullets and grape buzzing around us like angry wasps. When, at
length, we gathered, shivering with the cold, around our pile of blankets, and
felt hungrily in the emptiness of our haversacks for one remaining cracker, the
prevailing feeling was that "we wanted to go home," but, to our intense disgust,
we were ordered to eat our hardtack, if so fortunate as to have any, and, as soon
as sufficiently dark to conceal our movements, to picket the river bank near the
bridge and be ready to support the battery in any attempted night surprise. This
we felt to be an outrage on good nature, and so expressed ourselves in language
not at all polite. We were tired and hungry, and the night cold and sharp, but

orders are orders and must be obeyed, and we moodily wended our way to our
various stations.
It was a good time to illustrate those lines of Tennyson,—

"Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why."

Nevertheless we were not at all in harmony with the poem, but felt perfectly
willing and wholly competent to instruct our commanders on the correct way to
handle troops. As we pushed on through the underbrush and débris of the forest,
the smallest stick trod upon would crack like a rifle-shot, and the unearthly
howl of a dog, in the yard of a hut near by, made our hair stand on end as it
echoed through the woods. The hours passed tediously as we peered through the
darkness across the sluggish stream to the opposite side; but a little after
midnight movements of the enemy, which they did not try to conceal, awakened
our fears; the noise of bodies of men moving from different points, mingled
with the sound of voices and frequent shouts, led us to feel that life would be
safer and pleasanter behind our battery, when an officer came from the rear and
ordered us to come out in a hurry. We didn't stand upon the order of going, but
"got, right smart,"—not a word of fault was found, nor a complaint made, out of
harmony with the officer's wishes. Company was formed at once, and the retreat
up the road commenced, many an eye peering back into the darkness to see if
the expected pursuit had begun; and had we waited an hour longer, our march
would have been towards the prison-pens of Georgia, for our opponents then
crossed the bridge with a force that would have swept us away in a moment;
and the longer we live the happier we feel that our curiosity remained
unsatisfied. Upon reaching the regiment we learned that our corps, having been
unable to accomplish the object in view, as so many other expeditions failed to
do, were in retreat, with heavy forces fresh from Lee's army in pursuit, and that
it behooved us to cover the three-mile interval in double-quick time if we would
join the procession in safety. We had been without rations all day, and for
drinkables had only the water that lay in puddles by the roadside; but, wearied
as we were, we kept pace with the other companies, muttering bitter
imprecations against everybody in general, as we stumbled into holes or tripped
over sticks in the intense darkness of the forest road. At early dawn we fell into
the line of the retreating corps, but not till near midnight did the army halt with
the feeling that it had placed safe distance between it and our adversaries. Then
we 'broke ranks for rails,' and, with coffee and pipes, sat beside the cheering
blaze recounting the incidents of the engagement. Our little encounter, so

insignificant beside the story of great battles, was yet full of interest to us, and
some were missing from our ranks who would never again respond to their
country's call. To them and theirs it was the great battle of the Rebellion; to us,
who live to tell of it, only an episode of army life.

A TOWN MEETING-HOUSE,
AND TOWN POLITICS IN THE LAST CENTURY.

BY ATHERTON P. MASON, M. D.

Nearly a century ago the little town, now the prosperous city, of Fitchburg,
Mass., was the scene of a fierce contest that lasted a decade. Never in the
history of the town was there contention so bitter or opposition so determined as
that shown in the ninety-nine town meetings held during the years 1786-96. The
cause of this tempest in a teapot was the location of a new meeting-house.
At that time the "center of the town" was in the easterly part of the township, in
the vicinity of the present Union Passenger Depot. Here were located the rather
shabby yellow meeting-house, Cowdin's tavern, Dea. Ephraim Kimball's mill,
Joseph Fox's "red store," and several dwelling-houses. Westward from this ran a
country road (now Main Street) along which were scattered half a dozen houses.
West of the present junction of River and Main Streets there were almost no
habitations until reaching the high land, now known as Dean Hill, about 1-3/4
miles distant. This high land was early settled by farmers, because of the
excellent soil, and comparative freedom from early frosts. Here were two
taverns, a blacksmith's shop, a store, and a number of dwellings. These people
in the west were considerably removed from the river, which at that time was
regarded as a curse to the town, and were desirous of being separated from
Fitchburg in order to escape the heavy tax annually levied to maintain bridges.
Moreover the west was then the more flourishing settlement, and its inhabitants
began to feel that they ought to have a meeting-house of their own, and not be
obliged to travel to the easterly part of the town to attend church,—in a word
they felt rather abused at being considered a suburb.
Early in 1785 one of the articles in the town-meeting warrant was, "To see if the
town will take into consideration the request of Jacob Upton and others, to see
if the town will set off the inhabitants of the north-westerly part of Fitchburg,
with their lands and privileges, free and clear from said Fitchburg, to join the
extreme part of Westminster, with the north-easterly part of Ashburnham, to be
incorporated into a town, to have town privileges, as other towns." Had this
request been granted a new meeting-house would have been built near Upton's

tavern; but it was promptly dismissed. Baffled, but not dismayed, the petitioners
came to the town meeting held in May, 1785, with a proposition to annex to
Fitchburg "about a mile or more in width of land, with the inhabitants thereon,
of the northerly part of the town of Westminster," and these additional people
were "to join the inhabitants of said Fitchburg to build a meeting-house on Ezra
Upton's land." This scheme was very artful, but the wise men of the east saw
that such a move would throw the balance of power into the hands of the west,
and therefore voted it down.
These two defeats stirred up the people of the west, and they determined to
carry their point in some way. In March, 1786, they petitioned "that Rev. Mr.
Payson have liberty to preach some part of the time in the year in the westerly
part of the town." This was certainly a modest request, but was denied, the
people of the east evidently thinking that if they yielded an inch they might, at
no very distant date, have to travel two or three miles.
All this, however, was but a skirmish. The date of the beginning of the real
contest was Sept. 12, 1786, when, it was voted "to build a new meeting-house in
the centre of the town, or in the nearest convenient place to the centre." It was
thus agreed that a new house was to be built, but where to build it was not easily
determined. The maxim, large bodies move slowly, was verified in this instance,
for, although there was much private sputtering in regard to the location, no
further public action was taken for two years. Meanwhile Jedediah Cooper and
Jacob Upton, the two tavern keepers in the westerly part of the town, despairing
of any redress, determined, together with some of their neighbors, to have a
meeting-house among themselves at any rate. They accordingly erected in the
course of time a shabby structure, just within the limits of the town, which was
used to some extent for preaching; but the proprietors did not take much care of
it, and its dilapidated appearance earned for it the name of the "Lord's Barn." It
was sold and taken down about sixty years ago, and the proceeds of the sale
(about thirty-six dollars) were divided among the proprietors.
Sept. 9, 1788, the subject was again brought before the town by means of an
article in the warrant,—"To see if the town will erect a meeting-house in the
centre of the town, or receive any part of Westminster that shall be willing to
join with us, and then erect a meeting-house in the nearest convenient place to
the centre." This article was put into the warrant by the people of the west,
whose underlying object was the formation of a new town, while the rest of the
inhabitants were strenuously opposed to this project. No action was taken on
this article at this meeting. A few days later, Sept. 23, a meeting was called, at

which a committee, consisting of Moses Hale, Oliver Stickney, Daniel Putnam,
Jacob Upton, and Asa Perry, was appointed "to find a place to erect a meeting-
house in the most convenient place to accommodate the inhabitants of the town
of Fitchburg." The result of the investigation made by these five gentlemen was
that two of them found the most convenient place to be in the west, two in the
east, and the remaining member was upon the fence. A town meeting was held,
Oct. 2, to hear the report of this committee, and when it had been given it was
rejected, and the gentlemen were promptly discharged from further services in
that direction. A motion was then made to place the new house on the site of the
old one: this was negatived. Then, "after much consideration," as the record
says, it was voted "to erect the new meeting-house in the nearest convenient
place to the centre." Such brilliant progress must have been altogether too
gratifying, for a few minutes later it was voted "to reconsider all votes hitherto
passed relating to this matter." At this stage in the proceedings the meeting was
adjourned to nine o'clock of the next day.
On the following morning the parties proceeded to business. It was first moved
to place the new house where the old one then stood; this was again negatived.
It was then moved to place it "on the hill near Phineas Sawyer's house, on the
land belonging to the heirs of Mr. Ezra Upton" (in the westerly part of the
town). The meeting was divided on this motion, "to find a true vote," as the
record states, and thirty-two voted in favor of it and seventeen against it. So by
a vote of nearly two to one it was decided to place the new house in the west,
and it looked as if everything was going on swimmingly. A committee was
chosen, consisting of Reuben Smith, Asa Perry, Phineas Sawyer, Elijah Carter,
and Jacob Upton, "to be invested with power to agree with the owners of the
new frame erecting for a meeting-house (that of Jacob Upton and others before
mentioned) in the north-westerly part of the town, if that appear cheapest for the
town,—otherways are invested with power to provide materials and timber for
building a new meeting-house in the prudentest manner for said town on said
plat of ground." This committee was instructed to report progress at the next
town meeting.
This was a bitter pill for the east to swallow. Resolved on retaliation, the east
called a town meeting immediately "To see if the town will comply with a
request of a number of the inhabitants of Fitchburg, to grant that they, together
with their respective estates and interests, may be set off from Fitchburg and
annexed to Lunenburg." This request was denied. The honest people, who, for
the sake of peace and reconciliation had favored the west at the previous
meeting, were now thoroughly alarmed. They held the balance of power, and

were in a very unpleasant predicament. If they voted to place the new house in
the east, the west threatened to form a new parish; and if they favored the west,
the east evinced strong symptoms of returning to the parent town of Lunenburg.
Meanwhile, undaunted by this sudden squall in the east, the committee had
bargained for the frame of the new meeting-house being erected in the north-
westerly part of the town, prepared a site for the new house on the land of Ezra
Upton's heirs, and done sundry other wise things. Nov. 17, 1788, a town
meeting was called to listen to the report of this committee. Their excellent
progress was set forth with great confidence, whereupon the meeting gravely
voted not to accept the report, and added insult to injury by summarily
discharging the committee from further service. This was done by the
peacemakers who were at their wits' ends, and this time threw their influence
into the eastern scale. At this meeting a committee was chosen to find the centre
of the town. After a survey, the centre was found to be on the land of one
Thomas Boynton, about five hundred feet north of the pound. Their report was
accepted at a town meeting held Dec. 18, 1788, and a committee, consisting of
Thomas Cowdin, Phineas Hartwell, Oliver Stickney, Daniel Putnam, and Paul
Wetherbee, was chosen to bargain for a site in the most suitable place. This
committee bought twenty-two and a half acres of land, a little south of the
pound, of Boynton, paying therefor two dollars and thirty-three cents per acre,
and the town approved this action.
The west, not thinking this location near enough, resorted to the old scheme of
forming a new town, and called two meetings for that purpose, thereby scaring
the conscientious peacemakers nearly out of their wits; but for some reason or
other the men of the west did not put in an appearance, and these two meetings
were uncommonly peaceable. The petitions were dismissed. The reason of their
non-appearance at these meetings probably was that the people of the west, who
all this time were carrying on their plans vigorously but quietly, as will soon be
seen, wished to lull the rest of the town into a sense of security.
At a meeting held Nov. 2, 1789, the town voted "to erect a new meeting-house
on the land purchased of Thomas Boynton," and a committee was chosen to
take the matter in charge. Two weeks later the town voted to reconsider all
former votes; so that at the end of four years the town was in the same position
regarding this matter as when it began operations, with the exception of owning
twenty-two and a half acres of real estate. The cause of this singular action was
the culmination of the move on the part of the west, alluded to above. The
people of the west, together with portions of Westminster, Ashburnham, and

Ashby, had presented to the General Court a powerful petition for an act of
incorporation into a town.
"This petition set forth in glowing colors the delightful situation of the
contemplated town—how nature had lavished all her skill upon it—how
admirably adapted for a township by itself was the noble swell of land—and
that nothing in nature or in art could exceed the grand and imposing spectacle of
a meeting-house towering from its summit, while beneath the said swell was a
region of low, sunken land which almost cut off the petitioners from intercourse
with the rest of mankind.[B]"
This meant business, and the inhabitants of Fitchburg drew up a spirited
remonstrance, in which they were joined by the people in those portions of the
three adjoining towns not included in the proposed new township. In this
remonstrance every statement of the petitioners was denied, and the whole thing
denounced as visionary. This matter engrossed the attention of both parties
during 1790, and the result was that the General Court refused to incorporate
the new town.
After such a vigorous contest a brief breathing spell was necessary; but Sept. 7,
1791, the town voted, forty-one to twenty-three, "to erect a new meeting-house
in the centre of the town, or in the nearest convenientest place thereto." This
double-barrelled superlativeness shows that the spirit of the people was by no
means cast down by the fruitless struggle of five years. At this meeting a
committee was appointed to plan a new house. Oct. 10, this committee reported
to the town "to build a house sixty by forty-six feet, with a porch at each end
twelve by eleven feet, with stairs into the galleries." There were to be forty-six
pews on the ground floor, and twenty-five in the galleries, to be sold to the
highest bidders, and three years were to be allowed in which to build the house.
This report was accepted at a meeting held Nov. 14, 1791. A committee was
also chosen to clear a site upon the land purchased of Thomas Boynton and
build the house. Dec. 27, 1791, the town with its usual consistency voted "to
dismiss the committee chosen to build a new meeting-house from further
service." Thus the matter again stood as at the beginning.
For nearly three years thereafter the pot continued to boil, but nothing more was
done about church affairs in town meeting, except that on May 17, 1793, the
people showed their obstinacy by refusing "to repair the meeting-house
windows, and to paint the outside of the meeting-house."

Sept. 3, 1794, operations were again renewed by voting "to erect a meeting-
house in the centre of the town, or in the nearest convenientest place thereto, to
accommodate the inhabitants thereof for divine worship." Three disinterested
individuals, Joseph Stearns and David Kilburn of Lunenburg, and Benjamin
Kimball of Harvard, were chosen by ballot as a committee to discover that
much-to-be-desired spot, "the nearest convenientest place to the centre." They
found the centre to be a little less than a quarter of a mile north-east of the
pound, but considered the most eligible location for the house to be about a half
a mile south of this point, which would have placed it near the present junction
of Main and River Streets. Oct. 21 a meeting was called to hear their report and
it was rejected 36 to 29. So the opinions of interested and disinterested persons
seem to have been considered of about equal value—as good for nothing.
Nov. 21, 1794, a motion "to place the meeting-house on the spot where the
committee out of town proposed" was negatived, forty-eight to forty-five. A
committee was then appointed to select a suitable place. Dec. 1 this committee
reported in favor of "setting the meeting-house near the high bridge, under the
hill" (the place the out-of-town committee had proposed). This report was
accepted, sixty-one to forty-seven. A town meeting was therefore called Jan. 8,
1795, to choose a committee to purchase the land agreed upon; but at the
meeting the town refused to choose such a committee, and so ended the plan of
building a meeting-house there.
Jan. 26, 1795, the town voted "to erect a meeting-house on the town's land they
purchased of Thomas Boynton, about five rods south-west from a large white
oak tree, and to pattern it after the Leominster meeting-house." It was to be
completed by the last day of December, 1796.
Feb. 9, 1795, the town chose a committee of three "to view Ashburnham
meeting-house, and take a plan of the inside, and consult with Asa Kendall of
Ashby for the mode of finishing the inside, and laying a plan for building the
house." A week later the report of this committee was heard and accepted, and it
was voted to pattern the new house after the one in Ashburnham. "Likewise
voted to have the length of said house sixty-two by forty-eight feet, the posts to
said house to be twenty-seven feet in length, and that the undertaker to build the
house give bonds, with good bondsmen, to fulfil the contract." The contract was
given to John Putman, Jr. Then followed other town meetings which regulated
the size of joists to be used, and other minor matters that need not be here dwelt
upon, Sept. 1, 1795, a committee of five was chosen "to stake out and oversee
the clearing and levelling of the meeting-house spot for the underpinning on the

town land." At this meeting it was also voted "that the Selectmen lay out a four-
rod road in the best place to accommodate the travel to the new meeting-house
spot."
At this time plans seem to have been perfected, and the prospect of a new house
on the town land tolerably assured; but Oct. 19, 1795, everything was
completely upset. On that day a meeting was called "to know the sense of the
town whether the former vote in placing said meeting-house should be altered."
After some wrangling, it was decided by a vote of forty-four to thirty "to place
the new meeting-house at the crotch of the roads, near Capt. William Brown's
house" (very near the present junction of Main, Mechanic, and Academy
Streets). This decision was final. It is rather difficult to see how it happened to
be, for this site was a little east of the town land. The opposition put in one final
blow in this way. It was designed to have the house face directly "down street"
and the underpinning was laid with a view to this, but the opposition party
mustered enough strength to change the plan so that it should face the south and
"stand cornerwise to the street."
So the momentous question was finally settled, and early in the summer of 1796
the raising occurred. This was of course an event of great importance, and
extensive preparations were made to celebrate it. On May 9, 1796, a town
meeting was called "to see if the town will make any provision for the
refreshment of the Raisers and also the Spectators that shall attend upon the
raising of the new meeting-house." It was then and there voted most amicably
and unanimously "that the town provide one barrill W. I. Rum and Loaf Sugar
sufficient to make it into Toddy for refreshment for the Raisers and Spectators
that shall attend the raising of the new meeting-house." A committee was also
chosen, consisting of Deacon Daniel Putman, Deacon Ephraim Kimball,
Deacon Kendall Boutelle, Reuben Smith, Joseph Polley, Dr. Jonas Marshall,
and Asa Perry, "to deal out the Liquor to the Raisers and Spectators on Raising
Day." It would seem as if a barrel of rum would suffice to make enough toddy
to satisfy the cravings of all that would gather to witness this raising, but the
people were evidently overflowing with hospitality, and bound to have a
rousing time after waiting for it so long, for before the adjournment of the
meeting it was voted "that the committee to deal out the Liquor and Sugar
sufficient for the Raisers and Spectators, in case the barrill of W. I. Rum and
Sugar already voted should be insufficient, procure more and bring in their
account to the town for allowance."

This was the only meeting in ten years where there was no contention or
bitterness of feeling. For once these good people were all of the same mind, and
a "barrill of W. I. Rum," which in these days gives rise to such excited
controversy, in the presumably degenerate days of 1796 acted like oil upon the
troubled waters.
The raising came off successfully, but it is not definitely stated how much rum
was consumed thereat. However here is a copy of the order to reimburse
Deacon Boutelle for the refreshment expenses.

"Fitchburg, May ye 12: 1796.

"To Ebenezer Thurston Town treasurer you are hereby Directed to pay Den
Kendall Boutwell thirty eight Dollars and one Cent it being for providing Rum
and Shugar for the Raising of the new Meeting house and this with his Rect
shall be your Discharge for the above sum

D C John Thurston }
38 1Paul Wetherbee } Selectmen."

On the back of this order is written the receipt and settlement as follows:—
1796

"may ye 12 Recd a Note in behalf of the Town of fitchburg of thirty Eight
Dollers and one Sent in full of the within Order
"Kendal Boutell"
"April 19:1797 Order Settled with the treasurer"
Such in substance was the controversy about the location of the meeting-house.
The contest was characterized by zeal, obstinacy, and bitterness, manifested
equally by both factions, and so fierce was the strife that the people of adjoining
towns, for miles around, were in the habit of flocking into Fitchburg to attend
town meetings.
The edifice was dedicated Jan. 19, 1797, Rev. Zabdiel Adams of Lunenburg
preaching the sermon. This house became, a few years later, the church of the
First Parish (Unitarian) in Fitchburg, and stood until 1836, when it was
removed, and a brick church, now standing, was built by the Unitarians on
nearly the same site.

FOOTNOTES:
[B] Torrey's "History of Fitchburg," Fitchburg, 1836.

ABBOT ACADEMY.[C]
BY ANNIE SAWYER DOWNS.

ABBOT ACADEMY.
Joseph Cook says, "Andover, Mass., has founded several new Institutions.
Under the elms on Andover Hill is a study, in which a prayer-meeting was once
held weekly to devise ways and means of doing good. There originated the first
religious newspaper. There began its existence an American Tract Society which
now sifts its printed counsels, like the dew, over a hemisphere. There, in
imitation of a Scottish custom, was instituted the American missionary monthly
concert of prayer, in response to the wants of an American Missionary Society,
also originating in Andover, and on whose operations now the moon goes not
down by night nor the sun by day. There had its birth the American Education
Society, which to-day rings its college bells all the way from Niagara to the
Yosemite. There was commenced the American Temperance Society, which in
our crowded cities has before it a work of which even wakeful eyes do not yet
see more than a glimpse of the importance." It was, therefore, natural that the
first incorporated school for the higher education of girls in this Commonwealth
should find its birthplace in Andover; and that the first public meeting of which
we have any record whose sole object was the education of girls, should have
been held in its South parish, Feb. 19, 1828, at the house of James Locke, Esq.
The meeting adjourned after voting "that it was desirable and necessary a
female academy should be established in this place," leaving the matter in the
hands of a committee who were to raise funds and see if a lot of land could be
obtained. At the next meeting, on the 4th of March, only a fortnight later, this
committee reported that the way was clear to draw up a constitution, buy a lot

of land, erect a brick building two stories high, for which funds should be raised
by subscription, and that the school should be put under the charge of trustees.
These trustees, seven in number, were: Rev. Milton Badger, pastor of the South
Church, Andover; Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, pastor of the West Parish Church,
who served until his death, a period of more than fifty years; Samuel Farrar,
Esq., treasurer of Phillips Academy; Hon. Hobart Clark, State Senator; Mark
Newman, formerly principal of Phillips Academy; Amos Abbot, Member of
Congress, and Amos Blanchard, succeeded in later years by his son, Rev. Dr.
Amos Blanchard of Lowell. Drs. Badger and Jackson and Esquire Farrar were
to draft a constitution, while Messrs. Clark and Newman were to serve as a
building committee. But, alas! then, as now, it was easy to vote away money,
but not easy to collect it; easy to order buildings begun, but hard to find any
way to pay for them. So at a trustee meeting, July 4, 1828, it was voted that it
was not expedient to erect a building for the Female Academy with their present
means. At the Semi-Centennial of Abbot Academy in June, 1879, several
persons were present who remembered the sadness and disappointment which
settled down upon the hearts which had been so sanguine of success when the
plan was first made public. But it is always darkest just before day, and on July
24, 1828, "most important information" was communicated at a meeting of the
trustees. The first site selected had not been universally approved. A lady,
daughter of Mr. Adams, then Principal of Phillips Academy, writes, "It was the
determination to put the new academy on Main Street; but many Andover
mothers were dissatisfied, as this was the street most frequented by Theologues
and Phillips boys. My mother and Mrs. Stuart consequently drew up a petition
requesting a change in location. Elizabeth Stuart (mother of Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps) and I circulated said petition. When we had received a sufficient
number of signatures, it was handed to the trustees, who deemed the 'objections
formidable'; so a portion of the 'important information' was that Deacon Mark
Newman had presented the enterprise an acre of land on School Street, and that
Madam Sarah Abbot pledged one thousand dollars to be paid at her death."
Esquire Farrar was ready to advance the money on such security, and it was
gratefully voted to take the deed of Deacon Newman, and begin directly to
build from a plan furnished by Mr. Goddard, Principal-elect. Mr. David Hidden
of Newburyport contracted to do the work, being assisted by Mr. William
Saunders of Cambridge, who, it is said, is proud to claim the honor of having
made the columns which support the front portico. Professor Park, who came of
age the year Abbot Academy was born, and who entered Andover Theological
Seminary the autumn the Academy was building, and who often amused
himself by walking upon the uncovered floor joists, adds his testimony to that

of many contemporary notices which declare the completed structure, with its
fine proportions and classic porch, to be not only the pride of the town but of
Essex County.

So Abbot Female Academy fell into line with the other beneficent institutions
established by men of kindred blood to its founder, and who, like her, were
enthusiastic in their love for learning, passionate in their benevolence, and
extraordinarily endowed with common sense.

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE PROPOSED BUILDINGS.
The act of incorporation was passed Jan. 25, 1829; and there is no record that
any opposition was made or any encouragement offered, although all were
aware that it was a pioneer enterprise, for a local journal says, "Abbot Academy
is the first house built in New England by a corporation for the exclusive work
of educating women." Madam Sarah Abbot not only pledged the one thousand
dollars before mentioned, but advanced additional moneys from time to time
when the exigencies threatened destruction; and so arranged her property before
her death in 1848, that two years later, upon the 28th of February, 1850, the

trustees came into possession of a sufficient sum to make the whole amount
$10,109.04. Naturally enough the infant institution took her name, for, though
Abbot Academy has received many donations since Esquire Farrar electrified
her by his decided advice, "Surplus money! Use it to found an academy in
Andover for the education of women!" she is still its largest as well as its first
giver. The grand-daughter[D] of one Abbot, the daughter of another, and the wife
of a third, she led a secluded life, unillumined by those opportunities for culture
which she appreciated highly for others, and oftentimes, without doubt, like
other great benefactors, half uncertain if the generosity, which to her more than
frugal habits must have seemed excessive, was not as injudicious as it was
unusual. For, as Rev. Phillips Brooks said at a meeting on behalf of Abbot
Academy, in Boston, upon the 12th of January, at the time the school was
founded, great ideas and great processes which have not yet begun to fulfil
themselves had just begun to impress
themselves on men's minds. The old and
the new existed together; and that Madam
Abbot, without advantages of early
education herself, could so entirely have
appreciated them that she was willing to
bestow her all upon the new scheme,
speaks volumes for her strength and
foresight. Her portrait, probably painted by
T. Buchanan Read, still hangs on the wall
of the pleasant hall built by her timely
liberality; and women, scattered all the
way from Maine to Japan, as they recall its
sagacious features, quaint dress, and old-
time air, say to their pupils, or record in
their books, or whisper lovingly to the
little children round their knees, that old
Mrs. Abbot in far-off Andover was their
real Alma Mater.

May 6, 1829, Abbot Academy opened with eighty-five pupils, from the little
ones who did not know their letters, to young women of eighteen and twenty.
One who was there says, "Henrietta Jackson (afterwards Mrs. Dr. Cyrus
Hamlin) sat at my left." Another describes the three gifted daughters of
Professor Stuart, one of whom became the first wife of Professor Phelps and the
mother of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, who in her turn has likewise been a pupil of
the school. As we look over the list of the girls who went in and out under the
Ionic porch of the new academy, we see they were by inheritance and nature
well worthy the broad and generous course of study marked out for them by Dr
Jackson, Samuel Farrar and the others. That course, of more than half a century
ago, was as wide as any laid down in the women's colleges to-day; and although
it was gradually modified in conformity with popular sentiment, still it speaks
well for the sagacity and practical wisdom of the trustees. It is pleasant to note
that Dr. Jackson lived to see his theories of women's education carried into
practice by the establishment of colleges for them. Mr. Charles Goddard,
grandson of Dr. Langdon, president of Harvard University, was the first
principal of Abbot Academy. He was tall and fine looking, with refined and
polished manners, worshipped by the little girls and greatly admired by the
older ones, who, as one of their number writes "woke up wonderfully and

enjoyed their studies exceedingly." "It was the universal opinion," says another,
"that the advantages offered by Abbot Academy were very superior to anything
in the region, and the building was considered commodious and elegant."
French and German were taught by Dr. William Gottlieb Schauffler, whose
romantic history and extraordinary musical gifts had already attracted much
personal interest, and whose after career has made his name a household word
from the shores of the German Ocean to the Stairs of the Bosphorus. Who
wonders that he was a hero to those girls of fifty years ago? No theological
student called upon them who had not some story to tell of his enthusiasm,
daring or cleverness, and how eagerly must they have listened as the adventures
of his magic flute were dwelt upon.

For twenty-one years Abbot Academy was under the charge of principals who
were all college graduates and men of exceptional powers, uncommon
cultivation, and thorough interest in their work. There was no fund (then as now
it depended upon its fees, systematically as low as possible) to pay running
expenses, and although its superior character as a school attracted as many
pupils as it could accommodate it had a hard struggle to live. Very early in its
existence it was evident that its great lack was a boarding-house for students
from a distance, and many attempts were made to remedy the deficiency. If the
principal had a family, he accommodated all he could; the trustees provided for

several brief periods common tables, but generally they lived in private houses
scattered about the village.
In 1853 two great events took place. The first was the offering of the
principalship to a woman, and the second the resolve of the trustees "that it is
indispensable to the prosperity, and even perpetuity of the Academy, to raise the
sum of eight thousand dollars in order to procure suitable accommodations for
the boarding pupils." Although the link may not be apparent, the second is
really the logical result of the first for it was the enthusiasm of Miss Nancy J.
Haseltine, who had accepted the position of principal, that urged them on with
an irresistible force. She had come to them from Townsend, Mass., bringing a
large following of pupils, and she found it impossible to provide for them
satisfactorily, besides she saw clearly, as the Punchard Free School was opened
in Andover that year, Abbot Academy must henceforth, as time has proved,
depend chiefly upon patronage from out of town. There was no doubt about the
situation of the new building, the only land the trustees owned was the acre
given them by Deacon Newman in 1829; so they must set it in the rear of the
Academy, but where could they get the money? Again, man's extremity was
God's opportunity. Deacon Peter Smith, who offered the resolution, promised
$1,000, Mr. John Smith $1,500, though in reality the brothers Smith gave before
the house was finished enough to amount to $6,611. Justly was it named Smith
Hall, for its whole cost was but seven thousand thirty-three dollars and sixty-
four cents. But how was the great empty house to be furnished? Mrs. H. B.
Stowe, then living in Andover, talked it over with Mrs. Dr. Jackson and Mrs.
Professor Park and declared a festival should do it. And the festival did bring in
$2,000 which furnished Smith Hall, and prouder, happier women never slept on
Andover Hill than those who had so courageously and triumphantly carried the
plan through.
Smith Hall has now been far more than a quarter of a century the home of the
pupils of the academy, during that portion of the time when they are not
attending to modern languages. Poverty has been its constant companion,
sternly forbidding any unnecessary expenditures, yet it has always presented a
cheerful, even tasteful appearance to strangers, as well as to the scores of girls
who cherish its memory tenderly. The highly successful term of Miss Nancy J.
Haseltine was all too brief, and after her, Miss Maria J. Brown and Miss Emma
L. Taylor, sister of Dr. S. H. Taylor, filled the last three years of the first thirty of
Abbot Academy. In September, 1859, the present principal, Miss Philena
McKeen, entered upon her duties, bringing with her from Oxford, Ohio, her
sister, Miss Phebe F. McKeen, as first assistant. Miss McKeen's management of

affairs has been as wise as fortunate, as disinterested as successful, and Abbot
Academy now stands among the very first of the girls' schools in the country.
The year 1862 is memorable as being the first of a series pleasant to chronicle.
The institution was never in a higher condition of prosperity and usefulness, and
when, in 1865, the trustees were perplexed by the good news that Smith Hall
was insufficient for the number of pupils from out of town, Hon. George L.
Davis of North Andover, who had for some time been one of their number,
happily solved the difficulty by buying what was known as the Farwell estate,
which joined the academy grounds on the north-east corner, and presenting it to
the school. It was gratefully named Davis hall, and for many years has been
occupied by all pupils studying French, that language being the one ordinarily
spoken in the house. Previously Mr. Davis had added two acres of land in the
rear of Smith Hall, and in the autumn of 1865 assisted in the purchase of the
house belonging to Rev. J. W. Turner, on the southern boundary line of the
grounds. That house, known first as South Hall, is now German Hall, German
being spoken there in daily life, as French is at Davis Hall. To the fact that
pupils studying these languages are thus kept out of the way of English speech
for so large a portion of school hours is ascribed their unusual success in the
difficult accomplishment of easy and correct conversation in a foreign tongue.
The amount of Mr. Davis' benefactions up to 1879 was more than $7,000.
At the annual meeting in 1870, the trustees expressed special obligations to Mr.
Nathaniel Swift, who had filled the office of treasurer since 1852, and
congratulated him upon the wonderful transformation which he had wrought in
the grounds. Instead of poor stony pasture land were broad smooth lawns,
gravelled walks, flower borders, well-trimmed hedges, and rustic seats in
charming spots, which told not only of the exquisite taste which ever guided his
hand, but of his considerate thoughtfulness wherever the pleasure or comfort of
the pupils was concerned. During the autumn of 1877, in order to secure the
whole of the beautiful grove adjacent to their property, the trustees bought
fourteen acres, thus making their real estate something more than twenty-two
acres.
In the quarter of a century since Miss McKeen came to Abbot Academy, besides
these imperatively needed houses, and these greatly prized acres, many valuable
collections scientific, artistic and literary have been added; but, as ever, the
great want is room, that the pupils may have the benefit of their use, which is
impossible in their present scattered condition. The school observed its Semi-
Centennial in June, 1879, and extended a hearty welcome to nearly three

thousand of its alumnæ. The position was favorable for a survey of its present
situation, its past history and its future prospects. Thorough examination of the
past proved it had done excellent work; its list of pupils from all parts of the
country, constantly increasing, showed it had taken deep root, but its future
prospects appeared to be imperilled by its environment. On every hand it was
crippled by want of buildings, want of endowment, want indeed of everything
necessary to the comfort of a school. It was mentioned with amazement that
half its collections were packed in boxes, its books were in every room of the
building, wherever a shelf could find room, its pianos in the public parlors, and
as for its boarding accommodations, so insufficient were they, it is a wonder to
those familiar with the arrangements of the more recent girls' schools and
colleges, that Abbot Academy has any boarding pupils at all. That it does, and
frequently to its fullest extent, proves to the entire satisfaction of thoughtful
persons the superior character of its instruction. Numerous highly valued and
gratefully remembered gifts flowed in at the Semi-Centennial, but no sums
sufficient to warrant the beginning of new buildings; so the teachers went on
doing the best they could, spite of their great disadvantages, and their best was
so good, that in 1884 the pressure became so strong, that several architects of
Boston and vicinity entered into a free competition, submitting plans for the
contemplated structures, and those drafted by Messrs Hartwell and Richardson,
were accepted by the trustees, who appointed a building committee, consisting
of Mr. Warren F. Draper, treasurer of Abbot Academy since 1876, chairman;
Prof. J. W. Churchill, Andover, and Mr. James White, Boston. All these
gentlemen are trustees, and in the heartiest sympathy with the high aims of the
institution. The plans thus approved by the trustees were laid before the
Alumnæ Association at a meeting in June, 1885, and enthusiastically approved.
It was then found that they had in their treasury an accumulation of small gifts
amounting to between seven and eight thousand dollars, which they had been
collecting for the purpose, and the announcement that the trustees, at the first
meeting held for the purpose, had subscribed $12,500, was deemed very
encouraging. Since that time the trustees have increased their subscription two
thousand dollars, and, through the efforts of Miss McKeen, Andover people
have pledged about $10,000. In short, about $36,000 has been raised up to the
present time. But new buildings will cost $100,000; perhaps, even with the most
vigilant and judicious economy, $150,000. Where and how can the remainder be
obtained? It occurred to many friends that it would be a pleasant and perhaps a
profitable thing to have a social meeting in Boston to consider the question and
inspect the plans. Mrs. Daniel Chamberlin (before marriage Miss Abbie W.
Chapman), the popular and efficient acting-principal of Abbot Academy in

1853, and now president of its Alumnæ Association, kindly offered her pleasant
parlors in Chester Square for the purpose. There on the 12th of January, was
held a most delightful gathering, where the speakers were as choice as they
were felicitous, and the company as rarely homogeneous as heartily interested.
Rev. Edward G. Porter of Lexington, one of the trustees, to whose indefatigable
efforts the occasion owed a large portion of its success, called the meeting to
order, and in the absence of Hon. Rufus S. Frost, who had been expected to
preside, invited Professor Churchill to the chair. Professor Churchill whose gift
of graceful speech never fails, introduced with a few delightful words Prof. E.
A. Park, who has been president of the board of trustees more than twenty-five
years. Professor Park responded: "The roof of the first edifice for Abbot
Academy was laid the 28th of October, 1828. One week after that day I became
a member of Andover Theological Seminary. I heard at once of the new and
beautiful building; I think I was the first college graduate who walked on the
floor of the present Academy Hall. It was said to be the best school edifice in
Essex County or even the state of Massachusetts. Thus it began its existence
with an aspiration in fine architecture. The style of this edifice is not so classical
now as it was fifty-six years ago. When the academy received its new telescope
it was too poor to provide it a suitable place. Therefore a dome was erected on
the roof, which disturbed the symmetry of the Grecian architecture. The
telescope does good service under the dome; but it is a sign of the indigence of
the academy. When I reflect on the progress made by other institutions, I am
astonished at the march of events. Twenty years after the founding of Abbot
Academy, the little settlement at Chicago had not been heard of at Andover.
When Rev. Dr. Joel Hawes received his first request to provide a missionary for
that settlement, he asked a friend of mine, 'Where is Kick-a-go?' That little
settlement of 'Kickago' has now received a fund of more than three million
dollars for a city library. When our academy was founded, no man in Andover
suspected that California would become one of our United States; but California
has recently received twelve million dollars for the founding of a University. I
was acquainted with the founder of Smith College in Northampton, and also
with the founder of Abbot Academy. In some particulars the two ladies had a
marked resemblance to each other. The founder of Smith College gave to it four
hundred thousand dollars; the founder of Abbot Academy gave to it $10,109.04.
Those four cents have played a conspicuous rôle in the history of the academy.
They have been a sign of its indigence from its earliest to the present day."
"Abbot Academy has real estate valued at forty thousand dollars. Its apparatus,
library, furniture, etc., are valued at ten thousand dollars. Its productive and

available funds are valued at $33,636. This valuation was made two years ago;
and it is now safe to say that the whole property of the institution, including real
and personal estate, amounts to no more than ninety thousand dollars. The
number of books in its library is 2,630. The number of its books relating to the
fine arts is 233. The number of its art illustrations is 3,284. Still it has no
convenient rooms for its books, pictures, casts. They are highly valuable, but
are scattered in different and obscure places. It has a good cabinet of specimens
illustrating conchology. Where is the cabinet? A large part of it I have never
seen. It is kept in the boxes in which it was sent to the academy. Where is the
scientific apparatus? Where is it?
"The rooms for the pupils are not large enough. Two students live by day and by
night in one small chamber. The passages between the rooms are too narrow.
The recitation rooms are too small and not well ventilated. The teachers have no
adequate support, and could readily obtain much larger salaries for far less work
in other institutions. For such reasons the academy asks for an enlarged
endowment. It needs $150,000 for its new buildings. Thus far it has received
promise of only $36,000. If it receive a generous increase of funds it will
flourish; if it does not, it will not flourish as it should. Other institutions will
attract its scholars. We cannot expect that future instructors will have a spirit of
self-denial equal to that of its present and past instructors.
"After his 7th of March speech, Daniel Webster said to the Bostonians, 'You
have conquered your climate, you have now nothing to do but to conquer your
prejudices.' He meant that New Englanders had overcome the laws of nature,
which had provided them with little except ice and granite; and nothing was left
for them to conquer except their prejudices against the system of slavery. Now
the teachers of Abbot Academy have conquered themselves, and there is
nothing left for them to subdue except the laws of nature. They cannot subdue
these laws. They cannot resist the attractions which other institutions have
received from large funds, commodious dormitories, and suitable lecture-rooms
and halls. The two Misses McKeen have devoted a high degree of skill and
energy to the upbuilding of this institution; but they have had a superior
ancestry. They inherited strength and fortitude. They descended from the sturdy
men and women who settled Londonderry, New Hampshire.
"James McKeen of Londonderry was connected by marriage with James
McGregor, the first minister of that town, who was a remarkable man. He was
asked to leave his New Hampshire parish and go to the First Presbyterian
Church in New York city. He declined. Londonderry was a more promising field

for usefulness than New York. Londonderry has since succumbed. By the aid of
the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, New York has gone ahead.
"A traveller walking through Fifth Avenue and then through the roads of
Londonderry can detect the superiority of New York with the naked eye. Unless
Abbot Academy receive a larger and richer endowment than it now has, it will
be to other institutions what the New Hampshire township is to the commercial
emporium of our land.
"Why not allow our academy to decline? What special reasons are there for
giving a new impulse to it? We ask for our new buildings because our academy
is the oldest incorporated institution in the land for the higher culture of young
ladies exclusively. Its age gives it a title to support. The antiquity of a school is
a rich treasure to it. Scores of matrons, teachers, missionaries, have been trained
in this school, and have performed signal services in our Western settlements, in
Constantinople, in Japan, and in other distant parts of the world. The affections
of these pupils are still entwined around this ancient academy. Again, we need
our new buildings as monuments to the past services of teachers who have
adorned and honored the school. Their example of faithful work and of
exemplary self-denial ought to receive a visible and fitting memorial.
"Still another reason is that the endowment for which we ask will encourage
future instructors to imitate the example of their predecessors. I have been
conversant with many schools, I have not known one in which the principles of
mental and moral philosophy, of the English and the Latin language, and of the
fine arts have been more thoroughly and faithfully studied than in Abbot
Academy. We do not expect there will ever be a theatre or an opera in the
neighborhood of our academy; but we do expect that if we can obtain the
pecuniary aid which we need, our school will be the resort of ladies who will
devote themselves with zeal and care to the study of science, and more than all
to the study of the word of God."
Professor Churchill then spoke in a very forcible and interesting manner of the
aims of Abbot Academy, its wish to emphasize the home as well as the school.
In a second article upon the institution it is hoped his remarks will be given in
detail in connection with a more extended consideration of the aim to which he
referred. Mr. Hartwell, for Messrs. Hartwell and Richardson, then explained the
principal points of their plans, drawings of which were hung upon the walls. He
concluded by expressing the heartiest interest in the academy and a most earnest

wish for the success of the good plans in its behalf. Mr. Porter read a letter from
Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, a portion of which follows:—
Abbot Academy has no superior. Its graduates go forth fitted for
life's true work. The education they have received has been
admirably adapted to form both mind and heart. It has had the
social, intellectual and spiritual elements in due proportion.... I have
sent six daughters to Abbot Academy and do not fear to compare
the result as seen in their training, with the results attained in any
other institution of our land, provided the persons selected are of
equal natural gifts. The missionary work of Abbot Academy has
been wide in extent and noble in character, both at home and
abroad; and should be understood by friends of missions. It cannot
be spared; its work, its history, its example, make it one of our
choicest schools for the education of women, and I pray God it may
be abundantly, richly endowed.
Mr. Edwin Reed of Cambridge, who married an Abbot Academy graduate, after
felicitous compliments to the school, made a graceful, sparkling speech, from
which we quote,—"The wise, judicious, painstaking administration of affairs
there goes always to the roots of character, and gives us:—

'The perfect woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort, and command.'

One uniform spirit of devotion to the highest good of all presides there, and
impresses itself on every pupil. Indeed, I am not sure, if I had my way and
could educate but one of the sexes, that I would not take the girls, and give them
the colleges of the land, in preference to the present occupants. This would be
hard on the boys, but, if I should 'turn the rascals out' and put their sisters in, it
would be for this reason, great men always have great mothers. No great man
ever lived who did not derive the native strength of his character directly from
the mother who bore him. Mothers impress their qualities on their sons, and to
get a generation of great men at the earliest possible moment, I would adopt the
order of nature and secure first a generation of great mothers."
Dr. McKenzie spoke affectionately of the academy and its toilsome growth,
saying that almost every object in the school had its history. He referred to the
great force of the demands made by schools and colleges, and said that it was a
sign of health and vigor when a school asked for better accommodations,

because it had wider opportunities for usefulness. Mr. Porter proposed a
committee to attend to the matter in this section, as follows, Rufus S. Frost,
James White, Edwin Reed, C. F. P. Bancroft, Mrs. Daniel Chamberlin, Miss
Annie Means, Miss Caroline A. Holmes, Miss Josephine Wilcox and Mrs.
Laura A. W. Fowler. The committee was subsequently enlarged by adding the
names of Rev. Edward G. Porter and Miss Mary E. Fowle. After the business
the meeting adjourned to the dining-room, where Mrs. Chamberlin had
thoughtfully and kindly provided a delicious entertainment, which fitly ended
the delightful afternoon.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks acknowledged his kinship to the founder of Abbot,
and in substance said: "No institution so takes on personality as a school. I see
the various colleges almost as if they had features, and we may have some such
feeling regarding Abbot Academy. Then there is so much in the quality of an old
institution, if it keeps abreast of the times. The period of the founding of Abbot
was an interesting one. It was a time when old ideas were being left behind and
a new thought was just taking the place of the old. Great processes, which have
not yet begun to fulfil themselves, had just begun to appear. No one can think of
the academy without feeling grateful for that religious character which it is
easier for an old school to keep than for a new one to acquire. Then, too, there is
an advantage in its location, for there is much economy and much value in the
educational atmosphere of a town like Andover."
The plan provides for four buildings; the main or central one, where the family
life will be carried on, connected by corridors with the smaller French and
German Halls, and containing, not only parlors, school offices, dining-rooms,
and suites for teachers and pupils; but a beautiful library, a spacious reading-
room, and upon its third floor, commodious music-rooms shut off from each
other and the corridors by walls and doors of such construction that sound
cannot pass through. French and German Halls furnish each a family sitting-
room cheery with open fires and charming with artistic finish; suites for pupils
and teachers, but neither kitchen nor dining accommodations, as all meals are to
be taken in the main building. To this purpose the western front of the lower or
basement story has been devoted. The young ladies coming from the language
houses pass by separate staircases to their own dining-room on the north and
south side of the central one, where the English-speaking pupils sit. These side
dining-rooms can be shut off or thrown into the central apartment at will, and in
this way freedom for the foreign language is secured and the whole number of
pupils centralized; a more economical arrangement than the present one of three
separate kitchens. Indeed, apart from economy, and outside the great advantage

this plan affords to the students of French and German, the Faculty of Abbot
Academy emphatically prefer the division of the school into distinct families;
the cottage system insuring in their opinion much greater certainty of health,
and opportunities for the direct personal influence important in the development
of character. The fourth building is the academy, where prayers and recitations
will be conducted, and where public gatherings will be suitably accommodated.
The three living-houses are arranged for one hundred and twenty-five pupils
only, two pupils occupy single beds in one bedroom and sharing a parlor. The
architecture is after the eleventh century Romanesque; the material brick, with
freestone trimmings, and the effect of all simple, suitable, dignified.

FOOTNOTES:
[C] Abbot Academy, then called Abbot Female Academy, was incorporated Feb. 26,
1829; Moravian Brothers established schools for girls, Bethlehem, Pa., 1749; Rev.
Joseph Emerson opened seminaries for girls in Byfield, Saugus, and Wethersfield,
1815; charter obtained for Adams Academy, Derry, N. H., 1823; Miss Lyon's
seminary, Ipswich, 1828; Bradford Academy limited its work to girls, 1836; Mount
Holyoke, 1835; Vassar College, Smith College, and Wellesley College later, but dates
are uncertain, as confusion results from lack of definiteness as to whether they
represent the year of founding, opening, or incorporation.
[D] Miss Sarah Abbot, Founder of Abbot Academy, Andover, was born in Andover,
Oct. 3. 1762; married Nehemiah Abbot, first Steward of Andover Theological
Seminary, often called Divinity College; died in 1848, in the house on Andover Hill,
occupied for many years by the family of Dr. Samuel C. Jackson, and now the
residence of Prof. E. J. Hincks; buried in the cemetery of the South Church, Andover.

THE ORIGINAL NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE.
BY REV. EDGAR BUCKINGHAM.

The magazine which first bore this title was established in the year 1831, by
Joseph T. and Edwin Buckingham. There were not at that time many monthly
periodicals in the country; it was long before the days of the Atlantic and
Putnam's. The New-England originated in the desire of my brother Edwin, who,
at that date, was just twenty-one years of age, to rise to a higher position than
that of editor of a daily paper. He had been for some years connected with my
father, first, as assistant editor of the New England Galaxy, and then of the
Boston Courier. People estimate very differently now the position of the editor
of one of our city dailies; but at that time, though such an editor had an
influence and a very great one, he could not be said to rule so far in political and
social life, and to be so nearly supreme, as he has since become through the
talents and labors of the Bennetts, of Greeley, of Raymond, of Thurlow Weed,
and of Samuel Bowles. It is true, Mr. Bryant, of the Evening Post, was already
at his station, so was Joseph E. Chandler, of Philadelphia; and Gales and
Seaton, of the National Intelligencer; and Nathan Hale also, of the Boston
Advertiser, exerted an important influence, wherever that paper was read. But
an editor now addresses every day ten thousand or a hundred thousand readers,
where fifty years ago the issue of his paper was limited to little more than a
thousand copies. My brother Edwin felt, apparently, that to be editor of a
monthly magazine would bring him into closer connection and intimacy with
the leading men of literary eminence throughout the country, and so the
magazine was originated by him and by my father on his account.
Edwin was an accomplished writer at that early day. He had not learned the art
at school; for he left school altogether when he was fourteen years of age. At
that early period of life, he entered into the printing-office of the New England
Galaxy, learning to set type, and, shortly, came to have charge of the making up
of the paper. My father often said that the best school education one could get
was at the compositor's stand. Edwin early began to write for the paper, and I
remember, now, with what admiration an article of his on "Massachusetts" was
read more than sixty years ago, and while he was yet a boy. The Galaxy was
sold in 1827; and my father and brother gave themselves up more particularly to
the editorship of the Courier. Before Edwin was twenty-one, he spent some

winters in Washington, as special correspondent of the newspaper; and while
there attracted no little attention from the great men of the nation. He was a
young man of active habits, and during the trial of the Whites, at Salem, for the
murder of Joseph White, in 1830, at which Mr. Webster made one of his most
powerful efforts as a lawyer and advocate, Edwin reported the proceedings. He
drove down to Salem in the morning, and back at night with the proceeds of his
daily labor, over the cold and foggy marshes of Lynn. Then he took a cold, from
the effects of which he never recovered. He used the severest remedies, and, in
October, 1832, he sailed for Smyrna; after spending some months there in a
home where friendship and kindness did all that nature and skill could
accomplish, and finding all means ineffectual, he started for home to die; but a
few days before reaching his native land he breathed his last. His remains were
committed to the deep in May, 1833. A cenotaph at Mt. Auburn commemorates
his birth and death. It bears the inscription of being placed there by "Boston
Mechanics." Edwin believed in the mechanic arts, and in what are called
laboring men. He had himself been of them. It was fitting also his monument
should be reared at Mt. Auburn; it was one of the first stones erected there. He
had been himself greatly instrumental in carrying to success the project of
turning "Sweet" Auburn, as it had been called, into a cemetery where the ashes
of the loved and illustrious might be gathered for a final resting-place.
The Magazine started well, and may be said to have been wholly successful,
compared with other literary undertakings of the day, and with the just
expectations of the proprietors. My father and brother had capable, willing,
illustrious helpers. The first article of the first number was by Dr. Frothingham,
of Boston, than whom no more elegant scholar, no finer writer was to be found
in New England; Hon. Edward Everett contributed a playful article of some
length to the same number. Hon. George S. Hillard, long known also in Boston
for his fine scholarship, contributed a long review of the "Chanting Cherubs," a
greatly admired piece of sculpture by Horatio Greenough then on exhibition in
Boston. Hon. William Austin of Charlestown contributed a most ingenious and
interesting story, not surpassed by fiction of the present day. Among the
contributors to the first number were also Dr. Samuel G. Howe, and Hon.
Timothy Walker of Cincinnati; Rev. Leonard Withington of Newbury, Mass., a
gentleman who lived long and quietly in that secluded village, but wielded a
vigorous pen, and had a very thoughtful mind; his contribution was of a very
kindly and wise article on the religious character of Lord Byron,—an article
well worth republication as an introduction to any complete collection of the

works of that great poet. One would say such a combination of the literary
strength of Massachusetts was a good setting off for a new magazine.
The gentlemen above named, all or most of them, continued their contributions
for other months and years. In addition to these whose names I have given,
there were in succeeding numbers articles from Richard Hildreth, the historian,
Park Benjamin, the poet, John G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Professor
Longfellow, Miss Hannah F. Gould, Dr. W. B. O. Peabody, of Springfield, Dr.
Andrew P. Peabody, long known and honored and loved in his position in
Cambridge as guardian and friend of the young men in college. But the list
would be too long to enumerate all the fine scholars and eminent writers who
gathered to make up the New England Magazine. My father and brother were
very successful in securing the labors especially of young men,—my brother,
because he was young himself,—my father, because always he was quick to
discern rising merit, and ready and earnest to help forward young men to
success and eminence. The list above given is that mostly of men who at that
time were still in early youth.
The fifth volume of the Magazine, in July, 1833, records my brother's death and
the solitude of the senior editor. The number is prefaced by a picture of my
brother, which shows him as a handsome young man, at the age of twenty-two;
but the lithograph cannot give his fair complexion, the clearness of his large
blue eyes. It was accompanied by an elegiac poem, by Charles Sprague, well
known then, and not forgotten since, as one of our most finished poets, and one
of our most pathetic writers. The work that then devolved upon my father, not
only as editor of a daily paper, but as a man of public activity and usefulness,
member as he was for many years of the Legislature, chairman of committees,
to whose reports he devoted an immensity of labor, was sufficient to require
him to give up the Magazine. Besides its more strictly literary articles,
contributed mostly by others, though my father wrote some of the literary
articles himself, the Magazine presented every month a review of the public
proceedings of Congress and of many of the State governments, the most of
which, I think, were prepared by himself, and usually a long series of obituary
notices. These last were of citizens of different parts of the country, and came
undoubtedly from different hands. But of people of distinction, citizens of
Boston, who died from 1831 to 1835, my father's pen probably produced almost
all of the eulogies. The warmth of his friendship, his readiness to see all good,
to forgive all imperfections, his skill as a writer, made such articles from his pen
exceedingly interesting and admirable.

In December, 1834, my father wrote his valedictory, and on the first of January,
1835, announced that the proprietorship had passed into the hands of Dr.
Samuel G. Howe and John O. Sargent, Esq. In looking over the papers of the
seven volumes, which filled out my father's editorship, very many articles are
found of the highest merit,—as the names of the contributors given above
would assure the reader; and if some of inferior worth are at times mingled with
them, they probably had some interest at the time they were written; and the
Magazine on the whole would be pronounced, I suppose, worthy of general
commendation.

It is the Nemesis of pedantry to be always wrong. Your true prig of a pedant
goes immensely out of his way to be vastly more correct than other people, and
succeeds in the end in being vastly more ungrammatical, or vastly more
illogical, or both at once.—Cornhill Magazine.

IRISH HOME RULE AGITATION:
ITS HISTORY AND ISSUES.

BY REV. H. HEWITT.

By far the most thorny problem of British statesmanship at the present moment
is the persistent and pressing demand made by the Irish people through the Irish
press and their representatives in Parliament for the repeal of the Union and the
recognition of their right to national self-government. Incessantly, earnestly,
eloquently, the question has been agitated for the past dozen years or so.
Adroitly and skilfully it has been manipulated by some of the most brilliant,
sagacious, and resolute agitators Ireland has ever known. Slowly but steadily it
has grown, passing from stage to stage with ever-brightening prospect of
ultimate success, until it has now become the aspiration, we might almost say,
the one, quenchless, all-absorbing passion of the Irish people. The consequence
is that the first calm moment after a most exciting and vigorous electoral
contest, during which "the fire out of the bramble" has devoured many "cedars
of Lebanon," the two great parties in the State find themselves face to face with
a difficulty which, even for the most zealous aspirant to place and power, robs
the honors and emoluments of office of more than half their charm. Neither
Liberal nor Conservative will care to incur the displeasure of the Queen and the
implacable wrath of the English aristocracy—both Whig and Tory—by
consenting to the political divorcement of Ireland, and to what would be
regarded as the disruption of the empire. For it is felt, not without good reason,
that the indirect and ultimate consequences of the severance would be far more
serious than any direct and immediate effects. The efforts of popular statesmen,
in recent times, have been mainly directed toward the maintenance of the
prestige of the Crown. This was the sole motive of Lord Beaconsfield's "spirited
foreign policy." It was the one consideration that made the "Imperial Titles
Bill," and the imperial measures of which it proved to be the too significant
prelude, so immensely popular in London. So sure was he of the strength and
predominance of this patriotic sentiment in England that he made his appeal
almost exclusively to it, in asking in 1880 for a fresh lease of power. The
occasion was critical, he said. "The peace of Europe, and the ascendency of
England in the councils of Europe" depended upon the verdict the country was

now called upon to give. The policy of the party opposed to his own was
declared to be a "policy of decomposition." But the concession of self-
government in the form demanded by the Irish Parliamentary party, whatever
might be the political necessity pleaded in justification of it, would be certain to
be interpreted in England, in the colonies and dependencies of the British
empire, and by all foreign States, as a sure omen of the decline of the British
Crown. To us it is utterly inconceivable that the Queen, who is profoundly
conscious of her power, keenly sensitive as to her royal dignities, rights, and
prerogatives, and proud, as she has reason to be, of her long and prosperous
reign, should ever consent to a policy of dismemberment, by whatever political
party proposed. The Conservatives cannot afford to purchase the influence and
assistance of the Irish vote at the price Mr. Parnell has fixed and is every way
likely to insist on. They would have to belie the best traditions of the party, and
discredit the cardinal principles of their once powerful and still deeply revered
chief—the late Lord Beaconsfield—to whom Home Rule meant "veiled
rebellion," and presented a danger "scarcely less disastrous than pestilence and
famine." The Liberals are equally unlikely to risk the integrity and unity of the
party by the concession of a claim which even an advanced Radical like Mr.
Chamberlain has condemned as unwarrantable, unwise, and impossible to be
granted. Still this and nothing less than this is the hope and expectation of the
great majority of the Irish people. This and nothing less will be the demand of
the Irish leaders as soon as Parliament assembles at the beginning of the
ensuing year.
In order to a clear and correct understanding of the position of Irish affairs at the
present juncture, and of the nature and ground of the Home Rule demand, it will
be necessary briefly to sketch the history of the agitation's genesis and growth.
It is all the more necessary to do this as there are few political or social
problems, even in England itself, more grievously misunderstood and wantonly
misstated. It is truly surprising how much confusion, ignorance, and irrational
antipathy may be nursed and maintained by an excited state of public feeling
and a partisan and prejudiced press. Mr. Justin McCarthy complains with some
bitterness that "people found their deepest sympathies stirred by the sufferings
of cattle and horses in Ireland, who never were known to feel one throb of
compunction over the fashionable sin of torturing pigeons at Hurlingham." And
the words he quotes from a letter addressed to the Times of Dec. 3, 1880, by the
illustrious General Gordon, after a visit to the much afflicted country, show with
equal clearness the sad condition of affairs in Ireland, and the apparent
incapability of the English public to realize it. "I have been lately over the

south-west of Ireland," he wrote, "in the hope of discovering how some
settlement could be made of the Irish question, which, like a fretting cancer, eats
away our vitals as a nation." After the bold and, as some would think,
unstatesmanlike proposal, "that the government should, at a cost of eighty
millions, convert the greater part of the south-west of Ireland into Crown lands,
in which landlords should have no power of control," Gordon concluded, "I
must say, from all accounts and my own observations, that the state of our
fellow-countrymen in the parts I have named is worse than that of any people in
the world, let alone Europe. I believe that these people are made as we are, that
they are patient beyond belief, loyal, but at the same time broken-spirited and
desperate, living on the verge of starvation, in places where we would not keep
our cattle.... Our comic prints do an infinity of harm by their caricatures. Firstly,
the caricatures are not true, for the crime in Ireland is not greater than that in
England; secondly, they exasperate the people on both sides of the Channel, and
they do no good. It is ill to laugh and scoff at a question which affects our
existence."
To Gordon's appeal on behalf of Ireland no one was more ready to listen with
sympathy than the Prime Minister himself. The claims and grievances of the
people whose magnanimous endurance, self-restraint, and patience had so
excited Gordon's admiration and called forth his warmest words of praise, the
great Liberal statesman had never been slow to recognize. Ireland has not
always been willing to be grateful to him; but he has always striven to be more
than just to her, and has more than once incurred the odium and reproach of the
aristocracy of England, and even the disaffection of many of his followers, in
his truly heroic "attempts to mitigate the miseries of the Irish people." When he
surprised the country by his sudden and unexpected dissolution of Parliament in
1874, he had certainly done something to earn the gratitude and confidence of
Ireland. He had disestablished the Irish Protestant Church. He had passed a
Land Act, which at the time (1870) was regarded as a valuable contribution to
the settlement of the land problem, aiming, as it did, first, to give the tenant
some security of tenure where, as in the majority of cases, he had been
practically unable to plead any rights as against the landlord; second, to
encourage the making of needful improvements throughout the country; and,
thirdly, to promote the establishment of a peasant proprietorship. In the attempt
to confer a third great boon on the discontented nation in the shape of the Irish
University Education Bill, he and his administration went to pieces on the
immovable rock of Protestant prejudice.

Of course the provisions of the Land Act, while they occasioned some fretting
and exasperation among the land-owners, who are in the habit of regarding
every effort of legislation for the benefit of their tenants with a fixed sense of
calamity, failed entirely to satisfy the more aggressive and eager of the Irish
Parliamentary party. The Land Act had not taken its place upon the statute book
before a meeting of representative Irishmen was called in Dublin with the view
of framing some scheme of Home Government, and organizing measures for its
advocacy in Parliament, and in the towns and cities of Ireland. In the course of
discussion, one of the speakers used the words "Home Rule," and they were
formally and forthwith adopted as the war-cry of the Nationalist party.
For the first five years the new organization made little headway. Its leader, Mr.
Isaac Butt, was an able man—a lawyer of some distinction and a Protestant—
but he was not a man to set the Thames on fire; he was not the man to control
the fierce and fiery young politicians that had begun to flock to the standard of
the National cause. With unromantic dutifulness to his place and his party, he
annually brought his motion for Home Rule before the notice of the House, and
was supported by some fifty or sixty members and a few sympathetic Radicals,
but the Conservative government and its solid majority were of one mind on the
matter. Mr. Butt died in 1879, and Mr. Shaw succeeded to the leadership, but on
the organization of the Land League in the same year, he was quietly shunted in
favor of Mr. Parnell, who, as the Corypheus of the party, has so far displayed
great skill, coolness, and self-command, and has been rewarded in Ireland by
regal ovations, and by the suggestive title of the "uncrowned king."
Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell, who was declared by one of the speakers at a
recent meeting of Irish citizens held in Faneuil Hall, and more recently by Mr. J.
B. O'Reilly in the North American Review, to be of American birth, is really a
man of English descent. One of his ancestors was the poet Parnell. Another, Sir
Henry Parnell, afterwards created Lord Congleton, was the associate of Lord
Grey and Lord Melbourne in the reform movement of 1829-32. He was a
graduate of Cambridge University, and a Protestant in religion. By birth, by
training, and by creed, he seemed to be of all persons the most unsuited to the
task in which he has been so eminently successful. "In 1871, after some years of
travel in America, among other places, he settled down on his estate at
Avondale, in Wicklow, within whose boundaries is to be found Moore's Vale of
Avoca, with its meeting waters." Like many who in spite of early failures have
afterwards risen to distinction, Mr. Parnell's first public appearance was a great
disappointment to himself and his friends. Before the electors of Dublin he
completely broke down in his first attempt at public speaking, and the great city

which has since showered upon him the highest honors it can give, rejected
him. In 1875, he entered the House of Commons for the first time as member
for Meath. For the first few years of his Parliamentary life he was mainly
distinguished for the skill and unwearied persistency of his tactics as an
obstructionist, though he also succeeded in carrying useful amendments to such
measures as the Factories and Workshops Bill and the Bill for the Abolition of
Flogging in the Army and Navy.
The Land League organization gave him just the kind of political machinery he
wanted, though the credit of its creation belongs more to Michael Davitt and
John Dillon than to him. It soon became immensely popular in Ireland, and, for
a time, its orders and decrees superseded the established law of the land, with
the seeming result of replacing social order and tranquillity by a condition of
widespread anarchy, confusion, and lawlessness. It is only fair to say, however,
that the Land League meetings did not create but only revealed the misery,
distress, and discontent of the Irish rural populace. The country had recently
suffered from a severe visitation of famine. Evictions for non-payment of rent
had been steadily increasing for several years past. In 1877 the number stood at
463; in 1878 it swelled to nearly 1,000; at the end of 1880 it had actually
reached 2,110. A bill was introduced by one of the Irish members with a view to
mitigating the rigors of the law as regarded the impoverished tenantry. The
government refused to adopt the measure, but sought to meet the case by
framing a remedial scheme of their own which was introduced under the name
of the Compensation for Disturbance Bill. This bill, which was vigorously
assailed from opposite quarters in the Commons, was unceremoniously rejected
by the Lords, who denounced it as a flagrant encroachment on the rights of
property. It must ever be regretted in the interests of mere humanity that Mr.
Gladstone's government did not compel the recalcitrant peers to abandon their
attitude of defiance in regard to that much-needed piece of ameliorative
legislation. The House of Lords takes nothing so ill as open and avowed conflict
with a powerful and popular ministry. In such a case the issue is never doubtful.
And if the ministry had shown a determination to nail their colors to the mast,
the Lords would have lost no time in unfurling a flag of truce. As it was, their
practical acquiescence in the rejection of the bill consummated the rupture
between the Irish party and themselves. The speeches of the chiefs of the Land
League grew fierce, and at times violent, in their denunciation of Her Majesty's
ministers. Mr. W. E. Forster, especially, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, a man
of invincible resolution and ineradicable prejudices, and yet withal a man of
much rugged kindliness of nature, became the victim of incessant interrogation

and attack in Parliament, and the object of an unrelenting and quenchless hate in
Ireland.
At one time the tone and temper of leading agitators were all that could be
desired. "Abstain," said Mr. Davitt, "from all acts of violence, repel every
incentive to outrage. Glorious indeed will be our victory, and high in the
estimation of mankind will our grand old fatherland stand, if we can so curb our
passions and control our actions in this struggle for free land, as to march to
success through privation and danger without resorting to the wild justice of
revenge, or being guilty of anything which could sully the character of a brave
and Christian people." Later on Mr. Davitt's feelings were less calm and his
language less measured, mild and sober; as when, for instance, he pictured to
his excited auditors "the wolf-dog of Irish vengeance leaping across the Atlantic
to redress and avenge the wrongs of Ireland." Mr. John Dillon went further still,
and ventured to intimate in a speech delivered at Kildare the advisability of
military drill and general preparation for a resort to arms should the necessity
arise.
Among the various means, legitimate and otherwise, adopted by the League for
the accomplishment of its ends, was that form of social ostracism now
familiarly known as "boycotting." Captain Boycott was an Englishman,
employed as agent of Lord Earne, and occupied a farm at Ballinrobe, near
Lough Mask. Emboldened by the powerful protection of the League, Lord
Earne's tenants had refused to pay the stipulated rents, and Boycott served
notices of eviction upon them. Whereupon not only the tenants on the estate but
the population for miles on every side of him resolved not to have anything to
do with him in any shape, whether of barter, business, or intercourse, nor was
any one else permitted to relieve his isolation, or do him or his family any
service, or supply him with any necessity of life. The Orangemen of Ulster
organized and went armed to his relief, and under the protection of a small band
of soldiers and police, his harvests were gathered in, and his produce conveyed
to the nearest available market. Boycott went to England for a short time, and
on his return to Lough Mask at once extricated himself from his painful and
perilous position by giving up his agency. His unexpected surrender, strange to
tell, brought about a complete revulsion of feeling among the dwellers of that
wild and lovely district. He now became as popular as he had before been
obnoxious. In the course of a speech delivered at a mass meeting of from fifteen
to twenty thousand men at Waterford, in September, 1883, Michael Davitt said,
"It was better for all concerned that the truth should be plainly and bluntly told,
in order that English quack statesmen might be saved the trouble of proposing

half measures to satisfy the Irish people.... Let the landlords of Ireland resign
their unpopular positions, follow the example of Captain Boycott, and nobody
would molest them, but if they did not, they would be grievously surprised by
and by, for they would make the discovery which Captain Boycott had made,
that the English government would find that it did not pay from an Imperial
point of view to support a worse than useless class against the Irish nation. The
'lifeboat for the landlords,' as Lord Derby had once called the Land Act (1881),
rescued them from the rocks upon which they were hurled by the waves of the
Land League, but they had not reached the shores of safety yet. There were
other breakers ahead that would do more damage to their rotten system than the
storm of the Land League. When the laborers and the artisans of Ireland or of
England and Scotland were enfranchised, was it to be supposed that the
educated millions of industry would allow the national patrimony—the land—
to be any longer the property of a useless class? In the language of scripture, the
landlords would be asked to give an account of their stewardship, for they could
be no longer stewards."
While, however, the Land Leaguers were jubilant at the success of their
movement, the government were preparing to take strenuous measures for its
suppression. Its leaders, Mr. Parnell, Mr. Dillon, Mr. T. D. Sullivan, Mr. Sexton,
along with the Treasurer, Mr. Egan, and the Secretary, Mr. Brennan, and several
others, were prosecuted by the Crown on the charge of inciting to outrage. The
prosecution, however, broke down, as everybody expected it would, through
disagreement of the jury.
When Parliament assembled in January, 1881, the policy announced for Ireland
was, as usual, one of concession and coercion. There was to be a Land Act, and
there was to be a Bill which would give the Lord-lieutenant "power by warrant
to arrest any person reasonably suspected of treason, treasonable felony, or
treasonable practices, and the commission, whether before or after the Act, of
crimes of intimidation, or incitement thereto." The conflict over the latter bill,
which was first introduced, made the House of Commons more like a bear-
garden than a place of rational deliberation and debate. Even Mr. Bright and Mr.
Gladstone became exasperated, and charged back upon their assailants with an
energy and violence quite unwonted. Mr. Gladstone's speech in particular
aroused the House, angered the Irish members, and proved to be the prelude to a
prolonged conflict with systematic obstruction, which went on for some time,
night and day, without break. Even Mr. Parnell for the moment lost all self-
command, entered into an angry conflict with the Prime Minister, defied the
ruling of the Speaker, and was expelled the House, as Mr. Dillon had been the

evening before. Some thirty others of the National party followed his example
of defiance with a similar result. At the close of February the Coercion Bill was
sent up to the Lords, and on the beginning of March received the Queen's
assent. The end of July saw the third reading of the Land Bill in the Commons,
after long and wearisome debate. The Lords amended it to death, and sent it
back to the Commons—the poor and pithless shadow of its former self.
Restored to life in the Lower House, it was again presented for the acceptance
of the peers. Again they struck at its vitality, but the Commons said, Nulla
vestigia retrorsum. A thousand popular platforms and almost the whole
provincial press called upon the government to be firm; mass meetings in
London and other large cities and towns clamored for the abolition of the House
of Lords and the extinction of hereditary rule. Eventually the courage of the
peers gave way, and the Land Bill of 1881 became law.
The closing months of the year saw the Land League chiefs in Kilmainham
Prison. Mr. Gladstone on his visit to Leeds, early in October, had met with a
reception more than royal from the folks of Yorkshire. For two or three days
special trains from every part of that densely populated county poured into the
great emporium of the cloth-trade thousands of enthusiastic admirers eager to
catch a near glimpse of the foremost statesman of the age as he rode from point
to point through the barricaded streets. In one of the speeches made during the
visit, he had strongly reprobated the policy and proceedings of Mr. Parnell. At a
meeting in Wexford, a few days after, Mr. Parnell replied with some bitterness.
A few days more brought the exciting news of the arrests by the Irish Executive.
The situation was desperate. The imprisoned leaders at once issued a manifesto
calling upon the tenantry of Ireland to withhold payment of rents. This was a
direct violation of the law, as well as a great political blunder, and the
government at once seized the occasion as a fitting opportunity for suppressing
the Land League and the advanced Nationalist press. In the session of 1882
there appeared a manifest indisposition on the part of a majority of the cabinet
to give further sanction to the policy of Mr. Forster in Ireland. The imprisoned
Home Rulers were released from Kilmainham on conditions which he thought
perilously lenient, and he resigned, as also did Earl Cowper. The entry of the
new Lord-lieutenant, Earl Spencer, on the 6th of May, into the Irish capital,
promised well; but the assassin had bargained with the fates for the day, and
before the sun had ceased to shed his bright beams on the green grass and
budding trees of Phœnix Park, a scion of the noble house of Devonshire and his
companion in office had been immolated on the altar of Irish vengeance before
the eyes of the new viceroy as he stood in the window of the viceregal lodge.

The civilized world was horror-struck. Ireland expressed her profound regret at
a transaction which was thought to have been planned and executed by some
designing foe. Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and Davitt hastily met to disclaim any
sympathy with the crime and to denounce the criminals. The rest of the story is
now familiar and needs not be retold. The government was known to have been
contemplating a milder régime for Ireland; but the disastrous incident of the 6th
of May drove them back upon their former policy. A Crimes Bill was passed,
followed by a measure of alleviation, known as the Arrears Bill, with the view
of keeping the scales of justice even. In the middle of August the exhibition of
Irish Art and Manufactures was opened in Dublin, and the unveiling of the
statue of O'Connell, in Sackville Street, was part of the programme of the
ceremonies. On the following day, Messrs. Parnell and Dillon received the
freedom of the city, and Mr. E. D. Gray, M. P., proprietor of Freeman's Journal,
and High Sheriff of Dublin, was committed to Richmond gaol for contempt of
Court.
Whatever necessity may be pleaded for such measures as these, they only had
one result, namely, the steady advancement of the Irish National cause.
Dynamite explosions in London, Glasgow, and elsewhere, troubles in Egypt and
the Soudan, complications with Russia as to the Afghan frontier, left little time
for attention to Irish affairs during the last years of the existence of the Liberal
ministry. The Irish Nationalist leaders had convinced themselves that they owed
no gratitude to the government, and could hope for nothing from the Liberal
party, except "chains, imprisonment, and death," to cite the words of Mr.
Gladstone's recent reply to the Irish citizens of St. Louis. They had been long
biding their time and watching for their opportunity, when suddenly it presented
itself. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Childers, in presenting the Annual
Budget, "ran a tilt" against the "beer and spirit" interest—a sin unpardonable,
for any minister in England. The Budget was defeated, and ministers accepted
the hint, rejoicing that, for a time at least, their troubles were ended.
Meanwhile the organization of the Irish National party had been developed to a
point of perfection in anticipation of the New Reform Bill. That bill promised
nothing in particular either to Gladstone or Salisbury, and it has given to neither
any particular advantage over the other. In the counties the Liberal interest has
advanced; in the boroughs it has markedly declined. But it promised everything
to Parnell, and the fulfilment has been equal to the promise. It is no
exaggeration to say that with a compact following of eighty-six he is virtually
"master of the situation." But his position, on the other hand, is undoubtedly
very critical. It is one which few men are likely to envy; it is one which not one

in a thousand is competent to fill. Will he be equal to it? Where Grattan—
sagacious, eloquent, high-minded and sincere—so signally failed, is Parnell
likely to succeed? To-day his party is united, enthusiastic and strong, but when
the hour for compromise and concession arrives, will the unanimity be
maintained? Does Mr. Parnell himself know how much to ask, how little he
ought to take, and where to draw the limit of compromise? Repeatedly Mr.
Gladstone has invited Irish leaders to bring forward some definite scheme, and
let the country know what they meant by "Home Rule." The cry, as a party
watchword, has served admirably—seldom has a couple of words served so
well—because, as expressing Irish National aspirations, it meant everything in
general and nothing in particular; but the moment is at hand when it will be
necessary to reduce it to a definite and feasible scheme of domestic government
and policy. When that moment comes, will the prince of obstructionists in St.
Stephen's prove himself equally capable as a constructive statesman on College
Green? Should Mr. Gladstone find himself in a position soon after the opening
of Parliament (he is not in a position now) to enter into practical negotiation
with Mr. Parnell, may not the latter discover, as many an able and successful
leader of men has done before him, that the next sad thing to a great defeat is a
great victory? It is no secret that the demand Mr. Parnell, as the head of the Irish
Nationalist party, is commissioned to make on behalf of Ireland, is a demand for
national self-government almost, if not quite, amounting to national
independence: it is equally well known that no British statesman would ever
think, in the present state of public sentiment, of countenancing such a claim.
For ourselves we do not venture to forecast the issue of the conflict; for
"prophecy is the most gratuitous style of error." We content ourselves with
hoping that the settlement may be speedy, pacific, satisfactory, and lasting.

ELIZABETH.[E]
A ROMANCE OF COLONIAL DAYS.

By Frances C. Sparhawk, Author of "A Lazy Man's Work."

CHAPTER XXX.

AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.

While Archdale, full of emotions that he did not try to analyze, went on toward
Grand Battery, a figure, eluding him, crept softly to one of the hospital tents,
lifted the curtain a little way without being observed at first, and stood looking
in, an interested spectator, not because human suffering, patience, and courage
were upon exhibition here, but because here he would find some one who could
give him information that he wanted.
In a few minutes Nancy Foster, passing by the door, looked up and saw him
watching her. She had become too well used to unfamiliar faces and to
messages at all hours and was too well protected to feel alarm.
"Oh! la! how you startled me," she cried. "What do you want? Dr. Waters?"
"Hush!" he said, and beckoned to her to draw nearer. "I want to speak to that
lady yonder, only for a moment. Do you think she would come here?" Harwin,
for it was he, was a fine illustration of the proverb that he who asks timidly,
teaches denial. If he had demanded her mistress, Nancy would have spoken to
her at once. Now she scanned the intruder curiously, and judged from the
hesitation of his manner that his errand was not urgent.
"No, she can't," she answered, with the decision wanting in the other. "Don't
you see how she's driven? And she's got to go away some time and get a little
rest. You'll have to come tomorrow."
"To-morrow!" he echoed drearily. Was it for this that he had come from the fleet
in the dispatch boat, and was braving all dangers? He took a resolution from
despair. He fell back until Nancy had gone and was again intent upon her work.

At last he stepped forward noiselessly and began to make the half circuit of the
tent toward Elizabeth. Nancy, pre-occupied, passed by him without speaking.
Elizabeth had sent for fresh water to moisten the lips of the dying soldier whom
she had told Archdale about. She had just filled her cup a second time, and was
on her way toward her especial charge for that night, when Edmonson asked her
for water. Ashamed of her impatience at the simple request, she turned toward
him, walking carefully with her eyes upon her mug, not to waste a refreshment
that had to be brought from a distance. Suddenly, she found herself almost
running against the intruder. She looked up.
But the apology froze upon her lips. She retreated hastily several steps, the
water splashed unheeded over her trembling fingers. Edmonson, who was
always watching her, called to Nancy, "Your mistress, girl! Quick!" and turned
to look for her.
Nancy had gone to her patients in the next tent. But his voice helped Elizabeth
to recover herself. She stood firm again, but her rigid expression did not change.
With a bow, the intruder began:—
"May I venture—"
She interrupted him. "Do not speak to me, or stay here. Go!" She was like
marble, only that her eyes blazed. Her hand pointed toward the door
emphasizing her repulsion. Edmonson looked in amazement at this new power,
to him a new attraction.
The other drew back precipitately a few steps. Then he stopped and stood
looking at her, the questions that he had meant to put so boldly struggling with
something not unlike fear. For Elizabeth's look and tone were terrible. She was
an embodied indignation. At the moment he believed her Archdale's wife. Her
hand pointing toward the door was turning him beyond the reach of all that was
dearest to him. Yet for a moment it seemed as if he could not resist her, as if he
were forever to be in exile. But he remembered that it was Katie Archdale's
world that was looking at him out of those pitiless eyes, and condemning him.
He had tried so hard to get news of Katie; he had even written her father a
business letter, and had ended it by a covert inquiry for news of her. Not one
word but business had come in the answer. Then, learning that Elizabeth was
here, he had contrived to be sent ashore, for he had been with Commodore
Warren through the siege, had risked meeting Archdale, had risked everything
for this chance of the news he hungered for. He had been sure that the person

whom he recollected as Mistress Royal must answer whatever questions he
might choose to put to her. And now must he go away starving within sight of
food? In desperation he tried to summon back his assurance.
"Only let me ask you if Katie—Mistress—," he began again, taking a hasty step
toward her. But again she stopped him, and this time without a word. As he tried
to meet her look, gradually his eyes fell. He made no further effort to speak.
Step by step he fell backward, until at a distance from her he stood still looking
at her as if strength failed him, even to retreat. Elizabeth turned to Edmonson,
and gave him the water left in her cup.
"Is that Harwin?" he asked hoarsely, holding it back from his lips until she had
answered him.
"Yes," she said, as if to end the subject. "Drink. I must go."
He sipped hastily, without thirst, and handed back the cup. "Thank you," he
said. As she turned away, her hand was trembling again. She swept her eyes in
the opposite direction from Harwin if he should still be there. Edmonson, after a
long glance at her, lay watching him. Here was his evil genius. But for Harwin
what would not have been? In a flash the future that he had planned, a thousand
times more blissful than his former dreams, came up before him, and, fading,
left the present all the more blank. His wounded right arm moved convulsively.
Harwin remained still where Elizabeth's last repulse had left him. He seemed
trying to swallow his chagrin, and wrap the tatters of his dignity about him
before he moved away. Perhaps he was in a dream of the woman whose very
name he had not been allowed to utter. Elizabeth was beside Melvin again, and
Edmonson still kept his eyes fixed upon Harwin, who was standing between
him and her, and gradually and painfully he raised his right arm toward the
pillow.
Archdale had been met by an orderly, and had gone to the General's tent instead
of to the Battery. Pepperell was alone.
"Sit down," he said. "No, let us go out into the air. Warren's dispatches have just
come," he added, as the two passed out of the tent. "He expects two or three
large ships in any day. I shall arrange for the general attack as soon as they
come up." He smiled at Archdale's enthusiastic endorsement. "You like the
smoke of battle," he said. "But the fact is, you have an eye for military
situations. Of course I have quite made up my mind, but I should like to hear
what you have to say." And he laughed, and took his young friend's arm with a

freedom not too common in those stately times. But Pepperell was a man who,
born in any age or place, would have found himself at home there, and
controlling affairs, not controlled by them. He had come to Louisburg with very
little experience in military matters; he had never even seen a siege. He led an
army of fishermen, backwoodsmen, farmers, who had left their employments at
their country's call. But these had the strong hearts and the quick wits that more
than a hundred years later, when the land awoke from a dream of peace, made it
rise up a nation of soldiers.
The General and Archdale went to a hillock that commanded a view of the
harbor, and of the city constantly illuminated by the bursting shells, as were also
the forts and the army encamped there. The luridness of war was over
everything. They stood looking toward the island which, ever since the assault,
had hurled its fire at them incessantly.
"And what would you do with that Battery?" asked the General.
"Annihilate the Battery," retorted the young man. "It can be done. I think you
could rake it best from the Light House."
"I believe I will try. Say nothing of this, Archdale. I shall wait a day or two for
those ships. It would be awkward, wouldn't it, if the French ones came instead?"
His words were light, but the other perceived his deep anxiety.
"What would you do then?" he asked.
"Take Louisburg,—or die."
Archdale turned towards him impulsively. "Yes, you will," he cried, "you will
lead us into Louisburg." He waited a moment. "Before the general attack—," he
began, and hesitated.
"Oh, I'll send the rest of the hospital off to Canso," interposed Pepperell, "all I
can of it; our house there is full now. And the nurses,—you may be sure that
they shall go. That's what you mean?"
"Yes, you think of everything."
"Mr. Royal has been impressing the same necessity upon me." And the General
laughed.
"Where is he?" asked Stephen quickly.

"He has been with his daughter all the afternoon, I believe, but a while ago he
went up to the Batteries with Col. Vaughan.
"But Elizabeth Royal is not a woman to be forgotten," Pepperell went on, "even
if her father were not my old friend, and at my elbow."
"No," said the young man. Then he made a remark about military affairs, and
the subject of the attack was renewed.
Suddenly came the report of a pistol different from the roar of the cannon, and
so unexpected and near that it startled the listeners as if its sharpness had broken
in upon the still night.
"Where was that?" cried the General.
Not only sound, but intuition guided Archdale. For the element that was a
sharper discord than war was to be found in the place to which his feet were
rushing. If not himself for victim, who then? In another moment he threw back
the door of the hospital tent in which Elizabeth was, and entered.
He was none too soon. Elizabeth, swaying beside the couch of the dying soldier,
fell as Archdale reached her. He lifted her, and carried her to her own tent. She
was too faint to resist, or appeal. Nancy, whom the shot had summoned,
followed, holding back her grief and terror because help and silence were what
her mistress needed. Archdale had stayed but a moment in the tent. But he had
seen everything, Harwin unhurt rushing toward his assailant, the surgeon
wrenching the pistol from the disabled hand that had missed its aim, and
Edmonson's face wild with horror at the lodgment that his ball had found. He
had seen all, and he comprehended all.

CHAPTER XXXI.

EYES UNSEALED.

Edmonson sat with a terrible fierceness in his face.
Harwin had never seen him before, but he had heard of him, and, through Katie,
of his former attentions to Elizabeth, and he divined who had fired that shot
meant for himself.

"Come up to me," called Edmonson, turning suddenly upon him. "I've no
weapon now. My face can't turn you to stone, though I'd be a Medusa to do it.
But no, I'll do better than that. Come here! come here!" he repeated excitedly.
Harwin went up to him in silence, reading as he went a lesson that wrote itself
on his mind as if in letters of blood. The man before him was well-born, well-
educated, and skilled in all the graces of society, accepted even in court circles;
yet, as he lay there, he looked a slave, for the nobility of freedom had gone, and
the mark of the brute nature was on his forehead, and in his hand that he
stretched out with the longing in it to grasp his victim. The soldier on the bed
next his, who had spent a good part of his thirty years of life in a fishing-smack,
who knew nothing of books beyond what the common-school education had
given him, and less of any life but his own venturesome calling, who beyond
knowledge of the sea and its dangers had been taught only by the quickness of
his own wit and the honor of his own heart,—this man, as he turned attentive
eyes upon the approaching figure, Harwin involuntarily glanced at. In a flash of
insight he saw in the uprightness of the sailor's face the beauty of such strength.
Then he looked back at Edmonson, and there he saw his own heart in
exaggeration, and he trembled.
As he went up to Edmonson, the latter raised himself from his elbow, and sitting
upright leaned as near him as he could.
"Do you know me?" he asked.
The other nodded, "Mr. Edmonson."
"Yes. Do you know that I was to have married Mistress Royal?" Harwin
assented again. "Who told you?"
"Mistress Archdale."
"Ah! yes, the little golden-haired one that thinks herself such a beauty."
"She is infinitely more than she can think herself," cried Harwin.
Edmonson turned upon him a look of malign triumph. "Ah!" he said. "You
suffer, too." He was silent for an instant. "But then you think that you may yet
win her," he said. "Who knows?" and he watched his listener closely, "Women
are strange," he added. "She'd be flattered by your having been a scamp for her
sake; she is not like the other one." He saw the light flash into Harwin's eyes
and leave its bright mark along his cheek, and he smiled. "But you never shall,"

he said. "You might, but you never shall. Did you see what happened a minute
ago?" he went on in stifled tones. "I shot her, and he carried her out,—not the
yellow-haired one, oh, no, but,—Did you see his face?" he hissed with a look
that made Harwin draw back at its fierceness. "But we shall be even; we will
fight." He sat a moment watching Harwin, and then went on: "You will be
interested in hearing that Mistress Archdale is engaged to Lord Bulchester, my
friend. Your doings, too. But you shall pay for all," as Harwin stepped back in
consternation. "Already, you see you've begun, but this is not the end."
"Calm yourself," said Harwin laying his hand nervously on the other's shoulder,
"control yourself. This is very bad, if you're wounded."
"Control myself!" sneered Edmonson. "I never have done it in my life, and I'm
not likely to do it now at the command of a coward and a sneak. Now will you
fight with me?"
"Certainly. But I want to know why it is with you?"
Edmonson seemed about to shout his answer, then, recollecting where he was,
said with a passion more dreadful for its suppression, "Why? Because but for
you I should be in paradise now, and by reason of you I am in——." Suddenly
his speech was arrested by what seemed to him in its vividness a vision rather
than a remembrance. He was again one of the gay carousers at the London inn,
he was scoffing at Bulchester, and drinking that frightful pledge to meet them
all again in one hundred years. Had he kept his appointment already? He would
have a long while to wait. The act had seemed to him nothing, the recollection
of it now made him shudder. All at once, the scene stood out to him in a lurid
light, and through this he seemed to see a horror in Elizabeth Royal's face. For
one moment the whirl of anguish and remorse blinded him. The next, that
Archdale pride, so grand in a worthy cause, so fatal when in the hands of
caprice and passion, was driving him on again. But as he was about to speak,
the surgeon's voice by his bed commanded him to stop, for his own sake and for
others. "Not another word," it said. "One,—I must speak one," returned
Edmonson. "Then I have done, I promise you. Stand back and count off one
minute." He leaned close to Harwin as the doctor yielded. "I give you a chance
of honorable duel," he said. "You'll take it, or there's no place on earth where
my sword is too short to reach you. You've taught me how to stab in the back; I
shall not forget it. But I give you your chance. You'll fight?"
"Yes."

"Weapons?"
"Swords."
Edmonson smiled derisively.
"You think my sword arm will not be strong enough?" he asked. "I shouldn't
advise you to depend upon that. Time—when I am able. Place—we'll settle that
afterward. We can't find seconds here—too much Puritanism; they would
interfere. But we can arrange it; we're honorable men," he sneered. "I may
depend upon you?"
"Yes."
"If not—beware! Now, surgeon, only one thing more," as Harwin left the tent.
"How much have I hurt Mistress Royal?"
"Lovell has gone with them. When he returns you shall hear."
"You will certainly tell me?"
"Certainly."
"Then I have done with you to-night." And he threw himself back on his pillow,
and lay silent and watchful until the other surgeon entered. Hours after, he fell
into an uneasy sleep.
Elizabeth's injury was slight. When she recovered from the shock and the
faintness, she declared that there was no wound at all—that the ball had merely
grazed her, and the report of the pistol and her fatigue had done the rest.
"You always seem to be round sort of handy when we want anything," remarked
Nancy to Archdale as she looked up from wiping the few drops of blood from
Elizabeth's ear.
"Half an inch to the left," said Stephen hastily, as he stood watching her, "and
—"
"Yes," she answered, "and then—." She looked up, seeing him indistinctly in
the flaring light of the candle. But in her mind there was a fair woman standing
beside him. But for Elizabeth's idle words this vision would have been a reality
instead of a a hopeless dream. She felt the pain of this so keenly now that it
seemed to her it would have been a good thing if the ball had swerved half an
inch to the left. Then her father, who had been found on his way back, came in

hastily, and as Elizabeth glanced at his face she knew that life ought to be dear
to her.
"Elizabeth," he said, as Archdale left them, "have you not had enough of it yet?
Come home now. You have already done a great work."
The girl raised herself slowly, for she still felt a touch of faintness.
"Yes, father, I will go home at once," she answered, "if you will tell me that it is
the sort of thing that you have been trying all my life to teach me to do."
After Mr. Royal had left her, and Nancy was asleep, Elizabeth lay a long time
thinking. She perceived now the whole truth about Edmonson. She was in a coil
of struggle, and perhaps of crime. It seemed as if she herself must be guilty, as
all the consequences of what she had supposed the jest of a summer evening
rose before her.
Yet, for all this imagining, there was in her heart the comfort of innocence.
In the morning the shadow of danger seemed to shrink away in the sunlight, and
Elizabeth went back to her duties with a spirit firm, if not untroubled. She saw
nothing to give her fresh alarm. She found that Edmonson had excused his act
to the spectators as a touch of delirium accompanying fever, and the next day he
had fever beyond question, though not enough to be very dangerous.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

FOOTNOTES:
[E] Copyright, 1884, by Frances C. Sparhawk.

EDITOR'S TABLE.
Brutal and inhuman deeds are not changed in character or color by
differences in latitude or longitude. The people of Quitman, Ga., committed
a deed of this character when they put the torch of the incendiary to a
school-house where ignorant colored children, in charity's sweet name,
were being nurtured into nobler manhood and womanhood. This act of
inhumanity, clearly inspired if not wholly sanctioned by a majority
sentiment in the community, is not a solecism in history. In 1832-3,
Prudence Crandall taught a successful school for girls in Canterbury, Conn.,
to which she admitted a colored girl, an intelligent church member, who
desired to prepare herself to teach children of her own color. All Canterbury
was thrown into a state of intense excitement and indignation by this act,
and Miss Crandall had to choose between the expulsion of her colored pupil
and the loss of her white ones. She pluckily faced the tumult, refused to
sacrifice what she regarded as a principle, and her fashionable school
opened its doors as an institution for colored girls only.
Increased excitement followed. A local politician, afterward a member of
Congress, became the leader in a bitter and disgraceful prosecution of the
brave woman, and, when they found it impossible to drive her from her
position by ordinary measures, secured the passage of a law making it a
crime to open a school for colored children without the consent of the
selectmen of the town. The power of the State of Connecticut was thus
invoked, and used for the crushing of one brave little Quakeress. Miss
Crandall was arrested, and imprisoned in a cell from which a murderer had
just gone to the gallows. Her case was tried in August, 1833. One jury failed
to agree. Another found her guilty. The case was appealed, and proceedings
quashed on the ground of an informality, the higher court thus evading the
question raised as to the constitutionality of the law. An attempt to burn
Miss Crandall's house followed, and on the night of Sept. 9, 1834, it was
made untenantable under the assaults of a mob.
The subject of this bitter and relentless persecution, Mrs. Prudence
(Crandall) Philleo, is still living, and tardy justice comes forward to

recognize the wrong of a half century ago. The children of her persecutors
unite with others in a petition to the lawmaking power which was induced
to brand her as a criminal, to atone for past wrongs by present relief.
It is safe to say that the Canterbury of to-day would gladly blot from history
this story of the Canterbury of a half century ago.
It is equally safe to say that the Quitman of fifty years to come (and much
sooner) will gladly bury in oblivion the story of the burning school-house
and frightened and helpless females and children, which the Quitman of to-
day has put upon the page of current history.
There is a very patent moral to this "Canterbury tale." It reads about as
follows: Twenty-five years after the Canterbury persecution, its repetition
would have been an impossibility. Twenty-five years after the Quitman
persecution—or any other acts, in any southern state, of like character—
what?
Let us, who are only fifty years away from similar deeds at our own doors,
go our way, doing the works of charity, humanity, patriotism, and wait and
see.

For present wrongs atonement comes in bitter tears,
By children shed for deeds of sires in other years;
Brute passion rules but for a day, then hides its head,
And justice, born of love and mercy, rules instead.

Archdeacon Farrar, in a recent article in the North American Review, pays a
tribute to the virtues of the founders of New England which has been rarely
excelled in fervor of rhetoric and laudatory statement by the most gifted of
after-dinner orators among the sons of Puritans and Pilgrims.
"Those virtues," he says, "gave to James Otis and to Patrick Henry the
prophet's tongue of flame. They nerved the arm of Washington in battle, and
kindled the embattled farmers to fire 'the shot heard round the world.' They
kindled the eloquence of Phillips and the song of Longfellow. They gave to

Abraham Lincoln the faith at whose bidding a hundred thousand men
sprang to their feet as one—the faith which brightened the six and thirty
stars round the forehead of liberty, and flung the broken fetters of the last
slave beneath her feet. If the church keep the people in their allegiance to
those awful virtues, America shall still be the enlightener of the nations, the
beautiful pioneer in the vanguard of the progress of the world. But if she
spread a table to Fortune, or enshrine Mammon above her altars, if her
commerce become dishonest, and her press debased, and her society
frivolous, and her religion a mere twilight of wilful and self-induced
delusion—she in her turn shall fall like Lucifer, son of the morning, and the
double oceans which sweep her illimitable shores shall only plash to future
empires a more sad, a more desolate, and a more unending dirge."
We suspect that this eloquence is expressive not only of impartial
admiration, but of the pride that is partial. The parties concerned have
common interests in the matter of grandfathers.
The presidential message has met, as might have been anticipated, with a
very varied reception from the great political parties, from the many-
minded press, and from what may be designated the non-partisan or
politically colorless section of the American people. Nor has it been more
fortunate in securing unanimity of judgment as to its political merits and
significance from the public organs which reflect with more or less
precision and exactitude the opinions of the great community of nations on
the other side the Atlantic. Party feeling, unless it be of a very enlightened,
patriotic, and unselfish kind, is apt to breed the worst types of mental
perversity, and give birth to paradoxes of the most startling character. And
when a great national document, discussing matters vital to the well-being,
prosperity and political advancement of the republic is declared by one
influential paper to contain "no pregnant thought of statesmanship, no
conspicuously original idea, no new issue to inspire discussion in Congress
and among the people," and by another equally competent to frame a
judgment to be "a model of good English, and forcible statement," while a
third hesitates not to pronounce it "a message that will rank among the best
documents of its kind," one naturally wonders what can be the cause of this
curious conflict of sentiment; and after looking at the matter for a moment
one is driven to the conclusion that the reference of the phenomenon to an

invincible and uncompromising party sentiment is probably as scientific,
comprehensive, and correct an explanation as any that can be thought of.
We are not disposed, however, to discuss the general merits of the recent
message. We will only say that, in our opinion, the patriotic American
citizen, whatever political party may enjoy his allegiance and support, will
never have reason to complain—nay more—will never be without just
occasion to feel proud of his country so long as she can produce a style of
statesmanship, and a power of political exposition like those displayed by
the present Chief Magistrate of the Republic.

One noteworthy excellence President Cleveland's message possesses, which
has not excited as much remark as it deserves: we allude to the strenuous
endeavor it exhibits to maintain, in spite of some recent difficulties, a
peaceable and friendly attitude towards European nations, particularly Italy
and Austria. It is not too much to hope that the conciliatory yet dignified
tone and temper of the message in this regard may do something as a
conspicuous example, to abate the war frenzy, and cool the morbid passion
for "gunpowder and glory," which has been such a disturbing and dangerous
element in European statesmanship and diplomacy for many years past, and
is perhaps more menacing to the quiet of the world and the peaceful
advancement of civilization at the present moment than at any period since
the days of the first Napoleon. Occupying her proud and promising position
between the two great oceans; commanding, as a consequence, these great
highways of "commerce, trade and travel"; enjoying a stretch of territory
which not only affords scope for unlimited development of her great
resources in a hundred different directions, but also acts as a check to any
passion that might arise for territorial annexation or conquest; separated
from the older nations by thousands of miles, she can afford to regard with
comparative indifference the exciting game of European politics, and
contemplate the deep designs of jealous and jarring diplomatists without
any fear that her own house may catch fire.

There is, after all, something deeply pathetic in the terrible necessity which
exposes persons of wealth, culture and exalted station to the unpitying
penalties of greatness. A lesson ever needed, ever present, and yet
constantly disregarded and defied, has just received a new and somewhat
startling illustration in the sudden death of the amiable daughter and much-
beloved wife of Secretary Bayard. Can it be necessary that society should
sacrifice its brightest ornaments, and literally do itself to death, in order to
maintain its existence? "Come ye yourselves into a desert place, and rest a
while," reveals a law of health and happiness as inexorable and exacting in
its demands, and as universal in its sway and scope, as any at work in the
frame of material nature. Let us learn the truth and value of this ancient hint
over the tear-bedewed grave of Kate Bayard.

Still streams
Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing.

The inevitable sequel of the English Parliamentary elections has come a
little sooner than the twin foes of Lord Salisbury's ministry had ventured to
anticipate. The "Constitutional" party, as English Toryism loves to style
itself, has suffered signal and humiliating defeat, after a brief and precarious
career of a few months; and the collapse is quite as complete as it is sudden.
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell on the one hand, and the Marquis of
Salisbury and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach on the other, must have been
equally unprepared for what has happened. The Queen, caring not to
conceal her political predilections, hesitated not to give her ostentatious
approval and powerful endorsement to Tory management by consenting to
open Parliament, as she had previously done for Lord Beaconsfield after his
return from Berlin. A phenomenally large and brilliant assemblage of dukes,
marquises, earls and viscounts, at Lord Salisbury's parliamentary dinner had
made a similar attempt, a few days before, to awe and fascinate by a
spectacle of pomp and pageantry the too impressionable Briton. Nothing
has been omitted that could in any way buttress the insecure and tottering
fabric of aristocratic power. But as the ancient sage shrewdly observed,
dementation is the prelude of doom; "whom the gods destroy they first

infatuate." The representatives of the nation have taken the earliest
opportunity that offered itself of rebuking this formidable attempt to over-
ride by an ill-advised and illegitimate use of the "favor of the sovereign" the
definitely declared will of the British people. The last Parliament was
exceptionally rich in the display of character, in humorous and dramatic
incident, and in unrehearsed and unpremeditated scenes of every kind; but
undoubtedly the most striking and startling of its scenes was that of the
younger Tories, unexpectedly triumphant, hailing with frantic joy and
exultation the fall of the Gladstone government. The event was a surprise to
both sides of the House, a surprise all the greater as up to the very moment
of the appearance of the "tellers" on the floor of the House, no one doubted
that the ministry had sufficient strength and vigor to withstand the blow that
was aimed at its life. "Lord Kensington," to quote the words of an eye-
witness, "came in hurriedly with a face set into determined absence of
expression, and sat down by Mr. Gladstone. A few moments more and the
paper was handed to Mr. Winn (Conservative whip) amid the loudest
outbreak of cheering that the House of Commons has heard for more than a
generation. Wild with delight, Lord Randolph Churchill actually leapt on to
the bench, waving his hat with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy. His friends
clustered round him, caught at him, drew him down, but could not restrain
him from the vehement expression of his delight. The example was
contagious. The whole House to the left of the speaker roared and shouted
and thundered and waved its hats and clapped its hands in a frenzy of
general delight. Their hour at last had come, and the fate of the ministry was
sealed." Alas for human short-sightedness! How sad a thing the much-
vaunted triumph has proved after all.
In little more than seven months the power so greedily snatched at has
slipped from their grasp like the shadow of a dream. "They laugh best who
laugh last." To the aristocracy and land-owning class generally, both of
England and Ireland, the fall of the Tory government will be a cause of
apprehension. By the majority of the British public it will be welcomed.
The Liberals, as a political party, will, for a time at least, feel embarrassed
by the event, while the Parnellites will regard it—whether rightly or
wrongly, time alone can tell—as another important step toward the ultimate
success of their cause and the consummation of their hopes.

No one who heard the interesting address of the president of the Bostonian
Society, Mr. Curtis Guild, at its fourth annual meeting, recently held at its
rooms in the Old State House, Boston, could have failed to feel a renewed
interest in American history, as especially emphasized by the preservation
of interesting memorials.
This Society, the successor of the Boston Antiquarian Society, with a
membership of between four and five hundred, is making itself felt in
various ways in thus making practical the belief that a "visible relic of the
past"—as Mr. Guild expressed it—-"tends to emphasize and strengthen an
historic fact." He well illustrated this idea when he further said (and who
that listened did not thrill with true patriotism?), "The walls that are about
you are the self-same that existed at the time of the Boston Massacre; the
windows the self-same openings—here, where the Declaration was read in
1776, and the Proclamation of Peace, in 1783; there, where Washington, in
1789, reviewed the procession in his honor. Within these very walls some of
the greatest events of American history have occurred and the greatest and
most notable men who figured in those events been gathered together."
Without doubt, this Old State House is the most genuine relic of the
Revolution, now in existence. And the Society, in daily opening its rooms,
with their historical possessions, free of charge, is offering to the public rare
educational privileges which it should gratefully use and appreciate.

While the Bostonian Society is doing its special work of preserving
historical objects and places from the hand of the ruthless destroyer, the
Webster Historical Society, organized in 1878, is doing a parallel work in
preserving for future generations the fame, work, and true spirit of
America's foremost statesman and constitutional law-giver, Daniel Webster.
Of course, such a work necessarily leads to a deep and practical interest in
everything pertaining to America's political and national life to which the
great man was so devoted. This Society, which has its headquarters in
another old landmark of Boston, the Old South Meeting-House, has now a
membership of twelve hundred, who are found in all parts of the country.
The customary annual address, on the anniversary of Webster's birthday,

January 18, is generally one of marked interest; notably so was the one of
January, 1884; which, as afterwards published by the Society, was noticed
by deep-thinkers, with perhaps more genuine interest than any other modern
pamphlet of its size.[F] The address at the annual meeting of this year was
given before a large and intelligent audience in the historic meeting-house
by Rev. Thomas A. Hyde upon Daniel Webster as an orator. Mr. Hyde's
special study of the physical, mental, and expressional qualities which go to
make an orator gave weight to the address. The aims and purposes of the
Webster Historical Society are such as to command the sympathetic help of
all American citizens in whatever direction it may labor.

It is to the credit of American womanhood that the presiding mistress of the
White House is one who, while she is making history, is so intelligently in
sympathy with everything connected with it. Her sensible ideas of the
subject as revealed in the chapter on History in her recently published book,
"George Eliot's Poetry, and other Studies," indicate a mind capable of
seizing the essential facts and seeing in them the divine spark. "We must
take the event as a starting point, and travel from it to the man and men
behind it." And again, "Let us realize that history is the shrine of humanity,
humanity essential in its essence in past, present, future, wherein is stored
the ego—the thou and the I."
She gives another thought worthy to be quoted and read by itself.
"Nowhere more than in the study of history is it needful to 'put yourself in
his place'—i. e., to carry to the making of an image of the person whose
form you seek to confront, those general and common ingredients which go
to make up each man. When you have carried to him that much of yourself
which is common to you both, you will, by this, be qualified to detect that
in him which is himself strictly and not yourself; and so to a man you will
add the individuality of the man and have what you seek.... Nowhere more
than in history does it 'take a thief to catch a thief.'"
Miss Cleveland illustrates this in some essays which follow, where she
carries herself back to "Old Rome and New France," to Charlemagne, to

Joan of Arc, and other suggestive epochs.

In her essay on "Old Rome and New France," Miss Cleveland calls the
Middle or Dark Ages, the Twilight Age. "It seems to me," she says, "that
this period is not suggestively named when called the Middle Ages, nor
accurately named when called the Dark Ages, but that both suggestion and
accuracy combine in that view which denominates it as a Twilight Age. An
idea which certainly embodies much of truth."

FOOTNOTES:
[F] John Adams, the Statesman of the Revolution, by Hon. Mellen Chamberlain,
LL.D.

EDUCATION.
It cannot but be regarded as a wholesome and altogether welcome sign of
the times that the science and methods as well as subject-matter of
education are becoming increasingly popular questions, receiving a
considerable share of attention, and inviting a more close, careful, and
comprehensive study. Here, however, it happens, as it does in many other
things: the difficulties of the problem multiply exactly in proportion to the
clearness and completeness of our apprehension of what ought to be done,
and the earnestness of purpose with which we address ourselves to the
doing of it. Most of the troubles of human life, especially those of the most
serious and pressing sort, are of a purely practical character, to be met and
mastered, not with improved theory, but with better directed action. It is, of
course, impossible to over-rate the value of right principles and correct
methods of procedure. Light may be undervalued, neglected, despised; but
it can never lead astray. On this account, every intelligent suggestion in the
direction of educational reform should be listened to. But, on the other
hand, there is great danger of too much emphasizing the need of change,
and of forgetting how much the value and efficiency of any given scheme
depends on the ability, wisdom, and earnestness of those who apply and
administer it. One specialist insists, with great force of argument and
convincing earnestness of spirit, on the need of devoting more attention to
the training and development of the business faculty in the up-growing
youth of the age. He looks at the matter from the side of an experienced,
active, and successful man of business. Another is convinced that the spirit
and tendency of the age make the study of the elements of physical science
imperative. The paramount claims of history are urged by a third. A fourth
considers a course of education essentially deficient which does not provide
for a thorough study of the principal modern languages. While a fifth, with
a view of securing at once an economy of study and a unity of knowledge,
is inclined to think the time has come when children should be taught the
rudimentary principles of the Spencerian philosophy, so that they may see
how the several branches of their study stand related to each other.[G]

Now, while much of this only tends to confuse rather than to solve an
already too-complicated question, it also shows how increased activity of
thought and thoroughness of purpose bring us face to face with difficulties
of whose existence we had scarcely a suspicion. The more we accomplish,
the more there is to challenge our courage, skill, and capabilities. Improved
machinery, reformed methods, accumulated experience, with increased
ability and aptitude on the part of teachers, cannot fail to advance the
problem of popular education nearer to a satisfactory solution; but we must
never allow ourselves to forget that many of the most important elements
that contribute to the success of teaching are not at the command of the
teacher. Education has to do with mind and character; and these are very
subtle things, and exceedingly difficult to deal with; and success depends on
many things that can never be incorporated in a theory or scheme of
education, or in any curriculum of studies.

FOOTNOTES:
[G] This newest educational suggestion appears in a vigorous and thoughtful
paper on "Education and a Philosophy of Life," in the January number of
Education.

HISTORICAL RECORD.
[By sending to the editor brief contributions suitable for use in this
department, readers will greatly add to its completeness and value.]
Maine:
Dec. 22.—Meeting of the Maine Historical Society in Portland, President
James W. Bradbury in the chair. A communication from Curtis M. Sawyer,
of Mechanics Falls, called attention to the fact that traces of Indian
settlements in Maine are now disappearing, and suggested that some means
should be taken to mark sites of Indian villages and shell-heaps. The Rev.
Henry O. Thayer read a paper on Popham colony. E. H. Elwell read a paper
on the "British View of the Ashburton Treaty, and the Northeastern
Boundary Question;" the Hon. Joseph Williamson on "The Rumored French
Invasion of Maine in 1798;" the Rev. Dr. Burrage on "Additional Facts
concerning George Waymouth;" Dr. Charles E. Banks on "The
Administration of William Gorges from 1636 to 1637." The original
diploma of the Society of the Cincinnati, signed by George Washington and
General Knox, was exhibited by Thomas L. Talbot. B. F. Stevens, of
London, who has for many years collected documents relating to the
Revolution, and negotiations of that period, requested that the attention of
Congress be called to these manuscripts, and an effort be made to have the
government purchase them. It was voted to refer the matter to a standing
committee with power. It was also voted that the subject relating to the
limits of Indian towns be left to a standing committee.

Massachusetts:
Dec. 21.—Forefather's Day was appropriately celebrated in many places. At
Plymouth, addresses were delivered by Hon. Thomas Russell, President of
the Pilgrim Society, James Russell Lowell, Rev. George E. Ellis, D. D., Dr.
Henry M. Dexter, Judge Charles Levi Woodbury, and others.

Dec. 22.—Dedication of new public library building in Chelsea, the gift of
Eustace C. Fitz. An eloquent dedicatory address was delivered by James
Russell Lowell.
Dec. 24.—Streets of Lawrence lighted for the first time by the incandescent
electric light.
Jan. 6.—Annual meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society. Marshall P. Wilder was re-elected President, and Grover Cleveland
was made an honorary member. The following were elected to fill vacancies
in the old board of officers: Vice-president, Horace Fairbanks, of St.
Johnsbury, Vt.; honorary vice-presidents, Charles C. Jones, of Savannah,
Ga., and W. F. Mallalieu, of New Orleans, La.; director, John F. Andrew, of
Boston; committee on heraldry, John K. Clarke, of Needham; committee on
library, Walter Adams, of Framingham; committee on papers and essays,
Waldo Burnett, of Southboro, Alexander Williams, of Boston. The report of
the treasurer showed: Income of the past year, $3,637.92; expenditures,
$3,510.61; present balance, $127.31; total of the building fund, $25,028.19;
total of all funds, $66,610.23. The librarian's report showed: Addition of
books by purchase, 121; by gift, 401; present total, 20,778; pamphlets
purchased, 30; gifts, 1848. Present total, 64,604. Nathaniel F. Safford
offered a resolution of thanks to Mr. Wilder for his services in general to the
society, and in particular for his persevering personal efforts during the past
few years by which he has obtained, not merely the subscriptions of his
friends, but the payment thereof for the building fund of the society, so that
the money, about $25,000, is now on deposit, and at the society's disposal.
The resolution was adopted unanimously by a rising vote.
Meeting of Massachusetts Legislature. President Pillsbury of the Senate,
Speaker Brackett, of the House, and Clerks Gifford and Mr. Laughlin were
re-elected. Captain J. G. B. Adams, of Lynn, was elected Sergeant-at-Arms.
Dec. 12.—Annual meeting of the Bostonian Society. The following were
chosen directors for the coming year: Thomas C. Amory, William S.
Appleton, Thomas J. Allen, Joshua P. Bodfish, Curtis Guild, John T.
Hassam, Hamilton A. Hill, Samuel H. Russell, and William Wilkins Warren.
The report on the library showed a total of 520 volumes, and many
pamphlets not yet enumerated, being an addition of 184 volumes, and 126

pamphlets during the year. The report of the treasurer showed: Balance of
last year, $3,857.85; receipts, to make a total of $4,736.65; expenditures, to
leave a present balance of $1,992.23. It was announced that Mr. D. T. V.
Huntoon, the secretary and treasurer, declined a re-election, being about to
take a journey for the benefit of his health. The vacancy was not filled.
Jan. 14.—Monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr.
Green, as one of the executors of the will of John Langdon Sibley, read that
part of the will in which he has constituted this society the residuary legatee
of nearly all his estate. This amount is by far the largest sum of money ever
given or bequeathed to the society, and will place the name of Sibley among
the greatest benefactors of historical research. It was voted that a committee
consisting of Judge Hoar, Mr. Cobb, and Professor E. C. Smyth be
appointed to consider and report to the society what action should be taken
in view of this munificent bequest.
Mr. R. C. Winthrop, Jr., communicated thirty-two letters, written between
1693 and 1699, from General Lord Cutts to Colonel Joseph Dudley, then
lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, and afterward governor of
Massachusetts. They contain incidental reference to William of Orange, and
many public men of that period, as well as to the campaign of the allied
army in Flanders, and the evident sincerity and soldierly bluntness of the
writer renders them quite entertaining. Lord Cutts was not merely a famous
commander, but a poet, and his verses are quoted by Horace Walpole. Mr.
Winthrop expressed a desire to learn where a picture of him might be found,
and he discussed the authority and probable date of various portraits of
Governor Joseph Dudley, and his wife, Rebecca Tyng.
Mr. Appleton spoke of the flag carried by the minute-men of Bedford to
Concord, on the 19th of April, 1775, a photograph of which had been
exhibited at the last meeting. It was originally designed in England in 1660-
70 for the three county troops of Massachusetts, and became one of the
accepted standards of the organized militia of this State, and as such was
used by the Bedford company. Mr. Appleton said that in his opinion this
flag far exceeds in historic value the famed flag of Eutaw and Pulaski's
banner, and, in fact, is the most precious memorial of its kind of which we
have any knowledge.

The Hon. R. C. Winthrop presented from the Hon. John Bigelow, of New
York, late minister to France, and author of an elaborate life of Franklin,
five old maps, on one of which the name of this city is spelled Baston, and
on another Briston.
Mr. Windsor made a communication in reference to a ditch and
embankment found in Weston, at the confluence of Stony Brook and
Charles River, which indicate, it has been lately said, that a trading post and
fort were erected there by the French in the early part of the sixteenth
century. He gave reasons for the opinion that these relics may mark the site
of an early attempt to found the town of Boston there, since soon after the
arrival of Winthrop at Salem he set out for Charlestown, whence, with a
party, he explored the neighboring rivers for a convenient spot to found
their town, and discovered such a place "three leagues up Charles River."
Dr. Palfrey, who seems not to have known of the existence of these remains,
says that the spot must have been somewhere in Waltham or Weston, and
most likely near the mouth of Stony Brook.
Mr. Winsor also read a paper in which he referred to a statement which had
appeared in several popular histories, that, during the eight years of the
Revolutionary War, the thirteen colonies sent two hundred and thirty-two
thousand men to the Continental army. He traced the origin of this
extravagant statement. In 1790, General Knox, then Secretary of War,
presented to President Washington a report on the number of troops
furnished during the war. He showed the number credited to the several
States, making no distinction between those who served for a shorter or a
longer period, and he did not tabulate his separate statements for each year
into one including the whole war. This was done, however, in the first
volume of the New Hampshire Historical Society's collections, and the error
was copied by many subsequent publications. It was afterwards said in
explanation, that these figures denoted enlistments or years of service, and
not men. The truth of the matter is that these figures are worthless as
representing the number of men which made up the Continental line, or the
years of actual service, and their only value is as enabling us approximately
to judge how much more or less relatively one State contributed than
another to the military force that gained our independence.

Rhode Island:
Dec. 17.—The committee appointed by the Providence City Council to
consider what action should be taken by the city government for the proper
observance of its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, submitted its report.
The committee is of the opinion that the celebration should consist of a
festival lasting two days. It is recommended that the first day be devoted to
literary and historical exercises in the First Baptist Meeting-House, with an
historical address giving a complete history of the city, together with
appropriate odes, poems, and music. The committee recommends that on
the second day there be a grand trades procession representative of the past
and present industries of Providence; also an elaborate military and civic
parade; that, in the afternoon, balloon ascensions, band concerts, and other
amusements be provided for the people, and that the celebration be brought
to a termination by a grand display of fireworks in the evening. As the best
historical authorities name the date of the founding of Providence as
between the 20th and 25th of June, the committee is of the opinion that the
23d and 24th should be selected. This suggestion is made also in view of
the fact that the 24th of June will be observed as a festival day by the
French residents, and the Masonic Fraternity. It is proposed that the city
appropriate $10,000 for the observance, and that the State legislature be
requested to make a further appropriation of $5,000.

Connecticut:
Jan. 6.—The Legislature organized by electing Stiles T. Stanton, President
pro tem. of the Senate, and John T. Tibbets, of New London, as Speaker of
the House.
The article on the Wayte family, in the January number of the New England
Magazine, has provoked much pleasant comment in Lyme, the birthplace
and summer home of Chief Justice Waite, and New London, the residence
of Hon. John T. Wait.
The History of Hartford County in two splendid volumes, press of Ticknor
& Co., of Boston, is now being printed, and will be ready for delivery in a

few weeks.

Vermont:
Six young men, playing Spanish mandolins, guitars, and harps, says the
Chicago Herald, Jan. 18, sat in the balcony of one of the banquet halls at
Kinsley's last evening. Below the musicians, and seated at an E-shaped
table were two hundred and fifty elderly gentlemen, members of the Illinois
Association of the Sons of Vermont, who were destroying their ninth annual
banquet. Pots filled with pork and beans, huge pumpkin pies, and large
blocks of brown bread were spread before the banqueters. Glass fruit-dishes
piled high with ruddy winter apples and little dishes overflowing with
cracked hickory nuts came later, and then all these good things were washed
down with cider and claret. The toasts were: "Vermont," H. N. Hibbard;
"Clergymen of Vermont," Rev. G. N. Boardman; "Stumps of Vermont," E.
B. Sherman; "The Star that never sets," W. W. Chandler. After the speech-
making, Jules Lombard, robed in black and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed
spectacles upon the breast of his Prince Albert coat, sang "America" and a
pretty Scottish serenade. Among those present were E. G. Keith, II, P.
Kellogg, O. S. A. Sprague, R. S. Smith, Gen. H. H. Thomas, H. N. Hibbard,
George Chandler, Harvey Edgerton, Dr. C. N. Fitch, E. A. Jewett, Col. Arba
N. Waterman, E. B. Sherman, John M. Thatcher, A. W. Butler, Frank
Deinson, H. N. Nash, John M. Southworth, George W. Newcombe, and S.
W. Burnham.

NECROLOGY.
December 15.—Samuel Dyer, a pioneer in the anti-slavery movement, died
at South Abington, Mass., aged seventy-eight years. He was intimately
associated with Wendell Phillips and Garrison as an abolitionist, and at one
time held the office of president of the anti-slavery society of Plymouth
county. He was among the first to aid and assist Frederick Douglass. When
George Thompson, of England, became identified with the anti-slavery
movement, his intercourse with Mr. Dyer began, and they worked together
in the cause for many years. He had been a prominent business man of the
town and had held several public offices.
On the same day died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., James C. Fisk, ex-
president of the Cambridge Railroad Company. He was born in Cambridge
in 1825, and always lived in that city. He was President of the Fiskdale
Mills, at Sturbridge, Mass. Mr. Fisk was president of the common council
two years, 1858-9.
December 20.—Frederic Kidder died in Melrose, Mass., aged eighty-one
years. He was born in New Ipswich, N. H., and was formerly engaged in the
cotton trade in Boston. He was a member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society, and published several historical works.
December 22.—Rev. Daniel James Noyes, D. D., Professor Emeritus of
Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at Dartmouth
College, being in term of service next to the senior instructor in that
institution, died at Chester, N. H. He was born in Springfield, Sept. 17,
1812; was fitted for college at Pembroke, and was graduated from
Dartmouth in 1832; after graduation was a tutor at Columbian College at
Washington; was graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in
1836, and then for one year was a tutor at Dartmouth. In 1837 he was
ordained to the ministry and installed pastor of the South Congregational
Church in Concord. In 1849 he was dismissed in order to accept the Phillips
Foundation Chair of Theology at Dartmouth, which he filled until 1869,
when he was transferred to the chair which he held at the time of his death,

having been Professor Emeritus since 1883. The University of Vermont
conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1854.
December 29.—Edwin D. Sanborn, LL.D., Winkley Professor Emeritus at
Dartmouth College of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature,
died in New York. He was born at Gilmanton, N. H., May 14, 1808, and
was the son of David Edwin and Harriet (Hook) Sanborn. He was fitted at
Gilmanton Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832.
He gained reputation as a teacher in the academies at Derry and Topsfield,
Mass., and at Gilmanton, being preceptor of the latter. In 1834 he declined a
tutorship at Dartmouth, and at Meredith Bridge began the study of law,
which he abandoned and entered the Andover Theological Seminary. In
1835 he was a tutor at Hanover; then Professor of Latin and Greek for two
years, and later filled the chair of Latin alone from 1837 to 1859. Then he
accepted the place of Professor of Latin and Classical Literature at
Washington University, St. Louis, where he remained four years. In March,
1863, he returned to Hanover and became Professor of Rhetoric and Belles
Lettres. In 1880 he took the Winkley chair. Since 1882 he had been
Professor Emeritus, his failing health preventing him from performing the
duties of that professorship. The deceased was licensed as a Congregational
minister, Nov. 1, 1836. The University of Vermont in 1859 conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Laws. For many years he held most of the
justice's courts in Hanover. In 1848 and '49 he represented the town in the
Legislature and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1850. In
1869 he was elected to the State Senate, but declined to serve. The deceased
was widely known as an orator and literateur. In 1875 he published a
history of New Hampshire. The death of Professor Sanborn is not only a
great loss to Dartmouth College, but to the State and country at large.
Jan. 3.—A. S. Roe, author of many popular stories, died in East Windsor,
Conn., aged eighty-seven years.
On the same day Prof. Charles E. Hamlin, of the Harvard Museum of
Natural History, died at Cambridge, Mass., aged sixty years.
Jan. 4.—-Zuar Eldridge Jameson, died in Irasburg, Orleans County, Vt.,
aged fifty-one years. He was a well-known writer and lecturer on
agricultural topics, whose initials, with transpositions, as well as other

pseudonyms, are familiar to readers of the agricultural papers, particularly
the New York Weekly Tribune, Albany, N. Y., Country Gentleman and
Boston Cultivator. He was a member of the lower branch of the Vermont
Legislature in 1878, and of the State Board of Agriculture in 1870-74, for
many years Secretary of the Orleans County Agricultural Society, and for
one or two years lecturer of the Vermont State Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry. Aside from the large amount of purely agricultural matter
written he was a frequent producer of short sketches of fiction, usually
treating of rural life. He was associated with Dr. T. H. Hoskins in the editing
of the old Vermont Farmer (not the present Vermont Farmer) at Newport,
which was from a literary standpoint the most successful of Vermont
agricultural journals.
Jan. 5.—Death of Noble H. Hill, senior proprietor of the Boston Theatre.
He was born in Shoreham, Vt., in 1821; received a good education; came to
Boston in 1840; was in active trade till 1867, being at that time a partner in
the firm of Hill, Burrage & Co; in 1876 became a partner with Orlando
Tompkins for conducting the Boston Theatre.
On the same day died Dr. James H. Whittemore, Superintendent of the
Massachusetts General Hospital, aged 47 years.
Jan. 8.—Death of the Hon. Nahum Capen, at Dorchester, Mass., aged
eighty-two years. He was born in Canton in 1804. He came to Boston at the
age of twenty-one, embarked in the publishing business in the firm of
Marsh, Capen & Lyon, and afterward was connected with several of the
leading publishing houses of this city. His tastes were always literary, and
for the past forty years he has devoted himself to literature and study,
except when he held the office of postmaster, 1857 to 1861. He was
appointed postmaster by President Buchanan, and it was during his term of
office that the postoffice was removed from the Merchant's Exchange
building to Summer street at the corner of Chauncy street, where it
remained for about a year and a half. He mapped out the free delivery
system, and was the first postmaster in the country to establish the outside
letter collection boxes. Mr. Capen has written (most of them anonymously)
and has published many books, scientific and political, and was a very
liberal contributor to the newspapers and magazines. He was a sound
thinker and was considered an able writer. His last work, on which he has

been engaged for twenty-five years, is a history of Democracy. The first
volume has been published, and the remaining three have been written and
are ready to be printed, except a portion of the last.

LITERATURE AND ART.
History of the Civil War in America.[H] The deep and widespread interest
which is being felt in this country in all that relates to the late war is likely
to receive increased stimulus from the appearance of recent instalments of
the translation of the "History" of the Comte de Paris. The fact that the
narrative is written by a foreigner, not so much for the information of
American as of European readers, will in no way interfere with the
profound interest Americans themselves must feel in what, when finished,
will probably be, if not the most impartial yet the most accurate,
comprehensive, complete, and reliable record of that long, lamentable and
costly struggle. The interest in American affairs which has culminated in the
production of this history had been a long-cherished feeling with the author
before he conceived the purpose which he has so far executed so admirably.
For years materials of all kinds that promised to shed light upon his subject
and assist him in his undertaking had been industriously collected. He
enjoyed, besides, the great advantage of having personally served on the
staff of General McClellan, in this way attaching to himself many friends,
who, after his return to Europe, continued to keep him posted up in all that
related to the movements of the belligerents, and the incidents and aspects
of the conflict. These advantages, together with the count's very thorough
knowledge of military science, justified his attempting a task which, as it
approaches completion, promises to be a splendid success, and which, so
far as it has been carried out, has already received high commendation from
distinguished soldiers and statesmen both in Europe and America. The
work, though voluminous, is sure to find, as it deserves, many readers. No
American professing to be proud of his country's struggles and
achievements can well afford to be ignorant of its contents. It may be as
well to note that the Count fully confides in the translator's ability to
perform his task with care and accuracy.

FOOTNOTES:

[H] Philadelphia: Porter & Coates.

INDEX TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
(First numeral refers to foot note and name of periodical.
Second numeral to page. Date of periodical is that of month
preceding this issue of the New England Magazine, unless
otherwise stated.)
Agriculture. Questions in. 6, 18.
Anthropology and Ethnology. Lo, the Poor Indian. Geo. F. Marshall. 3,
206.—Varieties of the Human Species. Horatio Hale. Illus. 5, 296.—
Natural Heirship, or the World Akin. Rev. Henry Kendall. 5, 377.—Race
Characteristics of the Jews. 5, 429.—Prehistoric Human Remains in
Mexico. 5, 420.
Art. "Famous Pictures and the Sermons they teach." Crit. art. on Reynolds'
painting of the infant Samuel. Rev. Robt. Maguire, D. D. 1, 1.—A French
Painter (M. Duran) and his Pupils. 7, 373.—A Broad View of Art. 7, 474.—
The Lesson of Greek Art. Charles Waldstein. 7, 397.—Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Frances C. Sparhawk.
Biography. Tribute to Thomas A. Hendricks. Hon. J. W. Gerard. 2, 18.—
Bishop Meade of Va. John Washington. James Bridger. 2, 93.—David
Meade of Ky. 2, 94.—John Breckenridge of Va. 2, 97.—B. F. Wade, the
Judge. Hon. A. G. Riddle. 3, 235.—Thomas Hoyne, Chicago. 3, 288.—
Judge Stephenson Burke, Cleveland, O. 3, 296.—Dr. Wm. Bushnell,
Mansfield, O. 3, 306.—George Whittier Jackson. David Hostetter,
Pittsburg. 3, 258. Frank Buckland (Scientist). 5, 401.—Guiseppi Verdi,
Port. 7, 323-414.—Daniel Webster. Rogers. 8, 13.—Richard and Gamaliel
Wayte. A. T. Lovell. 8, 48.
Biology. Questions in. 6, 17.
Education. Early Education in Ohio. Jessie Cohen. 3, 217.—Can College
Graduates succeed in Business? 4, 111.—The Flower or the Leaf. Primary
Education. Mary Putnam Jacobi. 5, 325.—Southern Women as Teachers of

Colored Children. 7, 478. Education and a Philosophy of Life. J. C. Dana.
10, 215.—Education of the Colored Race. Andrews. 10, 231.—Organization
of Higher Education. Beale. 10, 233.—Education of Girls. Fenelon. 10,
242.—A Want, and How to Meet It. Klemm. 10, 248.—Reports on
Education. 10, 272.—New Education. Livermore. 10, 290.—Overpressure
in High Schools of Denmark. A. T. Smith. 10, 299.—Educational
Institutions. Brown University. R. A. Guild, LL.D. 8, 1.
Geology. "Gray Wethers." The Saccharoid Sandstone of Salisbury Plain.
Grant Allen. 4, 94.
History. "Paul Revere." 1735-1818. E. H. Goss. Portrait and illus.—From
Burnside to Hooker. Transfer of the Army of the Potomac, 1863. Maj. Wm.
Howard Mills. 2, 44.—Operations before Ft. Donelson. Gen. W. F. (Baldy)
Smith. Illus. 2, 20.—Slavery in America. Its Origin and Consequences. John
A. Logan. Portrait of writer. 2, 57.—Washington's First Campaign. T. J.
Chapman, A.M. 2, 66.—The New Year's Holiday. Its Origin and
Observance. Martha J. Lamb. 2, 79.—Gen. W. F. Smith's Unpublished
Reports of the Capture of Ft. Donelson. 2, 82.—Letters: Jas. Meyrick to
Benedict Arnold, and John Hancock to Gen. Washington. 1781. 2, 89.—
Churches in Newark, N. J., in 1707. 2, 93.—Boston Riot of 1788. 2, 95.—
Detroit during Revolutionary Days. Silas Farmer. 3, 250.—Expedition of
Gen. Geo. Rogers Clark, and Capture of Kaskaskia. 1778. John Moses. 3,
267.—The City of the Straits (Detroit). H. A. Griffin. 3, 270.—The "Lost
State" of Franklin. 3, 321.—First Exploration of Northwest by John Nicolet.
3, 322.—Ohio's Coming Centennial. 3, 323.—A New Field of Am. Hist.
(Pacific States). 5, 371.—The Second Battle of Bull Run. Gen. John Pope.
7, 442.—Recollections of a Private. Warren L. Goss. 7, 467.—Attleboro,
Mass. Barrows. 8, 27.—Social Life in Early New England. Anson Titus. 8,
63.—Dutch Village Communities on the Hudson River, 11, 4th series.—
Shiloh Campaign. Gen. Beauregard. 13, 1.—Sherman on Grant. 13.
Industry. A History of the Oil Interest. A. R. Baker, M.D. 3, 223.
Literature, Libraries, etc. Early Libraries in Cincinnati. Prof. W. H.
Venable. 3, 245.—George Eliot's Criticisms on her Contemporaries. 4, 19.
—The Future Literary Capital of the U. S. 4, 104.—Progress toward

Literary Knowledge. 6, 9.—Questions in English, German and Greek
Literature. 6, 17-21.
Medicine, Hygiene, Physiology, Etc. Pioneer Medicine of the Western
Reserve. D. P. Allen, M.D. 3, 278.—Inoculation against Hydrophobia. M.
Louis Pasteur. 5, 289.—The Physiology of the Feet. T. S. Ellis, M.R.C.S. 5,
395.—Color Blindness. 5, 431.—Physiological Experiments. 5, 425.—How
Milk is Tainted. 5, 421.
Miscellany. The Bladensburg Races. A humorous historic ballad.
Comments by Horatio C. King. 2, 85.
Money and Finance. Banks and Bankers of Cleveland. 3, 313.—Origin of
Primitive Money. 5, 296.
Music. A National Conservatory of. 7, 477.
Natural History. Fish out of Water. Grant Allen. 5, 334.—Fruits of the
Pacific. 5, 421.—Recent Experiments in Hybridization. 7, 476.—Feathered
Forms of Other Days. Illus. R. M. Shufeldt. 7, 352.
Politics, Economics, Law, Etc. A Time of Universal Prosperity (in Mich.),
and What Came of It. Hon. Bela Hubbard. 3, 199.—Civil Service Reform.
Gail Hamilton. 4, 67.—How our Railroads have become Luxurious. 4, 110.
—Communal Societies. Charles Morris. 5, 325.—Medieval English Law.
5, 423.—The New Political Economy. 7, 475.—Life Insurance. G. A.
Litchfield. 8, 68.—Canadian Prospects and Politics. Lord Lorne. Alex. Pirie.
Sir J. A. McDonald. 13.—Democracy in England. Andrew Carnegie. 13.—
Disfranchisement of Delaware. 13.—Letters to Prominent Persons. A.
Lichmond. 13.—Landlordism in America. T. P. Gill, M.P. 13.
Recreation. Thoughts on Archery. Agnes Fraser Sandham. 12, 371.—
Around the World on a Bicycle. W. A. Rogers. 12, 379.—Ladies' Tour to
Kettle Cove. M. C. Smith. 12, 43.—Ice Skating in Canada. Otley. 12, 413.—
Pedestrian Tour in the Scottish Highlands. E. S. Farwell. 12, 436.
Religion. Work of the Church in America. Archdeacon Farrar. 13.
Science. Science in its Useful Applications. W. Odling, F.R.S. 5, 388.—
Agatized Wood of Arizona. 5, 362.—Nonconformity (in Types). Herbert

Spencer. 5, 367.—How Woods Preserve Moisture. Elm Leaf Berth. 5, 429.
—The Age of Trees. 5, 424.
Travel and Description. City of Teheran. S. Q. W. Benjamin. 7, 323.
1 The Quiver, Dec. '85.
2 Magazine of Am. History, Jan, '86.
3 Magazine of Western History (Cleveland, O.), Jan., '86.
4 Lippincott's Magazine, Jan., '86.
5 Popular Science Monthly, Jan., '86.
6 Queries (Buffalo, N. Y.), Jan., '86.
7 The Century, Jan., '86.
8 New England Magazine.
9 St. Nicolas.
10 Education.
11 Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.
12 Outing.
13 North American Review.

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