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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Authors and Writers Associated with
+Morristown, by Julia Keese Colles
+
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+Title: Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown
+       With a Chapter on Historic Morristown
+
+Author: Julia Keese Colles
+
+Release Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #37834]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUTHORS AND WRITERS--MORRISTOWN ***
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+
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS
+
+ASSOCIATED WITH
+
+MORRISTOWN
+
+WITH A CHAPTER ON
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN
+
+BY
+
+JULIA KEESE COLLES
+
+1893
+VOGT BROS.
+MORRISTOWN, N. J.
+
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1893, by
+JULIA KEESE COLLES
+of Morristown, New Jersey, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
+at Washington.
+
+[Illustration: Painted by CHARLES WETMORE. 1815.
+
+Owned by HON. AUG. W. CUTLER.
+
+OLD MORRISTOWN.
+Pen and ink sketch by Miss S. Howell, from original painting.]
+
+
+
+
+_DEDICATION._
+
+TO THE MEN AND WOMEN, OF EARLY AND OF LATER
+YEARS, WHO HAVE SCATTERED THEIR PEARLS OF
+BEAUTY AND OF WISDOM ALONG THE DUSTY
+PATHS OF OUR HISTORIC CITY, THESE
+PAGES ARE INSCRIBED WITH AFFECTIONATE
+ADMIRATION BY
+
+THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+This long-promised volume, the first of its kind, so far as known, ever
+given to the world, is now offered to the public. It is the result of a
+lecture given about three and a half years ago, which was repeated by
+request, and finally promised for publication, with the endorsement of one
+hundred and fifty subscribers.
+
+No effort has been spared to have every statement in the book accurate; nor
+has any name been omitted which has presented a title to notice, in spite
+of the fact that the number of "Authors and Writers," has nearly doubled
+since the work of publication was undertaken. Any suggestion or criticism,
+however, will be gladly received by the author, as having a bearing on
+possible future work in this direction.
+
+Morristown, New Jersey, February, 1893.
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+POEM--MORRISTOWN.
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.
+
+GEORGE WASHINGTON.
+
+POETS--                                                 PAGE.
+
+WM. AND STEPHEN V. R. PATERSON                            33
+
+MRS. ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE KINNEY                          40
+
+ALEXANDER NELSON EASTON                                   42
+
+FRANCIS BRET HARTE                                        45
+
+MRS. M. VIRGINIA DONAGHE MCCLURG                          48
+
+CHARLTON T. LEWIS, LL. D.                                 54
+
+MISS EMMA F. R. CAMPBELL                                  58
+
+MRS. ADELAIDE S. BUCKLEY                                  63
+
+REV. OLIVER CRANE, D. D., LL. D.                          63
+
+REV. J. LEONARD CORNING, D. D.                            68
+
+MRS. MARY LEE DEMAREST                                    69
+
+HON. ANTHONY Q. KEASBEY                                   72
+
+MAJOR LINDLEY HOFFMAN MILLER                              76
+
+MISS HENRIETTA HOWARD HOLDICH                             79
+
+WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH                                   81
+
+MISS HANNAH MORE JOHNSON                                  84
+
+MISS MARGARET H. GARRARD                                  87
+
+MISS JULIA E. DODGE                                       89
+
+CHARLES D. PLATT                                          90
+
+MRS. JULIA R. CUTLER                                      96
+
+MISS FRANCES BELL COURSEN                                 99
+
+MISS ISABEL STONE                                        100
+
+REV. G. DOUGLASS BREWERTON                               102
+
+MRS. ALICE D. ABELL                                      104
+
+GEORGE WETMORE COLLES, JR.                               105
+
+HYMNODIST--
+
+JOHN R. RUNYON                                           107
+
+NOVELISTS AND STORY WRITERS--
+
+FRANCIS RICHARD STOCKTON                                 109
+
+FRANCIS BRET HARTE                                       118
+
+MISS HENRIETTA HOWARD HOLDICH                            131
+
+MRS. MIRIAM COLES HARRIS                                 141
+
+MISS MARIA MCINTOSH                                      146
+
+MRS. MARIA MCINTOSH COX                                  149
+
+DAVID YOUNG                                              155
+
+MRS. NATHANIEL CONKLIN                                   165
+
+MRS. CATHARINE L. BURNHAM                                171
+
+HON. JOHN WHITEHEAD                                      179
+
+MRS. GEORGEANNA HUYLER DUER                              181
+
+MADAME DE MEISSNER                                       186
+
+MISS ISABEL STONE                                        188
+
+AUGUSTUS WOOD                                            193
+
+CHARLES P. SHERMAN                                       193
+
+MISS HELEN M. GRAHAM                                     193
+
+OTHER NOVELISTS AND STORY WRITERS                        195
+
+TRANSLATORS--
+
+MRS. ADELAIDE S. BUCKLEY                                 197
+
+MISS MARGARET H. GARRARD                                 202
+
+OTHER TRANSLATORS                                        203
+
+LEXICOGRAPHER--
+
+CHARLTON T. LEWIS, LL. D.                                205
+
+HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS--
+
+WILLIAM CHERRY, ANCIENT CHRONICLER                       207
+
+REV. JOSEPH F. TUTTLE, D. D.                             209
+
+HON. EDMUND D. HALSEY                                    215
+
+HON. JOHN WHITEHEAD                                      218
+
+BAYARD TUCKERMAN                                         221
+
+LOYAL FARRAGUT                                           227
+
+JOSIAH COLLINS PUMPELLY                                  229
+
+MISS HANNAH MORE JOHNSON                                 233
+
+MRS. JULIA MCNAIR WRIGHT                                 237
+
+MRS. EDWINA L. KEASBEY                                   239
+
+MRS. MARIAN E. STOCKTON                                  243
+
+TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES--
+
+MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX                                    247
+
+REV. JOHN L. STEPHENS                                    254
+
+HON. CHARLES S. WASHBURNE                                255
+
+GENERAL JOSEPH WARREN REVERE                             257
+
+HENRY DAY                                                260
+
+THEOLOGIANS--
+
+REV. TIMOTHY JOHNES, D. D.                               264
+
+REV. JAMES RICHARDS, D. D.                               270
+
+REV. ALBERT BARNES                                       271
+
+REV. SAMUEL WHELPLEY                                     275
+
+STEVENS JONES LEWIS                                      278
+
+REV. RUFUS SMITH GREEN, D. D.                            279
+
+REV. WM. DURANT                                          282
+
+REV. J. MACNAUGHTAN, D. D.                               286
+
+REV. C. DEWITT BRIDGMAN                                  291
+
+REV. J. T. CRANE, D. D.                                  293
+
+REV. H. A. BUTTZ, D. D., LL. D.                          296
+
+REV. J. K. BURR, D. D.                                   297
+
+REV. J. E. ADAMS                                         299
+
+REV. JAMES M. BUCKLEY, D. D., LL. D.                     300
+
+REV. JAMES M. FREEMAN, D. D.                             308
+
+REV. KINSLEY TWINING, D. D., LL. D.                      310
+
+REV. THEODORE L. CUYLER, D. D.                           314
+
+RT. REV. WM. INGRAHAM KIP, D. D., LL. D.                 319
+
+REV. WILLIAM STAUNTON, D. D.                             323
+
+REV. ARTHUR MITCHELL, D. D.                              327
+
+REV. CHARLES E. KNOX, D. D.                              332
+
+REV. ALBERT ERDMAN, D. D.                                334
+
+REV. JOSEPH M. FLYNN, R. D.                              337
+
+REV. GEORGE H. CHADWELL                                  338
+
+REV. WILLIAM M. HUGHES, S. T. D.                         345
+
+PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS--
+
+HON. JACOB W. MILLER                                     351
+
+HON. WILLIAM BURNET KINNEY                               355
+
+HON. THEODORE F. RANDOLPH                                358
+
+HON. EDWARD W. WHELPLEY                                  360
+
+HON. JACOB VANATTA                                       362
+
+HON. GEORGE T. WERTS                                     364
+
+JOSEPH F. RANDOLPH                                       365
+
+EDWARD Q. KEASBEY                                        367
+
+SCIENTISTS--
+
+SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, LL. D.                               368
+
+ALFRED VAIL                                              371
+
+WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, LL. D.                            376
+
+ELWYN WALLER, PH. D.                                     380
+
+GEORGE W. MAYNARD, PH. D.                                382
+
+EMORY MCCLINTOCK, LL. D.                                 383
+
+ANDREW F. WEST, LL. D.                                   384
+
+SEÑOR JOSÉ GROS                                          386
+
+MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS--
+
+CONDICT W. CUTLER, M. S., M. D.                          388
+
+PHANET C. BARKER, M. D.                                  390
+
+HORACE A. BUTTOLPH, M. D., LL. D.                        392
+
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART--
+
+THOMAS NAST                                              395
+
+REV. JARED BRADLEY FLAGG, D. D.                          398
+
+REV. J. LEONARD CORNING, D. D.                           400
+
+GEORGE HERBERT MCCORD, A. N. A.                          401
+
+DRAMATIST--
+
+WILLIAM G. VAN TASSEL SUTPHEN                            403
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+
+                                                        PAGE.
+
+FRONTISPIECE--OLD MORRISTOWN.
+
+
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738,                 17
+
+OLD ARNOLD TAVERN,                                        25
+
+FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,                                97
+
+WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS,                                 209
+
+PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE,                                   305
+
+SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,                                    369
+
+OLD FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL,                                377
+
+
+
+
+POEM.
+
+BY WILLIAM PATERSON.
+
+
+MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     These are the winter quarters, this is where
+       The Patriot Chieftain with his army lay,
+     When frosty winds swept down and chilled the air,
+       And long, cold nights closed out the shorter day.
+
+     The bell still rings within the white church spire,
+       Rising toward heaven upon the village green,
+     Whose chimes then called the people, pastor, choir,
+       To praise and pray each Sabbath morn and e'en.
+
+     And there with them, the Christian soldier sealed
+       The common covenant which a dying Lord,
+     To those who broke bread with him last revealed,
+       And bade them ever thus His love record.
+
+     A country hamlet then, nor did it lose
+       Its rural charms and beauties for long years;
+     The stranger would its quiet glories choose,
+       Far from the toils and strifes of daily cares.
+
+     The people, too, were simple in their ways,
+       And dwelt contented in their humble sphere,
+     The morning and the evening of their days,
+       Passing the same with every closing year.
+
+     There were the Deacons, solemn, sober, staid,
+       Beneath the pulpit each Communion Sunday,
+     They never smiled, but sung there psalms and prayed;
+       And then made whiskey at the still on Monday.
+
+     Perhaps you smile just here, I only say,
+       Men did not deem it then a heinous crime;
+     Such was the common custom of the day,
+       As those can tell who recollect the time.
+
+     For further proof of this, look up the tract
+       Of Deacon Giles and his distillery,
+     Where you will find that for this very fact,
+       He was set up high in the pillory.
+
+     Young life for me began its early spring,
+       Here in the freshness of the Mountain air,
+     When nature seemed in fullest tune to sing,
+       And all the world was beautiful and fair.
+
+     And Death--Who stays to think of him, till age
+       Comes stealing on with sure and silent tread?
+     Nor even then can he the thoughts engage,
+       Till his cold fingers touch the dying bed.
+
+     He called one then in withered leaf and sere,
+       And sent a warning, so wiseacres said,
+     By causing apple blossoms to appear
+       In winter, and the old man soon was dead.
+
+     The Guinea Chieftain too, a century old,
+       Born a young Prince beneath his native sky,
+     Who with his banjo sang rare tales of gold--
+       I saw him strive and struggle, gasp and die.
+
+     A child was brought one evening, lived, and died,
+       Almost before its eyes beheld the day;
+     The infant and the old men, side by side,
+       Were in the quiet churchyard laid away.
+
+     I learned of Life and Death, but know no more
+       Of their mysterious secrets now than then;
+     No sesame can open wide the door,
+       That veils those mysteries from the light of men.
+
+     Upon the summit of the rock-bound hill
+       That looks down on the lowland plains afar,
+     Are seen the outlines of the earthworks still
+       Remaining there, rude vestiges of war.
+
+     That was a day to be remembered long,
+       When crowds were gathered on the village green,
+     To welcome with warm hearts and floral song,
+       Him who a friend in war's dark hour had been.
+
+     And not while nature's suns shall pour their light,
+       Will Freedom's sons that honored name forget,
+     Nor cease to, until worlds shall pass from sight,
+       Keep green the memory of Lafayette.
+
+     Hark, on the air tolls out the passing bell,
+       Fourscore and ten and yet again fourscore;
+     Tread lightly now, it is the parting knell
+       For two great spirits gone out evermore.
+
+     Together they had lived, together died
+       As Freedom's Bell rang in her natal day,
+     And what than this could be more mete beside
+       That twinned in death, their souls should pass away?
+
+     There comes a memory of the bugle horn,
+       Winding a blast, as with their daily load,
+     The prancing coach-steeds dashed out in the morn
+       To run the toll-gates of the turnpike road.
+
+     Behold the change? now brakes are whistled down,
+       And screaming engines wake the Mountain air;
+     There is no longer, as of old, a Town
+       Committee, but a Council and a Mayor.
+
+     Go where the lake sleeps in the summer night,
+       Kissed by the winds that on its bosom play,
+     When the round moon sends down her fullest light,
+       And evening glories in soft splendor lay.
+
+     And you can almost fancy then that over,
+       The moonlit mirror of the tranquil tide,
+     You see the water spirits rise and hover,
+       And on the sheen in laughing lightness glide.
+
+     And I have seen those waters as they flow,
+       Down on their course past bridge and wheel and mill,
+     Where we as boys would "in-a-swimming go;"
+       Do the boys swim in "Sunnygony" still?
+
+     Oh, fellow scholar who along with me
+       Learned the first rudiments of ball and book
+     Within the grounds of the Academy,
+       In vain for that old landmark now you look.
+
+     Gone with the Master, yet a memory lingers,
+       And will forever consecrate the spot,
+     Nor can the power of Time's effacing fingers,
+       While life shall last, the recollection blot.
+
+     Teacher and pupils, few remain, and they
+       Far on in years, lean on a slender staff;
+     The school-house, all you see of that to-day
+       Is shown you there upon its photograph.
+
+     Change is on all things, and I see it here;
+       Land that then grew the turnip and "potater,"
+     Now blooms in flowers and costs exceeding dear,
+       Bringing some thousand dollars by the acre!
+
+     And villas crown the rising hill-tops round,
+       And stately mansions stand adorned with art,
+     And liveried coaches roll with rumbling sound
+       Where once jogged on the wagon-wheel and cart.
+
+     Hail to the future, ages come and go,
+       And men are borne upon the sweeping tide;
+     Wave follows wave in ever ceaseless flow,
+       The present stays not by the dweller's side.
+
+     I stand to-day far down the farthest slope,
+       And up the lengthened pathway turn and look,
+     Where on the summit once stood Youth and Hope,
+       Now soon to turn the last leaf of the Book.
+
+     And I am glad that while there come to me
+       These fragrant memories of life's early scene,
+     That still in robes of purest white I see
+       The Church Spire rising on the village green.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.
+
+
+Throughout our country, there is no spot more identified with the story of
+the Revolution, and the personality of Washington, than Morristown. Nestled
+among its five ranges of hills, its impregnable position no doubt first
+attracted the attention of the commander-in-chief and that of his trusted
+quartermaster, General Nathaniel Greene. Besides, the enthusiastic
+patriotism of the men and women of this part of New Jersey was noted far
+and wide, and the powder-mill of Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., on the Whippany
+river, where "good merchantable powder," was in course of
+manufacture,--some of which had probably already been tested at Trenton,
+Princeton and elsewhere,--was also among the attractions.
+
+It was on December 20th, 1776, that Washington wrote to the President of
+Congress: "I have directed the three regiments from Ticonderoga, to halt at
+Morristown, in Jersey (where I understand about eight hundred Militia have
+collected) in order to inspirit the inhabitants and as far as possible to
+cover that part of the country."
+
+     (Quoted by Rev. Dr. Tuttle in his paper on "Washington
+     in Morris County," in the Historical Magazine for June
+     1871.)
+
+These were regiments from New England. The British, who were always trying
+to gain "the pass of the mountains," had made an attempt on the 14th of
+December, but had been repulsed by Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., with his militia,
+at Springfield.
+
+At this time the village numbered about 250 inhabitants with a populous
+community of thriving farmers surrounding it. To the north of the town were
+the estates of the Hathaway and Johnes families; to the east, those of the
+Fords, who had just erected the building now known as the Headquarters; to
+the south, those of General John Doughty and to the west, those of Silas
+Condict and his brothers.
+
+Morris county was settled "about 1710," by families of New England
+ancestry, who were attracted by the iron ore in the mountains round about
+and who came from Newark and Elizabethtown. The Indian name for the country
+round, seems to have been "Rockciticus" as late as the arrival of Pastor
+Johnes in 1742, according to the traditions in his family. The original
+name of the settlement of Morristown was West Hanover, and in court records
+this name is found as late as 1738. It was also called New Hanover. The
+present name was adopted when the county court held its first meeting here
+at the house of Col. Jacob Ford, on March 25th, 1740. The town was named
+for the county and the county was named for Governor Lewis Morris, who was
+Governor of New Jersey from 1738 to 1746. Evidently this was to be the
+county town of Morris County.
+
+At the time of the Revolution the church, the "Court House and Jail" and
+the Arnold Tavern were the most important buildings. The Magazine also, a
+temporary structure, stood on South street, near the "Green". To it casks
+of powder were constantly taken and sometimes casks of _sand_ to deceive
+the spies who were always hanging about. The "Court House and Jail" was
+famous as the common prison of Tories caught in Morris and the adjoining
+counties. It was built in 1755 and stood on the northwest corner of the
+village "Green" as shown in the picture of Old Morristown. It was a plain
+wooden structure with a cupola and bell. Its sides and roof were shingled.
+
+One of the illustrations of this book is of the Arnold Tavern, as it
+appeared in Washington's time. The picture is from a pen-and-ink sketch by
+Miss S. Howell, made originally and recently for the Washington Association
+of N. J., under careful direction from study of the time, by one of its
+members. Taverns were dotted all about the country in those days and most
+of the public meetings were held in their spacious rooms. Whether it was
+this fact or because of certain qualities possessed by the early
+proprietors of taverns, we find that many of them eventually became the
+most eminent men of the community.
+
+The erection of the First Church building was begun in 1738 and finished in
+1740, although the organization had existed from 1733. The first pastor,
+Rev. Timothy Johnes found it ready for his reception on his arrival in 1742
+and for his installation, the following year. We are indebted to our young
+artist, Miss Emma H. Van Pelt, for a painting of this early church, from
+the only outline that remains to us, and to Miss S. Howell, for the
+pen-and-ink sketch, from the painting, for this book. This outline was
+embroidered upon a sampler owned by Miss Martha Emmell, and, according to
+family history, is a faithful representation of the building and the only
+suggestion other than traditional of Morristown's first place of worship.
+Miss Van Pelt's picture of the old church also follows in all respects her
+own, and the study of others, from the ancient records of the time. The
+structure stood about a rod east of the present building, facing upon
+Morris street and was always known as the "Meetin' House." It was
+originally of a somewhat plain and barn-like exterior, nearly square, with
+shingled sides, and windows let into the sloping roof. It was twice
+altered. In 1764, it was enlarged and two other entrances, besides the main
+entrance, were provided. A steeple also was erected in which was hung the
+bell in use at the present time. This bell was a gift, according to
+traditional history from the King of Great Britain to the church at
+Morristown. It had upon it the impress of the British crown and the name of
+the makers, "Lister & Pack, of London _fecit_." It was re-cast about thirty
+years ago. This early church and the Baptist church, which stood on the
+site occupied by the one quite recently removed, (because of the fine new
+building in course of erection), have honorable record for unselfish
+devotion to the cause of the patriots. Both buildings were nobly given up
+for the use of the soldiers, suffering with small-pox, in the terrible
+winter of 1777.
+
+Washington first came to Morristown, with his staff and army, three days
+after the battle of Princeton, on January 7th, 1777, and remained until May
+of that year. He made his Headquarters at the Arnold Tavern, then kept by
+Colonel Jacob Arnold, a famous officer of the "Light Horse Guards", whose
+grandsons are now residents of Morristown. This historic building stood on
+the west side of the Green, where now, a large brick building, "The
+Arnold", has been erected on its site. The old building with its many
+associations was about to be destroyed, when it was rescued, at the
+suggestion of the author of this book, and restored upon its present site
+on the Colles estate, on Mt. Kemble avenue, the old Baskingridge road of
+the Revolution. It has recently been purchased and occupied for a hospital
+by the All Souls' Hospital Association. Though extended and enlarged, it
+is still the same building and retains many of the distinctive features
+which characterized it when the residence of Washington. Here is still the
+bedroom which Washington occupied, the parlor, the dining-room and the
+ball-room where he received his generals, Greene, Knox, Schuyler, Gates,
+Lee, de Kalb, Steuben, Wayne, Winds, Putnam, Sullivan and others, besides
+distinguished visitors from abroad, all of whom met here continually during
+the winter of 1777. One of these visitors and one of our authors, the
+Marquis de Chastellux, gives an interesting account of his experience and
+impressions. In one of the bedrooms of this old house, has been seen within
+a few years, between the floor and the ceiling below, a long case for guns,
+above which was painted on the floor, in very large squares, covering the
+entire opening, a checkerboard about which, in an emergency, evidently the
+soldiers expected to sit and so conceal from the enemy the trap door of
+their arsenal. About this ancient building many traditions linger and from
+it have gone forth Washington's commands and some of his most important
+letters.
+
+The road taken by Washington and his army, on coming first to Morristown,
+was, according to Dr. Tuttle, "through Pluckamin, Baskingridge, New Vernon,
+thence by a grist mill near Green Village, around the corner and thence
+along the road leading from Green Village to Morristown and over the
+ground which had been selected for an encampment in the valley bearing the
+beautiful Indian name of Lowantica, now called Spring Valley." It was here
+that the terrible scourge of small-pox broke out among the soldiers.
+
+One cannot but wonder continually at Washington's courage and serenity in
+the midst of such overwhelming difficulties. He had hardly entered his
+winter home, in the Arnold Tavern, when the loss was announced to him of
+the brave and noble Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., his right-hand man, upon whom he
+had depended. He was buried, by Washington's orders, with the honors of
+war, and the description of that funeral cortege is one of the most
+picturesque pages out of traditional history. Then came the alarm about
+small-pox, the first death occurring on the same day as Col. Ford's
+funeral. Washington himself was taken ill, says tradition, with quinsy sore
+throat, and great fears were felt for his life. It is interesting to know
+that being asked who should succeed him in command of the army, should he
+not recover, he at once pointed to Gen. Nathaniel Greene. It was during
+this time of residence at the Arnold Tavern, that Washington joined Pastor
+Johnes and his people in their semi-annual communion after receiving the
+good pastor's assurance: "Ours is not the Presbyterian table, but the
+Lord's table, and we give the Lord's invitation to all his followers of
+whatever name." This is said to be the only occasion in his public career,
+when it is certainly known that Washington partook of the Sacrament. The
+hollow is still shown behind the house of Pastor Johnes, on Morris street,
+(purchased Feb. 3rd, 1893, of Mrs. Eugene Ayers, for the Morristown
+Memorial Hospital,) where a grove of trees then stood, when this historic
+event took place in the open air, while the church building was taken up
+with the soldiers sick of small-pox. Of this fact, in addition to the
+confirmation of Rev. Timothy Johnes's granddaughter, now living, Mrs.
+Kirtland, we have the following from Mr. Frederick G. Burnham, who says,
+(Oct 12th, 1892); "My Aunt, Huldah Lindsley, sister of Judge Silas Condict,
+and born in Morristown, gave me, in the most distinct and definite manner
+an account of General Washington's having communed with the Presbyterian
+Church on the occasion of the encampment in Morristown. My aunt told me
+that the congregation sat out of doors, even in the winter, but were
+shielded from the severe winds by surrounding high ground, that benches
+were placed in a circular position, that the pastor occupied a central
+point and that it was in this out-of-door place, muffled in their thickest
+clothing and many of them warmed by foot-stoves and other arrangements for
+keeping the feet warm, with nothing overhead but the wintry sky, that the
+congregation, among them General Washington, partook of the Lord's
+Supper."
+
+Early in December 1779, came Washington once more, with his army, to
+Morristown, and remained until the following June, the guest of Mrs.
+Theodosia Ford, widow of the gallant Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., at her home now
+known as the "Headquarters." The story of the purchase and preservation of
+this building for the state and country, by the Washington Association of
+New Jersey, is given farther on. "It is still," says the orator of Fort
+Nonsense (the Rev. Dr. Buckley), "the most charming residence which
+Morristown contains and historically inferior only in interest to Mount
+Vernon and far superior to it in beauty of location and surrounding
+scenery." Among the treasures of the Headquarters is the original
+Commission to Washington, as Commander-in-chief of the Army.
+
+At the opening ceremonial of the Washington Headquarters on July 5th, 1875,
+Governor Theodore F. Randolph, in an eloquent address, said as follows:
+
+"Under this roof have been gathered more characters known to the Military
+history of our Revolution than under any other roof in America. Here the
+eloquent and brilliant Alexander Hamilton lived during the long winter of
+1779-'80 and here he met and courted the lady he afterwards married--the
+daughter of General Schuyler. Here too was Greene--splendid fighting Quaker
+as he was--and the great artillery officer, Knox, the stern Steuben, the
+polished Kosciusko, the brave Schuyler, gallant Light-horse Harry Lee, old
+Israel Putnam, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, and, last to be named of all, that
+brave soldier, but rank traitor--Benedict Arnold."
+
+Many authenticated stories are extant of Washington, himself, and of the
+other distinguished inmates of the Headquarters during this memorable
+winter. Of the women of Morris County too, and the country round, many
+historic tales are told. If possible, they seem to have been even more
+patriotic than the men, whom, on several occasions, they upheld when
+wavering with doubt or fear. They had knitting and sewing circles for the
+soldiers in camp upon the Wicke Farm. These were presided over by Mrs.
+Ralph Smith, on Smith's Hummock, by Mrs. Anna Kitchell at Whippany, and by
+Mrs. Counselor Condict and Mrs. Parson Johnes, in Morristown.
+
+In all this sympathetic work, Martha Washington led, and we hear of her
+that after coming through Trenton on December 28th, in a raging snow storm,
+to spend New Year's Day in the Ford Mansion, some of the grand ladies of
+the town came to call upon her, dressed in their most elegant silks and
+ruffles, and "so", says one of them, "we were introduced to her ladyship,
+and don't you think we found her with a _speckled homespun apron on, and
+engaged in knitting a stocking_? She received us very handsomely and then
+again resumed her knitting. In the course of the conversation, she said,
+very kindly to us, whilst she made her needles fly, that 'American ladies
+should be patterns of industry to their country-women * * * * we must
+become independent of England by doing without these articles which we can
+make ourselves. Whilst our husbands and brothers are examples of
+patriotism, we must be examples of industry'. 'I do declare,' said one of
+the ladies afterwards, 'I never felt so ashamed and rebuked in my life!'"
+
+    (Rev. Dr. Tuttle.)
+
+The "Assembly Balls," a subscription entertainment, no doubt arranged to
+keep up the spirits of the army officers, were held that winter at the
+O'Hara Tavern, says Dr. Tuttle, a house facing the Green and on or
+adjoining the lot where now stands Washington Hall,--and probably also at
+the Arnold Tavern.
+
+In the meadow, in front of the headquarters, Washington's body-guard was
+encamped, originally a select troop of about one hundred Virginians.
+
+[Illustration: Painted by MISS EMMA H. VAN PELT.
+
+From Pen and Ink Sketch by MISS S. HOWELL.
+
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738.]
+
+Martha Washington was a fine horsewoman and the General a superb horseman,
+as are all Virginians of the present day. Many were the rides they took
+together over the country, one of the most frequent, being to a certain
+elevation on the Short Hills, from which the General with his glass could
+see every movement of the enemy. Here was stationed the giant alarm-gun, an
+eighteen-pounder, and here was the main centre of the system of
+beacon-lights on the hills around. From this point can be seen the entire
+sea-board in the vicinity of New York City, which was of great importance
+when it was not known whether Howe would move towards West Point or
+Philadelphia. There is also a view of the entire region west of the
+mountain, "to the crown of the hills which lie back of Morristown, and
+extending to Baskingridge, Pluckamin and the hills in the vicinity of
+Middlebrook on the South, and over to Whippany, Montville, Pompton,
+Ringwood, and, across the State-line among the mountains of Orange County,
+N. Y., on the north." On our road to Madison, we may call up in
+imagination, the vision, which in those days was no unusual sight, says Dr.
+Tuttle, of "Washington and his accomplished lady, mounted on bay horses and
+accompanied by their faithful mulatto, 'Bill,' and fifty or sixty mounted
+Life-guards, passing on their way to or from their quarters in Morristown."
+At these times "the 'star spangled banner' was sure to float from the
+village liberty-pole, while our ancestors congregated along the highway
+where he was to pass and around the village inn, to do honor to the man to
+whose fidelity and martial skill all eyes were turned for the salvation of
+our country."
+
+Sometimes this cavalcade would pass along the Baskingridge Road, (now Mt.
+Kemble Avenue), perhaps stop at General Doughty's house, or, galloping on,
+stop at the Kemble mansion, (afterwards the Hoyt residence and now that of
+Mr. McAlpin), four miles from town, or turning the corner up Kemble Hill to
+the Wicke farm, and Fort Hill, to view the soldiers' encampment, they would
+clatter back again, down the precipitous Jockey Hollow road, past the
+Hospital-field, or burial place of the soldiers, stopping at the
+Headquarters of General Knox, off the Mendham road, about two miles from
+town, for Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Washington were close friends. Returning, they
+might slacken rein at the house of Pastor Johnes, (Mrs. Eugene Ayers') on
+Morris Street, where a ring still remains at the side of the piazza, to
+which Washington's horse was tied, under an elm tree's shade; or, they
+would stop at Quartermaster Lewis's (Mr. Wm. L. King's) where they would
+find Lafayette, after his return from France, if he happened to be in
+Morristown,--then at Dr. Jabez Campfield's house, on Morris Street, the
+east corner of Oliphant Lane,--the Headquarters of General Schuyler.
+
+Again the General, with his Life-guards, would set out to attend some
+appointed meeting of the "Council of Safety" at the house of its
+president, Silas Condict. This was about a mile out on the Sussex
+Turnpike, where the house still stands, on the west side of the old
+cross-road leading from that turnpike to Brant's paper-mill. Here he would
+meet the high-minded and dauntless Governor Livingston and perhaps his
+son-in-law, Judge Symmes, who lived near by, and whom the Governor
+frequently visited; all were men whose lives were sought for, by the
+British. Nearly all these homes are standing now and representatives of
+these families remain with us. Stories and traditions also relating to
+these homes and people have come down to us.
+
+Silas Condict, the bold, the brave, the honored patriot, member of the
+Provincial Legislature and of the Continental Congress besides filling
+other high places of trust, is represented by his great-grandson, Hon. Aug.
+W. Cutler, who now occupies the second house this ancestor built.
+
+General John Doughty's interesting old house, with its curious interior,
+and many a secret closet, stands as of old, on Mt. Kemble Avenue, at the
+head of Colles Avenue. "He might be called," says Mr. Wm. L. King, "the
+most distinguished resident of Morristown, at whose house Washington was a
+frequent visitor and no doubt often dined." He is represented by a
+great-nephew, Mr. Thomas W. Ogden, who has written an important paper on
+General Doughty, for the Washington Association, which is published by
+them. General Doughty was the third in command of the American Army, and
+succeeded General Knox.
+
+A descendant of General Knox is with us,--Mr. Reuben Knox, of Western
+Avenue.
+
+General Schuyler's Headquarters has a romantic interest as the scene of the
+courtship between Miss Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton.
+
+Of Pastor Johnes descendants, three generations are now with us to some of
+whom we have referred in the sketch of this distinguished man.
+
+Out on the Wicke farm, stands the house as it was in those old days when
+Tempe Wicke took her famous ride ahead of the pursuing soldiers and saved
+her favorite horse by concealing him for three weeks in the guest chamber,
+until every man of the army had gone to fight his country's battles on the
+banks of the Hudson. This house is near Fort Hill from which is the
+magnificent view which embraces Schooley's Mountain to the westward and a
+line of broken highlands to the South, among which is the town of
+Baskingridge where General Lee was captured. On the northern slope of this
+hill, as late as 1854, 66 fireplaces of the encampment were counted in
+regular rows and in a small space were found 196 hut chimneys.
+
+Going up a long, high street, not far from the Park, gradually ascending
+over rocks, and rough winding pathways, we come upon an open plateau on
+which is "Fort Nonsense," so named, on leaving it, by Washington, says
+tradition, because the soldiers had here been employed in constructing an
+octagonal earthwork, only to occupy them and to keep them from that
+idleness which was certain to breed discontent when added to their poverty,
+poor shelter, hopelessness, and homelessness. Here, on a bright afternoon
+of April, 1888, a monument to commemorate the site, was unveiled with
+appropriate ceremonies by the Washington Association. Long will be
+remembered the strange and startling effect upon those who sat waiting, as
+the procession drew near at a quickstep, up the hill, and led by the
+Fairchild Continental Drum Corps, in characteristic dress. Nearer and
+nearer came the tramp of many feet, to the sound of fife and drum playing
+Yankee Doodle, and, as they emerged from the trees upon the hill, it seemed
+as if Time's clock had been turned back more than a hundred years. Standing
+upon the stone, the orator of the occasion, Rev. Dr. Buckley, made a
+memorable address, in the course of which he mentioned that this monument,
+though small, is higher, measured from the level of the sea, than the great
+Washington Monument, which is declared to be the wonder of the world. The
+plan of the Fort, drawn by Major J. P. Farley, U. S. A., is now at the
+Headquarters and the illustration in this volume, is given from an
+engraving of the Messrs. Vogt, by their kind permission.
+
+Probably no Author will again record the presence of the second "First
+Church", which has measured its hundred years and more, in its old familiar
+place upon the Park. Soon it will be replaced by a modern structure. In
+October, 1891, prolonged and interesting services were held to celebrate
+the centennial of its erection. Closely involved with all the history of
+Morristown, the influences of this old church are felt and shown all
+through this book. The picture we give of it and the Soldiers' Monument, is
+as we look upon both to-day. (For the use of the engraving, we are again
+indebted to the Messrs. Vogt). Sorrowfully, we note the passing of the old
+church building and number it among the things we would not lose, but which
+soon shall be no more. Behind it, is the old historic cemetery, where have
+been laid to rest the forms of many of the patriots and honored dead of the
+century gone by.
+
+The "Old Academy" was an outcome of the First Church organization, and its
+early history is recorded in the "Trustees Book," of the church. Its
+centennial was observed on February 13th, 1891, on which occasion, among
+others, Hon. John Whitehead, of Morristown, and Judge William Paterson, of
+Perth Amboy, told its story, and the "Old Bell", placed upon the stage, was
+rung by Mr. Edward Pierson, who attended the Academy in 1820.
+
+In 1825, Lafayette came again, from France, to revisit the scenes of the
+Revolution. It was on July 14th, about six o'clock in the evening, that
+coming from Paterson, he arrived at Morristown. The Morris Brigade under
+General Darcy was paraded on the Green and the firing of cannon and ringing
+of church bells announced his coming. General Doughty was Grand Marshal of
+the day and an eloquent address was made, in behalf of the town, by Hon.
+Lewis Condict. Lafayette dined at the Ogden House, the home of Jonathan
+Ogden, a large brick building corner of Market street and the Green (shown
+in the picture). He attended a ball given in his honor, at the Sansay House
+(now Mrs. Revere's, on DeHart street), and stayed over night with Mr. James
+Wood, in the white house, corner of South and Pine streets. Two of
+Morristown's citizens have given their reminiscences of this event to the
+author of this book, as follows:
+
+Mr. Edward Pierson, January 10th, 1893, says: "I remember well each member
+of the Committee who received Lafayette, but two. I remember very well the
+visit of General Lafayette to Morristown, in the year 1825. There was a
+delegation went from Morristown, in carriages and on horseback, to meet him
+beyond Morristown and escort him here. They came in by the Morris street
+road, past the Washington Headquarters. At that time there was only one
+small house on the north side of the street, below the present Manse of
+the First Church to the foot of the hill. The ground sloped from the
+graveyard to the street and was filled with people to see the procession
+come in. A reception was given and Lafayette was taken to the James Wood
+house (white house on the east corner of Pine and South streets, opposite
+my residence), to spend the night. I well remember the next morning seeing
+them start off with the General and his party in a four-horse carriage."
+
+Mr. A. H. Condict, well-known as a resident of Morristown, writes from
+Mansfield, Ohio, (January 12th, 1893): "My eldest sister has related to me
+that when I was about a year old, General Lafayette was given a public
+reception at Morristown, in an elegant brick building then standing on the
+corner of the Park and Market street; that suitable addresses were made on
+the occasion and that while he was being observed by the great crowd of
+people, she held me up and that I looked at him. This would fix the time in
+the Summer of 1825, which corresponds with my notes gathered from the
+various histories."
+
+Morristown has always been a centre, not only geographically, but a centre
+of influence from the time when it received its name. We have seen how,
+midway between West Point and Philadelphia, with roads radiating in every
+direction and with high hills well fitted for beacon-lights and commanding
+far-reaching views, Washington soon discovered it was the point for him to
+select for watching the movements of Lord Howe in New York, who might at
+any moment start up the Hudson for West Point, or Southwards, for
+Philadelphia.
+
+[Illustration: THE ORIGINAL ARNOLD TAVERN.
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MISS S. HOWELL.]
+
+In the early religious movements of the country, Morristown was
+conspicuous, having among its theologians some of the most brilliant
+thinkers of the period. Recently we find, in the published minutes of the
+Synod of New Jersey, Oct. 1892, the significant fact recorded that after
+the division of the Presbytery of New York, into that of New York and of
+New Jersey, the "Presbytery of Jersey at its first meeting in Morristown,
+April 24th, 1810, did appoint supplies for fourteen Sabbaths from May to
+September, to the pulpit of the vacant Brick Church in the City of New
+York".
+
+One of the first Sunday Schools, if not the first,--in New Jersey was
+started here, by Mrs. Charlotte Ford Condict of Littleton, the grandmother
+of Henry Vail Condict, now a resident of Morristown, and this was said to
+be the beginning of the great revival under Albert Barnes.
+
+In a scientific direction, Morristown was the cradle of perhaps the
+greatest invention of the age, the electric telegraph. Also at the
+Speedwell Iron Works were manufactured the first tires, axles and cranks of
+American locomotives and a part of the machinery of the "Savannah," the
+first steamship that crossed the ocean.
+
+Morristown also reflected the superstitions of the period; the people
+largely believed in witchcraft in those early days, and here was enacted,
+for about a year, the most remarkable ghostly drama that was ever published
+to the world, or influenced the best citizens of a community. The story of
+the Morristown Ghost will go down to future ages.
+
+For philanthropy, from Revolutionary times, Morristown has been famed,
+since Martha set the example of knitting the stockings for the needy
+soldiers and good Hannah Thompson voiced the hearts of her sisters round
+about, when she gave food to a starving company of them, saying: "Eat all
+you want; you are engaged in a good cause, and we are willing to share with
+you what we have as long as it lasts." This old centre of patriotism and
+Revolutionary enthusiasm has radiated philanthropic movements which
+influence not only the conditions of the whole State but the welfare of
+humanity. Here was commenced that voluntary work of the State Charities Aid
+Association, which considers, and practically carries out, through its
+counselors, measures for reform among the pauper and criminal classes in
+the State institutions, and out of them, and which will undoubtedly
+influence for good all future generations. This work is on much the same
+plan that was originally thought out and organized by Miss Louisa Lee
+Schuyler, of New York, the great-granddaughter of General Philip Schuyler
+whose noble devotion to his Commander-in-chief is memorable during those
+days in Morristown. So we see how the old life of the Revolutionary period
+connects itself with the new life of progression. The principles then so
+nobly maintained take new forms in new projects.
+
+Everywhere, we find the old and the new combined, for even the streets bear
+the names, with those of Schuyler, Hamilton and Washington, of Farragut and
+McCullough. In the Park there stands a granite shaft surmounted by a full
+length figure of a Morris County Volunteer, commemorating the lives of the
+noble men who fell in those hard-won fields, fighting to preserve the
+nationality which had been secured by their forefathers. Everything is
+significant of either noble deeds in the past or of honored names of later
+day and of private citizens whose personal influence has added moral
+dignity to this City of many associations.
+
+
+George Washington.
+
+Among the first notable writings associated with Morristown are the letters
+of Washington written from the old Arnold Tavern, and from the Ford
+Mansion, during the two memorable winters of 1777 and of 1779-'80. These
+noble letters are acknowledged on all sides to have been supremely
+efficient in promoting our national independence, filled as they are with
+the personality of Washington himself. They are very numerous. Many of them
+are published; some are in our "Headquarters", and many still are scattered
+over the Country, in the possession of individuals. All are interesting and
+none appear to reveal what we would wish had not been known, as in the case
+of so many other published letters.
+
+Of the man himself, our authors speak, here and there, throughout this
+volume. It is certain that no name, no face or character is more familiar
+to us than that of Washington, and no name in history has received a
+greater tribute than to be called, as he was, by the nation, at the end of
+his very difficult career, the "Father of his Country."
+
+Here is Lafayette's first impression, as he attends a dinner in
+Philadelphia, given by Congress in honor of the Commander-in-Chief. He
+says: "Although surrounded by officers and citizens, Washington was to be
+recognized at once by the majesty of his countenance and his figure." And
+this is Lafayette's tribute to Washington, when the two men have parted:
+"As a private soldier, he would have been the bravest; as an obscure
+citizen, all his neighbors would have respected him. With a heart as just
+as his mind he always judged himself as he judged circumstances. In
+creating him expressly for this revolution, Nature did honor to herself;
+and to show the perfection of her work, she placed him in such a position
+that each quality must have failed, had it not been sustained by all the
+others."
+
+     (Quoted by Bayard Tuckerman in his "Life of
+     Lafayette.")
+
+In the portrait of Washington which Chastellux gives us, occur these words:
+"His strongest characteristic is the perfect union which reigns between the
+physical and moral qualities which compose the individual, one alone will
+enable you to judge of all the rest. If you are presented with medals of
+Cæsar, Trajan or Alexander, on examining their features, you will still be
+led to ask what was their stature and the form of their persons; but if you
+discover, in a heap of ruins, the head or the limb of an antique Apollo, be
+not anxious about the other parts, but rest assured that they all were
+conformable to those of a God. * * * This will be said of Washington, '_At
+the end of a long civil war, he had nothing with which he could reproach
+himself._'"
+
+Thatcher, in his Military Journal, speaks of Washington as he appeared at a
+great entertainment given by General Knox, in celebration of the alliance
+with France: "His tall, noble stature and just proportions, his fine,
+cheerful countenance, simple and modest deportment, are all calculated to
+interest every beholder in his favor and to command veneration and respect.
+He is feared even when silent and beloved even while we are unconscious of
+the motive."
+
+The first French minister, M. Gerard, tells us, referring to Washington:
+"It is impossible for me briefly to communicate the fund of intelligence
+which I have derived from him. I will now say only that I have formed as
+high an opinion of the powers of his mind, his moderation, patriotism and
+of his virtues, as I had before from common report conceived of his
+military talents, and of the incalculable services he had rendered to his
+country."
+
+     (Quoted by A. D. Mellick in his "Story of an Old
+     Farm.")
+
+We see the General in his evening dress of "black velvet, with knee and
+shoe buckles and a steel rapier; his hair thickly powdered, drawn back from
+his forehead and gathered in a black silk bag adorned with a rosette"
+walking gracefully and with dignity through the figures of a quadrille. We
+see him devoted to his wife and courteous to every woman, high and low.
+Greene writes from the Headquarters: "Mrs. Washington is extremely fond of
+the General and he of her; they are happy in each other." We see him, with
+his tender sympathy among the soldiers and so find the key to the wonderful
+devotion of the soldiers to their chief, and his influence over them. As an
+old soldier tells the story to the Rev. O. L. Kirtland: "There was a time
+when all our rations were but a single _gill of wheat_ a day. Washington
+used to come round and look into our tents, and he looked so kind and he
+said so tenderly. 'Men, can you bear it?' 'Yes, General, yes we can,' was
+the reply; 'if you wish us to act give us the word and we are ready!'" Many
+were the letters he wrote in their behalf to Congress, who neglected them,
+and to Lord Howe in New York, because of his cruelty to the prisoners in
+his power.
+
+Another key we have to his calm and self-reliant bearing, even in his
+darkest hours, so that, says Tuttle, "there seemed to be something about
+this man, which inspired his enemies, even when victorious, with dread." It
+is expressed in a letter of Washington when heartsick at the round of
+misfortunes at the outset of the Revolution, and after the capture of Fort
+Washington by the enemy. He writes: "It almost overcomes me to reflect that
+a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once
+happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or
+inhabited with slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in
+his choice?"
+
+     (Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Sparks.)
+
+A touching letter is written on the 8th of January, 1780, from the Ford
+Mansion, to the Morris County authorities, about the hungry, destitute
+soldiers, to which he receives at once so warm and generous a response that
+he writes again: "The exertions of the magistrates and inhabitants of the
+State were great and cheerful for our relief."
+
+     (Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Sparks.)
+
+Though a warm Episcopalian, his broad Christian feeling is shown when he
+says: "Being no bigot, myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of
+Christianity in the Church with that road to heaven which to them shall
+seem the most direct, the plainest and easiest and least liable to
+objections."
+
+     (Dr. Tuttle, quoted from Sparks.)
+
+And again, in reply to the Address of the Clergy of different
+denominations, in and about Philadelphia; "Believing as I do, that
+_Religion_ and _Morality are the essential_ pillars of society, I view with
+unspeakable pleasure, that harmony and brotherly love which characterize
+the clergy of different denominations, as well in this, as in other parts
+of the United States, exhibiting to the world a new and interesting
+spectacle, at once the pride of our Country and the surest basis of
+universal harmony."
+
+     (Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Dr. Green's Autobiography.)
+
+What man, after arriving at such a height of power and influence over men,
+has been able to take up, with content again, his life of a country
+gentleman? Wonderfully appropriate were the last words that fell from his
+lips: "It is well."
+
+Of Washington it may be said as of no other, in the words of Henry Lee, in
+his Eulogy of December 26th, 1799: "To the memory of the man, first in war,
+first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
+
+
+
+
+POETS.
+
+
+William and Stephen V. R. Paterson.
+
+A curious circumstance surrounds the poetic work of the two Paterson
+brothers--William and Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson--and gives it a
+unique interest apart from its especial merits. The survivor of the two
+brothers says, in the short and highly interesting introduction to their
+poems, published in 1882 and called "Poems of Twin Graduates of the College
+of New Jersey":
+
+"The title explains itself, and shows that the writers were born under the
+sign of the Gemini. They lived under that sign for rising fifty years, when
+one was taken and the other left. Two of us came into existence within the
+same hour of time, and passing through the early part of education
+together, entered the world-life as twin graduates of the collegiate
+institution bearing the name of the State of which they were natives. This
+dual species of psychology was something of a curiosity because outside of
+common experience. Pleasure and pain seemed to flow like electric currents
+from the same battery. In a certain sense, we could feel at once, and think
+at once and act at once. It is problematical whether this proceeded from a
+real elective affinity, or was mechanical. It was most marked, however, at
+first, and particularly in the beginning or rudiments of learning. Both
+then went along exactly at the same rate, and one never was in advance of
+the other. Both always worked and played together, and whichever discovered
+something new, would communicate it in an untranslatable language to his
+companion.
+
+"This dual character, to a greater or less extent, pervaded the joint lives
+of the writers of these pieces. Not that the similarity extended to the
+business or pursuits, the tastes or habits of life, for in many respects
+they were different and apart as those bearing a single relation. Still the
+influence of the mystic tie, whatever it was or may have been, remained
+till nature loosed, as it had woven, the bond."
+
+Although Judge William Paterson was born in Perth Amboy and now resides
+there, his associations with Morristown, as related in a letter under his
+signature, are those of early boyhood passed on the farm, now occupied by
+Mrs. Howland. "Morristown was then but a village hamlet," he says, and
+"the old Academy and the Meeting House on the village green were the only
+places in which services were held." Still, we gather, that at Morristown,
+the two poets received their "scholastic and agricultural training." Here,
+too, was laid the foundation of their "political and religious faith," the
+latter under the administration of Albert Barnes, and, what may be a noted
+event in their lives, they heard Mr. Barnes preach the sermon on the "Way
+of Salvation," which caused the division of the Presbyterian Church.
+
+Judge Paterson is a graduate of Princeton, which is in a double sense his
+Alma Mater, inasmuch as members of his family were among the first
+graduates, soon after the removal of the College from Newark and "when that
+village, then a hamlet amid the primeval forests had become the permanent
+site for the Academy incorporated by royal charter."
+
+Various positions of importance in the community have been held by Judge
+Paterson. In 1882, he was made Lay Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals
+of the State; he was also Mayor of Newark for ten years, at different times
+from 1846 to 1878, filling important and non-important municipal and county
+offices. Thus his work has been mostly legal and political, save, when he
+has made dashes into the more purely literary fields, rather, perhaps,
+through inspiration and for recreation from the dry details of practical
+work.
+
+More than once has Judge Paterson told to amused and interested audiences
+in Morristown his recollections of boyhood and youth spent here. Notably,
+many remember his recent graphic address on the occasion of the Centennial
+of the Morristown Academy.
+
+In 1888, our author published a valuable "Biography of the Class of 1835 of
+Princeton College," the class in which he graduated. The "Poems" were
+published in 1882. Looking through the latter volume, which contains many
+treasures, we wonder how, many of the poems--written as they were under the
+influence of a higher inspiration than ordinary rhythmic influences--should
+not earlier have found their way, in book form, from the writer's secret
+drawers to the readers of the outside world. Many of these poems are
+connected with experiences and memories of Academic days in Princeton and,
+among them all we would mention "The Close of the Centennial;" "Living on a
+Farm," which refers to Mrs. Howland's farm, long the poet's home in
+boyhood; "14th February, 1877;" "The Hickory Tree," and "Polly," in which
+the writer has caught wonderfully the bright, playful spirit of the child.
+The poem "Morristown," a pictorial reminiscence, we have selected to open
+this book.
+
+Quite recently, (in September, 1892) has been published and bound in true
+orange color, _An Address_, read before the New York Genealogical and
+Biographical Society, on February 12th, 1892, on the life and public
+services of _William Paterson_, his honored grandfather, who was
+"Attorney-General of New Jersey during the Revolution, a framer of the
+Federal Constitution, Senator of the United States from New Jersey,
+Governor of that State, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
+the United States at the time of his death, September 9th, 1806." "He was
+the first Alumnus of Princeton," says the writer, "who was tendered a place
+in the Cabinet or on the Federal Judiciary, the Attorney-General, the first
+one being William Bradford, also an Alumnus, a classmate of Madison, and
+Collegemate of Burr, then not constituting part of the Executive
+household." "He began the study of legal science and practice under the
+instruction of Richard Stockton, who was an Alumnus of the first Class that
+went forth from the College of New Jersey, then located in Newark, and who,
+though young, comparatively, was rising fast to the forefront of his
+profession, and, afterward, to become of renowned judicial and
+revolutionary fame."
+
+The publication is full of interest, graphic description and notice of men
+and events of the period. Here is a letter to Aaron Burr, between whom
+while a student in the College at Princeton, and Mr. Paterson, then
+established in the practice of his profession, had sprung up a strong
+friendship which continued during life:
+
+"Princeton, January 17th, 1772. DEAR BURR: I am just ready to leave and
+therefore cannot wait for you. Be pleased to accept of the enclosed notes
+on _dancing_. If you pitch upon it as the subject of your next discourse,
+they may furnish you with a few hints, and enable you to compose with
+greater facility and despatch. To do you any little service in my power,
+will afford me great satisfaction, and I hope you will take the liberty--it
+is nothing more, my dear Burr, than the freedom of a friend--to call upon
+me whenever you may think I can. Bear with me when I say, _that you cannot
+speak too slow_. Every word should be pronounced distinctly; one should not
+be sounded so highly as to drown another. To see you shine as a speaker,
+would give great pleasure to your friends in general and to me in
+particular. You certainly are capable of making a good speaker.
+
+                 "Dear Burr, adieu.      WM. PATERSON."
+
+The writer pays a beautiful tribute to Ireland, the land of his ancestors:
+"Irish Nationality," he says, "is no empty dream; it goes back more than
+two thousand years, is as old as Christianity, and is attested by the
+existence of towers and monuments, giving evidence of greater antiquity
+than is to be found in the annals of any other country in all Europe. For
+centuries, Ireland sent missionaries of learning throughout the continent
+to herald the advent of civilization and stay the advance of barbarism, and
+her story is one running over with great deeds and glorious memories, with
+associations of poetry and art and bards, and a civilization, ante-dating
+that of almost any other Christian community. It cannot be claimed that the
+rude exploits of her early inhabitants are classic in story or in song.
+They acquired no territory; their island domain is but a speck of green
+verdure amid the waste of ocean waters, and the flash of an electric light,
+located on the hills where stood the ancient psaltery, could be sent
+throughout its length and breadth. They conquered no worlds. No manifest
+destiny led them to seek for wealth, applause or gain, beyond the limits of
+their narrow bounds. They did not so much as pass over the seas that wash
+their either shore. But yet in the absence of all the achievements that can
+gratify ambition, with no record of pomp or pageantry or power, her people
+bear a character more like a dream of fancy than a thing of real life, and
+to-day they stand as remnants of national greatness, though you may look in
+vain in their annals or traditions for any evidence of usurpation or of
+subjugation by sceptre or by sword."
+
+
+Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney.
+
+Mrs. Kinney, the mother of the poet, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and daughter
+of David L. Dodge of New York city, was for several years a resident of
+Morristown, and will long be remembered with interest and affection by her
+many friends. Her husband, Mr. William Burnet Kinney, not only resided here
+in later years, but was born at Speedwell, then a suburb of Morristown, and
+passed a part of his early boyhood there. To him we shall refer, in the
+grouping of _Editors and Orators_.
+
+Mr. Kinney was a brilliant literary man and about this home in Morristown
+unusual talent and genius naturally grouped themselves. To it came and went
+the poet Stedman: in the group, we find two gifted women, daughters of Mrs.
+Kinney, and later on, the same genius developing itself in the son of one
+of these, the boy Easton, of the third generation.
+
+Mrs. Kinney published in 1855, "Felicita, a Metrical Romance;" a volume of
+"Poems" in 1867; and, a few years later, a stirring drama, a tragedy in
+blank verse, entitled "Bianco Cappello." This tragedy is founded upon
+Italian history and was written during her residence abroad in 1873. While
+abroad, Mrs. Kinney's letters to _The Newark Daily Advertiser_ gave her a
+wide reputation and were largely re-copied in London and Edinburgh
+journals from copies in the New York papers.
+
+Among the "Poems," the one "To an Italian Beggar Boy" is perhaps most
+highly spoken of and has been chosen by Mr. Stedman to represent his mother
+in the "Library of American Literature." A favorite also is the "Ode to the
+Sea." Both pieces are strong and dramatic. The poem on "The Flowers" has
+been translated into three languages. It opens:
+
+     "Where'er earth's soil is by the feet
+         Of unseen angels trod,
+     The joyous flowers spring up to greet
+         These messengers of God."
+
+Mrs. Kinney's sonnets are peculiarly good. Her sonnet on "Moonlight in
+Italy," which we give to represent her, was written at ten o'clock at night
+in Italy by moonlight, and has been much praised. Mr. Kingston James, the
+English translator of Tasso, repeated it once at a dinner table, as a
+sample of "in what consisted a true sonnet."
+
+
+MOONLIGHT IN ITALY.
+
+    There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir;
+      There's not a cloud to spot the sapphire sky;
+    All nature seems a silent worshipper:
+      While saintly Dian, with great, argent eye,
+    Looks down as lucid from the depths on high,
+      As she to earth were Heaven's interpreter:
+    Each twinkling little star shrinks back, too shy
+      Its lesser glory to obtrude by her
+    Who fills the concave and the world with light;
+      And ah! the human spirit must unite
+    In such a harmony of silent lays,
+      Or be the only discord in this night,
+    Which seems to pause for vocal lips to raise
+      The sense of worship into uttered praise.
+
+
+Alexander Nelson Easton.
+
+In the third generation in the line of Mrs. Kinney, appears a boy, now
+seventeen years of age, of unusual promise as a poet--Alexander Nelson
+Easton, grandson of William Burnet and Elizabeth C. Kinney. He has written
+and published several poems. He took the $50 prize offered by the _Mail and
+Express_ for the best poem on a Revolutionary incident, written by a child
+of about twelve years. It was entitled "Mad Anthony's Charge."
+
+Young Easton was born in Morristown, and spent his early years in this
+place, in the house on the corner of Macculloch Avenue and Perry Street,
+belonging to Mrs. Brinley. He began to write at eight years when a little
+prose piece called "The Council of the Stars," found its way into print,
+out in California. His next was in verse, written at ten years on "The
+Oak." That was also published and copied. A "Ballad" followed "A Scottish
+Battle Song," written in dialect, which was published also. Then came the
+prize poem, "Mad Anthony's Charge," above referred to. He has composed two
+stories since, one of which, "Ben's Christmas Present," has been accepted
+by the New York _World_ and is to appear with a sketch of this young
+writer, in their Christmas number. At twelve years, he wrote a monody on
+"The Burial of Brian Boru," which is given below.
+
+The literary efforts of Easton, so far, have been spontaneous and
+spasmodic, but contain certain promise for the future. After studying for
+some time at the Morristown Academy, Easton went as a student to the
+Bordentown Military Institute from which he has graduated and has now
+passed on to Princeton College. At Bordentown he won golden opinions, and
+gave the prize essay at the June Commencement. This was an oration of
+considerable importance on "The Value of Sacrifice," but withal his gifts
+are essentially poetic.
+
+
+THE BURIAL OF BRIAN BORU.
+
+    Slowly around the new-made grave
+      Gathers the mourner throng;
+    Women and children, chieftains brave,
+      Numb'ring their hundreds strong.
+
+    Glitter beneath the sun's bright ray
+      Helmet and axe and spear;
+    Sadness and sorrow reign to-day,
+      Dark is the land and drear!
+
+    Yesterday leading his men to fight,
+      Now lies he beneath their feet,
+    Clad in his armor, strong and bright,
+      'Tis his only winding sheet.
+
+    Close to his grave stand his warriors grim,
+      Bravest and best of his reign;
+    They, who through danger have oft followed him,
+      Mourn the wild "Scourge of the Dane."
+
+    Look! from the throng with martial stride
+      Steps an old chief of his clan,
+    Pauses and halts at the deep grave's side,
+      Halts as but warriors can.
+
+    White is the hair beneath his cap,
+      Withered the hand he holds on high;
+    Standing, beside the open gap,
+      Speaks he without a pause or sigh.
+
+    "_Brian Boru_ the brave!
+      _Brian Boru_ the bold!
+    Lay we thee in thy grave;
+      Deep is it, dark and cold.
+
+    Bravest of ev'ry chief
+      Erin has ever known;
+    Hurling the foes in grief,
+      Fiercest of Danes o'erthrown.
+
+    Youth and old age alike
+      Found thee in war array;
+    Wielding the sword and pike,
+      E'er in the thick o' the fray!
+
+    Erin is freed and blest,
+      Freed by thy mighty arm;
+    Well hast thou earned thy rest,
+      Take it! secure from harm.
+
+    Friend of our hearts! Our king!
+      Generous, kind and true!
+    Out let our praises fling--
+      Shout we for _Brian Boru_."
+
+    Bursts the wild song from a thousand throats,
+      Sounding through wood and plain,
+    While the mountains echo the dying notes,
+      Ringing them out again.
+
+Francis Bret Harte.
+
+As a poet, we represent Bret Harte by his "Plain Language from Truthful
+James," better known as "The Heathen Chinee." The main reference to his
+writings follows, in the next classification of _Novelists and Story
+Writers_.
+
+
+PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES,
+
+BETTER KNOWN AS "THE HEATHEN CHINEE."
+
+TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870.
+
+    Which I wish to remark,--
+      And my language is plain,--
+    That for ways that are dark,
+      And for tricks that are vain,
+    The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
+      Which the same I would rise to explain.
+
+    Ah Sin was his name;
+      And I shall not deny
+    In regard to the same
+      What that name might imply,
+    But his smile it was pensive and child-like,
+      As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
+
+    It was August the third;
+      And quite soft was the skies;
+    Which it might be inferred
+      That Ah Sin was likewise;
+    Yet he played it that day upon William
+      And me in a way I despise.
+
+    Which we had a small game,
+      And Ah Sin took a hand:
+    It was Euchre. The same
+      He did not understand;
+    But he smiled as he sat by the table,
+      With the smile that was child-like and bland.
+
+    Yet the cards they were stocked
+      In a way that I grieve,
+    And my feelings were shocked
+      At the state of Nye's sleeve:
+    Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,
+      And the same with intent to deceive.
+
+    But the hands that were played
+      By that heathen Chinee,
+    And the points that he made,
+      Were quite frightful to see,--
+    Till at last he put down a right bower,
+      Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
+
+    Then I looked up at Nye,
+      And he gazed upon me;
+    And he rose with a sigh,
+      And said, "Can this be?
+    We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor,"--
+      And he went for that heathen Chinee.
+
+    In the scene that ensued
+      I did not take a hand,
+    But the floor it was strewed
+      Like the leaves on the strand
+    With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding,
+      In the game "he did not understand."
+
+    In his sleeves, which were long,
+      He had twenty-four packs,--
+    Which was coming it strong,
+      Yet I state but the facts;
+    And we found on his nails, which were taper,
+      What is frequent in tapers--that's wax.
+
+    Which is why I remark,
+      And my language is plain,
+    That for ways that are dark,
+      And for tricks that are vain,
+    The heathen Chinee is peculiar,--
+      Which the same I am free to maintain.
+
+
+Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg.
+
+Mrs. McClurg, the niece of our honored townsman, Mr. Wm. L. King, is better
+known to us by her maiden name of M. Virginia Donaghe. Although endowed
+with varied gifts, having been editor, newspaper correspondent,
+story-writer, biographer and local historian, her talent is essentially
+poetic, therefore we place her among our poets.
+
+A proud moment of Mrs. McClurg's life was, when a child, she received four
+dollars and a half from _Hearth and Home_ for a story called "How did it
+Happen," written in the garret, the author tells us, without the knowledge
+of any one. Next, were written occasional letters and verses and short
+stories for the New York _Graphic_, including some burlesque correspondence
+for a number of papers, one of which was the _Richmond State_. The writer
+then went to Colorado for her health and accepted the position of editor
+on the _Daily Republic_ of Colorado Springs, for three years. She wrote a
+political leader for the paper every day. It happened that many
+distinguished men died during those years, and she did in consequence
+biographical work. She also wrote book reviews, dramatic and musical
+reviews, condensed the state news every day from all the papers of the
+state and edited the Associated Press dispatches. In addition, all proofs
+were brought to her for final reading. For the first year she had private
+pupils and broke down with brain fever.
+
+In 1885, she went into the Indian country to explore the cliff-dwellings of
+Mancos Cañon, in the reservation of the Southern Utes. They were only known
+through meagre accounts in the official government reports, and Miss
+Donaghe was the first woman who ever visited them, so far as known. On this
+occasion, she had an escort of United States troops and spent a few days
+there. She however made a second visit, fully provided for a month's trip,
+the result of which was a series of archæological sketches contributed to a
+prominent paper, the _Great Divide_, under the title of "Cliff-Climbing in
+Colorado." These ten papers gave to Miss Donaghe a reputation in the west
+as an archæologist.
+
+The following year she published, in the _Century_, one of the best of her
+sonnets, "The Questioner of the Sphinx," afterwards contained in her book,
+"Seven Sonnets of Sculpture."
+
+The same year she published her first book, "Picturesque Colorado," also a
+popular sonnet called "The Mountain of the Holy Cross." The Colorado
+mountain of the Holy Cross has crevices filled with snow which represent
+always on its side a cross. The little sand lily of Colorado blossoms at
+the edges of the highways in the dust, in the Spring, and looks like our
+star of Bethlehem. Of these sand lilies an artist friend made a picture
+which harmonized with the sonnet referred to. These were published together
+as an Easter card and a large edition sold. The sonnet begins;
+
+     "In long forgotten Springs, where He who taught
+     Amid the olive groves of Syrian hills,"--
+
+And ends:
+
+     "The lilies bloom upon the prairie wide
+       A stainless cross is reared by nature's hand,
+     And plain and height alike keep Easter-tide."
+
+In 1887, the _Century_ published a "Sonnet on Helen Hunt's Grave," with a
+picture of the grave. About this time Miss Donaghe was writing a series of
+letters which were published in a Southern newspaper, _The Valley
+Virginian_, and were widely copied. These were on Utah, when the Mormon
+hierarchy was in its power. Then appeared a book on "Picturesque Utah,"
+making one of a group with "Picturesque Colorado" and "Colorado
+Favorites." The last is made up of six poems on Colorado flowers,
+illustrated by water colors of the blossoms, by Alice Stewart, and was the
+first book published.
+
+The author was married to Mr. Gilbert McClurg of Chicago, one of the family
+of the publishing house of that name, in Morristown, on June 13th, 1889.
+Since then Mrs. McClurg has been both editor and newspaper correspondent,
+and, within the last two years, a valuable assistant to her husband in the
+preparation of his department of the official history of Colorado, which
+included several county histories.
+
+In the _Cosmopolitan_ of June, 1891, a sonnet appeared, "The Life Mask,"
+and was reprinted in the _Review of Reviews_. Two of Mrs. McClurg's songs
+were set to music by Albert C. Pierson in the summer of 1890; "Lithe Stands
+my Lady"; "Je Reste et Tu T'en Vas"; the latter with a French refrain, the
+rest in English.
+
+The last poem of Mrs. McClurg was published in the _Banner_, of Morristown,
+Dec. 24th, 1891, written to Mr. William L. King on his 85th Thanksgiving
+Day, and based on the Oriental salutation, "O King! Live forever".
+
+Among the writings of Mrs. McClurg are also two articles on the Washington
+Headquarters of Morristown; being "quotations, comments and descriptions on
+two Order Books of the Revolution, daily records of life in camp and at
+Headquarters, in the year 1780." A passage from this is given in the
+opening chapter of this book.
+
+The "Seven Sonnets of Sculpture" came out in 1889 and 1890. This book was
+widely and favorably noticed by some of the largest and most important
+journals. Says the writer in the Chicago _Daily News_: "It was a happy
+inspiration that led Mrs. McClurg to the idea realized in the publication
+of her latest volume 'Seven Sonnets of Sculpture'. The work is artistic
+from cover to cover, but the conception of equipping each one of the
+stanzas it contains with a photograph of the piece of sculpture which
+suggested it, was unique. * * To translate a work of art from its original
+form to another, to find the hidden sense of a conception imbedded in stone
+and revive it in words, to endue marble with speech, is in its nature a
+delicate task and one that demands the keenest of perceptions and
+sensibilities." The author says, in her dedication that seven was a Hebrew
+symbol of perfection.
+
+The sonnet we select from these, to represent Mrs. McClurg, is "The
+Questioner of the Sphinx". This sonnet was written from the impression
+received from Elihu Vedder's engraving of the Sphinx and the artist
+expressed in a letter to the author, his appreciation of the fidelity of
+the interpretation in verse of his picture. His criticism is perhaps the
+best that could be given.
+
+"I think it," he wrote, "good and strong and shall treasure it among the
+few good things that have been suggested by my work. My idea in the Sphinx
+was the hopelessness of man before the cold immutable laws of nature. Could
+the Sphinx speak, I am sure its words would be, 'look within,' for to his
+working brain and beating heart man must look for the solution of the great
+problem."
+
+
+THE QUESTIONER OF THE SPHINX.
+
+(SUGGESTED BY ELIHU VEDDER'S PICTURE.)
+
+     Behold me! with swift foot across the land,
+     While desert winds are sleeping, I am come
+     To wrest a secret from thee; O thou, dumb,
+     And careless of my puny lip's command.
+     Cold orbs! _mine_ eyes a weary world have scanned,
+     Slow ear! in _mine_ rings ever a vexed hum
+     Of sobs and strife. Of joy mine earthly sum
+     Is buried as thy form in burning sand.
+     The wisdom of the nations thou has heard;
+     The circling courses of the stars hast known.
+     Awake! Thrill! By my feverish presence stirred,
+     Open thy lips to still my human moan,
+     Breathe forth one glorious and mysterious word,
+     Though I should stand, in turn, transfixed,--a stone!
+
+
+Charlton T. Lewis, L.L. D.
+
+A sketch of Dr. Lewis will be found under the grouping of _Lexicographer_.
+
+The poem from which we select (reluctantly we take a part instead of the
+whole, for lack of space), is an embodiment of the story taken from
+Theodoret. The poet has found in the beautiful tradition, meagre though it
+is, a lovely theme for his divine song of spiritual love and Christian
+martyrdom.
+
+The following is the translation of the Greek passage which heads the poem:
+
+"A certain Telemachus embraced the self-sacrificing life of a monk, and, to
+carry out this plan, went to Rome, where he arrived during the abominable
+shows of gladiators. He went down into the arena, and strove to stop the
+conflicts of the armed combatants. But the spectators of the bloody games
+were indignant, and the gladiators themselves, full of the spirit of
+battle, slew the apostle of peace. When the great Emperor learned the facts
+he enrolled Telemachus in the noble army of martyrs, and put an end to the
+murderous shows."
+
+     _Theodoret. Eccl. Hist. v. 26._
+
+The scene is Rome,--the place the Coliseum. It is the time of the games.
+There are the crowds of eager people; the Emperor Honorius; the horrible
+Stilicho. Lowly and beautiful in his great love for Christ, Telemachus
+follows onward to the Coliseum to meet his sorrowful fate; holding in his
+voice the power that "stilled the fire and dulled the sword and stopped the
+crushing wine-press." He followed, silently, consecrated and alone, to "do
+the will of God."
+
+
+TELEMACHUS.
+
+    I mused on Claudian's tinseled eulogies,
+    And turned to seek in other dusty tomes,
+    Through the wild waste of those degenerate days,
+    Some living word, some utterance of the heart;
+    Till as when one lone peak of Jura flames
+    With sudden sunbeams breaking through the mist,
+    So from the dull page of Theodoret
+    A flash of splendor rends the clouds of life,
+    And bares to view the awful throne of love.
+
+    The bishop's tale is meagre, but as leaven,
+    It works in thoughts that rise and fill the soul.
+
+    *....*....*....*....*
+
+    He felt the soil, long drenched with martyr's blood,
+    Send healing through his feet to all his frame.
+    He drank the air that trembled with the joys
+    Of opening Paradise, and bared his soul
+    To spirits whispering, "Come with us to-day!"
+    The longings of his life were satisfied,
+    He stood at last in Rome, Christ's Capital,
+    The gate of heaven and not the mouth of hell.
+
+    Suddenly, rudely, comes disastrous change.
+    He starts and gazes, as the glory of the saints
+    Fades round him and the angel songs are stilled:
+    A world of hatred hides the throne of love;
+    Hell opens in the gleam of myriad eyes
+    Hungry for slaughter, in a hush that tells
+    How in each heart a tiger pants for blood.
+    Into the vast arena files a band
+    Of Goths, the prisoners of Pollentia,--
+    Freemen, the dread of Rome, but yesterday,
+    Now doomed as slaves to wield those terrible arms
+    In mutual murder, kill and die, amid
+    The exultation of their nation's foes.
+    Pausing before the throne, with well-taught lips
+    They utter words they know not; but Rome hears;
+    "Cæsar, we greet thee who are now to die!"
+    Then part and line the lists; the trumpet blares
+    For the onset, sword and javelin gleam, and all
+    Is clash of smitten shields and glitter of arms.
+
+    Without the tumult, one of mighty limb
+    And towering frame stands moveless; never yet
+    A nobler captive had made sport for Rome.
+    Throngs watch that eye of Mars, Apollo's grace,
+    The thews of Hercules, in cruel hope
+    That ten may fall before him ere he falls.
+    They bid him charge; he moves not; shield and sword
+    Sink to his feet; his eyes are filled with light
+    That is not of the battle. Three draw near
+    Whose valor or despair has cut a path
+    Through the thick mass of combat, and their swords,
+    Reeking with carnage, seek a victim new
+    The glory of whose death may win them grace
+    With that fierce multitude. Telemachus
+    Gazes, and half the horror turns to joy
+    As the fair Goth undaunted bares his breast
+    Before the butchers, and awaits the blow
+    With peaceful brow, a firm and tender lip
+    Quivering as with a breath of inward prayer,
+    And hands that move as mindful of the cross.
+    And with a mighty cry, "Christ! he is thine!
+    He is my brother! Help!" The monk leaps forth,
+    Gathers in hands unarmed the points of steel,
+    Throws back the startled warriors, and commands,
+    "In Christ's name, hold! Ye people of Rome give ear!
+    God will have mercy and not sacrifice.
+    He who was silent, scourged at Pilate's bar,
+    And smitten again in those he died to save,
+    Is silent now in his great oracles.
+    The throne of Constantine and Peter's chair,
+    Speaks thus through me:--'In Rome, my capital,
+    Let love be Lord, and close the mouth of hell.
+    I will have mercy and not sacrifice.'"
+
+    The slaughter paused, he ceased, and all was still,
+    But baffled myriads with their cruel thumbs
+    Point earthward, and the bloody three advance:
+    Their swords meet in his heart. Honorius
+    Cries "Save,"--too late, he is already safe,--
+    And turns, with tears like Peter's, to proclaim,
+    The festival dissolved: nor from that hour
+    Ever again did Rome, Christ's capital,
+    Make holiday with blood, but hand in hand
+    The throne of Constantine and Peter's chair
+    Honored the martyr--Saint Telemachus,
+    And love was Lord and closed the mouth of hell.
+
+
+Miss Emma F. R. Campbell.
+
+In our midst is a quiet, gentle woman who passes in and out among us
+without noise or ostentation. Yet upon her has fallen the great honor of
+being the author of an immortal hymn.
+
+In the _Canada Presbyterian_ of Feb. 9th, 1887, appeared an article
+entitled "A Great Modern Hymn." Also, it is said, that in a volume soon to
+be published on "The Great Hymns of the Church" will appear a paper on
+"Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By." From the first named, we cannot do better
+than quote:
+
+"Among all the hymns used in recent revivals of religion, none has been
+more honored and owned by God, than this--none so often called for, none so
+inspiring, none bearing so many seals of the divine approval. This is the
+testimony of the great evangelist of these days, Mr. Moody, and this
+testimony will surprise no one who has ever heard it sung by his companion
+in the ministry, Mr. Sankey, who, under God, has done so much to send forth
+light and truth into dark minds and break up the fountains of the great
+deep, amid the masses of godless men.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"As to the origin of the hymn--the circumstances of its birth--we have to
+invite the reader to go back some twenty-three years, to the Spring of
+1864--to a great season of religious awakening in the city of Newark, N. J.
+The streets were crowded from day to day and the largest churches were too
+small to contain the growing numbers. Among those most deeply moved by the
+impressive scenes and services was a young girl, a Sabbath School teacher,
+one who for the first time realized the powers of the world to come, and
+the grandness of the great salvation. As descriptive of what was passing
+around her but with no desire for publicity, still, with the great desire
+of reaching some soul unsaved, especially among her youthful charge, she
+wrote the lines beginning with, 'What means this eager, anxious throng?'"
+
+The hymn was first published under the signature "Eta", the author having
+sometimes appended to her writings the Greek letter, using that character
+instead of her English name. We quote again from the same source:
+
+"Soon it rose into popularity and it is spreading still, not only in the
+English language, but in other languages--even the languages of
+India--(think of a recent account of an assembly of 500 Hindus
+enthusiastically using this hymn in the Mahrati and the Syrian children
+singing it in their own vernacular)--as the author thinks of all these
+things, she can only say with a thankful and an adoring heart: 'It is the
+Lord's doing and it is marvellous in mine eyes!'"
+
+Miss Campbell has also written many other poems of beauty and articles in
+prose, which however, are all so eclipsed by this "Great Hymn" that perhaps
+they are not known or noticed as they otherwise would be. One in
+particular, we would mention, "A New Year Thought," published December,
+1888.
+
+Miss Campbell belongs also in the group of _Novelists_, _Story-Writers_,
+_and Moralists_. She has written a number of books for the young, among
+which are "Green Pastures for Christ's Little Ones"; "Paul Preston";
+"Better than Rubies"; and "Toward the Mark".
+
+Miss Campbell wrote by request, at the time of the Centennial Celebration
+of the First Presbyterian Church in October, 1891, a beautiful hymn for the
+occasion which was read by Mr. James Duryee Stevenson.
+
+
+"JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY."
+
+     What means this eager, anxious throng,
+     Pressing our busy streets along,
+     These wondrous gatherings day by day,
+     What means this strange commotion, pray?
+     Voices in accents hushed reply
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by?"
+
+     E'en children feel the potent spell,
+     And haste their new-found joy to tell;
+     In crowds they to the place repair
+     Where Christians daily bow in prayer,
+     Hosannas mingle with the cry
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Who is this Jesus? Why should He
+     The city move so mightily?
+     A passing stranger, has He skill
+     To charm the multitude at will?
+     Again the stirring tones reply
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Jesus! 'tis He who once below
+     Man's pathway trod mid pain and woe:
+     And burdened hearts where'er He came
+     Brought out their sick and deaf and lame.
+     Blind men rejoiced to hear the cry
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Again He comes, from place to place
+     His holy footprints we can trace.
+     He passes at _our_ threshold--nay
+     He enters,--condescends to stay!
+     Shall we not gladly raise the cry--
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Bring out your sick and blind and lame,
+     'Tis to restore them Jesus came.
+     Compassion infinite you'll find,
+     With boundless power in Him combined.
+     Come quickly while salvation's nigh,
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Ye sin-sick souls who feel your need,
+     He comes to you, a friend indeed.
+     Rise from your weary, wakeful couch.
+     Haste to secure His healing touch;
+     No longer sadly wait and sigh.--
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Ho all ye heavy-laden, come!
+     Here pardon, comfort, rest, a home
+     Lost wanderer from a Father's face,
+     Return, accept his proffered grace.
+     Ye tempted, there's a refuge nigh
+         Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!
+
+     Ye who are buried in the grave
+     Of sin, His power alone can save.
+     His voice can bid your dead souls live,
+     True spirit-life and freedom give.
+     Awake! arise! for strength apply,
+         Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!
+
+     But if this call you still refuse
+     And dare such wondrous love abuse,
+     Soon will He sadly from you turn
+     Your bitter prayer in justice spurn.
+     "Too late! too late!" will be your cry,
+         "Jesus of Nazareth has passed by!"
+
+
+Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley.
+
+Mrs. Buckley will appear again among _Translators_. The following verses
+were inspired by a painting of Cornelia and the Gracchi:
+
+     Purest pearls from the sea,
+       Diamonds outshining the sun,
+     Sapphires which vie with heaven,
+       With pride to Cornelia are shown.
+
+     Clasping her dark-eyed boys,
+       Fairer could be no other,
+     "These my jewels are"
+       Said the noble Roman mother.
+
+
+Rev. Oliver Crane, D. D., LL. D.
+
+Before coming to Morristown, in 1871, Dr. Crane's life had been a very
+active one, including extensive traveling in Turkey, Europe, Egypt and
+Palestine. Twice he had been a missionary in Turkey acquiring the Turkish
+language and doing efficient work there, first for five years, then for
+three. In the seven years interval of his return he accepted two pastorates
+in this country.
+
+On coming to Morristown, having resigned his ministerial charge at
+Carbondale, Pennsylvania, he devoted himself mainly to literary work, and
+with General H. B. Carrington wrote the "Battles of the Revolution" which
+has since become a standard work. Nine years later as secretary of his
+college class, he prepared an exhaustive biographical record of every
+member of the class. The book was a pioneer in this class of publications.
+
+In 1888, he published his translation of Virgil's Æneid and the following
+year a small volume of poems entitled "Minto and Other Poems", in which the
+"Rock of the Passaic Falls" is conspicuous as relating to Washington and
+Lafayette "who," says the poet, "visited together these Falls while their
+troops were stationed at Totawa (as the spot was then called) in the Winter
+of 1780. The initials G. W. are still to be seen cut in the rock below the
+cataract."
+
+The _Translation of Virgil's Æneid_, "literally, line by line into English
+Dactyllic Hexameter," is Dr. Crane's great work and has absorbed much of
+his time for years. It is a singular fact that, although for more than four
+hundred years the learned have been giving to the English reader, through
+the press, specimen translations of this old classic, this is the first
+complete version in the original measure.
+
+In the very interesting preface, Dr. Crane gives a careful review of the
+translations of Virgil, noticing the singular and severe prejudice that has
+always debarred any desire to render this classic in the metre of the
+original, and discussing the advantage of translating in the style of verse
+chosen by the author himself. In fact, he tells us, Longfellow had, from
+his own admirable translations, become thoroughly convinced of its utility,
+if not of its indispensability in giving the classic epics a fitting
+setting in English.
+
+The following is an extract taken from Book X., lines 814 to 842 of Dr.
+Crane's literal English translation of _Virgil's Æneid_, which describes
+the hand to hand contest of Æneas with the youth Lausus, who insists upon
+fighting Æneas in opposition to his father's wishes and in the face of
+every effort made by Æneas to avoid the conflict:
+
+
+TRANSLATION OF VIRGIL'S ÆNEID.
+
+BOOK X, LINES 814 TO 842.
+
+    The destinies now are for Lausus the last threads
+Gathering in; for Æneas his powerful scimitar ruthless                     815
+Drives through the midst of the youth, and buries it wholly within him,
+Right through the menacer's targe, and his delicate armor, the keen blade
+Passed through the tunic his mother had woven in tissue of gold thread
+For him, and blood filled all of his bosom; then life on the breezes
+Mournful withdrew to the shades, and abandoned his body untimely.          820
+But as the son of Anchises in truth on the visage and features
+Gazed of the dying--the features, becoming amazingly pallid--
+Pitying deeply he sighed and instinctively tendered his right hand,
+Fresh as the image recurred to his mind of regard for a father:
+"What to thee now, O pitiable boy, for these laudable efforts,             825
+What shall the pious Æneas, befitting such nobleness render?
+Keep it--thine armor, in which thou rejoicest, and I to thy parents'
+Shades and their ashes, if this could be any requital, remit thee;
+Yet thou in this, though unlucky, canst solace thy sorrowful exit,
+That by the hand of the mighty Æneas thou fallest." Abruptly               830
+Chides he his faltering comrades, as gently from earth he uplifts him,
+Soiling his ringlets with blood, that were combed in the comeliest fashion.
+    Meanwhile, his father was down by the wave of the stream of the Tiber
+Staunching his wound with its waters, and resting his body, reclining
+Close by the trunk of a tree. At a distance his coppery helmet             825
+Hangs on its boughs, and at rest on the sod is his cumbersome armor:
+Standing around are his warriors chosen; he sickly and panting
+Eases his neck, as his out-combed beard streamed down on his bosom;
+Often he asks after Lausus, and many a messenger sends he
+Back to recall him, and bear him his sorrowful parent's injunctions:       840
+But on his armor his comrades were weepingly bearing the lifeless
+Lausus away--a hero o'ercome by the wound of a hero.
+
+
+Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.
+
+Dr. Corning, who, with his family, was for some years a resident of
+Morristown and is now abroad, is represented later in the volume, among the
+writers on Art. We give here his beautiful poem, "The Ideal".
+
+
+THE IDEAL.
+
+     Awake, asleep, in dreams, amid the din of mortal striving,
+     I feel thee ever near, vision of fancy's sweet contriving:
+     The setting sun and twilight glow
+     Thou art the music sweet and low.
+
+     When on the sands, at dead of night,
+     Dark waves are breaking in their might,
+     While, through the billowy crests, the wild winds roar,
+     Thou art the gull who over all dost soar.
+
+     Amid the storm and lightning flash,
+     The pelting rain and thunder crash,
+     When faces blanch, and none can will,
+     Thou, heavenly bow, art faithful still.
+
+     'Tis not the kiss, the touch, the sigh,
+     That bringeth love from earth to sky;
+     For motions strange about the heart
+     Reveal the inner nature of thy part.
+
+
+Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest.
+
+Mrs. Augustus W. Cutler has kindly given us the following monograph:
+
+"In a Memorial of the late Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest occurs the following
+passage: 'For two hundred and fifty years, the English readers of the Bible
+were obliged to content themselves with the phrase, 'They seek a country'.
+It was not the whole thought. It was reserved for a corps of learned
+revisers to light upon the happy phrase, 'They are seeking a country of
+their own'.' But a score of years before the wise grammarians reached this
+line, a youthful poetess, seeing and greeting the Heavenly promise from
+afar, wrote simply and sweetly:
+
+"'I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see The shining gates o'
+Heaven, an' _my ain countree_'.
+
+"This youthful poetess was Mary Lee, afterwards Mrs. T. F. C. Demarest.
+
+"Before her marriage, in 1870, she spent several years in Morristown and
+became identified with the place and its interests; and there are many
+persons living here who remember her sweet face and gentle ways.
+
+"A taste for the Scotch dialect is said to have been acquired from an old
+Scotch nurse who lived a long time in the family, when the children were
+young. The girl caught it so completely, that when deeply moved, she was
+wont to drop into it, for the more vigorous expression of her feelings.
+'Somehow', said she, 'the Scotch is more homely, less formal to me'. Thus,
+in the poem alluded to, could the thoughts contained in it, have been
+expressed as beautifully and tenderly in the mother tongue?
+
+"Again, there is a little poem in the same dialect, entitled 'My Mither',
+which appeals to every heart.
+
+"Though many of her poems and prose writings are of a devotional character,
+yet she had a keen sense also of the humorous side of life as the verses
+entitled 'Allen Graeme', will testify.
+
+"Mrs. Demarest traveled extensively throughout our own country, and also
+abroad. Two volumes of her writings have been published--one entitled
+'Gathered Writings', a collection of short stories, fragments of foreign
+travel and reflections".
+
+
+MY AIN COUNTREE.
+
+     I am far frae my hame, an' I'm weary afterwhiles,
+     For the langed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles;
+     I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see,
+     The shining gates o' heaven an' my ain countree.
+     The earth is fleck'd wi' flowers, mony tinted fresh and gay,
+     The birdies warble blithely, for my Father made them sae;
+     But these sights an' these soun's will as naething be to me,
+     When I hear the angels singing in my ain countree.
+
+     I've His gude word o' promise that some gladsome day, the King
+     To his ain royal palace His banished hame will bring;
+     Wi' een an' wi' hearts running owre, we shall see
+     The King in His beauty, in our ain countree;
+     My sins hae been mony, an' my sorrows hae been sair,
+     But there they'll never vex me, nor be remembered mair;
+     His bluid has made me white--His hand shall dry mine e'e,
+     When he brings me hame at last, to mine ain countree.
+
+     Sae little noo I ken, o' yon blessed, bonnie place,
+     I ainly ken its Hame, whaur we shall see His face;
+     It wud surely be eneuch forever mair to be
+     In the glory o' His presence in our ain countree.
+     Like a bairn to its mither, a wee birdie to its nest,
+     I wad fain be ganging noo, unto my Saviour's breast,
+     For he gathers in His bosom witless, worthless lambs like me,
+     An' carries them Himsel', to His ain countree.
+
+     He's faithfu' that has promised, He'll surely come again,
+     He'll keep his tryst wi' me, at what hour I dinna ken;
+     But he bids me still to wait, an' ready aye to be
+     To gang at ony moment to my ain countree.
+     So I'm watching aye, and singing o' my hame as I wait,
+     For the soun'ing o' His footfa' this side the gowden gate,
+     God gie His grace to ilk ane wha' listens noo to me,
+     That we a' may gang in gladness to our ain countree.
+
+
+Hon. Anthony Q. Keasbey.
+
+We cannot do better than quote the words of Dr. Thomas Dunn English, the
+well-known author of "Ben Bolt", now living in Newark, N. J.,--with regard
+to Mr. Keasbey.
+
+"Here, in Newark", says he, "we have a lawyer of distinction, Anthony Q.
+Keasbey, who occasionally throws off some polished verses, as he excuses
+them, by way of 'safety plugs for high mental pressure,' and these are
+always smooth and scholarly. They are mostly privately printed for the
+amusement of the poet and a few chosen friends. One of these, however, has
+such a vein of tenderness and so much heart music that it deserves to
+become public property and to remain as much the favorite with others as
+it is with me." The poem referred to is, "My Wife's Crutches."
+
+"Unquestionably", continues Dr. English, "Mr. Keasbey stands well in his
+profession, and for years, under several Federal administrations, filled
+the office of United States District Attorney with credit to himself and
+advantage to the public; but this little tender poem does more honor to his
+intellect than his legal acquirements, however eminent they may be, and
+gives him a still stronger claim to the regard of his many friends."
+
+Among Mr. Keasbey's published collected poems are "Palm Sunday", of which
+Mr. Stedman once said he had put it away among some fine hymns; also "May",
+published in England and set to music by Faustina Hodges. These verses were
+inspired by the falling of the cherry blossoms on the grave of little May,
+and are most sweet and touching. One of the best is "The Dirge for Old St.
+Stephen's", written while they were demolishing the church built on Mr.
+Keasbey's ground, where now a "mart and home" have taken its place as was
+anticipated by the poet.
+
+Mr. Keasbey has published numberless papers in prominent journals and
+magazines. Some of these are to be collected and published in book form.
+His address on "The Sun: How Man has Regarded it in Different Ages", is
+well worthy of preservation in more permanent form than that in which it
+appears at present; also "The Sale of East New Jersey at Auction", an
+address delivered February 1st, 1862, before the New Jersey Historical
+Society at Trenton, on the Bi-Centennial of the Sale. This is full of
+interesting information, told in a charming way and is valuable for
+reference.
+
+The paper on "The Sun", was inspired by Mr. Keasbey's reading with great
+interest, the papers of Professor Norman Lockyer, the great astronomer,
+describing his researches into the constitution of the sun, through the
+medium of the spectroscope and the photograph. Mr. Keasbey had been
+interested in observing the extent to which modern science had reached with
+respect to the actual condition of the sun and the materials of which it is
+composed. This led him to the thoughts of how very recent had been any such
+attempts to understand its true nature and, from that reflection, he was
+led to consider, as a subject of a paper, how human eyes in all ages have
+looked upon the sun and in what manner they have regarded it. This
+published address was delivered before the Brooklyn Historical Society, a
+brilliant audience present, and Rev. Dr. Storrs, presiding.
+
+A book on Florida, "From the Hudson to the St. John's", describing a
+month's journey to Florida and the St. John's River was published in 1875;
+also, more recently, a small book on "Isthmus Transit by Chiriqui and Golfo
+Dulce", with a view of describing the Chiriqui mountain rib or back bone
+of Darien and all the executive and legislative action, with respect to the
+region between Panama and Nicaragua, with reference to railroad
+communication across the isthmus from the harbor of Chiriqui on the coast
+to the Pacific.
+
+In the _Hospital Review_, of July, 1882, is a very striking and powerful
+paper on the "Tragedy of the Lena Delta", where De Long and his companions
+so heroically met their fate in the Arctic snows.
+
+Below is the favorite of Dr. English among the Poems:
+
+MY WIFE'S CRUTCHES.
+
+     Ye solemn, gaunt, ungainly crutches,
+         That serve her frame such slippery tricks,
+     Were you within my lawful clutches,
+         I'd fling you back in River Styx.
+
+     Ye grew beside the Boat of Charon,
+         In murky fens of Stygian gloom,
+     Nor ever, like the rod of Aaron,
+         Shall your grim spindles burst in bloom.
+
+     Your reeds were tuned for groans rheumatic,
+         And croaking sighs from gouty man;
+     Nor e'er shall thrill with tones ecstatic,
+         As did the pipes of ancient Pan.
+
+     Avaunt you, then, ye helpers dismal!
+         Offend my eyes and ears no more;
+     Go stalking back to realms abysmal
+         And guide the ghosts on Lethe's shore.
+
+     But see! while yet my words upbraid them,
+         Her crutches bud with blossoms fair,
+     And Patience, Love and Faith have made them
+         Than Aaron's rod, more rich and rare.
+
+     And hark! from out their hollows slender,
+         No dismal groans or sighs proceed,--
+     But tones of joy more sweet and tender
+         Than swelled from Pan's enchanted reed.
+
+     Then stay! your use her worth discloses,
+         Your ghastly frames her worth transmutes,
+     From withered sticks, to stems of roses--
+         From creaking reeds, to magic flutes.
+
+
+Major Lindley Hoffman Miller.
+
+Major Miller, a brother of our well-known townsman, Henry W. Miller, was
+among the first of the 7th Regiment of New York City, who answered the call
+of the government to march to Washington for the protection of the Capitol.
+He served in that regiment through the riots in New York, and afterwards
+joined a Colored Regiment and was promoted to the rank of Major. He served
+in this position at Memphis and elsewhere through the South. In this
+campaign he lost his health and came home to die. He died in June, 1864,
+and was laid in old St. Peter's churchyard.
+
+Mr. Miller was a man of brilliant mind and unusual genius. His fugitive
+poems are very beautiful. They were published in various journals of the
+time, and one we will add to this short sketch of his brief but valuable
+life, "The Skater's Song", full of spirit and dash, and gay with the heart
+of youth.
+
+THE SKATER'S SONG, BY MOONLIGHT!
+
+     Come away, from your blazing hearths!
+       Come away, in the gleaming night,
+     Where the radiant sky is peering down
+       With a million eyes of light!
+     Heigho! for the glancing ice,
+       For the realm of the old Frost King!
+     We'll shake the chain of the bounding stream
+       Till all its fetters ring!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, from your cheerless books!
+       Come away, in the clear, cold air!
+     And read in the deeps of the starry night
+       God's endless volume there.
+     Ho! now we're flashing along,
+       At the snow-flake's drifting rate!
+     Did ever anything stir the pulse
+       Like a glimmering moonlight skate?
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, from the ball-room's glare!
+       Come away, to a merrier dance,--
+     To a hall, whose floor is the flashing ice,
+       Whose light is the stars' pure glance!
+     Now we're watching the moon in her dreams,
+       Now we dash at our speed again;
+     While the stream groans under the icy links
+       Which the frost has forged for his chain!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, each lady fair!
+       Come, add to the magical sight!
+     And mingle the silvery tones of your words
+       With the echoing "voices of night"!
+     Heigho! for the frozen plain!
+       Here's a glancing mirror, I ween,
+     Reflecting all the beautiful forms
+       That move in our fairy-like scene.
+         Away! my lady, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, from your sorrow and grief,
+       All you that are gloomy and sad!
+     Unwrinkle your brows to the whistling wind,
+       Till your hearts grow merry and glad!
+     Ho! Hark! how the laughter in peals,
+       Is shaking the tides of the air,
+     And shouting aloud to drown with its joy
+       The muttering murmurs of care!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come, one and all, then, away!
+       Come, cheerily join in our song,
+     And mingle with music the ring of the steel,
+       Keep in time, as we're sweeping along!
+     Heigho! for the throne of the Frost!
+       We'll frighten the phantoms of night,
+     And serenade, far under the depths,
+       The river's listening sprite!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+
+Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich.
+
+Miss Holdich, poetess and story-writer, has been a resident of Morristown,
+since 1878, and has written at various periods since she was seventeen
+years of age. Her poems, stories, and other writings have appeared from
+time to time in _Harper's Magazine_ and other important publications. We
+would like to give Miss Holdich's beautiful and thoughtful poem, "In Holy
+Ground", suggested by a Russian Legend, but, as we give her Centennial
+story entire, our space does not allow. She is represented, instead, by a
+few lovely lines written for a golden wedding and sent to the happy pair
+with a basket of flowers and fruit.
+
+LINES
+
+WRITTEN FOR A GOLDEN WEDDING.
+
+     Orange buds a maiden wears
+      On the blissful wedding morn;
+     Snowy buds on golden hair
+       Tell of love and faith new born.
+
+     Ripened now the perfect fruit,
+       Fifty sunny years have passed;
+     Golden fruit on snowy hair
+       Tells of love and faith that last.
+
+
+William Tuckey Meredith.
+
+Mr. Meredith, a Philadelphian by birth, and also a banker in New York City,
+is also one of our summer residents, his main interest in Morristown
+coming, as he says, from the fact that his grandmother was a Morristown
+Ogden. He served as an officer in the United States Navy with Farragut at
+the battle of Mobile Bay and was afterwards his secretary.
+
+Mr. Meredith is perhaps best known by his spirited poem, entitled
+"Farragut", which appeared in _The Century_, in 1890, and heads the group
+of "Various Poems" in Stedman and Hutchinson's Library of American
+Literature.
+
+Besides this, Mr. Meredith has written for _The New York Times_ and other
+journals and publications at various times. He wrote for _The Century_ a
+War article on "Farragut's Capture of New Orleans", which may be found in
+Volume IV of the published series. A novel appeared with his name, in 1890,
+entitled "Not of Her Father's Race", in which the "Fox Hunt" is, the author
+tells us, a study of a bag chase in which he took part some years ago near
+Morristown, although he has laid the scene in Newport. We give the poem,
+"Farragut".
+
+FARRAGUT.
+
+MOBILE BAY, 5 AUGUST, 1864.
+
+     Farragut, Farragut,
+       Old Heart of Oak,
+     Daring Dave Farragut,
+       Thunderbolt stroke,
+     Watches the hoary mist
+       Lift from the bay,
+     Till his flag, glory-kissed,
+       Greets the young day.
+
+     Far, by gray Morgan's walls,
+       Looms the black fleet.
+     Hark, deck to rampart calls
+       With the drum's beat!
+     Buoy your chains overboard,
+       While the steam hums;
+     Men! to the battlement,
+       Farragut comes.
+
+     See, as the hurricane
+       Hurtles in wrath
+     Squadrons of cloud amain
+       Back from its path!
+     Back to the parapet,
+       To the guns' lips,
+     Thunderbolt Farragut
+       Hurls the black ships.
+
+     Now through the battle's roar
+       Clear the boy sings,
+     "By the mark fathoms four,"
+       While his lead swings.
+     Steady the wheelmen five
+       "Nor' by East keep her,"
+     "Steady" but two alive:
+       How the shells sweep her!
+
+     Lashed to the mast that sways
+       Over red decks,
+     Over the flame that plays
+       Round the torn wrecks,
+     Over the dying lips
+       Framed for a cheer,
+     Farragut leads his ships,
+       Guides the line clear.
+
+     On by heights cannon-browed,
+       While the spars quiver;
+     Onward still flames the cloud
+       Where the hulks shiver.
+     See, yon fort's star is set,
+       Storm and fire past.
+     Cheer him, lads--Farragut,
+       Lashed to the mast!
+
+     Oh! while Atlantic's breast
+       Bears a white sail,
+     While the Gulf's towering crest
+       Tops a green vale;
+     Men thy bold deeds shall tell,
+       Old Heart of Oak,
+     Daring Dave Farragut
+       Thunderbolt stroke!
+
+
+Hannah More Johnson.
+
+Miss Johnson, the niece of Mr. J. Henry Johnson, one of Morristown's old
+residents, and the last preceptor of the old Academy, will be found again
+among "Historians". She has written and published a large number of poems,
+besides, and from them we select the following:
+
+THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
+
+     Shall I tell you a story of Christmas time?
+       Of what Nellie found by her Christmas tree?
+     If I tell it at all, it must be in rhyme
+       For it seems like a song to Nellie and me
+     That ripples along to a breezy tune,
+     Like a brook that sings through the woods in June;
+       And yet it was dark November weather
+       When song and story began together.
+
+     "Papa", said Nellie, with wistful tone,
+       "When God sends little children here,
+     Do beautiful angels flutter down
+       As once when they brought our Saviour dear?
+     Don't they sing in the sky, where we can't see
+       And listen up there to Harry and me?
+     'Cause I prayed last night for the bestest things
+       Heavenly Father sends us, and Harry said
+     I might ask for a sister who hadn't wings
+       A dear little sister to sleep in my bed;
+     For my other one went away, you know,
+     To sing with the angels long ago,
+       And I want another to stay with me
+       A dear little sister like Daisy Lee.
+     So high, Papa! Look, don't you see?
+       Just up to my chin. Heavenly Father knows
+     'Bout her dress and her shoes and her curly hair
+       'Cause I told him all, and so I s'pose
+     The first little sister He has to spare
+       He'll send her down here, oh won't she be
+     A dear little sister for Harry and me!"
+
+     "Yes, my Nellie", her father said,
+       One gentle hand on the curly head
+     With tender caress and whispered word
+       Too low for her ear, 'though a Bright-one heard
+     And passed it up, meet signal given
+       From love on earth to love in heaven;
+     "Yes, my Nellie, wait and see!
+       We are all in our Heavenly Father's care
+     And He'll send what is best for you and me
+       When we look to Him with a loving prayer".
+
+     The days passed on. 'Twas that happy time
+     When bells ring out with their Christmas chime;
+       There were people at work all over the land
+       Busy for Santa Claus, heart and hand,
+     And some in cabin and work-shop dim
+     Who wouldn't have work if it wasn't for him;
+     And Harry and Nellie?--There were none
+       In that Christmas time had a gayer tree.
+     Papa was at work at early dawn
+       And the children all tip-toe to see;
+     But the dark December day wore on
+       E'er the door was opened noiselessly,
+     And the light streamed out in the dusky hall
+     From a beautiful cedar bright and tall.
+       Starry tapers were gleaming there,
+       Toy and trumpet and banner fair,
+     The topmost flag on the ceiling bore
+     While the laden branches swept the floor;
+       While gay little Rover frisking in,
+       Led the children in frolic and din
+     As they spied each treasure and in their glee
+     Shouted with joy round the Christmas tree,
+     While Papa stood back in a corner to see.
+
+     "Oh! Harry", said Nellie, "I do declare
+       Here's a basket for me!" She opened the lid
+     And pulled back the blanket folded there
+       And what d'ye think was safely hid
+     But a dear live baby so fast asleep
+       That it never waked up with the children's shout
+     Till Nellie asked, "is it ours to keep?"
+       And kissed its hand as she stood in doubt.
+
+     "Of course," said Harry, "don't angels know
+     When God has told them which way to go?
+     That's our little sister we wanted so!"
+
+     "Little sister", said Nellie, "I'm very glad,
+     I know you're the best Heavenly Father had
+       And now you're ours and you're going to stay
+       'Cause the angels have left you and gone away".
+     "No, my Nellie", a voice replied,
+     As Papa drew near to Nellie's side,
+       "Let us pray they may watch over this little one
+       Day by day, till life is done,
+     That she may be glad through eternity
+     She was ever left 'neath our Christmas tree".
+
+
+Miss Margaret H. Garrard.
+
+Our gifted young townswoman, Miss Garrard, who has often entertained us
+with her rare dramatic talent, has contributed, for a number of years,
+articles in prose and verse to well-known magazines and journals, notably
+to _Lippincott's Magazine_ and _Life_. In _Lippincott_ for June, 1890, we
+find a very pretty poem embodying a clever thought and entitled "A
+Coquette's Motto". In a previous number appears "A Trip to Tophet", which
+is a sparkling and graphic description of a descent into a silver-mine at
+Virginia City, California. In it occurs the following picture of the
+visitor's surroundings:
+
+"The next few minutes will always be a haunting memory to me. The long,
+dark passages, the burning atmosphere, the scattered lights, the weird
+figures of the miners appearing, only to vanish the next moment in the
+surrounding gloom, all recur like some infernal dream".
+
+We select to represent Miss Garrard, the first poem she published in
+_Life_:
+
+THE PLAQUE DE LIMOGES.
+
+     You hang upon her boudoir wall,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     She prizes you above them all
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     Yet do your blossoms never move,
+     Although she looks on them with love,
+     And treasures your hard buds above
+     The gathered bloom of field and grove,
+           Insensate, cold Limoges!
+
+     Brilliant in hue your every flower,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     Copied from some French maiden's bower,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     But still you let my lady stand--
+     The fairest lady in the land--
+     Caressing you with her soft hand,
+     Nor breathe, nor stir at her command,
+           Cold-hearted clay--Limoges!
+
+     Would that I in your place might be,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     That she might stand and gaze on me,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     I'd live in love a little space,
+     Then--fling my flowers from their place,
+     At her dear feet to sue for grace,
+     Until she'd raise them to her face,
+           Happy, but crushed Limoges!
+
+
+Miss Julia E. Dodge.
+
+Though Miss Dodge finds her place naturally and kindly in the society of
+our poets, all readers of _The Century_ will remember a charming prose
+paper of hers called "An Island of the Sea", beautifully illustrated by
+Thomas Moran and published in 1877. Before and since that time, her pen has
+not been idle, for short, prose articles have been scattered here and
+there, in various periodicals, and it is difficult to select from the
+number of thoughtful and delicate poems now before us, one to represent
+her. The poem, "A Legend of St. Sophia in 1453", is full of spirit and
+fire. It was written in 1878, when the advance of the Russian forces
+towards Constantinople seemed to point to the fulfillment of ancient
+prophecy and the restoration of Christian dominion over the stronghold of
+Islam. The poem entitled "Satisfied" was first published in _The Churchman_
+and afterwards placed, without the author's knowledge, in a collection
+called "The Palace of the King", published by Randolph & Co. Among the
+other poems are: "Our Daily Bread", "Spring Song", "Telling Fortunes",
+"September Memories", and "To a Night-Blooming Cereus", which last we give
+principally because, besides being a beautiful expression of a beautiful
+thought, it was written under the inspiration of a flower sent to the
+writer from an ancient plant in a Morristown conservatory.
+
+TO A NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS.
+
+     O fleeting wonder, glory of a night,
+       Only less evanescent than the gleam
+       That marks the lightning's track, or some swift dream
+     That comes and, vanishing, eludes our sight!
+     How canst thou be content, thy whole rich stream
+       Of life to lavish on this hour's delight,
+       And perish ere one morning's praise requite
+     Thy gift of peerless splendor? It doth seem
+     Thou art a type of that pure steadfast heart
+       Which hath no wish but to perform His will
+       Who called it into being, no desire
+     But to be fair for Him; no other part
+       Doth choose, but here its fragrance to distil
+     For one brief moment ere He bid "Come higher"!
+
+
+Charles D. Platt.
+
+Mr. Platt, the faithful principal of our Morris Academy, has of late, "at
+odd moments and in vacations," as he says, written verses of local
+reference and others, upon various subjects, which have been published in
+our local papers and elsewhere.
+
+Born at Elizabeth, N. J., Mr. Platt lived there until 1883. He was
+graduated at Williams' College in 1877, taught in the Rev. J. F. Pingry's
+School in Elizabeth for six years, came to Morristown and took charge of
+the Morris Academy in 1883, and has retained that position to the present
+time.
+
+Among the poems which refer to local interests are "Fort Nonsense," which
+we give in the opening chapter on "Historic Morristown"; "The Old First
+Church"; "The Lyceum" and "The Washington Headquarters", which last will
+follow this short sketch, as embodying so much that is interesting of that
+historic building and its surroundings.
+
+Other of the poems might, perhaps, for some special qualities, better
+represent Mr. Platt than this; there is the excellent and gay little
+parody, which we would like to give, of "That Old Latin Grammar". "The Wild
+Lily" is charming. Then there are "Memorial Day"; "Easter Song"; "Modern
+Progress"; "A Myth"; and "John Greenleaf Whittier", the last written and
+published upon the occasion of the poet's death September 16th, 1892.
+Besides these, there are the "Ballades of the Holidays" which form a series
+by themselves, dealing in part with the subject of popular maxims, and
+including poems for Christmas, New Year's Day, Discovery Day and other
+holidays. We give
+
+THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     What mean these cannon standing here,
+       These staring, muzzled dogs of war?
+     Heedless and mute, they cause no fear,
+       Like lions caged, forbid to roar.
+
+     _This_ gun[A] was made when good Queen Anne
+       Ruled upon Merry England's throne;
+     Captured by valiant Jerseymen
+       Ere George the Third our rights would own.
+
+     "Old Nat",[B] the little cur on wheels,
+       Protector of our sister city,
+     Was kept to bite the British heels,
+       A yelping terror, bold and gritty.
+
+     _That_ savage beast, the old "Crown Prince",[C]
+       A British bull-dog, glum, thick-set,
+     At Springfield's fight was made to wince,
+       And now we keep him for a pet.
+
+     Upon this grassy knoll they stand,
+       A venerable, peaceful pack;
+     Their throats once tuned to music grand,
+       And stained with gore their muzzles black.
+
+     But come, that portal swinging free,
+       A welcome offers, as of yore,
+     When, sheltered 'neath this old roof-tree,
+       Our patriot-chieftain trod this floor.
+
+     And with him in that trying day
+       Was gathered here a glorious band;
+     This house received more chiefs, they say,
+       Than any other in our land.[D]
+
+     Hither magnanimous Schuyler came,
+       And stern Steuben from o'er the water;
+     Here Hamilton, of brilliant fame,
+       Once met and courted Schuyler's daughter.
+
+     And Knox, who leads the gunner-tribes,
+       Whose shot the trembling foeman riddles,
+     A roaring chief,[E] his cash subscribes
+       To pay the mirth-inspiring fiddles.[F]
+
+     The "fighting Quaker", General Greene,
+       Helped Knox to foot the fiddlers' bill;
+     And here the intrepid "Put." was seen,
+       And Arnold--black his memory still.
+
+     And Kosciusko, scorning fear,
+       Beside him noble Lafayette;
+     And gallant "Light Horse Harry" here
+       His kindly chief for counsel met.
+
+     "Mad Antony" was here a guest,--
+       Madly he charged, but shrewdly planned;
+     And many another in whose breast
+       Was faithful counsel for our land.
+
+     Among these worthies was a dame
+       Of mingled dignity and grace;
+     Linked with the warrior-statesman's fame
+       Is Martha's comely, smiling face.
+
+     But look around, to right to left;
+       Pass through these rooms, once Martha's pride,
+     The dining hall of guests bereft,
+       The kitchen with its fire-place wide.
+
+     See the huge logs, the swinging crane,
+       The Old Man's seat by chimney ingle,
+     The pots and kettles, all the train
+       Of brass and pewter, here they mingle.
+
+     In the large hall above, behold
+       The flags, the eagle poised for flight:
+     While sabres, bayonets, flint-locks old,
+       Tell of the struggle, and the fight.
+
+     Old faded letters bear the seal
+       Of men who battled for a stamp;
+     A cradle and a spinning-wheel
+       Bespeak the home behind the camp.
+
+     Apartments opening from the hall
+       Show chairs and desks of quaint old style,
+     And curious pictures on the wall
+       Provoke a reverential smile.
+
+     Musing, we loiter in each room
+       And linger with our vanished sires;
+     We hear the deep, far-echoing boom
+       That spoke of old in flashing fires.
+
+     But deepening shadows bid us go,
+       The western sun is sinking fast;
+     We take our leave with footsteps slow,
+       Farewell, ye treasures of the past.
+
+     A century and more has gone,
+       Since these old relics saw their day;
+     That day was but the opening dawn
+       Of one that has not passed away.
+
+     Our banner is no worthless rag,
+       With patriot pride hearts still beat high;
+     And there, above, still waves the flag
+       For which our fathers dared to die.
+
+[Footnote A: Inscription on this Cannon:--
+
+Gun made in Queen Anne's time. Captured with a British vessel by a party of
+Jerseymen in the year 1780, near Perth Amboy. Presented by the township of
+Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1874.]
+
+[Footnote B: Inscription on "Old Nat:"--
+
+This cannon was furnished Capt. Nathaniel Camp by Gen. George Washington
+for the protection of Newark N. J. against the British. Presented to the
+Association by Mr. Bruen H. Camp, of Newark, N. J.]
+
+[Footnote C: The inscription upon it is as follows:--
+
+The "Crown Prince Gun." Captured from the British at Springfield. Used as
+an alarm gun at Short Hills to end of Revolutionary War. Given in charge by
+General Benoni Hathaway to Colonel Wm. Brittin on the last training at
+Morristown, and by his son, Wm. Jackson Brittin, with the consent of the
+public authorities, presented to the Association in the year 1890.]
+
+[Footnote D: The list of officers of the Revolutionary army mentioned in
+the poem is taken from a printed placard which hangs in the hall of the
+Headquarters.]
+
+[Footnote E: Knox is called a roaring chief because when crossing the
+Delaware with Washington his "stentorian lungs" did good service in keeping
+the army together.]
+
+[Footnote F: The reference to the fiddlers is based upon an old
+subscription paper for defraying the expenses of a "Dancing Assembly,"
+signed by several persons, among them Nathaniel Greene and H. Knox, each
+$400, PAID.
+
+This paper may be seen in the collection made by Mrs. J. W. Roberts.]
+
+
+Mrs. Julia R. Cutler.
+
+Mrs. Cutler's graceful pen has already contributed to this volume the
+sketch of Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest and also another to follow of Mrs. Julia
+McNair Wright. Her pen has been busy at occasional intervals from girlhood,
+when as a school-girl her essays were, as a rule, selected and read aloud
+in the chapel, on Friday afternoons, and a poem securing the gold medal
+crowned the success.
+
+Living since her marriage, in the old historic house of Mr. Cutler's
+great-grandfather, the Hon. Silas Condict, fearless patriot of the
+Revolution, and President of the Council of Safety during the whole of that
+period that "tried men's souls", it is little wonder that the traditions of
+'76 clinging about the spot should nurture and develop the poetic spirit of
+the girl. It was in 1799, after Mr. Condict's return from Congress that he
+built the present house familiar to us all, but the old house stands near
+by, full of the most interesting stories and traditions of revolutionary
+days.
+
+Mrs. Cutler has written many articles, often by request, for papers or
+magazines, and verses prompted by circumstances or surroundings, or
+composed when strongly impressed upon an especial subject.
+
+[Illustration: FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1791,
+
+SESSION HOUSE AND MANSE.
+
+MORRIS COUNTY SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, 1871.]
+
+Before us lies a lovely poem of childhood, entitled "Childish Faith",
+founded on fact, but we select from the many poems of Mrs. Cutler, the
+Centennial Poem given below and written on the occasion of the Centennial
+of the old First Church.
+
+CENTENNIAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
+
+     The moon shines brightly down, o'er hill and dale
+     As it shone down, One Hundred years ago,
+     On these same scenes. The stars look down from Heaven
+     As they did then, as calm, serene, and bright--
+     Fit emblems of the God, who changes not.
+     Only in him can we find sure repose
+     'Mid change, decay and death, who is the same
+     To-day as yesterday, forevermore.
+           Through the clear air peal forth the silvery notes,
+     Of thy old Bell, thou venerable pile,
+     Thou dear old Church, whose birthday rare,
+     We come to celebrate with tender love.
+           One Hundred years! How long; and yet, how short
+     When counted with the centuries of the past
+     That help to make the ages of the world:
+     How long when measured by our daily cares,
+     The joys, the sorrows that these years have brought
+     To us and ours. "Our fathers, where are they?"
+     The men of strength, one hundred years ago,
+     As full of courage, purpose, will, as we,
+     Have gone to join the "innumerable throng"
+     That worship in the Father's House above.
+     Their children, girls and boys, like the fair flowers,
+     Have blossomed, faded, and then passed away,
+     Leaving their children and grandchildren, too,
+     To fill their places, take their part in life.
+           How oft, dear Church, these walls have heard the vows
+     That bound two hearts in one.  How oft the tread
+     Of those that bore the sainted dead to rest.
+     How oft the voices, soft and low, of those
+     Who, trusting in a covenant-keeping God
+     Gave here their little ones to God. A faith
+     Which He has blessed, as thou canst truly tell,
+     In generations past, and will in days to come.
+     How many servants of the most high God,
+     Beneath thy roof have uttered words divine,
+     Taught by the Spirit, leading souls to Christ
+     And reaping, even here, their great reward.
+     Many of these have entered into rest
+     Such as remains for those who love the Lord.
+     Others to-day, have gathered here to tell
+     What God has done in years gone by, and bear
+     Glad testimony to the truth, that in this place
+     His name has honored been.--'Tis sad to say
+     Farewell. But 'tis decreed, that thou must go.
+     Time levels all; and it will lay thee low.
+     But o'er thy dust full many a tear shall fall,
+     And many a prayer ascend, that the true God,
+     Our Father's God, will, with their children dwell,
+     And that the stately pile which soon shall rise,
+     Where now, thou art, a monument shall be
+     Of generations past, recording all
+     The truth and mercies of a loving God.
+
+         Oct. 14th, 1891.
+
+
+Miss Frances Bell Coursen.
+
+The rhythmic, airy verses of Miss Coursen, full of the spirit of trees,
+flowers, the clouds, the winds and the insinuating and lovely sounds of
+nature, charm us into writing the author down as one of Morristown's young
+poets. The verses have attractive titles which in themselves suggest to us
+musical thoughts, such as "To the Winds in January"; "June Roses"; "In the
+Fields"; and "What the Katydids Say". We quote the latter for its bright
+beauty.
+
+WHAT THE KATYDIDS SAY.
+
+     "Katy did it!" "Katy didn't!"
+       Doesn't Katy wish she had?
+     "Katy did!" that sounds so pleasant,
+       "Katy didn't" sounds so bad.
+
+     Katy didn't--lazy Katy,
+       Didn't do her lessons well?
+     Didn't set her stitches nicely?
+       Didn't do what? Who can tell?
+
+     But the livelong autumn evening
+       Sounds from every bush and tree,
+     So that all the world can hear it,
+       "Katy didn't" oh dear me!
+
+     Who would like to hear forever
+       Of the things they hadn't done
+     In shrill chorus, sounding nightly,
+       From the setting of the sun.
+
+     But again, who wouldn't like it
+       If they every night could hear,
+     "Yes she did it, Katy did it",
+       Sounding for them loud and clear?
+
+     So if you've an "awful lesson",
+       Or "a horrid seam to sew",
+     Just you stop and think a minute,
+       Don't decide to "let it go".
+
+     In the evening, if you listen,
+       All the Katydids will say
+     "Yes she did it, did it, did it!"
+       Or, "she didn't". Now which way?
+
+
+Miss Isabel Stone.
+
+Miss Stone, long a resident of Morristown, has published many poems in
+prominent journals and magazines, also stories, but always under an assumed
+name. She will take a place in another group, that of _Novelists and
+Story-Writers_. She is represented here by her poem on "Easter Thoughts".
+
+EASTER THOUGHTS.
+
+     Sometimes within our hearts, the good lies dead,
+       Slain by untoward circumstances, or by our own free will,
+     And through the world we walk with bowèd head;
+       Or with our senses blinded to our choice,
+     Thinking that "good is evil--evil good;"
+       Or, with determined pride to still the voice
+     That whispers of a "Resurrection morn."
+       This is that morn--the resurrection hour
+     Of all the good that has within us died,
+       The hour to throw aside with passionate force
+     The cruel bonds of wrong and blindness--pride--
+       And rise unto a level high of power,
+     Of strength--of purity--while those we love rejoice
+       With "clouds of angel witnesses" above,
+     And all the dear ones, who before have gone.
+
+     And we ascend, in the triumphant joy
+       And peace, and rapture of a changèd self
+     That now transfigured stands--no more the toy
+       Of circumstance--or pride, or sin, to blight--
+       Until we reach sublimest heights--
+       And stand erect, eyes fixed upon the Right--
+     Strong in the strength that wills all wrong to still,
+       Will--pointing upwards to th' ascended Lord,
+     Bless, aye, thrice bless, this fair, sweet Easter Dawn.
+
+
+Rev. G. Douglass Brewerton.
+
+The Rev. Mr. Brewerton was pastor of the Baptist Church in Morristown in
+1861, and during the early years of our Civil War. He was very patriotic
+and public-spirited and founded a Company of boy Zouaves in the town, which
+is well remembered, for at that time the war-spirit was the order of the
+day. He wrote a number of poems which were published in the Morristown
+papers and others. Of these, the following is one, published January 30,
+1861.
+
+OUR SOLDIERS WITH OUR SAILORS STAND.
+
+A NATIONAL SONG
+
+RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF BOTH SERVICES, BY ONE WHO ONCE
+WORE THE UNIFORM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
+
+     Our soldiers with our sailors stand,
+       A bulwark firm and true,
+     To guard the banner of our land,
+       The Red, the White, the Blue.
+
+     The forts that frown along the coast,
+       The ramparts on the steep,
+     Are held by men who never boast,
+       But true allegiance keep.
+
+     While still in thunder tones shall speak
+       Our giants on the tide,
+     Rebuking those who madly seek
+       To tame the eagle's pride.
+
+     While breezes blow or sounding sea
+       Be whitened by a sail,
+     The banner of the brave and true
+       Shall float, nor fear the gale.
+
+     While Ironsides commands the fleet,
+       Shall patriot vows be heard,
+     Where pennants fly or war drums beat,
+       True to their oaths and word.
+
+     Then back, ye traitors! back, for shame!
+       Nor dare to touch a fold;
+     We'll guard it till the sunshine wane
+       And stars of night grow old.
+
+     Thus ever may that flag unrent
+       At peak and staff be borne,
+     Nor e'er from mast or battlement
+       By traitor hands be torn.
+
+
+Mrs. Alice D. Abell.
+
+Mrs. Abell has for several years contributed poems and articles to various
+papers and magazines. From the poems we select the following, which was
+copied in a Southern paper as well as in two others, from _The New York
+Magazine_ in which it first appeared:
+
+BEHIND THE MASK.
+
+     Behind the mask--the smiling face
+       Is often full of woe,
+     And sorrow treads a restless pace
+       Where wealth and beauty go.
+
+     Behind the mask--who knows the care
+       That grim and silent rests,
+     And all the burdens each may bear
+       Within the secret breast?
+
+     Behind the mask--who knows the tears
+       That from the heart arise,
+     And in the weary flight of years
+       How many pass with sighs?
+
+     Behind the mask--who knows the strain
+       That each life may endure,
+     And all its grief and countless pain
+       That wealth can never cure?
+
+     Behind the mask--we never know
+       How many troubles hide,
+     And with the world and fashion show
+       Some spectre walks beside.
+
+     Behind the mask--some future day,
+       When all shall be made plain;
+     Our burdens then will pass away
+       And count for each his gain.
+
+
+George Wetmore Colles, Jr.
+
+The following is by one of the young writers of Morristown, written at Yale
+University and published in the _Yale Courant_ of February, 1891:
+
+TO A MOUNTAIN CASCADE.
+
+     To him who, wearied in the noontide glare,
+       Seeks cool refreshment in thy quiet shade,
+       In all thy beauteous rainbow tints arrayed,
+     How sweet! O dashing brook, thy waters are!
+
+     Sure, such a glen fair Dian with her train
+       Chose to disport in, when Actæon bold
+       That sight with mortal eyes dared to behold
+     Which mortals may not see and life retain.
+
+     To such a glen I, too, at noonday creep,
+       Leaving the dusty road and haunts of men,
+       To quaff thy purling, sparkling ripples; then
+     To plunge within thy clear, cold basin deep.
+
+     Alone in Nature's lap (this mossy sod)
+       I lie; feel her sweet breath upon me blow;
+       Hear her melodious woodland voice, and know
+     Her passing love, the eternal love of God!
+
+
+
+
+HYMNODIST.
+
+
+John R. Runyon.
+
+Our fellow townsman of old New Jersey name, whose enthusiastic love for
+music, and especially for church music, is well known, has manifested his
+interest in this direction by compiling a collection of hymns known as
+"Songs of Praise. A Selection of Standard Hymns and Tunes". It is published
+by Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, and "meets", says the compiler, "a
+universally acknowledged want for a collection of Hymns to be used in
+Sunday Schools and Social Meetings".
+
+Says Charles H. Morse in _The Christian Union_ of August 20th, 1892: "If
+music is a pattern and type of Heaven, then, indeed, are those whose
+mission is to provide the music for our worship burdened with a weight of
+responsibility and called to a blessed ministry second only to that of the
+pastor who stands at the desk to speak the words of Life".
+
+To compile from various sources a collection of hymns acceptable to varied
+classes of minds, requires much discernment, great care and large range of
+knowledge on the subject, as well as a comprehension of what is needed
+which comes from long and wide experience, study and observation, in
+addition to natural genius.
+
+
+
+
+NOVELISTS AND STORY-WRITERS.
+
+
+Francis Richard Stockton.
+
+Although born in Philadelphia, Mr. Stockton belongs to an old and
+distinguished New Jersey family, and he has, after many wanderings, at last
+selected his home in the State of his ancestors.
+
+Within a few years he has purchased and fitted up a quaint and attractive
+mansion in the suburbs of Morristown, overlooking the beautiful Loantika
+Valley, where in the Revolutionary days the tents of the suffering patriots
+were pitched or their log huts constructed for the bitter winter. Beyond
+the long and narrow valley, the homes of prominent residents of Morristown
+appear on the Western limiting range of hills, and are charmingly
+picturesque.
+
+This home Mr. Stockton has named "The Holt" and his legend, taken from
+Turberville, an old English poet, is painted over the fire-place in his
+Study which is over the Library on the South corner of the House:
+
+     "Yee that frequent the hilles
+       and highest holtes of all,
+     Assist me with your skilful
+       quilles and listen when I call."
+
+Mr. Stockton and Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration of
+Independence, are descended from the same ancestor, Richard Stockton, who
+came from England in 1680 and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey.
+
+Much fine and interesting criticism from various directions, has been
+called out by Mr. Stockton's works.
+
+Edmund Gosse, the well-known Professor of Literature in England, said just
+before leaving our shores:
+
+"I think Mr. Stockton one of the most remarkable writers in this country. I
+think his originality, his extraordinary fantastic genius, has not been
+appreciated at all. People talk about him as if he were an ordinary
+purveyor of comicality. I do not want to leave this country without giving
+my _personal tribute_, if that is worth anything, to his genius."
+
+"More than half of Mr. Stockton's readers, without doubt", says another
+critic, "think of him merely as the daintiest of humorists; as a writer
+whose work is entertaining in an unusual degree, rather than weighed in a
+critical scale, or considered seriously as a part of the literary
+_expression_ of his time".
+
+It is acknowledged that Americans are masters, at the present day, of the
+art of writing short stories and these, as a rule, are like the French,
+distinctly realistic. In this art Mr. Stockton excels. Among his short
+stories, "The Bee Man of Orn" and "The Griffin and the Minor Canon"
+represent his power of fancy. "The Hunting Expedition" in "Prince Hassak's
+March" is particularly jolly, and in "The Stories of the Three Burglars",
+we find a specimen of his realistic treatment. In the last, he makes the
+young house-breaker, who is an educated man, say: "I have made it a rule
+never to describe anything I have not personally seen and experienced. It
+is the only way, otherwise we can not give people credit for their virtues
+or judge them properly for their faults." Upon this, Aunt Martha exclaims:
+"I think that the study of realism may be carried a great deal too far. I
+do not think there is the slightest necessity for people to know anything
+about burglars." And later she says, referring to this one of the three:
+"I have no doubt, before he fell into his wicked ways, he was a very good
+writer and might have become a novelist or a magazine author, but his case
+is a sad proof that the study of realism is carried too far."
+
+No critic seems to have observed or noticed the very remarkable manner in
+which Mr. Stockton renders the negro dialect on the printed page. In this
+respect he quite surpasses Uncle Remus or any other writer of negro
+folk-lore. He spells the words in such a way as to give the sense and sound
+to ears unaccustomed to negro talk as well as to those accustomed to it.
+This we especially realize in "The Late Mrs. Null".
+
+But besides the qualities we have noticed in Mr. Stockton's writings, there
+is a subtle fragrance of purity that exhales from one and all, which is in
+contrast to much of the novel-writing and story-telling of the present day.
+We have reason to welcome warmly to our homes and to our firesides, one
+who, by his pure fun and drollery, can charm us so completely as to make us
+forget, for a time, the serious problems and questions which agitate and
+confront the thinking men and women of this generation.
+
+So varied and voluminous are the writings of Mr. Stockton, they may be
+grouped as _Juveniles_, _Novels_, _Novelettes_ and _Collected Short
+Stories_. Besides, there are magazine stories constantly appearing, and
+still to be collected. Most prominent among the volumes are "The Lady or
+The Tiger?"; "Rudder Grange" and its sequel, "The Rudder Grangers Abroad";
+"The Late Mrs. Null"; "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine";
+"The Hundredth Man"; "The Great War Syndicate"; "Ardis Claverden"; "Stories
+of the Three Burglars"; "The House of Martha" and "The Squirrel Inn".
+
+After considering what Mr. Stockton has accomplished and the place which by
+his genius and industry he has made for himself in Literature, we do not
+find it remarkable that in July, 1890, he was elected by the readers of
+_The Critic_ into the ranks of the _Forty Immortals_.
+
+We give to represent Mr. Stockton, an extract from his novel of "Ardis
+Claverden", containing one of those clever conversations so characteristic
+of the author, and success in which marks a high order of dramatic genius,
+in making characters express to the listener or reader their own
+individuality through familiar talk.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "ARDIS CLAVERDEN."
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Chiverly were artists.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The trouble with Harry Chiverly was that he had nothing in himself which
+he could put into his work. He could copy what he could see, but if he
+could not see what he wanted to paint, he had no mental power which would
+bring that thing before him, or to transform what he saw into what it ought
+to be.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The trouble with Mrs. Chiverly was that she did not know how to paint. With
+her there was no lack of artistic imagination. Her brain was full of
+pictures, which, if they could have been transferred to the brain of her
+husband, who did know how to paint, would have brought fame and fortune. At
+one end of her brush was artistic talent, almost genius; at the other was a
+pigment mixed with oil. But the one never ran down to the other. The handle
+of the brush was a non-conductor.
+
+We pass on to a scene in the studio. An elderly man enters, a stranger, to
+examine pictures, and stops before Mr. Chiverly's recently finished
+canvass.
+
+"Madam," said he, "can you tell me where the scene of this picture is laid?
+It reminds me somewhat of the North and somewhat of the South, and I am not
+sure that it does not contain suggestions of the East and the West."
+
+"Yes," thought Ardis at her easel, "and of the North-east, and the
+Sou-sou'-west, and all the other points of the compass."
+
+Mrs. Chiverly left her seat and approached the visitor. She was a little
+piqued at his remark.
+
+"Some pictures have a meaning," she said, "which is not apparent to every
+one at first sight."
+
+"You are correct, madam," said the visitor.
+
+"This painting, for instance," continued Mrs. Chiverly, "represents the
+seven ages of trees." And then with as much readiness as Jacques detailed
+the seven ages of man to the duke, she pointed out in the trees of the
+picture the counterparts of these ages.
+
+"Madam," said the visitor, "you delight me. I admit that I utterly failed
+to see the point of this picture; but now that I am aware of its meaning I
+understand its apparent incongruities. Meaning despises locality."
+
+"You are right," said Mrs. Chiverly, earnestly. "Meaning is above
+everything."
+
+"Madam," said the gentleman, his eyes still fixed upon the canvass, "as a
+student of Shakespeare, as well as a collector, in a small way, of works of
+art, I desire to have this picture, provided its price is not beyond my
+means."
+
+Mrs. Chiverly gazed at him in an uncertain way. She did not seem to take in
+the import of his remark.
+
+From her easel Ardis now named the price which Mr. Chiverly had fixed upon
+for the picture. He never finished a painting without stating very
+emphatically what he intended to ask for it.
+
+"That is reasonable," said the gentleman, "and you may consider the picture
+mine." And he handed Mrs. Chiverly his card. Then, imbued with a new
+interest in the studio, he walked about looking at others of the pictures.
+
+"This little study," said he, "seems to me as if it ought to have a
+significance, but I declare I am again at fault."
+
+"Yes," said Mrs. Chiverly, "it ought to have a significance. In fact there
+is a significance connected with it. I could easily tell you what it is,
+but if you were afterwards to look at the picture you would see no such
+meaning in it."
+
+"Perhaps this is one of your husband's earlier works" said the gentleman,
+"in which he was not able to express his inspirations."
+
+"It is not one of my husband's works," said Mrs. Chiverly; "it is mine."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The moment that the gentleman had departed Ardis flew to Mrs. Chiverly and
+threw her arms around her neck. "Now my dearest," she exclaimed, "you know
+your vocation in life. You must put meanings to Mr. Chiverly's pictures."
+
+When the head of the house returned he was, of course, delighted to find
+that his painting had been sold.
+
+"That is the way with us!" he cried, "we have spasms of prosperity. One of
+our works is bought, and up we go. Let us so live that while we are up we
+shall not remember that we have ever been down. And now my dear, if you
+will give me the card of that exceptional appreciator of high art, I will
+write his bill and receipt instantly, so that if he should again happen to
+come while I am out there may be nothing in the way of an immediate
+settlement."
+
+Mrs. Chiverly stood by him as he sat at the desk. "You must call the
+picture," she said, "'The Seven Ages of Trees.'"
+
+"Nonsense!" exclaimed Mr. Chiverly, turning suddenly and gazing with
+astonishment at his wife. "That will do for a bit of pleasantry, but the
+title of the picture is 'A Scene on the Upper Mississippi.' You don't want
+to deceive the man, do you?"
+
+"No, I do not," said Mrs. Chiverly, "and that is one reason why I did not
+give it your title. It is a capitally painted picture, and as a woodland
+'Seven Ages' it is simply perfect. That was what it sold for; and for that
+and nothing else will the money be paid."
+
+Mr. Chiverly looked at her for a moment longer, and then bursting into a
+laugh he returned to his desk. "You have touched me to the quick," he said.
+"Money has given title before and it shall do so now. There is the
+receipted bill!" he cried, pushing back his chair.
+
+
+Francis Bret Harte.
+
+Bret Harte, so far as we can discover, has written the only story of
+Revolutionary times in Morristown, and the only story of those times in New
+Jersey except Miss Holdich, who follows, and James Fenimore Cooper, whose
+"Water Witch" is located about the Highlands of New Jersey. By a passage
+from his story of "Thankful Blossom" we shall represent him at the close of
+this sketch.
+
+Between 1873 and 1876 Bret Harte lived in Morristown, in several locations:
+in the picturesque old Revere place on the Mendham Road, the very home for
+a Novelist, now owned and occupied by Mr. Charles G. Foster; in the
+Whatnong House for one summer, near which are located old farms, which seem
+to us to have many features of the "Blossom Farm" and to which we shall
+refer; in the Logan Cottage on Western Avenue and in the house on Elm
+Street now owned and occupied by Mr. Joseph F. Randolph.
+
+The steps by which Bret Harte climbed to the eminence that he now occupies,
+are full of romantic interest. Left early by his father, who was a
+Professor in an Albany Seminary and a man of culture, to struggle with
+little means, the boy, at fifteen, had only an ordinary education and went
+in 1854, with his mother, to California. He opened a school in Sonora,
+walking to that place from San Francisco. Fortune did not favor him either
+in this undertaking or in that of mining, to which, like all young
+Californians in that day, he resorted as a means to live. He then entered a
+printing office as compositor and began his literary career by composing
+his first articles in type while working at the case. Here he had editorial
+experiences which ended abruptly in consequence of the want of sympathy in
+the miners with his articles. He returned to San Francisco and became
+compositor in the office of _The Golden Era_. His three years experience
+among the miners served him in good stead and his clever sketches
+describing those vivid scenes, soon placed him in the regular corps of
+writers for the paper. _The Californian_, a literary weekly, then engaged
+Harte as associate manager and, in this short-lived paper appeared the
+"Condensed Novels" in which Dickens' "Christmas Stories", Charlotte
+Brontë's "Jane Eyre", Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables", and other prominent
+and familiar writings of distinguished authors are most cleverly taken
+off. These have amused and delighted the reading world since their first
+appearance. During the next six years, he filled the office of Secretary of
+the United States Branch Mint, and also wrote for California journals, many
+of his important poems, among them, "John Burns of Gettysburg", and "The
+Society upon the Stanislau", which attracted wide attention by their
+originality and peculiar flavor of the "Wild West". In July, 1868, Harte
+organized, and became the editor of, what is now a very successful journal,
+_The Overland Monthly_.
+
+For this journal he wrote many of his most characteristic stories and poems
+and introduced into its pages, "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of
+Poker Flat", and others having that peculiar pseudo-dialect of Western
+mining life of which he was the pioneer writer. He had now taken a great
+step towards high and artistic work. At this point his reputation was
+established.
+
+As for Revolutionary New Jersey poems, abundant as the material is for
+inspiration, Bret Harte's "Caldwell of Springfield" seems to be one of very
+few. At the luncheon of the Daughters of the American Revolution held in
+May of 1892, a prominent member of the Association recited "Parson
+Caldwell" and mentioned, that strange to say, it was as far as she had been
+able to ascertain, the only poem on Revolutionary times in New Jersey that
+had ever been written, though she had searched thoroughly. In addition to
+this, we find only, besides the two poems of Mr. Charles D. Platt, given in
+this volume, (and others of his referred to) one or two of the sort in a
+volume published years ago, privately, by Dr. Thomas Ward, of New York (a
+great uncle of Mrs. Luther Kountze). Very few copies of his poems were
+printed and all were given to his friends, not sold.
+
+We must not forget the very beautiful poem of "Alice of Monmouth", by
+Edmund Clarence Stedman, and also, perhaps, might be included his spirited
+"Aaron Burr's Wooing". There was also an early writer, Philip Freneau, of
+Monmouth County, who lived in Colonial and Revolutionary times, and wrote
+some quaint and charming poems of that period.
+
+If there are any others we would be glad to be informed.
+
+In this book, "Plain Language From Truthful James", better known as "The
+Heathen Chinee", represents Mr. Harte among the poets, in our group of
+writers, for the reason that it is so widely known as a satire upon the
+popular prejudices against the Chinese, who were at that time pursued with
+hue and cry of being shiftless and weak-minded.
+
+From 1868, Harte became a regular contributor to the _Atlantic Monthly_ and
+he also entered the lecture field. It was during this period that he lived
+in Morristown. In 1878 he went to Crefeld, Germany, as United States
+Consul, and here began his life abroad. Two years later he went, as Consul,
+to Glasgow, Scotland, since which time he has remained abroad, engaged in
+literary pursuits.
+
+The Contributor's Club, of the _Atlantic Monthly_, gives a curious little
+paper on "The Value of a Name", in which the writer insists that Bret
+Harte, Mark Twain, Dante Rossetti and others owe a part of their success,
+at least, to the phonic value of their names. He says that "much time and
+thought are spent in selecting a name for a play or novel, for it is known
+that success is largely dependent on it" and he therefore censures parents
+who are "so strangely careless and unscientific in giving names to their
+children."
+
+Bret Harte's publications include besides "Condensed Novels", "Thankful
+Blossom", and others already mentioned, several volumes of Poems issued at
+different periods: among them are "Songs of the Sierras" and "Echoes of the
+Foot Hills". Then there are "Tales of the Argonauts and Other Stories";
+"Drift from Two Shores"; "Twins of Table Mountain"; "Flip and Found at
+Blazing Star"; "On the Frontier"; "Snow Bound at Eagle's"; "Maruja, a
+Novel"; "The Queen of the Pirate Isle", for children; "A Phyllis of the
+Sierras"; "A Waif of the Plains" and many others, besides his collected
+works in five volumes published in 1882.
+
+Writing to Bret Harte in London, for certain information about the story of
+"Thankful Blossom", the author of this volume received the following reply:
+
+
+15 UPPER HAMILTON TERRACE, N. W., 31st May, '90.
+
+     _Dear Madam:_
+
+     In reply to your favor of the 14th inst., I fear I must
+     begin by saying that the story of "Thankful Blossom",
+     although inspired and suggested by my residence at
+     Morristown at different periods was not _written_ at
+     that place, but in another part of New Jersey. The
+     "Blossom Farm" was a study of two or three old farm
+     houses in the vicinity, but was not an existing fact so
+     far as I know. But the description of Washington's
+     Head-Quarters was a study of the actual house,
+     supplemented by such changes as were necessary for the
+     epoch I described, and which I gathered from the State
+     Records. The portraits of Washington and his military
+     family at the Head-Quarters were drawn from Spark's
+     "Life of Washington" and the best chronicles of the
+     time. The episode of the Spanish Envoy is also
+     historically substantiated, and the same may be said of
+     the incidents of the disaffection of the "Connecticut
+     Contingent."
+
+     Although the heroine, "Thankful Blossom", as a
+     _character_ is purely imaginary, the _name_ is an
+     actual one, and was borne by a (chronologically)
+     remote maternal relation of mine, whose Bible with the
+     written legend, "Thankful Blossom, her book", is still
+     in possession of a member of the family.
+
+     The contour of scenery and the characteristics of
+     climate have, I believe, changed but little since I
+     knew them between 1873 and 1876 and "Thankful Blossom"
+     gazed at them from the Baskingridge Road in 1779.
+
+     I remain, dear madam,
+
+             Yours very sincerely,
+
+                      BRET HARTE.
+
+
+
+Two of the farms from which Bret Harte _may_ have drawn the inspiration for
+the surroundings of his story, may be seen on the Washington Valley road as
+you turn to the right from the road to Mendham. Turning again to the
+left,--before you come to the junction of the road which crosses at right
+angles to the Whatnong House, where Mr. Harte passed a summer,--you come
+upon the Carey Farm, the house built by the grandfather of the present
+occupants. There you see the stone wall,--crumbling now,--over which the
+bewitching Mistress Thankful talked and clasped hands with Captain Allen
+Brewster of the Connecticut Contingent. The elm-tree, upon whose bark was
+inscribed "the effigy of a heart, divers initials and the legend 'Thine
+Forever'", has been lately cut down and the trunk decorated with growing
+plants and flowers.
+
+We see the black range of the Orange Hills over which the moon slowly
+lifted herself as the Captain waited for his love, "looking at him,
+blushing a little, as if the appointment were her own". We see also the
+faintly-lit field beyond,--the same field in which, further on in the story
+after Brewster's treachery, Major Van Zandt and Mistress Thankful picked
+the violets together and doing so, revealed their hearts' love to one
+another on that 3rd of May, 1780.
+
+The orchard is there, still bearing apples, but the "porch" and the "mossy
+eaves" evidently belong to the next farm house, which we find exactly on
+the corner at the junction of the two roads. It is the old Beach farm. The
+original house has a brick addition, with the inscription among the bricks,
+"1812".
+
+It is on the wooden part built earlier and evidently an ancient structure,
+that we see the "porch and eaves".
+
+We select from "Thankful Blossom" the very fine pen portrait of Washington
+and his military family at the Headquarters.
+
+THANKFUL BLOSSOM.
+
+_A Romance of the Jerseys, 1779._
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+The rising wind, which had ridden much faster than Mistress Thankful, had
+increased to a gale by the time it reached Morristown. It swept through the
+leafless maples, and rattled the dry bones of the elms. It whistled through
+the quiet Presbyterian churchyard, as if trying to arouse the sleepers it
+had known in days gone by. It shook the blank, lustreless windows of the
+Assembly Rooms over the Freemason's Tavern, and wrought in their gusty
+curtains moving shadows of those amply petticoated dames and tightly hosed
+cavaliers who had swung in "Sir Roger," or jigged in "Money Musk," the
+night before.
+
+But I fancy it was around the isolated "Ford Mansion," better known as the
+"Headquarters," that the wind wreaked its grotesque rage. It howled under
+its scant eaves, it sang under its bleak porch, it tweaked the peak of its
+front gable, it whistled through every chink and cranny of its square,
+solid, unpicturesque structure. Situated on a hillside that descended
+rapidly to the Whippany River, every summer zephyr that whispered through
+the porches of the Morristown farm houses charged as a stiff breeze upon
+the swinging half doors and windows of the "Ford Mansion"; every wintry
+wind became a gale that threatened its security. The sentinel who paced
+before its front porch knew from experience when to linger under its lee,
+and adjust his threadbare outer coat to the bitter North wind.
+
+Within the house something of this cheerlessness prevailed. It had an
+ascetic gloom, which the scant fire-light of the reception room, and the
+dying embers on the dining room hearth, failed to dissipate. The central
+hall was broad, and furnished plainly with a few rush-bottomed chairs, on
+one of which half dozed a black body-servant of the commander-in-chief. Two
+officers in the dining-room, drawn close by the chimney corner, chatted in
+undertones, as if mindful that the door of the drawing-room was open, and
+their voices might break in upon its sacred privacy. The swinging light in
+the hall partly illuminated it, or rather glanced gloomily from the black
+polished furniture, the lustreless chairs, the quaint cabinet, the silent
+spinet, the skeleton-legged centre-table, and finally upon the motionless
+figure of a man seated by the fire.
+
+It was a figure since so well known to the civilized world, since so
+celebrated in print and painting, as to need no description here. Its rare
+combination of gentle dignity with profound force, of a set resoluteness
+of purpose with a philosophical patience, have been so frequently delivered
+to a people not particularly remarkable for these qualities, that I fear it
+has too often provoked a spirit of playful aggression, in which the deeper
+underlying meaning was forgotten. So let me add that in manner, physical
+equipoise, and even in the mere details of dress, this figure indicated a
+certain aristocratic exclusiveness. It was the presentment of a king,--a
+king who by the irony of circumstances was just then waging war against all
+kingship; a ruler of men, who just then was fighting for the right of these
+men to govern themselves, but whom by his own inherent right he dominated.
+From the crown of his powdered head to the silver buckle of his shoe he was
+so royal that it was not strange his brother George of England and
+Hanover--ruling by accident, otherwise impiously known as the "grace of
+God"--could find no better way of resisting his power than by calling him
+"Mr. Washington."
+
+The sound of horses' hoofs, the formal challenge of sentry, the grave
+questioning of the officer of the guard, followed by footsteps upon the
+porch, did not apparently disturb his meditation. Nor did the opening of
+the outer door and a charge of cold air into the hall that invaded even the
+privacy of the reception room, and brightened the dying embers on the
+hearth, stir his calm pre-occupation. But an instant later there was the
+distinct rustle of a feminine skirt in the hall, a hurried whispering of
+men's voices, and then the sudden apparition of a smooth, fresh-faced young
+officer over the shoulder of the unconscious figure.
+
+"I beg your pardon, general," said the officer doubtingly, "but"----
+
+"You are not intruding, Colonel Hamilton," said the general quietly.
+
+"There is a young lady without who wishes an audience of your Excellency.
+'Tis Mistress Thankful Blossom,--the daughter of Abner Blossom, charged
+with treasonous practice and favoring the enemy, now in the guard-house at
+Morristown."
+
+"Thankful Blossom?" repeated the general interrogatively.
+
+"Your Excellency doubtless remembers a little provincial beauty and a
+famous toast of the countryside--the Cressida of our Morristown epic, who
+led our gallant Connecticut Captain astray"----
+
+"You have the advantages, besides the better memory of a younger man,
+colonel," said Washington, with a playful smile that slightly reddened the
+cheek of his aide-de-camp. "Yet I think I _have_ heard of this phenomenon.
+By all means, admit her--and her escort."
+
+"She is alone, general," responded the subordinate.
+
+"Then the more reason why we should be polite," returned Washington, for
+the first time altering his easy posture, rising to his feet, and lightly
+clasping his ruffled hands before him. "We must not keep her waiting. Give
+her access, my dear colonel, at once; and even as she came,--alone."
+
+The aide-de-camp bowed and withdrew. In another moment the half opened door
+swung wide to Mistress Thankful Blossom.
+
+She was so beautiful in her simple riding-dress, so quaint and original in
+that very beauty, and, above all, so teeming with a certain vital
+earnestness of purpose just positive and audacious enough to set off that
+beauty, that the grave gentleman before her did not content himself with
+the usual formal inclination of courtesy, but actually advanced, and,
+taking her cold little hand in his, graciously led her to the chair he had
+just vacated.
+
+"Even if your name were not known to me, Mistress Thankful," said the
+commander-in-chief, looking down upon her with grave politeness, "nature
+has, methinks, spared you the necessity of any introduction to the courtesy
+of a gentleman. But how can I especially serve you?"
+
+
+Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich.
+
+It is a curious fact that although New Jersey was the theatre of some of
+the most stirring scenes of the Revolution, only two stories seem to have
+been written, founded on the events of those times, if we except the "Water
+Witch", by J. Fenimore Cooper, in which we find the location of Alderman
+Van Beverout's house, the villa of the "Lust in Rust" to be on the Atlantic
+Highlands, between the Shrewsbury river and the sea. This spot is pointed
+out to-day and was associated with the smugglers of that period. The other
+two stories are "Thankful Blossom", by Bret Harte, and "Hannah Arnett's
+Faith", a Centennial Story, by Miss Holdich, which latter, as a singular
+history attaches to it, we shall give at length.
+
+Miss Holdich was born at Middletown, Conn., but left there too young to
+remember much about it and she lived in New York until 1878 when she came
+to Morristown. When she was not quite two years of age her mother
+discovered she could read and since she was seventeen, she has written for
+various well-known papers and periodicals, more children's stories than
+anything else, she tells us, but also a good many stories for _Harpers'
+Magazine_ and _Bazar_,--also poems, by one of which she is represented in
+our group of poets.
+
+"Hannah Arnett's Faith" is a true story of the author's great grandmother,
+familiar to all the family from infancy; In 1876 Miss Holdich published it,
+as a Centennial story, in _The New York Observer_. In 1890, a lady of
+Washington published it as her own in _The Washington Post_, (she asserts
+that she did not intend it as a plagiarism but used it merely as a
+historical incident). The story was recognized and letters written to, and
+published in, _The Post_, giving Miss Holdich's name, as the true author.
+However, this publication of the story led to a curious result, and gave
+the story a wide celebrity. In a published statement, Miss Mary Desha (one
+of the Vice Presidents of the D. A. R.) announces that "the Society of the
+Daughters of the American Revolution sprang from this story".
+
+"On July 21st", Miss Desha says, after the publication of the story in _The
+Washington Post_, accompanied by an appeal for a woman's organization to
+commemorate events of the Revolution in which women had bravely borne their
+part,--"a letter from William O. McDowell of New Jersey, was published, in
+which he said that he was the great-grandson of Hannah Arnett and called on
+the women of America to form a society of their own, since they had been
+excluded from the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at a
+meeting held in Louisville, Kentucky, April 30th, 1890".
+
+Miss Holdich soon after this was urgently requested to become Regent of
+the Morristown Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which
+position she accepted and holds to-day.
+
+
+HANNAH ARNETT'S FAITH.
+
+_A Centennial Story._
+
+1776-1876.
+
+The days were at their darkest and the hearts of our grandfathers were
+weighed down with doubt and despondency. Defeat had followed defeat for the
+American troops, until the army had become demoralized and discouragement
+had well-nigh become despair. Lord Cornwallis, after his victory at Fort
+Lee, had marched his army to Elizabethtown (Dec. 1776) where they were now
+encamped. On the 30th of November the brothers Howe had issued their
+celebrated proclamation, which offered protection to all who within sixty
+days should declare themselves peaceable British subjects and bind
+themselves neither to take up arms against their Sovereign, nor to
+encourage others to do so. It was to discuss the advisability of accepting
+this offered protection that a group of men had met in one of the large old
+houses of which Elizabethtown was, at that time, full.
+
+We are apt to think of those old times as days of unmitigated loyalty and
+courage; of our ancestors as unfaltering heroes, swerving never in the
+darkest hours from the narrow and thorny path which conscience bade them
+tread. Yet human nature is human nature in all ages, and if at times the
+"old fashioned fire" burned low even in manly hearts, and profound
+discouragement palsied for a time the most ardent courage, what are we that
+we should wonder at or condemn them? Of this period Dr. Ashbel Green wrote:
+
+"I heard a man of some shrewdness once say that when the British troops
+over-ran the State of New Jersey, in the closing part of the year 1776, the
+whole population could have been bought for eighteen-pence a head."
+
+The debate was long and grave. Some were for accepting the offered terms at
+once; others hung back a little, but all had at length agreed that it was
+the only thing to be done. Hope, courage, loyalty, faith, honor--all seemed
+swept away upon the great flood of panic which had overspread the land.
+There was one listener, however, of whom the eager disputants were
+ignorant, one to whose heart their wise reasoning was very far from
+carrying conviction. Mrs. Arnett, the wife of the host, was in the next
+room, and the sound of the debate had reached her where she sat. She had
+listened in silence, until, carried away by her feelings, she could bear no
+more, and springing to her feet she pushed open the parlor door and
+confronted the assembled group.
+
+Can you fancy the scene? A large low room, with the dark, heavily carved
+furniture of the period, dimly lighted by the tall wax candles and the wood
+fires which blazed in the huge fire place. Around the table, the group of
+men--pallid, gloomy, dejected, disheartened. In the doorway the figure of
+the woman, in the antique costume with which, in those latter days, we have
+become so familiar. Can you not fancy the proud poise of her head, the
+indignant light of her blue eyes, the crisp, clear tones of her voice, the
+majesty and defiance and scorn which clothed her as a garment?
+
+The men all started up at her entrance; the sight of a ghost could hardly
+have caused more perturbation than did that of this little woman. Her
+husband advanced hastily. She had no business here; a woman should know her
+place and keep it. Questions of politics and political expediency were not
+for them; but he would shield her as far as possible, and point out the
+impropriety of her conduct afterwards, when they should be alone. So he
+went quickly up to her with a warning whisper:
+
+"Hannah! Hannah! this is no place for you. We do not want you here just
+now;" and would have taken her hand to lead her from the room.
+
+She was a docile little woman and obeyed his wishes in general without a
+word: but now it seemed as if she scarcely saw him, as with one hand she
+pushed him gently back and turned to the startled group.
+
+"Have you made your decision, gentlemen?" she asked. "Have you chosen the
+part of men or of traitors?"
+
+It was putting the question too broadly,--so like a woman, seeing only the
+bare, ugly facts, and quite forgetting the delicate drapery which was
+intended to veil them. It was an awkward position to put them in, and they
+stammered and bungled over their answer, as men in a false position will.
+The reply came at last, mingled with explanations and excuses and
+apologies.
+
+"Quite hopeless; absurd for a starving, half-clothed, undisciplined army
+like ours to attempt to compete with a country like England's unlimited
+resources. Repulsed everywhere--ruined; throwing away life and fortune for
+a shadow;"--you know the old arguments with which men try to prop a
+staggering conscience.
+
+Mrs. Arnett listened in silence until the last abject word was spoken. Then
+she inquired simply: "But what if we should live, after all?"
+
+The men looked at each other, but no one spoke.
+
+"Hannah! Hannah!" urged her husband. "Do you not see that these are no
+questions for you? We are discussing what is best for us, for you, for
+all. Women have no share in these topics. Go to your spinning-wheel and
+leave us to settle affairs. My good little wife, you are making yourself
+ridiculous. Do not expose yourself in this way before our friends."
+
+His words passed her ear like the idle wind; not even the quiver of an
+eyelash showed that she heard them.
+
+"Can you not tell me?" she said in the same strangely quiet voice. "If,
+after all, God does not let the right perish,--if America should win in the
+conflict, after you have thrown yourself upon British clemency, where will
+you be then?"
+
+"Then?" spoke one hesitating voice. "Why, then, if it ever _could_ be, we
+should be ruined. We must leave the country forever. But it is absurd to
+think of such a thing. The struggle is an utterly hopeless one. We have no
+men, no money, no arms, no food and England has everything."
+
+"No," said Mrs. Arnett; "you have forgotten one thing which England has not
+and which we have--one thing which outweighs all England's treasures, and
+that is the Right. God is on our side, and every volley from our muskets is
+an echo of His voice. We are poor and weak and few; but God is fighting for
+us. We entered into this struggle with pure hearts and prayerful lips. We
+had counted the cost and were willing to pay the price, were it our heart's
+blood. And now--now, because for a time the day is going against us, you
+would give up all and sneak back, like cravens, to kiss the feet that have
+trampled upon us! And you call yourselves men--the sons of those who gave
+up home and fortune and fatherland to make for themselves and for dear
+liberty a resting-place in the wilderness? Oh, shame upon you, cowards!"
+
+Her words had rushed out in a fiery flood, which her husband had vainly
+striven to check. I do not know how Mrs. Arnett looked, but I fancy her a
+little fair woman, with kindly blue eyes and delicate features,--a tender
+and loving little soul, whose scornful, blazing words must have seemed to
+her amazed hearers like the inspired fury of a pythoness. Are we not all
+prophets at times--prophets of good or evil, according to our bent, and
+with more power than we ourselves suspect to work out the fulfillment of
+our own prophecies? Who shall say how far this fragile woman aided to stay
+the wave of desolation which was spreading over the land?
+
+"Gentlemen," said good Mr. Arnett uneasily, "I beg you to excuse this most
+unseemly interruption to our council. My wife is beside herself I think.
+You all know her and know that it is not her wont to meddle with politics,
+or to brawl and bluster. To-morrow she will see her folly, but now I pray
+your patience."
+
+Already her words had begun to stir the slumbering manhood in the bosoms
+of those who heard her. Enthusiasm makes its own fitting times. No one
+replied; each felt too keenly his own pettiness, in the light cast upon
+them by this woman's brave words.
+
+"Take your protection, if you will," she went on, after waiting in vain for
+a reply. "Proclaim yourselves traitors and cowards, false to your country
+and your God, but horrible will be the judgment you will bring upon your
+heads and the heads of those that love you. I tell you that England will
+never conquer. I know it and feel it in every fibre of my heart. Has God
+led us so far to desert us now? Will He, who led our fathers across the
+stormy winter sea, forsake their children who have put their trust in Him?
+For me, I stay with my country, and my hand shall never touch the hand, nor
+my heart cleave to the heart of him who shames her."
+
+She flashed upon her husband a gaze which dazzled him like sudden
+lightning.
+
+"Isaac, we have lived together for twenty years, and for all of them I have
+been a true and loving wife to you. But I am the child of God and of my
+country, and if you do this shameful thing, I will never again own you for
+my husband."
+
+"My dear wife!" cried the husband aghast, "you do not know what you are
+saying. Leave me, for such a thing as this?"
+
+"For such a thing as this?" she cried scornfully. "What greater cause could
+there be? I married a good man and true, a faithful friend and a loyal
+Christian gentleman, and it needs no divorce to sever me from a traitor and
+a coward. If you take your protection you lose your wife, and I--I lose my
+husband and my home!"
+
+With the last words the thrilling voice broke suddenly with a pathetic fall
+and a film crept over the proud blue eyes. Perhaps this little touch of
+womanly weakness moved her hearers as deeply as her brave, scornful words.
+They were not all cowards at heart, only touched by the dread finger of
+panic, which, now and then, will paralyze the bravest. Some had struggled
+long against it and only half yielded at last. And some there were to whom
+old traditions had never quite lost their power, whose superstitious
+consciences had never become quite reconciled to the stigma of _Rebel_,
+though reason and judgment both told them that, borne for the cause for
+which they bore it, it was a title of nobility. The words of the little
+woman had gone straight to each heart, be its main-spring what it might.
+Gradually the drooping heads were raised and the eyes grew bright with
+manliness and resolution. Before they left the house that night, they had
+sworn a solemn oath to stand by the cause they had adopted and the land of
+their birth, through good or evil, and to spurn the offers of their
+tyrants and foes as the deadliest insults.
+
+Some of the names of those who met in that secret council were known
+afterwards among those who fought their country's battles most nobly, who
+died upon the field of honor, or rejoiced with pure hearts when the day of
+triumph came at last. The name of the little woman figured on no heroic
+roll, but was she the less a heroine?
+
+This story is a true one, and, in this Centennial year, when every crumb of
+information in regard to those old days of struggle and heroism is eagerly
+gathered up, it may not be without interest.
+
+
+Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris.
+
+Mrs. Harris was well known during her stay in Morristown and is remembered
+as a charming woman. "In Morristown", she writes, she found "restoration to
+health, many friends, and much enjoyment",--adding "I think I shall always
+love the place".
+
+Mrs. Harris has been a voluminous writer of stories and novels. Her first
+work, "Rutledge", published without her name, excited immediate and wide
+attention and established her reputation. Since then, she has given to the
+world, among others, the following volumes: "Louie's Last Term at St.
+Mary's"; "The Sutherlands"; "Frank Warrington"; "St. Philip's";
+"Round-hearts" (for children); "Richard Vandermarck"; "A Perfect Adonis";
+"Missy"; "Happy-go-Lucky"; "Phoebe"; "A Rosary For Lent" and "Dear Feast of
+Lent".
+
+The selection given to represent Mrs. Harris in Stedman and Hutchinson's
+"Library of American Literature" is a chapter from her novel, "Missy". An
+appropriate selection for this volume would be an extract from her chapter
+on "Marrowfat" (Morristown) in her novel, "Phoebe", published in 1884.
+
+The two principal characters of the book, Barry and Phoebe, lately married,
+are described in Marrowfat, going to church on Sunday morning:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "PHOEBE."
+
+They were rather late; that is, the bell had stopped ringing, and the pews
+were all filled, and the clergyman was just entering from the sacristy,
+when they reached the door. It was an old stone church, with many vines
+about it, greensward and fine trees. * * The organist was playing a low and
+unobtrusive strain; the clergyman, having just entered, was on his knees,
+where unfortunately, the congregation had not followed him. They were all
+ready to criticise the young people who now walked down the silent aisle;
+very far down, too, they were obliged to walk. It was the one moment in the
+week when they would be most conspicuous. * * Barry looked a greater swell
+than ever, and his wife was so much handsomer than anybody else in
+Marrowfat that it was simple nonsense to talk of ignoring the past. If one
+did not want to be walked over by these young persons they must be put
+down; self preservation joined hands with virtuous indignation; to cancel
+the past would be to sacrifice the future. Scarce a mother in Marrowfat but
+felt a bitter sense of injury as she thought of Barry. Not only had he set
+the worst possible example to her sons, but he had overlooked the charms of
+her daughters; not only had he outraged public opinion, but he had
+disappointed private hopes. Society should hold him to a strict account;
+Marrowfat was not to be trifled with when it came to matters of principle.
+
+It was an old town, with ante-Revolutionary traditions; there was no
+mushroom crop allowed to spring up about it. New people were permitted but
+only on approbation of the old. It was not the thing to be very rich in
+Marrowfat, it was only tolerated; it was the thing to be a little
+cultivated, a little clever, very well born, and very loyal to Marrowfat.
+It was not exactly provincial; it was too near the great city and too much
+mixed up with it to be that; but it was very local and it had its own
+traditions in an unusual degree. That people grew a little narrow and very
+much interested in the affairs of the town, after living there awhile, was
+not to be wondered at. It is always the result of suburban life, and one
+finds it difficult to judge, between having one's nature green like a lane,
+even if narrow, or hard and broad like a city pavement, out of which all
+the greenness has been trampled and all the narrowness thrown down.
+
+The climate of the place was dry and pure; it was the fashion for the city
+doctors to send their patients there; and many who came to cough, remained
+to build. The scenery was lovely; you looked down pretty streets and saw
+blue hills beyond; the sidewalks were paved and the town was lit by gas,
+but the pavements led you past charming homes to bits of view that reminded
+you of Switzerland, and the inoffensive lamp-posts were hidden under great
+trees by day, and by night you only thought how glad you were to see them.
+The drives were endless, the roads good; there were livery-stables, hotels,
+skilled confectioners, shops of all kinds, a library, a pretty little
+theatre, churches of every shade of faith, schools of every degree of
+pretension; lectures in winter, concerts in summer, occasional plays all
+the year; two or three local journals, the morning papers from the city at
+your breakfast table; fast trains, telegraphs, telephones, all the modern
+amenities of life under your very hand; and yet it was the country, and
+there were peaceful hills and deep woods, and the nights were as still as
+Paradise. Can it be wondered at that, like St. Peter's at Rome, it had an
+atmosphere of its own, and defied the outer changes of the temperature?
+
+Marrowfat certainly was a law unto itself. Why certain people were great
+people, in its view, it would be difficult to say. Why the telegraphs, and
+the telephones, and the fashionable invalids from the city and the rich
+people who bought and built in its neighborhood, did not change its
+standards of value one can only guess. But it had a stout moral sentiment
+of its own; it had resisted innovations and done what seemed it good for a
+long while; and when you have made a good moral sentiment the fashion, or
+the fact by long use, you have done a good thing. Marrowfat never tolerated
+married flirtations, looked askance on extremes in dress or entertainment,
+dealt severely with the faults of youth. All these things existed more or
+less within its borders, of course, but they were evil doings and not
+approved doings.
+
+In a certain sense, Marrowfat was the most charitable town in the world; in
+another the most uncharitable. If you were to have any misfortune befall
+you, Marrowfat was the place to go to have it in; if you lost your money,
+if you broke your back, if your children died, if your house burned down,
+Marrowfat swathed you in flowers, bathed you in sympathy, took you out to
+drive, came and read to you, if need were took up subscriptions for you.
+But if you did anything disgraceful or discreditable, it is safe to say you
+would better have done it in any other place.
+
+Miss Maria McIntosh.
+
+Miss McIntosh was born in the little village of Sunbury, Georgia, in 1804.
+She was educated by an old Oxford tutor who was teacher and pastor combined
+and she led the class of boys with whom she studied. After her mother's
+death, (her father had died in her infancy), she came to the north, wholly
+for the purpose of studying and improving herself.
+
+Her first stories were for children. Then appeared two very successful
+tales for youth; "Conquest and Self-Conquest," and "Praise and Principle".
+"To Seem and To Be"; "Charms and Counter-Charms", and their successors
+followed on during a period of twenty years. Several of her books were
+translated into both French and German and all were widely read abroad, but
+the joy in her work lay in the rich harvest for good which was constantly
+made known to her. In the year before her death, many letters came to her
+from women then married and heads of families, thanking her for first
+impulses to better things arising from her words.
+
+Not long ago, Marion Harland, (Mrs. Terhune), wrote to a dear friend of
+this author, that she owed to Miss McIntosh the strongest influences of her
+young life and those which had determined its bent and development.
+
+Miss McIntosh was intensely interested in the maintenance of Republican
+simplicity and purity of morals and wrote a strong address, which was
+widely circulated, to the "Women of America" which led to a correspondence
+with the then Duchess of Sutherland and other English women who were
+interested in the elevation of women and of the family life.
+
+She died in Morristown, at the residence of her devoted niece and namesake,
+Mrs. James Farley Cox, and soothed by her loving ministrations,--after a
+protracted illness, lasting over a year. Mrs. Cox tells us, "she loved
+Morristown and said amidst great pain, that her last year, was, despite
+all, the happiest of her life".
+
+"Lofty and Lowly"; "Charms and Counter-Charms", and "To Seem and To Be",
+are all alike noble books. Miss McIntosh seems a woman of strong creative
+powers, with a delicacy of feeling and a fine touch of womanliness, united
+to a certain delicate perception of character. She did not write from what
+we now so grandly call _types_, or, for the sake of displaying a surgical
+dissection of character; but her books are groupings of individuals as real
+as those we meet in daily life. There are no strained situations, no
+fanciful make-ups, and no unnatural poses.
+
+There are the lovely Alice Montrose with a strangely beautiful blending of
+delicate refinement and womanly strength, rising to meet every requirement
+of her varied life; Mr. Gaston, the New England merchant; Richard Grahame
+the hero of "Lofty and Lowly", with some telling contrasts in the way of
+villians and weaker characters. Beside this, Miss McIntosh has a strong
+sympathy for nature and all through her stories she stops, as it were to
+show us the flowering fields and summer skies and as she draws us to her,
+we feel the beatings of her own warm human heart going out as it does to
+the young and inexperienced.
+
+Again, Miss McIntosh gives in her stories faithful representations of life
+both north and south, before the war, forty years ago. These pictures are
+of peculiar value as few books preserve pictorial records of that
+condition of life now passed away forever. She had a power in massing
+details and binding them by a thread of common interest and common action.
+She seemed in her writings, like one who had been spiritually "lifted
+higher" and like all such spirits she could not but draw others after her.
+Her books in past years have had wide and lasting influence and it is a
+pity they could not now be substituted for much of the miserable literature
+which only pleases a passing hour or teaches false views of life.
+
+
+Mrs. Maria McIntosh Cox.
+
+Mrs. Cox, long a resident of Morristown, was named for the dear aunt to
+whom the preceding sketch relates, and, as is often the case with namesakes
+for some unexplained reason, the mantle of Miss McIntosh's genius fell upon
+her.
+
+From girlhood, Mrs. Cox has written for various papers and magazines. Some
+years ago, the Appletons published a little volume of hers for very young
+children, called "A year with Maggie and Emma", which was afterwards
+translated into French.
+
+"Raymond Kershaw", published in 1888, is a volume of larger size. To this
+we shall refer later. In March, 1890, _The Youth's Companion_ published a
+short story founded on an adventure of the author's father with Lafitte,
+the famous pirate. It was entitled "A Brave Middy", and won a prize of
+$500, in a contest of similar tales.
+
+In the current numbers of _Wide Awake_ from December to June 1891-'92
+appeared a story of ten chapters called "Jack Brereton's Three Months'
+Service", which, in August, 1892, was brought out in book form by D.
+Lothrop & Co., Boston. The idea most prominent in this story, the "motif",
+is the reflex action of a soldier's enlistment on his deserted family. "I
+chanced", says the author, "to thoroughly see and know what sudden _three
+months'_ calls entailed on the volunteer and those who fought the battle
+out at home, and I enjoyed telling what is, in spirit and in most details,
+a true story, though not as connected with such people as the story
+describes".
+
+"Brave Ben Broughton", written by request for the McClure Syndicate, and a
+Folk Lore story are the latest from the pen of Mrs. Cox.
+
+"Raymond Kershaw; a Story of Deserved Success", was published by Roberts
+Brothers in 1888. The story is a touching one commencing in pathos and
+ending in heroism; a lesson to every boy and girl who, plunged suddenly and
+unexpectedly into difficulty, have to face the hard realities of life.
+There is an extremely fine passage in this book. Winthrop, the author of
+"John Brent", could not have done it better. It is the description of a
+maddened bull, "Meadow King", which Paul Potter might have painted. It
+needs no comment. Spirited and full of life, every actor in the scene
+performs his or her part with a truthfulness which is wonderful. Many a
+more voluminous writer than Mrs. Cox has done far less superior work than
+this truly great scene exhibits in its dramatic attitudes.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "RAYMOND KERSHAW."
+
+After country fashion, every farmer for miles around came to look at
+"Kershaw's new bull". Without mistake they saw a royal animal. Without a
+spot to mar his jet-black coat, through which the great veins were visible
+like netted cords, his small, strong, sinewy legs, all muscle and bone,
+carried his heavy body as lightly as if he were a horse, and his flanks and
+shoulders, when James pushed up his supple skin with his hand, felt as if
+he wore a velvet coat over an iron frame; his neck, not too short for
+grace, was still very heavy and muscular, with wrinkles like necklaces
+encircling it, and his fiery eyes glowed, far apart, under his
+tight-curled poll, from which those mischievous horns, sharp, long and
+slightly out-curving, stood in beautiful harmony with the whole outline;
+and his great lashing tail, with its tasselated end, completed his
+perfections.
+
+All went well for a fortnight, after which, on a hot Sunday morning all
+drove off to church leaving Mrs. Kershaw and Mary at home together.
+
+(Mrs. Kershaw, the sweet and tenderly-loved invalid mother, was half-lying
+in her chair and Mary sat, Bible in hand, on the first step of the piazza
+near her, when)
+
+Suddenly a roar struck upon their ears with horror; and, filled with one of
+those blind accesses of rage to which his race is so strangely subject,
+tearing, bellowing along, up the hillside came Meadow King. As he halted
+for a breath behind the fence, he was like one's night-dreams of such a
+creature,--an ideal of pure brute force and wrath. His head tossed high, he
+gave a prolonged bellow, and leaped the high bars without an effort.
+
+Mary rose without a word, and laying her Bible on Mrs. Kershaw's lap, stood
+white as the dead to watch him; destroying the delicate things in his way,
+he ran madly towards the sheds. Mary gave silent thanks that he had not
+taken to the road. The high gates of the cow-yards stood wide open, and
+through them he rushed.
+
+"Miss Kershaw, I've got to shut them gates!" said Mary.
+
+"Oh, don't think of it, Mary!" said Mrs. Kershaw, her hands clasped and
+trembling. "Are you not afraid?"
+
+"Skeered!" said Mary,--"I'm skeered out of my life; _but them gates has got
+to be shut!_"
+
+Down in the yard the voice kept up its dreadful din. Mary rushed down the
+steps like a flash, and as suddenly back again. "Miss Kershaw, would you
+mind just kissing me _once_?" A quick warm touch on her pale lips, and she
+was gone; it was all in the space of a long breath. * * Her way was down a
+slight inclination and her swift, light feet carried her with incredible
+speed. One terrified glance at the open gate showed her the enemy lashing
+himself at the farther end of the enclosure, with the scattered dust and
+leaves rising about him as he pawed the ground. The gates were heavy and
+wide apart; the right-hand leaf swung shut, and then, darting across the
+opening, she pushed the left forward and clasped it, and springing up drew
+down the heavy cross-bar, and the gates were shut! * * "He's in, Miss
+Kershaw," said Mary, "but the worst is to come! How under the sun can they
+ketch him? Can you keep still if I go up the road and watch for 'em?
+They're most sure to drive in by the farm-yard gate if they come Chester
+way, and if they come upon him unbeknownst, Heaven help 'em!"
+
+"Go Mary, _go_; don't think about me at all," said Mrs. Kershaw. * * *
+
+"Not until you are in your chair, and promise to stay there, ma'am," said
+Mary. "Young Doctor's got trouble enough on his hands without your bein'
+hurt. If you hear Meadow King tearing the gates down, and me a-screechin'
+my life out, don't you stir!"
+
+(Mary goes to warn them and stops their entrance. James the farmer takes
+command. Raymond carries an axe and Bob a stick. They open the gates Mary
+had closed. The brute rushes forward. At this moment James with a rope he
+had carried, undertakes to lasso the bull but misses and falls back, facing
+the foe but pinioned in the angle of a beam and the side-wall; one of the
+mad King's horns imbedded in the beam, the other projecting in terrible
+proximity, while the unspeakably angry, brutal face of the beast is only a
+few inches from his chest.
+
+At this moment, Ray seized his axe.) His hat had fallen off and his face
+was stern and ghastly white as he watched like a lion his gigantic prey;
+until coming with long powerful steps close enough to strike, he gave an
+agonizing look of dread at James, and then brought down one tremendous
+crashing blow, straight, strong and true, between those cruel horns, and
+the Meadow King sank like a loosened rock upon the floor, pulling his head
+loose by his own weight.
+
+
+David Young.
+
+     "Why, as to that, said the engineer,
+     Ghosts ain't things we are apt to fear,
+     Spirits don't fool with levers much,
+     And throttle-valves don't take to such;
+             And as for Jim,--
+             What happened to him
+     Was one-half fact and t'other half whim!"
+
+                       --_Bret Harte._
+
+David Young is principally known as the reviser and publisher of "The
+Morristown Ghost" in 1826, but he was also the compiler of the well-known
+"Farmer's Almanac", published first in 1834, and he wrote a poem of
+thirty-four pages in two parts, entitled "The Contrast".
+
+The original volume of "The Morristown Ghost" was published in 1792, by
+whom, it is not certainly known. It gave the names of the "Society of
+eight", their places of meeting, and all the proceedings of the Society.
+The copies were bought up and destroyed, says tradition, by the son of one
+of its members, one lone volume not being obtainable, but this cannot be
+distinctly traced at present. There was published in 1876, by the Messrs.
+L. A. and B. H. Vogt, a fac-simile copy of the original history of "The
+Morristown Ghost" without the names of the original members, "with an
+appendix compiled from the county records". The following is the title
+page:
+
+"The Morristown Ghost; an Account of the Beginning, Transactions and
+Discovery of Ransford Rogers, who seduced many by pretended Hobgoblins and
+Apparitions and thereby extorted Money from their pockets. In the County of
+Morris and State of New Jersey, in the Year 1788. Printed for every
+purchaser--1792".
+
+In the copy of 1826, the title page is as follows:
+
+"The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost; thoroughly and carefully
+revised. By David Young, Newark. Published by Benjamin Olds, for the
+author. I. C. Totten, Printer, 1826."
+
+The author tells us in his preface he has "very scrupulously followed the
+sense of the original." He continues: "The truth of this history will not,
+I presume, be called in question by the inhabitants of Morris and the
+adjacent counties. The facts are still fresh in the memories of many among
+us; and some survive still who bore an active part in the scenes herein
+recorded." He continues: "For the further satisfaction of the distant
+reader, on this point, I would inform him that I am myself a native of the
+County of Morris; that I was seven years and seven months old when Rogers
+first emigrated to this county; and that I well remember hearing people
+talk of these affairs during their progress. Every reader may rest assured
+that if the truth of this narrative had been doubtful, I should have taken
+no pains to rescue it from oblivion."
+
+There seems to have been also another intermediate publication. From an
+ancient copy of this curious story, found in an old, discolored volume in
+our Morristown library, in which are compiled papers on various subjects,
+(among them a "Review on Spiritual Manifestations"), we copy the title
+page:
+
+"The Morristown Ghost, or Yankee Trick, being a True, Interesting and
+Strange Narrative. This circumstance has excited considerable laughter and
+no small degree of surprize. Printed for purchasers, 1814."
+
+The man who conducted the plot was Ransford Rogers, of Connecticut. He was
+a plausible man who had the power of inspiring confidence, and though
+somewhat illiterate, was ambitious to be thought learned and pretended, it
+is said, to possess deep knowledge of "chymistry" and the power to dispel
+good and evil spirits.
+
+It will be remembered that Washington Irving remarks, in his description of
+the family portrait gallery, of Bracebridge Hall at twilight, when he
+almost hears the rustling of the brocade dresses of the ladies of the manor
+as they step out from their frames,--"There is an element of superstition
+in the human mind". It seems there had long been a conviction prevailing
+that large sums of money had been buried during the Revolutionary War by
+tories and others in Schooley's Mountain, near by. There also seemed to be
+something of the New England belief in witchcraft throughout the community.
+Says the Preface of the early volume; "It is obvious to all who are
+acquainted with the county of Morris, that the capricious notions of
+witchcraft have engaged the attention of many of its inhabitants for a
+number of years and the existence of witches is adopted by the generality
+of the people." And we read on page 213 of the "Combined Registers of the
+First Presbyterian Church," a record as follows: "Dr. John Johnes' servant
+Pompey, d. 17 July, 1833, aet. 81; frightened to death by ghosts."
+
+To obtain the treasure of Schooley's Mountain, then, was the occasion of
+the occurrences related in this story. Two gentlemen who had long been in
+search of mines, taking a tour through the country in 1788,
+"providentially," says David Young, fell in with Rogers at Smith's Clove,
+and discovered him to be the man they were in search of, and one who could
+"reveal the secret things of darkness," for they, too, were "covetous of
+the supposed treasure of Schooley's Mountain."
+
+A society was organized by Ransford which at first numbered "about eight"
+but afterwards was increased to about forty. His first object was to
+convince them of the existence of the hidden treasure lying dormant in the
+earth at Schooley's Mountain. It seems repeated efforts had before been
+made to obtain the treasure, but all had proved abortive, for whenever they
+attempted to break the ground, it was said, "there would many hobgoblins
+and apparitions appear which in a short time obliged them to evacuate the
+place".
+
+Rogers called a meeting of the eight and "communicated to them the
+solemnity of the business and the intricacy of the undertaking and the fact
+that there had been several persons murdered and buried with the money in
+order to retain it in the earth. He likewise informed them that those
+spirits must be raised and conversed with before the money could be
+obtained. He declared he could by his art and power raise these apparitions
+and that the whole company might hear him converse with them and satisfy
+themselves there was no deception. This was received with belief and
+admiration by the whole company without ever investigating whether it was
+probable or possible. This meeting therefore terminated with great
+assurance, they all being confident of the abilities, knowledge and powers
+of Rogers". To confirm the illusion of his supernatural power, Rogers had
+made chemical compositions of various kinds, of which, "some, by being
+buried in the earth for many hours, would break and cause great explosions
+which appeared dismal in the night and would cause great timidity. The
+company were all anxious to proceed and much elevated with such uncommon
+curiosities". A night was therefore appointed for the whole company to
+convene. The scene which the author proceeds to describe is worthy of
+Washington Irving in his "Legends of Sleepy Hollow", (see page 25 Young's
+edition, 1826). The night was dark and the circle "illumined only by
+candles caused a ghastly, melancholy, direful gloom through the woods". The
+company marched round and round in (concentric) circles as directed, "with
+great decorum" until suddenly shocked by "a most impetuous explosion from
+the earth a short distance from them". Flames rose to a considerable
+height, "illuminating the circumambient atmosphere and presenting to the
+eye many dreadful objects, from the supposed haunted grove, which were
+again instantaneously involved in obscurity". Ghosts made their appearance
+and hideous groans were heard. These were invisible to the rest of the
+company but conversed with Rogers in their hearing and told of the vast
+treasures in their possession which they would not resign except under
+certain conditions, one of which was "every man must deliver to the spirits
+twelve pounds in money". The procession continued 'till three o'clock in
+the morning, and "the whole company looked up to Rogers for protection from
+the raging spirits. This was in the month of November 1788". It will be
+noticed that the money required had to be advanced in "nothing but silver
+or gold" for which the paper money circulated in New Jersey could only be
+exchanged at twenty-five per cent. discount. Yet there was a sort of
+emulation among them, "who should be the first in delivering the money to
+the spirits."
+
+A frequent place of meeting for this company was what is now known as the
+Hathaway house on Flagler street, the first house on the left after
+entering Flagler street from Speedwell avenue. A little distance back of
+this house may be seen the stump of a tree beneath which tree, it is said,
+the money was left for the spirits. Another field used for the midnight
+marches is behind the Aber house on the Piersonville Road, and still
+another on the road between Piersonville and Rogers' school house, the
+location of which is known. Other localities are also known, by old
+residents, of the events recorded in this story. Mt. Kemble avenue has
+often been the actual scene of ghostly flittings to and fro as well as of
+the famous imaginary ride to the Headquarters of "Thankful Blossom". Rogers
+was in the habit of wrapping himself up in a sheet, going to the house of a
+certain gentleman in the night, and calling him up by rapping at the doors
+and windows, and conversing in such sleek disguise that the gentleman
+thought he was a spirit; ending his conversation also with the words: "I am
+the spirit of a just man, and am sent to give you information how to
+proceed, and to put the conducting of it into your hands; I will be ever
+with you, and give you directions when you go amiss; therefore fear not,
+but go to Rogers and inform him of your interview with me. Fear not I am
+ever with you".
+
+It must be remembered that this company, at the first, was composed of the
+best and most highly honored citizens of Morristown, also that toward the
+last, "the numbers increased daily of aged, abstemious, (at first material
+spirits were freely used at the nightly meetings) honest, judicious, simple
+church members."
+
+What led finally to the discovery of the plot, was, that it was ordained,
+"a paper of sacred powder, said to be some of the dust of the bodies of the
+spirits, was to be kept by every member, and to be preserved inviolate. One
+of the aged members, having occasion to leave home for a short time on some
+emergency, through forgetfulness left his paper in one of his pockets at
+home. His wife happened to find it, and out of curiosity, broke it open;
+but, perceiving the contents, she feared to touch it, lest peradventure it
+should have some connection with witchcraft. She went immediately to Rev.
+Mr. ----, the pious clergyman of the congregation for his advice on the
+subject; who, not knowing its composition, was unwilling to touch it, lest
+it might have some operation upon him, and knew not what advice to give
+her. Her husband returning declared she had ruined him forever by breaking
+open that paper, which increased her anxiety to know its contents. Upon her
+promising not to divulge anything, he then related to her the whole of
+their proceedings, whereupon she declared they were serving the devil and
+it was her duty notwithstanding her promise to put an end to such
+proceedings. Great disturbance was thereby caused in the company."
+
+It was at the house of one of the members, which is now standing, that
+Rogers was discovered in the following manner, as the story is told.
+Rogers, taking his sheet with him, rode, on a certain evening to this
+house, for the purpose of conversing with the gentleman, as a spirit.
+Having drank too freely he committed several blunders in his conversation,
+and was not so careful as usual about the ghostly costume. The good wife,
+whose suspicions had been aroused, managed to peep and listen during the
+interview, and after the ghost had left the house she remarked to her
+husband, says tradition: "My dear, do spirits wear shoe buckles? Those were
+very like Ransford Rogers' buckles". Rogers' foot-tracks were followed to
+the fence where his horse was tied, and the tracks of his horse to the
+house where he lived and hence to another house where he was found. He was
+apprehended and committed to prison, where he asserted his innocence so
+persistently that "in a few days he was bailed out", says our author, "by a
+gentleman, whom I shall call by the name of Compassion." A second time he
+was apprehended, when "he acknowledged his faults and confessed" the whole
+matter. He, however, "absconded, and under the auspices of Fortune saved
+himself by flight from the malice of a host."
+
+So ends the, perhaps, most famous historic ghost story of modern times.
+
+
+Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin.
+
+(JENNIE M. DRINKWATER.)
+
+Mrs. Conklin has been a voluminous writer of novels and stories, published
+by Robert Carter & Brothers and by the Presbyterian Board. Before her
+marriage she was widely known as Miss Jennie M. Drinkwater, and her latest
+book, "Dorothy's Islands," published in Boston, August, 1892, bears that
+name of authorship. She has written for many papers and magazines, besides
+the books she has published, and of these there are twenty and more. Among
+them are "Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline", a love story of high order and
+well told; "Rue's Helps", for boys and girls, and "Electa", in which we
+find a certain quality of naturalness in the people, and the scenes
+described,--a literary quality which is prominent in Mrs. Conklin's works.
+"They introduce the reader", says a critic, "to agreeable people, provide
+an atmosphere which is tonic and healthful and enlist interest in every
+page." Then there are "The Story of Hannah Marigold"; "Wildwood"; "The
+Fairfax Girls"; "From Flax to Linen" and "David Strong's Errand", besides
+others, and the last one published to which we have referred, and from
+which we shall quote.
+
+Several years ago, Mrs. Conklin being out of health, had her attention
+called to the special needs of invalids for sympathy from the active world
+about them, and organized a society, now world-wide and well-known, called
+the "Shut-In Society". It is an organization of invalids throughout the
+country, and now extending beyond it, who cheer each other with
+correspondence, send letters to prisoners in jails and sufferers in
+hospitals, and do other good work. Nine-tenths of its membership never see
+each other, but they help make each other's lives to be as cheery as
+possible in affliction. The amount of comfort and consolation carried by
+this organization to many a bed-ridden or helpless invalid, is beyond
+description, and the good that goes out also from those quiet chambers of
+sickness to the souls who seek them, mostly by _letter_, is greater than
+would be easily imagined. Mrs. Conklin was president of the Society for
+four years from its organization in 1885, and it now numbers several
+thousand members.
+
+We quote from "Dorothy's Islands", Mrs. Conklin's latest book.
+
+Dorothy was a child taken from a New York orphan asylum and adopted by a
+lighthouse keeper and his wife. She grows up supposing them to be her own
+father and mother, but the mother and child are antagonistic, and it is
+impossible for them to attract one another. This peculiarity of nature is
+very well given in the first chapter.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "DOROTHY'S ISLANDS."
+
+"When I grow up," said Dorothy "I am going to find an island all green and
+beautiful in winter as well as in summer. All around it the sand will be as
+golden as sunshine, and the houses--the happy houses--will be hidden away
+in green things, and flowers of yellow and scarlet and white. And then,
+father, after I find it, I will come and get you, and we will sing, and
+learn poems, and do lovely things all day long."
+
+"You are going to do wonderful things when you grow up," replied the
+amused, tender voice overhead.
+
+"Don't all grown-up people do wonderful things?" questioned child Dorothy.
+
+"I never did," answered the voice, not now either tender or amused.
+
+"No, you never _did_," broke in a woman's voice with harsh force.
+
+"I think father does _beautiful_ things," said Dorothy in her warm voice.
+"He brought the sea-bird home to me, and we loved it so, but you threw it
+off with its wounded wing."
+
+"Let nature take care of her own things," responded the voice that had
+nothing of love in its quality.
+
+"I'm nature's thing," Dorothy laughed; "father said so to-day. He said I
+was made out of nature and poetry."
+
+"It's he who puts the poetry in you; some day I'll send those poetry books
+adrift, and then you will both find something practical in your finger
+ends."
+
+The child looked at the chubby ends of her brown fingers. Her nine-year-old
+hands, under her mother's sharp teaching, had learned to do many practical
+things. The only "practical thing" she loathed--and that was her own name
+for it--was mending Cousin Jack's pea-jacket.
+
+One room in the lighthouse was packed with boxes containing her father's
+books. The "poetry box" was the only one that had been opened since their
+stay on the island.
+
+"It was one of your father's beautiful things to strand us on this desert
+island. I told him I wouldn't come."
+
+"But you _did_," said the child.
+
+"It's the last time he will have his own way," remarked the woman, with the
+heavy frown that marred her handsome face.
+
+"Oh, don't say that!" cried Dorothy distressed. "I never like your way."
+
+"You have got to like my way some day, miss, or it will be the worse for
+one of us. Don't hang any longer around your father; poetry enough has
+oozed out of him to spoil you already; go and pick those beans over, and
+put them in soak for to-morrow--a quart, mind you, and pick them over
+clean."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+She liked to pick beans when her father sat near reading aloud to her. He
+had promised to read to-night "How the water comes down from Lodore," but
+she knew her mother's mood too well to hope for such a pleasure to-night.
+
+When her mother was cross, she wasn't willing for anybody to have anything.
+
+But she couldn't take away what she had learned of it; the child hugged
+herself with the thought repeating gleefully:--
+
+     "Then first came one daughter,
+       And then came another,
+     To second and third
+       The request of their brother,
+     And to hear how the water
+       Comes down at Lodore,
+     With its rush and its roar--"
+
+"Dorothy, stop!" commanded her mother. "That muttering makes me wild. It
+sounds like a lunatic."
+
+Dorothy's mouth shut itself tight; the flash of defiance from the big brown
+eyes her mother missed; her father's observant eyes noted it. There was
+always a sigh in his heart for Dorothy, for her naughtiness, and for the
+misery she was growing up to. The misery was as inevitable as the growing
+up. Once in his agony he had prayed the good Father to take the child
+before her heart was rent, or his own.
+
+After the gleeful music ceased the chubby fingers moved wearily, the brown
+head drooped; there were tears as well as sleep in the eyes that seemed
+made to hold nothing but sunshine.
+
+(Dorothy is in bed for the night.)
+
+"Will you keep the door open so I can hear voices?" pleaded Dorothy.
+
+"Why child, what ails you?" said the mother.
+
+"The wind ails me, and it is so black, black, black out over the water.
+When I find my island there shall be sunshine on the sea."
+
+"But night _has_ to come."
+
+"Perhaps there will be stars there," said hopeful Dorothy.
+
+"You may learn a Bible verse to-morrow,--'There shall be no night there.'"
+
+"I'll say it now: 'There shall be no night there.' Where _is_ 'there'?"
+
+But her mother had left her to her new Bible verse and the candle-light;
+and Dorothy went to sleep, hoping "there" did not mean heaven, for then
+what _would_ she do when she was sleepy?
+
+
+Mrs. Catharine L. Burnham.
+
+A valuable contributor to the literature for children and young people, is
+Mrs. Burnham. Her volume of "Bible Stories in Words of One Syllable", has
+been of great use and influence and has no doubt led to the writing of
+other historical narratives in the same manner.
+
+Count Tolstoi gives a most interesting account of his own experience in the
+use of the Bible in teaching children. He says "I tried reading the Bible
+to them", speaking of the children in his peasant's school, "and it took
+complete possession of them. They grew to love the book, love study and
+love me. For the purpose of opening a new world to a pupil and of making
+him love knowledge before he has knowledge, there is no book like the
+Bible."
+
+Mrs. Burnham has also written a number of children's story-books which have
+been warmly received and still continue to please and benefit the young.
+Among them are "Ernest"; "The Story of Maggie" and the three volumes of the
+"Can and Can't Series"; "I Can"; "I Can't", and "I'll Try". "Ernest" is
+quite a wonderful little book and has done much good among a large class of
+children. Mr. A. D. F. Randolph, the New York publisher, who took it
+through several editions, gave it high praise to a friend just before the
+last edition, about three years ago, and Rev. Dr. Tyng the elder, late of
+St. George's Church, New York, gave it also very high praise.
+
+We do not always fully realize that a peculiar talent is required for this
+department in literature. In talking, some years ago, with a young man who
+has now become an important editor in New York, he said: "It is my greatest
+ambition to be a good and interesting author of children's books; not only
+because it requires the best writing and the best thought, but because no
+literature has a more extended influence and involves higher
+responsibilities."
+
+In addition to these volumes, Mrs. Burnham has for many years, been an
+occasional contributor to the _Churchman_, _Christian Union_ and other
+important papers.
+
+The following extract is selected:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "I'LL TRY."
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+_Society._
+
+"Our Daisy is a singular girl," said Mrs. Bell to her husband the evening
+after Mrs. Lane's party, as they sat alone over the library fire, after
+all the young people had retired, and fell to talking about their children,
+as parents will.
+
+"Is she? I think most parents would be glad to have a daughter as
+'singular.'"
+
+"Yes, I knew you would say that; and I appreciate her as highly as you do;
+but nevertheless, sometimes I am puzzled to know what to do with her. If
+she gets an idea into that quiet little head of hers, it is hard to modify
+it."
+
+"Well, what is it now?"
+
+"It's just this. I don't believe she will ever be willing to go out
+anywhere, or even have company at home. I proposed to her to-day that we
+should have a little company next week, and she looked absolutely pained,
+and said, 'O, mamma, if we could get along without it, I should be so
+glad--unless you wish it very much. Or, perhaps, I could stay up stairs.' I
+was quite provoked for the moment, and said, 'No, indeed, you couldn't. I
+should insist on your entertaining our friends.' And then she was so sorry
+she had offended me. She is so good and conscientious, that I can't bear to
+thwart her; and yet I am sure it will not be good for her to shut herself
+up entirely."
+
+"Oh, well dear," said Mr. Bell, who had the most utter confidence in his
+wife's ability to train her children, as he might well have, "she will get
+over it in time. Let her go out a little and she will soon learn to like
+it."
+
+"No, I am afraid not. Everything she does is done on principle, and unless
+I can make society a matter of principle, I am afraid she will never enter
+into it at all, her diffidence makes it a positive pain to her to meet
+strangers."
+
+"Well, get a principle into it, then, somehow," said Mr. Bell. "You can
+manage it; you understand all these matters. I am sure Daisy is just like
+you in requiring a principle for everything."
+
+"She is not a bit like me," said Mrs. Bell; but she could not help smiling
+nevertheless, and the conversation turned to something else. But the
+mother, who was in real difficulty about this matter, carried her
+perplexities where she always did, to the throne of grace, and there
+obtained light to show her how to act. She knew that nothing in her
+children's lives was unimportant in the eyes of the Heavenly Father, and
+prayed for wisdom to guide her young daughter aright at this important time
+of her life.
+
+The next time that Daisy brought her work basket to her mother's room, for
+a "good quiet sit-down," as she expressed it, Mrs. Bell resolved to open
+the subject that was on her mind; but the young girl anticipated her design
+by saying, "Now, mamma, before we begin the second volume of our Macauley
+(how tempting it looks and what lovely readings we will have!) I want to
+ask you something."
+
+"Well, dear?"
+
+"I know I troubled you yesterday when you spoke about having company, dear
+mamma. I was so sorry afterwards; but if you knew how I dread it, I don't
+think you would blame me. I have been thinking about it a great deal since,
+and now I want to ask you a question and get one of your real good
+answers--a _settling_ answer, mamma. Do you think it is _my duty_ to go
+into company? Now begin, please, and tell me all about it;" and Daisy took
+up her work and assumed the attitude of a listener, as though she had
+referred her question to an oracle, and was waiting for a response.
+
+The mother smiled a happy and gratified smile before she answered. It was
+very pleasant to her to see how her sweet daughter deferred to her opinion;
+and kissing the fair cheek she said: "I can't answer you in one word,
+darling. What do you mean by 'going into company?' Of course you know that
+I have no desire to see you absorbed in a round of parties, or even going
+often to companies."
+
+"Oh, I know that, mamma; I mean quiet parties, such as you and papa go to;
+reading and talking parties, and big sewing societies and musicals."
+
+"You mean going anywhere out of your own family?"
+
+"Yes'm, that is just it. I am so happy at home. I have plenty to do, and
+all I want to enjoy. With you and papa and Nelly and our pet Lucy, and the
+boys coming home Sundays, what could one wish for more? I am perfectly
+happy, mamma."
+
+"And would you never care to make acquaintances, then--to make and receive
+calls?"
+
+"Oh, no'm. I dislike calls of all things, except, of course, to go and see
+Mrs. Lane, for she asked me to come and see her, mamma, and to go over to
+Fanny's to play duets, and to a few other places."
+
+"You are a singular girl, Daisy."
+
+"I know I am," said Daisy, earnestly, dropping her work, "and that's the
+very reason why I think it's just as well for me to stay at home. Now, last
+night, I'm sure there wasn't a girl there thought of such a thing as being
+frightened; except me; but I didn't really enjoy the last part very much;
+it was so disagreeable being among so many strangers; and even during the
+reading, I wished myself back in our old composition room, where I could
+hear Mrs. Lane without being dressed up, and being surrounded by girls
+dressed even more than I was."
+
+"And would you like, then, always to live retired at home?"
+
+"Indeed I should, mamma! and I can't see why I may not. We are told not to
+love the world," said Daisy in a lower tone. "Why is it not better to keep
+out of it entirely?"
+
+"I will tell you, darling, why it is not," said Mrs. Bell, seriously.
+"Because our Master did not do so, and we cannot follow His example
+perfectly, if we do."
+
+"Was it not the poor and sick that He visited, mamma, chiefly?"
+
+"Yes, dear, and so it should be with us; but He visited, too, the rich and
+the high. He seems to have gone wherever His presence was desired, to make
+that presence felt by all classes of people, and we ought to imitate Him in
+this as in all other things."
+
+"Do you think we can do that?"
+
+"Yes, I think we can in some measure. At any rate, I am sure we ought to
+try. Suppose, Daisy, that every one adopted your rule--that every house was
+a castle, and no one in it cared for anybody outside. What a selfish world
+this would be! Our Christian love would be limited to our own family."
+
+"But I would visit the poor, mamma."
+
+"Yes, and that is by far the most important. But, dear, you have gifts of
+mind and heart and education that enable you to do good in other ways than
+in ministering to the poor and the ignorant. There are other hearts to
+reach, over whom you can have even greater influence, because they
+sympathize more entirely with you. You can show forth the love of Christ,
+and set a Christian example in your own sphere, darling, where you were
+born and brought up, and it would be wrong for my daughter to hide the
+talents God has given her under a bushel, and not to care for anyone or
+anything outside of these four walls."
+
+Daisy had left her seat and taken her favorite place at her mother's feet,
+and now looking up into her face, she said, earnestly, "You are right,
+mamma, as you always are. But poor me! I would rather face an army, it
+seems to me, than a roomful of people. I know what you are going to
+say--all the more my duty--and I shall try with all my might."
+
+"My darling, in every roomful of people there are some whom you can cheer
+and please; and even Christ pleased not Himself. Think of that, and it will
+give you strength to overcome your timidity. You can serve your Master in
+some way, be sure of it. And you can learn much from others. You would not
+develop all round, but would be a one-sided character, if you had only
+books and your own family for companions."
+
+"Mamma, let us have the company. I am ashamed that I have been so cowardly.
+You shall see how hard I will try."
+
+
+Hon. John Whitehead.
+
+Our grave and reverend scholar and historian, taking his place later among
+_Historians_, has surprised and delighted us all by appearing suddenly in a
+new character, writing a very lively, graphic, and, of course, instructive
+story for boys; "A Fishing Trip to Barnegat", which we find in the _St.
+Nicholas_ for August, 1892. The following is an extract:
+
+
+FROM "A FISHING TRIP TO BARNEGAT."
+
+"Now this fish of yours, Jack," said the uncle, "is not only called the
+toad-fish and the oyster-fish, but, sometimes, the grunting toad-fish.
+There are species of it found all over the world, but this is the regular
+American toad-fish.
+
+"This fish of mine is called the weakfish. Notice its beautiful colors,
+brownish blue on its back, with irregular brown spots, the sides silvery,
+and the belly white. It grows from one to three feet long and is a very
+sharp biter. When one takes the hook, there is no difficulty in knowing
+when to pull in. Why it is called the weakfish, I do not know, unless
+because when it has been out of the water its flesh softens and soon
+becomes unfit for food. When eaten soon after it is caught, it is very
+good."
+
+Just as Uncle John finished his little lecture, an exclamation from Will,
+who had baited with a piece of the crab, and dropped his line into the
+water, attracted their attention. Not quite so impetuous as Jack, he landed
+his prize more carefully, and stood looking at it with wonder, hardly
+knowing what to say. At last he called out:
+
+"Well, what have I caught?"
+
+It was a beautiful fish, though entirely different from Uncle John's. It
+had a small head and the funniest little tail that ever was seen. Its back
+was of a bright, brown color, but its belly was almost pure white; it was
+quite round and flat, with a rough skin.
+
+"Turn him over on his back, and rub him gently," said the captain. "Do it
+softly, and watch him."
+
+Will complied and gently rubbed him. Immediately the fish began swelling
+and as Will continued the rubbing it grew larger and larger until Will
+feared that the fish would burst its little body.
+
+"Well," he said, "I never saw anything like that, Captain! Do tell me what
+this is."
+
+"This we call, here in Barnegat, the balloon-fish. It is elsewhere called
+the puffer, swell-fish, and globe-fish. One kind is called the
+sea-porcupine, because of its being covered with short, sharp spines. It is
+of no value for food."
+
+Jack thought his time had come to catch another prodigy, and when his hook
+had been re-baited by the skipper, he dropped his line into the water, and
+was soon rewarded by another bite. Using more caution this time, he landed
+his fish securely on deck instead of over the sail, and exclaimed:
+
+"Wonders will never cease! I don't know what I've got now, but I suppose
+that Captain John can tell!"
+
+
+Mrs. John King Duer.
+
+Mrs. Duer, whose family as well as herself has long been associated with
+Morristown, has published, in Morristown, in 1880, a short story entitled
+"The Robbers of the Woods, by Grandmother". It is a pretty, fascinating
+tale for children, in which the winsome innocence of two loving boys charm
+away all the cruelty of the "Robbers of the Woods". It is only thirty
+minutes reading and yet the story leaves after it an impression of the
+tender beauty of childhood.
+
+The following extract is expressive both of the touching pathos and of a
+certain nicety of description which belongs pre-eminently to Mrs. Duer.
+
+
+FROM "THE ROBBERS OF THE WOODS."
+
+The sun was up and the room quite light when Carl opened his eyes at the
+touch of a hand on his shoulder. "It is daylight now my little man and we
+must be getting you on your way home ere long, but first come and get some
+breakfast." The boys were soon dressed, and after saying a short prayer in
+which they thanked God for his goodness in making the robbers so kind to
+them, they opened the door and found themselves again in the hall and with
+a substantial meal before them. Having eaten enough and all being ready,
+the man who found them in the woods now came near, and putting his large
+brown hand gently on Carl's arm, he said, "My boys, before I can open that
+door you must let me tie a cloth over your eyes, and consent to let it be
+there till we tell you to take it off. No harm shall come to you, for I
+myself am going to take you through the woods and not leave you till I put
+you on the road that leads to your mother's door." When Eddie first heard
+that his eyes were to be blindfolded, he began to cry and clung tightly to
+his brother, fearing to look about him "lest one of the robbers should be
+there to cut my poor little head off," as he whispered to Carl. But when
+Carl said, "Eddie, you must be good and believe what these men say. They
+are not going to harm us and we are going straight home to mother. See I
+will put the bandage on your eyes myself, and will sit close to you and
+hold your hand all the time." He then tied a clean handkerchief, which the
+man gave him, close over Eddie's eyes and allowed the man to do the same to
+him. They then were led out of the hall.
+
+They heard the heavy door close after them, and felt the cool, morning air
+blow over their faces, then the boys knew they were outside the stone wall.
+Soon they were lifted up, and put in a wagon, and a man's voice close to
+them said: "Boys, I am going to put your little cart in the wagon too, so
+that you may get it home safely." When all was ready, the wagon began to
+move away, and as they drove off, they heard the voices of the robbers
+calling after them, "good-bye, brave boys, we wish you good luck."
+
+Little Eddie sat quite still beside Carl; as they drove away he held tight
+fast to his brother, and neither of them spoke a word.
+
+They were astonished at all they had seen and heard, while they were in the
+robbers' castle, and now they were once more in the free and open woods,
+they could not do as they pleased, but sat with their eyes bound up, not
+knowing where they were going. Carl did not doubt the words of the men who
+told him that no harm should come to him, but at times he had to comfort
+and assure poor little Eddie, for he sat trembling with fear. After they
+had driven several miles, and the man who was with them had answered their
+questions as to how far they were from home now, the wagon stopped and the
+man got out saying, "Now boys, you are on the road that leads direct to
+your home and I am going to leave you very soon, but before I go you must
+promise me not to untie the bandage from your eyes, till you hear a long
+whistle, which will blow from my horn, after leaving you; you will then
+undo the bandage, and find something beside you to take to your mother."
+Saying this, the man took the boys from the wagon, and setting them
+carefully down, he lifted their cart out also and shaking hands with the
+still astonished boys, and wishing them good-bye, he sprang into the wagon
+and they heard him drive rapidly along the road.
+
+They sat for some time very quiet, until the loud, long whistle from a
+distant horn told them the time of their captivity was at an end, and
+hastily tearing off the bandage from their eyes they looked eagerly around
+on all sides. Not a vestige of the wagon could be seen. It had been turned
+just at the spot where they had been left, and whether it went back the
+same way, or took another road, they never knew. But what was their
+surprise, when they turned to look for their own little cart, to see beside
+it a pile of wood cut just so as to fit in, and on top of the pile a
+package containing many pieces of money in bright shining gold. This was
+the present they were told to "take back to their mother." Carl's heart
+gave a great bound of joy, for he knew how sorely his dear mother needed
+help, and he knew now that these men were her friends, and would never harm
+them.
+
+They had scarcely recovered from their surprise, and had just begun to load
+the little cart with the well-cut wood, when sounds of voices were heard,
+and the boys could distinctly hear their own names called. They knew it was
+the neighbors who were out searching for them, and soon saw them coming out
+in the open space where they stood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The neighbors were heartily glad to find the boys safe and well, and
+surprised at the wonderful things they had to tell of all that had befallen
+them.
+
+
+Madame de Meisner.
+
+Many Morristonians will remember well Miss Sophie Radford, first as a
+little girl, living in the old Doughty House on Mt. Kemble avenue, then
+owned and occupied by her grandfather, Mr. Joseph Lovell, who purchased it
+of the Doughty estate and lived in it for a long period of time.
+Afterwards, Miss Radford is recalled as a charming girl and a belle in
+Washington Society, whence her father, Rear Admiral Radford, U. S. N., went
+from here, and where she met and married the handsome and elegant Secretary
+of the Russian Legation, M. de Meisner. Their marriage was performed first
+in the Episcopal church and afterwards with the ceremony of the Greek
+church, at her father's house, it being a law of Russia, with regard to
+every officer of the Empire, that the marriage ceremony of the Greek church
+shall be always used, a law like "that of the Medes and Persians, that
+altereth not".
+
+Both M. and Mme. de Meisner were in Morristown a few years ago and met many
+friends. It is since then, that they went to Russia and there, after a
+delightful reception and experience, Mme. de Meisner was inspired with the
+idea of writing "The Terrace of Mon Désir".
+
+It was published in the fall of 1886, by Cuppies, Upham & Co., of Boston.
+A curious fact about this book is that it was Mme. de Meisner's first
+appearance in the field of literature and she had never before contributed
+even the briefest article to the press.
+
+"The Terrace of Mon Désir" is a pretty love story, gracefully written. The
+opening scenes are laid in Peterhoff, near St. Petersburg, and where is the
+summer residence of the Czar. The author thus finds an opportunity of
+describing a charming social life among the higher classes, with which,
+though an American girl, but married to a Russian, she seems to be and is
+perfectly at home, having it is evident taken kindly to the new and
+interesting situations of her adopted country. The characters are
+delightfully and simply natural and the combinations are vivacious and
+sparkling, by which quality American women are distinguished, and in which
+characteristic foreigners find an indescribable charm.
+
+Mme. de Meisner herself has a bright animation in conversation. Some
+authors talk well only on paper, but to this observation the author of "The
+Terrace of Mon Désir" is a marked exception, as all those who know her
+graceful, easy flow of language will recognize.
+
+The continuity of the story forbids an extract.
+
+
+Miss Isabel Stone.
+
+Miss Stone who has long lived and moved in our society, has written, beside
+the poem already given, many bright papers and stories for children which
+have been published in various magazines and journals, among them _The
+Observer_; _Life_; _Little Ones in the Nursery_, edited by Oliver Optic;
+_The Press_, of Philadelphia; _The Troy Press_ and _The Christian Weekly_.
+These stories and other writings were published under an assumed name.
+
+In 1885, she published a very clever booklet entitled Who Was Old Mother
+Hubbard? A Modern Sermon from the _Portsmouth_ (Eng.) _Monitor_ and a
+Refutation by an M. M. C., New York; G. P. Putnam Sons.
+
+This booklet had a very large sale and went through several editions. The
+story of this publication is interesting. "The Modern Sermon" appeared
+anonymously, first in one of our prominent magazines. It was written in
+England and traced to its origin. This was read at a meeting of the
+Mediæval Club, (a literary club of some celebrity in Morristown), at the
+house of Mr. John Wood, one of its members. Miss Stone was at once inspired
+to write the "Refutation"; which was read at her own house by Mr. John
+Wood, arrayed in characteristic costume for the occasion. (For the benefit
+of those who may not know him, we may add that Mr. John Wood is one of
+Morristown's best readers and amateur actors.)
+
+We give the "Refutation" which is a clever dissection of the subject. As "A
+Modern Sermon illustrates the method upon which some Parsons Construct
+their Discourses", so "A Refutation" appears "in the Combative, Lucid and
+Argumentative Style of Some Others".
+
+
+REFUTATION.
+
+MY DEAR HEARERS: It is my purpose this evening to give to you the result of
+many hours of thought and consultation of various authors regarding the
+subject to which our attention has been lately called.
+
+While I hesitate to engage in the controversial spirit of the day, I feel
+it my duty to expound to you the truth and to unmask any heresy that may be
+gaining ground.
+
+The discourse to which I allude was upon the text,--
+
+"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
+  To get her poor dog a bone;
+But when she got there the cupboard was bare,
+  And so the poor dog got none."
+
+I propose to prove to you this evening that all its arguments were founded
+on false premises; that the _whole picture_ drawn of the subject of our
+text--viz., old Mother Hubbard--was diametrically the reverse of the
+reality; in short, to give _a complete refutation of the text_ to all those
+who listened to those first erroneous statements.
+
+_Firstly_, Old Mother Hubbard was _not_ a widow.
+
+I am at a loss to understand why our learned brother should so have drawn
+upon his imagination as to represent her as such, when, as I shall endeavor
+to set before you _conclusively_ this evening, it is _distinctly_ stated in
+the text that she was the wife of an _ogre_!
+
+My friends, in those days _men_ and _husbands_ were designated by the term
+"poor dog;" and, indeed, the lightest scholar knows that the term has
+descended to the present day and is often appropriated by a man himself
+under certain existing circumstances.
+
+Now, that this "poor dog" of a husband was an ogre is abundantly proved by
+the fact that Mother Hubbard provided for him bones.
+
+Yes! bones! my friends; but--_they_--_were_--_human_--bones!
+
+Deep research has convinced me of this fact. I find that in those days
+ogres did not catch and kill their own meat, as is commonly supposed. They
+were but human, my friends, and, like the rest of humanity, preferred
+rather to purchase labor than perform it. They, therefore, employed their
+own individual butchers; but, with rare wisdom, they chose some carnivorous
+animal to supply their table.
+
+In proof of this, we come, _Secondly_, to the word cupboard, as mentioned
+in the text,--
+
+"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
+To get her poor dog a bone."
+
+This word cupboard is in our present version misspelt, owing to some fault
+in copying from the original, and thus is rendered c-u-p-b-o-a-r-d; but the
+word properly should be spelt c-u-b-b-e-d. This is a compound word, derived
+from cub--a young bear--and bed, or deposit, as we speak of the bed of a
+river.
+
+This was a _bone_ deposit--a place where the ogre's food was deposited by
+the cub.
+
+A young cub was a less expensive butcher than a bear, as nowadays labor is
+cheaper from the young aspirant than from the assured professional.
+Therefore they were the usual employees.
+
+But this ogre, though evidently in the habit of employing a cub in this
+department, had now become dissatisfied and procured the more satisfactory
+service of an old bear; for, if you will carefully examine the text, you
+will see that the meaning is _obvious_, for, as though to insure all its
+readers from misunderstanding, you will see that it is _distinctly_ stated
+that--
+
+"The cub-bed was _bear_."
+
+Now we come _Thirdly_ to the word "none."
+
+"And so the poor dog got none."
+
+This word in the original stands for two things--first, n-o-n-e, meaning
+nothing, which was the heretical sense deducted by my opponent, and the
+other and correct sense being n-u-n--a woman with black veil, generally of
+tender years; and Mother Hubbard, who intended to supply her lord's table
+with one small bone, found that instead the bear had secured the bones of a
+_whole nun_!
+
+_Fourthly_ and lastly, it is clear from the words "poor dog," that the ogre
+was poor, but _not_ Mother Hubbard.
+
+No, my hearers, _evidently_ she was _rich_, evidently _she_ held the
+purse-strings, and the ogre had stealthily supplied his table with a
+luxury, and his house with a steward, for which he individually was
+incapable of providing the means.
+
+This is _clearly_ the fact from the words of the text, for you will notice
+that it was _when_ she got there--not _before_, but _when_ she got there,
+that she found the change that had been made in the household
+arrangements.
+
+And then, doubtless, ensued a scene such as some "poor dogs" nowadays
+understand only too well!
+
+And now, my friends, we come to the moral. It is _not_ to beware of widows
+as my opponent tried to prove, but for you, my hearers, on one hand, to
+beware of marrying a poor but extravagant dog, and you, on the other, to
+beware of marrying a rich but penurious wife.
+
+
+Augustus Wood.
+
+Charles P. Sherman.
+
+Miss Helen M. Graham.
+
+It is scarcely necessary to state the fact that Mr. Augustus Wood is a
+native of Morristown, belonging as he does to a very old and well-known
+family, or that he is the author of a little volume entitled "Cupid on
+Crutches". This is a summer story of life at Narragansett Pier and makes
+one of a group of light novels which we will give in succession.
+
+
+"A BACHELOR'S WEDDING TRIP."
+
+BY "HIMSELF."
+
+"Himself" we recognize as Mr. Charles Sherman, then a bachelor, who
+cleverly dedicates the book in these words: "To the Unmarried: as Instance
+of the Bliss which may be Theirs, and to the Married, as Reminiscent of THE
+trip, These Threaded Sketches are Fraternally Dedicated by the Author".
+
+The third of the group is
+
+
+GUY HERNDON OR "A TALE OF GETTYSBURG."
+
+BY "ELAYNE."
+
+Elayne, we know, is Miss Helen M. Graham, one of Morristown's Society girls
+who spends much of her time in New York.
+
+This "Tale of Gettysburg" is the first venture of Miss Graham into the
+field of literature. Her choice of subject indicates that she is in touch
+with the growing realization among our novelists of how wide and fruitful
+a field is presented to them in the events of our civil war. The few
+graphic pictures already given by them of the social and other conditions
+of those stirring times, will be more and more valued by the present
+generation, and by those to come, as the years go on.
+
+
+Other Novelists and Story Writers.
+
+Among the poets, we have already mentioned as writers also of stories, many
+of them for children and young people,--
+
+_Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg_,
+_Miss Emma F. R. Campbell_,
+_Miss Hannah More Johnson_,
+And _Mr. William T. Meredith_,
+
+the last being the author of a summer novel, "Not of Her Father's Race".
+
+_Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D._,
+
+who, in addition to his editorial work and more serious writing, has
+published more than thirty small juvenile works, written under the name of
+"Robin Ranger", and which are all very great favorites with children, and
+
+_Mrs. Julia McNair Wright_,
+
+who, besides her many volumes on many subjects, has written novels, among
+them, "A Wife Hard Won," published by Lippincott, and a large number of
+stories for young people, found in many Sunday School libraries, as well as
+stories on the subject of Temperance, which are found in the collected
+libraries of Temperance societies.
+
+
+
+
+TRANSLATORS.
+
+
+Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley.
+
+Mrs. Buckley, who has already been numbered among our _Poets_, has
+translated a German story called "Sought and Found" from the original work
+of Golo Raimund, which has passed to its second edition. The translator
+says, in her four line preface, "This romance was translated because of its
+rare simplicity and beauty, and is published that those who have not seen
+it in the original may enjoy it also."
+
+One never takes up these charming little German stories without exclaiming,
+no other country-people ever write in the same sweet, simple way! The
+reason is evident to those who have lived among Germans and experienced
+their unaffected hospitality. There is a peculiar simplicity of home life
+even among the nobility. A friend says: "I so well remember now, a lovely
+morning visit, in particular, to a little, gentle German lady in her
+beautiful drawing-room which contained the treasures of centuries. No one,
+I am sure, could have helped being struck by her gentle simplicity and
+unaffected courtesy. She came in dressed in the plainest of black dresses,
+a white apron tied around her waist, and on her head the simplest of
+morning caps. But her sweet German language,--how beautiful it seemed, as
+in the low, musical voice which bespoke her breeding, she talked of her own
+German poets; of Walther von der Vogelweide and the great Goethe and
+Schiller, of Auerbach and Richter and modern story writers." Afterwards, in
+speaking of the charm and beauty of such simplicity, the friend added,
+"Yes, and she belongs to one of the oldest noble, hereditary families of
+Germany, and carries the sixteen quarterings upon the family shield, which,
+to those who understand German heraldry, means the longest unmixed German
+descent. We could not help contrasting such quiet manners with many of the
+artificial assumptions and the aggressive boldness found that winter in
+Dresden." Therefore we always hail with pleasure translations of these
+stories of German life among all classes. Though to translate requires no
+creative power, translating is in some respects more difficult than
+creating, for the reason that to translate demands a quick comprehension
+and intuitive discernment of the spirit of a foreign language, of the
+conception of the writer and of the national life which the language
+embodies. And we must remember that it is in the power of interpretation
+that woman especially excels.
+
+This little story is essentially well rendered, with the animation and
+vivacity of the original, and it has great merit in preserving its German
+spirit, that sentiment which is so marked and so unlike any other people.
+
+What Dr. Johnson said of translation had a ring of truth as had all his
+mighty utterances, namely: "Philosophy and science may be translated
+perfectly and history, so far as it does not reach oratory, but poetry can
+never be translated without losing its most essential qualities." It would
+seem then that to know the poetry of a people one must read it in the
+original language, which every one surely cannot do. Mrs. Buckley however,
+recognizing this subtle quality of the poetry of a language, has left the
+little verses of the story untouched, wisely giving the translation at the
+bottom of the page. A very lovely translation it is however and after a
+short passage from the book, "Sought and Found", we shall give another
+poetic translation of the poem "Im Arm der Liebe", by Georg Scheurlin.
+
+The following is a short passage from the story:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "SOUGHT AND FOUND."
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GOLO RAIMUND.
+
+Upon the table lay Veronica's picture, which in the meantime had been sent.
+The flowers, painted by her hand, appeared to him like a friendly greeting.
+He took it up and regarded it a long time; then, followed a sudden
+inspiration, he wrote upon the back:
+
+(Here follows the German verse, the translation below:)
+
+     Thy merry jest is gentle as the May,
+       Thy tender heart a lily of the dell;
+     Fragrant as the rose thy inmost soul,
+       Thy wondrous song a sweet-toned bell.
+
+As in sport he subscribed his name; and then, as this homage, which had so
+long existed in his heart, suddenly expressed in words, stood before him,
+black upon white it was to him as if another had opened his eyes and he
+must guard the newly discovered secret. He placed the picture in a
+portfolio, in order to lock it in his writing-desk, and his eye fell upon
+the journal which had so singularly come into his hands. He laid the
+portfolio beside it. Did they not belong together? Did not the mysterious
+author resemble Veronica?
+
+Like a revelation it flashed over him and so powerfully affected his
+imagination that the blood mounted hotly to his temples, and, in spite of
+the severe cold, he threw open the window that he might have more air.
+
+"If it were she!" thought he; restlessly striding up and down, and yet
+exultant that he had now found a trace which could be followed.
+
+THE ARM OF LOVE.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GEORG SCHEURLIN.
+
+     A young wife sits by a cradle nest,
+     Her fair boy smiling on her breast;
+     In the quiet room draws on the night,
+     And she rocks and sings by the soft lamplight;
+     On mother bosom the rest is deep;
+     In the arm of love--so fall asleep.
+
+     In the cool vale, 'neath sunny sky,
+     We sit alone, my own and I;
+     A song of joy wells in my breast,
+     Ah, heart to heart, how sweet the rest!
+     The brooklets ripple, the breezes sweep;
+     In the arm of love--so fall asleep.
+
+     From the churchyard tolls the solemn bell,
+     For the pilgrim has finished his journey well;
+     Here lays he down the staff, long pressed;
+     In the bosom of earth, how calm the rest!
+     Above the casket the earth they heap;
+     In the arm of love--so fall asleep.
+
+
+Miss Margaret N. Garrard.
+
+It must be a poet who shall translate a poet and so naturally we find Miss
+Garrard as well as Mrs. Buckley, already in our group of "Poets".
+
+The difficulty of reproducing well, in metrical forms, thoughts from the
+poetry of another language, is so great, that we give with pride the
+translation of Miss Garrard of one of Goethe's sweet wild-wood songs, in
+which he excelled.
+
+THE BROOK.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE.
+
+     Little brook, where wild flowers drink,
+       Rushing past me, swift and clear--
+     Thoughtful stand I on the brink--
+       "Where's thy home? Whence com'st thou here?"
+
+     I come from out the rock's dark gloom,
+       My way lies o'er the flower-strewn plain;
+     And in my bosom there is room
+       To mirror heaven's sweet face again.
+
+     Pain, sorrow, trouble have I none;
+       I wander onward, blithe and free--
+     He who has called me from the stone
+       Will to the end my guardian be.
+
+
+Other Translators.
+
+_Hon. John Whitehead_ has translated considerably from the French and
+German, having used these translations in several of his writings, but
+individually they have not been published. He aided in translating the
+"History of the War of the Rebellion in North Western Virginia", which was
+written in German by Major F. J. Mangold, of the Prussian Army. The book
+was a monograph published by Major Mangold in Germany, but never published
+here. This translation was largely used by Judge Whitehead in his published
+articles on "The Fitz John Porter Case."
+
+_Miss Karch_, a German lady long a resident of Morristown, was also a
+translator, but it has not been possible to procure the details of her
+work. It is nine years since Miss Karch returned to Heilbronn, Germany,
+where she is now living. For the fifteen years preceding her return, she
+had been a resident of Morristown as a teacher of the German and French
+languages. Says a friend: "She was a conscientious, accomplished and true
+woman, intensely loyal as a true German, self-sacrificing, patient and
+kindly generous in bestowing her softening and refining influences, upon
+those who needed them."
+
+
+
+
+LEXICOGRAPHER.
+
+
+Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D.
+
+The great work of Dr. Lewis is his Latin Dictionary, published in 1879, as
+"Lewis and Short's Revision of Andrew's Freund". This is recognized as the
+most useful and convenient modern Latin-English Lexicon.
+
+Quite recently Dr. Lewis has brought out a Latin Dictionary for _schools_,
+which is not an abridgement of the larger work, but an original work on a
+definite plan of its own. "It has the prestige", says a critic, "of having
+been accepted in advance by the Clarendon Press of Oxford, and adopted
+among their publications in place of a similar lexicon projected and begun
+by themselves. Thus it may be said to be published in England under the
+official patronage of the University of Oxford".
+
+Dr. Lewis also published in 1886 "A History of Germany From the Earliest
+Times".
+
+He ranks among the first Greek scholars of the country, having been for
+many years a member of the well-known Greek Club of New York, of which the
+late Rev. Howard Crosby D. D. was pioneer and president.
+
+He also ranks high as a Shakesperian scholar and critic, and as a poet.
+From his poem of "Telemachus", some lines are transcribed among the
+poetical selections of this book.
+
+Dr. Lewis has made a profound study of the subject of prison reform and has
+been, and is, an active worker in that direction, in the New York Prison
+Association, being on the Executive Board of that Association.
+
+In Stedman and Hutchinson's "Library of American Literature", Dr. Lewis is
+represented by a paper on the "Influence of Civilization on Duration of
+Life".
+
+
+
+
+HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS.
+
+
+William Cherry.
+
+ANCIENT CHRONICLER.
+
+William Cherry is a veritable "Old Mortality", judging from a unique volume
+found in the Morristown Library. This ancient sexton of the First
+Presbyterian Church, was a true wanderer among graves. It is said by those
+who remember, or who had it from their fathers, that the old house
+adjoining the Lyceum Building is the one in which Mr. Cherry lived and no
+doubt reflected on the uncertainty of life, while he compiled his
+melancholy record.
+
+The following is the title of the old volume published by him and printed
+by Jacob Mann in the year 1806:
+
+"Bill of Mortality: Being a Register of all the Deaths, which have occurred
+in the Presbyterian and Baptist Congregations of Morristown, New Jersey;
+For Thirty-Eight Years Past, Containing (with but few exceptions) the Cause
+of every Disease. This Register, for the First Twenty-Two Years, was kept
+by the Rev. Dr. Johnes, since which Time, by _William Cherry_, the Present
+Sexton of the Presbyterian Church at Morris-Town".
+
+"Time brushes off our lives with sweeping wings."--_Hervey._
+
+Some of the causes of disease given are as follows:
+
+"Decay of Nature"; "Teething"; "Old Age"; "A Swelling"; "Mortification";
+"Sudden"; "Phrenzy"; "Casual"; "Poisoned by Night-Shade Berries";
+"Lingering Decay", &c. We find no mention of "Heart Failure".
+
+This curious and valuable volume needs no further comment.
+
+[Illustration: THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS.
+
+FROM GARDEN AND FOREST.
+
+Copyright 1892, by the GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO.]
+
+
+Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D.
+
+To the Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D. we are indebted for the invaluable
+chronicles of events, of the life of the people, and of Washington and his
+army in Morristown during the Revolutionary period. Apparently, all this
+interesting story, in its details, would have been lost to us, except for
+his indefatigable zeal in collecting from the lips of living men and women,
+the eye-witnesses of what he relates, or from their immediate descendants,
+the story he gives us with such pictorial charm and beauty, warm from his
+own imaginary dwelling in the period of which he writes.
+
+For the following sketch of this author we are indebted to the historian
+who follows, the Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.
+
+Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D., son of Rev. Jacob and Elizabeth Ward Tuttle,
+was born at Bloomfield, N. J., March 12th, 1818. Fitted for college
+principally at Newark Academy, he graduated at Marietta College with first
+honors of his class in 1841. He entered Lane Seminary and was licensed to
+preach in 1844. In 1847 he was called to pastorate of church at Rockaway,
+N. J., as associate to his aged father-in-law, Rev. Dr. Barnabas King. He
+left Rockaway to accept the Presidency of Wabash College in 1862, and,
+after thirty years in that position, resigned in 1892.
+
+During his fifteen years in this county he was a most voluminous and
+acceptable writer for the press--writing for the _Observer_, _Evangelist_,
+_Tribune_ and other papers. But he is principally remembered more for his
+work as a local historian. He wrote, "The Early History of Morris County";
+"Biographical Sketch of Gen. Winds"; "Washington in Morris County";
+"History of the Presbyterian Church at Rockaway"; "Life of William Tuttle";
+"Revolutionary Fragments", (a series of articles published in _The Newark
+Sentinel of Freedom_); "Early History of Presbyterianism in Morris County",
+and other shorter articles. At the time his Revolutionary articles were
+published there were still men living who had personal knowledge of the
+events of that era and he gathered an immense amount of material which but
+for him would have been lost.
+
+The following from the pen of Dr. Tuttle appeared in _The Newark Daily
+Advertiser_ of April, 1883:
+
+
+A FINE RELIC AND A FINE POEM.
+
+Thirty years ago and more my surplus energy was devoted to the innocent
+delights of hunting up places, people, facts and traditions associated
+with the American Revolution as preserved in Morris County. Some very
+charming rides were taken to Pompton, Mendham, Baskingridge, Spring Valley,
+Kimball Mountain, Singack, and other places. My rides made me certain that
+Morris County is both rich in beautiful scenery and historic associations.
+The results of these rides appeared in a series of "Revolutionary
+Fragments" printed in the _Advertiser_, as also in some elaborate papers
+before the Historical Society.
+
+One day I visited the Ford Mansion, and met that polished and elegant
+gentleman, the late Henry A. Ford, Esq., then its proprietor. He was the
+son of Judge Gabriel H. Ford, grandson of Colonel Jacob Ford, Jr., whose
+widow was the hostess of Washington, the Winter of 1779-80, great-grandson
+of Colonel Jacob Ford, Sr., who built the "Ford Mansion," and
+great-great-grandson of John Ford, of Hunterdon County, whose wife was
+Elizabeth who was brought to Philadelphia from Axford, England, when she
+was a child a year old. Her father was drowned by falling from the plank on
+which he was walking from the ship to the shore. Philadelphia then had but
+one house in it. Mrs. Ford's second husband was Lindsley, and "the widow
+Elizabeth Lindsley died at the house of her son, Col. Jacob Ford, Sr.,
+April 21, 1772, aged ninety-one years and one month," and so the courtly
+master of the "Ford Mansion," when I called to visit it, was of the fifth
+generation from the child-emigrant, whose father was drowned in the
+Delaware, in 1682.
+
+The pleasure of the visit was greatly enhanced by the attentions of Miss
+Louisa, daughter of the gentleman named. She afterward became the wife of
+Judge Ogden of Paterson. The father and daughter with delightful courtesy
+took me over the famous house and associated in my memory the rooms and
+halls, and even the antique furniture with the family's most illustrious
+guest. I was especially interested in the old mirror that had hung in
+Washington's bedroom. Miss Ford produced a poem on that mirror, written, I
+think, by an aunt, and at my request she read it. She was a charming reader
+and promised me a copy.
+
+Under date of Paterson, October 31st, 1856, Mrs. Ogden was kind enough to
+send me the promised copy with a note apologizing for the delay and adding:
+"I think, however, you will find the poetry has not spoiled by keeping." I
+have not ceased to be thankful that my first visit to the Ford Mansion was
+so pleasantly associated with the attentions of the father and daughter,
+both of whom have since died.
+
+The mirror is a fine relic still to be seen with other elegant old
+furniture, belonging to the Ford family, at the "Washington Quarters" at
+Morristown, and I am sure all will regard the poem which pleased me so
+much thirty years ago as "one that has not spoiled by keeping."
+
+
+ON AN OLD MIRROR USED BY WASHINGTON AT HIS HEADQUARTERS IN MORRISTOWN.
+
+     Old Mirror! speak and tell us whence
+     Thou comest, and then, who brought thee thence.
+     Did dear old England give thee birth?
+     Or merry France, the land of mirth?
+     In vain another should we seek
+     At all like thee--thou thing antique.
+     Of the old mansion thou seem'st part;
+     Indeed, to me, its very heart;
+     For in thy face, though dimmed with age,
+     I read my country's brightest page.
+     Five generations, all have passed,
+     And yet, old Mirror, thou dost last;
+     The young, the old, the good, the bad,
+     The gay, the gifted and the sad
+     Are gone; their hopes, their sighs, their fears
+     Are buried deep with smiles and tears.
+     Then speak; old Mirror! thou hast seen
+     Full many a noble form, I ween;
+     Full many a soldier, tall and brave,
+     Now lying in a nameless grave;
+     Full many a fairy form and bright
+     Hath flitted by when hearts were light;
+     Full many a bride--whose short life seemed
+     Too happy to be even dreamed;
+     Full many a lord and titled dame,
+     Bearing full many an honored name;
+     And tell us, Mirror, how they dressed--
+     Those stately dames, when in their best?
+     If robes and sacques the damsels wore,
+     And sweeping skirts in days of yore?
+     But tell us, too, for we _must_ hear
+     Of _him_ whom all the world revere.
+     Thou sawest him when the times so dark
+     Had made upon his brow their mark;
+     Those fearful times, those dreary days,
+     When all seemed but a tangled maze;
+     His noble army, worn with toils,
+     Giving their life blood to the soils.
+     Disease and famine brooding o'er,
+     His country's foe e'en at his door;
+     But ever saw him noble, brave,
+     Seeking her freedom or his grave.
+     His was the heart that never quailed;
+     His was the arm that never failed!
+     Old Mirror! thou hast seen what we
+     Would barter all most dear to see;
+     The great, the good, the _noblest_ one;
+     Our own _immortal Washington_!
+     Well may we gaze--for now in thee
+     Relies of the great past we see,
+     Well may we gaze--for ne'er again,
+     Old Mirror, shall we see such men;
+     And when we too have lived our day,
+     Like those before us passed away,
+     Still, valued Mirror, may'st thou last
+     To tell our children of the past;
+     Still thy dimmed face, thy tarnished frame
+     Thy honored house and time proclaim;
+     And ne'er may sacrilegious hand,
+     While Freedom claims this as her land
+     One stone or pebble rashly throw
+     To lay thee, honored Mirror, low.
+
+                                Y. F.
+
+
+Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.
+
+Mr. Halsey, historian, biographer, as well as lawyer, has published our
+most valuable "History of Morris County", and is considered an authority
+upon that subject, his accuracy being unquestioned. By his sterling
+integrity and superior intellectual ability, he has, in the practice of his
+profession, gained the entire confidence of the community in which, as a
+lawyer, he has passed the greater part of his life.
+
+Included in his literary work are "Personal Sketches" of Governor Mahlon
+Dickerson, Colonel Joseph Jackson, and others; "The Revolutionary Army in
+Morris County in 1779-'80"; and a brief sketch of the Washington
+Headquarters entitled "History of the Washington Association of New
+Jersey", published in Morristown in 1891.
+
+Mr. Halsey also assisted Mr. William O. Wheeler in the publication of a
+book of unique interest and of unusual value, especially to genealogists
+and antiquarians, the title of which reads "Inscriptions on Tombstones and
+Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St.
+John's Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey".
+
+Mr. Halsey is a prominent member of the "Historical Society of New Jersey",
+as well as of the "Washington Association of New Jersey".
+
+We quote from his "History of the Washington Association" the following
+"brief history of the title of the property".
+
+
+FROM "HISTORY OF THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY."
+
+Colonel Jacob Ford, Senior--prominent as a merchant, iron manufacturer, and
+land owner, who was president Judge of the County Court from the formation
+of the County in 1740 until his death in 1777, and who presided over the
+meeting, June 27, 1774, which appointed the first "Committee of
+Correspondence"--conveyed the tract of 200 acres surrounding the house to
+his son, Jacob Ford, junior, March 24, 1762. In 1768 he conveyed to him the
+Mount Hope mines and meadows where the son built the stone mansion still
+standing. In 1773 Jacob Ford, junior, rented this Mount Hope property for
+fifty years to John Jacob Faesch and David Wrisbery, and these men
+proceeded to build the furnace afterward useful to the patriot army in
+supplying it with cannon and cannon-balls.
+
+Colonel Jacob Ford, junior, after making this lease returned to Morristown,
+and, probably with his father's aid, began at once the erection of these
+Headquarters, and had just completed the building when the war broke out.
+He was made Colonel of the Eastern Battalion of the Morris County Militia
+and was detailed to cover Washington's retreat across New Jersey in the
+"mud rounds" of 1776--a service accomplished with honor and success. In
+this or in similar service, Colonel Ford contracted pneumonia, of which he
+died January 10, 1777, and was buried with military honors by order of
+Washington. He left a widow, Theodosia Ford, and five young children. She
+was the daughter of Rev. Timothy Johnes, whose pastorate of the First
+church extended from 1742 to 1794, and who is said to have administered the
+Communion to Washington. This lady in 1779-80 offered to Washington the
+hospitality of her house, and here was his Headquarters from about December
+1, 1779 to June 1780. In 1805, Judge Gabriel H. Ford, one of the sons of
+Colonel Jacob, purchased his brothers' and sister's interest in the
+property and made it his home until his death in 1849. By his will dated
+January 27, 1848, Gabriel H. Ford, devised this, his homestead to his son,
+Henry A. Ford, who continued to occupy it until his death, which occurred
+April 22, 1872. From the heirs of Henry A. Ford title was derived to the
+four gentlemen who organized the Association, namely: Governor Theodore F.
+Randolph, Hon. George A. Halsey, General N. N. Halsted, and William Van
+Vleck Lidgerwood, Esq.
+
+
+Hon. John Whitehead.
+
+BIOGRAPHER AND HISTORIAN.
+
+Of Mr. Whitehead's new departure into the field of romance, we have already
+spoken and a portion of his story "A Fishing Trip to Barnegat", is given to
+represent him among "Novelists and Story Writers".
+
+His literary work of many years covers a variety of departments in
+literature.
+
+In the _Northern Monthly Magazine_ which began some years ago, as a
+periodical of high order we find running through several numbers a "History
+of the English Language", contributed by Mr. Whitehead, in which he starts
+from a true and philosophic premise. It is this: "It would be difficult to
+separate any one creation from the whole universe and pronounce that it is
+not subject to law." The reader discovers that these magazine articles
+contain the germs of all that has been written in many exhaustive works on
+the philosophy and growth of language.
+
+For a number of years, Mr. Whitehead was editor of _The Record_, a small
+sheet opened by the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, the value of
+which historically increases with each year. For this, he wrote largely,
+sketches of prominent men of Revolutionary times and of others connected
+with the congregation of the church.
+
+Some important papers were contributed by him to the local press, including
+"A Review of Fitz John Porter's Case", in the Morristown _Banner_, also
+"Sketches of Morris County Lawyers". A series of "Sketches" was also
+published in the _Newark Sunday Call_, entitled "Newark Aforetime",
+referring to Newark and Newark people, fifty years ago.
+
+Many of Mr. Whitehead's speeches and addresses have been published, among
+them, those given at the Centennial Celebration of the First Presbyterian
+Church of Morristown; at the Centennial Celebration of the Presbyterian
+Church at Springfield, N. J.; two or three addresses before the Society of
+the Sons of the American Revolution, and an address delivered two or three
+years ago before the Washington Association of N. J. Of the latter
+Association, Mr. Whitehead is an honored member as well as of the
+Historical Society of New Jersey.
+
+In the course of his study and writing, we have already mentioned among
+"Translators," Mr. Whitehead has made several valuable translations from
+German and French authors.
+
+We must not overlook one principal labor which is far more herculean than
+we, who are so greatly benefited by it, perhaps fully comprehend, namely,
+the Catalogue, in two volumes, of the Library, in which Morristown justly
+takes so much pride. This was a voluntary work.
+
+Mr. Whitehead is now engaged on a "History of Morris County", to form one
+chapter in a new illustrated "History of New Jersey," to be published by
+Colonel U. S. Sharp. He has also in preparation the "History of the First
+Presbyterian Church" of Morristown, in which will appear the interesting
+proceedings of the Centennial exercises, recently held there.
+
+A series of fine articles on "The Supreme Court of New Jersey" are now
+appearing in _The Green Bag_ of Boston. This _Green Bag_ is a magazine
+published in the interests of the legal fraternity, as from its significant
+name we see, and this magazine is the nearest approach so far made by
+Americans towards the traditional appendage of the English barrister,
+everywhere seen over the border in Canada, by which, it is well known, he
+is always accompanied when he goes to court and while he remains there in
+attendance. This bag contains his briefs, papers and other impedimenta
+connected with trials. It is not surprising, but it is touching, to find
+Boston holding on to this last hope of accomplishing that for which so many
+frantic efforts have been made in this country, only to meet with failure.
+
+The last article in this magazine, of the series on "The Supreme Court of
+New Jersey", is delightful in expression and in form; it has a fine large
+type, is illustrated with well-executed portraits of the judges, in group
+and singly, and is altogether most attractive and interesting.
+
+
+Bayard Tuckerman.
+
+Mr. Tuckerman, who resided for some time in Morristown, and whose ancestry
+is associated with artistic and literary taste and genius, is the author of
+"The Life of General Lafayette", published in 1889, during his residence
+in Morristown, and, a copy of which was presented by the author, in person,
+to the Morristown Library. Before this, he published a "History of English
+Prose Fiction", in 1882, and after it, in 1889 again, he edited "The Diary
+of Philip Hone". This author is now engaged on another book, to be
+published in the spring in the "Makers of America" series, with the title
+of "Peter Stuyvesant".
+
+"The Diary of Philip Hone" is a charming book, especially to those familiar
+with old New York. The editorship of any life requires a talent for
+selection and a gift for combining and drawing together much desultory
+matter, but when we consider that the two volumes, into which Mr. Tuckerman
+compressed his material were less than one-fourth the original diary, which
+fills twenty-eight quarto manuscript volumes, the herculean task is at once
+apparent. A critic in one of the popular journals says of it: "As a rule
+the diary needs little interpretation and it may be welcomed as an
+agreeable, gossipy contribution to civic annals, and as a pleasant record
+of a citizen of some distinction, parts and usefulness in his generation".
+
+In the "Life of General Lafayette", Mr. Tuckerman has evinced his superior
+love of industrious, conscientious study. The book is acknowledged to be
+essentially truthful and exceptionally just above anything ever written of
+Lafayette. It has been truly said of Mr. Tuckerman that "he tells the
+story of Lafayette's life in such a way that the interest increases as it
+proceeds" and that "he shows his skill as a biographer in this as in making
+both the narrative itself and his own criticism of the subject heighten our
+sympathy". He has not allowed himself to be turned from the actual
+statement of fact by that peculiar sentiment of the romantic side of
+Lafayette's career which has more or less colored the opinions of so many
+other biographers. Mr. Tuckerman himself says that "Lafayette's name has
+suffered more from the admiration of his friends than from the detraction
+of his enemies."
+
+
+FROM THE "LIFE OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE."
+
+The visit to America was supplemented in the following summer of 1785 by a
+journey through Germany and Austria.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Many distinguished officers were met. At one camp, as he (Lafayette) wrote
+to Washington, he found Lord Cornwallis, Colonels England, Abercrombie, and
+Musgrave; "on our side" Colonel Smith, Generals Duportail and Gouvion; "and
+we often remarked, Smith and I, that if we had been unfortunate in our
+struggle, we would have cut a poor figure there." Again;
+
+Writing from Valley Forge to the Comte de Broglie, he gave a sad picture
+of the poverty and sufferings of the army. "Everything here", he said,
+"combines to inspire disgust. At the smallest sign from you I shall return
+home". But the misery of Valley Forge never abated one jot of Lafayette's
+enthusiasm. The privations which he saw and shared only made him put his
+hand the more often into his own pocket, and redouble his efforts to obtain
+aid from the treasury of France.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+To Lafayette, the happiest portion of this voyage to America was the time
+passed in the company of Washington. Hastening from New York immediately on
+his arrival, he allowed himself to be delayed only at Philadelphia. "There
+is no rest for me," he wrote thence to Washington, "until I go to Mt.
+Vernon. I long for the pleasure to embrace you, my dear general; in a few
+days I shall be at Mt. Vernon, and I do already feel delighted with so
+charming a prospect." Two weeks of a proud pleasure were then passed in the
+society of the man who was always to remain his beau ideal. To walk about
+the beautiful grounds of Mt. Vernon with its honored master, discussing his
+agricultural plans; to sit with him in his library, and listen to his hopes
+regarding the nation for which he had done so much, were honors which
+Lafayette fully appreciated. He has left on record the feelings of
+admiration with which he saw the man who had so long led a great people in
+a great struggle retire to private life, with no thought other than
+satisfaction at duty performed. And it was a legitimate source of pride to
+himself that he had enlisted under his standard before fortune had smiled
+upon it, and had worked with all his heart to crown it with victory. The
+two men thoroughly knew each other.
+
+The words of Lafayette will be found, in this volume, in the paper on
+"George Washington."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He (Washington) responded to Lafayette's demonstrative regard by a sincere
+paternal affection. Later in the summer, Lafayette met Washington again,
+and visited in his company some of the scenes of the late war. When the
+time for parting had come, Washington accompanied his guest as far as
+Annapolis in his carriage. There the two friends separated, not to meet
+again.
+
+On his return to Mt. Vernon, Washington added to his words of farewell, a
+letter in which occur the following passages; "In the moment of our
+separation, upon the road as I travelled, and every hour since, I have felt
+all that love, respect, and attachment for you, with which length of years,
+close connection and your merits have inspired me. I often asked myself, as
+our carriages separated, whether that was the last sight I ever should have
+of you, and though I wished to say no, my fears answered yes. I called to
+mind the days of my youth, and found they had long since fled, to return no
+more; that I was now descending the hill I had been fifty-two years
+climbing, and that, though I was blest with a good constitution, I was of a
+short-lived family, and might soon expect to be entombed in the mansion of
+my fathers. These thoughts darkened the shades and gave a gloom to the
+picture, and consequently to my prospect of seeing you again. But I will
+not repine; I have had my day. * * * * It is unnecessary, I persuade
+myself, to repeat to you, my dear Marquis, the sincerity of my regards and
+friendship; nor have I words which could express my affection for you, were
+I to attempt it. My fervent prayers are offered for your safe and pleasant
+passage, happy meeting with Madame de Lafayette and family, and the
+completion of every wish of your heart." To these words Lafayette replied
+from on board the "Nymphe," on the eve of his departure for France: "Adieu,
+adieu, my dear general. It is with inexpressible pain that I feel I am
+going to be severed from you by the Atlantic. Everything that admiration,
+respect, gratitude, friendship, and filial love can inspire is combined in
+my affectionate heart to devote me most tenderly to you. In your friendship
+I find a delight which words cannot express. Adieu, my dear general. It is
+not without emotion that I write this word, although I know I shall soon
+visit you again. Be attentive to your health. Let me hear from you every
+month. Adieu, adieu."
+
+
+Loyall Farragut.
+
+BIOGRAPHER.
+
+With Morristown is associated the beautiful memoir of our great Admiral, in
+honor of whom one of the streets of our city is named. In the old house now
+removed from its original position to the end of Farragut Place, this
+honored commander once visited for several days, walking over the ground
+now occupied by the houses of many families, delighted as a boy with
+everything in nature; noticing and observing the smallest detail of what
+was going on around him and interesting himself equally in the humblest
+individual who crossed his path and in the most distinguished visitor who
+asked to be presented.
+
+The "Life of David Glasgow Farragut" was written according to the admiral's
+expressed wish, by his only son, Loyall Farragut, who for a short time had,
+in Morristown, his summer home, and who presented to the Morristown
+Library a copy of his book.
+
+The Farraguts came from the island of Minorca, where the name is now
+extinct. In the volume referred to, we find these words: "George Farragut,
+father of the admiral was sent to school at Barcelona, but was seized with
+the spirit of adventure, and emigrated to America at an early age. He
+arrived in 1776, promptly sided with the colonists, and served gallantly in
+the struggle for independence, as also in the war of 1812. It is said that
+he saved the life of Colonel Washington in the battle of Cowpens."
+
+In reading this volume one is transported to the times and scenes
+described, and everywhere is felt the grandeur, beauty and simplicity of
+character of this truly great and lovable man. In the touching letter to
+his devoted wife, on the eve of the great battle, is seen, as an example to
+all men of future generations, the realization of a man's fidelity to the
+woman of his choice, even in the moment of greatest extremity, and the
+possibility of the tenderest heart existing side by side with the daring
+courage of one of the bravest men the world has ever seen.
+
+Wonderfully stirring are the descriptions given of the river fight on the
+Mississippi and of the battle of Mobile Bay, after which Admiral Farragut
+received from Secretary Welles the following congratulatory letter:
+
+"In the success which has attended your operations, you have illustrated
+the efficiency and irresistible power of a naval force led by a bold and
+vigorous mind and the insufficiency of any batteries to prevent the passage
+of a fleet thus led and commanded. You have, first on the Mississippi and
+recently in the bay of Mobile, demonstrated what had previously been
+doubted,--the ability of naval vessels, properly manned and commanded, to
+set at defiance the best constructed and most heavily armed fortifications.
+In these successive victories, you have encountered great risks, but the
+results have vindicated the wisdom of your policy and the daring valor of
+our officers and seamen."
+
+
+Josiah Collins Pumpelly.
+
+Mr. Pumpelly, long a resident of Morristown, claims our attention as a
+writer, rather than an author, as he has not been a publisher of books,
+beyond a collection of three Addresses in pamphlet form entitled "Our
+French Allies in the Revolution and Other Addresses".
+
+Several sketches entitled "Reminiscences of Colonial Days", and others of
+the same character, all involve considerable research and add to our
+literary possessions in connection with historic Morristown. His "Address
+on Washington", delivered before the Washington Association of New Jersey,
+at the Morristown Headquarters, February 22, 1888, was published by the
+Association, and has long been for sale there. Of this, the writer says, "I
+rejoice that even in this slight way, I can be of service to an Association
+whose faithful care of this home of Washington in the trying winter of 1779
+and '80 deserves the lasting gratitude of every loyal Jerseyman." In
+closing this address, Mr. Pumpelly said, quoting from our favorite
+historian, Rev. Dr. Tuttle, "each old parish in our County had its heroes,
+and each old church was a shrine at which brave men and women bowed in
+God's fear, consecrating their all to their country." Mr. Pumpelly adds:
+"So instead of referring our children to Greek and Roman patriots, we have
+but to call up for them the names of our own men and women, who have here
+amid the hills of Morris, wrought out for us this heritage, so much
+grander, so much nobler than they themselves ever dreamed." This address is
+now bound in a larger pamphlet with "Our French Allies", to which we have
+referred and which was read before the New Jersey Historical Society, at
+Trenton, January 22d, 1889 and "Fort Stanwix and Battle of Oriskany", an
+address delivered before the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in New
+York City, Dec. 3, 1888.
+
+There was an important paper read by Mr. Pumpelly before the New Jersey
+Society of the Sons of the Revolution, on June 10th, 1889, and by them
+adopted in their meeting of that date, and afterwards published, on "The
+Birthplace of our Immortal Washington and the Grave of his Illustrious
+Mother, shall they not be Sacredly Preserved?"
+
+Another address followed on "Joseph Warren" before the Massachusetts
+Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, on April 18th, 1890, on the
+occasion of the 114th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. He was then
+President of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
+
+A paper was read by request on "Mahlon Dickerson, Industrial Pioneer and
+old time Patriot," on January 27, 1891, before the New Jersey Historical
+Society.
+
+Mr. Pumpelly has also given much time and literary effort in philanthropic
+and sanitary directions. Many articles have appeared from time to time from
+his pen in behalf of reforms in the treatment of our dependent, delinquent,
+and defective classes, all tending to social economic improvement and, at
+one time, assisting materially the advance of the State Charities Aid
+Association of New Jersey of which he was for several years an active
+member.
+
+His attention is now being turned to the story of the Huguenots in this
+country. He is just completing a quite exhaustive paper upon the Huguenots
+in New Jersey, which is to be given by request before the Genealogical
+Society of New York, in January 1893, after which the subject is to be
+prepared by him for use in a school text-book.
+
+In _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, of April 1892, is
+"A Short Sketch of the Character and Life of John Paul Jones", written in a
+most interesting and delightful manner and given before the New York
+Genealogical and Biographical Society, January 8, 1892. We quote from
+
+
+WHAT DOES THE CAUSE OF HUMAN FREEDOM OWE TO THE HUGUENOT?
+
+In looking back over the milestones which mark in history the relapse and
+advance, the failure and the successes, of the principles of civilization,
+we note that at a certain period it was the Teutonic Nations which broke
+loose from Rome and the Latin Nations who adhered to the Pope. Also, that
+in France, opposition to Rome was early and considerable. Thus the
+Waldenses, Albigenses, and Lefevre and his colleagues were Huguenots and
+lovers of human freedom before the name itself was known--Calvinists
+before Calvin, Lutherans before Luther, Wiclyfites before Wiclyf.
+
+That great movement for the liberty of conscience and personal freedom,
+civil and religious, was not in France an importation, for God had
+deposited the first principles of the work in a few brave hearts of Picardy
+and Dauphiny before it had begun in any other country of the globe. Not to
+Switzerland nor to Germany belongs the honor of having been first in the
+work, but to France and the Huguenot.
+
+It was the voice of Lefevre, of Etaples, France, a man of great nobility of
+soul as well as genius of mind, which was to give the signal of the rising
+of this morning star of liberty. He it was who taught Farel, the great
+French reformer and "master-builder" with Luther.
+
+
+Hannah More Johnson.
+
+Miss Johnson's poem, "The Christmas Tree", has taken its place in our
+Poet's corner. She is also mentioned among _Novelists and Story-Writers_
+for her well-known stories of "Lost Willie"; "Ella Dutton"; "Snow Drifts";
+"Signal Lights", and "First the Blade" published by A. D. F. Randolph and
+by the Presbyterian Board. But perhaps her most important work is "Mexico,
+Past and Present", an excellent and charmingly written history of Mexico, a
+book of interest and importance, with sixty three maps and illustrations,
+treating not only the history, but the present condition and prospects of
+that country. This work is found in many libraries, and places Miss Johnson
+among our _Historians_.
+
+Miss Johnson is the daughter of Mr. Jacob Johnson and niece of our
+townsman, Mr. J. Henry Johnson, who was the last preceptor of the old
+Morris Academy. Though long a resident of Morristown, she now makes her
+home in Philadelphia where she is editor of a Missionary Publication.
+
+"I first thought of myself as a writer", says Miss Johnson, "when I saw my
+name for the first time in print and nearly fainted with fright. I have
+never recovered from that shock and not until I had had more than one
+collision with publishers have I consented to give my name to articles."
+
+Last September (1892) "Bible Lights in Mission Paths" was published: "The
+long interval between my first and my last book," says the author, "was
+filled with what seems to me the true work of my life." And it is curious
+how this work of life came to her quite unsought and unexpectedly. Let us
+hear it in her own words. "About twelve years ago," she tells us, "a
+relative became proprietor of a small religious weekly in Philadelphia,
+_The Presbyterian Journal_. I had the entire charge of the missionary
+department. Shortly afterward, the Presbyterian Alliance met in our city
+and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, (of which I was and still am a
+Director), held in connection with that great convocation in the Academy of
+Music, an all-day meeting in one of the churches. Presbyterian women were
+there from every quarter of the world beside others from sister churches.
+At noon as I sat, talking over the programme for the afternoon with Mrs.
+A----, she said regretfully, 'I am afraid that we shall not be able to get
+these women to speak loud enough to be heard all over this great church. It
+would be delightful if we could have a full report.' 'I think I could get
+one up, Mrs. A----,' said I. 'I have been taking notes of the speeches all
+the morning and this afternoon we are to have written reports and papers.'
+'I can get them all for you,' she said quickly. That night I went home
+laden with documents, three-fourths of them from the Old World. The
+_Journal_ publishers offered to send out an extra and send it to any
+address I gave. Within a week, this extra was mailed to every mission
+station throughout the world, which had been in any way represented at this
+woman's meeting or mentioned in its reports. Ever since that busy, busy
+week with French, English, Scotch, German, Italian, Belgian and Irish
+women, I have been a constant reporter of Missionary meetings. This led to
+a series of articles for Monthly Concerts, proposed for the use of pastors
+and other leaders of missionary meetings. Twelve articles a year for about
+four years, each one of which had cost months of research and study, I had
+time for nothing else. It was weary work. All roads led to Rome and I
+couldn't pick up a book or a daily that didn't give me an item or a
+suggestion. The nameless writer was generally supposed to be some Doctor of
+Divinity shelved with a sore throat or other ministerial disability. I
+remember one time when a carefully prepared article (of mine) on Siam
+appeared in _The Gospel of all Lands_, credited to _The London Missionary
+News_. It had been taken from the magazine in which it was first published,
+profusely illustrated and sent out as an English production."
+
+Besides this Miss Johnson has furnished monthly articles for various papers
+and occasional poems, for magazines. Thus we see her very busy life has
+been fruitful of unusual results.
+
+
+Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.
+
+Mrs. Wright has already been mentioned among _Novelists and Story-Writers_.
+For the following graphic sketch, we are indebted to one of our writers,
+Mrs. Julia R. Cutler.
+
+"One of the authors whose sojourn in our 'beautiful little town', as she
+calls it, was of a comparatively brief period, from 1881-'83, but whose
+writings, as showing deep research in many fields of thought, both
+scientific and historical, entitle her to more than a brief mention, is
+Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.
+
+"Her husband, the Rev. Dr. William J. Wright, is President of and,
+Professor of Metaphysics, in a Western College. Much of Mrs. Wright's time
+is spent in visiting different large cities, at home and abroad, where she
+can have access to libraries and gain information on various subjects
+connected with her books.
+
+"While in Morristown, she wrote, at the request of the Presbyterian Board
+of Publication, her book on "The Alaskans" and also a short work on the
+religious life, called "Mr. Standfast's Journey", besides preparing for the
+press a book entitled "Bricks from Babel", which she had previously written
+while visiting London and the British museum. The Rev. Joseph Cook fully
+endorses this book, and calls it 'a most admirable compendium of
+ethnography.' A set of religious biographies were, also, about this time,
+published in Arabic.
+
+"These works written and prepared for the press while she was occupying her
+quiet cottage home on Morris Plains, would alone have entitled her to a
+prominent place among the authors of whom Morristown has reason to be
+proud. But these are but a small portion of her literary labors. Judging
+from the number of books which appear over her signature, she must indeed
+be gifted with the 'pen of a ready writer.'
+
+"Among the more prominent works are 'The Early Church in Britain'; 'The
+Complete Home', of which over one hundred thousand copies have been sold;
+'Saints and Sinners of the Bible'; 'Almost a Nun'; 'The Priest and Nun'; 'A
+Wife Hard Won', a novel published by Lippincott; 'The Making of Rasmus';
+'Rasmus a Made Man'; and 'Rag Fair and May Fair'. The last deals with
+social questions in England, and is being re-published in London, as indeed
+a number of her other books have been, as well as translated into the
+French language.
+
+"Mrs. Wright's latest work, completed during a recent visit to the British
+museum, is a Series of Readers on Natural Science, called 'Nature Readers,
+Seaside and Wayside', which are having a large run in this country, in
+England and in Canada and which are a new invention in school books. They
+have been more warmly received than any books for our schools, for the past
+twenty-five years.
+
+"Very few persons have the talent of dealing with so many subjects and
+doing it so well. Even the Temperance cause owes much to Mrs. Wright, as
+its earnest advocate, and many of her thrilling stories on this subject
+have touched the hearts and inspired the actions of those who have read
+them. Nor has she, amid her multitude of duties, forgotten the young, as
+the large number of volumes on the shelves of our Sabbath School libraries,
+bearing her name can testify.
+
+"May the pen Mrs. Wright has so wisely and deftly used, in the cause of
+education and humanity, long continue through her skillful hand, to trace
+its characters upon the hearts and minds of those with whom it comes in
+contact!"
+
+
+Mrs. Edwina L. Keasbey.
+
+Though Mrs. Keasbey has published a most attractive and useful book, full
+of practical thoughts idealized, yet we place her and Mrs. Stockton in
+this grouping for the reason that a large part of her writing was of this
+character, on the whole. Much of it was graphically descriptive of scenes
+in foreign lands and at home, usually accompanied with reflections which
+indicate the _Essay_ character. Like others of our writers, there is a
+variety in her writing and choice of subjects which makes it somewhat
+difficult to place her with exactness.
+
+Most of Mrs. Keasbey's writing was originally done for _The Hospital
+Review_, a paper edited by her, during eleven years, for the St. Barnabas
+Hospital, which was founded largely through her efforts and influence and
+was a work to which she devoted her life. For this was written a series of
+papers entitled "A Lame Woman's Tramp through some Alpine Passes", and
+"Bits of English Scenery Sketched by a Lame Hand", among which is a fine
+and vivid picture of the first sight of Durham Cathedral. So, for this
+_Hospital Review_ were originally written the papers now collected and
+bound in one of the prettiest little volumes one could desire, convenient
+in size, artistic in design and with clear, large type and broad margins.
+This is entitled "The Culture of the Cradle".
+
+In the education of children, Mrs. Keasbey has found the key and basis of
+all true and reasonable training, in the development of the child's
+individuality. The object of this book is to suggest the meaning and
+purpose of true culture and to show how it must begin with the cradle and,
+says the author, "to give some suggestions and leaves from experience that
+may be of use to those who are striving to begin, in the right way, the
+education of their children." The book, published in 1886, has had a large
+sale and the entire proceeds have been devoted to the Hospital of St.
+Barnabas, which the author so much loved.
+
+Mrs. Keasbey was the eldest daughter of the Hon. J. W. Miller, and she
+inherited well her intense love of good works from her honored mother, who
+was so long identified with Morristown's philanthropic and charitable work.
+She was born in the old Macculloch mansion on Macculloch Avenue and lived
+there till her marriage in 1854, after which her literary qualities and
+rare executive abilities went to adorn the city of Newark where she will be
+tenderly remembered, and where her works live after her.
+
+
+FROM "THE CULTURE OF THE CRADLE."
+
+As I sit by my window on this beautiful spring day, preparing my article
+upon "The Nurture of Infants," a pair of little birds are building their
+nest in the vine that grows about my piazza, so I take my text from them.
+
+How busy they are, how absorbed in their work! The whole world contains
+for them no other point of interest, but only this little crotch in the
+vine which they have chosen to build their cradle in for their future
+little ones. We may be quite sure that it is the best spot in the whole
+vine, not too shady or too sunny, just happily out of the reach of cruel
+cat or mischievous boys, and then the cradle will be so perfect, strong
+enough to resist the winds that shake the vine, and covered enough to
+withstand the spring rains, and warm enough to shelter the little ones as
+they crack the shell; and so comfortable with its soft padding of cotton
+and down to cherish and protect the little tender bodies when they come
+into this cold world.
+
+I think it is nearly finished to-day, for the little mother has settled
+herself down into it and nestled herself in it and picked off her own soft
+down, and stuffed it in with the cotton that she had lined the nest with.
+She looks so satisfied and content, as if she would say, "it is quite ready
+now for my little darlings."
+
+With this little mother there is no word of complaint or selfish murmur
+though she is going to sit in that nest for many a long day and dark night,
+through storm and sunshine, until the little ones come forth from their
+eggs to gladden her heart and repay her care and work of preparation.
+
+Can we mothers have a better teacher or a wiser example than this little
+bird, whose lessons in motherhood have come to her direct from her
+Creator?
+
+
+Mrs. Marian E. Stockton.
+
+As to Mrs. Stockton's charming pen, we must reluctantly refrain from
+noticing her many essays and writings in various directions, principally
+prepared at the request of literary societies and other
+organizations,--always read by some one else, owing to the writer's great
+dislike for coming into public notice, and always published, and sent
+about, by the Society or group of people for whom they were written. The
+title of this book compels us, however, to mention this gifted woman's
+name, and we give below an extract from one delightful paper, written as
+usual by request for an important occasion, read by a distinguished
+literary woman, and as usual published.
+
+
+FROM "HOME AND SOCIETY."
+
+It may help to a proper understanding of the line of thought followed in
+this paper if I state in the beginning that it is, chiefly, an attempt to
+get a definite answer to the question so often asked: What is Society? It
+is an effort to arrive at a conclusion which the majority of American women
+may be willing to accept. Otherwise we shall find ourselves so beset with
+perplexities that we shall not be able to get anything out of our subject.
+For most persons have very vague ideas regarding society, and would find it
+difficult to express them. I have tried to get at the ideas of a few
+persons who might be supposed to know, with but small result. One says: "It
+is a limited company of persons of wealth and leisure who give up their
+time chiefly to entertainments and pleasure." This view of the subject
+suggests the familiar advertisements of a certain soap, reversing the sign;
+for taking out the pure article--_i. e._, the persons composing this
+society--we would have 99 44-100 of the people of the United States with no
+society at all. _So very little_ of the pure article will, I think,
+scarcely suffice to float this definition.
+
+Another says: "It is a collection of the best people in a city or
+neighborhood who give a tone to the place." This is better, but calls forth
+other questions. Whom do you mean by the "best people"? What is "tone"?
+What sort of "tone" do they give? New York, New Orleans, and Poker Flat
+would give widely different answers to these questions.
+
+Another defines it as "a number, large or small, of cultured people." This
+conveys a charming idea to the mind, but it is too limited, for we are
+considering to-day society in its broadest as well as its best aspects;
+and, surely, we would none of us be willing to deny to good-hearted,
+honest, decent people, the pleasure of forming a society of their own kind,
+and enjoying it in a rational--if uncultured--fashion. We want to-day to
+get hold of a comprehensive idea of society.
+
+Last summer, at a fashionable resort, I heard some New York ladies
+speaking, with admiration, of another lady in the hotel, and one exclaimed:
+"What a pity she is not in Society!" To this they all agreed, and another
+kindly asked: "Can't we do something to help her to know people?" As I knew
+this lady, and was aware of the fact that, when she returned to the city at
+the beginning of every season, she sent out cards to six hundred people, I
+was much surprised; for, if visiting and being visited by six hundred
+people is not being "in society", I do not know what is. Therefore, I could
+only infer that she was not in their special coterie.
+
+A very intelligent woman once told me frankly, that she could not imagine
+anything that could be called society outside the City of New York.
+
+Again I was told, some time ago, by a literary lady who was then residing
+in this city (but who is not here now): "Literary people are not
+recognized in New York society." I use her own words and they puzzled me.
+Soon after, there chanced to fall in my way a description of New York life
+by a Frenchman who had been entertained by all sorts of people. He stated
+that the most charming society in this city is the literary society, and he
+proceeded to paint it in glowing colors. Between the literary lady on one
+side and Max O'Rell on the other, I gave up that conundrum.
+
+These few examples of misconceptions and wrong-headedness in regard to what
+society really is will suffice to show how necessary it is to get a clear
+and comprehensive definition for it. To get this we must disentangle
+ourselves from all these figments, go back, and enter through the gate
+which naturally leads into society.
+
+
+
+
+TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.
+
+
+Marquis de Chastellux.
+
+The Marquis de Chastellux, counted in France a clever historian, is
+considered by us as a traveler, for he was one of the earliest French
+travelers in North America and, on his return to France, published a book
+entitled "Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781 and 1782, by the
+Marquis de Chastellux, one of the Forty Members of the French Academy, and
+Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau."
+This book was published in 1787 in London. In it we find the most graphic
+descriptions of the soldiers and officers of the Revolution, of West Point
+in its character of a military outpost; of the road between it and
+Morristown; of the beauty and grandeur of the Hudson River, as it burst for
+the first time upon his vision; of several interviews, visits and dinners
+with Washington and Lafayette, always giving his impressions in a unique
+and original way and with a sprinkle of humor which keeps a continuous
+smile upon the lips of the reader as he progresses in this remarkable
+narrative. It is really most difficult to choose from this fascinating
+book, for the short space we can allow.
+
+In speaking of his arrival here he refers to the _Arnold Tavern_, which may
+still be seen, removed from its original location but restored with great
+care, (though enlarged), and is now standing on Mt. Kemble Avenue, the old
+"Baskingridge Road" of the Revolution. He says:
+
+"I intended stopping at Morris Town only to bait my horses, for it was only
+half past two, but on entering the inn of Mr. Arnold, I saw a dining room
+adorned with looking glasses and handsome mahogany furniture and a table
+spread for twelve persons. I learnt that all this preparation was for me
+and what affected me more nearly was to see a dinner corresponding with the
+appearances, ready to serve up. I was indebted for this to the goodness of
+General Washington and the precautions of Colonel Moyland who had sent
+before to acquaint them with my arrival. It would have been very
+ungenerous to have accepted this dinner at the expenses of Mr. Arnold who
+is an honest man and a good Whig and who has not a particle in common with
+Benedict Arnold; it would have been still more awkward to have paid for the
+banquet without eating it. I therefore instantly determined to dine and
+sleep in this comfortable inn. The Vicomte de Noailles, the Comte de Damas,
+&c., were expected to make up the dozen."
+
+Chastellux apparently came as a passing traveler and seems to have been
+induced to prolong his stay and during that time gives us very graphic and
+interesting glimpses, to which we have referred, of the General and his
+officers, dinners at which he was present, reviews of troops, the army
+itself and its condition, with passing reflections about the country and
+the manners and customs of the time. Among the latter remarks, he observes:
+"Here, as in England, by _gentleman_ is understood a person possessing a
+considerable _freehold_, or land of his own." Of the officers, he says:
+
+"I must observe on this occasion the General Officers of the American Army
+have a very military and a very becoming carriage; that even all the
+officers, whose characters were brought into public view, unite much
+politeness to a great deal of capacity; that the headquarters of this army,
+in short, neither present the image of want nor inexperience. When one sees
+the battalion of the General's Guards encamped within the precincts of his
+house; nine waggons, destined to carry his baggage, ranged in his court; a
+great number of grooms taking care of very fine horses belonging to the
+General Officers and their Aides de Camp; when one observes the perfect
+order that reigns within these precincts, where the guards are exactly
+stationed, and where the drums beat an alarm, and a particular retreat, one
+is tempted to apply to the Americans what Pyrrhus said of the Romans:
+_Truly these people have nothing barbarous in their discipline._"
+
+Of his coming to Morristown, he says: "I pursued my journey, sometimes
+through fine woods at others through well cultivated lands and villages
+inhabited by Dutch families. One of these villages, which forms a little
+township bears the beautiful name of _Troy_. Here the country is more open
+and continues so to _Morris-Town_. This town celebrated by the winter
+quarters of 1779, is about three and twenty miles from Peakness, the name
+of the headquarters from whence I came: It is situated on a height, at the
+foot of which runs the rivulet called Vipenny River; the houses are
+handsome and well built, there are about sixty or eighty round the
+meeting-house."
+
+The Marquis tells of his reception at the Camp of Lafayette and, in giving
+us his picture, he gives us also what is of value to us in this day,--a
+Frenchman's impression of Lafayette in America:
+
+"Whilst they were making this slight repast, I went to see the Camp of the
+_Marquis_, it is thus they call M. de La Fayette: the English language
+being fond of abridgments and titles uncommon in America."
+
+Here, our eye is attracted to a note of the Translator, (an Englishman
+residing in America,)--who says, with much more besides: "It is impossible
+to paint the esteem and affection with which this French nobleman is
+regarded in America. It is to be surpassed only by the love of their
+illustrious chief."
+
+"The rain appearing to cease," continues the Marquis, "or inclined to cease
+for a moment, we availed ourselves of the opportunity to follow his
+Excellency to the Camp of the Marquis; we found all his troops in order of
+battle, on the heights on the left, and himself at their head; expressing
+by his air and countenance, that he was happier in receiving me there, than
+at his estate in Auvergne. The confidence and attachment of the troops, are
+for him invaluable possessions, well acquired riches, of which no body can
+deprive him; but what, in my opinion, is still more flattering for a young
+man of his age, is the influence, the consideration he has acquired amongst
+the political, as well as the military order; I do not fear contradictions
+when I say that private letters from him have frequently produced more
+effect on some states than the strongest exhortations of the Congress. On
+seeing him one is at a loss which most to admire, that so young a man as he
+should have given such eminent proofs of talents, or that a man so tried,
+should give hopes of so long a career of glory."
+
+His impression of the Hudson at West Point, will interest us all:
+
+"I continued my journey in the woods, in a road hemmed in on both sides by
+very steep hills which seemed admirably adapted for the dwelling of bears,
+and where, in fact, they often make their appearance in Winter. We availed
+ourselves at length of a less difficult part of these mountains to turn to
+the westward and approach the river but which is still invisible.
+Descending them slowly, at the turning of the road, my eyes were struck
+with the most magnificent picture I had ever beheld. It was a view of the
+North River, running in a deep channel, formed by the mountains, through
+which, in former ages it had forced its passage. The fort of West Point and
+the formidable batteries which defend it fix the attention on the Western
+bank, but on lifting your eyes, you behold on every side lofty summits,
+thick set with redoubts and batteries."
+
+One more passage we must give in this day of Morristown's horsemanship; in
+this year of '92 when all young Morristown is jumping fences and ditches
+in pursuit of the fox or the fox's representative. It is Chastellux's
+reference to Washington's horsemanship:
+
+"The weather being fair, on the 26th I got on horseback, after breakfasting
+with the General. He was so attentive as to give me the horse he rode on
+the day of my arrival, which I had greatly commended; I found him as good
+as he is handsome; but above all perfectly well broke, and well trained,
+having a good mouth, easy in hand, and stopping short in a gallop without
+bearing the bit. I mention these minute particulars, because it is the
+General himself who breaks all his own horses; and he is a very excellent
+and bold horseman, leaping the highest fences, and going extremely quick,
+without standing upon his stirrups, bearing on the bridle, or letting his
+horse run wild; circumstances which our young men look upon as so essential
+a part of English horsemanship, that they would rather break a leg or an
+arm than renounce them."
+
+
+John L. Stephens.
+
+Over fifty years ago, a traveler in Central America, Mr. John L. Stephens,
+records a curious and interesting allusion to Morristown, which we give
+below, from one of his two volumes of "Incidents of Travel in Central
+America and Yucatan"; 12th Edition; published in 1856. He says:
+
+"In the midst of the war rumours, the next day, which was Sunday, was one
+of the most quiet I passed in Central America. It was at the hacienda of
+Dr. Drivon, about a league from Zonzonate. This was one of the finest
+haciendas in the country. The doctor had imported a large sugar mill, which
+was not yet set up, and was preparing to manufacture sugar upon a larger
+scale than any other planter in the country. He was from the island of St.
+Lucie and, before settling in this out-of-the-way place, had travelled
+extensively in Europe and the West India Islands and knew America from
+Halifax to Cape Horn, but surprised me by saying that he looked forward to
+a cottage in Morristown, New Jersey, as the consummation of his wishes."
+
+
+Hon. Charles S. Washburn.
+
+Mr. Washburn who lived for several years in Morristown, was the brother of
+our late Minister to France. His most popular work is "The History of
+Paraguay," in two volumes, written while he was Commissioner and Minister
+Resident of the United States at Asuncion from 1861 to 1868. The writer may
+truly add on his title page, "Reminiscences of Diplomacy under
+Difficulties." As is well known, Mr. Washburn was minister to Paraguay
+under Lopez, one of the three most noted tyrants of South America, whose
+character is admirably brought out in this history of the country. His
+description of Lopez is most graphic. The work is so exhaustive that we get
+up from it with a feeling, "We know Paraguay". Besides this "History of
+Paraguay", Mr. Washburn has also written "Gomery of Montgomery", in two
+volumes and "Political Evolution from Poverty to Competence".
+
+At the close of the first volume, we find a masterly summing up of the
+singular character of Lopez, in these words:
+
+"Previous to the death of Lopez, history furnishes no example of a tyrant
+so despicable and cruel that at his fall he left no friend among his own
+people; no apologist or defender, no follower or participant of his
+infamies, to utter one word in palliation of his crimes; no one to regret
+his death, or who cherished the least spark of love for his person or his
+memory; no one to utter a prayer for the repose of his soul. In this
+respect, Lopez had surpassed all tyrants who ever lived. No sooner was he
+dead, than all alike, the officer high in command, the subaltern who
+applied the torture, the soldier who passively obeyed, the mother who bore
+him, and the sisters who once loved him, all joined in denouncing him as an
+unparalleled monster; and of the whole Paraguayan nation there is perhaps
+not one of the survivors who does not curse his name, and ascribe to his
+folly, selfishness, ambition and cruelty all the evils that his unhappy
+country has suffered. Not a family remains which does not charge him with
+having destroyed the larger part of its members and reduced the survivors
+to misery and want. Of all those who were within reach of his death-dealing
+hand during the last years of his power, there are but two persons living
+to say a word in mitigation of the judgment pronounced against him by his
+countrymen and country-women."
+
+
+General Joseph Warren Revere.
+
+The late General Revere, one of Morristown's old and well-known residents,
+wrote, at the close of his military and naval career, a graphic and
+interesting book of travels entitled "Keel and Saddle; a Retrospect of
+Forty Years of Military and Naval Service"; published in 1872 by James R.
+Osgood of Boston. Another book appeared later, called "A Tour of Duty in
+California."
+
+General Revere tells us in "Keel and Saddle" that he entered the United
+States Navy at the age of fourteen years as a midshipman and, after a short
+term spent at the Naval School at the New York Navy Yard, he sailed on his
+first cruise to the Pacific Ocean on board the frigate "Guerrière",
+"bearing the pennant of Com. Charles C. B. Thompson, in the summer of the
+year 1828." For three years he served in the Pacific Squadron. After
+cruising in many waters and experiencing the various vicissitudes of naval
+life, in 1832 he passed his examination for lieutenant and sailed in the
+frigate "Constitution" for France.
+
+During this Mediterranean cruise, when he made his first visit to Rome, he
+saw Madame Letitia, mother of the first Napoleon, by whom he was received
+with a small party of American officers. We shall give this scene as he
+describes it.
+
+In this book, "Keel and Saddle", (page 140) occurs a very fine description
+of a great oceanic disturbance known to mariners in Southern seas as a
+"comber", or great wave. Suddenly encountered, it causes the destruction of
+many vessels.
+
+Of Madame Letitia, in 1832 he writes as follows:
+
+"Madame Mère or Madame Letitia, as she was usually called, being requested
+to grant an interview to a small party of American officers, of which I was
+one, graciously assented, and fixed a day for the reception at the palace
+she occupied.
+
+"Repairing thither at the hour appointed, after a short detention in a
+spacious ante-chamber, we were ushered into one of those lofty saloons
+common to Italian palaces, handsomely, not gorgeously furnished, and
+opening by spacious windows into a beautiful garden. There, with her back
+towards the subdued light from the windows, we saw an elderly lady
+reclining on a sofa, in a graceful attitude of repose. She was attended by
+three ladies, who all remained standing during our visit. In the recess of
+one of the windows, on a tall pedestal of antique marble, stood a
+magnificent bust of the emperor; while upon the walls of the saloon, in
+elegant frames, were hung the portraits of her children, all of whom had
+been kings and queens--of royal rank though not of royal lineage. Madame
+Letitia received us with perfect courtesy, without rising from her
+reclining position; motioning us gracefully to seats with a polite gesture
+of a hand and arm still of noble contour and dazzling whiteness. It was
+easy to see where the emperor got his small white hands, of which he was so
+vain, as we are told; while the classic regularity of his well-known
+features was clearly traceable in the lineaments of the lady before us. Her
+head was covered with a cap of lace; and her somewhat haughty but
+expressive face, beaming with intelligence, was framed in clustering curls
+_a l'antique_. Her eyes were brilliant, large and piercing, (I think they
+could hardly have been more so in her youth); and the lines of her mouth
+and chin gave an expression of firmness, courage and determination to a
+fine physiognomy perfectly in character with the historical antecedents and
+attributes of Letitia Ramolini. Of the rest of her dress, we saw but
+little; her bust being covered by a lace handkerchief crossed over the
+bosom, and her dark silk robe partially concealed by a superb cashmere
+shawl thrown over the lower part of her person. She opened the conversation
+by making some complimentary remark about our country; asking after her son
+Joseph, who resided then at Bordentown, N. J.; and seemed pleased at
+receiving news of him from one of our party, who had seen him not long
+before. She asked this officer whether the King (_le roi d'Espagne_) still
+resembled the portrait in her possession which was a very fine one; and
+upon our asking permission to examine the bust of the emperor, the greatest
+of her sons, told us that it was considered a fine work of art, it being,
+indeed, from the chisel of Canova; adding, I fancied with a little sigh of
+melancholy, 'Il resemble beaucoup a l'empereur.' After some further
+commonplaces, she signified in the most delicate and dignified manner, more
+by looks than by words, addressed to the ladies of our party, referring to
+her rather weak state of health, that the interview should terminate; and,
+having made our obeisance, we left her."
+
+
+Henry Day.
+
+In 1874, an interesting volume of travels appeared, entitled "A Lawyer
+Abroad. What to See and How to See: by Henry Day, of the Bar of New York."
+
+Mr. Day's house "On the Hill", with its superb view, is occupied only in
+summer; but year after year, with the birds and the spring sunshine, he
+returns to us from his home in New York, so he is thoroughly associated
+with Morristown. His book, unlike a large majority of "Travels" is not
+merely a "Tourist's Guide" or a series of descriptive sketches hung
+together by commonplace reflections, and interlarded with meaningless
+drawing-room or roadside dialogue.
+
+Evidently, it is written with a high purpose and it is rich in valuable
+information concerning men and things, as if the writer himself were in
+living touch with the best interests of humanity whether found in the
+cities of Egypt, among the learned and polished minds of Edinburgh or in
+the Wynds of Glasgow, of which he so graphically says:
+
+"They are now long filthy, airless lanes, packed with buildings on each
+side and each building packed with human beings; and, geographically as
+well as morally they receive the drainage of all the surrounding city of
+Glasgow."
+
+Here it was in the old Tron Church that Dr. Chalmers did his finest
+preaching and his most effective practical work. Mr. Day has an evident
+loving sympathy with the great Scotch preacher, quite apart from the
+intellectual qualities of his gigantic mind. In these few condensed pages,
+Mr. Day has given us a more compact idea of Dr. Chalmer's work than may be
+found in many elaborated chapters of his life.
+
+The chapter upon "The Lawyers and Judges of England" is one of exceptional
+interest to those in the profession, as well as to those out of it, and
+this is one unique quality of the book--that we have given to us the
+impressions of a traveler from a lawyer's standpoint, not only in England,
+but in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Greece,
+Turkey, Egypt and the Holy Land. And, not only from a lawyer's standpoint
+does he see the world, but evidently from the standpoint of a man of high
+general culture whose spiritual and religious sentiments and principles
+enlighten and illuminate his understanding.
+
+In the chapter on "The Early Life of Great Men", speaking of Edinburgh, he
+says:
+
+"Everything gives you the feeling that you are among the most learned and
+polished minds of the present and past generations. It is not business or
+wealth that has given to Edinburgh its prominence. It is learning; it is
+its great men."
+
+One of Mr. Day's finest descriptions is found in his chapter on the Nile.
+
+In 1877 this author published, through Putnams' Sons, a book having the
+title "From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules", giving sketches of
+scenery, art and life in Spain.
+
+Mr. Day has also written a good deal for a few years past for publication
+in the _New York Evangelist_ on the great questions now agitating the
+Presbyterian church, namely, the revision of its creed called "The
+Confession of Faith" and also on the Briggs case and the Union Theological
+Seminary case. Mr. Day wisely says; "this newspaper writing can hardly be
+called authorship although the articles are more important than the
+books."
+
+
+
+
+THEOLOGIANS.
+
+
+Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D.
+
+Of the historic characters of Morristown, none are more prominent than the
+Rev. Dr. Johnes, who began his pastorate in the old Meeting House of
+Morristown which was probably reared before his coming. His labors began
+August 13th, 1742. He was ordained and installed February 9th, 1743, and
+continued pastor through the scenes of the Revolution till his death in
+1791. He was the friend of Washington and supported him effectually in many
+of the measures he adopted in which his strong influence with the community
+was of great weight and value.
+
+It was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Johnes, Theodosia, who married Col. Jacob
+Ford, jr., who lived at what is now known as the Washington Headquarters
+and offered the hospitality of her mansion to Washington during his second
+winter at Morristown. He also offered the Presbyterian church building for
+hospital use during the terrible scourge of small-pox,--himself acting as
+chief nurse to the soldiers,--and, with his congregation, worshipped for
+many months in the open air, on a spot still shown behind his house, on
+Morris street, which is standing to-day, and now owned and occupied by Mrs.
+Eugene Ayers. It was on this spot, in a natural basin which the
+congregation occupied as being somewhat sheltered from the bitter winds of
+winter, and which may still be seen, that good Pastor Johnes administered
+the Communion to Washington. "This was the only time," says Rev. Dr. Green,
+in his "Morristown" in the "History of Morris County", after his entrance
+upon his public career, that Washington is certainly known to have partaken
+of the Lord's Supper. In _The Record_ for June and August, 1880, we find a
+full account of this historic incident. As the Communion time drew near,
+Washington sought good Pastor Johnes, we are told, and inquired of him, if
+membership of the Presbyterian church was required "As a term of admission
+to the ordinance." To this the doctor replied, "ours is not the
+Presbyterian table, but the Lord's table, and we hence give the Lord's
+invitation to all his followers of whatever name." "On the following
+Sabbath," says Dr. Green, "in the cold air, the General was present with
+the congregation, assembled in the orchard in the rear of the parsonage",
+on the spot before referred to, "and joined with them in the solemn service
+of Communion."
+
+In the family of good Pastor Johnes, a granddaughter of whom, Mrs. O. L.
+Kirtland, is with us still, the last of a large number of brothers and
+sisters, it has been known for generations that they originated in Wales.
+We have from Mrs. Kirtland's granddaughter the following interesting
+record:
+
+"Rev. Timothy Johnes came to Morristown, N. J., from Southampton about
+1742. His great-great-grandfather, Richard Johnes, of Somerset, Eng.,
+descended from a younger branch of the Johnes of Dolancotlie in
+Caemarthenshire, Wales, came over and settled in Charleston, Mass., in
+1630, was made constable, and had 'Mr.' before his name, an honor in those
+days. He went to live at Southampton, L. I., in 1644, and he and his
+descendants held important positions there for nearly two hundred years.
+Burke's _Landed Gentry_ states that the Johnes were descended from Urien
+Reged, one of King Arthur's Knights, and who built the Castle Caer Caenin,
+and traced descent back to Godebog, King of Britain. But accurate record
+must begin at a later date, when William Johnes, in the reign of
+Elizabeth, was Commander on the 'Crane' and killed in a battle against the
+Spanish Armada."
+
+Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D., was the great-great-grandson of the first
+Johnes who arrived in this country. Rev. Timothy graduated at Yale in 1737;
+was born in 1717 and died in 1794. He received many ordination calls while
+at Southampton, Long Island, and was perplexed as to which one to accept,
+so "he referred the matter, says the great-great-granddaughter before
+referred to," to Providence, deciding to accept the next one made. He had
+not risen from his knees more than twenty minutes, when two old men came to
+his house and asked him to become pastor of a small congregation that had
+collected at Morristown, then called by the Indian tongue Rockciticus. When
+nearly here, after traveling long in the forest, he inquired of his guides:
+"Where is Rockciticus?" "Here and there and every where," was the reply,
+and so it was, scattered through the woods.
+
+Of Dr. Johnes' children,--Theodosia, as we have stated, was the hostess of
+Washington at the Ford mansion, her home, and now the Washington
+Headquarters. Anna, the eldest daughter, married Joseph Lewis and is the
+ancestress of one of our distinguished authors, the Rev. Theodore Ledyard
+Cuyler, D. D. The daughter of this Anna Lewis, married Charles Morrell and
+they occupied the house of Mr. Wm. L. King on Morris St., and there
+entertained Lafayette as their guest in the winter of '79 and '80. Their
+daughter, Louisa married Ledyard Cuyler and they had a son, Theodore
+Ledyard Cuyler, well-known to us and to all the world. Mary Anna, a grand
+daughter, married Mr. Williams, of Newburg, and others of the family
+followed there. They pronounce the name _John_-es, giving up the long _o_
+(Jones), of the old Doctor's sounding of the name. A grandson, Frank, went
+west and had a large family who are more or less distinguished in Decatur,
+Illinois. They omit the _e_ in the name and call themselves Johns. It is
+only in Morristown that the family retain the original spelling of Johnes
+and pronunciation of _Jones_.
+
+The son of the old Doctor, William, remained in the old house, and there
+brought up a large family of whom the above two, named, were members, also
+Mrs. Kirtland, who is still with us, with her daughter and grandchildren,
+and Mrs. Alfred Canfield, who long lived among us but has passed away.
+
+One of the old Doctor's sons was named, as we might expect, George
+Washington and was the grandfather of Mrs. Theodore Little, and built the
+old house on the hill near our beautiful Evergreen Cemetery. This house was
+built soon after Washington's occupation of Morristown, and the large place
+including the ancient house has lately been sold and will soon be laid out
+in streets and lots, as the demand comes from the increasing population of
+our city. Fortunate are we to have so many of the old land-marks left to
+us!
+
+Mrs. Woodruff, the step-mother, honored and beloved, of Mrs. Whelpley
+Dodge, was also a daughter of old Doctor Johnes.
+
+Another son of the old Doctor was Dr. John B. Johnes, who built the house
+with columns opposite the old place, still standing, and there he lived and
+died, high in his profession, greatly honored and beloved. His daughter
+Margaret, was the step-mother of another of our distinguished men and
+writers, the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D.
+
+And so we find this ancient family from Wales, the land of the poetic
+Celts, and many of whom are yet living in that corner of the world from
+which these came, still sending on their influence and maintaining their
+high standard of principle and honor, which characterized good Pastor
+Johnes, during the fifty-four years of his ministry in Morristown.
+
+
+Rev. James Richards, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Richards, who was settled as the third pastor over the First
+Church of Morristown, May 1st, 1795, was a theological author, many of
+whose sermons and other writings are published, and later, he was professor
+of theology in the Auburn theological seminary. Dr. Richards, like Dr.
+Johnes, was of Welsh descent. His salary was $440, in quarterly payments,
+the use of the parsonage, and firewood. To supplement this income, resort
+was had to a "wood-frolick", which was, we are told, a great event in the
+parish and to which the men brought the minister's years' supply of fuel
+and for which the ladies prepared a supper. The "spinning visit" was
+another feature of his pastorate, on which occasion were brought various
+amounts of "linen thread, yard and cloth". The thread brought, being not
+always of the same texture and size, it was often a puzzle indeed to the
+weaver to "make the cloth and finish it alike". At last the meagreness of
+this pastor's salary proved so great a perplexity, especially as his
+expenses were increasing with his growing family, that he gave up the
+problem, and went to Newark, N. J., accepting a call from the First
+Presbyterian Church there, from which, after fifteen years, he went as
+professor of theology to the Auburn Seminary, where he remained until his
+death in 1843.
+
+
+Rev. Albert Barnes.
+
+Fifth in order of these early divines of the Morristown's First Church, is
+the Rev. Albert Barnes. He occupied this pastorate from 1825 to June 1830.
+It was here that he preached, in 1829, that remarkable sermon, "The Way of
+Salvation", which was the entering wedge that prepared the way for the
+unfortunate division among the Presbyterians into the two schools Old and
+New, which division and the names attached to each side, it may gladly be
+said, came to an end by a happy union of the two branches, a few years ago.
+
+The Rev. Albert Barnes was also a pioneer of the Temperance movement in
+Morristown and his eloquence and influence in this cause resulted in the
+closing of several distilleries. From Morristown he was called to
+Philadelphia, where he passed through his severest trials. It is needless
+to mention that he was a voluminous writer and that he has made a
+world-wide reputation by his valuable "Notes on the Gospels", so well-known
+to all Biblical scholars. Rev. Mr. Henderson of London says: "I consider
+Barnes 'Notes on the New Testament' to be one of the most valuable boons
+bestowed in these latter days upon the Church of Christ." And the Rev.
+David King of Glasgow says: "The primary design of the Rev. Albert Barnes'
+books is to furnish Sunday School teachers with plain and simple
+explanations of common difficulties."
+
+We are impressed with the rare modesty of so eminent a writer and
+distinguished divine when he read that the Rev. Albert Barnes several times
+refused the title of "D. D.", from conscientious motives.
+
+Among the celebrated sermons and addresses published by this author was one
+very powerful sermon on "The Sovereignty of God", and also an "Address
+delivered July 4th, 1827," at the Presbyterian church, Morristown. In the
+"Advertisement" or preface, to the former, the author says in pungent
+words: "It was written during the haste of a weekly preparation for the
+Sabbath and is not supposed to contain anything new on the subject. * * *
+The only wonder is that it (the very plain doctrine of the Bible) should
+ever have been called in question or disputed--or that in a world where
+man's life and peace and hopes, all depend on the truth that GOD REIGNS,
+such a doctrine _should have ever needed any demonstration_."
+
+The condition of Morristown when Mr. Barnes came into the pastorate, in
+respect of intemperance was almost beyond the power of imagination,
+serious, as the evil seems to us at the present day. He found "drinking
+customs in vogue and distilleries dotted all over the parish." Fearlessly
+he set himself to stem this evil, which indeed he did succeed in arresting
+to a large extent. His "Essays on Temperance" are marvellous productions,
+as full of fire and energy and the power of conviction to-day as when first
+issued from the press, and these addresses were so powerful in their effect
+on the community that "soon," says our historian, Rev. Dr. Green,
+"seventeen (of the 19) distilleries were closed and not long after his
+departure, the fires of the other two went out."
+
+In the course of one of his arguments, he says: "There are many, flitting
+in pleasure at an imagined rather than a real distance, who may be saved
+from entering the place of the wretched dying, and of the horrid dead. Here
+I wish to take my stand. I wish to tell the mode in which men become
+abandoned. In the language of a far better moralist and reprover than I am
+(Dr. Lyman Beecher), I wish to lay down a chart of this way to destruction,
+and to rear a monument of warning upon every spot where a wayfaring man
+has been ensnared and destroyed.
+
+"I commence with the position that no man probably ever became designedly a
+drunkard. I mean that no man ever sat down coolly and looked at the redness
+of eyes, the haggardness of aspect, the weakness of limbs, the nausea of
+stomach, the profaneness and obscenity and babbling of a drunkard and
+deliberately desired all these. I shall be slow to believe that it is in
+human nature to wish to plunge into all this wretchedness. Why is it then
+that men become drunkards? I answer it is because the vice steals on them
+silently. It fastens on them unawares, and they find themselves wallowing
+in all this corruption, before they think of danger."
+
+The power and beauty of Mr. Barnes' most celebrated sermon on "The Way of
+Salvation", impresses the reader, from page to page. Towards the close, he
+says:
+
+
+FROM "THE PLAN OF SALVATION."
+
+"The scheme of salvation, I regard, as offered to the _world_, as free as
+the light of heaven, or the rains that burst on the mountains, or the full
+swelling of broad rivers and streams, or the heavings of the deep. And
+though millions do not receive it--though in regard to them the benefits of
+the plan are lost, and to them, in a certain sense, the plan may be said
+to be in vain, yet I see in this the hand of the same God that pours the
+rays of noonday on barren sands and genial showers on desert rocks, and
+gives life, bubbling springs and flowers, where no man is in _our_ eyes,
+yet not to _His, in vain_. So is the offer of eternal life, to every man
+here, to every man everywhere, sincere and full--an offer that though it
+may produce no emotions in the sinner's bosom _here_, would send a thrill
+of joy through all the panting bosoms of the suffering damned."
+
+
+Rev. Samuel Whelpley.
+
+Rev. Mr. Whelpley became Principal of the Morristown Academy in 1797 and
+remained until 1805. He came from New England and was originally a Baptist,
+but in Morristown he gave up the plan which he had cherished of becoming a
+Baptist minister and united with the Presbyterian church. In 1803, he gave
+his reasons for this change of views, publicly, in a "Discourse delivered
+in the First Church" and published. His "Historical Compend" is one of his
+important works. It contains, "A brief survey of the great line of history
+from the earliest time to the present day, together with a general view of
+the world with respect to Civilization, Religion and Government, and a
+brief dissertation on the importance of historical knowledge." This was
+issued in two volumes "By Samuel Whelpley, A. M., Principal of Morris
+Academy" and was printed by Henry P. Russell and dedicated to Rev. Samuel
+Miller, D. D.
+
+This author was not, by-the-way, the father of Chief Justice Whelpley, of
+Morristown, who also is noticed in this book, but was the cousin of his
+father, Dr. William A. Whelpley, a practicing physician here.
+
+"Lectures on Ancient History, together with an allegory of Genius and
+Taste" was another of Mr. Whelpley's books. Among his works, perhaps the
+most celebrated was, and is, "The Triangle", a theological work which is "A
+Series of numbers upon Three Theological Points, enforced from Various
+Pulpits in the City of New York." This was published in 1817, and a new
+edition in 1832. In this work, says Hon. Edmund D. Halsey, the leaders and
+views of what was long afterward known as the Old School Theology were
+keenly criticised and ridiculed. The book caused a great sensation in its
+day and did not a little toward hastening the division in the Presbyterian
+Church into Old and New School. This book was published without his name,
+by "Investigator". In it the author says:
+
+
+FROM "THE TRIANGLE."
+
+"You shall hear it inculcated from Sabbath to Sabbath in many of our
+churches, and swallowed down, as a sweet morsel, by many a gaping mouth,
+that a man ought to feel himself actually guilty of a sin committed six
+thousand years before he was born; nay, that prior to all consideration of
+his own moral conduct, _he ought to feel himself deserving of eternal
+damnation for the first sin of Adam_. * * * No such doctrine is taught in
+the Scriptures, or can impose itself on any rational mind, which is not
+trammeled by education, dazzled by interest, warped by prejudice and
+bewildered by theory. This is one corner of the triangle above mentioned.
+
+"This doctrine perpetually urged, and the subsequent strain of teaching
+usually attached to it, will not fail to drive the incautious mind to
+secret and practical, or open infidelity. An attempt to force such
+monstrous absurdities on the human understanding, will be followed by the
+worst effects. A man who finds himself condemned for that of which he is
+not guilty will feel little regret for his real transgressions.
+
+"I shall not apply these remarks to the purpose I had in view, till I have
+considered some other points of a similar character;--or, if I may resort
+to the metaphor alluded to, till I have pointed out the other two angles of
+the triangle."
+
+
+Stevens Jones Lewis.
+
+Mr. Lewis was a grandson of Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes and great uncle of the
+Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. He was a theologian whose writings made a
+ripple in the orthodox stream of thought, and was disciplined in the First
+church for his doctrines. He published two pamphlets in justification of
+his peculiar views. The first was on "The Moral Creation the peculiar work
+of Christ. A very different thing from that of the Physical Creation which
+is the exclusive work of God", printed in Morristown by L. B. Hull, in
+1838. Also there was one entitled "Showing the manner in which they do
+things in the Presbyterian church in the Nineteenth Century". "For the
+rulers had agreed already that if any man did confess that Jesus was Christ
+('was Christ, not God Almighty'), he should be put out of the synagogue."
+"Morristown, N. J., Printed for the author, 1837."
+
+
+Rev. Rufus Smith Green, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Green, so much esteemed by the people of all denominations in
+Morristown, has a claim to honorable mention among our authors, having
+written largely and to good purpose.
+
+His "History of Morristown," a division of the book entitled the "History
+of Morris County", published by Munsell & Co., New York, in 1882, is a
+valuable contribution to our literature, combining in delightful form, a
+large amount of information from many sources, which has cost the writer
+much labor. As a book of reference it is in constant demand in the
+"Morristown Library" now, and one of the books which is not allowed long to
+remain out, for that reason. This fact carries its own weight without
+further comment.
+
+Dr. Green succeeded the Rev. John Abbott French in June, 1877, to the
+pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, and remained
+until 1881, when he accepted the charge of the Lafayette St. Presbyterian
+Church of Buffalo, N. Y., and removed to that city.
+
+After his graduation at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1867, Dr. Green went
+abroad and was a student in the Berlin University during 1869 and '70.
+During this period he gained complete command of the German language,
+which has been vastly helpful to him in his writing as well as, in many
+instances, in his pastoral work. He was graduated from the Auburn
+Theological Seminary in 1873. He then accepted a charge at Westfield, N.
+Y., and in 1877 came to Morristown. During his Morristown pastorate, he
+began the publication of _The Record_, a monthly periodical devoted to
+historical matter connected with the First Church in particular, but also
+with Morristown generally and Morris County as well,--the First Church, in
+its history, striking it roots deep, and radiating in many directions. This
+was continued for the years 1880 and 1881, 24 numbers. Rev. Wm. Durant, Dr.
+Green's successor in the pastorate of the First Church, resumed the work in
+January 1883, and continued its publication until January 1886. It is an
+invaluable contribution to the early history of the town and county.
+
+Another of Dr. Green's publications is "Both Sides, or Jonathan and
+Absalom", published in 1888 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
+Philadelphia. This is a volume of sermons to young men, the aim of which
+can be seen from the preface which we quote entire:
+
+"It would be difficult to find two characters better fitted than those of
+Jonathan and Absalom to give young men right views of life--the one, in its
+nobleness and beauty, an inspiration; the other, in its vanity and wicked
+self-seeking, an awful warning. The two present both sides of the picture,
+and from opposite points of view teach the same lessons never more
+important than at the present time. It has been the author's purpose to
+enforce these lessons rather than to write a biography. May they guide many
+a reader to the choice of the right side!"
+
+In writing of the friendship of Jonathan and David the author says:
+
+"The praises of Friendship have been sung by poets of all ages,--orator's
+have made it a theme for their eloquence,--philosophers have written
+treatises upon it,--historians have described its all too rare
+manifestations. No stories from the far off Past are more charming than
+those which tell of Damon and Pythias,--of Orestes and Pylades--of Nisus
+and Euryalus--but better and more inspiring than philosophic treatise or
+historic description, more beautiful even than song of poet, is the
+Friendship of which the text speaks,--the love of Jonathan for David. It is
+one of the world's ideal pictures, all the more prized, because it is not
+only ideal but real. It was the Divine love which made the earthly
+friendship so pure and beautiful."
+
+For _Our Church at Work_, a monthly periodical of many years' standing
+connected with the Lafayette Street church, of Buffalo, Dr. Green has
+largely written.
+
+An important pamphlet on "The Revised New Testament" was published in 1881,
+by the _Banner_ Printing Office, of Morristown, and, in addition to these,
+fugitive sermons, and numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals have
+passed from his pen to print.
+
+When Dr. Green left Morristown, this was the tribute given him at the final
+service in the old church where hundreds of people were turned away for
+want of room. These were the words of the speaker on that occasion: "Dr.
+Green came to a united people; he has at all times presided over a united
+people and he leaves a united people."
+
+
+Rev. William Durant.
+
+Rev. Wm. Durant followed the Rev. Dr. Green in his ministry in the First
+Presbyterian Church in Morristown, May 11th, 1883, remaining in this charge
+until May, 1887, when he resigned, to accept the call of the Boundary
+Avenue Church, Baltimore, Md. He took up also, with Hon. John Whitehead as
+editor, at first, the onerous though very interesting work of _The Record_,
+which labor both he and Rev. Dr. Green as well as Mr. Whitehead, gave "as
+a free will offering to the church and the community".
+
+Rev. Mr. Durant was born in Albany, N. Y., and prepared for college at the
+Albany Academy. He then travelled a year in Europe, studied theology at
+Princeton and was graduated from that college in 1872. The same year he
+took charge of the First Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee, for the summer
+only, after which he traveled through the west, and was then ordained to
+the ministry, in Albany, and installed pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian
+Church of that city, from which, in 1883, he came to Morristown, as we have
+said.
+
+While in Albany he edited "Church Polity", a selection of articles
+contributed by the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D., to the _Princeton Review_;
+Scribner's Sons, publishers. Afterwards, in Morristown, he published a
+"History of the First Presbyterian Church, Morristown," with genealogical
+data for 13,000 names on its registers; a part of this only has been
+published. "A Letter from One in Heaven; An Allegory", is a booklet of
+singular interest as the title would suggest. One or two short stories of
+his have been published among numerous contributions to religious papers on
+subjects of ecclesiology and practical religion, also a score or more of
+sermons in pamphlet form.
+
+He is at present preparing, for publication, a "Durant Genealogy", to
+include all now in this country of the name and descent. This was begun in
+the fall of 1886.
+
+In the opening number of _The Record_ for January 1883, after the
+suspension of the publication for two years, we print the following paper
+of "Congratulations" from Rev. Wm. Durant, which as it concerns the spirit
+of Morristown, we give in full:
+
+
+"CONGRATULATIONS", ON THE REVIVAL OF "THE RECORD".
+
+The season is propitious. _The Record_ awakes from a long nap--not as long
+as Rip Van Winkle's--to greet its readers with a Happy New Year.
+
+But where is the suggestion of those garments all tattered and torn? We
+mistake. It is not Rip Van Winkle, but the Sleeping Beauty who comes to us,
+by fairy enchantment, decked in the latest fashion. Sleep has given her new
+attractions.
+
+Happy we who may receive her visits with the changing moons, and scan her
+treasures new and old. Her bright look shows a quick glance to catch
+flashes of present interest. And there is depth, too, a far offness about
+her glance. Its gleam of the present is the shimmer that lies on the
+surface of a deep well of memory. What stories she can tell us of the past!
+Though so youthful her appearance, she romped with our grandmothers and
+made lint for the hospital and blankets for the camps, that winter
+Washington was here, when his bare-foot soldiers shivered in the snows on
+Mount Kemble or lay dying by scores in the old First Church. Yes, she was a
+girl of comely parts, albeit of temper to enjoy a tiff with her good mother
+of Hanover, when our city was a frontier settlement, full only of log
+cabins and primitive hardships in the struggle against wild nature.
+
+For a maiden still, and one who has seen so many summers, marvelous is her
+cheery, youthful look. Ponce de Leon made the mistake of his life when he
+sought his enchanted fountain in Florida instead of where Morristown was to
+be. It is not on the Green, for the aqueduct folks now hold the title.
+
+From lips still ruddy with youth, is it not delicious to hear the gossip of
+olden time! And our maiden knows it all, for she was present at all the
+baptisms, danced at all the weddings, thrilled with heavenly joy when our
+ancestors confessed the Son of Man before the high pulpit, and stood with
+tears in her eyes when one after another they were laid in the graves
+behind. Their names are still on her tongues' end, and it is with loving
+recollection that she tells of the long lists like the one she brings this
+month.
+
+But her gossip is not all of names. What she will tell of events and
+progress, of the unwritten history that has given character to families, to
+State or Nation, there is no need of predicting, we have only to welcome
+her at our fireside and listen while she speaks.
+
+
+Rev. J. Macnaughtan, D. D.
+
+Dr. Macnaughtan, present pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and
+successor of Rev. Wm. Durant, a profound scholar and thinker and most
+interesting writer, has not entered largely into the world of letters as an
+author or a publisher of his writings. Some papers of his, and some
+articles have, however, been published from time to time and a sermon now
+and then, notably, within two years, one on "Revision: Its Spirit and
+Aims", and the Centennial Sermon that was delivered on Sunday, October
+11th, 1891, on the memorable occasion of the Centennial of the erection of
+the present First Church building. This sermon was published in the
+_Banner_, of Morristown, and is to appear again, with all the interesting
+addresses and sketches, given on that day and on the following days of the
+celebration,--in the book which Mr. Whitehead is preparing on "The History
+of the First Presbyterian Church".
+
+Dr. Macnaughtan's pastorate will always be associated with this time of
+historic retrospection and also with the passing away of the old building
+and the introduction of the new. Of this old building, endeared to many of
+Morristown's people, this book will probably be the last to make mention
+while it stands. An old-time resident touchingly says of the coming event:
+"There have been great changes within my remembrance (in Morristown). I was
+born in 1813 and have always lived where I do now. My memory goes back to
+the time when there were only two churches in the town; the First
+Presbyterian and the Baptist. The latter is now being removed for other
+purposes, and our old church, that has stood through its 100 years, will
+soon be removed, to make place for a new one. I was in hopes it would
+remain during my days, but the younger generation wants something new, more
+in the present style."
+
+
+FROM THE "CENTENNIAL SERMON."
+
+     Ask now of the days that are past.
+
+                 --_Deuteronomy 4:32._
+
+One hundred years ago on the 20th of last September (1891), a very stirring
+and animated scene could have been witnessed on this spot where we are so
+quietly assembled this morning for our Sabbath worship. On the morning of
+that day, some 200 men were assembled here, with the implements of their
+calling, and the task of erecting this now venerable structure was begun.
+The willing hands of trained mechanics and others, under the direction of
+Major Joseph Lindsley and Gilbert Allen, both elders of the church, lifted
+aloft these timbers, and the work of creating this sanctuary was begun.
+When one inspects the timbers forming the frame of this structure, great
+masses of hewn oak, and enough of it to build two structures of the size of
+this edifice, as such buildings are now erected, one sees how necessary it
+was that so great a force of men should be on hand. One can well believe
+that the animation of the scene was only equalled by the excited emotions
+of the people, in whose behalf the building was being erected. The task
+begun was a gigantic one for that time. The plans contemplated the erection
+of a structure which, "for strength, solidity and symmetry of proportion,"
+should "not be excelled by any wooden building of that day in New Jersey."
+But it was not alone the generosity of the plan of the structure that made
+it a gigantic enterprise, but the material circumstances of the people who
+had undertaken the work. The men of a hundred years ago were rich for the
+most part only in faith and self-sacrifice. But looking at this house as it
+stands to-day, and remembering the generations who under this roof have
+been reproved, guided, comforted, and pointed to the supreme ends of being,
+who shall say that they who are rich only in faith and self-sacrifice are
+poor? Out of their material poverty our fathers builded this house through
+which for a century God has been sending to our homes and into our lives
+the rich messages of his grace and salvation--where from week to week our
+souls have been fronted with the invisible and eternal, and where by psalm
+and hymn, and the solemn words of God's grand Book, and the faithful
+preaching of a long line of devoted and consecrated men, we have been
+reminded of the seriousness and awfulness of life, of the sublime meanings
+of existence, and the grand ends which it is capable of conserving; where
+multitudes have confessed a Saviour found, and have consecrated their souls
+to their new found Lord; where doubts have been dispelled, where sorrow has
+been assuaged, where grief has found its antidote and the burdened heart
+has found relief; where thought has been lifted to new heights of outlook,
+and the heart has been enriched with conceptions of God and duty that have
+given a new grandeur to existence, where the low horizons of time have been
+lifted and pushed outward, till the soul has felt the thrill of a present
+eternity. Our heritage has indeed been great in the possession of this old
+white Meeting-House.
+
+(Several points Dr. Macnaughtan makes as follows):
+
+In scanning the life that has been lived here during the last hundred
+years, I find it, first of all, to have been _a consistent life_. It is a
+life that has been true to the great principles of religious truth for
+which the name of Presbyterian stands. * * I find, in the second place,
+that the life that has been lived here has been _an evangelistic life_. * *
+In the third place, it has been an _expansive life_. * * * * Here has been
+nourished the mother hive from which has gone forth, to the several
+churches in the neighborhood, the men and women who have made these
+churches what they are to-day. * * * In the fourth place, it has been _a
+beneficent life_. The voices that have rung out from this place have but
+one accent--Righteousness.
+
+
+Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman.
+
+The Baptist Church is the second of our Morristown churches in point of
+age. It was formed August 11, 1752. It was the Rev. Reune Runyon who was
+its pastor during those terrible days of the Revolution, when the scourge
+of small pox prevailed. All honor to him, for a "brave man and true", as
+says our historian, "loyal to his country as well as faithful to his God."
+He, with good Parson Johnes, upheld the arm of Washington and both offered,
+for their congregations, their church buildings, to shelter the poor,
+suffering soldiers, in their conflict with the dread disease. This
+constancy is all the more creditable when we consider that two of his
+immediate predecessors had already fallen victims to the disease, each,
+after a very short pastorate.
+
+Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman claims our attention as a writer. A friend writing
+of the Rev. Mr. Bridgman, at the present time, says: "The Baptist Church at
+Morristown was the first pastorate of the Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman and I
+think was filled to the entire satisfaction of his friends and admirers who
+were and _are_ many. His brilliant oratory and rare gifts as an eloquent,
+scholarly and polished speaker are well-known. A life-long friend of my
+family, I dwell on the lovable and loyal characteristics which have made
+him dear to us."
+
+In a letter received by the author of this book, from the Rev. Mr.
+Bridgman, we find a little retrospect which is interesting. "I went to
+Morristown," he says, "immediately after graduating from the Baptist
+Theological Seminary, in Rochester, in 1857. The Baptist Church had a
+membership of about 130, all but five or six of them living outside the
+village. The House of Worship was small and uncomfortable, but at once was
+modernized and enlarged, and the congregation soon after grew to the
+measure of its capacity. As I was then but 22 years old, the success was in
+some measure due, I must believe, to the sympathy which the young men of
+the village had for one with their ardor. However that may be, the church,
+for the first time, seemed to be recognized as in touch with the life of
+the village, and it was the opening of a new chapter in the history of the
+church."
+
+Rev. Mr. Bridgman made the oration at the 4th of July county celebration,
+soon after his arrival, in the First Presbyterian church. For two and a
+half years, he remained in this charge when he removed to Jamaica Plain,
+Mass. Subsequently he was pastor for fifteen years, of Emmanuel Baptist
+church, Albany, then for thirteen years of the Madison Avenue church in New
+York, when he entered the Episcopal church and became rector of "Holy
+Trinity," on Lenox avenue and 122nd St., New York, a position which he
+still occupies.
+
+Articles from this writer's pen have appeared from time to time during this
+long career, in the religious press, besides occasional sermons of power
+and impressiveness.
+
+In the letter above referred to, Mr. Bridgman says he remembers very
+pleasantly many acquaintances among those not connected with his church as
+well as those in its membership and "it will be a great pleasure," he adds,
+"to recall the old faces and the old days, over the pages of your book,
+when it shall have been issued."
+
+_Rev. G. D. Brewerton_, who is already among our Poets, followed the Rev.
+Mr. Bridgman, in 1861, for a short pastorate.
+
+
+Rev. J. T. Crane, D. D.
+
+The Methodist Episcopal church was the third in order among our local
+churches and was organized in 1826. Among the many pastors of this church,
+the Rev. Dr. Crane demands our notice as an author. It was he who laid the
+corner-stone, while pastor in 1866, of the third church building, a superb
+structure, which is mostly the generous gift of the Hon. George T. Cobb,
+who gave to it $100,000.
+
+We find in our Morristown library, an interesting and valuable volume
+entitled "Arts of Intoxication; the Aim and the Results." By Rev. J. T.
+Crane, D. D., author of "Popular Amusements", "The Right Way", &c. This
+author was a voluminous writer, and recognized as one of the ablest in the
+Conference. This book was published in 1870 and in it the author says:
+
+"The great problem of the times is, 'What shall be done to stay the ravages
+of intoxication?' The evil pervades every grade of civilization as well as
+all depths of barbarism, the degree of its prevalence in any locality being
+determined apparently more by the facilities for indulgence than by
+climate, race or religion.
+
+"In heathen China the opium vice is working death. On the eastern slopes of
+the Andes, the poor remnants of once powerful nations are enslaved by the
+coca-leaf, and the thorn-apple, and thus are fixed in their fallen estate.
+In Europe and America the nations who claim to be the leaders of human
+progress are fearfully addicted to narcotic indulgences which not only
+impose crushing burdens upon them, wasting the products of their industry
+and increasing every element of evil among them, but render even their
+friendship dangerous to the savage tribes among whom their commerce
+reaches. Italy, France, Germany, England and the United States are laboring
+beneath a mountain weight of crime, poverty, suffering and wrong of every
+description, and no nation on either continent is fully awake to the peril
+of the hour. Questions of infinitely less moment create political crises,
+make wars, and overthrow dynasties." Then, Dr. Crane proceeds to show that
+the "Art of Intoxication" is not a device of modern times, and quotes from
+the Odyssey, in illustration; he discusses the mystery of it and notices
+the mutual dependence of the body and spirit upon one another. He tells the
+story of the coca-leaf, thorn-apple and the betel-nut, also of tobacco and
+treats of the tobacco habit and the question generally; of the hemp
+intoxicant and the opium habit and, finally, of alcohol,--its production,
+its delusions, its real effect, the hereditary effect, the wrong of
+indulgence, the folly of beginning, the strength of the enemy, the damage
+done and remedial measures. It is the most picturesque and attractive
+little book on the subject that we have seen.
+
+
+Rev. Henry Anson Buttz, D. D., LL. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Buttz, President of Drew Theological Seminary, ministered in the
+Methodist Episcopal Church in Morristown from 1868 to 1870. While preaching
+in Morristown he was elected Adjunct Professor of Greek in Drew Theological
+Seminary, filling the George T. Cobb professorship. This chair he occupied
+until December 7, 1880, when he was unanimously elected to succeed Bishop
+Hurst. He received the degree of A. M. in 1861 from Princeton College and
+in 1864 from Wesleyan University, and that of D. D. from Princeton in 1875.
+
+Dr. Buttz is without doubt one of the most distinguished men of the
+Methodist Episcopal Church. His preaching, always without notes, is
+impressive and of the style usually designated as expository. His
+contributions to English literature have been to a large extent, fugitive
+articles on many subjects in various church periodicals, but his greatest
+published work is probably a Greek text book, "The Epistle to the Romans",
+which is regarded by scholars as one of the most accurate and critical
+guides to the study of that letter of St. Paul. It is announced by him that
+all the New Testament Epistles are to be published on the same plan. "The
+entire work, when completed," says a writer in the Mt. Tabor _Record_,
+"will be a valuable contribution to Biblical literature, and an enduring
+monument to the genius and research of the author."
+
+
+Rev. Jonathan K. Burr, D. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Burr, one of the most distinguished divines of the Methodist
+Episcopal church, was stationed at Morristown in 1870-2. He was born in
+Middletown, Conn., on Sept. 21st, 1825; was graduated at Wesleyan
+University in 1845; studied in Union Theological Seminary in New York city
+in 1846; in 1847 he entered the ministry, occupying some of the most
+important pulpits within the Newark Conference of the M. E. Church. He was
+also professor of Hebrew and Exegetical Theology in Drew Theological
+Seminary, while pastor of Central church, Newark, N. J. He was author of
+the Commentary on the Book of Job, in the Whedon series, and a member of
+the Committee of Revision of the New Testament. He received the degree of
+D. D. from Wesleyan in 1872; also, in that year, he was delegate to the
+General Conference of the M. E. church. For many years he was a trustee of
+the Wesleyan University and also of Hackettstown Seminary.
+
+He wrote the articles upon Incarnation and Krishna in McClintock and
+Strong's Biblical Cyclopædia and also made occasional contributions to the
+religious journals. In 1879 his health failed and he was obliged to retire
+from the ministry. His death followed on April 24th, 1882.
+
+From his "Commentary on the Book of Job" we take the following paragraph
+out of an Excursus on the passage, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," &c.:
+
+
+FROM "COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF JOB."
+
+In the earlier ages truth was given in fragments. It was isolated,
+succinct, compressed, not unlike the utterances of oracles. The reader will
+be reminded of the gospel given in the garden, the prediction by Enoch of a
+judgment to come, the promise of Shiloh and the prophecies through the
+Gentile Balaam. They, who thus became agents for the transmission of divine
+truth, may have failed to comprehend it in all its bearings, but the truth
+is on that account none the less rich and comprehensive. In the living God
+who shall stand upon the dust, Job may not have seen Christ in the fulness
+of the atonement; nor in the view of God "from the flesh", have grasped
+the glories of the resurrection morn; but the essential features of these
+two cardinal doctrines of Scripture are these, identical with those we now
+see in greater completeness; even as the outlines of a landscape, however
+incompletely sketched, are still one with those of the rich and perfected
+picture.
+
+
+Rev. J. E. Adams.
+
+Rev. Mr. Adams, the present pastor of the Morristown Methodist Episcopal
+Church, entered upon this charge in May, 1889, succeeding the Rev. Oliver
+A. Brown, D. D. He was transferred, by Bishop Merrill, from the Genesee
+Conference to the Newark Conference for that purpose, the church having
+invited him and he having accepted a few months previously. He came
+directly from the First Methodist Church of Rochester, N. Y., to
+Morristown. Dr. Adams is a clever and thoughtful writer. He says himself:
+"I have done nothing in authorship that is worthy of record. I have only
+written newspaper and magazine articles occasionally and published a few
+special sermons. I am fond of writing and have planned quite largely for
+literary work, including several books, but very exacting parish work has
+thus far delayed execution."
+
+Some of his sermons published are as follows:
+
+"St. Paul's Veracity in Christian Profession Sustained by an Infallible
+Test. Text: Romans 1:16. Published in New Brunswick, N. J., 1877."
+
+"The Final Verdict in a Famous Case. A Bible Sermon Preached Before the
+Monmouth County Bible Society, and published by that Society in 1883."
+
+"The Golden Rule. A Discussion of Christ's Words in Matthew 7:12, in the
+First Methodist Episcopal Church, Rochester, N. Y. Published in Rochester,
+1886."
+
+"Human Progress as a Ground of Thanksgiving. A Thanksgiving Sermon,
+Preached in Morristown, N. J., 1889, and published by request."
+
+
+Rev. James Munroe Buckley, D.D., LL. D.
+
+At this point, three theologians and editors present themselves, not
+occupying definite pulpits, but often taking a place in one or another, as
+opportunity for usefulness occurs. These are the Rev. James M. Buckley, D.
+D. and the Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church
+and the Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., of the Congregational.
+
+Of the genius of Dr. Buckley, it may be said, it is so all-embracing that
+it would be difficult to tell what he is not, in distinctive literary
+capacity. First of all certainly, he is a theologian, then editor, orator,
+scientist, traveler and so on among our classifications. One is led to
+apply to him the familiar saying that "he who does one thing well, can do
+all things well."
+
+It is pleasant to note that a man of such keen observation and well
+balanced judgment as Dr. Buckley, after extensive travel in our own country
+and abroad can state, as many of us have heard him, that, of all the
+beautiful spots he has seen in one country and another, none is so
+beautiful, so attractive and so desirable, in every respect, as Morristown.
+
+Dr. Buckley is a true Jerseyman, for he was born in Rahway, N. J., and
+educated at Pennington, N. J. Seminary. He studied theology, after one year
+at Wesleyan University, at Exeter, N. H., and joined the New Hampshire
+Methodist Episcopal Conference on trial, being stationed at Dover in that
+state. In 1864 he went to Detroit and in 1866 to Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1881,
+he was elected to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in London and also
+in that year was elected editor of the New York _Christian Advocate_, which
+position he has held to the present time. The degree of D. D. was conferred
+upon him by Wesleyan University in 1872 and LL. D. by Emory and Henry
+College, Virginia.
+
+As a traveler, Dr. Buckley is represented by his work on "The Midnight Sun
+and the Tsar and the Nihilist" being a book of "Adventures and Observations
+in Norway, Sweden and Russia". This book is full as we might expect of
+information communicated in the most entertaining manner, full of very
+graphic descriptions, original comments, spices of humor, with a clever
+analysis of the people and conditions of life around the author--all of
+which characteristics give us a feeling that we are making with him this
+tour of observation. In the chapters on "St. Petersburg" and "Holy Moscow",
+we see these qualities especially evidenced. Here is a short paragraph
+quite representative of the author, who is writing of the Cathedral of the
+Assumption, Moscow, an immense building in the Byzantine style of
+architecture, in which a service of the Greek church is going on:
+
+"The monks sang magnificently, but there was not a face among them that
+exhibited anything but the most profound indifference. Some of the young
+monks fixed their eyes upon the ladies who accompanied me from the hotel,
+and kept them there even while they were singing the prayers, which they
+appeared to repeat like parrots, without any internal consciousness or
+recognition of the meaning of the words, but in most melodious tones."
+Again, the author visits a Tartar Mosque where he and his party are told
+"with oriental courtesy, that they may be permitted to remain outside the
+door, looking in, while the service progresses:
+
+"Here," he says, "I was brought for the first time in direct contact with
+that extraordinary system of religion which, without an idol, an image, or
+a picture, holds one hundred and seventy million of the human race in
+absolute subjection, and whose power, after the lapse of twelve hundred
+years, is as great as at the beginning."
+
+Of the summoning of the people to prayers from the minaret, he writes:
+
+"Dr. J. H. Vincent for many years employed at Chatauqua the late A. O. Van
+Lennep, who went upon the summit of a house at evening time, dressed in the
+Turkish costume, and called the people to prayer.
+
+"I supposed when I heard him that he was over-doing the matter as respects
+the excruciating tones and variations of voice which he employed, or else
+he had an extraordinary qualification for making hideous sounds, whereby he
+out-Turked the Turks, and sometimes considered whether Dr. Vincent did not
+deserve to be expostulated with for allowing such frightful noises to clash
+with the ordinary sweet accords of Chatauqua. Worthy Mr. Van Lennep will
+never appear there again, but I am able to vindicate him from such unworthy
+suspicion as I cherished. He did his best to produce the worst sounds he
+could, but his worst was not bad enough to equal the reality. With his
+hands on his ears, the Mohammedan priest of the great mosque of Moscow
+emitted, for the space of seven minutes or thereabouts, a series of tones
+for which I could find no analogy in anything I had ever heard of the human
+voice. There seemed occasionally a resemblance to the smothered cries of a
+cat in an ash-hole; again to the mournful wail of a hound tied behind a
+barn; and again to the distant echo of a tin horn on a canal-boat in a
+section where the canal cuts between the mountains. The reader may think
+this extravagant, but it is not, and he will ascertain if ever he hears the
+like."
+
+Dr. Buckley's published writings are, besides his great work as editor of
+_The Christian Advocate_, in editorials and in many directions,--and
+besides the book we have already mentioned, "The Midnight Sun, the Tsar and
+the Nihilist"; "Oats versus Wild Oats"; "Christians and the Theatre";
+"Supposed Miracles", and "Faith Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred
+Phenomena", published quite recently (in October, 1892). Among magazine
+articles, may be especially mentioned "Two Weeks in the Yosemite", and in
+pamphlet form have appeared some letters worthy of mention, about "A
+Hereditary Consumptive's Successful Battle for Life".
+
+[Illustration: PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE.
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MAJOR J. P. FARLEY, U. S. A.]
+
+As a philanthropist, Dr. Buckley is widely interested in all questions
+concerning humanity, and he responds continually with his time and thought
+to the appeals made to him from one direction and another. Our own State
+Charities Aid Association of New Jersey owes much to Dr. Buckley for his
+warm and earnest co-operation in its early struggles in Morristown for
+existence, and in its work, since then.
+
+As an orator, all who have heard Dr. Buckley feel that he has what is
+called the magnetic power of controlling and carrying with him his
+audience, and a remarkable capacity for mastering widely different
+subjects. The beautiful spring day (April 27, 1888), will long be
+remembered, when the people of Morristown had the opportunity of hearing
+his eloquent address at the unveiling of the Soldiers Monument on Fort
+Nonsense.
+
+In Dr. Buckley's last book on "Faith Healing; Christian Science and Kindred
+Phenomena," published by the Century Company, quite lately, (October,
+1892), the subjects of Astrology, Coincidences, Divinations, Dreams,
+Nightmares and Somnambulism, Presentiments, Visions, Apparitions and
+Witchcraft are treated. Papers have been contributed by him on these
+subjects at intervals for six years with reference to this book, but the
+contents of the latter are not identical, _i. e._ they have been improved
+and added to. From this we give the following extract:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "FAITH HEALING, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND KINDRED PHENOMENA."
+
+The relation of the Mind Cure movement to ordinary medical practice is
+important. It emphasizes what the most philosophical physicians of all
+schools have always deemed of the first importance, though many have
+neglected it. It teaches that medicine is but occasionally necessary. It
+hastens the time when patients of discrimination will rather pay more for
+advice how to live and for frank declarations that they do not need
+medicine, than for drugs. It promotes general reliance upon those processes
+which go on equally in health and disease.
+
+But these ethereal practitioners have no new force to offer; there is no
+causal connection between their cures and their theories.
+
+_What_ they believe has practically nothing to do with their success. If a
+new school were to arise claiming to heal diseases without drugs or hygiene
+or prayer, by the hypothetical odylic force invented by Baron Reichenbach,
+the effect would be the same, if the practice were the same.
+
+Recoveries as remarkable have been occurring through all the ages, as the
+results of mental states and nature's own powers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The verdict of mankind excepting minds prone to vagaries on the border-land
+of insanity, will be that pronounced by Ecclesiasticus more than two
+thousand years ago:
+
+"THE LORD HATH CREATED MEDICINES OUT OF THE EARTH; AND HE THAT IS WISE WILL
+NOT ABHOR THEM. MY SON, IN THY SICKNESS BE NOT NEGLIGENT; BUT PRAY UNTO THE
+LORD AND HE WILL MAKE THEE WHOLE. LEAVE OFF FROM SIN AND ORDER THY HANDS
+ARIGHT, AND CLEANSE THY BREAST FROM ALL WICKEDNESS. THEN GIVE PLACE TO THE
+PHYSICIAN, FOR THE LORD HATH CREATED HIM; LET HIM NOT GO FROM THEE, FOR
+THOU HAST NEED OF HIM. THERE IS A TIME WHEN IN THEIR HANDS THERE IS GOOD
+SUCCESS. FOR THEY ALSO SHALL PRAY UNTO THE LORD, THAT HE WOULD PROSPER THAT
+WHICH THEY GIVE FOR EASE AND TO PROLONG LIFE."
+
+
+Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D.
+
+Dr. Freeman is the second of the trio of theologians and editors, whose
+homes are in Morristown. For the last twenty years, he has been associate
+editor of "Sunday School Books and Periodicals and of Tracts" of the
+Methodist Episcopal Church. His Biblical studies are well known. His
+"Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs" was compiled with great care after
+years of research and published in 1877. This "Hand-Book" has been
+invaluable to Bible students and in it a large amount of information is
+given in small space, and in an interesting and entertaining manner.
+
+Another important volume is "A Short History of the English Bible". Both
+these works are in the Morristown Library, presented by the author.
+
+Many years ago, Dr. Freeman published, under the name of Robin Ranger, some
+charming story-books "for the little ones", in sets of ten tiny volumes.
+This work has placed him already in our group of _Story-Writers_.
+
+Besides these, there are two Chautauqua Textbooks, viz., "The Book of
+Books" and "Manners and Customs of Bible Times", also "The Use of
+Illustration in Sunday School Teaching".
+
+The "Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs", in particular, and the
+"Short History of the English Bible" are books which one can not look into
+without desiring to own. In the former, the author says in his short but
+admirable preface:
+
+"Though the Bible is adapted to all nations, it is in many respects an
+Oriental book. It represents the modes of thought and the peculiar customs
+of a people who, in their habits, widely differ from us. One who lived
+among them for many years has graphically said: 'Modes, customs, usages,
+all that you can set down to the score of the national, the social, or the
+conventional, are precisely as different from yours as the east is
+different from the west. They sit when you stand; they lie when you sit;
+they do to the head what you do to the feet; they use fire when you use
+water; you shave the beard, they shave the head; you move the hat, they
+touch the breast; you use the lips in salutation, they touch the forehead
+and the cheek; your house looks outwards, their house looks inwards; you go
+_out_ to take a walk, they go _up_ to enjoy the fresh air; you drain your
+land, they sigh for water; you bring your daughters out, they keep their
+wives and daughters in; your ladies go barefaced through the streets, their
+ladies are always covered'.
+
+"The Oriental customs of to-day are, mainly, the same as those of ancient
+times. It is said by a recent writer that 'the Classical world has passed
+away. We must reproduce it if we wish to see it as it was.' While this
+fact must be remembered in the interpretation of some New Testament
+passages, it is nevertheless true that many ancient customs still exist in
+their primitive integrity. If a knowledge of Oriental customs is essential
+to a right understanding of numerous Scripture passages, it is a cause of
+rejoicing that these customs are so stereotyped in their character that we
+have but to visit the Bible lands of the present day to see the modes of
+life of patriarchal times."
+
+Therefore, the author undertakes and undertakes with remarkable success, to
+illustrate the Bible by an explanation of the Oriental customs to which it
+refers.
+
+
+Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., LL. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Twining, up to 1879, devoted his time and attention entirely to
+the ministry and charge of two large city Congregational churches, one in
+Providence, R. I. While in the latter city, he published a book of "Hymns
+and Tunes", for his church there, which was acceptable and popular among
+the people, and contributed largely to develop the hearty congregational
+singing for which end it was compiled. While in this charge, he was for
+some time abroad, and mingled considerably in the literary life of Germany,
+and also in the musical life of that country. Hence, he is a fine theorist
+in music.
+
+Since 1879 he has been literary editor of _The Independent_, and during
+these years he has written enough valuable editorials and reviews to fill
+many books. Many of his lectures, addresses, essays and other writings have
+appeared in magazines and other publications, notably a charming
+description of an "Ascent of Monte Rosa" in the _American Journal of
+Science and Arts_, of May, 1862. We find in a book entitled "Boston
+Lectures, 1872", a chapter given to one on "The Evidence of the
+Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Rev. Kinsley Twining, Cambridge, Mass.",
+in which the argument is, as might be expected, keen and clear. One of his
+more recent published papers was read by him at one of the Literary
+Reunions at Mr. Bowen's in Brooklyn, N. Y., and attracted much attention.
+It has since been given in Morristown: subject, "The Wends, or a Queer
+People Surviving in Prussia".
+
+Dr. Twining has made a special study of Shakespeare and holds a high rank
+as a Shakesperian critic and scholar.
+
+With regard to editorial work, it may be said an editor has a maximum of
+influence, the minimum of recognition,--for nobody knows who does it. It
+is certain that powerful editorials sometimes turn the tide of public
+opinion or actually establish certain results which affect the progress of
+the world, and at least make a mark in the world's advance. Who, indeed,
+can compute or measure the power of the press at the present day?
+
+We choose for Dr. Twining, some paragraphs from his editorial which has
+already acquired some celebrity in _The Independent_ of Sept. 15, 1892, on
+John Greenleaf Whittier. The death of the poet occurred on the 7th of the
+same September and he had been one of the earliest and most regular
+contributors to that paper since 1851.
+
+
+FROM EDITORIAL ON JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
+
+It has been said that every man of genius makes a class distinct by
+himself, out of relation and out of comparison with everybody else. At all
+events poets do, the first born in the progeny of genius; and of none of
+them is this truer than of the four great American poets, Bryant,
+Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier. In what order of merit they stand in their
+great poetic square, the distinct individuality of genius bestowed on each
+makes it needless to inquire. They have been our lights for half a century,
+and now that they have taken their permanent place in the galaxy of song,
+will continue to shine there, to use the phrase which Whittier himself
+invented for Dr. Bowditch's sun-dial, as long as there is need of their
+"light above" in our "shade below."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Whittier is the ballad-master and legend singer of the American people. Had
+he known the South and the West as he knew New England, he would have sung
+their legends as he has sung those of New England. The meaning of all this
+is that he is the minstrel of our people. This he has been, and this he
+will remain. Whether it is in the solemn wrath of the great ballad,
+"Skipper Ireson's Ride," one of the greatest in modern literature, in the
+high patriotic strain of "Barbara Frietchie," in the pathos of "The Swan
+Song," of "Father Avery," "The Witch's Daughter," or in the grim humor of
+"The Double-Headed Snake of Newberry."
+
+     "One in body and two in will,"
+
+it matters little what the subject is, or from whence it comes, the poem
+has in it some reflection of the common humanity, and as such speaks and
+will speak to the hearts of men.
+
+It has been the fashion to write of Victor Hugo as the poet of democratic
+humanity. We shall not dispute his claim. There is a certain epic grandeur
+in his work which entitles him to a seat alone. But to those who believe
+the world is moving toward a democracy whose ideals are the realization of
+the Sermon on the Mount, whose essence is ethical, and whose laws are
+gentleness, usefulness and love, Greenleaf Whittier will be the true
+democratic poet whose heart beats most nearly with the pulses of the
+democratic age, and who best represents the principles which are to give it
+permanence.
+
+
+Rev. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Cuyler should immediately follow the group of editors and
+theologians, as he has been a regular writer for the religious press, as
+well as for the secular, for many years. To the former he has contributed
+more than 3,000 articles, many of which have been re-published and
+translated into foreign languages.
+
+In reply to a request for certain information, Dr. Cuyler, in a letter
+dated from Brooklyn, January 13, 1890, and written "in a sick room, where
+he was laid up with the 'Grip'", a disease of the present day which we hope
+may become historic,--replies to the author of this book as follows:
+
+"Probably no American author has a _longer_ association with Morristown
+than I have; for my ancestors have laid in its church-yards for more than
+a century.
+
+"My great-great-grandfather, Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes, preached in the 1st
+Presbyterian Church for 50 years and administered the Communion to General
+Washington.
+
+"My great-grandfather, Mr. Joseph Lewis, was a prominent citizen of
+Morristown and an active friend and counsellor of Washington.
+
+"My grandmother, Anna B. Lewis, was born in Morristown.
+
+"My mother, Louisa F. Morrell, was also born in Morristown (in 1802) in the
+old family "Lewis Mansion" in which Mr. William L. King now lives.
+
+"I was at school in Morristown in 1835 and it was my favorite place for
+visits for _many, many_ years. I have often preached or spoken there.
+
+"The man most familiar with my literary work is Dr. J. M. Buckley, the
+editor of the _Christian Advocate_--who now resides in Morristown."
+
+This letter was signed with his name, as "Pastor of Lafayette Avenue
+Presbyterian Church." Less than a month later he announced to his
+astonished congregation, his intention of resigning his charge among them
+on the first Sabbath of the following April, when it would be exactly
+thirty years since he came to a small band of 140 members, which then
+composed his flock. At the close of his remarks on that occasion he said:
+"It only remains for me to say that after forty-four years of
+uninterrupted ministerial labors it is but reasonable to ask for some
+relief from a strain that may soon become too heavy for me to bear."
+
+During the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate, in
+1885, he told his congregation that during that time he had preached over
+2,300 discourses, had made over 1,000 addresses, officiated at about 600
+marriages, baptized 800 children, received into the church 3,700 members,
+of whom about 1,600 were converts, and had lost but one Sunday for
+sickness. Probably few men are more widely known for their literary and
+oratorical powers and extended usefulness both in the pulpit and out of it.
+Few, if any, have accomplished more in the same number of years or made a
+wider circle of warm and earnest friends both at home and abroad. Among the
+latter is the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, and was, the late John Bright. In his
+sermons and addresses, the personality of Dr. Cuyler is so marked that to
+hear him once is to remember him always. In England he has been especially
+popular as a preacher and temperance advocate. The latter cause he has
+espoused most warmly during his entire life.
+
+Dr. Cuyler was born in the beautiful village of Aurora, N. Y., upon Cayuga
+Lake, of which his great-grandfather, General Benjamin Ledyard, was the
+founder. He was graduated at Princeton in 1841, and at Princeton
+Theological Seminary in 1846. Two years later, he was ordained into the
+Presbyterian Ministry, and was installed pastor of the Third Presbyterian
+Church of Trenton, N. J., then of the Market St. Reformed Dutch Church of
+New York City, and in April 1860, of the Brooklyn Lafayette Avenue
+Presbyterian Church.
+
+Among the author's books are the following, nearly all of which have been
+reprinted in London and have a very wide circulation in Great Britain. Five
+or six of them have been translated into Dutch and Swedish:
+
+"Stray Arrows", "The Cedar Christian", "The Empty Crib", a small book
+published many years ago after the death of one of his children and full of
+solace and consolation to the hearts of sorrowing parents; "Heart Life";
+"Thought Hives"; "From the Nile to Norway"; "God's Light on Dark Clouds";
+"Wayside Springs", and "Eight to the Point," of the "Spare Minute Series".
+
+Dr. Cuyler himself says that he considered his _chief_ literary work to
+have been the preparation of over 3,000 articles for the leading religious
+papers of America. There might be added to this the publication of a large
+number of short and popular tracts.
+
+Here again we find, as in several instances before recorded in this book, a
+man of long experience and good judgment placing in the highest rank of
+writings, useful to mankind, those done for the religious or secular
+newspapers. We give a short passage
+
+FROM, "GOD'S LIGHT ON DARK CLOUDS."
+
+There is only one practical remedy for this deadly sin of anxiety, and that
+is to _take short views_. Faith is content to live "from hand to mouth,"
+enjoying each blessing from God as it comes. This perverse spirit of worry
+runs off and gathers some anticipated troubles and throws them into the cup
+of mercies and turns them to vinegar. A bereaved parent sits down by the
+new-made grave of a beloved child and sorrowfully says to herself, "Well, I
+have only one more left, and one of these days he may go off to live in a
+home of his own, or he may be taken away; and if he dies, my house will be
+desolate and my heart utterly broken." Now who gave that weeping mother
+permission to use that word "if"? Is not her trial sore enough now without
+overloading it with an imaginary trial? And if her strength breaks down, it
+will be simply because she is not satisfied with letting God afflict her;
+she tortures herself with imagined afflictions of her own. If she would but
+take a short view, she would see a living child yet spared to her, to be
+loved and enjoyed and lived for. Then, instead of having two sorrows, she
+would have one great possession to set over against a great loss; her duty
+to the living would be not only a relief to her anguish, but the best
+tribute she could pay to the departed.
+
+
+Rt. Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip, D.D., LL.D.
+
+Bishop Kip, since 1853, Bishop of California, was called to old St. Peter's
+Church, Morristown, immediately after his taking orders in 1835. "The first
+time the service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was used in Morristown,
+so far as known," says our historian, "was in the Summer of 1812. At that
+time Bishop Hobart of New York was visiting Mr. Rogers at Morristown, and
+by invitation of the officers of the First Presbyterian Church, he
+officiated one Sunday in their church, preaching and using the Episcopal
+service."
+
+For two years, 1820 and '21, the service was held on Sundays, at the house
+of George P. McCulloch, and finally on Dec. 4th, 1828, the church building
+was consecrated which has stood until quite recently. Now a superb stone
+edifice covers the ground of the old church.
+
+In the ancestry of Bishop Kip we have a link with the far off story of
+France, for he is descended from Ruloff de Kype of the 16th Century, who
+was a native of Brittany and warmly espoused the part of the Guises in the
+French civil war between Protestants and Papists. After the downfall of his
+party, this Ruloff fled to the Low Countries; his son Ruloff became a
+Protestant and settled in Amsterdam and _his_ son Henry made one of the
+Company which organized in 1588 to explore a northeast passage to the
+Indies. He came with his family, to America in 1635, but returned to
+Holland leaving here his two sons Henry and Isaac. Henry was a member of
+the first popular assembly in New Netherlands and Isaac owned the property
+upon which now stands the City Hall Park of New York.
+
+In 1831, the young William Ingraham, was graduated at Yale College and
+after first studying law and then divinity was admitted to orders and at
+once became the third rector of St. Peter's, at Morristown, remaining from
+July 13th, 1835, until November of the following year. Columbia bestowed
+upon him in 1847, the degree of S. T. D. Between the rectorship of St.
+Peter's and the bishopric of California, he served as assistant at Grace
+Church, New York, and was rector of St. Paul's, at Albany.
+
+Bishop Kip has published a large number of books, many of which have gone
+through several editions. In addition he has written largely for the
+_Church Review_ and the _Churchman_ and several periodicals. Among his
+books are "The Unnoticed Things of Scripture", (1868); "The Early Jesuit
+Missions" (2 Vols., 6 editions, 1846); "Catacombs of Rome", (8 editions,
+1853); "Double Witness of the Church", (27 editions, 1845); Lenten "Fast",
+(15 editions, 1845); the last two were published in both England and
+America as was also "Christmas Holydays in Rome", (1846). Besides these are
+"Early Conflicts of Christianity", (6 editions); "Church of the Apostles";
+"Olden Times in New York"; "Early Days of My Episcopate", (1892).
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE OF THE "EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS."
+
+There is no page of our country's history more touching and romantic than
+that which records the labors and sufferings of the Jesuit Missionaries. In
+these western wilds they were the earliest pioneers of civilization and
+faith. The wild hunter or the adventurous traveler, who, penetrating the
+forests, came to new and strange tribes, often found that years before, the
+disciples of Loyola had preceded him in that wilderness. Traditions of the
+"Black-robes" still lingered among the Indians. On some moss-grown tree,
+they pointed out the traces of their work, and in wonder he deciphered,
+carved side by side on its trunk, the emblem of our salvation and the
+lilies of the Bourbons. Amid the snows of Hudson's Bay--among the woody
+islands and beautiful inlets of the St. Lawrence--by the council fires of
+the Hurons and the Algonquins--at the sources of the Mississippi, where
+first of the white men, their eyes looked upon the Falls of St. Anthony,
+and then traced down the course of the bounding river, as it rushed onward
+to earn its title of "Father of Waters"--on the vast prairies of Illinois
+and Missouri--among the blue hills which hem in the salubrious dwellings of
+the Cherokees--and in the thick canebrakes of Louisiana--everywhere were
+found the members of the Society of Jesus. Marquette, Joliet, Brebeuf,
+Jogues, Lallemand, Rasles and Marest,--are the names which the West should
+ever hold in remembrance. But it was only by suffering and trial that these
+early labours won their triumphs. Many of them too were men who had stood
+high in camps and courts, and could contrast their desolate state in the
+solitary wigwam with the refinement and affluence which had waited on their
+early years. But now, all these were gone. Home--the love of kindred--the
+golden ties of relationship--all were to be forgotten by these stern and
+high-wrought men, and they were often to go forth into the wilderness,
+without an adviser on their way, save their God. Through long and
+sorrowful years, they were obliged to "sow in tears" before they could
+"reap in joy."
+
+
+Rev. William Staunton, D. D.
+
+With this author, the fifth rector of old St. Peter's Church, in
+Morristown, we go back in association to the ancient city of Chester,
+England, where he was born and where his grandfather on his mother's side
+was a leading dissenting minister and the founder of Queen's Street Chapel,
+Chester. His father, an intellectual man and well read in Calvinistic
+theology, also affiliated with the Independents, but was often led by his
+fine musical taste to attend with his son the services of the Cathedral. It
+was in this Cathedral of Chester, which is noted for the beauty and majesty
+with which the Church's ritual is rendered,--that the boy acquired that
+love of music which placed him in after life in the front rank of church
+musicians. One who knew him well has said of him in this respect: "This
+knowledge of music was profound and comprehensive. He was not simply a
+musical critic or a composer of hymn tunes and chants, but he had followed
+out through all its intricacies the science of music. So well known was he
+for his learning and taste in this department that it was a common thing
+for professional musicians of distinction to go to him for advice and to
+submit their compositions to him, before publication. Much of his own music
+has been published. But his musical accomplishments are best attested by
+the work which he did as associate editor of Johnson's Encyclopedia." He
+was in particular, the musical editor of this work and wrote nearly all of
+the articles relating to music in it. He was also a prolific writer for
+church reviews and other periodicals. Among his publications in book form
+are: "A Dictionary of the Church", (1839); "An Ecclesiastical Dictionary",
+(1861); "The Catechist's Manual", a series of Sunday School instruction
+books; "Songs and Prayers"; "Book of Common Prayer"; "A Church Chant Book",
+and "Episodes of Clerical and Parochial Life".
+
+Dr. Staunton came with his father and the family, when fifteen years of
+age, to Pittsburg, Pa. He was closely associated with the Rev. Mr. Hopkins,
+afterward the Bishop of Vermont. His first ministerial charge was that of
+Zion Church, Palmyra, N. Y., and it was in 1840 he accepted the rectorship
+of St. Peter's Church, Morristown, which position he held for seven years.
+He then organized in Brooklyn, N. Y., a much needed parish, which he named
+St. Peter's after the parish he had just relinquished.
+
+"Dr. Staunton," says the present rector of St. Peter's, the Rev. Robert N.
+Merritt, D. D., who took up the work of the parish in 1853, and to whose
+untiring exertions, the parish and the people of Morristown are largely
+indebted for the erection of the massive and beautiful stone structure that
+stands on the site of the church of Dr. Staunton's time,--"Dr. Staunton was
+no ordinary man, though he never obtained the position in the church to
+which his abilities entitled him. Besides being above the average clergyman
+in theological attainments, he was a scientific musician, a good mechanic,
+well read in general literature, and so close an observer of the events of
+his time that much information was always to be gained from him. His
+retiring nature and great modesty kept him in the back ground."
+
+The following interesting reminiscence comes to us, in a letter, from one
+of the boys who was under his ministration when rector for seven years of
+old St. Peter's. "I remember", says this parishioner, "Dr. Staunton very
+distinctly and with much affection as well as regard and gratitude, for the
+training I had from him in the doctrines and ordinances of the church. He
+was for those days a very advanced churchman, being among the first to
+yield to the influence the Oxford movement was exercising and to adopt the
+advance it inaugurated in the ritual and service of the liturgy informing
+strictly however himself and teaching his people to recognize the authority
+of the rubrics. He maintained this, I think, till his death, and was ranked
+then as a conservative rather than a high churchman, though when he was
+here, the same attitude made him to be thought by some as almost
+dangerously ultra.
+
+"He was not eloquent nor what might be called an attractive preacher, but
+wrote well and accomplished a great deal as a careful and impressive
+teacher of sound doctrine and Christian morality.
+
+"Dr. Staunton was an accomplished scholar in scientific as well as
+ecclesiastical learning, was skilled as a draughtsman and designed, I
+remember, the screen of old St. Peter's when the chancel stood at the South
+street end; and it was wonderfully good and effective of its kind. He was
+also a trained musician, and at one time instructed a class of young ladies
+in thorough-bass, among them being the two Misses Wetmore, my eldest
+sister, and others, and, in addition to this, he made the choir while he
+was here, both in the music used and its efficiency, a vast improvement
+upon what it had been. He was a tall man, fully six feet, of a severe
+countenance and rather austere manner, leading him to be thought sometimes
+cold and unsympathetic, though really he was most kind and considerate, and
+in all respects a devoted and watchful pastor. He published, I think, a
+church dictionary later in life which is still a standard book and
+authority.
+
+"These are my impressions of Dr. Staunton received principally as a very
+young boy, though confirmed by an acquaintance continued till his death,
+and I retain the most sincere gratitude for the abiding faith in the sound
+doctrine of the Episcopal Church which he, after my mother, so trained me
+in that I have accepted them ever since as impregnable; and for this I am
+sure there are many others of his pupils and parishioners besides myself to
+'call him blessed.'"
+
+
+Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Mitchell was the third pastor of the South Street Presbyterian
+Church, which was the fifth, says our historian, "in our galaxy of
+churches." The time of his ministration, during which the church was
+greatly enlarged, both internally and externally, was from 1861 to 1868.
+
+Dr. Mitchell is the son of Matthew and Susan Swain Mitchell, and was born
+in Hudson, N. Y. He was graduated at Williams College in 1853, was tutor
+in Lafayette College, Pa., for one year, and then traveled for a year in
+Europe and the East. Returning he entered the Union Theological Seminary of
+New York City and was graduated from there in 1859. In this year he
+accepted the charge of the Third Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., and
+in Oct. 1861, he became pastor of what was then called, the "Second
+Presbyterian Church" in Morristown. The first Presbyterian Church of
+Chicago, Ill., claimed him in 1868 and in 1880 the First Presbyterian
+Church of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884, Dr. Mitchell became Secretary of the
+Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church to which position he had been
+called fifteen years before, but had felt constrained to decline. This
+important office, which from his intense and life-long interest in the
+great cause of Christian missions to the heathen world, he was remarkably
+qualified to fill, he has held to the present time. In all his
+ministrations, in each individual church which he has served, he has
+succeeded in imparting his own love of, and interest in, Foreign Missions
+and his position as Secretary of this department of the church organization
+has enabled him to stimulate the great congregations and masses of
+individuals throughout the denomination.
+
+Dr. Mitchell's eloquence in the pulpit and on the platform, is so
+well-known that it seems hardly worth while to refer to it. Mastering his
+subject completely as he does, he has the rare power of condensing clearly
+and giving out his thoughts in language and in tones of voice which hold
+and attract his audience to the end. He has published no books, only
+sermons and addresses in pamphlet form and innumerable articles in
+magazines and newspapers. To the great value of this sort of literary work,
+several of our distinguished authors have already testified. In the _Church
+at Home and Abroad_, we find the most exhaustive articles from Dr.
+Mitchell's pen, on the missions and conditions of the various countries of
+the earth which he has also recently visited in a trip around the world.
+These are all written from so large a standpoint that they are about as
+interesting to the general reader as to the specialist. In the publication,
+the "Concert of Prayer" many of these valuable papers are found and a
+considerable number of his addresses, articles, &c., are bound among those
+of other writers, in large volumes. In the next generation we find a writer
+also, in Dr. Mitchell's daughter, Alice, who does not desire mention for
+the reason that her writings are so fragmentary and scattered.
+Nevertheless, her literary work has been considerable and cannot be easily
+measured or described. One who knows her well, says: "Not many ladies are
+better read in missionary annals." In an article of hers, of great
+interest, published in the _Concert of Prayer for Church Work Abroad_, and
+entitled "The Martyrs of Mexico," we come upon the story of the Rev. John
+L. Stephens, previously mentioned in this book among "Travels", &c., and
+who, Miss Mitchell tells us, was one of the earliest missionaries of the
+Congregational church to Mexico.
+
+We have already mentioned that Mr. Matthew Mitchell, the father of our
+writer, lived in Morristown for many years and married for his second wife,
+Miss Margaret, the daughter of the good Doctor John Johnes, and the
+granddaughter of the good Pastor Johnes.
+
+We give a short passage from the opening of Dr. Mitchell's Memorial Sermon
+on James A. Garfield, delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of
+Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1881, and published by a number of
+prominent men who requested the privilege:
+
+
+FROM THE "MEMORIAL SERMON" ON JAMES A. GARFIELD.
+
+We share, my friends, to-day, the greatest grief America has ever known. It
+is no exaggeration to say that no one stroke of Providence has ever spread
+throughout all our land such poignant and universal pain, or has been so
+widely felt as a shock and a sorrow in every portion of the earth.
+
+I am not using words without care. I do not forget those dreadful days of
+April, sixteen years ago, when the slow procession passed from State to
+State, bearing the remains of the beloved Lincoln to the tomb. But there
+was one whole section of our land, it will be remembered, which had never
+acknowledged him as their ruler, and had never viewed him alas! except as
+their foe. Innumerable noble hearts there discussed the crime that laid him
+low; but although they abhorred the assassin's crime, around his victim
+their sentiments of confidence and admiration and loyalty had never been
+gathered.
+
+I do not forget the horror which smote the nation when Hamilton fell, the
+universal pall of sorrow of which our fathers tell us,--the metropolis of
+the country draped in black, the vast and solemn cortège, which amidst
+weeping throngs, followed Hamilton through its chief avenue to the grave.
+
+And as one heart, the hearts of Americans mourned for Washington. There
+were friends of liberty who wept with them in every part of the world. But
+liberty itself had not then so many friends on earth as now. By one great
+nation Washington was held to have drawn a rebel sword. And against
+another, our earlier ally, he had unsheathed it and stood prepared for war.
+And even by the countrymen of Washington it could not be forgotten that he
+had nearly fulfilled the allotted years of man. His work was done. His
+years of war had won for his country the full liberty she sought. His eight
+glorious years of Presidential life had organized the Government,
+established its relations to foreign powers and made its bulwarks strong.
+At his death it was even said that he had "deliberately dispelled the
+enchantment of his own great name;" with wonderful unselfishness he himself
+placed the helm in other hands, looked on for a time at the prosperity
+which he had taught others to supply, and "convinced his country that she
+depended less on him than either her enemies or her friends believed." And
+then he died in the peaceful retirement of his home. It was the death of a
+venerated father whose work was done.
+
+
+Rev. Charles E. Knox, D. D.
+
+For six or eight months in the midst of the Rev. Arthur Mitchell's
+pastorate, a distinguished scholar of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev.
+Charles E. Knox, D. D., filled Dr. Mitchell's place as pastor of the South
+Street Church, Morristown, while the latter was absent in Europe and
+Palestine. This period was from September 1863 to May 1864. When Dr.
+Mitchell resigned in 1868, the present pastor, Rev. Dr. Erdman, was called
+at Dr. Knox's suggestion. From 1864 to 1873, Dr. Knox was pastor of the
+church at Bloomfield, N. J., and since that time has been President of the
+German Theological School of Newark, which is located in Bloomfield. Dr.
+Knox says, in writing of his sojourn in Morristown: "I had a happy time
+with the good South street people and have retained always the liveliest
+interest in all that belongs to them."
+
+"A Year with St. Paul" had just been published when the charge of this
+South Street Church was undertaken. It has since been translated into
+Arabic at Beirut, Syria. "It is in good part," says the author, "a
+compilation and condensation of Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of
+St. Paul", (then in two large and expensive volumes), with some original
+matter. It has a chapter for every Sunday of the year.
+
+Dr. Knox began in Morristown a series of "Graduated Sunday School Text
+Books,"--Primary Year, Second Year, Third Year, Fourth Year and Senior
+Year. This was an introduction of the secular graded system into Sunday
+School Teaching. It introduced the Quarterly Review which has since been
+followed.
+
+"David the King," a life of David with section maps inserted in the page
+and a location of the Psalms in his life, was published later at
+Bloomfield.
+
+
+Rev. Albert Erdman, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Erdman is entitled to honorable mention among Morristown
+writers. He has been the faithful pastor of the South Street Presbyterian
+Church since May 1869, following the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D. It was
+during his ministry that in 1877, the church edifice was totally consumed
+by fire, and the beautiful new building located on its site, in the late
+Byzantine style. It is said by one who knows and appreciates Dr. Erdman's
+work that "few men read more or digest better their reading."
+
+For several years, he has prepared "Notes on the International Sunday
+School Lessons", for a monthly periodical published in Toronto, Canada.
+
+A number of sermons have been published by request, among them the "Sermon
+on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the South Street Presbyterian Church".
+
+Addresses on "Prophetic and other Bible Studies" have been printed in
+Annual Reports of the Bible Conference at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
+and, besides these, many fugitive newspaper articles of value and
+importance.
+
+Dr. Erdman has been largely interested in the general welfare, and
+especially the philanthropies, of the town, outside of his immediate
+church, and by this public spirit, earnestly and fearlessly manifested, in
+many instances, he has no doubt greatly extended his sphere of influence.
+
+He has been a warm supporter of, and has given much time and personal
+attention to the establishment of the Morris County Charities Aid
+Association and of the State Association which followed, carefully studying
+the questions of pauper and criminal reform for which purpose this
+organization exists.
+
+In the Semi-Centennial Sermon we find the following remarkable record:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL SERMON ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
+CHURCH'S ORGANIZATION.
+
+I must note the unique fact that the history of these fifty years of Church
+life is the history of uninterrupted prosperity. Even that which seemed at
+the time to be against us--the destruction by fire of the former house of
+worship--proved to be, as are all the Lord's afflictions, a blessing in
+disguise; for the history of the church since is that of continued and
+ever-increasing prosperity, if growing numbers and enlarged usefulness be
+criterion of success. A spirit of harmony and goodwill mark its whole
+course, and it is, therefore, with unmingled pleasure and gratitude to God,
+we may recall the past. No roots of bitterness and strife to be covered up,
+no rocks of offense to be carefully avoided!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+How the memories of the past throng around us--the saintly lives of fathers
+and mothers, the godly service and earnest prayers of pastors and people,
+the fervent appeals from pulpit and teacher's chair,--surely it would seem
+there could be no valid reason why any should be still unsaved or unwilling
+to take up the duties of Christian service.
+
+Finally, as we here recall the story of the past and rejoice in the
+prosperity of the present, and while we look forward to still larger
+service and blessing in the days to come, let us, with a deep sense of our
+unworthiness and dependence, say, with the Psalmist: "Not unto us, O Lord,
+not unto us; but unto Thy name be all glory."
+
+
+Rev. Joseph M. Flynn, R. D.
+
+The Roman Catholic Church in Morristown erected its first building in 1847.
+It was a small wooden structure, with seating capacity for about 300 people
+and is now used by the parish school. It was in 1871 that the first priest
+in full charge, Rev. James Sheeran, was stationed here, and at his death in
+1881, the Rev. Joseph M. Flynn succeeded, who has continued in charge of
+the parish to the present time. He was named "Dean of the Catholics in
+Morris and Sussex Counties" about six years ago.
+
+This author has recently published a book, (Morristown, N. J., 1892), "The
+Story of a Parish" from the first chapter of which we quote. Also he has
+written some magazine articles and a brochure on "Lent and How to Spend
+it." He is now preparing for publication a volume of short sermons.
+
+"The Story of a Parish" is the story of the foundation and development of
+this parish of the Church of the Assumption, in Morristown.
+
+In the opening chapter, the author says:
+
+"We know that Raphael, Bramante, and Michel Angelo threw into St. Peter's
+the very heart and soul of their inspiration, to erect to the living God
+such a temple as the eye of man had never gazed upon.
+
+"But there are other monuments which thrill no less the beholder, and the
+names of their creators sleep in an impenetrable obscurity. The
+cross-crowned fane, lifting to the highest heaven the sign of man's
+redemption, may tell us neither of him whose genius conceived nor of the
+toilers whose strong arm and cunning eye, in the burning heats of Summer,
+or in the chilling blasts of Winter, unfolded to the wondering crowds who
+daily watched their labors, step by step, inch by inch, the beauties whose
+finished product Time has preserved to us in many a shire of Britain; by
+the glistening lakes and verdant vales of Erin; in sunny Italy, in fair
+France, and in the hallowed soil bathed by our own Potomac. To the humble
+laborer who dug the trenches, to the artist whose chisel carved foliage or
+cusp or capital, a share in our grateful memory is due."
+
+
+Rev. George Harris Chadwell.
+
+The group of people who originated the idea of forming a second Episcopal
+Church in Morristown, perfected their plans in 1852. The following year
+the church building was erected. The first rector, Rev. J. H. Tyng, assumed
+his duties in September, 1852. The Rev. W. G. Sumner accepted a call to the
+parish in 1870. As he is now Professor of Political Economy at Yale
+University--he will come, with his specialty, into a later group. In 1880,
+Rev. George H. Chadwell became rector of the parish, coming from Brooklyn
+where he had been assistant to the Rev. Charles Hall, D. D., rector of
+Trinity Church of that City.
+
+Mr. Chadwell courageously undertook the removal of the church edifice from
+the spot where it had stood since 1854, on the corner of Morris and Pine
+streets, to its present site on South street, on which occasion he
+delivered one of his important "Addresses" which was published and largely
+distributed. He lived to see his aim accomplished and not long after gave,
+in the church again, on what proved to be the last Sunday of his life, a
+sermon, which was also published under the title of "A Farewell Discourse."
+
+Mr. Chadwell also published a monthly paper during his rectorship, called
+_The Rector's Assistant_, and wrote in other directions.
+
+In the "Address on the Occasion of the Re-opening of the Edifice for Divine
+service," August 22, 1886, we find a reference to the interesting history
+of the land on which the building now stands, and its association with
+many of the old families of Morristown, as follows:
+
+"Originally the ground we are now occupying belonged to the first
+Presbyterian Church, which at that date constituted the only religious
+society in the town, and owned all the land on the east side of South
+street as far down as Pine street. This plot of ours formed a part of what
+was designated the parsonage lot. The first sale of it took place in
+November of 1795, the same year the white church on the Green was dedicated
+and opened for Divine worship. The consideration was one hundred and twenty
+pounds, money worth about $300 in the currency of the United States. The
+Trustees whose names appear in the deed are Silas Condict, Benjamin
+Lindsley, Jonathan Ford, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Jonathan Ogden and
+Benjamin Pierson--names which are still represented in our community. The
+purchaser was the Rev. James Richards. This gentleman was at the time the
+pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, being the third in succession to
+that office. His ministry covered a period of fourteen years and was
+remarkably successful.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"On his departure from Morristown Dr. Richards sold the property we are now
+describing. The price realized was $4,000. From which I infer that there
+had been erected upon it the house which we propose to convert into a
+rectory. Otherwise I can not account for so great an increase in the value
+of the land as took place. * * * The new owner proved to be the Rev. Samuel
+Fisher, the successor of Dr Richards in the pastorate of the church. Mr.
+Fisher was the son of Jonathan Fisher, a native of this town. * * * In
+1813, under his auspices, the Female Charitable Society of Morristown, our
+most venerable eleemosynary institution, was founded, Mr. Fisher's wife
+being elected to the honored position of its first President. * * * It was
+somewhere about this time that Mrs. Wetmore, the widow of a British
+officer, opened on this site a private school for girls." (Mrs. Wetmore was
+the mother of Mrs. James Colles who long lived, in summer, upon the large
+estate now opened to the city, in streets and avenues, and largely built
+upon. She was also the mother of Charles Wetmore, the artist who painted
+the picture of "Old Morristown," in 1815, now in possession of Hon.
+Augustus W. Cutler, to whose courtesy we are indebted for the privilege of
+having made from it the fine pen and ink sketch of Miss Suzy Howell, for
+the frontispiece of this book.) "From 1814 to 1829, our property passed
+through the hands successively of Israel Canfield, James Wood and Silas
+Condict. During this period, or rather a portion of it, one of New Jersey's
+most promising lawyers resided on this spot. I refer to Mr. William
+Miller, an older brother of our late United States Senator, the Hon. J. W.
+Miller. * * * A citizen of Morristown who was personally acquainted with
+him has lately written me: 'The noble character and the brilliant career of
+this young lawyer, which were cut short by his untimely death, are still
+remembered with lively interest by some of our oldest inhabitants.'
+
+"In 1829 the property again changed hands, the purchaser being Miss Mary
+Louisa Mann. Her father was the editor of _The Morris County Gazette_
+afterwards known as _The Genius of Liberty_, and of _The Palladium of
+Liberty_, the first newspapers issued in Morristown. He also published in
+1805 an edition of the Holy Scriptures, which gained considerable notoriety
+as 'The Armenian Bible,' from the error occurring in Heb. vi:4, 'For it is
+possible for those who have once been enlightened ... if they shall fall
+away to renew them again unto repentance.' Miss Mann, now Mrs. Lippincott,
+of Succasunna, together with her sister, Miss Sarah, put up the building
+which is to serve us hereafter as a Sunday School room and church parlor.
+It was erected to meet the wants of a female seminary established by them
+in 1822, and which had grown under their efficient management so popular
+that its advantages were sought by pupils from all quarters. Since the
+close of the school the buildings occupied by it have been used as a
+boarding house. As such their hospitality has been enjoyed by numbers
+whose names are familiar to us in connection with important features of our
+national existence, finance, war and art. I mention in particular the
+Belmonts, the Perrys, the Rogers, the Enningers. And here in the front
+parlor of this same boarding house in the summer of 1851, when it had been
+determined to found a new parish, the first meeting of its originators was
+held. 'In that room,' to quote the language of one present on the occasion,
+'the infant Church was christened The Church of the Redeemer, and from that
+day it lived; very feebly at first, not a very strong child, but tenderly
+nurtured, always slowly gaining, until now, after thirty-four years, it
+promises to grow in strength and to have a powerful future.' Our immediate
+predecessor in the title to the land was Mr. George W. King, who acquired
+it in 1854 for the sum of $8,000."
+
+Of the character of the church, Rev. Mr. Chadwell says:
+
+"This Church then, I may observe, has always been conservative in its
+character. Those who founded it gave to it this tone. They were men opposed
+in mind and temperament to that mediaeval type of theology which had begun
+to prevail in their day, and which has since become popular in various
+quarters. They were out of sympathy with the movement which was then
+aiming, and which has since succeeded in undoing much the reforming
+divines of the sixteenth century accomplished. They were averse, for
+example, to everything that savors of sacerdotalism--to the doctrines which
+convert the ambassador of Christ into a sacrificing priest, the communion
+table into a veritable altar, and the eucharist into a sacrifice and
+constant miracle. Elaborate rites and ceremonies, in which some find a
+delight, and perhaps a help, were distasteful to them. They felt themselves
+unable to derive edification from these sources. On the other hand, they
+were in harmony with what may be denominated the protestant tendencies of
+our Communion. Of the name itself of protestant they had not learned to be
+ashamed. They believed in the principles of the great Reformation of three
+centuries ago. They did not judge its promoters deluded men, nor pronounce
+them to have 'died for a cause not worth dying for.' They honored them as
+God-enlightened, and venerated them as heroes and martyrs. The changes
+these effected in dogma and in ritual they regarded not as mistakes, but as
+advances in the right direction--from error towards truth. They looked to
+Christ as their only priest, to His cross as their only altar and to his
+death thereon as the only atonement for their sin. They loved simplicity of
+worship and cultivated it in their public devotions. In fine, they were
+content and best satisfied with that plain system of teaching and practice
+which the Prayer Book as we have it now seems most naturally to favor. At
+least this is the impression of these men which I have received from
+reading the record and memorials of themselves they have left behind. So
+when they organized this parish it was along these lines which I have
+indicated. And from its inception to the present moment it has retained,
+with perhaps some unessential modifications, the stamp they gave it."
+
+
+Rev. William M. Hughes, S. T. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Hughes, who succeeded the Rev. George H. Chadwell, in 1887, as
+rector of the Church of the Redeemer should have followed our little
+group--within this group--of editors and theologians, except that he has
+present charge of a parish, which they have not. He was officially on the
+editorial staff and in the editorial department of _The Churchman_ during
+1887 and 1888, and has written for editorial and other departments both
+before and since. For _The Church Journal_ also, as well as other, and
+secular papers, he has written articles and editorials on various topics,
+from time to time.
+
+Dr. Hughes was born at Little Falls, New York, and losing both parents
+early in life, removed to Frankfort, Kentucky, among his mother's
+relatives. From boarding-school in Ohio, he entered Kenyon College, Class
+of '71. At the end of Freshman year he went to Hobart College and was
+graduated there at the head of his class in 1871. During 1871-'72, he
+studied in Berlin, Germany, and was graduated in 1875 from the General
+Theological Seminary, New York. The same year he became rector of St.
+John's Church, Buffalo, N. Y., one of the most important parishes of the
+diocese of Western New York. This charge he resigned in 1883, to accept a
+position of honor to which he had been unanimously elected, in Hobart
+College, Geneva, N. Y.,--namely, the Chaplaincy of the College and
+Professorship of "Philosophy and Christian Evidences," the latter
+department having been hitherto held by the President of the College. It
+was with great regret, that the people of Buffalo as well as the people of
+St. John's parish, parted with both Dr. and Mrs. Hughes, if we may judge
+from all that was expressed in the press on the occasion of their
+departure. "Here," says one writer, "they will be missed, not only by those
+with whom they were closely associated in church or neighborhood
+relationship, but more especially by the sick, the humble, the troubled,
+and the needy, for whose consolation and comfort they have so unselfishly
+labored, in many parts of the city, during the last seven years. A thousand
+blessings follow them."
+
+In 1887, Dr. Hughes became an associate editor of _The Churchman_ and
+Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown. He is a member of the
+Executive Council of the Church Temperance Society and Corresponding
+Secretary of the _University Board of Regents_ and originator of the
+scheme.
+
+Among Dr. Hughes' writings is an important brochure on Boys' Guilds,
+published under the auspices of the Church Temperance Society, and entitled
+"Hints for the Formation of Bands of Young Crusaders." In this he discusses
+"one of the most practical questions before the Church, and the one which
+the busy rector often asks in sheer bewilderment, if not despair: 'What
+shall be done with the boys of the Church, from the ages of ten to
+seventeen?'" He also offers the solution in a plan of organization for one,
+among many works, which may interest and occupy them, thus training them as
+the boys of the Church to become the men of the Church.
+
+In the _Magazine of Christian Literature_ for September 1892, we find the
+leading article to be from the pen of Dr. Hughes, on "The Convergence of
+Darwinism and the Bible." "The conclusions here reached," the author tells
+us, "have been subjected, during the past eight years, to efficient
+criticism and repeated examinations." It is proposed that these articles
+shall continue and finally appear in book form. Of this article, a
+prominent clergyman of the Church, whose opinion weighs for much, and whose
+words we have asked the privilege of giving, writes Rev. Dr. Hughes, as
+follows: "I am deeply moved in recognizing the penetration, the sublimity
+and sweetness of your essay in the September number of the _Magazine of
+Christian Literature_. I trust No. 1. is prophetic of future numbers.
+
+"You have made a great discovery and you disclose it with great power and
+beauty. How wonderful is this converging witness of Nature and the Spirit,
+Faith and Science to the approaching Day of the Son of Man. No question,
+the Day is swiftly coming. Its light is on the hills. The many signs of His
+approach and His appearing seem to fill the air and make the spirit tremble
+with holy fear and gladness. The Lord hasten the Day. Let us prepare
+ourselves with joy to greet Him. Meantime, we may greet one another in the
+full assurance of faith, as I you, brother, by these presents."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From a Paper in _The Magazine of Christian Literature_ of September 1892,
+on--
+
+"THE CONVERGENCE OF DARWINISM AND THE BIBLE CONCERNING MAN AND THE SUPREME
+BEING."
+
+Science and religion are in reality dealing with the same phenomena.
+Immense human and personal interests are involved in them. Neither can be
+discussed in the absolutely "dry light" of sheer intellectuality.
+
+Consequences of immense import to the individual character, to the social
+well-being, and to eternal hopes flow directly from each.
+
+If, by scientific methods, which are plainly sound, conclusions are reached
+that are directly at variance with the religious faith of the vast
+majority, both a social and an intellectual as well as an ethical
+revolution is threatening.
+
+Or if by religious methods traditions are established which deny room to
+the conclusions of progressive human thought, religion inevitably invites
+scepticism, the casting off of all traditions, and the unfortunate disclaim
+of that which is forever true in faith.
+
+There are not a few of us to whom our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is
+dearer far than the most acute thinker in the domain of human speculation
+or the profoundest student of the world as it is.
+
+If it come to an attack or a logical denial of that which He is and
+teaches, we do not hesitate to make a personal matter of it.
+
+If Darwinism, _e. g._, as a system of ultimate postulates demands that we
+yield up the Lord of Life to be crucified afresh by the powers of the
+world, Darwinism, as such, will get no quarter. Getting no quarter, it will
+give none, and it becomes an internecine strife that knows no truce and
+admits no peace until the one or the other lies dead on the field of
+contest.
+
+But if, as a matter of fact, such a conflict is really illogical, hasty,
+and essentially inimical to both modern science, and to the Christian
+faith, then much is gained not only for peace, but still more for truth.
+
+It is the direct object of this article to demonstrate, so far as
+demonstration is possible, that the theory of Darwin, instead of
+antagonizing, tends irresistibly to affirm the most fundamental truths of
+the Bible as commonly held by the so-called orthodox Christian world. Nay,
+more, not only to affirm, but to give them greater power.
+
+
+
+
+PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS.
+
+
+At this point, we must confess to a sensation of being overwhelmed with an
+embarrassment of riches, for what shall we do with the distinguished men
+who follow, and bring our little book within its covers? That we may have
+no more continuous extracts from their works, reluctantly we find ourselves
+compelled to realize.
+
+
+Hon. Jacob W. Miller.
+
+We are indebted to Edward Q. Keasbey, Esq., grandson of Mr. Miller, for the
+facts and data of the following brief sketch.
+
+The Hon. Jacob W. Miller was born in November, 1800, in German Valley,
+Morris County, N. J. He studied law in Morristown with his brother, William
+W. Miller from 1818 to 1823, when he was licensed to practice as attorney.
+He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court as counsellor in 1826 and
+in 1837 he was called to the degree of Sergeant at Law and he was one of
+the last to whom the degree was given. He had a large practice in
+Morristown and was one of the leading advocates at the circuit in Sussex
+and Warren as well as Morris Counties. Mr. Elmer in his reminiscences says:
+"He was distinguished not only as a fervent and impressive speaker, but for
+patient industry, faithfulness and tact. He was distinguished also for that
+sound common sense which is above all other sense, and was, by its
+exhibition in public and private, a man of great personal influence."
+
+In 1838 he was elected a member of the Council, as the State Senate was
+then called, and in 1840, he was elected by the Whig party to the Senate of
+the United States. He was elected again in 1846, and remained in the Senate
+until 1852. He did not speak very often, but when he spoke it was after a
+careful study of the subject and his words carried the greater weight. He
+spoke with wisdom and eloquence. A large number of these speeches are
+published in scattered pamphlets or in volumes among others. They have
+never been collected. One of the earliest of these important speeches was
+on the resolutions of the day in favor of a protective tariff. On May 23,
+1844, Mr. Miller delivered a speech against the treaty for annexing Texas
+to the United States. The objections to the treaty as stated by him, are of
+considerable interest in the present day. He opposed the annexation on the
+ground that it was using the National Government to give an advantage to
+the Slave States. "Slavery," he said was "a matter to be regulated and
+controlled by the States, and neither to be interfered with nor extended by
+the National Government. New Jersey had abolished slavery herself and did
+not ask any territory into which to send her slaves." On Feb'y 21, 1850, he
+spoke upon the "Proposition to Compromise the Slavery Question" and in
+favor of the admission of California into the Union.
+
+Among others of his speeches, were those "On the Exploration of the
+Interior of Africa and in favor of the Independence of Liberia", delivered
+in the Senate of the United States, March 1853; "In Defence of the American
+Doctrine of Non-Intervention", delivered in the Senate of the U. S. Feb.
+26, 1852; "On the Mexican War and the Mode of Bringing it to a Speedy and
+Favorable Conclusion", Feb. 2, 1847; "On the Ten Regiments Bill", Feb. 8,
+1848, against the prosecution of the Mexican War. Mr. Miller worked and
+spoke earnestly in favor of "Establishing and Encouraging an American Line
+of Steamers". On April 22, 1852, he delivered a carefully prepared speech
+in favor of sustaining the Collins line of Mail Steamers, and advocated the
+policy of a subsidy for carrying the mails, which was successful then and
+has now again been adopted, already resulting in the restoration of the
+American flag to the transatlantic steamers.
+
+Besides these speeches in the Senate, Mr. Miller delivered a good many
+addresses and orations. Among these was an oration delivered in Morristown
+on the Fourth of July, 1851. Even then he foreboded the attempt to break up
+the Union and, speaking of Secession as rebellion, he maintained the power
+of the Nation under the Constitution to defend the Union. Several addresses
+were delivered before historical societies and some in the direction of the
+agricultural interests of the country. Before the New Jersey Historical
+Society in Trenton, he spoke of "The Iron State, Its Natural Position,
+Power and Wealth", Jan. 19, 1854. Before the Bristol Agricultural Society
+at New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 28, 1854, he spoke on "American Agriculture;
+its Development and Influence at Home and Abroad".
+
+
+Hon. William Burnet Kinney.
+
+Mr. Kinney, whose wife, Elizabeth C. Kinney and whose grandson, Alexander
+Nelson Easton, have already been represented among our poets, may be
+claimed by Morristown, for his associations of boyhood and of many years in
+later life. A man of unusual culture, no one who knew him could forget the
+charm of his courtly manners and delightful conversation. He founded _The
+Newark Daily Advertiser_, in 1833. It was then the only daily newspaper in
+the State, and uniting with it _The Sentinel of Freedom_, a long
+established weekly paper, he gave to the journal a tone so high that it was
+said of him, "his literary criticisms, contained in it, had more influence
+upon the opinions of literary men than those of any other journalist of the
+time." He was fortunate in having an accomplished son, Thomas T. Kinney,
+Esq., of Newark, N. J., to follow in his footsteps and continue the
+editorial work he had begun in this leading New Jersey paper. From Mr.
+Thomas T. Kinney we have a few words of reminiscence written in reply to
+the question of a friend as to what his father's early associations with
+Morristown might have been.
+
+"My father," he says, "was born at Speedwell, Morris County (in the edge
+of Morristown). I think it was in the house afterwards owned and occupied
+by the late Judge Vail, and the same in which his son Alfred lived. He
+invented the telegraph alphabet of dots and lines, which made Morse's
+system practicable, and it is still used.
+
+"Speedwell is on a stream upon which there were mill-sites, owned and
+worked by my father's ancestry and there is a tradition in the family that
+his uncle in trying to save a mill during a freshet lost his life and the
+body was afterwards found through a dream by another member of the family.
+The lake at Speedwell was a picturesque spot and Sully, the artist, painted
+his great picture of the 'Lady of the Lake' there, the subject being
+Lucretia Parsons, a beautiful girl whose family came from the West Indies
+and settled in the neighborhood. Lucretia married a Mr. Charles King who
+lived at the Park House in Newark and had the original sketch from which
+Sully painted the head in the picture. My father was intimate in the family
+and I think that some of his ancestry rest in the burial ground of the old
+Presbyterian Church at Morristown,--from all of which we may infer that
+many of his youthful days were passed there."
+
+Mr. Kinney studied under Mr. Whelpley, author of "The Triangle", and
+subsequently studied under Joseph C. Hornblower, of Newark. In 1820 he
+began his editorial life in Newark, which he continued with slight
+interruption until his appointment in 1851, as United States Minister to
+Sardinia. "In this position of honor," it is said, "he represented his
+country with rare ability." With Count Cavour and other men of eminence in
+Sardinia, he discussed the movement for the unification of Italy. For
+important services rendered to Great Britain, Lord Palmerston sent him a
+special despatch of acknowledgment and by his own foresight, judgment and
+prompt action in the case of the exiled Kossuth, he saved the United States
+from enlisting in a foreign complication. During his life abroad, at the
+expiration of his term of office as Minister to Sardinia, while residing in
+Florence, Mr. Kinney became deeply interested in the romantic history of
+the Medici family. He began a historical work on this subject, to be
+entitled, "The History of Tuscany", which promised to be of great
+importance, but although carried far on to completion, it was not finished
+when his life ended. In Florence Mr. and Mrs. Kinney were constantly in the
+society of the Brownings, the Trollopes and others of literary distinction.
+
+Mr. Kinney, besides his editorial writing, delivered, by request, a number
+of important orations which were published. The last of these, "On the
+Bi-Centennial of the Settlement of Newark", and delivered on the occasion
+of that celebration, we find in a volume published in 1866, entitled
+"Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society".
+
+
+Hon. Theodore F. Randolph
+
+Theodore F. Randolph was born in New Brunswick June 24, 1826. His father,
+James F. Randolph, for thirty-six years publisher and editor of _The
+Fredonian_, was of Revolutionary stock, belonging to the Virginia family,
+and for eight years represented the Whig Party in Congress. The son
+received a liberal education and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He
+frequently contributed articles to his father's paper when still a youth.
+In 1850 he took up his residence in Hudson County, where he resided twelve
+years and until he removed to Morristown. In 1852 he married a daughter of
+Hon. W. B. Coleman, of Kentucky, and a granddaughter of Chief Justice
+Marshall. In 1860 he with others of the American party formed a coalition
+with the Democrats to whom he ever after adhered. In 1861 he was elected to
+the State Senate for unexpired term and in the following year he was
+re-elected and served till 1865. In 1867, he was made President of the
+Morris and Essex Railroad and continued to act as such until the lease was
+made to the Delaware and Lackawanna Company. In 1868, he was elected
+Governor of the State and proved a most able and independent Chief
+Magistrate. In January, 1875, he was elected to the United States Senate in
+which he served a full term of six years. In 1873 he was one of the four
+who formed and carried out the design of making the Washington Headquarters
+"a historic place". His sudden death on the seventh day of November, 1883,
+shocked the whole community in whose affections he filled so large a place.
+
+Gov. Randolph was a man of most genial manner, honorable in all his
+business transactions and most liberal-minded and fearless as a legislator.
+Says one who knew him intimately: "He filled well all the duties to which
+his fellow-citizens called him."
+
+But it is as a writer that his name appears here. His messages to the
+Legislature while Governor and his speeches in the United States Senate are
+known of all and bear the impress of his character. These are scattered
+through numerous public documents and have never yet been collected in book
+form. His many contributions to the press were mostly political. In 1871,
+he pronounced an oration at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument on our
+public square, which was published in our County papers, and on July 5,
+1875, at the celebration of the National holiday at Headquarters, he made
+the eloquent address, which is the best specimen of his skill. This address
+is given, entire, in Hon. Edmund D. Halsey's "History of the Washington
+Association of New Jersey".
+
+
+Hon. Edward W. Whelpley.
+
+Chief Justice Whelpley, by the high order of his judicial qualities rose
+rapidly from the Bar to the Bench. He was the only son of Dr. William A.
+Whelpley, a native of New England and a practicing physician in Morristown.
+Dr. Whelpley was a cousin of the Rev. Samuel Whelpley who wrote "The
+Triangle". The mother of Judge Whelpley was a daughter of General John Dodd
+of Bloomfield, N. J., and a sister of the distinguished Amzi Dodd,
+Prosecutor of Morris County. He was graduated, at Princeton, with
+distinction, at the early age of sixteen; studied law with his uncle, Amzi
+Dodd and began its practice in Newark, N. J. In 1841 he removed to
+Morristown and became a partner of the late Hon. J. W. Miller. He was
+first appointed to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
+and in a few years became Chief Justice.
+
+The late Attorney-General Frelinghuysen said of him: "Chief Justice
+Whelpley's most marked attributes of character were intellectual. The
+vigorous thinking powers of his mother's family were clearly manifest in
+him. No one could have known his uncle, Amzi Dodd, without being struck
+with the marked resemblance between them. The Chief Justice was well read
+in his profession, familiar with books, and yet he was a thinker rather
+than a servile follower of precedent. He was a first class lawyer. He
+sought out and founded himself on principles. He did not stick to the mere
+bark of a subject. He had confidence in his conclusions and he had a right
+to have it, for they logically rested upon fundamental truths. But while
+his intellectual characteristics were most marked, he had admirable moral
+traits. He felt the responsibilities of life and met them. He was no
+trifler. He had integrity, which, at the bar and on the bench, was beyond
+all suspicion".
+
+And Courtlandt Parker, his intimate and life-long friend said of him:
+
+"Intellectually, his qualities were rare. He was made for a Judge. Judicial
+position was his great aim and desire, and when he attained it, his whole
+mind was devoted to its duties; they were enjoyment to him; he felt his
+strength, and was determined not merely to be a judge, but such a judge as
+would honor his exaltation, and exercise eminently that high usefulness
+which belongs to that office".
+
+Chief Justice Whelpley may be justly ranked among important writers of the
+legal profession. His legal opinions found in the Law Reports are
+characterized by strength, independence and knowledge of the principles of
+law.
+
+
+Hon. Jacob Vanatta.
+
+In a city so honored in the number of its distinguished legal minds, it
+need not be a surprise to find such a man as Jacob Vanatta, but of only a
+few can it be said as was truly remarked of him: "His practice grew until,
+at the time of his death, it was probably the largest in the State. His
+reputation advanced with his practice, and for years he stood at the head
+of the New Jersey Bar, as an able, faithful, conscientious and untiring
+advocate and counsel. He may be truly called one of the greatest of
+corporation lawyers. He was for years the regular Counsel of the Delaware,
+Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, of the Central Railroad Company,
+and more or less of many other corporations, and his engagements have
+carried him frequently before the highest Courts of New York, Pennsylvania
+and of the United States Supreme Court".
+
+The Rev. Rufus S. Green, D. D., said, in his beautiful funeral discourse:
+"Mr. Vanatta died at the age of fifty-four--an old man worn out by
+overwork". "Be warned", he continues, "by the sad example of him whom
+to-day you sincerely mourn of an exhausted brain and prematurely enfeebled
+body. Take needed rest, cessation from labor, and frequent holidays".
+
+The character of Mr. Vanatta's talent was wholly different from that of
+Judge Whelpley. The one rose brilliantly and suddenly, driven out by the
+force of an inborn genius, the other attained to what he was through
+untiring industry and plodding labor.
+
+"More than any man I have ever known, from his clerkship to his death",
+says Mr. Theodore Little, into whose office Mr. Vanatta entered a student
+in the year 1845, "he seemed to have engraved on his very heart the motto,
+'_Perseverantia vincit omnia_,' and in that sign he conquered and achieved
+his success".
+
+Mr. Vanatta's published writings are mostly articles on political
+questions and many speeches and addresses, which were often reprinted. One
+of these in particular, made a profound impression. It was delivered at
+Rahway, when our civil war was threatening, and contained a strong argument
+and appeal for the Union.
+
+
+Hon. George T. Werts.
+
+Our present Governor of New Jersey, Hon. George T. Werts, was born at
+Hackettstown, N. J., March 24th, 1846, and was admitted to the bar in 1867.
+He was Recorder of Morristown from May 1883 to 1885, and was elected Mayor
+in May 1886, again in 1888 and in 1890. During the session of the State
+Senate in 1889, he served as President of the Senate, and was re-elected
+Senator in the same year. During his time as Senator, he served on many of
+the most important Committees and the new Ballot Reform Law and the new
+License Law were both drafted by him; laws which embrace, perhaps, the most
+radical change of any recently enacted.
+
+While Mayor of Morristown some of the most important ordinances of the
+city were of his drafting; indeed while Mayor, he paid particular attention
+to every ordinance drafted.
+
+Early in 1892 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
+resigning the offices of State Senator and Mayor of Morristown to accept
+this honor, and he resigned the position of Judge to accept that of
+Governor, to which office he was elected in November, 1892.
+
+Many speeches and addresses of Governor Werts have been published in the
+metropolitan and State papers, and in pamphlet form. Several are scattered
+through large volumes containing the speeches and addresses of others.
+These are mostly political, but some are on other subjects, and have been
+delivered before juries and at reunions, in the Senate, and on other
+occasions. Among these published papers are also opinions and decisions
+while Judge of the Supreme Court.
+
+
+Joseph Fitz Randolph.
+
+Mr. Randolph has issued a valuable work, known to us as "Jarman on Wills",
+1881 and 1882, being the fifth American edition by Mr. Randolph and Mr.
+William Talcott. This work adds a third volume to a famous two-volume
+English book.
+
+In 1888, was issued "Randolph on Commercial Paper", which work is of three
+volumes and contains 3,300 pages on bills, notes, &c., and is considered by
+the legal profession to be quite exhaustive of the subject. "These", says
+the author, "are legal monsters into which lawyers dig and delve and which
+settle knotty questions no doubt, but which probably will not be thoroughly
+investigated by women, until Fashion or Famine shall drive them into the
+legal profession".
+
+Again we may quote the author's words, when he says in his usual happy vein
+of humor, about all his important legal productions, that "they are a
+necessary nuisance to the maker's friends and the unwilling buyers, that
+there is no end of making many such, and that they might be written down in
+line, on a heavy page with some of his brother writers on other abstruse
+subjects and set in a minor key".
+
+
+Edward Q. Keasbey.
+
+In one of the large New York dailies of August 1892, we read the following:
+"Mr. Keasbey, the well known New Jersey lawyer, has some hundred pages on
+'Electric Wires in Streets and Highways,' a new subject of growing
+importance." This refers to a law book published by Mr. Keasbey entitled
+"The Law of Electric Wires in streets and Highways", Callaghan and Co.,
+Chicago. Mr. Keasbey has also edited _The New Jersey Law Journal_ since
+1879 and _The Hospital Review_ since 1888.
+
+
+
+
+SCIENTISTS.
+
+
+Samuel Finley Breese Morse, LL. D.
+
+Nothing could be more romantic than the story of the Telegraph, the
+practical application of which began in Morristown, for it is morally
+certain that without the enthusiastic confidence in its success generously
+manifested by Alfred Vail, the young inventor, and his father Judge Stephen
+Vail, who freely contributed of his means to the experiments of Professor
+Morse, this great gift to the world would have been indefinitely delayed.
+
+[Illustration: SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,
+
+AS REPRESENTED ON AN ANCIENT INVOICE.]
+
+Morse was poor. He had exhausted his means by the necessary time and
+thought given to the development of his conception, when the value of this
+work was realized by these two men. It was as an artist, that Morse went
+first to Speedwell, on October 29, 1837, to observe the progress of his new
+machinery which was being prepared there at the Speedwell Iron Works
+belonging to Judge Vail, by Alfred Vail and his assistant, William Baxter.
+Morse had accepted a commission, doubtless given him as a means of
+relieving his pecuniary stress, to paint the portraits of several members
+of Judge Vail's household. It will be remembered, that besides his great
+invention, Professor Morse was an artist of considerable reputation, as
+well as an author. In his youth, it is said, he was more strongly marked by
+his fondness for art than for science. He was a pupil of Washington
+Allston, a member of the Royal Academy, and studied with Benjamin West. He
+painted the portraits of many distinguished men, among them the then
+President of the United States, James Monroe, for the city of Charleston;
+and, later, Fitz Greene Halleck and Chancellor Kent, now in the Astor
+Library, and the full length portrait of Lafayette for the city of New
+York. He was one of the founders and was first President of the National
+Academy of Design, and it was on his return from the pursuit of his renewed
+study of art abroad that he met with the remarkable experience which turned
+his attention from art to invention and gave him his life work. In a letter
+written to Alfred Vail by Professor Morse, and given in Mr. Vail's book on
+"The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph", (page 153), we find the
+following account:
+
+"In 1826, the lectures before the New York Atheneum, of Dr. J. F. Dana, who
+was my particular friend, gave to me the first knowledge ever possessed of
+electro magnetism, and some of the properties of the electro magnet; a
+knowledge which I made available in 1832, as the basis of my own plan of an
+electro telegraph. I claim to be the original suggestor and inventor of the
+electric magnetic telegraph, on the 19th of October, 1832, on board the
+packet ship Sully, on my voyage from France to the United States and,
+consequently, the inventor of the first really _practicable telegraph on
+the electric principle_. The plan then conceived and drawn out in all its
+essential characteristics, is the one now in successful operation."
+
+Professor Morse had more honors and medals than perhaps any American
+living. He belonged to a distinguished literary family. His two brothers
+founded _The New York Observer_ in 1823. This is now the oldest weekly in
+New York and the oldest religious paper in the State. As an author, he
+wielded the pen of a ready writer. He not only published controversial
+pamphlets concerning the telegraph, but contributed articles and poems to
+many magazines and edited the works of Lucretia Maria Davidson,
+accompanying them by a personal memoir. He published in 1835, a book
+entitled, "Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States;
+Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through
+Foreign Immigration and the Present State of the Naturalization Laws, by
+an American". Later were published "Confessions of a French Catholic
+Priest, to which are added Warnings to the People of the United States, by
+the Same Author", (edited and published with an introduction, 1837), and
+"Our Liberties Defended, the Question Discussed, is the Protestant or Papal
+System most favorable to Civil and Religious Liberty".
+
+
+Alfred Vail.
+
+To Alfred Vail belongs a place of honor, as the author of a valuable book
+on "The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph", and a place of honor, also,
+as having been the man to perceive, at a critical moment, the importance to
+the world of the great invention of Professor Morse. He was among the
+spectators who witnessed the first operation of the electro-magnetic
+telegraph at the New York University and saw then, for the first time, the
+apparatus. Of this occasion he writes as follows: "I was struck with the
+rude machine, containing, as I believed, the germ of what was destined to
+produce great changes in the condition and relations of mankind." Again,
+he says, "I rejoiced to carry out the plans of Professor Morse. I promised
+him assistance, provided he would admit me to a share of the invention,--to
+which proposition he assented. I returned to my rooms, locked my door,
+threw myself upon the bed and gave myself up to the reflections upon the
+mighty results which were certain to follow the introduction of this new
+agent in serving the wants of the world". With this intense conviction,
+young Vail communicated his enthusiasm to his father, Judge Stephen Vail,
+who owned the Speedwell Iron Works and who generously supplied the means by
+which the plans for the electric telegraph were put into successful
+operation. It is an interesting fact that these same Speedwell Iron Works
+are variously connected with the history of the country, for "here was
+forged the shaft of the _Savannah_, the first steamship that crossed the
+Atlantic and here were manufactured the tires, axles and cranks of the
+first American locomotives."
+
+In _The Century_ for April 1888, is a most interesting article, entitled
+"The American Inventors of the Telegraph, with Special Reference to the
+Services of Alfred Vail". This is exhaustive of the subject, was written by
+Franklin Leonard Pope, and was supervised by Mrs. Alfred Vail, as she tells
+us, and the statements fortified by documents, correspondence and designs.
+To _The Century_ editors and to Mr. James Cummings Vail, of Morris Plains,
+son of Alfred Vail, we are indebted for the use of the plate of the
+Speedwell Iron Works, redrawn from an ancient invoice, the age of which is
+not known. The illustration of the "Factory" in which the first successful
+trial and, afterwards, the first public exhibition, of the electric
+telegraph took place, is from a photograph of the building as it stands at
+the present day, on the lot in which stands the homestead house, now
+occupied by Mrs. Lidgerwood.
+
+"I have always understood", says Mr. J. C. Vail, (Jan'y 5, 1893), "that the
+room in which my father and Baxter (his young assistant) worked and called
+the 'work shop', was in an old stone building within the Iron Works
+enclosure, between the bridge and Morristown and is still standing, and is
+the only stone building within that enclosure."
+
+Of these buildings and associations, Mrs. John H. Lidgerwood, the
+granddaughter of Judge Vail, now living on the place, at Speedwell, writes
+as follows, Dec. 12, 1892:
+
+"My grandfather makes but three entries in his diary:
+
+"'1838, January 6th. Dr. Gale came this morning. They (Prof. Morse, Alfred
+Vail, and the Dr.) have worked the Tellegraph in the Factory this evening
+for the first time.'
+
+"'10th. Mr. Morse and Alfred are working and showing the Tellegraph.'
+
+"'11th. A hundred came to see the Tellegraph work.'
+
+"The old house", continues Mrs. Lidgerwood, "in which my grandfather then
+lived, still remains near the foot of the hill nearest the town. The
+interior has been entirely changed and I never knew the room occupied by
+Professor Morse.
+
+"The shop, in which the machine was constructed, and which was called the
+'work shop', has also been rebuilt. Its four walls are all that are left of
+the original building. The floor of that room was taken away to make a one
+story building and the windows were put in the roof. It is now entirely
+vacant and stands on the side of the dam opposite the saw mill, the gable
+end of the old shop facing the road. One end of the foundation was partly
+torn away by the freshet that destroyed the old bridge. The experiments
+were made in a building called 'The Factory', which is at the foot of our
+lawn. It was built for a Cotton Factory, but only used for making buttons,
+owing, I believe, to some fault in its construction.
+
+"My grandfather has told me frequently that the machine was placed on the
+first floor, and about three miles of copper wire, insulated by being wound
+with cotton yarn, was wound around the walls of the second story. There are
+some hooks still in the side walls but I do not know if they are the same.
+I have still a small portion of the original wire used in the experiments.
+I do not know the age of any of these buildings. The works were probably
+here long before the Revolution. I have heard my grandfather say there was
+a forge here at that time."
+
+The machine used on the occasion to which Judge Vail refers in his diary,
+and on which he himself had sent the first message of all, "a patient
+waiter is no loser," is now loaned by the family to the Smithsonian
+Institute, Washington, D. C.
+
+From the time the first telegraphic message was sent by Alfred Vail from
+the "Factory" at Speedwell and received by Professor Morse two miles away,
+and the next experiment when Morse and Vail operated with complete success
+through ten miles of space,--to the final triumph at Washington, many and
+great were the perils and moments of anguish through which the inventors
+passed. It was on the 24th of May, 1844, when the supreme test of the
+telegraph was made at Washington and the message was sent to Mr. Vail in
+Baltimore, in the words selected by Miss Annie G. Ellsworth and taken from
+Numbers xxiii: 23, "What hath God wrought."
+
+During these years Alfred Vail, it is claimed, had "not only become a full
+partner in the ownership of the invention, but had supplied the entire
+resources and facilities for obtaining patents and for constructing the
+apparatus for exhibition at Washington; and more than this, he had
+introduced essential improvements not only in the mechanism, but in the
+fundamental principles of the telegraph." Vail felt that Morse had not
+acknowledged, as he expected, his (Vail's) part in the invention or fully
+recognized his rights of partnership. Of this, the Hon. Amos Kendall, the
+friend and associate of both, has said: "If justice is done, the name of
+Alfred Vail will forever stand associated with that of Samuel F. B. Morse
+in the history and introduction into public use of the electro-magnetic
+telegraph."
+
+Mr. Vail's book, which has place in most of the prominent libraries of
+Europe and America, was published in 1845 and is entitled "The American
+Electro-Magnetic Telegraph with the Reports of Congress and a description
+of all Telegraphs known, employing Electricity or Galvinism". It is
+illustrated by eighty-one wood engravings.
+
+[Illustration: FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL.
+
+IN WHICH THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH TOOK
+PLACE.]
+
+
+William Graham Sumner, LL. D.
+
+Professor Sumner is a New Jersey man, born at Paterson. He inherited from
+his father, Thomas Sumner, who came to this country from England in 1836,
+several important qualities which those who know the son will recognize.
+Thomas Sumner, we are told, was a man of the strictest integrity, of
+indefatigable industry, of sturdy common sense and possessing the courage
+of his convictions. Two of Professor Sumner's early teachers in Hartford,
+one of them Mr. S. M. Capron, in the classical department, had also great
+influence upon his character. He was graduated from Yale College in 1863.
+In the summer of that year, he went abroad, studied French and Hebrew in
+Geneva, after which he spent two years at the University of Göttingen, in
+the study of ancient languages, history, especially church history, and
+biblical science. Here, he tells us, he was "taught rigorous and pitiless
+methods of investigation and deduction. Their analysis was their strong
+point. Their negative attitude toward the poetic element, their
+indifference to sentiment, even religious sentiment, was a fault, seeing
+that they studied the Bible as a religious book and not for philology and
+history only; but their method of study was nobly scientific, and was
+worthy to rank, both for its results and its discipline, with the best of
+the natural science methods."
+
+Mr. Sumner went to Oxford in 1866, with the intention and desire of reading
+English literature on the same subjects which he had pursued at Göttingen.
+"I expected," he says, "to find it rich and independent. I found that it
+consisted of second-hand adaptation of what I had just been studying."
+
+Returning to this country, while tutor in Yale College, in 1866, Mr. Sumner
+published a translation of Lange's "Commentary on Second Kings". In 1867,
+he was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and two years
+later, he received full ordination in New York and became assistant to Rev.
+Dr. Washburn at Calvary Church, New York, under whom he was made editor of
+a broad church paper. In September, 1870, he became rector of the Church of
+the Redeemer at Morristown, N. J., from which event he claims our attention
+as an author.
+
+With regard to the course of his young ministry in this parish he says;
+"When I came to write sermons, I found to what a degree my interest lay in
+topics of social science and political economy. There was then no public
+interest in the currency and only a little in the tariff. I thought that
+these were matters of the most urgent importance, which threatened all the
+interests, moral, social and economic, of the nation, and I was young
+enough to believe that they would all be settled in the next four or five
+years. It was not possible to preach about them, but I got so near to it
+that I was detected sometimes, as, for instance, when a New Jersey banker
+came to me, as I came down from the pulpit, and said: 'There was a great
+deal of political economy in that sermon.'"
+
+In September, 1872, Mr. Sumner accepted the chair of Political and Social
+Science at Yale College, in which he has so highly distinguished himself.
+Of this he says: "I had always been very fond of teaching and knew that the
+best work I could ever do in the world would be in that profession; also
+that I ought to be in an academical career. I had seen two or three cases
+of men who, in that career, would have achieved distinguished usefulness,
+but who were wasted in the parish and pulpit".
+
+In 1884, Prof. Sumner received the degree of LL. D. from the University of
+Tennessee. A distinguished American economist well acquainted with Prof.
+Sumner's work has given to a writer from whom we quote, the following
+estimate of his method and of his position and influence as a public
+teacher: "For exact and comprehensive knowledge Prof. Sumner is entitled to
+take the first place in the ranks of American economists; and as a teacher
+he has no superior. His leading mental characteristic he has himself well
+stated in describing the characteristics of his former teachers at
+Göttingen; namely, as 'bent on seeking a clear and comprehensive conception
+of the matter "or truth" under study, without regard to any consequences
+whatever,' and further, when in his own mind Prof. Sumner is fully
+satisfied as to what the truth is, he has no hesitation in boldly declaring
+it, on every fitting occasion, without regard to consequences. If the
+theory is a 'spade', he calls it a spade, and not an implement of
+husbandry."
+
+Professor Sumner has published, besides Lange's "Commentary on the Second
+Book of Kings", the "History of American Currency"; "Lectures on the
+History of Protection in the United States"; "Life of Andrew Jackson", in
+the American Statesmen Series; "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other";
+"Economic Problems"; "Essays on Political and Social Science";
+"Protectionism"; "Alexander Hamilton", in the Makers of America Series,
+(1890); "The Financier (Robert Morris) and the Finances of the American
+Revolution", (1891); besides a large number of magazine articles on the
+same line of subjects.
+
+
+Elwyn Waller, Ph. D.
+
+Three writers now present themselves, each of whom is distinguished in his
+department, one of Chemistry, one of Mining and Metallurgy, and one of
+Mathematics. The Author's Club would exclude these brilliant men from
+recognition, but here the clause of our title, "and Writers", saves us.
+Prof. Waller amusingly expresses the position when he says, "I supposed
+that reference in your book would be made to those who had achieved more or
+less distinction in what has sometimes been termed 'polite literature.'
+While I am not ready to admit that the literature of my profession
+(chemistry) is 'impolite', it probably is too technical to come within the
+scope of your work."
+
+Like many of our residents, Dr. Waller's time is divided between New York
+and Morristown, being Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Columbia School
+of Mines, New York. He has written much of value; innumerable pamphlets and
+articles for various magazines, for chemical periodicals and Sanitary
+Reports and for journals far and wide, both technical and general in
+character, among which are _The Century_ and _The Engineering and Mining
+Journal_. He has written certain articles for Johnson's Encyclopædia, and
+has edited articles in other books all of which are to be reckoned as
+technical, but valuable contributions to current chemical literature. He
+has completed a book on "Quantitative Chemical Analysis", from the MSS. of
+one of his Colleagues, which was left unfinished in 1879 and he is now
+engaged in revising and practically re-writing the same work. Besides, he
+has written gossipy letters for _The Evening Post_, and _The Evening
+Mail_, of New York, from various far-off islands and inland points, where
+he has usually made one of a scientific party. One series of letters was
+written while a member of the U. S. St. Domingo Expedition.
+
+
+George W. Maynard, Ph. D.
+
+Another scientific man, ranking high in his department of Mining and
+Engineering, is Professor George W. Maynard, who is just now principally
+engaged in Colorado, passing back and forth between that State and his home
+in Morristown. He has had extensive travels over our own country and
+continent, and abroad. He is a close observer and many of us are familiar
+with his graphic descriptions of the scenes which he has witnessed, notably
+in Mexico, also with the illustrated lectures on these and other subjects,
+which he has generously given from time to time.
+
+Professor Maynard is a graduate of Columbia College, New York, and was
+Demonstrator in Chemistry in that College for a year. He then studied
+abroad at Göttingen, Clousthal and Berlin, and was for four years Professor
+of Mining and Metallurgy in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy,
+N. Y. His published writings, which have mostly been of a technical
+character, have appeared in various technical journals and in the
+"Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers", and in _The
+Journal_ of the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain. Of the above
+mentioned societies, he is an active member and also of the New York
+Academy of Sciences.
+
+
+Emory McClintock, LL. D.
+
+The third of our group of specialists is Dr. Emory McClintock, whom one of
+his brother scientists warns us we should "not forget to mention as he is
+one of the most eminent mathematicians in the United States". As associated
+with Morristown, in his beautiful home on Kemble Hill, high overlooking the
+Lowantica valley and scenes full of memories of the Revolution, we claim
+him with pride, in spite of his saying that his writings have all been
+records of scientific researches and not literary in any sense and that he
+has never written a book, big or little, nor even a magazine article. It
+remains, that his many writings are of great value as published in pamphlet
+form or in periodicals of technical character, such as _The Bulletin of the
+New York Mathematical Society_, which is "A Historical and Critical Review
+of Mathematical Science"; or, _The American Journal of Mathematics_ from
+which a large pamphlet is reprinted on _The Analysis of Quintic Equations_,
+or, in the direction of his art or specialty as a life insurance actuary,
+where appears, among other writings, a large pamphlet on _The Effects of
+Selection_--being "An Actuarial Essay," in which we find very interesting
+matter for the general reader.
+
+
+Andrew F. West, LL. D.
+
+Professor West, of Princeton College, is well remembered as a resident of
+Morristown for two years, (1881-1883). He was at that time, the predecessor
+of Mr. Charles D. Platt, at the Morris Academy, and mingled largely in the
+literary, social and musical circles of the city. He, like Dr. McClintock,
+is a Pennsylvanian, and was born at Pittsburg.
+
+Since Mr. West accepted a professorship at Princeton College, which was the
+occasion of his leaving Morristown, he has written largely on classical and
+medieval subjects.
+
+His last book, just published, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892,
+is entitled "Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools." It appears in
+the Series of "The Great Educators", edited by Nicholas Murray Butler. It
+is a volume of 205 pages, and contains a sketch of Alcuin at York and at
+Tours, also treating of his educational writings, his character, his
+pupils, and his later influence.
+
+Various literary, philological and educational articles in reviews have
+been contributed by Professor West, and two books additional to the one
+mentioned, have been published by him. These are, "The Andria and Heauton
+Timorumenos, of Terence," edited with introduction and notes, and published
+by Harper and Brothers (1888); and "The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury,"
+edited from the manuscripts, translated and annotated. The latter is in
+three volumes: I., The Latin Text; II., The English Version; III.,
+Introduction and Notes Printed by Theodore De Vienne for the Grolier Club
+of New York, (1889).
+
+
+José Gros.
+
+From the shores of Spain, has come to us one of our advanced thinkers and
+writers, Señor José Gros. He is a disciple of Henry George and, on one
+occasion, introduced that distinguished man to a Morristown audience, in
+our Lyceum Hall, giving, to a large number of people assembled, the
+opportunity of listening to his own exposition of the views about which so
+wide and warm a controversy has raged.
+
+Señor Gros was born and educated in Spain. He has traveled extensively
+through Italy, France, Germany, England, and a portion of our own country,
+finally taking a position in a commercial house in New York, in 1859, in
+which he remained until 1870, when he retired to Morristown. Since then, in
+his own words, he has "dedicated most of his time to the study of history
+and science, more especially social science," for which he has been writing
+articles for western magazines and journals and also for one or more of our
+local papers.
+
+In the _Locomotive Firemen's Magazine_, of Terre Haute, Indiana, a large
+number of these articles have appeared. They go with this magazine to all
+the States and Territories of the Union, to parts of Canada and Mexico, and
+they are connected with over 500 Labor Clubs. The subject of one series of
+these papers is "Civilization With its Problems". Other subjects are, "The
+Struggle for Existence"; "Confusion in Economic Thought"; "Governments by
+Statics or Dynamics"; "Congested Civilizations"; "Social Skepticism", and a
+series on "To-day's Problems". In all his arguments, Señor Gros considers
+as vital to advance in Social Science the principles of the Christian
+religion. "No system," he says, "can save us from disasters without clear
+perceptions of duty on what I call 'Christian citizenship.'"
+
+
+
+
+MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS.
+
+
+Condict W. Cutler, M. S., M. D.
+
+Dr. Cutler claims through his father, the Hon. Augustus W. Cutler, as
+ancestor, the Hon. Silas Condict, one of the most renowned patriots of the
+Revolution, and his childhood and boyhood was spent in the house which was
+built, in 1799, by this great-great-grandfather and occupied by him. It has
+been owned and occupied since then, and is now, by Hon. Augustus W. Cutler.
+The old house, in which Silas Condict previously lived, is still standing
+about a mile west of the present Cutler residence. Many historic incidents
+and traditions cluster about this place.
+
+Dr. Cutler has done credit to this ancestor's memory in his exceptionally
+successful career. A member of many societies, and associate editor of _The
+New York Epitome of Medicine_, he has written largely for journals and
+magazines, besides publishing three books, which are entitled "Differential
+Medical Diagnosis"; "Differential Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Skin",
+and "Essentials of Physics and Chemistry." These, say the medical and
+surgical critics, are prepared with care and thoroughness and show a wise
+use of standard text-books and the exercise of critical judgment guided by
+practical experience.
+
+Many may think that the books belonging to Materia Medica, being of
+technical character, do not come directly within our province, but we may
+say _everything_ in the line of authorship is within our broad range, and
+we are glad to say emphatically that nothing, not even theological
+questions, concern mankind more deeply than just this great question upon
+which Dr. Cutler has expended so much thought and labor and which too is
+the result of his experience as a medical man,--namely, the Differential
+Diagnosis of Disease. When we take into consideration the fact, that no
+disease can be successfully treated until it is _known_ and as it cannot be
+known without being properly diagnosed, and as successful diagnoses depend
+upon just such principles and relations as Dr. Cutler demonstrates, we can
+see the value of the work even though we may not belong to the medical
+fraternity. More than all, we can see the benefit which such a work confers
+upon mankind at large and not alone upon the healers of diseased and
+afflicted humanity. Let any one go into the houses of the poor; the streets
+and the alleys, and into the overflowing hospitals and witness the
+immensity of the evil of that terrible phase of disease, "The Skin
+Diseases" of which Dr. Cutler treats, and he will realize what earnest
+thanks we owe to a man whose life work is to devote his time and brains to
+the alleviation of this type of human suffering.
+
+
+Phanet C. Barker, M. D.
+
+Dr. Barker, of Morristown, has for twenty-five years past written more or
+less, from time to time, for medical journals published in New York and
+Philadelphia. The majority of these contributions have been of a practical
+character and consequently rather brief. Some of them have been formal
+studies of practical questions, such as "The Vaccination Question",
+questions connected with Sanitary Science, &c. Of the latter, one we would
+mention in particular, entitled, "The Germ Theory of Disease and its
+Relations to Sanitation". In this the writer tells us: "The germ theory of
+disease is destined to hold a place in literature as the romance of
+medicine, and if it stands the test of time, and the scrutiny which is
+certain to be bestowed upon it, the theory will mark an epoch for all time
+to come. The present century has been distinguished in many and various
+ways, which need not be alluded to in this connection. Among the
+discoveries and improvements of the age, Sanitary Science occupies an
+important, a commanding position, that can hardly be exaggerated. Indeed it
+has contributed more to civilization and to the well-being of the human
+race than steam, electricity or any other scientific or economic
+discovery." Then the writer refers to the condition of Englishmen who lived
+in the fourteenth century, and traces the ravages of the Black Death to the
+people's mode of living. He sketches the epidemics that have prevailed in
+the world at various periods, and asserts that even "chronology has been
+changed and the fate of great and powerful peoples like those of Athens, of
+Rome and of Florence, has been sealed by the direct or indirect effects of
+what we now term preventible diseases."
+
+Such contributions as Dr. Barker has made to general literature have had
+relation to economic questions generally, although the preparation of a
+few papers on "Popular Astronomy", "Meteorological Observations" and
+"Fishing in Remote Canadian Waters" have served, as he says, "to rest and
+refresh his mind, when harassed by anxieties incident to the practice of
+his profession." These papers have been published,--the former in New York
+City or in our local papers, and the latter in _The Forest and Stream_. One
+of the pamphlet publications on popular astronomy is unusually attractive
+and is entitled "The Stars and the Earth".
+
+
+Horace A. Buttolph, M. D., LL. D.
+
+Dr. Buttolph, whose professional life, as connected with the care and
+treatment of the insane in three large institutions, in New York and New
+Jersey, covering a period of forty-two years, although devoted so
+exclusively to administrative, professional and personal details, that
+little time was left to engage in writing for the press, beyond the
+preparation of the usual annual Reports of such institutions, has,
+nevertheless turned that little time to good account.
+
+The State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown was under the superintendence
+of Dr. Buttolph from its opening in August 1876 to the last day of the year
+1884, when he tendered his resignation. Previous to this he had been in
+charge of the Trenton Asylum from May 1848 to April 1876, making a period
+of unbroken service in New Jersey of more than thirty-seven years, during
+which time these buildings were organized on his plan, and that of Morris
+Plains, with its extensive machinery, was mostly planned by him. One
+specialty in the line of machinery in both institutions, in use for many
+years,--that of making aerated or unfermented bread, which is most cleanly,
+healthful and economical, is probably not in use in any institution in the
+world, outside of New Jersey.
+
+Dr. Buttolph was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., and was graduated from the
+Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1835. Having been
+early attracted to the study of insanity, he made it a specialty and
+accepted a position in the new State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, N. Y., in
+1843. This he retained until 1847 when he went as Medical Superintendent to
+the State Lunatic Asylum near Trenton, N. J. During the previous year,
+while still attached to the Utica Asylum, he went abroad to study the
+architecture and management of other institutions and visited thirty or
+more of the principal asylums in Great Britain, France and Germany. At this
+time very few institutions for the insane had been established in this
+country and all sorts of problems had to be worked out. Dr. Buttolph soon
+came to be a very high authority and, in that recognized capacity, he was
+chosen to direct the Asylum at Morris Plains, which is the largest in the
+United States and one of the best equipped in the world. It was a matter of
+very great regret to his large circle of friends in Morristown, and out of
+it, when he found it impossible to remain longer in the charge he had
+filled so faithfully and well.
+
+Dr. Buttolph's writings have been on insanity or mental derangement; also
+on the organization and management of hospitals for the insane; the
+classification of the insane with special reference to the most natural and
+satisfactory method of their treatment, etc. These writings have been
+published in many magazines and journals, and a large number in pamphlet
+form. Also addresses, delivered on important occasions or before societies,
+have been published in pamphlet form. Of these, one is widely-known, given
+before the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions
+for the Insane, at Saratoga, N. Y., June 17, 1885, on "The Physiology of
+the Brain and its Relations in Health and Disease to the Faculties of the
+Mind."
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART.
+
+
+Thomas Nast.
+
+Mr. Nast, who has for so long been identified with Morristown, may be
+designated both as artist and bookmaker. In the true sense of the term,
+author, he may then be fairly presented, as probably no living man has
+wielded a greater influence through his power of expression. Many readers
+of this sketch will remember the consternation that prevailed upon the
+revelation of the Tweed Ring scandals and at the question of Tweed himself
+as he defied the City of New York,--"What are you going to do about it?"
+They will remember how Mr. Nast with wonderful courage and grasp of the
+situation, came to the front and at great personal risk to himself and
+family, threw with steady aim, the stone which killed that Goliath of Gath
+and put to rout the Philistines. They will remember Tweed's exclamation: "I
+can stand anything but those pictures!" Mr. Nast, then, is a hero in our
+history, and the fact cannot be forgotten.
+
+When the Washington Headquarters was first purchased from the Ford family,
+the original owners, by a few gentlemen who organized the Washington
+Association to preserve the historic building and grounds, for a national
+possession, many will remember how Mr. Nast entered into the spirit of the
+Centennial Celebration there in 1875, when so many of the prominent men and
+women of Morristown took part, wearing the dress of the Revolution and
+working hard to accomplish the end of fitting up the building by the
+proceeds of the entertainment. All were astonished by the result in sales
+of tickets, collation, and little hatchets, of between eleven and twelve
+hundred dollars in one single afternoon and evening; so much, that the
+amount was divided between the Headquarters and the "Library" of
+Morristown, then in its beginning. Mr. Nast had much to do with this
+success. He worked early and late at the decorations and filled one of the
+largest rooms with his immense and humorous cartoons of scenes in the
+Revolution and the stories of George Washington.
+
+The book published by Mr. Nast is now in our library, "Miss Columbia's
+Public School", and is a clever satire on the Northern and Southern boy and
+the general condition of Miss Columbia's pupils in the time of our Civil
+War. It was issued in 1871.
+
+Another charming publication of Mr. Nast was brought out by the Harper
+Brothers for Christmas, 1889, under the title of "Thomas Nast's Christmas
+Drawings for the Human Race". Of this says one of the critics of the time:
+"His Santa Claus, jolly vagabond that he is, seems to radiate a warmth more
+genial than tropic airs, and a gayety that overbears the sadness of
+experience. 'What a mug' does he show us on the title page; so kindly, so
+roguish, so venerable, so comical, so shrewd, so pugnaciously cheerful! How
+seriously he takes himself, and yet what a wink in those twinkling eyes, as
+who should say, 'Confidentially, of course, we admit the fraud, but mum's
+the word where the children are concerned!'"
+
+Thomas Nast came from Bavaria, with his father, at the age of six, and at
+fourteen was a pupil for a few months of Theodore Kaufmann, soon after
+beginning his career, as draughtsman on an illustrated paper. In 1860, as
+special artist for a New York weekly paper, he went abroad and while there,
+followed Garibaldi in Italy, making sketches for London, Paris and New York
+illustrated papers. His war sketches appeared in _Harper's Weekly_ on his
+return in 1862. The political condition of national affairs gave him
+opportunity for manifesting his peculiar gift for representing in condensed
+form, a powerful thought. His first political caricature established his
+reputation. It was an allegorical design which gave a powerful blow to the
+peace party.
+
+Besides the _Harper's Weekly_ sketches, Mr. Nast has contributed to other
+papers and has illustrated books in addition to those mentioned, in
+particular Petroleum V. Nasby's book. For many years, he brought out
+"Nast's Illustrated Almanac".
+
+In the principal cities of the United States, Mr. Nast has lectured,
+illustrating his lectures with rapidly executed caricature sketches, in
+black and white, and in colored crayons. It is said by a contemporary
+writer that "in the particular line of pictorial satire, Thomas Nast stands
+in the foremost rank."
+
+
+Rev. Jared Bradley Flagg, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Flagg, recently a resident of Morristown, has just published a
+delightful and important book on the "Life and Letters of Washington
+Allston", Scribner's Sons, November, 1892. It is illustrated by
+reproductions from Allston's paintings. Many remember the very striking
+full length portraits of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Mr. Evarts and others, which
+were shown in Dr. Flagg's gallery in Morristown, on the occasion of a
+reception given at his residence here, a few years ago.
+
+In addition to the book above mentioned, Dr. Flagg has written a great deal
+as a clergyman. He belongs to an artistic family, of New Haven, Conn. His
+brother, George, was considered in his youth a prodigy and his pictures and
+portraits attained celebrity. His style resembles the Venetian School, like
+that of his uncle, Washington Allston, with whom he studied. Dr. Flagg
+studied with both his brother and his uncle, and began as an artist at an
+early age, painting professionally and earning a living at sixteen. At
+twenty, "his love of letters, and fear of Hell," as he says, led him to
+connect himself with Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and to study for the
+church. After an active ministry of ten years, during eight of which he was
+rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, his health broke down, and he
+devoted what strength he had left to artistic and literary pursuits, in
+which he is still engaged and in which, he tells us, he finds increasing
+interest with declining years.
+
+
+Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.
+
+Dr. Corning has already been represented, in our group of poets. He has
+passed much of his life abroad and has made a special study of art, upon
+which he is an authority. He was for several years a regular contributor to
+_The Independent_ and _The Christian Union_ on art subjects, and wrote for
+_The Manhattan Magazine_, a series of articles, among them, on the "Luther
+Monument at Worms", "William Lübke" and "Women Artists of the Olden Time".
+The fruits of his art study have largely been put into the form of popular
+lectures, which he has delivered in many of the large American cities.
+
+It is remembered that some years ago, during his residence in Morristown,
+Dr. Corning gave a series of art lectures with illustrations, for the
+benefit of the Morristown Library. The proceeds were devoted to the
+purchase of books on art and the volumes thus added were selected by Dr.
+Corning. In this way, the library is indebted to him for very valuable
+additions.
+
+
+George Herbert McCord, A. N. A.
+
+Mr. McCord, of the National Academy, is best known to us as an artist,
+bringing before us, with his magic brush, historic scenes of England,
+picturesque views of Canada, on the St. Lawrence and elsewhere, and many of
+our own country, among them spots of beauty about Morristown, which other
+eyes perhaps have not discovered until shown to them by him. But, he is
+also an art critic and one of those writers of out of door life, who find,
+like Hamerton, both rest and recreation among the scenes which he transfers
+to his canvas. Often he contributes to our papers and magazines current
+news from the art world to which he so essentially belongs. Sometimes, in
+his contributions to _The Richfield News_, for which he writes, he gives us
+a bit of word painting that is scarcely less poetic than the creations of
+his canvas. More than all, Mr. McCord is not a croaker. He never comes
+before us with that chronic wail of the neglect of American art. On the
+contrary, he tells us cheerfully that the most prominent dealers in foreign
+art productions are buying and selling works of American art. We like such
+cheerful summer writers, bringing bright visions of the future to our world
+of art.
+
+Mr. McCord's beautiful picture, "The Old Mill Race", transfers to canvas a
+scene on the Whippany River. It also makes a fine addition to a little
+collection of "Choice Bits in Etching", published by Mr. Ritchie.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIST
+
+
+William G. Van Tassel Sutphen.
+
+Mr. Sutphen, who is now permanently engaged in journalism, is no less a
+successful dramatist and, from the first, has shown those most attractive
+and rare qualities which are essentially requisite to reach dramatic
+success. A list of his more important published works will show that he is
+no idler, and includes several bright clever farces contributed to
+_Harper's Bazar_, among them, "The Reporter"; "Hearing is Believing";
+"Sharp Practice", and "A Soul Above Skittles". Not long ago appeared a
+romantic opera entitled "Mary Phillipse; An Historical and Musical Picture,
+in Four Scenes." This is founded on certain events in the history of the
+city of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, between the years 1760 and
+1776. It was set to music by George F. Le Jeune, and produced with marked
+success, June 30, 1892, at Yonkers and on succeeding dates. "Hearing is
+Believing" was performed twice in Morristown in the same winter.
+
+Mr. Sutphen has only lately published in the July number of _Scribner's
+Magazine_ (1892), a poem entitled "To Trojan Helen" and containing some
+fine verses. This is worthy of high place in Mr. Sutphen's intellectual
+work. Another poem of merit, "Insciens", appeared also in _Scribner's
+Magazine_. In addition to these, miscellaneous verses and sketches have
+been contributed to _Puck_, _Life_, _Time_ and other periodicals, and in
+most cases, anonymously. For the past eight years, Mr. Sutphen has had
+charge of the weekly edition of _The New York World_. While at Princeton
+College he was one of the editors of the _Nassau Literary Magazine_, and
+one of the founders and first editor of the _Princeton Tiger_, an
+illustrated weekly, modeled on the _Harvard Lampoon_. "Condensed Dramas"
+and "Latterday Lyrics" should also be mentioned, a series of light sketches
+and verses contributed to _Time_ during the existence of that periodical.
+
+It is, however, by his dramatic talent, that we wish to represent Mr.
+Sutphen, and for this reason we expected and would be glad to give in full,
+were it possible, "The Guillotine; a Condensed Drama", which first appeared
+in _The Argonaut_, a San Francisco Journal. This is an extremely clever and
+witty comedy, perhaps the best of his dramatic writings, to which an
+extract will hardly do justice. We are thankful to Mr. Sutphen for
+contributing a little of the laughter element to the condensed mass,
+included in this volume, of theology, history, philosophy, poetry, romance,
+mathematics, medicine, art and science.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "THE GUILLOTINE."
+
+     _Scene: The Public Square in a French Town. In the
+     centre of the square is seen a guillotine. Enter
+     venerable gentleman of scientific aspect reading a
+     newspaper._
+
+(In the first scene the professor, finding himself alone with the
+guillotine and seeing a notice of an execution to take place three hours
+later, is impelled to examine the instrument. He adjusts the axe and works
+the spring until he masters the mechanism, and finds the spring on the
+right releases the knife, spring on the left, the head. Finally he decides
+to put his own head on the block to try the sensation. Horrible! he cannot
+remember which is his right hand and which his left. While in this
+position, a party of tourists come along, armed with Baedekers and
+accompanied by a guide.)
+
+GUIDE (_gesticulating_)--Zare, ladies and gentlemans. Ze cathedral! Ah!
+ciel! Look at him. Magnifique! (_Chorus of "ahs" from tourists and general
+opening of Baedekers._)
+
+GUIDE--Ze clock-tower ees of a colossity excessive. It elevates himself
+three hundred and eighty-six feet. (_Immense enthusiasm._) At ze
+terminality of ze wall statue ze great Charlemagne. Superbe! Chuck-a-block
+to him, Dagobert, Clovis and Voila! (_Catching hold of elderly tourist._)
+Le bon Louis. (_The tourists take notes with painful accuracy and
+minuteness._)
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST--Very interesting. Rose, my child, have you got all that
+down. How old is the cathedral, guide?
+
+GUIDE--It has seven hundred and feefty-six years.
+
+SPINSTER AUNT (_Severely_)--Baedeker says seven hundred and fifty-five.
+
+GUIDE (_politely_)--It ees hees one mistake. (_An exclamation from Rose.
+Everybody turns._)
+
+ROSE (_pointing to guillotine_)--Oh, do look there!
+
+SPINSTER AUNT--It looks as though an execution were in progress. Baedeker
+says--
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST (_eagerly_)--Is it really so, guide?
+
+GUIDE (_indifferently_)--Yes, but zare ees no fee and zarefore no objection
+in seeing it. It ees modern--vat you call him--cheap-John. We will now
+upon ze clock-tower upheave ourselves. Zare are two hundred and one steps.
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST--But we want to see the execution.
+
+GUIDE--You enjoy ze ferocity? Bah! you shall have him. For one franc zare
+ees to see picture S. Sebastian--ver' fine, all shot full wiz burning
+arrows.
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST--Never mind, we will wait. Do you think, guide, I would
+have time to go back and get my wife? I am sure she would enjoy it!
+
+
+
+
+
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 570px;">
+<img src="images/icover.jpg" width="570" height="650" alt="Cover" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h1><span class="smcap">Authors and Writers</span><br />
+
+<span class="xsm">ASSOCIATED WITH</span><br />
+
+MORRISTOWN<br />
+
+<span class="xsm">WITH A CHAPTER ON</span><br />
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN</h1>
+
+<h3>BY</h3>
+
+<h2>JULIA KEESE COLLES</h2>
+
+<p class="center">
+1893<br />
+VOGT BROS.<br />
+<span class="smcap">Morristown, N. J.</span><br />
+<br />
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1893, by<br />
+JULIA KEESE COLLES<br />
+of Morristown, New Jersey, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress,<br />
+at Washington.<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="650" height="368" alt="Painted by CHARLES WETMORE. 1815.
+
+Owned by HON. AUG. W. CUTLER.
+
+OLD MORRISTOWN. Pen and ink sketch by Miss S. Howell, from original painting." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Painted by CHARLES WETMORE. 1815.<br />
+
+Owned by HON. AUG. W. CUTLER.<br />
+
+OLD MORRISTOWN. Pen and ink sketch by Miss S. Howell, from original painting.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><i>DEDICATION.</i></h2>
+
+<p class="center">
+TO THE MEN AND WOMEN, OF EARLY AND OF LATER<br />
+YEARS, WHO HAVE SCATTERED THEIR PEARLS OF<br />
+BEAUTY AND OF WISDOM ALONG THE DUSTY<br />
+PATHS OF OUR HISTORIC CITY, THESE<br />
+PAGES ARE INSCRIBED WITH AFFECTIONATE<br />
+ADMIRATION BY<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">The Author.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+
+<p>This long-promised volume, the first of its kind, so far as known, ever
+given to the world, is now offered to the public. It is the result of a
+lecture given about three and a half years ago, which was repeated by
+request, and finally promised for publication, with the endorsement of one
+hundred and fifty subscribers.</p>
+
+<p>No effort has been spared to have every statement in the book accurate; nor
+has any name been omitted which has presented a title to notice, in spite
+of the fact that the number of "Authors and Writers," has nearly doubled
+since the work of publication was undertaken. Any suggestion or criticism,
+however, will be gladly received by the author, as having a bearing on
+possible future work in this direction.</p>
+
+<p>
+Morristown, New Jersey, February, 1893.<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>TABLE OF CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+<p>
+PREFACE.<br />
+<br />
+POEM&mdash;MORRISTOWN.<br />
+<br />
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.<br />
+<br />
+GEORGE WASHINGTON.<br />
+<br />
+POETS&mdash;                                                         <span class="tocnum">PAGE.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Wm. and Stephen V. R. Paterson</span>                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_33'>33</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney</span>                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_40'>40</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Alexander Nelson Easton</span>                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_42'>42</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Francis Bret Harte</span>                                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_45'>45</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg</span>                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_48'>48</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D.</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_54'>54</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Emma F. R. Campbell</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_58'>58</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_63'>63</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Oliver Crane, D. D., LL. D.</span>                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_63'>63</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.</span>                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_68'>68</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest</span>                                  <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_69'>69</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Anthony Q. Keasbey</span>                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_72'>72</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Major Lindley Hoffman Miller</span>                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_76'>76</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich</span>                           <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_79'>79</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">William Tuckey Meredith</span>                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_81'>81</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Hannah More Johnson</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_84'>84</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Margaret H. Garrard</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_87'>87</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Julia E. Dodge</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_89'>89</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Charles D. Platt</span>                                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_90'>90</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Julia R. Cutler</span>                                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_96'>96</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Frances Bell Coursen</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_99'>99</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Isabel Stone</span>                                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_100'>100</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. G. Douglass Brewerton</span>                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_102'>102</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Alice D. Abell</span>                                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_104'>104</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">George Wetmore Colles, Jr.</span>                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_105'>105</a></span><br />
+<br />
+HYMNODIST&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">John R. Runyon</span>                                         <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_107'>107</a></span><br />
+<br />
+NOVELISTS AND STORY WRITERS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Francis Richard Stockton</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_109'>109</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Francis Bret Harte</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_118'>118</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</a></span><span class="smcap">Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich</span>                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_131'>131</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_141'>141</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Maria Mcintosh</span>                                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_146'>146</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Maria Mcintosh Cox</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_149'>149</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">David Young</span>                                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_155'>155</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin</span>                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_165'>165</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Catharine L. Burnham</span>                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_171'>171</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. John Whitehead</span>                                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_179'>179</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Georgeanna Huyler Duer</span>                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_181'>181</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Madame de Meissner</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_186'>186</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Isabel Stone</span>                                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_188'>188</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Augustus Wood</span>                                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_193'>193</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Charles P. Sherman</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_193'>193</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Helen M. Graham</span>                                   <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_193'>193</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Other Novelists and Story Writers</span>                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_195'>195</a></span><br />
+<br />
+TRANSLATORS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_197'>197</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Margaret H. Garrard</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_202'>202</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Other Translators</span>                                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_203'>203</a></span><br />
+<br />
+LEXICOGRAPHER&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D.</span>                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_205'>205</a></span><br />
+<br />
+HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">William Cherry, Ancient Chronicler</span>                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_207'>207</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D.</span>                           <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_209'>209</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Edmund D. Halsey</span>                                  <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_215'>215</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. John Whitehead</span>                                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_218'>218</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Bayard Tuckerman</span>                                       <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_221'>221</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Loyal Farragut</span>                                         <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_227'>227</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Josiah Collins Pumpelly</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_229'>229</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Miss Hannah More Johnson</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_233'>233</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Julia McNair Wright</span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_237'>237</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Edwina L. Keasbey</span>                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_239'>239</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Marian E. Stockton </span>                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_243'>243</a></span><br />
+<br />
+TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Marquis de Chastellux</span>                                  <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_247'>247</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. John L. Stephens</span>                                  <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_254'>254</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Charles S. Washburne</span>                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_255'>255</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">General Joseph Warren Revere</span>                           <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_257'>257</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</a></span><span class="smcap">Henry Day</span>                                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_260'>260</a></span><br />
+<br />
+THEOLOGIANS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Timothy Johnes</span>, D. D.                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_264'>264</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. James Richards</span>, D. D.                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_270'>270</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Albert Barnes</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_271'>271</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Samuel Whelpley</span>                                   <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_275'>275</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Stevens Jones Lewis</span>                                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_278'>278</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Rufus Smith Green</span>, D. D.                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_279'>279</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Wm. Durant</span>                                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_282'>282</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. Macnaughtan</span>, D. D.                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_286'>286</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_291'>291</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. T. Crane</span>, D. D.                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_293'>293</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. H. A. Buttz</span>, D. D., LL. D.                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_296'>296</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. K. Burr</span>, D. D.                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_297'>297</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. E. Adams</span>                                       <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_299'>299</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. James M. Buckley</span>, D. D., LL. D.                   <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_300'>300</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. James M. Freeman</span>, D. D.                           <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_308'>308</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Kinsley Twining</span>, D. D., LL. D.                    <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_310'>310</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler</span>, D. D.                         <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_314'>314</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rt. Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip</span>, D. D., LL. D.               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_319'>319</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. William Staunton</span>, D. D.                           <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_323'>323</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Arthur Mitchell</span>, D. D.                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_327'>327</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Charles E. Knox</span>, D. D.                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_332'>332</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Albert Erdman</span>, D. D.                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_334'>334</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Joseph M. Flynn</span>, R. D.                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_337'>337</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. George H. Chadwell</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_338'>338</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. William M. Hughes</span>, S. T. D.                       <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_345'>345</a></span><br />
+<br />
+PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Jacob W. Miller</span>                                   <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_351'>351</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. William Burnet Kinney</span>                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_355'>355</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Theodore F. Randolph</span>                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_358'>358</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Edward W. Whelpley</span>                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_360'>360</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. Jacob Vanatta</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_362'>362</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Hon. George T. Werts</span>                                   <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_364'>364</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Joseph F. Randolph</span>                                     <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_365'>365</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Edward Q. Keasbey</span>                                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_367'>367</a></span><br />
+<br />
+SCIENTISTS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Samuel F. B. Morse</span>, LL. D.                             <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_368'>368</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Alfred Vail</span>                                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_371'>371</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[Pg x]</a></span><span class="smcap">William Graham Sumner</span>, LL. D.                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_376'>376</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Elwyn Waller, Ph. D.</span>                                   <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_380'>380</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">George W. Maynard, Ph. D.</span>                              <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_382'>382</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Emory McClintock</span>, LL. D.                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_383'>383</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Andrew F. West</span>, LL. D.                                 <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_384'>384</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Se&ntilde;or Jos&eacute; Gros</span>                                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_386'>386</a></span><br />
+<br />
+MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Condict W. Cutler</span>, M. S., M. D.                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_388'>388</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Phanet C. Barker</span>, M. D.                                <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_390'>390</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Horace A. Buttolph</span>, M. D., LL. D.                      <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_392'>392</a></span><br />
+<br />
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Thomas Nast</span>                                            <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_395'>395</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Jared Bradley Flagg</span>, D. D.                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_398'>398</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. Leonard Corning</span>, D. D.                         <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_400'>400</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">George Herbert McCord</span>, A. N. A.                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_401'>401</a></span><br />
+<br />
+DRAMATIST&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">William G. Van Tassel Sutphen</span>                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_403'>403</a></span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+<span class="tocnum">PAGE.</span><br />
+<br />
+FRONTISPIECE&mdash;OLD MORRISTOWN.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738,                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_17'>17</a></span><br />
+<br />
+OLD ARNOLD TAVERN,                                               <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_25'>25</a></span><br />
+<br />
+FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,                                       <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_97'>97</a></span><br />
+<br />
+WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS,                                        <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_209'>209</a></span><br />
+<br />
+PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE,                                          <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_305'>305</a></span><br />
+<br />
+SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,                                           <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_369'>369</a></span><br />
+<br />
+OLD FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL,                                       <span class="tocnum"><a href='#Page_377'>377</a></span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+<h2>POEM.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY WILLIAM PATERSON.</h3>
+
+
+<h4>MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">These are the winter quarters, this is where<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Patriot Chieftain with his army lay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When frosty winds swept down and chilled the air,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And long, cold nights closed out the shorter day.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The bell still rings within the white church spire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rising toward heaven upon the village green,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose chimes then called the people, pastor, choir,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To praise and pray each Sabbath morn and e'en.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And there with them, the Christian soldier sealed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The common covenant which a dying Lord,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To those who broke bread with him last revealed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And bade them ever thus His love record.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A country hamlet then, nor did it lose<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Its rural charms and beauties for long years;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The stranger would its quiet glories choose,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Far from the toils and strifes of daily cares.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The people, too, were simple in their ways,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And dwelt contented in their humble sphere,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The morning and the evening of their days,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Passing the same with every closing year.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There were the Deacons, solemn, sober, staid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beneath the pulpit each Communion Sunday,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They never smiled, but sung there psalms and prayed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And then made whiskey at the still on Monday.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Perhaps you smile just here, I only say,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Men did not deem it then a heinous crime;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such was the common custom of the day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As those can tell who recollect the time.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">For further proof of this, look up the tract<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of Deacon Giles and his distillery,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where you will find that for this very fact,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He was set up high in the pillory.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Young life for me began its early spring,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here in the freshness of the Mountain air,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When nature seemed in fullest tune to sing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And all the world was beautiful and fair.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And Death&mdash;Who stays to think of him, till age<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Comes stealing on with sure and silent tread?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor even then can he the thoughts engage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till his cold fingers touch the dying bed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He called one then in withered leaf and sere,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And sent a warning, so wiseacres said,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By causing apple blossoms to appear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In winter, and the old man soon was dead.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The Guinea Chieftain too, a century old,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Born a young Prince beneath his native sky,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who with his banjo sang rare tales of gold&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I saw him strive and struggle, gasp and die.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A child was brought one evening, lived, and died,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Almost before its eyes beheld the day;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The infant and the old men, side by side,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Were in the quiet churchyard laid away.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I learned of Life and Death, but know no more<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of their mysterious secrets now than then;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No sesame can open wide the door,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That veils those mysteries from the light of men.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Upon the summit of the rock-bound hill<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That looks down on the lowland plains afar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are seen the outlines of the earthworks still<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Remaining there, rude vestiges of war.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">That was a day to be remembered long,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When crowds were gathered on the village green,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To welcome with warm hearts and floral song,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Him who a friend in war's dark hour had been.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And not while nature's suns shall pour their light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will Freedom's sons that honored name forget,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor cease to, until worlds shall pass from sight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Keep green the memory of Lafayette.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Hark, on the air tolls out the passing bell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fourscore and ten and yet again fourscore;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tread lightly now, it is the parting knell<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For two great spirits gone out evermore.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Together they had lived, together died<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As Freedom's Bell rang in her natal day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And what than this could be more mete beside<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That twinned in death, their souls should pass away?<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There comes a memory of the bugle horn,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Winding a blast, as with their daily load,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The prancing coach-steeds dashed out in the morn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To run the toll-gates of the turnpike road.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behold the change? now brakes are whistled down,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And screaming engines wake the Mountain air;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There is no longer, as of old, a Town<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Committee, but a Council and a Mayor.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Go where the lake sleeps in the summer night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Kissed by the winds that on its bosom play,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When the round moon sends down her fullest light,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And evening glories in soft splendor lay.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And you can almost fancy then that over,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The moonlit mirror of the tranquil tide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You see the water spirits rise and hover,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And on the sheen in laughing lightness glide.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And I have seen those waters as they flow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Down on their course past bridge and wheel and mill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where we as boys would "in-a-swimming go;"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do the boys swim in "Sunnygony" still?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Oh, fellow scholar who along with me<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Learned the first rudiments of ball and book<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Within the grounds of the Academy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In vain for that old landmark now you look.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Gone with the Master, yet a memory lingers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And will forever consecrate the spot,<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor can the power of Time's effacing fingers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While life shall last, the recollection blot.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Teacher and pupils, few remain, and they<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Far on in years, lean on a slender staff;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The school-house, all you see of that to-day<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is shown you there upon its photograph.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Change is on all things, and I see it here;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Land that then grew the turnip and "potater,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now blooms in flowers and costs exceeding dear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bringing some thousand dollars by the acre!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And villas crown the rising hill-tops round,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And stately mansions stand adorned with art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And liveried coaches roll with rumbling sound<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where once jogged on the wagon-wheel and cart.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Hail to the future, ages come and go,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And men are borne upon the sweeping tide;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wave follows wave in ever ceaseless flow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The present stays not by the dweller's side.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I stand to-day far down the farthest slope,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And up the lengthened pathway turn and look,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where on the summit once stood Youth and Hope,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now soon to turn the last leaf of the Book.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And I am glad that while there come to me<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These fragrant memories of life's early scene,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That still in robes of purest white I see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Church Spire rising on the village green.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+<h2>HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Throughout our country, there is no spot more identified with the story of
+the Revolution, and the personality of Washington, than Morristown. Nestled
+among its five ranges of hills, its impregnable position no doubt first
+attracted the attention of the commander-in-chief and that of his trusted
+quartermaster, General Nathaniel Greene. Besides, the enthusiastic
+patriotism of the men and women of this part of New Jersey was noted far
+and wide, and the powder-mill of Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., on the Whippany
+river, where "good merchantable powder," was in course of
+manufacture,&mdash;some of which had probably already been tested at Trenton,
+Princeton and elsewhere,&mdash;was also among the attractions.</p>
+
+<p>It was on December 20th, 1776, that Washington wrote to the President of
+Congress: "I have directed the three regiments from Ticonderoga, to halt at
+Morristown, in Jersey (where I understand about eight hundred Militia have
+collected) in order to inspirit the inhabitants and as far as possible to
+cover that part of the country."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Quoted by Rev. Dr. Tuttle in his paper on "Washington
+in Morris County," in the Historical Magazine for June
+1871.)</p></div>
+
+<p>These were regiments from New England.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> The British, who were always trying
+to gain "the pass of the mountains," had made an attempt on the 14th of
+December, but had been repulsed by Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., with his militia,
+at Springfield.</p>
+
+<p>At this time the village numbered about 250 inhabitants with a populous
+community of thriving farmers surrounding it. To the north of the town were
+the estates of the Hathaway and Johnes families; to the east, those of the
+Fords, who had just erected the building now known as the Headquarters; to
+the south, those of General John Doughty and to the west, those of Silas
+Condict and his brothers.</p>
+
+<p>Morris county was settled "about 1710," by families of New England
+ancestry, who were attracted by the iron ore in the mountains round about
+and who came from Newark and Elizabethtown. The Indian name for the country
+round, seems to have been "Rockciticus" as late as the arrival of Pastor
+Johnes in 1742, according to the traditions in his family. The original
+name of the settlement of Morristown was West Hanover, and in court records
+this name is found as late as 1738. It was also called New Hanover. The
+present name was adopted when the county court held its first meeting here
+at the house of Col. Jacob Ford, on March 25th, 1740. The town was named
+for the county and the county was named for Governor Lewis Morris, who was
+Governor of New Jersey from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> 1738 to 1746. Evidently this was to be the
+county town of Morris County.</p>
+
+<p>At the time of the Revolution the church, the "Court House and Jail" and
+the Arnold Tavern were the most important buildings. The Magazine also, a
+temporary structure, stood on South street, near the "Green". To it casks
+of powder were constantly taken and sometimes casks of <i>sand</i> to deceive
+the spies who were always hanging about. The "Court House and Jail" was
+famous as the common prison of Tories caught in Morris and the adjoining
+counties. It was built in 1755 and stood on the northwest corner of the
+village "Green" as shown in the picture of Old Morristown. It was a plain
+wooden structure with a cupola and bell. Its sides and roof were shingled.</p>
+
+<p>One of the illustrations of this book is of the Arnold Tavern, as it
+appeared in Washington's time. The picture is from a pen-and-ink sketch by
+Miss S. Howell, made originally and recently for the Washington Association
+of N. J., under careful direction from study of the time, by one of its
+members. Taverns were dotted all about the country in those days and most
+of the public meetings were held in their spacious rooms. Whether it was
+this fact or because of certain qualities possessed by the early
+proprietors of taverns, we find that many of them eventually became the
+most eminent men of the community.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The erection of the First Church building was begun in 1738 and finished in
+1740, although the organization had existed from 1733. The first pastor,
+Rev. Timothy Johnes found it ready for his reception on his arrival in 1742
+and for his installation, the following year. We are indebted to our young
+artist, Miss Emma H. Van Pelt, for a painting of this early church, from
+the only outline that remains to us, and to Miss S. Howell, for the
+pen-and-ink sketch, from the painting, for this book. This outline was
+embroidered upon a sampler owned by Miss Martha Emmell, and, according to
+family history, is a faithful representation of the building and the only
+suggestion other than traditional of Morristown's first place of worship.
+Miss Van Pelt's picture of the old church also follows in all respects her
+own, and the study of others, from the ancient records of the time. The
+structure stood about a rod east of the present building, facing upon
+Morris street and was always known as the "Meetin' House." It was
+originally of a somewhat plain and barn-like exterior, nearly square, with
+shingled sides, and windows let into the sloping roof. It was twice
+altered. In 1764, it was enlarged and two other entrances, besides the main
+entrance, were provided. A steeple also was erected in which was hung the
+bell in use at the present time. This bell was a gift, according to
+traditional history from the King of Great<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> Britain to the church at
+Morristown. It had upon it the impress of the British crown and the name of
+the makers, "Lister &amp; Pack, of London <i>fecit</i>." It was re-cast about thirty
+years ago. This early church and the Baptist church, which stood on the
+site occupied by the one quite recently removed, (because of the fine new
+building in course of erection), have honorable record for unselfish
+devotion to the cause of the patriots. Both buildings were nobly given up
+for the use of the soldiers, suffering with small-pox, in the terrible
+winter of 1777.</p>
+
+<p>Washington first came to Morristown, with his staff and army, three days
+after the battle of Princeton, on January 7th, 1777, and remained until May
+of that year. He made his Headquarters at the Arnold Tavern, then kept by
+Colonel Jacob Arnold, a famous officer of the "Light Horse Guards", whose
+grandsons are now residents of Morristown. This historic building stood on
+the west side of the Green, where now, a large brick building, "The
+Arnold", has been erected on its site. The old building with its many
+associations was about to be destroyed, when it was rescued, at the
+suggestion of the author of this book, and restored upon its present site
+on the Colles estate, on Mt. Kemble avenue, the old Baskingridge road of
+the Revolution. It has recently been purchased and occupied for a hospital
+by the All Souls' Hospital Association. Though extended and enlarged,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> it
+is still the same building and retains many of the distinctive features
+which characterized it when the residence of Washington. Here is still the
+bedroom which Washington occupied, the parlor, the dining-room and the
+ball-room where he received his generals, Greene, Knox, Schuyler, Gates,
+Lee, de Kalb, Steuben, Wayne, Winds, Putnam, Sullivan and others, besides
+distinguished visitors from abroad, all of whom met here continually during
+the winter of 1777. One of these visitors and one of our authors, the
+Marquis de Chastellux, gives an interesting account of his experience and
+impressions. In one of the bedrooms of this old house, has been seen within
+a few years, between the floor and the ceiling below, a long case for guns,
+above which was painted on the floor, in very large squares, covering the
+entire opening, a checkerboard about which, in an emergency, evidently the
+soldiers expected to sit and so conceal from the enemy the trap door of
+their arsenal. About this ancient building many traditions linger and from
+it have gone forth Washington's commands and some of his most important
+letters.</p>
+
+<p>The road taken by Washington and his army, on coming first to Morristown,
+was, according to Dr. Tuttle, "through Pluckamin, Baskingridge, New Vernon,
+thence by a grist mill near Green Village, around the corner and thence
+along the road leading from Green Village to Morristown and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> over the
+ground which had been selected for an encampment in the valley bearing the
+beautiful Indian name of Lowantica, now called Spring Valley." It was here
+that the terrible scourge of small-pox broke out among the soldiers.</p>
+
+<p>One cannot but wonder continually at Washington's courage and serenity in
+the midst of such overwhelming difficulties. He had hardly entered his
+winter home, in the Arnold Tavern, when the loss was announced to him of
+the brave and noble Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., his right-hand man, upon whom he
+had depended. He was buried, by Washington's orders, with the honors of
+war, and the description of that funeral cortege is one of the most
+picturesque pages out of traditional history. Then came the alarm about
+small-pox, the first death occurring on the same day as Col. Ford's
+funeral. Washington himself was taken ill, says tradition, with quinsy sore
+throat, and great fears were felt for his life. It is interesting to know
+that being asked who should succeed him in command of the army, should he
+not recover, he at once pointed to Gen. Nathaniel Greene. It was during
+this time of residence at the Arnold Tavern, that Washington joined Pastor
+Johnes and his people in their semi-annual communion after receiving the
+good pastor's assurance: "Ours is not the Presbyterian table, but the
+Lord's table, and we give the Lord's invitation to all his followers of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>
+whatever name." This is said to be the only occasion in his public career,
+when it is certainly known that Washington partook of the Sacrament. The
+hollow is still shown behind the house of Pastor Johnes, on Morris street,
+(purchased Feb. 3rd, 1893, of Mrs. Eugene Ayers, for the Morristown
+Memorial Hospital,) where a grove of trees then stood, when this historic
+event took place in the open air, while the church building was taken up
+with the soldiers sick of small-pox. Of this fact, in addition to the
+confirmation of Rev. Timothy Johnes's granddaughter, now living, Mrs.
+Kirtland, we have the following from Mr. Frederick G. Burnham, who says,
+(Oct 12th, 1892); "My Aunt, Huldah Lindsley, sister of Judge Silas Condict,
+and born in Morristown, gave me, in the most distinct and definite manner
+an account of General Washington's having communed with the Presbyterian
+Church on the occasion of the encampment in Morristown. My aunt told me
+that the congregation sat out of doors, even in the winter, but were
+shielded from the severe winds by surrounding high ground, that benches
+were placed in a circular position, that the pastor occupied a central
+point and that it was in this out-of-door place, muffled in their thickest
+clothing and many of them warmed by foot-stoves and other arrangements for
+keeping the feet warm, with nothing overhead but the wintry sky, that the
+congregation,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> among them General Washington, partook of the Lord's
+Supper."</p>
+
+<p>Early in December 1779, came Washington once more, with his army, to
+Morristown, and remained until the following June, the guest of Mrs.
+Theodosia Ford, widow of the gallant Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., at her home now
+known as the "Headquarters." The story of the purchase and preservation of
+this building for the state and country, by the Washington Association of
+New Jersey, is given farther on. "It is still," says the orator of Fort
+Nonsense (the Rev. Dr. Buckley), "the most charming residence which
+Morristown contains and historically inferior only in interest to Mount
+Vernon and far superior to it in beauty of location and surrounding
+scenery." Among the treasures of the Headquarters is the original
+Commission to Washington, as Commander-in-chief of the Army.</p>
+
+<p>At the opening ceremonial of the Washington Headquarters on July 5th, 1875,
+Governor Theodore F. Randolph, in an eloquent address, said as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"Under this roof have been gathered more characters known to the Military
+history of our Revolution than under any other roof in America. Here the
+eloquent and brilliant Alexander Hamilton lived during the long winter of
+1779-'80 and here he met and courted the lady he afterwards married&mdash;the
+daughter of General Schuyler. Here too was Greene&mdash;splendid fighting Quaker
+as he was&mdash;and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> the great artillery officer, Knox, the stern Steuben, the
+polished Kosciusko, the brave Schuyler, gallant Light-horse Harry Lee, old
+Israel Putnam, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, and, last to be named of all, that
+brave soldier, but rank traitor&mdash;Benedict Arnold."</p>
+
+<p>Many authenticated stories are extant of Washington, himself, and of the
+other distinguished inmates of the Headquarters during this memorable
+winter. Of the women of Morris County too, and the country round, many
+historic tales are told. If possible, they seem to have been even more
+patriotic than the men, whom, on several occasions, they upheld when
+wavering with doubt or fear. They had knitting and sewing circles for the
+soldiers in camp upon the Wicke Farm. These were presided over by Mrs.
+Ralph Smith, on Smith's Hummock, by Mrs. Anna Kitchell at Whippany, and by
+Mrs. Counselor Condict and Mrs. Parson Johnes, in Morristown.</p>
+
+<p>In all this sympathetic work, Martha Washington led, and we hear of her
+that after coming through Trenton on December 28th, in a raging snow storm,
+to spend New Year's Day in the Ford Mansion, some of the grand ladies of
+the town came to call upon her, dressed in their most elegant silks and
+ruffles, and "so", says one of them, "we were introduced to her ladyship,
+and don't you think we found her with a <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><i>speckled homespun apron on, and
+engaged in knitting a stocking</i>? She received us very handsomely and then
+again resumed her knitting. In the course of the conversation, she said,
+very kindly to us, whilst she made her needles fly, that 'American ladies
+should be patterns of industry to their country-women * * * * we must
+become independent of England by doing without these articles which we can
+make ourselves. Whilst our husbands and brothers are examples of
+patriotism, we must be examples of industry'. 'I do declare,' said one of
+the ladies afterwards, 'I never felt so ashamed and rebuked in my life!'"</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">(Rev. Dr. Tuttle.)<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The "Assembly Balls," a subscription entertainment, no doubt arranged to
+keep up the spirits of the army officers, were held that winter at the
+O'Hara Tavern, says Dr. Tuttle, a house facing the Green and on or
+adjoining the lot where now stands Washington Hall,&mdash;and probably also at
+the Arnold Tavern.</p>
+
+<p>In the meadow, in front of the headquarters, Washington's body-guard was
+encamped, originally a select troop of about one hundred Virginians.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i026.jpg" width="650" height="433" alt="Painted by
+MISS EMMA H. VAN PELT.
+From Pen and Ink Sketch by MISS S. HOWELL.
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738.
+" title="" />
+<span class="caption">Painted by
+MISS EMMA H. VAN PELT.<br />
+From Pen and Ink Sketch by
+MISS S. HOWELL.<br />
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738.
+</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Martha Washington was a fine horsewoman and the General a superb horseman,
+as are all Virginians of the present day. Many were the rides they took
+together over the country, one of the most frequent, being to a certain
+elevation on the Short Hills, from which the General with his glass could
+see every movement of the enemy. Here was stationed the giant alarm-gun, an
+eighteen-pounder, and here was the main centre of the system of
+beacon-lights on the hills around. From this point can be seen the entire
+sea-board in the vicinity of New York City, which was of great importance
+when it was not known whether Howe would move towards West Point or
+Philadelphia. There is also a view of the entire region west of the
+mountain, "to the crown of the hills which lie back of Morristown, and
+extending to Baskingridge, Pluckamin and the hills in the vicinity of
+Middlebrook on the South, and over to Whippany, Montville, Pompton,
+Ringwood, and, across the State-line among the mountains of Orange County,
+N. Y., on the north." On our road to Madison, we may call up in
+imagination, the vision, which in those days was no unusual sight, says Dr.
+Tuttle, of "Washington and his accomplished lady, mounted on bay horses and
+accompanied by their faithful mulatto, 'Bill,' and fifty or sixty mounted
+Life-guards, passing on their way to or from their quarters in Morristown."
+At these times "the 'star spangled banner' was sure to float from the
+village liberty-pole, while our ancestors congregated along the highway
+where he was to pass and around the village inn, to do honor to the man to
+whose fidelity and martial<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> skill all eyes were turned for the salvation of
+our country."</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes this cavalcade would pass along the Baskingridge Road, (now Mt.
+Kemble Avenue), perhaps stop at General Doughty's house, or, galloping on,
+stop at the Kemble mansion, (afterwards the Hoyt residence and now that of
+Mr. McAlpin), four miles from town, or turning the corner up Kemble Hill to
+the Wicke farm, and Fort Hill, to view the soldiers' encampment, they would
+clatter back again, down the precipitous Jockey Hollow road, past the
+Hospital-field, or burial place of the soldiers, stopping at the
+Headquarters of General Knox, off the Mendham road, about two miles from
+town, for Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Washington were close friends. Returning, they
+might slacken rein at the house of Pastor Johnes, (Mrs. Eugene Ayers') on
+Morris Street, where a ring still remains at the side of the piazza, to
+which Washington's horse was tied, under an elm tree's shade; or, they
+would stop at Quartermaster Lewis's (Mr. Wm. L. King's) where they would
+find Lafayette, after his return from France, if he happened to be in
+Morristown,&mdash;then at Dr. Jabez Campfield's house, on Morris Street, the
+east corner of Oliphant Lane,&mdash;the Headquarters of General Schuyler.</p>
+
+<p>Again the General, with his Life-guards, would set out to attend some
+appointed meeting of the "Council of Safety" at the house of its
+president,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> Silas Condict. This was about a mile out on the Sussex
+Turnpike, where the house still stands, on the west side of the old
+cross-road leading from that turnpike to Brant's paper-mill. Here he would
+meet the high-minded and dauntless Governor Livingston and perhaps his
+son-in-law, Judge Symmes, who lived near by, and whom the Governor
+frequently visited; all were men whose lives were sought for, by the
+British. Nearly all these homes are standing now and representatives of
+these families remain with us. Stories and traditions also relating to
+these homes and people have come down to us.</p>
+
+<p>Silas Condict, the bold, the brave, the honored patriot, member of the
+Provincial Legislature and of the Continental Congress besides filling
+other high places of trust, is represented by his great-grandson, Hon. Aug.
+W. Cutler, who now occupies the second house this ancestor built.</p>
+
+<p>General John Doughty's interesting old house, with its curious interior,
+and many a secret closet, stands as of old, on Mt. Kemble Avenue, at the
+head of Colles Avenue. "He might be called," says Mr. Wm. L. King, "the
+most distinguished resident of Morristown, at whose house Washington was a
+frequent visitor and no doubt often dined." He is represented by a
+great-nephew, Mr. Thomas W. Ogden, who has written an important paper on
+General Doughty, for the Washington Association,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> which is published by
+them. General Doughty was the third in command of the American Army, and
+succeeded General Knox.</p>
+
+<p>A descendant of General Knox is with us,&mdash;Mr. Reuben Knox, of Western
+Avenue.</p>
+
+<p>General Schuyler's Headquarters has a romantic interest as the scene of the
+courtship between Miss Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton.</p>
+
+<p>Of Pastor Johnes descendants, three generations are now with us to some of
+whom we have referred in the sketch of this distinguished man.</p>
+
+<p>Out on the Wicke farm, stands the house as it was in those old days when
+Tempe Wicke took her famous ride ahead of the pursuing soldiers and saved
+her favorite horse by concealing him for three weeks in the guest chamber,
+until every man of the army had gone to fight his country's battles on the
+banks of the Hudson. This house is near Fort Hill from which is the
+magnificent view which embraces Schooley's Mountain to the westward and a
+line of broken highlands to the South, among which is the town of
+Baskingridge where General Lee was captured. On the northern slope of this
+hill, as late as 1854, 66 fireplaces of the encampment were counted in
+regular rows and in a small space were found 196 hut chimneys.</p>
+
+<p>Going up a long, high street, not far from the Park, gradually ascending
+over rocks, and rough winding pathways, we come upon an open plateau<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> on
+which is "Fort Nonsense," so named, on leaving it, by Washington, says
+tradition, because the soldiers had here been employed in constructing an
+octagonal earthwork, only to occupy them and to keep them from that
+idleness which was certain to breed discontent when added to their poverty,
+poor shelter, hopelessness, and homelessness. Here, on a bright afternoon
+of April, 1888, a monument to commemorate the site, was unveiled with
+appropriate ceremonies by the Washington Association. Long will be
+remembered the strange and startling effect upon those who sat waiting, as
+the procession drew near at a quickstep, up the hill, and led by the
+Fairchild Continental Drum Corps, in characteristic dress. Nearer and
+nearer came the tramp of many feet, to the sound of fife and drum playing
+Yankee Doodle, and, as they emerged from the trees upon the hill, it seemed
+as if Time's clock had been turned back more than a hundred years. Standing
+upon the stone, the orator of the occasion, Rev. Dr. Buckley, made a
+memorable address, in the course of which he mentioned that this monument,
+though small, is higher, measured from the level of the sea, than the great
+Washington Monument, which is declared to be the wonder of the world. The
+plan of the Fort, drawn by Major J. P. Farley, U. S. A., is now at the
+Headquarters and the illustration in this volume, is given from an
+engraving of the Messrs. Vogt, by their kind permission.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Probably no Author will again record the presence of the second "First
+Church", which has measured its hundred years and more, in its old familiar
+place upon the Park. Soon it will be replaced by a modern structure. In
+October, 1891, prolonged and interesting services were held to celebrate
+the centennial of its erection. Closely involved with all the history of
+Morristown, the influences of this old church are felt and shown all
+through this book. The picture we give of it and the Soldiers' Monument, is
+as we look upon both to-day. (For the use of the engraving, we are again
+indebted to the Messrs. Vogt). Sorrowfully, we note the passing of the old
+church building and number it among the things we would not lose, but which
+soon shall be no more. Behind it, is the old historic cemetery, where have
+been laid to rest the forms of many of the patriots and honored dead of the
+century gone by.</p>
+
+<p>The "Old Academy" was an outcome of the First Church organization, and its
+early history is recorded in the "Trustees Book," of the church. Its
+centennial was observed on February 13th, 1891, on which occasion, among
+others, Hon. John Whitehead, of Morristown, and Judge William Paterson, of
+Perth Amboy, told its story, and the "Old Bell", placed upon the stage, was
+rung by Mr. Edward Pierson, who attended the Academy in 1820.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In 1825, Lafayette came again, from France, to revisit the scenes of the
+Revolution. It was on July 14th, about six o'clock in the evening, that
+coming from Paterson, he arrived at Morristown. The Morris Brigade under
+General Darcy was paraded on the Green and the firing of cannon and ringing
+of church bells announced his coming. General Doughty was Grand Marshal of
+the day and an eloquent address was made, in behalf of the town, by Hon.
+Lewis Condict. Lafayette dined at the Ogden House, the home of Jonathan
+Ogden, a large brick building corner of Market street and the Green (shown
+in the picture). He attended a ball given in his honor, at the Sansay House
+(now Mrs. Revere's, on DeHart street), and stayed over night with Mr. James
+Wood, in the white house, corner of South and Pine streets. Two of
+Morristown's citizens have given their reminiscences of this event to the
+author of this book, as follows:</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Edward Pierson, January 10th, 1893, says: "I remember well each member
+of the Committee who received Lafayette, but two. I remember very well the
+visit of General Lafayette to Morristown, in the year 1825. There was a
+delegation went from Morristown, in carriages and on horseback, to meet him
+beyond Morristown and escort him here. They came in by the Morris street
+road, past the Washington Headquarters. At that time there was only one
+small house on the north side of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> street, below the present Manse of
+the First Church to the foot of the hill. The ground sloped from the
+graveyard to the street and was filled with people to see the procession
+come in. A reception was given and Lafayette was taken to the James Wood
+house (white house on the east corner of Pine and South streets, opposite
+my residence), to spend the night. I well remember the next morning seeing
+them start off with the General and his party in a four-horse carriage."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. A. H. Condict, well-known as a resident of Morristown, writes from
+Mansfield, Ohio, (January 12th, 1893): "My eldest sister has related to me
+that when I was about a year old, General Lafayette was given a public
+reception at Morristown, in an elegant brick building then standing on the
+corner of the Park and Market street; that suitable addresses were made on
+the occasion and that while he was being observed by the great crowd of
+people, she held me up and that I looked at him. This would fix the time in
+the Summer of 1825, which corresponds with my notes gathered from the
+various histories."</p>
+
+<p>Morristown has always been a centre, not only geographically, but a centre
+of influence from the time when it received its name. We have seen how,
+midway between West Point and Philadelphia, with roads radiating in every
+direction and with high hills well fitted for beacon-lights and commanding
+far-reaching views, Washington soon discovered it was the point for him to
+select for watching the movements of Lord Howe in New York, who might at
+any moment start up the Hudson for West Point, or Southwards, for
+Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i035.jpg" width="650" height="427" alt="THE ORIGINAL ARNOLD TAVERN.
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MISS S. HOWELL." title="" />
+<span class="caption">THE ORIGINAL ARNOLD TAVERN.<br />
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MISS S. HOWELL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In the early religious movements of the country, Morristown was
+conspicuous, having among its theologians some of the most brilliant
+thinkers of the period. Recently we find, in the published minutes of the
+Synod of New Jersey, Oct. 1892, the significant fact recorded that after
+the division of the Presbytery of New York, into that of New York and of
+New Jersey, the "Presbytery of Jersey at its first meeting in Morristown,
+April 24th, 1810, did appoint supplies for fourteen Sabbaths from May to
+September, to the pulpit of the vacant Brick Church in the City of New
+York".</p>
+
+<p>One of the first Sunday Schools, if not the first,&mdash;in New Jersey was
+started here, by Mrs. Charlotte Ford Condict of Littleton, the grandmother
+of Henry Vail Condict, now a resident of Morristown, and this was said to
+be the beginning of the great revival under Albert Barnes.</p>
+
+<p>In a scientific direction, Morristown was the cradle of perhaps the
+greatest invention of the age, the electric telegraph. Also at the
+Speedwell Iron Works were manufactured the first tires, axles and cranks of
+American locomotives and a part of the machinery of the "Savannah," the
+first steamship that crossed the ocean.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Morristown also reflected the superstitions of the period; the people
+largely believed in witchcraft in those early days, and here was enacted,
+for about a year, the most remarkable ghostly drama that was ever published
+to the world, or influenced the best citizens of a community. The story of
+the Morristown Ghost will go down to future ages.</p>
+
+<p>For philanthropy, from Revolutionary times, Morristown has been famed,
+since Martha set the example of knitting the stockings for the needy
+soldiers and good Hannah Thompson voiced the hearts of her sisters round
+about, when she gave food to a starving company of them, saying: "Eat all
+you want; you are engaged in a good cause, and we are willing to share with
+you what we have as long as it lasts." This old centre of patriotism and
+Revolutionary enthusiasm has radiated philanthropic movements which
+influence not only the conditions of the whole State but the welfare of
+humanity. Here was commenced that voluntary work of the State Charities Aid
+Association, which considers, and practically carries out, through its
+counselors, measures for reform among the pauper and criminal classes in
+the State institutions, and out of them, and which will undoubtedly
+influence for good all future generations. This work is on much the same
+plan that was originally thought out and organized by Miss Louisa Lee
+Schuyler, of New York, the great-granddaughter of General<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> Philip Schuyler
+whose noble devotion to his Commander-in-chief is memorable during those
+days in Morristown. So we see how the old life of the Revolutionary period
+connects itself with the new life of progression. The principles then so
+nobly maintained take new forms in new projects.</p>
+
+<p>Everywhere, we find the old and the new combined, for even the streets bear
+the names, with those of Schuyler, Hamilton and Washington, of Farragut and
+McCullough. In the Park there stands a granite shaft surmounted by a full
+length figure of a Morris County Volunteer, commemorating the lives of the
+noble men who fell in those hard-won fields, fighting to preserve the
+nationality which had been secured by their forefathers. Everything is
+significant of either noble deeds in the past or of honored names of later
+day and of private citizens whose personal influence has added moral
+dignity to this City of many associations.</p>
+
+
+<h3>George Washington.</h3>
+
+<p>Among the first notable writings associated with Morristown are the letters
+of Washington written from the old Arnold Tavern, and from the Ford
+Mansion, during the two memorable winters<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> of 1777 and of 1779-'80. These
+noble letters are acknowledged on all sides to have been supremely
+efficient in promoting our national independence, filled as they are with
+the personality of Washington himself. They are very numerous. Many of them
+are published; some are in our "Headquarters", and many still are scattered
+over the Country, in the possession of individuals. All are interesting and
+none appear to reveal what we would wish had not been known, as in the case
+of so many other published letters.</p>
+
+<p>Of the man himself, our authors speak, here and there, throughout this
+volume. It is certain that no name, no face or character is more familiar
+to us than that of Washington, and no name in history has received a
+greater tribute than to be called, as he was, by the nation, at the end of
+his very difficult career, the "Father of his Country."</p>
+
+<p>Here is Lafayette's first impression, as he attends a dinner in
+Philadelphia, given by Congress in honor of the Commander-in-Chief. He
+says: "Although surrounded by officers and citizens, Washington was to be
+recognized at once by the majesty of his countenance and his figure." And
+this is Lafayette's tribute to Washington, when the two men have parted:
+"As a private soldier, he would have been the bravest; as an obscure
+citizen, all his neighbors would have respected him. With a heart as just
+as his mind he always judged himself as he judged circumstances. In
+creating<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> him expressly for this revolution, Nature did honor to herself;
+and to show the perfection of her work, she placed him in such a position
+that each quality must have failed, had it not been sustained by all the
+others."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Quoted by Bayard Tuckerman in his "Life of
+Lafayette.")</p></div>
+
+<p>In the portrait of Washington which Chastellux gives us, occur these words:
+"His strongest characteristic is the perfect union which reigns between the
+physical and moral qualities which compose the individual, one alone will
+enable you to judge of all the rest. If you are presented with medals of
+C&aelig;sar, Trajan or Alexander, on examining their features, you will still be
+led to ask what was their stature and the form of their persons; but if you
+discover, in a heap of ruins, the head or the limb of an antique Apollo, be
+not anxious about the other parts, but rest assured that they all were
+conformable to those of a God. * * * This will be said of Washington, '<i>At
+the end of a long civil war, he had nothing with which he could reproach
+himself.</i>'"</p>
+
+<p>Thatcher, in his Military Journal, speaks of Washington as he appeared at a
+great entertainment given by General Knox, in celebration of the alliance
+with France: "His tall, noble stature and just proportions, his fine,
+cheerful countenance, simple and modest deportment, are all calculated to
+interest every beholder in his favor and to command veneration and respect.
+He is feared<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> even when silent and beloved even while we are unconscious of
+the motive."</p>
+
+<p>The first French minister, M. Gerard, tells us, referring to Washington:
+"It is impossible for me briefly to communicate the fund of intelligence
+which I have derived from him. I will now say only that I have formed as
+high an opinion of the powers of his mind, his moderation, patriotism and
+of his virtues, as I had before from common report conceived of his
+military talents, and of the incalculable services he had rendered to his
+country."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Quoted by A. D. Mellick in his "Story of an Old
+Farm.")</p></div>
+
+<p>We see the General in his evening dress of "black velvet, with knee and
+shoe buckles and a steel rapier; his hair thickly powdered, drawn back from
+his forehead and gathered in a black silk bag adorned with a rosette"
+walking gracefully and with dignity through the figures of a quadrille. We
+see him devoted to his wife and courteous to every woman, high and low.
+Greene writes from the Headquarters: "Mrs. Washington is extremely fond of
+the General and he of her; they are happy in each other." We see him, with
+his tender sympathy among the soldiers and so find the key to the wonderful
+devotion of the soldiers to their chief, and his influence over them. As an
+old soldier tells the story to the Rev. O. L. Kirtland: "There was a time
+when all our rations were but a single <i>gill of wheat</i> a day. Washington
+used to come round and look into our tents, and he looked so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> kind and he
+said so tenderly. 'Men, can you bear it?' 'Yes, General, yes we can,' was
+the reply; 'if you wish us to act give us the word and we are ready!'" Many
+were the letters he wrote in their behalf to Congress, who neglected them,
+and to Lord Howe in New York, because of his cruelty to the prisoners in
+his power.</p>
+
+<p>Another key we have to his calm and self-reliant bearing, even in his
+darkest hours, so that, says Tuttle, "there seemed to be something about
+this man, which inspired his enemies, even when victorious, with dread." It
+is expressed in a letter of Washington when heartsick at the round of
+misfortunes at the outset of the Revolution, and after the capture of Fort
+Washington by the enemy. He writes: "It almost overcomes me to reflect that
+a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once
+happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or
+inhabited with slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in
+his choice?"</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Sparks.)</p></div>
+
+<p>A touching letter is written on the 8th of January, 1780, from the Ford
+Mansion, to the Morris County authorities, about the hungry, destitute
+soldiers, to which he receives at once so warm and generous a response that
+he writes again: "The exertions of the magistrates and inhabitants of the
+State were great and cheerful for our relief."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Sparks.)</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Though a warm Episcopalian, his broad Christian feeling is shown when he
+says: "Being no bigot, myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of
+Christianity in the Church with that road to heaven which to them shall
+seem the most direct, the plainest and easiest and least liable to
+objections."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Dr. Tuttle, quoted from Sparks.)</p></div>
+
+<p>And again, in reply to the Address of the Clergy of different
+denominations, in and about Philadelphia; "Believing as I do, that
+<i>Religion</i> and <i>Morality are the essential</i> pillars of society, I view with
+unspeakable pleasure, that harmony and brotherly love which characterize
+the clergy of different denominations, as well in this, as in other parts
+of the United States, exhibiting to the world a new and interesting
+spectacle, at once the pride of our Country and the surest basis of
+universal harmony."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>(Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Dr. Green's Autobiography.)</p></div>
+
+<p>What man, after arriving at such a height of power and influence over men,
+has been able to take up, with content again, his life of a country
+gentleman? Wonderfully appropriate were the last words that fell from his
+lips: "It is well."</p>
+
+<p>Of Washington it may be said as of no other, in the words of Henry Lee, in
+his Eulogy of December 26th, 1799: "To the memory of the man, first in war,
+first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+<h2>POETS.</h2>
+
+<p>A curious circumstance surrounds the poetic work of the two Paterson
+brothers&mdash;William and Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson&mdash;and gives it a
+unique interest apart from its especial merits. The survivor of the two
+brothers says, in the short and highly interesting introduction to their
+poems, published in 1882 and called "Poems of Twin Graduates of the College
+of New Jersey":</p>
+
+<p>"The title explains itself, and shows that the writers were born under the
+sign of the Gemini. They lived under that sign for rising fifty years, when
+one was taken and the other left. Two of us came into existence within the
+same hour of time, and passing through the early part of education
+together, entered the world-life as twin graduates of the collegiate
+institution bearing the name<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> of the State of which they were natives. This
+dual species of psychology was something of a curiosity because outside of
+common experience. Pleasure and pain seemed to flow like electric currents
+from the same battery. In a certain sense, we could feel at once, and think
+at once and act at once. It is problematical whether this proceeded from a
+real elective affinity, or was mechanical. It was most marked, however, at
+first, and particularly in the beginning or rudiments of learning. Both
+then went along exactly at the same rate, and one never was in advance of
+the other. Both always worked and played together, and whichever discovered
+something new, would communicate it in an untranslatable language to his
+companion.</p>
+
+<p>"This dual character, to a greater or less extent, pervaded the joint lives
+of the writers of these pieces. Not that the similarity extended to the
+business or pursuits, the tastes or habits of life, for in many respects
+they were different and apart as those bearing a single relation. Still the
+influence of the mystic tie, whatever it was or may have been, remained
+till nature loosed, as it had woven, the bond."</p>
+
+<p>Although Judge William Paterson was born in Perth Amboy and now resides
+there, his associations with Morristown, as related in a letter under his
+signature, are those of early boyhood passed on the farm, now occupied by
+Mrs. Howland. "Morristown<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> was then but a village hamlet," he says, and
+"the old Academy and the Meeting House on the village green were the only
+places in which services were held." Still, we gather, that at Morristown,
+the two poets received their "scholastic and agricultural training." Here,
+too, was laid the foundation of their "political and religious faith," the
+latter under the administration of Albert Barnes, and, what may be a noted
+event in their lives, they heard Mr. Barnes preach the sermon on the "Way
+of Salvation," which caused the division of the Presbyterian Church.</p>
+
+<p>Judge Paterson is a graduate of Princeton, which is in a double sense his
+Alma Mater, inasmuch as members of his family were among the first
+graduates, soon after the removal of the College from Newark and "when that
+village, then a hamlet amid the primeval forests had become the permanent
+site for the Academy incorporated by royal charter."</p>
+
+<p>Various positions of importance in the community have been held by Judge
+Paterson. In 1882, he was made Lay Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals
+of the State; he was also Mayor of Newark for ten years, at different times
+from 1846 to 1878, filling important and non-important municipal and county
+offices. Thus his work has been mostly legal and political, save, when he
+has made dashes into the more purely literary fields,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> rather, perhaps,
+through inspiration and for recreation from the dry details of practical
+work.</p>
+
+<p>More than once has Judge Paterson told to amused and interested audiences
+in Morristown his recollections of boyhood and youth spent here. Notably,
+many remember his recent graphic address on the occasion of the Centennial
+of the Morristown Academy.</p>
+
+<p>In 1888, our author published a valuable "Biography of the Class of 1835 of
+Princeton College," the class in which he graduated. The "Poems" were
+published in 1882. Looking through the latter volume, which contains many
+treasures, we wonder how, many of the poems&mdash;written as they were under the
+influence of a higher inspiration than ordinary rhythmic influences&mdash;should
+not earlier have found their way, in book form, from the writer's secret
+drawers to the readers of the outside world. Many of these poems are
+connected with experiences and memories of Academic days in Princeton and,
+among them all we would mention "The Close of the Centennial;" "Living on a
+Farm," which refers to Mrs. Howland's farm, long the poet's home in
+boyhood; "14th February, 1877;" "The Hickory Tree," and "Polly," in which
+the writer has caught wonderfully the bright, playful spirit of the child.
+The poem "Morristown," a pictorial reminiscence, we have selected to open
+this book.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Quite recently, (in September, 1892) has been published and bound in true
+orange color, <i>An Address</i>, read before the New York Genealogical and
+Biographical Society, on February 12th, 1892, on the life and public
+services of <i>William Paterson</i>, his honored grandfather, who was
+"Attorney-General of New Jersey during the Revolution, a framer of the
+Federal Constitution, Senator of the United States from New Jersey,
+Governor of that State, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
+the United States at the time of his death, September 9th, 1806." "He was
+the first Alumnus of Princeton," says the writer, "who was tendered a place
+in the Cabinet or on the Federal Judiciary, the Attorney-General, the first
+one being William Bradford, also an Alumnus, a classmate of Madison, and
+Collegemate of Burr, then not constituting part of the Executive
+household." "He began the study of legal science and practice under the
+instruction of Richard Stockton, who was an Alumnus of the first Class that
+went forth from the College of New Jersey, then located in Newark, and who,
+though young, comparatively, was rising fast to the forefront of his
+profession, and, afterward, to become of renowned judicial and
+revolutionary fame."</p>
+
+<p>The publication is full of interest, graphic description and notice of men
+and events of the period. Here is a letter to Aaron Burr, between whom<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>
+while a student in the College at Princeton, and Mr. Paterson, then
+established in the practice of his profession, had sprung up a strong
+friendship which continued during life:</p>
+
+<p>"Princeton, January 17th, 1772. <span class="smcap">Dear Burr:</span> I am just ready to leave and
+therefore cannot wait for you. Be pleased to accept of the enclosed notes
+on <i>dancing</i>. If you pitch upon it as the subject of your next discourse,
+they may furnish you with a few hints, and enable you to compose with
+greater facility and despatch. To do you any little service in my power,
+will afford me great satisfaction, and I hope you will take the liberty&mdash;it
+is nothing more, my dear Burr, than the freedom of a friend&mdash;to call upon
+me whenever you may think I can. Bear with me when I say, <i>that you cannot
+speak too slow</i>. Every word should be pronounced distinctly; one should not
+be sounded so highly as to drown another. To see you shine as a speaker,
+would give great pleasure to your friends in general and to me in
+particular. You certainly are capable of making a good speaker.</p>
+
+<p>
+"Dear Burr, adieu.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="smcap">Wm. Paterson.</span>"<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>The writer pays a beautiful tribute to Ireland, the land of his ancestors:
+"Irish Nationality," he says, "is no empty dream; it goes back more than
+two thousand years, is as old as Christianity, and is attested by the
+existence of towers and monuments, giving evidence of greater antiquity
+than<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> is to be found in the annals of any other country in all Europe. For
+centuries, Ireland sent missionaries of learning throughout the continent
+to herald the advent of civilization and stay the advance of barbarism, and
+her story is one running over with great deeds and glorious memories, with
+associations of poetry and art and bards, and a civilization, ante-dating
+that of almost any other Christian community. It cannot be claimed that the
+rude exploits of her early inhabitants are classic in story or in song.
+They acquired no territory; their island domain is but a speck of green
+verdure amid the waste of ocean waters, and the flash of an electric light,
+located on the hills where stood the ancient psaltery, could be sent
+throughout its length and breadth. They conquered no worlds. No manifest
+destiny led them to seek for wealth, applause or gain, beyond the limits of
+their narrow bounds. They did not so much as pass over the seas that wash
+their either shore. But yet in the absence of all the achievements that can
+gratify ambition, with no record of pomp or pageantry or power, her people
+bear a character more like a dream of fancy than a thing of real life, and
+to-day they stand as remnants of national greatness, though you may look in
+vain in their annals or traditions for any evidence of usurpation or of
+subjugation by sceptre or by sword."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Kinney, the mother of the poet, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and daughter
+of David L. Dodge of New York city, was for several years a resident of
+Morristown, and will long be remembered with interest and affection by her
+many friends. Her husband, Mr. William Burnet Kinney, not only resided here
+in later years, but was born at Speedwell, then a suburb of Morristown, and
+passed a part of his early boyhood there. To him we shall refer, in the
+grouping of <i>Editors and Orators</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Kinney was a brilliant literary man and about this home in Morristown
+unusual talent and genius naturally grouped themselves. To it came and went
+the poet Stedman: in the group, we find two gifted women, daughters of Mrs.
+Kinney, and later on, the same genius developing itself in the son of one
+of these, the boy Easton, of the third generation.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Kinney published in 1855, "Felicita, a Metrical Romance;" a volume of
+"Poems" in 1867; and, a few years later, a stirring drama, a tragedy in
+blank verse, entitled "Bianco Cappello." This tragedy is founded upon
+Italian history and was written during her residence abroad in 1873. While
+abroad, Mrs. Kinney's letters to <i>The Newark Daily Advertiser</i> gave her a
+wide reputation and were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> largely re-copied in London and Edinburgh
+journals from copies in the New York papers.</p>
+
+<p>Among the "Poems," the one "To an Italian Beggar Boy" is perhaps most
+highly spoken of and has been chosen by Mr. Stedman to represent his mother
+in the "Library of American Literature." A favorite also is the "Ode to the
+Sea." Both pieces are strong and dramatic. The poem on "The Flowers" has
+been translated into three languages. It opens:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Where'er earth's soil is by the feet<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of unseen angels trod,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The joyous flowers spring up to greet<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These messengers of God."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Mrs. Kinney's sonnets are peculiarly good. Her sonnet on "Moonlight in
+Italy," which we give to represent her, was written at ten o'clock at night
+in Italy by moonlight, and has been much praised. Mr. Kingston James, the
+English translator of Tasso, repeated it once at a dinner table, as a
+sample of "in what consisted a true sonnet."</p>
+
+
+<h4>MOONLIGHT IN ITALY.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There's not a cloud to spot the sapphire sky;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All nature seems a silent worshipper:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While saintly Dian, with great, argent eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Looks down as lucid from the depths on high,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As she to earth were Heaven's interpreter:<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Each twinkling little star shrinks back, too shy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Its lesser glory to obtrude by her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who fills the concave and the world with light;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And ah! the human spirit must unite<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In such a harmony of silent lays,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or be the only discord in this night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which seems to pause for vocal lips to raise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sense of worship into uttered praise.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Alexander Nelson Easton.</h3>
+
+<p>In the third generation in the line of Mrs. Kinney, appears a boy, now
+seventeen years of age, of unusual promise as a poet&mdash;Alexander Nelson
+Easton, grandson of William Burnet and Elizabeth C. Kinney. He has written
+and published several poems. He took the $50 prize offered by the <i>Mail and
+Express</i> for the best poem on a Revolutionary incident, written by a child
+of about twelve years. It was entitled "Mad Anthony's Charge."</p>
+
+<p>Young Easton was born in Morristown, and spent his early years in this
+place, in the house on the corner of Macculloch Avenue and Perry Street,
+belonging to Mrs. Brinley. He began to write at eight years when a little
+prose piece called "The Council of the Stars," found its way into print,
+out in California. His next was in verse, written at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> ten years on "The
+Oak." That was also published and copied. A "Ballad" followed "A Scottish
+Battle Song," written in dialect, which was published also. Then came the
+prize poem, "Mad Anthony's Charge," above referred to. He has composed two
+stories since, one of which, "Ben's Christmas Present," has been accepted
+by the New York <i>World</i> and is to appear with a sketch of this young
+writer, in their Christmas number. At twelve years, he wrote a monody on
+"The Burial of Brian Boru," which is given below.</p>
+
+<p>The literary efforts of Easton, so far, have been spontaneous and
+spasmodic, but contain certain promise for the future. After studying for
+some time at the Morristown Academy, Easton went as a student to the
+Bordentown Military Institute from which he has graduated and has now
+passed on to Princeton College. At Bordentown he won golden opinions, and
+gave the prize essay at the June Commencement. This was an oration of
+considerable importance on "The Value of Sacrifice," but withal his gifts
+are essentially poetic.</p>
+
+<h4>
+THE BURIAL OF BRIAN BORU.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Slowly around the new-made grave<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gathers the mourner throng;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Women and children, chieftains brave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Numb'ring their hundreds strong.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Glitter beneath the sun's bright ray<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Helmet and axe and spear;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sadness and sorrow reign to-day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dark is the land and drear!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yesterday leading his men to fight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now lies he beneath their feet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Clad in his armor, strong and bright,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis his only winding sheet.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Close to his grave stand his warriors grim,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bravest and best of his reign;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They, who through danger have oft followed him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mourn the wild "Scourge of the Dane."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Look! from the throng with martial stride<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Steps an old chief of his clan,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pauses and halts at the deep grave's side,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Halts as but warriors can.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">White is the hair beneath his cap,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Withered the hand he holds on high;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Standing, beside the open gap,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Speaks he without a pause or sigh.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"<i>Brian Boru</i> the brave!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Brian Boru</i> the bold!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lay we thee in thy grave;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Deep is it, dark and cold.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Bravest of ev'ry chief<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Erin has ever known;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hurling the foes in grief,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fiercest of Danes o'erthrown.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Youth and old age alike<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Found thee in war array;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wielding the sword and pike,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">E'er in the thick o' the fray!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Erin is freed and blest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Freed by thy mighty arm;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Well hast thou earned thy rest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Take it! secure from harm.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Friend of our hearts! Our king!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Generous, kind and true!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out let our praises fling&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shout we for <i>Brian Boru</i>."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Bursts the wild song from a thousand throats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sounding through wood and plain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the mountains echo the dying notes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ringing them out again.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Francis Bret Harte.</h3>
+
+<p>As a poet, we represent Bret Harte by his "Plain Language from Truthful
+James," better known as "The Heathen Chinee." The main reference to his
+writings follows, in the next classification of <i>Novelists and Story
+Writers</i>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES,</h4>
+
+<h4>BETTER KNOWN AS "THE HEATHEN CHINEE."</h4>
+
+<h4>TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Which I wish to remark,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And my language is plain,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That for ways that are dark,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And for tricks that are vain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The heathen Chinee is peculiar.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which the same I would rise to explain.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ah Sin was his name;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I shall not deny<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In regard to the same<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What that name might imply,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But his smile it was pensive and child-like,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">It was August the third;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And quite soft was the skies;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which it might be inferred<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That Ah Sin was likewise;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet he played it that day upon William<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And me in a way I despise.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Which we had a small game,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Ah Sin took a hand:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It was Euchre. The same<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He did not understand;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But he smiled as he sat by the table,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the smile that was child-like and bland.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yet the cards they were stocked<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In a way that I grieve,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And my feelings were shocked<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At the state of Nye's sleeve:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the same with intent to deceive.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But the hands that were played<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By that heathen Chinee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the points that he made,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Were quite frightful to see,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till at last he put down a right bower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then I looked up at Nye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he gazed upon me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he rose with a sigh,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And said, "Can this be?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor,"&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he went for that heathen Chinee.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the scene that ensued<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I did not take a hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But the floor it was strewed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like the leaves on the strand<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the game "he did not understand."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In his sleeves, which were long,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He had twenty-four packs,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which was coming it strong,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet I state but the facts;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And we found on his nails, which were taper,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What is frequent in tapers&mdash;that's wax.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Which is why I remark,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And my language is plain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That for ways that are dark,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And for tricks that are vain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The heathen Chinee is peculiar,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which the same I am free to maintain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. McClurg, the niece of our honored townsman, Mr. Wm. L. King, is better
+known to us by her maiden name of M. Virginia Donaghe. Although endowed
+with varied gifts, having been editor, newspaper correspondent,
+story-writer, biographer and local historian, her talent is essentially
+poetic, therefore we place her among our poets.</p>
+
+<p>A proud moment of Mrs. McClurg's life was, when a child, she received four
+dollars and a half from <i>Hearth and Home</i> for a story called "How did it
+Happen," written in the garret, the author tells us, without the knowledge
+of any one. Next, were written occasional letters and verses and short
+stories for the New York <i>Graphic</i>, including some burlesque correspondence
+for a number of papers, one of which was the <i>Richmond State</i>. The writer
+then went to Colorado for her health and accepted<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> the position of editor
+on the <i>Daily Republic</i> of Colorado Springs, for three years. She wrote a
+political leader for the paper every day. It happened that many
+distinguished men died during those years, and she did in consequence
+biographical work. She also wrote book reviews, dramatic and musical
+reviews, condensed the state news every day from all the papers of the
+state and edited the Associated Press dispatches. In addition, all proofs
+were brought to her for final reading. For the first year she had private
+pupils and broke down with brain fever.</p>
+
+<p>In 1885, she went into the Indian country to explore the cliff-dwellings of
+Mancos Ca&ntilde;on, in the reservation of the Southern Utes. They were only known
+through meagre accounts in the official government reports, and Miss
+Donaghe was the first woman who ever visited them, so far as known. On this
+occasion, she had an escort of United States troops and spent a few days
+there. She however made a second visit, fully provided for a month's trip,
+the result of which was a series of arch&aelig;ological sketches contributed to a
+prominent paper, the <i>Great Divide</i>, under the title of "Cliff-Climbing in
+Colorado." These ten papers gave to Miss Donaghe a reputation in the west
+as an arch&aelig;ologist.</p>
+
+<p>The following year she published, in the <i>Century</i>, one of the best of her
+sonnets, "The Questioner<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> of the Sphinx," afterwards contained in her book,
+"Seven Sonnets of Sculpture."</p>
+
+<p>The same year she published her first book, "Picturesque Colorado," also a
+popular sonnet called "The Mountain of the Holy Cross." The Colorado
+mountain of the Holy Cross has crevices filled with snow which represent
+always on its side a cross. The little sand lily of Colorado blossoms at
+the edges of the highways in the dust, in the Spring, and looks like our
+star of Bethlehem. Of these sand lilies an artist friend made a picture
+which harmonized with the sonnet referred to. These were published together
+as an Easter card and a large edition sold. The sonnet begins;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"In long forgotten Springs, where He who taught<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Amid the olive groves of Syrian hills,"&mdash;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>And ends:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"The lilies bloom upon the prairie wide<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A stainless cross is reared by nature's hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And plain and height alike keep Easter-tide."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>In 1887, the <i>Century</i> published a "Sonnet on Helen Hunt's Grave," with a
+picture of the grave. About this time Miss Donaghe was writing a series of
+letters which were published in a Southern newspaper, <i>The Valley
+Virginian</i>, and were widely copied. These were on Utah, when the Mormon
+hierarchy was in its power. Then appeared a book on "Picturesque Utah,"
+making one of a group with "Picturesque Colorado" and "Colorado
+Favorites."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> The last is made up of six poems on Colorado flowers,
+illustrated by water colors of the blossoms, by Alice Stewart, and was the
+first book published.</p>
+
+<p>The author was married to Mr. Gilbert McClurg of Chicago, one of the family
+of the publishing house of that name, in Morristown, on June 13th, 1889.
+Since then Mrs. McClurg has been both editor and newspaper correspondent,
+and, within the last two years, a valuable assistant to her husband in the
+preparation of his department of the official history of Colorado, which
+included several county histories.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Cosmopolitan</i> of June, 1891, a sonnet appeared, "The Life Mask,"
+and was reprinted in the <i>Review of Reviews</i>. Two of Mrs. McClurg's songs
+were set to music by Albert C. Pierson in the summer of 1890; "Lithe Stands
+my Lady"; "Je Reste et Tu T'en Vas"; the latter with a French refrain, the
+rest in English.</p>
+
+<p>The last poem of Mrs. McClurg was published in the <i>Banner</i>, of Morristown,
+Dec. 24th, 1891, written to Mr. William L. King on his 85th Thanksgiving
+Day, and based on the Oriental salutation, "O King! Live forever".</p>
+
+<p>Among the writings of Mrs. McClurg are also two articles on the Washington
+Headquarters of Morristown; being "quotations, comments and descriptions on
+two Order Books of the Revolution,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> daily records of life in camp and at
+Headquarters, in the year 1780." A passage from this is given in the
+opening chapter of this book.</p>
+
+<p>The "Seven Sonnets of Sculpture" came out in 1889 and 1890. This book was
+widely and favorably noticed by some of the largest and most important
+journals. Says the writer in the Chicago <i>Daily News</i>: "It was a happy
+inspiration that led Mrs. McClurg to the idea realized in the publication
+of her latest volume 'Seven Sonnets of Sculpture'. The work is artistic
+from cover to cover, but the conception of equipping each one of the
+stanzas it contains with a photograph of the piece of sculpture which
+suggested it, was unique. * * To translate a work of art from its original
+form to another, to find the hidden sense of a conception imbedded in stone
+and revive it in words, to endue marble with speech, is in its nature a
+delicate task and one that demands the keenest of perceptions and
+sensibilities." The author says, in her dedication that seven was a Hebrew
+symbol of perfection.</p>
+
+<p>The sonnet we select from these, to represent Mrs. McClurg, is "The
+Questioner of the Sphinx". This sonnet was written from the impression
+received from Elihu Vedder's engraving of the Sphinx and the artist
+expressed in a letter to the author, his appreciation of the fidelity of
+the interpretation in verse of his picture. His criticism is perhaps the
+best that could be given.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"I think it," he wrote, "good and strong and shall treasure it among the
+few good things that have been suggested by my work. My idea in the Sphinx
+was the hopelessness of man before the cold immutable laws of nature. Could
+the Sphinx speak, I am sure its words would be, 'look within,' for to his
+working brain and beating heart man must look for the solution of the great
+problem."</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE QUESTIONER OF THE SPHINX.</h4>
+
+<h4>(SUGGESTED BY ELIHU VEDDER'S PICTURE.)</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behold me! with swift foot across the land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While desert winds are sleeping, I am come<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To wrest a secret from thee; O thou, dumb,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And careless of my puny lip's command.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cold orbs! <i>mine</i> eyes a weary world have scanned,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Slow ear! in <i>mine</i> rings ever a vexed hum<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of sobs and strife. Of joy mine earthly sum<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is buried as thy form in burning sand.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The wisdom of the nations thou has heard;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The circling courses of the stars hast known.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Awake! Thrill! By my feverish presence stirred,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Open thy lips to still my human moan,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Breathe forth one glorious and mysterious word,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though I should stand, in turn, transfixed,&mdash;a stone!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Charlton T. Lewis, L.L. D.</h3><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>A sketch of Dr. Lewis will be found under the grouping of <i>Lexicographer</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The poem from which we select (reluctantly we take a part instead of the
+whole, for lack of space), is an embodiment of the story taken from
+Theodoret. The poet has found in the beautiful tradition, meagre though it
+is, a lovely theme for his divine song of spiritual love and Christian
+martyrdom.</p>
+
+<p>The following is the translation of the Greek passage which heads the poem:</p>
+
+<p>"A certain Telemachus embraced the self-sacrificing life of a monk, and, to
+carry out this plan, went to Rome, where he arrived during the abominable
+shows of gladiators. He went down into the arena, and strove to stop the
+conflicts of the armed combatants. But the spectators of the bloody games
+were indignant, and the gladiators themselves, full of the spirit of
+battle, slew the apostle of peace. When the great Emperor learned the facts
+he enrolled Telemachus in the noble army of martyrs, and put an end to the
+murderous shows."</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Theodoret. Eccl. Hist. v. 26.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The scene is Rome,&mdash;the place the Coliseum. It is the time of the games.
+There are the crowds of eager people; the Emperor Honorius; the horrible<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>
+Stilicho. Lowly and beautiful in his great love for Christ, Telemachus
+follows onward to the Coliseum to meet his sorrowful fate; holding in his
+voice the power that "stilled the fire and dulled the sword and stopped the
+crushing wine-press." He followed, silently, consecrated and alone, to "do
+the will of God."</p>
+
+
+<h4>TELEMACHUS.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I mused on Claudian's tinseled eulogies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And turned to seek in other dusty tomes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the wild waste of those degenerate days,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some living word, some utterance of the heart;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till as when one lone peak of Jura flames<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With sudden sunbeams breaking through the mist,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So from the dull page of Theodoret<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A flash of splendor rends the clouds of life,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And bares to view the awful throne of love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The bishop's tale is meagre, but as leaven,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It works in thoughts that rise and fill the soul.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">*....*....*....*....*<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He felt the soil, long drenched with martyr's blood,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Send healing through his feet to all his frame.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He drank the air that trembled with the joys<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of opening Paradise, and bared his soul<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To spirits whispering, "Come with us to-day!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The longings of his life were satisfied,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He stood at last in Rome, Christ's Capital,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The gate of heaven and not the mouth of hell.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Suddenly, rudely, comes disastrous change.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He starts and gazes, as the glory of the saints<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Fades round him and the angel songs are stilled:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A world of hatred hides the throne of love;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hell opens in the gleam of myriad eyes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hungry for slaughter, in a hush that tells<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How in each heart a tiger pants for blood.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Into the vast arena files a band<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of Goths, the prisoners of Pollentia,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Freemen, the dread of Rome, but yesterday,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now doomed as slaves to wield those terrible arms<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In mutual murder, kill and die, amid<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The exultation of their nation's foes.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pausing before the throne, with well-taught lips<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They utter words they know not; but Rome hears;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"C&aelig;sar, we greet thee who are now to die!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then part and line the lists; the trumpet blares<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the onset, sword and javelin gleam, and all<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is clash of smitten shields and glitter of arms.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Without the tumult, one of mighty limb<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And towering frame stands moveless; never yet<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A nobler captive had made sport for Rome.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Throngs watch that eye of Mars, Apollo's grace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The thews of Hercules, in cruel hope<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That ten may fall before him ere he falls.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They bid him charge; he moves not; shield and sword<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sink to his feet; his eyes are filled with light<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That is not of the battle. Three draw near<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose valor or despair has cut a path<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the thick mass of combat, and their swords,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Reeking with carnage, seek a victim new<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The glory of whose death may win them grace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With that fierce multitude. Telemachus<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Gazes, and half the horror turns to joy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the fair Goth undaunted bares his breast<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Before the butchers, and awaits the blow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With peaceful brow, a firm and tender lip<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quivering as with a breath of inward prayer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And hands that move as mindful of the cross.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with a mighty cry, "Christ! he is thine!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He is my brother! Help!" The monk leaps forth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gathers in hands unarmed the points of steel,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Throws back the startled warriors, and commands,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"In Christ's name, hold! Ye people of Rome give ear!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">God will have mercy and not sacrifice.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He who was silent, scourged at Pilate's bar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And smitten again in those he died to save,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is silent now in his great oracles.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The throne of Constantine and Peter's chair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Speaks thus through me:&mdash;'In Rome, my capital,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let love be Lord, and close the mouth of hell.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I will have mercy and not sacrifice.'"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The slaughter paused, he ceased, and all was still,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But baffled myriads with their cruel thumbs<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Point earthward, and the bloody three advance:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Their swords meet in his heart. Honorius<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cries "Save,"&mdash;too late, he is already safe,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And turns, with tears like Peter's, to proclaim,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The festival dissolved: nor from that hour<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ever again did Rome, Christ's capital,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Make holiday with blood, but hand in hand<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The throne of Constantine and Peter's chair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Honored the martyr&mdash;Saint Telemachus,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And love was Lord and closed the mouth of hell.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p>
+<h3>Miss Emma F. R. Campbell.</h3>
+
+<p>In our midst is a quiet, gentle woman who passes in and out among us
+without noise or ostentation. Yet upon her has fallen the great honor of
+being the author of an immortal hymn.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Canada Presbyterian</i> of Feb. 9th, 1887, appeared an article
+entitled "A Great Modern Hymn." Also, it is said, that in a volume soon to
+be published on "The Great Hymns of the Church" will appear a paper on
+"Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By." From the first named, we cannot do better
+than quote:</p>
+
+<p>"Among all the hymns used in recent revivals of religion, none has been
+more honored and owned by God, than this&mdash;none so often called for, none so
+inspiring, none bearing so many seals of the divine approval. This is the
+testimony of the great evangelist of these days, Mr. Moody, and this
+testimony will surprise no one who has ever heard it sung by his companion
+in the ministry, Mr. Sankey, who, under God, has done so much to send forth
+light and truth into dark minds and break up the fountains of the great
+deep, amid the masses of godless men.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>"As to the origin of the hymn&mdash;the circumstances of its birth&mdash;we have to
+invite the reader<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> to go back some twenty-three years, to the Spring of
+1864&mdash;to a great season of religious awakening in the city of Newark, N. J.
+The streets were crowded from day to day and the largest churches were too
+small to contain the growing numbers. Among those most deeply moved by the
+impressive scenes and services was a young girl, a Sabbath School teacher,
+one who for the first time realized the powers of the world to come, and
+the grandness of the great salvation. As descriptive of what was passing
+around her but with no desire for publicity, still, with the great desire
+of reaching some soul unsaved, especially among her youthful charge, she
+wrote the lines beginning with, 'What means this eager, anxious throng?'"</p>
+
+<p>The hymn was first published under the signature "Eta", the author having
+sometimes appended to her writings the Greek letter, using that character
+instead of her English name. We quote again from the same source:</p>
+
+<p>"Soon it rose into popularity and it is spreading still, not only in the
+English language, but in other languages&mdash;even the languages of
+India&mdash;(think of a recent account of an assembly of 500 Hindus
+enthusiastically using this hymn in the Mahrati and the Syrian children
+singing it in their own vernacular)&mdash;as the author thinks of all these
+things, she can only say with a thankful and an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> adoring heart: 'It is the
+Lord's doing and it is marvellous in mine eyes!'"</p>
+
+<p>Miss Campbell has also written many other poems of beauty and articles in
+prose, which however, are all so eclipsed by this "Great Hymn" that perhaps
+they are not known or noticed as they otherwise would be. One in
+particular, we would mention, "A New Year Thought," published December,
+1888.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Campbell belongs also in the group of <i>Novelists</i>, <i>Story-Writers</i>,
+<i>and Moralists</i>. She has written a number of books for the young, among
+which are "Green Pastures for Christ's Little Ones"; "Paul Preston";
+"Better than Rubies"; and "Toward the Mark".</p>
+
+<p>Miss Campbell wrote by request, at the time of the Centennial Celebration
+of the First Presbyterian Church in October, 1891, a beautiful hymn for the
+occasion which was read by Mr. James Duryee Stevenson.</p>
+
+
+<h4>"JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY."</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">What means this eager, anxious throng,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pressing our busy streets along,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These wondrous gatherings day by day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What means this strange commotion, pray?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Voices in accents hushed reply<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by?"<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">E'en children feel the potent spell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And haste their new-found joy to tell;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In crowds they to the place repair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where Christians daily bow in prayer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hosannas mingle with the cry<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Who is this Jesus? Why should He<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The city move so mightily?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A passing stranger, has He skill<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To charm the multitude at will?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Again the stirring tones reply<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Jesus! 'tis He who once below<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Man's pathway trod mid pain and woe:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And burdened hearts where'er He came<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brought out their sick and deaf and lame.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Blind men rejoiced to hear the cry<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Again He comes, from place to place<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His holy footprints we can trace.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He passes at <i>our</i> threshold&mdash;nay<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He enters,&mdash;condescends to stay!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall we not gladly raise the cry&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Bring out your sick and blind and lame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis to restore them Jesus came.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Compassion infinite you'll find,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With boundless power in Him combined.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come quickly while salvation's nigh,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ye sin-sick souls who feel your need,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He comes to you, a friend indeed.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rise from your weary, wakeful couch.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Haste to secure His healing touch;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No longer sadly wait and sigh.&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ho all ye heavy-laden, come!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here pardon, comfort, rest, a home<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lost wanderer from a Father's face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Return, accept his proffered grace.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ye tempted, there's a refuge nigh<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ye who are buried in the grave<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of sin, His power alone can save.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His voice can bid your dead souls live,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">True spirit-life and freedom give.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Awake! arise! for strength apply,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But if this call you still refuse<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And dare such wondrous love abuse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Soon will He sadly from you turn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your bitter prayer in justice spurn.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Too late! too late!" will be your cry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Jesus of Nazareth has passed by!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+<h3>Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Buckley will appear again among <i>Translators</i>. The following verses
+were inspired by a painting of Cornelia and the Gracchi:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Purest pearls from the sea,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Diamonds outshining the sun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sapphires which vie with heaven,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With pride to Cornelia are shown.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Clasping her dark-eyed boys,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fairer could be no other,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"These my jewels are"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Said the noble Roman mother.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Oliver Crane, D. D., LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Before coming to Morristown, in 1871, Dr. Crane's life had been a very
+active one, including extensive traveling in Turkey, Europe, Egypt and
+Palestine. Twice he had been a missionary in Turkey acquiring the Turkish
+language and doing efficient work there, first for five years, then for
+three. In the seven years interval of his return he accepted two pastorates
+in this country.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>On coming to Morristown, having resigned his ministerial charge at
+Carbondale, Pennsylvania, he devoted himself mainly to literary work, and
+with General H. B. Carrington wrote the "Battles of the Revolution" which
+has since become a standard work. Nine years later as secretary of his
+college class, he prepared an exhaustive biographical record of every
+member of the class. The book was a pioneer in this class of publications.</p>
+
+<p>In 1888, he published his translation of Virgil's &AElig;neid and the following
+year a small volume of poems entitled "Minto and Other Poems", in which the
+"Rock of the Passaic Falls" is conspicuous as relating to Washington and
+Lafayette "who," says the poet, "visited together these Falls while their
+troops were stationed at Totawa (as the spot was then called) in the Winter
+of 1780. The initials G. W. are still to be seen cut in the rock below the
+cataract."</p>
+
+<p>The <i>Translation of Virgil's &AElig;neid</i>, "literally, line by line into English
+Dactyllic Hexameter," is Dr. Crane's great work and has absorbed much of
+his time for years. It is a singular fact that, although for more than four
+hundred years the learned have been giving to the English reader, through
+the press, specimen translations of this old classic, this is the first
+complete version in the original measure.</p>
+
+<p>In the very interesting preface, Dr. Crane gives<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> a careful review of the
+translations of Virgil, noticing the singular and severe prejudice that has
+always debarred any desire to render this classic in the metre of the
+original, and discussing the advantage of translating in the style of verse
+chosen by the author himself. In fact, he tells us, Longfellow had, from
+his own admirable translations, become thoroughly convinced of its utility,
+if not of its indispensability in giving the classic epics a fitting
+setting in English.</p>
+
+<p>The following is an extract taken from Book X., lines 814 to 842 of Dr.
+Crane's literal English translation of <i>Virgil's &AElig;neid</i>, which describes
+the hand to hand contest of &AElig;neas with the youth Lausus, who insists upon
+fighting &AElig;neas in opposition to his father's wishes and in the face of
+every effort made by &AElig;neas to avoid the conflict:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>TRANSLATION OF VIRGIL'S &AElig;NEID.</h4>
+
+<h4>BOOK X, LINES 814 TO 842.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The destinies now are for Lausus the last threads<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gathering in; for &AElig;neas his powerful scimitar ruthless<span class='linenum'>815</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Drives through the midst of the youth, and buries it wholly within him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Right through the menacer's targe, and his delicate armor, the keen blade<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Passed through the tunic his mother had woven in tissue of gold thread<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For him, and blood filled all of his bosom; then life on the breezes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mournful withdrew to the shades, and abandoned his body untimely.<span class='linenum'>820</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But as the son of Anchises in truth on the visage and features<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gazed of the dying&mdash;the features, becoming amazingly pallid&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pitying deeply he sighed and instinctively tendered his right hand,<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Fresh as the image recurred to his mind of regard for a father:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"What to thee now, O pitiable boy, for these laudable efforts,<span class='linenum'>825</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What shall the pious &AElig;neas, befitting such nobleness render?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Keep it&mdash;thine armor, in which thou rejoicest, and I to thy parents'<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shades and their ashes, if this could be any requital, remit thee;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet thou in this, though unlucky, canst solace thy sorrowful exit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That by the hand of the mighty &AElig;neas thou fallest." Abruptly<span class='linenum'>830</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chides he his faltering comrades, as gently from earth he uplifts him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Soiling his ringlets with blood, that were combed in the comeliest fashion.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Meanwhile, his father was down by the wave of the stream of the Tiber<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Staunching his wound with its waters, and resting his body, reclining<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Close by the trunk of a tree. At a distance his coppery helmet<span class='linenum'>825</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hangs on its boughs, and at rest on the sod is his cumbersome armor:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Standing around are his warriors chosen; he sickly and panting<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Eases his neck, as his out-combed beard streamed down on his bosom;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Often he asks after Lausus, and many a messenger sends he<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Back to recall him, and bear him his sorrowful parent's injunctions:<span class='linenum'>840</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But on his armor his comrades were weepingly bearing the lifeless<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lausus away&mdash;a hero o'ercome by the wound of a hero.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Corning, who, with his family, was for some years a resident of
+Morristown and is now abroad, is represented later in the volume, among the
+writers on Art. We give here his beautiful poem, "The Ideal".</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE IDEAL.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Awake, asleep, in dreams, amid the din of mortal striving,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I feel thee ever near, vision of fancy's sweet contriving:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The setting sun and twilight glow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou art the music sweet and low.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When on the sands, at dead of night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dark waves are breaking in their might,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While, through the billowy crests, the wild winds roar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou art the gull who over all dost soar.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Amid the storm and lightning flash,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The pelting rain and thunder crash,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When faces blanch, and none can will,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou, heavenly bow, art faithful still.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">'Tis not the kiss, the touch, the sigh,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That bringeth love from earth to sky;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For motions strange about the heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Reveal the inner nature of thy part.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Augustus W. Cutler has kindly given us the following monograph:</p>
+
+<p>"In a Memorial of the late Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest occurs the following
+passage: 'For two hundred and fifty years, the English readers of the Bible
+were obliged to content themselves with the phrase, 'They seek a country'.
+It was not the whole thought. It was reserved for a corps of learned
+revisers to light upon the happy phrase, 'They are seeking a country of
+their own'.' But a score of years before the wise grammarians reached this
+line, a youthful poetess, seeing and greeting the Heavenly promise from
+afar, wrote simply and sweetly:</p>
+
+<p>"'I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see The shining gates o'
+Heaven, an' <i>my ain countree</i>'.</p>
+
+<p>"This youthful poetess was Mary Lee, afterwards Mrs. T. F. C. Demarest.</p>
+
+<p>"Before her marriage, in 1870, she spent several years in Morristown and
+became identified with the place and its interests; and there are many
+persons living here who remember her sweet face and gentle ways.</p>
+
+<p>"A taste for the Scotch dialect is said to have been acquired from an old
+Scotch nurse who lived a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> long time in the family, when the children were
+young. The girl caught it so completely, that when deeply moved, she was
+wont to drop into it, for the more vigorous expression of her feelings.
+'Somehow', said she, 'the Scotch is more homely, less formal to me'. Thus,
+in the poem alluded to, could the thoughts contained in it, have been
+expressed as beautifully and tenderly in the mother tongue?</p>
+
+<p>"Again, there is a little poem in the same dialect, entitled 'My Mither',
+which appeals to every heart.</p>
+
+<p>"Though many of her poems and prose writings are of a devotional character,
+yet she had a keen sense also of the humorous side of life as the verses
+entitled 'Allen Graeme', will testify.</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Demarest traveled extensively throughout our own country, and also
+abroad. Two volumes of her writings have been published&mdash;one entitled
+'Gathered Writings', a collection of short stories, fragments of foreign
+travel and reflections".</p>
+
+
+<h4>MY AIN COUNTREE.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I am far frae my hame, an' I'm weary afterwhiles,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the langed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The shining gates o' heaven an' my ain countree.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The earth is fleck'd wi' flowers, mony tinted fresh and gay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The birdies warble blithely, for my Father made them sae;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">But these sights an' these soun's will as naething be to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When I hear the angels singing in my ain countree.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I've His gude word o' promise that some gladsome day, the King<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To his ain royal palace His banished hame will bring;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wi' een an' wi' hearts running owre, we shall see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The King in His beauty, in our ain countree;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My sins hae been mony, an' my sorrows hae been sair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But there they'll never vex me, nor be remembered mair;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His bluid has made me white&mdash;His hand shall dry mine e'e,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When he brings me hame at last, to mine ain countree.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sae little noo I ken, o' yon blessed, bonnie place,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I ainly ken its Hame, whaur we shall see His face;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It wud surely be eneuch forever mair to be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the glory o' His presence in our ain countree.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a bairn to its mither, a wee birdie to its nest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I wad fain be ganging noo, unto my Saviour's breast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For he gathers in His bosom witless, worthless lambs like me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">An' carries them Himsel', to His ain countree.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He's faithfu' that has promised, He'll surely come again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He'll keep his tryst wi' me, at what hour I dinna ken;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">But he bids me still to wait, an' ready aye to be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To gang at ony moment to my ain countree.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So I'm watching aye, and singing o' my hame as I wait,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the soun'ing o' His footfa' this side the gowden gate,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">God gie His grace to ilk ane wha' listens noo to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That we a' may gang in gladness to our ain countree.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Anthony Q. Keasbey.</h3>
+
+<p>We cannot do better than quote the words of Dr. Thomas Dunn English, the
+well-known author of "Ben Bolt", now living in Newark, N. J.,&mdash;with regard
+to Mr. Keasbey.</p>
+
+<p>"Here, in Newark", says he, "we have a lawyer of distinction, Anthony Q.
+Keasbey, who occasionally throws off some polished verses, as he excuses
+them, by way of 'safety plugs for high mental pressure,' and these are
+always smooth and scholarly. They are mostly privately printed for the
+amusement of the poet and a few chosen friends. One of these, however, has
+such a vein of tenderness and so much heart music that it deserves to
+become public property and to remain as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> much the favorite with others as
+it is with me." The poem referred to is, "My Wife's Crutches."</p>
+
+<p>"Unquestionably", continues Dr. English, "Mr. Keasbey stands well in his
+profession, and for years, under several Federal administrations, filled
+the office of United States District Attorney with credit to himself and
+advantage to the public; but this little tender poem does more honor to his
+intellect than his legal acquirements, however eminent they may be, and
+gives him a still stronger claim to the regard of his many friends."</p>
+
+<p>Among Mr. Keasbey's published collected poems are "Palm Sunday", of which
+Mr. Stedman once said he had put it away among some fine hymns; also "May",
+published in England and set to music by Faustina Hodges. These verses were
+inspired by the falling of the cherry blossoms on the grave of little May,
+and are most sweet and touching. One of the best is "The Dirge for Old St.
+Stephen's", written while they were demolishing the church built on Mr.
+Keasbey's ground, where now a "mart and home" have taken its place as was
+anticipated by the poet.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Keasbey has published numberless papers in prominent journals and
+magazines. Some of these are to be collected and published in book form.
+His address on "The Sun: How Man has Regarded it in Different Ages", is
+well worthy of preservation in more permanent form than that in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> which it
+appears at present; also "The Sale of East New Jersey at Auction", an
+address delivered February 1st, 1862, before the New Jersey Historical
+Society at Trenton, on the Bi-Centennial of the Sale. This is full of
+interesting information, told in a charming way and is valuable for
+reference.</p>
+
+<p>The paper on "The Sun", was inspired by Mr. Keasbey's reading with great
+interest, the papers of Professor Norman Lockyer, the great astronomer,
+describing his researches into the constitution of the sun, through the
+medium of the spectroscope and the photograph. Mr. Keasbey had been
+interested in observing the extent to which modern science had reached with
+respect to the actual condition of the sun and the materials of which it is
+composed. This led him to the thoughts of how very recent had been any such
+attempts to understand its true nature and, from that reflection, he was
+led to consider, as a subject of a paper, how human eyes in all ages have
+looked upon the sun and in what manner they have regarded it. This
+published address was delivered before the Brooklyn Historical Society, a
+brilliant audience present, and Rev. Dr. Storrs, presiding.</p>
+
+<p>A book on Florida, "From the Hudson to the St. John's", describing a
+month's journey to Florida and the St. John's River was published in 1875;
+also, more recently, a small book on "Isthmus Transit by Chiriqui and Golfo
+Dulce", with a view<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> of describing the Chiriqui mountain rib or back bone
+of Darien and all the executive and legislative action, with respect to the
+region between Panama and Nicaragua, with reference to railroad
+communication across the isthmus from the harbor of Chiriqui on the coast
+to the Pacific.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Hospital Review</i>, of July, 1882, is a very striking and powerful
+paper on the "Tragedy of the Lena Delta", where De Long and his companions
+so heroically met their fate in the Arctic snows.</p>
+
+<p>Below is the favorite of Dr. English among the Poems:</p>
+
+<h4>MY WIFE'S CRUTCHES.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ye solemn, gaunt, ungainly crutches,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That serve her frame such slippery tricks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Were you within my lawful clutches,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'd fling you back in River Styx.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ye grew beside the Boat of Charon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In murky fens of Stygian gloom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor ever, like the rod of Aaron,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall your grim spindles burst in bloom.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Your reeds were tuned for groans rheumatic,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And croaking sighs from gouty man;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor e'er shall thrill with tones ecstatic,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As did the pipes of ancient Pan.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Avaunt you, then, ye helpers dismal!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Offend my eyes and ears no more;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Go stalking back to realms abysmal<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And guide the ghosts on Lethe's shore.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But see! while yet my words upbraid them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her crutches bud with blossoms fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Patience, Love and Faith have made them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than Aaron's rod, more rich and rare.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And hark! from out their hollows slender,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No dismal groans or sighs proceed,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But tones of joy more sweet and tender<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than swelled from Pan's enchanted reed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then stay! your use her worth discloses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your ghastly frames her worth transmutes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From withered sticks, to stems of roses&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From creaking reeds, to magic flutes.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Major Lindley Hoffman Miller.</h3>
+
+<p>Major Miller, a brother of our well-known townsman, Henry W. Miller, was
+among the first of the 7th Regiment of New York City, who answered the call
+of the government to march to Washington for the protection of the Capitol.
+He served in that regiment through the riots in New York, and afterwards
+joined a Colored Regiment and was promoted to the rank of Major. He served
+in this position at Memphis and elsewhere through the South. In<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> this
+campaign he lost his health and came home to die. He died in June, 1864,
+and was laid in old St. Peter's churchyard.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Miller was a man of brilliant mind and unusual genius. His fugitive
+poems are very beautiful. They were published in various journals of the
+time, and one we will add to this short sketch of his brief but valuable
+life, "The Skater's Song", full of spirit and dash, and gay with the heart
+of youth.</p>
+
+<h4>THE SKATER'S SONG, BY MOONLIGHT!</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come away, from your blazing hearths!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come away, in the gleaming night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the radiant sky is peering down<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a million eyes of light!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heigho! for the glancing ice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the realm of the old Frost King!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We'll shake the chain of the bounding stream<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till all its fetters ring!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then away! my boys, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Far over the ice we'll sweep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wake the slumbering echo's voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the gloom of its winter sleep!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come away, from your cheerless books!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come away, in the clear, cold air!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And read in the deeps of the starry night<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">God's endless volume there.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ho! now we're flashing along,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At the snow-flake's drifting rate!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Did ever anything stir the pulse<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a glimmering moonlight skate?<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Then away! my boys, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Far over the ice we'll sweep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wake the slumbering echo's voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the gloom of its winter sleep!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come away, from the ball-room's glare!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come away, to a merrier dance,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To a hall, whose floor is the flashing ice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose light is the stars' pure glance!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now we're watching the moon in her dreams,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now we dash at our speed again;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the stream groans under the icy links<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which the frost has forged for his chain!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then away! my boys, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Far over the ice we'll sweep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wake the slumbering echo's voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the gloom of its winter sleep!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come away, each lady fair!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come, add to the magical sight!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And mingle the silvery tones of your words<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the echoing "voices of night"!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heigho! for the frozen plain!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here's a glancing mirror, I ween,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Reflecting all the beautiful forms<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That move in our fairy-like scene.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Away! my lady, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Far over the ice we'll sweep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wake the slumbering echo's voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the gloom of its winter sleep!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come away, from your sorrow and grief,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All you that are gloomy and sad!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unwrinkle your brows to the whistling wind,<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Till your hearts grow merry and glad!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ho! Hark! how the laughter in peals,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is shaking the tides of the air,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And shouting aloud to drown with its joy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The muttering murmurs of care!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then away! my boys, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Far over the ice we'll sweep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wake the slumbering echo's voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the gloom of its winter sleep!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Come, one and all, then, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come, cheerily join in our song,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And mingle with music the ring of the steel,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Keep in time, as we're sweeping along!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heigho! for the throne of the Frost!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We'll frighten the phantoms of night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And serenade, far under the depths,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The river's listening sprite!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then away! my boys, away!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Far over the ice we'll sweep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wake the slumbering echo's voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the gloom of its winter sleep!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich.</h3>
+
+<p>Miss Holdich, poetess and story-writer, has been a resident of Morristown,
+since 1878, and has written at various periods since she was seventeen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>
+years of age. Her poems, stories, and other writings have appeared from
+time to time in <i>Harper's Magazine</i> and other important publications. We
+would like to give Miss Holdich's beautiful and thoughtful poem, "In Holy
+Ground", suggested by a Russian Legend, but, as we give her Centennial
+story entire, our space does not allow. She is represented, instead, by a
+few lovely lines written for a golden wedding and sent to the happy pair
+with a basket of flowers and fruit.</p>
+
+<h4>LINES</h4>
+
+<h4>WRITTEN FOR A GOLDEN WEDDING.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Orange buds a maiden wears<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On the blissful wedding morn;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Snowy buds on golden hair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tell of love and faith new born.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ripened now the perfect fruit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fifty sunny years have passed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Golden fruit on snowy hair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tells of love and faith that last.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>William Tuckey Meredith.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Meredith, a Philadelphian by birth, and also a banker in New York City,
+is also one of our summer residents, his main interest in Morristown
+coming, as he says, from the fact that his grandmother was a Morristown
+Ogden. He served as an officer in the United States Navy with Farragut at
+the battle of Mobile Bay and was afterwards his secretary.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Meredith is perhaps best known by his spirited poem, entitled
+"Farragut", which appeared in <i>The Century</i>, in 1890, and heads the group
+of "Various Poems" in Stedman and Hutchinson's Library of American
+Literature.</p>
+
+<p>Besides this, Mr. Meredith has written for <i>The New York Times</i> and other
+journals and publications at various times. He wrote for <i>The Century</i> a
+War article on "Farragut's Capture of New Orleans", which may be found in
+Volume IV of the published series. A novel appeared with his name, in 1890,
+entitled "Not of Her Father's Race", in which the "Fox Hunt" is, the author
+tells us, a study of a bag chase in which he took part some years ago near
+Morristown, although he has laid the scene in Newport. We give the poem,
+"Farragut".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
+
+<h4>FARRAGUT.</h4>
+
+<h4>MOBILE BAY, 5 AUGUST, 1864.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Farragut, Farragut,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Old Heart of Oak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Daring Dave Farragut,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thunderbolt stroke,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Watches the hoary mist<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lift from the bay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till his flag, glory-kissed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Greets the young day.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Far, by gray Morgan's walls,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Looms the black fleet.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hark, deck to rampart calls<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the drum's beat!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Buoy your chains overboard,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the steam hums;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Men! to the battlement,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Farragut comes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">See, as the hurricane<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hurtles in wrath<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Squadrons of cloud amain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Back from its path!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Back to the parapet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the guns' lips,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thunderbolt Farragut<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hurls the black ships.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now through the battle's roar<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Clear the boy sings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"By the mark fathoms four,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While his lead swings.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Steady the wheelmen five<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Nor' by East keep her,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Steady" but two alive:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How the shells sweep her!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Lashed to the mast that sways<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Over red decks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Over the flame that plays<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Round the torn wrecks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Over the dying lips<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Framed for a cheer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Farragut leads his ships,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Guides the line clear.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">On by heights cannon-browed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the spars quiver;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Onward still flames the cloud<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the hulks shiver.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">See, yon fort's star is set,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Storm and fire past.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cheer him, lads&mdash;Farragut,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lashed to the mast!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Oh! while Atlantic's breast<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bears a white sail,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the Gulf's towering crest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tops a green vale;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Men thy bold deeds shall tell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Old Heart of Oak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Daring Dave Farragut<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thunderbolt stroke!<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Hannah More Johnson.</h3>
+
+<p>Miss Johnson, the niece of Mr. J. Henry Johnson, one of Morristown's old
+residents, and the last preceptor of the old Academy, will be found again
+among "Historians". She has written and published a large number of poems,
+besides, and from them we select the following:</p>
+
+<h4>THE CHRISTMAS TREE.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shall I tell you a story of Christmas time?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of what Nellie found by her Christmas tree?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If I tell it at all, it must be in rhyme<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For it seems like a song to Nellie and me<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That ripples along to a breezy tune,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a brook that sings through the woods in June;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet it was dark November weather<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When song and story began together.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Papa", said Nellie, with wistful tone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"When God sends little children here,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do beautiful angels flutter down<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As once when they brought our Saviour dear?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Don't they sing in the sky, where we can't see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And listen up there to Harry and me?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Cause I prayed last night for the bestest things<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heavenly Father sends us, and Harry said<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I might ask for a sister who hadn't wings<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A dear little sister to sleep in my bed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For my other one went away, you know,<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">To sing with the angels long ago,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I want another to stay with me<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A dear little sister like Daisy Lee.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So high, Papa! Look, don't you see?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Just up to my chin. Heavenly Father knows<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Bout her dress and her shoes and her curly hair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Cause I told him all, and so I s'pose<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The first little sister He has to spare<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He'll send her down here, oh won't she be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A dear little sister for Harry and me!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Yes, my Nellie", her father said,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One gentle hand on the curly head<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With tender caress and whispered word<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Too low for her ear, 'though a Bright-one heard<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And passed it up, meet signal given<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From love on earth to love in heaven;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Yes, my Nellie, wait and see!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We are all in our Heavenly Father's care<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And He'll send what is best for you and me<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When we look to Him with a loving prayer".<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The days passed on. 'Twas that happy time<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When bells ring out with their Christmas chime;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There were people at work all over the land<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Busy for Santa Claus, heart and hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And some in cabin and work-shop dim<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who wouldn't have work if it wasn't for him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Harry and Nellie?&mdash;There were none<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In that Christmas time had a gayer tree.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Papa was at work at early dawn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the children all tip-toe to see;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But the dark December day wore on<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">E'er the door was opened noiselessly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the light streamed out in the dusky hall<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From a beautiful cedar bright and tall.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Starry tapers were gleaming there,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Toy and trumpet and banner fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The topmost flag on the ceiling bore<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the laden branches swept the floor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While gay little Rover frisking in,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Led the children in frolic and din<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As they spied each treasure and in their glee<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shouted with joy round the Christmas tree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While Papa stood back in a corner to see.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Oh! Harry", said Nellie, "I do declare<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here's a basket for me!" She opened the lid<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And pulled back the blanket folded there<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And what d'ye think was safely hid<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But a dear live baby so fast asleep<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That it never waked up with the children's shout<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till Nellie asked, "is it ours to keep?"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And kissed its hand as she stood in doubt.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Of course," said Harry, "don't angels know<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When God has told them which way to go?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That's our little sister we wanted so!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Little sister", said Nellie, "I'm very glad,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I know you're the best Heavenly Father had<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And now you're ours and you're going to stay<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Cause the angels have left you and gone away".<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"No, my Nellie", a voice replied,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As Papa drew near to Nellie's side,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Let us pray they may watch over this little one<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Day by day, till life is done,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That she may be glad through eternity<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She was ever left 'neath our Christmas tree".<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Margaret H. Garrard.</h3>
+
+<p>Our gifted young townswoman, Miss Garrard, who has often entertained us
+with her rare dramatic talent, has contributed, for a number of years,
+articles in prose and verse to well-known magazines and journals, notably
+to <i>Lippincott's Magazine</i> and <i>Life</i>. In <i>Lippincott</i> for June, 1890, we
+find a very pretty poem embodying a clever thought and entitled "A
+Coquette's Motto". In a previous number appears "A Trip to Tophet", which
+is a sparkling and graphic description of a descent into a silver-mine at
+Virginia City, California. In it occurs the following picture of the
+visitor's surroundings:</p>
+
+<p>"The next few minutes will always be a haunting memory to me. The long,
+dark passages, the burning atmosphere, the scattered lights, the weird
+figures of the miners appearing, only to vanish the next moment in the
+surrounding gloom, all recur like some infernal dream".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We select to represent Miss Garrard, the first poem she published in
+<i>Life</i>:</p>
+
+<h4>THE PLAQUE DE LIMOGES.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">You hang upon her boudoir wall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Plaque de Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She prizes you above them all<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Plaque de Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet do your blossoms never move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Although she looks on them with love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And treasures your hard buds above<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The gathered bloom of field and grove,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Insensate, cold Limoges!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Brilliant in hue your every flower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Plaque de Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Copied from some French maiden's bower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Plaque de Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But still you let my lady stand&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The fairest lady in the land&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Caressing you with her soft hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor breathe, nor stir at her command,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Cold-hearted clay&mdash;Limoges!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Would that I in your place might be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Plaque de Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That she might stand and gaze on me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Plaque de Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'd live in love a little space,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then&mdash;fling my flowers from their place,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At her dear feet to sue for grace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Until she'd raise them to her face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Happy, but crushed Limoges!<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Julia E. Dodge.</h3>
+
+<p>Though Miss Dodge finds her place naturally and kindly in the society of
+our poets, all readers of <i>The Century</i> will remember a charming prose
+paper of hers called "An Island of the Sea", beautifully illustrated by
+Thomas Moran and published in 1877. Before and since that time, her pen has
+not been idle, for short, prose articles have been scattered here and
+there, in various periodicals, and it is difficult to select from the
+number of thoughtful and delicate poems now before us, one to represent
+her. The poem, "A Legend of St. Sophia in 1453", is full of spirit and
+fire. It was written in 1878, when the advance of the Russian forces
+towards Constantinople seemed to point to the fulfillment of ancient
+prophecy and the restoration of Christian dominion over the stronghold of
+Islam. The poem entitled "Satisfied" was first published in <i>The Churchman</i>
+and afterwards placed, without the author's knowledge, in a collection
+called "The Palace of the King", published by Randolph &amp; Co. Among the
+other poems are: "Our Daily Bread", "Spring Song", "Telling Fortunes",
+"September Memories", and "To a Night-Blooming Cereus", which last we give
+principally because, besides being a beautiful expression of a beautiful
+thought,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> it was written under the inspiration of a flower sent to the
+writer from an ancient plant in a Morristown conservatory.</p>
+
+<h4>TO A NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">O fleeting wonder, glory of a night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Only less evanescent than the gleam<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That marks the lightning's track, or some swift dream<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That comes and, vanishing, eludes our sight!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How canst thou be content, thy whole rich stream<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of life to lavish on this hour's delight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And perish ere one morning's praise requite<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy gift of peerless splendor? It doth seem<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou art a type of that pure steadfast heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which hath no wish but to perform His will<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who called it into being, no desire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But to be fair for Him; no other part<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doth choose, but here its fragrance to distil<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For one brief moment ere He bid "Come higher"!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Charles D. Platt.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Platt, the faithful principal of our Morris Academy, has of late, "at
+odd moments and in vacations," as he says, written verses of local
+reference and others, upon various subjects, which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> have been published in
+our local papers and elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p>Born at Elizabeth, N. J., Mr. Platt lived there until 1883. He was
+graduated at Williams' College in 1877, taught in the Rev. J. F. Pingry's
+School in Elizabeth for six years, came to Morristown and took charge of
+the Morris Academy in 1883, and has retained that position to the present
+time.</p>
+
+<p>Among the poems which refer to local interests are "Fort Nonsense," which
+we give in the opening chapter on "Historic Morristown"; "The Old First
+Church"; "The Lyceum" and "The Washington Headquarters", which last will
+follow this short sketch, as embodying so much that is interesting of that
+historic building and its surroundings.</p>
+
+<p>Other of the poems might, perhaps, for some special qualities, better
+represent Mr. Platt than this; there is the excellent and gay little
+parody, which we would like to give, of "That Old Latin Grammar". "The Wild
+Lily" is charming. Then there are "Memorial Day"; "Easter Song"; "Modern
+Progress"; "A Myth"; and "John Greenleaf Whittier", the last written and
+published upon the occasion of the poet's death September 16th, 1892.
+Besides these, there are the "Ballades of the Holidays" which form a series
+by themselves, dealing in part with the subject of popular maxims, and
+including poems for Christmas, New<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> Year's Day, Discovery Day and other
+holidays. We give</p>
+
+<h4>THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">What mean these cannon standing here,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These staring, muzzled dogs of war?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heedless and mute, they cause no fear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like lions caged, forbid to roar.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>This</i> gun<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> was made when good Queen Anne<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ruled upon Merry England's throne;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Captured by valiant Jerseymen<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ere George the Third our rights would own.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Old Nat",<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> the little cur on wheels,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Protector of our sister city,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was kept to bite the British heels,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A yelping terror, bold and gritty.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>That</i> savage beast, the old "Crown Prince",<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A British bull-dog, glum, thick-set,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At Springfield's fight was made to wince,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And now we keep him for a pet.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Upon this grassy knoll they stand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A venerable, peaceful pack;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Their throats once tuned to music grand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And stained with gore their muzzles black.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But come, that portal swinging free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A welcome offers, as of yore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When, sheltered 'neath this old roof-tree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our patriot-chieftain trod this floor.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And with him in that trying day<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was gathered here a glorious band;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This house received more chiefs, they say,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than any other in our land.<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Hither magnanimous Schuyler came,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And stern Steuben from o'er the water;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here Hamilton, of brilliant fame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Once met and courted Schuyler's daughter.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And Knox, who leads the gunner-tribes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose shot the trembling foeman riddles,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A roaring chief,<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a> his cash subscribes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To pay the mirth-inspiring fiddles.<a name="FNanchor_F_6" id="FNanchor_F_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_F_6" class="fnanchor">[F]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The "fighting Quaker", General Greene,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Helped Knox to foot the fiddlers' bill;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">And here the intrepid "Put." was seen,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Arnold&mdash;black his memory still.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And Kosciusko, scorning fear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beside him noble Lafayette;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And gallant "Light Horse Harry" here<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His kindly chief for counsel met.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Mad Antony" was here a guest,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Madly he charged, but shrewdly planned;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And many another in whose breast<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was faithful counsel for our land.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Among these worthies was a dame<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of mingled dignity and grace;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Linked with the warrior-statesman's fame<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is Martha's comely, smiling face.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But look around, to right to left;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pass through these rooms, once Martha's pride,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The dining hall of guests bereft,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The kitchen with its fire-place wide.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">See the huge logs, the swinging crane,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Old Man's seat by chimney ingle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The pots and kettles, all the train<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of brass and pewter, here they mingle.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the large hall above, behold<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The flags, the eagle poised for flight:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While sabres, bayonets, flint-locks old,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tell of the struggle, and the fight.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Old faded letters bear the seal<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of men who battled for a stamp;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A cradle and a spinning-wheel<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bespeak the home behind the camp.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Apartments opening from the hall<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Show chairs and desks of quaint old style,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And curious pictures on the wall<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Provoke a reverential smile.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Musing, we loiter in each room<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And linger with our vanished sires;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We hear the deep, far-echoing boom<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That spoke of old in flashing fires.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But deepening shadows bid us go,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The western sun is sinking fast;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We take our leave with footsteps slow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Farewell, ye treasures of the past.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A century and more has gone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since these old relics saw their day;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That day was but the opening dawn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of one that has not passed away.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Our banner is no worthless rag,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With patriot pride hearts still beat high;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And there, above, still waves the flag<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For which our fathers dared to die.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p>
+<h3>Mrs. Julia R. Cutler.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Cutler's graceful pen has already contributed to this volume the
+sketch of Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest and also another to follow of Mrs. Julia
+McNair Wright. Her pen has been busy at occasional intervals from girlhood,
+when as a school-girl her essays were, as a rule, selected and read aloud
+in the chapel, on Friday afternoons, and a poem securing the gold medal
+crowned the success.</p>
+
+<p>Living since her marriage, in the old historic house of Mr. Cutler's
+great-grandfather, the Hon. Silas Condict, fearless patriot of the
+Revolution, and President of the Council of Safety during the whole of that
+period that "tried men's souls", it is little wonder that the traditions of
+'76 clinging about the spot should nurture and develop the poetic spirit of
+the girl. It was in 1799, after Mr. Condict's return from Congress that he
+built the present house familiar to us all, but the old house stands near
+by, full of the most interesting stories and traditions of revolutionary
+days.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Cutler has written many articles, often by request, for papers or
+magazines, and verses prompted by circumstances or surroundings, or
+composed when strongly impressed upon an especial subject.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i108.jpg" width="650" height="546" alt="FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1791,
+SESSION HOUSE AND MANSE.
+MORRIS COUNTY SOLDIER&#39;S MONUMENT, 1871." title="" />
+<span class="caption">FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1791,<br />
+SESSION HOUSE AND MANSE.<br />
+MORRIS COUNTY SOLDIER&#39;S MONUMENT, 1871.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Before us lies a lovely poem of childhood, entitled "Childish Faith",
+founded on fact, but we select from the many poems of Mrs. Cutler, the
+Centennial Poem given below and written on the occasion of the Centennial
+of the old First Church.</p>
+
+<h4>CENTENNIAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The moon shines brightly down, o'er hill and dale<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As it shone down, One Hundred years ago,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On these same scenes. The stars look down from Heaven<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As they did then, as calm, serene, and bright&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fit emblems of the God, who changes not.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Only in him can we find sure repose<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Mid change, decay and death, who is the same<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To-day as yesterday, forevermore.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Through the clear air peal forth the silvery notes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of thy old Bell, thou venerable pile,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou dear old Church, whose birthday rare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We come to celebrate with tender love.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">One Hundred years! How long; and yet, how short<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When counted with the centuries of the past<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That help to make the ages of the world:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How long when measured by our daily cares,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The joys, the sorrows that these years have brought<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To us and ours. "Our fathers, where are they?"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The men of strength, one hundred years ago,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As full of courage, purpose, will, as we,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Have gone to join the "innumerable throng"<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">That worship in the Father's House above.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Their children, girls and boys, like the fair flowers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Have blossomed, faded, and then passed away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving their children and grandchildren, too,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To fill their places, take their part in life.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">How oft, dear Church, these walls have heard the vows<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That bound two hearts in one.  How oft the tread<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of those that bore the sainted dead to rest.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How oft the voices, soft and low, of those<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who, trusting in a covenant-keeping God<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gave here their little ones to God. A faith<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which He has blessed, as thou canst truly tell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In generations past, and will in days to come.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How many servants of the most high God,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beneath thy roof have uttered words divine,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Taught by the Spirit, leading souls to Christ<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And reaping, even here, their great reward.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Many of these have entered into rest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such as remains for those who love the Lord.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Others to-day, have gathered here to tell<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What God has done in years gone by, and bear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glad testimony to the truth, that in this place<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His name has honored been.&mdash;'Tis sad to say<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Farewell. But 'tis decreed, that thou must go.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Time levels all; and it will lay thee low.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But o'er thy dust full many a tear shall fall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And many a prayer ascend, that the true God,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our Father's God, will, with their children dwell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And that the stately pile which soon shall rise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where now, thou art, a monument shall be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of generations past, recording all<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The truth and mercies of a loving God.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Oct. 14th, 1891.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Frances Bell Coursen.</h3>
+
+<p>The rhythmic, airy verses of Miss Coursen, full of the spirit of trees,
+flowers, the clouds, the winds and the insinuating and lovely sounds of
+nature, charm us into writing the author down as one of Morristown's young
+poets. The verses have attractive titles which in themselves suggest to us
+musical thoughts, such as "To the Winds in January"; "June Roses"; "In the
+Fields"; and "What the Katydids Say". We quote the latter for its bright
+beauty.</p>
+
+<h4>WHAT THE KATYDIDS SAY.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Katy did it!" "Katy didn't!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doesn't Katy wish she had?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Katy did!" that sounds so pleasant,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Katy didn't" sounds so bad.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Katy didn't&mdash;lazy Katy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Didn't do her lessons well?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Didn't set her stitches nicely?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Didn't do what? Who can tell?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But the livelong autumn evening<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sounds from every bush and tree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So that all the world can hear it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Katy didn't" oh dear me!<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Who would like to hear forever<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the things they hadn't done<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In shrill chorus, sounding nightly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the setting of the sun.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But again, who wouldn't like it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If they every night could hear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Yes she did it, Katy did it",<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sounding for them loud and clear?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So if you've an "awful lesson",<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or "a horrid seam to sew",<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Just you stop and think a minute,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Don't decide to "let it go".<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the evening, if you listen,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the Katydids will say<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Yes she did it, did it, did it!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or, "she didn't". Now which way?<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Isabel Stone.</h3>
+
+<p>Miss Stone, long a resident of Morristown, has published many poems in
+prominent journals and magazines, also stories, but always under an assumed
+name. She will take a place in another group,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> that of <i>Novelists and
+Story-Writers</i>. She is represented here by her poem on "Easter Thoughts".</p>
+
+<h4>EASTER THOUGHTS.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sometimes within our hearts, the good lies dead,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Slain by untoward circumstances, or by our own free will,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And through the world we walk with bow&egrave;d head;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or with our senses blinded to our choice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thinking that "good is evil&mdash;evil good;"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or, with determined pride to still the voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That whispers of a "Resurrection morn."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This is that morn&mdash;the resurrection hour<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of all the good that has within us died,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The hour to throw aside with passionate force<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The cruel bonds of wrong and blindness&mdash;pride&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And rise unto a level high of power,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of strength&mdash;of purity&mdash;while those we love rejoice<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With "clouds of angel witnesses" above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And all the dear ones, who before have gone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And we ascend, in the triumphant joy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And peace, and rapture of a chang&egrave;d self<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That now transfigured stands&mdash;no more the toy<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of circumstance&mdash;or pride, or sin, to blight&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Until we reach sublimest heights&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And stand erect, eyes fixed upon the Right&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Strong in the strength that wills all wrong to still,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will&mdash;pointing upwards to th' ascended Lord,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bless, aye, thrice bless, this fair, sweet Easter Dawn.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. G. Douglass Brewerton.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Mr. Brewerton was pastor of the Baptist Church in Morristown in
+1861, and during the early years of our Civil War. He was very patriotic
+and public-spirited and founded a Company of boy Zouaves in the town, which
+is well remembered, for at that time the war-spirit was the order of the
+day. He wrote a number of poems which were published in the Morristown
+papers and others. Of these, the following is one, published January 30,
+1861.</p>
+
+<h4>OUR SOLDIERS WITH OUR SAILORS STAND.</h4>
+
+<h4>A NATIONAL SONG</h4>
+
+<h4>RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF BOTH SERVICES, BY ONE WHO ONCE
+WORE THE UNIFORM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Our soldiers with our sailors stand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A bulwark firm and true,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To guard the banner of our land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Red, the White, the Blue.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The forts that frown along the coast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The ramparts on the steep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are held by men who never boast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But true allegiance keep.<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While still in thunder tones shall speak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our giants on the tide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rebuking those who madly seek<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To tame the eagle's pride.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While breezes blow or sounding sea<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Be whitened by a sail,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The banner of the brave and true<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall float, nor fear the gale.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While Ironsides commands the fleet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall patriot vows be heard,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where pennants fly or war drums beat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">True to their oaths and word.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then back, ye traitors! back, for shame!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor dare to touch a fold;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We'll guard it till the sunshine wane<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And stars of night grow old.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus ever may that flag unrent<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At peak and staff be borne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor e'er from mast or battlement<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By traitor hands be torn.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Alice D. Abell.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Abell has for several years contributed poems and articles to various
+papers and magazines. From the poems we select the following, which was
+copied in a Southern paper as well as in two others, from <i>The New York
+Magazine</i> in which it first appeared:</p>
+
+<h4>BEHIND THE MASK.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behind the mask&mdash;the smiling face<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is often full of woe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And sorrow treads a restless pace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where wealth and beauty go.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behind the mask&mdash;who knows the care<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That grim and silent rests,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And all the burdens each may bear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Within the secret breast?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behind the mask&mdash;who knows the tears<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That from the heart arise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in the weary flight of years<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How many pass with sighs?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behind the mask&mdash;who knows the strain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That each life may endure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And all its grief and countless pain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That wealth can never cure?<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behind the mask&mdash;we never know<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How many troubles hide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with the world and fashion show<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some spectre walks beside.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Behind the mask&mdash;some future day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When all shall be made plain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our burdens then will pass away<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And count for each his gain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>George Wetmore Colles, Jr.</h3>
+
+<p>The following is by one of the young writers of Morristown, written at Yale
+University and published in the <i>Yale Courant</i> of February, 1891:</p>
+
+<h4>TO A MOUNTAIN CASCADE.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To him who, wearied in the noontide glare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeks cool refreshment in thy quiet shade,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In all thy beauteous rainbow tints arrayed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How sweet! O dashing brook, thy waters are!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Sure, such a glen fair Dian with her train<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chose to disport in, when Act&aelig;on bold<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">That sight with mortal eyes dared to behold<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which mortals may not see and life retain.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To such a glen I, too, at noonday creep,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving the dusty road and haunts of men,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To quaff thy purling, sparkling ripples; then<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To plunge within thy clear, cold basin deep.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Alone in Nature's lap (this mossy sod)<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I lie; feel her sweet breath upon me blow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hear her melodious woodland voice, and know<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her passing love, the eternal love of God!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Inscription on this Cannon:&mdash;
+</p><p>
+Gun made in Queen Anne's time. Captured with a British vessel by a party of
+Jerseymen in the year 1780, near Perth Amboy. Presented by the township of
+Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1874.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> Inscription on "Old Nat:"&mdash;
+</p><p>
+This cannon was furnished Capt. Nathaniel Camp by Gen. George Washington
+for the protection of Newark N. J. against the British. Presented to the
+Association by Mr. Bruen H. Camp, of Newark, N. J.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> The inscription upon it is as follows:&mdash;
+</p><p>
+The "Crown Prince Gun." Captured from the British at Springfield. Used as
+an alarm gun at Short Hills to end of Revolutionary War. Given in charge by
+General Benoni Hathaway to Colonel Wm. Brittin on the last training at
+Morristown, and by his son, Wm. Jackson Brittin, with the consent of the
+public authorities, presented to the Association in the year 1890.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> The list of officers of the Revolutionary army mentioned in
+the poem is taken from a printed placard which hangs in the hall of the
+Headquarters.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> Knox is called a roaring chief because when crossing the
+Delaware with Washington his "stentorian lungs" did good service in keeping
+the army together.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_F_6" id="Footnote_F_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_F_6"><span class="label">[F]</span></a> The reference to the fiddlers is based upon an old
+subscription paper for defraying the expenses of a "Dancing Assembly,"
+signed by several persons, among them Nathaniel Greene and H. Knox, each
+$400, <span class="smcap">paid</span>.
+</p><p>
+This paper may be seen in the collection made by Mrs. J. W. Roberts.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span></p>
+<h2>HYMNODIST.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>John R. Runyon.</h3>
+
+<p>Our fellow townsman of old New Jersey name, whose enthusiastic love for
+music, and especially for church music, is well known, has manifested his
+interest in this direction by compiling a collection of hymns known as
+"Songs of Praise. A Selection of Standard Hymns and Tunes". It is published
+by Anson D. F. Randolph &amp; Company, and "meets", says the compiler, "a
+universally acknowledged want for a collection of Hymns to be used in
+Sunday Schools and Social Meetings".</p>
+
+<p>Says Charles H. Morse in <i>The Christian Union</i> of August 20th, 1892: "If
+music is a pattern and type of Heaven, then, indeed, are those whose
+mission<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> is to provide the music for our worship burdened with a weight of
+responsibility and called to a blessed ministry second only to that of the
+pastor who stands at the desk to speak the words of Life".</p>
+
+<p>To compile from various sources a collection of hymns acceptable to varied
+classes of minds, requires much discernment, great care and large range of
+knowledge on the subject, as well as a comprehension of what is needed
+which comes from long and wide experience, study and observation, in
+addition to natural genius.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p>
+<h2>NOVELISTS AND STORY-WRITERS.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Francis Richard Stockton.</h3>
+
+<p>Although born in Philadelphia, Mr. Stockton belongs to an old and
+distinguished New Jersey family, and he has, after many wanderings, at last
+selected his home in the State of his ancestors.</p>
+
+<p>Within a few years he has purchased and fitted up a quaint and attractive
+mansion in the suburbs of Morristown, overlooking the beautiful Loantika
+Valley, where in the Revolutionary days the tents of the suffering patriots
+were pitched or their log huts constructed for the bitter winter. Beyond
+the long and narrow valley, the homes of prominent residents<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> of Morristown
+appear on the Western limiting range of hills, and are charmingly
+picturesque.</p>
+
+<p>This home Mr. Stockton has named "The Holt" and his legend, taken from
+Turberville, an old English poet, is painted over the fire-place in his
+Study which is over the Library on the South corner of the House:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Yee that frequent the hilles<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">and highest holtes of all,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Assist me with your skilful<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">quilles and listen when I call."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Mr. Stockton and Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration of
+Independence, are descended from the same ancestor, Richard Stockton, who
+came from England in 1680 and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey.</p>
+
+<p>Much fine and interesting criticism from various directions, has been
+called out by Mr. Stockton's works.</p>
+
+<p>Edmund Gosse, the well-known Professor of Literature in England, said just
+before leaving our shores:</p>
+
+<p>"I think Mr. Stockton one of the most remarkable writers in this country. I
+think his originality, his extraordinary fantastic genius, has not been
+appreciated at all. People talk about him as if he were an ordinary
+purveyor of comicality. I do not want to leave this country without giving<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span>
+my <i>personal tribute</i>, if that is worth anything, to his genius."</p>
+
+<p>"More than half of Mr. Stockton's readers, without doubt", says another
+critic, "think of him merely as the daintiest of humorists; as a writer
+whose work is entertaining in an unusual degree, rather than weighed in a
+critical scale, or considered seriously as a part of the literary
+<i>expression</i> of his time".</p>
+
+<p>It is acknowledged that Americans are masters, at the present day, of the
+art of writing short stories and these, as a rule, are like the French,
+distinctly realistic. In this art Mr. Stockton excels. Among his short
+stories, "The Bee Man of Orn" and "The Griffin and the Minor Canon"
+represent his power of fancy. "The Hunting Expedition" in "Prince Hassak's
+March" is particularly jolly, and in "The Stories of the Three Burglars",
+we find a specimen of his realistic treatment. In the last, he makes the
+young house-breaker, who is an educated man, say: "I have made it a rule
+never to describe anything I have not personally seen and experienced. It
+is the only way, otherwise we can not give people credit for their virtues
+or judge them properly for their faults." Upon this, Aunt Martha exclaims:
+"I think that the study of realism may be carried a great deal too far. I
+do not think there is the slightest necessity for people to know anything
+about burglars." And later she says, referring<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> to this one of the three:
+"I have no doubt, before he fell into his wicked ways, he was a very good
+writer and might have become a novelist or a magazine author, but his case
+is a sad proof that the study of realism is carried too far."</p>
+
+<p>No critic seems to have observed or noticed the very remarkable manner in
+which Mr. Stockton renders the negro dialect on the printed page. In this
+respect he quite surpasses Uncle Remus or any other writer of negro
+folk-lore. He spells the words in such a way as to give the sense and sound
+to ears unaccustomed to negro talk as well as to those accustomed to it.
+This we especially realize in "The Late Mrs. Null".</p>
+
+<p>But besides the qualities we have noticed in Mr. Stockton's writings, there
+is a subtle fragrance of purity that exhales from one and all, which is in
+contrast to much of the novel-writing and story-telling of the present day.
+We have reason to welcome warmly to our homes and to our firesides, one
+who, by his pure fun and drollery, can charm us so completely as to make us
+forget, for a time, the serious problems and questions which agitate and
+confront the thinking men and women of this generation.</p>
+
+<p>So varied and voluminous are the writings of Mr. Stockton, they may be
+grouped as <i>Juveniles</i>, <i>Novels</i>, <i>Novelettes</i> and <i>Collected Short
+Stories</i>. Besides, there are magazine stories constantly appearing,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> and
+still to be collected. Most prominent among the volumes are "The Lady or
+The Tiger?"; "Rudder Grange" and its sequel, "The Rudder Grangers Abroad";
+"The Late Mrs. Null"; "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine";
+"The Hundredth Man"; "The Great War Syndicate"; "Ardis Claverden"; "Stories
+of the Three Burglars"; "The House of Martha" and "The Squirrel Inn".</p>
+
+<p>After considering what Mr. Stockton has accomplished and the place which by
+his genius and industry he has made for himself in Literature, we do not
+find it remarkable that in July, 1890, he was elected by the readers of
+<i>The Critic</i> into the ranks of the <i>Forty Immortals</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We give to represent Mr. Stockton, an extract from his novel of "Ardis
+Claverden", containing one of those clever conversations so characteristic
+of the author, and success in which marks a high order of dramatic genius,
+in making characters express to the listener or reader their own
+individuality through familiar talk.</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "ARDIS CLAVERDEN."</h4>
+
+<p>Mr. and Mrs. Chiverly were artists.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The trouble with Harry Chiverly was that he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> had nothing in himself which
+he could put into his work. He could copy what he could see, but if he
+could not see what he wanted to paint, he had no mental power which would
+bring that thing before him, or to transform what he saw into what it ought
+to be.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The trouble with Mrs. Chiverly was that she did not know how to paint. With
+her there was no lack of artistic imagination. Her brain was full of
+pictures, which, if they could have been transferred to the brain of her
+husband, who did know how to paint, would have brought fame and fortune. At
+one end of her brush was artistic talent, almost genius; at the other was a
+pigment mixed with oil. But the one never ran down to the other. The handle
+of the brush was a non-conductor.</p>
+
+<p>We pass on to a scene in the studio. An elderly man enters, a stranger, to
+examine pictures, and stops before Mr. Chiverly's recently finished
+canvass.</p>
+
+<p>"Madam," said he, "can you tell me where the scene of this picture is laid?
+It reminds me somewhat of the North and somewhat of the South, and I am not
+sure that it does not contain suggestions of the East and the West."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," thought Ardis at her easel, "and of the North-east, and the
+Sou-sou'-west, and all the other points of the compass."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Chiverly left her seat and approached the visitor. She was a little
+piqued at his remark.</p>
+
+<p>"Some pictures have a meaning," she said, "which is not apparent to every
+one at first sight."</p>
+
+<p>"You are correct, madam," said the visitor.</p>
+
+<p>"This painting, for instance," continued Mrs. Chiverly, "represents the
+seven ages of trees." And then with as much readiness as Jacques detailed
+the seven ages of man to the duke, she pointed out in the trees of the
+picture the counterparts of these ages.</p>
+
+<p>"Madam," said the visitor, "you delight me. I admit that I utterly failed
+to see the point of this picture; but now that I am aware of its meaning I
+understand its apparent incongruities. Meaning despises locality."</p>
+
+<p>"You are right," said Mrs. Chiverly, earnestly. "Meaning is above
+everything."</p>
+
+<p>"Madam," said the gentleman, his eyes still fixed upon the canvass, "as a
+student of Shakespeare, as well as a collector, in a small way, of works of
+art, I desire to have this picture, provided its price is not beyond my
+means."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Chiverly gazed at him in an uncertain way. She did not seem to take in
+the import of his remark.</p>
+
+<p>From her easel Ardis now named the price which Mr. Chiverly had fixed upon
+for the picture.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> He never finished a painting without stating very
+emphatically what he intended to ask for it.</p>
+
+<p>"That is reasonable," said the gentleman, "and you may consider the picture
+mine." And he handed Mrs. Chiverly his card. Then, imbued with a new
+interest in the studio, he walked about looking at others of the pictures.</p>
+
+<p>"This little study," said he, "seems to me as if it ought to have a
+significance, but I declare I am again at fault."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Mrs. Chiverly, "it ought to have a significance. In fact there
+is a significance connected with it. I could easily tell you what it is,
+but if you were afterwards to look at the picture you would see no such
+meaning in it."</p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps this is one of your husband's earlier works" said the gentleman,
+"in which he was not able to express his inspirations."</p>
+
+<p>"It is not one of my husband's works," said Mrs. Chiverly; "it is mine."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The moment that the gentleman had departed Ardis flew to Mrs. Chiverly and
+threw her arms around her neck. "Now my dearest," she exclaimed, "you know
+your vocation in life. You must put meanings to Mr. Chiverly's pictures."</p>
+
+<p>When the head of the house returned he was, of course, delighted to find
+that his painting had been sold.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"That is the way with us!" he cried, "we have spasms of prosperity. One of
+our works is bought, and up we go. Let us so live that while we are up we
+shall not remember that we have ever been down. And now my dear, if you
+will give me the card of that exceptional appreciator of high art, I will
+write his bill and receipt instantly, so that if he should again happen to
+come while I am out there may be nothing in the way of an immediate
+settlement."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Chiverly stood by him as he sat at the desk. "You must call the
+picture," she said, "'The Seven Ages of Trees.'"</p>
+
+<p>"Nonsense!" exclaimed Mr. Chiverly, turning suddenly and gazing with
+astonishment at his wife. "That will do for a bit of pleasantry, but the
+title of the picture is 'A Scene on the Upper Mississippi.' You don't want
+to deceive the man, do you?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, I do not," said Mrs. Chiverly, "and that is one reason why I did not
+give it your title. It is a capitally painted picture, and as a woodland
+'Seven Ages' it is simply perfect. That was what it sold for; and for that
+and nothing else will the money be paid."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Chiverly looked at her for a moment longer, and then bursting into a
+laugh he returned to his desk. "You have touched me to the quick," he said.
+"Money has given title before and it shall do<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> so now. There is the
+receipted bill!" he cried, pushing back his chair.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Francis Bret Harte.</h3>
+
+<p>Bret Harte, so far as we can discover, has written the only story of
+Revolutionary times in Morristown, and the only story of those times in New
+Jersey except Miss Holdich, who follows, and James Fenimore Cooper, whose
+"Water Witch" is located about the Highlands of New Jersey. By a passage
+from his story of "Thankful Blossom" we shall represent him at the close of
+this sketch.</p>
+
+<p>Between 1873 and 1876 Bret Harte lived in Morristown, in several locations:
+in the picturesque old Revere place on the Mendham Road, the very home for
+a Novelist, now owned and occupied by Mr. Charles G. Foster; in the
+Whatnong House for one summer, near which are located old farms, which seem
+to us to have many features of the "Blossom Farm" and to which we shall
+refer; in the Logan Cottage on Western Avenue and in the house on Elm
+Street now owned and occupied by Mr. Joseph F. Randolph.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The steps by which Bret Harte climbed to the eminence that he now occupies,
+are full of romantic interest. Left early by his father, who was a
+Professor in an Albany Seminary and a man of culture, to struggle with
+little means, the boy, at fifteen, had only an ordinary education and went
+in 1854, with his mother, to California. He opened a school in Sonora,
+walking to that place from San Francisco. Fortune did not favor him either
+in this undertaking or in that of mining, to which, like all young
+Californians in that day, he resorted as a means to live. He then entered a
+printing office as compositor and began his literary career by composing
+his first articles in type while working at the case. Here he had editorial
+experiences which ended abruptly in consequence of the want of sympathy in
+the miners with his articles. He returned to San Francisco and became
+compositor in the office of <i>The Golden Era</i>. His three years experience
+among the miners served him in good stead and his clever sketches
+describing those vivid scenes, soon placed him in the regular corps of
+writers for the paper. <i>The Californian</i>, a literary weekly, then engaged
+Harte as associate manager and, in this short-lived paper appeared the
+"Condensed Novels" in which Dickens' "Christmas Stories", Charlotte
+Bront&euml;'s "Jane Eyre", Victor Hugo's "Les Mis&eacute;rables", and other prominent
+and familiar writings of distinguished authors are most<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> cleverly taken
+off. These have amused and delighted the reading world since their first
+appearance. During the next six years, he filled the office of Secretary of
+the United States Branch Mint, and also wrote for California journals, many
+of his important poems, among them, "John Burns of Gettysburg", and "The
+Society upon the Stanislau", which attracted wide attention by their
+originality and peculiar flavor of the "Wild West". In July, 1868, Harte
+organized, and became the editor of, what is now a very successful journal,
+<i>The Overland Monthly</i>.</p>
+
+<p>For this journal he wrote many of his most characteristic stories and poems
+and introduced into its pages, "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of
+Poker Flat", and others having that peculiar pseudo-dialect of Western
+mining life of which he was the pioneer writer. He had now taken a great
+step towards high and artistic work. At this point his reputation was
+established.</p>
+
+<p>As for Revolutionary New Jersey poems, abundant as the material is for
+inspiration, Bret Harte's "Caldwell of Springfield" seems to be one of very
+few. At the luncheon of the Daughters of the American Revolution held in
+May of 1892, a prominent member of the Association recited "Parson
+Caldwell" and mentioned, that strange to say, it was as far as she had been
+able to ascertain, the only poem on Revolutionary times in New Jersey that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span>
+had ever been written, though she had searched thoroughly. In addition to
+this, we find only, besides the two poems of Mr. Charles D. Platt, given in
+this volume, (and others of his referred to) one or two of the sort in a
+volume published years ago, privately, by Dr. Thomas Ward, of New York (a
+great uncle of Mrs. Luther Kountze). Very few copies of his poems were
+printed and all were given to his friends, not sold.</p>
+
+<p>We must not forget the very beautiful poem of "Alice of Monmouth", by
+Edmund Clarence Stedman, and also, perhaps, might be included his spirited
+"Aaron Burr's Wooing". There was also an early writer, Philip Freneau, of
+Monmouth County, who lived in Colonial and Revolutionary times, and wrote
+some quaint and charming poems of that period.</p>
+
+<p>If there are any others we would be glad to be informed.</p>
+
+<p>In this book, "Plain Language From Truthful James", better known as "The
+Heathen Chinee", represents Mr. Harte among the poets, in our group of
+writers, for the reason that it is so widely known as a satire upon the
+popular prejudices against the Chinese, who were at that time pursued with
+hue and cry of being shiftless and weak-minded.</p>
+
+<p>From 1868, Harte became a regular contributor to the <i>Atlantic Monthly</i> and
+he also entered the lecture field. It was during this period that he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> lived
+in Morristown. In 1878 he went to Crefeld, Germany, as United States
+Consul, and here began his life abroad. Two years later he went, as Consul,
+to Glasgow, Scotland, since which time he has remained abroad, engaged in
+literary pursuits.</p>
+
+<p>The Contributor's Club, of the <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, gives a curious little
+paper on "The Value of a Name", in which the writer insists that Bret
+Harte, Mark Twain, Dante Rossetti and others owe a part of their success,
+at least, to the phonic value of their names. He says that "much time and
+thought are spent in selecting a name for a play or novel, for it is known
+that success is largely dependent on it" and he therefore censures parents
+who are "so strangely careless and unscientific in giving names to their
+children."</p>
+
+<p>Bret Harte's publications include besides "Condensed Novels", "Thankful
+Blossom", and others already mentioned, several volumes of Poems issued at
+different periods: among them are "Songs of the Sierras" and "Echoes of the
+Foot Hills". Then there are "Tales of the Argonauts and Other Stories";
+"Drift from Two Shores"; "Twins of Table Mountain"; "Flip and Found at
+Blazing Star"; "On the Frontier"; "Snow Bound at Eagle's"; "Maruja, a
+Novel"; "The Queen of the Pirate Isle", for children; "A Phyllis of the
+Sierras"; "A Waif of the Plains" and many others, besides his collected
+works in five volumes published in 1882.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Writing to Bret Harte in London, for certain information about the story of
+"Thankful Blossom", the author of this volume received the following reply:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class="right">
+15 <span class="smcap">Upper Hamilton Terrace</span>, N. W., 31st May, '90.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p><i>Dear Madam:</i></p>
+
+<p>In reply to your favor of the 14th inst., I fear I must
+begin by saying that the story of "Thankful Blossom",
+although inspired and suggested by my residence at
+Morristown at different periods was not <i>written</i> at
+that place, but in another part of New Jersey. The
+"Blossom Farm" was a study of two or three old farm
+houses in the vicinity, but was not an existing fact so
+far as I know. But the description of Washington's
+Head-Quarters was a study of the actual house,
+supplemented by such changes as were necessary for the
+epoch I described, and which I gathered from the State
+Records. The portraits of Washington and his military
+family at the Head-Quarters were drawn from Spark's
+"Life of Washington" and the best chronicles of the
+time. The episode of the Spanish Envoy is also
+historically substantiated, and the same may be said of
+the incidents of the disaffection of the "Connecticut
+Contingent."</p>
+
+<p>Although the heroine, "Thankful Blossom", as a
+<i>character</i> is purely imaginary, the <i>name</i> is an
+actual one, and was borne by a (chronologically)
+remote<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> maternal relation of mine, whose Bible with the
+written legend, "Thankful Blossom, her book", is still
+in possession of a member of the family.</p>
+
+<p>The contour of scenery and the characteristics of
+climate have, I believe, changed but little since I
+knew them between 1873 and 1876 and "Thankful Blossom"
+gazed at them from the Baskingridge Road in 1779.</p>
+
+<p>I remain, dear madam,</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+Yours very sincerely,<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Bret Harte</span>.<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Two of the farms from which Bret Harte <i>may</i> have drawn the inspiration for
+the surroundings of his story, may be seen on the Washington Valley road as
+you turn to the right from the road to Mendham. Turning again to the
+left,&mdash;before you come to the junction of the road which crosses at right
+angles to the Whatnong House, where Mr. Harte passed a summer,&mdash;you come
+upon the Carey Farm, the house built by the grandfather of the present
+occupants. There you see the stone wall,&mdash;crumbling now,&mdash;over which the
+bewitching Mistress Thankful talked and clasped hands with Captain Allen
+Brewster of the Connecticut Contingent. The elm-tree, upon whose bark was
+inscribed "the effigy of a heart, divers initials and the legend 'Thine
+Forever'", has been lately cut down and the trunk decorated with growing
+plants and flowers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We see the black range of the Orange Hills over which the moon slowly
+lifted herself as the Captain waited for his love, "looking at him,
+blushing a little, as if the appointment were her own". We see also the
+faintly-lit field beyond,&mdash;the same field in which, further on in the story
+after Brewster's treachery, Major Van Zandt and Mistress Thankful picked
+the violets together and doing so, revealed their hearts' love to one
+another on that 3rd of May, 1780.</p>
+
+<p>The orchard is there, still bearing apples, but the "porch" and the "mossy
+eaves" evidently belong to the next farm house, which we find exactly on
+the corner at the junction of the two roads. It is the old Beach farm. The
+original house has a brick addition, with the inscription among the bricks,
+"1812".</p>
+
+<p>It is on the wooden part built earlier and evidently an ancient structure,
+that we see the "porch and eaves".</p>
+
+<p>We select from "Thankful Blossom" the very fine pen portrait of Washington
+and his military family at the Headquarters.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p>
+
+<h4>THANKFUL BLOSSOM.</h4>
+
+<h4><i>A Romance of the Jerseys, 1779.</i></h4>
+
+<h4>
+CHAPTER III.</h4>
+
+<p>The rising wind, which had ridden much faster than Mistress Thankful, had
+increased to a gale by the time it reached Morristown. It swept through the
+leafless maples, and rattled the dry bones of the elms. It whistled through
+the quiet Presbyterian churchyard, as if trying to arouse the sleepers it
+had known in days gone by. It shook the blank, lustreless windows of the
+Assembly Rooms over the Freemason's Tavern, and wrought in their gusty
+curtains moving shadows of those amply petticoated dames and tightly hosed
+cavaliers who had swung in "Sir Roger," or jigged in "Money Musk," the
+night before.</p>
+
+<p>But I fancy it was around the isolated "Ford Mansion," better known as the
+"Headquarters," that the wind wreaked its grotesque rage. It howled under
+its scant eaves, it sang under its bleak porch, it tweaked the peak of its
+front gable, it whistled through every chink and cranny of its square,
+solid, unpicturesque structure. Situated on a hillside that descended
+rapidly to the Whippany River, every summer zephyr that whispered through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span>
+the porches of the Morristown farm houses charged as a stiff breeze upon
+the swinging half doors and windows of the "Ford Mansion"; every wintry
+wind became a gale that threatened its security. The sentinel who paced
+before its front porch knew from experience when to linger under its lee,
+and adjust his threadbare outer coat to the bitter North wind.</p>
+
+<p>Within the house something of this cheerlessness prevailed. It had an
+ascetic gloom, which the scant fire-light of the reception room, and the
+dying embers on the dining room hearth, failed to dissipate. The central
+hall was broad, and furnished plainly with a few rush-bottomed chairs, on
+one of which half dozed a black body-servant of the commander-in-chief. Two
+officers in the dining-room, drawn close by the chimney corner, chatted in
+undertones, as if mindful that the door of the drawing-room was open, and
+their voices might break in upon its sacred privacy. The swinging light in
+the hall partly illuminated it, or rather glanced gloomily from the black
+polished furniture, the lustreless chairs, the quaint cabinet, the silent
+spinet, the skeleton-legged centre-table, and finally upon the motionless
+figure of a man seated by the fire.</p>
+
+<p>It was a figure since so well known to the civilized world, since so
+celebrated in print and painting, as to need no description here. Its rare
+combination of gentle dignity with profound force, of a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> set resoluteness
+of purpose with a philosophical patience, have been so frequently delivered
+to a people not particularly remarkable for these qualities, that I fear it
+has too often provoked a spirit of playful aggression, in which the deeper
+underlying meaning was forgotten. So let me add that in manner, physical
+equipoise, and even in the mere details of dress, this figure indicated a
+certain aristocratic exclusiveness. It was the presentment of a king,&mdash;a
+king who by the irony of circumstances was just then waging war against all
+kingship; a ruler of men, who just then was fighting for the right of these
+men to govern themselves, but whom by his own inherent right he dominated.
+From the crown of his powdered head to the silver buckle of his shoe he was
+so royal that it was not strange his brother George of England and
+Hanover&mdash;ruling by accident, otherwise impiously known as the "grace of
+God"&mdash;could find no better way of resisting his power than by calling him
+"Mr. Washington."</p>
+
+<p>The sound of horses' hoofs, the formal challenge of sentry, the grave
+questioning of the officer of the guard, followed by footsteps upon the
+porch, did not apparently disturb his meditation. Nor did the opening of
+the outer door and a charge of cold air into the hall that invaded even the
+privacy of the reception room, and brightened the dying embers on the
+hearth, stir his calm pre-occupation. But an instant later there was the
+distinct rustle of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> a feminine skirt in the hall, a hurried whispering of
+men's voices, and then the sudden apparition of a smooth, fresh-faced young
+officer over the shoulder of the unconscious figure.</p>
+
+<p>"I beg your pardon, general," said the officer doubtingly, "but"&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"You are not intruding, Colonel Hamilton," said the general quietly.</p>
+
+<p>"There is a young lady without who wishes an audience of your Excellency.
+'Tis Mistress Thankful Blossom,&mdash;the daughter of Abner Blossom, charged
+with treasonous practice and favoring the enemy, now in the guard-house at
+Morristown."</p>
+
+<p>"Thankful Blossom?" repeated the general interrogatively.</p>
+
+<p>"Your Excellency doubtless remembers a little provincial beauty and a
+famous toast of the countryside&mdash;the Cressida of our Morristown epic, who
+led our gallant Connecticut Captain astray"&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"You have the advantages, besides the better memory of a younger man,
+colonel," said Washington, with a playful smile that slightly reddened the
+cheek of his aide-de-camp. "Yet I think I <i>have</i> heard of this phenomenon.
+By all means, admit her&mdash;and her escort."</p>
+
+<p>"She is alone, general," responded the subordinate.</p>
+
+<p>"Then the more reason why we should be polite," returned Washington, for
+the first time altering<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span> his easy posture, rising to his feet, and lightly
+clasping his ruffled hands before him. "We must not keep her waiting. Give
+her access, my dear colonel, at once; and even as she came,&mdash;alone."</p>
+
+<p>The aide-de-camp bowed and withdrew. In another moment the half opened door
+swung wide to Mistress Thankful Blossom.</p>
+
+<p>She was so beautiful in her simple riding-dress, so quaint and original in
+that very beauty, and, above all, so teeming with a certain vital
+earnestness of purpose just positive and audacious enough to set off that
+beauty, that the grave gentleman before her did not content himself with
+the usual formal inclination of courtesy, but actually advanced, and,
+taking her cold little hand in his, graciously led her to the chair he had
+just vacated.</p>
+
+<p>"Even if your name were not known to me, Mistress Thankful," said the
+commander-in-chief, looking down upon her with grave politeness, "nature
+has, methinks, spared you the necessity of any introduction to the courtesy
+of a gentleman. But how can I especially serve you?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich.</h3>
+
+<p>It is a curious fact that although New Jersey was the theatre of some of
+the most stirring scenes of the Revolution, only two stories seem to have
+been written, founded on the events of those times, if we except the "Water
+Witch", by J. Fenimore Cooper, in which we find the location of Alderman
+Van Beverout's house, the villa of the "Lust in Rust" to be on the Atlantic
+Highlands, between the Shrewsbury river and the sea. This spot is pointed
+out to-day and was associated with the smugglers of that period. The other
+two stories are "Thankful Blossom", by Bret Harte, and "Hannah Arnett's
+Faith", a Centennial Story, by Miss Holdich, which latter, as a singular
+history attaches to it, we shall give at length.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Holdich was born at Middletown, Conn., but left there too young to
+remember much about it and she lived in New York until 1878 when she came
+to Morristown. When she was not quite two years of age her mother
+discovered she could read and since she was seventeen, she has written for
+various well-known papers and periodicals, more children's stories than
+anything else, she tells us, but also a good many stories for <i>Harpers'
+Magazine</i> and <i>Bazar</i>,&mdash;also poems, by one of which she is represented in
+our group of poets.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Hannah Arnett's Faith" is a true story of the author's great grandmother,
+familiar to all the family from infancy; In 1876 Miss Holdich published it,
+as a Centennial story, in <i>The New York Observer</i>. In 1890, a lady of
+Washington published it as her own in <i>The Washington Post</i>, (she asserts
+that she did not intend it as a plagiarism but used it merely as a
+historical incident). The story was recognized and letters written to, and
+published in, <i>The Post</i>, giving Miss Holdich's name, as the true author.
+However, this publication of the story led to a curious result, and gave
+the story a wide celebrity. In a published statement, Miss Mary Desha (one
+of the Vice Presidents of the D. A. R.) announces that "the Society of the
+Daughters of the American Revolution sprang from this story".</p>
+
+<p>"On July 21st", Miss Desha says, after the publication of the story in <i>The
+Washington Post</i>, accompanied by an appeal for a woman's organization to
+commemorate events of the Revolution in which women had bravely borne their
+part,&mdash;"a letter from William O. McDowell of New Jersey, was published, in
+which he said that he was the great-grandson of Hannah Arnett and called on
+the women of America to form a society of their own, since they had been
+excluded from the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at a
+meeting held in Louisville, Kentucky, April 30th, 1890".</p>
+
+<p>Miss Holdich soon after this was urgently requested<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> to become Regent of
+the Morristown Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which
+position she accepted and holds to-day.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HANNAH ARNETT'S FAITH.</h4>
+
+<h4><i>A Centennial Story.</i></h4>
+
+<h4>1776-1876.</h4>
+
+<p>The days were at their darkest and the hearts of our grandfathers were
+weighed down with doubt and despondency. Defeat had followed defeat for the
+American troops, until the army had become demoralized and discouragement
+had well-nigh become despair. Lord Cornwallis, after his victory at Fort
+Lee, had marched his army to Elizabethtown (Dec. 1776) where they were now
+encamped. On the 30th of November the brothers Howe had issued their
+celebrated proclamation, which offered protection to all who within sixty
+days should declare themselves peaceable British subjects and bind
+themselves neither to take up arms against their Sovereign, nor to
+encourage others to do so. It was to discuss the advisability of accepting
+this offered protection that a group of men had met in one of the large old
+houses of which Elizabethtown was, at that time, full.</p>
+
+<p>We are apt to think of those old times as days of unmitigated loyalty and
+courage; of our ancestors<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> as unfaltering heroes, swerving never in the
+darkest hours from the narrow and thorny path which conscience bade them
+tread. Yet human nature is human nature in all ages, and if at times the
+"old fashioned fire" burned low even in manly hearts, and profound
+discouragement palsied for a time the most ardent courage, what are we that
+we should wonder at or condemn them? Of this period Dr. Ashbel Green wrote:</p>
+
+<p>"I heard a man of some shrewdness once say that when the British troops
+over-ran the State of New Jersey, in the closing part of the year 1776, the
+whole population could have been bought for eighteen-pence a head."</p>
+
+<p>The debate was long and grave. Some were for accepting the offered terms at
+once; others hung back a little, but all had at length agreed that it was
+the only thing to be done. Hope, courage, loyalty, faith, honor&mdash;all seemed
+swept away upon the great flood of panic which had overspread the land.
+There was one listener, however, of whom the eager disputants were
+ignorant, one to whose heart their wise reasoning was very far from
+carrying conviction. Mrs. Arnett, the wife of the host, was in the next
+room, and the sound of the debate had reached her where she sat. She had
+listened in silence, until, carried away by her feelings, she could bear no
+more, and springing to her feet she pushed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> open the parlor door and
+confronted the assembled group.</p>
+
+<p>Can you fancy the scene? A large low room, with the dark, heavily carved
+furniture of the period, dimly lighted by the tall wax candles and the wood
+fires which blazed in the huge fire place. Around the table, the group of
+men&mdash;pallid, gloomy, dejected, disheartened. In the doorway the figure of
+the woman, in the antique costume with which, in those latter days, we have
+become so familiar. Can you not fancy the proud poise of her head, the
+indignant light of her blue eyes, the crisp, clear tones of her voice, the
+majesty and defiance and scorn which clothed her as a garment?</p>
+
+<p>The men all started up at her entrance; the sight of a ghost could hardly
+have caused more perturbation than did that of this little woman. Her
+husband advanced hastily. She had no business here; a woman should know her
+place and keep it. Questions of politics and political expediency were not
+for them; but he would shield her as far as possible, and point out the
+impropriety of her conduct afterwards, when they should be alone. So he
+went quickly up to her with a warning whisper:</p>
+
+<p>"Hannah! Hannah! this is no place for you. We do not want you here just
+now;" and would have taken her hand to lead her from the room.</p>
+
+<p>She was a docile little woman and obeyed his wishes in general without a
+word: but now it seemed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> as if she scarcely saw him, as with one hand she
+pushed him gently back and turned to the startled group.</p>
+
+<p>"Have you made your decision, gentlemen?" she asked. "Have you chosen the
+part of men or of traitors?"</p>
+
+<p>It was putting the question too broadly,&mdash;so like a woman, seeing only the
+bare, ugly facts, and quite forgetting the delicate drapery which was
+intended to veil them. It was an awkward position to put them in, and they
+stammered and bungled over their answer, as men in a false position will.
+The reply came at last, mingled with explanations and excuses and
+apologies.</p>
+
+<p>"Quite hopeless; absurd for a starving, half-clothed, undisciplined army
+like ours to attempt to compete with a country like England's unlimited
+resources. Repulsed everywhere&mdash;ruined; throwing away life and fortune for
+a shadow;"&mdash;you know the old arguments with which men try to prop a
+staggering conscience.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Arnett listened in silence until the last abject word was spoken. Then
+she inquired simply: "But what if we should live, after all?"</p>
+
+<p>The men looked at each other, but no one spoke.</p>
+
+<p>"Hannah! Hannah!" urged her husband. "Do you not see that these are no
+questions for you? We are discussing what is best for us, for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> you, for
+all. Women have no share in these topics. Go to your spinning-wheel and
+leave us to settle affairs. My good little wife, you are making yourself
+ridiculous. Do not expose yourself in this way before our friends."</p>
+
+<p>His words passed her ear like the idle wind; not even the quiver of an
+eyelash showed that she heard them.</p>
+
+<p>"Can you not tell me?" she said in the same strangely quiet voice. "If,
+after all, God does not let the right perish,&mdash;if America should win in the
+conflict, after you have thrown yourself upon British clemency, where will
+you be then?"</p>
+
+<p>"Then?" spoke one hesitating voice. "Why, then, if it ever <i>could</i> be, we
+should be ruined. We must leave the country forever. But it is absurd to
+think of such a thing. The struggle is an utterly hopeless one. We have no
+men, no money, no arms, no food and England has everything."</p>
+
+<p>"No," said Mrs. Arnett; "you have forgotten one thing which England has not
+and which we have&mdash;one thing which outweighs all England's treasures, and
+that is the Right. God is on our side, and every volley from our muskets is
+an echo of His voice. We are poor and weak and few; but God is fighting for
+us. We entered into this struggle with pure hearts and prayerful lips. We
+had counted the cost and were willing to pay the price, were it our heart's
+blood. And now&mdash;now, because<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span> for a time the day is going against us, you
+would give up all and sneak back, like cravens, to kiss the feet that have
+trampled upon us! And you call yourselves men&mdash;the sons of those who gave
+up home and fortune and fatherland to make for themselves and for dear
+liberty a resting-place in the wilderness? Oh, shame upon you, cowards!"</p>
+
+<p>Her words had rushed out in a fiery flood, which her husband had vainly
+striven to check. I do not know how Mrs. Arnett looked, but I fancy her a
+little fair woman, with kindly blue eyes and delicate features,&mdash;a tender
+and loving little soul, whose scornful, blazing words must have seemed to
+her amazed hearers like the inspired fury of a pythoness. Are we not all
+prophets at times&mdash;prophets of good or evil, according to our bent, and
+with more power than we ourselves suspect to work out the fulfillment of
+our own prophecies? Who shall say how far this fragile woman aided to stay
+the wave of desolation which was spreading over the land?</p>
+
+<p>"Gentlemen," said good Mr. Arnett uneasily, "I beg you to excuse this most
+unseemly interruption to our council. My wife is beside herself I think.
+You all know her and know that it is not her wont to meddle with politics,
+or to brawl and bluster. To-morrow she will see her folly, but now I pray
+your patience."</p>
+
+<p>Already her words had begun to stir the slumbering<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> manhood in the bosoms
+of those who heard her. Enthusiasm makes its own fitting times. No one
+replied; each felt too keenly his own pettiness, in the light cast upon
+them by this woman's brave words.</p>
+
+<p>"Take your protection, if you will," she went on, after waiting in vain for
+a reply. "Proclaim yourselves traitors and cowards, false to your country
+and your God, but horrible will be the judgment you will bring upon your
+heads and the heads of those that love you. I tell you that England will
+never conquer. I know it and feel it in every fibre of my heart. Has God
+led us so far to desert us now? Will He, who led our fathers across the
+stormy winter sea, forsake their children who have put their trust in Him?
+For me, I stay with my country, and my hand shall never touch the hand, nor
+my heart cleave to the heart of him who shames her."</p>
+
+<p>She flashed upon her husband a gaze which dazzled him like sudden
+lightning.</p>
+
+<p>"Isaac, we have lived together for twenty years, and for all of them I have
+been a true and loving wife to you. But I am the child of God and of my
+country, and if you do this shameful thing, I will never again own you for
+my husband."</p>
+
+<p>"My dear wife!" cried the husband aghast, "you do not know what you are
+saying. Leave me, for such a thing as this?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"For such a thing as this?" she cried scornfully. "What greater cause could
+there be? I married a good man and true, a faithful friend and a loyal
+Christian gentleman, and it needs no divorce to sever me from a traitor and
+a coward. If you take your protection you lose your wife, and I&mdash;I lose my
+husband and my home!"</p>
+
+<p>With the last words the thrilling voice broke suddenly with a pathetic fall
+and a film crept over the proud blue eyes. Perhaps this little touch of
+womanly weakness moved her hearers as deeply as her brave, scornful words.
+They were not all cowards at heart, only touched by the dread finger of
+panic, which, now and then, will paralyze the bravest. Some had struggled
+long against it and only half yielded at last. And some there were to whom
+old traditions had never quite lost their power, whose superstitious
+consciences had never become quite reconciled to the stigma of <i>Rebel</i>,
+though reason and judgment both told them that, borne for the cause for
+which they bore it, it was a title of nobility. The words of the little
+woman had gone straight to each heart, be its main-spring what it might.
+Gradually the drooping heads were raised and the eyes grew bright with
+manliness and resolution. Before they left the house that night, they had
+sworn a solemn oath to stand by the cause they had adopted and the land of
+their birth, through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> good or evil, and to spurn the offers of their
+tyrants and foes as the deadliest insults.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the names of those who met in that secret council were known
+afterwards among those who fought their country's battles most nobly, who
+died upon the field of honor, or rejoiced with pure hearts when the day of
+triumph came at last. The name of the little woman figured on no heroic
+roll, but was she the less a heroine?</p>
+
+<p>This story is a true one, and, in this Centennial year, when every crumb of
+information in regard to those old days of struggle and heroism is eagerly
+gathered up, it may not be without interest.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris was well known during her stay in Morristown and is remembered
+as a charming woman. "In Morristown", she writes, she found "restoration to
+health, many friends, and much enjoyment",&mdash;adding "I think I shall always
+love the place".</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris has been a voluminous writer of stories and novels. Her first
+work, "Rutledge",<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span> published without her name, excited immediate and wide
+attention and established her reputation. Since then, she has given to the
+world, among others, the following volumes: "Louie's Last Term at St.
+Mary's"; "The Sutherlands"; "Frank Warrington"; "St. Philip's";
+"Round-hearts" (for children); "Richard Vandermarck"; "A Perfect Adonis";
+"Missy"; "Happy-go-Lucky"; "Phoebe"; "A Rosary For Lent" and "Dear Feast of
+Lent".</p>
+
+<p>The selection given to represent Mrs. Harris in Stedman and Hutchinson's
+"Library of American Literature" is a chapter from her novel, "Missy". An
+appropriate selection for this volume would be an extract from her chapter
+on "Marrowfat" (Morristown) in her novel, "Phoebe", published in 1884.</p>
+
+<p>The two principal characters of the book, Barry and Phoebe, lately married,
+are described in Marrowfat, going to church on Sunday morning:</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "PHOEBE."</h4>
+
+<p>They were rather late; that is, the bell had stopped ringing, and the pews
+were all filled, and the clergyman was just entering from the sacristy,
+when they reached the door. It was an old stone church, with many vines
+about it, greensward and fine trees. * * The organist was playing a low and
+unobtrusive strain; the clergyman, having just entered, was on his knees,
+where unfortunately,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> the congregation had not followed him. They were all
+ready to criticise the young people who now walked down the silent aisle;
+very far down, too, they were obliged to walk. It was the one moment in the
+week when they would be most conspicuous. * * Barry looked a greater swell
+than ever, and his wife was so much handsomer than anybody else in
+Marrowfat that it was simple nonsense to talk of ignoring the past. If one
+did not want to be walked over by these young persons they must be put
+down; self preservation joined hands with virtuous indignation; to cancel
+the past would be to sacrifice the future. Scarce a mother in Marrowfat but
+felt a bitter sense of injury as she thought of Barry. Not only had he set
+the worst possible example to her sons, but he had overlooked the charms of
+her daughters; not only had he outraged public opinion, but he had
+disappointed private hopes. Society should hold him to a strict account;
+Marrowfat was not to be trifled with when it came to matters of principle.</p>
+
+<p>It was an old town, with ante-Revolutionary traditions; there was no
+mushroom crop allowed to spring up about it. New people were permitted but
+only on approbation of the old. It was not the thing to be very rich in
+Marrowfat, it was only tolerated; it was the thing to be a little
+cultivated, a little clever, very well born, and very loyal to Marrowfat.
+It was not exactly provincial; it was too<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> near the great city and too much
+mixed up with it to be that; but it was very local and it had its own
+traditions in an unusual degree. That people grew a little narrow and very
+much interested in the affairs of the town, after living there awhile, was
+not to be wondered at. It is always the result of suburban life, and one
+finds it difficult to judge, between having one's nature green like a lane,
+even if narrow, or hard and broad like a city pavement, out of which all
+the greenness has been trampled and all the narrowness thrown down.</p>
+
+<p>The climate of the place was dry and pure; it was the fashion for the city
+doctors to send their patients there; and many who came to cough, remained
+to build. The scenery was lovely; you looked down pretty streets and saw
+blue hills beyond; the sidewalks were paved and the town was lit by gas,
+but the pavements led you past charming homes to bits of view that reminded
+you of Switzerland, and the inoffensive lamp-posts were hidden under great
+trees by day, and by night you only thought how glad you were to see them.
+The drives were endless, the roads good; there were livery-stables, hotels,
+skilled confectioners, shops of all kinds, a library, a pretty little
+theatre, churches of every shade of faith, schools of every degree of
+pretension; lectures in winter, concerts in summer, occasional plays all
+the year; two or three local journals, the morning papers from the city at
+your<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> breakfast table; fast trains, telegraphs, telephones, all the modern
+amenities of life under your very hand; and yet it was the country, and
+there were peaceful hills and deep woods, and the nights were as still as
+Paradise. Can it be wondered at that, like St. Peter's at Rome, it had an
+atmosphere of its own, and defied the outer changes of the temperature?</p>
+
+<p>Marrowfat certainly was a law unto itself. Why certain people were great
+people, in its view, it would be difficult to say. Why the telegraphs, and
+the telephones, and the fashionable invalids from the city and the rich
+people who bought and built in its neighborhood, did not change its
+standards of value one can only guess. But it had a stout moral sentiment
+of its own; it had resisted innovations and done what seemed it good for a
+long while; and when you have made a good moral sentiment the fashion, or
+the fact by long use, you have done a good thing. Marrowfat never tolerated
+married flirtations, looked askance on extremes in dress or entertainment,
+dealt severely with the faults of youth. All these things existed more or
+less within its borders, of course, but they were evil doings and not
+approved doings.</p>
+
+<p>In a certain sense, Marrowfat was the most charitable town in the world; in
+another the most uncharitable. If you were to have any misfortune befall
+you, Marrowfat was the place to go to have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> it in; if you lost your money,
+if you broke your back, if your children died, if your house burned down,
+Marrowfat swathed you in flowers, bathed you in sympathy, took you out to
+drive, came and read to you, if need were took up subscriptions for you.
+But if you did anything disgraceful or discreditable, it is safe to say you
+would better have done it in any other place.</p>
+
+<h3>Miss Maria McIntosh.</h3>
+
+<p>Miss McIntosh was born in the little village of Sunbury, Georgia, in 1804.
+She was educated by an old Oxford tutor who was teacher and pastor combined
+and she led the class of boys with whom she studied. After her mother's
+death, (her father had died in her infancy), she came to the north, wholly
+for the purpose of studying and improving herself.</p>
+
+<p>Her first stories were for children. Then appeared two very successful
+tales for youth; "Conquest and Self-Conquest," and "Praise and Principle".
+"To Seem and To Be"; "Charms and Counter-Charms", and their successors
+followed on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> during a period of twenty years. Several of her books were
+translated into both French and German and all were widely read abroad, but
+the joy in her work lay in the rich harvest for good which was constantly
+made known to her. In the year before her death, many letters came to her
+from women then married and heads of families, thanking her for first
+impulses to better things arising from her words.</p>
+
+<p>Not long ago, Marion Harland, (Mrs. Terhune), wrote to a dear friend of
+this author, that she owed to Miss McIntosh the strongest influences of her
+young life and those which had determined its bent and development.</p>
+
+<p>Miss McIntosh was intensely interested in the maintenance of Republican
+simplicity and purity of morals and wrote a strong address, which was
+widely circulated, to the "Women of America" which led to a correspondence
+with the then Duchess of Sutherland and other English women who were
+interested in the elevation of women and of the family life.</p>
+
+<p>She died in Morristown, at the residence of her devoted niece and namesake,
+Mrs. James Farley Cox, and soothed by her loving ministrations,&mdash;after a
+protracted illness, lasting over a year. Mrs. Cox tells us, "she loved
+Morristown and said amidst great pain, that her last year, was, despite
+all, the happiest of her life".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Lofty and Lowly"; "Charms and Counter-Charms", and "To Seem and To Be",
+are all alike noble books. Miss McIntosh seems a woman of strong creative
+powers, with a delicacy of feeling and a fine touch of womanliness, united
+to a certain delicate perception of character. She did not write from what
+we now so grandly call <i>types</i>, or, for the sake of displaying a surgical
+dissection of character; but her books are groupings of individuals as real
+as those we meet in daily life. There are no strained situations, no
+fanciful make-ups, and no unnatural poses.</p>
+
+<p>There are the lovely Alice Montrose with a strangely beautiful blending of
+delicate refinement and womanly strength, rising to meet every requirement
+of her varied life; Mr. Gaston, the New England merchant; Richard Grahame
+the hero of "Lofty and Lowly", with some telling contrasts in the way of
+villians and weaker characters. Beside this, Miss McIntosh has a strong
+sympathy for nature and all through her stories she stops, as it were to
+show us the flowering fields and summer skies and as she draws us to her,
+we feel the beatings of her own warm human heart going out as it does to
+the young and inexperienced.</p>
+
+<p>Again, Miss McIntosh gives in her stories faithful representations of life
+both north and south, before the war, forty years ago. These pictures are
+of peculiar value as few books preserve pictorial<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span> records of that
+condition of life now passed away forever. She had a power in massing
+details and binding them by a thread of common interest and common action.
+She seemed in her writings, like one who had been spiritually "lifted
+higher" and like all such spirits she could not but draw others after her.
+Her books in past years have had wide and lasting influence and it is a
+pity they could not now be substituted for much of the miserable literature
+which only pleases a passing hour or teaches false views of life.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Maria McIntosh Cox.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Cox, long a resident of Morristown, was named for the dear aunt to
+whom the preceding sketch relates, and, as is often the case with namesakes
+for some unexplained reason, the mantle of Miss McIntosh's genius fell upon
+her.</p>
+
+<p>From girlhood, Mrs. Cox has written for various papers and magazines. Some
+years ago, the Appletons published a little volume of hers for very young
+children, called "A year with Maggie and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span> Emma", which was afterwards
+translated into French.</p>
+
+<p>"Raymond Kershaw", published in 1888, is a volume of larger size. To this
+we shall refer later. In March, 1890, <i>The Youth's Companion</i> published a
+short story founded on an adventure of the author's father with Lafitte,
+the famous pirate. It was entitled "A Brave Middy", and won a prize of
+$500, in a contest of similar tales.</p>
+
+<p>In the current numbers of <i>Wide Awake</i> from December to June 1891-'92
+appeared a story of ten chapters called "Jack Brereton's Three Months'
+Service", which, in August, 1892, was brought out in book form by D.
+Lothrop &amp; Co., Boston. The idea most prominent in this story, the "motif",
+is the reflex action of a soldier's enlistment on his deserted family. "I
+chanced", says the author, "to thoroughly see and know what sudden <i>three
+months'</i> calls entailed on the volunteer and those who fought the battle
+out at home, and I enjoyed telling what is, in spirit and in most details,
+a true story, though not as connected with such people as the story
+describes".</p>
+
+<p>"Brave Ben Broughton", written by request for the McClure Syndicate, and a
+Folk Lore story are the latest from the pen of Mrs. Cox.</p>
+
+<p>"Raymond Kershaw; a Story of Deserved Success", was published by Roberts
+Brothers in 1888. The story is a touching one commencing in pathos<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span> and
+ending in heroism; a lesson to every boy and girl who, plunged suddenly and
+unexpectedly into difficulty, have to face the hard realities of life.
+There is an extremely fine passage in this book. Winthrop, the author of
+"John Brent", could not have done it better. It is the description of a
+maddened bull, "Meadow King", which Paul Potter might have painted. It
+needs no comment. Spirited and full of life, every actor in the scene
+performs his or her part with a truthfulness which is wonderful. Many a
+more voluminous writer than Mrs. Cox has done far less superior work than
+this truly great scene exhibits in its dramatic attitudes.</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "RAYMOND KERSHAW."</h4>
+
+<p>After country fashion, every farmer for miles around came to look at
+"Kershaw's new bull". Without mistake they saw a royal animal. Without a
+spot to mar his jet-black coat, through which the great veins were visible
+like netted cords, his small, strong, sinewy legs, all muscle and bone,
+carried his heavy body as lightly as if he were a horse, and his flanks and
+shoulders, when James pushed up his supple skin with his hand, felt as if
+he wore a velvet coat over an iron frame; his neck, not too short for
+grace, was still very heavy and muscular, with wrinkles like necklaces
+encircling<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> it, and his fiery eyes glowed, far apart, under his
+tight-curled poll, from which those mischievous horns, sharp, long and
+slightly out-curving, stood in beautiful harmony with the whole outline;
+and his great lashing tail, with its tasselated end, completed his
+perfections.</p>
+
+<p>All went well for a fortnight, after which, on a hot Sunday morning all
+drove off to church leaving Mrs. Kershaw and Mary at home together.</p>
+
+<p>(Mrs. Kershaw, the sweet and tenderly-loved invalid mother, was half-lying
+in her chair and Mary sat, Bible in hand, on the first step of the piazza
+near her, when)</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly a roar struck upon their ears with horror; and, filled with one of
+those blind accesses of rage to which his race is so strangely subject,
+tearing, bellowing along, up the hillside came Meadow King. As he halted
+for a breath behind the fence, he was like one's night-dreams of such a
+creature,&mdash;an ideal of pure brute force and wrath. His head tossed high, he
+gave a prolonged bellow, and leaped the high bars without an effort.</p>
+
+<p>Mary rose without a word, and laying her Bible on Mrs. Kershaw's lap, stood
+white as the dead to watch him; destroying the delicate things in his way,
+he ran madly towards the sheds. Mary gave silent thanks that he had not
+taken to the road. The high gates of the cow-yards stood wide open, and
+through them he rushed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Miss Kershaw, I've got to shut them gates!" said Mary.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, don't think of it, Mary!" said Mrs. Kershaw, her hands clasped and
+trembling. "Are you not afraid?"</p>
+
+<p>"Skeered!" said Mary,&mdash;"I'm skeered out of my life; <i>but them gates has got
+to be shut!</i>"</p>
+
+<p>Down in the yard the voice kept up its dreadful din. Mary rushed down the
+steps like a flash, and as suddenly back again. "Miss Kershaw, would you
+mind just kissing me <i>once</i>?" A quick warm touch on her pale lips, and she
+was gone; it was all in the space of a long breath. * * Her way was down a
+slight inclination and her swift, light feet carried her with incredible
+speed. One terrified glance at the open gate showed her the enemy lashing
+himself at the farther end of the enclosure, with the scattered dust and
+leaves rising about him as he pawed the ground. The gates were heavy and
+wide apart; the right-hand leaf swung shut, and then, darting across the
+opening, she pushed the left forward and clasped it, and springing up drew
+down the heavy cross-bar, and the gates were shut! * * "He's in, Miss
+Kershaw," said Mary, "but the worst is to come! How under the sun can they
+ketch him? Can you keep still if I go up the road and watch for 'em?
+They're most sure to drive in by the farm-yard gate if they come Chester<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span>
+way, and if they come upon him unbeknownst, Heaven help 'em!"</p>
+
+<p>"Go Mary, <i>go</i>; don't think about me at all," said Mrs. Kershaw. * * *</p>
+
+<p>"Not until you are in your chair, and promise to stay there, ma'am," said
+Mary. "Young Doctor's got trouble enough on his hands without your bein'
+hurt. If you hear Meadow King tearing the gates down, and me a-screechin'
+my life out, don't you stir!"</p>
+
+<p>(Mary goes to warn them and stops their entrance. James the farmer takes
+command. Raymond carries an axe and Bob a stick. They open the gates Mary
+had closed. The brute rushes forward. At this moment James with a rope he
+had carried, undertakes to lasso the bull but misses and falls back, facing
+the foe but pinioned in the angle of a beam and the side-wall; one of the
+mad King's horns imbedded in the beam, the other projecting in terrible
+proximity, while the unspeakably angry, brutal face of the beast is only a
+few inches from his chest.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment, Ray seized his axe.) His hat had fallen off and his face
+was stern and ghastly white as he watched like a lion his gigantic prey;
+until coming with long powerful steps close enough to strike, he gave an
+agonizing look of dread at James, and then brought down one tremendous
+crashing blow, straight, strong and true, between<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span> those cruel horns, and
+the Meadow King sank like a loosened rock upon the floor, pulling his head
+loose by his own weight.</p>
+
+
+<h3>David Young.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Why, as to that, said the engineer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ghosts ain't things we are apt to fear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Spirits don't fool with levers much,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And throttle-valves don't take to such;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">And as for Jim,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">What happened to him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was one-half fact and t'other half whim!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i19">&mdash;<i>Bret Harte.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>David Young is principally known as the reviser and publisher of "The
+Morristown Ghost" in 1826, but he was also the compiler of the well-known
+"Farmer's Almanac", published first in 1834, and he wrote a poem of
+thirty-four pages in two parts, entitled "The Contrast".</p>
+
+<p>The original volume of "The Morristown Ghost" was published in 1792, by
+whom, it is not certainly known. It gave the names of the "Society of
+eight", their places of meeting, and all the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> proceedings of the Society.
+The copies were bought up and destroyed, says tradition, by the son of one
+of its members, one lone volume not being obtainable, but this cannot be
+distinctly traced at present. There was published in 1876, by the Messrs.
+L. A. and B. H. Vogt, a fac-simile copy of the original history of "The
+Morristown Ghost" without the names of the original members, "with an
+appendix compiled from the county records". The following is the title
+page:</p>
+
+<p>"The Morristown Ghost; an Account of the Beginning, Transactions and
+Discovery of Ransford Rogers, who seduced many by pretended Hobgoblins and
+Apparitions and thereby extorted Money from their pockets. In the County of
+Morris and State of New Jersey, in the Year 1788. Printed for every
+purchaser&mdash;1792".</p>
+
+<p>In the copy of 1826, the title page is as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost; thoroughly and carefully
+revised. By David Young, Newark. Published by Benjamin Olds, for the
+author. I. C. Totten, Printer, 1826."</p>
+
+<p>The author tells us in his preface he has "very scrupulously followed the
+sense of the original." He continues: "The truth of this history will not,
+I presume, be called in question by the inhabitants of Morris and the
+adjacent counties. The facts are still fresh in the memories of many among
+us; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> some survive still who bore an active part in the scenes herein
+recorded." He continues: "For the further satisfaction of the distant
+reader, on this point, I would inform him that I am myself a native of the
+County of Morris; that I was seven years and seven months old when Rogers
+first emigrated to this county; and that I well remember hearing people
+talk of these affairs during their progress. Every reader may rest assured
+that if the truth of this narrative had been doubtful, I should have taken
+no pains to rescue it from oblivion."</p>
+
+<p>There seems to have been also another intermediate publication. From an
+ancient copy of this curious story, found in an old, discolored volume in
+our Morristown library, in which are compiled papers on various subjects,
+(among them a "Review on Spiritual Manifestations"), we copy the title
+page:</p>
+
+<p>"The Morristown Ghost, or Yankee Trick, being a True, Interesting and
+Strange Narrative. This circumstance has excited considerable laughter and
+no small degree of surprize. Printed for purchasers, 1814."</p>
+
+<p>The man who conducted the plot was Ransford Rogers, of Connecticut. He was
+a plausible man who had the power of inspiring confidence, and though
+somewhat illiterate, was ambitious to be thought learned and pretended, it
+is said, to possess<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span> deep knowledge of "chymistry" and the power to dispel
+good and evil spirits.</p>
+
+<p>It will be remembered that Washington Irving remarks, in his description of
+the family portrait gallery, of Bracebridge Hall at twilight, when he
+almost hears the rustling of the brocade dresses of the ladies of the manor
+as they step out from their frames,&mdash;"There is an element of superstition
+in the human mind". It seems there had long been a conviction prevailing
+that large sums of money had been buried during the Revolutionary War by
+tories and others in Schooley's Mountain, near by. There also seemed to be
+something of the New England belief in witchcraft throughout the community.
+Says the Preface of the early volume; "It is obvious to all who are
+acquainted with the county of Morris, that the capricious notions of
+witchcraft have engaged the attention of many of its inhabitants for a
+number of years and the existence of witches is adopted by the generality
+of the people." And we read on page 213 of the "Combined Registers of the
+First Presbyterian Church," a record as follows: "Dr. John Johnes' servant
+Pompey, d. 17 July, 1833, aet. 81; frightened to death by ghosts."</p>
+
+<p>To obtain the treasure of Schooley's Mountain, then, was the occasion of
+the occurrences related in this story. Two gentlemen who had long been in
+search of mines, taking a tour through the country in 1788,
+"providentially," says David Young,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span> fell in with Rogers at Smith's Clove,
+and discovered him to be the man they were in search of, and one who could
+"reveal the secret things of darkness," for they, too, were "covetous of
+the supposed treasure of Schooley's Mountain."</p>
+
+<p>A society was organized by Ransford which at first numbered "about eight"
+but afterwards was increased to about forty. His first object was to
+convince them of the existence of the hidden treasure lying dormant in the
+earth at Schooley's Mountain. It seems repeated efforts had before been
+made to obtain the treasure, but all had proved abortive, for whenever they
+attempted to break the ground, it was said, "there would many hobgoblins
+and apparitions appear which in a short time obliged them to evacuate the
+place".</p>
+
+<p>Rogers called a meeting of the eight and "communicated to them the
+solemnity of the business and the intricacy of the undertaking and the fact
+that there had been several persons murdered and buried with the money in
+order to retain it in the earth. He likewise informed them that those
+spirits must be raised and conversed with before the money could be
+obtained. He declared he could by his art and power raise these apparitions
+and that the whole company might hear him converse with them and satisfy
+themselves there was no deception. This was received with belief and
+admiration by the whole company without ever investigating<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> whether it was
+probable or possible. This meeting therefore terminated with great
+assurance, they all being confident of the abilities, knowledge and powers
+of Rogers". To confirm the illusion of his supernatural power, Rogers had
+made chemical compositions of various kinds, of which, "some, by being
+buried in the earth for many hours, would break and cause great explosions
+which appeared dismal in the night and would cause great timidity. The
+company were all anxious to proceed and much elevated with such uncommon
+curiosities". A night was therefore appointed for the whole company to
+convene. The scene which the author proceeds to describe is worthy of
+Washington Irving in his "Legends of Sleepy Hollow", (see page 25 Young's
+edition, 1826). The night was dark and the circle "illumined only by
+candles caused a ghastly, melancholy, direful gloom through the woods". The
+company marched round and round in (concentric) circles as directed, "with
+great decorum" until suddenly shocked by "a most impetuous explosion from
+the earth a short distance from them". Flames rose to a considerable
+height, "illuminating the circumambient atmosphere and presenting to the
+eye many dreadful objects, from the supposed haunted grove, which were
+again instantaneously involved in obscurity". Ghosts made their appearance
+and hideous groans were heard. These were invisible to the rest of the
+company but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span> conversed with Rogers in their hearing and told of the vast
+treasures in their possession which they would not resign except under
+certain conditions, one of which was "every man must deliver to the spirits
+twelve pounds in money". The procession continued 'till three o'clock in
+the morning, and "the whole company looked up to Rogers for protection from
+the raging spirits. This was in the month of November 1788". It will be
+noticed that the money required had to be advanced in "nothing but silver
+or gold" for which the paper money circulated in New Jersey could only be
+exchanged at twenty-five per cent. discount. Yet there was a sort of
+emulation among them, "who should be the first in delivering the money to
+the spirits."</p>
+
+<p>A frequent place of meeting for this company was what is now known as the
+Hathaway house on Flagler street, the first house on the left after
+entering Flagler street from Speedwell avenue. A little distance back of
+this house may be seen the stump of a tree beneath which tree, it is said,
+the money was left for the spirits. Another field used for the midnight
+marches is behind the Aber house on the Piersonville Road, and still
+another on the road between Piersonville and Rogers' school house, the
+location of which is known. Other localities are also known, by old
+residents, of the events recorded in this story. Mt. Kemble avenue has
+often been the actual scene of ghostly flittings to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span> and fro as well as of
+the famous imaginary ride to the Headquarters of "Thankful Blossom". Rogers
+was in the habit of wrapping himself up in a sheet, going to the house of a
+certain gentleman in the night, and calling him up by rapping at the doors
+and windows, and conversing in such sleek disguise that the gentleman
+thought he was a spirit; ending his conversation also with the words: "I am
+the spirit of a just man, and am sent to give you information how to
+proceed, and to put the conducting of it into your hands; I will be ever
+with you, and give you directions when you go amiss; therefore fear not,
+but go to Rogers and inform him of your interview with me. Fear not I am
+ever with you".</p>
+
+<p>It must be remembered that this company, at the first, was composed of the
+best and most highly honored citizens of Morristown, also that toward the
+last, "the numbers increased daily of aged, abstemious, (at first material
+spirits were freely used at the nightly meetings) honest, judicious, simple
+church members."</p>
+
+<p>What led finally to the discovery of the plot, was, that it was ordained,
+"a paper of sacred powder, said to be some of the dust of the bodies of the
+spirits, was to be kept by every member, and to be preserved inviolate. One
+of the aged members, having occasion to leave home for a short time on some
+emergency, through forgetfulness<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> left his paper in one of his pockets at
+home. His wife happened to find it, and out of curiosity, broke it open;
+but, perceiving the contents, she feared to touch it, lest peradventure it
+should have some connection with witchcraft. She went immediately to Rev.
+Mr. &mdash;&mdash;, the pious clergyman of the congregation for his advice on the
+subject; who, not knowing its composition, was unwilling to touch it, lest
+it might have some operation upon him, and knew not what advice to give
+her. Her husband returning declared she had ruined him forever by breaking
+open that paper, which increased her anxiety to know its contents. Upon her
+promising not to divulge anything, he then related to her the whole of
+their proceedings, whereupon she declared they were serving the devil and
+it was her duty notwithstanding her promise to put an end to such
+proceedings. Great disturbance was thereby caused in the company."</p>
+
+<p>It was at the house of one of the members, which is now standing, that
+Rogers was discovered in the following manner, as the story is told.
+Rogers, taking his sheet with him, rode, on a certain evening to this
+house, for the purpose of conversing with the gentleman, as a spirit.
+Having drank too freely he committed several blunders in his conversation,
+and was not so careful as usual about the ghostly costume. The good wife,
+whose suspicions had been aroused, managed to peep and listen during<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> the
+interview, and after the ghost had left the house she remarked to her
+husband, says tradition: "My dear, do spirits wear shoe buckles? Those were
+very like Ransford Rogers' buckles". Rogers' foot-tracks were followed to
+the fence where his horse was tied, and the tracks of his horse to the
+house where he lived and hence to another house where he was found. He was
+apprehended and committed to prison, where he asserted his innocence so
+persistently that "in a few days he was bailed out", says our author, "by a
+gentleman, whom I shall call by the name of Compassion." A second time he
+was apprehended, when "he acknowledged his faults and confessed" the whole
+matter. He, however, "absconded, and under the auspices of Fortune saved
+himself by flight from the malice of a host."</p>
+
+<p>So ends the, perhaps, most famous historic ghost story of modern times.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin.</h3>
+
+<h4>(JENNIE M. DRINKWATER.)</h4>
+
+<p>Mrs. Conklin has been a voluminous writer of novels and stories, published
+by Robert Carter &amp; Brothers and by the Presbyterian Board. Before her
+marriage she was widely known as Miss Jennie M. Drinkwater, and her latest
+book, "Dorothy's Islands," published in Boston, August, 1892, bears that
+name of authorship. She has written for many papers and magazines, besides
+the books she has published, and of these there are twenty and more. Among
+them are "Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline", a love story of high order and
+well told; "Rue's Helps", for boys and girls, and "Electa", in which we
+find a certain quality of naturalness in the people, and the scenes
+described,&mdash;a literary quality which is prominent in Mrs. Conklin's works.
+"They introduce the reader", says a critic, "to agreeable people, provide
+an atmosphere which is tonic and healthful and enlist interest in every
+page." Then there are "The Story of Hannah Marigold"; "Wildwood"; "The
+Fairfax Girls"; "From Flax to Linen" and "David Strong's Errand", besides
+others, and the last one published to which we have referred, and from
+which we shall quote.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Several years ago, Mrs. Conklin being out of health, had her attention
+called to the special needs of invalids for sympathy from the active world
+about them, and organized a society, now world-wide and well-known, called
+the "Shut-In Society". It is an organization of invalids throughout the
+country, and now extending beyond it, who cheer each other with
+correspondence, send letters to prisoners in jails and sufferers in
+hospitals, and do other good work. Nine-tenths of its membership never see
+each other, but they help make each other's lives to be as cheery as
+possible in affliction. The amount of comfort and consolation carried by
+this organization to many a bed-ridden or helpless invalid, is beyond
+description, and the good that goes out also from those quiet chambers of
+sickness to the souls who seek them, mostly by <i>letter</i>, is greater than
+would be easily imagined. Mrs. Conklin was president of the Society for
+four years from its organization in 1885, and it now numbers several
+thousand members.</p>
+
+<p>We quote from "Dorothy's Islands", Mrs. Conklin's latest book.</p>
+
+<p>Dorothy was a child taken from a New York orphan asylum and adopted by a
+lighthouse keeper and his wife. She grows up supposing them to be her own
+father and mother, but the mother and child are antagonistic, and it is
+impossible for them to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> attract one another. This peculiarity of nature is
+very well given in the first chapter.</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "DOROTHY'S ISLANDS."</h4>
+
+<p>"When I grow up," said Dorothy "I am going to find an island all green and
+beautiful in winter as well as in summer. All around it the sand will be as
+golden as sunshine, and the houses&mdash;the happy houses&mdash;will be hidden away
+in green things, and flowers of yellow and scarlet and white. And then,
+father, after I find it, I will come and get you, and we will sing, and
+learn poems, and do lovely things all day long."</p>
+
+<p>"You are going to do wonderful things when you grow up," replied the
+amused, tender voice overhead.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't all grown-up people do wonderful things?" questioned child Dorothy.</p>
+
+<p>"I never did," answered the voice, not now either tender or amused.</p>
+
+<p>"No, you never <i>did</i>," broke in a woman's voice with harsh force.</p>
+
+<p>"I think father does <i>beautiful</i> things," said Dorothy in her warm voice.
+"He brought the sea-bird home to me, and we loved it so, but you threw it
+off with its wounded wing."</p>
+
+<p>"Let nature take care of her own things," responded<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span> the voice that had
+nothing of love in its quality.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm nature's thing," Dorothy laughed; "father said so to-day. He said I
+was made out of nature and poetry."</p>
+
+<p>"It's he who puts the poetry in you; some day I'll send those poetry books
+adrift, and then you will both find something practical in your finger
+ends."</p>
+
+<p>The child looked at the chubby ends of her brown fingers. Her nine-year-old
+hands, under her mother's sharp teaching, had learned to do many practical
+things. The only "practical thing" she loathed&mdash;and that was her own name
+for it&mdash;was mending Cousin Jack's pea-jacket.</p>
+
+<p>One room in the lighthouse was packed with boxes containing her father's
+books. The "poetry box" was the only one that had been opened since their
+stay on the island.</p>
+
+<p>"It was one of your father's beautiful things to strand us on this desert
+island. I told him I wouldn't come."</p>
+
+<p>"But you <i>did</i>," said the child.</p>
+
+<p>"It's the last time he will have his own way," remarked the woman, with the
+heavy frown that marred her handsome face.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, don't say that!" cried Dorothy distressed. "I never like your way."</p>
+
+<p>"You have got to like my way some day, miss,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span> or it will be the worse for
+one of us. Don't hang any longer around your father; poetry enough has
+oozed out of him to spoil you already; go and pick those beans over, and
+put them in soak for to-morrow&mdash;a quart, mind you, and pick them over
+clean."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>She liked to pick beans when her father sat near reading aloud to her. He
+had promised to read to-night "How the water comes down from Lodore," but
+she knew her mother's mood too well to hope for such a pleasure to-night.</p>
+
+<p>When her mother was cross, she wasn't willing for anybody to have anything.</p>
+
+<p>But she couldn't take away what she had learned of it; the child hugged
+herself with the thought repeating gleefully:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Then first came one daughter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And then came another,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To second and third<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The request of their brother,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to hear how the water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Comes down at Lodore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With its rush and its roar&mdash;"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>"Dorothy, stop!" commanded her mother. "That muttering makes me wild. It
+sounds like a lunatic."</p>
+
+<p>Dorothy's mouth shut itself tight; the flash of defiance from the big brown
+eyes her mother<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> missed; her father's observant eyes noted it. There was
+always a sigh in his heart for Dorothy, for her naughtiness, and for the
+misery she was growing up to. The misery was as inevitable as the growing
+up. Once in his agony he had prayed the good Father to take the child
+before her heart was rent, or his own.</p>
+
+<p>After the gleeful music ceased the chubby fingers moved wearily, the brown
+head drooped; there were tears as well as sleep in the eyes that seemed
+made to hold nothing but sunshine.</p>
+
+<p>(Dorothy is in bed for the night.)</p>
+
+<p>"Will you keep the door open so I can hear voices?" pleaded Dorothy.</p>
+
+<p>"Why child, what ails you?" said the mother.</p>
+
+<p>"The wind ails me, and it is so black, black, black out over the water.
+When I find my island there shall be sunshine on the sea."</p>
+
+<p>"But night <i>has</i> to come."</p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps there will be stars there," said hopeful Dorothy.</p>
+
+<p>"You may learn a Bible verse to-morrow,&mdash;'There shall be no night there.'"</p>
+
+<p>"I'll say it now: 'There shall be no night there.' Where <i>is</i> 'there'?"</p>
+
+<p>But her mother had left her to her new Bible verse and the candle-light;
+and Dorothy went to sleep, hoping "there" did not mean heaven, for then
+what <i>would</i> she do when she was sleepy?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Catharine L. Burnham.</h3>
+
+<p>A valuable contributor to the literature for children and young people, is
+Mrs. Burnham. Her volume of "Bible Stories in Words of One Syllable", has
+been of great use and influence and has no doubt led to the writing of
+other historical narratives in the same manner.</p>
+
+<p>Count Tolstoi gives a most interesting account of his own experience in the
+use of the Bible in teaching children. He says "I tried reading the Bible
+to them", speaking of the children in his peasant's school, "and it took
+complete possession of them. They grew to love the book, love study and
+love me. For the purpose of opening a new world to a pupil and of making
+him love knowledge before he has knowledge, there is no book like the
+Bible."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Burnham has also written a number of children's story-books which have
+been warmly received and still continue to please and benefit the young.
+Among them are "Ernest"; "The Story of Maggie" and the three volumes of the
+"Can and Can't Series"; "I Can"; "I Can't", and "I'll Try". "Ernest" is
+quite a wonderful little book and has done much good among a large class of
+children. Mr. A. D. F. Randolph, the New York publisher,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> who took it
+through several editions, gave it high praise to a friend just before the
+last edition, about three years ago, and Rev. Dr. Tyng the elder, late of
+St. George's Church, New York, gave it also very high praise.</p>
+
+<p>We do not always fully realize that a peculiar talent is required for this
+department in literature. In talking, some years ago, with a young man who
+has now become an important editor in New York, he said: "It is my greatest
+ambition to be a good and interesting author of children's books; not only
+because it requires the best writing and the best thought, but because no
+literature has a more extended influence and involves higher
+responsibilities."</p>
+
+<p>In addition to these volumes, Mrs. Burnham has for many years, been an
+occasional contributor to the <i>Churchman</i>, <i>Christian Union</i> and other
+important papers.</p>
+
+<p>The following extract is selected:</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "I'LL TRY."</h4>
+
+
+<h4>CHAPTER VIII.</h4>
+
+<h4><i>Society.</i></h4>
+
+<p>"Our Daisy is a singular girl," said Mrs. Bell to her husband the evening
+after Mrs. Lane's party,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span> as they sat alone over the library fire, after
+all the young people had retired, and fell to talking about their children,
+as parents will.</p>
+
+<p>"Is she? I think most parents would be glad to have a daughter as
+'singular.'"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I knew you would say that; and I appreciate her as highly as you do;
+but nevertheless, sometimes I am puzzled to know what to do with her. If
+she gets an idea into that quiet little head of hers, it is hard to modify
+it."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, what is it now?"</p>
+
+<p>"It's just this. I don't believe she will ever be willing to go out
+anywhere, or even have company at home. I proposed to her to-day that we
+should have a little company next week, and she looked absolutely pained,
+and said, 'O, mamma, if we could get along without it, I should be so
+glad&mdash;unless you wish it very much. Or, perhaps, I could stay up stairs.' I
+was quite provoked for the moment, and said, 'No, indeed, you couldn't. I
+should insist on your entertaining our friends.' And then she was so sorry
+she had offended me. She is so good and conscientious, that I can't bear to
+thwart her; and yet I am sure it will not be good for her to shut herself
+up entirely."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, well dear," said Mr. Bell, who had the most utter confidence in his
+wife's ability to train her children, as he might well have, "she will get
+over it in time. Let her go out a little and she will soon learn to like
+it."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"No, I am afraid not. Everything she does is done on principle, and unless
+I can make society a matter of principle, I am afraid she will never enter
+into it at all, her diffidence makes it a positive pain to her to meet
+strangers."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, get a principle into it, then, somehow," said Mr. Bell. "You can
+manage it; you understand all these matters. I am sure Daisy is just like
+you in requiring a principle for everything."</p>
+
+<p>"She is not a bit like me," said Mrs. Bell; but she could not help smiling
+nevertheless, and the conversation turned to something else. But the
+mother, who was in real difficulty about this matter, carried her
+perplexities where she always did, to the throne of grace, and there
+obtained light to show her how to act. She knew that nothing in her
+children's lives was unimportant in the eyes of the Heavenly Father, and
+prayed for wisdom to guide her young daughter aright at this important time
+of her life.</p>
+
+<p>The next time that Daisy brought her work basket to her mother's room, for
+a "good quiet sit-down," as she expressed it, Mrs. Bell resolved to open
+the subject that was on her mind; but the young girl anticipated her design
+by saying, "Now, mamma, before we begin the second volume of our Macauley
+(how tempting it looks and what lovely readings we will have!) I want to
+ask you something."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Well, dear?"</p>
+
+<p>"I know I troubled you yesterday when you spoke about having company, dear
+mamma. I was so sorry afterwards; but if you knew how I dread it, I don't
+think you would blame me. I have been thinking about it a great deal since,
+and now I want to ask you a question and get one of your real good
+answers&mdash;a <i>settling</i> answer, mamma. Do you think it is <i>my duty</i> to go
+into company? Now begin, please, and tell me all about it;" and Daisy took
+up her work and assumed the attitude of a listener, as though she had
+referred her question to an oracle, and was waiting for a response.</p>
+
+<p>The mother smiled a happy and gratified smile before she answered. It was
+very pleasant to her to see how her sweet daughter deferred to her opinion;
+and kissing the fair cheek she said: "I can't answer you in one word,
+darling. What do you mean by 'going into company?' Of course you know that
+I have no desire to see you absorbed in a round of parties, or even going
+often to companies."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I know that, mamma; I mean quiet parties, such as you and papa go to;
+reading and talking parties, and big sewing societies and musicals."</p>
+
+<p>"You mean going anywhere out of your own family?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes'm, that is just it. I am so happy at home. I have plenty to do, and
+all I want to enjoy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span> With you and papa and Nelly and our pet Lucy, and the
+boys coming home Sundays, what could one wish for more? I am perfectly
+happy, mamma."</p>
+
+<p>"And would you never care to make acquaintances, then&mdash;to make and receive
+calls?"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, no'm. I dislike calls of all things, except, of course, to go and see
+Mrs. Lane, for she asked me to come and see her, mamma, and to go over to
+Fanny's to play duets, and to a few other places."</p>
+
+<p>"You are a singular girl, Daisy."</p>
+
+<p>"I know I am," said Daisy, earnestly, dropping her work, "and that's the
+very reason why I think it's just as well for me to stay at home. Now, last
+night, I'm sure there wasn't a girl there thought of such a thing as being
+frightened; except me; but I didn't really enjoy the last part very much;
+it was so disagreeable being among so many strangers; and even during the
+reading, I wished myself back in our old composition room, where I could
+hear Mrs. Lane without being dressed up, and being surrounded by girls
+dressed even more than I was."</p>
+
+<p>"And would you like, then, always to live retired at home?"</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I should, mamma! and I can't see why I may not. We are told not to
+love the world," said Daisy in a lower tone. "Why is it not better to keep
+out of it entirely?"</p>
+
+<p>"I will tell you, darling, why it is not," said<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span> Mrs. Bell, seriously.
+"Because our Master did not do so, and we cannot follow His example
+perfectly, if we do."</p>
+
+<p>"Was it not the poor and sick that He visited, mamma, chiefly?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, dear, and so it should be with us; but He visited, too, the rich and
+the high. He seems to have gone wherever His presence was desired, to make
+that presence felt by all classes of people, and we ought to imitate Him in
+this as in all other things."</p>
+
+<p>"Do you think we can do that?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I think we can in some measure. At any rate, I am sure we ought to
+try. Suppose, Daisy, that every one adopted your rule&mdash;that every house was
+a castle, and no one in it cared for anybody outside. What a selfish world
+this would be! Our Christian love would be limited to our own family."</p>
+
+<p>"But I would visit the poor, mamma."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, and that is by far the most important. But, dear, you have gifts of
+mind and heart and education that enable you to do good in other ways than
+in ministering to the poor and the ignorant. There are other hearts to
+reach, over whom you can have even greater influence, because they
+sympathize more entirely with you. You can show forth the love of Christ,
+and set a Christian example in your own sphere, darling, where you were
+born<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span> and brought up, and it would be wrong for my daughter to hide the
+talents God has given her under a bushel, and not to care for anyone or
+anything outside of these four walls."</p>
+
+<p>Daisy had left her seat and taken her favorite place at her mother's feet,
+and now looking up into her face, she said, earnestly, "You are right,
+mamma, as you always are. But poor me! I would rather face an army, it
+seems to me, than a roomful of people. I know what you are going to
+say&mdash;all the more my duty&mdash;and I shall try with all my might."</p>
+
+<p>"My darling, in every roomful of people there are some whom you can cheer
+and please; and even Christ pleased not Himself. Think of that, and it will
+give you strength to overcome your timidity. You can serve your Master in
+some way, be sure of it. And you can learn much from others. You would not
+develop all round, but would be a one-sided character, if you had only
+books and your own family for companions."</p>
+
+<p>"Mamma, let us have the company. I am ashamed that I have been so cowardly.
+You shall see how hard I will try."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. John Whitehead.</h3>
+
+<p>Our grave and reverend scholar and historian, taking his place later among
+<i>Historians</i>, has surprised and delighted us all by appearing suddenly in a
+new character, writing a very lively, graphic, and, of course, instructive
+story for boys; "A Fishing Trip to Barnegat", which we find in the <i>St.
+Nicholas</i> for August, 1892. The following is an extract:</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "A FISHING TRIP TO BARNEGAT."</h4>
+
+<p>"Now this fish of yours, Jack," said the uncle, "is not only called the
+toad-fish and the oyster-fish, but, sometimes, the grunting toad-fish.
+There are species of it found all over the world, but this is the regular
+American toad-fish.</p>
+
+<p>"This fish of mine is called the weakfish. Notice its beautiful colors,
+brownish blue on its back, with irregular brown spots, the sides silvery,
+and the belly white. It grows from one to three feet long and is a very
+sharp biter. When one takes the hook, there is no difficulty in knowing
+when to pull in. Why it is called the weakfish, I do not know, unless
+because when it has been out of the water its flesh softens and soon
+becomes unfit for food. When eaten soon after it is caught, it is very
+good."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Just as Uncle John finished his little lecture, an exclamation from Will,
+who had baited with a piece of the crab, and dropped his line into the
+water, attracted their attention. Not quite so impetuous as Jack, he landed
+his prize more carefully, and stood looking at it with wonder, hardly
+knowing what to say. At last he called out:</p>
+
+<p>"Well, what have I caught?"</p>
+
+<p>It was a beautiful fish, though entirely different from Uncle John's. It
+had a small head and the funniest little tail that ever was seen. Its back
+was of a bright, brown color, but its belly was almost pure white; it was
+quite round and flat, with a rough skin.</p>
+
+<p>"Turn him over on his back, and rub him gently," said the captain. "Do it
+softly, and watch him."</p>
+
+<p>Will complied and gently rubbed him. Immediately the fish began swelling
+and as Will continued the rubbing it grew larger and larger until Will
+feared that the fish would burst its little body.</p>
+
+<p>"Well," he said, "I never saw anything like that, Captain! Do tell me what
+this is."</p>
+
+<p>"This we call, here in Barnegat, the balloon-fish. It is elsewhere called
+the puffer, swell-fish, and globe-fish. One kind is called the
+sea-porcupine, because of its being covered with short, sharp spines. It is
+of no value for food."</p>
+
+<p>Jack thought his time had come to catch an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span>other prodigy, and when his hook
+had been re-baited by the skipper, he dropped his line into the water, and
+was soon rewarded by another bite. Using more caution this time, he landed
+his fish securely on deck instead of over the sail, and exclaimed:</p>
+
+<p>"Wonders will never cease! I don't know what I've got now, but I suppose
+that Captain John can tell!"</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. John King Duer.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Duer, whose family as well as herself has long been associated with
+Morristown, has published, in Morristown, in 1880, a short story entitled
+"The Robbers of the Woods, by Grandmother". It is a pretty, fascinating
+tale for children, in which the winsome innocence of two loving boys charm
+away all the cruelty of the "Robbers of the Woods". It is only thirty
+minutes reading and yet the story leaves after it an impression of the
+tender beauty of childhood.</p>
+
+<p>The following extract is expressive both of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span> touching pathos and of a
+certain nicety of description which belongs pre-eminently to Mrs. Duer.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "THE ROBBERS OF THE WOODS."</h4>
+
+<p>The sun was up and the room quite light when Carl opened his eyes at the
+touch of a hand on his shoulder. "It is daylight now my little man and we
+must be getting you on your way home ere long, but first come and get some
+breakfast." The boys were soon dressed, and after saying a short prayer in
+which they thanked God for his goodness in making the robbers so kind to
+them, they opened the door and found themselves again in the hall and with
+a substantial meal before them. Having eaten enough and all being ready,
+the man who found them in the woods now came near, and putting his large
+brown hand gently on Carl's arm, he said, "My boys, before I can open that
+door you must let me tie a cloth over your eyes, and consent to let it be
+there till we tell you to take it off. No harm shall come to you, for I
+myself am going to take you through the woods and not leave you till I put
+you on the road that leads to your mother's door." When Eddie first heard
+that his eyes were to be blindfolded, he began to cry and clung tightly to
+his brother, fearing to look about him "lest one of the robbers should be
+there to cut my poor little head off," as he whispered to Carl. But<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> when
+Carl said, "Eddie, you must be good and believe what these men say. They
+are not going to harm us and we are going straight home to mother. See I
+will put the bandage on your eyes myself, and will sit close to you and
+hold your hand all the time." He then tied a clean handkerchief, which the
+man gave him, close over Eddie's eyes and allowed the man to do the same to
+him. They then were led out of the hall.</p>
+
+<p>They heard the heavy door close after them, and felt the cool, morning air
+blow over their faces, then the boys knew they were outside the stone wall.
+Soon they were lifted up, and put in a wagon, and a man's voice close to
+them said: "Boys, I am going to put your little cart in the wagon too, so
+that you may get it home safely." When all was ready, the wagon began to
+move away, and as they drove off, they heard the voices of the robbers
+calling after them, "good-bye, brave boys, we wish you good luck."</p>
+
+<p>Little Eddie sat quite still beside Carl; as they drove away he held tight
+fast to his brother, and neither of them spoke a word.</p>
+
+<p>They were astonished at all they had seen and heard, while they were in the
+robbers' castle, and now they were once more in the free and open woods,
+they could not do as they pleased, but sat with their eyes bound up, not
+knowing where they were going. Carl did not doubt the words of the men<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span> who
+told him that no harm should come to him, but at times he had to comfort
+and assure poor little Eddie, for he sat trembling with fear. After they
+had driven several miles, and the man who was with them had answered their
+questions as to how far they were from home now, the wagon stopped and the
+man got out saying, "Now boys, you are on the road that leads direct to
+your home and I am going to leave you very soon, but before I go you must
+promise me not to untie the bandage from your eyes, till you hear a long
+whistle, which will blow from my horn, after leaving you; you will then
+undo the bandage, and find something beside you to take to your mother."
+Saying this, the man took the boys from the wagon, and setting them
+carefully down, he lifted their cart out also and shaking hands with the
+still astonished boys, and wishing them good-bye, he sprang into the wagon
+and they heard him drive rapidly along the road.</p>
+
+<p>They sat for some time very quiet, until the loud, long whistle from a
+distant horn told them the time of their captivity was at an end, and
+hastily tearing off the bandage from their eyes they looked eagerly around
+on all sides. Not a vestige of the wagon could be seen. It had been turned
+just at the spot where they had been left, and whether it went back the
+same way, or took another road, they never knew. But what was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span> their
+surprise, when they turned to look for their own little cart, to see beside
+it a pile of wood cut just so as to fit in, and on top of the pile a
+package containing many pieces of money in bright shining gold. This was
+the present they were told to "take back to their mother." Carl's heart
+gave a great bound of joy, for he knew how sorely his dear mother needed
+help, and he knew now that these men were her friends, and would never harm
+them.</p>
+
+<p>They had scarcely recovered from their surprise, and had just begun to load
+the little cart with the well-cut wood, when sounds of voices were heard,
+and the boys could distinctly hear their own names called. They knew it was
+the neighbors who were out searching for them, and soon saw them coming out
+in the open space where they stood.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The neighbors were heartily glad to find the boys safe and well, and
+surprised at the wonderful things they had to tell of all that had befallen
+them.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Madame de Meisner.</h3>
+
+<p>Many Morristonians will remember well Miss Sophie Radford, first as a
+little girl, living in the old Doughty House on Mt. Kemble avenue, then
+owned and occupied by her grandfather, Mr. Joseph Lovell, who purchased it
+of the Doughty estate and lived in it for a long period of time.
+Afterwards, Miss Radford is recalled as a charming girl and a belle in
+Washington Society, whence her father, Rear Admiral Radford, U. S. N., went
+from here, and where she met and married the handsome and elegant Secretary
+of the Russian Legation, M. de Meisner. Their marriage was performed first
+in the Episcopal church and afterwards with the ceremony of the Greek
+church, at her father's house, it being a law of Russia, with regard to
+every officer of the Empire, that the marriage ceremony of the Greek church
+shall be always used, a law like "that of the Medes and Persians, that
+altereth not".</p>
+
+<p>Both M. and Mme. de Meisner were in Morristown a few years ago and met many
+friends. It is since then, that they went to Russia and there, after a
+delightful reception and experience, Mme. de Meisner was inspired with the
+idea of writing "The Terrace of Mon D&eacute;sir".</p>
+
+<p>It was published in the fall of 1886, by Cuppies,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span> Upham &amp; Co., of Boston.
+A curious fact about this book is that it was Mme. de Meisner's first
+appearance in the field of literature and she had never before contributed
+even the briefest article to the press.</p>
+
+<p>"The Terrace of Mon D&eacute;sir" is a pretty love story, gracefully written. The
+opening scenes are laid in Peterhoff, near St. Petersburg, and where is the
+summer residence of the Czar. The author thus finds an opportunity of
+describing a charming social life among the higher classes, with which,
+though an American girl, but married to a Russian, she seems to be and is
+perfectly at home, having it is evident taken kindly to the new and
+interesting situations of her adopted country. The characters are
+delightfully and simply natural and the combinations are vivacious and
+sparkling, by which quality American women are distinguished, and in which
+characteristic foreigners find an indescribable charm.</p>
+
+<p>Mme. de Meisner herself has a bright animation in conversation. Some
+authors talk well only on paper, but to this observation the author of "The
+Terrace of Mon D&eacute;sir" is a marked exception, as all those who know her
+graceful, easy flow of language will recognize.</p>
+
+<p>The continuity of the story forbids an extract.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Isabel Stone.</h3>
+
+<p>Miss Stone who has long lived and moved in our society, has written, beside
+the poem already given, many bright papers and stories for children which
+have been published in various magazines and journals, among them <i>The
+Observer</i>; <i>Life</i>; <i>Little Ones in the Nursery</i>, edited by Oliver Optic;
+<i>The Press</i>, of Philadelphia; <i>The Troy Press</i> and <i>The Christian Weekly</i>.
+These stories and other writings were published under an assumed name.</p>
+
+<p>In 1885, she published a very clever booklet entitled Who Was Old Mother
+Hubbard? A Modern Sermon from the <i>Portsmouth</i> (Eng.) <i>Monitor</i> and a
+Refutation by an M. M. C., New York; G. P. Putnam Sons.</p>
+
+<p>This booklet had a very large sale and went through several editions. The
+story of this publication is interesting. "The Modern Sermon" appeared
+anonymously, first in one of our prominent magazines. It was written in
+England and traced to its origin. This was read at a meeting of the
+Medi&aelig;val Club, (a literary club of some celebrity in Morristown), at the
+house of Mr. John Wood, one of its members. Miss Stone was at once inspired
+to write the "Refutation"; which was read at her own house by Mr. John
+Wood, arrayed in characteristic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span> costume for the occasion. (For the benefit
+of those who may not know him, we may add that Mr. John Wood is one of
+Morristown's best readers and amateur actors.)</p>
+
+<p>We give the "Refutation" which is a clever dissection of the subject. As "A
+Modern Sermon illustrates the method upon which some Parsons Construct
+their Discourses", so "A Refutation" appears "in the Combative, Lucid and
+Argumentative Style of Some Others".</p>
+
+
+<h4>REFUTATION.</h4>
+
+<p>MY DEAR HEARERS: It is my purpose this evening to give to you the result of
+many hours of thought and consultation of various authors regarding the
+subject to which our attention has been lately called.</p>
+
+<p>While I hesitate to engage in the controversial spirit of the day, I feel
+it my duty to expound to you the truth and to unmask any heresy that may be
+gaining ground.</p>
+
+<p>The discourse to which I allude was upon the text,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To get her poor dog a bone;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But when she got there the cupboard was bare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And so the poor dog got none."<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<p>I propose to prove to you this evening that all its arguments were founded
+on false premises; that the <i>whole picture</i> drawn of the subject of our
+text&mdash;viz., old Mother Hubbard&mdash;was diametrically the reverse of the
+reality; in short, to give <i>a complete refutation of the text</i> to all those
+who listened to those first erroneous statements.</p>
+
+<p><i>Firstly</i>, Old Mother Hubbard was <i>not</i> a widow.</p>
+
+<p>I am at a loss to understand why our learned brother should so have drawn
+upon his imagination as to represent her as such, when, as I shall endeavor
+to set before you <i>conclusively</i> this evening, it is <i>distinctly</i> stated in
+the text that she was the wife of an <i>ogre</i>!</p>
+
+<p>My friends, in those days <i>men</i> and <i>husbands</i> were designated by the term
+"poor dog;" and, indeed, the lightest scholar knows that the term has
+descended to the present day and is often appropriated by a man himself
+under certain existing circumstances.</p>
+
+<p>Now, that this "poor dog" of a husband was an ogre is abundantly proved by
+the fact that Mother Hubbard provided for him bones.</p>
+
+<p>Yes! bones! my friends; but&mdash;<i>they</i>&mdash;<i>were</i>&mdash;<i>human</i>&mdash;bones!</p>
+
+<p>Deep research has convinced me of this fact. I find that in those days
+ogres did not catch and kill their own meat, as is commonly supposed. They
+were but human, my friends, and, like the rest of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span> humanity, preferred
+rather to purchase labor than perform it. They, therefore, employed their
+own individual butchers; but, with rare wisdom, they chose some carnivorous
+animal to supply their table.</p>
+
+<p>In proof of this, we come, <i>Secondly</i>, to the word cupboard, as mentioned
+in the text,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To get her poor dog a bone."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>This word cupboard is in our present version misspelt, owing to some fault
+in copying from the original, and thus is rendered c-u-p-b-o-a-r-d; but the
+word properly should be spelt c-u-b-b-e-d. This is a compound word, derived
+from cub&mdash;a young bear&mdash;and bed, or deposit, as we speak of the bed of a
+river.</p>
+
+<p>This was a <i>bone</i> deposit&mdash;a place where the ogre's food was deposited by
+the cub.</p>
+
+<p>A young cub was a less expensive butcher than a bear, as nowadays labor is
+cheaper from the young aspirant than from the assured professional.
+Therefore they were the usual employees.</p>
+
+<p>But this ogre, though evidently in the habit of employing a cub in this
+department, had now become dissatisfied and procured the more satisfactory
+service of an old bear; for, if you will carefully examine the text, you
+will see that the meaning is <i>obvious</i>, for, as though to insure all its
+readers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span> from misunderstanding, you will see that it is <i>distinctly</i> stated
+that&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"The cub-bed was <i>bear</i>."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Now we come <i>Thirdly</i> to the word "none."</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"And so the poor dog got none."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>This word in the original stands for two things&mdash;first, n-o-n-e, meaning
+nothing, which was the heretical sense deducted by my opponent, and the
+other and correct sense being n-u-n&mdash;a woman with black veil, generally of
+tender years; and Mother Hubbard, who intended to supply her lord's table
+with one small bone, found that instead the bear had secured the bones of a
+<i>whole nun</i>!</p>
+
+<p><i>Fourthly</i> and lastly, it is clear from the words "poor dog," that the ogre
+was poor, but <i>not</i> Mother Hubbard.</p>
+
+<p>No, my hearers, <i>evidently</i> she was <i>rich</i>, evidently <i>she</i> held the
+purse-strings, and the ogre had stealthily supplied his table with a
+luxury, and his house with a steward, for which he individually was
+incapable of providing the means.</p>
+
+<p>This is <i>clearly</i> the fact from the words of the text, for you will notice
+that it was <i>when</i> she got there&mdash;not <i>before</i>, but <i>when</i> she got there,
+that she found the change that had been made in the household
+arrangements.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And then, doubtless, ensued a scene such as some "poor dogs" nowadays
+understand only too well!</p>
+
+<p>And now, my friends, we come to the moral. It is <i>not</i> to beware of widows
+as my opponent tried to prove, but for you, my hearers, on one hand, to
+beware of marrying a poor but extravagant dog, and you, on the other, to
+beware of marrying a rich but penurious wife.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Augustus Wood.</h3>
+
+<h3>Charles P. Sherman.</h3>
+
+<h3>Miss Helen M. Graham.</h3>
+
+<p>It is scarcely necessary to state the fact that Mr. Augustus Wood is a
+native of Morristown, belonging as he does to a very old and well-known
+family, or that he is the author of a little volume entitled "Cupid on
+Crutches". This is a summer<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> story of life at Narragansett Pier and makes
+one of a group of light novels which we will give in succession.</p>
+
+
+<h4>"A BACHELOR'S WEDDING TRIP."</h4>
+
+<h4>BY "HIMSELF."</h4>
+
+<p>"Himself" we recognize as Mr. Charles Sherman, then a bachelor, who
+cleverly dedicates the book in these words: "To the Unmarried: as Instance
+of the Bliss which may be Theirs, and to the Married, as Reminiscent of <span class="smcap">The</span>
+trip, These Threaded Sketches are Fraternally Dedicated by the Author".</p>
+
+<p>The third of the group is</p>
+
+
+<h4>GUY HERNDON OR "A TALE OF GETTYSBURG."</h4>
+
+<h4>BY "ELAYNE."</h4>
+
+<p>Elayne, we know, is Miss Helen M. Graham, one of Morristown's Society girls
+who spends much of her time in New York.</p>
+
+<p>This "Tale of Gettysburg" is the first venture of Miss Graham into the
+field of literature. Her choice of subject indicates that she is in touch
+with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span> the growing realization among our novelists of how wide and fruitful
+a field is presented to them in the events of our civil war. The few
+graphic pictures already given by them of the social and other conditions
+of those stirring times, will be more and more valued by the present
+generation, and by those to come, as the years go on.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Other Novelists and Story Writers.</h3>
+
+<p>Among the poets, we have already mentioned as writers also of stories, many
+of them for children and young people,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Miss Emma F. R. Campbell</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Miss Hannah More Johnson</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And <i>Mr. William T. Meredith</i>,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>the last being the author of a summer novel, "Not of Her Father's Race".</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D.</i>,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>who, in addition to his editorial work and more serious writing, has
+published more than thirty small juvenile works, written under the name of
+"Robin Ranger", and which are all very great favorites with children, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Mrs. Julia McNair Wright</i>,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>who, besides her many volumes on many subjects, has written novels, among
+them, "A Wife Hard Won," published by Lippincott, and a large number of
+stories for young people, found in many Sunday School libraries, as well as
+stories on the subject of Temperance, which are found in the collected
+libraries of Temperance societies.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span></p>
+<h2>TRANSLATORS.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Buckley, who has already been numbered among our <i>Poets</i>, has
+translated a German story called "Sought and Found" from the original work
+of Golo Raimund, which has passed to its second edition. The translator
+says, in her four line preface, "This romance was translated because of its
+rare simplicity and beauty, and is published that those who have not seen
+it in the original may enjoy it also."</p>
+
+<p>One never takes up these charming little German stories without exclaiming,
+no other country-people ever write in the same sweet, simple way! The
+reason is evident to those who have lived among<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> Germans and experienced
+their unaffected hospitality. There is a peculiar simplicity of home life
+even among the nobility. A friend says: "I so well remember now, a lovely
+morning visit, in particular, to a little, gentle German lady in her
+beautiful drawing-room which contained the treasures of centuries. No one,
+I am sure, could have helped being struck by her gentle simplicity and
+unaffected courtesy. She came in dressed in the plainest of black dresses,
+a white apron tied around her waist, and on her head the simplest of
+morning caps. But her sweet German language,&mdash;how beautiful it seemed, as
+in the low, musical voice which bespoke her breeding, she talked of her own
+German poets; of Walther von der Vogelweide and the great Goethe and
+Schiller, of Auerbach and Richter and modern story writers." Afterwards, in
+speaking of the charm and beauty of such simplicity, the friend added,
+"Yes, and she belongs to one of the oldest noble, hereditary families of
+Germany, and carries the sixteen quarterings upon the family shield, which,
+to those who understand German heraldry, means the longest unmixed German
+descent. We could not help contrasting such quiet manners with many of the
+artificial assumptions and the aggressive boldness found that winter in
+Dresden." Therefore we always hail with pleasure translations of these
+stories of German life among all classes. Though to translate requires no
+creative<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> power, translating is in some respects more difficult than
+creating, for the reason that to translate demands a quick comprehension
+and intuitive discernment of the spirit of a foreign language, of the
+conception of the writer and of the national life which the language
+embodies. And we must remember that it is in the power of interpretation
+that woman especially excels.</p>
+
+<p>This little story is essentially well rendered, with the animation and
+vivacity of the original, and it has great merit in preserving its German
+spirit, that sentiment which is so marked and so unlike any other people.</p>
+
+<p>What Dr. Johnson said of translation had a ring of truth as had all his
+mighty utterances, namely: "Philosophy and science may be translated
+perfectly and history, so far as it does not reach oratory, but poetry can
+never be translated without losing its most essential qualities." It would
+seem then that to know the poetry of a people one must read it in the
+original language, which every one surely cannot do. Mrs. Buckley however,
+recognizing this subtle quality of the poetry of a language, has left the
+little verses of the story untouched, wisely giving the translation at the
+bottom of the page. A very lovely translation it is however and after a
+short passage from the book, "Sought and Found", we shall give another
+poetic translation of the poem "Im Arm der Liebe", by Georg Scheurlin.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The following is a short passage from the story:</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "SOUGHT AND FOUND."</h4>
+
+<h4>TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GOLO RAIMUND.</h4>
+
+<p>Upon the table lay Veronica's picture, which in the meantime had been sent.
+The flowers, painted by her hand, appeared to him like a friendly greeting.
+He took it up and regarded it a long time; then, followed a sudden
+inspiration, he wrote upon the back:</p>
+
+<p>(Here follows the German verse, the translation below:)</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thy merry jest is gentle as the May,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy tender heart a lily of the dell;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fragrant as the rose thy inmost soul,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy wondrous song a sweet-toned bell.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>As in sport he subscribed his name; and then, as this homage, which had so
+long existed in his heart, suddenly expressed in words, stood before him,
+black upon white it was to him as if another had opened his eyes and he
+must guard the newly discovered secret. He placed the picture in a
+portfolio, in order to lock it in his writing-desk, and his eye fell upon
+the journal which had so singularly come into his hands. He laid the
+portfolio beside it. Did they not belong together? Did not the mysterious
+author resemble Veronica?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Like a revelation it flashed over him and so powerfully affected his
+imagination that the blood mounted hotly to his temples, and, in spite of
+the severe cold, he threw open the window that he might have more air.</p>
+
+<p>"If it were she!" thought he; restlessly striding up and down, and yet
+exultant that he had now found a trace which could be followed.</p>
+
+<h4>THE ARM OF LOVE.</h4>
+
+<h4>TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GEORG SCHEURLIN.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A young wife sits by a cradle nest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her fair boy smiling on her breast;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the quiet room draws on the night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And she rocks and sings by the soft lamplight;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On mother bosom the rest is deep;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the arm of love&mdash;so fall asleep.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the cool vale, 'neath sunny sky,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We sit alone, my own and I;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A song of joy wells in my breast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ah, heart to heart, how sweet the rest!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The brooklets ripple, the breezes sweep;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the arm of love&mdash;so fall asleep.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">From the churchyard tolls the solemn bell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the pilgrim has finished his journey well;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here lays he down the staff, long pressed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the bosom of earth, how calm the rest!<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Above the casket the earth they heap;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the arm of love&mdash;so fall asleep.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Miss Margaret N. Garrard.</h3>
+
+<p>It must be a poet who shall translate a poet and so naturally we find Miss
+Garrard as well as Mrs. Buckley, already in our group of "Poets".</p>
+
+<p>The difficulty of reproducing well, in metrical forms, thoughts from the
+poetry of another language, is so great, that we give with pride the
+translation of Miss Garrard of one of Goethe's sweet wild-wood songs, in
+which he excelled.</p>
+
+<h4>THE BROOK.</h4>
+
+<h4>TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Little brook, where wild flowers drink,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rushing past me, swift and clear&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thoughtful stand I on the brink&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Where's thy home? Whence com'st thou here?"<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I come from out the rock's dark gloom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My way lies o'er the flower-strewn plain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in my bosom there is room<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To mirror heaven's sweet face again.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Pain, sorrow, trouble have I none;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I wander onward, blithe and free&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He who has called me from the stone<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will to the end my guardian be.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Other Translators.</p>
+
+<p><i>Hon. John Whitehead</i> has translated considerably from the French and
+German, having used these translations in several of his writings, but
+individually they have not been published. He aided in translating the
+"History of the War of the Rebellion in North Western Virginia", which was
+written in German by Major F. J. Mangold, of the Prussian Army. The book
+was a monograph published by Major Mangold in Germany, but never published
+here. This translation was largely used by Judge Whitehead in his published
+articles on "The Fitz John Porter Case."</p>
+
+<p><i>Miss Karch</i>, a German lady long a resident of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> Morristown, was also a
+translator, but it has not been possible to procure the details of her
+work. It is nine years since Miss Karch returned to Heilbronn, Germany,
+where she is now living. For the fifteen years preceding her return, she
+had been a resident of Morristown as a teacher of the German and French
+languages. Says a friend: "She was a conscientious, accomplished and true
+woman, intensely loyal as a true German, self-sacrificing, patient and
+kindly generous in bestowing her softening and refining influences, upon
+those who needed them."</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p>
+<h2>LEXICOGRAPHER.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The great work of Dr. Lewis is his Latin Dictionary, published in 1879, as
+"Lewis and Short's Revision of Andrew's Freund". This is recognized as the
+most useful and convenient modern Latin-English Lexicon.</p>
+
+<p>Quite recently Dr. Lewis has brought out a Latin Dictionary for <i>schools</i>,
+which is not an abridgement of the larger work, but an original work on a
+definite plan of its own. "It has the prestige", says a critic, "of having
+been accepted in advance by the Clarendon Press of Oxford, and adopted
+among their publications in place of a similar lexicon projected and begun
+by themselves. Thus it may be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span> said to be published in England under the
+official patronage of the University of Oxford".</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Lewis also published in 1886 "A History of Germany From the Earliest
+Times".</p>
+
+<p>He ranks among the first Greek scholars of the country, having been for
+many years a member of the well-known Greek Club of New York, of which the
+late Rev. Howard Crosby D. D. was pioneer and president.</p>
+
+<p>He also ranks high as a Shakesperian scholar and critic, and as a poet.
+From his poem of "Telemachus", some lines are transcribed among the
+poetical selections of this book.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Lewis has made a profound study of the subject of prison reform and has
+been, and is, an active worker in that direction, in the New York Prison
+Association, being on the Executive Board of that Association.</p>
+
+<p>In Stedman and Hutchinson's "Library of American Literature", Dr. Lewis is
+represented by a paper on the "Influence of Civilization on Duration of
+Life".</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p>
+<h2>HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>William Cherry.</h3>
+
+<h4>ANCIENT CHRONICLER.</h4>
+
+<p>William Cherry is a veritable "Old Mortality", judging from a unique volume
+found in the Morristown Library. This ancient sexton of the First
+Presbyterian Church, was a true wanderer among graves. It is said by those
+who remember, or who had it from their fathers, that the old house
+adjoining the Lyceum Building is the one in which Mr. Cherry lived and no
+doubt reflected on the uncertainty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> of life, while he compiled his
+melancholy record.</p>
+
+<p>The following is the title of the old volume published by him and printed
+by Jacob Mann in the year 1806:</p>
+
+<p>"Bill of Mortality: Being a Register of all the Deaths, which have occurred
+in the Presbyterian and Baptist Congregations of Morristown, New Jersey;
+For Thirty-Eight Years Past, Containing (with but few exceptions) the Cause
+of every Disease. This Register, for the First Twenty-Two Years, was kept
+by the Rev. Dr. Johnes, since which Time, by <i>William Cherry</i>, the Present
+Sexton of the Presbyterian Church at Morris-Town".</p>
+
+<p>"Time brushes off our lives with sweeping wings."&mdash;<i>Hervey.</i></p>
+
+<p>Some of the causes of disease given are as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"Decay of Nature"; "Teething"; "Old Age"; "A Swelling"; "Mortification";
+"Sudden"; "Phrenzy"; "Casual"; "Poisoned by Night-Shade Berries";
+"Lingering Decay", &amp;c. We find no mention of "Heart Failure".</p>
+
+<p>This curious and valuable volume needs no further comment.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i221.jpg" width="650" height="439" alt="THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS.
+FROM GARDEN AND FOREST.
+Copyright 1892, by the
+GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO.
+" title="" />
+<span class="caption">THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS.<br />
+FROM GARDEN AND FOREST.<br />
+Copyright 1892, by the
+GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO.
+</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>To the Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D. we are indebted for the invaluable
+chronicles of events, of the life of the people, and of Washington and his
+army in Morristown during the Revolutionary period. Apparently, all this
+interesting story, in its details, would have been lost to us, except for
+his indefatigable zeal in collecting from the lips of living men and women,
+the eye-witnesses of what he relates, or from their immediate descendants,
+the story he gives us with such pictorial charm and beauty, warm from his
+own imaginary dwelling in the period of which he writes.</p>
+
+<p>For the following sketch of this author we are indebted to the historian
+who follows, the Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.</p>
+
+<p>Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D., son of Rev. Jacob and Elizabeth Ward Tuttle,
+was born at Bloomfield, N. J., March 12th, 1818. Fitted for college
+principally at Newark Academy, he graduated at Marietta College with first
+honors of his class in 1841. He entered Lane Seminary and was licensed to
+preach in 1844. In 1847 he was called to pastorate of church at Rockaway,
+N. J., as associate to his aged father-in-law, Rev. Dr. Barnabas King. He
+left Rockaway to accept the Presidency of Wabash College in 1862,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span> and,
+after thirty years in that position, resigned in 1892.</p>
+
+<p>During his fifteen years in this county he was a most voluminous and
+acceptable writer for the press&mdash;writing for the <i>Observer</i>, <i>Evangelist</i>,
+<i>Tribune</i> and other papers. But he is principally remembered more for his
+work as a local historian. He wrote, "The Early History of Morris County";
+"Biographical Sketch of Gen. Winds"; "Washington in Morris County";
+"History of the Presbyterian Church at Rockaway"; "Life of William Tuttle";
+"Revolutionary Fragments", (a series of articles published in <i>The Newark
+Sentinel of Freedom</i>); "Early History of Presbyterianism in Morris County",
+and other shorter articles. At the time his Revolutionary articles were
+published there were still men living who had personal knowledge of the
+events of that era and he gathered an immense amount of material which but
+for him would have been lost.</p>
+
+<p>The following from the pen of Dr. Tuttle appeared in <i>The Newark Daily
+Advertiser</i> of April, 1883:</p>
+
+
+<h4>A FINE RELIC AND A FINE POEM.</h4>
+
+<p>Thirty years ago and more my surplus energy was devoted to the innocent
+delights of hunting up places, people, facts and traditions associated<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span>
+with the American Revolution as preserved in Morris County. Some very
+charming rides were taken to Pompton, Mendham, Baskingridge, Spring Valley,
+Kimball Mountain, Singack, and other places. My rides made me certain that
+Morris County is both rich in beautiful scenery and historic associations.
+The results of these rides appeared in a series of "Revolutionary
+Fragments" printed in the <i>Advertiser</i>, as also in some elaborate papers
+before the Historical Society.</p>
+
+<p>One day I visited the Ford Mansion, and met that polished and elegant
+gentleman, the late Henry A. Ford, Esq., then its proprietor. He was the
+son of Judge Gabriel H. Ford, grandson of Colonel Jacob Ford, Jr., whose
+widow was the hostess of Washington, the Winter of 1779-80, great-grandson
+of Colonel Jacob Ford, Sr., who built the "Ford Mansion," and
+great-great-grandson of John Ford, of Hunterdon County, whose wife was
+Elizabeth who was brought to Philadelphia from Axford, England, when she
+was a child a year old. Her father was drowned by falling from the plank on
+which he was walking from the ship to the shore. Philadelphia then had but
+one house in it. Mrs. Ford's second husband was Lindsley, and "the widow
+Elizabeth Lindsley died at the house of her son, Col. Jacob Ford, Sr.,
+April 21, 1772, aged ninety-one years and one month," and so the courtly
+master of the "Ford Mansion,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span> when I called to visit it, was of the fifth
+generation from the child-emigrant, whose father was drowned in the
+Delaware, in 1682.</p>
+
+<p>The pleasure of the visit was greatly enhanced by the attentions of Miss
+Louisa, daughter of the gentleman named. She afterward became the wife of
+Judge Ogden of Paterson. The father and daughter with delightful courtesy
+took me over the famous house and associated in my memory the rooms and
+halls, and even the antique furniture with the family's most illustrious
+guest. I was especially interested in the old mirror that had hung in
+Washington's bedroom. Miss Ford produced a poem on that mirror, written, I
+think, by an aunt, and at my request she read it. She was a charming reader
+and promised me a copy.</p>
+
+<p>Under date of Paterson, October 31st, 1856, Mrs. Ogden was kind enough to
+send me the promised copy with a note apologizing for the delay and adding:
+"I think, however, you will find the poetry has not spoiled by keeping." I
+have not ceased to be thankful that my first visit to the Ford Mansion was
+so pleasantly associated with the attentions of the father and daughter,
+both of whom have since died.</p>
+
+<p>The mirror is a fine relic still to be seen with other elegant old
+furniture, belonging to the Ford family, at the "Washington Quarters" at
+Morristown, and I am sure all will regard the poem which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span> pleased me so
+much thirty years ago as "one that has not spoiled by keeping."</p>
+
+
+<h4>ON AN OLD MIRROR USED BY WASHINGTON AT HIS HEADQUARTERS IN MORRISTOWN.</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Old Mirror! speak and tell us whence<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou comest, and then, who brought thee thence.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Did dear old England give thee birth?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or merry France, the land of mirth?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In vain another should we seek<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At all like thee&mdash;thou thing antique.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the old mansion thou seem'st part;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Indeed, to me, its very heart;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For in thy face, though dimmed with age,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I read my country's brightest page.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Five generations, all have passed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yet, old Mirror, thou dost last;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The young, the old, the good, the bad,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The gay, the gifted and the sad<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are gone; their hopes, their sighs, their fears<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are buried deep with smiles and tears.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then speak; old Mirror! thou hast seen<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full many a noble form, I ween;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full many a soldier, tall and brave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now lying in a nameless grave;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full many a fairy form and bright<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hath flitted by when hearts were light;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full many a bride&mdash;whose short life seemed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Too happy to be even dreamed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full many a lord and titled dame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bearing full many an honored name;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">And tell us, Mirror, how they dressed&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Those stately dames, when in their best?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If robes and sacques the damsels wore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And sweeping skirts in days of yore?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But tell us, too, for we <i>must</i> hear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of <i>him</i> whom all the world revere.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thou sawest him when the times so dark<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had made upon his brow their mark;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Those fearful times, those dreary days,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When all seemed but a tangled maze;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His noble army, worn with toils,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Giving their life blood to the soils.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Disease and famine brooding o'er,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His country's foe e'en at his door;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But ever saw him noble, brave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking her freedom or his grave.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His was the heart that never quailed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His was the arm that never failed!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Old Mirror! thou hast seen what we<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would barter all most dear to see;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The great, the good, the <i>noblest</i> one;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our own <i>immortal Washington</i>!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Well may we gaze&mdash;for now in thee<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Relies of the great past we see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Well may we gaze&mdash;for ne'er again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Old Mirror, shall we see such men;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And when we too have lived our day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like those before us passed away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still, valued Mirror, may'st thou last<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To tell our children of the past;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still thy dimmed face, thy tarnished frame<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy honored house and time proclaim;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And ne'er may sacrilegious hand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While Freedom claims this as her land<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">One stone or pebble rashly throw<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To lay thee, honored Mirror, low.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i23">Y. F.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Halsey, historian, biographer, as well as lawyer, has published our
+most valuable "History of Morris County", and is considered an authority
+upon that subject, his accuracy being unquestioned. By his sterling
+integrity and superior intellectual ability, he has, in the practice of his
+profession, gained the entire confidence of the community in which, as a
+lawyer, he has passed the greater part of his life.</p>
+
+<p>Included in his literary work are "Personal Sketches" of Governor Mahlon
+Dickerson, Colonel Joseph Jackson, and others; "The Revolutionary Army in
+Morris County in 1779-'80"; and a brief sketch of the Washington
+Headquarters entitled "History of the Washington Association of New
+Jersey", published in Morristown in 1891.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Halsey also assisted Mr. William O. Wheeler in the publication of a
+book of unique interest and of unusual value, especially to genealogists
+and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span> antiquarians, the title of which reads "Inscriptions on Tombstones and
+Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St.
+John's Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey".</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Halsey is a prominent member of the "Historical Society of New Jersey",
+as well as of the "Washington Association of New Jersey".</p>
+
+<p>We quote from his "History of the Washington Association" the following
+"brief history of the title of the property".</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "HISTORY OF THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY."</h4>
+
+<p>Colonel Jacob Ford, Senior&mdash;prominent as a merchant, iron manufacturer, and
+land owner, who was president Judge of the County Court from the formation
+of the County in 1740 until his death in 1777, and who presided over the
+meeting, June 27, 1774, which appointed the first "Committee of
+Correspondence"&mdash;conveyed the tract of 200 acres surrounding the house to
+his son, Jacob Ford, junior, March 24, 1762. In 1768 he conveyed to him the
+Mount Hope mines and meadows where the son built the stone mansion still
+standing. In 1773 Jacob Ford, junior, rented this Mount Hope property for
+fifty years to John Jacob Faesch and David Wrisbery, and these men<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span>
+proceeded to build the furnace afterward useful to the patriot army in
+supplying it with cannon and cannon-balls.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Jacob Ford, junior, after making this lease returned to Morristown,
+and, probably with his father's aid, began at once the erection of these
+Headquarters, and had just completed the building when the war broke out.
+He was made Colonel of the Eastern Battalion of the Morris County Militia
+and was detailed to cover Washington's retreat across New Jersey in the
+"mud rounds" of 1776&mdash;a service accomplished with honor and success. In
+this or in similar service, Colonel Ford contracted pneumonia, of which he
+died January 10, 1777, and was buried with military honors by order of
+Washington. He left a widow, Theodosia Ford, and five young children. She
+was the daughter of Rev. Timothy Johnes, whose pastorate of the First
+church extended from 1742 to 1794, and who is said to have administered the
+Communion to Washington. This lady in 1779-80 offered to Washington the
+hospitality of her house, and here was his Headquarters from about December
+1, 1779 to June 1780. In 1805, Judge Gabriel H. Ford, one of the sons of
+Colonel Jacob, purchased his brothers' and sister's interest in the
+property and made it his home until his death in 1849. By his will dated
+January 27, 1848, Gabriel H. Ford, devised this, his homestead to his son,
+Henry A. Ford, who continued to occupy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span> it until his death, which occurred
+April 22, 1872. From the heirs of Henry A. Ford title was derived to the
+four gentlemen who organized the Association, namely: Governor Theodore F.
+Randolph, Hon. George A. Halsey, General N. N. Halsted, and William Van
+Vleck Lidgerwood, Esq.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. John Whitehead.</h3>
+
+<h4>BIOGRAPHER AND HISTORIAN.</h4>
+
+<p>Of Mr. Whitehead's new departure into the field of romance, we have already
+spoken and a portion of his story "A Fishing Trip to Barnegat", is given to
+represent him among "Novelists and Story Writers".</p>
+
+<p>His literary work of many years covers a variety of departments in
+literature.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Northern Monthly Magazine</i> which began some years ago, as a
+periodical of high order we find running through several numbers a "History
+of the English Language", contributed by Mr. Whitehead, in which he starts
+from a true and philosophic premise. It is this: "It would be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span> difficult to
+separate any one creation from the whole universe and pronounce that it is
+not subject to law." The reader discovers that these magazine articles
+contain the germs of all that has been written in many exhaustive works on
+the philosophy and growth of language.</p>
+
+<p>For a number of years, Mr. Whitehead was editor of <i>The Record</i>, a small
+sheet opened by the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, the value of
+which historically increases with each year. For this, he wrote largely,
+sketches of prominent men of Revolutionary times and of others connected
+with the congregation of the church.</p>
+
+<p>Some important papers were contributed by him to the local press, including
+"A Review of Fitz John Porter's Case", in the Morristown <i>Banner</i>, also
+"Sketches of Morris County Lawyers". A series of "Sketches" was also
+published in the <i>Newark Sunday Call</i>, entitled "Newark Aforetime",
+referring to Newark and Newark people, fifty years ago.</p>
+
+<p>Many of Mr. Whitehead's speeches and addresses have been published, among
+them, those given at the Centennial Celebration of the First Presbyterian
+Church of Morristown; at the Centennial Celebration of the Presbyterian
+Church at Springfield, N. J.; two or three addresses before the Society of
+the Sons of the American Revolution,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span> and an address delivered two or three
+years ago before the Washington Association of N. J. Of the latter
+Association, Mr. Whitehead is an honored member as well as of the
+Historical Society of New Jersey.</p>
+
+<p>In the course of his study and writing, we have already mentioned among
+"Translators," Mr. Whitehead has made several valuable translations from
+German and French authors.</p>
+
+<p>We must not overlook one principal labor which is far more herculean than
+we, who are so greatly benefited by it, perhaps fully comprehend, namely,
+the Catalogue, in two volumes, of the Library, in which Morristown justly
+takes so much pride. This was a voluntary work.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Whitehead is now engaged on a "History of Morris County", to form one
+chapter in a new illustrated "History of New Jersey," to be published by
+Colonel U. S. Sharp. He has also in preparation the "History of the First
+Presbyterian Church" of Morristown, in which will appear the interesting
+proceedings of the Centennial exercises, recently held there.</p>
+
+<p>A series of fine articles on "The Supreme Court of New Jersey" are now
+appearing in <i>The Green Bag</i> of Boston. This <i>Green Bag</i> is a magazine
+published in the interests of the legal fraternity, as from its significant
+name we see, and this magazine is the nearest approach so far made by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span>
+Americans towards the traditional appendage of the English barrister,
+everywhere seen over the border in Canada, by which, it is well known, he
+is always accompanied when he goes to court and while he remains there in
+attendance. This bag contains his briefs, papers and other impedimenta
+connected with trials. It is not surprising, but it is touching, to find
+Boston holding on to this last hope of accomplishing that for which so many
+frantic efforts have been made in this country, only to meet with failure.</p>
+
+<p>The last article in this magazine, of the series on "The Supreme Court of
+New Jersey", is delightful in expression and in form; it has a fine large
+type, is illustrated with well-executed portraits of the judges, in group
+and singly, and is altogether most attractive and interesting.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Bayard Tuckerman.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Tuckerman, who resided for some time in Morristown, and whose ancestry
+is associated with artistic and literary taste and genius, is the author of
+"The Life of General Lafayette", published<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span> in 1889, during his residence
+in Morristown, and, a copy of which was presented by the author, in person,
+to the Morristown Library. Before this, he published a "History of English
+Prose Fiction", in 1882, and after it, in 1889 again, he edited "The Diary
+of Philip Hone". This author is now engaged on another book, to be
+published in the spring in the "Makers of America" series, with the title
+of "Peter Stuyvesant".</p>
+
+<p>"The Diary of Philip Hone" is a charming book, especially to those familiar
+with old New York. The editorship of any life requires a talent for
+selection and a gift for combining and drawing together much desultory
+matter, but when we consider that the two volumes, into which Mr. Tuckerman
+compressed his material were less than one-fourth the original diary, which
+fills twenty-eight quarto manuscript volumes, the herculean task is at once
+apparent. A critic in one of the popular journals says of it: "As a rule
+the diary needs little interpretation and it may be welcomed as an
+agreeable, gossipy contribution to civic annals, and as a pleasant record
+of a citizen of some distinction, parts and usefulness in his generation".</p>
+
+<p>In the "Life of General Lafayette", Mr. Tuckerman has evinced his superior
+love of industrious, conscientious study. The book is acknowledged to be
+essentially truthful and exceptionally just above anything ever written of
+Lafayette. It has been<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span> truly said of Mr. Tuckerman that "he tells the
+story of Lafayette's life in such a way that the interest increases as it
+proceeds" and that "he shows his skill as a biographer in this as in making
+both the narrative itself and his own criticism of the subject heighten our
+sympathy". He has not allowed himself to be turned from the actual
+statement of fact by that peculiar sentiment of the romantic side of
+Lafayette's career which has more or less colored the opinions of so many
+other biographers. Mr. Tuckerman himself says that "Lafayette's name has
+suffered more from the admiration of his friends than from the detraction
+of his enemies."</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM THE "LIFE OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE."</h4>
+
+<p>The visit to America was supplemented in the following summer of 1785 by a
+journey through Germany and Austria.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Many distinguished officers were met. At one camp, as he (Lafayette) wrote
+to Washington, he found Lord Cornwallis, Colonels England, Abercrombie, and
+Musgrave; "on our side" Colonel Smith, Generals Duportail and Gouvion; "and
+we often remarked, Smith and I, that if we had been unfortunate in our
+struggle, we would have cut a poor figure there." Again;</p>
+
+<p>Writing from Valley Forge to the Comte de<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span> Broglie, he gave a sad picture
+of the poverty and sufferings of the army. "Everything here", he said,
+"combines to inspire disgust. At the smallest sign from you I shall return
+home". But the misery of Valley Forge never abated one jot of Lafayette's
+enthusiasm. The privations which he saw and shared only made him put his
+hand the more often into his own pocket, and redouble his efforts to obtain
+aid from the treasury of France.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>To Lafayette, the happiest portion of this voyage to America was the time
+passed in the company of Washington. Hastening from New York immediately on
+his arrival, he allowed himself to be delayed only at Philadelphia. "There
+is no rest for me," he wrote thence to Washington, "until I go to Mt.
+Vernon. I long for the pleasure to embrace you, my dear general; in a few
+days I shall be at Mt. Vernon, and I do already feel delighted with so
+charming a prospect." Two weeks of a proud pleasure were then passed in the
+society of the man who was always to remain his beau ideal. To walk about
+the beautiful grounds of Mt. Vernon with its honored master, discussing his
+agricultural plans; to sit with him in his library, and listen to his hopes
+regarding the nation for which he had done so much, were honors which
+Lafayette fully appreciated. He has left on record the feelings of
+admiration with which he saw the man<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span> who had so long led a great people in
+a great struggle retire to private life, with no thought other than
+satisfaction at duty performed. And it was a legitimate source of pride to
+himself that he had enlisted under his standard before fortune had smiled
+upon it, and had worked with all his heart to crown it with victory. The
+two men thoroughly knew each other.</p>
+
+<p>The words of Lafayette will be found, in this volume, in the paper on
+"George Washington."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>He (Washington) responded to Lafayette's demonstrative regard by a sincere
+paternal affection. Later in the summer, Lafayette met Washington again,
+and visited in his company some of the scenes of the late war. When the
+time for parting had come, Washington accompanied his guest as far as
+Annapolis in his carriage. There the two friends separated, not to meet
+again.</p>
+
+<p>On his return to Mt. Vernon, Washington added to his words of farewell, a
+letter in which occur the following passages; "In the moment of our
+separation, upon the road as I travelled, and every hour since, I have felt
+all that love, respect, and attachment for you, with which length of years,
+close connection and your merits have inspired me. I often asked myself, as
+our carriages separated, whether that was the last sight I ever should have
+of you, and though I wished to say no,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span> my fears answered yes. I called to
+mind the days of my youth, and found they had long since fled, to return no
+more; that I was now descending the hill I had been fifty-two years
+climbing, and that, though I was blest with a good constitution, I was of a
+short-lived family, and might soon expect to be entombed in the mansion of
+my fathers. These thoughts darkened the shades and gave a gloom to the
+picture, and consequently to my prospect of seeing you again. But I will
+not repine; I have had my day. * * * * It is unnecessary, I persuade
+myself, to repeat to you, my dear Marquis, the sincerity of my regards and
+friendship; nor have I words which could express my affection for you, were
+I to attempt it. My fervent prayers are offered for your safe and pleasant
+passage, happy meeting with Madame de Lafayette and family, and the
+completion of every wish of your heart." To these words Lafayette replied
+from on board the "Nymphe," on the eve of his departure for France: "Adieu,
+adieu, my dear general. It is with inexpressible pain that I feel I am
+going to be severed from you by the Atlantic. Everything that admiration,
+respect, gratitude, friendship, and filial love can inspire is combined in
+my affectionate heart to devote me most tenderly to you. In your friendship
+I find a delight which words cannot express. Adieu, my dear general. It is
+not without emotion that I write this word, although I know I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> shall soon
+visit you again. Be attentive to your health. Let me hear from you every
+month. Adieu, adieu."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Loyall Farragut.</h3>
+
+<h4>BIOGRAPHER.</h4>
+
+<p>With Morristown is associated the beautiful memoir of our great Admiral, in
+honor of whom one of the streets of our city is named. In the old house now
+removed from its original position to the end of Farragut Place, this
+honored commander once visited for several days, walking over the ground
+now occupied by the houses of many families, delighted as a boy with
+everything in nature; noticing and observing the smallest detail of what
+was going on around him and interesting himself equally in the humblest
+individual who crossed his path and in the most distinguished visitor who
+asked to be presented.</p>
+
+<p>The "Life of David Glasgow Farragut" was written according to the admiral's
+expressed wish, by his only son, Loyall Farragut, who for a short time had,
+in Morristown, his summer home, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span> who presented to the Morristown
+Library a copy of his book.</p>
+
+<p>The Farraguts came from the island of Minorca, where the name is now
+extinct. In the volume referred to, we find these words: "George Farragut,
+father of the admiral was sent to school at Barcelona, but was seized with
+the spirit of adventure, and emigrated to America at an early age. He
+arrived in 1776, promptly sided with the colonists, and served gallantly in
+the struggle for independence, as also in the war of 1812. It is said that
+he saved the life of Colonel Washington in the battle of Cowpens."</p>
+
+<p>In reading this volume one is transported to the times and scenes
+described, and everywhere is felt the grandeur, beauty and simplicity of
+character of this truly great and lovable man. In the touching letter to
+his devoted wife, on the eve of the great battle, is seen, as an example to
+all men of future generations, the realization of a man's fidelity to the
+woman of his choice, even in the moment of greatest extremity, and the
+possibility of the tenderest heart existing side by side with the daring
+courage of one of the bravest men the world has ever seen.</p>
+
+<p>Wonderfully stirring are the descriptions given of the river fight on the
+Mississippi and of the battle of Mobile Bay, after which Admiral Farragut<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span>
+received from Secretary Welles the following congratulatory letter:</p>
+
+<p>"In the success which has attended your operations, you have illustrated
+the efficiency and irresistible power of a naval force led by a bold and
+vigorous mind and the insufficiency of any batteries to prevent the passage
+of a fleet thus led and commanded. You have, first on the Mississippi and
+recently in the bay of Mobile, demonstrated what had previously been
+doubted,&mdash;the ability of naval vessels, properly manned and commanded, to
+set at defiance the best constructed and most heavily armed fortifications.
+In these successive victories, you have encountered great risks, but the
+results have vindicated the wisdom of your policy and the daring valor of
+our officers and seamen."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Josiah Collins Pumpelly.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Pumpelly, long a resident of Morristown, claims our attention as a
+writer, rather than an author, as he has not been a publisher of books,
+beyond a collection of three Addresses in pamphlet form entitled "Our
+French Allies in the Revolution and Other Addresses".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Several sketches entitled "Reminiscences of Colonial Days", and others of
+the same character, all involve considerable research and add to our
+literary possessions in connection with historic Morristown. His "Address
+on Washington", delivered before the Washington Association of New Jersey,
+at the Morristown Headquarters, February 22, 1888, was published by the
+Association, and has long been for sale there. Of this, the writer says, "I
+rejoice that even in this slight way, I can be of service to an Association
+whose faithful care of this home of Washington in the trying winter of 1779
+and '80 deserves the lasting gratitude of every loyal Jerseyman." In
+closing this address, Mr. Pumpelly said, quoting from our favorite
+historian, Rev. Dr. Tuttle, "each old parish in our County had its heroes,
+and each old church was a shrine at which brave men and women bowed in
+God's fear, consecrating their all to their country." Mr. Pumpelly adds:
+"So instead of referring our children to Greek and Roman patriots, we have
+but to call up for them the names of our own men and women, who have here
+amid the hills of Morris, wrought out for us this heritage, so much
+grander, so much nobler than they themselves ever dreamed." This address is
+now bound in a larger pamphlet with "Our French Allies", to which we have
+referred and which was read before the New Jersey Historical Society, at
+Trenton, January 22d, 1889<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span> and "Fort Stanwix and Battle of Oriskany", an
+address delivered before the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in New
+York City, Dec. 3, 1888.</p>
+
+<p>There was an important paper read by Mr. Pumpelly before the New Jersey
+Society of the Sons of the Revolution, on June 10th, 1889, and by them
+adopted in their meeting of that date, and afterwards published, on "The
+Birthplace of our Immortal Washington and the Grave of his Illustrious
+Mother, shall they not be Sacredly Preserved?"</p>
+
+<p>Another address followed on "Joseph Warren" before the Massachusetts
+Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, on April 18th, 1890, on the
+occasion of the 114th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. He was then
+President of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.</p>
+
+<p>A paper was read by request on "Mahlon Dickerson, Industrial Pioneer and
+old time Patriot," on January 27, 1891, before the New Jersey Historical
+Society.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Pumpelly has also given much time and literary effort in philanthropic
+and sanitary directions. Many articles have appeared from time to time from
+his pen in behalf of reforms in the treatment of our dependent, delinquent,
+and defective classes, all tending to social economic improvement and, at
+one time, assisting materially the advance of the State Charities Aid
+Association of New Jersey<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span> of which he was for several years an active
+member.</p>
+
+<p>His attention is now being turned to the story of the Huguenots in this
+country. He is just completing a quite exhaustive paper upon the Huguenots
+in New Jersey, which is to be given by request before the Genealogical
+Society of New York, in January 1893, after which the subject is to be
+prepared by him for use in a school text-book.</p>
+
+<p>In <i>The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i>, of April 1892, is
+"A Short Sketch of the Character and Life of John Paul Jones", written in a
+most interesting and delightful manner and given before the New York
+Genealogical and Biographical Society, January 8, 1892. We quote from</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT DOES THE CAUSE OF HUMAN FREEDOM OWE TO THE HUGUENOT?</h4>
+
+<p>In looking back over the milestones which mark in history the relapse and
+advance, the failure and the successes, of the principles of civilization,
+we note that at a certain period it was the Teutonic Nations which broke
+loose from Rome and the Latin Nations who adhered to the Pope. Also, that
+in France, opposition to Rome was early and considerable. Thus the
+Waldenses, Albigenses, and Lefevre and his colleagues were Huguenots and
+lovers of human freedom before the name itself was known&mdash;Calvinists<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span>
+before Calvin, Lutherans before Luther, Wiclyfites before Wiclyf.</p>
+
+<p>That great movement for the liberty of conscience and personal freedom,
+civil and religious, was not in France an importation, for God had
+deposited the first principles of the work in a few brave hearts of Picardy
+and Dauphiny before it had begun in any other country of the globe. Not to
+Switzerland nor to Germany belongs the honor of having been first in the
+work, but to France and the Huguenot.</p>
+
+<p>It was the voice of Lefevre, of Etaples, France, a man of great nobility of
+soul as well as genius of mind, which was to give the signal of the rising
+of this morning star of liberty. He it was who taught Farel, the great
+French reformer and "master-builder" with Luther.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hannah More Johnson.</h3>
+
+<p>Miss Johnson's poem, "The Christmas Tree", has taken its place in our
+Poet's corner. She is also mentioned among <i>Novelists and Story-Writers</i>
+for her well-known stories of "Lost Willie"; "Ella<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span> Dutton"; "Snow Drifts";
+"Signal Lights", and "First the Blade" published by A. D. F. Randolph and
+by the Presbyterian Board. But perhaps her most important work is "Mexico,
+Past and Present", an excellent and charmingly written history of Mexico, a
+book of interest and importance, with sixty three maps and illustrations,
+treating not only the history, but the present condition and prospects of
+that country. This work is found in many libraries, and places Miss Johnson
+among our <i>Historians</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Johnson is the daughter of Mr. Jacob Johnson and niece of our
+townsman, Mr. J. Henry Johnson, who was the last preceptor of the old
+Morris Academy. Though long a resident of Morristown, she now makes her
+home in Philadelphia where she is editor of a Missionary Publication.</p>
+
+<p>"I first thought of myself as a writer", says Miss Johnson, "when I saw my
+name for the first time in print and nearly fainted with fright. I have
+never recovered from that shock and not until I had had more than one
+collision with publishers have I consented to give my name to articles."</p>
+
+<p>Last September (1892) "Bible Lights in Mission Paths" was published: "The
+long interval between my first and my last book," says the author, "was
+filled with what seems to me the true work of my life." And it is curious
+how this work of life came to her quite unsought and unexpectedly. Let us<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span>
+hear it in her own words. "About twelve years ago," she tells us, "a
+relative became proprietor of a small religious weekly in Philadelphia,
+<i>The Presbyterian Journal</i>. I had the entire charge of the missionary
+department. Shortly afterward, the Presbyterian Alliance met in our city
+and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, (of which I was and still am a
+Director), held in connection with that great convocation in the Academy of
+Music, an all-day meeting in one of the churches. Presbyterian women were
+there from every quarter of the world beside others from sister churches.
+At noon as I sat, talking over the programme for the afternoon with Mrs.
+A&mdash;&mdash;, she said regretfully, 'I am afraid that we shall not be able to get
+these women to speak loud enough to be heard all over this great church. It
+would be delightful if we could have a full report.' 'I think I could get
+one up, Mrs. A&mdash;&mdash;,' said I. 'I have been taking notes of the speeches all
+the morning and this afternoon we are to have written reports and papers.'
+'I can get them all for you,' she said quickly. That night I went home
+laden with documents, three-fourths of them from the Old World. The
+<i>Journal</i> publishers offered to send out an extra and send it to any
+address I gave. Within a week, this extra was mailed to every mission
+station throughout the world, which had been in any way represented at this
+woman's meeting or mentioned in its reports. Ever<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> since that busy, busy
+week with French, English, Scotch, German, Italian, Belgian and Irish
+women, I have been a constant reporter of Missionary meetings. This led to
+a series of articles for Monthly Concerts, proposed for the use of pastors
+and other leaders of missionary meetings. Twelve articles a year for about
+four years, each one of which had cost months of research and study, I had
+time for nothing else. It was weary work. All roads led to Rome and I
+couldn't pick up a book or a daily that didn't give me an item or a
+suggestion. The nameless writer was generally supposed to be some Doctor of
+Divinity shelved with a sore throat or other ministerial disability. I
+remember one time when a carefully prepared article (of mine) on Siam
+appeared in <i>The Gospel of all Lands</i>, credited to <i>The London Missionary
+News</i>. It had been taken from the magazine in which it was first published,
+profusely illustrated and sent out as an English production."</p>
+
+<p>Besides this Miss Johnson has furnished monthly articles for various papers
+and occasional poems, for magazines. Thus we see her very busy life has
+been fruitful of unusual results.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.</h3>
+
+<p>Mrs. Wright has already been mentioned among <i>Novelists and Story-Writers</i>.
+For the following graphic sketch, we are indebted to one of our writers,
+Mrs. Julia R. Cutler.</p>
+
+<p>"One of the authors whose sojourn in our 'beautiful little town', as she
+calls it, was of a comparatively brief period, from 1881-'83, but whose
+writings, as showing deep research in many fields of thought, both
+scientific and historical, entitle her to more than a brief mention, is
+Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.</p>
+
+<p>"Her husband, the Rev. Dr. William J. Wright, is President of and,
+Professor of Metaphysics, in a Western College. Much of Mrs. Wright's time
+is spent in visiting different large cities, at home and abroad, where she
+can have access to libraries and gain information on various subjects
+connected with her books.</p>
+
+<p>"While in Morristown, she wrote, at the request of the Presbyterian Board
+of Publication, her book on "The Alaskans" and also a short work on the
+religious life, called "Mr. Standfast's Journey", besides preparing for the
+press a book entitled "Bricks from Babel", which she had previously written
+while visiting London and the British museum.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span> The Rev. Joseph Cook fully
+endorses this book, and calls it 'a most admirable compendium of
+ethnography.' A set of religious biographies were, also, about this time,
+published in Arabic.</p>
+
+<p>"These works written and prepared for the press while she was occupying her
+quiet cottage home on Morris Plains, would alone have entitled her to a
+prominent place among the authors of whom Morristown has reason to be
+proud. But these are but a small portion of her literary labors. Judging
+from the number of books which appear over her signature, she must indeed
+be gifted with the 'pen of a ready writer.'</p>
+
+<p>"Among the more prominent works are 'The Early Church in Britain'; 'The
+Complete Home', of which over one hundred thousand copies have been sold;
+'Saints and Sinners of the Bible'; 'Almost a Nun'; 'The Priest and Nun'; 'A
+Wife Hard Won', a novel published by Lippincott; 'The Making of Rasmus';
+'Rasmus a Made Man'; and 'Rag Fair and May Fair'. The last deals with
+social questions in England, and is being re-published in London, as indeed
+a number of her other books have been, as well as translated into the
+French language.</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Wright's latest work, completed during a recent visit to the British
+museum, is a Series of Readers on Natural Science, called 'Nature Readers,
+Seaside and Wayside', which are having a large<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span> run in this country, in
+England and in Canada and which are a new invention in school books. They
+have been more warmly received than any books for our schools, for the past
+twenty-five years.</p>
+
+<p>"Very few persons have the talent of dealing with so many subjects and
+doing it so well. Even the Temperance cause owes much to Mrs. Wright, as
+its earnest advocate, and many of her thrilling stories on this subject
+have touched the hearts and inspired the actions of those who have read
+them. Nor has she, amid her multitude of duties, forgotten the young, as
+the large number of volumes on the shelves of our Sabbath School libraries,
+bearing her name can testify.</p>
+
+<p>"May the pen Mrs. Wright has so wisely and deftly used, in the cause of
+education and humanity, long continue through her skillful hand, to trace
+its characters upon the hearts and minds of those with whom it comes in
+contact!"</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Edwina L. Keasbey.</h3>
+
+<p>Though Mrs. Keasbey has published a most attractive and useful book, full
+of practical thoughts<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span> idealized, yet we place her and Mrs. Stockton in
+this grouping for the reason that a large part of her writing was of this
+character, on the whole. Much of it was graphically descriptive of scenes
+in foreign lands and at home, usually accompanied with reflections which
+indicate the <i>Essay</i> character. Like others of our writers, there is a
+variety in her writing and choice of subjects which makes it somewhat
+difficult to place her with exactness.</p>
+
+<p>Most of Mrs. Keasbey's writing was originally done for <i>The Hospital
+Review</i>, a paper edited by her, during eleven years, for the St. Barnabas
+Hospital, which was founded largely through her efforts and influence and
+was a work to which she devoted her life. For this was written a series of
+papers entitled "A Lame Woman's Tramp through some Alpine Passes", and
+"Bits of English Scenery Sketched by a Lame Hand", among which is a fine
+and vivid picture of the first sight of Durham Cathedral. So, for this
+<i>Hospital Review</i> were originally written the papers now collected and
+bound in one of the prettiest little volumes one could desire, convenient
+in size, artistic in design and with clear, large type and broad margins.
+This is entitled "The Culture of the Cradle".</p>
+
+<p>In the education of children, Mrs. Keasbey has found the key and basis of
+all true and reasonable training, in the development of the child's
+individuality. The object of this book is to suggest the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> meaning and
+purpose of true culture and to show how it must begin with the cradle and,
+says the author, "to give some suggestions and leaves from experience that
+may be of use to those who are striving to begin, in the right way, the
+education of their children." The book, published in 1886, has had a large
+sale and the entire proceeds have been devoted to the Hospital of St.
+Barnabas, which the author so much loved.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Keasbey was the eldest daughter of the Hon. J. W. Miller, and she
+inherited well her intense love of good works from her honored mother, who
+was so long identified with Morristown's philanthropic and charitable work.
+She was born in the old Macculloch mansion on Macculloch Avenue and lived
+there till her marriage in 1854, after which her literary qualities and
+rare executive abilities went to adorn the city of Newark where she will be
+tenderly remembered, and where her works live after her.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "THE CULTURE OF THE CRADLE."</h4>
+
+<p>As I sit by my window on this beautiful spring day, preparing my article
+upon "The Nurture of Infants," a pair of little birds are building their
+nest in the vine that grows about my piazza, so I take my text from them.</p>
+
+<p>How busy they are, how absorbed in their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span> work! The whole world contains
+for them no other point of interest, but only this little crotch in the
+vine which they have chosen to build their cradle in for their future
+little ones. We may be quite sure that it is the best spot in the whole
+vine, not too shady or too sunny, just happily out of the reach of cruel
+cat or mischievous boys, and then the cradle will be so perfect, strong
+enough to resist the winds that shake the vine, and covered enough to
+withstand the spring rains, and warm enough to shelter the little ones as
+they crack the shell; and so comfortable with its soft padding of cotton
+and down to cherish and protect the little tender bodies when they come
+into this cold world.</p>
+
+<p>I think it is nearly finished to-day, for the little mother has settled
+herself down into it and nestled herself in it and picked off her own soft
+down, and stuffed it in with the cotton that she had lined the nest with.
+She looks so satisfied and content, as if she would say, "it is quite ready
+now for my little darlings."</p>
+
+<p>With this little mother there is no word of complaint or selfish murmur
+though she is going to sit in that nest for many a long day and dark night,
+through storm and sunshine, until the little ones come forth from their
+eggs to gladden her heart and repay her care and work of preparation.</p>
+
+<p>Can we mothers have a better teacher or a wiser example than this little
+bird, whose lessons in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> motherhood have come to her direct from her
+Creator?</p>
+
+
+<h3>Mrs. Marian E. Stockton.</h3>
+
+<p>As to Mrs. Stockton's charming pen, we must reluctantly refrain from
+noticing her many essays and writings in various directions, principally
+prepared at the request of literary societies and other
+organizations,&mdash;always read by some one else, owing to the writer's great
+dislike for coming into public notice, and always published, and sent
+about, by the Society or group of people for whom they were written. The
+title of this book compels us, however, to mention this gifted woman's
+name, and we give below an extract from one delightful paper, written as
+usual by request for an important occasion, read by a distinguished
+literary woman, and as usual published.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "HOME AND SOCIETY."</h4>
+
+<p>It may help to a proper understanding of the line of thought followed in
+this paper if I state in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> the beginning that it is, chiefly, an attempt to
+get a definite answer to the question so often asked: What is Society? It
+is an effort to arrive at a conclusion which the majority of American women
+may be willing to accept. Otherwise we shall find ourselves so beset with
+perplexities that we shall not be able to get anything out of our subject.
+For most persons have very vague ideas regarding society, and would find it
+difficult to express them. I have tried to get at the ideas of a few
+persons who might be supposed to know, with but small result. One says: "It
+is a limited company of persons of wealth and leisure who give up their
+time chiefly to entertainments and pleasure." This view of the subject
+suggests the familiar advertisements of a certain soap, reversing the sign;
+for taking out the pure article&mdash;<i>i. e.</i>, the persons composing this
+society&mdash;we would have 99 44-100 of the people of the United States with no
+society at all. <i>So very little</i> of the pure article will, I think,
+scarcely suffice to float this definition.</p>
+
+<p>Another says: "It is a collection of the best people in a city or
+neighborhood who give a tone to the place." This is better, but calls forth
+other questions. Whom do you mean by the "best people"? What is "tone"?
+What sort of "tone" do they give? New York, New Orleans, and Poker Flat
+would give widely different answers to these questions.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Another defines it as "a number, large or small, of cultured people." This
+conveys a charming idea to the mind, but it is too limited, for we are
+considering to-day society in its broadest as well as its best aspects;
+and, surely, we would none of us be willing to deny to good-hearted,
+honest, decent people, the pleasure of forming a society of their own kind,
+and enjoying it in a rational&mdash;if uncultured&mdash;fashion. We want to-day to
+get hold of a comprehensive idea of society.</p>
+
+<p>Last summer, at a fashionable resort, I heard some New York ladies
+speaking, with admiration, of another lady in the hotel, and one exclaimed:
+"What a pity she is not in Society!" To this they all agreed, and another
+kindly asked: "Can't we do something to help her to know people?" As I knew
+this lady, and was aware of the fact that, when she returned to the city at
+the beginning of every season, she sent out cards to six hundred people, I
+was much surprised; for, if visiting and being visited by six hundred
+people is not being "in society", I do not know what is. Therefore, I could
+only infer that she was not in their special coterie.</p>
+
+<p>A very intelligent woman once told me frankly, that she could not imagine
+anything that could be called society outside the City of New York.</p>
+
+<p>Again I was told, some time ago, by a literary lady who was then residing
+in this city (but who is not here now): "Literary people are not
+recognized<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span> in New York society." I use her own words and they puzzled me.
+Soon after, there chanced to fall in my way a description of New York life
+by a Frenchman who had been entertained by all sorts of people. He stated
+that the most charming society in this city is the literary society, and he
+proceeded to paint it in glowing colors. Between the literary lady on one
+side and Max O'Rell on the other, I gave up that conundrum.</p>
+
+<p>These few examples of misconceptions and wrong-headedness in regard to what
+society really is will suffice to show how necessary it is to get a clear
+and comprehensive definition for it. To get this we must disentangle
+ourselves from all these figments, go back, and enter through the gate
+which naturally leads into society.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span></p>
+<h2>TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Marquis de Chastellux.</h3>
+
+<p>The Marquis de Chastellux, counted in France a clever historian, is
+considered by us as a traveler, for he was one of the earliest French
+travelers in North America and, on his return to France, published a book
+entitled "Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781 and 1782, by the
+Marquis de Chastellux, one of the Forty Members of the French Academy, and
+Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau."
+This book was published in 1787 in London. In it we find the most graphic
+descriptions of the soldiers and officers of the Revolution, of West Point
+in its<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span> character of a military outpost; of the road between it and
+Morristown; of the beauty and grandeur of the Hudson River, as it burst for
+the first time upon his vision; of several interviews, visits and dinners
+with Washington and Lafayette, always giving his impressions in a unique
+and original way and with a sprinkle of humor which keeps a continuous
+smile upon the lips of the reader as he progresses in this remarkable
+narrative. It is really most difficult to choose from this fascinating
+book, for the short space we can allow.</p>
+
+<p>In speaking of his arrival here he refers to the <i>Arnold Tavern</i>, which may
+still be seen, removed from its original location but restored with great
+care, (though enlarged), and is now standing on Mt. Kemble Avenue, the old
+"Baskingridge Road" of the Revolution. He says:</p>
+
+<p>"I intended stopping at Morris Town only to bait my horses, for it was only
+half past two, but on entering the inn of Mr. Arnold, I saw a dining room
+adorned with looking glasses and handsome mahogany furniture and a table
+spread for twelve persons. I learnt that all this preparation was for me
+and what affected me more nearly was to see a dinner corresponding with the
+appearances, ready to serve up. I was indebted for this to the goodness of
+General Washington and the precautions of Colonel Moyland who had sent
+before to acquaint them with my arrival. It would have been very
+ungenerous<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span> to have accepted this dinner at the expenses of Mr. Arnold who
+is an honest man and a good Whig and who has not a particle in common with
+Benedict Arnold; it would have been still more awkward to have paid for the
+banquet without eating it. I therefore instantly determined to dine and
+sleep in this comfortable inn. The Vicomte de Noailles, the Comte de Damas,
+&amp;c., were expected to make up the dozen."</p>
+
+<p>Chastellux apparently came as a passing traveler and seems to have been
+induced to prolong his stay and during that time gives us very graphic and
+interesting glimpses, to which we have referred, of the General and his
+officers, dinners at which he was present, reviews of troops, the army
+itself and its condition, with passing reflections about the country and
+the manners and customs of the time. Among the latter remarks, he observes:
+"Here, as in England, by <i>gentleman</i> is understood a person possessing a
+considerable <i>freehold</i>, or land of his own." Of the officers, he says:</p>
+
+<p>"I must observe on this occasion the General Officers of the American Army
+have a very military and a very becoming carriage; that even all the
+officers, whose characters were brought into public view, unite much
+politeness to a great deal of capacity; that the headquarters of this army,
+in short, neither present the image of want nor inexperience. When one sees
+the battalion of the General's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span> Guards encamped within the precincts of his
+house; nine waggons, destined to carry his baggage, ranged in his court; a
+great number of grooms taking care of very fine horses belonging to the
+General Officers and their Aides de Camp; when one observes the perfect
+order that reigns within these precincts, where the guards are exactly
+stationed, and where the drums beat an alarm, and a particular retreat, one
+is tempted to apply to the Americans what Pyrrhus said of the Romans:
+<i>Truly these people have nothing barbarous in their discipline.</i>"</p>
+
+<p>Of his coming to Morristown, he says: "I pursued my journey, sometimes
+through fine woods at others through well cultivated lands and villages
+inhabited by Dutch families. One of these villages, which forms a little
+township bears the beautiful name of <i>Troy</i>. Here the country is more open
+and continues so to <i>Morris-Town</i>. This town celebrated by the winter
+quarters of 1779, is about three and twenty miles from Peakness, the name
+of the headquarters from whence I came: It is situated on a height, at the
+foot of which runs the rivulet called Vipenny River; the houses are
+handsome and well built, there are about sixty or eighty round the
+meeting-house."</p>
+
+<p>The Marquis tells of his reception at the Camp of Lafayette and, in giving
+us his picture, he gives us also what is of value to us in this day,&mdash;a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span>
+Frenchman's impression of Lafayette in America:</p>
+
+<p>"Whilst they were making this slight repast, I went to see the Camp of the
+<i>Marquis</i>, it is thus they call M. de La Fayette: the English language
+being fond of abridgments and titles uncommon in America."</p>
+
+<p>Here, our eye is attracted to a note of the Translator, (an Englishman
+residing in America,)&mdash;who says, with much more besides: "It is impossible
+to paint the esteem and affection with which this French nobleman is
+regarded in America. It is to be surpassed only by the love of their
+illustrious chief."</p>
+
+<p>"The rain appearing to cease," continues the Marquis, "or inclined to cease
+for a moment, we availed ourselves of the opportunity to follow his
+Excellency to the Camp of the Marquis; we found all his troops in order of
+battle, on the heights on the left, and himself at their head; expressing
+by his air and countenance, that he was happier in receiving me there, than
+at his estate in Auvergne. The confidence and attachment of the troops, are
+for him invaluable possessions, well acquired riches, of which no body can
+deprive him; but what, in my opinion, is still more flattering for a young
+man of his age, is the influence, the consideration he has acquired amongst
+the political, as well as the military order; I do not fear contradictions
+when I say that private letters from him have frequently<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> produced more
+effect on some states than the strongest exhortations of the Congress. On
+seeing him one is at a loss which most to admire, that so young a man as he
+should have given such eminent proofs of talents, or that a man so tried,
+should give hopes of so long a career of glory."</p>
+
+<p>His impression of the Hudson at West Point, will interest us all:</p>
+
+<p>"I continued my journey in the woods, in a road hemmed in on both sides by
+very steep hills which seemed admirably adapted for the dwelling of bears,
+and where, in fact, they often make their appearance in Winter. We availed
+ourselves at length of a less difficult part of these mountains to turn to
+the westward and approach the river but which is still invisible.
+Descending them slowly, at the turning of the road, my eyes were struck
+with the most magnificent picture I had ever beheld. It was a view of the
+North River, running in a deep channel, formed by the mountains, through
+which, in former ages it had forced its passage. The fort of West Point and
+the formidable batteries which defend it fix the attention on the Western
+bank, but on lifting your eyes, you behold on every side lofty summits,
+thick set with redoubts and batteries."</p>
+
+<p>One more passage we must give in this day of Morristown's horsemanship; in
+this year of '92 when all young Morristown is jumping fences and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span> ditches
+in pursuit of the fox or the fox's representative. It is Chastellux's
+reference to Washington's horsemanship:</p>
+
+<p>"The weather being fair, on the 26th I got on horseback, after breakfasting
+with the General. He was so attentive as to give me the horse he rode on
+the day of my arrival, which I had greatly commended; I found him as good
+as he is handsome; but above all perfectly well broke, and well trained,
+having a good mouth, easy in hand, and stopping short in a gallop without
+bearing the bit. I mention these minute particulars, because it is the
+General himself who breaks all his own horses; and he is a very excellent
+and bold horseman, leaping the highest fences, and going extremely quick,
+without standing upon his stirrups, bearing on the bridle, or letting his
+horse run wild; circumstances which our young men look upon as so essential
+a part of English horsemanship, that they would rather break a leg or an
+arm than renounce them."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>John L. Stephens.</h3>
+
+<p>Over fifty years ago, a traveler in Central America, Mr. John L. Stephens,
+records a curious and interesting allusion to Morristown, which we give
+below, from one of his two volumes of "Incidents of Travel in Central
+America and Yucatan"; 12th Edition; published in 1856. He says:</p>
+
+<p>"In the midst of the war rumours, the next day, which was Sunday, was one
+of the most quiet I passed in Central America. It was at the hacienda of
+Dr. Drivon, about a league from Zonzonate. This was one of the finest
+haciendas in the country. The doctor had imported a large sugar mill, which
+was not yet set up, and was preparing to manufacture sugar upon a larger
+scale than any other planter in the country. He was from the island of St.
+Lucie and, before settling in this out-of-the-way place, had travelled
+extensively in Europe and the West India Islands and knew America from
+Halifax to Cape Horn, but surprised me by saying that he looked forward to
+a cottage in Morristown, New Jersey, as the consummation of his wishes."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Charles S. Washburn.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Washburn who lived for several years in Morristown, was the brother of
+our late Minister to France. His most popular work is "The History of
+Paraguay," in two volumes, written while he was Commissioner and Minister
+Resident of the United States at Asuncion from 1861 to 1868. The writer may
+truly add on his title page, "Reminiscences of Diplomacy under
+Difficulties." As is well known, Mr. Washburn was minister to Paraguay
+under Lopez, one of the three most noted tyrants of South America, whose
+character is admirably brought out in this history of the country. His
+description of Lopez is most graphic. The work is so exhaustive that we get
+up from it with a feeling, "We know Paraguay". Besides this "History of
+Paraguay", Mr. Washburn has also written "Gomery of Montgomery", in two
+volumes and "Political Evolution from Poverty to Competence".</p>
+
+<p>At the close of the first volume, we find a masterly summing up of the
+singular character of Lopez, in these words:</p>
+
+<p>"Previous to the death of Lopez, history furnishes no example of a tyrant
+so despicable and cruel that at his fall he left no friend among his own<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span>
+people; no apologist or defender, no follower or participant of his
+infamies, to utter one word in palliation of his crimes; no one to regret
+his death, or who cherished the least spark of love for his person or his
+memory; no one to utter a prayer for the repose of his soul. In this
+respect, Lopez had surpassed all tyrants who ever lived. No sooner was he
+dead, than all alike, the officer high in command, the subaltern who
+applied the torture, the soldier who passively obeyed, the mother who bore
+him, and the sisters who once loved him, all joined in denouncing him as an
+unparalleled monster; and of the whole Paraguayan nation there is perhaps
+not one of the survivors who does not curse his name, and ascribe to his
+folly, selfishness, ambition and cruelty all the evils that his unhappy
+country has suffered. Not a family remains which does not charge him with
+having destroyed the larger part of its members and reduced the survivors
+to misery and want. Of all those who were within reach of his death-dealing
+hand during the last years of his power, there are but two persons living
+to say a word in mitigation of the judgment pronounced against him by his
+countrymen and country-women."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>General Joseph Warren Revere.</h3>
+
+<p>The late General Revere, one of Morristown's old and well-known residents,
+wrote, at the close of his military and naval career, a graphic and
+interesting book of travels entitled "Keel and Saddle; a Retrospect of
+Forty Years of Military and Naval Service"; published in 1872 by James R.
+Osgood of Boston. Another book appeared later, called "A Tour of Duty in
+California."</p>
+
+<p>General Revere tells us in "Keel and Saddle" that he entered the United
+States Navy at the age of fourteen years as a midshipman and, after a short
+term spent at the Naval School at the New York Navy Yard, he sailed on his
+first cruise to the Pacific Ocean on board the frigate "Guerri&egrave;re",
+"bearing the pennant of Com. Charles C. B. Thompson, in the summer of the
+year 1828." For three years he served in the Pacific Squadron. After
+cruising in many waters and experiencing the various vicissitudes of naval
+life, in 1832 he passed his examination for lieutenant and sailed in the
+frigate "Constitution" for France.</p>
+
+<p>During this Mediterranean cruise, when he made his first visit to Rome, he
+saw Madame Letitia, mother of the first Napoleon, by whom he was received
+with a small party of American officers. We shall give this scene as he
+describes it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In this book, "Keel and Saddle", (page 140) occurs a very fine description
+of a great oceanic disturbance known to mariners in Southern seas as a
+"comber", or great wave. Suddenly encountered, it causes the destruction of
+many vessels.</p>
+
+<p>Of Madame Letitia, in 1832 he writes as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"Madame M&egrave;re or Madame Letitia, as she was usually called, being requested
+to grant an interview to a small party of American officers, of which I was
+one, graciously assented, and fixed a day for the reception at the palace
+she occupied.</p>
+
+<p>"Repairing thither at the hour appointed, after a short detention in a
+spacious ante-chamber, we were ushered into one of those lofty saloons
+common to Italian palaces, handsomely, not gorgeously furnished, and
+opening by spacious windows into a beautiful garden. There, with her back
+towards the subdued light from the windows, we saw an elderly lady
+reclining on a sofa, in a graceful attitude of repose. She was attended by
+three ladies, who all remained standing during our visit. In the recess of
+one of the windows, on a tall pedestal of antique marble, stood a
+magnificent bust of the emperor; while upon the walls of the saloon, in
+elegant frames, were hung the portraits of her children, all of whom had
+been kings and queens&mdash;of royal rank though not of royal lineage. Madame
+Letitia received us with perfect courtesy,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span> without rising from her
+reclining position; motioning us gracefully to seats with a polite gesture
+of a hand and arm still of noble contour and dazzling whiteness. It was
+easy to see where the emperor got his small white hands, of which he was so
+vain, as we are told; while the classic regularity of his well-known
+features was clearly traceable in the lineaments of the lady before us. Her
+head was covered with a cap of lace; and her somewhat haughty but
+expressive face, beaming with intelligence, was framed in clustering curls
+<i>a l'antique</i>. Her eyes were brilliant, large and piercing, (I think they
+could hardly have been more so in her youth); and the lines of her mouth
+and chin gave an expression of firmness, courage and determination to a
+fine physiognomy perfectly in character with the historical antecedents and
+attributes of Letitia Ramolini. Of the rest of her dress, we saw but
+little; her bust being covered by a lace handkerchief crossed over the
+bosom, and her dark silk robe partially concealed by a superb cashmere
+shawl thrown over the lower part of her person. She opened the conversation
+by making some complimentary remark about our country; asking after her son
+Joseph, who resided then at Bordentown, N. J.; and seemed pleased at
+receiving news of him from one of our party, who had seen him not long
+before. She asked this officer whether the King (<i>le roi d'Espagne</i>) still
+resembled the portrait<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span> in her possession which was a very fine one; and
+upon our asking permission to examine the bust of the emperor, the greatest
+of her sons, told us that it was considered a fine work of art, it being,
+indeed, from the chisel of Canova; adding, I fancied with a little sigh of
+melancholy, 'Il resemble beaucoup a l'empereur.' After some further
+commonplaces, she signified in the most delicate and dignified manner, more
+by looks than by words, addressed to the ladies of our party, referring to
+her rather weak state of health, that the interview should terminate; and,
+having made our obeisance, we left her."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Henry Day.</h3>
+
+<p>In 1874, an interesting volume of travels appeared, entitled "A Lawyer
+Abroad. What to See and How to See: by Henry Day, of the Bar of New York."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Day's house "On the Hill", with its superb view, is occupied only in
+summer; but year after year, with the birds and the spring sunshine, he
+returns<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span> to us from his home in New York, so he is thoroughly associated
+with Morristown. His book, unlike a large majority of "Travels" is not
+merely a "Tourist's Guide" or a series of descriptive sketches hung
+together by commonplace reflections, and interlarded with meaningless
+drawing-room or roadside dialogue.</p>
+
+<p>Evidently, it is written with a high purpose and it is rich in valuable
+information concerning men and things, as if the writer himself were in
+living touch with the best interests of humanity whether found in the
+cities of Egypt, among the learned and polished minds of Edinburgh or in
+the Wynds of Glasgow, of which he so graphically says:</p>
+
+<p>"They are now long filthy, airless lanes, packed with buildings on each
+side and each building packed with human beings; and, geographically as
+well as morally they receive the drainage of all the surrounding city of
+Glasgow."</p>
+
+<p>Here it was in the old Tron Church that Dr. Chalmers did his finest
+preaching and his most effective practical work. Mr. Day has an evident
+loving sympathy with the great Scotch preacher, quite apart from the
+intellectual qualities of his gigantic mind. In these few condensed pages,
+Mr. Day has given us a more compact idea of Dr. Chalmer's work than may be
+found in many elaborated chapters of his life.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The chapter upon "The Lawyers and Judges of England" is one of exceptional
+interest to those in the profession, as well as to those out of it, and
+this is one unique quality of the book&mdash;that we have given to us the
+impressions of a traveler from a lawyer's standpoint, not only in England,
+but in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Greece,
+Turkey, Egypt and the Holy Land. And, not only from a lawyer's standpoint
+does he see the world, but evidently from the standpoint of a man of high
+general culture whose spiritual and religious sentiments and principles
+enlighten and illuminate his understanding.</p>
+
+<p>In the chapter on "The Early Life of Great Men", speaking of Edinburgh, he
+says:</p>
+
+<p>"Everything gives you the feeling that you are among the most learned and
+polished minds of the present and past generations. It is not business or
+wealth that has given to Edinburgh its prominence. It is learning; it is
+its great men."</p>
+
+<p>One of Mr. Day's finest descriptions is found in his chapter on the Nile.</p>
+
+<p>In 1877 this author published, through Putnams' Sons, a book having the
+title "From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules", giving sketches of
+scenery, art and life in Spain.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Day has also written a good deal for a few years past for publication
+in the <i>New York Evangelist</i> on the great questions now agitating the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span>
+Presbyterian church, namely, the revision of its creed called "The
+Confession of Faith" and also on the Briggs case and the Union Theological
+Seminary case. Mr. Day wisely says; "this newspaper writing can hardly be
+called authorship although the articles are more important than the
+books."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THEOLOGIANS.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Of the historic characters of Morristown, none are more prominent than the
+Rev. Dr. Johnes, who began his pastorate in the old Meeting House of
+Morristown which was probably reared before his coming. His labors began
+August 13th, 1742. He was ordained and installed February 9th, 1743, and
+continued pastor through the scenes of the Revolution till his death in
+1791. He was the friend of Washington and supported him effectually in many
+of the measures he adopted in which his strong influence with the community
+was of great weight and value.</p>
+
+<p>It was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Johnes, Theodosia, who married Col. Jacob
+Ford, jr., who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span> lived at what is now known as the Washington Headquarters
+and offered the hospitality of her mansion to Washington during his second
+winter at Morristown. He also offered the Presbyterian church building for
+hospital use during the terrible scourge of small-pox,&mdash;himself acting as
+chief nurse to the soldiers,&mdash;and, with his congregation, worshipped for
+many months in the open air, on a spot still shown behind his house, on
+Morris street, which is standing to-day, and now owned and occupied by Mrs.
+Eugene Ayers. It was on this spot, in a natural basin which the
+congregation occupied as being somewhat sheltered from the bitter winds of
+winter, and which may still be seen, that good Pastor Johnes administered
+the Communion to Washington. "This was the only time," says Rev. Dr. Green,
+in his "Morristown" in the "History of Morris County", after his entrance
+upon his public career, that Washington is certainly known to have partaken
+of the Lord's Supper. In <i>The Record</i> for June and August, 1880, we find a
+full account of this historic incident. As the Communion time drew near,
+Washington sought good Pastor Johnes, we are told, and inquired of him, if
+membership of the Presbyterian church was required "As a term of admission
+to the ordinance." To this the doctor replied, "ours is not the
+Presbyterian table, but the Lord's table, and we hence give the Lord's
+invitation to all his followers of whatever name." "On<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span> the following
+Sabbath," says Dr. Green, "in the cold air, the General was present with
+the congregation, assembled in the orchard in the rear of the parsonage",
+on the spot before referred to, "and joined with them in the solemn service
+of Communion."</p>
+
+<p>In the family of good Pastor Johnes, a granddaughter of whom, Mrs. O. L.
+Kirtland, is with us still, the last of a large number of brothers and
+sisters, it has been known for generations that they originated in Wales.
+We have from Mrs. Kirtland's granddaughter the following interesting
+record:</p>
+
+<p>"Rev. Timothy Johnes came to Morristown, N. J., from Southampton about
+1742. His great-great-grandfather, Richard Johnes, of Somerset, Eng.,
+descended from a younger branch of the Johnes of Dolancotlie in
+Caemarthenshire, Wales, came over and settled in Charleston, Mass., in
+1630, was made constable, and had 'Mr.' before his name, an honor in those
+days. He went to live at Southampton, L. I., in 1644, and he and his
+descendants held important positions there for nearly two hundred years.
+Burke's <i>Landed Gentry</i> states that the Johnes were descended from Urien
+Reged, one of King Arthur's Knights, and who built the Castle Caer Caenin,
+and traced descent back to Godebog, King of Britain. But accurate record
+must begin at a later date, when William Johnes, in the reign of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span>
+Elizabeth, was Commander on the 'Crane' and killed in a battle against the
+Spanish Armada."</p>
+
+<p>Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D., was the great-great-grandson of the first
+Johnes who arrived in this country. Rev. Timothy graduated at Yale in 1737;
+was born in 1717 and died in 1794. He received many ordination calls while
+at Southampton, Long Island, and was perplexed as to which one to accept,
+so "he referred the matter, says the great-great-granddaughter before
+referred to," to Providence, deciding to accept the next one made. He had
+not risen from his knees more than twenty minutes, when two old men came to
+his house and asked him to become pastor of a small congregation that had
+collected at Morristown, then called by the Indian tongue Rockciticus. When
+nearly here, after traveling long in the forest, he inquired of his guides:
+"Where is Rockciticus?" "Here and there and every where," was the reply,
+and so it was, scattered through the woods.</p>
+
+<p>Of Dr. Johnes' children,&mdash;Theodosia, as we have stated, was the hostess of
+Washington at the Ford mansion, her home, and now the Washington
+Headquarters. Anna, the eldest daughter, married Joseph Lewis and is the
+ancestress of one of our distinguished authors, the Rev. Theodore Ledyard
+Cuyler, D. D. The daughter of this Anna Lewis, married Charles Morrell and
+they occupied the house of Mr. Wm. L. King on Morris St., and there
+entertained<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span> Lafayette as their guest in the winter of '79 and '80. Their
+daughter, Louisa married Ledyard Cuyler and they had a son, Theodore
+Ledyard Cuyler, well-known to us and to all the world. Mary Anna, a grand
+daughter, married Mr. Williams, of Newburg, and others of the family
+followed there. They pronounce the name <i>John</i>-es, giving up the long <i>o</i>
+(Jones), of the old Doctor's sounding of the name. A grandson, Frank, went
+west and had a large family who are more or less distinguished in Decatur,
+Illinois. They omit the <i>e</i> in the name and call themselves Johns. It is
+only in Morristown that the family retain the original spelling of Johnes
+and pronunciation of <i>Jones</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The son of the old Doctor, William, remained in the old house, and there
+brought up a large family of whom the above two, named, were members, also
+Mrs. Kirtland, who is still with us, with her daughter and grandchildren,
+and Mrs. Alfred Canfield, who long lived among us but has passed away.</p>
+
+<p>One of the old Doctor's sons was named, as we might expect, George
+Washington and was the grandfather of Mrs. Theodore Little, and built the
+old house on the hill near our beautiful Evergreen Cemetery. This house was
+built soon after Washington's occupation of Morristown, and the large place
+including the ancient house has lately been sold and will soon be laid out
+in streets and lots, as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span> the demand comes from the increasing population of
+our city. Fortunate are we to have so many of the old land-marks left to
+us!</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Woodruff, the step-mother, honored and beloved, of Mrs. Whelpley
+Dodge, was also a daughter of old Doctor Johnes.</p>
+
+<p>Another son of the old Doctor was Dr. John B. Johnes, who built the house
+with columns opposite the old place, still standing, and there he lived and
+died, high in his profession, greatly honored and beloved. His daughter
+Margaret, was the step-mother of another of our distinguished men and
+writers, the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D.</p>
+
+<p>And so we find this ancient family from Wales, the land of the poetic
+Celts, and many of whom are yet living in that corner of the world from
+which these came, still sending on their influence and maintaining their
+high standard of principle and honor, which characterized good Pastor
+Johnes, during the fifty-four years of his ministry in Morristown.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. James Richards, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Dr. Richards, who was settled as the third pastor over the First
+Church of Morristown, May 1st, 1795, was a theological author, many of
+whose sermons and other writings are published, and later, he was professor
+of theology in the Auburn theological seminary. Dr. Richards, like Dr.
+Johnes, was of Welsh descent. His salary was $440, in quarterly payments,
+the use of the parsonage, and firewood. To supplement this income, resort
+was had to a "wood-frolick", which was, we are told, a great event in the
+parish and to which the men brought the minister's years' supply of fuel
+and for which the ladies prepared a supper. The "spinning visit" was
+another feature of his pastorate, on which occasion were brought various
+amounts of "linen thread, yard and cloth". The thread brought, being not
+always of the same texture and size, it was often a puzzle indeed to the
+weaver to "make the cloth and finish it alike". At last the meagreness of
+this pastor's salary proved so great a perplexity, especially as his
+expenses were increasing with his growing family, that he gave up the
+problem, and went to Newark, N. J., accepting a call from the First
+Presbyterian<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span> Church there, from which, after fifteen years, he went as
+professor of theology to the Auburn Seminary, where he remained until his
+death in 1843.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Albert Barnes.</h3>
+
+<p>Fifth in order of these early divines of the Morristown's First Church, is
+the Rev. Albert Barnes. He occupied this pastorate from 1825 to June 1830.
+It was here that he preached, in 1829, that remarkable sermon, "The Way of
+Salvation", which was the entering wedge that prepared the way for the
+unfortunate division among the Presbyterians into the two schools Old and
+New, which division and the names attached to each side, it may gladly be
+said, came to an end by a happy union of the two branches, a few years ago.</p>
+
+<p>The Rev. Albert Barnes was also a pioneer of the Temperance movement in
+Morristown and his eloquence and influence in this cause resulted in the
+closing of several distilleries. From Morristown he was called to
+Philadelphia, where he passed through his severest trials. It is needless
+to mention that he was a voluminous writer and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span> that he has made a
+world-wide reputation by his valuable "Notes on the Gospels", so well-known
+to all Biblical scholars. Rev. Mr. Henderson of London says: "I consider
+Barnes 'Notes on the New Testament' to be one of the most valuable boons
+bestowed in these latter days upon the Church of Christ." And the Rev.
+David King of Glasgow says: "The primary design of the Rev. Albert Barnes'
+books is to furnish Sunday School teachers with plain and simple
+explanations of common difficulties."</p>
+
+<p>We are impressed with the rare modesty of so eminent a writer and
+distinguished divine when he read that the Rev. Albert Barnes several times
+refused the title of "D. D.", from conscientious motives.</p>
+
+<p>Among the celebrated sermons and addresses published by this author was one
+very powerful sermon on "The Sovereignty of God", and also an "Address
+delivered July 4th, 1827," at the Presbyterian church, Morristown. In the
+"Advertisement" or preface, to the former, the author says in pungent
+words: "It was written during the haste of a weekly preparation for the
+Sabbath and is not supposed to contain anything new on the subject. * * *
+The only wonder is that it (the very plain doctrine of the Bible) should
+ever have been called in question or disputed&mdash;or that in a world where
+man's life and peace and hopes, all depend<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span> on the truth that <span class="smcap">god reigns</span>,
+such a doctrine <i>should have ever needed any demonstration</i>."</p>
+
+<p>The condition of Morristown when Mr. Barnes came into the pastorate, in
+respect of intemperance was almost beyond the power of imagination,
+serious, as the evil seems to us at the present day. He found "drinking
+customs in vogue and distilleries dotted all over the parish." Fearlessly
+he set himself to stem this evil, which indeed he did succeed in arresting
+to a large extent. His "Essays on Temperance" are marvellous productions,
+as full of fire and energy and the power of conviction to-day as when first
+issued from the press, and these addresses were so powerful in their effect
+on the community that "soon," says our historian, Rev. Dr. Green,
+"seventeen (of the 19) distilleries were closed and not long after his
+departure, the fires of the other two went out."</p>
+
+<p>In the course of one of his arguments, he says: "There are many, flitting
+in pleasure at an imagined rather than a real distance, who may be saved
+from entering the place of the wretched dying, and of the horrid dead. Here
+I wish to take my stand. I wish to tell the mode in which men become
+abandoned. In the language of a far better moralist and reprover than I am
+(Dr. Lyman Beecher), I wish to lay down a chart of this way to destruction,
+and to rear a monument of warning upon every spot<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span> where a wayfaring man
+has been ensnared and destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>"I commence with the position that no man probably ever became designedly a
+drunkard. I mean that no man ever sat down coolly and looked at the redness
+of eyes, the haggardness of aspect, the weakness of limbs, the nausea of
+stomach, the profaneness and obscenity and babbling of a drunkard and
+deliberately desired all these. I shall be slow to believe that it is in
+human nature to wish to plunge into all this wretchedness. Why is it then
+that men become drunkards? I answer it is because the vice steals on them
+silently. It fastens on them unawares, and they find themselves wallowing
+in all this corruption, before they think of danger."</p>
+
+<p>The power and beauty of Mr. Barnes' most celebrated sermon on "The Way of
+Salvation", impresses the reader, from page to page. Towards the close, he
+says:</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "THE PLAN OF SALVATION."</h4>
+
+<p>"The scheme of salvation, I regard, as offered to the <i>world</i>, as free as
+the light of heaven, or the rains that burst on the mountains, or the full
+swelling of broad rivers and streams, or the heavings of the deep. And
+though millions do not receive it&mdash;though in regard to them the benefits of
+the plan are lost, and to them, in a certain sense, the plan<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span> may be said
+to be in vain, yet I see in this the hand of the same God that pours the
+rays of noonday on barren sands and genial showers on desert rocks, and
+gives life, bubbling springs and flowers, where no man is in <i>our</i> eyes,
+yet not to <i>His, in vain</i>. So is the offer of eternal life, to every man
+here, to every man everywhere, sincere and full&mdash;an offer that though it
+may produce no emotions in the sinner's bosom <i>here</i>, would send a thrill
+of joy through all the panting bosoms of the suffering damned."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Samuel Whelpley.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Mr. Whelpley became Principal of the Morristown Academy in 1797 and
+remained until 1805. He came from New England and was originally a Baptist,
+but in Morristown he gave up the plan which he had cherished of becoming a
+Baptist minister and united with the Presbyterian church. In 1803, he gave
+his reasons for this change of views, publicly, in a "Discourse delivered
+in the First Church" and published. His "Historical Compend" is one of his
+important works. It contains, "A brief survey of the great line of history
+from the earliest time to the present day, together with a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span> general view of
+the world with respect to Civilization, Religion and Government, and a
+brief dissertation on the importance of historical knowledge." This was
+issued in two volumes "By Samuel Whelpley, A. M., Principal of Morris
+Academy" and was printed by Henry P. Russell and dedicated to Rev. Samuel
+Miller, D. D.</p>
+
+<p>This author was not, by-the-way, the father of Chief Justice Whelpley, of
+Morristown, who also is noticed in this book, but was the cousin of his
+father, Dr. William A. Whelpley, a practicing physician here.</p>
+
+<p>"Lectures on Ancient History, together with an allegory of Genius and
+Taste" was another of Mr. Whelpley's books. Among his works, perhaps the
+most celebrated was, and is, "The Triangle", a theological work which is "A
+Series of numbers upon Three Theological Points, enforced from Various
+Pulpits in the City of New York." This was published in 1817, and a new
+edition in 1832. In this work, says Hon. Edmund D. Halsey, the leaders and
+views of what was long afterward known as the Old School Theology were
+keenly criticised and ridiculed. The book caused a great sensation in its
+day and did not a little toward hastening the division in the Presbyterian
+Church into Old and New School. This book was published without his name,
+by "Investigator". In it the author says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "THE TRIANGLE."</h4>
+
+<p>"You shall hear it inculcated from Sabbath to Sabbath in many of our
+churches, and swallowed down, as a sweet morsel, by many a gaping mouth,
+that a man ought to feel himself actually guilty of a sin committed six
+thousand years before he was born; nay, that prior to all consideration of
+his own moral conduct, <i>he ought to feel himself deserving of eternal
+damnation for the first sin of Adam</i>. * * * No such doctrine is taught in
+the Scriptures, or can impose itself on any rational mind, which is not
+trammeled by education, dazzled by interest, warped by prejudice and
+bewildered by theory. This is one corner of the triangle above mentioned.</p>
+
+<p>"This doctrine perpetually urged, and the subsequent strain of teaching
+usually attached to it, will not fail to drive the incautious mind to
+secret and practical, or open infidelity. An attempt to force such
+monstrous absurdities on the human understanding, will be followed by the
+worst effects. A man who finds himself condemned for that of which he is
+not guilty will feel little regret for his real transgressions.</p>
+
+<p>"I shall not apply these remarks to the purpose I had in view, till I have
+considered some other points of a similar character;&mdash;or, if I may resort<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span>
+to the metaphor alluded to, till I have pointed out the other two angles of
+the triangle."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Stevens Jones Lewis.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Lewis was a grandson of Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes and great uncle of the
+Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. He was a theologian whose writings made a
+ripple in the orthodox stream of thought, and was disciplined in the First
+church for his doctrines. He published two pamphlets in justification of
+his peculiar views. The first was on "The Moral Creation the peculiar work
+of Christ. A very different thing from that of the Physical Creation which
+is the exclusive work of God", printed in Morristown by L. B. Hull, in
+1838. Also there was one entitled "Showing the manner in which they do
+things in the Presbyterian church in the Nineteenth Century". "For the
+rulers had agreed already that if any man did confess that Jesus was Christ
+('was Christ, not God Almighty'), he should be put out of the synagogue."
+"Morristown, N. J., Printed for the author, 1837."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Rufus Smith Green, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Dr. Green, so much esteemed by the people of all denominations in
+Morristown, has a claim to honorable mention among our authors, having
+written largely and to good purpose.</p>
+
+<p>His "History of Morristown," a division of the book entitled the "History
+of Morris County", published by Munsell &amp; Co., New York, in 1882, is a
+valuable contribution to our literature, combining in delightful form, a
+large amount of information from many sources, which has cost the writer
+much labor. As a book of reference it is in constant demand in the
+"Morristown Library" now, and one of the books which is not allowed long to
+remain out, for that reason. This fact carries its own weight without
+further comment.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Green succeeded the Rev. John Abbott French in June, 1877, to the
+pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, and remained
+until 1881, when he accepted the charge of the Lafayette St. Presbyterian
+Church of Buffalo, N. Y., and removed to that city.</p>
+
+<p>After his graduation at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1867, Dr. Green went
+abroad and was a student in the Berlin University during 1869 and '70.
+During this period he gained complete command of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span> the German language,
+which has been vastly helpful to him in his writing as well as, in many
+instances, in his pastoral work. He was graduated from the Auburn
+Theological Seminary in 1873. He then accepted a charge at Westfield, N.
+Y., and in 1877 came to Morristown. During his Morristown pastorate, he
+began the publication of <i>The Record</i>, a monthly periodical devoted to
+historical matter connected with the First Church in particular, but also
+with Morristown generally and Morris County as well,&mdash;the First Church, in
+its history, striking it roots deep, and radiating in many directions. This
+was continued for the years 1880 and 1881, 24 numbers. Rev. Wm. Durant, Dr.
+Green's successor in the pastorate of the First Church, resumed the work in
+January 1883, and continued its publication until January 1886. It is an
+invaluable contribution to the early history of the town and county.</p>
+
+<p>Another of Dr. Green's publications is "Both Sides, or Jonathan and
+Absalom", published in 1888 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
+Philadelphia. This is a volume of sermons to young men, the aim of which
+can be seen from the preface which we quote entire:</p>
+
+<p>"It would be difficult to find two characters better fitted than those of
+Jonathan and Absalom to give young men right views of life&mdash;the one, in its
+nobleness and beauty, an inspiration; the other,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span> in its vanity and wicked
+self-seeking, an awful warning. The two present both sides of the picture,
+and from opposite points of view teach the same lessons never more
+important than at the present time. It has been the author's purpose to
+enforce these lessons rather than to write a biography. May they guide many
+a reader to the choice of the right side!"</p>
+
+<p>In writing of the friendship of Jonathan and David the author says:</p>
+
+<p>"The praises of Friendship have been sung by poets of all ages,&mdash;orator's
+have made it a theme for their eloquence,&mdash;philosophers have written
+treatises upon it,&mdash;historians have described its all too rare
+manifestations. No stories from the far off Past are more charming than
+those which tell of Damon and Pythias,&mdash;of Orestes and Pylades&mdash;of Nisus
+and Euryalus&mdash;but better and more inspiring than philosophic treatise or
+historic description, more beautiful even than song of poet, is the
+Friendship of which the text speaks,&mdash;the love of Jonathan for David. It is
+one of the world's ideal pictures, all the more prized, because it is not
+only ideal but real. It was the Divine love which made the earthly
+friendship so pure and beautiful."</p>
+
+<p>For <i>Our Church at Work</i>, a monthly periodical of many years' standing
+connected with the Lafayette Street church, of Buffalo, Dr. Green has
+largely written.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>An important pamphlet on "The Revised New Testament" was published in 1881,
+by the <i>Banner</i> Printing Office, of Morristown, and, in addition to these,
+fugitive sermons, and numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals have
+passed from his pen to print.</p>
+
+<p>When Dr. Green left Morristown, this was the tribute given him at the final
+service in the old church where hundreds of people were turned away for
+want of room. These were the words of the speaker on that occasion: "Dr.
+Green came to a united people; he has at all times presided over a united
+people and he leaves a united people."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. William Durant.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Wm. Durant followed the Rev. Dr. Green in his ministry in the First
+Presbyterian Church in Morristown, May 11th, 1883, remaining in this charge
+until May, 1887, when he resigned, to accept the call of the Boundary
+Avenue Church, Baltimore, Md. He took up also, with Hon. John Whitehead as
+editor, at first, the onerous though very interesting work of <i>The Record</i>,
+which labor both he and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span> Rev. Dr. Green as well as Mr. Whitehead, gave "as
+a free will offering to the church and the community".</p>
+
+<p>Rev. Mr. Durant was born in Albany, N. Y., and prepared for college at the
+Albany Academy. He then travelled a year in Europe, studied theology at
+Princeton and was graduated from that college in 1872. The same year he
+took charge of the First Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee, for the summer
+only, after which he traveled through the west, and was then ordained to
+the ministry, in Albany, and installed pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian
+Church of that city, from which, in 1883, he came to Morristown, as we have
+said.</p>
+
+<p>While in Albany he edited "Church Polity", a selection of articles
+contributed by the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D., to the <i>Princeton Review</i>;
+Scribner's Sons, publishers. Afterwards, in Morristown, he published a
+"History of the First Presbyterian Church, Morristown," with genealogical
+data for 13,000 names on its registers; a part of this only has been
+published. "A Letter from One in Heaven; An Allegory", is a booklet of
+singular interest as the title would suggest. One or two short stories of
+his have been published among numerous contributions to religious papers on
+subjects of ecclesiology and practical religion, also a score or more of
+sermons in pamphlet form.</p>
+
+<p>He is at present preparing, for publication, a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span> "Durant Genealogy", to
+include all now in this country of the name and descent. This was begun in
+the fall of 1886.</p>
+
+<p>In the opening number of <i>The Record</i> for January 1883, after the
+suspension of the publication for two years, we print the following paper
+of "Congratulations" from Rev. Wm. Durant, which as it concerns the spirit
+of Morristown, we give in full:</p>
+
+
+<h4>"CONGRATULATIONS", ON THE REVIVAL OF "THE RECORD".</h4>
+
+<p>The season is propitious. <i>The Record</i> awakes from a long nap&mdash;not as long
+as Rip Van Winkle's&mdash;to greet its readers with a Happy New Year.</p>
+
+<p>But where is the suggestion of those garments all tattered and torn? We
+mistake. It is not Rip Van Winkle, but the Sleeping Beauty who comes to us,
+by fairy enchantment, decked in the latest fashion. Sleep has given her new
+attractions.</p>
+
+<p>Happy we who may receive her visits with the changing moons, and scan her
+treasures new and old. Her bright look shows a quick glance to catch
+flashes of present interest. And there is depth, too, a far offness about
+her glance. Its gleam of the present is the shimmer that lies on the
+surface of a deep well of memory. What stories she can tell us of the past!
+Though so youthful her appearance,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span> she romped with our grandmothers and
+made lint for the hospital and blankets for the camps, that winter
+Washington was here, when his bare-foot soldiers shivered in the snows on
+Mount Kemble or lay dying by scores in the old First Church. Yes, she was a
+girl of comely parts, albeit of temper to enjoy a tiff with her good mother
+of Hanover, when our city was a frontier settlement, full only of log
+cabins and primitive hardships in the struggle against wild nature.</p>
+
+<p>For a maiden still, and one who has seen so many summers, marvelous is her
+cheery, youthful look. Ponce de Leon made the mistake of his life when he
+sought his enchanted fountain in Florida instead of where Morristown was to
+be. It is not on the Green, for the aqueduct folks now hold the title.</p>
+
+<p>From lips still ruddy with youth, is it not delicious to hear the gossip of
+olden time! And our maiden knows it all, for she was present at all the
+baptisms, danced at all the weddings, thrilled with heavenly joy when our
+ancestors confessed the Son of Man before the high pulpit, and stood with
+tears in her eyes when one after another they were laid in the graves
+behind. Their names are still on her tongues' end, and it is with loving
+recollection that she tells of the long lists like the one she brings this
+month.</p>
+
+<p>But her gossip is not all of names. What she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span> will tell of events and
+progress, of the unwritten history that has given character to families, to
+State or Nation, there is no need of predicting, we have only to welcome
+her at our fireside and listen while she speaks.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. J. Macnaughtan, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Macnaughtan, present pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and
+successor of Rev. Wm. Durant, a profound scholar and thinker and most
+interesting writer, has not entered largely into the world of letters as an
+author or a publisher of his writings. Some papers of his, and some
+articles have, however, been published from time to time and a sermon now
+and then, notably, within two years, one on "Revision: Its Spirit and
+Aims", and the Centennial Sermon that was delivered on Sunday, October
+11th, 1891, on the memorable occasion of the Centennial of the erection of
+the present First Church building. This sermon was published in the
+<i>Banner</i>, of Morristown, and is to appear again, with all the interesting
+addresses and sketches, given on that day and on the following days of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span> the
+celebration,&mdash;in the book which Mr. Whitehead is preparing on "The History
+of the First Presbyterian Church".</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Macnaughtan's pastorate will always be associated with this time of
+historic retrospection and also with the passing away of the old building
+and the introduction of the new. Of this old building, endeared to many of
+Morristown's people, this book will probably be the last to make mention
+while it stands. An old-time resident touchingly says of the coming event:
+"There have been great changes within my remembrance (in Morristown). I was
+born in 1813 and have always lived where I do now. My memory goes back to
+the time when there were only two churches in the town; the First
+Presbyterian and the Baptist. The latter is now being removed for other
+purposes, and our old church, that has stood through its 100 years, will
+soon be removed, to make place for a new one. I was in hopes it would
+remain during my days, but the younger generation wants something new, more
+in the present style."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM THE "CENTENNIAL SERMON."</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ask now of the days that are past.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i13">&mdash;<i>Deuteronomy 4:32.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>One hundred years ago on the 20th of last September (1891), a very stirring
+and animated scene could have been witnessed on this spot where we are so
+quietly assembled this morning for our Sabbath worship. On the morning of
+that day, some 200 men were assembled here, with the implements of their
+calling, and the task of erecting this now venerable structure was begun.
+The willing hands of trained mechanics and others, under the direction of
+Major Joseph Lindsley and Gilbert Allen, both elders of the church, lifted
+aloft these timbers, and the work of creating this sanctuary was begun.
+When one inspects the timbers forming the frame of this structure, great
+masses of hewn oak, and enough of it to build two structures of the size of
+this edifice, as such buildings are now erected, one sees how necessary it
+was that so great a force of men should be on hand. One can well believe
+that the animation of the scene was only equalled by the excited emotions
+of the people, in whose behalf the building was being erected. The task
+begun was a gigantic one for that time. The plans contemplated the erection
+of a structure which, "for strength, solidity and symmetry of proportion,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span>
+should "not be excelled by any wooden building of that day in New Jersey."
+But it was not alone the generosity of the plan of the structure that made
+it a gigantic enterprise, but the material circumstances of the people who
+had undertaken the work. The men of a hundred years ago were rich for the
+most part only in faith and self-sacrifice. But looking at this house as it
+stands to-day, and remembering the generations who under this roof have
+been reproved, guided, comforted, and pointed to the supreme ends of being,
+who shall say that they who are rich only in faith and self-sacrifice are
+poor? Out of their material poverty our fathers builded this house through
+which for a century God has been sending to our homes and into our lives
+the rich messages of his grace and salvation&mdash;where from week to week our
+souls have been fronted with the invisible and eternal, and where by psalm
+and hymn, and the solemn words of God's grand Book, and the faithful
+preaching of a long line of devoted and consecrated men, we have been
+reminded of the seriousness and awfulness of life, of the sublime meanings
+of existence, and the grand ends which it is capable of conserving; where
+multitudes have confessed a Saviour found, and have consecrated their souls
+to their new found Lord; where doubts have been dispelled, where sorrow has
+been assuaged, where grief has found its antidote and the burdened heart<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span>
+has found relief; where thought has been lifted to new heights of outlook,
+and the heart has been enriched with conceptions of God and duty that have
+given a new grandeur to existence, where the low horizons of time have been
+lifted and pushed outward, till the soul has felt the thrill of a present
+eternity. Our heritage has indeed been great in the possession of this old
+white Meeting-House.</p>
+
+<p>(Several points Dr. Macnaughtan makes as follows):</p>
+
+<p>In scanning the life that has been lived here during the last hundred
+years, I find it, first of all, to have been <i>a consistent life</i>. It is a
+life that has been true to the great principles of religious truth for
+which the name of Presbyterian stands. * * I find, in the second place,
+that the life that has been lived here has been <i>an evangelistic life</i>. * *
+In the third place, it has been an <i>expansive life</i>. * * * * Here has been
+nourished the mother hive from which has gone forth, to the several
+churches in the neighborhood, the men and women who have made these
+churches what they are to-day. * * * In the fourth place, it has been <i>a
+beneficent life</i>. The voices that have rung out from this place have but
+one accent&mdash;Righteousness.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman.</h3>
+
+<p>The Baptist Church is the second of our Morristown churches in point of
+age. It was formed August 11, 1752. It was the Rev. Reune Runyon who was
+its pastor during those terrible days of the Revolution, when the scourge
+of small pox prevailed. All honor to him, for a "brave man and true", as
+says our historian, "loyal to his country as well as faithful to his God."
+He, with good Parson Johnes, upheld the arm of Washington and both offered,
+for their congregations, their church buildings, to shelter the poor,
+suffering soldiers, in their conflict with the dread disease. This
+constancy is all the more creditable when we consider that two of his
+immediate predecessors had already fallen victims to the disease, each,
+after a very short pastorate.</p>
+
+<p>Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman claims our attention as a writer. A friend writing
+of the Rev. Mr. Bridgman, at the present time, says: "The Baptist Church at
+Morristown was the first pastorate of the Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman and I
+think was filled to the entire satisfaction of his friends and admirers who
+were and <i>are</i> many. His brilliant oratory and rare gifts as an eloquent,
+scholarly and polished speaker are well-known. A life-long friend of my
+family, I dwell on the lovable and loyal characteristics which have made
+him dear to us."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In a letter received by the author of this book, from the Rev. Mr.
+Bridgman, we find a little retrospect which is interesting. "I went to
+Morristown," he says, "immediately after graduating from the Baptist
+Theological Seminary, in Rochester, in 1857. The Baptist Church had a
+membership of about 130, all but five or six of them living outside the
+village. The House of Worship was small and uncomfortable, but at once was
+modernized and enlarged, and the congregation soon after grew to the
+measure of its capacity. As I was then but 22 years old, the success was in
+some measure due, I must believe, to the sympathy which the young men of
+the village had for one with their ardor. However that may be, the church,
+for the first time, seemed to be recognized as in touch with the life of
+the village, and it was the opening of a new chapter in the history of the
+church."</p>
+
+<p>Rev. Mr. Bridgman made the oration at the 4th of July county celebration,
+soon after his arrival, in the First Presbyterian church. For two and a
+half years, he remained in this charge when he removed to Jamaica Plain,
+Mass. Subsequently he was pastor for fifteen years, of Emmanuel Baptist
+church, Albany, then for thirteen years of the Madison Avenue church in New
+York, when he entered the Episcopal church and became rector of "Holy
+Trinity," on Lenox avenue and 122nd St., New York, a position which he
+still occupies.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Articles from this writer's pen have appeared from time to time during this
+long career, in the religious press, besides occasional sermons of power
+and impressiveness.</p>
+
+<p>In the letter above referred to, Mr. Bridgman says he remembers very
+pleasantly many acquaintances among those not connected with his church as
+well as those in its membership and "it will be a great pleasure," he adds,
+"to recall the old faces and the old days, over the pages of your book,
+when it shall have been issued."</p>
+
+<p><i>Rev. G. D. Brewerton</i>, who is already among our Poets, followed the Rev.
+Mr. Bridgman, in 1861, for a short pastorate.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. J. T. Crane, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Methodist Episcopal church was the third in order among our local
+churches and was organized in 1826. Among the many pastors of this church,
+the Rev. Dr. Crane demands our notice as an author. It was he who laid the
+corner-stone, while pastor in 1866, of the third church building, a superb
+structure, which is mostly the generous<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span> gift of the Hon. George T. Cobb,
+who gave to it $100,000.</p>
+
+<p>We find in our Morristown library, an interesting and valuable volume
+entitled "Arts of Intoxication; the Aim and the Results." By Rev. J. T.
+Crane, D. D., author of "Popular Amusements", "The Right Way", &amp;c. This
+author was a voluminous writer, and recognized as one of the ablest in the
+Conference. This book was published in 1870 and in it the author says:</p>
+
+<p>"The great problem of the times is, 'What shall be done to stay the ravages
+of intoxication?' The evil pervades every grade of civilization as well as
+all depths of barbarism, the degree of its prevalence in any locality being
+determined apparently more by the facilities for indulgence than by
+climate, race or religion.</p>
+
+<p>"In heathen China the opium vice is working death. On the eastern slopes of
+the Andes, the poor remnants of once powerful nations are enslaved by the
+coca-leaf, and the thorn-apple, and thus are fixed in their fallen estate.
+In Europe and America the nations who claim to be the leaders of human
+progress are fearfully addicted to narcotic indulgences which not only
+impose crushing burdens upon them, wasting the products of their industry
+and increasing every element of evil among them, but render even their
+friendship dangerous to the savage tribes among whom their commerce<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span>
+reaches. Italy, France, Germany, England and the United States are laboring
+beneath a mountain weight of crime, poverty, suffering and wrong of every
+description, and no nation on either continent is fully awake to the peril
+of the hour. Questions of infinitely less moment create political crises,
+make wars, and overthrow dynasties." Then, Dr. Crane proceeds to show that
+the "Art of Intoxication" is not a device of modern times, and quotes from
+the Odyssey, in illustration; he discusses the mystery of it and notices
+the mutual dependence of the body and spirit upon one another. He tells the
+story of the coca-leaf, thorn-apple and the betel-nut, also of tobacco and
+treats of the tobacco habit and the question generally; of the hemp
+intoxicant and the opium habit and, finally, of alcohol,&mdash;its production,
+its delusions, its real effect, the hereditary effect, the wrong of
+indulgence, the folly of beginning, the strength of the enemy, the damage
+done and remedial measures. It is the most picturesque and attractive
+little book on the subject that we have seen."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Henry Anson Buttz, D. D., LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Dr. Buttz, President of Drew Theological Seminary, ministered in the
+Methodist Episcopal Church in Morristown from 1868 to 1870. While preaching
+in Morristown he was elected Adjunct Professor of Greek in Drew Theological
+Seminary, filling the George T. Cobb professorship. This chair he occupied
+until December 7, 1880, when he was unanimously elected to succeed Bishop
+Hurst. He received the degree of A. M. in 1861 from Princeton College and
+in 1864 from Wesleyan University, and that of D. D. from Princeton in 1875.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Buttz is without doubt one of the most distinguished men of the
+Methodist Episcopal Church. His preaching, always without notes, is
+impressive and of the style usually designated as expository. His
+contributions to English literature have been to a large extent, fugitive
+articles on many subjects in various church periodicals, but his greatest
+published work is probably a Greek text book, "The Epistle to the Romans",
+which is regarded by scholars as one of the most accurate and critical
+guides to the study of that letter of St. Paul. It is announced by him that
+all the New Testament Epistles are to be published on the same plan. "The
+entire work, when completed," says a writer in the Mt. Tabor <i>Record</i>,
+"will be a valuable contribution to Biblical literature,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span> and an enduring
+monument to the genius and research of the author."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Jonathan K. Burr, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Dr. Burr, one of the most distinguished divines of the Methodist
+Episcopal church, was stationed at Morristown in 1870-2. He was born in
+Middletown, Conn., on Sept. 21st, 1825; was graduated at Wesleyan
+University in 1845; studied in Union Theological Seminary in New York city
+in 1846; in 1847 he entered the ministry, occupying some of the most
+important pulpits within the Newark Conference of the M. E. Church. He was
+also professor of Hebrew and Exegetical Theology in Drew Theological
+Seminary, while pastor of Central church, Newark, N. J. He was author of
+the Commentary on the Book of Job, in the Whedon series, and a member of
+the Committee of Revision of the New Testament. He received the degree of
+D. D. from Wesleyan in 1872; also, in that year, he was delegate to the
+General Conference of the M. E. church. For many years he was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span> a trustee of
+the Wesleyan University and also of Hackettstown Seminary.</p>
+
+<p>He wrote the articles upon Incarnation and Krishna in McClintock and
+Strong's Biblical Cyclop&aelig;dia and also made occasional contributions to the
+religious journals. In 1879 his health failed and he was obliged to retire
+from the ministry. His death followed on April 24th, 1882.</p>
+
+<p>From his "Commentary on the Book of Job" we take the following paragraph
+out of an Excursus on the passage, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," &amp;c.:</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM "COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF JOB."</h4>
+
+<p>In the earlier ages truth was given in fragments. It was isolated,
+succinct, compressed, not unlike the utterances of oracles. The reader will
+be reminded of the gospel given in the garden, the prediction by Enoch of a
+judgment to come, the promise of Shiloh and the prophecies through the
+Gentile Balaam. They, who thus became agents for the transmission of divine
+truth, may have failed to comprehend it in all its bearings, but the truth
+is on that account none the less rich and comprehensive. In the living God
+who shall stand upon the dust, Job may not have seen Christ in the fulness
+of the atonement; nor in the view of God<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span> "from the flesh", have grasped
+the glories of the resurrection morn; but the essential features of these
+two cardinal doctrines of Scripture are these, identical with those we now
+see in greater completeness; even as the outlines of a landscape, however
+incompletely sketched, are still one with those of the rich and perfected
+picture.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. J. E. Adams.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Mr. Adams, the present pastor of the Morristown Methodist Episcopal
+Church, entered upon this charge in May, 1889, succeeding the Rev. Oliver
+A. Brown, D. D. He was transferred, by Bishop Merrill, from the Genesee
+Conference to the Newark Conference for that purpose, the church having
+invited him and he having accepted a few months previously. He came
+directly from the First Methodist Church of Rochester, N. Y., to
+Morristown. Dr. Adams is a clever and thoughtful writer. He says himself:
+"I have done nothing in authorship that is worthy of record. I have only
+written newspaper and magazine articles occasionally and published a few
+special sermons. I am<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span> fond of writing and have planned quite largely for
+literary work, including several books, but very exacting parish work has
+thus far delayed execution."</p>
+
+<p>Some of his sermons published are as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"St. Paul's Veracity in Christian Profession Sustained by an Infallible
+Test. Text: Romans 1:16. Published in New Brunswick, N. J., 1877."</p>
+
+<p>"The Final Verdict in a Famous Case. A Bible Sermon Preached Before the
+Monmouth County Bible Society, and published by that Society in 1883."</p>
+
+<p>"The Golden Rule. A Discussion of Christ's Words in Matthew 7:12, in the
+First Methodist Episcopal Church, Rochester, N. Y. Published in Rochester,
+1886."</p>
+
+<p>"Human Progress as a Ground of Thanksgiving. A Thanksgiving Sermon,
+Preached in Morristown, N. J., 1889, and published by request."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. James Munroe Buckley, D.D., LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>At this point, three theologians and editors present themselves, not
+occupying definite pulpits, but often taking a place in one or another, as
+opportunity<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span> for usefulness occurs. These are the Rev. James M. Buckley, D.
+D. and the Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church
+and the Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., of the Congregational.</p>
+
+<p>Of the genius of Dr. Buckley, it may be said, it is so all-embracing that
+it would be difficult to tell what he is not, in distinctive literary
+capacity. First of all certainly, he is a theologian, then editor, orator,
+scientist, traveler and so on among our classifications. One is led to
+apply to him the familiar saying that "he who does one thing well, can do
+all things well."</p>
+
+<p>It is pleasant to note that a man of such keen observation and well
+balanced judgment as Dr. Buckley, after extensive travel in our own country
+and abroad can state, as many of us have heard him, that, of all the
+beautiful spots he has seen in one country and another, none is so
+beautiful, so attractive and so desirable, in every respect, as Morristown.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Buckley is a true Jerseyman, for he was born in Rahway, N. J., and
+educated at Pennington, N. J. Seminary. He studied theology, after one year
+at Wesleyan University, at Exeter, N. H., and joined the New Hampshire
+Methodist Episcopal Conference on trial, being stationed at Dover in that
+state. In 1864 he went to Detroit and in 1866 to Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1881,
+he was elected to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span> the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in London and also
+in that year was elected editor of the New York <i>Christian Advocate</i>, which
+position he has held to the present time. The degree of D. D. was conferred
+upon him by Wesleyan University in 1872 and LL. D. by Emory and Henry
+College, Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>As a traveler, Dr. Buckley is represented by his work on "The Midnight Sun
+and the Tsar and the Nihilist" being a book of "Adventures and Observations
+in Norway, Sweden and Russia". This book is full as we might expect of
+information communicated in the most entertaining manner, full of very
+graphic descriptions, original comments, spices of humor, with a clever
+analysis of the people and conditions of life around the author&mdash;all of
+which characteristics give us a feeling that we are making with him this
+tour of observation. In the chapters on "St. Petersburg" and "Holy Moscow",
+we see these qualities especially evidenced. Here is a short paragraph
+quite representative of the author, who is writing of the Cathedral of the
+Assumption, Moscow, an immense building in the Byzantine style of
+architecture, in which a service of the Greek church is going on:</p>
+
+<p>"The monks sang magnificently, but there was not a face among them that
+exhibited anything but the most profound indifference. Some of the young
+monks fixed their eyes upon the ladies who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span> accompanied me from the hotel,
+and kept them there even while they were singing the prayers, which they
+appeared to repeat like parrots, without any internal consciousness or
+recognition of the meaning of the words, but in most melodious tones."
+Again, the author visits a Tartar Mosque where he and his party are told
+"with oriental courtesy, that they may be permitted to remain outside the
+door, looking in, while the service progresses:</p>
+
+<p>"Here," he says, "I was brought for the first time in direct contact with
+that extraordinary system of religion which, without an idol, an image, or
+a picture, holds one hundred and seventy million of the human race in
+absolute subjection, and whose power, after the lapse of twelve hundred
+years, is as great as at the beginning."</p>
+
+<p>Of the summoning of the people to prayers from the minaret, he writes:</p>
+
+<p>"Dr. J. H. Vincent for many years employed at Chatauqua the late A. O. Van
+Lennep, who went upon the summit of a house at evening time, dressed in the
+Turkish costume, and called the people to prayer.</p>
+
+<p>"I supposed when I heard him that he was over-doing the matter as respects
+the excruciating tones and variations of voice which he employed, or else
+he had an extraordinary qualification for making hideous sounds, whereby he
+out-Turked the Turks,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span> and sometimes considered whether Dr. Vincent did not
+deserve to be expostulated with for allowing such frightful noises to clash
+with the ordinary sweet accords of Chatauqua. Worthy Mr. Van Lennep will
+never appear there again, but I am able to vindicate him from such unworthy
+suspicion as I cherished. He did his best to produce the worst sounds he
+could, but his worst was not bad enough to equal the reality. With his
+hands on his ears, the Mohammedan priest of the great mosque of Moscow
+emitted, for the space of seven minutes or thereabouts, a series of tones
+for which I could find no analogy in anything I had ever heard of the human
+voice. There seemed occasionally a resemblance to the smothered cries of a
+cat in an ash-hole; again to the mournful wail of a hound tied behind a
+barn; and again to the distant echo of a tin horn on a canal-boat in a
+section where the canal cuts between the mountains. The reader may think
+this extravagant, but it is not, and he will ascertain if ever he hears the
+like."</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Buckley's published writings are, besides his great work as editor of
+<i>The Christian Advocate</i>, in editorials and in many directions,&mdash;and
+besides the book we have already mentioned, "The Midnight Sun, the Tsar and
+the Nihilist"; "Oats versus Wild Oats"; "Christians and the Theatre";
+"Supposed Miracles", and "Faith Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred
+Phenomena", published quite recently (in October, 1892). Among magazine
+articles, may be especially mentioned "Two Weeks in the Yosemite", and in
+pamphlet form have appeared some letters worthy of mention, about "A
+Hereditary Consumptive's Successful Battle for Life".</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i318.jpg" width="650" height="421" alt="PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE.
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MAJOR J. P. FARLEY, U. S. A." title="" />
+<span class="caption">PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE.<br />
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MAJOR J. P. FARLEY, U. S. A.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>As a philanthropist, Dr. Buckley is widely interested in all questions
+concerning humanity, and he responds continually with his time and thought
+to the appeals made to him from one direction and another. Our own State
+Charities Aid Association of New Jersey owes much to Dr. Buckley for his
+warm and earnest co-operation in its early struggles in Morristown for
+existence, and in its work, since then.</p>
+
+<p>As an orator, all who have heard Dr. Buckley feel that he has what is
+called the magnetic power of controlling and carrying with him his
+audience, and a remarkable capacity for mastering widely different
+subjects. The beautiful spring day (April 27, 1888), will long be
+remembered, when the people of Morristown had the opportunity of hearing
+his eloquent address at the unveiling of the Soldiers Monument on Fort
+Nonsense.</p>
+
+<p>In Dr. Buckley's last book on "Faith Healing; Christian Science and Kindred
+Phenomena," published by the Century Company, quite lately, (October,
+1892), the subjects of Astrology, Coincidences, Divinations, Dreams,
+Nightmares and Somnambulism,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span> Presentiments, Visions, Apparitions and
+Witchcraft are treated. Papers have been contributed by him on these
+subjects at intervals for six years with reference to this book, but the
+contents of the latter are not identical, <i>i. e.</i> they have been improved
+and added to. From this we give the following extract:</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "FAITH HEALING, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND KINDRED PHENOMENA."</h4>
+
+<p>The relation of the Mind Cure movement to ordinary medical practice is
+important. It emphasizes what the most philosophical physicians of all
+schools have always deemed of the first importance, though many have
+neglected it. It teaches that medicine is but occasionally necessary. It
+hastens the time when patients of discrimination will rather pay more for
+advice how to live and for frank declarations that they do not need
+medicine, than for drugs. It promotes general reliance upon those processes
+which go on equally in health and disease.</p>
+
+<p>But these ethereal practitioners have no new force to offer; there is no
+causal connection between their cures and their theories.</p>
+
+<p><i>What</i> they believe has practically nothing to do<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span> with their success. If a
+new school were to arise claiming to heal diseases without drugs or hygiene
+or prayer, by the hypothetical odylic force invented by Baron Reichenbach,
+the effect would be the same, if the practice were the same.</p>
+
+<p>Recoveries as remarkable have been occurring through all the ages, as the
+results of mental states and nature's own powers.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The verdict of mankind excepting minds prone to vagaries on the border-land
+of insanity, will be that pronounced by Ecclesiasticus more than two
+thousand years ago:</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will
+not abhor them. My son, in thy sickness be not negligent; but pray unto the
+Lord and he will make thee whole. Leave off from sin and order thy hands
+aright, and cleanse thy breast from all wickedness. Then give place to the
+physician, for the Lord hath created him; let him not go from thee, for
+thou hast need of him. There is a time when in their hands there is good
+success. For they also shall pray unto the Lord, that He would prosper that
+which they give for ease and to prolong life.</span>"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Freeman is the second of the trio of theologians and editors, whose
+homes are in Morristown. For the last twenty years, he has been associate
+editor of "Sunday School Books and Periodicals and of Tracts" of the
+Methodist Episcopal Church. His Biblical studies are well known. His
+"Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs" was compiled with great care after
+years of research and published in 1877. This "Hand-Book" has been
+invaluable to Bible students and in it a large amount of information is
+given in small space, and in an interesting and entertaining manner.</p>
+
+<p>Another important volume is "A Short History of the English Bible". Both
+these works are in the Morristown Library, presented by the author.</p>
+
+<p>Many years ago, Dr. Freeman published, under the name of Robin Ranger, some
+charming story-books "for the little ones", in sets of ten tiny volumes.
+This work has placed him already in our group of <i>Story-Writers</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Besides these, there are two Chautauqua Textbooks, viz., "The Book of
+Books" and "Manners and Customs of Bible Times", also "The Use of
+Illustration in Sunday School Teaching".</p>
+
+<p>The "Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs",<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> in particular, and the
+"Short History of the English Bible" are books which one can not look into
+without desiring to own. In the former, the author says in his short but
+admirable preface:</p>
+
+<p>"Though the Bible is adapted to all nations, it is in many respects an
+Oriental book. It represents the modes of thought and the peculiar customs
+of a people who, in their habits, widely differ from us. One who lived
+among them for many years has graphically said: 'Modes, customs, usages,
+all that you can set down to the score of the national, the social, or the
+conventional, are precisely as different from yours as the east is
+different from the west. They sit when you stand; they lie when you sit;
+they do to the head what you do to the feet; they use fire when you use
+water; you shave the beard, they shave the head; you move the hat, they
+touch the breast; you use the lips in salutation, they touch the forehead
+and the cheek; your house looks outwards, their house looks inwards; you go
+<i>out</i> to take a walk, they go <i>up</i> to enjoy the fresh air; you drain your
+land, they sigh for water; you bring your daughters out, they keep their
+wives and daughters in; your ladies go barefaced through the streets, their
+ladies are always covered'.</p>
+
+<p>"The Oriental customs of to-day are, mainly, the same as those of ancient
+times. It is said by a recent writer that 'the Classical world has passed
+away. We must reproduce it if we wish to see it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span> as it was.' While this
+fact must be remembered in the interpretation of some New Testament
+passages, it is nevertheless true that many ancient customs still exist in
+their primitive integrity. If a knowledge of Oriental customs is essential
+to a right understanding of numerous Scripture passages, it is a cause of
+rejoicing that these customs are so stereotyped in their character that we
+have but to visit the Bible lands of the present day to see the modes of
+life of patriarchal times."</p>
+
+<p>Therefore, the author undertakes and undertakes with remarkable success, to
+illustrate the Bible by an explanation of the Oriental customs to which it
+refers.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Dr. Twining, up to 1879, devoted his time and attention entirely to
+the ministry and charge of two large city Congregational churches, one in
+Providence, R. I. While in the latter city, he published a book of "Hymns
+and Tunes", for his church there, which was acceptable and popular among
+the people, and contributed largely to develop the hearty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span> congregational
+singing for which end it was compiled. While in this charge, he was for
+some time abroad, and mingled considerably in the literary life of Germany,
+and also in the musical life of that country. Hence, he is a fine theorist
+in music.</p>
+
+<p>Since 1879 he has been literary editor of <i>The Independent</i>, and during
+these years he has written enough valuable editorials and reviews to fill
+many books. Many of his lectures, addresses, essays and other writings have
+appeared in magazines and other publications, notably a charming
+description of an "Ascent of Monte Rosa" in the <i>American Journal of
+Science and Arts</i>, of May, 1862. We find in a book entitled "Boston
+Lectures, 1872", a chapter given to one on "The Evidence of the
+Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Rev. Kinsley Twining, Cambridge, Mass.",
+in which the argument is, as might be expected, keen and clear. One of his
+more recent published papers was read by him at one of the Literary
+Reunions at Mr. Bowen's in Brooklyn, N. Y., and attracted much attention.
+It has since been given in Morristown: subject, "The Wends, or a Queer
+People Surviving in Prussia".</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Twining has made a special study of Shakespeare and holds a high rank
+as a Shakesperian critic and scholar.</p>
+
+<p>With regard to editorial work, it may be said an editor has a maximum of
+influence, the minimum of recognition,&mdash;for nobody knows who does<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span> it. It
+is certain that powerful editorials sometimes turn the tide of public
+opinion or actually establish certain results which affect the progress of
+the world, and at least make a mark in the world's advance. Who, indeed,
+can compute or measure the power of the press at the present day?</p>
+
+<p>We choose for Dr. Twining, some paragraphs from his editorial which has
+already acquired some celebrity in <i>The Independent</i> of Sept. 15, 1892, on
+John Greenleaf Whittier. The death of the poet occurred on the 7th of the
+same September and he had been one of the earliest and most regular
+contributors to that paper since 1851.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM EDITORIAL ON JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.</h4>
+
+<p>It has been said that every man of genius makes a class distinct by
+himself, out of relation and out of comparison with everybody else. At all
+events poets do, the first born in the progeny of genius; and of none of
+them is this truer than of the four great American poets, Bryant,
+Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier. In what order of merit they stand in their
+great poetic square, the distinct individuality of genius bestowed on each
+makes it needless to inquire. They have been our lights for half a century,
+and now that they have taken their permanent place in the galaxy of song,
+will continue to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span> shine there, to use the phrase which Whittier himself
+invented for Dr. Bowditch's sun-dial, as long as there is need of their
+"light above" in our "shade below."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Whittier is the ballad-master and legend singer of the American people. Had
+he known the South and the West as he knew New England, he would have sung
+their legends as he has sung those of New England. The meaning of all this
+is that he is the minstrel of our people. This he has been, and this he
+will remain. Whether it is in the solemn wrath of the great ballad,
+"Skipper Ireson's Ride," one of the greatest in modern literature, in the
+high patriotic strain of "Barbara Frietchie," in the pathos of "The Swan
+Song," of "Father Avery," "The Witch's Daughter," or in the grim humor of
+"The Double-Headed Snake of Newberry."</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"One in body and two in will,"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>it matters little what the subject is, or from whence it comes, the poem
+has in it some reflection of the common humanity, and as such speaks and
+will speak to the hearts of men.</p>
+
+<p>It has been the fashion to write of Victor Hugo as the poet of democratic
+humanity. We shall not dispute his claim. There is a certain epic grandeur
+in his work which entitles him to a seat alone. But to those who believe
+the world is moving toward a democracy whose ideals are the realization of
+the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span> Sermon on the Mount, whose essence is ethical, and whose laws are
+gentleness, usefulness and love, Greenleaf Whittier will be the true
+democratic poet whose heart beats most nearly with the pulses of the
+democratic age, and who best represents the principles which are to give it
+permanence.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Dr. Cuyler should immediately follow the group of editors and
+theologians, as he has been a regular writer for the religious press, as
+well as for the secular, for many years. To the former he has contributed
+more than 3,000 articles, many of which have been re-published and
+translated into foreign languages.</p>
+
+<p>In reply to a request for certain information, Dr. Cuyler, in a letter
+dated from Brooklyn, January 13, 1890, and written "in a sick room, where
+he was laid up with the 'Grip'", a disease of the present day which we hope
+may become historic,&mdash;replies to the author of this book as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"Probably no American author has a <i>longer</i> association with Morristown
+than I have; for my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span> ancestors have laid in its church-yards for more than
+a century.</p>
+
+<p>"My great-great-grandfather, Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes, preached in the 1st
+Presbyterian Church for 50 years and administered the Communion to General
+Washington.</p>
+
+<p>"My great-grandfather, Mr. Joseph Lewis, was a prominent citizen of
+Morristown and an active friend and counsellor of Washington.</p>
+
+<p>"My grandmother, Anna B. Lewis, was born in Morristown.</p>
+
+<p>"My mother, Louisa F. Morrell, was also born in Morristown (in 1802) in the
+old family "Lewis Mansion" in which Mr. William L. King now lives.</p>
+
+<p>"I was at school in Morristown in 1835 and it was my favorite place for
+visits for <i>many, many</i> years. I have often preached or spoken there.</p>
+
+<p>"The man most familiar with my literary work is Dr. J. M. Buckley, the
+editor of the <i>Christian Advocate</i>&mdash;who now resides in Morristown."</p>
+
+<p>This letter was signed with his name, as "Pastor of Lafayette Avenue
+Presbyterian Church." Less than a month later he announced to his
+astonished congregation, his intention of resigning his charge among them
+on the first Sabbath of the following April, when it would be exactly
+thirty years since he came to a small band of 140 members, which then
+composed his flock. At the close of his remarks on that occasion he said:
+"It only remains<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span> for me to say that after forty-four years of
+uninterrupted ministerial labors it is but reasonable to ask for some
+relief from a strain that may soon become too heavy for me to bear."</p>
+
+<p>During the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate, in
+1885, he told his congregation that during that time he had preached over
+2,300 discourses, had made over 1,000 addresses, officiated at about 600
+marriages, baptized 800 children, received into the church 3,700 members,
+of whom about 1,600 were converts, and had lost but one Sunday for
+sickness. Probably few men are more widely known for their literary and
+oratorical powers and extended usefulness both in the pulpit and out of it.
+Few, if any, have accomplished more in the same number of years or made a
+wider circle of warm and earnest friends both at home and abroad. Among the
+latter is the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, and was, the late John Bright. In his
+sermons and addresses, the personality of Dr. Cuyler is so marked that to
+hear him once is to remember him always. In England he has been especially
+popular as a preacher and temperance advocate. The latter cause he has
+espoused most warmly during his entire life.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Cuyler was born in the beautiful village of Aurora, N. Y., upon Cayuga
+Lake, of which his great-grandfather, General Benjamin Ledyard, was the
+founder. He was graduated at Princeton<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span> in 1841, and at Princeton
+Theological Seminary in 1846. Two years later, he was ordained into the
+Presbyterian Ministry, and was installed pastor of the Third Presbyterian
+Church of Trenton, N. J., then of the Market St. Reformed Dutch Church of
+New York City, and in April 1860, of the Brooklyn Lafayette Avenue
+Presbyterian Church.</p>
+
+<p>Among the author's books are the following, nearly all of which have been
+reprinted in London and have a very wide circulation in Great Britain. Five
+or six of them have been translated into Dutch and Swedish:</p>
+
+<p>"Stray Arrows", "The Cedar Christian", "The Empty Crib", a small book
+published many years ago after the death of one of his children and full of
+solace and consolation to the hearts of sorrowing parents; "Heart Life";
+"Thought Hives"; "From the Nile to Norway"; "God's Light on Dark Clouds";
+"Wayside Springs", and "Eight to the Point," of the "Spare Minute Series".</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Cuyler himself says that he considered his <i>chief</i> literary work to
+have been the preparation of over 3,000 articles for the leading religious
+papers of America. There might be added to this the publication of a large
+number of short and popular tracts.</p>
+
+<p>Here again we find, as in several instances before recorded in this book, a
+man of long experience and good judgment placing in the highest rank of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span>
+writings, useful to mankind, those done for the religious or secular
+newspapers. We give a short passage</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM, "GOD'S LIGHT ON DARK CLOUDS."</h4>
+
+<p>There is only one practical remedy for this deadly sin of anxiety, and that
+is to <i>take short views</i>. Faith is content to live "from hand to mouth,"
+enjoying each blessing from God as it comes. This perverse spirit of worry
+runs off and gathers some anticipated troubles and throws them into the cup
+of mercies and turns them to vinegar. A bereaved parent sits down by the
+new-made grave of a beloved child and sorrowfully says to herself, "Well, I
+have only one more left, and one of these days he may go off to live in a
+home of his own, or he may be taken away; and if he dies, my house will be
+desolate and my heart utterly broken." Now who gave that weeping mother
+permission to use that word "if"? Is not her trial sore enough now without
+overloading it with an imaginary trial? And if her strength breaks down, it
+will be simply because she is not satisfied with letting God afflict her;
+she tortures herself with imagined afflictions of her own. If she would but
+take a short view, she would see a living child yet spared to her, to be
+loved and enjoyed and lived for. Then, instead of having two sorrows, she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span>
+would have one great possession to set over against a great loss; her duty
+to the living would be not only a relief to her anguish, but the best
+tribute she could pay to the departed.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rt. Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip, D.D., LL.D.</h3>
+
+<p>Bishop Kip, since 1853, Bishop of California, was called to old St. Peter's
+Church, Morristown, immediately after his taking orders in 1835. "The first
+time the service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was used in Morristown,
+so far as known," says our historian, "was in the Summer of 1812. At that
+time Bishop Hobart of New York was visiting Mr. Rogers at Morristown, and
+by invitation of the officers of the First Presbyterian Church, he
+officiated one Sunday in their church, preaching and using the Episcopal
+service."</p>
+
+<p>For two years, 1820 and '21, the service was held on Sundays, at the house
+of George P. McCulloch, and finally on Dec. 4th, 1828, the church building
+was consecrated which has stood until quite recently. Now a superb stone
+edifice covers the ground of the old church.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In the ancestry of Bishop Kip we have a link with the far off story of
+France, for he is descended from Ruloff de Kype of the 16th Century, who
+was a native of Brittany and warmly espoused the part of the Guises in the
+French civil war between Protestants and Papists. After the downfall of his
+party, this Ruloff fled to the Low Countries; his son Ruloff became a
+Protestant and settled in Amsterdam and <i>his</i> son Henry made one of the
+Company which organized in 1588 to explore a northeast passage to the
+Indies. He came with his family, to America in 1635, but returned to
+Holland leaving here his two sons Henry and Isaac. Henry was a member of
+the first popular assembly in New Netherlands and Isaac owned the property
+upon which now stands the City Hall Park of New York.</p>
+
+<p>In 1831, the young William Ingraham, was graduated at Yale College and
+after first studying law and then divinity was admitted to orders and at
+once became the third rector of St. Peter's, at Morristown, remaining from
+July 13th, 1835, until November of the following year. Columbia bestowed
+upon him in 1847, the degree of S. T. D. Between the rectorship of St.
+Peter's and the bishopric of California, he served as assistant at Grace
+Church, New York, and was rector of St. Paul's, at Albany.</p>
+
+<p>Bishop Kip has published a large number of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg 321]</a></span> books, many of which have gone
+through several editions. In addition he has written largely for the
+<i>Church Review</i> and the <i>Churchman</i> and several periodicals. Among his
+books are "The Unnoticed Things of Scripture", (1868); "The Early Jesuit
+Missions" (2 Vols., 6 editions, 1846); "Catacombs of Rome", (8 editions,
+1853); "Double Witness of the Church", (27 editions, 1845); Lenten "Fast",
+(15 editions, 1845); the last two were published in both England and
+America as was also "Christmas Holydays in Rome", (1846). Besides these are
+"Early Conflicts of Christianity", (6 editions); "Church of the Apostles";
+"Olden Times in New York"; "Early Days of My Episcopate", (1892).</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE OF THE "EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS."</h4>
+
+<p>There is no page of our country's history more touching and romantic than
+that which records the labors and sufferings of the Jesuit Missionaries. In
+these western wilds they were the earliest pioneers of civilization and
+faith. The wild hunter or the adventurous traveler, who, penetrating the
+forests, came to new and strange tribes, often found that years before, the
+disciples of Loyola had preceded him in that wilderness. Traditions of the
+"Black-robes" still lingered among the Indians. On some moss-grown tree,
+they pointed out the traces of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg 322]</a></span> their work, and in wonder he deciphered,
+carved side by side on its trunk, the emblem of our salvation and the
+lilies of the Bourbons. Amid the snows of Hudson's Bay&mdash;among the woody
+islands and beautiful inlets of the St. Lawrence&mdash;by the council fires of
+the Hurons and the Algonquins&mdash;at the sources of the Mississippi, where
+first of the white men, their eyes looked upon the Falls of St. Anthony,
+and then traced down the course of the bounding river, as it rushed onward
+to earn its title of "Father of Waters"&mdash;on the vast prairies of Illinois
+and Missouri&mdash;among the blue hills which hem in the salubrious dwellings of
+the Cherokees&mdash;and in the thick canebrakes of Louisiana&mdash;everywhere were
+found the members of the Society of Jesus. Marquette, Joliet, Brebeuf,
+Jogues, Lallemand, Rasles and Marest,&mdash;are the names which the West should
+ever hold in remembrance. But it was only by suffering and trial that these
+early labours won their triumphs. Many of them too were men who had stood
+high in camps and courts, and could contrast their desolate state in the
+solitary wigwam with the refinement and affluence which had waited on their
+early years. But now, all these were gone. Home&mdash;the love of kindred&mdash;the
+golden ties of relationship&mdash;all were to be forgotten by these stern and
+high-wrought men, and they were often to go forth into the wilderness,
+without an adviser on their way, save their God. Through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span> long and
+sorrowful years, they were obliged to "sow in tears" before they could
+"reap in joy."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. William Staunton, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>With this author, the fifth rector of old St. Peter's Church, in
+Morristown, we go back in association to the ancient city of Chester,
+England, where he was born and where his grandfather on his mother's side
+was a leading dissenting minister and the founder of Queen's Street Chapel,
+Chester. His father, an intellectual man and well read in Calvinistic
+theology, also affiliated with the Independents, but was often led by his
+fine musical taste to attend with his son the services of the Cathedral. It
+was in this Cathedral of Chester, which is noted for the beauty and majesty
+with which the Church's ritual is rendered,&mdash;that the boy acquired that
+love of music which placed him in after life in the front rank of church
+musicians. One who knew him well has said of him in this respect: "This
+knowledge of music was profound and comprehensive. He was not simply a
+musical critic or a composer of hymn tunes and chants, but he had followed
+out through all its intricacies the science<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg 324]</a></span> of music. So well known was he
+for his learning and taste in this department that it was a common thing
+for professional musicians of distinction to go to him for advice and to
+submit their compositions to him, before publication. Much of his own music
+has been published. But his musical accomplishments are best attested by
+the work which he did as associate editor of Johnson's Encyclopedia." He
+was in particular, the musical editor of this work and wrote nearly all of
+the articles relating to music in it. He was also a prolific writer for
+church reviews and other periodicals. Among his publications in book form
+are: "A Dictionary of the Church", (1839); "An Ecclesiastical Dictionary",
+(1861); "The Catechist's Manual", a series of Sunday School instruction
+books; "Songs and Prayers"; "Book of Common Prayer"; "A Church Chant Book",
+and "Episodes of Clerical and Parochial Life".</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Staunton came with his father and the family, when fifteen years of
+age, to Pittsburg, Pa. He was closely associated with the Rev. Mr. Hopkins,
+afterward the Bishop of Vermont. His first ministerial charge was that of
+Zion Church, Palmyra, N. Y., and it was in 1840 he accepted the rectorship
+of St. Peter's Church, Morristown, which position he held for seven years.
+He then organized in Brooklyn, N. Y., a much needed parish,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg 325]</a></span> which he named
+St. Peter's after the parish he had just relinquished.</p>
+
+<p>"Dr. Staunton," says the present rector of St. Peter's, the Rev. Robert N.
+Merritt, D. D., who took up the work of the parish in 1853, and to whose
+untiring exertions, the parish and the people of Morristown are largely
+indebted for the erection of the massive and beautiful stone structure that
+stands on the site of the church of Dr. Staunton's time,&mdash;"Dr. Staunton was
+no ordinary man, though he never obtained the position in the church to
+which his abilities entitled him. Besides being above the average clergyman
+in theological attainments, he was a scientific musician, a good mechanic,
+well read in general literature, and so close an observer of the events of
+his time that much information was always to be gained from him. His
+retiring nature and great modesty kept him in the back ground."</p>
+
+<p>The following interesting reminiscence comes to us, in a letter, from one
+of the boys who was under his ministration when rector for seven years of
+old St. Peter's. "I remember", says this parishioner, "Dr. Staunton very
+distinctly and with much affection as well as regard and gratitude, for the
+training I had from him in the doctrines and ordinances of the church. He
+was for those days a very advanced churchman, being among the first to
+yield to the influence the Oxford movement was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg 326]</a></span> exercising and to adopt the
+advance it inaugurated in the ritual and service of the liturgy informing
+strictly however himself and teaching his people to recognize the authority
+of the rubrics. He maintained this, I think, till his death, and was ranked
+then as a conservative rather than a high churchman, though when he was
+here, the same attitude made him to be thought by some as almost
+dangerously ultra.</p>
+
+<p>"He was not eloquent nor what might be called an attractive preacher, but
+wrote well and accomplished a great deal as a careful and impressive
+teacher of sound doctrine and Christian morality.</p>
+
+<p>"Dr. Staunton was an accomplished scholar in scientific as well as
+ecclesiastical learning, was skilled as a draughtsman and designed, I
+remember, the screen of old St. Peter's when the chancel stood at the South
+street end; and it was wonderfully good and effective of its kind. He was
+also a trained musician, and at one time instructed a class of young ladies
+in thorough-bass, among them being the two Misses Wetmore, my eldest
+sister, and others, and, in addition to this, he made the choir while he
+was here, both in the music used and its efficiency, a vast improvement
+upon what it had been. He was a tall man, fully six feet, of a severe
+countenance and rather austere manner, leading him to be thought sometimes
+cold and unsympathetic, though really he was most kind and considerate, and
+in all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg 327]</a></span> respects a devoted and watchful pastor. He published, I think, a
+church dictionary later in life which is still a standard book and
+authority.</p>
+
+<p>"These are my impressions of Dr. Staunton received principally as a very
+young boy, though confirmed by an acquaintance continued till his death,
+and I retain the most sincere gratitude for the abiding faith in the sound
+doctrine of the Episcopal Church which he, after my mother, so trained me
+in that I have accepted them ever since as impregnable; and for this I am
+sure there are many others of his pupils and parishioners besides myself to
+'call him blessed.'"</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Rev. Dr. Mitchell was the third pastor of the South Street Presbyterian
+Church, which was the fifth, says our historian, "in our galaxy of
+churches." The time of his ministration, during which the church was
+greatly enlarged, both internally and externally, was from 1861 to 1868.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Mitchell is the son of Matthew and Susan Swain Mitchell, and was born
+in Hudson, N. Y.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg 328]</a></span> He was graduated at Williams College in 1853, was tutor
+in Lafayette College, Pa., for one year, and then traveled for a year in
+Europe and the East. Returning he entered the Union Theological Seminary of
+New York City and was graduated from there in 1859. In this year he
+accepted the charge of the Third Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., and
+in Oct. 1861, he became pastor of what was then called, the "Second
+Presbyterian Church" in Morristown. The first Presbyterian Church of
+Chicago, Ill., claimed him in 1868 and in 1880 the First Presbyterian
+Church of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884, Dr. Mitchell became Secretary of the
+Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church to which position he had been
+called fifteen years before, but had felt constrained to decline. This
+important office, which from his intense and life-long interest in the
+great cause of Christian missions to the heathen world, he was remarkably
+qualified to fill, he has held to the present time. In all his
+ministrations, in each individual church which he has served, he has
+succeeded in imparting his own love of, and interest in, Foreign Missions
+and his position as Secretary of this department of the church organization
+has enabled him to stimulate the great congregations and masses of
+individuals throughout the denomination.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Mitchell's eloquence in the pulpit and on the platform, is so
+well-known that it seems hardly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg 329]</a></span> worth while to refer to it. Mastering his
+subject completely as he does, he has the rare power of condensing clearly
+and giving out his thoughts in language and in tones of voice which hold
+and attract his audience to the end. He has published no books, only
+sermons and addresses in pamphlet form and innumerable articles in
+magazines and newspapers. To the great value of this sort of literary work,
+several of our distinguished authors have already testified. In the <i>Church
+at Home and Abroad</i>, we find the most exhaustive articles from Dr.
+Mitchell's pen, on the missions and conditions of the various countries of
+the earth which he has also recently visited in a trip around the world.
+These are all written from so large a standpoint that they are about as
+interesting to the general reader as to the specialist. In the publication,
+the "Concert of Prayer" many of these valuable papers are found and a
+considerable number of his addresses, articles, &amp;c., are bound among those
+of other writers, in large volumes. In the next generation we find a writer
+also, in Dr. Mitchell's daughter, Alice, who does not desire mention for
+the reason that her writings are so fragmentary and scattered.
+Nevertheless, her literary work has been considerable and cannot be easily
+measured or described. One who knows her well, says: "Not many ladies are
+better read in missionary annals." In an article of hers, of great
+interest, published in the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg 330]</a></span><i>Concert of Prayer for Church Work Abroad</i>, and
+entitled "The Martyrs of Mexico," we come upon the story of the Rev. John
+L. Stephens, previously mentioned in this book among "Travels", &amp;c., and
+who, Miss Mitchell tells us, was one of the earliest missionaries of the
+Congregational church to Mexico.</p>
+
+<p>We have already mentioned that Mr. Matthew Mitchell, the father of our
+writer, lived in Morristown for many years and married for his second wife,
+Miss Margaret, the daughter of the good Doctor John Johnes, and the
+granddaughter of the good Pastor Johnes.</p>
+
+<p>We give a short passage from the opening of Dr. Mitchell's Memorial Sermon
+on James A. Garfield, delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of
+Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1881, and published by a number of
+prominent men who requested the privilege:</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM THE "MEMORIAL SERMON" ON JAMES A. GARFIELD.</h4>
+
+<p>We share, my friends, to-day, the greatest grief America has ever known. It
+is no exaggeration to say that no one stroke of Providence has ever spread
+throughout all our land such poignant and universal pain, or has been so
+widely felt as a shock and a sorrow in every portion of the earth.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[Pg 331]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I am not using words without care. I do not forget those dreadful days of
+April, sixteen years ago, when the slow procession passed from State to
+State, bearing the remains of the beloved Lincoln to the tomb. But there
+was one whole section of our land, it will be remembered, which had never
+acknowledged him as their ruler, and had never viewed him alas! except as
+their foe. Innumerable noble hearts there discussed the crime that laid him
+low; but although they abhorred the assassin's crime, around his victim
+their sentiments of confidence and admiration and loyalty had never been
+gathered.</p>
+
+<p>I do not forget the horror which smote the nation when Hamilton fell, the
+universal pall of sorrow of which our fathers tell us,&mdash;the metropolis of
+the country draped in black, the vast and solemn cort&egrave;ge, which amidst
+weeping throngs, followed Hamilton through its chief avenue to the grave.</p>
+
+<p>And as one heart, the hearts of Americans mourned for Washington. There
+were friends of liberty who wept with them in every part of the world. But
+liberty itself had not then so many friends on earth as now. By one great
+nation Washington was held to have drawn a rebel sword. And against
+another, our earlier ally, he had unsheathed it and stood prepared for war.
+And even by the countrymen of Washington it could not be forgotten that he
+had nearly fulfilled the allotted<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[Pg 332]</a></span> years of man. His work was done. His
+years of war had won for his country the full liberty she sought. His eight
+glorious years of Presidential life had organized the Government,
+established its relations to foreign powers and made its bulwarks strong.
+At his death it was even said that he had "deliberately dispelled the
+enchantment of his own great name;" with wonderful unselfishness he himself
+placed the helm in other hands, looked on for a time at the prosperity
+which he had taught others to supply, and "convinced his country that she
+depended less on him than either her enemies or her friends believed." And
+then he died in the peaceful retirement of his home. It was the death of a
+venerated father whose work was done.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Charles E. Knox, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>For six or eight months in the midst of the Rev. Arthur Mitchell's
+pastorate, a distinguished scholar of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev.
+Charles E. Knox, D. D., filled Dr. Mitchell's place as pastor of the South
+Street Church, Morristown, while the latter was absent in Europe and
+Palestine.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[Pg 333]</a></span> This period was from September 1863 to May 1864. When Dr.
+Mitchell resigned in 1868, the present pastor, Rev. Dr. Erdman, was called
+at Dr. Knox's suggestion. From 1864 to 1873, Dr. Knox was pastor of the
+church at Bloomfield, N. J., and since that time has been President of the
+German Theological School of Newark, which is located in Bloomfield. Dr.
+Knox says, in writing of his sojourn in Morristown: "I had a happy time
+with the good South street people and have retained always the liveliest
+interest in all that belongs to them."</p>
+
+<p>"A Year with St. Paul" had just been published when the charge of this
+South Street Church was undertaken. It has since been translated into
+Arabic at Beirut, Syria. "It is in good part," says the author, "a
+compilation and condensation of Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of
+St. Paul", (then in two large and expensive volumes), with some original
+matter. It has a chapter for every Sunday of the year.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Knox began in Morristown a series of "Graduated Sunday School Text
+Books,"&mdash;Primary Year, Second Year, Third Year, Fourth Year and Senior
+Year. This was an introduction of the secular graded system into Sunday
+School Teaching. It introduced the Quarterly Review which has since been
+followed.</p>
+
+<p>"David the King," a life of David with section<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[Pg 334]</a></span> maps inserted in the page
+and a location of the Psalms in his life, was published later at
+Bloomfield.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Albert Erdman, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Dr. Erdman is entitled to honorable mention among Morristown
+writers. He has been the faithful pastor of the South Street Presbyterian
+Church since May 1869, following the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D. It was
+during his ministry that in 1877, the church edifice was totally consumed
+by fire, and the beautiful new building located on its site, in the late
+Byzantine style. It is said by one who knows and appreciates Dr. Erdman's
+work that "few men read more or digest better their reading."</p>
+
+<p>For several years, he has prepared "Notes on the International Sunday
+School Lessons", for a monthly periodical published in Toronto, Canada.</p>
+
+<p>A number of sermons have been published by request, among them the "Sermon
+on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the South Street Presbyterian Church".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[Pg 335]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Addresses on "Prophetic and other Bible Studies" have been printed in
+Annual Reports of the Bible Conference at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
+and, besides these, many fugitive newspaper articles of value and
+importance.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Erdman has been largely interested in the general welfare, and
+especially the philanthropies, of the town, outside of his immediate
+church, and by this public spirit, earnestly and fearlessly manifested, in
+many instances, he has no doubt greatly extended his sphere of influence.</p>
+
+<p>He has been a warm supporter of, and has given much time and personal
+attention to the establishment of the Morris County Charities Aid
+Association and of the State Association which followed, carefully studying
+the questions of pauper and criminal reform for which purpose this
+organization exists.</p>
+
+<p>In the Semi-Centennial Sermon we find the following remarkable record:</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL SERMON ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
+CHURCH'S ORGANIZATION.</h4>
+
+<p>I must note the unique fact that the history of these fifty years of Church
+life is the history of uninterrupted prosperity. Even that which seemed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[Pg 336]</a></span> at
+the time to be against us&mdash;the destruction by fire of the former house of
+worship&mdash;proved to be, as are all the Lord's afflictions, a blessing in
+disguise; for the history of the church since is that of continued and
+ever-increasing prosperity, if growing numbers and enlarged usefulness be
+criterion of success. A spirit of harmony and goodwill mark its whole
+course, and it is, therefore, with unmingled pleasure and gratitude to God,
+we may recall the past. No roots of bitterness and strife to be covered up,
+no rocks of offense to be carefully avoided!</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>How the memories of the past throng around us&mdash;the saintly lives of fathers
+and mothers, the godly service and earnest prayers of pastors and people,
+the fervent appeals from pulpit and teacher's chair,&mdash;surely it would seem
+there could be no valid reason why any should be still unsaved or unwilling
+to take up the duties of Christian service.</p>
+
+<p>Finally, as we here recall the story of the past and rejoice in the
+prosperity of the present, and while we look forward to still larger
+service and blessing in the days to come, let us, with a deep sense of our
+unworthiness and dependence, say, with the Psalmist: "Not unto us, O Lord,
+not unto us; but unto Thy name be all glory."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[Pg 337]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Joseph M. Flynn, R. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Roman Catholic Church in Morristown erected its first building in 1847.
+It was a small wooden structure, with seating capacity for about 300 people
+and is now used by the parish school. It was in 1871 that the first priest
+in full charge, Rev. James Sheeran, was stationed here, and at his death in
+1881, the Rev. Joseph M. Flynn succeeded, who has continued in charge of
+the parish to the present time. He was named "Dean of the Catholics in
+Morris and Sussex Counties" about six years ago.</p>
+
+<p>This author has recently published a book, (Morristown, N. J., 1892), "The
+Story of a Parish" from the first chapter of which we quote. Also he has
+written some magazine articles and a brochure on "Lent and How to Spend
+it." He is now preparing for publication a volume of short sermons.</p>
+
+<p>"The Story of a Parish" is the story of the foundation and development of
+this parish of the Church of the Assumption, in Morristown.</p>
+
+<p>In the opening chapter, the author says:</p>
+
+<p>"We know that Raphael, Bramante, and Michel Angelo threw into St. Peter's
+the very heart and soul of their inspiration, to erect to the living God
+such a temple as the eye of man had never gazed upon.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[Pg 338]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"But there are other monuments which thrill no less the beholder, and the
+names of their creators sleep in an impenetrable obscurity. The
+cross-crowned fane, lifting to the highest heaven the sign of man's
+redemption, may tell us neither of him whose genius conceived nor of the
+toilers whose strong arm and cunning eye, in the burning heats of Summer,
+or in the chilling blasts of Winter, unfolded to the wondering crowds who
+daily watched their labors, step by step, inch by inch, the beauties whose
+finished product Time has preserved to us in many a shire of Britain; by
+the glistening lakes and verdant vales of Erin; in sunny Italy, in fair
+France, and in the hallowed soil bathed by our own Potomac. To the humble
+laborer who dug the trenches, to the artist whose chisel carved foliage or
+cusp or capital, a share in our grateful memory is due."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. George Harris Chadwell.</h3>
+
+<p>The group of people who originated the idea of forming a second Episcopal
+Church in Morristown, perfected their plans in 1852. The following year<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[Pg 339]</a></span>
+the church building was erected. The first rector, Rev. J. H. Tyng, assumed
+his duties in September, 1852. The Rev. W. G. Sumner accepted a call to the
+parish in 1870. As he is now Professor of Political Economy at Yale
+University&mdash;he will come, with his specialty, into a later group. In 1880,
+Rev. George H. Chadwell became rector of the parish, coming from Brooklyn
+where he had been assistant to the Rev. Charles Hall, D. D., rector of
+Trinity Church of that City.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Chadwell courageously undertook the removal of the church edifice from
+the spot where it had stood since 1854, on the corner of Morris and Pine
+streets, to its present site on South street, on which occasion he
+delivered one of his important "Addresses" which was published and largely
+distributed. He lived to see his aim accomplished and not long after gave,
+in the church again, on what proved to be the last Sunday of his life, a
+sermon, which was also published under the title of "A Farewell Discourse."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Chadwell also published a monthly paper during his rectorship, called
+<i>The Rector's Assistant</i>, and wrote in other directions.</p>
+
+<p>In the "Address on the Occasion of the Re-opening of the Edifice for Divine
+service," August 22, 1886, we find a reference to the interesting history
+of the land on which the building now stands,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[Pg 340]</a></span> and its association with
+many of the old families of Morristown, as follows:</p>
+
+<p>"Originally the ground we are now occupying belonged to the first
+Presbyterian Church, which at that date constituted the only religious
+society in the town, and owned all the land on the east side of South
+street as far down as Pine street. This plot of ours formed a part of what
+was designated the parsonage lot. The first sale of it took place in
+November of 1795, the same year the white church on the Green was dedicated
+and opened for Divine worship. The consideration was one hundred and twenty
+pounds, money worth about $300 in the currency of the United States. The
+Trustees whose names appear in the deed are Silas Condict, Benjamin
+Lindsley, Jonathan Ford, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Jonathan Ogden and
+Benjamin Pierson&mdash;names which are still represented in our community. The
+purchaser was the Rev. James Richards. This gentleman was at the time the
+pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, being the third in succession to
+that office. His ministry covered a period of fourteen years and was
+remarkably successful.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>"On his departure from Morristown Dr. Richards sold the property we are now
+describing. The price realized was $4,000. From which I infer that there
+had been erected upon it the house which we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[Pg 341]</a></span> propose to convert into a
+rectory. Otherwise I can not account for so great an increase in the value
+of the land as took place. * * * The new owner proved to be the Rev. Samuel
+Fisher, the successor of Dr Richards in the pastorate of the church. Mr.
+Fisher was the son of Jonathan Fisher, a native of this town. * * * In
+1813, under his auspices, the Female Charitable Society of Morristown, our
+most venerable eleemosynary institution, was founded, Mr. Fisher's wife
+being elected to the honored position of its first President. * * * It was
+somewhere about this time that Mrs. Wetmore, the widow of a British
+officer, opened on this site a private school for girls." (Mrs. Wetmore was
+the mother of Mrs. James Colles who long lived, in summer, upon the large
+estate now opened to the city, in streets and avenues, and largely built
+upon. She was also the mother of Charles Wetmore, the artist who painted
+the picture of "Old Morristown," in 1815, now in possession of Hon.
+Augustus W. Cutler, to whose courtesy we are indebted for the privilege of
+having made from it the fine pen and ink sketch of Miss Suzy Howell, for
+the frontispiece of this book.) "From 1814 to 1829, our property passed
+through the hands successively of Israel Canfield, James Wood and Silas
+Condict. During this period, or rather a portion of it, one of New Jersey's
+most promising lawyers resided on this spot. I refer to Mr. William<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342">[Pg 342]</a></span>
+Miller, an older brother of our late United States Senator, the Hon. J. W.
+Miller. * * * A citizen of Morristown who was personally acquainted with
+him has lately written me: 'The noble character and the brilliant career of
+this young lawyer, which were cut short by his untimely death, are still
+remembered with lively interest by some of our oldest inhabitants.'</p>
+
+<p>"In 1829 the property again changed hands, the purchaser being Miss Mary
+Louisa Mann. Her father was the editor of <i>The Morris County Gazette</i>
+afterwards known as <i>The Genius of Liberty</i>, and of <i>The Palladium of
+Liberty</i>, the first newspapers issued in Morristown. He also published in
+1805 an edition of the Holy Scriptures, which gained considerable notoriety
+as 'The Armenian Bible,' from the error occurring in Heb. vi:4, 'For it is
+possible for those who have once been enlightened ... if they shall fall
+away to renew them again unto repentance.' Miss Mann, now Mrs. Lippincott,
+of Succasunna, together with her sister, Miss Sarah, put up the building
+which is to serve us hereafter as a Sunday School room and church parlor.
+It was erected to meet the wants of a female seminary established by them
+in 1822, and which had grown under their efficient management so popular
+that its advantages were sought by pupils from all quarters. Since the
+close of the school the buildings occupied by it have been used as a
+boarding<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_343" id="Page_343">[Pg 343]</a></span> house. As such their hospitality has been enjoyed by numbers
+whose names are familiar to us in connection with important features of our
+national existence, finance, war and art. I mention in particular the
+Belmonts, the Perrys, the Rogers, the Enningers. And here in the front
+parlor of this same boarding house in the summer of 1851, when it had been
+determined to found a new parish, the first meeting of its originators was
+held. 'In that room,' to quote the language of one present on the occasion,
+'the infant Church was christened The Church of the Redeemer, and from that
+day it lived; very feebly at first, not a very strong child, but tenderly
+nurtured, always slowly gaining, until now, after thirty-four years, it
+promises to grow in strength and to have a powerful future.' Our immediate
+predecessor in the title to the land was Mr. George W. King, who acquired
+it in 1854 for the sum of $8,000."</p>
+
+<p>Of the character of the church, Rev. Mr. Chadwell says:</p>
+
+<p>"This Church then, I may observe, has always been conservative in its
+character. Those who founded it gave to it this tone. They were men opposed
+in mind and temperament to that mediaeval type of theology which had begun
+to prevail in their day, and which has since become popular in various
+quarters. They were out of sympathy with the movement which was then
+aiming, and which has since succeeded in undoing much the reforming<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344">[Pg 344]</a></span>
+divines of the sixteenth century accomplished. They were averse, for
+example, to everything that savors of sacerdotalism&mdash;to the doctrines which
+convert the ambassador of Christ into a sacrificing priest, the communion
+table into a veritable altar, and the eucharist into a sacrifice and
+constant miracle. Elaborate rites and ceremonies, in which some find a
+delight, and perhaps a help, were distasteful to them. They felt themselves
+unable to derive edification from these sources. On the other hand, they
+were in harmony with what may be denominated the protestant tendencies of
+our Communion. Of the name itself of protestant they had not learned to be
+ashamed. They believed in the principles of the great Reformation of three
+centuries ago. They did not judge its promoters deluded men, nor pronounce
+them to have 'died for a cause not worth dying for.' They honored them as
+God-enlightened, and venerated them as heroes and martyrs. The changes
+these effected in dogma and in ritual they regarded not as mistakes, but as
+advances in the right direction&mdash;from error towards truth. They looked to
+Christ as their only priest, to His cross as their only altar and to his
+death thereon as the only atonement for their sin. They loved simplicity of
+worship and cultivated it in their public devotions. In fine, they were
+content and best satisfied with that plain system of teaching and practice
+which the Prayer Book as we have it now<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345">[Pg 345]</a></span> seems most naturally to favor. At
+least this is the impression of these men which I have received from
+reading the record and memorials of themselves they have left behind. So
+when they organized this parish it was along these lines which I have
+indicated. And from its inception to the present moment it has retained,
+with perhaps some unessential modifications, the stamp they gave it."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. William M. Hughes, S. T. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Dr. Hughes, who succeeded the Rev. George H. Chadwell, in 1887, as
+rector of the Church of the Redeemer should have followed our little
+group&mdash;within this group&mdash;of editors and theologians, except that he has
+present charge of a parish, which they have not. He was officially on the
+editorial staff and in the editorial department of <i>The Churchman</i> during
+1887 and 1888, and has written for editorial and other departments both
+before and since. For <i>The Church Journal</i> also, as well as other, and
+secular papers, he has written articles and editorials on various topics,
+from time to time.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346">[Pg 346]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Dr. Hughes was born at Little Falls, New York, and losing both parents
+early in life, removed to Frankfort, Kentucky, among his mother's
+relatives. From boarding-school in Ohio, he entered Kenyon College, Class
+of '71. At the end of Freshman year he went to Hobart College and was
+graduated there at the head of his class in 1871. During 1871-'72, he
+studied in Berlin, Germany, and was graduated in 1875 from the General
+Theological Seminary, New York. The same year he became rector of St.
+John's Church, Buffalo, N. Y., one of the most important parishes of the
+diocese of Western New York. This charge he resigned in 1883, to accept a
+position of honor to which he had been unanimously elected, in Hobart
+College, Geneva, N. Y.,&mdash;namely, the Chaplaincy of the College and
+Professorship of "Philosophy and Christian Evidences," the latter
+department having been hitherto held by the President of the College. It
+was with great regret, that the people of Buffalo as well as the people of
+St. John's parish, parted with both Dr. and Mrs. Hughes, if we may judge
+from all that was expressed in the press on the occasion of their
+departure. "Here," says one writer, "they will be missed, not only by those
+with whom they were closely associated in church or neighborhood
+relationship, but more especially by the sick, the humble, the troubled,
+and the needy, for whose consolation and comfort they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">[Pg 347]</a></span> have so unselfishly
+labored, in many parts of the city, during the last seven years. A thousand
+blessings follow them."</p>
+
+<p>In 1887, Dr. Hughes became an associate editor of <i>The Churchman</i> and
+Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown. He is a member of the
+Executive Council of the Church Temperance Society and Corresponding
+Secretary of the <i>University Board of Regents</i> and originator of the
+scheme.</p>
+
+<p>Among Dr. Hughes' writings is an important brochure on Boys' Guilds,
+published under the auspices of the Church Temperance Society, and entitled
+"Hints for the Formation of Bands of Young Crusaders." In this he discusses
+"one of the most practical questions before the Church, and the one which
+the busy rector often asks in sheer bewilderment, if not despair: 'What
+shall be done with the boys of the Church, from the ages of ten to
+seventeen?'" He also offers the solution in a plan of organization for one,
+among many works, which may interest and occupy them, thus training them as
+the boys of the Church to become the men of the Church.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Magazine of Christian Literature</i> for September 1892, we find the
+leading article to be from the pen of Dr. Hughes, on "The Convergence of
+Darwinism and the Bible." "The conclusions here reached," the author tells
+us, "have been subjected,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348">[Pg 348]</a></span> during the past eight years, to efficient
+criticism and repeated examinations." It is proposed that these articles
+shall continue and finally appear in book form. Of this article, a
+prominent clergyman of the Church, whose opinion weighs for much, and whose
+words we have asked the privilege of giving, writes Rev. Dr. Hughes, as
+follows: "I am deeply moved in recognizing the penetration, the sublimity
+and sweetness of your essay in the September number of the <i>Magazine of
+Christian Literature</i>. I trust No. 1. is prophetic of future numbers.</p>
+
+<p>"You have made a great discovery and you disclose it with great power and
+beauty. How wonderful is this converging witness of Nature and the Spirit,
+Faith and Science to the approaching Day of the Son of Man. No question,
+the Day is swiftly coming. Its light is on the hills. The many signs of His
+approach and His appearing seem to fill the air and make the spirit tremble
+with holy fear and gladness. The Lord hasten the Day. Let us prepare
+ourselves with joy to greet Him. Meantime, we may greet one another in the
+full assurance of faith, as I you, brother, by these presents."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>From a Paper in <i>The Magazine of Christian Literature</i> of September 1892,
+on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349">[Pg 349]</a></span>&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"THE CONVERGENCE OF DARWINISM AND THE BIBLE CONCERNING MAN AND THE SUPREME
+BEING."</p>
+
+<p>Science and religion are in reality dealing with the same phenomena.
+Immense human and personal interests are involved in them. Neither can be
+discussed in the absolutely "dry light" of sheer intellectuality.</p>
+
+<p>Consequences of immense import to the individual character, to the social
+well-being, and to eternal hopes flow directly from each.</p>
+
+<p>If, by scientific methods, which are plainly sound, conclusions are reached
+that are directly at variance with the religious faith of the vast
+majority, both a social and an intellectual as well as an ethical
+revolution is threatening.</p>
+
+<p>Or if by religious methods traditions are established which deny room to
+the conclusions of progressive human thought, religion inevitably invites
+scepticism, the casting off of all traditions, and the unfortunate disclaim
+of that which is forever true in faith.</p>
+
+<p>There are not a few of us to whom our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is
+dearer far than the most acute thinker in the domain of human speculation
+or the profoundest student of the world as it is.</p>
+
+<p>If it come to an attack or a logical denial of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350">[Pg 350]</a></span> that which He is and
+teaches, we do not hesitate to make a personal matter of it.</p>
+
+<p>If Darwinism, <i>e. g.</i>, as a system of ultimate postulates demands that we
+yield up the Lord of Life to be crucified afresh by the powers of the
+world, Darwinism, as such, will get no quarter. Getting no quarter, it will
+give none, and it becomes an internecine strife that knows no truce and
+admits no peace until the one or the other lies dead on the field of
+contest.</p>
+
+<p>But if, as a matter of fact, such a conflict is really illogical, hasty,
+and essentially inimical to both modern science, and to the Christian
+faith, then much is gained not only for peace, but still more for truth.</p>
+
+<p>It is the direct object of this article to demonstrate, so far as
+demonstration is possible, that the theory of Darwin, instead of
+antagonizing, tends irresistibly to affirm the most fundamental truths of
+the Bible as commonly held by the so-called orthodox Christian world. Nay,
+more, not only to affirm, but to give them greater power.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351">[Pg 351]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS.</h2>
+
+
+<p>At this point, we must confess to a sensation of being overwhelmed with an
+embarrassment of riches, for what shall we do with the distinguished men
+who follow, and bring our little book within its covers? That we may have
+no more continuous extracts from their works, reluctantly we find ourselves
+compelled to realize.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Jacob W. Miller.</h3>
+
+<p>We are indebted to Edward Q. Keasbey, Esq., grandson of Mr. Miller, for the
+facts and data of the following brief sketch.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352">[Pg 352]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Hon. Jacob W. Miller was born in November, 1800, in German Valley,
+Morris County, N. J. He studied law in Morristown with his brother, William
+W. Miller from 1818 to 1823, when he was licensed to practice as attorney.
+He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court as counsellor in 1826 and
+in 1837 he was called to the degree of Sergeant at Law and he was one of
+the last to whom the degree was given. He had a large practice in
+Morristown and was one of the leading advocates at the circuit in Sussex
+and Warren as well as Morris Counties. Mr. Elmer in his reminiscences says:
+"He was distinguished not only as a fervent and impressive speaker, but for
+patient industry, faithfulness and tact. He was distinguished also for that
+sound common sense which is above all other sense, and was, by its
+exhibition in public and private, a man of great personal influence."</p>
+
+<p>In 1838 he was elected a member of the Council, as the State Senate was
+then called, and in 1840, he was elected by the Whig party to the Senate of
+the United States. He was elected again in 1846, and remained in the Senate
+until 1852. He did not speak very often, but when he spoke it was after a
+careful study of the subject and his words carried the greater weight. He
+spoke with wisdom and eloquence. A large number of these speeches are
+published in scattered pamphlets or in volumes among others. They have
+never been collected. One of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[Pg 353]</a></span> the earliest of these important speeches was
+on the resolutions of the day in favor of a protective tariff. On May 23,
+1844, Mr. Miller delivered a speech against the treaty for annexing Texas
+to the United States. The objections to the treaty as stated by him, are of
+considerable interest in the present day. He opposed the annexation on the
+ground that it was using the National Government to give an advantage to
+the Slave States. "Slavery," he said was "a matter to be regulated and
+controlled by the States, and neither to be interfered with nor extended by
+the National Government. New Jersey had abolished slavery herself and did
+not ask any territory into which to send her slaves." On Feb'y 21, 1850, he
+spoke upon the "Proposition to Compromise the Slavery Question" and in
+favor of the admission of California into the Union.</p>
+
+<p>Among others of his speeches, were those "On the Exploration of the
+Interior of Africa and in favor of the Independence of Liberia", delivered
+in the Senate of the United States, March 1853; "In Defence of the American
+Doctrine of Non-Intervention", delivered in the Senate of the U. S. Feb.
+26, 1852; "On the Mexican War and the Mode of Bringing it to a Speedy and
+Favorable Conclusion", Feb. 2, 1847; "On the Ten Regiments Bill", Feb. 8,
+1848, against the prosecution of the Mexican War. Mr. Miller worked and
+spoke earnestly in favor of "Establishing and Encouraging an American Line
+of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[Pg 354]</a></span> Steamers". On April 22, 1852, he delivered a carefully prepared speech
+in favor of sustaining the Collins line of Mail Steamers, and advocated the
+policy of a subsidy for carrying the mails, which was successful then and
+has now again been adopted, already resulting in the restoration of the
+American flag to the transatlantic steamers.</p>
+
+<p>Besides these speeches in the Senate, Mr. Miller delivered a good many
+addresses and orations. Among these was an oration delivered in Morristown
+on the Fourth of July, 1851. Even then he foreboded the attempt to break up
+the Union and, speaking of Secession as rebellion, he maintained the power
+of the Nation under the Constitution to defend the Union. Several addresses
+were delivered before historical societies and some in the direction of the
+agricultural interests of the country. Before the New Jersey Historical
+Society in Trenton, he spoke of "The Iron State, Its Natural Position,
+Power and Wealth", Jan. 19, 1854. Before the Bristol Agricultural Society
+at New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 28, 1854, he spoke on "American Agriculture;
+its Development and Influence at Home and Abroad".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[Pg 355]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. William Burnet Kinney.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Kinney, whose wife, Elizabeth C. Kinney and whose grandson, Alexander
+Nelson Easton, have already been represented among our poets, may be
+claimed by Morristown, for his associations of boyhood and of many years in
+later life. A man of unusual culture, no one who knew him could forget the
+charm of his courtly manners and delightful conversation. He founded <i>The
+Newark Daily Advertiser</i>, in 1833. It was then the only daily newspaper in
+the State, and uniting with it <i>The Sentinel of Freedom</i>, a long
+established weekly paper, he gave to the journal a tone so high that it was
+said of him, "his literary criticisms, contained in it, had more influence
+upon the opinions of literary men than those of any other journalist of the
+time." He was fortunate in having an accomplished son, Thomas T. Kinney,
+Esq., of Newark, N. J., to follow in his footsteps and continue the
+editorial work he had begun in this leading New Jersey paper. From Mr.
+Thomas T. Kinney we have a few words of reminiscence written in reply to
+the question of a friend as to what his father's early associations with
+Morristown might have been.</p>
+
+<p>"My father," he says, "was born at Speed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[Pg 356]</a></span>well, Morris County (in the edge
+of Morristown). I think it was in the house afterwards owned and occupied
+by the late Judge Vail, and the same in which his son Alfred lived. He
+invented the telegraph alphabet of dots and lines, which made Morse's
+system practicable, and it is still used.</p>
+
+<p>"Speedwell is on a stream upon which there were mill-sites, owned and
+worked by my father's ancestry and there is a tradition in the family that
+his uncle in trying to save a mill during a freshet lost his life and the
+body was afterwards found through a dream by another member of the family.
+The lake at Speedwell was a picturesque spot and Sully, the artist, painted
+his great picture of the 'Lady of the Lake' there, the subject being
+Lucretia Parsons, a beautiful girl whose family came from the West Indies
+and settled in the neighborhood. Lucretia married a Mr. Charles King who
+lived at the Park House in Newark and had the original sketch from which
+Sully painted the head in the picture. My father was intimate in the family
+and I think that some of his ancestry rest in the burial ground of the old
+Presbyterian Church at Morristown,&mdash;from all of which we may infer that
+many of his youthful days were passed there."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Kinney studied under Mr. Whelpley, author of "The Triangle", and
+subsequently studied under Joseph C. Hornblower, of Newark. In 1820<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[Pg 357]</a></span> he
+began his editorial life in Newark, which he continued with slight
+interruption until his appointment in 1851, as United States Minister to
+Sardinia. "In this position of honor," it is said, "he represented his
+country with rare ability." With Count Cavour and other men of eminence in
+Sardinia, he discussed the movement for the unification of Italy. For
+important services rendered to Great Britain, Lord Palmerston sent him a
+special despatch of acknowledgment and by his own foresight, judgment and
+prompt action in the case of the exiled Kossuth, he saved the United States
+from enlisting in a foreign complication. During his life abroad, at the
+expiration of his term of office as Minister to Sardinia, while residing in
+Florence, Mr. Kinney became deeply interested in the romantic history of
+the Medici family. He began a historical work on this subject, to be
+entitled, "The History of Tuscany", which promised to be of great
+importance, but although carried far on to completion, it was not finished
+when his life ended. In Florence Mr. and Mrs. Kinney were constantly in the
+society of the Brownings, the Trollopes and others of literary distinction.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Kinney, besides his editorial writing, delivered, by request, a number
+of important orations which were published. The last of these, "On the
+Bi-Centennial of the Settlement of Newark", and delivered on the occasion
+of that celebration, we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[Pg 358]</a></span> find in a volume published in 1866, entitled
+"Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society".</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Theodore F. Randolph</h3>
+
+<p>Theodore F. Randolph was born in New Brunswick June 24, 1826. His father,
+James F. Randolph, for thirty-six years publisher and editor of <i>The
+Fredonian</i>, was of Revolutionary stock, belonging to the Virginia family,
+and for eight years represented the Whig Party in Congress. The son
+received a liberal education and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He
+frequently contributed articles to his father's paper when still a youth.
+In 1850 he took up his residence in Hudson County, where he resided twelve
+years and until he removed to Morristown. In 1852 he married a daughter of
+Hon. W. B. Coleman, of Kentucky, and a granddaughter of Chief Justice
+Marshall. In 1860 he with others of the American party formed a coalition
+with the Democrats to whom he ever after adhered. In 1861 he was elected to
+the State Senate for unexpired term and in the following year he was
+re-elected and served till 1865. In 1867, he was made<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[Pg 359]</a></span> President of the
+Morris and Essex Railroad and continued to act as such until the lease was
+made to the Delaware and Lackawanna Company. In 1868, he was elected
+Governor of the State and proved a most able and independent Chief
+Magistrate. In January, 1875, he was elected to the United States Senate in
+which he served a full term of six years. In 1873 he was one of the four
+who formed and carried out the design of making the Washington Headquarters
+"a historic place". His sudden death on the seventh day of November, 1883,
+shocked the whole community in whose affections he filled so large a place.</p>
+
+<p>Gov. Randolph was a man of most genial manner, honorable in all his
+business transactions and most liberal-minded and fearless as a legislator.
+Says one who knew him intimately: "He filled well all the duties to which
+his fellow-citizens called him."</p>
+
+<p>But it is as a writer that his name appears here. His messages to the
+Legislature while Governor and his speeches in the United States Senate are
+known of all and bear the impress of his character. These are scattered
+through numerous public documents and have never yet been collected in book
+form. His many contributions to the press were mostly political. In 1871,
+he pronounced an oration at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument on our
+public square, which was published in our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[Pg 360]</a></span> County papers, and on July 5,
+1875, at the celebration of the National holiday at Headquarters, he made
+the eloquent address, which is the best specimen of his skill. This address
+is given, entire, in Hon. Edmund D. Halsey's "History of the Washington
+Association of New Jersey".</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Edward W. Whelpley.</h3>
+
+<p>Chief Justice Whelpley, by the high order of his judicial qualities rose
+rapidly from the Bar to the Bench. He was the only son of Dr. William A.
+Whelpley, a native of New England and a practicing physician in Morristown.
+Dr. Whelpley was a cousin of the Rev. Samuel Whelpley who wrote "The
+Triangle". The mother of Judge Whelpley was a daughter of General John Dodd
+of Bloomfield, N. J., and a sister of the distinguished Amzi Dodd,
+Prosecutor of Morris County. He was graduated, at Princeton, with
+distinction, at the early age of sixteen; studied law with his uncle, Amzi
+Dodd and began its practice in Newark, N. J. In 1841 he removed to
+Morristown and became a partner of the late Hon. J. W. Miller. He was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[Pg 361]</a></span>
+first appointed to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
+and in a few years became Chief Justice.</p>
+
+<p>The late Attorney-General Frelinghuysen said of him: "Chief Justice
+Whelpley's most marked attributes of character were intellectual. The
+vigorous thinking powers of his mother's family were clearly manifest in
+him. No one could have known his uncle, Amzi Dodd, without being struck
+with the marked resemblance between them. The Chief Justice was well read
+in his profession, familiar with books, and yet he was a thinker rather
+than a servile follower of precedent. He was a first class lawyer. He
+sought out and founded himself on principles. He did not stick to the mere
+bark of a subject. He had confidence in his conclusions and he had a right
+to have it, for they logically rested upon fundamental truths. But while
+his intellectual characteristics were most marked, he had admirable moral
+traits. He felt the responsibilities of life and met them. He was no
+trifler. He had integrity, which, at the bar and on the bench, was beyond
+all suspicion".</p>
+
+<p>And Courtlandt Parker, his intimate and life-long friend said of him:</p>
+
+<p>"Intellectually, his qualities were rare. He was made for a Judge. Judicial
+position was his great aim and desire, and when he attained it, his whole
+mind was devoted to its duties; they were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[Pg 362]</a></span> enjoyment to him; he felt his
+strength, and was determined not merely to be a judge, but such a judge as
+would honor his exaltation, and exercise eminently that high usefulness
+which belongs to that office".</p>
+
+<p>Chief Justice Whelpley may be justly ranked among important writers of the
+legal profession. His legal opinions found in the Law Reports are
+characterized by strength, independence and knowledge of the principles of
+law.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. Jacob Vanatta.</h3>
+
+<p>In a city so honored in the number of its distinguished legal minds, it
+need not be a surprise to find such a man as Jacob Vanatta, but of only a
+few can it be said as was truly remarked of him: "His practice grew until,
+at the time of his death, it was probably the largest in the State. His
+reputation advanced with his practice, and for years he stood at the head
+of the New Jersey Bar, as an able, faithful, conscientious and untiring
+advocate and counsel. He may be truly called one of the greatest of
+corporation lawyers. He was for years<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[Pg 363]</a></span> the regular Counsel of the Delaware,
+Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, of the Central Railroad Company,
+and more or less of many other corporations, and his engagements have
+carried him frequently before the highest Courts of New York, Pennsylvania
+and of the United States Supreme Court".</p>
+
+<p>The Rev. Rufus S. Green, D. D., said, in his beautiful funeral discourse:
+"Mr. Vanatta died at the age of fifty-four&mdash;an old man worn out by
+overwork". "Be warned", he continues, "by the sad example of him whom
+to-day you sincerely mourn of an exhausted brain and prematurely enfeebled
+body. Take needed rest, cessation from labor, and frequent holidays".</p>
+
+<p>The character of Mr. Vanatta's talent was wholly different from that of
+Judge Whelpley. The one rose brilliantly and suddenly, driven out by the
+force of an inborn genius, the other attained to what he was through
+untiring industry and plodding labor.</p>
+
+<p>"More than any man I have ever known, from his clerkship to his death",
+says Mr. Theodore Little, into whose office Mr. Vanatta entered a student
+in the year 1845, "he seemed to have engraved on his very heart the motto,
+'<i>Perseverantia vincit omnia</i>,' and in that sign he conquered and achieved
+his success".</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Vanatta's published writings are mostly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[Pg 364]</a></span> articles on political
+questions and many speeches and addresses, which were often reprinted. One
+of these in particular, made a profound impression. It was delivered at
+Rahway, when our civil war was threatening, and contained a strong argument
+and appeal for the Union.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Hon. George T. Werts.</h3>
+
+<p>Our present Governor of New Jersey, Hon. George T. Werts, was born at
+Hackettstown, N. J., March 24th, 1846, and was admitted to the bar in 1867.
+He was Recorder of Morristown from May 1883 to 1885, and was elected Mayor
+in May 1886, again in 1888 and in 1890. During the session of the State
+Senate in 1889, he served as President of the Senate, and was re-elected
+Senator in the same year. During his time as Senator, he served on many of
+the most important Committees and the new Ballot Reform Law and the new
+License Law were both drafted by him; laws which embrace, perhaps, the most
+radical change of any recently enacted.</p>
+
+<p>While Mayor of Morristown some of the most<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[Pg 365]</a></span> important ordinances of the
+city were of his drafting; indeed while Mayor, he paid particular attention
+to every ordinance drafted.</p>
+
+<p>Early in 1892 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
+resigning the offices of State Senator and Mayor of Morristown to accept
+this honor, and he resigned the position of Judge to accept that of
+Governor, to which office he was elected in November, 1892.</p>
+
+<p>Many speeches and addresses of Governor Werts have been published in the
+metropolitan and State papers, and in pamphlet form. Several are scattered
+through large volumes containing the speeches and addresses of others.
+These are mostly political, but some are on other subjects, and have been
+delivered before juries and at reunions, in the Senate, and on other
+occasions. Among these published papers are also opinions and decisions
+while Judge of the Supreme Court.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Joseph Fitz Randolph.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Randolph has issued a valuable work, known to us as "Jarman on Wills",
+1881 and 1882,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[Pg 366]</a></span> being the fifth American edition by Mr. Randolph and Mr.
+William Talcott. This work adds a third volume to a famous two-volume
+English book.</p>
+
+<p>In 1888, was issued "Randolph on Commercial Paper", which work is of three
+volumes and contains 3,300 pages on bills, notes, &amp;c., and is considered by
+the legal profession to be quite exhaustive of the subject. "These", says
+the author, "are legal monsters into which lawyers dig and delve and which
+settle knotty questions no doubt, but which probably will not be thoroughly
+investigated by women, until Fashion or Famine shall drive them into the
+legal profession".</p>
+
+<p>Again we may quote the author's words, when he says in his usual happy vein
+of humor, about all his important legal productions, that "they are a
+necessary nuisance to the maker's friends and the unwilling buyers, that
+there is no end of making many such, and that they might be written down in
+line, on a heavy page with some of his brother writers on other abstruse
+subjects and set in a minor key".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[Pg 367]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Edward Q. Keasbey.</h3>
+
+<p>In one of the large New York dailies of August 1892, we read the following:
+"Mr. Keasbey, the well known New Jersey lawyer, has some hundred pages on
+'Electric Wires in Streets and Highways,' a new subject of growing
+importance." This refers to a law book published by Mr. Keasbey entitled
+"The Law of Electric Wires in streets and Highways", Callaghan and Co.,
+Chicago. Mr. Keasbey has also edited <i>The New Jersey Law Journal</i> since
+1879 and <i>The Hospital Review</i> since 1888.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[Pg 368]</a></span></p>
+<h2>SCIENTISTS.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Samuel Finley Breese Morse, LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Nothing could be more romantic than the story of the Telegraph, the
+practical application of which began in Morristown, for it is morally
+certain that without the enthusiastic confidence in its success generously
+manifested by Alfred Vail, the young inventor, and his father Judge Stephen
+Vail, who freely contributed of his means to the experiments of Professor
+Morse, this great gift to the world would have been indefinitely delayed.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[Pg 369]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i383.jpg" width="650" height="377" alt="SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,
+
+AS REPRESENTED ON AN ANCIENT INVOICE." title="" />
+<span class="caption">SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,<br />
+
+AS REPRESENTED ON AN ANCIENT INVOICE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Morse was poor. He had exhausted his means by the necessary time and
+thought given to the development of his conception, when the value of this
+work was realized by these two men. It was as an artist, that Morse went
+first to Speedwell, on October 29, 1837, to observe the progress of his new
+machinery which was being prepared there at the Speedwell Iron Works
+belonging to Judge Vail, by Alfred Vail and his assistant, William Baxter.
+Morse had accepted a commission, doubtless given him as a means of
+relieving his pecuniary stress, to paint the portraits of several members
+of Judge Vail's household. It will be remembered, that besides his great
+invention, Professor Morse was an artist of considerable reputation, as
+well as an author. In his youth, it is said, he was more strongly marked by
+his fondness for art than for science. He was a pupil of Washington
+Allston, a member of the Royal Academy, and studied with Benjamin West. He
+painted the portraits of many distinguished men, among them the then
+President of the United States, James Monroe, for the city of Charleston;
+and, later, Fitz Greene Halleck and Chancellor Kent, now in the Astor
+Library, and the full length portrait of Lafayette for the city of New
+York. He was one of the founders and was first President of the National
+Academy of Design, and it was on his return from the pursuit of his renewed
+study of art abroad that he met with the remarkable experience which turned
+his attention from art to invention and gave him his life work. In a letter
+written to Alfred Vail by Professor Morse, and given in Mr. Vail's book on
+"The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph", (page 153), we find the
+following account:</p>
+
+<p>"In 1826, the lectures before the New York Atheneum, of Dr. J. F. Dana, who
+was my particular<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[Pg 370]</a></span> friend, gave to me the first knowledge ever possessed of
+electro magnetism, and some of the properties of the electro magnet; a
+knowledge which I made available in 1832, as the basis of my own plan of an
+electro telegraph. I claim to be the original suggestor and inventor of the
+electric magnetic telegraph, on the 19th of October, 1832, on board the
+packet ship Sully, on my voyage from France to the United States and,
+consequently, the inventor of the first really <i>practicable telegraph on
+the electric principle</i>. The plan then conceived and drawn out in all its
+essential characteristics, is the one now in successful operation."</p>
+
+<p>Professor Morse had more honors and medals than perhaps any American
+living. He belonged to a distinguished literary family. His two brothers
+founded <i>The New York Observer</i> in 1823. This is now the oldest weekly in
+New York and the oldest religious paper in the State. As an author, he
+wielded the pen of a ready writer. He not only published controversial
+pamphlets concerning the telegraph, but contributed articles and poems to
+many magazines and edited the works of Lucretia Maria Davidson,
+accompanying them by a personal memoir. He published in 1835, a book
+entitled, "Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States;
+Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through
+Foreign Immigration and the Present State of the Naturalization<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[Pg 371]</a></span> Laws, by
+an American". Later were published "Confessions of a French Catholic
+Priest, to which are added Warnings to the People of the United States, by
+the Same Author", (edited and published with an introduction, 1837), and
+"Our Liberties Defended, the Question Discussed, is the Protestant or Papal
+System most favorable to Civil and Religious Liberty".</p>
+
+
+<h3>Alfred Vail.</h3>
+
+<p>To Alfred Vail belongs a place of honor, as the author of a valuable book
+on "The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph", and a place of honor, also,
+as having been the man to perceive, at a critical moment, the importance to
+the world of the great invention of Professor Morse. He was among the
+spectators who witnessed the first operation of the electro-magnetic
+telegraph at the New York University and saw then, for the first time, the
+apparatus. Of this occasion he writes as follows: "I was struck with the
+rude machine, containing, as I believed, the germ of what was destined to
+produce great changes in the condition and relations of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[Pg 372]</a></span> mankind." Again,
+he says, "I rejoiced to carry out the plans of Professor Morse. I promised
+him assistance, provided he would admit me to a share of the invention,&mdash;to
+which proposition he assented. I returned to my rooms, locked my door,
+threw myself upon the bed and gave myself up to the reflections upon the
+mighty results which were certain to follow the introduction of this new
+agent in serving the wants of the world". With this intense conviction,
+young Vail communicated his enthusiasm to his father, Judge Stephen Vail,
+who owned the Speedwell Iron Works and who generously supplied the means by
+which the plans for the electric telegraph were put into successful
+operation. It is an interesting fact that these same Speedwell Iron Works
+are variously connected with the history of the country, for "here was
+forged the shaft of the <i>Savannah</i>, the first steamship that crossed the
+Atlantic and here were manufactured the tires, axles and cranks of the
+first American locomotives."</p>
+
+<p>In <i>The Century</i> for April 1888, is a most interesting article, entitled
+"The American Inventors of the Telegraph, with Special Reference to the
+Services of Alfred Vail". This is exhaustive of the subject, was written by
+Franklin Leonard Pope, and was supervised by Mrs. Alfred Vail, as she tells
+us, and the statements fortified by documents, correspondence and designs.
+To <i>The Century</i> editors and to Mr. James Cummings Vail, of Morris<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[Pg 373]</a></span> Plains,
+son of Alfred Vail, we are indebted for the use of the plate of the
+Speedwell Iron Works, redrawn from an ancient invoice, the age of which is
+not known. The illustration of the "Factory" in which the first successful
+trial and, afterwards, the first public exhibition, of the electric
+telegraph took place, is from a photograph of the building as it stands at
+the present day, on the lot in which stands the homestead house, now
+occupied by Mrs. Lidgerwood.</p>
+
+<p>"I have always understood", says Mr. J. C. Vail, (Jan'y 5, 1893), "that the
+room in which my father and Baxter (his young assistant) worked and called
+the 'work shop', was in an old stone building within the Iron Works
+enclosure, between the bridge and Morristown and is still standing, and is
+the only stone building within that enclosure."</p>
+
+<p>Of these buildings and associations, Mrs. John H. Lidgerwood, the
+granddaughter of Judge Vail, now living on the place, at Speedwell, writes
+as follows, Dec. 12, 1892:</p>
+
+<p>"My grandfather makes but three entries in his diary:</p>
+
+<p>"'1838, January 6th. Dr. Gale came this morning. They (Prof. Morse, Alfred
+Vail, and the Dr.) have worked the Tellegraph in the Factory this evening
+for the first time.'</p>
+
+<p>"'10th. Mr. Morse and Alfred are working and showing the Tellegraph.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[Pg 374]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'11th. A hundred came to see the Tellegraph work.'</p>
+
+<p>"The old house", continues Mrs. Lidgerwood, "in which my grandfather then
+lived, still remains near the foot of the hill nearest the town. The
+interior has been entirely changed and I never knew the room occupied by
+Professor Morse.</p>
+
+<p>"The shop, in which the machine was constructed, and which was called the
+'work shop', has also been rebuilt. Its four walls are all that are left of
+the original building. The floor of that room was taken away to make a one
+story building and the windows were put in the roof. It is now entirely
+vacant and stands on the side of the dam opposite the saw mill, the gable
+end of the old shop facing the road. One end of the foundation was partly
+torn away by the freshet that destroyed the old bridge. The experiments
+were made in a building called 'The Factory', which is at the foot of our
+lawn. It was built for a Cotton Factory, but only used for making buttons,
+owing, I believe, to some fault in its construction.</p>
+
+<p>"My grandfather has told me frequently that the machine was placed on the
+first floor, and about three miles of copper wire, insulated by being wound
+with cotton yarn, was wound around the walls of the second story. There are
+some hooks still in the side walls but I do not know if they are the same.
+I have still a small portion of the original wire used<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[Pg 375]</a></span> in the experiments.
+I do not know the age of any of these buildings. The works were probably
+here long before the Revolution. I have heard my grandfather say there was
+a forge here at that time."</p>
+
+<p>The machine used on the occasion to which Judge Vail refers in his diary,
+and on which he himself had sent the first message of all, "a patient
+waiter is no loser," is now loaned by the family to the Smithsonian
+Institute, Washington, D. C.</p>
+
+<p>From the time the first telegraphic message was sent by Alfred Vail from
+the "Factory" at Speedwell and received by Professor Morse two miles away,
+and the next experiment when Morse and Vail operated with complete success
+through ten miles of space,&mdash;to the final triumph at Washington, many and
+great were the perils and moments of anguish through which the inventors
+passed. It was on the 24th of May, 1844, when the supreme test of the
+telegraph was made at Washington and the message was sent to Mr. Vail in
+Baltimore, in the words selected by Miss Annie G. Ellsworth and taken from
+Numbers xxiii: 23, "What hath God wrought."</p>
+
+<p>During these years Alfred Vail, it is claimed, had "not only become a full
+partner in the ownership of the invention, but had supplied the entire
+resources and facilities for obtaining patents and for constructing the
+apparatus for exhibition at Washington; and more than this, he had
+introduced essential<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[Pg 376]</a></span> improvements not only in the mechanism, but in the
+fundamental principles of the telegraph." Vail felt that Morse had not
+acknowledged, as he expected, his (Vail's) part in the invention or fully
+recognized his rights of partnership. Of this, the Hon. Amos Kendall, the
+friend and associate of both, has said: "If justice is done, the name of
+Alfred Vail will forever stand associated with that of Samuel F. B. Morse
+in the history and introduction into public use of the electro-magnetic
+telegraph."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Vail's book, which has place in most of the prominent libraries of
+Europe and America, was published in 1845 and is entitled "The American
+Electro-Magnetic Telegraph with the Reports of Congress and a description
+of all Telegraphs known, employing Electricity or Galvinism". It is
+illustrated by eighty-one wood engravings.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[Pg 377]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 650px;">
+<img src="images/i392.jpg" width="650" height="504" alt="FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL.
+
+IN WHICH THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH TOOK
+PLACE." title="" />
+<span class="caption">FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL.<br />
+
+IN WHICH THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH TOOK
+PLACE.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>William Graham Sumner, LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Professor Sumner is a New Jersey man, born at Paterson. He inherited from
+his father, Thomas Sumner, who came to this country from England in 1836,
+several important qualities which those who know the son will recognize.
+Thomas Sumner, we are told, was a man of the strictest integrity, of
+indefatigable industry, of sturdy common sense and possessing the courage
+of his convictions. Two of Professor Sumner's early teachers in Hartford,
+one of them Mr. S. M. Capron, in the classical department, had also great
+influence upon his character. He was graduated from Yale College in 1863.
+In the summer of that year, he went abroad, studied French and Hebrew in
+Geneva, after which he spent two years at the University of G&ouml;ttingen, in
+the study of ancient languages, history, especially church history, and
+biblical science. Here, he tells us, he was "taught rigorous and pitiless
+methods of investigation and deduction. Their analysis was their strong
+point. Their negative attitude toward the poetic element, their
+indifference to sentiment, even religious sentiment, was a fault, seeing
+that they studied the Bible as a religious book and not for philology and
+history only; but their method of study was nobly scientific, and was
+worthy to rank, both for its results and its discipline, with the best of
+the natural science methods."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Sumner went to Oxford in 1866, with the intention and desire of reading
+English literature on the same subjects which he had pursued at G&ouml;ttingen.
+"I expected," he says, "to find it rich and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[Pg 378]</a></span> independent. I found that it
+consisted of second-hand adaptation of what I had just been studying."</p>
+
+<p>Returning to this country, while tutor in Yale College, in 1866, Mr. Sumner
+published a translation of Lange's "Commentary on Second Kings". In 1867,
+he was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and two years
+later, he received full ordination in New York and became assistant to Rev.
+Dr. Washburn at Calvary Church, New York, under whom he was made editor of
+a broad church paper. In September, 1870, he became rector of the Church of
+the Redeemer at Morristown, N. J., from which event he claims our attention
+as an author.</p>
+
+<p>With regard to the course of his young ministry in this parish he says;
+"When I came to write sermons, I found to what a degree my interest lay in
+topics of social science and political economy. There was then no public
+interest in the currency and only a little in the tariff. I thought that
+these were matters of the most urgent importance, which threatened all the
+interests, moral, social and economic, of the nation, and I was young
+enough to believe that they would all be settled in the next four or five
+years. It was not possible to preach about them, but I got so near to it
+that I was detected sometimes, as, for instance, when a New Jersey banker
+came to me, as I came down from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[Pg 379]</a></span> the pulpit, and said: 'There was a great
+deal of political economy in that sermon.'"</p>
+
+<p>In September, 1872, Mr. Sumner accepted the chair of Political and Social
+Science at Yale College, in which he has so highly distinguished himself.
+Of this he says: "I had always been very fond of teaching and knew that the
+best work I could ever do in the world would be in that profession; also
+that I ought to be in an academical career. I had seen two or three cases
+of men who, in that career, would have achieved distinguished usefulness,
+but who were wasted in the parish and pulpit".</p>
+
+<p>In 1884, Prof. Sumner received the degree of LL. D. from the University of
+Tennessee. A distinguished American economist well acquainted with Prof.
+Sumner's work has given to a writer from whom we quote, the following
+estimate of his method and of his position and influence as a public
+teacher: "For exact and comprehensive knowledge Prof. Sumner is entitled to
+take the first place in the ranks of American economists; and as a teacher
+he has no superior. His leading mental characteristic he has himself well
+stated in describing the characteristics of his former teachers at
+G&ouml;ttingen; namely, as 'bent on seeking a clear and comprehensive conception
+of the matter "or truth" under study, without regard to any consequences
+whatever,' and further, when in his own<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[Pg 380]</a></span> mind Prof. Sumner is fully
+satisfied as to what the truth is, he has no hesitation in boldly declaring
+it, on every fitting occasion, without regard to consequences. If the
+theory is a 'spade', he calls it a spade, and not an implement of
+husbandry."</p>
+
+<p>Professor Sumner has published, besides Lange's "Commentary on the Second
+Book of Kings", the "History of American Currency"; "Lectures on the
+History of Protection in the United States"; "Life of Andrew Jackson", in
+the American Statesmen Series; "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other";
+"Economic Problems"; "Essays on Political and Social Science";
+"Protectionism"; "Alexander Hamilton", in the Makers of America Series,
+(1890); "The Financier (Robert Morris) and the Finances of the American
+Revolution", (1891); besides a large number of magazine articles on the
+same line of subjects.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Elwyn Waller, Ph. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Three writers now present themselves, each of whom is distinguished in his
+department, one of Chemistry, one of Mining and Metallurgy, and one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_381" id="Page_381">[Pg 381]</a></span> of
+Mathematics. The Author's Club would exclude these brilliant men from
+recognition, but here the clause of our title, "and Writers", saves us.
+Prof. Waller amusingly expresses the position when he says, "I supposed
+that reference in your book would be made to those who had achieved more or
+less distinction in what has sometimes been termed 'polite literature.'
+While I am not ready to admit that the literature of my profession
+(chemistry) is 'impolite', it probably is too technical to come within the
+scope of your work."</p>
+
+<p>Like many of our residents, Dr. Waller's time is divided between New York
+and Morristown, being Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Columbia School
+of Mines, New York. He has written much of value; innumerable pamphlets and
+articles for various magazines, for chemical periodicals and Sanitary
+Reports and for journals far and wide, both technical and general in
+character, among which are <i>The Century</i> and <i>The Engineering and Mining
+Journal</i>. He has written certain articles for Johnson's Encyclop&aelig;dia, and
+has edited articles in other books all of which are to be reckoned as
+technical, but valuable contributions to current chemical literature. He
+has completed a book on "Quantitative Chemical Analysis", from the MSS. of
+one of his Colleagues, which was left unfinished in 1879 and he is now
+engaged in revising and practically re-writing the same work. Besides, he
+has written gossipy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_382" id="Page_382">[Pg 382]</a></span> letters for <i>The Evening Post</i>, and <i>The Evening
+Mail</i>, of New York, from various far-off islands and inland points, where
+he has usually made one of a scientific party. One series of letters was
+written while a member of the U. S. St. Domingo Expedition.</p>
+
+
+<h3>George W. Maynard, Ph. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Another scientific man, ranking high in his department of Mining and
+Engineering, is Professor George W. Maynard, who is just now principally
+engaged in Colorado, passing back and forth between that State and his home
+in Morristown. He has had extensive travels over our own country and
+continent, and abroad. He is a close observer and many of us are familiar
+with his graphic descriptions of the scenes which he has witnessed, notably
+in Mexico, also with the illustrated lectures on these and other subjects,
+which he has generously given from time to time.</p>
+
+<p>Professor Maynard is a graduate of Columbia College, New York, and was
+Demonstrator in Chemistry in that College for a year. He then<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[Pg 383]</a></span> studied
+abroad at G&ouml;ttingen, Clousthal and Berlin, and was for four years Professor
+of Mining and Metallurgy in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy,
+N. Y. His published writings, which have mostly been of a technical
+character, have appeared in various technical journals and in the
+"Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers", and in <i>The
+Journal</i> of the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain. Of the above
+mentioned societies, he is an active member and also of the New York
+Academy of Sciences.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Emory McClintock, LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The third of our group of specialists is Dr. Emory McClintock, whom one of
+his brother scientists warns us we should "not forget to mention as he is
+one of the most eminent mathematicians in the United States". As associated
+with Morristown, in his beautiful home on Kemble Hill, high overlooking the
+Lowantica valley and scenes full of memories of the Revolution, we claim
+him with pride, in spite of his saying that his writings have all been
+records of scientific researches and not literary<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_384" id="Page_384">[Pg 384]</a></span> in any sense and that he
+has never written a book, big or little, nor even a magazine article. It
+remains, that his many writings are of great value as published in pamphlet
+form or in periodicals of technical character, such as <i>The Bulletin of the
+New York Mathematical Society</i>, which is "A Historical and Critical Review
+of Mathematical Science"; or, <i>The American Journal of Mathematics</i> from
+which a large pamphlet is reprinted on <i>The Analysis of Quintic Equations</i>,
+or, in the direction of his art or specialty as a life insurance actuary,
+where appears, among other writings, a large pamphlet on <i>The Effects of
+Selection</i>&mdash;being "An Actuarial Essay," in which we find very interesting
+matter for the general reader.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Andrew F. West, LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Professor West, of Princeton College, is well remembered as a resident of
+Morristown for two years, (1881-1883). He was at that time, the predecessor
+of Mr. Charles D. Platt, at the Morris Academy, and mingled largely in the
+literary, social and musical circles of the city. He, like Dr. McClintock,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[Pg 385]</a></span>
+is a Pennsylvanian, and was born at Pittsburg.</p>
+
+<p>Since Mr. West accepted a professorship at Princeton College, which was the
+occasion of his leaving Morristown, he has written largely on classical and
+medieval subjects.</p>
+
+<p>His last book, just published, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892,
+is entitled "Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools." It appears in
+the Series of "The Great Educators", edited by Nicholas Murray Butler. It
+is a volume of 205 pages, and contains a sketch of Alcuin at York and at
+Tours, also treating of his educational writings, his character, his
+pupils, and his later influence.</p>
+
+<p>Various literary, philological and educational articles in reviews have
+been contributed by Professor West, and two books additional to the one
+mentioned, have been published by him. These are, "The Andria and Heauton
+Timorumenos, of Terence," edited with introduction and notes, and published
+by Harper and Brothers (1888); and "The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury,"
+edited from the manuscripts, translated and annotated. The latter is in
+three volumes: I., The Latin Text; II., The English Version; III.,
+Introduction and Notes Printed by Theodore De Vienne for the Grolier Club
+of New York, (1889).<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[Pg 386]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Jos&eacute; Gros.</h3>
+
+<p>From the shores of Spain, has come to us one of our advanced thinkers and
+writers, Se&ntilde;or Jos&eacute; Gros. He is a disciple of Henry George and, on one
+occasion, introduced that distinguished man to a Morristown audience, in
+our Lyceum Hall, giving, to a large number of people assembled, the
+opportunity of listening to his own exposition of the views about which so
+wide and warm a controversy has raged.</p>
+
+<p>Se&ntilde;or Gros was born and educated in Spain. He has traveled extensively
+through Italy, France, Germany, England, and a portion of our own country,
+finally taking a position in a commercial house in New York, in 1859, in
+which he remained until 1870, when he retired to Morristown. Since then, in
+his own words, he has "dedicated most of his time to the study of history
+and science, more especially social science," for which he has been writing
+articles for western magazines and journals and also for one or more of our
+local papers.</p>
+
+<p>In the <i>Locomotive Firemen's Magazine</i>, of Terre Haute, Indiana, a large
+number of these articles have appeared. They go with this magazine to all
+the States and Territories of the Union, to parts of Canada and Mexico, and
+they are connected with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[Pg 387]</a></span> over 500 Labor Clubs. The subject of one series of
+these papers is "Civilization With its Problems". Other subjects are, "The
+Struggle for Existence"; "Confusion in Economic Thought"; "Governments by
+Statics or Dynamics"; "Congested Civilizations"; "Social Skepticism", and a
+series on "To-day's Problems". In all his arguments, Se&ntilde;or Gros considers
+as vital to advance in Social Science the principles of the Christian
+religion. "No system," he says, "can save us from disasters without clear
+perceptions of duty on what I call 'Christian citizenship.'"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[Pg 388]</a></span></p>
+<h2>MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Condict W. Cutler, M. S., M. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Cutler claims through his father, the Hon. Augustus W. Cutler, as
+ancestor, the Hon. Silas Condict, one of the most renowned patriots of the
+Revolution, and his childhood and boyhood was spent in the house which was
+built, in 1799, by this great-great-grandfather and occupied by him. It has
+been owned and occupied since then, and is now, by Hon. Augustus W. Cutler.
+The old house, in which Silas Condict previously lived, is still standing
+about a mile west of the present Cutler residence. Many historic incidents
+and traditions cluster about this place.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Cutler has done credit to this ancestor's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_389" id="Page_389">[Pg 389]</a></span> memory in his exceptionally
+successful career. A member of many societies, and associate editor of <i>The
+New York Epitome of Medicine</i>, he has written largely for journals and
+magazines, besides publishing three books, which are entitled "Differential
+Medical Diagnosis"; "Differential Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Skin",
+and "Essentials of Physics and Chemistry." These, say the medical and
+surgical critics, are prepared with care and thoroughness and show a wise
+use of standard text-books and the exercise of critical judgment guided by
+practical experience.</p>
+
+<p>Many may think that the books belonging to Materia Medica, being of
+technical character, do not come directly within our province, but we may
+say <i>everything</i> in the line of authorship is within our broad range, and
+we are glad to say emphatically that nothing, not even theological
+questions, concern mankind more deeply than just this great question upon
+which Dr. Cutler has expended so much thought and labor and which too is
+the result of his experience as a medical man,&mdash;namely, the Differential
+Diagnosis of Disease. When we take into consideration the fact, that no
+disease can be successfully treated until it is <i>known</i> and as it cannot be
+known without being properly diagnosed, and as successful diagnoses depend
+upon just such principles and relations as Dr. Cutler demonstrates, we can
+see the value of the work even though we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[Pg 390]</a></span> may not belong to the medical
+fraternity. More than all, we can see the benefit which such a work confers
+upon mankind at large and not alone upon the healers of diseased and
+afflicted humanity. Let any one go into the houses of the poor; the streets
+and the alleys, and into the overflowing hospitals and witness the
+immensity of the evil of that terrible phase of disease, "The Skin
+Diseases" of which Dr. Cutler treats, and he will realize what earnest
+thanks we owe to a man whose life work is to devote his time and brains to
+the alleviation of this type of human suffering.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Phanet C. Barker, M. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Barker, of Morristown, has for twenty-five years past written more or
+less, from time to time, for medical journals published in New York and
+Philadelphia. The majority of these contributions have been of a practical
+character and consequently rather brief. Some of them have been formal
+studies of practical questions, such as "The Vaccination Question",
+questions connected with Sanitary<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[Pg 391]</a></span> Science, &amp;c. Of the latter, one we would
+mention in particular, entitled, "The Germ Theory of Disease and its
+Relations to Sanitation". In this the writer tells us: "The germ theory of
+disease is destined to hold a place in literature as the romance of
+medicine, and if it stands the test of time, and the scrutiny which is
+certain to be bestowed upon it, the theory will mark an epoch for all time
+to come. The present century has been distinguished in many and various
+ways, which need not be alluded to in this connection. Among the
+discoveries and improvements of the age, Sanitary Science occupies an
+important, a commanding position, that can hardly be exaggerated. Indeed it
+has contributed more to civilization and to the well-being of the human
+race than steam, electricity or any other scientific or economic
+discovery." Then the writer refers to the condition of Englishmen who lived
+in the fourteenth century, and traces the ravages of the Black Death to the
+people's mode of living. He sketches the epidemics that have prevailed in
+the world at various periods, and asserts that even "chronology has been
+changed and the fate of great and powerful peoples like those of Athens, of
+Rome and of Florence, has been sealed by the direct or indirect effects of
+what we now term preventible diseases."</p>
+
+<p>Such contributions as Dr. Barker has made to general literature have had
+relation to economic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[Pg 392]</a></span> questions generally, although the preparation of a
+few papers on "Popular Astronomy", "Meteorological Observations" and
+"Fishing in Remote Canadian Waters" have served, as he says, "to rest and
+refresh his mind, when harassed by anxieties incident to the practice of
+his profession." These papers have been published,&mdash;the former in New York
+City or in our local papers, and the latter in <i>The Forest and Stream</i>. One
+of the pamphlet publications on popular astronomy is unusually attractive
+and is entitled "The Stars and the Earth".</p>
+
+
+<h3>Horace A. Buttolph, M. D., LL. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Buttolph, whose professional life, as connected with the care and
+treatment of the insane in three large institutions, in New York and New
+Jersey, covering a period of forty-two years, although devoted so
+exclusively to administrative, professional and personal details, that
+little time was left to engage in writing for the press, beyond the
+preparation of the usual annual Reports of such institutions,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[Pg 393]</a></span> has,
+nevertheless turned that little time to good account.</p>
+
+<p>The State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown was under the superintendence
+of Dr. Buttolph from its opening in August 1876 to the last day of the year
+1884, when he tendered his resignation. Previous to this he had been in
+charge of the Trenton Asylum from May 1848 to April 1876, making a period
+of unbroken service in New Jersey of more than thirty-seven years, during
+which time these buildings were organized on his plan, and that of Morris
+Plains, with its extensive machinery, was mostly planned by him. One
+specialty in the line of machinery in both institutions, in use for many
+years,&mdash;that of making aerated or unfermented bread, which is most cleanly,
+healthful and economical, is probably not in use in any institution in the
+world, outside of New Jersey.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Buttolph was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., and was graduated from the
+Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1835. Having been
+early attracted to the study of insanity, he made it a specialty and
+accepted a position in the new State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, N. Y., in
+1843. This he retained until 1847 when he went as Medical Superintendent to
+the State Lunatic Asylum near Trenton, N. J. During the previous year,
+while still attached to the Utica Asylum, he went abroad to study the
+architecture and management<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[Pg 394]</a></span> of other institutions and visited thirty or
+more of the principal asylums in Great Britain, France and Germany. At this
+time very few institutions for the insane had been established in this
+country and all sorts of problems had to be worked out. Dr. Buttolph soon
+came to be a very high authority and, in that recognized capacity, he was
+chosen to direct the Asylum at Morris Plains, which is the largest in the
+United States and one of the best equipped in the world. It was a matter of
+very great regret to his large circle of friends in Morristown, and out of
+it, when he found it impossible to remain longer in the charge he had
+filled so faithfully and well.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Buttolph's writings have been on insanity or mental derangement; also
+on the organization and management of hospitals for the insane; the
+classification of the insane with special reference to the most natural and
+satisfactory method of their treatment, etc. These writings have been
+published in many magazines and journals, and a large number in pamphlet
+form. Also addresses, delivered on important occasions or before societies,
+have been published in pamphlet form. Of these, one is widely-known, given
+before the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions
+for the Insane, at Saratoga, N. Y., June 17, 1885, on "The Physiology of
+the Brain and its Relations in Health and Disease to the Faculties of the
+Mind."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[Pg 395]</a></span></p>
+<h2>AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART.</h2>
+
+
+<h3>Thomas Nast.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Nast, who has for so long been identified with Morristown, may be
+designated both as artist and bookmaker. In the true sense of the term,
+author, he may then be fairly presented, as probably no living man has
+wielded a greater influence through his power of expression. Many readers
+of this sketch will remember the consternation that prevailed upon the
+revelation of the Tweed Ring scandals and at the question of Tweed himself
+as he defied the City of New York,&mdash;"What are you going to do about it?"
+They will remember how Mr. Nast with wonderful courage and grasp of the
+situation, came to the front and at great personal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[Pg 396]</a></span> risk to himself and
+family, threw with steady aim, the stone which killed that Goliath of Gath
+and put to rout the Philistines. They will remember Tweed's exclamation: "I
+can stand anything but those pictures!" Mr. Nast, then, is a hero in our
+history, and the fact cannot be forgotten.</p>
+
+<p>When the Washington Headquarters was first purchased from the Ford family,
+the original owners, by a few gentlemen who organized the Washington
+Association to preserve the historic building and grounds, for a national
+possession, many will remember how Mr. Nast entered into the spirit of the
+Centennial Celebration there in 1875, when so many of the prominent men and
+women of Morristown took part, wearing the dress of the Revolution and
+working hard to accomplish the end of fitting up the building by the
+proceeds of the entertainment. All were astonished by the result in sales
+of tickets, collation, and little hatchets, of between eleven and twelve
+hundred dollars in one single afternoon and evening; so much, that the
+amount was divided between the Headquarters and the "Library" of
+Morristown, then in its beginning. Mr. Nast had much to do with this
+success. He worked early and late at the decorations and filled one of the
+largest rooms with his immense and humorous cartoons of scenes in the
+Revolution and the stories of George Washington.</p>
+
+<p>The book published by Mr. Nast is now in our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_397" id="Page_397">[Pg 397]</a></span> library, "Miss Columbia's
+Public School", and is a clever satire on the Northern and Southern boy and
+the general condition of Miss Columbia's pupils in the time of our Civil
+War. It was issued in 1871.</p>
+
+<p>Another charming publication of Mr. Nast was brought out by the Harper
+Brothers for Christmas, 1889, under the title of "Thomas Nast's Christmas
+Drawings for the Human Race". Of this says one of the critics of the time:
+"His Santa Claus, jolly vagabond that he is, seems to radiate a warmth more
+genial than tropic airs, and a gayety that overbears the sadness of
+experience. 'What a mug' does he show us on the title page; so kindly, so
+roguish, so venerable, so comical, so shrewd, so pugnaciously cheerful! How
+seriously he takes himself, and yet what a wink in those twinkling eyes, as
+who should say, 'Confidentially, of course, we admit the fraud, but mum's
+the word where the children are concerned!'"</p>
+
+<p>Thomas Nast came from Bavaria, with his father, at the age of six, and at
+fourteen was a pupil for a few months of Theodore Kaufmann, soon after
+beginning his career, as draughtsman on an illustrated paper. In 1860, as
+special artist for a New York weekly paper, he went abroad and while there,
+followed Garibaldi in Italy, making sketches for London, Paris and New York
+illustrated papers. His war sketches appeared in <i>Harper's Weekly</i> on his
+return in 1862. The political condition of national<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_398" id="Page_398">[Pg 398]</a></span> affairs gave him
+opportunity for manifesting his peculiar gift for representing in condensed
+form, a powerful thought. His first political caricature established his
+reputation. It was an allegorical design which gave a powerful blow to the
+peace party.</p>
+
+<p>Besides the <i>Harper's Weekly</i> sketches, Mr. Nast has contributed to other
+papers and has illustrated books in addition to those mentioned, in
+particular Petroleum V. Nasby's book. For many years, he brought out
+"Nast's Illustrated Almanac".</p>
+
+<p>In the principal cities of the United States, Mr. Nast has lectured,
+illustrating his lectures with rapidly executed caricature sketches, in
+black and white, and in colored crayons. It is said by a contemporary
+writer that "in the particular line of pictorial satire, Thomas Nast stands
+in the foremost rank."</p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. Jared Bradley Flagg, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>The Rev. Dr. Flagg, recently a resident of Morristown, has just published a
+delightful and important<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_399" id="Page_399">[Pg 399]</a></span> book on the "Life and Letters of Washington
+Allston", Scribner's Sons, November, 1892. It is illustrated by
+reproductions from Allston's paintings. Many remember the very striking
+full length portraits of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Mr. Evarts and others, which
+were shown in Dr. Flagg's gallery in Morristown, on the occasion of a
+reception given at his residence here, a few years ago.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the book above mentioned, Dr. Flagg has written a great deal
+as a clergyman. He belongs to an artistic family, of New Haven, Conn. His
+brother, George, was considered in his youth a prodigy and his pictures and
+portraits attained celebrity. His style resembles the Venetian School, like
+that of his uncle, Washington Allston, with whom he studied. Dr. Flagg
+studied with both his brother and his uncle, and began as an artist at an
+early age, painting professionally and earning a living at sixteen. At
+twenty, "his love of letters, and fear of Hell," as he says, led him to
+connect himself with Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and to study for the
+church. After an active ministry of ten years, during eight of which he was
+rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, his health broke down, and he
+devoted what strength he had left to artistic and literary pursuits, in
+which he is still engaged and in which, he tells us, he finds increasing
+interest with declining years.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_400" id="Page_400">[Pg 400]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Corning has already been represented, in our group of poets. He has
+passed much of his life abroad and has made a special study of art, upon
+which he is an authority. He was for several years a regular contributor to
+<i>The Independent</i> and <i>The Christian Union</i> on art subjects, and wrote for
+<i>The Manhattan Magazine</i>, a series of articles, among them, on the "Luther
+Monument at Worms", "William L&uuml;bke" and "Women Artists of the Olden Time".
+The fruits of his art study have largely been put into the form of popular
+lectures, which he has delivered in many of the large American cities.</p>
+
+<p>It is remembered that some years ago, during his residence in Morristown,
+Dr. Corning gave a series of art lectures with illustrations, for the
+benefit of the Morristown Library. The proceeds were devoted to the
+purchase of books on art and the volumes thus added were selected by Dr.
+Corning. In this way, the library is indebted to him for very valuable
+additions.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_401" id="Page_401">[Pg 401]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h3>George Herbert McCord, A. N. A.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. McCord, of the National Academy, is best known to us as an artist,
+bringing before us, with his magic brush, historic scenes of England,
+picturesque views of Canada, on the St. Lawrence and elsewhere, and many of
+our own country, among them spots of beauty about Morristown, which other
+eyes perhaps have not discovered until shown to them by him. But, he is
+also an art critic and one of those writers of out of door life, who find,
+like Hamerton, both rest and recreation among the scenes which he transfers
+to his canvas. Often he contributes to our papers and magazines current
+news from the art world to which he so essentially belongs. Sometimes, in
+his contributions to <i>The Richfield News</i>, for which he writes, he gives us
+a bit of word painting that is scarcely less poetic than the creations of
+his canvas. More than all, Mr. McCord is not a croaker. He never comes
+before us with that chronic wail of the neglect of American art. On the
+contrary, he tells us cheerfully that the most prominent dealers in foreign
+art productions are buying and selling works of American art. We like such
+cheerful summer writers, bringing bright visions of the future to our world
+of art.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_402" id="Page_402">[Pg 402]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mr. McCord's beautiful picture, "The Old Mill Race", transfers to canvas a
+scene on the Whippany River. It also makes a fine addition to a little
+collection of "Choice Bits in Etching", published by Mr. Ritchie.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_403" id="Page_403">[Pg 403]</a></span></p>
+<h2>DRAMATIST</h2>
+
+
+<h3>William G. Van Tassel Sutphen.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Sutphen, who is now permanently engaged in journalism, is no less a
+successful dramatist and, from the first, has shown those most attractive
+and rare qualities which are essentially requisite to reach dramatic
+success. A list of his more important published works will show that he is
+no idler, and includes several bright clever farces contributed to
+<i>Harper's Bazar</i>, among them, "The Reporter"; "Hearing is Believing";
+"Sharp Practice", and "A Soul Above Skittles". Not long ago appeared a
+romantic opera entitled "Mary Phillipse; An Historical and Musical Picture,
+in Four Scenes." This is founded on certain events in the history of the
+city of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, between the years 1760 and
+1776. It was set to music by George F. Le Jeune, and produced<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_404" id="Page_404">[Pg 404]</a></span> with marked
+success, June 30, 1892, at Yonkers and on succeeding dates. "Hearing is
+Believing" was performed twice in Morristown in the same winter.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Sutphen has only lately published in the July number of <i>Scribner's
+Magazine</i> (1892), a poem entitled "To Trojan Helen" and containing some
+fine verses. This is worthy of high place in Mr. Sutphen's intellectual
+work. Another poem of merit, "Insciens", appeared also in <i>Scribner's
+Magazine</i>. In addition to these, miscellaneous verses and sketches have
+been contributed to <i>Puck</i>, <i>Life</i>, <i>Time</i> and other periodicals, and in
+most cases, anonymously. For the past eight years, Mr. Sutphen has had
+charge of the weekly edition of <i>The New York World</i>. While at Princeton
+College he was one of the editors of the <i>Nassau Literary Magazine</i>, and
+one of the founders and first editor of the <i>Princeton Tiger</i>, an
+illustrated weekly, modeled on the <i>Harvard Lampoon</i>. "Condensed Dramas"
+and "Latterday Lyrics" should also be mentioned, a series of light sketches
+and verses contributed to <i>Time</i> during the existence of that periodical.</p>
+
+<p>It is, however, by his dramatic talent, that we wish to represent Mr.
+Sutphen, and for this reason we expected and would be glad to give in full,
+were it possible, "The Guillotine; a Condensed Drama", which first appeared
+in <i>The Argonaut</i>, a San Francisco Journal. This is an extremely clever and
+witty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_405" id="Page_405">[Pg 405]</a></span> comedy, perhaps the best of his dramatic writings, to which an
+extract will hardly do justice. We are thankful to Mr. Sutphen for
+contributing a little of the laughter element to the condensed mass,
+included in this volume, of theology, history, philosophy, poetry, romance,
+mathematics, medicine, art and science.</p>
+
+
+<h4>EXTRACT FROM "THE GUILLOTINE."</h4>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Scene: The Public Square in a French Town. In the
+centre of the square is seen a guillotine. Enter
+venerable gentleman of scientific aspect reading a
+newspaper.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>(In the first scene the professor, finding himself alone with the
+guillotine and seeing a notice of an execution to take place three hours
+later, is impelled to examine the instrument. He adjusts the axe and works
+the spring until he masters the mechanism, and finds the spring on the
+right releases the knife, spring on the left, the head. Finally he decides
+to put his own head on the block to try the sensation. Horrible! he cannot
+remember which is his right hand and which his left. While in this
+position, a party of tourists come along, armed with Baedekers and
+accompanied by a guide.)</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guide</span> (<i>gesticulating</i>)&mdash;Zare, ladies and gentlemans. Ze cathedral! Ah!
+ciel! Look at him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_406" id="Page_406">[Pg 406]</a></span> Magnifique! (<i>Chorus of "ahs" from tourists and general
+opening of Baedekers.</i>)</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guide</span>&mdash;Ze clock-tower ees of a colossity excessive. It elevates himself
+three hundred and eighty-six feet. (<i>Immense enthusiasm.</i>) At ze
+terminality of ze wall statue ze great Charlemagne. Superbe! Chuck-a-block
+to him, Dagobert, Clovis and Voila! (<i>Catching hold of elderly tourist.</i>)
+Le bon Louis. (<i>The tourists take notes with painful accuracy and
+minuteness.</i>)</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Elderly Tourist</span>&mdash;Very interesting. Rose, my child, have you got all that
+down. How old is the cathedral, guide?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guide</span>&mdash;It has seven hundred and feefty-six years.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Spinster Aunt</span> (<i>Severely</i>)&mdash;Baedeker says seven hundred and fifty-five.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guide</span> (<i>politely</i>)&mdash;It ees hees one mistake. (<i>An exclamation from Rose.
+Everybody turns.</i>)</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Rose</span> (<i>pointing to guillotine</i>)&mdash;Oh, do look there!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Spinster Aunt</span>&mdash;It looks as though an execution were in progress. Baedeker
+says&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Elderly Tourist</span> (<i>eagerly</i>)&mdash;Is it really so, guide?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guide</span> (<i>indifferently</i>)&mdash;Yes, but zare ees no fee and zarefore no objection
+in seeing it. It ees modern&mdash;vat you call him&mdash;cheap-John. We will now<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_407" id="Page_407">[Pg 407]</a></span>
+upon ze clock-tower upheave ourselves. Zare are two hundred and one steps.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Elderly Tourist</span>&mdash;But we want to see the execution.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guide</span>&mdash;You enjoy ze ferocity? Bah! you shall have him. For one franc zare
+ees to see picture S. Sebastian&mdash;ver' fine, all shot full wiz burning
+arrows.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Elderly Tourist</span>&mdash;Never mind, we will wait. Do you think, guide, I would
+have time to go back and get my wife? I am sure she would enjoy it!</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Authors and Writers Associated with
+Morristown, by Julia Keese Colles
+
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+Title: Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown
+       With a Chapter on Historic Morristown
+
+Author: Julia Keese Colles
+
+Release Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #37834]
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+
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS
+
+ASSOCIATED WITH
+
+MORRISTOWN
+
+WITH A CHAPTER ON
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN
+
+BY
+
+JULIA KEESE COLLES
+
+1893
+VOGT BROS.
+MORRISTOWN, N. J.
+
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1893, by
+JULIA KEESE COLLES
+of Morristown, New Jersey, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
+at Washington.
+
+[Illustration: Painted by CHARLES WETMORE. 1815.
+
+Owned by HON. AUG. W. CUTLER.
+
+OLD MORRISTOWN.
+Pen and ink sketch by Miss S. Howell, from original painting.]
+
+
+
+
+_DEDICATION._
+
+TO THE MEN AND WOMEN, OF EARLY AND OF LATER
+YEARS, WHO HAVE SCATTERED THEIR PEARLS OF
+BEAUTY AND OF WISDOM ALONG THE DUSTY
+PATHS OF OUR HISTORIC CITY, THESE
+PAGES ARE INSCRIBED WITH AFFECTIONATE
+ADMIRATION BY
+
+THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+This long-promised volume, the first of its kind, so far as known, ever
+given to the world, is now offered to the public. It is the result of a
+lecture given about three and a half years ago, which was repeated by
+request, and finally promised for publication, with the endorsement of one
+hundred and fifty subscribers.
+
+No effort has been spared to have every statement in the book accurate; nor
+has any name been omitted which has presented a title to notice, in spite
+of the fact that the number of "Authors and Writers," has nearly doubled
+since the work of publication was undertaken. Any suggestion or criticism,
+however, will be gladly received by the author, as having a bearing on
+possible future work in this direction.
+
+Morristown, New Jersey, February, 1893.
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+POEM--MORRISTOWN.
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.
+
+GEORGE WASHINGTON.
+
+POETS--                                                 PAGE.
+
+WM. AND STEPHEN V. R. PATERSON                            33
+
+MRS. ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE KINNEY                          40
+
+ALEXANDER NELSON EASTON                                   42
+
+FRANCIS BRET HARTE                                        45
+
+MRS. M. VIRGINIA DONAGHE MCCLURG                          48
+
+CHARLTON T. LEWIS, LL. D.                                 54
+
+MISS EMMA F. R. CAMPBELL                                  58
+
+MRS. ADELAIDE S. BUCKLEY                                  63
+
+REV. OLIVER CRANE, D. D., LL. D.                          63
+
+REV. J. LEONARD CORNING, D. D.                            68
+
+MRS. MARY LEE DEMAREST                                    69
+
+HON. ANTHONY Q. KEASBEY                                   72
+
+MAJOR LINDLEY HOFFMAN MILLER                              76
+
+MISS HENRIETTA HOWARD HOLDICH                             79
+
+WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH                                   81
+
+MISS HANNAH MORE JOHNSON                                  84
+
+MISS MARGARET H. GARRARD                                  87
+
+MISS JULIA E. DODGE                                       89
+
+CHARLES D. PLATT                                          90
+
+MRS. JULIA R. CUTLER                                      96
+
+MISS FRANCES BELL COURSEN                                 99
+
+MISS ISABEL STONE                                        100
+
+REV. G. DOUGLASS BREWERTON                               102
+
+MRS. ALICE D. ABELL                                      104
+
+GEORGE WETMORE COLLES, JR.                               105
+
+HYMNODIST--
+
+JOHN R. RUNYON                                           107
+
+NOVELISTS AND STORY WRITERS--
+
+FRANCIS RICHARD STOCKTON                                 109
+
+FRANCIS BRET HARTE                                       118
+
+MISS HENRIETTA HOWARD HOLDICH                            131
+
+MRS. MIRIAM COLES HARRIS                                 141
+
+MISS MARIA MCINTOSH                                      146
+
+MRS. MARIA MCINTOSH COX                                  149
+
+DAVID YOUNG                                              155
+
+MRS. NATHANIEL CONKLIN                                   165
+
+MRS. CATHARINE L. BURNHAM                                171
+
+HON. JOHN WHITEHEAD                                      179
+
+MRS. GEORGEANNA HUYLER DUER                              181
+
+MADAME DE MEISSNER                                       186
+
+MISS ISABEL STONE                                        188
+
+AUGUSTUS WOOD                                            193
+
+CHARLES P. SHERMAN                                       193
+
+MISS HELEN M. GRAHAM                                     193
+
+OTHER NOVELISTS AND STORY WRITERS                        195
+
+TRANSLATORS--
+
+MRS. ADELAIDE S. BUCKLEY                                 197
+
+MISS MARGARET H. GARRARD                                 202
+
+OTHER TRANSLATORS                                        203
+
+LEXICOGRAPHER--
+
+CHARLTON T. LEWIS, LL. D.                                205
+
+HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS--
+
+WILLIAM CHERRY, ANCIENT CHRONICLER                       207
+
+REV. JOSEPH F. TUTTLE, D. D.                             209
+
+HON. EDMUND D. HALSEY                                    215
+
+HON. JOHN WHITEHEAD                                      218
+
+BAYARD TUCKERMAN                                         221
+
+LOYAL FARRAGUT                                           227
+
+JOSIAH COLLINS PUMPELLY                                  229
+
+MISS HANNAH MORE JOHNSON                                 233
+
+MRS. JULIA MCNAIR WRIGHT                                 237
+
+MRS. EDWINA L. KEASBEY                                   239
+
+MRS. MARIAN E. STOCKTON                                  243
+
+TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES--
+
+MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX                                    247
+
+REV. JOHN L. STEPHENS                                    254
+
+HON. CHARLES S. WASHBURNE                                255
+
+GENERAL JOSEPH WARREN REVERE                             257
+
+HENRY DAY                                                260
+
+THEOLOGIANS--
+
+REV. TIMOTHY JOHNES, D. D.                               264
+
+REV. JAMES RICHARDS, D. D.                               270
+
+REV. ALBERT BARNES                                       271
+
+REV. SAMUEL WHELPLEY                                     275
+
+STEVENS JONES LEWIS                                      278
+
+REV. RUFUS SMITH GREEN, D. D.                            279
+
+REV. WM. DURANT                                          282
+
+REV. J. MACNAUGHTAN, D. D.                               286
+
+REV. C. DEWITT BRIDGMAN                                  291
+
+REV. J. T. CRANE, D. D.                                  293
+
+REV. H. A. BUTTZ, D. D., LL. D.                          296
+
+REV. J. K. BURR, D. D.                                   297
+
+REV. J. E. ADAMS                                         299
+
+REV. JAMES M. BUCKLEY, D. D., LL. D.                     300
+
+REV. JAMES M. FREEMAN, D. D.                             308
+
+REV. KINSLEY TWINING, D. D., LL. D.                      310
+
+REV. THEODORE L. CUYLER, D. D.                           314
+
+RT. REV. WM. INGRAHAM KIP, D. D., LL. D.                 319
+
+REV. WILLIAM STAUNTON, D. D.                             323
+
+REV. ARTHUR MITCHELL, D. D.                              327
+
+REV. CHARLES E. KNOX, D. D.                              332
+
+REV. ALBERT ERDMAN, D. D.                                334
+
+REV. JOSEPH M. FLYNN, R. D.                              337
+
+REV. GEORGE H. CHADWELL                                  338
+
+REV. WILLIAM M. HUGHES, S. T. D.                         345
+
+PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS--
+
+HON. JACOB W. MILLER                                     351
+
+HON. WILLIAM BURNET KINNEY                               355
+
+HON. THEODORE F. RANDOLPH                                358
+
+HON. EDWARD W. WHELPLEY                                  360
+
+HON. JACOB VANATTA                                       362
+
+HON. GEORGE T. WERTS                                     364
+
+JOSEPH F. RANDOLPH                                       365
+
+EDWARD Q. KEASBEY                                        367
+
+SCIENTISTS--
+
+SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, LL. D.                               368
+
+ALFRED VAIL                                              371
+
+WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, LL. D.                            376
+
+ELWYN WALLER, PH. D.                                     380
+
+GEORGE W. MAYNARD, PH. D.                                382
+
+EMORY MCCLINTOCK, LL. D.                                 383
+
+ANDREW F. WEST, LL. D.                                   384
+
+SENOR JOSE GROS                                          386
+
+MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS--
+
+CONDICT W. CUTLER, M. S., M. D.                          388
+
+PHANET C. BARKER, M. D.                                  390
+
+HORACE A. BUTTOLPH, M. D., LL. D.                        392
+
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART--
+
+THOMAS NAST                                              395
+
+REV. JARED BRADLEY FLAGG, D. D.                          398
+
+REV. J. LEONARD CORNING, D. D.                           400
+
+GEORGE HERBERT MCCORD, A. N. A.                          401
+
+DRAMATIST--
+
+WILLIAM G. VAN TASSEL SUTPHEN                            403
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+
+                                                        PAGE.
+
+FRONTISPIECE--OLD MORRISTOWN.
+
+
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738,                 17
+
+OLD ARNOLD TAVERN,                                        25
+
+FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,                                97
+
+WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS,                                 209
+
+PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE,                                   305
+
+SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,                                    369
+
+OLD FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL,                                377
+
+
+
+
+POEM.
+
+BY WILLIAM PATERSON.
+
+
+MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     These are the winter quarters, this is where
+       The Patriot Chieftain with his army lay,
+     When frosty winds swept down and chilled the air,
+       And long, cold nights closed out the shorter day.
+
+     The bell still rings within the white church spire,
+       Rising toward heaven upon the village green,
+     Whose chimes then called the people, pastor, choir,
+       To praise and pray each Sabbath morn and e'en.
+
+     And there with them, the Christian soldier sealed
+       The common covenant which a dying Lord,
+     To those who broke bread with him last revealed,
+       And bade them ever thus His love record.
+
+     A country hamlet then, nor did it lose
+       Its rural charms and beauties for long years;
+     The stranger would its quiet glories choose,
+       Far from the toils and strifes of daily cares.
+
+     The people, too, were simple in their ways,
+       And dwelt contented in their humble sphere,
+     The morning and the evening of their days,
+       Passing the same with every closing year.
+
+     There were the Deacons, solemn, sober, staid,
+       Beneath the pulpit each Communion Sunday,
+     They never smiled, but sung there psalms and prayed;
+       And then made whiskey at the still on Monday.
+
+     Perhaps you smile just here, I only say,
+       Men did not deem it then a heinous crime;
+     Such was the common custom of the day,
+       As those can tell who recollect the time.
+
+     For further proof of this, look up the tract
+       Of Deacon Giles and his distillery,
+     Where you will find that for this very fact,
+       He was set up high in the pillory.
+
+     Young life for me began its early spring,
+       Here in the freshness of the Mountain air,
+     When nature seemed in fullest tune to sing,
+       And all the world was beautiful and fair.
+
+     And Death--Who stays to think of him, till age
+       Comes stealing on with sure and silent tread?
+     Nor even then can he the thoughts engage,
+       Till his cold fingers touch the dying bed.
+
+     He called one then in withered leaf and sere,
+       And sent a warning, so wiseacres said,
+     By causing apple blossoms to appear
+       In winter, and the old man soon was dead.
+
+     The Guinea Chieftain too, a century old,
+       Born a young Prince beneath his native sky,
+     Who with his banjo sang rare tales of gold--
+       I saw him strive and struggle, gasp and die.
+
+     A child was brought one evening, lived, and died,
+       Almost before its eyes beheld the day;
+     The infant and the old men, side by side,
+       Were in the quiet churchyard laid away.
+
+     I learned of Life and Death, but know no more
+       Of their mysterious secrets now than then;
+     No sesame can open wide the door,
+       That veils those mysteries from the light of men.
+
+     Upon the summit of the rock-bound hill
+       That looks down on the lowland plains afar,
+     Are seen the outlines of the earthworks still
+       Remaining there, rude vestiges of war.
+
+     That was a day to be remembered long,
+       When crowds were gathered on the village green,
+     To welcome with warm hearts and floral song,
+       Him who a friend in war's dark hour had been.
+
+     And not while nature's suns shall pour their light,
+       Will Freedom's sons that honored name forget,
+     Nor cease to, until worlds shall pass from sight,
+       Keep green the memory of Lafayette.
+
+     Hark, on the air tolls out the passing bell,
+       Fourscore and ten and yet again fourscore;
+     Tread lightly now, it is the parting knell
+       For two great spirits gone out evermore.
+
+     Together they had lived, together died
+       As Freedom's Bell rang in her natal day,
+     And what than this could be more mete beside
+       That twinned in death, their souls should pass away?
+
+     There comes a memory of the bugle horn,
+       Winding a blast, as with their daily load,
+     The prancing coach-steeds dashed out in the morn
+       To run the toll-gates of the turnpike road.
+
+     Behold the change? now brakes are whistled down,
+       And screaming engines wake the Mountain air;
+     There is no longer, as of old, a Town
+       Committee, but a Council and a Mayor.
+
+     Go where the lake sleeps in the summer night,
+       Kissed by the winds that on its bosom play,
+     When the round moon sends down her fullest light,
+       And evening glories in soft splendor lay.
+
+     And you can almost fancy then that over,
+       The moonlit mirror of the tranquil tide,
+     You see the water spirits rise and hover,
+       And on the sheen in laughing lightness glide.
+
+     And I have seen those waters as they flow,
+       Down on their course past bridge and wheel and mill,
+     Where we as boys would "in-a-swimming go;"
+       Do the boys swim in "Sunnygony" still?
+
+     Oh, fellow scholar who along with me
+       Learned the first rudiments of ball and book
+     Within the grounds of the Academy,
+       In vain for that old landmark now you look.
+
+     Gone with the Master, yet a memory lingers,
+       And will forever consecrate the spot,
+     Nor can the power of Time's effacing fingers,
+       While life shall last, the recollection blot.
+
+     Teacher and pupils, few remain, and they
+       Far on in years, lean on a slender staff;
+     The school-house, all you see of that to-day
+       Is shown you there upon its photograph.
+
+     Change is on all things, and I see it here;
+       Land that then grew the turnip and "potater,"
+     Now blooms in flowers and costs exceeding dear,
+       Bringing some thousand dollars by the acre!
+
+     And villas crown the rising hill-tops round,
+       And stately mansions stand adorned with art,
+     And liveried coaches roll with rumbling sound
+       Where once jogged on the wagon-wheel and cart.
+
+     Hail to the future, ages come and go,
+       And men are borne upon the sweeping tide;
+     Wave follows wave in ever ceaseless flow,
+       The present stays not by the dweller's side.
+
+     I stand to-day far down the farthest slope,
+       And up the lengthened pathway turn and look,
+     Where on the summit once stood Youth and Hope,
+       Now soon to turn the last leaf of the Book.
+
+     And I am glad that while there come to me
+       These fragrant memories of life's early scene,
+     That still in robes of purest white I see
+       The Church Spire rising on the village green.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.
+
+
+Throughout our country, there is no spot more identified with the story of
+the Revolution, and the personality of Washington, than Morristown. Nestled
+among its five ranges of hills, its impregnable position no doubt first
+attracted the attention of the commander-in-chief and that of his trusted
+quartermaster, General Nathaniel Greene. Besides, the enthusiastic
+patriotism of the men and women of this part of New Jersey was noted far
+and wide, and the powder-mill of Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., on the Whippany
+river, where "good merchantable powder," was in course of
+manufacture,--some of which had probably already been tested at Trenton,
+Princeton and elsewhere,--was also among the attractions.
+
+It was on December 20th, 1776, that Washington wrote to the President of
+Congress: "I have directed the three regiments from Ticonderoga, to halt at
+Morristown, in Jersey (where I understand about eight hundred Militia have
+collected) in order to inspirit the inhabitants and as far as possible to
+cover that part of the country."
+
+     (Quoted by Rev. Dr. Tuttle in his paper on "Washington
+     in Morris County," in the Historical Magazine for June
+     1871.)
+
+These were regiments from New England. The British, who were always trying
+to gain "the pass of the mountains," had made an attempt on the 14th of
+December, but had been repulsed by Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., with his militia,
+at Springfield.
+
+At this time the village numbered about 250 inhabitants with a populous
+community of thriving farmers surrounding it. To the north of the town were
+the estates of the Hathaway and Johnes families; to the east, those of the
+Fords, who had just erected the building now known as the Headquarters; to
+the south, those of General John Doughty and to the west, those of Silas
+Condict and his brothers.
+
+Morris county was settled "about 1710," by families of New England
+ancestry, who were attracted by the iron ore in the mountains round about
+and who came from Newark and Elizabethtown. The Indian name for the country
+round, seems to have been "Rockciticus" as late as the arrival of Pastor
+Johnes in 1742, according to the traditions in his family. The original
+name of the settlement of Morristown was West Hanover, and in court records
+this name is found as late as 1738. It was also called New Hanover. The
+present name was adopted when the county court held its first meeting here
+at the house of Col. Jacob Ford, on March 25th, 1740. The town was named
+for the county and the county was named for Governor Lewis Morris, who was
+Governor of New Jersey from 1738 to 1746. Evidently this was to be the
+county town of Morris County.
+
+At the time of the Revolution the church, the "Court House and Jail" and
+the Arnold Tavern were the most important buildings. The Magazine also, a
+temporary structure, stood on South street, near the "Green". To it casks
+of powder were constantly taken and sometimes casks of _sand_ to deceive
+the spies who were always hanging about. The "Court House and Jail" was
+famous as the common prison of Tories caught in Morris and the adjoining
+counties. It was built in 1755 and stood on the northwest corner of the
+village "Green" as shown in the picture of Old Morristown. It was a plain
+wooden structure with a cupola and bell. Its sides and roof were shingled.
+
+One of the illustrations of this book is of the Arnold Tavern, as it
+appeared in Washington's time. The picture is from a pen-and-ink sketch by
+Miss S. Howell, made originally and recently for the Washington Association
+of N. J., under careful direction from study of the time, by one of its
+members. Taverns were dotted all about the country in those days and most
+of the public meetings were held in their spacious rooms. Whether it was
+this fact or because of certain qualities possessed by the early
+proprietors of taverns, we find that many of them eventually became the
+most eminent men of the community.
+
+The erection of the First Church building was begun in 1738 and finished in
+1740, although the organization had existed from 1733. The first pastor,
+Rev. Timothy Johnes found it ready for his reception on his arrival in 1742
+and for his installation, the following year. We are indebted to our young
+artist, Miss Emma H. Van Pelt, for a painting of this early church, from
+the only outline that remains to us, and to Miss S. Howell, for the
+pen-and-ink sketch, from the painting, for this book. This outline was
+embroidered upon a sampler owned by Miss Martha Emmell, and, according to
+family history, is a faithful representation of the building and the only
+suggestion other than traditional of Morristown's first place of worship.
+Miss Van Pelt's picture of the old church also follows in all respects her
+own, and the study of others, from the ancient records of the time. The
+structure stood about a rod east of the present building, facing upon
+Morris street and was always known as the "Meetin' House." It was
+originally of a somewhat plain and barn-like exterior, nearly square, with
+shingled sides, and windows let into the sloping roof. It was twice
+altered. In 1764, it was enlarged and two other entrances, besides the main
+entrance, were provided. A steeple also was erected in which was hung the
+bell in use at the present time. This bell was a gift, according to
+traditional history from the King of Great Britain to the church at
+Morristown. It had upon it the impress of the British crown and the name of
+the makers, "Lister & Pack, of London _fecit_." It was re-cast about thirty
+years ago. This early church and the Baptist church, which stood on the
+site occupied by the one quite recently removed, (because of the fine new
+building in course of erection), have honorable record for unselfish
+devotion to the cause of the patriots. Both buildings were nobly given up
+for the use of the soldiers, suffering with small-pox, in the terrible
+winter of 1777.
+
+Washington first came to Morristown, with his staff and army, three days
+after the battle of Princeton, on January 7th, 1777, and remained until May
+of that year. He made his Headquarters at the Arnold Tavern, then kept by
+Colonel Jacob Arnold, a famous officer of the "Light Horse Guards", whose
+grandsons are now residents of Morristown. This historic building stood on
+the west side of the Green, where now, a large brick building, "The
+Arnold", has been erected on its site. The old building with its many
+associations was about to be destroyed, when it was rescued, at the
+suggestion of the author of this book, and restored upon its present site
+on the Colles estate, on Mt. Kemble avenue, the old Baskingridge road of
+the Revolution. It has recently been purchased and occupied for a hospital
+by the All Souls' Hospital Association. Though extended and enlarged, it
+is still the same building and retains many of the distinctive features
+which characterized it when the residence of Washington. Here is still the
+bedroom which Washington occupied, the parlor, the dining-room and the
+ball-room where he received his generals, Greene, Knox, Schuyler, Gates,
+Lee, de Kalb, Steuben, Wayne, Winds, Putnam, Sullivan and others, besides
+distinguished visitors from abroad, all of whom met here continually during
+the winter of 1777. One of these visitors and one of our authors, the
+Marquis de Chastellux, gives an interesting account of his experience and
+impressions. In one of the bedrooms of this old house, has been seen within
+a few years, between the floor and the ceiling below, a long case for guns,
+above which was painted on the floor, in very large squares, covering the
+entire opening, a checkerboard about which, in an emergency, evidently the
+soldiers expected to sit and so conceal from the enemy the trap door of
+their arsenal. About this ancient building many traditions linger and from
+it have gone forth Washington's commands and some of his most important
+letters.
+
+The road taken by Washington and his army, on coming first to Morristown,
+was, according to Dr. Tuttle, "through Pluckamin, Baskingridge, New Vernon,
+thence by a grist mill near Green Village, around the corner and thence
+along the road leading from Green Village to Morristown and over the
+ground which had been selected for an encampment in the valley bearing the
+beautiful Indian name of Lowantica, now called Spring Valley." It was here
+that the terrible scourge of small-pox broke out among the soldiers.
+
+One cannot but wonder continually at Washington's courage and serenity in
+the midst of such overwhelming difficulties. He had hardly entered his
+winter home, in the Arnold Tavern, when the loss was announced to him of
+the brave and noble Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., his right-hand man, upon whom he
+had depended. He was buried, by Washington's orders, with the honors of
+war, and the description of that funeral cortege is one of the most
+picturesque pages out of traditional history. Then came the alarm about
+small-pox, the first death occurring on the same day as Col. Ford's
+funeral. Washington himself was taken ill, says tradition, with quinsy sore
+throat, and great fears were felt for his life. It is interesting to know
+that being asked who should succeed him in command of the army, should he
+not recover, he at once pointed to Gen. Nathaniel Greene. It was during
+this time of residence at the Arnold Tavern, that Washington joined Pastor
+Johnes and his people in their semi-annual communion after receiving the
+good pastor's assurance: "Ours is not the Presbyterian table, but the
+Lord's table, and we give the Lord's invitation to all his followers of
+whatever name." This is said to be the only occasion in his public career,
+when it is certainly known that Washington partook of the Sacrament. The
+hollow is still shown behind the house of Pastor Johnes, on Morris street,
+(purchased Feb. 3rd, 1893, of Mrs. Eugene Ayers, for the Morristown
+Memorial Hospital,) where a grove of trees then stood, when this historic
+event took place in the open air, while the church building was taken up
+with the soldiers sick of small-pox. Of this fact, in addition to the
+confirmation of Rev. Timothy Johnes's granddaughter, now living, Mrs.
+Kirtland, we have the following from Mr. Frederick G. Burnham, who says,
+(Oct 12th, 1892); "My Aunt, Huldah Lindsley, sister of Judge Silas Condict,
+and born in Morristown, gave me, in the most distinct and definite manner
+an account of General Washington's having communed with the Presbyterian
+Church on the occasion of the encampment in Morristown. My aunt told me
+that the congregation sat out of doors, even in the winter, but were
+shielded from the severe winds by surrounding high ground, that benches
+were placed in a circular position, that the pastor occupied a central
+point and that it was in this out-of-door place, muffled in their thickest
+clothing and many of them warmed by foot-stoves and other arrangements for
+keeping the feet warm, with nothing overhead but the wintry sky, that the
+congregation, among them General Washington, partook of the Lord's
+Supper."
+
+Early in December 1779, came Washington once more, with his army, to
+Morristown, and remained until the following June, the guest of Mrs.
+Theodosia Ford, widow of the gallant Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., at her home now
+known as the "Headquarters." The story of the purchase and preservation of
+this building for the state and country, by the Washington Association of
+New Jersey, is given farther on. "It is still," says the orator of Fort
+Nonsense (the Rev. Dr. Buckley), "the most charming residence which
+Morristown contains and historically inferior only in interest to Mount
+Vernon and far superior to it in beauty of location and surrounding
+scenery." Among the treasures of the Headquarters is the original
+Commission to Washington, as Commander-in-chief of the Army.
+
+At the opening ceremonial of the Washington Headquarters on July 5th, 1875,
+Governor Theodore F. Randolph, in an eloquent address, said as follows:
+
+"Under this roof have been gathered more characters known to the Military
+history of our Revolution than under any other roof in America. Here the
+eloquent and brilliant Alexander Hamilton lived during the long winter of
+1779-'80 and here he met and courted the lady he afterwards married--the
+daughter of General Schuyler. Here too was Greene--splendid fighting Quaker
+as he was--and the great artillery officer, Knox, the stern Steuben, the
+polished Kosciusko, the brave Schuyler, gallant Light-horse Harry Lee, old
+Israel Putnam, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, and, last to be named of all, that
+brave soldier, but rank traitor--Benedict Arnold."
+
+Many authenticated stories are extant of Washington, himself, and of the
+other distinguished inmates of the Headquarters during this memorable
+winter. Of the women of Morris County too, and the country round, many
+historic tales are told. If possible, they seem to have been even more
+patriotic than the men, whom, on several occasions, they upheld when
+wavering with doubt or fear. They had knitting and sewing circles for the
+soldiers in camp upon the Wicke Farm. These were presided over by Mrs.
+Ralph Smith, on Smith's Hummock, by Mrs. Anna Kitchell at Whippany, and by
+Mrs. Counselor Condict and Mrs. Parson Johnes, in Morristown.
+
+In all this sympathetic work, Martha Washington led, and we hear of her
+that after coming through Trenton on December 28th, in a raging snow storm,
+to spend New Year's Day in the Ford Mansion, some of the grand ladies of
+the town came to call upon her, dressed in their most elegant silks and
+ruffles, and "so", says one of them, "we were introduced to her ladyship,
+and don't you think we found her with a _speckled homespun apron on, and
+engaged in knitting a stocking_? She received us very handsomely and then
+again resumed her knitting. In the course of the conversation, she said,
+very kindly to us, whilst she made her needles fly, that 'American ladies
+should be patterns of industry to their country-women * * * * we must
+become independent of England by doing without these articles which we can
+make ourselves. Whilst our husbands and brothers are examples of
+patriotism, we must be examples of industry'. 'I do declare,' said one of
+the ladies afterwards, 'I never felt so ashamed and rebuked in my life!'"
+
+    (Rev. Dr. Tuttle.)
+
+The "Assembly Balls," a subscription entertainment, no doubt arranged to
+keep up the spirits of the army officers, were held that winter at the
+O'Hara Tavern, says Dr. Tuttle, a house facing the Green and on or
+adjoining the lot where now stands Washington Hall,--and probably also at
+the Arnold Tavern.
+
+In the meadow, in front of the headquarters, Washington's body-guard was
+encamped, originally a select troop of about one hundred Virginians.
+
+[Illustration: Painted by MISS EMMA H. VAN PELT.
+
+From Pen and Ink Sketch by MISS S. HOWELL.
+
+ORIGINAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1738.]
+
+Martha Washington was a fine horsewoman and the General a superb horseman,
+as are all Virginians of the present day. Many were the rides they took
+together over the country, one of the most frequent, being to a certain
+elevation on the Short Hills, from which the General with his glass could
+see every movement of the enemy. Here was stationed the giant alarm-gun, an
+eighteen-pounder, and here was the main centre of the system of
+beacon-lights on the hills around. From this point can be seen the entire
+sea-board in the vicinity of New York City, which was of great importance
+when it was not known whether Howe would move towards West Point or
+Philadelphia. There is also a view of the entire region west of the
+mountain, "to the crown of the hills which lie back of Morristown, and
+extending to Baskingridge, Pluckamin and the hills in the vicinity of
+Middlebrook on the South, and over to Whippany, Montville, Pompton,
+Ringwood, and, across the State-line among the mountains of Orange County,
+N. Y., on the north." On our road to Madison, we may call up in
+imagination, the vision, which in those days was no unusual sight, says Dr.
+Tuttle, of "Washington and his accomplished lady, mounted on bay horses and
+accompanied by their faithful mulatto, 'Bill,' and fifty or sixty mounted
+Life-guards, passing on their way to or from their quarters in Morristown."
+At these times "the 'star spangled banner' was sure to float from the
+village liberty-pole, while our ancestors congregated along the highway
+where he was to pass and around the village inn, to do honor to the man to
+whose fidelity and martial skill all eyes were turned for the salvation of
+our country."
+
+Sometimes this cavalcade would pass along the Baskingridge Road, (now Mt.
+Kemble Avenue), perhaps stop at General Doughty's house, or, galloping on,
+stop at the Kemble mansion, (afterwards the Hoyt residence and now that of
+Mr. McAlpin), four miles from town, or turning the corner up Kemble Hill to
+the Wicke farm, and Fort Hill, to view the soldiers' encampment, they would
+clatter back again, down the precipitous Jockey Hollow road, past the
+Hospital-field, or burial place of the soldiers, stopping at the
+Headquarters of General Knox, off the Mendham road, about two miles from
+town, for Mrs. Knox and Mrs. Washington were close friends. Returning, they
+might slacken rein at the house of Pastor Johnes, (Mrs. Eugene Ayers') on
+Morris Street, where a ring still remains at the side of the piazza, to
+which Washington's horse was tied, under an elm tree's shade; or, they
+would stop at Quartermaster Lewis's (Mr. Wm. L. King's) where they would
+find Lafayette, after his return from France, if he happened to be in
+Morristown,--then at Dr. Jabez Campfield's house, on Morris Street, the
+east corner of Oliphant Lane,--the Headquarters of General Schuyler.
+
+Again the General, with his Life-guards, would set out to attend some
+appointed meeting of the "Council of Safety" at the house of its
+president, Silas Condict. This was about a mile out on the Sussex
+Turnpike, where the house still stands, on the west side of the old
+cross-road leading from that turnpike to Brant's paper-mill. Here he would
+meet the high-minded and dauntless Governor Livingston and perhaps his
+son-in-law, Judge Symmes, who lived near by, and whom the Governor
+frequently visited; all were men whose lives were sought for, by the
+British. Nearly all these homes are standing now and representatives of
+these families remain with us. Stories and traditions also relating to
+these homes and people have come down to us.
+
+Silas Condict, the bold, the brave, the honored patriot, member of the
+Provincial Legislature and of the Continental Congress besides filling
+other high places of trust, is represented by his great-grandson, Hon. Aug.
+W. Cutler, who now occupies the second house this ancestor built.
+
+General John Doughty's interesting old house, with its curious interior,
+and many a secret closet, stands as of old, on Mt. Kemble Avenue, at the
+head of Colles Avenue. "He might be called," says Mr. Wm. L. King, "the
+most distinguished resident of Morristown, at whose house Washington was a
+frequent visitor and no doubt often dined." He is represented by a
+great-nephew, Mr. Thomas W. Ogden, who has written an important paper on
+General Doughty, for the Washington Association, which is published by
+them. General Doughty was the third in command of the American Army, and
+succeeded General Knox.
+
+A descendant of General Knox is with us,--Mr. Reuben Knox, of Western
+Avenue.
+
+General Schuyler's Headquarters has a romantic interest as the scene of the
+courtship between Miss Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton.
+
+Of Pastor Johnes descendants, three generations are now with us to some of
+whom we have referred in the sketch of this distinguished man.
+
+Out on the Wicke farm, stands the house as it was in those old days when
+Tempe Wicke took her famous ride ahead of the pursuing soldiers and saved
+her favorite horse by concealing him for three weeks in the guest chamber,
+until every man of the army had gone to fight his country's battles on the
+banks of the Hudson. This house is near Fort Hill from which is the
+magnificent view which embraces Schooley's Mountain to the westward and a
+line of broken highlands to the South, among which is the town of
+Baskingridge where General Lee was captured. On the northern slope of this
+hill, as late as 1854, 66 fireplaces of the encampment were counted in
+regular rows and in a small space were found 196 hut chimneys.
+
+Going up a long, high street, not far from the Park, gradually ascending
+over rocks, and rough winding pathways, we come upon an open plateau on
+which is "Fort Nonsense," so named, on leaving it, by Washington, says
+tradition, because the soldiers had here been employed in constructing an
+octagonal earthwork, only to occupy them and to keep them from that
+idleness which was certain to breed discontent when added to their poverty,
+poor shelter, hopelessness, and homelessness. Here, on a bright afternoon
+of April, 1888, a monument to commemorate the site, was unveiled with
+appropriate ceremonies by the Washington Association. Long will be
+remembered the strange and startling effect upon those who sat waiting, as
+the procession drew near at a quickstep, up the hill, and led by the
+Fairchild Continental Drum Corps, in characteristic dress. Nearer and
+nearer came the tramp of many feet, to the sound of fife and drum playing
+Yankee Doodle, and, as they emerged from the trees upon the hill, it seemed
+as if Time's clock had been turned back more than a hundred years. Standing
+upon the stone, the orator of the occasion, Rev. Dr. Buckley, made a
+memorable address, in the course of which he mentioned that this monument,
+though small, is higher, measured from the level of the sea, than the great
+Washington Monument, which is declared to be the wonder of the world. The
+plan of the Fort, drawn by Major J. P. Farley, U. S. A., is now at the
+Headquarters and the illustration in this volume, is given from an
+engraving of the Messrs. Vogt, by their kind permission.
+
+Probably no Author will again record the presence of the second "First
+Church", which has measured its hundred years and more, in its old familiar
+place upon the Park. Soon it will be replaced by a modern structure. In
+October, 1891, prolonged and interesting services were held to celebrate
+the centennial of its erection. Closely involved with all the history of
+Morristown, the influences of this old church are felt and shown all
+through this book. The picture we give of it and the Soldiers' Monument, is
+as we look upon both to-day. (For the use of the engraving, we are again
+indebted to the Messrs. Vogt). Sorrowfully, we note the passing of the old
+church building and number it among the things we would not lose, but which
+soon shall be no more. Behind it, is the old historic cemetery, where have
+been laid to rest the forms of many of the patriots and honored dead of the
+century gone by.
+
+The "Old Academy" was an outcome of the First Church organization, and its
+early history is recorded in the "Trustees Book," of the church. Its
+centennial was observed on February 13th, 1891, on which occasion, among
+others, Hon. John Whitehead, of Morristown, and Judge William Paterson, of
+Perth Amboy, told its story, and the "Old Bell", placed upon the stage, was
+rung by Mr. Edward Pierson, who attended the Academy in 1820.
+
+In 1825, Lafayette came again, from France, to revisit the scenes of the
+Revolution. It was on July 14th, about six o'clock in the evening, that
+coming from Paterson, he arrived at Morristown. The Morris Brigade under
+General Darcy was paraded on the Green and the firing of cannon and ringing
+of church bells announced his coming. General Doughty was Grand Marshal of
+the day and an eloquent address was made, in behalf of the town, by Hon.
+Lewis Condict. Lafayette dined at the Ogden House, the home of Jonathan
+Ogden, a large brick building corner of Market street and the Green (shown
+in the picture). He attended a ball given in his honor, at the Sansay House
+(now Mrs. Revere's, on DeHart street), and stayed over night with Mr. James
+Wood, in the white house, corner of South and Pine streets. Two of
+Morristown's citizens have given their reminiscences of this event to the
+author of this book, as follows:
+
+Mr. Edward Pierson, January 10th, 1893, says: "I remember well each member
+of the Committee who received Lafayette, but two. I remember very well the
+visit of General Lafayette to Morristown, in the year 1825. There was a
+delegation went from Morristown, in carriages and on horseback, to meet him
+beyond Morristown and escort him here. They came in by the Morris street
+road, past the Washington Headquarters. At that time there was only one
+small house on the north side of the street, below the present Manse of
+the First Church to the foot of the hill. The ground sloped from the
+graveyard to the street and was filled with people to see the procession
+come in. A reception was given and Lafayette was taken to the James Wood
+house (white house on the east corner of Pine and South streets, opposite
+my residence), to spend the night. I well remember the next morning seeing
+them start off with the General and his party in a four-horse carriage."
+
+Mr. A. H. Condict, well-known as a resident of Morristown, writes from
+Mansfield, Ohio, (January 12th, 1893): "My eldest sister has related to me
+that when I was about a year old, General Lafayette was given a public
+reception at Morristown, in an elegant brick building then standing on the
+corner of the Park and Market street; that suitable addresses were made on
+the occasion and that while he was being observed by the great crowd of
+people, she held me up and that I looked at him. This would fix the time in
+the Summer of 1825, which corresponds with my notes gathered from the
+various histories."
+
+Morristown has always been a centre, not only geographically, but a centre
+of influence from the time when it received its name. We have seen how,
+midway between West Point and Philadelphia, with roads radiating in every
+direction and with high hills well fitted for beacon-lights and commanding
+far-reaching views, Washington soon discovered it was the point for him to
+select for watching the movements of Lord Howe in New York, who might at
+any moment start up the Hudson for West Point, or Southwards, for
+Philadelphia.
+
+[Illustration: THE ORIGINAL ARNOLD TAVERN.
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MISS S. HOWELL.]
+
+In the early religious movements of the country, Morristown was
+conspicuous, having among its theologians some of the most brilliant
+thinkers of the period. Recently we find, in the published minutes of the
+Synod of New Jersey, Oct. 1892, the significant fact recorded that after
+the division of the Presbytery of New York, into that of New York and of
+New Jersey, the "Presbytery of Jersey at its first meeting in Morristown,
+April 24th, 1810, did appoint supplies for fourteen Sabbaths from May to
+September, to the pulpit of the vacant Brick Church in the City of New
+York".
+
+One of the first Sunday Schools, if not the first,--in New Jersey was
+started here, by Mrs. Charlotte Ford Condict of Littleton, the grandmother
+of Henry Vail Condict, now a resident of Morristown, and this was said to
+be the beginning of the great revival under Albert Barnes.
+
+In a scientific direction, Morristown was the cradle of perhaps the
+greatest invention of the age, the electric telegraph. Also at the
+Speedwell Iron Works were manufactured the first tires, axles and cranks of
+American locomotives and a part of the machinery of the "Savannah," the
+first steamship that crossed the ocean.
+
+Morristown also reflected the superstitions of the period; the people
+largely believed in witchcraft in those early days, and here was enacted,
+for about a year, the most remarkable ghostly drama that was ever published
+to the world, or influenced the best citizens of a community. The story of
+the Morristown Ghost will go down to future ages.
+
+For philanthropy, from Revolutionary times, Morristown has been famed,
+since Martha set the example of knitting the stockings for the needy
+soldiers and good Hannah Thompson voiced the hearts of her sisters round
+about, when she gave food to a starving company of them, saying: "Eat all
+you want; you are engaged in a good cause, and we are willing to share with
+you what we have as long as it lasts." This old centre of patriotism and
+Revolutionary enthusiasm has radiated philanthropic movements which
+influence not only the conditions of the whole State but the welfare of
+humanity. Here was commenced that voluntary work of the State Charities Aid
+Association, which considers, and practically carries out, through its
+counselors, measures for reform among the pauper and criminal classes in
+the State institutions, and out of them, and which will undoubtedly
+influence for good all future generations. This work is on much the same
+plan that was originally thought out and organized by Miss Louisa Lee
+Schuyler, of New York, the great-granddaughter of General Philip Schuyler
+whose noble devotion to his Commander-in-chief is memorable during those
+days in Morristown. So we see how the old life of the Revolutionary period
+connects itself with the new life of progression. The principles then so
+nobly maintained take new forms in new projects.
+
+Everywhere, we find the old and the new combined, for even the streets bear
+the names, with those of Schuyler, Hamilton and Washington, of Farragut and
+McCullough. In the Park there stands a granite shaft surmounted by a full
+length figure of a Morris County Volunteer, commemorating the lives of the
+noble men who fell in those hard-won fields, fighting to preserve the
+nationality which had been secured by their forefathers. Everything is
+significant of either noble deeds in the past or of honored names of later
+day and of private citizens whose personal influence has added moral
+dignity to this City of many associations.
+
+
+George Washington.
+
+Among the first notable writings associated with Morristown are the letters
+of Washington written from the old Arnold Tavern, and from the Ford
+Mansion, during the two memorable winters of 1777 and of 1779-'80. These
+noble letters are acknowledged on all sides to have been supremely
+efficient in promoting our national independence, filled as they are with
+the personality of Washington himself. They are very numerous. Many of them
+are published; some are in our "Headquarters", and many still are scattered
+over the Country, in the possession of individuals. All are interesting and
+none appear to reveal what we would wish had not been known, as in the case
+of so many other published letters.
+
+Of the man himself, our authors speak, here and there, throughout this
+volume. It is certain that no name, no face or character is more familiar
+to us than that of Washington, and no name in history has received a
+greater tribute than to be called, as he was, by the nation, at the end of
+his very difficult career, the "Father of his Country."
+
+Here is Lafayette's first impression, as he attends a dinner in
+Philadelphia, given by Congress in honor of the Commander-in-Chief. He
+says: "Although surrounded by officers and citizens, Washington was to be
+recognized at once by the majesty of his countenance and his figure." And
+this is Lafayette's tribute to Washington, when the two men have parted:
+"As a private soldier, he would have been the bravest; as an obscure
+citizen, all his neighbors would have respected him. With a heart as just
+as his mind he always judged himself as he judged circumstances. In
+creating him expressly for this revolution, Nature did honor to herself;
+and to show the perfection of her work, she placed him in such a position
+that each quality must have failed, had it not been sustained by all the
+others."
+
+     (Quoted by Bayard Tuckerman in his "Life of
+     Lafayette.")
+
+In the portrait of Washington which Chastellux gives us, occur these words:
+"His strongest characteristic is the perfect union which reigns between the
+physical and moral qualities which compose the individual, one alone will
+enable you to judge of all the rest. If you are presented with medals of
+Caesar, Trajan or Alexander, on examining their features, you will still be
+led to ask what was their stature and the form of their persons; but if you
+discover, in a heap of ruins, the head or the limb of an antique Apollo, be
+not anxious about the other parts, but rest assured that they all were
+conformable to those of a God. * * * This will be said of Washington, '_At
+the end of a long civil war, he had nothing with which he could reproach
+himself._'"
+
+Thatcher, in his Military Journal, speaks of Washington as he appeared at a
+great entertainment given by General Knox, in celebration of the alliance
+with France: "His tall, noble stature and just proportions, his fine,
+cheerful countenance, simple and modest deportment, are all calculated to
+interest every beholder in his favor and to command veneration and respect.
+He is feared even when silent and beloved even while we are unconscious of
+the motive."
+
+The first French minister, M. Gerard, tells us, referring to Washington:
+"It is impossible for me briefly to communicate the fund of intelligence
+which I have derived from him. I will now say only that I have formed as
+high an opinion of the powers of his mind, his moderation, patriotism and
+of his virtues, as I had before from common report conceived of his
+military talents, and of the incalculable services he had rendered to his
+country."
+
+     (Quoted by A. D. Mellick in his "Story of an Old
+     Farm.")
+
+We see the General in his evening dress of "black velvet, with knee and
+shoe buckles and a steel rapier; his hair thickly powdered, drawn back from
+his forehead and gathered in a black silk bag adorned with a rosette"
+walking gracefully and with dignity through the figures of a quadrille. We
+see him devoted to his wife and courteous to every woman, high and low.
+Greene writes from the Headquarters: "Mrs. Washington is extremely fond of
+the General and he of her; they are happy in each other." We see him, with
+his tender sympathy among the soldiers and so find the key to the wonderful
+devotion of the soldiers to their chief, and his influence over them. As an
+old soldier tells the story to the Rev. O. L. Kirtland: "There was a time
+when all our rations were but a single _gill of wheat_ a day. Washington
+used to come round and look into our tents, and he looked so kind and he
+said so tenderly. 'Men, can you bear it?' 'Yes, General, yes we can,' was
+the reply; 'if you wish us to act give us the word and we are ready!'" Many
+were the letters he wrote in their behalf to Congress, who neglected them,
+and to Lord Howe in New York, because of his cruelty to the prisoners in
+his power.
+
+Another key we have to his calm and self-reliant bearing, even in his
+darkest hours, so that, says Tuttle, "there seemed to be something about
+this man, which inspired his enemies, even when victorious, with dread." It
+is expressed in a letter of Washington when heartsick at the round of
+misfortunes at the outset of the Revolution, and after the capture of Fort
+Washington by the enemy. He writes: "It almost overcomes me to reflect that
+a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once
+happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or
+inhabited with slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in
+his choice?"
+
+     (Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Sparks.)
+
+A touching letter is written on the 8th of January, 1780, from the Ford
+Mansion, to the Morris County authorities, about the hungry, destitute
+soldiers, to which he receives at once so warm and generous a response that
+he writes again: "The exertions of the magistrates and inhabitants of the
+State were great and cheerful for our relief."
+
+     (Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Sparks.)
+
+Though a warm Episcopalian, his broad Christian feeling is shown when he
+says: "Being no bigot, myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of
+Christianity in the Church with that road to heaven which to them shall
+seem the most direct, the plainest and easiest and least liable to
+objections."
+
+     (Dr. Tuttle, quoted from Sparks.)
+
+And again, in reply to the Address of the Clergy of different
+denominations, in and about Philadelphia; "Believing as I do, that
+_Religion_ and _Morality are the essential_ pillars of society, I view with
+unspeakable pleasure, that harmony and brotherly love which characterize
+the clergy of different denominations, as well in this, as in other parts
+of the United States, exhibiting to the world a new and interesting
+spectacle, at once the pride of our Country and the surest basis of
+universal harmony."
+
+     (Quoted by Dr. Tuttle from Dr. Green's Autobiography.)
+
+What man, after arriving at such a height of power and influence over men,
+has been able to take up, with content again, his life of a country
+gentleman? Wonderfully appropriate were the last words that fell from his
+lips: "It is well."
+
+Of Washington it may be said as of no other, in the words of Henry Lee, in
+his Eulogy of December 26th, 1799: "To the memory of the man, first in war,
+first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
+
+
+
+
+POETS.
+
+
+William and Stephen V. R. Paterson.
+
+A curious circumstance surrounds the poetic work of the two Paterson
+brothers--William and Stephen Van Rensselaer Paterson--and gives it a
+unique interest apart from its especial merits. The survivor of the two
+brothers says, in the short and highly interesting introduction to their
+poems, published in 1882 and called "Poems of Twin Graduates of the College
+of New Jersey":
+
+"The title explains itself, and shows that the writers were born under the
+sign of the Gemini. They lived under that sign for rising fifty years, when
+one was taken and the other left. Two of us came into existence within the
+same hour of time, and passing through the early part of education
+together, entered the world-life as twin graduates of the collegiate
+institution bearing the name of the State of which they were natives. This
+dual species of psychology was something of a curiosity because outside of
+common experience. Pleasure and pain seemed to flow like electric currents
+from the same battery. In a certain sense, we could feel at once, and think
+at once and act at once. It is problematical whether this proceeded from a
+real elective affinity, or was mechanical. It was most marked, however, at
+first, and particularly in the beginning or rudiments of learning. Both
+then went along exactly at the same rate, and one never was in advance of
+the other. Both always worked and played together, and whichever discovered
+something new, would communicate it in an untranslatable language to his
+companion.
+
+"This dual character, to a greater or less extent, pervaded the joint lives
+of the writers of these pieces. Not that the similarity extended to the
+business or pursuits, the tastes or habits of life, for in many respects
+they were different and apart as those bearing a single relation. Still the
+influence of the mystic tie, whatever it was or may have been, remained
+till nature loosed, as it had woven, the bond."
+
+Although Judge William Paterson was born in Perth Amboy and now resides
+there, his associations with Morristown, as related in a letter under his
+signature, are those of early boyhood passed on the farm, now occupied by
+Mrs. Howland. "Morristown was then but a village hamlet," he says, and
+"the old Academy and the Meeting House on the village green were the only
+places in which services were held." Still, we gather, that at Morristown,
+the two poets received their "scholastic and agricultural training." Here,
+too, was laid the foundation of their "political and religious faith," the
+latter under the administration of Albert Barnes, and, what may be a noted
+event in their lives, they heard Mr. Barnes preach the sermon on the "Way
+of Salvation," which caused the division of the Presbyterian Church.
+
+Judge Paterson is a graduate of Princeton, which is in a double sense his
+Alma Mater, inasmuch as members of his family were among the first
+graduates, soon after the removal of the College from Newark and "when that
+village, then a hamlet amid the primeval forests had become the permanent
+site for the Academy incorporated by royal charter."
+
+Various positions of importance in the community have been held by Judge
+Paterson. In 1882, he was made Lay Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals
+of the State; he was also Mayor of Newark for ten years, at different times
+from 1846 to 1878, filling important and non-important municipal and county
+offices. Thus his work has been mostly legal and political, save, when he
+has made dashes into the more purely literary fields, rather, perhaps,
+through inspiration and for recreation from the dry details of practical
+work.
+
+More than once has Judge Paterson told to amused and interested audiences
+in Morristown his recollections of boyhood and youth spent here. Notably,
+many remember his recent graphic address on the occasion of the Centennial
+of the Morristown Academy.
+
+In 1888, our author published a valuable "Biography of the Class of 1835 of
+Princeton College," the class in which he graduated. The "Poems" were
+published in 1882. Looking through the latter volume, which contains many
+treasures, we wonder how, many of the poems--written as they were under the
+influence of a higher inspiration than ordinary rhythmic influences--should
+not earlier have found their way, in book form, from the writer's secret
+drawers to the readers of the outside world. Many of these poems are
+connected with experiences and memories of Academic days in Princeton and,
+among them all we would mention "The Close of the Centennial;" "Living on a
+Farm," which refers to Mrs. Howland's farm, long the poet's home in
+boyhood; "14th February, 1877;" "The Hickory Tree," and "Polly," in which
+the writer has caught wonderfully the bright, playful spirit of the child.
+The poem "Morristown," a pictorial reminiscence, we have selected to open
+this book.
+
+Quite recently, (in September, 1892) has been published and bound in true
+orange color, _An Address_, read before the New York Genealogical and
+Biographical Society, on February 12th, 1892, on the life and public
+services of _William Paterson_, his honored grandfather, who was
+"Attorney-General of New Jersey during the Revolution, a framer of the
+Federal Constitution, Senator of the United States from New Jersey,
+Governor of that State, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
+the United States at the time of his death, September 9th, 1806." "He was
+the first Alumnus of Princeton," says the writer, "who was tendered a place
+in the Cabinet or on the Federal Judiciary, the Attorney-General, the first
+one being William Bradford, also an Alumnus, a classmate of Madison, and
+Collegemate of Burr, then not constituting part of the Executive
+household." "He began the study of legal science and practice under the
+instruction of Richard Stockton, who was an Alumnus of the first Class that
+went forth from the College of New Jersey, then located in Newark, and who,
+though young, comparatively, was rising fast to the forefront of his
+profession, and, afterward, to become of renowned judicial and
+revolutionary fame."
+
+The publication is full of interest, graphic description and notice of men
+and events of the period. Here is a letter to Aaron Burr, between whom
+while a student in the College at Princeton, and Mr. Paterson, then
+established in the practice of his profession, had sprung up a strong
+friendship which continued during life:
+
+"Princeton, January 17th, 1772. DEAR BURR: I am just ready to leave and
+therefore cannot wait for you. Be pleased to accept of the enclosed notes
+on _dancing_. If you pitch upon it as the subject of your next discourse,
+they may furnish you with a few hints, and enable you to compose with
+greater facility and despatch. To do you any little service in my power,
+will afford me great satisfaction, and I hope you will take the liberty--it
+is nothing more, my dear Burr, than the freedom of a friend--to call upon
+me whenever you may think I can. Bear with me when I say, _that you cannot
+speak too slow_. Every word should be pronounced distinctly; one should not
+be sounded so highly as to drown another. To see you shine as a speaker,
+would give great pleasure to your friends in general and to me in
+particular. You certainly are capable of making a good speaker.
+
+                 "Dear Burr, adieu.      WM. PATERSON."
+
+The writer pays a beautiful tribute to Ireland, the land of his ancestors:
+"Irish Nationality," he says, "is no empty dream; it goes back more than
+two thousand years, is as old as Christianity, and is attested by the
+existence of towers and monuments, giving evidence of greater antiquity
+than is to be found in the annals of any other country in all Europe. For
+centuries, Ireland sent missionaries of learning throughout the continent
+to herald the advent of civilization and stay the advance of barbarism, and
+her story is one running over with great deeds and glorious memories, with
+associations of poetry and art and bards, and a civilization, ante-dating
+that of almost any other Christian community. It cannot be claimed that the
+rude exploits of her early inhabitants are classic in story or in song.
+They acquired no territory; their island domain is but a speck of green
+verdure amid the waste of ocean waters, and the flash of an electric light,
+located on the hills where stood the ancient psaltery, could be sent
+throughout its length and breadth. They conquered no worlds. No manifest
+destiny led them to seek for wealth, applause or gain, beyond the limits of
+their narrow bounds. They did not so much as pass over the seas that wash
+their either shore. But yet in the absence of all the achievements that can
+gratify ambition, with no record of pomp or pageantry or power, her people
+bear a character more like a dream of fancy than a thing of real life, and
+to-day they stand as remnants of national greatness, though you may look in
+vain in their annals or traditions for any evidence of usurpation or of
+subjugation by sceptre or by sword."
+
+
+Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney.
+
+Mrs. Kinney, the mother of the poet, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and daughter
+of David L. Dodge of New York city, was for several years a resident of
+Morristown, and will long be remembered with interest and affection by her
+many friends. Her husband, Mr. William Burnet Kinney, not only resided here
+in later years, but was born at Speedwell, then a suburb of Morristown, and
+passed a part of his early boyhood there. To him we shall refer, in the
+grouping of _Editors and Orators_.
+
+Mr. Kinney was a brilliant literary man and about this home in Morristown
+unusual talent and genius naturally grouped themselves. To it came and went
+the poet Stedman: in the group, we find two gifted women, daughters of Mrs.
+Kinney, and later on, the same genius developing itself in the son of one
+of these, the boy Easton, of the third generation.
+
+Mrs. Kinney published in 1855, "Felicita, a Metrical Romance;" a volume of
+"Poems" in 1867; and, a few years later, a stirring drama, a tragedy in
+blank verse, entitled "Bianco Cappello." This tragedy is founded upon
+Italian history and was written during her residence abroad in 1873. While
+abroad, Mrs. Kinney's letters to _The Newark Daily Advertiser_ gave her a
+wide reputation and were largely re-copied in London and Edinburgh
+journals from copies in the New York papers.
+
+Among the "Poems," the one "To an Italian Beggar Boy" is perhaps most
+highly spoken of and has been chosen by Mr. Stedman to represent his mother
+in the "Library of American Literature." A favorite also is the "Ode to the
+Sea." Both pieces are strong and dramatic. The poem on "The Flowers" has
+been translated into three languages. It opens:
+
+     "Where'er earth's soil is by the feet
+         Of unseen angels trod,
+     The joyous flowers spring up to greet
+         These messengers of God."
+
+Mrs. Kinney's sonnets are peculiarly good. Her sonnet on "Moonlight in
+Italy," which we give to represent her, was written at ten o'clock at night
+in Italy by moonlight, and has been much praised. Mr. Kingston James, the
+English translator of Tasso, repeated it once at a dinner table, as a
+sample of "in what consisted a true sonnet."
+
+
+MOONLIGHT IN ITALY.
+
+    There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir;
+      There's not a cloud to spot the sapphire sky;
+    All nature seems a silent worshipper:
+      While saintly Dian, with great, argent eye,
+    Looks down as lucid from the depths on high,
+      As she to earth were Heaven's interpreter:
+    Each twinkling little star shrinks back, too shy
+      Its lesser glory to obtrude by her
+    Who fills the concave and the world with light;
+      And ah! the human spirit must unite
+    In such a harmony of silent lays,
+      Or be the only discord in this night,
+    Which seems to pause for vocal lips to raise
+      The sense of worship into uttered praise.
+
+
+Alexander Nelson Easton.
+
+In the third generation in the line of Mrs. Kinney, appears a boy, now
+seventeen years of age, of unusual promise as a poet--Alexander Nelson
+Easton, grandson of William Burnet and Elizabeth C. Kinney. He has written
+and published several poems. He took the $50 prize offered by the _Mail and
+Express_ for the best poem on a Revolutionary incident, written by a child
+of about twelve years. It was entitled "Mad Anthony's Charge."
+
+Young Easton was born in Morristown, and spent his early years in this
+place, in the house on the corner of Macculloch Avenue and Perry Street,
+belonging to Mrs. Brinley. He began to write at eight years when a little
+prose piece called "The Council of the Stars," found its way into print,
+out in California. His next was in verse, written at ten years on "The
+Oak." That was also published and copied. A "Ballad" followed "A Scottish
+Battle Song," written in dialect, which was published also. Then came the
+prize poem, "Mad Anthony's Charge," above referred to. He has composed two
+stories since, one of which, "Ben's Christmas Present," has been accepted
+by the New York _World_ and is to appear with a sketch of this young
+writer, in their Christmas number. At twelve years, he wrote a monody on
+"The Burial of Brian Boru," which is given below.
+
+The literary efforts of Easton, so far, have been spontaneous and
+spasmodic, but contain certain promise for the future. After studying for
+some time at the Morristown Academy, Easton went as a student to the
+Bordentown Military Institute from which he has graduated and has now
+passed on to Princeton College. At Bordentown he won golden opinions, and
+gave the prize essay at the June Commencement. This was an oration of
+considerable importance on "The Value of Sacrifice," but withal his gifts
+are essentially poetic.
+
+
+THE BURIAL OF BRIAN BORU.
+
+    Slowly around the new-made grave
+      Gathers the mourner throng;
+    Women and children, chieftains brave,
+      Numb'ring their hundreds strong.
+
+    Glitter beneath the sun's bright ray
+      Helmet and axe and spear;
+    Sadness and sorrow reign to-day,
+      Dark is the land and drear!
+
+    Yesterday leading his men to fight,
+      Now lies he beneath their feet,
+    Clad in his armor, strong and bright,
+      'Tis his only winding sheet.
+
+    Close to his grave stand his warriors grim,
+      Bravest and best of his reign;
+    They, who through danger have oft followed him,
+      Mourn the wild "Scourge of the Dane."
+
+    Look! from the throng with martial stride
+      Steps an old chief of his clan,
+    Pauses and halts at the deep grave's side,
+      Halts as but warriors can.
+
+    White is the hair beneath his cap,
+      Withered the hand he holds on high;
+    Standing, beside the open gap,
+      Speaks he without a pause or sigh.
+
+    "_Brian Boru_ the brave!
+      _Brian Boru_ the bold!
+    Lay we thee in thy grave;
+      Deep is it, dark and cold.
+
+    Bravest of ev'ry chief
+      Erin has ever known;
+    Hurling the foes in grief,
+      Fiercest of Danes o'erthrown.
+
+    Youth and old age alike
+      Found thee in war array;
+    Wielding the sword and pike,
+      E'er in the thick o' the fray!
+
+    Erin is freed and blest,
+      Freed by thy mighty arm;
+    Well hast thou earned thy rest,
+      Take it! secure from harm.
+
+    Friend of our hearts! Our king!
+      Generous, kind and true!
+    Out let our praises fling--
+      Shout we for _Brian Boru_."
+
+    Bursts the wild song from a thousand throats,
+      Sounding through wood and plain,
+    While the mountains echo the dying notes,
+      Ringing them out again.
+
+Francis Bret Harte.
+
+As a poet, we represent Bret Harte by his "Plain Language from Truthful
+James," better known as "The Heathen Chinee." The main reference to his
+writings follows, in the next classification of _Novelists and Story
+Writers_.
+
+
+PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES,
+
+BETTER KNOWN AS "THE HEATHEN CHINEE."
+
+TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870.
+
+    Which I wish to remark,--
+      And my language is plain,--
+    That for ways that are dark,
+      And for tricks that are vain,
+    The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
+      Which the same I would rise to explain.
+
+    Ah Sin was his name;
+      And I shall not deny
+    In regard to the same
+      What that name might imply,
+    But his smile it was pensive and child-like,
+      As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
+
+    It was August the third;
+      And quite soft was the skies;
+    Which it might be inferred
+      That Ah Sin was likewise;
+    Yet he played it that day upon William
+      And me in a way I despise.
+
+    Which we had a small game,
+      And Ah Sin took a hand:
+    It was Euchre. The same
+      He did not understand;
+    But he smiled as he sat by the table,
+      With the smile that was child-like and bland.
+
+    Yet the cards they were stocked
+      In a way that I grieve,
+    And my feelings were shocked
+      At the state of Nye's sleeve:
+    Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,
+      And the same with intent to deceive.
+
+    But the hands that were played
+      By that heathen Chinee,
+    And the points that he made,
+      Were quite frightful to see,--
+    Till at last he put down a right bower,
+      Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
+
+    Then I looked up at Nye,
+      And he gazed upon me;
+    And he rose with a sigh,
+      And said, "Can this be?
+    We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor,"--
+      And he went for that heathen Chinee.
+
+    In the scene that ensued
+      I did not take a hand,
+    But the floor it was strewed
+      Like the leaves on the strand
+    With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding,
+      In the game "he did not understand."
+
+    In his sleeves, which were long,
+      He had twenty-four packs,--
+    Which was coming it strong,
+      Yet I state but the facts;
+    And we found on his nails, which were taper,
+      What is frequent in tapers--that's wax.
+
+    Which is why I remark,
+      And my language is plain,
+    That for ways that are dark,
+      And for tricks that are vain,
+    The heathen Chinee is peculiar,--
+      Which the same I am free to maintain.
+
+
+Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg.
+
+Mrs. McClurg, the niece of our honored townsman, Mr. Wm. L. King, is better
+known to us by her maiden name of M. Virginia Donaghe. Although endowed
+with varied gifts, having been editor, newspaper correspondent,
+story-writer, biographer and local historian, her talent is essentially
+poetic, therefore we place her among our poets.
+
+A proud moment of Mrs. McClurg's life was, when a child, she received four
+dollars and a half from _Hearth and Home_ for a story called "How did it
+Happen," written in the garret, the author tells us, without the knowledge
+of any one. Next, were written occasional letters and verses and short
+stories for the New York _Graphic_, including some burlesque correspondence
+for a number of papers, one of which was the _Richmond State_. The writer
+then went to Colorado for her health and accepted the position of editor
+on the _Daily Republic_ of Colorado Springs, for three years. She wrote a
+political leader for the paper every day. It happened that many
+distinguished men died during those years, and she did in consequence
+biographical work. She also wrote book reviews, dramatic and musical
+reviews, condensed the state news every day from all the papers of the
+state and edited the Associated Press dispatches. In addition, all proofs
+were brought to her for final reading. For the first year she had private
+pupils and broke down with brain fever.
+
+In 1885, she went into the Indian country to explore the cliff-dwellings of
+Mancos Canyon, in the reservation of the Southern Utes. They were only known
+through meagre accounts in the official government reports, and Miss
+Donaghe was the first woman who ever visited them, so far as known. On this
+occasion, she had an escort of United States troops and spent a few days
+there. She however made a second visit, fully provided for a month's trip,
+the result of which was a series of archaeological sketches contributed to a
+prominent paper, the _Great Divide_, under the title of "Cliff-Climbing in
+Colorado." These ten papers gave to Miss Donaghe a reputation in the west
+as an archaeologist.
+
+The following year she published, in the _Century_, one of the best of her
+sonnets, "The Questioner of the Sphinx," afterwards contained in her book,
+"Seven Sonnets of Sculpture."
+
+The same year she published her first book, "Picturesque Colorado," also a
+popular sonnet called "The Mountain of the Holy Cross." The Colorado
+mountain of the Holy Cross has crevices filled with snow which represent
+always on its side a cross. The little sand lily of Colorado blossoms at
+the edges of the highways in the dust, in the Spring, and looks like our
+star of Bethlehem. Of these sand lilies an artist friend made a picture
+which harmonized with the sonnet referred to. These were published together
+as an Easter card and a large edition sold. The sonnet begins;
+
+     "In long forgotten Springs, where He who taught
+     Amid the olive groves of Syrian hills,"--
+
+And ends:
+
+     "The lilies bloom upon the prairie wide
+       A stainless cross is reared by nature's hand,
+     And plain and height alike keep Easter-tide."
+
+In 1887, the _Century_ published a "Sonnet on Helen Hunt's Grave," with a
+picture of the grave. About this time Miss Donaghe was writing a series of
+letters which were published in a Southern newspaper, _The Valley
+Virginian_, and were widely copied. These were on Utah, when the Mormon
+hierarchy was in its power. Then appeared a book on "Picturesque Utah,"
+making one of a group with "Picturesque Colorado" and "Colorado
+Favorites." The last is made up of six poems on Colorado flowers,
+illustrated by water colors of the blossoms, by Alice Stewart, and was the
+first book published.
+
+The author was married to Mr. Gilbert McClurg of Chicago, one of the family
+of the publishing house of that name, in Morristown, on June 13th, 1889.
+Since then Mrs. McClurg has been both editor and newspaper correspondent,
+and, within the last two years, a valuable assistant to her husband in the
+preparation of his department of the official history of Colorado, which
+included several county histories.
+
+In the _Cosmopolitan_ of June, 1891, a sonnet appeared, "The Life Mask,"
+and was reprinted in the _Review of Reviews_. Two of Mrs. McClurg's songs
+were set to music by Albert C. Pierson in the summer of 1890; "Lithe Stands
+my Lady"; "Je Reste et Tu T'en Vas"; the latter with a French refrain, the
+rest in English.
+
+The last poem of Mrs. McClurg was published in the _Banner_, of Morristown,
+Dec. 24th, 1891, written to Mr. William L. King on his 85th Thanksgiving
+Day, and based on the Oriental salutation, "O King! Live forever".
+
+Among the writings of Mrs. McClurg are also two articles on the Washington
+Headquarters of Morristown; being "quotations, comments and descriptions on
+two Order Books of the Revolution, daily records of life in camp and at
+Headquarters, in the year 1780." A passage from this is given in the
+opening chapter of this book.
+
+The "Seven Sonnets of Sculpture" came out in 1889 and 1890. This book was
+widely and favorably noticed by some of the largest and most important
+journals. Says the writer in the Chicago _Daily News_: "It was a happy
+inspiration that led Mrs. McClurg to the idea realized in the publication
+of her latest volume 'Seven Sonnets of Sculpture'. The work is artistic
+from cover to cover, but the conception of equipping each one of the
+stanzas it contains with a photograph of the piece of sculpture which
+suggested it, was unique. * * To translate a work of art from its original
+form to another, to find the hidden sense of a conception imbedded in stone
+and revive it in words, to endue marble with speech, is in its nature a
+delicate task and one that demands the keenest of perceptions and
+sensibilities." The author says, in her dedication that seven was a Hebrew
+symbol of perfection.
+
+The sonnet we select from these, to represent Mrs. McClurg, is "The
+Questioner of the Sphinx". This sonnet was written from the impression
+received from Elihu Vedder's engraving of the Sphinx and the artist
+expressed in a letter to the author, his appreciation of the fidelity of
+the interpretation in verse of his picture. His criticism is perhaps the
+best that could be given.
+
+"I think it," he wrote, "good and strong and shall treasure it among the
+few good things that have been suggested by my work. My idea in the Sphinx
+was the hopelessness of man before the cold immutable laws of nature. Could
+the Sphinx speak, I am sure its words would be, 'look within,' for to his
+working brain and beating heart man must look for the solution of the great
+problem."
+
+
+THE QUESTIONER OF THE SPHINX.
+
+(SUGGESTED BY ELIHU VEDDER'S PICTURE.)
+
+     Behold me! with swift foot across the land,
+     While desert winds are sleeping, I am come
+     To wrest a secret from thee; O thou, dumb,
+     And careless of my puny lip's command.
+     Cold orbs! _mine_ eyes a weary world have scanned,
+     Slow ear! in _mine_ rings ever a vexed hum
+     Of sobs and strife. Of joy mine earthly sum
+     Is buried as thy form in burning sand.
+     The wisdom of the nations thou has heard;
+     The circling courses of the stars hast known.
+     Awake! Thrill! By my feverish presence stirred,
+     Open thy lips to still my human moan,
+     Breathe forth one glorious and mysterious word,
+     Though I should stand, in turn, transfixed,--a stone!
+
+
+Charlton T. Lewis, L.L. D.
+
+A sketch of Dr. Lewis will be found under the grouping of _Lexicographer_.
+
+The poem from which we select (reluctantly we take a part instead of the
+whole, for lack of space), is an embodiment of the story taken from
+Theodoret. The poet has found in the beautiful tradition, meagre though it
+is, a lovely theme for his divine song of spiritual love and Christian
+martyrdom.
+
+The following is the translation of the Greek passage which heads the poem:
+
+"A certain Telemachus embraced the self-sacrificing life of a monk, and, to
+carry out this plan, went to Rome, where he arrived during the abominable
+shows of gladiators. He went down into the arena, and strove to stop the
+conflicts of the armed combatants. But the spectators of the bloody games
+were indignant, and the gladiators themselves, full of the spirit of
+battle, slew the apostle of peace. When the great Emperor learned the facts
+he enrolled Telemachus in the noble army of martyrs, and put an end to the
+murderous shows."
+
+     _Theodoret. Eccl. Hist. v. 26._
+
+The scene is Rome,--the place the Coliseum. It is the time of the games.
+There are the crowds of eager people; the Emperor Honorius; the horrible
+Stilicho. Lowly and beautiful in his great love for Christ, Telemachus
+follows onward to the Coliseum to meet his sorrowful fate; holding in his
+voice the power that "stilled the fire and dulled the sword and stopped the
+crushing wine-press." He followed, silently, consecrated and alone, to "do
+the will of God."
+
+
+TELEMACHUS.
+
+    I mused on Claudian's tinseled eulogies,
+    And turned to seek in other dusty tomes,
+    Through the wild waste of those degenerate days,
+    Some living word, some utterance of the heart;
+    Till as when one lone peak of Jura flames
+    With sudden sunbeams breaking through the mist,
+    So from the dull page of Theodoret
+    A flash of splendor rends the clouds of life,
+    And bares to view the awful throne of love.
+
+    The bishop's tale is meagre, but as leaven,
+    It works in thoughts that rise and fill the soul.
+
+    *....*....*....*....*
+
+    He felt the soil, long drenched with martyr's blood,
+    Send healing through his feet to all his frame.
+    He drank the air that trembled with the joys
+    Of opening Paradise, and bared his soul
+    To spirits whispering, "Come with us to-day!"
+    The longings of his life were satisfied,
+    He stood at last in Rome, Christ's Capital,
+    The gate of heaven and not the mouth of hell.
+
+    Suddenly, rudely, comes disastrous change.
+    He starts and gazes, as the glory of the saints
+    Fades round him and the angel songs are stilled:
+    A world of hatred hides the throne of love;
+    Hell opens in the gleam of myriad eyes
+    Hungry for slaughter, in a hush that tells
+    How in each heart a tiger pants for blood.
+    Into the vast arena files a band
+    Of Goths, the prisoners of Pollentia,--
+    Freemen, the dread of Rome, but yesterday,
+    Now doomed as slaves to wield those terrible arms
+    In mutual murder, kill and die, amid
+    The exultation of their nation's foes.
+    Pausing before the throne, with well-taught lips
+    They utter words they know not; but Rome hears;
+    "Caesar, we greet thee who are now to die!"
+    Then part and line the lists; the trumpet blares
+    For the onset, sword and javelin gleam, and all
+    Is clash of smitten shields and glitter of arms.
+
+    Without the tumult, one of mighty limb
+    And towering frame stands moveless; never yet
+    A nobler captive had made sport for Rome.
+    Throngs watch that eye of Mars, Apollo's grace,
+    The thews of Hercules, in cruel hope
+    That ten may fall before him ere he falls.
+    They bid him charge; he moves not; shield and sword
+    Sink to his feet; his eyes are filled with light
+    That is not of the battle. Three draw near
+    Whose valor or despair has cut a path
+    Through the thick mass of combat, and their swords,
+    Reeking with carnage, seek a victim new
+    The glory of whose death may win them grace
+    With that fierce multitude. Telemachus
+    Gazes, and half the horror turns to joy
+    As the fair Goth undaunted bares his breast
+    Before the butchers, and awaits the blow
+    With peaceful brow, a firm and tender lip
+    Quivering as with a breath of inward prayer,
+    And hands that move as mindful of the cross.
+    And with a mighty cry, "Christ! he is thine!
+    He is my brother! Help!" The monk leaps forth,
+    Gathers in hands unarmed the points of steel,
+    Throws back the startled warriors, and commands,
+    "In Christ's name, hold! Ye people of Rome give ear!
+    God will have mercy and not sacrifice.
+    He who was silent, scourged at Pilate's bar,
+    And smitten again in those he died to save,
+    Is silent now in his great oracles.
+    The throne of Constantine and Peter's chair,
+    Speaks thus through me:--'In Rome, my capital,
+    Let love be Lord, and close the mouth of hell.
+    I will have mercy and not sacrifice.'"
+
+    The slaughter paused, he ceased, and all was still,
+    But baffled myriads with their cruel thumbs
+    Point earthward, and the bloody three advance:
+    Their swords meet in his heart. Honorius
+    Cries "Save,"--too late, he is already safe,--
+    And turns, with tears like Peter's, to proclaim,
+    The festival dissolved: nor from that hour
+    Ever again did Rome, Christ's capital,
+    Make holiday with blood, but hand in hand
+    The throne of Constantine and Peter's chair
+    Honored the martyr--Saint Telemachus,
+    And love was Lord and closed the mouth of hell.
+
+
+Miss Emma F. R. Campbell.
+
+In our midst is a quiet, gentle woman who passes in and out among us
+without noise or ostentation. Yet upon her has fallen the great honor of
+being the author of an immortal hymn.
+
+In the _Canada Presbyterian_ of Feb. 9th, 1887, appeared an article
+entitled "A Great Modern Hymn." Also, it is said, that in a volume soon to
+be published on "The Great Hymns of the Church" will appear a paper on
+"Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By." From the first named, we cannot do better
+than quote:
+
+"Among all the hymns used in recent revivals of religion, none has been
+more honored and owned by God, than this--none so often called for, none so
+inspiring, none bearing so many seals of the divine approval. This is the
+testimony of the great evangelist of these days, Mr. Moody, and this
+testimony will surprise no one who has ever heard it sung by his companion
+in the ministry, Mr. Sankey, who, under God, has done so much to send forth
+light and truth into dark minds and break up the fountains of the great
+deep, amid the masses of godless men.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"As to the origin of the hymn--the circumstances of its birth--we have to
+invite the reader to go back some twenty-three years, to the Spring of
+1864--to a great season of religious awakening in the city of Newark, N. J.
+The streets were crowded from day to day and the largest churches were too
+small to contain the growing numbers. Among those most deeply moved by the
+impressive scenes and services was a young girl, a Sabbath School teacher,
+one who for the first time realized the powers of the world to come, and
+the grandness of the great salvation. As descriptive of what was passing
+around her but with no desire for publicity, still, with the great desire
+of reaching some soul unsaved, especially among her youthful charge, she
+wrote the lines beginning with, 'What means this eager, anxious throng?'"
+
+The hymn was first published under the signature "Eta", the author having
+sometimes appended to her writings the Greek letter, using that character
+instead of her English name. We quote again from the same source:
+
+"Soon it rose into popularity and it is spreading still, not only in the
+English language, but in other languages--even the languages of
+India--(think of a recent account of an assembly of 500 Hindus
+enthusiastically using this hymn in the Mahrati and the Syrian children
+singing it in their own vernacular)--as the author thinks of all these
+things, she can only say with a thankful and an adoring heart: 'It is the
+Lord's doing and it is marvellous in mine eyes!'"
+
+Miss Campbell has also written many other poems of beauty and articles in
+prose, which however, are all so eclipsed by this "Great Hymn" that perhaps
+they are not known or noticed as they otherwise would be. One in
+particular, we would mention, "A New Year Thought," published December,
+1888.
+
+Miss Campbell belongs also in the group of _Novelists_, _Story-Writers_,
+_and Moralists_. She has written a number of books for the young, among
+which are "Green Pastures for Christ's Little Ones"; "Paul Preston";
+"Better than Rubies"; and "Toward the Mark".
+
+Miss Campbell wrote by request, at the time of the Centennial Celebration
+of the First Presbyterian Church in October, 1891, a beautiful hymn for the
+occasion which was read by Mr. James Duryee Stevenson.
+
+
+"JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY."
+
+     What means this eager, anxious throng,
+     Pressing our busy streets along,
+     These wondrous gatherings day by day,
+     What means this strange commotion, pray?
+     Voices in accents hushed reply
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by?"
+
+     E'en children feel the potent spell,
+     And haste their new-found joy to tell;
+     In crowds they to the place repair
+     Where Christians daily bow in prayer,
+     Hosannas mingle with the cry
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Who is this Jesus? Why should He
+     The city move so mightily?
+     A passing stranger, has He skill
+     To charm the multitude at will?
+     Again the stirring tones reply
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Jesus! 'tis He who once below
+     Man's pathway trod mid pain and woe:
+     And burdened hearts where'er He came
+     Brought out their sick and deaf and lame.
+     Blind men rejoiced to hear the cry
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Again He comes, from place to place
+     His holy footprints we can trace.
+     He passes at _our_ threshold--nay
+     He enters,--condescends to stay!
+     Shall we not gladly raise the cry--
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Bring out your sick and blind and lame,
+     'Tis to restore them Jesus came.
+     Compassion infinite you'll find,
+     With boundless power in Him combined.
+     Come quickly while salvation's nigh,
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Ye sin-sick souls who feel your need,
+     He comes to you, a friend indeed.
+     Rise from your weary, wakeful couch.
+     Haste to secure His healing touch;
+     No longer sadly wait and sigh.--
+         "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!"
+
+     Ho all ye heavy-laden, come!
+     Here pardon, comfort, rest, a home
+     Lost wanderer from a Father's face,
+     Return, accept his proffered grace.
+     Ye tempted, there's a refuge nigh
+         Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!
+
+     Ye who are buried in the grave
+     Of sin, His power alone can save.
+     His voice can bid your dead souls live,
+     True spirit-life and freedom give.
+     Awake! arise! for strength apply,
+         Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!
+
+     But if this call you still refuse
+     And dare such wondrous love abuse,
+     Soon will He sadly from you turn
+     Your bitter prayer in justice spurn.
+     "Too late! too late!" will be your cry,
+         "Jesus of Nazareth has passed by!"
+
+
+Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley.
+
+Mrs. Buckley will appear again among _Translators_. The following verses
+were inspired by a painting of Cornelia and the Gracchi:
+
+     Purest pearls from the sea,
+       Diamonds outshining the sun,
+     Sapphires which vie with heaven,
+       With pride to Cornelia are shown.
+
+     Clasping her dark-eyed boys,
+       Fairer could be no other,
+     "These my jewels are"
+       Said the noble Roman mother.
+
+
+Rev. Oliver Crane, D. D., LL. D.
+
+Before coming to Morristown, in 1871, Dr. Crane's life had been a very
+active one, including extensive traveling in Turkey, Europe, Egypt and
+Palestine. Twice he had been a missionary in Turkey acquiring the Turkish
+language and doing efficient work there, first for five years, then for
+three. In the seven years interval of his return he accepted two pastorates
+in this country.
+
+On coming to Morristown, having resigned his ministerial charge at
+Carbondale, Pennsylvania, he devoted himself mainly to literary work, and
+with General H. B. Carrington wrote the "Battles of the Revolution" which
+has since become a standard work. Nine years later as secretary of his
+college class, he prepared an exhaustive biographical record of every
+member of the class. The book was a pioneer in this class of publications.
+
+In 1888, he published his translation of Virgil's AEneid and the following
+year a small volume of poems entitled "Minto and Other Poems", in which the
+"Rock of the Passaic Falls" is conspicuous as relating to Washington and
+Lafayette "who," says the poet, "visited together these Falls while their
+troops were stationed at Totawa (as the spot was then called) in the Winter
+of 1780. The initials G. W. are still to be seen cut in the rock below the
+cataract."
+
+The _Translation of Virgil's AEneid_, "literally, line by line into English
+Dactyllic Hexameter," is Dr. Crane's great work and has absorbed much of
+his time for years. It is a singular fact that, although for more than four
+hundred years the learned have been giving to the English reader, through
+the press, specimen translations of this old classic, this is the first
+complete version in the original measure.
+
+In the very interesting preface, Dr. Crane gives a careful review of the
+translations of Virgil, noticing the singular and severe prejudice that has
+always debarred any desire to render this classic in the metre of the
+original, and discussing the advantage of translating in the style of verse
+chosen by the author himself. In fact, he tells us, Longfellow had, from
+his own admirable translations, become thoroughly convinced of its utility,
+if not of its indispensability in giving the classic epics a fitting
+setting in English.
+
+The following is an extract taken from Book X., lines 814 to 842 of Dr.
+Crane's literal English translation of _Virgil's AEneid_, which describes
+the hand to hand contest of AEneas with the youth Lausus, who insists upon
+fighting AEneas in opposition to his father's wishes and in the face of
+every effort made by AEneas to avoid the conflict:
+
+
+TRANSLATION OF VIRGIL'S AENEID.
+
+BOOK X, LINES 814 TO 842.
+
+    The destinies now are for Lausus the last threads
+Gathering in; for AEneas his powerful scimitar ruthless                     815
+Drives through the midst of the youth, and buries it wholly within him,
+Right through the menacer's targe, and his delicate armor, the keen blade
+Passed through the tunic his mother had woven in tissue of gold thread
+For him, and blood filled all of his bosom; then life on the breezes
+Mournful withdrew to the shades, and abandoned his body untimely.          820
+But as the son of Anchises in truth on the visage and features
+Gazed of the dying--the features, becoming amazingly pallid--
+Pitying deeply he sighed and instinctively tendered his right hand,
+Fresh as the image recurred to his mind of regard for a father:
+"What to thee now, O pitiable boy, for these laudable efforts,             825
+What shall the pious AEneas, befitting such nobleness render?
+Keep it--thine armor, in which thou rejoicest, and I to thy parents'
+Shades and their ashes, if this could be any requital, remit thee;
+Yet thou in this, though unlucky, canst solace thy sorrowful exit,
+That by the hand of the mighty AEneas thou fallest." Abruptly               830
+Chides he his faltering comrades, as gently from earth he uplifts him,
+Soiling his ringlets with blood, that were combed in the comeliest fashion.
+    Meanwhile, his father was down by the wave of the stream of the Tiber
+Staunching his wound with its waters, and resting his body, reclining
+Close by the trunk of a tree. At a distance his coppery helmet             825
+Hangs on its boughs, and at rest on the sod is his cumbersome armor:
+Standing around are his warriors chosen; he sickly and panting
+Eases his neck, as his out-combed beard streamed down on his bosom;
+Often he asks after Lausus, and many a messenger sends he
+Back to recall him, and bear him his sorrowful parent's injunctions:       840
+But on his armor his comrades were weepingly bearing the lifeless
+Lausus away--a hero o'ercome by the wound of a hero.
+
+
+Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.
+
+Dr. Corning, who, with his family, was for some years a resident of
+Morristown and is now abroad, is represented later in the volume, among the
+writers on Art. We give here his beautiful poem, "The Ideal".
+
+
+THE IDEAL.
+
+     Awake, asleep, in dreams, amid the din of mortal striving,
+     I feel thee ever near, vision of fancy's sweet contriving:
+     The setting sun and twilight glow
+     Thou art the music sweet and low.
+
+     When on the sands, at dead of night,
+     Dark waves are breaking in their might,
+     While, through the billowy crests, the wild winds roar,
+     Thou art the gull who over all dost soar.
+
+     Amid the storm and lightning flash,
+     The pelting rain and thunder crash,
+     When faces blanch, and none can will,
+     Thou, heavenly bow, art faithful still.
+
+     'Tis not the kiss, the touch, the sigh,
+     That bringeth love from earth to sky;
+     For motions strange about the heart
+     Reveal the inner nature of thy part.
+
+
+Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest.
+
+Mrs. Augustus W. Cutler has kindly given us the following monograph:
+
+"In a Memorial of the late Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest occurs the following
+passage: 'For two hundred and fifty years, the English readers of the Bible
+were obliged to content themselves with the phrase, 'They seek a country'.
+It was not the whole thought. It was reserved for a corps of learned
+revisers to light upon the happy phrase, 'They are seeking a country of
+their own'.' But a score of years before the wise grammarians reached this
+line, a youthful poetess, seeing and greeting the Heavenly promise from
+afar, wrote simply and sweetly:
+
+"'I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see The shining gates o'
+Heaven, an' _my ain countree_'.
+
+"This youthful poetess was Mary Lee, afterwards Mrs. T. F. C. Demarest.
+
+"Before her marriage, in 1870, she spent several years in Morristown and
+became identified with the place and its interests; and there are many
+persons living here who remember her sweet face and gentle ways.
+
+"A taste for the Scotch dialect is said to have been acquired from an old
+Scotch nurse who lived a long time in the family, when the children were
+young. The girl caught it so completely, that when deeply moved, she was
+wont to drop into it, for the more vigorous expression of her feelings.
+'Somehow', said she, 'the Scotch is more homely, less formal to me'. Thus,
+in the poem alluded to, could the thoughts contained in it, have been
+expressed as beautifully and tenderly in the mother tongue?
+
+"Again, there is a little poem in the same dialect, entitled 'My Mither',
+which appeals to every heart.
+
+"Though many of her poems and prose writings are of a devotional character,
+yet she had a keen sense also of the humorous side of life as the verses
+entitled 'Allen Graeme', will testify.
+
+"Mrs. Demarest traveled extensively throughout our own country, and also
+abroad. Two volumes of her writings have been published--one entitled
+'Gathered Writings', a collection of short stories, fragments of foreign
+travel and reflections".
+
+
+MY AIN COUNTREE.
+
+     I am far frae my hame, an' I'm weary afterwhiles,
+     For the langed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles;
+     I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see,
+     The shining gates o' heaven an' my ain countree.
+     The earth is fleck'd wi' flowers, mony tinted fresh and gay,
+     The birdies warble blithely, for my Father made them sae;
+     But these sights an' these soun's will as naething be to me,
+     When I hear the angels singing in my ain countree.
+
+     I've His gude word o' promise that some gladsome day, the King
+     To his ain royal palace His banished hame will bring;
+     Wi' een an' wi' hearts running owre, we shall see
+     The King in His beauty, in our ain countree;
+     My sins hae been mony, an' my sorrows hae been sair,
+     But there they'll never vex me, nor be remembered mair;
+     His bluid has made me white--His hand shall dry mine e'e,
+     When he brings me hame at last, to mine ain countree.
+
+     Sae little noo I ken, o' yon blessed, bonnie place,
+     I ainly ken its Hame, whaur we shall see His face;
+     It wud surely be eneuch forever mair to be
+     In the glory o' His presence in our ain countree.
+     Like a bairn to its mither, a wee birdie to its nest,
+     I wad fain be ganging noo, unto my Saviour's breast,
+     For he gathers in His bosom witless, worthless lambs like me,
+     An' carries them Himsel', to His ain countree.
+
+     He's faithfu' that has promised, He'll surely come again,
+     He'll keep his tryst wi' me, at what hour I dinna ken;
+     But he bids me still to wait, an' ready aye to be
+     To gang at ony moment to my ain countree.
+     So I'm watching aye, and singing o' my hame as I wait,
+     For the soun'ing o' His footfa' this side the gowden gate,
+     God gie His grace to ilk ane wha' listens noo to me,
+     That we a' may gang in gladness to our ain countree.
+
+
+Hon. Anthony Q. Keasbey.
+
+We cannot do better than quote the words of Dr. Thomas Dunn English, the
+well-known author of "Ben Bolt", now living in Newark, N. J.,--with regard
+to Mr. Keasbey.
+
+"Here, in Newark", says he, "we have a lawyer of distinction, Anthony Q.
+Keasbey, who occasionally throws off some polished verses, as he excuses
+them, by way of 'safety plugs for high mental pressure,' and these are
+always smooth and scholarly. They are mostly privately printed for the
+amusement of the poet and a few chosen friends. One of these, however, has
+such a vein of tenderness and so much heart music that it deserves to
+become public property and to remain as much the favorite with others as
+it is with me." The poem referred to is, "My Wife's Crutches."
+
+"Unquestionably", continues Dr. English, "Mr. Keasbey stands well in his
+profession, and for years, under several Federal administrations, filled
+the office of United States District Attorney with credit to himself and
+advantage to the public; but this little tender poem does more honor to his
+intellect than his legal acquirements, however eminent they may be, and
+gives him a still stronger claim to the regard of his many friends."
+
+Among Mr. Keasbey's published collected poems are "Palm Sunday", of which
+Mr. Stedman once said he had put it away among some fine hymns; also "May",
+published in England and set to music by Faustina Hodges. These verses were
+inspired by the falling of the cherry blossoms on the grave of little May,
+and are most sweet and touching. One of the best is "The Dirge for Old St.
+Stephen's", written while they were demolishing the church built on Mr.
+Keasbey's ground, where now a "mart and home" have taken its place as was
+anticipated by the poet.
+
+Mr. Keasbey has published numberless papers in prominent journals and
+magazines. Some of these are to be collected and published in book form.
+His address on "The Sun: How Man has Regarded it in Different Ages", is
+well worthy of preservation in more permanent form than that in which it
+appears at present; also "The Sale of East New Jersey at Auction", an
+address delivered February 1st, 1862, before the New Jersey Historical
+Society at Trenton, on the Bi-Centennial of the Sale. This is full of
+interesting information, told in a charming way and is valuable for
+reference.
+
+The paper on "The Sun", was inspired by Mr. Keasbey's reading with great
+interest, the papers of Professor Norman Lockyer, the great astronomer,
+describing his researches into the constitution of the sun, through the
+medium of the spectroscope and the photograph. Mr. Keasbey had been
+interested in observing the extent to which modern science had reached with
+respect to the actual condition of the sun and the materials of which it is
+composed. This led him to the thoughts of how very recent had been any such
+attempts to understand its true nature and, from that reflection, he was
+led to consider, as a subject of a paper, how human eyes in all ages have
+looked upon the sun and in what manner they have regarded it. This
+published address was delivered before the Brooklyn Historical Society, a
+brilliant audience present, and Rev. Dr. Storrs, presiding.
+
+A book on Florida, "From the Hudson to the St. John's", describing a
+month's journey to Florida and the St. John's River was published in 1875;
+also, more recently, a small book on "Isthmus Transit by Chiriqui and Golfo
+Dulce", with a view of describing the Chiriqui mountain rib or back bone
+of Darien and all the executive and legislative action, with respect to the
+region between Panama and Nicaragua, with reference to railroad
+communication across the isthmus from the harbor of Chiriqui on the coast
+to the Pacific.
+
+In the _Hospital Review_, of July, 1882, is a very striking and powerful
+paper on the "Tragedy of the Lena Delta", where De Long and his companions
+so heroically met their fate in the Arctic snows.
+
+Below is the favorite of Dr. English among the Poems:
+
+MY WIFE'S CRUTCHES.
+
+     Ye solemn, gaunt, ungainly crutches,
+         That serve her frame such slippery tricks,
+     Were you within my lawful clutches,
+         I'd fling you back in River Styx.
+
+     Ye grew beside the Boat of Charon,
+         In murky fens of Stygian gloom,
+     Nor ever, like the rod of Aaron,
+         Shall your grim spindles burst in bloom.
+
+     Your reeds were tuned for groans rheumatic,
+         And croaking sighs from gouty man;
+     Nor e'er shall thrill with tones ecstatic,
+         As did the pipes of ancient Pan.
+
+     Avaunt you, then, ye helpers dismal!
+         Offend my eyes and ears no more;
+     Go stalking back to realms abysmal
+         And guide the ghosts on Lethe's shore.
+
+     But see! while yet my words upbraid them,
+         Her crutches bud with blossoms fair,
+     And Patience, Love and Faith have made them
+         Than Aaron's rod, more rich and rare.
+
+     And hark! from out their hollows slender,
+         No dismal groans or sighs proceed,--
+     But tones of joy more sweet and tender
+         Than swelled from Pan's enchanted reed.
+
+     Then stay! your use her worth discloses,
+         Your ghastly frames her worth transmutes,
+     From withered sticks, to stems of roses--
+         From creaking reeds, to magic flutes.
+
+
+Major Lindley Hoffman Miller.
+
+Major Miller, a brother of our well-known townsman, Henry W. Miller, was
+among the first of the 7th Regiment of New York City, who answered the call
+of the government to march to Washington for the protection of the Capitol.
+He served in that regiment through the riots in New York, and afterwards
+joined a Colored Regiment and was promoted to the rank of Major. He served
+in this position at Memphis and elsewhere through the South. In this
+campaign he lost his health and came home to die. He died in June, 1864,
+and was laid in old St. Peter's churchyard.
+
+Mr. Miller was a man of brilliant mind and unusual genius. His fugitive
+poems are very beautiful. They were published in various journals of the
+time, and one we will add to this short sketch of his brief but valuable
+life, "The Skater's Song", full of spirit and dash, and gay with the heart
+of youth.
+
+THE SKATER'S SONG, BY MOONLIGHT!
+
+     Come away, from your blazing hearths!
+       Come away, in the gleaming night,
+     Where the radiant sky is peering down
+       With a million eyes of light!
+     Heigho! for the glancing ice,
+       For the realm of the old Frost King!
+     We'll shake the chain of the bounding stream
+       Till all its fetters ring!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, from your cheerless books!
+       Come away, in the clear, cold air!
+     And read in the deeps of the starry night
+       God's endless volume there.
+     Ho! now we're flashing along,
+       At the snow-flake's drifting rate!
+     Did ever anything stir the pulse
+       Like a glimmering moonlight skate?
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, from the ball-room's glare!
+       Come away, to a merrier dance,--
+     To a hall, whose floor is the flashing ice,
+       Whose light is the stars' pure glance!
+     Now we're watching the moon in her dreams,
+       Now we dash at our speed again;
+     While the stream groans under the icy links
+       Which the frost has forged for his chain!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, each lady fair!
+       Come, add to the magical sight!
+     And mingle the silvery tones of your words
+       With the echoing "voices of night"!
+     Heigho! for the frozen plain!
+       Here's a glancing mirror, I ween,
+     Reflecting all the beautiful forms
+       That move in our fairy-like scene.
+         Away! my lady, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come away, from your sorrow and grief,
+       All you that are gloomy and sad!
+     Unwrinkle your brows to the whistling wind,
+       Till your hearts grow merry and glad!
+     Ho! Hark! how the laughter in peals,
+       Is shaking the tides of the air,
+     And shouting aloud to drown with its joy
+       The muttering murmurs of care!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+     Come, one and all, then, away!
+       Come, cheerily join in our song,
+     And mingle with music the ring of the steel,
+       Keep in time, as we're sweeping along!
+     Heigho! for the throne of the Frost!
+       We'll frighten the phantoms of night,
+     And serenade, far under the depths,
+       The river's listening sprite!
+         Then away! my boys, away!
+           Far over the ice we'll sweep,
+         And wake the slumbering echo's voice
+           From the gloom of its winter sleep!
+
+
+Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich.
+
+Miss Holdich, poetess and story-writer, has been a resident of Morristown,
+since 1878, and has written at various periods since she was seventeen
+years of age. Her poems, stories, and other writings have appeared from
+time to time in _Harper's Magazine_ and other important publications. We
+would like to give Miss Holdich's beautiful and thoughtful poem, "In Holy
+Ground", suggested by a Russian Legend, but, as we give her Centennial
+story entire, our space does not allow. She is represented, instead, by a
+few lovely lines written for a golden wedding and sent to the happy pair
+with a basket of flowers and fruit.
+
+LINES
+
+WRITTEN FOR A GOLDEN WEDDING.
+
+     Orange buds a maiden wears
+      On the blissful wedding morn;
+     Snowy buds on golden hair
+       Tell of love and faith new born.
+
+     Ripened now the perfect fruit,
+       Fifty sunny years have passed;
+     Golden fruit on snowy hair
+       Tells of love and faith that last.
+
+
+William Tuckey Meredith.
+
+Mr. Meredith, a Philadelphian by birth, and also a banker in New York City,
+is also one of our summer residents, his main interest in Morristown
+coming, as he says, from the fact that his grandmother was a Morristown
+Ogden. He served as an officer in the United States Navy with Farragut at
+the battle of Mobile Bay and was afterwards his secretary.
+
+Mr. Meredith is perhaps best known by his spirited poem, entitled
+"Farragut", which appeared in _The Century_, in 1890, and heads the group
+of "Various Poems" in Stedman and Hutchinson's Library of American
+Literature.
+
+Besides this, Mr. Meredith has written for _The New York Times_ and other
+journals and publications at various times. He wrote for _The Century_ a
+War article on "Farragut's Capture of New Orleans", which may be found in
+Volume IV of the published series. A novel appeared with his name, in 1890,
+entitled "Not of Her Father's Race", in which the "Fox Hunt" is, the author
+tells us, a study of a bag chase in which he took part some years ago near
+Morristown, although he has laid the scene in Newport. We give the poem,
+"Farragut".
+
+FARRAGUT.
+
+MOBILE BAY, 5 AUGUST, 1864.
+
+     Farragut, Farragut,
+       Old Heart of Oak,
+     Daring Dave Farragut,
+       Thunderbolt stroke,
+     Watches the hoary mist
+       Lift from the bay,
+     Till his flag, glory-kissed,
+       Greets the young day.
+
+     Far, by gray Morgan's walls,
+       Looms the black fleet.
+     Hark, deck to rampart calls
+       With the drum's beat!
+     Buoy your chains overboard,
+       While the steam hums;
+     Men! to the battlement,
+       Farragut comes.
+
+     See, as the hurricane
+       Hurtles in wrath
+     Squadrons of cloud amain
+       Back from its path!
+     Back to the parapet,
+       To the guns' lips,
+     Thunderbolt Farragut
+       Hurls the black ships.
+
+     Now through the battle's roar
+       Clear the boy sings,
+     "By the mark fathoms four,"
+       While his lead swings.
+     Steady the wheelmen five
+       "Nor' by East keep her,"
+     "Steady" but two alive:
+       How the shells sweep her!
+
+     Lashed to the mast that sways
+       Over red decks,
+     Over the flame that plays
+       Round the torn wrecks,
+     Over the dying lips
+       Framed for a cheer,
+     Farragut leads his ships,
+       Guides the line clear.
+
+     On by heights cannon-browed,
+       While the spars quiver;
+     Onward still flames the cloud
+       Where the hulks shiver.
+     See, yon fort's star is set,
+       Storm and fire past.
+     Cheer him, lads--Farragut,
+       Lashed to the mast!
+
+     Oh! while Atlantic's breast
+       Bears a white sail,
+     While the Gulf's towering crest
+       Tops a green vale;
+     Men thy bold deeds shall tell,
+       Old Heart of Oak,
+     Daring Dave Farragut
+       Thunderbolt stroke!
+
+
+Hannah More Johnson.
+
+Miss Johnson, the niece of Mr. J. Henry Johnson, one of Morristown's old
+residents, and the last preceptor of the old Academy, will be found again
+among "Historians". She has written and published a large number of poems,
+besides, and from them we select the following:
+
+THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
+
+     Shall I tell you a story of Christmas time?
+       Of what Nellie found by her Christmas tree?
+     If I tell it at all, it must be in rhyme
+       For it seems like a song to Nellie and me
+     That ripples along to a breezy tune,
+     Like a brook that sings through the woods in June;
+       And yet it was dark November weather
+       When song and story began together.
+
+     "Papa", said Nellie, with wistful tone,
+       "When God sends little children here,
+     Do beautiful angels flutter down
+       As once when they brought our Saviour dear?
+     Don't they sing in the sky, where we can't see
+       And listen up there to Harry and me?
+     'Cause I prayed last night for the bestest things
+       Heavenly Father sends us, and Harry said
+     I might ask for a sister who hadn't wings
+       A dear little sister to sleep in my bed;
+     For my other one went away, you know,
+     To sing with the angels long ago,
+       And I want another to stay with me
+       A dear little sister like Daisy Lee.
+     So high, Papa! Look, don't you see?
+       Just up to my chin. Heavenly Father knows
+     'Bout her dress and her shoes and her curly hair
+       'Cause I told him all, and so I s'pose
+     The first little sister He has to spare
+       He'll send her down here, oh won't she be
+     A dear little sister for Harry and me!"
+
+     "Yes, my Nellie", her father said,
+       One gentle hand on the curly head
+     With tender caress and whispered word
+       Too low for her ear, 'though a Bright-one heard
+     And passed it up, meet signal given
+       From love on earth to love in heaven;
+     "Yes, my Nellie, wait and see!
+       We are all in our Heavenly Father's care
+     And He'll send what is best for you and me
+       When we look to Him with a loving prayer".
+
+     The days passed on. 'Twas that happy time
+     When bells ring out with their Christmas chime;
+       There were people at work all over the land
+       Busy for Santa Claus, heart and hand,
+     And some in cabin and work-shop dim
+     Who wouldn't have work if it wasn't for him;
+     And Harry and Nellie?--There were none
+       In that Christmas time had a gayer tree.
+     Papa was at work at early dawn
+       And the children all tip-toe to see;
+     But the dark December day wore on
+       E'er the door was opened noiselessly,
+     And the light streamed out in the dusky hall
+     From a beautiful cedar bright and tall.
+       Starry tapers were gleaming there,
+       Toy and trumpet and banner fair,
+     The topmost flag on the ceiling bore
+     While the laden branches swept the floor;
+       While gay little Rover frisking in,
+       Led the children in frolic and din
+     As they spied each treasure and in their glee
+     Shouted with joy round the Christmas tree,
+     While Papa stood back in a corner to see.
+
+     "Oh! Harry", said Nellie, "I do declare
+       Here's a basket for me!" She opened the lid
+     And pulled back the blanket folded there
+       And what d'ye think was safely hid
+     But a dear live baby so fast asleep
+       That it never waked up with the children's shout
+     Till Nellie asked, "is it ours to keep?"
+       And kissed its hand as she stood in doubt.
+
+     "Of course," said Harry, "don't angels know
+     When God has told them which way to go?
+     That's our little sister we wanted so!"
+
+     "Little sister", said Nellie, "I'm very glad,
+     I know you're the best Heavenly Father had
+       And now you're ours and you're going to stay
+       'Cause the angels have left you and gone away".
+     "No, my Nellie", a voice replied,
+     As Papa drew near to Nellie's side,
+       "Let us pray they may watch over this little one
+       Day by day, till life is done,
+     That she may be glad through eternity
+     She was ever left 'neath our Christmas tree".
+
+
+Miss Margaret H. Garrard.
+
+Our gifted young townswoman, Miss Garrard, who has often entertained us
+with her rare dramatic talent, has contributed, for a number of years,
+articles in prose and verse to well-known magazines and journals, notably
+to _Lippincott's Magazine_ and _Life_. In _Lippincott_ for June, 1890, we
+find a very pretty poem embodying a clever thought and entitled "A
+Coquette's Motto". In a previous number appears "A Trip to Tophet", which
+is a sparkling and graphic description of a descent into a silver-mine at
+Virginia City, California. In it occurs the following picture of the
+visitor's surroundings:
+
+"The next few minutes will always be a haunting memory to me. The long,
+dark passages, the burning atmosphere, the scattered lights, the weird
+figures of the miners appearing, only to vanish the next moment in the
+surrounding gloom, all recur like some infernal dream".
+
+We select to represent Miss Garrard, the first poem she published in
+_Life_:
+
+THE PLAQUE DE LIMOGES.
+
+     You hang upon her boudoir wall,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     She prizes you above them all
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     Yet do your blossoms never move,
+     Although she looks on them with love,
+     And treasures your hard buds above
+     The gathered bloom of field and grove,
+           Insensate, cold Limoges!
+
+     Brilliant in hue your every flower,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     Copied from some French maiden's bower,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     But still you let my lady stand--
+     The fairest lady in the land--
+     Caressing you with her soft hand,
+     Nor breathe, nor stir at her command,
+           Cold-hearted clay--Limoges!
+
+     Would that I in your place might be,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     That she might stand and gaze on me,
+           Plaque de Limoges!
+     I'd live in love a little space,
+     Then--fling my flowers from their place,
+     At her dear feet to sue for grace,
+     Until she'd raise them to her face,
+           Happy, but crushed Limoges!
+
+
+Miss Julia E. Dodge.
+
+Though Miss Dodge finds her place naturally and kindly in the society of
+our poets, all readers of _The Century_ will remember a charming prose
+paper of hers called "An Island of the Sea", beautifully illustrated by
+Thomas Moran and published in 1877. Before and since that time, her pen has
+not been idle, for short, prose articles have been scattered here and
+there, in various periodicals, and it is difficult to select from the
+number of thoughtful and delicate poems now before us, one to represent
+her. The poem, "A Legend of St. Sophia in 1453", is full of spirit and
+fire. It was written in 1878, when the advance of the Russian forces
+towards Constantinople seemed to point to the fulfillment of ancient
+prophecy and the restoration of Christian dominion over the stronghold of
+Islam. The poem entitled "Satisfied" was first published in _The Churchman_
+and afterwards placed, without the author's knowledge, in a collection
+called "The Palace of the King", published by Randolph & Co. Among the
+other poems are: "Our Daily Bread", "Spring Song", "Telling Fortunes",
+"September Memories", and "To a Night-Blooming Cereus", which last we give
+principally because, besides being a beautiful expression of a beautiful
+thought, it was written under the inspiration of a flower sent to the
+writer from an ancient plant in a Morristown conservatory.
+
+TO A NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS.
+
+     O fleeting wonder, glory of a night,
+       Only less evanescent than the gleam
+       That marks the lightning's track, or some swift dream
+     That comes and, vanishing, eludes our sight!
+     How canst thou be content, thy whole rich stream
+       Of life to lavish on this hour's delight,
+       And perish ere one morning's praise requite
+     Thy gift of peerless splendor? It doth seem
+     Thou art a type of that pure steadfast heart
+       Which hath no wish but to perform His will
+       Who called it into being, no desire
+     But to be fair for Him; no other part
+       Doth choose, but here its fragrance to distil
+     For one brief moment ere He bid "Come higher"!
+
+
+Charles D. Platt.
+
+Mr. Platt, the faithful principal of our Morris Academy, has of late, "at
+odd moments and in vacations," as he says, written verses of local
+reference and others, upon various subjects, which have been published in
+our local papers and elsewhere.
+
+Born at Elizabeth, N. J., Mr. Platt lived there until 1883. He was
+graduated at Williams' College in 1877, taught in the Rev. J. F. Pingry's
+School in Elizabeth for six years, came to Morristown and took charge of
+the Morris Academy in 1883, and has retained that position to the present
+time.
+
+Among the poems which refer to local interests are "Fort Nonsense," which
+we give in the opening chapter on "Historic Morristown"; "The Old First
+Church"; "The Lyceum" and "The Washington Headquarters", which last will
+follow this short sketch, as embodying so much that is interesting of that
+historic building and its surroundings.
+
+Other of the poems might, perhaps, for some special qualities, better
+represent Mr. Platt than this; there is the excellent and gay little
+parody, which we would like to give, of "That Old Latin Grammar". "The Wild
+Lily" is charming. Then there are "Memorial Day"; "Easter Song"; "Modern
+Progress"; "A Myth"; and "John Greenleaf Whittier", the last written and
+published upon the occasion of the poet's death September 16th, 1892.
+Besides these, there are the "Ballades of the Holidays" which form a series
+by themselves, dealing in part with the subject of popular maxims, and
+including poems for Christmas, New Year's Day, Discovery Day and other
+holidays. We give
+
+THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS, MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     What mean these cannon standing here,
+       These staring, muzzled dogs of war?
+     Heedless and mute, they cause no fear,
+       Like lions caged, forbid to roar.
+
+     _This_ gun[A] was made when good Queen Anne
+       Ruled upon Merry England's throne;
+     Captured by valiant Jerseymen
+       Ere George the Third our rights would own.
+
+     "Old Nat",[B] the little cur on wheels,
+       Protector of our sister city,
+     Was kept to bite the British heels,
+       A yelping terror, bold and gritty.
+
+     _That_ savage beast, the old "Crown Prince",[C]
+       A British bull-dog, glum, thick-set,
+     At Springfield's fight was made to wince,
+       And now we keep him for a pet.
+
+     Upon this grassy knoll they stand,
+       A venerable, peaceful pack;
+     Their throats once tuned to music grand,
+       And stained with gore their muzzles black.
+
+     But come, that portal swinging free,
+       A welcome offers, as of yore,
+     When, sheltered 'neath this old roof-tree,
+       Our patriot-chieftain trod this floor.
+
+     And with him in that trying day
+       Was gathered here a glorious band;
+     This house received more chiefs, they say,
+       Than any other in our land.[D]
+
+     Hither magnanimous Schuyler came,
+       And stern Steuben from o'er the water;
+     Here Hamilton, of brilliant fame,
+       Once met and courted Schuyler's daughter.
+
+     And Knox, who leads the gunner-tribes,
+       Whose shot the trembling foeman riddles,
+     A roaring chief,[E] his cash subscribes
+       To pay the mirth-inspiring fiddles.[F]
+
+     The "fighting Quaker", General Greene,
+       Helped Knox to foot the fiddlers' bill;
+     And here the intrepid "Put." was seen,
+       And Arnold--black his memory still.
+
+     And Kosciusko, scorning fear,
+       Beside him noble Lafayette;
+     And gallant "Light Horse Harry" here
+       His kindly chief for counsel met.
+
+     "Mad Antony" was here a guest,--
+       Madly he charged, but shrewdly planned;
+     And many another in whose breast
+       Was faithful counsel for our land.
+
+     Among these worthies was a dame
+       Of mingled dignity and grace;
+     Linked with the warrior-statesman's fame
+       Is Martha's comely, smiling face.
+
+     But look around, to right to left;
+       Pass through these rooms, once Martha's pride,
+     The dining hall of guests bereft,
+       The kitchen with its fire-place wide.
+
+     See the huge logs, the swinging crane,
+       The Old Man's seat by chimney ingle,
+     The pots and kettles, all the train
+       Of brass and pewter, here they mingle.
+
+     In the large hall above, behold
+       The flags, the eagle poised for flight:
+     While sabres, bayonets, flint-locks old,
+       Tell of the struggle, and the fight.
+
+     Old faded letters bear the seal
+       Of men who battled for a stamp;
+     A cradle and a spinning-wheel
+       Bespeak the home behind the camp.
+
+     Apartments opening from the hall
+       Show chairs and desks of quaint old style,
+     And curious pictures on the wall
+       Provoke a reverential smile.
+
+     Musing, we loiter in each room
+       And linger with our vanished sires;
+     We hear the deep, far-echoing boom
+       That spoke of old in flashing fires.
+
+     But deepening shadows bid us go,
+       The western sun is sinking fast;
+     We take our leave with footsteps slow,
+       Farewell, ye treasures of the past.
+
+     A century and more has gone,
+       Since these old relics saw their day;
+     That day was but the opening dawn
+       Of one that has not passed away.
+
+     Our banner is no worthless rag,
+       With patriot pride hearts still beat high;
+     And there, above, still waves the flag
+       For which our fathers dared to die.
+
+[Footnote A: Inscription on this Cannon:--
+
+Gun made in Queen Anne's time. Captured with a British vessel by a party of
+Jerseymen in the year 1780, near Perth Amboy. Presented by the township of
+Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1874.]
+
+[Footnote B: Inscription on "Old Nat:"--
+
+This cannon was furnished Capt. Nathaniel Camp by Gen. George Washington
+for the protection of Newark N. J. against the British. Presented to the
+Association by Mr. Bruen H. Camp, of Newark, N. J.]
+
+[Footnote C: The inscription upon it is as follows:--
+
+The "Crown Prince Gun." Captured from the British at Springfield. Used as
+an alarm gun at Short Hills to end of Revolutionary War. Given in charge by
+General Benoni Hathaway to Colonel Wm. Brittin on the last training at
+Morristown, and by his son, Wm. Jackson Brittin, with the consent of the
+public authorities, presented to the Association in the year 1890.]
+
+[Footnote D: The list of officers of the Revolutionary army mentioned in
+the poem is taken from a printed placard which hangs in the hall of the
+Headquarters.]
+
+[Footnote E: Knox is called a roaring chief because when crossing the
+Delaware with Washington his "stentorian lungs" did good service in keeping
+the army together.]
+
+[Footnote F: The reference to the fiddlers is based upon an old
+subscription paper for defraying the expenses of a "Dancing Assembly,"
+signed by several persons, among them Nathaniel Greene and H. Knox, each
+$400, PAID.
+
+This paper may be seen in the collection made by Mrs. J. W. Roberts.]
+
+
+Mrs. Julia R. Cutler.
+
+Mrs. Cutler's graceful pen has already contributed to this volume the
+sketch of Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest and also another to follow of Mrs. Julia
+McNair Wright. Her pen has been busy at occasional intervals from girlhood,
+when as a school-girl her essays were, as a rule, selected and read aloud
+in the chapel, on Friday afternoons, and a poem securing the gold medal
+crowned the success.
+
+Living since her marriage, in the old historic house of Mr. Cutler's
+great-grandfather, the Hon. Silas Condict, fearless patriot of the
+Revolution, and President of the Council of Safety during the whole of that
+period that "tried men's souls", it is little wonder that the traditions of
+'76 clinging about the spot should nurture and develop the poetic spirit of
+the girl. It was in 1799, after Mr. Condict's return from Congress that he
+built the present house familiar to us all, but the old house stands near
+by, full of the most interesting stories and traditions of revolutionary
+days.
+
+Mrs. Cutler has written many articles, often by request, for papers or
+magazines, and verses prompted by circumstances or surroundings, or
+composed when strongly impressed upon an especial subject.
+
+[Illustration: FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1791,
+
+SESSION HOUSE AND MANSE.
+
+MORRIS COUNTY SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, 1871.]
+
+Before us lies a lovely poem of childhood, entitled "Childish Faith",
+founded on fact, but we select from the many poems of Mrs. Cutler, the
+Centennial Poem given below and written on the occasion of the Centennial
+of the old First Church.
+
+CENTENNIAL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
+
+     The moon shines brightly down, o'er hill and dale
+     As it shone down, One Hundred years ago,
+     On these same scenes. The stars look down from Heaven
+     As they did then, as calm, serene, and bright--
+     Fit emblems of the God, who changes not.
+     Only in him can we find sure repose
+     'Mid change, decay and death, who is the same
+     To-day as yesterday, forevermore.
+           Through the clear air peal forth the silvery notes,
+     Of thy old Bell, thou venerable pile,
+     Thou dear old Church, whose birthday rare,
+     We come to celebrate with tender love.
+           One Hundred years! How long; and yet, how short
+     When counted with the centuries of the past
+     That help to make the ages of the world:
+     How long when measured by our daily cares,
+     The joys, the sorrows that these years have brought
+     To us and ours. "Our fathers, where are they?"
+     The men of strength, one hundred years ago,
+     As full of courage, purpose, will, as we,
+     Have gone to join the "innumerable throng"
+     That worship in the Father's House above.
+     Their children, girls and boys, like the fair flowers,
+     Have blossomed, faded, and then passed away,
+     Leaving their children and grandchildren, too,
+     To fill their places, take their part in life.
+           How oft, dear Church, these walls have heard the vows
+     That bound two hearts in one.  How oft the tread
+     Of those that bore the sainted dead to rest.
+     How oft the voices, soft and low, of those
+     Who, trusting in a covenant-keeping God
+     Gave here their little ones to God. A faith
+     Which He has blessed, as thou canst truly tell,
+     In generations past, and will in days to come.
+     How many servants of the most high God,
+     Beneath thy roof have uttered words divine,
+     Taught by the Spirit, leading souls to Christ
+     And reaping, even here, their great reward.
+     Many of these have entered into rest
+     Such as remains for those who love the Lord.
+     Others to-day, have gathered here to tell
+     What God has done in years gone by, and bear
+     Glad testimony to the truth, that in this place
+     His name has honored been.--'Tis sad to say
+     Farewell. But 'tis decreed, that thou must go.
+     Time levels all; and it will lay thee low.
+     But o'er thy dust full many a tear shall fall,
+     And many a prayer ascend, that the true God,
+     Our Father's God, will, with their children dwell,
+     And that the stately pile which soon shall rise,
+     Where now, thou art, a monument shall be
+     Of generations past, recording all
+     The truth and mercies of a loving God.
+
+         Oct. 14th, 1891.
+
+
+Miss Frances Bell Coursen.
+
+The rhythmic, airy verses of Miss Coursen, full of the spirit of trees,
+flowers, the clouds, the winds and the insinuating and lovely sounds of
+nature, charm us into writing the author down as one of Morristown's young
+poets. The verses have attractive titles which in themselves suggest to us
+musical thoughts, such as "To the Winds in January"; "June Roses"; "In the
+Fields"; and "What the Katydids Say". We quote the latter for its bright
+beauty.
+
+WHAT THE KATYDIDS SAY.
+
+     "Katy did it!" "Katy didn't!"
+       Doesn't Katy wish she had?
+     "Katy did!" that sounds so pleasant,
+       "Katy didn't" sounds so bad.
+
+     Katy didn't--lazy Katy,
+       Didn't do her lessons well?
+     Didn't set her stitches nicely?
+       Didn't do what? Who can tell?
+
+     But the livelong autumn evening
+       Sounds from every bush and tree,
+     So that all the world can hear it,
+       "Katy didn't" oh dear me!
+
+     Who would like to hear forever
+       Of the things they hadn't done
+     In shrill chorus, sounding nightly,
+       From the setting of the sun.
+
+     But again, who wouldn't like it
+       If they every night could hear,
+     "Yes she did it, Katy did it",
+       Sounding for them loud and clear?
+
+     So if you've an "awful lesson",
+       Or "a horrid seam to sew",
+     Just you stop and think a minute,
+       Don't decide to "let it go".
+
+     In the evening, if you listen,
+       All the Katydids will say
+     "Yes she did it, did it, did it!"
+       Or, "she didn't". Now which way?
+
+
+Miss Isabel Stone.
+
+Miss Stone, long a resident of Morristown, has published many poems in
+prominent journals and magazines, also stories, but always under an assumed
+name. She will take a place in another group, that of _Novelists and
+Story-Writers_. She is represented here by her poem on "Easter Thoughts".
+
+EASTER THOUGHTS.
+
+     Sometimes within our hearts, the good lies dead,
+       Slain by untoward circumstances, or by our own free will,
+     And through the world we walk with bowed head;
+       Or with our senses blinded to our choice,
+     Thinking that "good is evil--evil good;"
+       Or, with determined pride to still the voice
+     That whispers of a "Resurrection morn."
+       This is that morn--the resurrection hour
+     Of all the good that has within us died,
+       The hour to throw aside with passionate force
+     The cruel bonds of wrong and blindness--pride--
+       And rise unto a level high of power,
+     Of strength--of purity--while those we love rejoice
+       With "clouds of angel witnesses" above,
+     And all the dear ones, who before have gone.
+
+     And we ascend, in the triumphant joy
+       And peace, and rapture of a changed self
+     That now transfigured stands--no more the toy
+       Of circumstance--or pride, or sin, to blight--
+       Until we reach sublimest heights--
+       And stand erect, eyes fixed upon the Right--
+     Strong in the strength that wills all wrong to still,
+       Will--pointing upwards to th' ascended Lord,
+     Bless, aye, thrice bless, this fair, sweet Easter Dawn.
+
+
+Rev. G. Douglass Brewerton.
+
+The Rev. Mr. Brewerton was pastor of the Baptist Church in Morristown in
+1861, and during the early years of our Civil War. He was very patriotic
+and public-spirited and founded a Company of boy Zouaves in the town, which
+is well remembered, for at that time the war-spirit was the order of the
+day. He wrote a number of poems which were published in the Morristown
+papers and others. Of these, the following is one, published January 30,
+1861.
+
+OUR SOLDIERS WITH OUR SAILORS STAND.
+
+A NATIONAL SONG
+
+RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF BOTH SERVICES, BY ONE WHO ONCE
+WORE THE UNIFORM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
+
+     Our soldiers with our sailors stand,
+       A bulwark firm and true,
+     To guard the banner of our land,
+       The Red, the White, the Blue.
+
+     The forts that frown along the coast,
+       The ramparts on the steep,
+     Are held by men who never boast,
+       But true allegiance keep.
+
+     While still in thunder tones shall speak
+       Our giants on the tide,
+     Rebuking those who madly seek
+       To tame the eagle's pride.
+
+     While breezes blow or sounding sea
+       Be whitened by a sail,
+     The banner of the brave and true
+       Shall float, nor fear the gale.
+
+     While Ironsides commands the fleet,
+       Shall patriot vows be heard,
+     Where pennants fly or war drums beat,
+       True to their oaths and word.
+
+     Then back, ye traitors! back, for shame!
+       Nor dare to touch a fold;
+     We'll guard it till the sunshine wane
+       And stars of night grow old.
+
+     Thus ever may that flag unrent
+       At peak and staff be borne,
+     Nor e'er from mast or battlement
+       By traitor hands be torn.
+
+
+Mrs. Alice D. Abell.
+
+Mrs. Abell has for several years contributed poems and articles to various
+papers and magazines. From the poems we select the following, which was
+copied in a Southern paper as well as in two others, from _The New York
+Magazine_ in which it first appeared:
+
+BEHIND THE MASK.
+
+     Behind the mask--the smiling face
+       Is often full of woe,
+     And sorrow treads a restless pace
+       Where wealth and beauty go.
+
+     Behind the mask--who knows the care
+       That grim and silent rests,
+     And all the burdens each may bear
+       Within the secret breast?
+
+     Behind the mask--who knows the tears
+       That from the heart arise,
+     And in the weary flight of years
+       How many pass with sighs?
+
+     Behind the mask--who knows the strain
+       That each life may endure,
+     And all its grief and countless pain
+       That wealth can never cure?
+
+     Behind the mask--we never know
+       How many troubles hide,
+     And with the world and fashion show
+       Some spectre walks beside.
+
+     Behind the mask--some future day,
+       When all shall be made plain;
+     Our burdens then will pass away
+       And count for each his gain.
+
+
+George Wetmore Colles, Jr.
+
+The following is by one of the young writers of Morristown, written at Yale
+University and published in the _Yale Courant_ of February, 1891:
+
+TO A MOUNTAIN CASCADE.
+
+     To him who, wearied in the noontide glare,
+       Seeks cool refreshment in thy quiet shade,
+       In all thy beauteous rainbow tints arrayed,
+     How sweet! O dashing brook, thy waters are!
+
+     Sure, such a glen fair Dian with her train
+       Chose to disport in, when Actaeon bold
+       That sight with mortal eyes dared to behold
+     Which mortals may not see and life retain.
+
+     To such a glen I, too, at noonday creep,
+       Leaving the dusty road and haunts of men,
+       To quaff thy purling, sparkling ripples; then
+     To plunge within thy clear, cold basin deep.
+
+     Alone in Nature's lap (this mossy sod)
+       I lie; feel her sweet breath upon me blow;
+       Hear her melodious woodland voice, and know
+     Her passing love, the eternal love of God!
+
+
+
+
+HYMNODIST.
+
+
+John R. Runyon.
+
+Our fellow townsman of old New Jersey name, whose enthusiastic love for
+music, and especially for church music, is well known, has manifested his
+interest in this direction by compiling a collection of hymns known as
+"Songs of Praise. A Selection of Standard Hymns and Tunes". It is published
+by Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, and "meets", says the compiler, "a
+universally acknowledged want for a collection of Hymns to be used in
+Sunday Schools and Social Meetings".
+
+Says Charles H. Morse in _The Christian Union_ of August 20th, 1892: "If
+music is a pattern and type of Heaven, then, indeed, are those whose
+mission is to provide the music for our worship burdened with a weight of
+responsibility and called to a blessed ministry second only to that of the
+pastor who stands at the desk to speak the words of Life".
+
+To compile from various sources a collection of hymns acceptable to varied
+classes of minds, requires much discernment, great care and large range of
+knowledge on the subject, as well as a comprehension of what is needed
+which comes from long and wide experience, study and observation, in
+addition to natural genius.
+
+
+
+
+NOVELISTS AND STORY-WRITERS.
+
+
+Francis Richard Stockton.
+
+Although born in Philadelphia, Mr. Stockton belongs to an old and
+distinguished New Jersey family, and he has, after many wanderings, at last
+selected his home in the State of his ancestors.
+
+Within a few years he has purchased and fitted up a quaint and attractive
+mansion in the suburbs of Morristown, overlooking the beautiful Loantika
+Valley, where in the Revolutionary days the tents of the suffering patriots
+were pitched or their log huts constructed for the bitter winter. Beyond
+the long and narrow valley, the homes of prominent residents of Morristown
+appear on the Western limiting range of hills, and are charmingly
+picturesque.
+
+This home Mr. Stockton has named "The Holt" and his legend, taken from
+Turberville, an old English poet, is painted over the fire-place in his
+Study which is over the Library on the South corner of the House:
+
+     "Yee that frequent the hilles
+       and highest holtes of all,
+     Assist me with your skilful
+       quilles and listen when I call."
+
+Mr. Stockton and Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration of
+Independence, are descended from the same ancestor, Richard Stockton, who
+came from England in 1680 and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey.
+
+Much fine and interesting criticism from various directions, has been
+called out by Mr. Stockton's works.
+
+Edmund Gosse, the well-known Professor of Literature in England, said just
+before leaving our shores:
+
+"I think Mr. Stockton one of the most remarkable writers in this country. I
+think his originality, his extraordinary fantastic genius, has not been
+appreciated at all. People talk about him as if he were an ordinary
+purveyor of comicality. I do not want to leave this country without giving
+my _personal tribute_, if that is worth anything, to his genius."
+
+"More than half of Mr. Stockton's readers, without doubt", says another
+critic, "think of him merely as the daintiest of humorists; as a writer
+whose work is entertaining in an unusual degree, rather than weighed in a
+critical scale, or considered seriously as a part of the literary
+_expression_ of his time".
+
+It is acknowledged that Americans are masters, at the present day, of the
+art of writing short stories and these, as a rule, are like the French,
+distinctly realistic. In this art Mr. Stockton excels. Among his short
+stories, "The Bee Man of Orn" and "The Griffin and the Minor Canon"
+represent his power of fancy. "The Hunting Expedition" in "Prince Hassak's
+March" is particularly jolly, and in "The Stories of the Three Burglars",
+we find a specimen of his realistic treatment. In the last, he makes the
+young house-breaker, who is an educated man, say: "I have made it a rule
+never to describe anything I have not personally seen and experienced. It
+is the only way, otherwise we can not give people credit for their virtues
+or judge them properly for their faults." Upon this, Aunt Martha exclaims:
+"I think that the study of realism may be carried a great deal too far. I
+do not think there is the slightest necessity for people to know anything
+about burglars." And later she says, referring to this one of the three:
+"I have no doubt, before he fell into his wicked ways, he was a very good
+writer and might have become a novelist or a magazine author, but his case
+is a sad proof that the study of realism is carried too far."
+
+No critic seems to have observed or noticed the very remarkable manner in
+which Mr. Stockton renders the negro dialect on the printed page. In this
+respect he quite surpasses Uncle Remus or any other writer of negro
+folk-lore. He spells the words in such a way as to give the sense and sound
+to ears unaccustomed to negro talk as well as to those accustomed to it.
+This we especially realize in "The Late Mrs. Null".
+
+But besides the qualities we have noticed in Mr. Stockton's writings, there
+is a subtle fragrance of purity that exhales from one and all, which is in
+contrast to much of the novel-writing and story-telling of the present day.
+We have reason to welcome warmly to our homes and to our firesides, one
+who, by his pure fun and drollery, can charm us so completely as to make us
+forget, for a time, the serious problems and questions which agitate and
+confront the thinking men and women of this generation.
+
+So varied and voluminous are the writings of Mr. Stockton, they may be
+grouped as _Juveniles_, _Novels_, _Novelettes_ and _Collected Short
+Stories_. Besides, there are magazine stories constantly appearing, and
+still to be collected. Most prominent among the volumes are "The Lady or
+The Tiger?"; "Rudder Grange" and its sequel, "The Rudder Grangers Abroad";
+"The Late Mrs. Null"; "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine";
+"The Hundredth Man"; "The Great War Syndicate"; "Ardis Claverden"; "Stories
+of the Three Burglars"; "The House of Martha" and "The Squirrel Inn".
+
+After considering what Mr. Stockton has accomplished and the place which by
+his genius and industry he has made for himself in Literature, we do not
+find it remarkable that in July, 1890, he was elected by the readers of
+_The Critic_ into the ranks of the _Forty Immortals_.
+
+We give to represent Mr. Stockton, an extract from his novel of "Ardis
+Claverden", containing one of those clever conversations so characteristic
+of the author, and success in which marks a high order of dramatic genius,
+in making characters express to the listener or reader their own
+individuality through familiar talk.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "ARDIS CLAVERDEN."
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Chiverly were artists.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The trouble with Harry Chiverly was that he had nothing in himself which
+he could put into his work. He could copy what he could see, but if he
+could not see what he wanted to paint, he had no mental power which would
+bring that thing before him, or to transform what he saw into what it ought
+to be.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The trouble with Mrs. Chiverly was that she did not know how to paint. With
+her there was no lack of artistic imagination. Her brain was full of
+pictures, which, if they could have been transferred to the brain of her
+husband, who did know how to paint, would have brought fame and fortune. At
+one end of her brush was artistic talent, almost genius; at the other was a
+pigment mixed with oil. But the one never ran down to the other. The handle
+of the brush was a non-conductor.
+
+We pass on to a scene in the studio. An elderly man enters, a stranger, to
+examine pictures, and stops before Mr. Chiverly's recently finished
+canvass.
+
+"Madam," said he, "can you tell me where the scene of this picture is laid?
+It reminds me somewhat of the North and somewhat of the South, and I am not
+sure that it does not contain suggestions of the East and the West."
+
+"Yes," thought Ardis at her easel, "and of the North-east, and the
+Sou-sou'-west, and all the other points of the compass."
+
+Mrs. Chiverly left her seat and approached the visitor. She was a little
+piqued at his remark.
+
+"Some pictures have a meaning," she said, "which is not apparent to every
+one at first sight."
+
+"You are correct, madam," said the visitor.
+
+"This painting, for instance," continued Mrs. Chiverly, "represents the
+seven ages of trees." And then with as much readiness as Jacques detailed
+the seven ages of man to the duke, she pointed out in the trees of the
+picture the counterparts of these ages.
+
+"Madam," said the visitor, "you delight me. I admit that I utterly failed
+to see the point of this picture; but now that I am aware of its meaning I
+understand its apparent incongruities. Meaning despises locality."
+
+"You are right," said Mrs. Chiverly, earnestly. "Meaning is above
+everything."
+
+"Madam," said the gentleman, his eyes still fixed upon the canvass, "as a
+student of Shakespeare, as well as a collector, in a small way, of works of
+art, I desire to have this picture, provided its price is not beyond my
+means."
+
+Mrs. Chiverly gazed at him in an uncertain way. She did not seem to take in
+the import of his remark.
+
+From her easel Ardis now named the price which Mr. Chiverly had fixed upon
+for the picture. He never finished a painting without stating very
+emphatically what he intended to ask for it.
+
+"That is reasonable," said the gentleman, "and you may consider the picture
+mine." And he handed Mrs. Chiverly his card. Then, imbued with a new
+interest in the studio, he walked about looking at others of the pictures.
+
+"This little study," said he, "seems to me as if it ought to have a
+significance, but I declare I am again at fault."
+
+"Yes," said Mrs. Chiverly, "it ought to have a significance. In fact there
+is a significance connected with it. I could easily tell you what it is,
+but if you were afterwards to look at the picture you would see no such
+meaning in it."
+
+"Perhaps this is one of your husband's earlier works" said the gentleman,
+"in which he was not able to express his inspirations."
+
+"It is not one of my husband's works," said Mrs. Chiverly; "it is mine."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The moment that the gentleman had departed Ardis flew to Mrs. Chiverly and
+threw her arms around her neck. "Now my dearest," she exclaimed, "you know
+your vocation in life. You must put meanings to Mr. Chiverly's pictures."
+
+When the head of the house returned he was, of course, delighted to find
+that his painting had been sold.
+
+"That is the way with us!" he cried, "we have spasms of prosperity. One of
+our works is bought, and up we go. Let us so live that while we are up we
+shall not remember that we have ever been down. And now my dear, if you
+will give me the card of that exceptional appreciator of high art, I will
+write his bill and receipt instantly, so that if he should again happen to
+come while I am out there may be nothing in the way of an immediate
+settlement."
+
+Mrs. Chiverly stood by him as he sat at the desk. "You must call the
+picture," she said, "'The Seven Ages of Trees.'"
+
+"Nonsense!" exclaimed Mr. Chiverly, turning suddenly and gazing with
+astonishment at his wife. "That will do for a bit of pleasantry, but the
+title of the picture is 'A Scene on the Upper Mississippi.' You don't want
+to deceive the man, do you?"
+
+"No, I do not," said Mrs. Chiverly, "and that is one reason why I did not
+give it your title. It is a capitally painted picture, and as a woodland
+'Seven Ages' it is simply perfect. That was what it sold for; and for that
+and nothing else will the money be paid."
+
+Mr. Chiverly looked at her for a moment longer, and then bursting into a
+laugh he returned to his desk. "You have touched me to the quick," he said.
+"Money has given title before and it shall do so now. There is the
+receipted bill!" he cried, pushing back his chair.
+
+
+Francis Bret Harte.
+
+Bret Harte, so far as we can discover, has written the only story of
+Revolutionary times in Morristown, and the only story of those times in New
+Jersey except Miss Holdich, who follows, and James Fenimore Cooper, whose
+"Water Witch" is located about the Highlands of New Jersey. By a passage
+from his story of "Thankful Blossom" we shall represent him at the close of
+this sketch.
+
+Between 1873 and 1876 Bret Harte lived in Morristown, in several locations:
+in the picturesque old Revere place on the Mendham Road, the very home for
+a Novelist, now owned and occupied by Mr. Charles G. Foster; in the
+Whatnong House for one summer, near which are located old farms, which seem
+to us to have many features of the "Blossom Farm" and to which we shall
+refer; in the Logan Cottage on Western Avenue and in the house on Elm
+Street now owned and occupied by Mr. Joseph F. Randolph.
+
+The steps by which Bret Harte climbed to the eminence that he now occupies,
+are full of romantic interest. Left early by his father, who was a
+Professor in an Albany Seminary and a man of culture, to struggle with
+little means, the boy, at fifteen, had only an ordinary education and went
+in 1854, with his mother, to California. He opened a school in Sonora,
+walking to that place from San Francisco. Fortune did not favor him either
+in this undertaking or in that of mining, to which, like all young
+Californians in that day, he resorted as a means to live. He then entered a
+printing office as compositor and began his literary career by composing
+his first articles in type while working at the case. Here he had editorial
+experiences which ended abruptly in consequence of the want of sympathy in
+the miners with his articles. He returned to San Francisco and became
+compositor in the office of _The Golden Era_. His three years experience
+among the miners served him in good stead and his clever sketches
+describing those vivid scenes, soon placed him in the regular corps of
+writers for the paper. _The Californian_, a literary weekly, then engaged
+Harte as associate manager and, in this short-lived paper appeared the
+"Condensed Novels" in which Dickens' "Christmas Stories", Charlotte
+Bronte's "Jane Eyre", Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables", and other prominent
+and familiar writings of distinguished authors are most cleverly taken
+off. These have amused and delighted the reading world since their first
+appearance. During the next six years, he filled the office of Secretary of
+the United States Branch Mint, and also wrote for California journals, many
+of his important poems, among them, "John Burns of Gettysburg", and "The
+Society upon the Stanislau", which attracted wide attention by their
+originality and peculiar flavor of the "Wild West". In July, 1868, Harte
+organized, and became the editor of, what is now a very successful journal,
+_The Overland Monthly_.
+
+For this journal he wrote many of his most characteristic stories and poems
+and introduced into its pages, "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of
+Poker Flat", and others having that peculiar pseudo-dialect of Western
+mining life of which he was the pioneer writer. He had now taken a great
+step towards high and artistic work. At this point his reputation was
+established.
+
+As for Revolutionary New Jersey poems, abundant as the material is for
+inspiration, Bret Harte's "Caldwell of Springfield" seems to be one of very
+few. At the luncheon of the Daughters of the American Revolution held in
+May of 1892, a prominent member of the Association recited "Parson
+Caldwell" and mentioned, that strange to say, it was as far as she had been
+able to ascertain, the only poem on Revolutionary times in New Jersey that
+had ever been written, though she had searched thoroughly. In addition to
+this, we find only, besides the two poems of Mr. Charles D. Platt, given in
+this volume, (and others of his referred to) one or two of the sort in a
+volume published years ago, privately, by Dr. Thomas Ward, of New York (a
+great uncle of Mrs. Luther Kountze). Very few copies of his poems were
+printed and all were given to his friends, not sold.
+
+We must not forget the very beautiful poem of "Alice of Monmouth", by
+Edmund Clarence Stedman, and also, perhaps, might be included his spirited
+"Aaron Burr's Wooing". There was also an early writer, Philip Freneau, of
+Monmouth County, who lived in Colonial and Revolutionary times, and wrote
+some quaint and charming poems of that period.
+
+If there are any others we would be glad to be informed.
+
+In this book, "Plain Language From Truthful James", better known as "The
+Heathen Chinee", represents Mr. Harte among the poets, in our group of
+writers, for the reason that it is so widely known as a satire upon the
+popular prejudices against the Chinese, who were at that time pursued with
+hue and cry of being shiftless and weak-minded.
+
+From 1868, Harte became a regular contributor to the _Atlantic Monthly_ and
+he also entered the lecture field. It was during this period that he lived
+in Morristown. In 1878 he went to Crefeld, Germany, as United States
+Consul, and here began his life abroad. Two years later he went, as Consul,
+to Glasgow, Scotland, since which time he has remained abroad, engaged in
+literary pursuits.
+
+The Contributor's Club, of the _Atlantic Monthly_, gives a curious little
+paper on "The Value of a Name", in which the writer insists that Bret
+Harte, Mark Twain, Dante Rossetti and others owe a part of their success,
+at least, to the phonic value of their names. He says that "much time and
+thought are spent in selecting a name for a play or novel, for it is known
+that success is largely dependent on it" and he therefore censures parents
+who are "so strangely careless and unscientific in giving names to their
+children."
+
+Bret Harte's publications include besides "Condensed Novels", "Thankful
+Blossom", and others already mentioned, several volumes of Poems issued at
+different periods: among them are "Songs of the Sierras" and "Echoes of the
+Foot Hills". Then there are "Tales of the Argonauts and Other Stories";
+"Drift from Two Shores"; "Twins of Table Mountain"; "Flip and Found at
+Blazing Star"; "On the Frontier"; "Snow Bound at Eagle's"; "Maruja, a
+Novel"; "The Queen of the Pirate Isle", for children; "A Phyllis of the
+Sierras"; "A Waif of the Plains" and many others, besides his collected
+works in five volumes published in 1882.
+
+Writing to Bret Harte in London, for certain information about the story of
+"Thankful Blossom", the author of this volume received the following reply:
+
+
+15 UPPER HAMILTON TERRACE, N. W., 31st May, '90.
+
+     _Dear Madam:_
+
+     In reply to your favor of the 14th inst., I fear I must
+     begin by saying that the story of "Thankful Blossom",
+     although inspired and suggested by my residence at
+     Morristown at different periods was not _written_ at
+     that place, but in another part of New Jersey. The
+     "Blossom Farm" was a study of two or three old farm
+     houses in the vicinity, but was not an existing fact so
+     far as I know. But the description of Washington's
+     Head-Quarters was a study of the actual house,
+     supplemented by such changes as were necessary for the
+     epoch I described, and which I gathered from the State
+     Records. The portraits of Washington and his military
+     family at the Head-Quarters were drawn from Spark's
+     "Life of Washington" and the best chronicles of the
+     time. The episode of the Spanish Envoy is also
+     historically substantiated, and the same may be said of
+     the incidents of the disaffection of the "Connecticut
+     Contingent."
+
+     Although the heroine, "Thankful Blossom", as a
+     _character_ is purely imaginary, the _name_ is an
+     actual one, and was borne by a (chronologically)
+     remote maternal relation of mine, whose Bible with the
+     written legend, "Thankful Blossom, her book", is still
+     in possession of a member of the family.
+
+     The contour of scenery and the characteristics of
+     climate have, I believe, changed but little since I
+     knew them between 1873 and 1876 and "Thankful Blossom"
+     gazed at them from the Baskingridge Road in 1779.
+
+     I remain, dear madam,
+
+             Yours very sincerely,
+
+                      BRET HARTE.
+
+
+
+Two of the farms from which Bret Harte _may_ have drawn the inspiration for
+the surroundings of his story, may be seen on the Washington Valley road as
+you turn to the right from the road to Mendham. Turning again to the
+left,--before you come to the junction of the road which crosses at right
+angles to the Whatnong House, where Mr. Harte passed a summer,--you come
+upon the Carey Farm, the house built by the grandfather of the present
+occupants. There you see the stone wall,--crumbling now,--over which the
+bewitching Mistress Thankful talked and clasped hands with Captain Allen
+Brewster of the Connecticut Contingent. The elm-tree, upon whose bark was
+inscribed "the effigy of a heart, divers initials and the legend 'Thine
+Forever'", has been lately cut down and the trunk decorated with growing
+plants and flowers.
+
+We see the black range of the Orange Hills over which the moon slowly
+lifted herself as the Captain waited for his love, "looking at him,
+blushing a little, as if the appointment were her own". We see also the
+faintly-lit field beyond,--the same field in which, further on in the story
+after Brewster's treachery, Major Van Zandt and Mistress Thankful picked
+the violets together and doing so, revealed their hearts' love to one
+another on that 3rd of May, 1780.
+
+The orchard is there, still bearing apples, but the "porch" and the "mossy
+eaves" evidently belong to the next farm house, which we find exactly on
+the corner at the junction of the two roads. It is the old Beach farm. The
+original house has a brick addition, with the inscription among the bricks,
+"1812".
+
+It is on the wooden part built earlier and evidently an ancient structure,
+that we see the "porch and eaves".
+
+We select from "Thankful Blossom" the very fine pen portrait of Washington
+and his military family at the Headquarters.
+
+THANKFUL BLOSSOM.
+
+_A Romance of the Jerseys, 1779._
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+The rising wind, which had ridden much faster than Mistress Thankful, had
+increased to a gale by the time it reached Morristown. It swept through the
+leafless maples, and rattled the dry bones of the elms. It whistled through
+the quiet Presbyterian churchyard, as if trying to arouse the sleepers it
+had known in days gone by. It shook the blank, lustreless windows of the
+Assembly Rooms over the Freemason's Tavern, and wrought in their gusty
+curtains moving shadows of those amply petticoated dames and tightly hosed
+cavaliers who had swung in "Sir Roger," or jigged in "Money Musk," the
+night before.
+
+But I fancy it was around the isolated "Ford Mansion," better known as the
+"Headquarters," that the wind wreaked its grotesque rage. It howled under
+its scant eaves, it sang under its bleak porch, it tweaked the peak of its
+front gable, it whistled through every chink and cranny of its square,
+solid, unpicturesque structure. Situated on a hillside that descended
+rapidly to the Whippany River, every summer zephyr that whispered through
+the porches of the Morristown farm houses charged as a stiff breeze upon
+the swinging half doors and windows of the "Ford Mansion"; every wintry
+wind became a gale that threatened its security. The sentinel who paced
+before its front porch knew from experience when to linger under its lee,
+and adjust his threadbare outer coat to the bitter North wind.
+
+Within the house something of this cheerlessness prevailed. It had an
+ascetic gloom, which the scant fire-light of the reception room, and the
+dying embers on the dining room hearth, failed to dissipate. The central
+hall was broad, and furnished plainly with a few rush-bottomed chairs, on
+one of which half dozed a black body-servant of the commander-in-chief. Two
+officers in the dining-room, drawn close by the chimney corner, chatted in
+undertones, as if mindful that the door of the drawing-room was open, and
+their voices might break in upon its sacred privacy. The swinging light in
+the hall partly illuminated it, or rather glanced gloomily from the black
+polished furniture, the lustreless chairs, the quaint cabinet, the silent
+spinet, the skeleton-legged centre-table, and finally upon the motionless
+figure of a man seated by the fire.
+
+It was a figure since so well known to the civilized world, since so
+celebrated in print and painting, as to need no description here. Its rare
+combination of gentle dignity with profound force, of a set resoluteness
+of purpose with a philosophical patience, have been so frequently delivered
+to a people not particularly remarkable for these qualities, that I fear it
+has too often provoked a spirit of playful aggression, in which the deeper
+underlying meaning was forgotten. So let me add that in manner, physical
+equipoise, and even in the mere details of dress, this figure indicated a
+certain aristocratic exclusiveness. It was the presentment of a king,--a
+king who by the irony of circumstances was just then waging war against all
+kingship; a ruler of men, who just then was fighting for the right of these
+men to govern themselves, but whom by his own inherent right he dominated.
+From the crown of his powdered head to the silver buckle of his shoe he was
+so royal that it was not strange his brother George of England and
+Hanover--ruling by accident, otherwise impiously known as the "grace of
+God"--could find no better way of resisting his power than by calling him
+"Mr. Washington."
+
+The sound of horses' hoofs, the formal challenge of sentry, the grave
+questioning of the officer of the guard, followed by footsteps upon the
+porch, did not apparently disturb his meditation. Nor did the opening of
+the outer door and a charge of cold air into the hall that invaded even the
+privacy of the reception room, and brightened the dying embers on the
+hearth, stir his calm pre-occupation. But an instant later there was the
+distinct rustle of a feminine skirt in the hall, a hurried whispering of
+men's voices, and then the sudden apparition of a smooth, fresh-faced young
+officer over the shoulder of the unconscious figure.
+
+"I beg your pardon, general," said the officer doubtingly, "but"----
+
+"You are not intruding, Colonel Hamilton," said the general quietly.
+
+"There is a young lady without who wishes an audience of your Excellency.
+'Tis Mistress Thankful Blossom,--the daughter of Abner Blossom, charged
+with treasonous practice and favoring the enemy, now in the guard-house at
+Morristown."
+
+"Thankful Blossom?" repeated the general interrogatively.
+
+"Your Excellency doubtless remembers a little provincial beauty and a
+famous toast of the countryside--the Cressida of our Morristown epic, who
+led our gallant Connecticut Captain astray"----
+
+"You have the advantages, besides the better memory of a younger man,
+colonel," said Washington, with a playful smile that slightly reddened the
+cheek of his aide-de-camp. "Yet I think I _have_ heard of this phenomenon.
+By all means, admit her--and her escort."
+
+"She is alone, general," responded the subordinate.
+
+"Then the more reason why we should be polite," returned Washington, for
+the first time altering his easy posture, rising to his feet, and lightly
+clasping his ruffled hands before him. "We must not keep her waiting. Give
+her access, my dear colonel, at once; and even as she came,--alone."
+
+The aide-de-camp bowed and withdrew. In another moment the half opened door
+swung wide to Mistress Thankful Blossom.
+
+She was so beautiful in her simple riding-dress, so quaint and original in
+that very beauty, and, above all, so teeming with a certain vital
+earnestness of purpose just positive and audacious enough to set off that
+beauty, that the grave gentleman before her did not content himself with
+the usual formal inclination of courtesy, but actually advanced, and,
+taking her cold little hand in his, graciously led her to the chair he had
+just vacated.
+
+"Even if your name were not known to me, Mistress Thankful," said the
+commander-in-chief, looking down upon her with grave politeness, "nature
+has, methinks, spared you the necessity of any introduction to the courtesy
+of a gentleman. But how can I especially serve you?"
+
+
+Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich.
+
+It is a curious fact that although New Jersey was the theatre of some of
+the most stirring scenes of the Revolution, only two stories seem to have
+been written, founded on the events of those times, if we except the "Water
+Witch", by J. Fenimore Cooper, in which we find the location of Alderman
+Van Beverout's house, the villa of the "Lust in Rust" to be on the Atlantic
+Highlands, between the Shrewsbury river and the sea. This spot is pointed
+out to-day and was associated with the smugglers of that period. The other
+two stories are "Thankful Blossom", by Bret Harte, and "Hannah Arnett's
+Faith", a Centennial Story, by Miss Holdich, which latter, as a singular
+history attaches to it, we shall give at length.
+
+Miss Holdich was born at Middletown, Conn., but left there too young to
+remember much about it and she lived in New York until 1878 when she came
+to Morristown. When she was not quite two years of age her mother
+discovered she could read and since she was seventeen, she has written for
+various well-known papers and periodicals, more children's stories than
+anything else, she tells us, but also a good many stories for _Harpers'
+Magazine_ and _Bazar_,--also poems, by one of which she is represented in
+our group of poets.
+
+"Hannah Arnett's Faith" is a true story of the author's great grandmother,
+familiar to all the family from infancy; In 1876 Miss Holdich published it,
+as a Centennial story, in _The New York Observer_. In 1890, a lady of
+Washington published it as her own in _The Washington Post_, (she asserts
+that she did not intend it as a plagiarism but used it merely as a
+historical incident). The story was recognized and letters written to, and
+published in, _The Post_, giving Miss Holdich's name, as the true author.
+However, this publication of the story led to a curious result, and gave
+the story a wide celebrity. In a published statement, Miss Mary Desha (one
+of the Vice Presidents of the D. A. R.) announces that "the Society of the
+Daughters of the American Revolution sprang from this story".
+
+"On July 21st", Miss Desha says, after the publication of the story in _The
+Washington Post_, accompanied by an appeal for a woman's organization to
+commemorate events of the Revolution in which women had bravely borne their
+part,--"a letter from William O. McDowell of New Jersey, was published, in
+which he said that he was the great-grandson of Hannah Arnett and called on
+the women of America to form a society of their own, since they had been
+excluded from the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at a
+meeting held in Louisville, Kentucky, April 30th, 1890".
+
+Miss Holdich soon after this was urgently requested to become Regent of
+the Morristown Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which
+position she accepted and holds to-day.
+
+
+HANNAH ARNETT'S FAITH.
+
+_A Centennial Story._
+
+1776-1876.
+
+The days were at their darkest and the hearts of our grandfathers were
+weighed down with doubt and despondency. Defeat had followed defeat for the
+American troops, until the army had become demoralized and discouragement
+had well-nigh become despair. Lord Cornwallis, after his victory at Fort
+Lee, had marched his army to Elizabethtown (Dec. 1776) where they were now
+encamped. On the 30th of November the brothers Howe had issued their
+celebrated proclamation, which offered protection to all who within sixty
+days should declare themselves peaceable British subjects and bind
+themselves neither to take up arms against their Sovereign, nor to
+encourage others to do so. It was to discuss the advisability of accepting
+this offered protection that a group of men had met in one of the large old
+houses of which Elizabethtown was, at that time, full.
+
+We are apt to think of those old times as days of unmitigated loyalty and
+courage; of our ancestors as unfaltering heroes, swerving never in the
+darkest hours from the narrow and thorny path which conscience bade them
+tread. Yet human nature is human nature in all ages, and if at times the
+"old fashioned fire" burned low even in manly hearts, and profound
+discouragement palsied for a time the most ardent courage, what are we that
+we should wonder at or condemn them? Of this period Dr. Ashbel Green wrote:
+
+"I heard a man of some shrewdness once say that when the British troops
+over-ran the State of New Jersey, in the closing part of the year 1776, the
+whole population could have been bought for eighteen-pence a head."
+
+The debate was long and grave. Some were for accepting the offered terms at
+once; others hung back a little, but all had at length agreed that it was
+the only thing to be done. Hope, courage, loyalty, faith, honor--all seemed
+swept away upon the great flood of panic which had overspread the land.
+There was one listener, however, of whom the eager disputants were
+ignorant, one to whose heart their wise reasoning was very far from
+carrying conviction. Mrs. Arnett, the wife of the host, was in the next
+room, and the sound of the debate had reached her where she sat. She had
+listened in silence, until, carried away by her feelings, she could bear no
+more, and springing to her feet she pushed open the parlor door and
+confronted the assembled group.
+
+Can you fancy the scene? A large low room, with the dark, heavily carved
+furniture of the period, dimly lighted by the tall wax candles and the wood
+fires which blazed in the huge fire place. Around the table, the group of
+men--pallid, gloomy, dejected, disheartened. In the doorway the figure of
+the woman, in the antique costume with which, in those latter days, we have
+become so familiar. Can you not fancy the proud poise of her head, the
+indignant light of her blue eyes, the crisp, clear tones of her voice, the
+majesty and defiance and scorn which clothed her as a garment?
+
+The men all started up at her entrance; the sight of a ghost could hardly
+have caused more perturbation than did that of this little woman. Her
+husband advanced hastily. She had no business here; a woman should know her
+place and keep it. Questions of politics and political expediency were not
+for them; but he would shield her as far as possible, and point out the
+impropriety of her conduct afterwards, when they should be alone. So he
+went quickly up to her with a warning whisper:
+
+"Hannah! Hannah! this is no place for you. We do not want you here just
+now;" and would have taken her hand to lead her from the room.
+
+She was a docile little woman and obeyed his wishes in general without a
+word: but now it seemed as if she scarcely saw him, as with one hand she
+pushed him gently back and turned to the startled group.
+
+"Have you made your decision, gentlemen?" she asked. "Have you chosen the
+part of men or of traitors?"
+
+It was putting the question too broadly,--so like a woman, seeing only the
+bare, ugly facts, and quite forgetting the delicate drapery which was
+intended to veil them. It was an awkward position to put them in, and they
+stammered and bungled over their answer, as men in a false position will.
+The reply came at last, mingled with explanations and excuses and
+apologies.
+
+"Quite hopeless; absurd for a starving, half-clothed, undisciplined army
+like ours to attempt to compete with a country like England's unlimited
+resources. Repulsed everywhere--ruined; throwing away life and fortune for
+a shadow;"--you know the old arguments with which men try to prop a
+staggering conscience.
+
+Mrs. Arnett listened in silence until the last abject word was spoken. Then
+she inquired simply: "But what if we should live, after all?"
+
+The men looked at each other, but no one spoke.
+
+"Hannah! Hannah!" urged her husband. "Do you not see that these are no
+questions for you? We are discussing what is best for us, for you, for
+all. Women have no share in these topics. Go to your spinning-wheel and
+leave us to settle affairs. My good little wife, you are making yourself
+ridiculous. Do not expose yourself in this way before our friends."
+
+His words passed her ear like the idle wind; not even the quiver of an
+eyelash showed that she heard them.
+
+"Can you not tell me?" she said in the same strangely quiet voice. "If,
+after all, God does not let the right perish,--if America should win in the
+conflict, after you have thrown yourself upon British clemency, where will
+you be then?"
+
+"Then?" spoke one hesitating voice. "Why, then, if it ever _could_ be, we
+should be ruined. We must leave the country forever. But it is absurd to
+think of such a thing. The struggle is an utterly hopeless one. We have no
+men, no money, no arms, no food and England has everything."
+
+"No," said Mrs. Arnett; "you have forgotten one thing which England has not
+and which we have--one thing which outweighs all England's treasures, and
+that is the Right. God is on our side, and every volley from our muskets is
+an echo of His voice. We are poor and weak and few; but God is fighting for
+us. We entered into this struggle with pure hearts and prayerful lips. We
+had counted the cost and were willing to pay the price, were it our heart's
+blood. And now--now, because for a time the day is going against us, you
+would give up all and sneak back, like cravens, to kiss the feet that have
+trampled upon us! And you call yourselves men--the sons of those who gave
+up home and fortune and fatherland to make for themselves and for dear
+liberty a resting-place in the wilderness? Oh, shame upon you, cowards!"
+
+Her words had rushed out in a fiery flood, which her husband had vainly
+striven to check. I do not know how Mrs. Arnett looked, but I fancy her a
+little fair woman, with kindly blue eyes and delicate features,--a tender
+and loving little soul, whose scornful, blazing words must have seemed to
+her amazed hearers like the inspired fury of a pythoness. Are we not all
+prophets at times--prophets of good or evil, according to our bent, and
+with more power than we ourselves suspect to work out the fulfillment of
+our own prophecies? Who shall say how far this fragile woman aided to stay
+the wave of desolation which was spreading over the land?
+
+"Gentlemen," said good Mr. Arnett uneasily, "I beg you to excuse this most
+unseemly interruption to our council. My wife is beside herself I think.
+You all know her and know that it is not her wont to meddle with politics,
+or to brawl and bluster. To-morrow she will see her folly, but now I pray
+your patience."
+
+Already her words had begun to stir the slumbering manhood in the bosoms
+of those who heard her. Enthusiasm makes its own fitting times. No one
+replied; each felt too keenly his own pettiness, in the light cast upon
+them by this woman's brave words.
+
+"Take your protection, if you will," she went on, after waiting in vain for
+a reply. "Proclaim yourselves traitors and cowards, false to your country
+and your God, but horrible will be the judgment you will bring upon your
+heads and the heads of those that love you. I tell you that England will
+never conquer. I know it and feel it in every fibre of my heart. Has God
+led us so far to desert us now? Will He, who led our fathers across the
+stormy winter sea, forsake their children who have put their trust in Him?
+For me, I stay with my country, and my hand shall never touch the hand, nor
+my heart cleave to the heart of him who shames her."
+
+She flashed upon her husband a gaze which dazzled him like sudden
+lightning.
+
+"Isaac, we have lived together for twenty years, and for all of them I have
+been a true and loving wife to you. But I am the child of God and of my
+country, and if you do this shameful thing, I will never again own you for
+my husband."
+
+"My dear wife!" cried the husband aghast, "you do not know what you are
+saying. Leave me, for such a thing as this?"
+
+"For such a thing as this?" she cried scornfully. "What greater cause could
+there be? I married a good man and true, a faithful friend and a loyal
+Christian gentleman, and it needs no divorce to sever me from a traitor and
+a coward. If you take your protection you lose your wife, and I--I lose my
+husband and my home!"
+
+With the last words the thrilling voice broke suddenly with a pathetic fall
+and a film crept over the proud blue eyes. Perhaps this little touch of
+womanly weakness moved her hearers as deeply as her brave, scornful words.
+They were not all cowards at heart, only touched by the dread finger of
+panic, which, now and then, will paralyze the bravest. Some had struggled
+long against it and only half yielded at last. And some there were to whom
+old traditions had never quite lost their power, whose superstitious
+consciences had never become quite reconciled to the stigma of _Rebel_,
+though reason and judgment both told them that, borne for the cause for
+which they bore it, it was a title of nobility. The words of the little
+woman had gone straight to each heart, be its main-spring what it might.
+Gradually the drooping heads were raised and the eyes grew bright with
+manliness and resolution. Before they left the house that night, they had
+sworn a solemn oath to stand by the cause they had adopted and the land of
+their birth, through good or evil, and to spurn the offers of their
+tyrants and foes as the deadliest insults.
+
+Some of the names of those who met in that secret council were known
+afterwards among those who fought their country's battles most nobly, who
+died upon the field of honor, or rejoiced with pure hearts when the day of
+triumph came at last. The name of the little woman figured on no heroic
+roll, but was she the less a heroine?
+
+This story is a true one, and, in this Centennial year, when every crumb of
+information in regard to those old days of struggle and heroism is eagerly
+gathered up, it may not be without interest.
+
+
+Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris.
+
+Mrs. Harris was well known during her stay in Morristown and is remembered
+as a charming woman. "In Morristown", she writes, she found "restoration to
+health, many friends, and much enjoyment",--adding "I think I shall always
+love the place".
+
+Mrs. Harris has been a voluminous writer of stories and novels. Her first
+work, "Rutledge", published without her name, excited immediate and wide
+attention and established her reputation. Since then, she has given to the
+world, among others, the following volumes: "Louie's Last Term at St.
+Mary's"; "The Sutherlands"; "Frank Warrington"; "St. Philip's";
+"Round-hearts" (for children); "Richard Vandermarck"; "A Perfect Adonis";
+"Missy"; "Happy-go-Lucky"; "Phoebe"; "A Rosary For Lent" and "Dear Feast of
+Lent".
+
+The selection given to represent Mrs. Harris in Stedman and Hutchinson's
+"Library of American Literature" is a chapter from her novel, "Missy". An
+appropriate selection for this volume would be an extract from her chapter
+on "Marrowfat" (Morristown) in her novel, "Phoebe", published in 1884.
+
+The two principal characters of the book, Barry and Phoebe, lately married,
+are described in Marrowfat, going to church on Sunday morning:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "PHOEBE."
+
+They were rather late; that is, the bell had stopped ringing, and the pews
+were all filled, and the clergyman was just entering from the sacristy,
+when they reached the door. It was an old stone church, with many vines
+about it, greensward and fine trees. * * The organist was playing a low and
+unobtrusive strain; the clergyman, having just entered, was on his knees,
+where unfortunately, the congregation had not followed him. They were all
+ready to criticise the young people who now walked down the silent aisle;
+very far down, too, they were obliged to walk. It was the one moment in the
+week when they would be most conspicuous. * * Barry looked a greater swell
+than ever, and his wife was so much handsomer than anybody else in
+Marrowfat that it was simple nonsense to talk of ignoring the past. If one
+did not want to be walked over by these young persons they must be put
+down; self preservation joined hands with virtuous indignation; to cancel
+the past would be to sacrifice the future. Scarce a mother in Marrowfat but
+felt a bitter sense of injury as she thought of Barry. Not only had he set
+the worst possible example to her sons, but he had overlooked the charms of
+her daughters; not only had he outraged public opinion, but he had
+disappointed private hopes. Society should hold him to a strict account;
+Marrowfat was not to be trifled with when it came to matters of principle.
+
+It was an old town, with ante-Revolutionary traditions; there was no
+mushroom crop allowed to spring up about it. New people were permitted but
+only on approbation of the old. It was not the thing to be very rich in
+Marrowfat, it was only tolerated; it was the thing to be a little
+cultivated, a little clever, very well born, and very loyal to Marrowfat.
+It was not exactly provincial; it was too near the great city and too much
+mixed up with it to be that; but it was very local and it had its own
+traditions in an unusual degree. That people grew a little narrow and very
+much interested in the affairs of the town, after living there awhile, was
+not to be wondered at. It is always the result of suburban life, and one
+finds it difficult to judge, between having one's nature green like a lane,
+even if narrow, or hard and broad like a city pavement, out of which all
+the greenness has been trampled and all the narrowness thrown down.
+
+The climate of the place was dry and pure; it was the fashion for the city
+doctors to send their patients there; and many who came to cough, remained
+to build. The scenery was lovely; you looked down pretty streets and saw
+blue hills beyond; the sidewalks were paved and the town was lit by gas,
+but the pavements led you past charming homes to bits of view that reminded
+you of Switzerland, and the inoffensive lamp-posts were hidden under great
+trees by day, and by night you only thought how glad you were to see them.
+The drives were endless, the roads good; there were livery-stables, hotels,
+skilled confectioners, shops of all kinds, a library, a pretty little
+theatre, churches of every shade of faith, schools of every degree of
+pretension; lectures in winter, concerts in summer, occasional plays all
+the year; two or three local journals, the morning papers from the city at
+your breakfast table; fast trains, telegraphs, telephones, all the modern
+amenities of life under your very hand; and yet it was the country, and
+there were peaceful hills and deep woods, and the nights were as still as
+Paradise. Can it be wondered at that, like St. Peter's at Rome, it had an
+atmosphere of its own, and defied the outer changes of the temperature?
+
+Marrowfat certainly was a law unto itself. Why certain people were great
+people, in its view, it would be difficult to say. Why the telegraphs, and
+the telephones, and the fashionable invalids from the city and the rich
+people who bought and built in its neighborhood, did not change its
+standards of value one can only guess. But it had a stout moral sentiment
+of its own; it had resisted innovations and done what seemed it good for a
+long while; and when you have made a good moral sentiment the fashion, or
+the fact by long use, you have done a good thing. Marrowfat never tolerated
+married flirtations, looked askance on extremes in dress or entertainment,
+dealt severely with the faults of youth. All these things existed more or
+less within its borders, of course, but they were evil doings and not
+approved doings.
+
+In a certain sense, Marrowfat was the most charitable town in the world; in
+another the most uncharitable. If you were to have any misfortune befall
+you, Marrowfat was the place to go to have it in; if you lost your money,
+if you broke your back, if your children died, if your house burned down,
+Marrowfat swathed you in flowers, bathed you in sympathy, took you out to
+drive, came and read to you, if need were took up subscriptions for you.
+But if you did anything disgraceful or discreditable, it is safe to say you
+would better have done it in any other place.
+
+Miss Maria McIntosh.
+
+Miss McIntosh was born in the little village of Sunbury, Georgia, in 1804.
+She was educated by an old Oxford tutor who was teacher and pastor combined
+and she led the class of boys with whom she studied. After her mother's
+death, (her father had died in her infancy), she came to the north, wholly
+for the purpose of studying and improving herself.
+
+Her first stories were for children. Then appeared two very successful
+tales for youth; "Conquest and Self-Conquest," and "Praise and Principle".
+"To Seem and To Be"; "Charms and Counter-Charms", and their successors
+followed on during a period of twenty years. Several of her books were
+translated into both French and German and all were widely read abroad, but
+the joy in her work lay in the rich harvest for good which was constantly
+made known to her. In the year before her death, many letters came to her
+from women then married and heads of families, thanking her for first
+impulses to better things arising from her words.
+
+Not long ago, Marion Harland, (Mrs. Terhune), wrote to a dear friend of
+this author, that she owed to Miss McIntosh the strongest influences of her
+young life and those which had determined its bent and development.
+
+Miss McIntosh was intensely interested in the maintenance of Republican
+simplicity and purity of morals and wrote a strong address, which was
+widely circulated, to the "Women of America" which led to a correspondence
+with the then Duchess of Sutherland and other English women who were
+interested in the elevation of women and of the family life.
+
+She died in Morristown, at the residence of her devoted niece and namesake,
+Mrs. James Farley Cox, and soothed by her loving ministrations,--after a
+protracted illness, lasting over a year. Mrs. Cox tells us, "she loved
+Morristown and said amidst great pain, that her last year, was, despite
+all, the happiest of her life".
+
+"Lofty and Lowly"; "Charms and Counter-Charms", and "To Seem and To Be",
+are all alike noble books. Miss McIntosh seems a woman of strong creative
+powers, with a delicacy of feeling and a fine touch of womanliness, united
+to a certain delicate perception of character. She did not write from what
+we now so grandly call _types_, or, for the sake of displaying a surgical
+dissection of character; but her books are groupings of individuals as real
+as those we meet in daily life. There are no strained situations, no
+fanciful make-ups, and no unnatural poses.
+
+There are the lovely Alice Montrose with a strangely beautiful blending of
+delicate refinement and womanly strength, rising to meet every requirement
+of her varied life; Mr. Gaston, the New England merchant; Richard Grahame
+the hero of "Lofty and Lowly", with some telling contrasts in the way of
+villians and weaker characters. Beside this, Miss McIntosh has a strong
+sympathy for nature and all through her stories she stops, as it were to
+show us the flowering fields and summer skies and as she draws us to her,
+we feel the beatings of her own warm human heart going out as it does to
+the young and inexperienced.
+
+Again, Miss McIntosh gives in her stories faithful representations of life
+both north and south, before the war, forty years ago. These pictures are
+of peculiar value as few books preserve pictorial records of that
+condition of life now passed away forever. She had a power in massing
+details and binding them by a thread of common interest and common action.
+She seemed in her writings, like one who had been spiritually "lifted
+higher" and like all such spirits she could not but draw others after her.
+Her books in past years have had wide and lasting influence and it is a
+pity they could not now be substituted for much of the miserable literature
+which only pleases a passing hour or teaches false views of life.
+
+
+Mrs. Maria McIntosh Cox.
+
+Mrs. Cox, long a resident of Morristown, was named for the dear aunt to
+whom the preceding sketch relates, and, as is often the case with namesakes
+for some unexplained reason, the mantle of Miss McIntosh's genius fell upon
+her.
+
+From girlhood, Mrs. Cox has written for various papers and magazines. Some
+years ago, the Appletons published a little volume of hers for very young
+children, called "A year with Maggie and Emma", which was afterwards
+translated into French.
+
+"Raymond Kershaw", published in 1888, is a volume of larger size. To this
+we shall refer later. In March, 1890, _The Youth's Companion_ published a
+short story founded on an adventure of the author's father with Lafitte,
+the famous pirate. It was entitled "A Brave Middy", and won a prize of
+$500, in a contest of similar tales.
+
+In the current numbers of _Wide Awake_ from December to June 1891-'92
+appeared a story of ten chapters called "Jack Brereton's Three Months'
+Service", which, in August, 1892, was brought out in book form by D.
+Lothrop & Co., Boston. The idea most prominent in this story, the "motif",
+is the reflex action of a soldier's enlistment on his deserted family. "I
+chanced", says the author, "to thoroughly see and know what sudden _three
+months'_ calls entailed on the volunteer and those who fought the battle
+out at home, and I enjoyed telling what is, in spirit and in most details,
+a true story, though not as connected with such people as the story
+describes".
+
+"Brave Ben Broughton", written by request for the McClure Syndicate, and a
+Folk Lore story are the latest from the pen of Mrs. Cox.
+
+"Raymond Kershaw; a Story of Deserved Success", was published by Roberts
+Brothers in 1888. The story is a touching one commencing in pathos and
+ending in heroism; a lesson to every boy and girl who, plunged suddenly and
+unexpectedly into difficulty, have to face the hard realities of life.
+There is an extremely fine passage in this book. Winthrop, the author of
+"John Brent", could not have done it better. It is the description of a
+maddened bull, "Meadow King", which Paul Potter might have painted. It
+needs no comment. Spirited and full of life, every actor in the scene
+performs his or her part with a truthfulness which is wonderful. Many a
+more voluminous writer than Mrs. Cox has done far less superior work than
+this truly great scene exhibits in its dramatic attitudes.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "RAYMOND KERSHAW."
+
+After country fashion, every farmer for miles around came to look at
+"Kershaw's new bull". Without mistake they saw a royal animal. Without a
+spot to mar his jet-black coat, through which the great veins were visible
+like netted cords, his small, strong, sinewy legs, all muscle and bone,
+carried his heavy body as lightly as if he were a horse, and his flanks and
+shoulders, when James pushed up his supple skin with his hand, felt as if
+he wore a velvet coat over an iron frame; his neck, not too short for
+grace, was still very heavy and muscular, with wrinkles like necklaces
+encircling it, and his fiery eyes glowed, far apart, under his
+tight-curled poll, from which those mischievous horns, sharp, long and
+slightly out-curving, stood in beautiful harmony with the whole outline;
+and his great lashing tail, with its tasselated end, completed his
+perfections.
+
+All went well for a fortnight, after which, on a hot Sunday morning all
+drove off to church leaving Mrs. Kershaw and Mary at home together.
+
+(Mrs. Kershaw, the sweet and tenderly-loved invalid mother, was half-lying
+in her chair and Mary sat, Bible in hand, on the first step of the piazza
+near her, when)
+
+Suddenly a roar struck upon their ears with horror; and, filled with one of
+those blind accesses of rage to which his race is so strangely subject,
+tearing, bellowing along, up the hillside came Meadow King. As he halted
+for a breath behind the fence, he was like one's night-dreams of such a
+creature,--an ideal of pure brute force and wrath. His head tossed high, he
+gave a prolonged bellow, and leaped the high bars without an effort.
+
+Mary rose without a word, and laying her Bible on Mrs. Kershaw's lap, stood
+white as the dead to watch him; destroying the delicate things in his way,
+he ran madly towards the sheds. Mary gave silent thanks that he had not
+taken to the road. The high gates of the cow-yards stood wide open, and
+through them he rushed.
+
+"Miss Kershaw, I've got to shut them gates!" said Mary.
+
+"Oh, don't think of it, Mary!" said Mrs. Kershaw, her hands clasped and
+trembling. "Are you not afraid?"
+
+"Skeered!" said Mary,--"I'm skeered out of my life; _but them gates has got
+to be shut!_"
+
+Down in the yard the voice kept up its dreadful din. Mary rushed down the
+steps like a flash, and as suddenly back again. "Miss Kershaw, would you
+mind just kissing me _once_?" A quick warm touch on her pale lips, and she
+was gone; it was all in the space of a long breath. * * Her way was down a
+slight inclination and her swift, light feet carried her with incredible
+speed. One terrified glance at the open gate showed her the enemy lashing
+himself at the farther end of the enclosure, with the scattered dust and
+leaves rising about him as he pawed the ground. The gates were heavy and
+wide apart; the right-hand leaf swung shut, and then, darting across the
+opening, she pushed the left forward and clasped it, and springing up drew
+down the heavy cross-bar, and the gates were shut! * * "He's in, Miss
+Kershaw," said Mary, "but the worst is to come! How under the sun can they
+ketch him? Can you keep still if I go up the road and watch for 'em?
+They're most sure to drive in by the farm-yard gate if they come Chester
+way, and if they come upon him unbeknownst, Heaven help 'em!"
+
+"Go Mary, _go_; don't think about me at all," said Mrs. Kershaw. * * *
+
+"Not until you are in your chair, and promise to stay there, ma'am," said
+Mary. "Young Doctor's got trouble enough on his hands without your bein'
+hurt. If you hear Meadow King tearing the gates down, and me a-screechin'
+my life out, don't you stir!"
+
+(Mary goes to warn them and stops their entrance. James the farmer takes
+command. Raymond carries an axe and Bob a stick. They open the gates Mary
+had closed. The brute rushes forward. At this moment James with a rope he
+had carried, undertakes to lasso the bull but misses and falls back, facing
+the foe but pinioned in the angle of a beam and the side-wall; one of the
+mad King's horns imbedded in the beam, the other projecting in terrible
+proximity, while the unspeakably angry, brutal face of the beast is only a
+few inches from his chest.
+
+At this moment, Ray seized his axe.) His hat had fallen off and his face
+was stern and ghastly white as he watched like a lion his gigantic prey;
+until coming with long powerful steps close enough to strike, he gave an
+agonizing look of dread at James, and then brought down one tremendous
+crashing blow, straight, strong and true, between those cruel horns, and
+the Meadow King sank like a loosened rock upon the floor, pulling his head
+loose by his own weight.
+
+
+David Young.
+
+     "Why, as to that, said the engineer,
+     Ghosts ain't things we are apt to fear,
+     Spirits don't fool with levers much,
+     And throttle-valves don't take to such;
+             And as for Jim,--
+             What happened to him
+     Was one-half fact and t'other half whim!"
+
+                       --_Bret Harte._
+
+David Young is principally known as the reviser and publisher of "The
+Morristown Ghost" in 1826, but he was also the compiler of the well-known
+"Farmer's Almanac", published first in 1834, and he wrote a poem of
+thirty-four pages in two parts, entitled "The Contrast".
+
+The original volume of "The Morristown Ghost" was published in 1792, by
+whom, it is not certainly known. It gave the names of the "Society of
+eight", their places of meeting, and all the proceedings of the Society.
+The copies were bought up and destroyed, says tradition, by the son of one
+of its members, one lone volume not being obtainable, but this cannot be
+distinctly traced at present. There was published in 1876, by the Messrs.
+L. A. and B. H. Vogt, a fac-simile copy of the original history of "The
+Morristown Ghost" without the names of the original members, "with an
+appendix compiled from the county records". The following is the title
+page:
+
+"The Morristown Ghost; an Account of the Beginning, Transactions and
+Discovery of Ransford Rogers, who seduced many by pretended Hobgoblins and
+Apparitions and thereby extorted Money from their pockets. In the County of
+Morris and State of New Jersey, in the Year 1788. Printed for every
+purchaser--1792".
+
+In the copy of 1826, the title page is as follows:
+
+"The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost; thoroughly and carefully
+revised. By David Young, Newark. Published by Benjamin Olds, for the
+author. I. C. Totten, Printer, 1826."
+
+The author tells us in his preface he has "very scrupulously followed the
+sense of the original." He continues: "The truth of this history will not,
+I presume, be called in question by the inhabitants of Morris and the
+adjacent counties. The facts are still fresh in the memories of many among
+us; and some survive still who bore an active part in the scenes herein
+recorded." He continues: "For the further satisfaction of the distant
+reader, on this point, I would inform him that I am myself a native of the
+County of Morris; that I was seven years and seven months old when Rogers
+first emigrated to this county; and that I well remember hearing people
+talk of these affairs during their progress. Every reader may rest assured
+that if the truth of this narrative had been doubtful, I should have taken
+no pains to rescue it from oblivion."
+
+There seems to have been also another intermediate publication. From an
+ancient copy of this curious story, found in an old, discolored volume in
+our Morristown library, in which are compiled papers on various subjects,
+(among them a "Review on Spiritual Manifestations"), we copy the title
+page:
+
+"The Morristown Ghost, or Yankee Trick, being a True, Interesting and
+Strange Narrative. This circumstance has excited considerable laughter and
+no small degree of surprize. Printed for purchasers, 1814."
+
+The man who conducted the plot was Ransford Rogers, of Connecticut. He was
+a plausible man who had the power of inspiring confidence, and though
+somewhat illiterate, was ambitious to be thought learned and pretended, it
+is said, to possess deep knowledge of "chymistry" and the power to dispel
+good and evil spirits.
+
+It will be remembered that Washington Irving remarks, in his description of
+the family portrait gallery, of Bracebridge Hall at twilight, when he
+almost hears the rustling of the brocade dresses of the ladies of the manor
+as they step out from their frames,--"There is an element of superstition
+in the human mind". It seems there had long been a conviction prevailing
+that large sums of money had been buried during the Revolutionary War by
+tories and others in Schooley's Mountain, near by. There also seemed to be
+something of the New England belief in witchcraft throughout the community.
+Says the Preface of the early volume; "It is obvious to all who are
+acquainted with the county of Morris, that the capricious notions of
+witchcraft have engaged the attention of many of its inhabitants for a
+number of years and the existence of witches is adopted by the generality
+of the people." And we read on page 213 of the "Combined Registers of the
+First Presbyterian Church," a record as follows: "Dr. John Johnes' servant
+Pompey, d. 17 July, 1833, aet. 81; frightened to death by ghosts."
+
+To obtain the treasure of Schooley's Mountain, then, was the occasion of
+the occurrences related in this story. Two gentlemen who had long been in
+search of mines, taking a tour through the country in 1788,
+"providentially," says David Young, fell in with Rogers at Smith's Clove,
+and discovered him to be the man they were in search of, and one who could
+"reveal the secret things of darkness," for they, too, were "covetous of
+the supposed treasure of Schooley's Mountain."
+
+A society was organized by Ransford which at first numbered "about eight"
+but afterwards was increased to about forty. His first object was to
+convince them of the existence of the hidden treasure lying dormant in the
+earth at Schooley's Mountain. It seems repeated efforts had before been
+made to obtain the treasure, but all had proved abortive, for whenever they
+attempted to break the ground, it was said, "there would many hobgoblins
+and apparitions appear which in a short time obliged them to evacuate the
+place".
+
+Rogers called a meeting of the eight and "communicated to them the
+solemnity of the business and the intricacy of the undertaking and the fact
+that there had been several persons murdered and buried with the money in
+order to retain it in the earth. He likewise informed them that those
+spirits must be raised and conversed with before the money could be
+obtained. He declared he could by his art and power raise these apparitions
+and that the whole company might hear him converse with them and satisfy
+themselves there was no deception. This was received with belief and
+admiration by the whole company without ever investigating whether it was
+probable or possible. This meeting therefore terminated with great
+assurance, they all being confident of the abilities, knowledge and powers
+of Rogers". To confirm the illusion of his supernatural power, Rogers had
+made chemical compositions of various kinds, of which, "some, by being
+buried in the earth for many hours, would break and cause great explosions
+which appeared dismal in the night and would cause great timidity. The
+company were all anxious to proceed and much elevated with such uncommon
+curiosities". A night was therefore appointed for the whole company to
+convene. The scene which the author proceeds to describe is worthy of
+Washington Irving in his "Legends of Sleepy Hollow", (see page 25 Young's
+edition, 1826). The night was dark and the circle "illumined only by
+candles caused a ghastly, melancholy, direful gloom through the woods". The
+company marched round and round in (concentric) circles as directed, "with
+great decorum" until suddenly shocked by "a most impetuous explosion from
+the earth a short distance from them". Flames rose to a considerable
+height, "illuminating the circumambient atmosphere and presenting to the
+eye many dreadful objects, from the supposed haunted grove, which were
+again instantaneously involved in obscurity". Ghosts made their appearance
+and hideous groans were heard. These were invisible to the rest of the
+company but conversed with Rogers in their hearing and told of the vast
+treasures in their possession which they would not resign except under
+certain conditions, one of which was "every man must deliver to the spirits
+twelve pounds in money". The procession continued 'till three o'clock in
+the morning, and "the whole company looked up to Rogers for protection from
+the raging spirits. This was in the month of November 1788". It will be
+noticed that the money required had to be advanced in "nothing but silver
+or gold" for which the paper money circulated in New Jersey could only be
+exchanged at twenty-five per cent. discount. Yet there was a sort of
+emulation among them, "who should be the first in delivering the money to
+the spirits."
+
+A frequent place of meeting for this company was what is now known as the
+Hathaway house on Flagler street, the first house on the left after
+entering Flagler street from Speedwell avenue. A little distance back of
+this house may be seen the stump of a tree beneath which tree, it is said,
+the money was left for the spirits. Another field used for the midnight
+marches is behind the Aber house on the Piersonville Road, and still
+another on the road between Piersonville and Rogers' school house, the
+location of which is known. Other localities are also known, by old
+residents, of the events recorded in this story. Mt. Kemble avenue has
+often been the actual scene of ghostly flittings to and fro as well as of
+the famous imaginary ride to the Headquarters of "Thankful Blossom". Rogers
+was in the habit of wrapping himself up in a sheet, going to the house of a
+certain gentleman in the night, and calling him up by rapping at the doors
+and windows, and conversing in such sleek disguise that the gentleman
+thought he was a spirit; ending his conversation also with the words: "I am
+the spirit of a just man, and am sent to give you information how to
+proceed, and to put the conducting of it into your hands; I will be ever
+with you, and give you directions when you go amiss; therefore fear not,
+but go to Rogers and inform him of your interview with me. Fear not I am
+ever with you".
+
+It must be remembered that this company, at the first, was composed of the
+best and most highly honored citizens of Morristown, also that toward the
+last, "the numbers increased daily of aged, abstemious, (at first material
+spirits were freely used at the nightly meetings) honest, judicious, simple
+church members."
+
+What led finally to the discovery of the plot, was, that it was ordained,
+"a paper of sacred powder, said to be some of the dust of the bodies of the
+spirits, was to be kept by every member, and to be preserved inviolate. One
+of the aged members, having occasion to leave home for a short time on some
+emergency, through forgetfulness left his paper in one of his pockets at
+home. His wife happened to find it, and out of curiosity, broke it open;
+but, perceiving the contents, she feared to touch it, lest peradventure it
+should have some connection with witchcraft. She went immediately to Rev.
+Mr. ----, the pious clergyman of the congregation for his advice on the
+subject; who, not knowing its composition, was unwilling to touch it, lest
+it might have some operation upon him, and knew not what advice to give
+her. Her husband returning declared she had ruined him forever by breaking
+open that paper, which increased her anxiety to know its contents. Upon her
+promising not to divulge anything, he then related to her the whole of
+their proceedings, whereupon she declared they were serving the devil and
+it was her duty notwithstanding her promise to put an end to such
+proceedings. Great disturbance was thereby caused in the company."
+
+It was at the house of one of the members, which is now standing, that
+Rogers was discovered in the following manner, as the story is told.
+Rogers, taking his sheet with him, rode, on a certain evening to this
+house, for the purpose of conversing with the gentleman, as a spirit.
+Having drank too freely he committed several blunders in his conversation,
+and was not so careful as usual about the ghostly costume. The good wife,
+whose suspicions had been aroused, managed to peep and listen during the
+interview, and after the ghost had left the house she remarked to her
+husband, says tradition: "My dear, do spirits wear shoe buckles? Those were
+very like Ransford Rogers' buckles". Rogers' foot-tracks were followed to
+the fence where his horse was tied, and the tracks of his horse to the
+house where he lived and hence to another house where he was found. He was
+apprehended and committed to prison, where he asserted his innocence so
+persistently that "in a few days he was bailed out", says our author, "by a
+gentleman, whom I shall call by the name of Compassion." A second time he
+was apprehended, when "he acknowledged his faults and confessed" the whole
+matter. He, however, "absconded, and under the auspices of Fortune saved
+himself by flight from the malice of a host."
+
+So ends the, perhaps, most famous historic ghost story of modern times.
+
+
+Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin.
+
+(JENNIE M. DRINKWATER.)
+
+Mrs. Conklin has been a voluminous writer of novels and stories, published
+by Robert Carter & Brothers and by the Presbyterian Board. Before her
+marriage she was widely known as Miss Jennie M. Drinkwater, and her latest
+book, "Dorothy's Islands," published in Boston, August, 1892, bears that
+name of authorship. She has written for many papers and magazines, besides
+the books she has published, and of these there are twenty and more. Among
+them are "Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline", a love story of high order and
+well told; "Rue's Helps", for boys and girls, and "Electa", in which we
+find a certain quality of naturalness in the people, and the scenes
+described,--a literary quality which is prominent in Mrs. Conklin's works.
+"They introduce the reader", says a critic, "to agreeable people, provide
+an atmosphere which is tonic and healthful and enlist interest in every
+page." Then there are "The Story of Hannah Marigold"; "Wildwood"; "The
+Fairfax Girls"; "From Flax to Linen" and "David Strong's Errand", besides
+others, and the last one published to which we have referred, and from
+which we shall quote.
+
+Several years ago, Mrs. Conklin being out of health, had her attention
+called to the special needs of invalids for sympathy from the active world
+about them, and organized a society, now world-wide and well-known, called
+the "Shut-In Society". It is an organization of invalids throughout the
+country, and now extending beyond it, who cheer each other with
+correspondence, send letters to prisoners in jails and sufferers in
+hospitals, and do other good work. Nine-tenths of its membership never see
+each other, but they help make each other's lives to be as cheery as
+possible in affliction. The amount of comfort and consolation carried by
+this organization to many a bed-ridden or helpless invalid, is beyond
+description, and the good that goes out also from those quiet chambers of
+sickness to the souls who seek them, mostly by _letter_, is greater than
+would be easily imagined. Mrs. Conklin was president of the Society for
+four years from its organization in 1885, and it now numbers several
+thousand members.
+
+We quote from "Dorothy's Islands", Mrs. Conklin's latest book.
+
+Dorothy was a child taken from a New York orphan asylum and adopted by a
+lighthouse keeper and his wife. She grows up supposing them to be her own
+father and mother, but the mother and child are antagonistic, and it is
+impossible for them to attract one another. This peculiarity of nature is
+very well given in the first chapter.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "DOROTHY'S ISLANDS."
+
+"When I grow up," said Dorothy "I am going to find an island all green and
+beautiful in winter as well as in summer. All around it the sand will be as
+golden as sunshine, and the houses--the happy houses--will be hidden away
+in green things, and flowers of yellow and scarlet and white. And then,
+father, after I find it, I will come and get you, and we will sing, and
+learn poems, and do lovely things all day long."
+
+"You are going to do wonderful things when you grow up," replied the
+amused, tender voice overhead.
+
+"Don't all grown-up people do wonderful things?" questioned child Dorothy.
+
+"I never did," answered the voice, not now either tender or amused.
+
+"No, you never _did_," broke in a woman's voice with harsh force.
+
+"I think father does _beautiful_ things," said Dorothy in her warm voice.
+"He brought the sea-bird home to me, and we loved it so, but you threw it
+off with its wounded wing."
+
+"Let nature take care of her own things," responded the voice that had
+nothing of love in its quality.
+
+"I'm nature's thing," Dorothy laughed; "father said so to-day. He said I
+was made out of nature and poetry."
+
+"It's he who puts the poetry in you; some day I'll send those poetry books
+adrift, and then you will both find something practical in your finger
+ends."
+
+The child looked at the chubby ends of her brown fingers. Her nine-year-old
+hands, under her mother's sharp teaching, had learned to do many practical
+things. The only "practical thing" she loathed--and that was her own name
+for it--was mending Cousin Jack's pea-jacket.
+
+One room in the lighthouse was packed with boxes containing her father's
+books. The "poetry box" was the only one that had been opened since their
+stay on the island.
+
+"It was one of your father's beautiful things to strand us on this desert
+island. I told him I wouldn't come."
+
+"But you _did_," said the child.
+
+"It's the last time he will have his own way," remarked the woman, with the
+heavy frown that marred her handsome face.
+
+"Oh, don't say that!" cried Dorothy distressed. "I never like your way."
+
+"You have got to like my way some day, miss, or it will be the worse for
+one of us. Don't hang any longer around your father; poetry enough has
+oozed out of him to spoil you already; go and pick those beans over, and
+put them in soak for to-morrow--a quart, mind you, and pick them over
+clean."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+She liked to pick beans when her father sat near reading aloud to her. He
+had promised to read to-night "How the water comes down from Lodore," but
+she knew her mother's mood too well to hope for such a pleasure to-night.
+
+When her mother was cross, she wasn't willing for anybody to have anything.
+
+But she couldn't take away what she had learned of it; the child hugged
+herself with the thought repeating gleefully:--
+
+     "Then first came one daughter,
+       And then came another,
+     To second and third
+       The request of their brother,
+     And to hear how the water
+       Comes down at Lodore,
+     With its rush and its roar--"
+
+"Dorothy, stop!" commanded her mother. "That muttering makes me wild. It
+sounds like a lunatic."
+
+Dorothy's mouth shut itself tight; the flash of defiance from the big brown
+eyes her mother missed; her father's observant eyes noted it. There was
+always a sigh in his heart for Dorothy, for her naughtiness, and for the
+misery she was growing up to. The misery was as inevitable as the growing
+up. Once in his agony he had prayed the good Father to take the child
+before her heart was rent, or his own.
+
+After the gleeful music ceased the chubby fingers moved wearily, the brown
+head drooped; there were tears as well as sleep in the eyes that seemed
+made to hold nothing but sunshine.
+
+(Dorothy is in bed for the night.)
+
+"Will you keep the door open so I can hear voices?" pleaded Dorothy.
+
+"Why child, what ails you?" said the mother.
+
+"The wind ails me, and it is so black, black, black out over the water.
+When I find my island there shall be sunshine on the sea."
+
+"But night _has_ to come."
+
+"Perhaps there will be stars there," said hopeful Dorothy.
+
+"You may learn a Bible verse to-morrow,--'There shall be no night there.'"
+
+"I'll say it now: 'There shall be no night there.' Where _is_ 'there'?"
+
+But her mother had left her to her new Bible verse and the candle-light;
+and Dorothy went to sleep, hoping "there" did not mean heaven, for then
+what _would_ she do when she was sleepy?
+
+
+Mrs. Catharine L. Burnham.
+
+A valuable contributor to the literature for children and young people, is
+Mrs. Burnham. Her volume of "Bible Stories in Words of One Syllable", has
+been of great use and influence and has no doubt led to the writing of
+other historical narratives in the same manner.
+
+Count Tolstoi gives a most interesting account of his own experience in the
+use of the Bible in teaching children. He says "I tried reading the Bible
+to them", speaking of the children in his peasant's school, "and it took
+complete possession of them. They grew to love the book, love study and
+love me. For the purpose of opening a new world to a pupil and of making
+him love knowledge before he has knowledge, there is no book like the
+Bible."
+
+Mrs. Burnham has also written a number of children's story-books which have
+been warmly received and still continue to please and benefit the young.
+Among them are "Ernest"; "The Story of Maggie" and the three volumes of the
+"Can and Can't Series"; "I Can"; "I Can't", and "I'll Try". "Ernest" is
+quite a wonderful little book and has done much good among a large class of
+children. Mr. A. D. F. Randolph, the New York publisher, who took it
+through several editions, gave it high praise to a friend just before the
+last edition, about three years ago, and Rev. Dr. Tyng the elder, late of
+St. George's Church, New York, gave it also very high praise.
+
+We do not always fully realize that a peculiar talent is required for this
+department in literature. In talking, some years ago, with a young man who
+has now become an important editor in New York, he said: "It is my greatest
+ambition to be a good and interesting author of children's books; not only
+because it requires the best writing and the best thought, but because no
+literature has a more extended influence and involves higher
+responsibilities."
+
+In addition to these volumes, Mrs. Burnham has for many years, been an
+occasional contributor to the _Churchman_, _Christian Union_ and other
+important papers.
+
+The following extract is selected:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "I'LL TRY."
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+_Society._
+
+"Our Daisy is a singular girl," said Mrs. Bell to her husband the evening
+after Mrs. Lane's party, as they sat alone over the library fire, after
+all the young people had retired, and fell to talking about their children,
+as parents will.
+
+"Is she? I think most parents would be glad to have a daughter as
+'singular.'"
+
+"Yes, I knew you would say that; and I appreciate her as highly as you do;
+but nevertheless, sometimes I am puzzled to know what to do with her. If
+she gets an idea into that quiet little head of hers, it is hard to modify
+it."
+
+"Well, what is it now?"
+
+"It's just this. I don't believe she will ever be willing to go out
+anywhere, or even have company at home. I proposed to her to-day that we
+should have a little company next week, and she looked absolutely pained,
+and said, 'O, mamma, if we could get along without it, I should be so
+glad--unless you wish it very much. Or, perhaps, I could stay up stairs.' I
+was quite provoked for the moment, and said, 'No, indeed, you couldn't. I
+should insist on your entertaining our friends.' And then she was so sorry
+she had offended me. She is so good and conscientious, that I can't bear to
+thwart her; and yet I am sure it will not be good for her to shut herself
+up entirely."
+
+"Oh, well dear," said Mr. Bell, who had the most utter confidence in his
+wife's ability to train her children, as he might well have, "she will get
+over it in time. Let her go out a little and she will soon learn to like
+it."
+
+"No, I am afraid not. Everything she does is done on principle, and unless
+I can make society a matter of principle, I am afraid she will never enter
+into it at all, her diffidence makes it a positive pain to her to meet
+strangers."
+
+"Well, get a principle into it, then, somehow," said Mr. Bell. "You can
+manage it; you understand all these matters. I am sure Daisy is just like
+you in requiring a principle for everything."
+
+"She is not a bit like me," said Mrs. Bell; but she could not help smiling
+nevertheless, and the conversation turned to something else. But the
+mother, who was in real difficulty about this matter, carried her
+perplexities where she always did, to the throne of grace, and there
+obtained light to show her how to act. She knew that nothing in her
+children's lives was unimportant in the eyes of the Heavenly Father, and
+prayed for wisdom to guide her young daughter aright at this important time
+of her life.
+
+The next time that Daisy brought her work basket to her mother's room, for
+a "good quiet sit-down," as she expressed it, Mrs. Bell resolved to open
+the subject that was on her mind; but the young girl anticipated her design
+by saying, "Now, mamma, before we begin the second volume of our Macauley
+(how tempting it looks and what lovely readings we will have!) I want to
+ask you something."
+
+"Well, dear?"
+
+"I know I troubled you yesterday when you spoke about having company, dear
+mamma. I was so sorry afterwards; but if you knew how I dread it, I don't
+think you would blame me. I have been thinking about it a great deal since,
+and now I want to ask you a question and get one of your real good
+answers--a _settling_ answer, mamma. Do you think it is _my duty_ to go
+into company? Now begin, please, and tell me all about it;" and Daisy took
+up her work and assumed the attitude of a listener, as though she had
+referred her question to an oracle, and was waiting for a response.
+
+The mother smiled a happy and gratified smile before she answered. It was
+very pleasant to her to see how her sweet daughter deferred to her opinion;
+and kissing the fair cheek she said: "I can't answer you in one word,
+darling. What do you mean by 'going into company?' Of course you know that
+I have no desire to see you absorbed in a round of parties, or even going
+often to companies."
+
+"Oh, I know that, mamma; I mean quiet parties, such as you and papa go to;
+reading and talking parties, and big sewing societies and musicals."
+
+"You mean going anywhere out of your own family?"
+
+"Yes'm, that is just it. I am so happy at home. I have plenty to do, and
+all I want to enjoy. With you and papa and Nelly and our pet Lucy, and the
+boys coming home Sundays, what could one wish for more? I am perfectly
+happy, mamma."
+
+"And would you never care to make acquaintances, then--to make and receive
+calls?"
+
+"Oh, no'm. I dislike calls of all things, except, of course, to go and see
+Mrs. Lane, for she asked me to come and see her, mamma, and to go over to
+Fanny's to play duets, and to a few other places."
+
+"You are a singular girl, Daisy."
+
+"I know I am," said Daisy, earnestly, dropping her work, "and that's the
+very reason why I think it's just as well for me to stay at home. Now, last
+night, I'm sure there wasn't a girl there thought of such a thing as being
+frightened; except me; but I didn't really enjoy the last part very much;
+it was so disagreeable being among so many strangers; and even during the
+reading, I wished myself back in our old composition room, where I could
+hear Mrs. Lane without being dressed up, and being surrounded by girls
+dressed even more than I was."
+
+"And would you like, then, always to live retired at home?"
+
+"Indeed I should, mamma! and I can't see why I may not. We are told not to
+love the world," said Daisy in a lower tone. "Why is it not better to keep
+out of it entirely?"
+
+"I will tell you, darling, why it is not," said Mrs. Bell, seriously.
+"Because our Master did not do so, and we cannot follow His example
+perfectly, if we do."
+
+"Was it not the poor and sick that He visited, mamma, chiefly?"
+
+"Yes, dear, and so it should be with us; but He visited, too, the rich and
+the high. He seems to have gone wherever His presence was desired, to make
+that presence felt by all classes of people, and we ought to imitate Him in
+this as in all other things."
+
+"Do you think we can do that?"
+
+"Yes, I think we can in some measure. At any rate, I am sure we ought to
+try. Suppose, Daisy, that every one adopted your rule--that every house was
+a castle, and no one in it cared for anybody outside. What a selfish world
+this would be! Our Christian love would be limited to our own family."
+
+"But I would visit the poor, mamma."
+
+"Yes, and that is by far the most important. But, dear, you have gifts of
+mind and heart and education that enable you to do good in other ways than
+in ministering to the poor and the ignorant. There are other hearts to
+reach, over whom you can have even greater influence, because they
+sympathize more entirely with you. You can show forth the love of Christ,
+and set a Christian example in your own sphere, darling, where you were
+born and brought up, and it would be wrong for my daughter to hide the
+talents God has given her under a bushel, and not to care for anyone or
+anything outside of these four walls."
+
+Daisy had left her seat and taken her favorite place at her mother's feet,
+and now looking up into her face, she said, earnestly, "You are right,
+mamma, as you always are. But poor me! I would rather face an army, it
+seems to me, than a roomful of people. I know what you are going to
+say--all the more my duty--and I shall try with all my might."
+
+"My darling, in every roomful of people there are some whom you can cheer
+and please; and even Christ pleased not Himself. Think of that, and it will
+give you strength to overcome your timidity. You can serve your Master in
+some way, be sure of it. And you can learn much from others. You would not
+develop all round, but would be a one-sided character, if you had only
+books and your own family for companions."
+
+"Mamma, let us have the company. I am ashamed that I have been so cowardly.
+You shall see how hard I will try."
+
+
+Hon. John Whitehead.
+
+Our grave and reverend scholar and historian, taking his place later among
+_Historians_, has surprised and delighted us all by appearing suddenly in a
+new character, writing a very lively, graphic, and, of course, instructive
+story for boys; "A Fishing Trip to Barnegat", which we find in the _St.
+Nicholas_ for August, 1892. The following is an extract:
+
+
+FROM "A FISHING TRIP TO BARNEGAT."
+
+"Now this fish of yours, Jack," said the uncle, "is not only called the
+toad-fish and the oyster-fish, but, sometimes, the grunting toad-fish.
+There are species of it found all over the world, but this is the regular
+American toad-fish.
+
+"This fish of mine is called the weakfish. Notice its beautiful colors,
+brownish blue on its back, with irregular brown spots, the sides silvery,
+and the belly white. It grows from one to three feet long and is a very
+sharp biter. When one takes the hook, there is no difficulty in knowing
+when to pull in. Why it is called the weakfish, I do not know, unless
+because when it has been out of the water its flesh softens and soon
+becomes unfit for food. When eaten soon after it is caught, it is very
+good."
+
+Just as Uncle John finished his little lecture, an exclamation from Will,
+who had baited with a piece of the crab, and dropped his line into the
+water, attracted their attention. Not quite so impetuous as Jack, he landed
+his prize more carefully, and stood looking at it with wonder, hardly
+knowing what to say. At last he called out:
+
+"Well, what have I caught?"
+
+It was a beautiful fish, though entirely different from Uncle John's. It
+had a small head and the funniest little tail that ever was seen. Its back
+was of a bright, brown color, but its belly was almost pure white; it was
+quite round and flat, with a rough skin.
+
+"Turn him over on his back, and rub him gently," said the captain. "Do it
+softly, and watch him."
+
+Will complied and gently rubbed him. Immediately the fish began swelling
+and as Will continued the rubbing it grew larger and larger until Will
+feared that the fish would burst its little body.
+
+"Well," he said, "I never saw anything like that, Captain! Do tell me what
+this is."
+
+"This we call, here in Barnegat, the balloon-fish. It is elsewhere called
+the puffer, swell-fish, and globe-fish. One kind is called the
+sea-porcupine, because of its being covered with short, sharp spines. It is
+of no value for food."
+
+Jack thought his time had come to catch another prodigy, and when his hook
+had been re-baited by the skipper, he dropped his line into the water, and
+was soon rewarded by another bite. Using more caution this time, he landed
+his fish securely on deck instead of over the sail, and exclaimed:
+
+"Wonders will never cease! I don't know what I've got now, but I suppose
+that Captain John can tell!"
+
+
+Mrs. John King Duer.
+
+Mrs. Duer, whose family as well as herself has long been associated with
+Morristown, has published, in Morristown, in 1880, a short story entitled
+"The Robbers of the Woods, by Grandmother". It is a pretty, fascinating
+tale for children, in which the winsome innocence of two loving boys charm
+away all the cruelty of the "Robbers of the Woods". It is only thirty
+minutes reading and yet the story leaves after it an impression of the
+tender beauty of childhood.
+
+The following extract is expressive both of the touching pathos and of a
+certain nicety of description which belongs pre-eminently to Mrs. Duer.
+
+
+FROM "THE ROBBERS OF THE WOODS."
+
+The sun was up and the room quite light when Carl opened his eyes at the
+touch of a hand on his shoulder. "It is daylight now my little man and we
+must be getting you on your way home ere long, but first come and get some
+breakfast." The boys were soon dressed, and after saying a short prayer in
+which they thanked God for his goodness in making the robbers so kind to
+them, they opened the door and found themselves again in the hall and with
+a substantial meal before them. Having eaten enough and all being ready,
+the man who found them in the woods now came near, and putting his large
+brown hand gently on Carl's arm, he said, "My boys, before I can open that
+door you must let me tie a cloth over your eyes, and consent to let it be
+there till we tell you to take it off. No harm shall come to you, for I
+myself am going to take you through the woods and not leave you till I put
+you on the road that leads to your mother's door." When Eddie first heard
+that his eyes were to be blindfolded, he began to cry and clung tightly to
+his brother, fearing to look about him "lest one of the robbers should be
+there to cut my poor little head off," as he whispered to Carl. But when
+Carl said, "Eddie, you must be good and believe what these men say. They
+are not going to harm us and we are going straight home to mother. See I
+will put the bandage on your eyes myself, and will sit close to you and
+hold your hand all the time." He then tied a clean handkerchief, which the
+man gave him, close over Eddie's eyes and allowed the man to do the same to
+him. They then were led out of the hall.
+
+They heard the heavy door close after them, and felt the cool, morning air
+blow over their faces, then the boys knew they were outside the stone wall.
+Soon they were lifted up, and put in a wagon, and a man's voice close to
+them said: "Boys, I am going to put your little cart in the wagon too, so
+that you may get it home safely." When all was ready, the wagon began to
+move away, and as they drove off, they heard the voices of the robbers
+calling after them, "good-bye, brave boys, we wish you good luck."
+
+Little Eddie sat quite still beside Carl; as they drove away he held tight
+fast to his brother, and neither of them spoke a word.
+
+They were astonished at all they had seen and heard, while they were in the
+robbers' castle, and now they were once more in the free and open woods,
+they could not do as they pleased, but sat with their eyes bound up, not
+knowing where they were going. Carl did not doubt the words of the men who
+told him that no harm should come to him, but at times he had to comfort
+and assure poor little Eddie, for he sat trembling with fear. After they
+had driven several miles, and the man who was with them had answered their
+questions as to how far they were from home now, the wagon stopped and the
+man got out saying, "Now boys, you are on the road that leads direct to
+your home and I am going to leave you very soon, but before I go you must
+promise me not to untie the bandage from your eyes, till you hear a long
+whistle, which will blow from my horn, after leaving you; you will then
+undo the bandage, and find something beside you to take to your mother."
+Saying this, the man took the boys from the wagon, and setting them
+carefully down, he lifted their cart out also and shaking hands with the
+still astonished boys, and wishing them good-bye, he sprang into the wagon
+and they heard him drive rapidly along the road.
+
+They sat for some time very quiet, until the loud, long whistle from a
+distant horn told them the time of their captivity was at an end, and
+hastily tearing off the bandage from their eyes they looked eagerly around
+on all sides. Not a vestige of the wagon could be seen. It had been turned
+just at the spot where they had been left, and whether it went back the
+same way, or took another road, they never knew. But what was their
+surprise, when they turned to look for their own little cart, to see beside
+it a pile of wood cut just so as to fit in, and on top of the pile a
+package containing many pieces of money in bright shining gold. This was
+the present they were told to "take back to their mother." Carl's heart
+gave a great bound of joy, for he knew how sorely his dear mother needed
+help, and he knew now that these men were her friends, and would never harm
+them.
+
+They had scarcely recovered from their surprise, and had just begun to load
+the little cart with the well-cut wood, when sounds of voices were heard,
+and the boys could distinctly hear their own names called. They knew it was
+the neighbors who were out searching for them, and soon saw them coming out
+in the open space where they stood.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The neighbors were heartily glad to find the boys safe and well, and
+surprised at the wonderful things they had to tell of all that had befallen
+them.
+
+
+Madame de Meisner.
+
+Many Morristonians will remember well Miss Sophie Radford, first as a
+little girl, living in the old Doughty House on Mt. Kemble avenue, then
+owned and occupied by her grandfather, Mr. Joseph Lovell, who purchased it
+of the Doughty estate and lived in it for a long period of time.
+Afterwards, Miss Radford is recalled as a charming girl and a belle in
+Washington Society, whence her father, Rear Admiral Radford, U. S. N., went
+from here, and where she met and married the handsome and elegant Secretary
+of the Russian Legation, M. de Meisner. Their marriage was performed first
+in the Episcopal church and afterwards with the ceremony of the Greek
+church, at her father's house, it being a law of Russia, with regard to
+every officer of the Empire, that the marriage ceremony of the Greek church
+shall be always used, a law like "that of the Medes and Persians, that
+altereth not".
+
+Both M. and Mme. de Meisner were in Morristown a few years ago and met many
+friends. It is since then, that they went to Russia and there, after a
+delightful reception and experience, Mme. de Meisner was inspired with the
+idea of writing "The Terrace of Mon Desir".
+
+It was published in the fall of 1886, by Cuppies, Upham & Co., of Boston.
+A curious fact about this book is that it was Mme. de Meisner's first
+appearance in the field of literature and she had never before contributed
+even the briefest article to the press.
+
+"The Terrace of Mon Desir" is a pretty love story, gracefully written. The
+opening scenes are laid in Peterhoff, near St. Petersburg, and where is the
+summer residence of the Czar. The author thus finds an opportunity of
+describing a charming social life among the higher classes, with which,
+though an American girl, but married to a Russian, she seems to be and is
+perfectly at home, having it is evident taken kindly to the new and
+interesting situations of her adopted country. The characters are
+delightfully and simply natural and the combinations are vivacious and
+sparkling, by which quality American women are distinguished, and in which
+characteristic foreigners find an indescribable charm.
+
+Mme. de Meisner herself has a bright animation in conversation. Some
+authors talk well only on paper, but to this observation the author of "The
+Terrace of Mon Desir" is a marked exception, as all those who know her
+graceful, easy flow of language will recognize.
+
+The continuity of the story forbids an extract.
+
+
+Miss Isabel Stone.
+
+Miss Stone who has long lived and moved in our society, has written, beside
+the poem already given, many bright papers and stories for children which
+have been published in various magazines and journals, among them _The
+Observer_; _Life_; _Little Ones in the Nursery_, edited by Oliver Optic;
+_The Press_, of Philadelphia; _The Troy Press_ and _The Christian Weekly_.
+These stories and other writings were published under an assumed name.
+
+In 1885, she published a very clever booklet entitled Who Was Old Mother
+Hubbard? A Modern Sermon from the _Portsmouth_ (Eng.) _Monitor_ and a
+Refutation by an M. M. C., New York; G. P. Putnam Sons.
+
+This booklet had a very large sale and went through several editions. The
+story of this publication is interesting. "The Modern Sermon" appeared
+anonymously, first in one of our prominent magazines. It was written in
+England and traced to its origin. This was read at a meeting of the
+Mediaeval Club, (a literary club of some celebrity in Morristown), at the
+house of Mr. John Wood, one of its members. Miss Stone was at once inspired
+to write the "Refutation"; which was read at her own house by Mr. John
+Wood, arrayed in characteristic costume for the occasion. (For the benefit
+of those who may not know him, we may add that Mr. John Wood is one of
+Morristown's best readers and amateur actors.)
+
+We give the "Refutation" which is a clever dissection of the subject. As "A
+Modern Sermon illustrates the method upon which some Parsons Construct
+their Discourses", so "A Refutation" appears "in the Combative, Lucid and
+Argumentative Style of Some Others".
+
+
+REFUTATION.
+
+MY DEAR HEARERS: It is my purpose this evening to give to you the result of
+many hours of thought and consultation of various authors regarding the
+subject to which our attention has been lately called.
+
+While I hesitate to engage in the controversial spirit of the day, I feel
+it my duty to expound to you the truth and to unmask any heresy that may be
+gaining ground.
+
+The discourse to which I allude was upon the text,--
+
+"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
+  To get her poor dog a bone;
+But when she got there the cupboard was bare,
+  And so the poor dog got none."
+
+I propose to prove to you this evening that all its arguments were founded
+on false premises; that the _whole picture_ drawn of the subject of our
+text--viz., old Mother Hubbard--was diametrically the reverse of the
+reality; in short, to give _a complete refutation of the text_ to all those
+who listened to those first erroneous statements.
+
+_Firstly_, Old Mother Hubbard was _not_ a widow.
+
+I am at a loss to understand why our learned brother should so have drawn
+upon his imagination as to represent her as such, when, as I shall endeavor
+to set before you _conclusively_ this evening, it is _distinctly_ stated in
+the text that she was the wife of an _ogre_!
+
+My friends, in those days _men_ and _husbands_ were designated by the term
+"poor dog;" and, indeed, the lightest scholar knows that the term has
+descended to the present day and is often appropriated by a man himself
+under certain existing circumstances.
+
+Now, that this "poor dog" of a husband was an ogre is abundantly proved by
+the fact that Mother Hubbard provided for him bones.
+
+Yes! bones! my friends; but--_they_--_were_--_human_--bones!
+
+Deep research has convinced me of this fact. I find that in those days
+ogres did not catch and kill their own meat, as is commonly supposed. They
+were but human, my friends, and, like the rest of humanity, preferred
+rather to purchase labor than perform it. They, therefore, employed their
+own individual butchers; but, with rare wisdom, they chose some carnivorous
+animal to supply their table.
+
+In proof of this, we come, _Secondly_, to the word cupboard, as mentioned
+in the text,--
+
+"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
+To get her poor dog a bone."
+
+This word cupboard is in our present version misspelt, owing to some fault
+in copying from the original, and thus is rendered c-u-p-b-o-a-r-d; but the
+word properly should be spelt c-u-b-b-e-d. This is a compound word, derived
+from cub--a young bear--and bed, or deposit, as we speak of the bed of a
+river.
+
+This was a _bone_ deposit--a place where the ogre's food was deposited by
+the cub.
+
+A young cub was a less expensive butcher than a bear, as nowadays labor is
+cheaper from the young aspirant than from the assured professional.
+Therefore they were the usual employees.
+
+But this ogre, though evidently in the habit of employing a cub in this
+department, had now become dissatisfied and procured the more satisfactory
+service of an old bear; for, if you will carefully examine the text, you
+will see that the meaning is _obvious_, for, as though to insure all its
+readers from misunderstanding, you will see that it is _distinctly_ stated
+that--
+
+"The cub-bed was _bear_."
+
+Now we come _Thirdly_ to the word "none."
+
+"And so the poor dog got none."
+
+This word in the original stands for two things--first, n-o-n-e, meaning
+nothing, which was the heretical sense deducted by my opponent, and the
+other and correct sense being n-u-n--a woman with black veil, generally of
+tender years; and Mother Hubbard, who intended to supply her lord's table
+with one small bone, found that instead the bear had secured the bones of a
+_whole nun_!
+
+_Fourthly_ and lastly, it is clear from the words "poor dog," that the ogre
+was poor, but _not_ Mother Hubbard.
+
+No, my hearers, _evidently_ she was _rich_, evidently _she_ held the
+purse-strings, and the ogre had stealthily supplied his table with a
+luxury, and his house with a steward, for which he individually was
+incapable of providing the means.
+
+This is _clearly_ the fact from the words of the text, for you will notice
+that it was _when_ she got there--not _before_, but _when_ she got there,
+that she found the change that had been made in the household
+arrangements.
+
+And then, doubtless, ensued a scene such as some "poor dogs" nowadays
+understand only too well!
+
+And now, my friends, we come to the moral. It is _not_ to beware of widows
+as my opponent tried to prove, but for you, my hearers, on one hand, to
+beware of marrying a poor but extravagant dog, and you, on the other, to
+beware of marrying a rich but penurious wife.
+
+
+Augustus Wood.
+
+Charles P. Sherman.
+
+Miss Helen M. Graham.
+
+It is scarcely necessary to state the fact that Mr. Augustus Wood is a
+native of Morristown, belonging as he does to a very old and well-known
+family, or that he is the author of a little volume entitled "Cupid on
+Crutches". This is a summer story of life at Narragansett Pier and makes
+one of a group of light novels which we will give in succession.
+
+
+"A BACHELOR'S WEDDING TRIP."
+
+BY "HIMSELF."
+
+"Himself" we recognize as Mr. Charles Sherman, then a bachelor, who
+cleverly dedicates the book in these words: "To the Unmarried: as Instance
+of the Bliss which may be Theirs, and to the Married, as Reminiscent of THE
+trip, These Threaded Sketches are Fraternally Dedicated by the Author".
+
+The third of the group is
+
+
+GUY HERNDON OR "A TALE OF GETTYSBURG."
+
+BY "ELAYNE."
+
+Elayne, we know, is Miss Helen M. Graham, one of Morristown's Society girls
+who spends much of her time in New York.
+
+This "Tale of Gettysburg" is the first venture of Miss Graham into the
+field of literature. Her choice of subject indicates that she is in touch
+with the growing realization among our novelists of how wide and fruitful
+a field is presented to them in the events of our civil war. The few
+graphic pictures already given by them of the social and other conditions
+of those stirring times, will be more and more valued by the present
+generation, and by those to come, as the years go on.
+
+
+Other Novelists and Story Writers.
+
+Among the poets, we have already mentioned as writers also of stories, many
+of them for children and young people,--
+
+_Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg_,
+_Miss Emma F. R. Campbell_,
+_Miss Hannah More Johnson_,
+And _Mr. William T. Meredith_,
+
+the last being the author of a summer novel, "Not of Her Father's Race".
+
+_Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D._,
+
+who, in addition to his editorial work and more serious writing, has
+published more than thirty small juvenile works, written under the name of
+"Robin Ranger", and which are all very great favorites with children, and
+
+_Mrs. Julia McNair Wright_,
+
+who, besides her many volumes on many subjects, has written novels, among
+them, "A Wife Hard Won," published by Lippincott, and a large number of
+stories for young people, found in many Sunday School libraries, as well as
+stories on the subject of Temperance, which are found in the collected
+libraries of Temperance societies.
+
+
+
+
+TRANSLATORS.
+
+
+Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley.
+
+Mrs. Buckley, who has already been numbered among our _Poets_, has
+translated a German story called "Sought and Found" from the original work
+of Golo Raimund, which has passed to its second edition. The translator
+says, in her four line preface, "This romance was translated because of its
+rare simplicity and beauty, and is published that those who have not seen
+it in the original may enjoy it also."
+
+One never takes up these charming little German stories without exclaiming,
+no other country-people ever write in the same sweet, simple way! The
+reason is evident to those who have lived among Germans and experienced
+their unaffected hospitality. There is a peculiar simplicity of home life
+even among the nobility. A friend says: "I so well remember now, a lovely
+morning visit, in particular, to a little, gentle German lady in her
+beautiful drawing-room which contained the treasures of centuries. No one,
+I am sure, could have helped being struck by her gentle simplicity and
+unaffected courtesy. She came in dressed in the plainest of black dresses,
+a white apron tied around her waist, and on her head the simplest of
+morning caps. But her sweet German language,--how beautiful it seemed, as
+in the low, musical voice which bespoke her breeding, she talked of her own
+German poets; of Walther von der Vogelweide and the great Goethe and
+Schiller, of Auerbach and Richter and modern story writers." Afterwards, in
+speaking of the charm and beauty of such simplicity, the friend added,
+"Yes, and she belongs to one of the oldest noble, hereditary families of
+Germany, and carries the sixteen quarterings upon the family shield, which,
+to those who understand German heraldry, means the longest unmixed German
+descent. We could not help contrasting such quiet manners with many of the
+artificial assumptions and the aggressive boldness found that winter in
+Dresden." Therefore we always hail with pleasure translations of these
+stories of German life among all classes. Though to translate requires no
+creative power, translating is in some respects more difficult than
+creating, for the reason that to translate demands a quick comprehension
+and intuitive discernment of the spirit of a foreign language, of the
+conception of the writer and of the national life which the language
+embodies. And we must remember that it is in the power of interpretation
+that woman especially excels.
+
+This little story is essentially well rendered, with the animation and
+vivacity of the original, and it has great merit in preserving its German
+spirit, that sentiment which is so marked and so unlike any other people.
+
+What Dr. Johnson said of translation had a ring of truth as had all his
+mighty utterances, namely: "Philosophy and science may be translated
+perfectly and history, so far as it does not reach oratory, but poetry can
+never be translated without losing its most essential qualities." It would
+seem then that to know the poetry of a people one must read it in the
+original language, which every one surely cannot do. Mrs. Buckley however,
+recognizing this subtle quality of the poetry of a language, has left the
+little verses of the story untouched, wisely giving the translation at the
+bottom of the page. A very lovely translation it is however and after a
+short passage from the book, "Sought and Found", we shall give another
+poetic translation of the poem "Im Arm der Liebe", by Georg Scheurlin.
+
+The following is a short passage from the story:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "SOUGHT AND FOUND."
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GOLO RAIMUND.
+
+Upon the table lay Veronica's picture, which in the meantime had been sent.
+The flowers, painted by her hand, appeared to him like a friendly greeting.
+He took it up and regarded it a long time; then, followed a sudden
+inspiration, he wrote upon the back:
+
+(Here follows the German verse, the translation below:)
+
+     Thy merry jest is gentle as the May,
+       Thy tender heart a lily of the dell;
+     Fragrant as the rose thy inmost soul,
+       Thy wondrous song a sweet-toned bell.
+
+As in sport he subscribed his name; and then, as this homage, which had so
+long existed in his heart, suddenly expressed in words, stood before him,
+black upon white it was to him as if another had opened his eyes and he
+must guard the newly discovered secret. He placed the picture in a
+portfolio, in order to lock it in his writing-desk, and his eye fell upon
+the journal which had so singularly come into his hands. He laid the
+portfolio beside it. Did they not belong together? Did not the mysterious
+author resemble Veronica?
+
+Like a revelation it flashed over him and so powerfully affected his
+imagination that the blood mounted hotly to his temples, and, in spite of
+the severe cold, he threw open the window that he might have more air.
+
+"If it were she!" thought he; restlessly striding up and down, and yet
+exultant that he had now found a trace which could be followed.
+
+THE ARM OF LOVE.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GEORG SCHEURLIN.
+
+     A young wife sits by a cradle nest,
+     Her fair boy smiling on her breast;
+     In the quiet room draws on the night,
+     And she rocks and sings by the soft lamplight;
+     On mother bosom the rest is deep;
+     In the arm of love--so fall asleep.
+
+     In the cool vale, 'neath sunny sky,
+     We sit alone, my own and I;
+     A song of joy wells in my breast,
+     Ah, heart to heart, how sweet the rest!
+     The brooklets ripple, the breezes sweep;
+     In the arm of love--so fall asleep.
+
+     From the churchyard tolls the solemn bell,
+     For the pilgrim has finished his journey well;
+     Here lays he down the staff, long pressed;
+     In the bosom of earth, how calm the rest!
+     Above the casket the earth they heap;
+     In the arm of love--so fall asleep.
+
+
+Miss Margaret N. Garrard.
+
+It must be a poet who shall translate a poet and so naturally we find Miss
+Garrard as well as Mrs. Buckley, already in our group of "Poets".
+
+The difficulty of reproducing well, in metrical forms, thoughts from the
+poetry of another language, is so great, that we give with pride the
+translation of Miss Garrard of one of Goethe's sweet wild-wood songs, in
+which he excelled.
+
+THE BROOK.
+
+TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE.
+
+     Little brook, where wild flowers drink,
+       Rushing past me, swift and clear--
+     Thoughtful stand I on the brink--
+       "Where's thy home? Whence com'st thou here?"
+
+     I come from out the rock's dark gloom,
+       My way lies o'er the flower-strewn plain;
+     And in my bosom there is room
+       To mirror heaven's sweet face again.
+
+     Pain, sorrow, trouble have I none;
+       I wander onward, blithe and free--
+     He who has called me from the stone
+       Will to the end my guardian be.
+
+
+Other Translators.
+
+_Hon. John Whitehead_ has translated considerably from the French and
+German, having used these translations in several of his writings, but
+individually they have not been published. He aided in translating the
+"History of the War of the Rebellion in North Western Virginia", which was
+written in German by Major F. J. Mangold, of the Prussian Army. The book
+was a monograph published by Major Mangold in Germany, but never published
+here. This translation was largely used by Judge Whitehead in his published
+articles on "The Fitz John Porter Case."
+
+_Miss Karch_, a German lady long a resident of Morristown, was also a
+translator, but it has not been possible to procure the details of her
+work. It is nine years since Miss Karch returned to Heilbronn, Germany,
+where she is now living. For the fifteen years preceding her return, she
+had been a resident of Morristown as a teacher of the German and French
+languages. Says a friend: "She was a conscientious, accomplished and true
+woman, intensely loyal as a true German, self-sacrificing, patient and
+kindly generous in bestowing her softening and refining influences, upon
+those who needed them."
+
+
+
+
+LEXICOGRAPHER.
+
+
+Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D.
+
+The great work of Dr. Lewis is his Latin Dictionary, published in 1879, as
+"Lewis and Short's Revision of Andrew's Freund". This is recognized as the
+most useful and convenient modern Latin-English Lexicon.
+
+Quite recently Dr. Lewis has brought out a Latin Dictionary for _schools_,
+which is not an abridgement of the larger work, but an original work on a
+definite plan of its own. "It has the prestige", says a critic, "of having
+been accepted in advance by the Clarendon Press of Oxford, and adopted
+among their publications in place of a similar lexicon projected and begun
+by themselves. Thus it may be said to be published in England under the
+official patronage of the University of Oxford".
+
+Dr. Lewis also published in 1886 "A History of Germany From the Earliest
+Times".
+
+He ranks among the first Greek scholars of the country, having been for
+many years a member of the well-known Greek Club of New York, of which the
+late Rev. Howard Crosby D. D. was pioneer and president.
+
+He also ranks high as a Shakesperian scholar and critic, and as a poet.
+From his poem of "Telemachus", some lines are transcribed among the
+poetical selections of this book.
+
+Dr. Lewis has made a profound study of the subject of prison reform and has
+been, and is, an active worker in that direction, in the New York Prison
+Association, being on the Executive Board of that Association.
+
+In Stedman and Hutchinson's "Library of American Literature", Dr. Lewis is
+represented by a paper on the "Influence of Civilization on Duration of
+Life".
+
+
+
+
+HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS.
+
+
+William Cherry.
+
+ANCIENT CHRONICLER.
+
+William Cherry is a veritable "Old Mortality", judging from a unique volume
+found in the Morristown Library. This ancient sexton of the First
+Presbyterian Church, was a true wanderer among graves. It is said by those
+who remember, or who had it from their fathers, that the old house
+adjoining the Lyceum Building is the one in which Mr. Cherry lived and no
+doubt reflected on the uncertainty of life, while he compiled his
+melancholy record.
+
+The following is the title of the old volume published by him and printed
+by Jacob Mann in the year 1806:
+
+"Bill of Mortality: Being a Register of all the Deaths, which have occurred
+in the Presbyterian and Baptist Congregations of Morristown, New Jersey;
+For Thirty-Eight Years Past, Containing (with but few exceptions) the Cause
+of every Disease. This Register, for the First Twenty-Two Years, was kept
+by the Rev. Dr. Johnes, since which Time, by _William Cherry_, the Present
+Sexton of the Presbyterian Church at Morris-Town".
+
+"Time brushes off our lives with sweeping wings."--_Hervey._
+
+Some of the causes of disease given are as follows:
+
+"Decay of Nature"; "Teething"; "Old Age"; "A Swelling"; "Mortification";
+"Sudden"; "Phrenzy"; "Casual"; "Poisoned by Night-Shade Berries";
+"Lingering Decay", &c. We find no mention of "Heart Failure".
+
+This curious and valuable volume needs no further comment.
+
+[Illustration: THE WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS.
+
+FROM GARDEN AND FOREST.
+
+Copyright 1892, by the GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO.]
+
+
+Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D.
+
+To the Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D. we are indebted for the invaluable
+chronicles of events, of the life of the people, and of Washington and his
+army in Morristown during the Revolutionary period. Apparently, all this
+interesting story, in its details, would have been lost to us, except for
+his indefatigable zeal in collecting from the lips of living men and women,
+the eye-witnesses of what he relates, or from their immediate descendants,
+the story he gives us with such pictorial charm and beauty, warm from his
+own imaginary dwelling in the period of which he writes.
+
+For the following sketch of this author we are indebted to the historian
+who follows, the Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.
+
+Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D., son of Rev. Jacob and Elizabeth Ward Tuttle,
+was born at Bloomfield, N. J., March 12th, 1818. Fitted for college
+principally at Newark Academy, he graduated at Marietta College with first
+honors of his class in 1841. He entered Lane Seminary and was licensed to
+preach in 1844. In 1847 he was called to pastorate of church at Rockaway,
+N. J., as associate to his aged father-in-law, Rev. Dr. Barnabas King. He
+left Rockaway to accept the Presidency of Wabash College in 1862, and,
+after thirty years in that position, resigned in 1892.
+
+During his fifteen years in this county he was a most voluminous and
+acceptable writer for the press--writing for the _Observer_, _Evangelist_,
+_Tribune_ and other papers. But he is principally remembered more for his
+work as a local historian. He wrote, "The Early History of Morris County";
+"Biographical Sketch of Gen. Winds"; "Washington in Morris County";
+"History of the Presbyterian Church at Rockaway"; "Life of William Tuttle";
+"Revolutionary Fragments", (a series of articles published in _The Newark
+Sentinel of Freedom_); "Early History of Presbyterianism in Morris County",
+and other shorter articles. At the time his Revolutionary articles were
+published there were still men living who had personal knowledge of the
+events of that era and he gathered an immense amount of material which but
+for him would have been lost.
+
+The following from the pen of Dr. Tuttle appeared in _The Newark Daily
+Advertiser_ of April, 1883:
+
+
+A FINE RELIC AND A FINE POEM.
+
+Thirty years ago and more my surplus energy was devoted to the innocent
+delights of hunting up places, people, facts and traditions associated
+with the American Revolution as preserved in Morris County. Some very
+charming rides were taken to Pompton, Mendham, Baskingridge, Spring Valley,
+Kimball Mountain, Singack, and other places. My rides made me certain that
+Morris County is both rich in beautiful scenery and historic associations.
+The results of these rides appeared in a series of "Revolutionary
+Fragments" printed in the _Advertiser_, as also in some elaborate papers
+before the Historical Society.
+
+One day I visited the Ford Mansion, and met that polished and elegant
+gentleman, the late Henry A. Ford, Esq., then its proprietor. He was the
+son of Judge Gabriel H. Ford, grandson of Colonel Jacob Ford, Jr., whose
+widow was the hostess of Washington, the Winter of 1779-80, great-grandson
+of Colonel Jacob Ford, Sr., who built the "Ford Mansion," and
+great-great-grandson of John Ford, of Hunterdon County, whose wife was
+Elizabeth who was brought to Philadelphia from Axford, England, when she
+was a child a year old. Her father was drowned by falling from the plank on
+which he was walking from the ship to the shore. Philadelphia then had but
+one house in it. Mrs. Ford's second husband was Lindsley, and "the widow
+Elizabeth Lindsley died at the house of her son, Col. Jacob Ford, Sr.,
+April 21, 1772, aged ninety-one years and one month," and so the courtly
+master of the "Ford Mansion," when I called to visit it, was of the fifth
+generation from the child-emigrant, whose father was drowned in the
+Delaware, in 1682.
+
+The pleasure of the visit was greatly enhanced by the attentions of Miss
+Louisa, daughter of the gentleman named. She afterward became the wife of
+Judge Ogden of Paterson. The father and daughter with delightful courtesy
+took me over the famous house and associated in my memory the rooms and
+halls, and even the antique furniture with the family's most illustrious
+guest. I was especially interested in the old mirror that had hung in
+Washington's bedroom. Miss Ford produced a poem on that mirror, written, I
+think, by an aunt, and at my request she read it. She was a charming reader
+and promised me a copy.
+
+Under date of Paterson, October 31st, 1856, Mrs. Ogden was kind enough to
+send me the promised copy with a note apologizing for the delay and adding:
+"I think, however, you will find the poetry has not spoiled by keeping." I
+have not ceased to be thankful that my first visit to the Ford Mansion was
+so pleasantly associated with the attentions of the father and daughter,
+both of whom have since died.
+
+The mirror is a fine relic still to be seen with other elegant old
+furniture, belonging to the Ford family, at the "Washington Quarters" at
+Morristown, and I am sure all will regard the poem which pleased me so
+much thirty years ago as "one that has not spoiled by keeping."
+
+
+ON AN OLD MIRROR USED BY WASHINGTON AT HIS HEADQUARTERS IN MORRISTOWN.
+
+     Old Mirror! speak and tell us whence
+     Thou comest, and then, who brought thee thence.
+     Did dear old England give thee birth?
+     Or merry France, the land of mirth?
+     In vain another should we seek
+     At all like thee--thou thing antique.
+     Of the old mansion thou seem'st part;
+     Indeed, to me, its very heart;
+     For in thy face, though dimmed with age,
+     I read my country's brightest page.
+     Five generations, all have passed,
+     And yet, old Mirror, thou dost last;
+     The young, the old, the good, the bad,
+     The gay, the gifted and the sad
+     Are gone; their hopes, their sighs, their fears
+     Are buried deep with smiles and tears.
+     Then speak; old Mirror! thou hast seen
+     Full many a noble form, I ween;
+     Full many a soldier, tall and brave,
+     Now lying in a nameless grave;
+     Full many a fairy form and bright
+     Hath flitted by when hearts were light;
+     Full many a bride--whose short life seemed
+     Too happy to be even dreamed;
+     Full many a lord and titled dame,
+     Bearing full many an honored name;
+     And tell us, Mirror, how they dressed--
+     Those stately dames, when in their best?
+     If robes and sacques the damsels wore,
+     And sweeping skirts in days of yore?
+     But tell us, too, for we _must_ hear
+     Of _him_ whom all the world revere.
+     Thou sawest him when the times so dark
+     Had made upon his brow their mark;
+     Those fearful times, those dreary days,
+     When all seemed but a tangled maze;
+     His noble army, worn with toils,
+     Giving their life blood to the soils.
+     Disease and famine brooding o'er,
+     His country's foe e'en at his door;
+     But ever saw him noble, brave,
+     Seeking her freedom or his grave.
+     His was the heart that never quailed;
+     His was the arm that never failed!
+     Old Mirror! thou hast seen what we
+     Would barter all most dear to see;
+     The great, the good, the _noblest_ one;
+     Our own _immortal Washington_!
+     Well may we gaze--for now in thee
+     Relies of the great past we see,
+     Well may we gaze--for ne'er again,
+     Old Mirror, shall we see such men;
+     And when we too have lived our day,
+     Like those before us passed away,
+     Still, valued Mirror, may'st thou last
+     To tell our children of the past;
+     Still thy dimmed face, thy tarnished frame
+     Thy honored house and time proclaim;
+     And ne'er may sacrilegious hand,
+     While Freedom claims this as her land
+     One stone or pebble rashly throw
+     To lay thee, honored Mirror, low.
+
+                                Y. F.
+
+
+Hon. Edmund D. Halsey.
+
+Mr. Halsey, historian, biographer, as well as lawyer, has published our
+most valuable "History of Morris County", and is considered an authority
+upon that subject, his accuracy being unquestioned. By his sterling
+integrity and superior intellectual ability, he has, in the practice of his
+profession, gained the entire confidence of the community in which, as a
+lawyer, he has passed the greater part of his life.
+
+Included in his literary work are "Personal Sketches" of Governor Mahlon
+Dickerson, Colonel Joseph Jackson, and others; "The Revolutionary Army in
+Morris County in 1779-'80"; and a brief sketch of the Washington
+Headquarters entitled "History of the Washington Association of New
+Jersey", published in Morristown in 1891.
+
+Mr. Halsey also assisted Mr. William O. Wheeler in the publication of a
+book of unique interest and of unusual value, especially to genealogists
+and antiquarians, the title of which reads "Inscriptions on Tombstones and
+Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St.
+John's Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey".
+
+Mr. Halsey is a prominent member of the "Historical Society of New Jersey",
+as well as of the "Washington Association of New Jersey".
+
+We quote from his "History of the Washington Association" the following
+"brief history of the title of the property".
+
+
+FROM "HISTORY OF THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY."
+
+Colonel Jacob Ford, Senior--prominent as a merchant, iron manufacturer, and
+land owner, who was president Judge of the County Court from the formation
+of the County in 1740 until his death in 1777, and who presided over the
+meeting, June 27, 1774, which appointed the first "Committee of
+Correspondence"--conveyed the tract of 200 acres surrounding the house to
+his son, Jacob Ford, junior, March 24, 1762. In 1768 he conveyed to him the
+Mount Hope mines and meadows where the son built the stone mansion still
+standing. In 1773 Jacob Ford, junior, rented this Mount Hope property for
+fifty years to John Jacob Faesch and David Wrisbery, and these men
+proceeded to build the furnace afterward useful to the patriot army in
+supplying it with cannon and cannon-balls.
+
+Colonel Jacob Ford, junior, after making this lease returned to Morristown,
+and, probably with his father's aid, began at once the erection of these
+Headquarters, and had just completed the building when the war broke out.
+He was made Colonel of the Eastern Battalion of the Morris County Militia
+and was detailed to cover Washington's retreat across New Jersey in the
+"mud rounds" of 1776--a service accomplished with honor and success. In
+this or in similar service, Colonel Ford contracted pneumonia, of which he
+died January 10, 1777, and was buried with military honors by order of
+Washington. He left a widow, Theodosia Ford, and five young children. She
+was the daughter of Rev. Timothy Johnes, whose pastorate of the First
+church extended from 1742 to 1794, and who is said to have administered the
+Communion to Washington. This lady in 1779-80 offered to Washington the
+hospitality of her house, and here was his Headquarters from about December
+1, 1779 to June 1780. In 1805, Judge Gabriel H. Ford, one of the sons of
+Colonel Jacob, purchased his brothers' and sister's interest in the
+property and made it his home until his death in 1849. By his will dated
+January 27, 1848, Gabriel H. Ford, devised this, his homestead to his son,
+Henry A. Ford, who continued to occupy it until his death, which occurred
+April 22, 1872. From the heirs of Henry A. Ford title was derived to the
+four gentlemen who organized the Association, namely: Governor Theodore F.
+Randolph, Hon. George A. Halsey, General N. N. Halsted, and William Van
+Vleck Lidgerwood, Esq.
+
+
+Hon. John Whitehead.
+
+BIOGRAPHER AND HISTORIAN.
+
+Of Mr. Whitehead's new departure into the field of romance, we have already
+spoken and a portion of his story "A Fishing Trip to Barnegat", is given to
+represent him among "Novelists and Story Writers".
+
+His literary work of many years covers a variety of departments in
+literature.
+
+In the _Northern Monthly Magazine_ which began some years ago, as a
+periodical of high order we find running through several numbers a "History
+of the English Language", contributed by Mr. Whitehead, in which he starts
+from a true and philosophic premise. It is this: "It would be difficult to
+separate any one creation from the whole universe and pronounce that it is
+not subject to law." The reader discovers that these magazine articles
+contain the germs of all that has been written in many exhaustive works on
+the philosophy and growth of language.
+
+For a number of years, Mr. Whitehead was editor of _The Record_, a small
+sheet opened by the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, the value of
+which historically increases with each year. For this, he wrote largely,
+sketches of prominent men of Revolutionary times and of others connected
+with the congregation of the church.
+
+Some important papers were contributed by him to the local press, including
+"A Review of Fitz John Porter's Case", in the Morristown _Banner_, also
+"Sketches of Morris County Lawyers". A series of "Sketches" was also
+published in the _Newark Sunday Call_, entitled "Newark Aforetime",
+referring to Newark and Newark people, fifty years ago.
+
+Many of Mr. Whitehead's speeches and addresses have been published, among
+them, those given at the Centennial Celebration of the First Presbyterian
+Church of Morristown; at the Centennial Celebration of the Presbyterian
+Church at Springfield, N. J.; two or three addresses before the Society of
+the Sons of the American Revolution, and an address delivered two or three
+years ago before the Washington Association of N. J. Of the latter
+Association, Mr. Whitehead is an honored member as well as of the
+Historical Society of New Jersey.
+
+In the course of his study and writing, we have already mentioned among
+"Translators," Mr. Whitehead has made several valuable translations from
+German and French authors.
+
+We must not overlook one principal labor which is far more herculean than
+we, who are so greatly benefited by it, perhaps fully comprehend, namely,
+the Catalogue, in two volumes, of the Library, in which Morristown justly
+takes so much pride. This was a voluntary work.
+
+Mr. Whitehead is now engaged on a "History of Morris County", to form one
+chapter in a new illustrated "History of New Jersey," to be published by
+Colonel U. S. Sharp. He has also in preparation the "History of the First
+Presbyterian Church" of Morristown, in which will appear the interesting
+proceedings of the Centennial exercises, recently held there.
+
+A series of fine articles on "The Supreme Court of New Jersey" are now
+appearing in _The Green Bag_ of Boston. This _Green Bag_ is a magazine
+published in the interests of the legal fraternity, as from its significant
+name we see, and this magazine is the nearest approach so far made by
+Americans towards the traditional appendage of the English barrister,
+everywhere seen over the border in Canada, by which, it is well known, he
+is always accompanied when he goes to court and while he remains there in
+attendance. This bag contains his briefs, papers and other impedimenta
+connected with trials. It is not surprising, but it is touching, to find
+Boston holding on to this last hope of accomplishing that for which so many
+frantic efforts have been made in this country, only to meet with failure.
+
+The last article in this magazine, of the series on "The Supreme Court of
+New Jersey", is delightful in expression and in form; it has a fine large
+type, is illustrated with well-executed portraits of the judges, in group
+and singly, and is altogether most attractive and interesting.
+
+
+Bayard Tuckerman.
+
+Mr. Tuckerman, who resided for some time in Morristown, and whose ancestry
+is associated with artistic and literary taste and genius, is the author of
+"The Life of General Lafayette", published in 1889, during his residence
+in Morristown, and, a copy of which was presented by the author, in person,
+to the Morristown Library. Before this, he published a "History of English
+Prose Fiction", in 1882, and after it, in 1889 again, he edited "The Diary
+of Philip Hone". This author is now engaged on another book, to be
+published in the spring in the "Makers of America" series, with the title
+of "Peter Stuyvesant".
+
+"The Diary of Philip Hone" is a charming book, especially to those familiar
+with old New York. The editorship of any life requires a talent for
+selection and a gift for combining and drawing together much desultory
+matter, but when we consider that the two volumes, into which Mr. Tuckerman
+compressed his material were less than one-fourth the original diary, which
+fills twenty-eight quarto manuscript volumes, the herculean task is at once
+apparent. A critic in one of the popular journals says of it: "As a rule
+the diary needs little interpretation and it may be welcomed as an
+agreeable, gossipy contribution to civic annals, and as a pleasant record
+of a citizen of some distinction, parts and usefulness in his generation".
+
+In the "Life of General Lafayette", Mr. Tuckerman has evinced his superior
+love of industrious, conscientious study. The book is acknowledged to be
+essentially truthful and exceptionally just above anything ever written of
+Lafayette. It has been truly said of Mr. Tuckerman that "he tells the
+story of Lafayette's life in such a way that the interest increases as it
+proceeds" and that "he shows his skill as a biographer in this as in making
+both the narrative itself and his own criticism of the subject heighten our
+sympathy". He has not allowed himself to be turned from the actual
+statement of fact by that peculiar sentiment of the romantic side of
+Lafayette's career which has more or less colored the opinions of so many
+other biographers. Mr. Tuckerman himself says that "Lafayette's name has
+suffered more from the admiration of his friends than from the detraction
+of his enemies."
+
+
+FROM THE "LIFE OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE."
+
+The visit to America was supplemented in the following summer of 1785 by a
+journey through Germany and Austria.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Many distinguished officers were met. At one camp, as he (Lafayette) wrote
+to Washington, he found Lord Cornwallis, Colonels England, Abercrombie, and
+Musgrave; "on our side" Colonel Smith, Generals Duportail and Gouvion; "and
+we often remarked, Smith and I, that if we had been unfortunate in our
+struggle, we would have cut a poor figure there." Again;
+
+Writing from Valley Forge to the Comte de Broglie, he gave a sad picture
+of the poverty and sufferings of the army. "Everything here", he said,
+"combines to inspire disgust. At the smallest sign from you I shall return
+home". But the misery of Valley Forge never abated one jot of Lafayette's
+enthusiasm. The privations which he saw and shared only made him put his
+hand the more often into his own pocket, and redouble his efforts to obtain
+aid from the treasury of France.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+To Lafayette, the happiest portion of this voyage to America was the time
+passed in the company of Washington. Hastening from New York immediately on
+his arrival, he allowed himself to be delayed only at Philadelphia. "There
+is no rest for me," he wrote thence to Washington, "until I go to Mt.
+Vernon. I long for the pleasure to embrace you, my dear general; in a few
+days I shall be at Mt. Vernon, and I do already feel delighted with so
+charming a prospect." Two weeks of a proud pleasure were then passed in the
+society of the man who was always to remain his beau ideal. To walk about
+the beautiful grounds of Mt. Vernon with its honored master, discussing his
+agricultural plans; to sit with him in his library, and listen to his hopes
+regarding the nation for which he had done so much, were honors which
+Lafayette fully appreciated. He has left on record the feelings of
+admiration with which he saw the man who had so long led a great people in
+a great struggle retire to private life, with no thought other than
+satisfaction at duty performed. And it was a legitimate source of pride to
+himself that he had enlisted under his standard before fortune had smiled
+upon it, and had worked with all his heart to crown it with victory. The
+two men thoroughly knew each other.
+
+The words of Lafayette will be found, in this volume, in the paper on
+"George Washington."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He (Washington) responded to Lafayette's demonstrative regard by a sincere
+paternal affection. Later in the summer, Lafayette met Washington again,
+and visited in his company some of the scenes of the late war. When the
+time for parting had come, Washington accompanied his guest as far as
+Annapolis in his carriage. There the two friends separated, not to meet
+again.
+
+On his return to Mt. Vernon, Washington added to his words of farewell, a
+letter in which occur the following passages; "In the moment of our
+separation, upon the road as I travelled, and every hour since, I have felt
+all that love, respect, and attachment for you, with which length of years,
+close connection and your merits have inspired me. I often asked myself, as
+our carriages separated, whether that was the last sight I ever should have
+of you, and though I wished to say no, my fears answered yes. I called to
+mind the days of my youth, and found they had long since fled, to return no
+more; that I was now descending the hill I had been fifty-two years
+climbing, and that, though I was blest with a good constitution, I was of a
+short-lived family, and might soon expect to be entombed in the mansion of
+my fathers. These thoughts darkened the shades and gave a gloom to the
+picture, and consequently to my prospect of seeing you again. But I will
+not repine; I have had my day. * * * * It is unnecessary, I persuade
+myself, to repeat to you, my dear Marquis, the sincerity of my regards and
+friendship; nor have I words which could express my affection for you, were
+I to attempt it. My fervent prayers are offered for your safe and pleasant
+passage, happy meeting with Madame de Lafayette and family, and the
+completion of every wish of your heart." To these words Lafayette replied
+from on board the "Nymphe," on the eve of his departure for France: "Adieu,
+adieu, my dear general. It is with inexpressible pain that I feel I am
+going to be severed from you by the Atlantic. Everything that admiration,
+respect, gratitude, friendship, and filial love can inspire is combined in
+my affectionate heart to devote me most tenderly to you. In your friendship
+I find a delight which words cannot express. Adieu, my dear general. It is
+not without emotion that I write this word, although I know I shall soon
+visit you again. Be attentive to your health. Let me hear from you every
+month. Adieu, adieu."
+
+
+Loyall Farragut.
+
+BIOGRAPHER.
+
+With Morristown is associated the beautiful memoir of our great Admiral, in
+honor of whom one of the streets of our city is named. In the old house now
+removed from its original position to the end of Farragut Place, this
+honored commander once visited for several days, walking over the ground
+now occupied by the houses of many families, delighted as a boy with
+everything in nature; noticing and observing the smallest detail of what
+was going on around him and interesting himself equally in the humblest
+individual who crossed his path and in the most distinguished visitor who
+asked to be presented.
+
+The "Life of David Glasgow Farragut" was written according to the admiral's
+expressed wish, by his only son, Loyall Farragut, who for a short time had,
+in Morristown, his summer home, and who presented to the Morristown
+Library a copy of his book.
+
+The Farraguts came from the island of Minorca, where the name is now
+extinct. In the volume referred to, we find these words: "George Farragut,
+father of the admiral was sent to school at Barcelona, but was seized with
+the spirit of adventure, and emigrated to America at an early age. He
+arrived in 1776, promptly sided with the colonists, and served gallantly in
+the struggle for independence, as also in the war of 1812. It is said that
+he saved the life of Colonel Washington in the battle of Cowpens."
+
+In reading this volume one is transported to the times and scenes
+described, and everywhere is felt the grandeur, beauty and simplicity of
+character of this truly great and lovable man. In the touching letter to
+his devoted wife, on the eve of the great battle, is seen, as an example to
+all men of future generations, the realization of a man's fidelity to the
+woman of his choice, even in the moment of greatest extremity, and the
+possibility of the tenderest heart existing side by side with the daring
+courage of one of the bravest men the world has ever seen.
+
+Wonderfully stirring are the descriptions given of the river fight on the
+Mississippi and of the battle of Mobile Bay, after which Admiral Farragut
+received from Secretary Welles the following congratulatory letter:
+
+"In the success which has attended your operations, you have illustrated
+the efficiency and irresistible power of a naval force led by a bold and
+vigorous mind and the insufficiency of any batteries to prevent the passage
+of a fleet thus led and commanded. You have, first on the Mississippi and
+recently in the bay of Mobile, demonstrated what had previously been
+doubted,--the ability of naval vessels, properly manned and commanded, to
+set at defiance the best constructed and most heavily armed fortifications.
+In these successive victories, you have encountered great risks, but the
+results have vindicated the wisdom of your policy and the daring valor of
+our officers and seamen."
+
+
+Josiah Collins Pumpelly.
+
+Mr. Pumpelly, long a resident of Morristown, claims our attention as a
+writer, rather than an author, as he has not been a publisher of books,
+beyond a collection of three Addresses in pamphlet form entitled "Our
+French Allies in the Revolution and Other Addresses".
+
+Several sketches entitled "Reminiscences of Colonial Days", and others of
+the same character, all involve considerable research and add to our
+literary possessions in connection with historic Morristown. His "Address
+on Washington", delivered before the Washington Association of New Jersey,
+at the Morristown Headquarters, February 22, 1888, was published by the
+Association, and has long been for sale there. Of this, the writer says, "I
+rejoice that even in this slight way, I can be of service to an Association
+whose faithful care of this home of Washington in the trying winter of 1779
+and '80 deserves the lasting gratitude of every loyal Jerseyman." In
+closing this address, Mr. Pumpelly said, quoting from our favorite
+historian, Rev. Dr. Tuttle, "each old parish in our County had its heroes,
+and each old church was a shrine at which brave men and women bowed in
+God's fear, consecrating their all to their country." Mr. Pumpelly adds:
+"So instead of referring our children to Greek and Roman patriots, we have
+but to call up for them the names of our own men and women, who have here
+amid the hills of Morris, wrought out for us this heritage, so much
+grander, so much nobler than they themselves ever dreamed." This address is
+now bound in a larger pamphlet with "Our French Allies", to which we have
+referred and which was read before the New Jersey Historical Society, at
+Trenton, January 22d, 1889 and "Fort Stanwix and Battle of Oriskany", an
+address delivered before the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in New
+York City, Dec. 3, 1888.
+
+There was an important paper read by Mr. Pumpelly before the New Jersey
+Society of the Sons of the Revolution, on June 10th, 1889, and by them
+adopted in their meeting of that date, and afterwards published, on "The
+Birthplace of our Immortal Washington and the Grave of his Illustrious
+Mother, shall they not be Sacredly Preserved?"
+
+Another address followed on "Joseph Warren" before the Massachusetts
+Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, on April 18th, 1890, on the
+occasion of the 114th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. He was then
+President of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
+
+A paper was read by request on "Mahlon Dickerson, Industrial Pioneer and
+old time Patriot," on January 27, 1891, before the New Jersey Historical
+Society.
+
+Mr. Pumpelly has also given much time and literary effort in philanthropic
+and sanitary directions. Many articles have appeared from time to time from
+his pen in behalf of reforms in the treatment of our dependent, delinquent,
+and defective classes, all tending to social economic improvement and, at
+one time, assisting materially the advance of the State Charities Aid
+Association of New Jersey of which he was for several years an active
+member.
+
+His attention is now being turned to the story of the Huguenots in this
+country. He is just completing a quite exhaustive paper upon the Huguenots
+in New Jersey, which is to be given by request before the Genealogical
+Society of New York, in January 1893, after which the subject is to be
+prepared by him for use in a school text-book.
+
+In _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, of April 1892, is
+"A Short Sketch of the Character and Life of John Paul Jones", written in a
+most interesting and delightful manner and given before the New York
+Genealogical and Biographical Society, January 8, 1892. We quote from
+
+
+WHAT DOES THE CAUSE OF HUMAN FREEDOM OWE TO THE HUGUENOT?
+
+In looking back over the milestones which mark in history the relapse and
+advance, the failure and the successes, of the principles of civilization,
+we note that at a certain period it was the Teutonic Nations which broke
+loose from Rome and the Latin Nations who adhered to the Pope. Also, that
+in France, opposition to Rome was early and considerable. Thus the
+Waldenses, Albigenses, and Lefevre and his colleagues were Huguenots and
+lovers of human freedom before the name itself was known--Calvinists
+before Calvin, Lutherans before Luther, Wiclyfites before Wiclyf.
+
+That great movement for the liberty of conscience and personal freedom,
+civil and religious, was not in France an importation, for God had
+deposited the first principles of the work in a few brave hearts of Picardy
+and Dauphiny before it had begun in any other country of the globe. Not to
+Switzerland nor to Germany belongs the honor of having been first in the
+work, but to France and the Huguenot.
+
+It was the voice of Lefevre, of Etaples, France, a man of great nobility of
+soul as well as genius of mind, which was to give the signal of the rising
+of this morning star of liberty. He it was who taught Farel, the great
+French reformer and "master-builder" with Luther.
+
+
+Hannah More Johnson.
+
+Miss Johnson's poem, "The Christmas Tree", has taken its place in our
+Poet's corner. She is also mentioned among _Novelists and Story-Writers_
+for her well-known stories of "Lost Willie"; "Ella Dutton"; "Snow Drifts";
+"Signal Lights", and "First the Blade" published by A. D. F. Randolph and
+by the Presbyterian Board. But perhaps her most important work is "Mexico,
+Past and Present", an excellent and charmingly written history of Mexico, a
+book of interest and importance, with sixty three maps and illustrations,
+treating not only the history, but the present condition and prospects of
+that country. This work is found in many libraries, and places Miss Johnson
+among our _Historians_.
+
+Miss Johnson is the daughter of Mr. Jacob Johnson and niece of our
+townsman, Mr. J. Henry Johnson, who was the last preceptor of the old
+Morris Academy. Though long a resident of Morristown, she now makes her
+home in Philadelphia where she is editor of a Missionary Publication.
+
+"I first thought of myself as a writer", says Miss Johnson, "when I saw my
+name for the first time in print and nearly fainted with fright. I have
+never recovered from that shock and not until I had had more than one
+collision with publishers have I consented to give my name to articles."
+
+Last September (1892) "Bible Lights in Mission Paths" was published: "The
+long interval between my first and my last book," says the author, "was
+filled with what seems to me the true work of my life." And it is curious
+how this work of life came to her quite unsought and unexpectedly. Let us
+hear it in her own words. "About twelve years ago," she tells us, "a
+relative became proprietor of a small religious weekly in Philadelphia,
+_The Presbyterian Journal_. I had the entire charge of the missionary
+department. Shortly afterward, the Presbyterian Alliance met in our city
+and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, (of which I was and still am a
+Director), held in connection with that great convocation in the Academy of
+Music, an all-day meeting in one of the churches. Presbyterian women were
+there from every quarter of the world beside others from sister churches.
+At noon as I sat, talking over the programme for the afternoon with Mrs.
+A----, she said regretfully, 'I am afraid that we shall not be able to get
+these women to speak loud enough to be heard all over this great church. It
+would be delightful if we could have a full report.' 'I think I could get
+one up, Mrs. A----,' said I. 'I have been taking notes of the speeches all
+the morning and this afternoon we are to have written reports and papers.'
+'I can get them all for you,' she said quickly. That night I went home
+laden with documents, three-fourths of them from the Old World. The
+_Journal_ publishers offered to send out an extra and send it to any
+address I gave. Within a week, this extra was mailed to every mission
+station throughout the world, which had been in any way represented at this
+woman's meeting or mentioned in its reports. Ever since that busy, busy
+week with French, English, Scotch, German, Italian, Belgian and Irish
+women, I have been a constant reporter of Missionary meetings. This led to
+a series of articles for Monthly Concerts, proposed for the use of pastors
+and other leaders of missionary meetings. Twelve articles a year for about
+four years, each one of which had cost months of research and study, I had
+time for nothing else. It was weary work. All roads led to Rome and I
+couldn't pick up a book or a daily that didn't give me an item or a
+suggestion. The nameless writer was generally supposed to be some Doctor of
+Divinity shelved with a sore throat or other ministerial disability. I
+remember one time when a carefully prepared article (of mine) on Siam
+appeared in _The Gospel of all Lands_, credited to _The London Missionary
+News_. It had been taken from the magazine in which it was first published,
+profusely illustrated and sent out as an English production."
+
+Besides this Miss Johnson has furnished monthly articles for various papers
+and occasional poems, for magazines. Thus we see her very busy life has
+been fruitful of unusual results.
+
+
+Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.
+
+Mrs. Wright has already been mentioned among _Novelists and Story-Writers_.
+For the following graphic sketch, we are indebted to one of our writers,
+Mrs. Julia R. Cutler.
+
+"One of the authors whose sojourn in our 'beautiful little town', as she
+calls it, was of a comparatively brief period, from 1881-'83, but whose
+writings, as showing deep research in many fields of thought, both
+scientific and historical, entitle her to more than a brief mention, is
+Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.
+
+"Her husband, the Rev. Dr. William J. Wright, is President of and,
+Professor of Metaphysics, in a Western College. Much of Mrs. Wright's time
+is spent in visiting different large cities, at home and abroad, where she
+can have access to libraries and gain information on various subjects
+connected with her books.
+
+"While in Morristown, she wrote, at the request of the Presbyterian Board
+of Publication, her book on "The Alaskans" and also a short work on the
+religious life, called "Mr. Standfast's Journey", besides preparing for the
+press a book entitled "Bricks from Babel", which she had previously written
+while visiting London and the British museum. The Rev. Joseph Cook fully
+endorses this book, and calls it 'a most admirable compendium of
+ethnography.' A set of religious biographies were, also, about this time,
+published in Arabic.
+
+"These works written and prepared for the press while she was occupying her
+quiet cottage home on Morris Plains, would alone have entitled her to a
+prominent place among the authors of whom Morristown has reason to be
+proud. But these are but a small portion of her literary labors. Judging
+from the number of books which appear over her signature, she must indeed
+be gifted with the 'pen of a ready writer.'
+
+"Among the more prominent works are 'The Early Church in Britain'; 'The
+Complete Home', of which over one hundred thousand copies have been sold;
+'Saints and Sinners of the Bible'; 'Almost a Nun'; 'The Priest and Nun'; 'A
+Wife Hard Won', a novel published by Lippincott; 'The Making of Rasmus';
+'Rasmus a Made Man'; and 'Rag Fair and May Fair'. The last deals with
+social questions in England, and is being re-published in London, as indeed
+a number of her other books have been, as well as translated into the
+French language.
+
+"Mrs. Wright's latest work, completed during a recent visit to the British
+museum, is a Series of Readers on Natural Science, called 'Nature Readers,
+Seaside and Wayside', which are having a large run in this country, in
+England and in Canada and which are a new invention in school books. They
+have been more warmly received than any books for our schools, for the past
+twenty-five years.
+
+"Very few persons have the talent of dealing with so many subjects and
+doing it so well. Even the Temperance cause owes much to Mrs. Wright, as
+its earnest advocate, and many of her thrilling stories on this subject
+have touched the hearts and inspired the actions of those who have read
+them. Nor has she, amid her multitude of duties, forgotten the young, as
+the large number of volumes on the shelves of our Sabbath School libraries,
+bearing her name can testify.
+
+"May the pen Mrs. Wright has so wisely and deftly used, in the cause of
+education and humanity, long continue through her skillful hand, to trace
+its characters upon the hearts and minds of those with whom it comes in
+contact!"
+
+
+Mrs. Edwina L. Keasbey.
+
+Though Mrs. Keasbey has published a most attractive and useful book, full
+of practical thoughts idealized, yet we place her and Mrs. Stockton in
+this grouping for the reason that a large part of her writing was of this
+character, on the whole. Much of it was graphically descriptive of scenes
+in foreign lands and at home, usually accompanied with reflections which
+indicate the _Essay_ character. Like others of our writers, there is a
+variety in her writing and choice of subjects which makes it somewhat
+difficult to place her with exactness.
+
+Most of Mrs. Keasbey's writing was originally done for _The Hospital
+Review_, a paper edited by her, during eleven years, for the St. Barnabas
+Hospital, which was founded largely through her efforts and influence and
+was a work to which she devoted her life. For this was written a series of
+papers entitled "A Lame Woman's Tramp through some Alpine Passes", and
+"Bits of English Scenery Sketched by a Lame Hand", among which is a fine
+and vivid picture of the first sight of Durham Cathedral. So, for this
+_Hospital Review_ were originally written the papers now collected and
+bound in one of the prettiest little volumes one could desire, convenient
+in size, artistic in design and with clear, large type and broad margins.
+This is entitled "The Culture of the Cradle".
+
+In the education of children, Mrs. Keasbey has found the key and basis of
+all true and reasonable training, in the development of the child's
+individuality. The object of this book is to suggest the meaning and
+purpose of true culture and to show how it must begin with the cradle and,
+says the author, "to give some suggestions and leaves from experience that
+may be of use to those who are striving to begin, in the right way, the
+education of their children." The book, published in 1886, has had a large
+sale and the entire proceeds have been devoted to the Hospital of St.
+Barnabas, which the author so much loved.
+
+Mrs. Keasbey was the eldest daughter of the Hon. J. W. Miller, and she
+inherited well her intense love of good works from her honored mother, who
+was so long identified with Morristown's philanthropic and charitable work.
+She was born in the old Macculloch mansion on Macculloch Avenue and lived
+there till her marriage in 1854, after which her literary qualities and
+rare executive abilities went to adorn the city of Newark where she will be
+tenderly remembered, and where her works live after her.
+
+
+FROM "THE CULTURE OF THE CRADLE."
+
+As I sit by my window on this beautiful spring day, preparing my article
+upon "The Nurture of Infants," a pair of little birds are building their
+nest in the vine that grows about my piazza, so I take my text from them.
+
+How busy they are, how absorbed in their work! The whole world contains
+for them no other point of interest, but only this little crotch in the
+vine which they have chosen to build their cradle in for their future
+little ones. We may be quite sure that it is the best spot in the whole
+vine, not too shady or too sunny, just happily out of the reach of cruel
+cat or mischievous boys, and then the cradle will be so perfect, strong
+enough to resist the winds that shake the vine, and covered enough to
+withstand the spring rains, and warm enough to shelter the little ones as
+they crack the shell; and so comfortable with its soft padding of cotton
+and down to cherish and protect the little tender bodies when they come
+into this cold world.
+
+I think it is nearly finished to-day, for the little mother has settled
+herself down into it and nestled herself in it and picked off her own soft
+down, and stuffed it in with the cotton that she had lined the nest with.
+She looks so satisfied and content, as if she would say, "it is quite ready
+now for my little darlings."
+
+With this little mother there is no word of complaint or selfish murmur
+though she is going to sit in that nest for many a long day and dark night,
+through storm and sunshine, until the little ones come forth from their
+eggs to gladden her heart and repay her care and work of preparation.
+
+Can we mothers have a better teacher or a wiser example than this little
+bird, whose lessons in motherhood have come to her direct from her
+Creator?
+
+
+Mrs. Marian E. Stockton.
+
+As to Mrs. Stockton's charming pen, we must reluctantly refrain from
+noticing her many essays and writings in various directions, principally
+prepared at the request of literary societies and other
+organizations,--always read by some one else, owing to the writer's great
+dislike for coming into public notice, and always published, and sent
+about, by the Society or group of people for whom they were written. The
+title of this book compels us, however, to mention this gifted woman's
+name, and we give below an extract from one delightful paper, written as
+usual by request for an important occasion, read by a distinguished
+literary woman, and as usual published.
+
+
+FROM "HOME AND SOCIETY."
+
+It may help to a proper understanding of the line of thought followed in
+this paper if I state in the beginning that it is, chiefly, an attempt to
+get a definite answer to the question so often asked: What is Society? It
+is an effort to arrive at a conclusion which the majority of American women
+may be willing to accept. Otherwise we shall find ourselves so beset with
+perplexities that we shall not be able to get anything out of our subject.
+For most persons have very vague ideas regarding society, and would find it
+difficult to express them. I have tried to get at the ideas of a few
+persons who might be supposed to know, with but small result. One says: "It
+is a limited company of persons of wealth and leisure who give up their
+time chiefly to entertainments and pleasure." This view of the subject
+suggests the familiar advertisements of a certain soap, reversing the sign;
+for taking out the pure article--_i. e._, the persons composing this
+society--we would have 99 44-100 of the people of the United States with no
+society at all. _So very little_ of the pure article will, I think,
+scarcely suffice to float this definition.
+
+Another says: "It is a collection of the best people in a city or
+neighborhood who give a tone to the place." This is better, but calls forth
+other questions. Whom do you mean by the "best people"? What is "tone"?
+What sort of "tone" do they give? New York, New Orleans, and Poker Flat
+would give widely different answers to these questions.
+
+Another defines it as "a number, large or small, of cultured people." This
+conveys a charming idea to the mind, but it is too limited, for we are
+considering to-day society in its broadest as well as its best aspects;
+and, surely, we would none of us be willing to deny to good-hearted,
+honest, decent people, the pleasure of forming a society of their own kind,
+and enjoying it in a rational--if uncultured--fashion. We want to-day to
+get hold of a comprehensive idea of society.
+
+Last summer, at a fashionable resort, I heard some New York ladies
+speaking, with admiration, of another lady in the hotel, and one exclaimed:
+"What a pity she is not in Society!" To this they all agreed, and another
+kindly asked: "Can't we do something to help her to know people?" As I knew
+this lady, and was aware of the fact that, when she returned to the city at
+the beginning of every season, she sent out cards to six hundred people, I
+was much surprised; for, if visiting and being visited by six hundred
+people is not being "in society", I do not know what is. Therefore, I could
+only infer that she was not in their special coterie.
+
+A very intelligent woman once told me frankly, that she could not imagine
+anything that could be called society outside the City of New York.
+
+Again I was told, some time ago, by a literary lady who was then residing
+in this city (but who is not here now): "Literary people are not
+recognized in New York society." I use her own words and they puzzled me.
+Soon after, there chanced to fall in my way a description of New York life
+by a Frenchman who had been entertained by all sorts of people. He stated
+that the most charming society in this city is the literary society, and he
+proceeded to paint it in glowing colors. Between the literary lady on one
+side and Max O'Rell on the other, I gave up that conundrum.
+
+These few examples of misconceptions and wrong-headedness in regard to what
+society really is will suffice to show how necessary it is to get a clear
+and comprehensive definition for it. To get this we must disentangle
+ourselves from all these figments, go back, and enter through the gate
+which naturally leads into society.
+
+
+
+
+TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.
+
+
+Marquis de Chastellux.
+
+The Marquis de Chastellux, counted in France a clever historian, is
+considered by us as a traveler, for he was one of the earliest French
+travelers in North America and, on his return to France, published a book
+entitled "Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781 and 1782, by the
+Marquis de Chastellux, one of the Forty Members of the French Academy, and
+Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau."
+This book was published in 1787 in London. In it we find the most graphic
+descriptions of the soldiers and officers of the Revolution, of West Point
+in its character of a military outpost; of the road between it and
+Morristown; of the beauty and grandeur of the Hudson River, as it burst for
+the first time upon his vision; of several interviews, visits and dinners
+with Washington and Lafayette, always giving his impressions in a unique
+and original way and with a sprinkle of humor which keeps a continuous
+smile upon the lips of the reader as he progresses in this remarkable
+narrative. It is really most difficult to choose from this fascinating
+book, for the short space we can allow.
+
+In speaking of his arrival here he refers to the _Arnold Tavern_, which may
+still be seen, removed from its original location but restored with great
+care, (though enlarged), and is now standing on Mt. Kemble Avenue, the old
+"Baskingridge Road" of the Revolution. He says:
+
+"I intended stopping at Morris Town only to bait my horses, for it was only
+half past two, but on entering the inn of Mr. Arnold, I saw a dining room
+adorned with looking glasses and handsome mahogany furniture and a table
+spread for twelve persons. I learnt that all this preparation was for me
+and what affected me more nearly was to see a dinner corresponding with the
+appearances, ready to serve up. I was indebted for this to the goodness of
+General Washington and the precautions of Colonel Moyland who had sent
+before to acquaint them with my arrival. It would have been very
+ungenerous to have accepted this dinner at the expenses of Mr. Arnold who
+is an honest man and a good Whig and who has not a particle in common with
+Benedict Arnold; it would have been still more awkward to have paid for the
+banquet without eating it. I therefore instantly determined to dine and
+sleep in this comfortable inn. The Vicomte de Noailles, the Comte de Damas,
+&c., were expected to make up the dozen."
+
+Chastellux apparently came as a passing traveler and seems to have been
+induced to prolong his stay and during that time gives us very graphic and
+interesting glimpses, to which we have referred, of the General and his
+officers, dinners at which he was present, reviews of troops, the army
+itself and its condition, with passing reflections about the country and
+the manners and customs of the time. Among the latter remarks, he observes:
+"Here, as in England, by _gentleman_ is understood a person possessing a
+considerable _freehold_, or land of his own." Of the officers, he says:
+
+"I must observe on this occasion the General Officers of the American Army
+have a very military and a very becoming carriage; that even all the
+officers, whose characters were brought into public view, unite much
+politeness to a great deal of capacity; that the headquarters of this army,
+in short, neither present the image of want nor inexperience. When one sees
+the battalion of the General's Guards encamped within the precincts of his
+house; nine waggons, destined to carry his baggage, ranged in his court; a
+great number of grooms taking care of very fine horses belonging to the
+General Officers and their Aides de Camp; when one observes the perfect
+order that reigns within these precincts, where the guards are exactly
+stationed, and where the drums beat an alarm, and a particular retreat, one
+is tempted to apply to the Americans what Pyrrhus said of the Romans:
+_Truly these people have nothing barbarous in their discipline._"
+
+Of his coming to Morristown, he says: "I pursued my journey, sometimes
+through fine woods at others through well cultivated lands and villages
+inhabited by Dutch families. One of these villages, which forms a little
+township bears the beautiful name of _Troy_. Here the country is more open
+and continues so to _Morris-Town_. This town celebrated by the winter
+quarters of 1779, is about three and twenty miles from Peakness, the name
+of the headquarters from whence I came: It is situated on a height, at the
+foot of which runs the rivulet called Vipenny River; the houses are
+handsome and well built, there are about sixty or eighty round the
+meeting-house."
+
+The Marquis tells of his reception at the Camp of Lafayette and, in giving
+us his picture, he gives us also what is of value to us in this day,--a
+Frenchman's impression of Lafayette in America:
+
+"Whilst they were making this slight repast, I went to see the Camp of the
+_Marquis_, it is thus they call M. de La Fayette: the English language
+being fond of abridgments and titles uncommon in America."
+
+Here, our eye is attracted to a note of the Translator, (an Englishman
+residing in America,)--who says, with much more besides: "It is impossible
+to paint the esteem and affection with which this French nobleman is
+regarded in America. It is to be surpassed only by the love of their
+illustrious chief."
+
+"The rain appearing to cease," continues the Marquis, "or inclined to cease
+for a moment, we availed ourselves of the opportunity to follow his
+Excellency to the Camp of the Marquis; we found all his troops in order of
+battle, on the heights on the left, and himself at their head; expressing
+by his air and countenance, that he was happier in receiving me there, than
+at his estate in Auvergne. The confidence and attachment of the troops, are
+for him invaluable possessions, well acquired riches, of which no body can
+deprive him; but what, in my opinion, is still more flattering for a young
+man of his age, is the influence, the consideration he has acquired amongst
+the political, as well as the military order; I do not fear contradictions
+when I say that private letters from him have frequently produced more
+effect on some states than the strongest exhortations of the Congress. On
+seeing him one is at a loss which most to admire, that so young a man as he
+should have given such eminent proofs of talents, or that a man so tried,
+should give hopes of so long a career of glory."
+
+His impression of the Hudson at West Point, will interest us all:
+
+"I continued my journey in the woods, in a road hemmed in on both sides by
+very steep hills which seemed admirably adapted for the dwelling of bears,
+and where, in fact, they often make their appearance in Winter. We availed
+ourselves at length of a less difficult part of these mountains to turn to
+the westward and approach the river but which is still invisible.
+Descending them slowly, at the turning of the road, my eyes were struck
+with the most magnificent picture I had ever beheld. It was a view of the
+North River, running in a deep channel, formed by the mountains, through
+which, in former ages it had forced its passage. The fort of West Point and
+the formidable batteries which defend it fix the attention on the Western
+bank, but on lifting your eyes, you behold on every side lofty summits,
+thick set with redoubts and batteries."
+
+One more passage we must give in this day of Morristown's horsemanship; in
+this year of '92 when all young Morristown is jumping fences and ditches
+in pursuit of the fox or the fox's representative. It is Chastellux's
+reference to Washington's horsemanship:
+
+"The weather being fair, on the 26th I got on horseback, after breakfasting
+with the General. He was so attentive as to give me the horse he rode on
+the day of my arrival, which I had greatly commended; I found him as good
+as he is handsome; but above all perfectly well broke, and well trained,
+having a good mouth, easy in hand, and stopping short in a gallop without
+bearing the bit. I mention these minute particulars, because it is the
+General himself who breaks all his own horses; and he is a very excellent
+and bold horseman, leaping the highest fences, and going extremely quick,
+without standing upon his stirrups, bearing on the bridle, or letting his
+horse run wild; circumstances which our young men look upon as so essential
+a part of English horsemanship, that they would rather break a leg or an
+arm than renounce them."
+
+
+John L. Stephens.
+
+Over fifty years ago, a traveler in Central America, Mr. John L. Stephens,
+records a curious and interesting allusion to Morristown, which we give
+below, from one of his two volumes of "Incidents of Travel in Central
+America and Yucatan"; 12th Edition; published in 1856. He says:
+
+"In the midst of the war rumours, the next day, which was Sunday, was one
+of the most quiet I passed in Central America. It was at the hacienda of
+Dr. Drivon, about a league from Zonzonate. This was one of the finest
+haciendas in the country. The doctor had imported a large sugar mill, which
+was not yet set up, and was preparing to manufacture sugar upon a larger
+scale than any other planter in the country. He was from the island of St.
+Lucie and, before settling in this out-of-the-way place, had travelled
+extensively in Europe and the West India Islands and knew America from
+Halifax to Cape Horn, but surprised me by saying that he looked forward to
+a cottage in Morristown, New Jersey, as the consummation of his wishes."
+
+
+Hon. Charles S. Washburn.
+
+Mr. Washburn who lived for several years in Morristown, was the brother of
+our late Minister to France. His most popular work is "The History of
+Paraguay," in two volumes, written while he was Commissioner and Minister
+Resident of the United States at Asuncion from 1861 to 1868. The writer may
+truly add on his title page, "Reminiscences of Diplomacy under
+Difficulties." As is well known, Mr. Washburn was minister to Paraguay
+under Lopez, one of the three most noted tyrants of South America, whose
+character is admirably brought out in this history of the country. His
+description of Lopez is most graphic. The work is so exhaustive that we get
+up from it with a feeling, "We know Paraguay". Besides this "History of
+Paraguay", Mr. Washburn has also written "Gomery of Montgomery", in two
+volumes and "Political Evolution from Poverty to Competence".
+
+At the close of the first volume, we find a masterly summing up of the
+singular character of Lopez, in these words:
+
+"Previous to the death of Lopez, history furnishes no example of a tyrant
+so despicable and cruel that at his fall he left no friend among his own
+people; no apologist or defender, no follower or participant of his
+infamies, to utter one word in palliation of his crimes; no one to regret
+his death, or who cherished the least spark of love for his person or his
+memory; no one to utter a prayer for the repose of his soul. In this
+respect, Lopez had surpassed all tyrants who ever lived. No sooner was he
+dead, than all alike, the officer high in command, the subaltern who
+applied the torture, the soldier who passively obeyed, the mother who bore
+him, and the sisters who once loved him, all joined in denouncing him as an
+unparalleled monster; and of the whole Paraguayan nation there is perhaps
+not one of the survivors who does not curse his name, and ascribe to his
+folly, selfishness, ambition and cruelty all the evils that his unhappy
+country has suffered. Not a family remains which does not charge him with
+having destroyed the larger part of its members and reduced the survivors
+to misery and want. Of all those who were within reach of his death-dealing
+hand during the last years of his power, there are but two persons living
+to say a word in mitigation of the judgment pronounced against him by his
+countrymen and country-women."
+
+
+General Joseph Warren Revere.
+
+The late General Revere, one of Morristown's old and well-known residents,
+wrote, at the close of his military and naval career, a graphic and
+interesting book of travels entitled "Keel and Saddle; a Retrospect of
+Forty Years of Military and Naval Service"; published in 1872 by James R.
+Osgood of Boston. Another book appeared later, called "A Tour of Duty in
+California."
+
+General Revere tells us in "Keel and Saddle" that he entered the United
+States Navy at the age of fourteen years as a midshipman and, after a short
+term spent at the Naval School at the New York Navy Yard, he sailed on his
+first cruise to the Pacific Ocean on board the frigate "Guerriere",
+"bearing the pennant of Com. Charles C. B. Thompson, in the summer of the
+year 1828." For three years he served in the Pacific Squadron. After
+cruising in many waters and experiencing the various vicissitudes of naval
+life, in 1832 he passed his examination for lieutenant and sailed in the
+frigate "Constitution" for France.
+
+During this Mediterranean cruise, when he made his first visit to Rome, he
+saw Madame Letitia, mother of the first Napoleon, by whom he was received
+with a small party of American officers. We shall give this scene as he
+describes it.
+
+In this book, "Keel and Saddle", (page 140) occurs a very fine description
+of a great oceanic disturbance known to mariners in Southern seas as a
+"comber", or great wave. Suddenly encountered, it causes the destruction of
+many vessels.
+
+Of Madame Letitia, in 1832 he writes as follows:
+
+"Madame Mere or Madame Letitia, as she was usually called, being requested
+to grant an interview to a small party of American officers, of which I was
+one, graciously assented, and fixed a day for the reception at the palace
+she occupied.
+
+"Repairing thither at the hour appointed, after a short detention in a
+spacious ante-chamber, we were ushered into one of those lofty saloons
+common to Italian palaces, handsomely, not gorgeously furnished, and
+opening by spacious windows into a beautiful garden. There, with her back
+towards the subdued light from the windows, we saw an elderly lady
+reclining on a sofa, in a graceful attitude of repose. She was attended by
+three ladies, who all remained standing during our visit. In the recess of
+one of the windows, on a tall pedestal of antique marble, stood a
+magnificent bust of the emperor; while upon the walls of the saloon, in
+elegant frames, were hung the portraits of her children, all of whom had
+been kings and queens--of royal rank though not of royal lineage. Madame
+Letitia received us with perfect courtesy, without rising from her
+reclining position; motioning us gracefully to seats with a polite gesture
+of a hand and arm still of noble contour and dazzling whiteness. It was
+easy to see where the emperor got his small white hands, of which he was so
+vain, as we are told; while the classic regularity of his well-known
+features was clearly traceable in the lineaments of the lady before us. Her
+head was covered with a cap of lace; and her somewhat haughty but
+expressive face, beaming with intelligence, was framed in clustering curls
+_a l'antique_. Her eyes were brilliant, large and piercing, (I think they
+could hardly have been more so in her youth); and the lines of her mouth
+and chin gave an expression of firmness, courage and determination to a
+fine physiognomy perfectly in character with the historical antecedents and
+attributes of Letitia Ramolini. Of the rest of her dress, we saw but
+little; her bust being covered by a lace handkerchief crossed over the
+bosom, and her dark silk robe partially concealed by a superb cashmere
+shawl thrown over the lower part of her person. She opened the conversation
+by making some complimentary remark about our country; asking after her son
+Joseph, who resided then at Bordentown, N. J.; and seemed pleased at
+receiving news of him from one of our party, who had seen him not long
+before. She asked this officer whether the King (_le roi d'Espagne_) still
+resembled the portrait in her possession which was a very fine one; and
+upon our asking permission to examine the bust of the emperor, the greatest
+of her sons, told us that it was considered a fine work of art, it being,
+indeed, from the chisel of Canova; adding, I fancied with a little sigh of
+melancholy, 'Il resemble beaucoup a l'empereur.' After some further
+commonplaces, she signified in the most delicate and dignified manner, more
+by looks than by words, addressed to the ladies of our party, referring to
+her rather weak state of health, that the interview should terminate; and,
+having made our obeisance, we left her."
+
+
+Henry Day.
+
+In 1874, an interesting volume of travels appeared, entitled "A Lawyer
+Abroad. What to See and How to See: by Henry Day, of the Bar of New York."
+
+Mr. Day's house "On the Hill", with its superb view, is occupied only in
+summer; but year after year, with the birds and the spring sunshine, he
+returns to us from his home in New York, so he is thoroughly associated
+with Morristown. His book, unlike a large majority of "Travels" is not
+merely a "Tourist's Guide" or a series of descriptive sketches hung
+together by commonplace reflections, and interlarded with meaningless
+drawing-room or roadside dialogue.
+
+Evidently, it is written with a high purpose and it is rich in valuable
+information concerning men and things, as if the writer himself were in
+living touch with the best interests of humanity whether found in the
+cities of Egypt, among the learned and polished minds of Edinburgh or in
+the Wynds of Glasgow, of which he so graphically says:
+
+"They are now long filthy, airless lanes, packed with buildings on each
+side and each building packed with human beings; and, geographically as
+well as morally they receive the drainage of all the surrounding city of
+Glasgow."
+
+Here it was in the old Tron Church that Dr. Chalmers did his finest
+preaching and his most effective practical work. Mr. Day has an evident
+loving sympathy with the great Scotch preacher, quite apart from the
+intellectual qualities of his gigantic mind. In these few condensed pages,
+Mr. Day has given us a more compact idea of Dr. Chalmer's work than may be
+found in many elaborated chapters of his life.
+
+The chapter upon "The Lawyers and Judges of England" is one of exceptional
+interest to those in the profession, as well as to those out of it, and
+this is one unique quality of the book--that we have given to us the
+impressions of a traveler from a lawyer's standpoint, not only in England,
+but in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Greece,
+Turkey, Egypt and the Holy Land. And, not only from a lawyer's standpoint
+does he see the world, but evidently from the standpoint of a man of high
+general culture whose spiritual and religious sentiments and principles
+enlighten and illuminate his understanding.
+
+In the chapter on "The Early Life of Great Men", speaking of Edinburgh, he
+says:
+
+"Everything gives you the feeling that you are among the most learned and
+polished minds of the present and past generations. It is not business or
+wealth that has given to Edinburgh its prominence. It is learning; it is
+its great men."
+
+One of Mr. Day's finest descriptions is found in his chapter on the Nile.
+
+In 1877 this author published, through Putnams' Sons, a book having the
+title "From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules", giving sketches of
+scenery, art and life in Spain.
+
+Mr. Day has also written a good deal for a few years past for publication
+in the _New York Evangelist_ on the great questions now agitating the
+Presbyterian church, namely, the revision of its creed called "The
+Confession of Faith" and also on the Briggs case and the Union Theological
+Seminary case. Mr. Day wisely says; "this newspaper writing can hardly be
+called authorship although the articles are more important than the
+books."
+
+
+
+
+THEOLOGIANS.
+
+
+Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D.
+
+Of the historic characters of Morristown, none are more prominent than the
+Rev. Dr. Johnes, who began his pastorate in the old Meeting House of
+Morristown which was probably reared before his coming. His labors began
+August 13th, 1742. He was ordained and installed February 9th, 1743, and
+continued pastor through the scenes of the Revolution till his death in
+1791. He was the friend of Washington and supported him effectually in many
+of the measures he adopted in which his strong influence with the community
+was of great weight and value.
+
+It was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Johnes, Theodosia, who married Col. Jacob
+Ford, jr., who lived at what is now known as the Washington Headquarters
+and offered the hospitality of her mansion to Washington during his second
+winter at Morristown. He also offered the Presbyterian church building for
+hospital use during the terrible scourge of small-pox,--himself acting as
+chief nurse to the soldiers,--and, with his congregation, worshipped for
+many months in the open air, on a spot still shown behind his house, on
+Morris street, which is standing to-day, and now owned and occupied by Mrs.
+Eugene Ayers. It was on this spot, in a natural basin which the
+congregation occupied as being somewhat sheltered from the bitter winds of
+winter, and which may still be seen, that good Pastor Johnes administered
+the Communion to Washington. "This was the only time," says Rev. Dr. Green,
+in his "Morristown" in the "History of Morris County", after his entrance
+upon his public career, that Washington is certainly known to have partaken
+of the Lord's Supper. In _The Record_ for June and August, 1880, we find a
+full account of this historic incident. As the Communion time drew near,
+Washington sought good Pastor Johnes, we are told, and inquired of him, if
+membership of the Presbyterian church was required "As a term of admission
+to the ordinance." To this the doctor replied, "ours is not the
+Presbyterian table, but the Lord's table, and we hence give the Lord's
+invitation to all his followers of whatever name." "On the following
+Sabbath," says Dr. Green, "in the cold air, the General was present with
+the congregation, assembled in the orchard in the rear of the parsonage",
+on the spot before referred to, "and joined with them in the solemn service
+of Communion."
+
+In the family of good Pastor Johnes, a granddaughter of whom, Mrs. O. L.
+Kirtland, is with us still, the last of a large number of brothers and
+sisters, it has been known for generations that they originated in Wales.
+We have from Mrs. Kirtland's granddaughter the following interesting
+record:
+
+"Rev. Timothy Johnes came to Morristown, N. J., from Southampton about
+1742. His great-great-grandfather, Richard Johnes, of Somerset, Eng.,
+descended from a younger branch of the Johnes of Dolancotlie in
+Caemarthenshire, Wales, came over and settled in Charleston, Mass., in
+1630, was made constable, and had 'Mr.' before his name, an honor in those
+days. He went to live at Southampton, L. I., in 1644, and he and his
+descendants held important positions there for nearly two hundred years.
+Burke's _Landed Gentry_ states that the Johnes were descended from Urien
+Reged, one of King Arthur's Knights, and who built the Castle Caer Caenin,
+and traced descent back to Godebog, King of Britain. But accurate record
+must begin at a later date, when William Johnes, in the reign of
+Elizabeth, was Commander on the 'Crane' and killed in a battle against the
+Spanish Armada."
+
+Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D., was the great-great-grandson of the first
+Johnes who arrived in this country. Rev. Timothy graduated at Yale in 1737;
+was born in 1717 and died in 1794. He received many ordination calls while
+at Southampton, Long Island, and was perplexed as to which one to accept,
+so "he referred the matter, says the great-great-granddaughter before
+referred to," to Providence, deciding to accept the next one made. He had
+not risen from his knees more than twenty minutes, when two old men came to
+his house and asked him to become pastor of a small congregation that had
+collected at Morristown, then called by the Indian tongue Rockciticus. When
+nearly here, after traveling long in the forest, he inquired of his guides:
+"Where is Rockciticus?" "Here and there and every where," was the reply,
+and so it was, scattered through the woods.
+
+Of Dr. Johnes' children,--Theodosia, as we have stated, was the hostess of
+Washington at the Ford mansion, her home, and now the Washington
+Headquarters. Anna, the eldest daughter, married Joseph Lewis and is the
+ancestress of one of our distinguished authors, the Rev. Theodore Ledyard
+Cuyler, D. D. The daughter of this Anna Lewis, married Charles Morrell and
+they occupied the house of Mr. Wm. L. King on Morris St., and there
+entertained Lafayette as their guest in the winter of '79 and '80. Their
+daughter, Louisa married Ledyard Cuyler and they had a son, Theodore
+Ledyard Cuyler, well-known to us and to all the world. Mary Anna, a grand
+daughter, married Mr. Williams, of Newburg, and others of the family
+followed there. They pronounce the name _John_-es, giving up the long _o_
+(Jones), of the old Doctor's sounding of the name. A grandson, Frank, went
+west and had a large family who are more or less distinguished in Decatur,
+Illinois. They omit the _e_ in the name and call themselves Johns. It is
+only in Morristown that the family retain the original spelling of Johnes
+and pronunciation of _Jones_.
+
+The son of the old Doctor, William, remained in the old house, and there
+brought up a large family of whom the above two, named, were members, also
+Mrs. Kirtland, who is still with us, with her daughter and grandchildren,
+and Mrs. Alfred Canfield, who long lived among us but has passed away.
+
+One of the old Doctor's sons was named, as we might expect, George
+Washington and was the grandfather of Mrs. Theodore Little, and built the
+old house on the hill near our beautiful Evergreen Cemetery. This house was
+built soon after Washington's occupation of Morristown, and the large place
+including the ancient house has lately been sold and will soon be laid out
+in streets and lots, as the demand comes from the increasing population of
+our city. Fortunate are we to have so many of the old land-marks left to
+us!
+
+Mrs. Woodruff, the step-mother, honored and beloved, of Mrs. Whelpley
+Dodge, was also a daughter of old Doctor Johnes.
+
+Another son of the old Doctor was Dr. John B. Johnes, who built the house
+with columns opposite the old place, still standing, and there he lived and
+died, high in his profession, greatly honored and beloved. His daughter
+Margaret, was the step-mother of another of our distinguished men and
+writers, the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D.
+
+And so we find this ancient family from Wales, the land of the poetic
+Celts, and many of whom are yet living in that corner of the world from
+which these came, still sending on their influence and maintaining their
+high standard of principle and honor, which characterized good Pastor
+Johnes, during the fifty-four years of his ministry in Morristown.
+
+
+Rev. James Richards, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Richards, who was settled as the third pastor over the First
+Church of Morristown, May 1st, 1795, was a theological author, many of
+whose sermons and other writings are published, and later, he was professor
+of theology in the Auburn theological seminary. Dr. Richards, like Dr.
+Johnes, was of Welsh descent. His salary was $440, in quarterly payments,
+the use of the parsonage, and firewood. To supplement this income, resort
+was had to a "wood-frolick", which was, we are told, a great event in the
+parish and to which the men brought the minister's years' supply of fuel
+and for which the ladies prepared a supper. The "spinning visit" was
+another feature of his pastorate, on which occasion were brought various
+amounts of "linen thread, yard and cloth". The thread brought, being not
+always of the same texture and size, it was often a puzzle indeed to the
+weaver to "make the cloth and finish it alike". At last the meagreness of
+this pastor's salary proved so great a perplexity, especially as his
+expenses were increasing with his growing family, that he gave up the
+problem, and went to Newark, N. J., accepting a call from the First
+Presbyterian Church there, from which, after fifteen years, he went as
+professor of theology to the Auburn Seminary, where he remained until his
+death in 1843.
+
+
+Rev. Albert Barnes.
+
+Fifth in order of these early divines of the Morristown's First Church, is
+the Rev. Albert Barnes. He occupied this pastorate from 1825 to June 1830.
+It was here that he preached, in 1829, that remarkable sermon, "The Way of
+Salvation", which was the entering wedge that prepared the way for the
+unfortunate division among the Presbyterians into the two schools Old and
+New, which division and the names attached to each side, it may gladly be
+said, came to an end by a happy union of the two branches, a few years ago.
+
+The Rev. Albert Barnes was also a pioneer of the Temperance movement in
+Morristown and his eloquence and influence in this cause resulted in the
+closing of several distilleries. From Morristown he was called to
+Philadelphia, where he passed through his severest trials. It is needless
+to mention that he was a voluminous writer and that he has made a
+world-wide reputation by his valuable "Notes on the Gospels", so well-known
+to all Biblical scholars. Rev. Mr. Henderson of London says: "I consider
+Barnes 'Notes on the New Testament' to be one of the most valuable boons
+bestowed in these latter days upon the Church of Christ." And the Rev.
+David King of Glasgow says: "The primary design of the Rev. Albert Barnes'
+books is to furnish Sunday School teachers with plain and simple
+explanations of common difficulties."
+
+We are impressed with the rare modesty of so eminent a writer and
+distinguished divine when he read that the Rev. Albert Barnes several times
+refused the title of "D. D.", from conscientious motives.
+
+Among the celebrated sermons and addresses published by this author was one
+very powerful sermon on "The Sovereignty of God", and also an "Address
+delivered July 4th, 1827," at the Presbyterian church, Morristown. In the
+"Advertisement" or preface, to the former, the author says in pungent
+words: "It was written during the haste of a weekly preparation for the
+Sabbath and is not supposed to contain anything new on the subject. * * *
+The only wonder is that it (the very plain doctrine of the Bible) should
+ever have been called in question or disputed--or that in a world where
+man's life and peace and hopes, all depend on the truth that GOD REIGNS,
+such a doctrine _should have ever needed any demonstration_."
+
+The condition of Morristown when Mr. Barnes came into the pastorate, in
+respect of intemperance was almost beyond the power of imagination,
+serious, as the evil seems to us at the present day. He found "drinking
+customs in vogue and distilleries dotted all over the parish." Fearlessly
+he set himself to stem this evil, which indeed he did succeed in arresting
+to a large extent. His "Essays on Temperance" are marvellous productions,
+as full of fire and energy and the power of conviction to-day as when first
+issued from the press, and these addresses were so powerful in their effect
+on the community that "soon," says our historian, Rev. Dr. Green,
+"seventeen (of the 19) distilleries were closed and not long after his
+departure, the fires of the other two went out."
+
+In the course of one of his arguments, he says: "There are many, flitting
+in pleasure at an imagined rather than a real distance, who may be saved
+from entering the place of the wretched dying, and of the horrid dead. Here
+I wish to take my stand. I wish to tell the mode in which men become
+abandoned. In the language of a far better moralist and reprover than I am
+(Dr. Lyman Beecher), I wish to lay down a chart of this way to destruction,
+and to rear a monument of warning upon every spot where a wayfaring man
+has been ensnared and destroyed.
+
+"I commence with the position that no man probably ever became designedly a
+drunkard. I mean that no man ever sat down coolly and looked at the redness
+of eyes, the haggardness of aspect, the weakness of limbs, the nausea of
+stomach, the profaneness and obscenity and babbling of a drunkard and
+deliberately desired all these. I shall be slow to believe that it is in
+human nature to wish to plunge into all this wretchedness. Why is it then
+that men become drunkards? I answer it is because the vice steals on them
+silently. It fastens on them unawares, and they find themselves wallowing
+in all this corruption, before they think of danger."
+
+The power and beauty of Mr. Barnes' most celebrated sermon on "The Way of
+Salvation", impresses the reader, from page to page. Towards the close, he
+says:
+
+
+FROM "THE PLAN OF SALVATION."
+
+"The scheme of salvation, I regard, as offered to the _world_, as free as
+the light of heaven, or the rains that burst on the mountains, or the full
+swelling of broad rivers and streams, or the heavings of the deep. And
+though millions do not receive it--though in regard to them the benefits of
+the plan are lost, and to them, in a certain sense, the plan may be said
+to be in vain, yet I see in this the hand of the same God that pours the
+rays of noonday on barren sands and genial showers on desert rocks, and
+gives life, bubbling springs and flowers, where no man is in _our_ eyes,
+yet not to _His, in vain_. So is the offer of eternal life, to every man
+here, to every man everywhere, sincere and full--an offer that though it
+may produce no emotions in the sinner's bosom _here_, would send a thrill
+of joy through all the panting bosoms of the suffering damned."
+
+
+Rev. Samuel Whelpley.
+
+Rev. Mr. Whelpley became Principal of the Morristown Academy in 1797 and
+remained until 1805. He came from New England and was originally a Baptist,
+but in Morristown he gave up the plan which he had cherished of becoming a
+Baptist minister and united with the Presbyterian church. In 1803, he gave
+his reasons for this change of views, publicly, in a "Discourse delivered
+in the First Church" and published. His "Historical Compend" is one of his
+important works. It contains, "A brief survey of the great line of history
+from the earliest time to the present day, together with a general view of
+the world with respect to Civilization, Religion and Government, and a
+brief dissertation on the importance of historical knowledge." This was
+issued in two volumes "By Samuel Whelpley, A. M., Principal of Morris
+Academy" and was printed by Henry P. Russell and dedicated to Rev. Samuel
+Miller, D. D.
+
+This author was not, by-the-way, the father of Chief Justice Whelpley, of
+Morristown, who also is noticed in this book, but was the cousin of his
+father, Dr. William A. Whelpley, a practicing physician here.
+
+"Lectures on Ancient History, together with an allegory of Genius and
+Taste" was another of Mr. Whelpley's books. Among his works, perhaps the
+most celebrated was, and is, "The Triangle", a theological work which is "A
+Series of numbers upon Three Theological Points, enforced from Various
+Pulpits in the City of New York." This was published in 1817, and a new
+edition in 1832. In this work, says Hon. Edmund D. Halsey, the leaders and
+views of what was long afterward known as the Old School Theology were
+keenly criticised and ridiculed. The book caused a great sensation in its
+day and did not a little toward hastening the division in the Presbyterian
+Church into Old and New School. This book was published without his name,
+by "Investigator". In it the author says:
+
+
+FROM "THE TRIANGLE."
+
+"You shall hear it inculcated from Sabbath to Sabbath in many of our
+churches, and swallowed down, as a sweet morsel, by many a gaping mouth,
+that a man ought to feel himself actually guilty of a sin committed six
+thousand years before he was born; nay, that prior to all consideration of
+his own moral conduct, _he ought to feel himself deserving of eternal
+damnation for the first sin of Adam_. * * * No such doctrine is taught in
+the Scriptures, or can impose itself on any rational mind, which is not
+trammeled by education, dazzled by interest, warped by prejudice and
+bewildered by theory. This is one corner of the triangle above mentioned.
+
+"This doctrine perpetually urged, and the subsequent strain of teaching
+usually attached to it, will not fail to drive the incautious mind to
+secret and practical, or open infidelity. An attempt to force such
+monstrous absurdities on the human understanding, will be followed by the
+worst effects. A man who finds himself condemned for that of which he is
+not guilty will feel little regret for his real transgressions.
+
+"I shall not apply these remarks to the purpose I had in view, till I have
+considered some other points of a similar character;--or, if I may resort
+to the metaphor alluded to, till I have pointed out the other two angles of
+the triangle."
+
+
+Stevens Jones Lewis.
+
+Mr. Lewis was a grandson of Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes and great uncle of the
+Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. He was a theologian whose writings made a
+ripple in the orthodox stream of thought, and was disciplined in the First
+church for his doctrines. He published two pamphlets in justification of
+his peculiar views. The first was on "The Moral Creation the peculiar work
+of Christ. A very different thing from that of the Physical Creation which
+is the exclusive work of God", printed in Morristown by L. B. Hull, in
+1838. Also there was one entitled "Showing the manner in which they do
+things in the Presbyterian church in the Nineteenth Century". "For the
+rulers had agreed already that if any man did confess that Jesus was Christ
+('was Christ, not God Almighty'), he should be put out of the synagogue."
+"Morristown, N. J., Printed for the author, 1837."
+
+
+Rev. Rufus Smith Green, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Green, so much esteemed by the people of all denominations in
+Morristown, has a claim to honorable mention among our authors, having
+written largely and to good purpose.
+
+His "History of Morristown," a division of the book entitled the "History
+of Morris County", published by Munsell & Co., New York, in 1882, is a
+valuable contribution to our literature, combining in delightful form, a
+large amount of information from many sources, which has cost the writer
+much labor. As a book of reference it is in constant demand in the
+"Morristown Library" now, and one of the books which is not allowed long to
+remain out, for that reason. This fact carries its own weight without
+further comment.
+
+Dr. Green succeeded the Rev. John Abbott French in June, 1877, to the
+pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, and remained
+until 1881, when he accepted the charge of the Lafayette St. Presbyterian
+Church of Buffalo, N. Y., and removed to that city.
+
+After his graduation at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1867, Dr. Green went
+abroad and was a student in the Berlin University during 1869 and '70.
+During this period he gained complete command of the German language,
+which has been vastly helpful to him in his writing as well as, in many
+instances, in his pastoral work. He was graduated from the Auburn
+Theological Seminary in 1873. He then accepted a charge at Westfield, N.
+Y., and in 1877 came to Morristown. During his Morristown pastorate, he
+began the publication of _The Record_, a monthly periodical devoted to
+historical matter connected with the First Church in particular, but also
+with Morristown generally and Morris County as well,--the First Church, in
+its history, striking it roots deep, and radiating in many directions. This
+was continued for the years 1880 and 1881, 24 numbers. Rev. Wm. Durant, Dr.
+Green's successor in the pastorate of the First Church, resumed the work in
+January 1883, and continued its publication until January 1886. It is an
+invaluable contribution to the early history of the town and county.
+
+Another of Dr. Green's publications is "Both Sides, or Jonathan and
+Absalom", published in 1888 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
+Philadelphia. This is a volume of sermons to young men, the aim of which
+can be seen from the preface which we quote entire:
+
+"It would be difficult to find two characters better fitted than those of
+Jonathan and Absalom to give young men right views of life--the one, in its
+nobleness and beauty, an inspiration; the other, in its vanity and wicked
+self-seeking, an awful warning. The two present both sides of the picture,
+and from opposite points of view teach the same lessons never more
+important than at the present time. It has been the author's purpose to
+enforce these lessons rather than to write a biography. May they guide many
+a reader to the choice of the right side!"
+
+In writing of the friendship of Jonathan and David the author says:
+
+"The praises of Friendship have been sung by poets of all ages,--orator's
+have made it a theme for their eloquence,--philosophers have written
+treatises upon it,--historians have described its all too rare
+manifestations. No stories from the far off Past are more charming than
+those which tell of Damon and Pythias,--of Orestes and Pylades--of Nisus
+and Euryalus--but better and more inspiring than philosophic treatise or
+historic description, more beautiful even than song of poet, is the
+Friendship of which the text speaks,--the love of Jonathan for David. It is
+one of the world's ideal pictures, all the more prized, because it is not
+only ideal but real. It was the Divine love which made the earthly
+friendship so pure and beautiful."
+
+For _Our Church at Work_, a monthly periodical of many years' standing
+connected with the Lafayette Street church, of Buffalo, Dr. Green has
+largely written.
+
+An important pamphlet on "The Revised New Testament" was published in 1881,
+by the _Banner_ Printing Office, of Morristown, and, in addition to these,
+fugitive sermons, and numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals have
+passed from his pen to print.
+
+When Dr. Green left Morristown, this was the tribute given him at the final
+service in the old church where hundreds of people were turned away for
+want of room. These were the words of the speaker on that occasion: "Dr.
+Green came to a united people; he has at all times presided over a united
+people and he leaves a united people."
+
+
+Rev. William Durant.
+
+Rev. Wm. Durant followed the Rev. Dr. Green in his ministry in the First
+Presbyterian Church in Morristown, May 11th, 1883, remaining in this charge
+until May, 1887, when he resigned, to accept the call of the Boundary
+Avenue Church, Baltimore, Md. He took up also, with Hon. John Whitehead as
+editor, at first, the onerous though very interesting work of _The Record_,
+which labor both he and Rev. Dr. Green as well as Mr. Whitehead, gave "as
+a free will offering to the church and the community".
+
+Rev. Mr. Durant was born in Albany, N. Y., and prepared for college at the
+Albany Academy. He then travelled a year in Europe, studied theology at
+Princeton and was graduated from that college in 1872. The same year he
+took charge of the First Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee, for the summer
+only, after which he traveled through the west, and was then ordained to
+the ministry, in Albany, and installed pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian
+Church of that city, from which, in 1883, he came to Morristown, as we have
+said.
+
+While in Albany he edited "Church Polity", a selection of articles
+contributed by the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D., to the _Princeton Review_;
+Scribner's Sons, publishers. Afterwards, in Morristown, he published a
+"History of the First Presbyterian Church, Morristown," with genealogical
+data for 13,000 names on its registers; a part of this only has been
+published. "A Letter from One in Heaven; An Allegory", is a booklet of
+singular interest as the title would suggest. One or two short stories of
+his have been published among numerous contributions to religious papers on
+subjects of ecclesiology and practical religion, also a score or more of
+sermons in pamphlet form.
+
+He is at present preparing, for publication, a "Durant Genealogy", to
+include all now in this country of the name and descent. This was begun in
+the fall of 1886.
+
+In the opening number of _The Record_ for January 1883, after the
+suspension of the publication for two years, we print the following paper
+of "Congratulations" from Rev. Wm. Durant, which as it concerns the spirit
+of Morristown, we give in full:
+
+
+"CONGRATULATIONS", ON THE REVIVAL OF "THE RECORD".
+
+The season is propitious. _The Record_ awakes from a long nap--not as long
+as Rip Van Winkle's--to greet its readers with a Happy New Year.
+
+But where is the suggestion of those garments all tattered and torn? We
+mistake. It is not Rip Van Winkle, but the Sleeping Beauty who comes to us,
+by fairy enchantment, decked in the latest fashion. Sleep has given her new
+attractions.
+
+Happy we who may receive her visits with the changing moons, and scan her
+treasures new and old. Her bright look shows a quick glance to catch
+flashes of present interest. And there is depth, too, a far offness about
+her glance. Its gleam of the present is the shimmer that lies on the
+surface of a deep well of memory. What stories she can tell us of the past!
+Though so youthful her appearance, she romped with our grandmothers and
+made lint for the hospital and blankets for the camps, that winter
+Washington was here, when his bare-foot soldiers shivered in the snows on
+Mount Kemble or lay dying by scores in the old First Church. Yes, she was a
+girl of comely parts, albeit of temper to enjoy a tiff with her good mother
+of Hanover, when our city was a frontier settlement, full only of log
+cabins and primitive hardships in the struggle against wild nature.
+
+For a maiden still, and one who has seen so many summers, marvelous is her
+cheery, youthful look. Ponce de Leon made the mistake of his life when he
+sought his enchanted fountain in Florida instead of where Morristown was to
+be. It is not on the Green, for the aqueduct folks now hold the title.
+
+From lips still ruddy with youth, is it not delicious to hear the gossip of
+olden time! And our maiden knows it all, for she was present at all the
+baptisms, danced at all the weddings, thrilled with heavenly joy when our
+ancestors confessed the Son of Man before the high pulpit, and stood with
+tears in her eyes when one after another they were laid in the graves
+behind. Their names are still on her tongues' end, and it is with loving
+recollection that she tells of the long lists like the one she brings this
+month.
+
+But her gossip is not all of names. What she will tell of events and
+progress, of the unwritten history that has given character to families, to
+State or Nation, there is no need of predicting, we have only to welcome
+her at our fireside and listen while she speaks.
+
+
+Rev. J. Macnaughtan, D. D.
+
+Dr. Macnaughtan, present pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and
+successor of Rev. Wm. Durant, a profound scholar and thinker and most
+interesting writer, has not entered largely into the world of letters as an
+author or a publisher of his writings. Some papers of his, and some
+articles have, however, been published from time to time and a sermon now
+and then, notably, within two years, one on "Revision: Its Spirit and
+Aims", and the Centennial Sermon that was delivered on Sunday, October
+11th, 1891, on the memorable occasion of the Centennial of the erection of
+the present First Church building. This sermon was published in the
+_Banner_, of Morristown, and is to appear again, with all the interesting
+addresses and sketches, given on that day and on the following days of the
+celebration,--in the book which Mr. Whitehead is preparing on "The History
+of the First Presbyterian Church".
+
+Dr. Macnaughtan's pastorate will always be associated with this time of
+historic retrospection and also with the passing away of the old building
+and the introduction of the new. Of this old building, endeared to many of
+Morristown's people, this book will probably be the last to make mention
+while it stands. An old-time resident touchingly says of the coming event:
+"There have been great changes within my remembrance (in Morristown). I was
+born in 1813 and have always lived where I do now. My memory goes back to
+the time when there were only two churches in the town; the First
+Presbyterian and the Baptist. The latter is now being removed for other
+purposes, and our old church, that has stood through its 100 years, will
+soon be removed, to make place for a new one. I was in hopes it would
+remain during my days, but the younger generation wants something new, more
+in the present style."
+
+
+FROM THE "CENTENNIAL SERMON."
+
+     Ask now of the days that are past.
+
+                 --_Deuteronomy 4:32._
+
+One hundred years ago on the 20th of last September (1891), a very stirring
+and animated scene could have been witnessed on this spot where we are so
+quietly assembled this morning for our Sabbath worship. On the morning of
+that day, some 200 men were assembled here, with the implements of their
+calling, and the task of erecting this now venerable structure was begun.
+The willing hands of trained mechanics and others, under the direction of
+Major Joseph Lindsley and Gilbert Allen, both elders of the church, lifted
+aloft these timbers, and the work of creating this sanctuary was begun.
+When one inspects the timbers forming the frame of this structure, great
+masses of hewn oak, and enough of it to build two structures of the size of
+this edifice, as such buildings are now erected, one sees how necessary it
+was that so great a force of men should be on hand. One can well believe
+that the animation of the scene was only equalled by the excited emotions
+of the people, in whose behalf the building was being erected. The task
+begun was a gigantic one for that time. The plans contemplated the erection
+of a structure which, "for strength, solidity and symmetry of proportion,"
+should "not be excelled by any wooden building of that day in New Jersey."
+But it was not alone the generosity of the plan of the structure that made
+it a gigantic enterprise, but the material circumstances of the people who
+had undertaken the work. The men of a hundred years ago were rich for the
+most part only in faith and self-sacrifice. But looking at this house as it
+stands to-day, and remembering the generations who under this roof have
+been reproved, guided, comforted, and pointed to the supreme ends of being,
+who shall say that they who are rich only in faith and self-sacrifice are
+poor? Out of their material poverty our fathers builded this house through
+which for a century God has been sending to our homes and into our lives
+the rich messages of his grace and salvation--where from week to week our
+souls have been fronted with the invisible and eternal, and where by psalm
+and hymn, and the solemn words of God's grand Book, and the faithful
+preaching of a long line of devoted and consecrated men, we have been
+reminded of the seriousness and awfulness of life, of the sublime meanings
+of existence, and the grand ends which it is capable of conserving; where
+multitudes have confessed a Saviour found, and have consecrated their souls
+to their new found Lord; where doubts have been dispelled, where sorrow has
+been assuaged, where grief has found its antidote and the burdened heart
+has found relief; where thought has been lifted to new heights of outlook,
+and the heart has been enriched with conceptions of God and duty that have
+given a new grandeur to existence, where the low horizons of time have been
+lifted and pushed outward, till the soul has felt the thrill of a present
+eternity. Our heritage has indeed been great in the possession of this old
+white Meeting-House.
+
+(Several points Dr. Macnaughtan makes as follows):
+
+In scanning the life that has been lived here during the last hundred
+years, I find it, first of all, to have been _a consistent life_. It is a
+life that has been true to the great principles of religious truth for
+which the name of Presbyterian stands. * * I find, in the second place,
+that the life that has been lived here has been _an evangelistic life_. * *
+In the third place, it has been an _expansive life_. * * * * Here has been
+nourished the mother hive from which has gone forth, to the several
+churches in the neighborhood, the men and women who have made these
+churches what they are to-day. * * * In the fourth place, it has been _a
+beneficent life_. The voices that have rung out from this place have but
+one accent--Righteousness.
+
+
+Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman.
+
+The Baptist Church is the second of our Morristown churches in point of
+age. It was formed August 11, 1752. It was the Rev. Reune Runyon who was
+its pastor during those terrible days of the Revolution, when the scourge
+of small pox prevailed. All honor to him, for a "brave man and true", as
+says our historian, "loyal to his country as well as faithful to his God."
+He, with good Parson Johnes, upheld the arm of Washington and both offered,
+for their congregations, their church buildings, to shelter the poor,
+suffering soldiers, in their conflict with the dread disease. This
+constancy is all the more creditable when we consider that two of his
+immediate predecessors had already fallen victims to the disease, each,
+after a very short pastorate.
+
+Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman claims our attention as a writer. A friend writing
+of the Rev. Mr. Bridgman, at the present time, says: "The Baptist Church at
+Morristown was the first pastorate of the Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman and I
+think was filled to the entire satisfaction of his friends and admirers who
+were and _are_ many. His brilliant oratory and rare gifts as an eloquent,
+scholarly and polished speaker are well-known. A life-long friend of my
+family, I dwell on the lovable and loyal characteristics which have made
+him dear to us."
+
+In a letter received by the author of this book, from the Rev. Mr.
+Bridgman, we find a little retrospect which is interesting. "I went to
+Morristown," he says, "immediately after graduating from the Baptist
+Theological Seminary, in Rochester, in 1857. The Baptist Church had a
+membership of about 130, all but five or six of them living outside the
+village. The House of Worship was small and uncomfortable, but at once was
+modernized and enlarged, and the congregation soon after grew to the
+measure of its capacity. As I was then but 22 years old, the success was in
+some measure due, I must believe, to the sympathy which the young men of
+the village had for one with their ardor. However that may be, the church,
+for the first time, seemed to be recognized as in touch with the life of
+the village, and it was the opening of a new chapter in the history of the
+church."
+
+Rev. Mr. Bridgman made the oration at the 4th of July county celebration,
+soon after his arrival, in the First Presbyterian church. For two and a
+half years, he remained in this charge when he removed to Jamaica Plain,
+Mass. Subsequently he was pastor for fifteen years, of Emmanuel Baptist
+church, Albany, then for thirteen years of the Madison Avenue church in New
+York, when he entered the Episcopal church and became rector of "Holy
+Trinity," on Lenox avenue and 122nd St., New York, a position which he
+still occupies.
+
+Articles from this writer's pen have appeared from time to time during this
+long career, in the religious press, besides occasional sermons of power
+and impressiveness.
+
+In the letter above referred to, Mr. Bridgman says he remembers very
+pleasantly many acquaintances among those not connected with his church as
+well as those in its membership and "it will be a great pleasure," he adds,
+"to recall the old faces and the old days, over the pages of your book,
+when it shall have been issued."
+
+_Rev. G. D. Brewerton_, who is already among our Poets, followed the Rev.
+Mr. Bridgman, in 1861, for a short pastorate.
+
+
+Rev. J. T. Crane, D. D.
+
+The Methodist Episcopal church was the third in order among our local
+churches and was organized in 1826. Among the many pastors of this church,
+the Rev. Dr. Crane demands our notice as an author. It was he who laid the
+corner-stone, while pastor in 1866, of the third church building, a superb
+structure, which is mostly the generous gift of the Hon. George T. Cobb,
+who gave to it $100,000.
+
+We find in our Morristown library, an interesting and valuable volume
+entitled "Arts of Intoxication; the Aim and the Results." By Rev. J. T.
+Crane, D. D., author of "Popular Amusements", "The Right Way", &c. This
+author was a voluminous writer, and recognized as one of the ablest in the
+Conference. This book was published in 1870 and in it the author says:
+
+"The great problem of the times is, 'What shall be done to stay the ravages
+of intoxication?' The evil pervades every grade of civilization as well as
+all depths of barbarism, the degree of its prevalence in any locality being
+determined apparently more by the facilities for indulgence than by
+climate, race or religion.
+
+"In heathen China the opium vice is working death. On the eastern slopes of
+the Andes, the poor remnants of once powerful nations are enslaved by the
+coca-leaf, and the thorn-apple, and thus are fixed in their fallen estate.
+In Europe and America the nations who claim to be the leaders of human
+progress are fearfully addicted to narcotic indulgences which not only
+impose crushing burdens upon them, wasting the products of their industry
+and increasing every element of evil among them, but render even their
+friendship dangerous to the savage tribes among whom their commerce
+reaches. Italy, France, Germany, England and the United States are laboring
+beneath a mountain weight of crime, poverty, suffering and wrong of every
+description, and no nation on either continent is fully awake to the peril
+of the hour. Questions of infinitely less moment create political crises,
+make wars, and overthrow dynasties." Then, Dr. Crane proceeds to show that
+the "Art of Intoxication" is not a device of modern times, and quotes from
+the Odyssey, in illustration; he discusses the mystery of it and notices
+the mutual dependence of the body and spirit upon one another. He tells the
+story of the coca-leaf, thorn-apple and the betel-nut, also of tobacco and
+treats of the tobacco habit and the question generally; of the hemp
+intoxicant and the opium habit and, finally, of alcohol,--its production,
+its delusions, its real effect, the hereditary effect, the wrong of
+indulgence, the folly of beginning, the strength of the enemy, the damage
+done and remedial measures. It is the most picturesque and attractive
+little book on the subject that we have seen.
+
+
+Rev. Henry Anson Buttz, D. D., LL. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Buttz, President of Drew Theological Seminary, ministered in the
+Methodist Episcopal Church in Morristown from 1868 to 1870. While preaching
+in Morristown he was elected Adjunct Professor of Greek in Drew Theological
+Seminary, filling the George T. Cobb professorship. This chair he occupied
+until December 7, 1880, when he was unanimously elected to succeed Bishop
+Hurst. He received the degree of A. M. in 1861 from Princeton College and
+in 1864 from Wesleyan University, and that of D. D. from Princeton in 1875.
+
+Dr. Buttz is without doubt one of the most distinguished men of the
+Methodist Episcopal Church. His preaching, always without notes, is
+impressive and of the style usually designated as expository. His
+contributions to English literature have been to a large extent, fugitive
+articles on many subjects in various church periodicals, but his greatest
+published work is probably a Greek text book, "The Epistle to the Romans",
+which is regarded by scholars as one of the most accurate and critical
+guides to the study of that letter of St. Paul. It is announced by him that
+all the New Testament Epistles are to be published on the same plan. "The
+entire work, when completed," says a writer in the Mt. Tabor _Record_,
+"will be a valuable contribution to Biblical literature, and an enduring
+monument to the genius and research of the author."
+
+
+Rev. Jonathan K. Burr, D. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Burr, one of the most distinguished divines of the Methodist
+Episcopal church, was stationed at Morristown in 1870-2. He was born in
+Middletown, Conn., on Sept. 21st, 1825; was graduated at Wesleyan
+University in 1845; studied in Union Theological Seminary in New York city
+in 1846; in 1847 he entered the ministry, occupying some of the most
+important pulpits within the Newark Conference of the M. E. Church. He was
+also professor of Hebrew and Exegetical Theology in Drew Theological
+Seminary, while pastor of Central church, Newark, N. J. He was author of
+the Commentary on the Book of Job, in the Whedon series, and a member of
+the Committee of Revision of the New Testament. He received the degree of
+D. D. from Wesleyan in 1872; also, in that year, he was delegate to the
+General Conference of the M. E. church. For many years he was a trustee of
+the Wesleyan University and also of Hackettstown Seminary.
+
+He wrote the articles upon Incarnation and Krishna in McClintock and
+Strong's Biblical Cyclopaedia and also made occasional contributions to the
+religious journals. In 1879 his health failed and he was obliged to retire
+from the ministry. His death followed on April 24th, 1882.
+
+From his "Commentary on the Book of Job" we take the following paragraph
+out of an Excursus on the passage, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," &c.:
+
+
+FROM "COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF JOB."
+
+In the earlier ages truth was given in fragments. It was isolated,
+succinct, compressed, not unlike the utterances of oracles. The reader will
+be reminded of the gospel given in the garden, the prediction by Enoch of a
+judgment to come, the promise of Shiloh and the prophecies through the
+Gentile Balaam. They, who thus became agents for the transmission of divine
+truth, may have failed to comprehend it in all its bearings, but the truth
+is on that account none the less rich and comprehensive. In the living God
+who shall stand upon the dust, Job may not have seen Christ in the fulness
+of the atonement; nor in the view of God "from the flesh", have grasped
+the glories of the resurrection morn; but the essential features of these
+two cardinal doctrines of Scripture are these, identical with those we now
+see in greater completeness; even as the outlines of a landscape, however
+incompletely sketched, are still one with those of the rich and perfected
+picture.
+
+
+Rev. J. E. Adams.
+
+Rev. Mr. Adams, the present pastor of the Morristown Methodist Episcopal
+Church, entered upon this charge in May, 1889, succeeding the Rev. Oliver
+A. Brown, D. D. He was transferred, by Bishop Merrill, from the Genesee
+Conference to the Newark Conference for that purpose, the church having
+invited him and he having accepted a few months previously. He came
+directly from the First Methodist Church of Rochester, N. Y., to
+Morristown. Dr. Adams is a clever and thoughtful writer. He says himself:
+"I have done nothing in authorship that is worthy of record. I have only
+written newspaper and magazine articles occasionally and published a few
+special sermons. I am fond of writing and have planned quite largely for
+literary work, including several books, but very exacting parish work has
+thus far delayed execution."
+
+Some of his sermons published are as follows:
+
+"St. Paul's Veracity in Christian Profession Sustained by an Infallible
+Test. Text: Romans 1:16. Published in New Brunswick, N. J., 1877."
+
+"The Final Verdict in a Famous Case. A Bible Sermon Preached Before the
+Monmouth County Bible Society, and published by that Society in 1883."
+
+"The Golden Rule. A Discussion of Christ's Words in Matthew 7:12, in the
+First Methodist Episcopal Church, Rochester, N. Y. Published in Rochester,
+1886."
+
+"Human Progress as a Ground of Thanksgiving. A Thanksgiving Sermon,
+Preached in Morristown, N. J., 1889, and published by request."
+
+
+Rev. James Munroe Buckley, D.D., LL. D.
+
+At this point, three theologians and editors present themselves, not
+occupying definite pulpits, but often taking a place in one or another, as
+opportunity for usefulness occurs. These are the Rev. James M. Buckley, D.
+D. and the Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church
+and the Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., of the Congregational.
+
+Of the genius of Dr. Buckley, it may be said, it is so all-embracing that
+it would be difficult to tell what he is not, in distinctive literary
+capacity. First of all certainly, he is a theologian, then editor, orator,
+scientist, traveler and so on among our classifications. One is led to
+apply to him the familiar saying that "he who does one thing well, can do
+all things well."
+
+It is pleasant to note that a man of such keen observation and well
+balanced judgment as Dr. Buckley, after extensive travel in our own country
+and abroad can state, as many of us have heard him, that, of all the
+beautiful spots he has seen in one country and another, none is so
+beautiful, so attractive and so desirable, in every respect, as Morristown.
+
+Dr. Buckley is a true Jerseyman, for he was born in Rahway, N. J., and
+educated at Pennington, N. J. Seminary. He studied theology, after one year
+at Wesleyan University, at Exeter, N. H., and joined the New Hampshire
+Methodist Episcopal Conference on trial, being stationed at Dover in that
+state. In 1864 he went to Detroit and in 1866 to Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1881,
+he was elected to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in London and also
+in that year was elected editor of the New York _Christian Advocate_, which
+position he has held to the present time. The degree of D. D. was conferred
+upon him by Wesleyan University in 1872 and LL. D. by Emory and Henry
+College, Virginia.
+
+As a traveler, Dr. Buckley is represented by his work on "The Midnight Sun
+and the Tsar and the Nihilist" being a book of "Adventures and Observations
+in Norway, Sweden and Russia". This book is full as we might expect of
+information communicated in the most entertaining manner, full of very
+graphic descriptions, original comments, spices of humor, with a clever
+analysis of the people and conditions of life around the author--all of
+which characteristics give us a feeling that we are making with him this
+tour of observation. In the chapters on "St. Petersburg" and "Holy Moscow",
+we see these qualities especially evidenced. Here is a short paragraph
+quite representative of the author, who is writing of the Cathedral of the
+Assumption, Moscow, an immense building in the Byzantine style of
+architecture, in which a service of the Greek church is going on:
+
+"The monks sang magnificently, but there was not a face among them that
+exhibited anything but the most profound indifference. Some of the young
+monks fixed their eyes upon the ladies who accompanied me from the hotel,
+and kept them there even while they were singing the prayers, which they
+appeared to repeat like parrots, without any internal consciousness or
+recognition of the meaning of the words, but in most melodious tones."
+Again, the author visits a Tartar Mosque where he and his party are told
+"with oriental courtesy, that they may be permitted to remain outside the
+door, looking in, while the service progresses:
+
+"Here," he says, "I was brought for the first time in direct contact with
+that extraordinary system of religion which, without an idol, an image, or
+a picture, holds one hundred and seventy million of the human race in
+absolute subjection, and whose power, after the lapse of twelve hundred
+years, is as great as at the beginning."
+
+Of the summoning of the people to prayers from the minaret, he writes:
+
+"Dr. J. H. Vincent for many years employed at Chatauqua the late A. O. Van
+Lennep, who went upon the summit of a house at evening time, dressed in the
+Turkish costume, and called the people to prayer.
+
+"I supposed when I heard him that he was over-doing the matter as respects
+the excruciating tones and variations of voice which he employed, or else
+he had an extraordinary qualification for making hideous sounds, whereby he
+out-Turked the Turks, and sometimes considered whether Dr. Vincent did not
+deserve to be expostulated with for allowing such frightful noises to clash
+with the ordinary sweet accords of Chatauqua. Worthy Mr. Van Lennep will
+never appear there again, but I am able to vindicate him from such unworthy
+suspicion as I cherished. He did his best to produce the worst sounds he
+could, but his worst was not bad enough to equal the reality. With his
+hands on his ears, the Mohammedan priest of the great mosque of Moscow
+emitted, for the space of seven minutes or thereabouts, a series of tones
+for which I could find no analogy in anything I had ever heard of the human
+voice. There seemed occasionally a resemblance to the smothered cries of a
+cat in an ash-hole; again to the mournful wail of a hound tied behind a
+barn; and again to the distant echo of a tin horn on a canal-boat in a
+section where the canal cuts between the mountains. The reader may think
+this extravagant, but it is not, and he will ascertain if ever he hears the
+like."
+
+Dr. Buckley's published writings are, besides his great work as editor of
+_The Christian Advocate_, in editorials and in many directions,--and
+besides the book we have already mentioned, "The Midnight Sun, the Tsar and
+the Nihilist"; "Oats versus Wild Oats"; "Christians and the Theatre";
+"Supposed Miracles", and "Faith Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred
+Phenomena", published quite recently (in October, 1892). Among magazine
+articles, may be especially mentioned "Two Weeks in the Yosemite", and in
+pamphlet form have appeared some letters worthy of mention, about "A
+Hereditary Consumptive's Successful Battle for Life".
+
+[Illustration: PLAN OF FORT NONSENSE.
+
+FROM PEN AND INK SKETCH BY MAJOR J. P. FARLEY, U. S. A.]
+
+As a philanthropist, Dr. Buckley is widely interested in all questions
+concerning humanity, and he responds continually with his time and thought
+to the appeals made to him from one direction and another. Our own State
+Charities Aid Association of New Jersey owes much to Dr. Buckley for his
+warm and earnest co-operation in its early struggles in Morristown for
+existence, and in its work, since then.
+
+As an orator, all who have heard Dr. Buckley feel that he has what is
+called the magnetic power of controlling and carrying with him his
+audience, and a remarkable capacity for mastering widely different
+subjects. The beautiful spring day (April 27, 1888), will long be
+remembered, when the people of Morristown had the opportunity of hearing
+his eloquent address at the unveiling of the Soldiers Monument on Fort
+Nonsense.
+
+In Dr. Buckley's last book on "Faith Healing; Christian Science and Kindred
+Phenomena," published by the Century Company, quite lately, (October,
+1892), the subjects of Astrology, Coincidences, Divinations, Dreams,
+Nightmares and Somnambulism, Presentiments, Visions, Apparitions and
+Witchcraft are treated. Papers have been contributed by him on these
+subjects at intervals for six years with reference to this book, but the
+contents of the latter are not identical, _i. e._ they have been improved
+and added to. From this we give the following extract:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "FAITH HEALING, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND KINDRED PHENOMENA."
+
+The relation of the Mind Cure movement to ordinary medical practice is
+important. It emphasizes what the most philosophical physicians of all
+schools have always deemed of the first importance, though many have
+neglected it. It teaches that medicine is but occasionally necessary. It
+hastens the time when patients of discrimination will rather pay more for
+advice how to live and for frank declarations that they do not need
+medicine, than for drugs. It promotes general reliance upon those processes
+which go on equally in health and disease.
+
+But these ethereal practitioners have no new force to offer; there is no
+causal connection between their cures and their theories.
+
+_What_ they believe has practically nothing to do with their success. If a
+new school were to arise claiming to heal diseases without drugs or hygiene
+or prayer, by the hypothetical odylic force invented by Baron Reichenbach,
+the effect would be the same, if the practice were the same.
+
+Recoveries as remarkable have been occurring through all the ages, as the
+results of mental states and nature's own powers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The verdict of mankind excepting minds prone to vagaries on the border-land
+of insanity, will be that pronounced by Ecclesiasticus more than two
+thousand years ago:
+
+"THE LORD HATH CREATED MEDICINES OUT OF THE EARTH; AND HE THAT IS WISE WILL
+NOT ABHOR THEM. MY SON, IN THY SICKNESS BE NOT NEGLIGENT; BUT PRAY UNTO THE
+LORD AND HE WILL MAKE THEE WHOLE. LEAVE OFF FROM SIN AND ORDER THY HANDS
+ARIGHT, AND CLEANSE THY BREAST FROM ALL WICKEDNESS. THEN GIVE PLACE TO THE
+PHYSICIAN, FOR THE LORD HATH CREATED HIM; LET HIM NOT GO FROM THEE, FOR
+THOU HAST NEED OF HIM. THERE IS A TIME WHEN IN THEIR HANDS THERE IS GOOD
+SUCCESS. FOR THEY ALSO SHALL PRAY UNTO THE LORD, THAT HE WOULD PROSPER THAT
+WHICH THEY GIVE FOR EASE AND TO PROLONG LIFE."
+
+
+Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D.
+
+Dr. Freeman is the second of the trio of theologians and editors, whose
+homes are in Morristown. For the last twenty years, he has been associate
+editor of "Sunday School Books and Periodicals and of Tracts" of the
+Methodist Episcopal Church. His Biblical studies are well known. His
+"Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs" was compiled with great care after
+years of research and published in 1877. This "Hand-Book" has been
+invaluable to Bible students and in it a large amount of information is
+given in small space, and in an interesting and entertaining manner.
+
+Another important volume is "A Short History of the English Bible". Both
+these works are in the Morristown Library, presented by the author.
+
+Many years ago, Dr. Freeman published, under the name of Robin Ranger, some
+charming story-books "for the little ones", in sets of ten tiny volumes.
+This work has placed him already in our group of _Story-Writers_.
+
+Besides these, there are two Chautauqua Textbooks, viz., "The Book of
+Books" and "Manners and Customs of Bible Times", also "The Use of
+Illustration in Sunday School Teaching".
+
+The "Hand-Book of Bible Manners and Customs", in particular, and the
+"Short History of the English Bible" are books which one can not look into
+without desiring to own. In the former, the author says in his short but
+admirable preface:
+
+"Though the Bible is adapted to all nations, it is in many respects an
+Oriental book. It represents the modes of thought and the peculiar customs
+of a people who, in their habits, widely differ from us. One who lived
+among them for many years has graphically said: 'Modes, customs, usages,
+all that you can set down to the score of the national, the social, or the
+conventional, are precisely as different from yours as the east is
+different from the west. They sit when you stand; they lie when you sit;
+they do to the head what you do to the feet; they use fire when you use
+water; you shave the beard, they shave the head; you move the hat, they
+touch the breast; you use the lips in salutation, they touch the forehead
+and the cheek; your house looks outwards, their house looks inwards; you go
+_out_ to take a walk, they go _up_ to enjoy the fresh air; you drain your
+land, they sigh for water; you bring your daughters out, they keep their
+wives and daughters in; your ladies go barefaced through the streets, their
+ladies are always covered'.
+
+"The Oriental customs of to-day are, mainly, the same as those of ancient
+times. It is said by a recent writer that 'the Classical world has passed
+away. We must reproduce it if we wish to see it as it was.' While this
+fact must be remembered in the interpretation of some New Testament
+passages, it is nevertheless true that many ancient customs still exist in
+their primitive integrity. If a knowledge of Oriental customs is essential
+to a right understanding of numerous Scripture passages, it is a cause of
+rejoicing that these customs are so stereotyped in their character that we
+have but to visit the Bible lands of the present day to see the modes of
+life of patriarchal times."
+
+Therefore, the author undertakes and undertakes with remarkable success, to
+illustrate the Bible by an explanation of the Oriental customs to which it
+refers.
+
+
+Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., LL. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Twining, up to 1879, devoted his time and attention entirely to
+the ministry and charge of two large city Congregational churches, one in
+Providence, R. I. While in the latter city, he published a book of "Hymns
+and Tunes", for his church there, which was acceptable and popular among
+the people, and contributed largely to develop the hearty congregational
+singing for which end it was compiled. While in this charge, he was for
+some time abroad, and mingled considerably in the literary life of Germany,
+and also in the musical life of that country. Hence, he is a fine theorist
+in music.
+
+Since 1879 he has been literary editor of _The Independent_, and during
+these years he has written enough valuable editorials and reviews to fill
+many books. Many of his lectures, addresses, essays and other writings have
+appeared in magazines and other publications, notably a charming
+description of an "Ascent of Monte Rosa" in the _American Journal of
+Science and Arts_, of May, 1862. We find in a book entitled "Boston
+Lectures, 1872", a chapter given to one on "The Evidence of the
+Resurrection of Jesus Christ, by Rev. Kinsley Twining, Cambridge, Mass.",
+in which the argument is, as might be expected, keen and clear. One of his
+more recent published papers was read by him at one of the Literary
+Reunions at Mr. Bowen's in Brooklyn, N. Y., and attracted much attention.
+It has since been given in Morristown: subject, "The Wends, or a Queer
+People Surviving in Prussia".
+
+Dr. Twining has made a special study of Shakespeare and holds a high rank
+as a Shakesperian critic and scholar.
+
+With regard to editorial work, it may be said an editor has a maximum of
+influence, the minimum of recognition,--for nobody knows who does it. It
+is certain that powerful editorials sometimes turn the tide of public
+opinion or actually establish certain results which affect the progress of
+the world, and at least make a mark in the world's advance. Who, indeed,
+can compute or measure the power of the press at the present day?
+
+We choose for Dr. Twining, some paragraphs from his editorial which has
+already acquired some celebrity in _The Independent_ of Sept. 15, 1892, on
+John Greenleaf Whittier. The death of the poet occurred on the 7th of the
+same September and he had been one of the earliest and most regular
+contributors to that paper since 1851.
+
+
+FROM EDITORIAL ON JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
+
+It has been said that every man of genius makes a class distinct by
+himself, out of relation and out of comparison with everybody else. At all
+events poets do, the first born in the progeny of genius; and of none of
+them is this truer than of the four great American poets, Bryant,
+Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier. In what order of merit they stand in their
+great poetic square, the distinct individuality of genius bestowed on each
+makes it needless to inquire. They have been our lights for half a century,
+and now that they have taken their permanent place in the galaxy of song,
+will continue to shine there, to use the phrase which Whittier himself
+invented for Dr. Bowditch's sun-dial, as long as there is need of their
+"light above" in our "shade below."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Whittier is the ballad-master and legend singer of the American people. Had
+he known the South and the West as he knew New England, he would have sung
+their legends as he has sung those of New England. The meaning of all this
+is that he is the minstrel of our people. This he has been, and this he
+will remain. Whether it is in the solemn wrath of the great ballad,
+"Skipper Ireson's Ride," one of the greatest in modern literature, in the
+high patriotic strain of "Barbara Frietchie," in the pathos of "The Swan
+Song," of "Father Avery," "The Witch's Daughter," or in the grim humor of
+"The Double-Headed Snake of Newberry."
+
+     "One in body and two in will,"
+
+it matters little what the subject is, or from whence it comes, the poem
+has in it some reflection of the common humanity, and as such speaks and
+will speak to the hearts of men.
+
+It has been the fashion to write of Victor Hugo as the poet of democratic
+humanity. We shall not dispute his claim. There is a certain epic grandeur
+in his work which entitles him to a seat alone. But to those who believe
+the world is moving toward a democracy whose ideals are the realization of
+the Sermon on the Mount, whose essence is ethical, and whose laws are
+gentleness, usefulness and love, Greenleaf Whittier will be the true
+democratic poet whose heart beats most nearly with the pulses of the
+democratic age, and who best represents the principles which are to give it
+permanence.
+
+
+Rev. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Cuyler should immediately follow the group of editors and
+theologians, as he has been a regular writer for the religious press, as
+well as for the secular, for many years. To the former he has contributed
+more than 3,000 articles, many of which have been re-published and
+translated into foreign languages.
+
+In reply to a request for certain information, Dr. Cuyler, in a letter
+dated from Brooklyn, January 13, 1890, and written "in a sick room, where
+he was laid up with the 'Grip'", a disease of the present day which we hope
+may become historic,--replies to the author of this book as follows:
+
+"Probably no American author has a _longer_ association with Morristown
+than I have; for my ancestors have laid in its church-yards for more than
+a century.
+
+"My great-great-grandfather, Rev. Dr. Timothy Johnes, preached in the 1st
+Presbyterian Church for 50 years and administered the Communion to General
+Washington.
+
+"My great-grandfather, Mr. Joseph Lewis, was a prominent citizen of
+Morristown and an active friend and counsellor of Washington.
+
+"My grandmother, Anna B. Lewis, was born in Morristown.
+
+"My mother, Louisa F. Morrell, was also born in Morristown (in 1802) in the
+old family "Lewis Mansion" in which Mr. William L. King now lives.
+
+"I was at school in Morristown in 1835 and it was my favorite place for
+visits for _many, many_ years. I have often preached or spoken there.
+
+"The man most familiar with my literary work is Dr. J. M. Buckley, the
+editor of the _Christian Advocate_--who now resides in Morristown."
+
+This letter was signed with his name, as "Pastor of Lafayette Avenue
+Presbyterian Church." Less than a month later he announced to his
+astonished congregation, his intention of resigning his charge among them
+on the first Sabbath of the following April, when it would be exactly
+thirty years since he came to a small band of 140 members, which then
+composed his flock. At the close of his remarks on that occasion he said:
+"It only remains for me to say that after forty-four years of
+uninterrupted ministerial labors it is but reasonable to ask for some
+relief from a strain that may soon become too heavy for me to bear."
+
+During the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate, in
+1885, he told his congregation that during that time he had preached over
+2,300 discourses, had made over 1,000 addresses, officiated at about 600
+marriages, baptized 800 children, received into the church 3,700 members,
+of whom about 1,600 were converts, and had lost but one Sunday for
+sickness. Probably few men are more widely known for their literary and
+oratorical powers and extended usefulness both in the pulpit and out of it.
+Few, if any, have accomplished more in the same number of years or made a
+wider circle of warm and earnest friends both at home and abroad. Among the
+latter is the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, and was, the late John Bright. In his
+sermons and addresses, the personality of Dr. Cuyler is so marked that to
+hear him once is to remember him always. In England he has been especially
+popular as a preacher and temperance advocate. The latter cause he has
+espoused most warmly during his entire life.
+
+Dr. Cuyler was born in the beautiful village of Aurora, N. Y., upon Cayuga
+Lake, of which his great-grandfather, General Benjamin Ledyard, was the
+founder. He was graduated at Princeton in 1841, and at Princeton
+Theological Seminary in 1846. Two years later, he was ordained into the
+Presbyterian Ministry, and was installed pastor of the Third Presbyterian
+Church of Trenton, N. J., then of the Market St. Reformed Dutch Church of
+New York City, and in April 1860, of the Brooklyn Lafayette Avenue
+Presbyterian Church.
+
+Among the author's books are the following, nearly all of which have been
+reprinted in London and have a very wide circulation in Great Britain. Five
+or six of them have been translated into Dutch and Swedish:
+
+"Stray Arrows", "The Cedar Christian", "The Empty Crib", a small book
+published many years ago after the death of one of his children and full of
+solace and consolation to the hearts of sorrowing parents; "Heart Life";
+"Thought Hives"; "From the Nile to Norway"; "God's Light on Dark Clouds";
+"Wayside Springs", and "Eight to the Point," of the "Spare Minute Series".
+
+Dr. Cuyler himself says that he considered his _chief_ literary work to
+have been the preparation of over 3,000 articles for the leading religious
+papers of America. There might be added to this the publication of a large
+number of short and popular tracts.
+
+Here again we find, as in several instances before recorded in this book, a
+man of long experience and good judgment placing in the highest rank of
+writings, useful to mankind, those done for the religious or secular
+newspapers. We give a short passage
+
+FROM, "GOD'S LIGHT ON DARK CLOUDS."
+
+There is only one practical remedy for this deadly sin of anxiety, and that
+is to _take short views_. Faith is content to live "from hand to mouth,"
+enjoying each blessing from God as it comes. This perverse spirit of worry
+runs off and gathers some anticipated troubles and throws them into the cup
+of mercies and turns them to vinegar. A bereaved parent sits down by the
+new-made grave of a beloved child and sorrowfully says to herself, "Well, I
+have only one more left, and one of these days he may go off to live in a
+home of his own, or he may be taken away; and if he dies, my house will be
+desolate and my heart utterly broken." Now who gave that weeping mother
+permission to use that word "if"? Is not her trial sore enough now without
+overloading it with an imaginary trial? And if her strength breaks down, it
+will be simply because she is not satisfied with letting God afflict her;
+she tortures herself with imagined afflictions of her own. If she would but
+take a short view, she would see a living child yet spared to her, to be
+loved and enjoyed and lived for. Then, instead of having two sorrows, she
+would have one great possession to set over against a great loss; her duty
+to the living would be not only a relief to her anguish, but the best
+tribute she could pay to the departed.
+
+
+Rt. Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip, D.D., LL.D.
+
+Bishop Kip, since 1853, Bishop of California, was called to old St. Peter's
+Church, Morristown, immediately after his taking orders in 1835. "The first
+time the service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was used in Morristown,
+so far as known," says our historian, "was in the Summer of 1812. At that
+time Bishop Hobart of New York was visiting Mr. Rogers at Morristown, and
+by invitation of the officers of the First Presbyterian Church, he
+officiated one Sunday in their church, preaching and using the Episcopal
+service."
+
+For two years, 1820 and '21, the service was held on Sundays, at the house
+of George P. McCulloch, and finally on Dec. 4th, 1828, the church building
+was consecrated which has stood until quite recently. Now a superb stone
+edifice covers the ground of the old church.
+
+In the ancestry of Bishop Kip we have a link with the far off story of
+France, for he is descended from Ruloff de Kype of the 16th Century, who
+was a native of Brittany and warmly espoused the part of the Guises in the
+French civil war between Protestants and Papists. After the downfall of his
+party, this Ruloff fled to the Low Countries; his son Ruloff became a
+Protestant and settled in Amsterdam and _his_ son Henry made one of the
+Company which organized in 1588 to explore a northeast passage to the
+Indies. He came with his family, to America in 1635, but returned to
+Holland leaving here his two sons Henry and Isaac. Henry was a member of
+the first popular assembly in New Netherlands and Isaac owned the property
+upon which now stands the City Hall Park of New York.
+
+In 1831, the young William Ingraham, was graduated at Yale College and
+after first studying law and then divinity was admitted to orders and at
+once became the third rector of St. Peter's, at Morristown, remaining from
+July 13th, 1835, until November of the following year. Columbia bestowed
+upon him in 1847, the degree of S. T. D. Between the rectorship of St.
+Peter's and the bishopric of California, he served as assistant at Grace
+Church, New York, and was rector of St. Paul's, at Albany.
+
+Bishop Kip has published a large number of books, many of which have gone
+through several editions. In addition he has written largely for the
+_Church Review_ and the _Churchman_ and several periodicals. Among his
+books are "The Unnoticed Things of Scripture", (1868); "The Early Jesuit
+Missions" (2 Vols., 6 editions, 1846); "Catacombs of Rome", (8 editions,
+1853); "Double Witness of the Church", (27 editions, 1845); Lenten "Fast",
+(15 editions, 1845); the last two were published in both England and
+America as was also "Christmas Holydays in Rome", (1846). Besides these are
+"Early Conflicts of Christianity", (6 editions); "Church of the Apostles";
+"Olden Times in New York"; "Early Days of My Episcopate", (1892).
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE OF THE "EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS."
+
+There is no page of our country's history more touching and romantic than
+that which records the labors and sufferings of the Jesuit Missionaries. In
+these western wilds they were the earliest pioneers of civilization and
+faith. The wild hunter or the adventurous traveler, who, penetrating the
+forests, came to new and strange tribes, often found that years before, the
+disciples of Loyola had preceded him in that wilderness. Traditions of the
+"Black-robes" still lingered among the Indians. On some moss-grown tree,
+they pointed out the traces of their work, and in wonder he deciphered,
+carved side by side on its trunk, the emblem of our salvation and the
+lilies of the Bourbons. Amid the snows of Hudson's Bay--among the woody
+islands and beautiful inlets of the St. Lawrence--by the council fires of
+the Hurons and the Algonquins--at the sources of the Mississippi, where
+first of the white men, their eyes looked upon the Falls of St. Anthony,
+and then traced down the course of the bounding river, as it rushed onward
+to earn its title of "Father of Waters"--on the vast prairies of Illinois
+and Missouri--among the blue hills which hem in the salubrious dwellings of
+the Cherokees--and in the thick canebrakes of Louisiana--everywhere were
+found the members of the Society of Jesus. Marquette, Joliet, Brebeuf,
+Jogues, Lallemand, Rasles and Marest,--are the names which the West should
+ever hold in remembrance. But it was only by suffering and trial that these
+early labours won their triumphs. Many of them too were men who had stood
+high in camps and courts, and could contrast their desolate state in the
+solitary wigwam with the refinement and affluence which had waited on their
+early years. But now, all these were gone. Home--the love of kindred--the
+golden ties of relationship--all were to be forgotten by these stern and
+high-wrought men, and they were often to go forth into the wilderness,
+without an adviser on their way, save their God. Through long and
+sorrowful years, they were obliged to "sow in tears" before they could
+"reap in joy."
+
+
+Rev. William Staunton, D. D.
+
+With this author, the fifth rector of old St. Peter's Church, in
+Morristown, we go back in association to the ancient city of Chester,
+England, where he was born and where his grandfather on his mother's side
+was a leading dissenting minister and the founder of Queen's Street Chapel,
+Chester. His father, an intellectual man and well read in Calvinistic
+theology, also affiliated with the Independents, but was often led by his
+fine musical taste to attend with his son the services of the Cathedral. It
+was in this Cathedral of Chester, which is noted for the beauty and majesty
+with which the Church's ritual is rendered,--that the boy acquired that
+love of music which placed him in after life in the front rank of church
+musicians. One who knew him well has said of him in this respect: "This
+knowledge of music was profound and comprehensive. He was not simply a
+musical critic or a composer of hymn tunes and chants, but he had followed
+out through all its intricacies the science of music. So well known was he
+for his learning and taste in this department that it was a common thing
+for professional musicians of distinction to go to him for advice and to
+submit their compositions to him, before publication. Much of his own music
+has been published. But his musical accomplishments are best attested by
+the work which he did as associate editor of Johnson's Encyclopedia." He
+was in particular, the musical editor of this work and wrote nearly all of
+the articles relating to music in it. He was also a prolific writer for
+church reviews and other periodicals. Among his publications in book form
+are: "A Dictionary of the Church", (1839); "An Ecclesiastical Dictionary",
+(1861); "The Catechist's Manual", a series of Sunday School instruction
+books; "Songs and Prayers"; "Book of Common Prayer"; "A Church Chant Book",
+and "Episodes of Clerical and Parochial Life".
+
+Dr. Staunton came with his father and the family, when fifteen years of
+age, to Pittsburg, Pa. He was closely associated with the Rev. Mr. Hopkins,
+afterward the Bishop of Vermont. His first ministerial charge was that of
+Zion Church, Palmyra, N. Y., and it was in 1840 he accepted the rectorship
+of St. Peter's Church, Morristown, which position he held for seven years.
+He then organized in Brooklyn, N. Y., a much needed parish, which he named
+St. Peter's after the parish he had just relinquished.
+
+"Dr. Staunton," says the present rector of St. Peter's, the Rev. Robert N.
+Merritt, D. D., who took up the work of the parish in 1853, and to whose
+untiring exertions, the parish and the people of Morristown are largely
+indebted for the erection of the massive and beautiful stone structure that
+stands on the site of the church of Dr. Staunton's time,--"Dr. Staunton was
+no ordinary man, though he never obtained the position in the church to
+which his abilities entitled him. Besides being above the average clergyman
+in theological attainments, he was a scientific musician, a good mechanic,
+well read in general literature, and so close an observer of the events of
+his time that much information was always to be gained from him. His
+retiring nature and great modesty kept him in the back ground."
+
+The following interesting reminiscence comes to us, in a letter, from one
+of the boys who was under his ministration when rector for seven years of
+old St. Peter's. "I remember", says this parishioner, "Dr. Staunton very
+distinctly and with much affection as well as regard and gratitude, for the
+training I had from him in the doctrines and ordinances of the church. He
+was for those days a very advanced churchman, being among the first to
+yield to the influence the Oxford movement was exercising and to adopt the
+advance it inaugurated in the ritual and service of the liturgy informing
+strictly however himself and teaching his people to recognize the authority
+of the rubrics. He maintained this, I think, till his death, and was ranked
+then as a conservative rather than a high churchman, though when he was
+here, the same attitude made him to be thought by some as almost
+dangerously ultra.
+
+"He was not eloquent nor what might be called an attractive preacher, but
+wrote well and accomplished a great deal as a careful and impressive
+teacher of sound doctrine and Christian morality.
+
+"Dr. Staunton was an accomplished scholar in scientific as well as
+ecclesiastical learning, was skilled as a draughtsman and designed, I
+remember, the screen of old St. Peter's when the chancel stood at the South
+street end; and it was wonderfully good and effective of its kind. He was
+also a trained musician, and at one time instructed a class of young ladies
+in thorough-bass, among them being the two Misses Wetmore, my eldest
+sister, and others, and, in addition to this, he made the choir while he
+was here, both in the music used and its efficiency, a vast improvement
+upon what it had been. He was a tall man, fully six feet, of a severe
+countenance and rather austere manner, leading him to be thought sometimes
+cold and unsympathetic, though really he was most kind and considerate, and
+in all respects a devoted and watchful pastor. He published, I think, a
+church dictionary later in life which is still a standard book and
+authority.
+
+"These are my impressions of Dr. Staunton received principally as a very
+young boy, though confirmed by an acquaintance continued till his death,
+and I retain the most sincere gratitude for the abiding faith in the sound
+doctrine of the Episcopal Church which he, after my mother, so trained me
+in that I have accepted them ever since as impregnable; and for this I am
+sure there are many others of his pupils and parishioners besides myself to
+'call him blessed.'"
+
+
+Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D.
+
+Rev. Dr. Mitchell was the third pastor of the South Street Presbyterian
+Church, which was the fifth, says our historian, "in our galaxy of
+churches." The time of his ministration, during which the church was
+greatly enlarged, both internally and externally, was from 1861 to 1868.
+
+Dr. Mitchell is the son of Matthew and Susan Swain Mitchell, and was born
+in Hudson, N. Y. He was graduated at Williams College in 1853, was tutor
+in Lafayette College, Pa., for one year, and then traveled for a year in
+Europe and the East. Returning he entered the Union Theological Seminary of
+New York City and was graduated from there in 1859. In this year he
+accepted the charge of the Third Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., and
+in Oct. 1861, he became pastor of what was then called, the "Second
+Presbyterian Church" in Morristown. The first Presbyterian Church of
+Chicago, Ill., claimed him in 1868 and in 1880 the First Presbyterian
+Church of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884, Dr. Mitchell became Secretary of the
+Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church to which position he had been
+called fifteen years before, but had felt constrained to decline. This
+important office, which from his intense and life-long interest in the
+great cause of Christian missions to the heathen world, he was remarkably
+qualified to fill, he has held to the present time. In all his
+ministrations, in each individual church which he has served, he has
+succeeded in imparting his own love of, and interest in, Foreign Missions
+and his position as Secretary of this department of the church organization
+has enabled him to stimulate the great congregations and masses of
+individuals throughout the denomination.
+
+Dr. Mitchell's eloquence in the pulpit and on the platform, is so
+well-known that it seems hardly worth while to refer to it. Mastering his
+subject completely as he does, he has the rare power of condensing clearly
+and giving out his thoughts in language and in tones of voice which hold
+and attract his audience to the end. He has published no books, only
+sermons and addresses in pamphlet form and innumerable articles in
+magazines and newspapers. To the great value of this sort of literary work,
+several of our distinguished authors have already testified. In the _Church
+at Home and Abroad_, we find the most exhaustive articles from Dr.
+Mitchell's pen, on the missions and conditions of the various countries of
+the earth which he has also recently visited in a trip around the world.
+These are all written from so large a standpoint that they are about as
+interesting to the general reader as to the specialist. In the publication,
+the "Concert of Prayer" many of these valuable papers are found and a
+considerable number of his addresses, articles, &c., are bound among those
+of other writers, in large volumes. In the next generation we find a writer
+also, in Dr. Mitchell's daughter, Alice, who does not desire mention for
+the reason that her writings are so fragmentary and scattered.
+Nevertheless, her literary work has been considerable and cannot be easily
+measured or described. One who knows her well, says: "Not many ladies are
+better read in missionary annals." In an article of hers, of great
+interest, published in the _Concert of Prayer for Church Work Abroad_, and
+entitled "The Martyrs of Mexico," we come upon the story of the Rev. John
+L. Stephens, previously mentioned in this book among "Travels", &c., and
+who, Miss Mitchell tells us, was one of the earliest missionaries of the
+Congregational church to Mexico.
+
+We have already mentioned that Mr. Matthew Mitchell, the father of our
+writer, lived in Morristown for many years and married for his second wife,
+Miss Margaret, the daughter of the good Doctor John Johnes, and the
+granddaughter of the good Pastor Johnes.
+
+We give a short passage from the opening of Dr. Mitchell's Memorial Sermon
+on James A. Garfield, delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of
+Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1881, and published by a number of
+prominent men who requested the privilege:
+
+
+FROM THE "MEMORIAL SERMON" ON JAMES A. GARFIELD.
+
+We share, my friends, to-day, the greatest grief America has ever known. It
+is no exaggeration to say that no one stroke of Providence has ever spread
+throughout all our land such poignant and universal pain, or has been so
+widely felt as a shock and a sorrow in every portion of the earth.
+
+I am not using words without care. I do not forget those dreadful days of
+April, sixteen years ago, when the slow procession passed from State to
+State, bearing the remains of the beloved Lincoln to the tomb. But there
+was one whole section of our land, it will be remembered, which had never
+acknowledged him as their ruler, and had never viewed him alas! except as
+their foe. Innumerable noble hearts there discussed the crime that laid him
+low; but although they abhorred the assassin's crime, around his victim
+their sentiments of confidence and admiration and loyalty had never been
+gathered.
+
+I do not forget the horror which smote the nation when Hamilton fell, the
+universal pall of sorrow of which our fathers tell us,--the metropolis of
+the country draped in black, the vast and solemn cortege, which amidst
+weeping throngs, followed Hamilton through its chief avenue to the grave.
+
+And as one heart, the hearts of Americans mourned for Washington. There
+were friends of liberty who wept with them in every part of the world. But
+liberty itself had not then so many friends on earth as now. By one great
+nation Washington was held to have drawn a rebel sword. And against
+another, our earlier ally, he had unsheathed it and stood prepared for war.
+And even by the countrymen of Washington it could not be forgotten that he
+had nearly fulfilled the allotted years of man. His work was done. His
+years of war had won for his country the full liberty she sought. His eight
+glorious years of Presidential life had organized the Government,
+established its relations to foreign powers and made its bulwarks strong.
+At his death it was even said that he had "deliberately dispelled the
+enchantment of his own great name;" with wonderful unselfishness he himself
+placed the helm in other hands, looked on for a time at the prosperity
+which he had taught others to supply, and "convinced his country that she
+depended less on him than either her enemies or her friends believed." And
+then he died in the peaceful retirement of his home. It was the death of a
+venerated father whose work was done.
+
+
+Rev. Charles E. Knox, D. D.
+
+For six or eight months in the midst of the Rev. Arthur Mitchell's
+pastorate, a distinguished scholar of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev.
+Charles E. Knox, D. D., filled Dr. Mitchell's place as pastor of the South
+Street Church, Morristown, while the latter was absent in Europe and
+Palestine. This period was from September 1863 to May 1864. When Dr.
+Mitchell resigned in 1868, the present pastor, Rev. Dr. Erdman, was called
+at Dr. Knox's suggestion. From 1864 to 1873, Dr. Knox was pastor of the
+church at Bloomfield, N. J., and since that time has been President of the
+German Theological School of Newark, which is located in Bloomfield. Dr.
+Knox says, in writing of his sojourn in Morristown: "I had a happy time
+with the good South street people and have retained always the liveliest
+interest in all that belongs to them."
+
+"A Year with St. Paul" had just been published when the charge of this
+South Street Church was undertaken. It has since been translated into
+Arabic at Beirut, Syria. "It is in good part," says the author, "a
+compilation and condensation of Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of
+St. Paul", (then in two large and expensive volumes), with some original
+matter. It has a chapter for every Sunday of the year.
+
+Dr. Knox began in Morristown a series of "Graduated Sunday School Text
+Books,"--Primary Year, Second Year, Third Year, Fourth Year and Senior
+Year. This was an introduction of the secular graded system into Sunday
+School Teaching. It introduced the Quarterly Review which has since been
+followed.
+
+"David the King," a life of David with section maps inserted in the page
+and a location of the Psalms in his life, was published later at
+Bloomfield.
+
+
+Rev. Albert Erdman, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Erdman is entitled to honorable mention among Morristown
+writers. He has been the faithful pastor of the South Street Presbyterian
+Church since May 1869, following the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D. It was
+during his ministry that in 1877, the church edifice was totally consumed
+by fire, and the beautiful new building located on its site, in the late
+Byzantine style. It is said by one who knows and appreciates Dr. Erdman's
+work that "few men read more or digest better their reading."
+
+For several years, he has prepared "Notes on the International Sunday
+School Lessons", for a monthly periodical published in Toronto, Canada.
+
+A number of sermons have been published by request, among them the "Sermon
+on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the South Street Presbyterian Church".
+
+Addresses on "Prophetic and other Bible Studies" have been printed in
+Annual Reports of the Bible Conference at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
+and, besides these, many fugitive newspaper articles of value and
+importance.
+
+Dr. Erdman has been largely interested in the general welfare, and
+especially the philanthropies, of the town, outside of his immediate
+church, and by this public spirit, earnestly and fearlessly manifested, in
+many instances, he has no doubt greatly extended his sphere of influence.
+
+He has been a warm supporter of, and has given much time and personal
+attention to the establishment of the Morris County Charities Aid
+Association and of the State Association which followed, carefully studying
+the questions of pauper and criminal reform for which purpose this
+organization exists.
+
+In the Semi-Centennial Sermon we find the following remarkable record:
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL SERMON ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
+CHURCH'S ORGANIZATION.
+
+I must note the unique fact that the history of these fifty years of Church
+life is the history of uninterrupted prosperity. Even that which seemed at
+the time to be against us--the destruction by fire of the former house of
+worship--proved to be, as are all the Lord's afflictions, a blessing in
+disguise; for the history of the church since is that of continued and
+ever-increasing prosperity, if growing numbers and enlarged usefulness be
+criterion of success. A spirit of harmony and goodwill mark its whole
+course, and it is, therefore, with unmingled pleasure and gratitude to God,
+we may recall the past. No roots of bitterness and strife to be covered up,
+no rocks of offense to be carefully avoided!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+How the memories of the past throng around us--the saintly lives of fathers
+and mothers, the godly service and earnest prayers of pastors and people,
+the fervent appeals from pulpit and teacher's chair,--surely it would seem
+there could be no valid reason why any should be still unsaved or unwilling
+to take up the duties of Christian service.
+
+Finally, as we here recall the story of the past and rejoice in the
+prosperity of the present, and while we look forward to still larger
+service and blessing in the days to come, let us, with a deep sense of our
+unworthiness and dependence, say, with the Psalmist: "Not unto us, O Lord,
+not unto us; but unto Thy name be all glory."
+
+
+Rev. Joseph M. Flynn, R. D.
+
+The Roman Catholic Church in Morristown erected its first building in 1847.
+It was a small wooden structure, with seating capacity for about 300 people
+and is now used by the parish school. It was in 1871 that the first priest
+in full charge, Rev. James Sheeran, was stationed here, and at his death in
+1881, the Rev. Joseph M. Flynn succeeded, who has continued in charge of
+the parish to the present time. He was named "Dean of the Catholics in
+Morris and Sussex Counties" about six years ago.
+
+This author has recently published a book, (Morristown, N. J., 1892), "The
+Story of a Parish" from the first chapter of which we quote. Also he has
+written some magazine articles and a brochure on "Lent and How to Spend
+it." He is now preparing for publication a volume of short sermons.
+
+"The Story of a Parish" is the story of the foundation and development of
+this parish of the Church of the Assumption, in Morristown.
+
+In the opening chapter, the author says:
+
+"We know that Raphael, Bramante, and Michel Angelo threw into St. Peter's
+the very heart and soul of their inspiration, to erect to the living God
+such a temple as the eye of man had never gazed upon.
+
+"But there are other monuments which thrill no less the beholder, and the
+names of their creators sleep in an impenetrable obscurity. The
+cross-crowned fane, lifting to the highest heaven the sign of man's
+redemption, may tell us neither of him whose genius conceived nor of the
+toilers whose strong arm and cunning eye, in the burning heats of Summer,
+or in the chilling blasts of Winter, unfolded to the wondering crowds who
+daily watched their labors, step by step, inch by inch, the beauties whose
+finished product Time has preserved to us in many a shire of Britain; by
+the glistening lakes and verdant vales of Erin; in sunny Italy, in fair
+France, and in the hallowed soil bathed by our own Potomac. To the humble
+laborer who dug the trenches, to the artist whose chisel carved foliage or
+cusp or capital, a share in our grateful memory is due."
+
+
+Rev. George Harris Chadwell.
+
+The group of people who originated the idea of forming a second Episcopal
+Church in Morristown, perfected their plans in 1852. The following year
+the church building was erected. The first rector, Rev. J. H. Tyng, assumed
+his duties in September, 1852. The Rev. W. G. Sumner accepted a call to the
+parish in 1870. As he is now Professor of Political Economy at Yale
+University--he will come, with his specialty, into a later group. In 1880,
+Rev. George H. Chadwell became rector of the parish, coming from Brooklyn
+where he had been assistant to the Rev. Charles Hall, D. D., rector of
+Trinity Church of that City.
+
+Mr. Chadwell courageously undertook the removal of the church edifice from
+the spot where it had stood since 1854, on the corner of Morris and Pine
+streets, to its present site on South street, on which occasion he
+delivered one of his important "Addresses" which was published and largely
+distributed. He lived to see his aim accomplished and not long after gave,
+in the church again, on what proved to be the last Sunday of his life, a
+sermon, which was also published under the title of "A Farewell Discourse."
+
+Mr. Chadwell also published a monthly paper during his rectorship, called
+_The Rector's Assistant_, and wrote in other directions.
+
+In the "Address on the Occasion of the Re-opening of the Edifice for Divine
+service," August 22, 1886, we find a reference to the interesting history
+of the land on which the building now stands, and its association with
+many of the old families of Morristown, as follows:
+
+"Originally the ground we are now occupying belonged to the first
+Presbyterian Church, which at that date constituted the only religious
+society in the town, and owned all the land on the east side of South
+street as far down as Pine street. This plot of ours formed a part of what
+was designated the parsonage lot. The first sale of it took place in
+November of 1795, the same year the white church on the Green was dedicated
+and opened for Divine worship. The consideration was one hundred and twenty
+pounds, money worth about $300 in the currency of the United States. The
+Trustees whose names appear in the deed are Silas Condict, Benjamin
+Lindsley, Jonathan Ford, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Jonathan Ogden and
+Benjamin Pierson--names which are still represented in our community. The
+purchaser was the Rev. James Richards. This gentleman was at the time the
+pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, being the third in succession to
+that office. His ministry covered a period of fourteen years and was
+remarkably successful.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"On his departure from Morristown Dr. Richards sold the property we are now
+describing. The price realized was $4,000. From which I infer that there
+had been erected upon it the house which we propose to convert into a
+rectory. Otherwise I can not account for so great an increase in the value
+of the land as took place. * * * The new owner proved to be the Rev. Samuel
+Fisher, the successor of Dr Richards in the pastorate of the church. Mr.
+Fisher was the son of Jonathan Fisher, a native of this town. * * * In
+1813, under his auspices, the Female Charitable Society of Morristown, our
+most venerable eleemosynary institution, was founded, Mr. Fisher's wife
+being elected to the honored position of its first President. * * * It was
+somewhere about this time that Mrs. Wetmore, the widow of a British
+officer, opened on this site a private school for girls." (Mrs. Wetmore was
+the mother of Mrs. James Colles who long lived, in summer, upon the large
+estate now opened to the city, in streets and avenues, and largely built
+upon. She was also the mother of Charles Wetmore, the artist who painted
+the picture of "Old Morristown," in 1815, now in possession of Hon.
+Augustus W. Cutler, to whose courtesy we are indebted for the privilege of
+having made from it the fine pen and ink sketch of Miss Suzy Howell, for
+the frontispiece of this book.) "From 1814 to 1829, our property passed
+through the hands successively of Israel Canfield, James Wood and Silas
+Condict. During this period, or rather a portion of it, one of New Jersey's
+most promising lawyers resided on this spot. I refer to Mr. William
+Miller, an older brother of our late United States Senator, the Hon. J. W.
+Miller. * * * A citizen of Morristown who was personally acquainted with
+him has lately written me: 'The noble character and the brilliant career of
+this young lawyer, which were cut short by his untimely death, are still
+remembered with lively interest by some of our oldest inhabitants.'
+
+"In 1829 the property again changed hands, the purchaser being Miss Mary
+Louisa Mann. Her father was the editor of _The Morris County Gazette_
+afterwards known as _The Genius of Liberty_, and of _The Palladium of
+Liberty_, the first newspapers issued in Morristown. He also published in
+1805 an edition of the Holy Scriptures, which gained considerable notoriety
+as 'The Armenian Bible,' from the error occurring in Heb. vi:4, 'For it is
+possible for those who have once been enlightened ... if they shall fall
+away to renew them again unto repentance.' Miss Mann, now Mrs. Lippincott,
+of Succasunna, together with her sister, Miss Sarah, put up the building
+which is to serve us hereafter as a Sunday School room and church parlor.
+It was erected to meet the wants of a female seminary established by them
+in 1822, and which had grown under their efficient management so popular
+that its advantages were sought by pupils from all quarters. Since the
+close of the school the buildings occupied by it have been used as a
+boarding house. As such their hospitality has been enjoyed by numbers
+whose names are familiar to us in connection with important features of our
+national existence, finance, war and art. I mention in particular the
+Belmonts, the Perrys, the Rogers, the Enningers. And here in the front
+parlor of this same boarding house in the summer of 1851, when it had been
+determined to found a new parish, the first meeting of its originators was
+held. 'In that room,' to quote the language of one present on the occasion,
+'the infant Church was christened The Church of the Redeemer, and from that
+day it lived; very feebly at first, not a very strong child, but tenderly
+nurtured, always slowly gaining, until now, after thirty-four years, it
+promises to grow in strength and to have a powerful future.' Our immediate
+predecessor in the title to the land was Mr. George W. King, who acquired
+it in 1854 for the sum of $8,000."
+
+Of the character of the church, Rev. Mr. Chadwell says:
+
+"This Church then, I may observe, has always been conservative in its
+character. Those who founded it gave to it this tone. They were men opposed
+in mind and temperament to that mediaeval type of theology which had begun
+to prevail in their day, and which has since become popular in various
+quarters. They were out of sympathy with the movement which was then
+aiming, and which has since succeeded in undoing much the reforming
+divines of the sixteenth century accomplished. They were averse, for
+example, to everything that savors of sacerdotalism--to the doctrines which
+convert the ambassador of Christ into a sacrificing priest, the communion
+table into a veritable altar, and the eucharist into a sacrifice and
+constant miracle. Elaborate rites and ceremonies, in which some find a
+delight, and perhaps a help, were distasteful to them. They felt themselves
+unable to derive edification from these sources. On the other hand, they
+were in harmony with what may be denominated the protestant tendencies of
+our Communion. Of the name itself of protestant they had not learned to be
+ashamed. They believed in the principles of the great Reformation of three
+centuries ago. They did not judge its promoters deluded men, nor pronounce
+them to have 'died for a cause not worth dying for.' They honored them as
+God-enlightened, and venerated them as heroes and martyrs. The changes
+these effected in dogma and in ritual they regarded not as mistakes, but as
+advances in the right direction--from error towards truth. They looked to
+Christ as their only priest, to His cross as their only altar and to his
+death thereon as the only atonement for their sin. They loved simplicity of
+worship and cultivated it in their public devotions. In fine, they were
+content and best satisfied with that plain system of teaching and practice
+which the Prayer Book as we have it now seems most naturally to favor. At
+least this is the impression of these men which I have received from
+reading the record and memorials of themselves they have left behind. So
+when they organized this parish it was along these lines which I have
+indicated. And from its inception to the present moment it has retained,
+with perhaps some unessential modifications, the stamp they gave it."
+
+
+Rev. William M. Hughes, S. T. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Hughes, who succeeded the Rev. George H. Chadwell, in 1887, as
+rector of the Church of the Redeemer should have followed our little
+group--within this group--of editors and theologians, except that he has
+present charge of a parish, which they have not. He was officially on the
+editorial staff and in the editorial department of _The Churchman_ during
+1887 and 1888, and has written for editorial and other departments both
+before and since. For _The Church Journal_ also, as well as other, and
+secular papers, he has written articles and editorials on various topics,
+from time to time.
+
+Dr. Hughes was born at Little Falls, New York, and losing both parents
+early in life, removed to Frankfort, Kentucky, among his mother's
+relatives. From boarding-school in Ohio, he entered Kenyon College, Class
+of '71. At the end of Freshman year he went to Hobart College and was
+graduated there at the head of his class in 1871. During 1871-'72, he
+studied in Berlin, Germany, and was graduated in 1875 from the General
+Theological Seminary, New York. The same year he became rector of St.
+John's Church, Buffalo, N. Y., one of the most important parishes of the
+diocese of Western New York. This charge he resigned in 1883, to accept a
+position of honor to which he had been unanimously elected, in Hobart
+College, Geneva, N. Y.,--namely, the Chaplaincy of the College and
+Professorship of "Philosophy and Christian Evidences," the latter
+department having been hitherto held by the President of the College. It
+was with great regret, that the people of Buffalo as well as the people of
+St. John's parish, parted with both Dr. and Mrs. Hughes, if we may judge
+from all that was expressed in the press on the occasion of their
+departure. "Here," says one writer, "they will be missed, not only by those
+with whom they were closely associated in church or neighborhood
+relationship, but more especially by the sick, the humble, the troubled,
+and the needy, for whose consolation and comfort they have so unselfishly
+labored, in many parts of the city, during the last seven years. A thousand
+blessings follow them."
+
+In 1887, Dr. Hughes became an associate editor of _The Churchman_ and
+Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown. He is a member of the
+Executive Council of the Church Temperance Society and Corresponding
+Secretary of the _University Board of Regents_ and originator of the
+scheme.
+
+Among Dr. Hughes' writings is an important brochure on Boys' Guilds,
+published under the auspices of the Church Temperance Society, and entitled
+"Hints for the Formation of Bands of Young Crusaders." In this he discusses
+"one of the most practical questions before the Church, and the one which
+the busy rector often asks in sheer bewilderment, if not despair: 'What
+shall be done with the boys of the Church, from the ages of ten to
+seventeen?'" He also offers the solution in a plan of organization for one,
+among many works, which may interest and occupy them, thus training them as
+the boys of the Church to become the men of the Church.
+
+In the _Magazine of Christian Literature_ for September 1892, we find the
+leading article to be from the pen of Dr. Hughes, on "The Convergence of
+Darwinism and the Bible." "The conclusions here reached," the author tells
+us, "have been subjected, during the past eight years, to efficient
+criticism and repeated examinations." It is proposed that these articles
+shall continue and finally appear in book form. Of this article, a
+prominent clergyman of the Church, whose opinion weighs for much, and whose
+words we have asked the privilege of giving, writes Rev. Dr. Hughes, as
+follows: "I am deeply moved in recognizing the penetration, the sublimity
+and sweetness of your essay in the September number of the _Magazine of
+Christian Literature_. I trust No. 1. is prophetic of future numbers.
+
+"You have made a great discovery and you disclose it with great power and
+beauty. How wonderful is this converging witness of Nature and the Spirit,
+Faith and Science to the approaching Day of the Son of Man. No question,
+the Day is swiftly coming. Its light is on the hills. The many signs of His
+approach and His appearing seem to fill the air and make the spirit tremble
+with holy fear and gladness. The Lord hasten the Day. Let us prepare
+ourselves with joy to greet Him. Meantime, we may greet one another in the
+full assurance of faith, as I you, brother, by these presents."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From a Paper in _The Magazine of Christian Literature_ of September 1892,
+on--
+
+"THE CONVERGENCE OF DARWINISM AND THE BIBLE CONCERNING MAN AND THE SUPREME
+BEING."
+
+Science and religion are in reality dealing with the same phenomena.
+Immense human and personal interests are involved in them. Neither can be
+discussed in the absolutely "dry light" of sheer intellectuality.
+
+Consequences of immense import to the individual character, to the social
+well-being, and to eternal hopes flow directly from each.
+
+If, by scientific methods, which are plainly sound, conclusions are reached
+that are directly at variance with the religious faith of the vast
+majority, both a social and an intellectual as well as an ethical
+revolution is threatening.
+
+Or if by religious methods traditions are established which deny room to
+the conclusions of progressive human thought, religion inevitably invites
+scepticism, the casting off of all traditions, and the unfortunate disclaim
+of that which is forever true in faith.
+
+There are not a few of us to whom our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is
+dearer far than the most acute thinker in the domain of human speculation
+or the profoundest student of the world as it is.
+
+If it come to an attack or a logical denial of that which He is and
+teaches, we do not hesitate to make a personal matter of it.
+
+If Darwinism, _e. g._, as a system of ultimate postulates demands that we
+yield up the Lord of Life to be crucified afresh by the powers of the
+world, Darwinism, as such, will get no quarter. Getting no quarter, it will
+give none, and it becomes an internecine strife that knows no truce and
+admits no peace until the one or the other lies dead on the field of
+contest.
+
+But if, as a matter of fact, such a conflict is really illogical, hasty,
+and essentially inimical to both modern science, and to the Christian
+faith, then much is gained not only for peace, but still more for truth.
+
+It is the direct object of this article to demonstrate, so far as
+demonstration is possible, that the theory of Darwin, instead of
+antagonizing, tends irresistibly to affirm the most fundamental truths of
+the Bible as commonly held by the so-called orthodox Christian world. Nay,
+more, not only to affirm, but to give them greater power.
+
+
+
+
+PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS.
+
+
+At this point, we must confess to a sensation of being overwhelmed with an
+embarrassment of riches, for what shall we do with the distinguished men
+who follow, and bring our little book within its covers? That we may have
+no more continuous extracts from their works, reluctantly we find ourselves
+compelled to realize.
+
+
+Hon. Jacob W. Miller.
+
+We are indebted to Edward Q. Keasbey, Esq., grandson of Mr. Miller, for the
+facts and data of the following brief sketch.
+
+The Hon. Jacob W. Miller was born in November, 1800, in German Valley,
+Morris County, N. J. He studied law in Morristown with his brother, William
+W. Miller from 1818 to 1823, when he was licensed to practice as attorney.
+He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court as counsellor in 1826 and
+in 1837 he was called to the degree of Sergeant at Law and he was one of
+the last to whom the degree was given. He had a large practice in
+Morristown and was one of the leading advocates at the circuit in Sussex
+and Warren as well as Morris Counties. Mr. Elmer in his reminiscences says:
+"He was distinguished not only as a fervent and impressive speaker, but for
+patient industry, faithfulness and tact. He was distinguished also for that
+sound common sense which is above all other sense, and was, by its
+exhibition in public and private, a man of great personal influence."
+
+In 1838 he was elected a member of the Council, as the State Senate was
+then called, and in 1840, he was elected by the Whig party to the Senate of
+the United States. He was elected again in 1846, and remained in the Senate
+until 1852. He did not speak very often, but when he spoke it was after a
+careful study of the subject and his words carried the greater weight. He
+spoke with wisdom and eloquence. A large number of these speeches are
+published in scattered pamphlets or in volumes among others. They have
+never been collected. One of the earliest of these important speeches was
+on the resolutions of the day in favor of a protective tariff. On May 23,
+1844, Mr. Miller delivered a speech against the treaty for annexing Texas
+to the United States. The objections to the treaty as stated by him, are of
+considerable interest in the present day. He opposed the annexation on the
+ground that it was using the National Government to give an advantage to
+the Slave States. "Slavery," he said was "a matter to be regulated and
+controlled by the States, and neither to be interfered with nor extended by
+the National Government. New Jersey had abolished slavery herself and did
+not ask any territory into which to send her slaves." On Feb'y 21, 1850, he
+spoke upon the "Proposition to Compromise the Slavery Question" and in
+favor of the admission of California into the Union.
+
+Among others of his speeches, were those "On the Exploration of the
+Interior of Africa and in favor of the Independence of Liberia", delivered
+in the Senate of the United States, March 1853; "In Defence of the American
+Doctrine of Non-Intervention", delivered in the Senate of the U. S. Feb.
+26, 1852; "On the Mexican War and the Mode of Bringing it to a Speedy and
+Favorable Conclusion", Feb. 2, 1847; "On the Ten Regiments Bill", Feb. 8,
+1848, against the prosecution of the Mexican War. Mr. Miller worked and
+spoke earnestly in favor of "Establishing and Encouraging an American Line
+of Steamers". On April 22, 1852, he delivered a carefully prepared speech
+in favor of sustaining the Collins line of Mail Steamers, and advocated the
+policy of a subsidy for carrying the mails, which was successful then and
+has now again been adopted, already resulting in the restoration of the
+American flag to the transatlantic steamers.
+
+Besides these speeches in the Senate, Mr. Miller delivered a good many
+addresses and orations. Among these was an oration delivered in Morristown
+on the Fourth of July, 1851. Even then he foreboded the attempt to break up
+the Union and, speaking of Secession as rebellion, he maintained the power
+of the Nation under the Constitution to defend the Union. Several addresses
+were delivered before historical societies and some in the direction of the
+agricultural interests of the country. Before the New Jersey Historical
+Society in Trenton, he spoke of "The Iron State, Its Natural Position,
+Power and Wealth", Jan. 19, 1854. Before the Bristol Agricultural Society
+at New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 28, 1854, he spoke on "American Agriculture;
+its Development and Influence at Home and Abroad".
+
+
+Hon. William Burnet Kinney.
+
+Mr. Kinney, whose wife, Elizabeth C. Kinney and whose grandson, Alexander
+Nelson Easton, have already been represented among our poets, may be
+claimed by Morristown, for his associations of boyhood and of many years in
+later life. A man of unusual culture, no one who knew him could forget the
+charm of his courtly manners and delightful conversation. He founded _The
+Newark Daily Advertiser_, in 1833. It was then the only daily newspaper in
+the State, and uniting with it _The Sentinel of Freedom_, a long
+established weekly paper, he gave to the journal a tone so high that it was
+said of him, "his literary criticisms, contained in it, had more influence
+upon the opinions of literary men than those of any other journalist of the
+time." He was fortunate in having an accomplished son, Thomas T. Kinney,
+Esq., of Newark, N. J., to follow in his footsteps and continue the
+editorial work he had begun in this leading New Jersey paper. From Mr.
+Thomas T. Kinney we have a few words of reminiscence written in reply to
+the question of a friend as to what his father's early associations with
+Morristown might have been.
+
+"My father," he says, "was born at Speedwell, Morris County (in the edge
+of Morristown). I think it was in the house afterwards owned and occupied
+by the late Judge Vail, and the same in which his son Alfred lived. He
+invented the telegraph alphabet of dots and lines, which made Morse's
+system practicable, and it is still used.
+
+"Speedwell is on a stream upon which there were mill-sites, owned and
+worked by my father's ancestry and there is a tradition in the family that
+his uncle in trying to save a mill during a freshet lost his life and the
+body was afterwards found through a dream by another member of the family.
+The lake at Speedwell was a picturesque spot and Sully, the artist, painted
+his great picture of the 'Lady of the Lake' there, the subject being
+Lucretia Parsons, a beautiful girl whose family came from the West Indies
+and settled in the neighborhood. Lucretia married a Mr. Charles King who
+lived at the Park House in Newark and had the original sketch from which
+Sully painted the head in the picture. My father was intimate in the family
+and I think that some of his ancestry rest in the burial ground of the old
+Presbyterian Church at Morristown,--from all of which we may infer that
+many of his youthful days were passed there."
+
+Mr. Kinney studied under Mr. Whelpley, author of "The Triangle", and
+subsequently studied under Joseph C. Hornblower, of Newark. In 1820 he
+began his editorial life in Newark, which he continued with slight
+interruption until his appointment in 1851, as United States Minister to
+Sardinia. "In this position of honor," it is said, "he represented his
+country with rare ability." With Count Cavour and other men of eminence in
+Sardinia, he discussed the movement for the unification of Italy. For
+important services rendered to Great Britain, Lord Palmerston sent him a
+special despatch of acknowledgment and by his own foresight, judgment and
+prompt action in the case of the exiled Kossuth, he saved the United States
+from enlisting in a foreign complication. During his life abroad, at the
+expiration of his term of office as Minister to Sardinia, while residing in
+Florence, Mr. Kinney became deeply interested in the romantic history of
+the Medici family. He began a historical work on this subject, to be
+entitled, "The History of Tuscany", which promised to be of great
+importance, but although carried far on to completion, it was not finished
+when his life ended. In Florence Mr. and Mrs. Kinney were constantly in the
+society of the Brownings, the Trollopes and others of literary distinction.
+
+Mr. Kinney, besides his editorial writing, delivered, by request, a number
+of important orations which were published. The last of these, "On the
+Bi-Centennial of the Settlement of Newark", and delivered on the occasion
+of that celebration, we find in a volume published in 1866, entitled
+"Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society".
+
+
+Hon. Theodore F. Randolph
+
+Theodore F. Randolph was born in New Brunswick June 24, 1826. His father,
+James F. Randolph, for thirty-six years publisher and editor of _The
+Fredonian_, was of Revolutionary stock, belonging to the Virginia family,
+and for eight years represented the Whig Party in Congress. The son
+received a liberal education and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He
+frequently contributed articles to his father's paper when still a youth.
+In 1850 he took up his residence in Hudson County, where he resided twelve
+years and until he removed to Morristown. In 1852 he married a daughter of
+Hon. W. B. Coleman, of Kentucky, and a granddaughter of Chief Justice
+Marshall. In 1860 he with others of the American party formed a coalition
+with the Democrats to whom he ever after adhered. In 1861 he was elected to
+the State Senate for unexpired term and in the following year he was
+re-elected and served till 1865. In 1867, he was made President of the
+Morris and Essex Railroad and continued to act as such until the lease was
+made to the Delaware and Lackawanna Company. In 1868, he was elected
+Governor of the State and proved a most able and independent Chief
+Magistrate. In January, 1875, he was elected to the United States Senate in
+which he served a full term of six years. In 1873 he was one of the four
+who formed and carried out the design of making the Washington Headquarters
+"a historic place". His sudden death on the seventh day of November, 1883,
+shocked the whole community in whose affections he filled so large a place.
+
+Gov. Randolph was a man of most genial manner, honorable in all his
+business transactions and most liberal-minded and fearless as a legislator.
+Says one who knew him intimately: "He filled well all the duties to which
+his fellow-citizens called him."
+
+But it is as a writer that his name appears here. His messages to the
+Legislature while Governor and his speeches in the United States Senate are
+known of all and bear the impress of his character. These are scattered
+through numerous public documents and have never yet been collected in book
+form. His many contributions to the press were mostly political. In 1871,
+he pronounced an oration at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument on our
+public square, which was published in our County papers, and on July 5,
+1875, at the celebration of the National holiday at Headquarters, he made
+the eloquent address, which is the best specimen of his skill. This address
+is given, entire, in Hon. Edmund D. Halsey's "History of the Washington
+Association of New Jersey".
+
+
+Hon. Edward W. Whelpley.
+
+Chief Justice Whelpley, by the high order of his judicial qualities rose
+rapidly from the Bar to the Bench. He was the only son of Dr. William A.
+Whelpley, a native of New England and a practicing physician in Morristown.
+Dr. Whelpley was a cousin of the Rev. Samuel Whelpley who wrote "The
+Triangle". The mother of Judge Whelpley was a daughter of General John Dodd
+of Bloomfield, N. J., and a sister of the distinguished Amzi Dodd,
+Prosecutor of Morris County. He was graduated, at Princeton, with
+distinction, at the early age of sixteen; studied law with his uncle, Amzi
+Dodd and began its practice in Newark, N. J. In 1841 he removed to
+Morristown and became a partner of the late Hon. J. W. Miller. He was
+first appointed to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
+and in a few years became Chief Justice.
+
+The late Attorney-General Frelinghuysen said of him: "Chief Justice
+Whelpley's most marked attributes of character were intellectual. The
+vigorous thinking powers of his mother's family were clearly manifest in
+him. No one could have known his uncle, Amzi Dodd, without being struck
+with the marked resemblance between them. The Chief Justice was well read
+in his profession, familiar with books, and yet he was a thinker rather
+than a servile follower of precedent. He was a first class lawyer. He
+sought out and founded himself on principles. He did not stick to the mere
+bark of a subject. He had confidence in his conclusions and he had a right
+to have it, for they logically rested upon fundamental truths. But while
+his intellectual characteristics were most marked, he had admirable moral
+traits. He felt the responsibilities of life and met them. He was no
+trifler. He had integrity, which, at the bar and on the bench, was beyond
+all suspicion".
+
+And Courtlandt Parker, his intimate and life-long friend said of him:
+
+"Intellectually, his qualities were rare. He was made for a Judge. Judicial
+position was his great aim and desire, and when he attained it, his whole
+mind was devoted to its duties; they were enjoyment to him; he felt his
+strength, and was determined not merely to be a judge, but such a judge as
+would honor his exaltation, and exercise eminently that high usefulness
+which belongs to that office".
+
+Chief Justice Whelpley may be justly ranked among important writers of the
+legal profession. His legal opinions found in the Law Reports are
+characterized by strength, independence and knowledge of the principles of
+law.
+
+
+Hon. Jacob Vanatta.
+
+In a city so honored in the number of its distinguished legal minds, it
+need not be a surprise to find such a man as Jacob Vanatta, but of only a
+few can it be said as was truly remarked of him: "His practice grew until,
+at the time of his death, it was probably the largest in the State. His
+reputation advanced with his practice, and for years he stood at the head
+of the New Jersey Bar, as an able, faithful, conscientious and untiring
+advocate and counsel. He may be truly called one of the greatest of
+corporation lawyers. He was for years the regular Counsel of the Delaware,
+Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, of the Central Railroad Company,
+and more or less of many other corporations, and his engagements have
+carried him frequently before the highest Courts of New York, Pennsylvania
+and of the United States Supreme Court".
+
+The Rev. Rufus S. Green, D. D., said, in his beautiful funeral discourse:
+"Mr. Vanatta died at the age of fifty-four--an old man worn out by
+overwork". "Be warned", he continues, "by the sad example of him whom
+to-day you sincerely mourn of an exhausted brain and prematurely enfeebled
+body. Take needed rest, cessation from labor, and frequent holidays".
+
+The character of Mr. Vanatta's talent was wholly different from that of
+Judge Whelpley. The one rose brilliantly and suddenly, driven out by the
+force of an inborn genius, the other attained to what he was through
+untiring industry and plodding labor.
+
+"More than any man I have ever known, from his clerkship to his death",
+says Mr. Theodore Little, into whose office Mr. Vanatta entered a student
+in the year 1845, "he seemed to have engraved on his very heart the motto,
+'_Perseverantia vincit omnia_,' and in that sign he conquered and achieved
+his success".
+
+Mr. Vanatta's published writings are mostly articles on political
+questions and many speeches and addresses, which were often reprinted. One
+of these in particular, made a profound impression. It was delivered at
+Rahway, when our civil war was threatening, and contained a strong argument
+and appeal for the Union.
+
+
+Hon. George T. Werts.
+
+Our present Governor of New Jersey, Hon. George T. Werts, was born at
+Hackettstown, N. J., March 24th, 1846, and was admitted to the bar in 1867.
+He was Recorder of Morristown from May 1883 to 1885, and was elected Mayor
+in May 1886, again in 1888 and in 1890. During the session of the State
+Senate in 1889, he served as President of the Senate, and was re-elected
+Senator in the same year. During his time as Senator, he served on many of
+the most important Committees and the new Ballot Reform Law and the new
+License Law were both drafted by him; laws which embrace, perhaps, the most
+radical change of any recently enacted.
+
+While Mayor of Morristown some of the most important ordinances of the
+city were of his drafting; indeed while Mayor, he paid particular attention
+to every ordinance drafted.
+
+Early in 1892 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
+resigning the offices of State Senator and Mayor of Morristown to accept
+this honor, and he resigned the position of Judge to accept that of
+Governor, to which office he was elected in November, 1892.
+
+Many speeches and addresses of Governor Werts have been published in the
+metropolitan and State papers, and in pamphlet form. Several are scattered
+through large volumes containing the speeches and addresses of others.
+These are mostly political, but some are on other subjects, and have been
+delivered before juries and at reunions, in the Senate, and on other
+occasions. Among these published papers are also opinions and decisions
+while Judge of the Supreme Court.
+
+
+Joseph Fitz Randolph.
+
+Mr. Randolph has issued a valuable work, known to us as "Jarman on Wills",
+1881 and 1882, being the fifth American edition by Mr. Randolph and Mr.
+William Talcott. This work adds a third volume to a famous two-volume
+English book.
+
+In 1888, was issued "Randolph on Commercial Paper", which work is of three
+volumes and contains 3,300 pages on bills, notes, &c., and is considered by
+the legal profession to be quite exhaustive of the subject. "These", says
+the author, "are legal monsters into which lawyers dig and delve and which
+settle knotty questions no doubt, but which probably will not be thoroughly
+investigated by women, until Fashion or Famine shall drive them into the
+legal profession".
+
+Again we may quote the author's words, when he says in his usual happy vein
+of humor, about all his important legal productions, that "they are a
+necessary nuisance to the maker's friends and the unwilling buyers, that
+there is no end of making many such, and that they might be written down in
+line, on a heavy page with some of his brother writers on other abstruse
+subjects and set in a minor key".
+
+
+Edward Q. Keasbey.
+
+In one of the large New York dailies of August 1892, we read the following:
+"Mr. Keasbey, the well known New Jersey lawyer, has some hundred pages on
+'Electric Wires in Streets and Highways,' a new subject of growing
+importance." This refers to a law book published by Mr. Keasbey entitled
+"The Law of Electric Wires in streets and Highways", Callaghan and Co.,
+Chicago. Mr. Keasbey has also edited _The New Jersey Law Journal_ since
+1879 and _The Hospital Review_ since 1888.
+
+
+
+
+SCIENTISTS.
+
+
+Samuel Finley Breese Morse, LL. D.
+
+Nothing could be more romantic than the story of the Telegraph, the
+practical application of which began in Morristown, for it is morally
+certain that without the enthusiastic confidence in its success generously
+manifested by Alfred Vail, the young inventor, and his father Judge Stephen
+Vail, who freely contributed of his means to the experiments of Professor
+Morse, this great gift to the world would have been indefinitely delayed.
+
+[Illustration: SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS,
+
+AS REPRESENTED ON AN ANCIENT INVOICE.]
+
+Morse was poor. He had exhausted his means by the necessary time and
+thought given to the development of his conception, when the value of this
+work was realized by these two men. It was as an artist, that Morse went
+first to Speedwell, on October 29, 1837, to observe the progress of his new
+machinery which was being prepared there at the Speedwell Iron Works
+belonging to Judge Vail, by Alfred Vail and his assistant, William Baxter.
+Morse had accepted a commission, doubtless given him as a means of
+relieving his pecuniary stress, to paint the portraits of several members
+of Judge Vail's household. It will be remembered, that besides his great
+invention, Professor Morse was an artist of considerable reputation, as
+well as an author. In his youth, it is said, he was more strongly marked by
+his fondness for art than for science. He was a pupil of Washington
+Allston, a member of the Royal Academy, and studied with Benjamin West. He
+painted the portraits of many distinguished men, among them the then
+President of the United States, James Monroe, for the city of Charleston;
+and, later, Fitz Greene Halleck and Chancellor Kent, now in the Astor
+Library, and the full length portrait of Lafayette for the city of New
+York. He was one of the founders and was first President of the National
+Academy of Design, and it was on his return from the pursuit of his renewed
+study of art abroad that he met with the remarkable experience which turned
+his attention from art to invention and gave him his life work. In a letter
+written to Alfred Vail by Professor Morse, and given in Mr. Vail's book on
+"The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph", (page 153), we find the
+following account:
+
+"In 1826, the lectures before the New York Atheneum, of Dr. J. F. Dana, who
+was my particular friend, gave to me the first knowledge ever possessed of
+electro magnetism, and some of the properties of the electro magnet; a
+knowledge which I made available in 1832, as the basis of my own plan of an
+electro telegraph. I claim to be the original suggestor and inventor of the
+electric magnetic telegraph, on the 19th of October, 1832, on board the
+packet ship Sully, on my voyage from France to the United States and,
+consequently, the inventor of the first really _practicable telegraph on
+the electric principle_. The plan then conceived and drawn out in all its
+essential characteristics, is the one now in successful operation."
+
+Professor Morse had more honors and medals than perhaps any American
+living. He belonged to a distinguished literary family. His two brothers
+founded _The New York Observer_ in 1823. This is now the oldest weekly in
+New York and the oldest religious paper in the State. As an author, he
+wielded the pen of a ready writer. He not only published controversial
+pamphlets concerning the telegraph, but contributed articles and poems to
+many magazines and edited the works of Lucretia Maria Davidson,
+accompanying them by a personal memoir. He published in 1835, a book
+entitled, "Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States;
+Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through
+Foreign Immigration and the Present State of the Naturalization Laws, by
+an American". Later were published "Confessions of a French Catholic
+Priest, to which are added Warnings to the People of the United States, by
+the Same Author", (edited and published with an introduction, 1837), and
+"Our Liberties Defended, the Question Discussed, is the Protestant or Papal
+System most favorable to Civil and Religious Liberty".
+
+
+Alfred Vail.
+
+To Alfred Vail belongs a place of honor, as the author of a valuable book
+on "The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph", and a place of honor, also,
+as having been the man to perceive, at a critical moment, the importance to
+the world of the great invention of Professor Morse. He was among the
+spectators who witnessed the first operation of the electro-magnetic
+telegraph at the New York University and saw then, for the first time, the
+apparatus. Of this occasion he writes as follows: "I was struck with the
+rude machine, containing, as I believed, the germ of what was destined to
+produce great changes in the condition and relations of mankind." Again,
+he says, "I rejoiced to carry out the plans of Professor Morse. I promised
+him assistance, provided he would admit me to a share of the invention,--to
+which proposition he assented. I returned to my rooms, locked my door,
+threw myself upon the bed and gave myself up to the reflections upon the
+mighty results which were certain to follow the introduction of this new
+agent in serving the wants of the world". With this intense conviction,
+young Vail communicated his enthusiasm to his father, Judge Stephen Vail,
+who owned the Speedwell Iron Works and who generously supplied the means by
+which the plans for the electric telegraph were put into successful
+operation. It is an interesting fact that these same Speedwell Iron Works
+are variously connected with the history of the country, for "here was
+forged the shaft of the _Savannah_, the first steamship that crossed the
+Atlantic and here were manufactured the tires, axles and cranks of the
+first American locomotives."
+
+In _The Century_ for April 1888, is a most interesting article, entitled
+"The American Inventors of the Telegraph, with Special Reference to the
+Services of Alfred Vail". This is exhaustive of the subject, was written by
+Franklin Leonard Pope, and was supervised by Mrs. Alfred Vail, as she tells
+us, and the statements fortified by documents, correspondence and designs.
+To _The Century_ editors and to Mr. James Cummings Vail, of Morris Plains,
+son of Alfred Vail, we are indebted for the use of the plate of the
+Speedwell Iron Works, redrawn from an ancient invoice, the age of which is
+not known. The illustration of the "Factory" in which the first successful
+trial and, afterwards, the first public exhibition, of the electric
+telegraph took place, is from a photograph of the building as it stands at
+the present day, on the lot in which stands the homestead house, now
+occupied by Mrs. Lidgerwood.
+
+"I have always understood", says Mr. J. C. Vail, (Jan'y 5, 1893), "that the
+room in which my father and Baxter (his young assistant) worked and called
+the 'work shop', was in an old stone building within the Iron Works
+enclosure, between the bridge and Morristown and is still standing, and is
+the only stone building within that enclosure."
+
+Of these buildings and associations, Mrs. John H. Lidgerwood, the
+granddaughter of Judge Vail, now living on the place, at Speedwell, writes
+as follows, Dec. 12, 1892:
+
+"My grandfather makes but three entries in his diary:
+
+"'1838, January 6th. Dr. Gale came this morning. They (Prof. Morse, Alfred
+Vail, and the Dr.) have worked the Tellegraph in the Factory this evening
+for the first time.'
+
+"'10th. Mr. Morse and Alfred are working and showing the Tellegraph.'
+
+"'11th. A hundred came to see the Tellegraph work.'
+
+"The old house", continues Mrs. Lidgerwood, "in which my grandfather then
+lived, still remains near the foot of the hill nearest the town. The
+interior has been entirely changed and I never knew the room occupied by
+Professor Morse.
+
+"The shop, in which the machine was constructed, and which was called the
+'work shop', has also been rebuilt. Its four walls are all that are left of
+the original building. The floor of that room was taken away to make a one
+story building and the windows were put in the roof. It is now entirely
+vacant and stands on the side of the dam opposite the saw mill, the gable
+end of the old shop facing the road. One end of the foundation was partly
+torn away by the freshet that destroyed the old bridge. The experiments
+were made in a building called 'The Factory', which is at the foot of our
+lawn. It was built for a Cotton Factory, but only used for making buttons,
+owing, I believe, to some fault in its construction.
+
+"My grandfather has told me frequently that the machine was placed on the
+first floor, and about three miles of copper wire, insulated by being wound
+with cotton yarn, was wound around the walls of the second story. There are
+some hooks still in the side walls but I do not know if they are the same.
+I have still a small portion of the original wire used in the experiments.
+I do not know the age of any of these buildings. The works were probably
+here long before the Revolution. I have heard my grandfather say there was
+a forge here at that time."
+
+The machine used on the occasion to which Judge Vail refers in his diary,
+and on which he himself had sent the first message of all, "a patient
+waiter is no loser," is now loaned by the family to the Smithsonian
+Institute, Washington, D. C.
+
+From the time the first telegraphic message was sent by Alfred Vail from
+the "Factory" at Speedwell and received by Professor Morse two miles away,
+and the next experiment when Morse and Vail operated with complete success
+through ten miles of space,--to the final triumph at Washington, many and
+great were the perils and moments of anguish through which the inventors
+passed. It was on the 24th of May, 1844, when the supreme test of the
+telegraph was made at Washington and the message was sent to Mr. Vail in
+Baltimore, in the words selected by Miss Annie G. Ellsworth and taken from
+Numbers xxiii: 23, "What hath God wrought."
+
+During these years Alfred Vail, it is claimed, had "not only become a full
+partner in the ownership of the invention, but had supplied the entire
+resources and facilities for obtaining patents and for constructing the
+apparatus for exhibition at Washington; and more than this, he had
+introduced essential improvements not only in the mechanism, but in the
+fundamental principles of the telegraph." Vail felt that Morse had not
+acknowledged, as he expected, his (Vail's) part in the invention or fully
+recognized his rights of partnership. Of this, the Hon. Amos Kendall, the
+friend and associate of both, has said: "If justice is done, the name of
+Alfred Vail will forever stand associated with that of Samuel F. B. Morse
+in the history and introduction into public use of the electro-magnetic
+telegraph."
+
+Mr. Vail's book, which has place in most of the prominent libraries of
+Europe and America, was published in 1845 and is entitled "The American
+Electro-Magnetic Telegraph with the Reports of Congress and a description
+of all Telegraphs known, employing Electricity or Galvinism". It is
+illustrated by eighty-one wood engravings.
+
+[Illustration: FACTORY AT SPEEDWELL.
+
+IN WHICH THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH TOOK
+PLACE.]
+
+
+William Graham Sumner, LL. D.
+
+Professor Sumner is a New Jersey man, born at Paterson. He inherited from
+his father, Thomas Sumner, who came to this country from England in 1836,
+several important qualities which those who know the son will recognize.
+Thomas Sumner, we are told, was a man of the strictest integrity, of
+indefatigable industry, of sturdy common sense and possessing the courage
+of his convictions. Two of Professor Sumner's early teachers in Hartford,
+one of them Mr. S. M. Capron, in the classical department, had also great
+influence upon his character. He was graduated from Yale College in 1863.
+In the summer of that year, he went abroad, studied French and Hebrew in
+Geneva, after which he spent two years at the University of Goettingen, in
+the study of ancient languages, history, especially church history, and
+biblical science. Here, he tells us, he was "taught rigorous and pitiless
+methods of investigation and deduction. Their analysis was their strong
+point. Their negative attitude toward the poetic element, their
+indifference to sentiment, even religious sentiment, was a fault, seeing
+that they studied the Bible as a religious book and not for philology and
+history only; but their method of study was nobly scientific, and was
+worthy to rank, both for its results and its discipline, with the best of
+the natural science methods."
+
+Mr. Sumner went to Oxford in 1866, with the intention and desire of reading
+English literature on the same subjects which he had pursued at Goettingen.
+"I expected," he says, "to find it rich and independent. I found that it
+consisted of second-hand adaptation of what I had just been studying."
+
+Returning to this country, while tutor in Yale College, in 1866, Mr. Sumner
+published a translation of Lange's "Commentary on Second Kings". In 1867,
+he was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and two years
+later, he received full ordination in New York and became assistant to Rev.
+Dr. Washburn at Calvary Church, New York, under whom he was made editor of
+a broad church paper. In September, 1870, he became rector of the Church of
+the Redeemer at Morristown, N. J., from which event he claims our attention
+as an author.
+
+With regard to the course of his young ministry in this parish he says;
+"When I came to write sermons, I found to what a degree my interest lay in
+topics of social science and political economy. There was then no public
+interest in the currency and only a little in the tariff. I thought that
+these were matters of the most urgent importance, which threatened all the
+interests, moral, social and economic, of the nation, and I was young
+enough to believe that they would all be settled in the next four or five
+years. It was not possible to preach about them, but I got so near to it
+that I was detected sometimes, as, for instance, when a New Jersey banker
+came to me, as I came down from the pulpit, and said: 'There was a great
+deal of political economy in that sermon.'"
+
+In September, 1872, Mr. Sumner accepted the chair of Political and Social
+Science at Yale College, in which he has so highly distinguished himself.
+Of this he says: "I had always been very fond of teaching and knew that the
+best work I could ever do in the world would be in that profession; also
+that I ought to be in an academical career. I had seen two or three cases
+of men who, in that career, would have achieved distinguished usefulness,
+but who were wasted in the parish and pulpit".
+
+In 1884, Prof. Sumner received the degree of LL. D. from the University of
+Tennessee. A distinguished American economist well acquainted with Prof.
+Sumner's work has given to a writer from whom we quote, the following
+estimate of his method and of his position and influence as a public
+teacher: "For exact and comprehensive knowledge Prof. Sumner is entitled to
+take the first place in the ranks of American economists; and as a teacher
+he has no superior. His leading mental characteristic he has himself well
+stated in describing the characteristics of his former teachers at
+Goettingen; namely, as 'bent on seeking a clear and comprehensive conception
+of the matter "or truth" under study, without regard to any consequences
+whatever,' and further, when in his own mind Prof. Sumner is fully
+satisfied as to what the truth is, he has no hesitation in boldly declaring
+it, on every fitting occasion, without regard to consequences. If the
+theory is a 'spade', he calls it a spade, and not an implement of
+husbandry."
+
+Professor Sumner has published, besides Lange's "Commentary on the Second
+Book of Kings", the "History of American Currency"; "Lectures on the
+History of Protection in the United States"; "Life of Andrew Jackson", in
+the American Statesmen Series; "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other";
+"Economic Problems"; "Essays on Political and Social Science";
+"Protectionism"; "Alexander Hamilton", in the Makers of America Series,
+(1890); "The Financier (Robert Morris) and the Finances of the American
+Revolution", (1891); besides a large number of magazine articles on the
+same line of subjects.
+
+
+Elwyn Waller, Ph. D.
+
+Three writers now present themselves, each of whom is distinguished in his
+department, one of Chemistry, one of Mining and Metallurgy, and one of
+Mathematics. The Author's Club would exclude these brilliant men from
+recognition, but here the clause of our title, "and Writers", saves us.
+Prof. Waller amusingly expresses the position when he says, "I supposed
+that reference in your book would be made to those who had achieved more or
+less distinction in what has sometimes been termed 'polite literature.'
+While I am not ready to admit that the literature of my profession
+(chemistry) is 'impolite', it probably is too technical to come within the
+scope of your work."
+
+Like many of our residents, Dr. Waller's time is divided between New York
+and Morristown, being Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Columbia School
+of Mines, New York. He has written much of value; innumerable pamphlets and
+articles for various magazines, for chemical periodicals and Sanitary
+Reports and for journals far and wide, both technical and general in
+character, among which are _The Century_ and _The Engineering and Mining
+Journal_. He has written certain articles for Johnson's Encyclopaedia, and
+has edited articles in other books all of which are to be reckoned as
+technical, but valuable contributions to current chemical literature. He
+has completed a book on "Quantitative Chemical Analysis", from the MSS. of
+one of his Colleagues, which was left unfinished in 1879 and he is now
+engaged in revising and practically re-writing the same work. Besides, he
+has written gossipy letters for _The Evening Post_, and _The Evening
+Mail_, of New York, from various far-off islands and inland points, where
+he has usually made one of a scientific party. One series of letters was
+written while a member of the U. S. St. Domingo Expedition.
+
+
+George W. Maynard, Ph. D.
+
+Another scientific man, ranking high in his department of Mining and
+Engineering, is Professor George W. Maynard, who is just now principally
+engaged in Colorado, passing back and forth between that State and his home
+in Morristown. He has had extensive travels over our own country and
+continent, and abroad. He is a close observer and many of us are familiar
+with his graphic descriptions of the scenes which he has witnessed, notably
+in Mexico, also with the illustrated lectures on these and other subjects,
+which he has generously given from time to time.
+
+Professor Maynard is a graduate of Columbia College, New York, and was
+Demonstrator in Chemistry in that College for a year. He then studied
+abroad at Goettingen, Clousthal and Berlin, and was for four years Professor
+of Mining and Metallurgy in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy,
+N. Y. His published writings, which have mostly been of a technical
+character, have appeared in various technical journals and in the
+"Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers", and in _The
+Journal_ of the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain. Of the above
+mentioned societies, he is an active member and also of the New York
+Academy of Sciences.
+
+
+Emory McClintock, LL. D.
+
+The third of our group of specialists is Dr. Emory McClintock, whom one of
+his brother scientists warns us we should "not forget to mention as he is
+one of the most eminent mathematicians in the United States". As associated
+with Morristown, in his beautiful home on Kemble Hill, high overlooking the
+Lowantica valley and scenes full of memories of the Revolution, we claim
+him with pride, in spite of his saying that his writings have all been
+records of scientific researches and not literary in any sense and that he
+has never written a book, big or little, nor even a magazine article. It
+remains, that his many writings are of great value as published in pamphlet
+form or in periodicals of technical character, such as _The Bulletin of the
+New York Mathematical Society_, which is "A Historical and Critical Review
+of Mathematical Science"; or, _The American Journal of Mathematics_ from
+which a large pamphlet is reprinted on _The Analysis of Quintic Equations_,
+or, in the direction of his art or specialty as a life insurance actuary,
+where appears, among other writings, a large pamphlet on _The Effects of
+Selection_--being "An Actuarial Essay," in which we find very interesting
+matter for the general reader.
+
+
+Andrew F. West, LL. D.
+
+Professor West, of Princeton College, is well remembered as a resident of
+Morristown for two years, (1881-1883). He was at that time, the predecessor
+of Mr. Charles D. Platt, at the Morris Academy, and mingled largely in the
+literary, social and musical circles of the city. He, like Dr. McClintock,
+is a Pennsylvanian, and was born at Pittsburg.
+
+Since Mr. West accepted a professorship at Princeton College, which was the
+occasion of his leaving Morristown, he has written largely on classical and
+medieval subjects.
+
+His last book, just published, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892,
+is entitled "Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools." It appears in
+the Series of "The Great Educators", edited by Nicholas Murray Butler. It
+is a volume of 205 pages, and contains a sketch of Alcuin at York and at
+Tours, also treating of his educational writings, his character, his
+pupils, and his later influence.
+
+Various literary, philological and educational articles in reviews have
+been contributed by Professor West, and two books additional to the one
+mentioned, have been published by him. These are, "The Andria and Heauton
+Timorumenos, of Terence," edited with introduction and notes, and published
+by Harper and Brothers (1888); and "The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury,"
+edited from the manuscripts, translated and annotated. The latter is in
+three volumes: I., The Latin Text; II., The English Version; III.,
+Introduction and Notes Printed by Theodore De Vienne for the Grolier Club
+of New York, (1889).
+
+
+Jose Gros.
+
+From the shores of Spain, has come to us one of our advanced thinkers and
+writers, Senor Jose Gros. He is a disciple of Henry George and, on one
+occasion, introduced that distinguished man to a Morristown audience, in
+our Lyceum Hall, giving, to a large number of people assembled, the
+opportunity of listening to his own exposition of the views about which so
+wide and warm a controversy has raged.
+
+Senor Gros was born and educated in Spain. He has traveled extensively
+through Italy, France, Germany, England, and a portion of our own country,
+finally taking a position in a commercial house in New York, in 1859, in
+which he remained until 1870, when he retired to Morristown. Since then, in
+his own words, he has "dedicated most of his time to the study of history
+and science, more especially social science," for which he has been writing
+articles for western magazines and journals and also for one or more of our
+local papers.
+
+In the _Locomotive Firemen's Magazine_, of Terre Haute, Indiana, a large
+number of these articles have appeared. They go with this magazine to all
+the States and Territories of the Union, to parts of Canada and Mexico, and
+they are connected with over 500 Labor Clubs. The subject of one series of
+these papers is "Civilization With its Problems". Other subjects are, "The
+Struggle for Existence"; "Confusion in Economic Thought"; "Governments by
+Statics or Dynamics"; "Congested Civilizations"; "Social Skepticism", and a
+series on "To-day's Problems". In all his arguments, Senor Gros considers
+as vital to advance in Social Science the principles of the Christian
+religion. "No system," he says, "can save us from disasters without clear
+perceptions of duty on what I call 'Christian citizenship.'"
+
+
+
+
+MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS.
+
+
+Condict W. Cutler, M. S., M. D.
+
+Dr. Cutler claims through his father, the Hon. Augustus W. Cutler, as
+ancestor, the Hon. Silas Condict, one of the most renowned patriots of the
+Revolution, and his childhood and boyhood was spent in the house which was
+built, in 1799, by this great-great-grandfather and occupied by him. It has
+been owned and occupied since then, and is now, by Hon. Augustus W. Cutler.
+The old house, in which Silas Condict previously lived, is still standing
+about a mile west of the present Cutler residence. Many historic incidents
+and traditions cluster about this place.
+
+Dr. Cutler has done credit to this ancestor's memory in his exceptionally
+successful career. A member of many societies, and associate editor of _The
+New York Epitome of Medicine_, he has written largely for journals and
+magazines, besides publishing three books, which are entitled "Differential
+Medical Diagnosis"; "Differential Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Skin",
+and "Essentials of Physics and Chemistry." These, say the medical and
+surgical critics, are prepared with care and thoroughness and show a wise
+use of standard text-books and the exercise of critical judgment guided by
+practical experience.
+
+Many may think that the books belonging to Materia Medica, being of
+technical character, do not come directly within our province, but we may
+say _everything_ in the line of authorship is within our broad range, and
+we are glad to say emphatically that nothing, not even theological
+questions, concern mankind more deeply than just this great question upon
+which Dr. Cutler has expended so much thought and labor and which too is
+the result of his experience as a medical man,--namely, the Differential
+Diagnosis of Disease. When we take into consideration the fact, that no
+disease can be successfully treated until it is _known_ and as it cannot be
+known without being properly diagnosed, and as successful diagnoses depend
+upon just such principles and relations as Dr. Cutler demonstrates, we can
+see the value of the work even though we may not belong to the medical
+fraternity. More than all, we can see the benefit which such a work confers
+upon mankind at large and not alone upon the healers of diseased and
+afflicted humanity. Let any one go into the houses of the poor; the streets
+and the alleys, and into the overflowing hospitals and witness the
+immensity of the evil of that terrible phase of disease, "The Skin
+Diseases" of which Dr. Cutler treats, and he will realize what earnest
+thanks we owe to a man whose life work is to devote his time and brains to
+the alleviation of this type of human suffering.
+
+
+Phanet C. Barker, M. D.
+
+Dr. Barker, of Morristown, has for twenty-five years past written more or
+less, from time to time, for medical journals published in New York and
+Philadelphia. The majority of these contributions have been of a practical
+character and consequently rather brief. Some of them have been formal
+studies of practical questions, such as "The Vaccination Question",
+questions connected with Sanitary Science, &c. Of the latter, one we would
+mention in particular, entitled, "The Germ Theory of Disease and its
+Relations to Sanitation". In this the writer tells us: "The germ theory of
+disease is destined to hold a place in literature as the romance of
+medicine, and if it stands the test of time, and the scrutiny which is
+certain to be bestowed upon it, the theory will mark an epoch for all time
+to come. The present century has been distinguished in many and various
+ways, which need not be alluded to in this connection. Among the
+discoveries and improvements of the age, Sanitary Science occupies an
+important, a commanding position, that can hardly be exaggerated. Indeed it
+has contributed more to civilization and to the well-being of the human
+race than steam, electricity or any other scientific or economic
+discovery." Then the writer refers to the condition of Englishmen who lived
+in the fourteenth century, and traces the ravages of the Black Death to the
+people's mode of living. He sketches the epidemics that have prevailed in
+the world at various periods, and asserts that even "chronology has been
+changed and the fate of great and powerful peoples like those of Athens, of
+Rome and of Florence, has been sealed by the direct or indirect effects of
+what we now term preventible diseases."
+
+Such contributions as Dr. Barker has made to general literature have had
+relation to economic questions generally, although the preparation of a
+few papers on "Popular Astronomy", "Meteorological Observations" and
+"Fishing in Remote Canadian Waters" have served, as he says, "to rest and
+refresh his mind, when harassed by anxieties incident to the practice of
+his profession." These papers have been published,--the former in New York
+City or in our local papers, and the latter in _The Forest and Stream_. One
+of the pamphlet publications on popular astronomy is unusually attractive
+and is entitled "The Stars and the Earth".
+
+
+Horace A. Buttolph, M. D., LL. D.
+
+Dr. Buttolph, whose professional life, as connected with the care and
+treatment of the insane in three large institutions, in New York and New
+Jersey, covering a period of forty-two years, although devoted so
+exclusively to administrative, professional and personal details, that
+little time was left to engage in writing for the press, beyond the
+preparation of the usual annual Reports of such institutions, has,
+nevertheless turned that little time to good account.
+
+The State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown was under the superintendence
+of Dr. Buttolph from its opening in August 1876 to the last day of the year
+1884, when he tendered his resignation. Previous to this he had been in
+charge of the Trenton Asylum from May 1848 to April 1876, making a period
+of unbroken service in New Jersey of more than thirty-seven years, during
+which time these buildings were organized on his plan, and that of Morris
+Plains, with its extensive machinery, was mostly planned by him. One
+specialty in the line of machinery in both institutions, in use for many
+years,--that of making aerated or unfermented bread, which is most cleanly,
+healthful and economical, is probably not in use in any institution in the
+world, outside of New Jersey.
+
+Dr. Buttolph was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., and was graduated from the
+Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1835. Having been
+early attracted to the study of insanity, he made it a specialty and
+accepted a position in the new State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, N. Y., in
+1843. This he retained until 1847 when he went as Medical Superintendent to
+the State Lunatic Asylum near Trenton, N. J. During the previous year,
+while still attached to the Utica Asylum, he went abroad to study the
+architecture and management of other institutions and visited thirty or
+more of the principal asylums in Great Britain, France and Germany. At this
+time very few institutions for the insane had been established in this
+country and all sorts of problems had to be worked out. Dr. Buttolph soon
+came to be a very high authority and, in that recognized capacity, he was
+chosen to direct the Asylum at Morris Plains, which is the largest in the
+United States and one of the best equipped in the world. It was a matter of
+very great regret to his large circle of friends in Morristown, and out of
+it, when he found it impossible to remain longer in the charge he had
+filled so faithfully and well.
+
+Dr. Buttolph's writings have been on insanity or mental derangement; also
+on the organization and management of hospitals for the insane; the
+classification of the insane with special reference to the most natural and
+satisfactory method of their treatment, etc. These writings have been
+published in many magazines and journals, and a large number in pamphlet
+form. Also addresses, delivered on important occasions or before societies,
+have been published in pamphlet form. Of these, one is widely-known, given
+before the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions
+for the Insane, at Saratoga, N. Y., June 17, 1885, on "The Physiology of
+the Brain and its Relations in Health and Disease to the Faculties of the
+Mind."
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART.
+
+
+Thomas Nast.
+
+Mr. Nast, who has for so long been identified with Morristown, may be
+designated both as artist and bookmaker. In the true sense of the term,
+author, he may then be fairly presented, as probably no living man has
+wielded a greater influence through his power of expression. Many readers
+of this sketch will remember the consternation that prevailed upon the
+revelation of the Tweed Ring scandals and at the question of Tweed himself
+as he defied the City of New York,--"What are you going to do about it?"
+They will remember how Mr. Nast with wonderful courage and grasp of the
+situation, came to the front and at great personal risk to himself and
+family, threw with steady aim, the stone which killed that Goliath of Gath
+and put to rout the Philistines. They will remember Tweed's exclamation: "I
+can stand anything but those pictures!" Mr. Nast, then, is a hero in our
+history, and the fact cannot be forgotten.
+
+When the Washington Headquarters was first purchased from the Ford family,
+the original owners, by a few gentlemen who organized the Washington
+Association to preserve the historic building and grounds, for a national
+possession, many will remember how Mr. Nast entered into the spirit of the
+Centennial Celebration there in 1875, when so many of the prominent men and
+women of Morristown took part, wearing the dress of the Revolution and
+working hard to accomplish the end of fitting up the building by the
+proceeds of the entertainment. All were astonished by the result in sales
+of tickets, collation, and little hatchets, of between eleven and twelve
+hundred dollars in one single afternoon and evening; so much, that the
+amount was divided between the Headquarters and the "Library" of
+Morristown, then in its beginning. Mr. Nast had much to do with this
+success. He worked early and late at the decorations and filled one of the
+largest rooms with his immense and humorous cartoons of scenes in the
+Revolution and the stories of George Washington.
+
+The book published by Mr. Nast is now in our library, "Miss Columbia's
+Public School", and is a clever satire on the Northern and Southern boy and
+the general condition of Miss Columbia's pupils in the time of our Civil
+War. It was issued in 1871.
+
+Another charming publication of Mr. Nast was brought out by the Harper
+Brothers for Christmas, 1889, under the title of "Thomas Nast's Christmas
+Drawings for the Human Race". Of this says one of the critics of the time:
+"His Santa Claus, jolly vagabond that he is, seems to radiate a warmth more
+genial than tropic airs, and a gayety that overbears the sadness of
+experience. 'What a mug' does he show us on the title page; so kindly, so
+roguish, so venerable, so comical, so shrewd, so pugnaciously cheerful! How
+seriously he takes himself, and yet what a wink in those twinkling eyes, as
+who should say, 'Confidentially, of course, we admit the fraud, but mum's
+the word where the children are concerned!'"
+
+Thomas Nast came from Bavaria, with his father, at the age of six, and at
+fourteen was a pupil for a few months of Theodore Kaufmann, soon after
+beginning his career, as draughtsman on an illustrated paper. In 1860, as
+special artist for a New York weekly paper, he went abroad and while there,
+followed Garibaldi in Italy, making sketches for London, Paris and New York
+illustrated papers. His war sketches appeared in _Harper's Weekly_ on his
+return in 1862. The political condition of national affairs gave him
+opportunity for manifesting his peculiar gift for representing in condensed
+form, a powerful thought. His first political caricature established his
+reputation. It was an allegorical design which gave a powerful blow to the
+peace party.
+
+Besides the _Harper's Weekly_ sketches, Mr. Nast has contributed to other
+papers and has illustrated books in addition to those mentioned, in
+particular Petroleum V. Nasby's book. For many years, he brought out
+"Nast's Illustrated Almanac".
+
+In the principal cities of the United States, Mr. Nast has lectured,
+illustrating his lectures with rapidly executed caricature sketches, in
+black and white, and in colored crayons. It is said by a contemporary
+writer that "in the particular line of pictorial satire, Thomas Nast stands
+in the foremost rank."
+
+
+Rev. Jared Bradley Flagg, D. D.
+
+The Rev. Dr. Flagg, recently a resident of Morristown, has just published a
+delightful and important book on the "Life and Letters of Washington
+Allston", Scribner's Sons, November, 1892. It is illustrated by
+reproductions from Allston's paintings. Many remember the very striking
+full length portraits of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Mr. Evarts and others, which
+were shown in Dr. Flagg's gallery in Morristown, on the occasion of a
+reception given at his residence here, a few years ago.
+
+In addition to the book above mentioned, Dr. Flagg has written a great deal
+as a clergyman. He belongs to an artistic family, of New Haven, Conn. His
+brother, George, was considered in his youth a prodigy and his pictures and
+portraits attained celebrity. His style resembles the Venetian School, like
+that of his uncle, Washington Allston, with whom he studied. Dr. Flagg
+studied with both his brother and his uncle, and began as an artist at an
+early age, painting professionally and earning a living at sixteen. At
+twenty, "his love of letters, and fear of Hell," as he says, led him to
+connect himself with Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and to study for the
+church. After an active ministry of ten years, during eight of which he was
+rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, his health broke down, and he
+devoted what strength he had left to artistic and literary pursuits, in
+which he is still engaged and in which, he tells us, he finds increasing
+interest with declining years.
+
+
+Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D.
+
+Dr. Corning has already been represented, in our group of poets. He has
+passed much of his life abroad and has made a special study of art, upon
+which he is an authority. He was for several years a regular contributor to
+_The Independent_ and _The Christian Union_ on art subjects, and wrote for
+_The Manhattan Magazine_, a series of articles, among them, on the "Luther
+Monument at Worms", "William Luebke" and "Women Artists of the Olden Time".
+The fruits of his art study have largely been put into the form of popular
+lectures, which he has delivered in many of the large American cities.
+
+It is remembered that some years ago, during his residence in Morristown,
+Dr. Corning gave a series of art lectures with illustrations, for the
+benefit of the Morristown Library. The proceeds were devoted to the
+purchase of books on art and the volumes thus added were selected by Dr.
+Corning. In this way, the library is indebted to him for very valuable
+additions.
+
+
+George Herbert McCord, A. N. A.
+
+Mr. McCord, of the National Academy, is best known to us as an artist,
+bringing before us, with his magic brush, historic scenes of England,
+picturesque views of Canada, on the St. Lawrence and elsewhere, and many of
+our own country, among them spots of beauty about Morristown, which other
+eyes perhaps have not discovered until shown to them by him. But, he is
+also an art critic and one of those writers of out of door life, who find,
+like Hamerton, both rest and recreation among the scenes which he transfers
+to his canvas. Often he contributes to our papers and magazines current
+news from the art world to which he so essentially belongs. Sometimes, in
+his contributions to _The Richfield News_, for which he writes, he gives us
+a bit of word painting that is scarcely less poetic than the creations of
+his canvas. More than all, Mr. McCord is not a croaker. He never comes
+before us with that chronic wail of the neglect of American art. On the
+contrary, he tells us cheerfully that the most prominent dealers in foreign
+art productions are buying and selling works of American art. We like such
+cheerful summer writers, bringing bright visions of the future to our world
+of art.
+
+Mr. McCord's beautiful picture, "The Old Mill Race", transfers to canvas a
+scene on the Whippany River. It also makes a fine addition to a little
+collection of "Choice Bits in Etching", published by Mr. Ritchie.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIST
+
+
+William G. Van Tassel Sutphen.
+
+Mr. Sutphen, who is now permanently engaged in journalism, is no less a
+successful dramatist and, from the first, has shown those most attractive
+and rare qualities which are essentially requisite to reach dramatic
+success. A list of his more important published works will show that he is
+no idler, and includes several bright clever farces contributed to
+_Harper's Bazar_, among them, "The Reporter"; "Hearing is Believing";
+"Sharp Practice", and "A Soul Above Skittles". Not long ago appeared a
+romantic opera entitled "Mary Phillipse; An Historical and Musical Picture,
+in Four Scenes." This is founded on certain events in the history of the
+city of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, between the years 1760 and
+1776. It was set to music by George F. Le Jeune, and produced with marked
+success, June 30, 1892, at Yonkers and on succeeding dates. "Hearing is
+Believing" was performed twice in Morristown in the same winter.
+
+Mr. Sutphen has only lately published in the July number of _Scribner's
+Magazine_ (1892), a poem entitled "To Trojan Helen" and containing some
+fine verses. This is worthy of high place in Mr. Sutphen's intellectual
+work. Another poem of merit, "Insciens", appeared also in _Scribner's
+Magazine_. In addition to these, miscellaneous verses and sketches have
+been contributed to _Puck_, _Life_, _Time_ and other periodicals, and in
+most cases, anonymously. For the past eight years, Mr. Sutphen has had
+charge of the weekly edition of _The New York World_. While at Princeton
+College he was one of the editors of the _Nassau Literary Magazine_, and
+one of the founders and first editor of the _Princeton Tiger_, an
+illustrated weekly, modeled on the _Harvard Lampoon_. "Condensed Dramas"
+and "Latterday Lyrics" should also be mentioned, a series of light sketches
+and verses contributed to _Time_ during the existence of that periodical.
+
+It is, however, by his dramatic talent, that we wish to represent Mr.
+Sutphen, and for this reason we expected and would be glad to give in full,
+were it possible, "The Guillotine; a Condensed Drama", which first appeared
+in _The Argonaut_, a San Francisco Journal. This is an extremely clever and
+witty comedy, perhaps the best of his dramatic writings, to which an
+extract will hardly do justice. We are thankful to Mr. Sutphen for
+contributing a little of the laughter element to the condensed mass,
+included in this volume, of theology, history, philosophy, poetry, romance,
+mathematics, medicine, art and science.
+
+
+EXTRACT FROM "THE GUILLOTINE."
+
+     _Scene: The Public Square in a French Town. In the
+     centre of the square is seen a guillotine. Enter
+     venerable gentleman of scientific aspect reading a
+     newspaper._
+
+(In the first scene the professor, finding himself alone with the
+guillotine and seeing a notice of an execution to take place three hours
+later, is impelled to examine the instrument. He adjusts the axe and works
+the spring until he masters the mechanism, and finds the spring on the
+right releases the knife, spring on the left, the head. Finally he decides
+to put his own head on the block to try the sensation. Horrible! he cannot
+remember which is his right hand and which his left. While in this
+position, a party of tourists come along, armed with Baedekers and
+accompanied by a guide.)
+
+GUIDE (_gesticulating_)--Zare, ladies and gentlemans. Ze cathedral! Ah!
+ciel! Look at him. Magnifique! (_Chorus of "ahs" from tourists and general
+opening of Baedekers._)
+
+GUIDE--Ze clock-tower ees of a colossity excessive. It elevates himself
+three hundred and eighty-six feet. (_Immense enthusiasm._) At ze
+terminality of ze wall statue ze great Charlemagne. Superbe! Chuck-a-block
+to him, Dagobert, Clovis and Voila! (_Catching hold of elderly tourist._)
+Le bon Louis. (_The tourists take notes with painful accuracy and
+minuteness._)
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST--Very interesting. Rose, my child, have you got all that
+down. How old is the cathedral, guide?
+
+GUIDE--It has seven hundred and feefty-six years.
+
+SPINSTER AUNT (_Severely_)--Baedeker says seven hundred and fifty-five.
+
+GUIDE (_politely_)--It ees hees one mistake. (_An exclamation from Rose.
+Everybody turns._)
+
+ROSE (_pointing to guillotine_)--Oh, do look there!
+
+SPINSTER AUNT--It looks as though an execution were in progress. Baedeker
+says--
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST (_eagerly_)--Is it really so, guide?
+
+GUIDE (_indifferently_)--Yes, but zare ees no fee and zarefore no objection
+in seeing it. It ees modern--vat you call him--cheap-John. We will now
+upon ze clock-tower upheave ourselves. Zare are two hundred and one steps.
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST--But we want to see the execution.
+
+GUIDE--You enjoy ze ferocity? Bah! you shall have him. For one franc zare
+ees to see picture S. Sebastian--ver' fine, all shot full wiz burning
+arrows.
+
+ELDERLY TOURIST--Never mind, we will wait. Do you think, guide, I would
+have time to go back and get my wife? I am sure she would enjoy it!
+
+
+
+
+
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