The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-08
T.le Woes of am Authorizes.

Gail Hamilton recently travelled over the rail-
road from New York to Springfield, and the fol-
lowing advertisement in the Hartford Press tells
the result
STRAYED OR SroLEN-From the subscriber
somewhere on the New York, New Haven, and
Springfield Railroad, between Meriden, Conn.,,
and Boston, camels-hair scarf, valuable in its
own right and as a keepsake. Whoever will
return the same to box l6, Hamilton, Mass,
shall receive the warmest thanks of the owner.
The oNper would offer more substantial
reward, / 1t on the same journey she lost her
portemonnaie. II that shall be returned, the
portemonnaie shall be given to the finder and all
the money in 1t to the Under of the scarf.
Also, lost on the same journey, a rigolette.
Also, a green veil. Also, drab veil. Also,
waterproof cloak In short, any little things
ying about the country probably belong in the
same box, and shall be given to the Under OF
the scarf as last as they come in, and no ques-
tions asked.
n. B. If any person shall find q large, new,
black silk umbrella, and shall wish to COM
municate with the owner he can do so at once
by addressing box l6, post office, Hamilton,
The Springfield Republican and all the wor.
cesteI papers are tearfully requested to copy
this advertisement.
The "Memors and Letters of Madame
Riedeselp relate to hat interesting period of the
Revolutionary wal which included the campaign
of Burgoyne in NoIthern New York, and his
subsequent defeat at Saratoga. translation
OF her memoirs was published in 1927, but has
been long out OF print. InlS translation was
not only very incorrect in many passages, but
omitted nearly forty pages of the original Ger
man edition. Mr.. William l.. Stone, one of the
e6ltoIs of the Journal of Commerce. and the
author of the Life and Times of Sir William
Johnson" is, therefore, about to publish a re-
yised translation, with notes and comments,
and portrait of Madame Riedesel. 1t will
form the sixth volume of "Musell's Series of
Local American History" and will be about
three hundred pages octave. Mr.. Stone is also
busy over a translation of the Life and
Writings of General Riedesel," edited at Berlin
| in 1856, by Max ElkiDg. This contains RiedesePs
military and personal journal during his resi-
dence in America, and many letters from Wash
| ineton, Gates, Burgoyne, and others, that have
! never been publish in English. 1t will form
! one of the same series.
- One of the most vs luable books announced
! this week is "The Constitutional Convention:
| Its History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding"
| by John A. Jameson, Judge OF the Supreme
! Court OF Chicago. and Professor OF Conslitu-
| tional Law in the law department OF the Chicago
! University. Judge jameson has given long
| study 10 this subject, and his work is an eX-
| haustive treatlse. Four species of conventions
| are described - classed as the spontaneous,
legislative, revolutionary, and constitutional; a
| defnition of sovereignty follows; and then
| cpitomes of the history of various national and
! Slate conventions are given, with able discus
| sions of the powers of such bodies, and sugges-
| tiens for the amendment OF constitutions. A
! documentary appendix adds to the value OF the
WoIK, and an excellent index makes reference
! easy. The volume is q handsome octave OF i've
hundred pages, printed on the Riverside Press.