Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-12-31

THE ISTELLIoENcER pad calendar for
1890 will have all the features of last years
calendar carried to even greater perfection.
The slip for each day will give the society
aud lodge meeting for that date, space for
memoranda, brief and pithy sayings of
great thinkers and poets.
The mechanical execution and style of the
calendar need no praise, ms the reputation
OF the INTELLfoEvcER job printing ofliceis
well established In advance of all COM
petitors. The design of the ornamental
card supporting the calendar pad 10 ono OF
the latest developments Of tho printers
art, striking but harmonious arrange
ment of brilliant coors and graceful lines.
The calendar Is In every detail the work Of
tho INTELLroENcER printing house.
LopeE's "Life OF Washington has ex-
cited the wrath Of critic who works for
the London Saturday Repiew, and is nat
urally quite impressed with the "stupen-
ous mass of writing produced, and in
course of production, about tho brief and
not particularly interesting history of the
United States Of America" IT must be
confessed that considering the brevity of
our national lifo great deal has been
printed about it, and the history Of England
In the same detail would be quite beyond
tho power Of mortal reading. Only an
Englshman, however, could be bigoted
enough to say that the sudden rise Of this
gigantic republic Is mot particularly in
teresting." The ReDiew goes on: "Amcri-
can history Is dull, consisting for the most
part of easy victories won by rather COM
monplace men, and followed by intensely
commonplace prosperity. Mr.. Lodge is
very angry with the Englishmen OF those
days VINO said, rudely enough, that the
Yankees were towards. But aftor all, what
had the colonsts done in the struggle with
France to make Englishmen respect their
fighting power? Little, indeed. The bril-
liant things, such ms tho expedition to
Quebec, were the work Of English gen.
erals and troops unaided by the colonists."
Among these brilliant things might be
mentioned the expedition of Burgoyne
where the British were only saved from
complete annihilation by young Washing
ton and his Virginians. The critic is evil
IDENTITY angry and wants to say something
that will hurt the feelings of Americans,
but his remarks are so absurdly ut vari-
ance with the notorious facts that 30 far no
American review has deigned to do more
than grin at them. This estimate of WASH
ington is pleasing in the assurance that he
was not an absolute fool. " He was good
man enough tNwin against very indiffer-
ent generals commanding very insufficient
armies. This is creditable as fnr as 1t goes !;
but II hardly classes man with Marlbor-
ough or Gustavus Adolphus. At York
town Washington had the help of tho
French allies, of an overwhelming superb
orty Of numbers, and of long course of
luck. OF course, an absolute fool might
have thrown these chances away. Wash
ington did not, and therefore was not an
absolute fool ; but IL IL so very great to win
the trick when you hold all tho trumps,
and your opponent Is very average
player" All very well, but II is very
great 10 stay within striking distance of AN
adversary who holds all the trumps dur
ing a long game, and then to knock him
out the iirst time you get good hand. II
| was vcry great to have what the critic calls
"a long course of luck' in dealing with
an opponent who has overwhelming mum
bers, and q worldwide reputation. 1t was
| very great for ragged, unpaid continental'
| to prove the trained soldiers Of Great Brit.
| aims costly armies insufficient" and fo
| an American country gentleman to make
British generals seem "very indifferent
| by comparison.