New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-29

lam l. Russell is suspended above tho fireplace
in tie mems reading room on ia" first ioor Here
also ar" pictures of the three generations ot
Adans,--.Iohn Alams. John Quincy Adamv and
Charlie, Francis Adams ia" cider There has
Teen no attempt mad. 10 create a gallery OF the
pictures OF GOycrnUrs.
The .cond floor j. no lcsS interesting than the
first in the matter of the prc>cnc" of relies. The
wonl,n's parlor j. He'd with autographs, and TO
many Of thc-.. az" attached licensees of IN"
authors of IN" contributions which accompany
them. \ photograph of James Russell Lowell
,prol,s near the doorway, and within the same
frame j. MS transcript Of verses from The Tres
ont Crisis composed IN ls4J ana copied by HIM
in 1857.
Another autograph sentiment which mus, touch
hearts still tn Ter under the effects of a Irrat
SORROW j. that If Philips Brooks beneath pic
turc of James Freeman Clark. II reads:
lie BELONGED 10 the whole Church of Christ.
Through him hi- Master spo>" to all who had "r 10
hear Especially he WAS Il living perpetual "iIstlc
10 tn, Church Of ood which i In Boston. 1t |,
u beautiful and solemn moment when the Guy.
the Ch. r,h, the World -ath"r mp IN" completeness
of "A finished HE like his and thank God Tor II,
and pla," IT in ia" shrilc IF memory 10 be IL
power and a revelation thcncctorth. 80 long IL,
Inv and Ch.uch and World shall last II Is not
a losing. but rather the gaining, Tn" assuring OIL
his life Whatever lac has gone to in the great
mystery beyond, he remains the word OF "od
here. in the world he loved. Let us tiank our
Heavenly Father for tile life III: work. the IN
SEPARATION q; Ills true servant, His true son,
james '''4'''''' lat "rIuLLIPs BROOKS.
Sunday, juno 10, l-ss.'
The autograph, of only few living persons ha"
been permitted in this collection. Among these
is Christina G.. ROs~ntti She writes:
Does the road wind uphill?
Yes To a." very end.
MAY "a 1892, 30 Ioirington Square, LONDON.
The pictures of Sir Edwin Arnold, of William
Dean IIowclls aud of Julia Ward Howe, with APP
propriat. autograph accompaniment, are there AS Il
sort If special courtesy. The lines of julia "nrd
HIVE r,produccd Ey her pen FIR the collection
nrr from "Our Orders" written in 1860, ut the
time when the signs all pointed to the opening oi
the great civil War. -
The picturc Of oliver Wendell Holmes l., OF
course Drrscnt: that of Jean Ingeow also. One
of Browning also appears with this sentiment
All that j. at all
Lasts ever past recall.
Earth changes, but thy soul
And God stands sure
"From Rabbi Ben Era July 80. lsso'
Then in parcnthcsiS appears thes" words;
what seems soul wien loves outside the porch :
A house by night with neither fir" nor torch
Another voice from the dead is that of John u.
Whtticn who says:
"TLis is the sec time: God alone
Uchohs H.. ed of what Is sown
E.ycnd our vision, waking am,
The harvest time is hill with Him.
There are many others in the autograph room ;
i'm fac, tL. portraits are numerous everywhere
| One SEQ. Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker. Wen
dell Phillips Harriet Ieecher Stow, william
| LLOYD Garrison Francis Parliman william H.
Prescott John I.othrop Motley. Rufus Choate, Kon-
| rrt Treat Paine Nathaniel l5owditch, RAJ pm waldo
Emerson. Timothy Pickering, tolohcl Ih9iiiLs
Wentworth lIgsin.on, General Il. V. Sumner honI
! err &. Winthrop Henry w. Longfellow, General
| .Ioseph Hooker Governor John a. Andrew, Cen
cral Charles Dcvins, and, what seems IA mos! APP
propratc tribute to the memory oil great "o"'a"'
| that of Charlotte Cuslifian =. -
| In one corner of the women reception rooni
! There is an interesting relic consisting OF a'sh
| nurchasod bv William Greneaf in 1850 in Lon
| don nj n COST of clOO. lie loaned 1t To the Amer
lean authorities, to furnish the house at CainDriiSc,
| Mas for the headquarters Of the American army
otntionad therr II was first used by Colonel Pres
| colt and when General Washington assumed COIL
| mand il was used by him. ana was not re'uIicd
| to Vr Grcencaf until after the army left Caiii-
| bridge. s;., !; d,a;u,.,.d I. The
| piigrm bureau" 1t originally belonged TO Johii
| nrar whose grandfather was Sir Richard Drew,
| tnighted i,y Queen Elizabeth in her old age: Jonn
| Irn,y was horn i'm England in l642 and brouGht
This bureau with him To plymouth when ne Jol":u
| va coInnists in 1860. He established home IN
s.b,'sntts in 1873 Til, wrting-icsi was MADE
| hsn,n m,Io,any was introduced in the Manufacture
y, trrnitnrc II il venecred with red walnut ABOUT
y, gao s;xtcntb of an inch thick, and this veneerIhg
,ilI romains in place. IL IL believed 10 pe . nv
| IL, niece of furniture OF its kind used 10y wv
pI;,r colonists IL must have been manuihc' % -,
:; "sur,and i'm the early days of the sevent,t'hN,
nontnry. and during the lifetime and perlods u