The record-union., 1896-03-10

The Personal Side of Washington
will show that Washington was largely
influenced by his environments, but also
that he steadily tended toward the
higher standards of the present age, es-
pecially as regards his habits and ideals.
Of the first election in which he actively
participated General Greely writes: In
his younger days Washington extended
at his first election the usual post-elec-
tion hospitality, which, in those days,
consisted of the minimum amount of
food with the maximum amount of
spirits. We find him paying an ac-
count for such an entertainment for
some 400 hundred voters, where the ac-
count was ) shillings for food and 81
for liquors. The capacity of the aver
age drinker may, perhaps, be placed
at three quarts at a sitting, as derived
from this account which covered one
hogshead of punch, one barrel of punch,
forty gallons of punch, nine bowls of
punch, forty-ffve gallons of wine and
forty-seven gallons of beer Washing
ton, who was not present, expressed his
surprise at their moderation, and wrote
his agent that he feared he had not been
liberal enough, and expressed the hope
that he had not neglected those who had
voted in the opposition. His reflective
mind and acute observation soon noted
the ravages made by drink, and doubt
less confirmed that personal moderation
which never permitted him to run into
excess of any kind.
There is a wide diversity in the con-
tents of the March tSt. Nicholas Cen
tury Company, New York;. Stories,
sketches and roa,,oc o,npaa1ioo - I,o,,v-
and girls of various ages Lieutenant
F!licott has Into Port" This tells how
ships are brought into harbor at the end
of their voyages, and how channels are
marked with buoys and lights. Their
FIRST Moose Hunt" is by Tappin Adney
Charles f. Lummis, in "A Little Hero
Of Peru tells of a plucky boy who
saved lives. THE Goodly' Sword by
Mary Stuart Mckinney, is a chapter
giving the history OF the noblest of
weapons. In 1872 there was a notable
volcanic eruption of the Souffriere, a
mountain in st. Vincent, one of the
small West Indian Islands. Herbert H
Smith heard the story of the eruption
from the lips of an old lady who wit
messed it. and this he has told in What
Lydia Saw The series of natural his,
tory papers by w. Il. Hornaday, which
has been a feature of est. Nicholas, :"
is brought to an end All of the serials
carry their plots with interesting chap
ters. The senior partner in the firm of
"Sindbad, Smith & Co.." sustains his
Arabian Nights reputation by dis
covering an unknown city. "The
Swordmaker's Son'is devoted to that
portion of the sacred story that tells of
the miracles in Capernaum.
"Harper's Magazine" for March CNew
York;, richly and profusely Illustrated,
has, among other matter these leading
features "Washingtons Retreat From
Great Meadows" ILLUSTRATION for Col
onel Washington drawn by Howard
Pyle; con Snow Shoes to the Barren
Grounds. Twenty-six Hundred Miles
After Musk-Oxen and Wood Bison"
Fourth paper), Caspar w. Whitney;
"Arcadian Bee -Ranching," Ninetta
Eames Give llustrations-head-p piece,
an apiary in Southern California, ex-
tracing honey, smoking down the bees,
tail-piece); "Briseis," William Black
(two illustrations); Colonel Washing
tom Woodrow Wilson eleven illustra-
tions); Where Fancy Was Bred. A
Story" Owen Wister; Personal Rec
objections of Joan of Arc" part KID,
Louis De Conte (three illustrations);
Jane Hubbs' Salvation" Ca story,
Helen Huntington; 1.-THE German
Struggle for Liberty" part IX.), Poult-
ney Bigelow (seven illustrations); 1.-THE
Boss of Ling Foo" Julian Ralph five
illustrations); '"rhe Nerves Of a War
ship" Park Benjamin; Money -Bor-
rowers," Junius Henri Browne; ED
itor's Study" Charles Dudley Warner;
Editors Drawer" with Introductory
story by Hayden Carruth, with four
illustrations.
The March "Bookman" CNew York;
starts it's third volume auspiciously
with an unusual amount of fresh and
attractive matter, occupying ninety-six
pages, as varied as they are interesting.
There are new portraits of w. Fl. Crane,
the actor; Ernest McGaffey, one of our
younger poets; Maxwell Gray" Emma
Calve and Eleanora Duse, Alice Brown,
author of Meadow Grass and Miss
Louise Imogen Quincy. Albert Cheva-
lier, the notable London music hall
singer, and several interesting portraits
of the Rossettis and other illustrations,
fec-similes of autographs and manu-
script of authors. We have Professor
Brander Matthews with new portrait,
and the neglected book written about
is Mr. Gissing's 'The Odd Women"
Interesting and readable are the arti-
cles on PLAY Writers. and Play Cen
sors,'' Mrs. Browning's Opinion on
Tennyson," which is in strange incon-
gruity with Alfred Austin's opinion
on the late Poet Laureate given in the
same number. The reviews are prompt
and able as ever, and the chronicle and
comment more than ever fresh and chic
Two more chapters of Kate Carnegie"
by Ian Maclaren, appear.
The magazine of Art for March
(Cassell Publishing Company, New
York; is a very handsome number of
this standard quarto art journal. It's
features are: THE Flock by c.
Jacques, etched by David Law tfrontis-
piece; "The Time of June by j. Clay
ton-Adams, engraved by M. Dormoy
(to face); MIR. Humphrey Roberts Col
lection-oil paintings by foreign art
ists," by f. G. Stephens, with seven IL
lustrations; "Of the Influence of
Architectural Style Upon Design by
Walter Crane, illustrated; John Clay
ton-Adams," by Alfred Lys Baldry,
with portrait of J. Clayton-Adams
and seven illustrations from his works:
"Sport in Art: Falconry,' by ]. e. Hart
&c