The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-07
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The number of volumes issued during the
week ending June 4. 1897, is @0aS This is for
five days only, Monday having been a holi-
day. The daily average is therefore 4l9.
Two Of the volumes added during the past
week are IL. L. Tozer's History Of Ancient
Geography" 400 A., and q. ". Stevens "The
Land OF the Dollar" 47s.70.
in connection with the dedication of the
Robert G. Shaw momoria, in Boston on Me
moriai day, the following references may be
given: on Colonel Shaw himself see the
sketch by Mrs. Sarah b Shaw i'm the "Har
ward Memorial Biographies" edited by
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, " 2,
p. l72.Qs, 37850.22, and also the briefer sketch
by Henry Cabot Lodge, included in Lodge
and Roosevelts Hero Tales From American
History" 31s. 100; also the address by Colonel
N. T. Hallowell before the Military Historical
Society of Massachusetts,, printed in the Bos
ton Transcript of May 20, 1897 that Of
Colonel Henry Lee Higginson at Cambridge
May 30, in Boston Transcript, June 3, 1897,
and that of Booker Il. Washington at the me-
mortal service in Boston on Monday, in the
daily newspapers of June /, 1897. on the
regiment which he commanded, the 5ith Mas
sachusetts, see l.. +. Emilo's "A Brave Black
Regiment; History OF the 5ith Regiment, M.
" L." 20S5S lG6: and A. II. Grimke's article.
Robert G.. Shaw and His Black Regiment" :"
New England Magazine, new SERIES v. l, p.
675-Sl 054.66.7; and also the chapter, "The
first Black Regiment" in James l.. Bowen 3
Massachusetts in the War" p. 81, 20s5S 100 4;
and Schouler's History Of Massachusetts, in
the Civil War;" V. l. p. 40S-l0, 20S5S. 66.l. On
the engagement at Battery Wagner, at which
he was killed. see the "Ofical Records" Of
the war; " y, pit. |, p. Is, Boz, 2}S5S. IL +;
also General q. A. Gilmores chapter on "The
Army Before Charleston" in johnson and
Buel's "The Battles and Lenders of the Civil
War;" " 4, p. 52-75, 2JSjS. 1924; and an article
published anonymously (signed "By One Who
Was There"D on That Night at Fort Wag-
ner," by ]. NJ. W. Appleton, in Putnam $
Magazine, July 1869 tnew series, V. ~, p. l-l6,
OJ4l6.l4. ON the colored troops in general in
the Civil War, see q. W. williams volume,
"A History uf the Negro Troops i'm the War
of the Rebellion" 2OS5s. l0S; and also the chap
ter on The Employment of the Negroes as
Soldiers" in his History OF the Negro Race
in America" p 276-35G, sJ4L12; and the ar
ticlo Negro Troops" Continental Monthly,
Aug, lSLv. g. y. 1878 05L4 On the
artist ~. iauuens AutNlEntr Oh inc SnaW me-
moriaDand his work sec the article by Kenyon
Cox Augustus ~. Gaudens' In the Century
November lSS, V. 35 y. 2s31, ,0j4. l7.35; and also
descriptions Of some OF his work in The Cen
tury, V. l3. p. $3.50, 5l1LS5; and Harper's
Weekly, Juno 3, 1897, pos. 81. Gaudens Shaw
memorial, a bronze IN high relief is described
with illustrations by Colonel r. ". Higguson
in The Century June 1897 p. 10000 and also by
Jams Barnes i'm Hsrper's Weekly, May 20,
1851 y. 5i05l6. OF tho illustrations Of the
bronze that in Harper's Weekly is the more
cffectivc-a doubo.page reproduction. In
poetry three most notable productions have
been inspired by the circumstances Of Colonel
Shaw death. one Of these Is the "Ode" by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, ut the unveiling OF
the memorial ON tho 3lst, as printed i'm he
Boston Herald of thdt date cat information
dcslD Another Is the longer poem by James
Russell Lowell, written IN 1873, Memorial
Postum L. G.. Shaw, printed 40 ~ $3.50 Of
the Cambri ge edition of his Complete Po
ciical Works lgsLl2; and the third also
written during the war, Is the short poem,
Bury Thcm" 10y Henry Howard Brywnell
printed at p. COC3 Of his "War Lyrics, d
1851. $50. Fcw. things more striking or
dramatic than this last have grown out Of the
! Civil War experiences