New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-02

BY X. De Witt MalIarV. Illustrated Octave.
xiii, S63. q. L. Putndm's Sons.
Mr.. MaHary has pleasantly described the
beauties. noted the associations and reoounted
the history of charming region. Much that he
has to tell of it has to do with the familiar New
England stories of busy pioneers and maraudiur
Indians. LenOx famous even in the perioG
of plain living and high thinking. The plac,
itself named after the Duke of Richmond
brother OF the exquisitely lovely Lad. Sarah
Lenox. whom George III in his youth wanted g.
marry. The Duke a believer in democracy
and opposed the with America, and the
town has some right to be proud OF Its nane
OF the time when LenOX had many distinguished
literary Observation-Disclosures among theln-tht
author writes with enthusiasm. He is pecul-
iarly happy. too. in his chapters on village lif'
and the Berkshire church and churchmcn
Some Of the most eminent CongregatOnalistS
America has knOwn-Jouath1n Edwards and
Samuel Hopkins among them-have presided
over congregations iii the county. Or. West ~,
biographer of Hopkins, was the minister 81
Stockbridge for fifty mine years, and an old lad,
still lives there who remembers his quaint figUr,
in short clothes with silver buckles his shoes
his hair braided down his back and surmountcG
by three-cOrnered hat
One of Vests pupils was the judicious Ir
Catlin, of whom it was said that he was never
known 20 laugh but once. DIR. Hyde, anothc-
Berkshire divine, never laughed loud enough
be heard in the next room. Those We're the daN,
OF austere doctrine, with little OF the idea ..
Gods Fatherhood in it, Il know a lady say,
the author. she is still living, who has tcld M.
how, when she Joined the church, somewhcv,
about 1888. the minister asked her, Theresa az,
YOU willing to be damned for the glory Of Coo
and she said. No. sir One West STOCK
bridge minister ventured to deny that man was
81 "a he ai Al.
him OUT; his heresy cut him off from TIA,
church, and he finally retracted. for the penalty
Was dire. AS DR. Hopkins declared the chur,I
must treat the man thus cut off with r~culia
neglect and slight. avoid his company al AT
times. and never much as eat with ham a.
common table
Mr. Mallarys interest in the earlier annals a.
his town does not cause him to neglect modern
times. one of his best chapters is that OF IN,
genesis of village Improvement and the I.rur,
Hill Association OF Stockbrdge. He admits
that "A good deal OF profitable discussion Wa,
aroused by the late j. c. Hollands Iiotrs,
against the unsightliness of farm villages
printed in The Atlantic Monthly" in 1S-S hu,
he claims precedence for Stockbridge in tn,
movement which has done much gooo u
America, pointing out that the Laurel EIiu A.
sociatun started five years before ~. Hoi-
land dealt with the subject. The first ain. a.
this association simple enough. The as
ISOLATION founded for The purpose of I--autj-
flying the village pleasure ground and carn,
for the cemetery. But time went The soop'
of the movement was enlarged. as Mr. Nall..ry
thus explains:
Special committees were appointed L. lGol
after separate parts of the township which was
mapped ont for that purpose, and now eVerN
square inch OF ground in the limits Of The town
is under the eye of its special committee; ano
finally. the work still enlarsing, each depart
mtnt. sanitation finance, trees, lamp lighting
etc has it's separate committee. The distriC'
committees taken together make up the excel
tive, committee of the whole, never less than
fifteen. hold monthly meetings, and this larger