New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-28

Mr. Clement shorter tells the story of a COIN
cfdeuce which is not, to be sure, new one;
The other day was ccostod4 at m my 1 sn b 3f ONE
who nevertheless looked fancy, upon my pIG2leS
cIuh,r4n seemed to hold responsible for me
that Ire found his name in a serial story r IN
CHE on The ~ nee C and his cIub-our club might
sE-was actually nennoseI M eti could and ex-
planned that I sure it was a Golncldehee' a.
novelist. with whom I have a slight ACQUAINTANCE,
and gathered from him that the name OF ms Ey,t
was the purest accident that he qua mIi hIG" club
in the west End Of London in his life.
Nobodv reads The FOOLS Errand" nova
days; the period of the publication is not YET
far enough away to give the book Naiue anu
interest as the chronicle of a political SITUATION
unknown to living men 1t was IN no sense d
piece of literature hut it had melodramatlc hre
as well as sentimentality and was Tor us mo-
ment the most widely discussed American mover.
1t gave Mr.. Tourgee a comfortable place in the
world and possibly a title to remembrance IN
the distant days when the historian OF Recon-
struction Will seek in fiction as in fact ma terlaI
for his calmly reasoned pages. Those readers of
a new generation who would like taste or It's
quality will find in The Library of American
Literature its most vivid episode-the night
ride of Lily Serves on the kingly horse, Young
Lollard taken to save her father from death at
the hands OF the ". h. h
DR.. Thomas Adds Emmett. believing that in
sufficient justice has been done TO the Irish
to The Magazine of History some entertaining
details and theories 4 may mention, he says,
that even Washington was possibly descended
on his fathers side from Washington who had
lived in Ireland. and his mothers family, the
Balls beyond doubt came from the neighbor-
hood of Dublin" He adds:
WaIford in his Country Families of the United
Kingdom" shows that at the present time the only
families with any property bearing the name or
Ball are to be found in ireland. The family, Il is
stated came 10 Ireland in the fourteenth century
as Flemish emgrants The De WesSyngtons, it is
also claimed Flemish. who settled about the
same time in both England and Ireland. But tho
head OF the English family. IT seems, died some
years before the planting Of jamestown, Va. The
members Of the Irish branch have an been traced,
and some of them in this country. One,
Of Henry Washington, who prominent man,
disappeared from Ireland during the troubles [
have described. He probably escaped to Bermuda,
where many vessels first stopped on their way to
the American colonies
During a visit Bermuda in 1872 I had occa-
sion examine of the early church records.
there saw several references made in the minutes
of the Vestry meetings TO Washington, "a
sujuurner," who several times fined for not
conforming by attending the service the EStab-
IiShed church He have proved incorri-
He probably did to Virginia from the known
fact that his father had been 4 friend of Lord
Baltimore and others who connected with
the Virginia settlements.
The hundred large paper copies of the com.
plcte edition of Mr.. SwiRb1-rne's works held
at 80 each The concluding volumes of tbs
edition VIII all be published by Christmas.