The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-28

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 This volume contains POO carefully selected pieces for just that age when the child's natural dift1dence makes the right piece very necessary. Fol children of twelve years.
 PRACTICAL DECLARATIONS z by Amos M. Kellogg; the Penn Publish ing Co, Philadelphia, paper binding, Is cents, board. 25 cents; at Judas.
 Contains hundred short declam- ations, everyone of which has been tested and proven. All are short and easily understood. For children of ff- teen years.
 OLD NEW ENGLAND INNS by Miss Mary Caroline Crawford publish ed by l.. c. Page & Co.,, Boston; s2.o0; at Judd's.
 Miss Mary Carol le Crawford's "Old New England Inns,' is a work of much merit which appeals not only to New Englanders but to all Interested in our early Colonlal history It is it. lustrated not onlv with photographs of such old hostelries as remain, but with reproductions of old prints represent ing others, somewhat imaginatively perhaps, as is the manner of old American prints, put glving an ex- cellent idea of tAe att If their time. The author has vis ted the places of which she speaks, and her researches while writing "Tne Romance if Old New England Churches" and "The Romance of Old New England Roof- trees have given her an uneonmonly clear and accurate idea of the posi- ton of the inn in New England life. .Her account Of tho fam JUS hostelries which were in ther pr.G.e in the days when the old State highways and turnpikes were the only connecting links between New England towns embodies many bit f forgotten his- tory and various quaint legends. She writes tertainingly and embodies much Of q ilistori gal nature in dealing with her task. No more interesting volume h its line has ever been pre- duced. The work in it's binding and typographical appearance is also very attractive. The illustrations number forty eight.
 From its pages we take the follow ing of special local interest. This is from the account given by Madam Sarah Knight, an intrepid woman of her arduous horseback journey from Boston to New York in l7O4, as ap- peared in her journal of trip. Miss Crawford says: Tt was of course a very unusual experience which this Boston-lborn woman invited when she set out on horseback and with no proper escort to made the Journey to distant New York, two long centuries ago. Madam Knights father and mother were among the first settlers of Gharlestown and are both buried in 1Copp's Hill cemetery, Boston, For many years they lived on North Square in house which was later the residence of Samuel Mather. It was on the doorsteps of this house in 1873 that Capt. Kemble saluted his wife, one Sabbath day after returning from a three years absence, thus calling down upon his head the penalty of two hours in the stocks, for lewd and unseemly conduct"
 Madam Knights journals first date Twas October 2, 1704. About D. n." she says, T began my journey from Boston to New Haven, being about 200 miles. She was the guest in New London of Rev, Gurdon Salton- stall for a time and through his good offices, a young gentleman named MT. Joshua Wheeler was persuaded to guide her as far as New Haven"
 In New Haven the doughty dame informed herself of the manner and customs of the place. Some of her descriptions of Connecticut life in that day are very interesting.
 "On training days the youths divert themselves by shooting at a target as they call it, where he that hits near est the white has some yards of Red Ribbon presented him which being tied to his hatband the two ends streaming down his back, he is Led away in Triumph, with great applause as the winner of the Olympiack Games"
 After two months stay in New Ha- ven our traveller resolved to push on to New York. Her journal proceeds: Being by this time we'll recruited and rested after my journey and my busi- ness lying unfinished by some concerns in New York depending thereon, re- solved to go there with my kinsman, MT. Thomas Trowhridge of New Ha- ven and a man of the town I engaged to wait upon me there"
 Early in January she was again in New Haven and now, at length, she comes to an accommodation, and distribution" with those involved with her in the settlement of the estate.
 Miss Crawford, further on in her volume has the following in reference to President George Washington's journey from New York to New IIa- ven and his visit and stay in New Ha- ven, when, in 17S9, President Wash ington and party were on an official visit to New EnglandA She says.
 Of all the distinguished guests with whose names tavern traditions are linked, Washington is. of course, the most eminent, The tavern that can boast of having given him shelter for a night has ten times the chance of preservation accorded the ordinary old building One writer in deed. believes that the Washington tavern business is greatly overdone and in speaking of an inn interesting chiefly for it's age, points out triumph antly that it is innocent of Washing ton associations Just here, however,