The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-18

Livingston Place (under the shadow of St. George where the true haut monde still have their weddings and do their worshipping). on Irving Place, where still stands the little Golden House, once Ir- vings home; even on Second avenue, by little St. Marks, once the Saint Germain of New York.
 With the late Hudson Fulton celebra- ton in mind the following is of interest:
 Tn Paris young Mir. Fulton had been
 engaged in making trials on the Seine of propelllng boat by steam. The last trial had been successful, and MT. Ltv- ingston was extremely enthusiastic over it. He was going to bring MT. Fulton home with him, and they would make more extensive trials on the Hudson, and the first boat that ran from New York to Albany should be called the Clermont, and his daughter should ride in it. "A bit of history not noted in this book and not mentioned perhaps during the Hudson Fulton celebration is of interest to south erners: Before Fulton had made trial of his steamboat the idea of vessels pro- pelled by steam had come to a Georgian, one of the noted Longstreet family, uncle of the author of Georgia Scenes," and relative of the general of war fame and of later day. This Longstreet actually made or caused to be made a rough sort of a boat and on one of the small streams of Georgia did run 1t by steam It is re- lated. as attested fact by the relatives of Longstreet that Fulton himself was car ried up and down the little southern stream upon this first steamboat by the inventor before any of the crafts of Full toms make were launched successfully on ba Of xVidar. known ctr
 The book abounds in interesting ac- counts of the festivals of old time in the city, "lil<e a little Paris There is a day of New Year calls when our hero with Washington Irving and the other young gallants of the time started from Tammany Hall and made bows in homes of elegance on Williams and Queen streets, at stately homes on Wall and Broad, at villas on the Bowery and Bloomingdale roads. Ancient history in deed!
 Our hero must visit Washington also, the guest of the vice president; there he met MT. and Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte of the beautiful American the hero relates: "I met her first at the Presidents dinner, but met her many times afterward, at Burr's and in other houses I had fallen under the spell of her beauty at first sight. and it Is one of the crimes for which I am least able to forgive the great Napileon that he should so rutlf- lessly have broken the heart of that ex- quisite creature. Are there not certain chronicles that record that Madame Bon aparte retained to the end a very sharp and witty tongue and certain yellow satin bonnet Cher favorite wear), which things do not accord we'll with broken heart. though the former may have been accentuated by disappointed ambition
 An enthusiastic description is given of the banquet of the sons of the Cincinnati In truth the author seems like to forget in her joy in the revels of old time the festivals at Morrisana, the dinings at Hamiltons Grange, at Burr's Richmond Desoge' and Lord Marchmont. The thread of romance grows slack and almost slips from the fingers. while the autnos writes of the events of that distant day This however, is easily condoned, for there are many loves and lovers in fuli many new novels and nowhere else is. there to be found so engaging, so enticing panarama of old days. old ways, old customs, old people. all for the once rein fused with life as these pages give. "A Study in Ebony" by Dotia TriSg
 Cooney. (Neale C., New York). S1.50.
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