The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-19

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weighed by The nominally %secondar,
interest, and C'ozzrNs t%F'REDrRIC ID
his sons writing. without the finaI
II" which the reference books at
tachl rOuts the Hessian mercenar,
soldierv in the field Of attention. But
the recovered ~ from the spar
r~owgrass" pen must he once for all
fixed 10 The types:
"TRr Durcu crRss The Hessiars
whom King GEORGE III sent over TO this
country to confront the soldiers OF the
Revolution. we're homes; Germans who
came because they couId not help 1t,
a. HALLEcx saw:
" soldiers Those. German gentlemen az,
Bought
Fo- four pounds .irht and seven pence
per man
b. Ene,ard's KING bargain. a. {,
thought
As they were entirely ignorant NJ
the country and the people they were
sent to subduc. they believed everything
told them. and supposed the Americans
to he wild and barbarous tribes. ia
miliar with the prs ctice OF the scalpins
knife and tomahawk n far removed
from the pale OF civilization. Judge
then Of their surprise when. after the
defeat a. Trenton. from which ~ many
OF them ned. they found. as they wan
dered from place 10 place in New Jer-
ssy. bread and meat and a cup OF MIX
from the very hands where they had
expected a cruel and lingering death,
'Tt il said that the browning surprise
Of all to the German gentlemen was
farmer the news spread among them.
ard to their creat delight they found
'henselve. in a Christian country. Many
OF them stripped on their uniforms for
fsrm clothes. and became honest, plod.
ding, pipe smoking. sc> the swinging Ia.
borcrs.
W owe. however. two of the pests
OF this country TO these gentry, one that
great destroyer Of wheat the Messiah ny.
which they brought over in some grain
from lrom. the other the white field
ds'sy. II seems that a. they looked
! Upon this country as a mere wilderness
they brought with them everything. even
10 the fodder for their horses. Among
the hay were the seeds OF these Same
white daisies, never before known in
America. and which. out Of gratitude to
the Hessisns, the farmers OF New Jersey
to this day cal by the name of the
Dutch Curse
FREDERIC SwARTwoUT CoZZENs. born
in New York March !. 1918. died in
Ia a knickerbocker generation In
which il was fashionable, while con-
Quoting with success and prosperity
some mercantile or professional enter
prise, to indulge avocationally but
commercially the promptings Of u
genial pen. Not everybody knows the
"SparrowgrasS Papers" classed in
catalogues as early American hui
NOR; bur more folks know them than
know their author was a leading
wine merchant of this town. Even
into his business his literary penchnnt
entered he published the Wine Press.
and contributed 10 it's pages articles
on %yiticulturs.
In 1858 Mr.. CozZENs went TO
Brussels as u delegate from The New
York Publishers Association to tho
copyright congress: and II might be
difficult to say just how far his liter
AIRY achievement and how far his
mercantile and financial standing was
influential In his selection. He had
contributed essays TO the kNickcr-
bOcher Magazine. and in 1858 had
collected them In u volume with the
title 'Prismatics" and the signature
RICHARD HAywARDE. the name OF au
ancestor who came 10 America as nm
English Moravian missionary. The
'Spurrowgrass Papers" originally
contributed Ia PHfhnm's Mega zine.
were put IN u volume in 1886. Por-
liaying enc IN the life Of a city man
1T New York cockney, may we say? p
in the country, up ionkers way. they |
possess II mild humor. better fitted |
Ia he Taste Of that time than of this,
AMI vel moi devoid of the more dur. |
able elements OF spontaneous fun and
perpnnially applicable satire on hui |
man nature, that made them widely !
rend. The note of the ~subjOined pas
sage Is o unfamiliar to readers OF |
present day columns OF professional
humOr: |
"On the Fourth OF July we had com
pany from town. Dear said Mrs. T.,
have YOU seen our cherry answered
that I had set out many trees of Thai
kind. and did not know which one she
alluded to tat the same time a hopeful
Vision Of cherry pie on the Fourth of |
July fitted across my pericranics). As
we all walked out 20 see the glorious
spectacle, ! told our guests, aside, the
young trs0 were 20 luxuriant in fol,s n
that ] had not observed what massss