The New York herald., 1921-01-23

From these contemporaneous wood
cuts we can see and judge better than
from fanciful and flamboyant models,
how the Half Moon, the Speedwell. the
Mayflower and the four later Pilgrim
ships looked. Here ON the Dutch yes
sells we see the seven striped flag-red
and white--ti1e prototype of our own,
representing the fact that in the Sem
ate each state Of the Republic. large
or small. had one vote.
Delfshaven. whence the Pilgrim
company in the SpeedweH initialled
their voyage to America, appears In
the prints of their time, mot as 1t is
now with a windmill on the quay, but
as the photostat copied from the
church seal made In the sixteenth cen
tury reveals it. OF the thirteen tablets
reared by Americans in Holland four
are in honor of the Pilgrims or Sepa-
ratists, at Leyden, Middelburg. Am
sterdam and Delfshaven, and copies Of
these are here seen.
With the Pilgrims music was one of
their prime joys and their fav6rite
method OF praising the Father above.
How often Bradford, the historian and
participator, refers to their singing!
How fully Longfellow in his Court
ship Of Miles Standish"--so rich in pure
legend and anachronism. which these
records correct--tells US about Aims
worth's Psalm Book and it's quaint
notation and phrases. Well, here is the
book itself, besides photograph of
the title pageand favorite Psalms for
at
funny the famous French encyclope-
dist was when he warned the world
that the profound Hebrew scholar and
poet were one personality. while the
horrid, schismatic hereto and Brown
ist was another? Nevertheless, the
same mother at the same instant of
time gave birth to the man of two
Frenchy' regulations? There was only
one Ainsworth.
OF all the pictures. fancIful, imagi-
native or accurate reproductions of
originals, the painting Of George III.
Boughton--brought in temporarily
from the gallery on the third floor,
leads the procession. knew Bough-
ton, as indeed most Of the bibliopoles,
and I appreciated his intense desire to
tell true stories in color and yet with
"the light that never was on sea or
land" The only detailed contempora-
neous description. we have of social life
in New Plymouth Is from the pen of
the Manhattan Walloon, Isaac de Ra-
sieres. who in 1897 visited the Pill
grims. Boughton has translated prose
into painting.
or course, ones fingers itch to
clutch and scan those books, which,
as Tacitus would say. "glare by their
absence" Chief of these. perhaps, is
the one known copy. which is in the
library Of the Archbishop Of York. 1t
Is the monograph OF that crank in the
congregation at Amsterdam who
hurled passages in Ezekiel at the pas
tors wife for disseminating the un-
godly" This she did, particularly in
two ways. Having been a dressmaker,
she made and wore tasteful dresses,
but the climax of her iniquities was
capped ~ her sleeping until nine
o'clock on Sunday mornings! 1t was
to avoid losing the great question Of
soul liberty in a petty squabble that
caused John Robinson to remove his
flock from Amsterdam to Leyden.
One might wish also TO see arranged
in chronological order all the books
which, because of their idealism. inter
ested these "humorists." from Sir
Thomas More's Utopia" to the anti
witchcraft books printed In Leyden.
which gave the death blow to the
superstition. What q canon Of Scrip
lures. belonging not only to the new
Jerusalem but to the earthly Kingdom
Of Hope! King Henry VIII. might