British war ship Asia, then lying off the Battery, was imbedded in its walls. To the patriot its "long room" is the most sacred spot in all New York, for there Gen. Washington took leave of the officers who had fought by his side in the war for Independence. A saloon and a shoemaker's shop occupy the ground floor, and a sign at the Pearl street entrance bears the legend: "Furnished rooms to let." AMONG THE BOOKS. "RECOLLECTIONS of President Lincoln and His Administration." By L. E. Chittenden, his Register of the Treasury. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. This work by one who was so near to Mr. Lincoln during the trying scenes it describes, has well been called the "political biography" of the martyred president. The writer of the book had no personal acquaintance with Lincoln before he became President of the United States; and when the young Republican was appointed Register of the Treasury in 1861, he went to Washington imbued with a certain reverence for his great political chief which subsequent close official relations never dispelled. It was Mr. Chittenden's good fortune as an important governmental functionary, to be made acquainted with much of the interior workings of the Lincoln Administration, especially in those things which related to the finances of the Government. His knowledge of these affairs is evidently exact, and it is interesting. His account of Lincoln's troubles with Secretary Chase, while it is not altogether a new revelation, will be read with attention by all students of the interior and exterior political movements of those times. The author expressly says that he does not pretend to be a historian, although, of course, he does endeavor to be accurate and truthful in all his statements. So, if he disagrees with some of the mili tary historians who have preceded him, as he does, the reader must weigh the evidence presented. His book is valuable as containing a great number of reminiscences of life and times in Washington during the war, and as giving a very clear and lifelike portraiture of Lincoln, the politician, sketched by the kindly and sympathetic hand of another and younger politician. "The Historic Note Book, with an appendix of Battles." By the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, L.L.D., author of "The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable," "The Reader's Handbook," "Dictionary of Miracles," etc. Pub. lished by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. This valuable reference work is the third in a series of which the two other works first mentioned in the title, form the earlier numbers, and with this the series is completed. The author has placed in the hands of searchers after information three valuable books, and the one just issued is a very gold-mine of condensed historic fact. Other books and pamphlets received, are"Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Congress of the Scotch-Irish Society of America, at Pittsburg, Pa., on May 29, to June 1, 1890." Published by order of the Society. George P. Rowell & Co.'s Book for Advertisers." One hundred and seventy-eighth edition. Published by George P. Rowell & Co., New York, 66 INDEX. VOL. XIV. MAY, 1891-OCTOBER, 1891. A Allen, William Burton... Aztec Gold Mine, the, New Mexico, and its discoverer, Mathew Lynch...... Among the Books. Anti-Polygamy Mormons. Allen, Thomas An After-Dinner Speech by President Harrison.. An American Mother.... .....Charles W. Hobart II .Col. Henry Dudley Teetor 18 .109, 241, 464, 672 James Harrison Kennedy 386 American History as found in the English offices of State......Hon. Elliott Anthony 487 Brady, Capt. Samuel, An Historical Figure of the Early West.... Hon. Isaac Smucker 343 Ball, Mary, the Mother of Washington. Bishop Bedell....... Bench and Bar of New York, The... Brady, Capt. Samuel, a Word in Addition. ..Col. H. D. Teetor 354 H Had Seen Uglier Men... History of Medical Institutions and Medical Profession of Chicago, XVII.......... 57 133 ..C. P. Connolly 266. .H. D. Teetor 385 .George Williams Travers 436 608 .H. L. C. 634 Theodore Johnson 664 I N Necessity for Reformation in the Practice of Medicine, The Public Record Repository Erected on the Rolls Estate, London, The Piper, Anson S.. Hon. Elliott Anthony 450 653 R Reminiscences of the Thirty-Sixth and Thirty-Seventh Congresses, State of Washington, The Story of its Pioneer Days, I, II, III,..... Stow, William H.... St. Catherine Cree. Shorter, Hon. John U.. Stone, Lewis W. Sheppard, Robert.. .92, 306 .H. L. C. 184 216 Col. W. F. Prosser,223, 248, 357 ...H. L. Conard 341 Hon. Elliott Anthony 396 ...G. W. Travers 438 Howard Louis Conard 507 650* |