Ohio History Journal

COMMENTS, NOTES AND REVIEWS.

JOHN SHERMAN--A CHARACTERIZATION. One of the greatest of Ohio's sons, as well as one of the most prom- inent and influential of our National characters, has passed away in the

person of John Sherman. He belonged to a distinguished family. America has pro- duced families no less illustrious than those of old England or the Continental countries. But America's families are eminent through the law of heredity, and not the law   of patent nobility.  The Adamses and Washburns, the Harrisons, the Bayards and the Shermans are not- able examples of this law. John Sherman was born at Lancas- ter, Ohio, May 10, 1823. He was de- scended from a long line of Puritan an- cestors in Massachusetts and Connecticut. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, was a man of great legal ability and acumen. He was elected by the legislature to the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1823, and

served until his death, June 24, 1829.     Judge Sherman    left a widow, eleven children and no property. The children had to "shift for themselves."                       The  school of life  was their academy.    They graduated  with                       highest honors.  After their father's death, John went to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, to live with a cousin. In 1837, at the age of fourteen, he obtained a position as rodsman on the government works on the Muskingum river, but after two years' service was dis- missed because of his open advocacy of the Whig party principles. He thus had an early taste of the uncertainty of office, and the despotic and arbitrary rule of the spoilsman. He then turned his attention to the law, went to Mansfield, took up his residence with his brother Charles, in whose office he pursued his legal studies and was admitted to the bar May 11, 1844. His public and political career began with his being a delegate from Ohio to the Whig National convention at Philadelphia in 1848, of which body he was secretary. In 1854 he was elected to (372)

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congress as an anti-Nebraska Republican, from the thirteenth district

(Ohio). He was re-elected to congress as a Republican in 1856, 1858

and 1860. In the thirty-sixth Congress (1858) he was the Republican

candidate for speaker, and came within two votes of election. He

might have had those two votes by the promise of an apparently trivial

concession to the slavocracy. He was not in the auction market. He

was never, throughout his career, a purchasable article. On March 23,

1861, Mr. Sherman took his seat in the United States Senate, to which he

had been elected by the Ohio Legislature. He was re-elected to the

Senate in 1866, 1872, 1881, 1886 and 1892. In 1867 he introduced the

Refunding Act, which was adopted in 1870, but without the resumption

clause. In 1874 he introduced the famous Resumption Act, which passed

the Senate the same year and the House early in 1875. This bill fixed

the date for its going into effect as January 1, 1879. In 1877 he was

appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Hayes, and in that

portfolio had the unique experience of carrying out the crowning triumph

of his fiscal policy, which he, as Senator, originated and advocated.

The resumption of specie payments by the government was accomplished,

despite the dismal forebodings of other acknowledged financiers. He

resigned the Senatorship March 4, 1897, to accept the Premiership (Sec-

retary of State) in President McKinley's cabinet. He occupied this po-

sition until April 28, 1898, when the arduous duties incident to the ap-

proaching Spanish war, and his own declining health, necessitated his

retirement from public life, a public life extending over half a century

and being almost unparalleled in American annals.

In 1880 John Sherman was the most prominent candidate for the

Presidency, but James A. Garfield's speech, in nominating Mr. Sher-

man, so captivated the convention that the nominator himself became the

nominee of the party. Again in 1884 Mr. Sherman's name was formally

presented to the national convention. James G. Blaine was nominated.

In 1888 John Sherman was the foremost candidate, leading all others

for several ballots in the national convention. Benjamin Harrison was

nominated: In 1892 Harrison was renominated. Mr. Sherman was not

in evidence, nor did he reappear in the convention of 1896. John Sher-

man was ambitious. The "presidential bee" buzzed for years in his bon-

net. He possessed every qualification for the presidency. He would

have eminently filled the position. But he lacked the shining, winning

elements of personal leadership. As a chieftain he "pleased not the mil-

lion" but "was caviar to the general" public. His falling short of the

highest honor in the nation poisoned him with bitter disappointment,

and cast a sad and petulent tinge to the declining years of his life. He

was extraordinarily honored, but he thought he deserved it. It was his

due. He had not the insufferable arrogance of a Conkling, or the colossal

conceit of a Sumner, but he did not wear self-deprecatory modesty-

nor did he assume it. But he was no ordinary man. He averaged far

above the level of modern statesmen. From the beginning of the Civil

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War to the time of his retirement (1898) Mr. Sherman was a most not-

able figure in the halls of national legislature. As we have seen, he

was four times elected to the House of Representatives, and six times

elected to the United States Senate. He was twice a cabinet officer. Such

a career was only possible to a man of the highest qualities, most com-

manding talent, strictest integrity and irreproachable reputation. In his

long and unbroken official career Mr. Sherman held the confidence of the

public, not only of his native state, but the entire country. He will

be classed in history as a deep and broad statesman and a politician of

the shrewdest and highest class. He was an influential participant in many

of the great events of our national history during the period of the Civil

War, and the days of the subsequent reconstruction. He was a close

student of all economical and political questions. He was not an en-

thusiast nor a popular orator. He never posed for applause, he never

"played to the grandstand," he never indulged in the graces of rhetoric,

he was devoid of that non-descript element called "personal magnetism."

He had little or no personal following. He was cold, austere, dignified.

His most outspoken enemies deign to admit that he is entitled to credit

for incorruptibility, for consistency and persistency of purpose, and to

admiration for energy and force of character. His mind was not bril-

liant, but legal and judicial. His power of analysis was remarkable.

His reasoning clear and logical, and his conclusions convincing. He was

listened to and followed, and elected, because of the belief that he was

a safe guide. In sentiment and speech he lacked descriptive power,

humor, wit, geniality and pathos. Like Brutus, he "only spoke right

on." He was cool, judicious, steadfast. He was a man of indomitable

industry, he ever worshipped at the shrine of work. He succeeded more

by close application than all else. And therein is he a model to all as-

pirants for success. As a man of affairs he had few equals, not only

as to his public position, but his private acquirements. He had New

England thrift and western speculative enterprise. Rare combination.

Though always in public office, with its incessant and innumerable and

exacting duties, he still kept a keen eye on the "main chance." The

honesty and loyalty of his public acts and purity of his private life from be-

ginning to end were never questioned, and he died a millionaire. He stren-

uously adopted the advice of Iago, "put money in thy purse." Perhaps no

one in his elevation had less need for pelf; with no children, no vices, great

or small, habits the simplest and mode of life painfully plain. In youth

it might be said he was an aristocratic proletariat. In later life he became

a democratic plutocrat. He was never a demagogue. He was a natural

financier. Monetary matters were the normal subjects of his mind and

study, the favorite field of his thought and action, as military affairs were

of his distinguished brother, William Tecumseh Sherman, who next to

Grant, was our greatest soldier chieftain. Mr. Sherman died October 22,

1899, in his home at Washington, D. C. He was buried at Mansfield,

Ohio.

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Comments, Notes and Reviews.                  375   Mr. Sherman was one of the first members of the Ohio State Archaeo- logical and Historical Society, and for some years took a personal in- terest in its proceedings. For ten years past, and at the time of his death, he was one of the trustees.     JOHN BROWN-A REVIEW. In American history there are few, if any characters, the story of whose life is so erratic, dramatic or so tragic, as that of John Brown. As

he spent his youth and many years of his manhood as a resident of Ohio (see account of the Hudson Centennial in the previous pages of this Quarterly) he is a proper subject for our consideration. His life has recently been written and published by William Elsey Connelley, a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, the author of several valuable historical works, now a resi- dent of Topeka, Kansas, where he improved un- usual facilities for obtaining accurate knowledge concerning the career of John Brown in that state. Indeed, the work of Mr. Connelley deals mostly with the Kansas portion of Brown's efforts in behalf of freedom for the slaves. The author rather slight-

ingly passes over the youth and formative period of John Brown, but does ampler justice to the latter part of his life. John Brown was the direct de- scendant of Peter Brown, an English Puritan, and one of the Pilgrim fathers, in the Mayflower, who landed on Plymouth Rock, December 22, 1620. Owen Brown, father of the famous John, was a Revolu- tionary hero, a tanner and a shoemaker, and lived at Torrington, Con- necticut, where John was born, May 9, 1800. In the year 1805 the family moved to Hudson, Ohio. Owen Brown was an ardent aboli- tionist, and religiously encouraged similar sentiments in the minds of his children. John was taught from earliest childhood to "fear God and keep his commandments." He received no more education than fell to the lot of the average boy on the pioneer man's frontier, where schools were few and necessarily inferior. He had an exceptionally studious and reflective disposition. He read such books as came within his reach. They were mainly "AEsop's Fables," "Life of Franklin," "Pilgrim's Pro- gress," "Plutarch Lives," "Life of Oliver Cromwell," "Baxter's Saint's Rest," Dr. Watts' Hymns, and above all and constantly the Bible. He learned little at school but something of mathematics and the principles of surveying. He never became much of a scholar. Thoreau has quaintly said of him, "He did not go to Harvard. He was not fed on the pap that is there furnished. As he phrased it, 'I know no more grammar than one of your calves,' but he went to the University of the West,

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where he studied the science of liberty; and, having taken his degree,

he finally commenced the public practice of humanity in Kansas. Such

were his humanities--he would have left a Greek accent slanting the

wrong way and righted up a falling man." He swore eternal enmity to

slavery. About 1837 he assembled his household and devoutly laid be-

fore them the burden of his heart. The time for action had come.

Henceforth he was to enlist in the war for freedom. His first soldiers

were to be, like the converts of Mahomet, members of his own family.

Three of his sons, then old enough, consecrated themselves to this work

by prayer. In this service the father was seen for the first time to

kneel in supplication, his uniform attitude previously having been that

of "standing with reverence before the throne." We can not follow in

detail the incidents of Brown's life as narrated by Mr. Connelley. He

moved many times from Ohio to the East and back, and was engaged

in many vocations. He was not a success in business enterprises. He

failed several times, often at the expense of his friends. His honesty

of purpose and integrity of conduct were not questioned. In 1840 he

was residing at Hudson, Ohio, and engaged in the wool business. In

1842 he moved to Richfield, where he was involved in transactions with

Heman Oviatt (see Hudson Centennial, ante). Mr. Oviatt and others

became his sureties and were obliged to pay many thousand dollars in

his behalf. This led to a law suit, which is fully reported in Oviatt

v. Brown, 14 Ohio, 286. Yet Mr. Oviatt, grandfather of the writer of

this incident, wrote subsequently, "from boyhood I have known him

(John Brown), I have known him through manhood; and through life

he has been distinguished for his truthfulness and integrity; he has

ever been esteemed, by those who have known him, as a very conscien-

tious man."

In 1844 John Brown moved to Akron, Ohio; in 1846 he went to

Springfield, Massachusetts. He then made a tour through Europe, in

which he particularly studied the battle fields of Napoleon. In 1849 he

moved to North Elba, Essex county, New York. It was about this

time that Gerritt Smith offered to colored settlers his wild lands in that

district of the Adirondack wilderness. Many accepted his offer. John

Brown offered to live with them and aid them. It is well known this

experiment was a failure on the part of the negroes, though through

no fault of John Brown's. Then came May 25, 1854, the passage by

Congress of the bill providing for the organization of the Kansas and

Nebraska territories and the repeal of the Missouri compromise (1820).

The existence of slavery was left to the decision of the people of the

state when admitted. Emigrants from Arkansas and Missouri imme-

diately began to move into Kansas to hold the state for the pro-slavery

party. On the other hand the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society sent

out colonies to keep slavery out of the state. The "Kansas struggle"

then began. All the details of this political discussion and warlike dis-

turbance are fully told by Mr. Connelley, and this portion of his book

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is a well digested resume of that important period. In 1854 the four

eldest sons of John Brown, named John, Jr., Jason, Owen and Fred-

erick, all children by his first wife, then living in Ohio, determined to

move to Kansas. The removal, with two other sons and a son-in-law,

was completed in 1855. The family settled near the Pottawattomie,

a little stream in southern Kansas, in Lykins county, about eight miles

distant from the site of Ossawattomie, which the deeds of his family, as

Redpath says, subsequently converted into "classic ground." We can not

dwell upon the exciting scenes that occurred in "Bleeding Kansas." Brown

and his brave boys did not shrink from the conflict. In 1857 Brown,

carrying with him the memory of his son Frederick, murdered at Ossa-

wattomie, returned to his home at Elba. But he immediately began a

crusade throughout New England in behalf of abolition, and in prep--

aration for his contemplated insurrection at Harper's Ferry. This pro-

ject was put in operation in the summer of 1859, which he spent in mov-

ing the arms and other articles from Ohio and various points to the

vicinity of Harper's Ferry. Early in July he located with his little force,

in disguise as farmers, upon the farm of Dr. Booth Kennedy, some five

miles from Harper's Ferry, on the Maryland side of the Potomac. The

little band at the Kennedy farm grew slowly, until it finally consisted

of twenty-three, three of whom were his sons. They had adopted (earlier

in the year in Chatham, Canada) a provisional government with a con-

stitution. In compliance with this pretentious organization Captain John

Brown was made commander-in-chief; John Henry Kagi, secretary of

war; Richard Realf, secretary of state, and Owen Brown, treasurer.

This government was to be proclaimed throughout the country round

about, with the idea that accessions would swarm to it from the slaves

and freedom sympathizers. A guerilla warfare was to be waged against

the slave owners; slaves were to be liberated, armed and turned against

their masters, etc. On Sunday, October 16 (1859) the little band, under

cover of evening darkness, proceeded to Harper's Ferry, and during the

night took possession of the armory by forcing the door and overcoming

the watchman. By one o'clock on the morning of the 17th, Brown had

complete possession of Harper's Ferry, and all the arms of the Federal

government, then at that place. The subsequent events are well known

history; how Colonel Robert E. Lee, of the U. S. army, was sent from

Washington to suppress the invaders; how the door was forced, and

Brown overcome with saber cuts and bayonet thrusts; his son Watson

wounded and his son Oliver killed. Then followed the tragic and far-

cical trial at Charlestown, seat of Jefferson county, Virginia (now West

Virginia), and the final scene at the scaffold, December 2, 1859. The

north stood aghast. The slave power with malignant brutality had

crushed John Brown and his movement, but they had stirred the North

and aroused the slumbering sentiment that burst forth in the flames of

Civil War. Mrs. D. A. Randall, daughter of Heman Oviatt, the mother

of the writer of this review, was throughout life an intimate personal

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friend and ardent admirer of and deep sympathizer with John Brown.

He wrote her a letter the night before his execution, expressing his

appreciation of her long friendship and his perfect resignation to his

fate. Well do we remember, though at that time but a child of eight,

how on the morning of December 2, after the breakfast meal, that

mother at the morning invocation, broke forth in a fervent prayer that

Divine Providence would sustain John Brown in the ordeal through

which, in a few hours he was to pass, and bless the cause for which he

was to die. Thousands of such petitions ascended throughout the land.

John Brown's execution was a triumphant apotheosis. He suffered

death upon the scaffold. It was an unparalleled exhibition of consecrated

heroism in behalf of the cause of freedom. His soul went marching on

and led the armies of liberty and humanity to the sublimest victory

the world has ever witnessed.

John Brown is one of the great characters of history. He had a

prophetic soul, the fortitude and faith of the Christian martyrs. His

life and deeds will shine brighter and brighter throughout the ages. The

story of his life, with all its undercurrents and its subtle influences and

tendencies, has not yet been told. Mr. Von Hoist has touched upon

the philisophy of his life. Mr. Sanborn has thrown much light upon

the events of his career. Mr. Redpath has concisely related the main

facts. But the proper historian of John Brown has not yet appeared, per-

haps he is not yet born. Mr. Connelley's book admirably accomplishes

the purpose for which it was put forth. It should be read by all students

of John Brown. It is published by Crane & Co., Topeka, Kansas.

 

 

BURKE AARON HINSDALE.

Burke Aaron Hinsdale, born at Wadsworth, Ohio, March 31, 1837,

died at Atlanta, Georgia, November 29, 1900. His ancestors were New

England Puritans. His parents came from Connecticut to the Western

Reserve in 1812. Burke was raised upon the farm. He had an irre-

sistible desire for scholarship. At the age of sixteen he made his way

to Hiram Hill, where the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (afterwards

Hiram College) had been opened three years before. For thirty years,

as student and professor, Mr. Hinsdale was identified with this insti-

tution. Young Garfield was a fellow student, and there sprang up be-

tween them a firm and sympathetic friendship, broken only by the tragic

death of Garfield. Professor Hinsdale was a close and accurate scholar.

Possessed of a remarkable memory and an omniverous reader, he be-

came a man of most extensive and useful information. He was a

natural educator. He became President of Hiram College (1870), was

ordained to the Christian ministery. For years associate editor of the

Christian Standard. His capacity for work and powers of endurance,

almost incredible. He lectured, preached, edited, talked and wrote books

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to an astonishing extent. In 1882 he was made superintendent of the

schools of Cleveland. He became famous throughout the country as au-

thority upon the questions touching our public schools, their manage-

ment, the courses of study, discipline of the pupils and general training

of the youth. In 1888 he was called to the chair of the Science and Art

of Teaching at the University of Michigan. This position he filled with

great ability until the time of his death. Some of his published works

are "The Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels," "The Jewish

Christian Church," "Ecclesiastical Traditions," "Schools and Studies,"

"Campaign Text Book for 1880," "President Garfield and Education,"

"Garfield's Life and Works" (2 Vols.), "The Old Northwest," "The

American Government," "How to Teach and Study History," "Jesus as

a Teacher," "Teaching the Language Arts," "Studies in Education,"

"Civil Government of Ohio," "Life of Horace Mann," "The Art of

Study," "A History of the University of Michigan." A monograph on

the "Training of Teachers" which he wrote was awarded a medal at the

late Paris Exposition. Besides the above he contributed extensively to

educational journals and reviews. Several valuable articles in the early

numbers of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, were

from his pen. He took a deep and constant interest in this Society, and

only a short time before his death, did the writer of these lines receive

a letter from Prof. Hinsdale concerning some work he wished to do for us.

He was a veritable encyclopedia upon the events of the early history of

Ohio. He received academic honors from Williams College, Bethany Col-

lege, Hiram College, Ohio University and Ohio State University. He

was a member of many educational, historical and literary societies. He

was a most genial and companionable man; a most entertaining con-

versationalist, brimming over with information upon almost any topic.

The writer has spent many a delightful hour in his company. He was

deep in sympathy with young men, their struggles, their difficulties, their

aims, their triumphs. To his pupils he was always warm-hearted, help-

ful and encouraging. He was the true tutor, not only informing, but

inspiring. There are few whose lives are so rounded out and so fruitful

as was that of Burke Aaron Hinsdale.

 

 

OUR SOCIETY LIBRARY is much enriched by a complete set of the Old

South Leaflets. These leafllets are reprints of important original papers

(lectures and essays), accompanied by useful historical and bibliograph-

ical notes. They are edited by Edwin D. Mead, the wellknown au-

thor and scholar. They are published under the auspices of the Direc-

tors of the Old South Work, Old South Meeting House, Boston, Mass.

These leaflets now embrace a hundred different subjects, each one of them

of importance and interest in American History, chiefly of the New Eng-

land pioneer period. They may be obtained in single leafllets for five

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cents each, or bound in volumes (4) at $1.50 per volume. In these pub-

lications Mr. Edwin Mead is accomplishing great good, not only in the

distribution of the very best historical literature, but in creating an in-

terest in the chief events of our country. Mr. Mead is especially en-

gaged in eliciting the attention of the school children and young people

to American history. He has inaugurated excursions of young people

from Boston to neighboring localities of historic prominence. On these

excursions lectures or talks are given concerning the point visited. Mr.

Mead thinks this would be an excellent suggestion for our Society.

Certainly some very entertaining and profitable trips could be made from

Columbus to points, near by, of great archaeological and historic interest.

 

 

ONE of the most satisfactory little volumes that has appeared as the

outcome of the sudden expansion of our national territory and industrial

growth, and their number (volume) is legion, is The Expansion of the

American People, by Edwin Erle Sparks, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of

American History in the University of Chicago. Mr. Sparks is an Ohio

boy and a graduate of the 0. S. U. His book is a very readable state-

ment of the various phases of our national growth, such as: early ac-

cessions of territory, migration of New England civilization across the

continent to the Pacific; the different sorts of settlements as repre-

sented in the Puritan, the French, German and Spanish colonizations:

their assimilation into the American political and social life; the growth

and methods of communication, transportation, and travel throughout

the country. His accounts of the formation of the roadways, canals,

steam railroads, trolley lines, etc., are graphic and most valuable. It is

an excellent summary of what the American people have done since the

discovery of the continent to the acquisition of the Philippines. Mr.

Sparks has a most happy style, and while being strictly historical and

being packed with facts, like sardines in a box, his little book reads

like a romance. Published by Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago, Ill.

 

 

SPEAKING of expansion reminds us that our Society is not behind

in that feature of the times. Since the issue of our October Quarterly

(1900) the Society has added greatly to its possessions by the acquisi-

iton of Serpent Mound and Park, located in Adams county, Ohio, some

six miles from the little station of Peebles. This property is some sixty

acres in extent, embracing the hill which is crowned by that most re-

nowned relic of the Mound Builders, known as the Serpent. Complete

descriptions of this unique memorial of a prehistoric race will be found

in Volume I, page 187, of our Society's publications. We were enabled

to secure this through the efforts of Prof. F. W. Putnam, of

the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. A proper statement of the

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transfer of this property from its former owners, the Trustees of Harvard

University, to our Society, will be made in the Annual Report of the

Secretary of the Society, which appears elsewhere in this number of the

Quarterly. Our Society therefore enters the twentieth century with the

custodianship of the two most extensive and rare earth remains extant

of those curious and obscure people known as the Mound Builders.

Perhaps the twentieth century will divulge to us some of the things we

have sought to know, but never learned, concerning those races which

seem to have had remarkable success in "covering their tracks." But

our archaeological explorers, in the language of the frontiersman, will

continue "to camp on their trail."

 

 

PROFESSOR J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, PH. D., recently professor of his-

tory in Brown University, and now professor of American History in

the Chicago University, and managing editor for the past few years of THE

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, is responible for a "Dictionary of United

States History,", (1492-1899).  Issued by the History Publishing Co.,

Boston, Mass. It consists of some seven hundred and fifty pages, 7x91/2

(inches). Considering the centuries covered and the conciseness of the

covering, it is a creditable work. Its chief defect is in what it does not

do. Innumerable events and countless personages, which deserve notice

in connection with American history, are ignored, while many which

might be spared, comparatively speaking, are given space. Some of the

paragraphs show haste and carelessness in preparation. We do not sup-

pose that Prof. Jameson personally did this work--such compilations

are usually produced by proxy. This dictionary, however, is valuable as

a ready running index to the more important subjects in United States

History. In the language of the street, "it puts you on to what you want

to know." We commend the book to those who want to know quickly who

is who and what is what, in United States History. It is cheap and

convenient.

 

 

IF THERE is any one panacea for the ills and evils of our nation, it is

universal education. Particularly is this the remedial application for the

southern states. One of the best and bravest institutions for this purpose

is Berea College, established at Berea, Kentucky. It is a modest little

college in the midst of wild and mountain surroundings. Its pupils are

mostly the untutored and almost uncivilized productions of the primi-

tive mountain homes. As the writer heard President Frost recently say,

in a public address, "It is a long way from President McKinley to Abra-

ham Lincoln, but you may travel it by going to the rural vicinage of

Berea." You may see life there to-day precisely as it was in the boy-

hood of Abraham    Lincoln. The Berea Quarterly is a modest little

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pamphlet, setting forth the work of Berea College, and telling much

of the history and romance of the country in which it is located. We wish

every advocate of education might read the little Berea Quarterly.

 

 

PUBLIC POLICY, "a medium for diffusing correct economic instruc-

tion on questions of public policy," comes to us each week and is one of

the most satisfactory publications of its kind. It is replete with original

articles on the various topics of political and social science, and reprints

of what is best in all the publications. It is edited by Allen Ripley

Foote, who is the author of several standard works on economical, and

particularly municipal topics. He has made a thoughtful study of the

Ohio Municipal Code, prepared by the State Commission, and rejected

by the Legislature, and has published his considerations in a concise and

valuable pamphlet. Public Policy is published at Chicago at $2.00 per year.

 

 

FOR COMPLIMENTARY notices of our Quarterly, we make acknowl-

edgment to the Review of Reviews, Book Reviews, The Chautauquan,

Public Policy, The Old North West, The Outlook, Theologische Zeit-

blaetter, The Young People's Paper, and particularly to some of the daily

papers, the Evening Dispatch, Press Post, Citizen, Cincinnati Enquirer,

Ohio State Journal, St. Louis Globe, Sandusky Register, the Chillicothe

Advertiser and others.

 

WE ARE in receipt of a brief booklet suggesting to the little ones the

legend of Fort St. Clair, adjoining Eaton, Preble county-a location

filled with historic interest and romantic memories of early pioneer days.

The pamphlet is a sketchy, poetic production by Mrs. S. E. Reynolds, of

Eaton, Ohio, Secretary of the National Association of Ladies Naval Vet-

erans of U. S. A.

 

WE ACKNOWLEDGE our indebtedness to Gen. A. V. Rice of the U. S.

Census Bureau for valuable documents; also to the Baker Art Gallery,

Columbus, for the photograph from life of the Hon. John Sherman.

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