accomplish what could be done in this country. Mr. Wright then went on to describe the extent to which education in statistical science in the universities of the continent was provided for. In the American institutions of learning no such provision had been made, although Professor Ely at Johns Hopkins, and Professor Smith at Columbia, were doing good work in giving instruction in statistical science. Mr. Wright next dwelt on the importance of having trained statisticians. He regretted the use of the word 'theory' of statistics, as calculated to make an unfortunate impression on the popular mind. He would substitute the science of statistics.' He insisted upon the need of having as statisticians men of high attainments as well as special training." The Tuesday evening and closing session of the Historical Association was held at the Brunswick, the papers being, "The government of London," by Professor Arthur M. Wheeler, of Yale; "Religious liberty in Virginia, and Patrick Henry," by Charles J. Stillé, LL.D., of Philadelphia; "The American Chapter in Church History," by Dr. Philip Schaff, of Union Theological Seminary, New York; with a "Brief report on historical studies in Canada," by George Stewart, Jr., President of the Historical Society, Quebec. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows president, William F. Poole, librarian Public Library, Chicago; vice-presidents, Charles Kendall Adams, president of Cornell University, Hon. John Jay of New York; secretary, Herbert B. Adams, Johns Hopkins University; treasurer, Clarence Bowen, of New York; executive council, ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio; John W. Burgess, A. M., of New York, Professor Wheeler of Yale, Hon. William Wirt Henry of Virginia. An important committee was appointed to consult with the national legislature concerning the preservation of historical manuscripts, consisting of Justin Winsor, Hon. John Jay, Senator Hoar, ex-President Andrew D. White of Cornell, exPresident Rutherford B. Hayes, A. R. Spofford of Congressional Library, and Theodore F. Dwight of the State Department library. These sessions in Boston were agreeably varied by charming social hospitalities. Mr. and Mrs. Justin Winsor received the members of the two associations at their home in Cambridge; a delightful trip to Wellesley College was enjoyed, where tea was served by the young ladies to three hundred or more of the learned guests: and there was also a similar reception given at University Hall, Harvard College, by the professors in history and political economy. Several private breakfasts were gracefully tendered to members of the associations; and the several societies, libraries, and picture galleries of the city were thrown open to all during the meetings. On Wednesday the members of both associations went to Plymouth for the day, where they were entertained by the Pilgrim Society, and an elegant dinner served. These useful and progressive associations are to be congratulated on the success of their Boston meetings, separately and jointly, as well as upon the influence they are exerting on the community at large in the public discussions of so many questions of vital importance to all intelligent Americans. LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC-At the annual meeting of this Society, the following gentlemen were elected office bearers for the year : president, G. Stewart, Jr., D. C. L., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.C.; vice-presidents, W. Hossack, Cyr. Tessier, John Harper, Ph. D., George R. Renfrew; treasurer, Edwin Pope; librarian, F. C. Wurtele; recording secretary, J. Elton Prower; corresponding secretary, Wm. A. Ashe; council secretary, A. Robertson; curator of museum,P. B. Casgrain, M.P.; curator of apparatus, W. C. H. Wood; extra members of council, J. M. Lemoine, F.R.C.S., Peter Johnston, H. M. Price, W. Clint. THE MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SO CIETY (MASS.), recently formed, is collecting and preparing materials for a town history. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town will occur in 1895. The officers are G. F. Allen, president; D. F. Lamson, vice-president; A. S. Jewett, recording and corresponding secretary; D. C. Bingham, treasurer. THE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY held an interesting meeting May 19, at Newark. The executive committee reported that steps had been taken to secure the erection of a handsome and commodious building for its uses, on the lot owned by the Society in West Park Street, Newark. Several subscriptions had been made and more were expected, so that there was reason to hope that within another year the Society's invaluable collections would be arranged in a fire-proof building. The Rev. Robert C. Hallock, pastor of the old Tennent Church, near Freehold, New Jersey, read an exceedingly interesting sketch of the Church made famous by the Tennents during more than half a century prior to the Revolution, and gave many facts never before published regarding the earliest history of the Church. John F. Hageman, Esq., of Princeton, read a brief sketch of a French colony located at Princeton immediately after the French Revolution of 1789, from one of which families was descended Paul Tulane, the founder of the New Orleans University, of whom he gave an interesting memoir. Judge F. W. Ricord read an eloquent eulogy of the late Marcus L. Ward, ex-governor of New Jersey, and for some years chairman of the Society's executive committee. The Rev. Aaron Lloyd, of Belleville, read a history of the Reformed Church at that place, with incidental notices of the early history of the Reformed Dutch Church and its early ministers in America. William Nelson read a short paper on "The Founding of Paterson, New Jersey, as the Intended Manufacturing Metropolis of the United States," in which he described the connection of Alexander Hamilton with that magnificent scheme, and his sagacious though futile efforts to establish at the Falls of the Passaic a manufacturing town where might be produced all the manufactures needed to make the United States independent of foreign nations. Hamilton's part in originating this grand project has never been even alluded to by his biographers, and Mr. Nelson made good use of the original materials which he had gathered for his paper. Mr. HISTORIC AND SOCIAL JOTTINGS A PARAGRAPH running through the newspapers of late is curiously suggestive: it is entitled True Stories from the School-Room." Mattie, after studying history for a year, wrote, One of the principal causes of the Revolution was the Stand Back" (Stamp Act). Another historical genius, some inglorious Macaulay or Gibbon, was asked to name two provisions of the ordinance of 1787. His answer was, " Flour and bacon." Perhaps the young lady of fashion had been educated under similar auspices who, while being handsomely entertained by some of the first people of Boston a year or two since, very innocently asked, was Sir Edmund Andros really killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill ?" Or the New York lawyer whose eloquence at the bar had made him famous in a score of States besides his own, who paid a glowing tribute in a public address to "Alexander Hamilton, lawyer, statesman, and financier, the successful advocate of liberty of the press in the great Zenger trial, the friend of Washington, and the victim of Aaron Burr's fatal bullet!" T. W. HIGGINSON says, "There is no danger of anyone's acquiring any great range of historic knowledge without corresponding toil; but it is possible so to lay the foundations of such knowledge that later toil shall be a delight, and the habit of study its own exceeding great reward." What is interesting is apt to be remembered. Children in nine cases out of ten are worried and wearied with hard names and troublesome dates which have to them no meaning and give them no pleasure. History cannot be taught in our schools with the names and dates left out; but it can, and it ought, be made something more than a dry and forbidding list to the young mind. Every name and every date should have its proper setting, picturesque, romantic, or serious, as the case may be, the whole to form a vivid and imperishable picture; and when the charm of special investigation can be subsequently added to class studies the result will be an intellectual activity through which history never fails to become absorbing and fascinating, and we all know that it is inexhaustible in its themes. With culture in history all other culture is practically assured. THE first pupil in Columbia College when it was revived after the Revolution was the subsequently famous De Witt Clinton. In the early part of the year 1784 the subject of education in New York was very much discussed in social circles, in the pulpits, in the newspapers, and in the various political and business assemblages, without material results. What to do with King's College, which had been arrested in its usefulness eight years before and the edifice converted into a military hospital, became a question of vital importance. The institution was finally reorganized in May of that year; but want of funds prevented final arrangements for its opening until 1787. Meanwhile General James Clinton, the brother of the governor, arrived in New York city one bright summer morning in 1784 accompanied by his precocious son of fifteen whom he was expecting to place in Princeton College, New Jersey. Mayor James Duane, who was one of the committee empowered to provide for the college, was unwilling that a Clinton should go out of the State for his education, and hastened to consult Rev. Dr. William Cochrane, a scholar of great eminence, and through animated argument induced him to undertake the tuition of young De Witt Clinton, and of such others as might apply, until professorships in the college could be established. The bright boy passed a creditable examination before the newly elected Regents of the University, having been prepared at Kingston under the instruction of John Addison, and was admitted to the junior class. He was graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1786. The first lady to receive from Columbia College a similar degree [a century later] was Miss Mary Parsons Hankey, at the recent commencement exercises, in 1887. Her course of study has embraced eight languages-Latin, Greek, English, Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Italian, Spanish--besides mathematics, historical and natural science, astronomy, chemistry, and many other branches of learning, all of which have been pursued in the retirement of her own home on Staten Island. Notwithstanding the many objections made against co-education, Columbia College is justly proud of this achievement; a storm of applause greeted the young lady as she appeared on the stage in the Academy of Music to receive her well-earned honors from President Barnard. IN some historic writings one may read more between the lines than in the printed page. The charming little romance connected with the marriage of John Tyler during his Presidency has hitherto been much clipped in its recital. The full truth we may, however, venture to tell our readers in a few words. In the winter of 1843, Miss Julia Gardiner of New York spent some weeks in Washington, and the President met her and fell in love with her. Before she left the capital he asked permission to correspond with her, and wrote many beautiful letters in the course of the following summer months, which were received and answered from her country home at Easthampton, Long Island. But no mention was made in those letters of love. When winter came the family returned to New York as usual, their residence being in Lafayette Place: and as the season advanced Miss Gardiner and her father, Hon. David Gardiner, were once more in Washington. At the White House on the evening of Washington's birthday, the President taking the young lady on his arm, promenaded through the East Room, and seriously proposed marriage. She was startled, undoubtedly somewhat bewildered, and very promptly declined the honor. But the President saw in her rosy smile more than she herself knew. That same evening arrangements were perfected for the pleasure trip down the Potomac which terminated so fatally. Miss Gardiner and her sister were taken to the White House until after the funeral of their beloved father, and then returned to New York. A few weeks later the President repeated his proposal of marriage by letter and was accepted. Then came serenades by proxy, the band from the Navy Yard and ships discoursed sweet music beneath the young lady's window in Lafayette Place; once came a song, written by the President, and set to the music of the guitar beginning with : "Sweet lady awake, from thy slumbers awake." But not until the day of the wedding on the 26th of June, 1844, did the bride elect again meet the President in person. AT the recent alumni dinner at the famous West Point military school [9th June, 1887] General Isaac R. Tremble of Baltimore presided, representing the class of 1822. We can |