. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. nd a writer of forcible stimulating reli-gious literature. For thirty years he was one ofthe strongest supports of Andover seminary,securing to it an influence and a reputation farbeyond what it had formerly possessed ; and hehimself believed that a much more extendedusefulness was before him when the great trag-edy of his life opened, and, stricken by incurableand prostrating disease, he was doomed totwenty years of painful invalidism. In his let-ters, a selection from which appears as an ap-pendix to the memoir, much light is thrown
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. nd a writer of forcible stimulating reli-gious literature. For thirty years he was one ofthe strongest supports of Andover seminary,securing to it an influence and a reputation farbeyond what it had formerly possessed ; and hehimself believed that a much more extendedusefulness was before him when the great trag-edy of his life opened, and, stricken by incurableand prostrating disease, he was doomed totwenty years of painful invalidism. In his let-ters, a selection from which appears as an ap-pendix to the memoir, much light is thrown uponhis views as to the significance and scope of hisduty, and also as to the right methods of ful-filling the obligations of the ministry. In hisdaughters account of his domestic life we havethe key to the real man, thoroughly strong, sin-cere, disciplined through and through, andbreathing a truly Christian spirit. We see himthrough her loving eyes in his beautiful, har-monious, Christian home at Andover, a mostcharming and moving episode in the QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN. MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. XXVI DECEMBER, 1891 No. 6 SOME OF QUEEN ISABELLAS DESCENDANTS THE period between the discovery of America by Columbus and theestablishment of the first permanent settlement on the coast ofwhat is now the United States is one of peculiar interest. Nearly fourgenerations of men lived and died while the germs of our nationality werestill in the air, so to speak. Queen Isabella stands out in bold relief asthe promoter of the expedition to an unknown land through which wasplanted the chief milestone in the advance of civilization. But a wholecentury rolled on before her descendants gave much heed to the possibili-ties of the new world she had aided in discovering. Her immediate suc-cessors had no confidence in any northern enterprise. To the south! tothe south ! was the cry, and all the strength and resources that Spaincould spare from her home wars were directed to the pro
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