. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . There was need ofsuch high purpose, for two plans were presently laidbefore the meeting, which, for a moment, broughtout one of the chief elements of antagonism existingbetween the States, and which at first seemed irrec-oncilable. It was the happy compromise whichunited and harmonized these two plans that smoothedthe further work of the convention, and made itpossible for a stable and powerful government to beconstructed. niHii»ii|iiiii|iiililiiililiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iii|ii(ii
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . There was need ofsuch high purpose, for two plans were presently laidbefore the meeting, which, for a moment, broughtout one of the chief elements of antagonism existingbetween the States, and which at first seemed irrec-oncilable. It was the happy compromise whichunited and harmonized these two plans that smoothedthe further work of the convention, and made itpossible for a stable and powerful government to beconstructed. niHii»ii|iiiii|iiililiiililiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iii|ii(iiiiiiiiliillintiii|iilli|iiili|iil|i»iiUilU^ X ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦y \\* ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦.♦/.,%■♦♦♦♦ ♦♦■ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ^; /m 1^- ♦♦♦♦♦„♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦, ♦ \ ■^ ♦ .♦ *; ,ffnmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuujiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii>iiiiiii<iiiiiitiiii n tiiiiiiniiiiuQi^ JOHN BACH McMASTER. HISTORIAN OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED OHN BACH McMASTER is one of the few men who excel inwidely different fields. To be a teacher of Englisli grammar, acollege instructor in civil engineering, to do the work of a specialistin the United States Coast Survey, to write a monumental historyand to build up a great department in a leading university, surelythis is a sufficiently long catalogue for a man forty-five yearsold. The father of Prof. MclNIaster was, at the beginning of the Civil War, abanker and planter at New Orleans. The son, however, grew u^) in the Northernmetropolis, and was graduated at tlie College of the City of New York at the ageof twenty, in 1872. After a year devoted to teaching grammar in that institutionhe took up the study of civil engineering, and began, in the autumn of 1873, tliework of preparing his History of the People of the United States from theRevolution to the Civil War. He was appointed, in 1877, Inst
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