The New England magazine . reof the new town that is growing up oppositethe old city of Louisburg. ON A PORTRAIT OF MISS ALCOTT By MARGARET ASHMUN In all my fancies, when I was a child,I pictured her a princess, stately made,Fair-featured, rich, a new Scheherazade, On whom a kindly fate forever smiled. The blithesome story-teller that beguiled The soul of childhood — could her beauty fade,Her genius wane, her ready pen be stayed By grief or age ? T were heresy most wild To think these things. Now where I, musing, stand Her portrait hangs. This unassuming guiseShows, not a princess, haughty to
The New England magazine . reof the new town that is growing up oppositethe old city of Louisburg. ON A PORTRAIT OF MISS ALCOTT By MARGARET ASHMUN In all my fancies, when I was a child,I pictured her a princess, stately made,Fair-featured, rich, a new Scheherazade, On whom a kindly fate forever smiled. The blithesome story-teller that beguiled The soul of childhood — could her beauty fade,Her genius wane, her ready pen be stayed By grief or age ? T were heresy most wild To think these things. Now where I, musing, stand Her portrait hangs. This unassuming guiseShows, not a princess, haughty to command, But one most humble, human, sorrow-wise, Who seems to live and reach me forth her hand — A woman, simple, sweet, with tired eyes. MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON By DAVID S. BARRY President Roosevelt and the Annapolis Naval Academy : How the Old-time Red Tape Is To Be Cut : Some Entertaining Facts about the Academy and the Old Town : The Splendid New Buildings for the Academy — Which DonH Fit and CanH Be WING to the alertness and en-ergy of President Roosevelt,who if anything within theIjij sphere of his legitimate field ofi§ usefulness — or possibly out-side of it — needs to be done is not happyuntil he does it, the,United States NavalAcademy at Annapolis, Maryland, is atpresent receiving a little shaking-up thatundoubtedly will improve it. The Naval Academy, where boys offi-cially called midshipmen are trained to beofficers and gentlemen, is located in thesleepy, historic town which is the capital ofMaryland on the Severn River, within astones throw of where it empties into pic-turesque Chesapeake Bay. It was a verysmall and modest institution indeed formany years after it was founded, in 1845,by the late Honorable George Bancroft,Secretary of the Navy in the Administra-tion of President Polk, and afterward a his-torian of high repute. In 1846, the yearafter the school was opened, there werethirty-six midshipmen on the rolls; to-daywhen the classes ar
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