The magazine of American history with notes and queries . lso figures in Hawthornes Scarlet Letter ; that weirdand vivid picture of Puritan times in Boston. Of him it says in thechapter The Recognition : Here, to witness the scene which we aredescribing, sat Governor Bellingham himself, with four sergeants about hischair, having halberds, as a guard of honor. He wore a dark feather inhis hat, a border of embroidery on his cloak, and a black velvet tunic be-neath ; a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written inhis wrinkles. He was not ill-fitted to be head and representative o
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . lso figures in Hawthornes Scarlet Letter ; that weirdand vivid picture of Puritan times in Boston. Of him it says in thechapter The Recognition : Here, to witness the scene which we aredescribing, sat Governor Bellingham himself, with four sergeants about hischair, having halberds, as a guard of honor. He wore a dark feather inhis hat, a border of embroidery on his cloak, and a black velvet tunic be-neath ; a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written inhis wrinkles. He was not ill-fitted to be head and representative of acommunity, which owed its origin and progress, and its present state ofdevelopment, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and temperedenergies of manhood, and the sombre sagacity of age ; accomplishing somuch precisely because it imagined and hoped so little. And in thechapter The Governors Hall there is an excellent description of hisresidence. Thus historian and romancer unite in paying homage to this good oldGovernor of our colonial THE STORY OF ASTORIA WITH A SKETCH OF THE PACIFIC FUR COMPANY Mr. H. H. Bancroft, in his gigantic undertaking, is giving us an im-mense amount of material for history, gathered with wonderful industryand regardless of expense, and when completed his work will be a libraryin itself, containing abridgments of everything ever written about thePacific coast. But its value will be very much impaired if it should befound that he has been so strongly influenced by personal bias, that notonly his judgment but his statements of facts have been warped by seems to the writer to be the case with the story of Astoria, as toldby him in Vol. II. of The Northwest Coast, Vol. XXIII. of the chapters devoted to this disastrous enterprise appear to be a piece ofspecial pleading, devoted principally to venting the authors spleen againstMr. Irving and Mr. Astor, and the whitewashing of Mr. McDougal. Itdoes not seem just to the mem
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