Forest leaves . sts, as religious as New Englanders, without their severity,men who could work and introduce European animals, grain, fruits,industries, could set up church and school and organize a government withmany popular features, and all this without cant, boast or hypocrisy. Thus this exile, who came to New York, taught the New Yorkerstheir own history, and furnished an example to the other states how topreserve their precious original historical documents and how to collectand collate references to their history, even in foreign libraries. Although the best part of his life was devote
Forest leaves . sts, as religious as New Englanders, without their severity,men who could work and introduce European animals, grain, fruits,industries, could set up church and school and organize a government withmany popular features, and all this without cant, boast or hypocrisy. Thus this exile, who came to New York, taught the New Yorkerstheir own history, and furnished an example to the other states how topreserve their precious original historical documents and how to collectand collate references to their history, even in foreign libraries. Although the best part of his life was devoted to dry historicalresearch, he was a bright and genial companion to those who enjoyed hisfriendship. When he was an old man (he continued his work until hewas over eighty years of age) he used to say he was glad he made a littlehistory before he began to write it. We look forward to the pleasure of seeing in the new HistoricalBuilding a tablet to perpetuate the memory of this devoted scholar ofAmerican Adirondack Mountain Climbing. By Harry V. Radford.(From the Four-Track News.) Until you have made the ascent of one ofthe grand archaean peaks of the Adirondacks,and have stood upon its eternal summit-rock—older by many geological epochs than Alps, orApennines, or Himalayas, or Rock) Andes, orSierras—and have gazed with marvellingadmiration upon the grand panoramic display^ round about you, the interminable sea of green,whose waves are giant mountains and whosetroughs are lakes of silver—a hundred milesof crest on crest, of range on range, bewilder-ing and sublime, yet gorgeously beautiful in outline, color and arrange-ment—you have missed one of the most thrilling and enchanting experi-ences afforded on this continent to the nature-loving tourist. The fascination of mountain climbing in this magnificent region—where a perfect climate, combined with noble topography and a wondrouswealth and variety of scenery, produce a charm that is matchless—growsstronger
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