Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . faculties. The expression is thoroughly characteristic, resolute, watchful,reliant. The figure is ten feet in height, and, at its elevation, is a most noble and impressive one. [From The Independent, New York, May 5, 1881—Mary Clemmer Ames.] Washington takes most kindly to a holiday, and no city on the continent can show quite socosmopolitan and picturesque a multitude as the Capitol City on one of its great gala days, ASummer sun suddenly looked forth on Farraguts Day. The e
Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . faculties. The expression is thoroughly characteristic, resolute, watchful,reliant. The figure is ten feet in height, and, at its elevation, is a most noble and impressive one. [From The Independent, New York, May 5, 1881—Mary Clemmer Ames.] Washington takes most kindly to a holiday, and no city on the continent can show quite socosmopolitan and picturesque a multitude as the Capitol City on one of its great gala days, ASummer sun suddenly looked forth on Farraguts Day. The entrancing days of gradation thatmake the long-drawn-out charm of the Northern Spring are almost unknown in this latitude. Whodoes not recall with ever lingering delight those days of days, full of youth, full of the first faintmonitions of later fruition, of the advancing Summers triumph of blossoms? Those days of longMay walks, when the pale pink bloom of the arbutus first peered through the dead leaves of thelast year; when the swelling buds overhead stirred with the first thrill of awakening life, and the 46. s au « S*^ a lingering coolness of the air, shot with sunshine, reached us still from the breath of the slowly-retreating Winter? Here Winter lingers in the lap of Spring till, some morning, Summer sud-denly asserts herself, and, full armed with leaves and blossoms, with no note of warning, abruptlytakes possession of the world. Thus we awake some day and find the branches, bare the eveningbefore, waving banners of young leaves, our gardens brave with blossoms, the air fervid with heat,and the world without moving on under umbrellas, fragile silken and cotton barriers lifted againstsunstrokes. Such a day was yesterday, when even two brawny middies fainted by the wayon the gala march. The city followed Nature, and blossomed out in banners. Congress departments were closed and the entire population was abroad. Diversity of race adds tothe picturesque aspe
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