American WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY PREFACE THE popular idea of Washington has recently be gun to veer away from the vision of an eighteenth century demigod in a wig, an old-fashioned statue in dusky bronze, stern and forbidding. We are swinging around toward the idea of a loveable, fallible, very human personality with humor, a hot temper, and a genuine love of pleasure. Accordingly, in gathering material for this book the editor has passed by those earlier writers who are mainly responsible for this distorted view and he has ...
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American WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY PREFACE THE popular idea of Washington has recently be gun to veer away from the vision of an eighteenth century demigod in a wig, an old-fashioned statue in dusky bronze, stern and forbidding. We are swinging around toward the idea of a loveable, fallible, very human personality with humor, a hot temper, and a genuine love of pleasure. Accordingly, in gathering material for this book the editor has passed by those earlier writers who are mainly responsible for this distorted view and he has aimed to gather here the essays, orations, poems, stories, and exercises which best exhibit the modern conception of Washington together with a selection from his own writings, and the finest of the elder tributes to the memory of our greatest Na tional Hero. NOTE The Editor and Publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Houghton, Mifflin Company Doubleday, Page Company J. B. Lippincott Co. Mr. David McKay, John Macy, and others who have very kindly granted permission to reprint se lections from works bearing their copyright. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ....., I THE DAY WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY . Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY . Margaret E. Sangster 4 THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON . . . Anonymous 5 WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY . . George Howland 7 WASHINGTON AND OUR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ....... Charles W. Eliot g CROWN OUR WASHINGTON . Hezekiah Butterworth 12 WASHINGTON-MONTH .... Witt Carleton 13 II EARLY YEARS A GLIMPSE OF WASHINGTON S BIRTHPLACE ....... Grace B. Johnson i SOMETHING, OF GEORGE WASHINGTON S BOYHOOD . ...... Anonymous 19 WASHINGTON S TRAINING ..... Charles Wentworth Up ham 21 WASHINGTON AS HE LOOKED ...... 24 III THE GENERAL WASHINGTON IsAPPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ...... Sydney George Fisher 27 WASHINGTON AT TRENTON . Richard Watson Gilder 33 GEORGE WASHINGTON ........ 34 VALLEY FORGE .... Henry Armitt Brown 42 WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE ...... Canon R. G. Sutherland 44 A FRENCHMAN S ESTIMATE OF WASHINGTON IN 1781 Claude C. Robin 45 vii viii CONTENTS IV THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON AND THE CONSTITUTION AG John M. Harlan 5 WASHINGTON S ADMINISTRATION . Edward S. Ellis 5 WASHINGTON Mary Wingate 5 WASHINGTON S INAUGURATION Edward Everett Hale 5 WASHINGTONIANA fy LESSONS FROM THE WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL George A. Gordon 7 PRESIDENT WASHINGTON S RECEPTIONS William Sullivan 7 THE FOREIGN POLICY OF WASHINGTON Charles James Fox 8c V LAST DAYS GEORGE WASHINGTON . . Hamilton Wright Mabie 85 WASHINGTON S LAST DAYS Elisabeth Eggleston Seelye 101 THE MOUNT VERNON TRIBUTE nc THE WORDS OF WASHINGTON . . Daniel Webster in VI TRIBUTES MEMORIALS OF WASHINGTON . Henry B. Carrington 117 FROM THE quot COMMEMORATION ODE quot Harriet Monroe 119 WASHINGTON S STATUE . Henry Theodore Tuckerman 120 TRIBUTES 122 WASHINTON S NAME IN THE HALL OF FAME, quot Margaret E. Sangster 141 ESTIMATES OF WASHINGTON 142 WASHINGTON S RELIGIOUS CHARACTER William M Kinley 143 WASHINGTON Anonymous 145 CONTENTS ix VII WASHINGTON S PLACE IN HISTORY PAGE THE HIGHEST PEDESTAL . . William E. Gladstone 149 WASHINGTON IN HISTORY . . Chauncey M. Depew 150 To THE SHADE OF WASHINGTON . . Richard Alsop 151 THE MAJESTIC EMINENCE OF WASHINGTON Chauncey M. Depew 153 FOR A LITTLE PUPIL Anonymous 154 WASHINGTON S FAME .... Asher Robbins 154 WASHINGTON, THE BRIGHTEST NAME ON HISTORY S PAGE Eliza Cook 156 WASHINGTON, THE PATRIOT 159 VIII THE WHOLE MAN GEORGE WASHINGTON . . . John HallIngham 163 HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA OF WASHINGTON H. B. Carrington 163 A BIRD S-EYE VIEW OF WASHINGTON Henry Mitchell MacCracken 166 THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON . Daniel Webster 169 MOUNT VERNON, THE HOME OF WASHINGTON William Day 191 THE UNSELFISHNESS OF WASHINGTON Robert Treat Paine 191 THE GENIUS OF WASHINGTON . Edwin P. Whipfrle 193 WASHINGTON S SERVICE TO EDUCATION Charles W. E. Chapin 197 ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT John W...
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