And as we sat and watched the wide-spread clouds, time At suchi The oldest trees go down, no one knows why, ** HENRY PERRY LELAND, a brother of the preceding, and a graceful magazine writer, was born in Philadelphia, October 28, 1828, and died there in his fortieth year, September 22, 1868. "He was a gentleman of many natural gifts, which had been cultivated by travel, and by extensive and various study. He was an ardent contributor, in prose and verse, to the newspapers and magazines. Ile had a fresh vein of genial humor, and, if his health had been preserved, he would undoubtedly have risen to high eminence in literature."* In 1856 he published a volume of sketches, entitled The Gray Bay Mare, and in 1863, Americans in Rome. During the war he served as a lieutenant, in the 118th Pennsylvania Regiment, and at Carlisle, Pa., was wounded by a shell, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. Mr. Aldrich was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 11, 1836. He passed the early part of his youth in Louisiana, and was preparing to enter college, when the death of his father made it necessary for him to relinquish the design. He then entered a mercantile house in New York; but, becoming impatient of pursuits so far removed from the bent of his mind, retired from the counting-house after three * Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia, for 1868. years' experience. Mr. Aldrich then procured a situation as "reader" for a large publishing house in New York, and afterwards became attached in an editorial capacity to the New York Evening Mirror, the Home Journal, and Saturday Press. Many of Mr. Aldrich's writings have been contributed to the magazines, Putnam's Monthly, the Knickerbocker, Harper's Monthly, and the Atlantic. He has published several volumes: The Bells, a collection of juvenile verses (1854); Daisy's Necklace, and what Came of It (1856); The Ballad of Babie Bell, and other Poems The Course of True Love never did run Smooth (1858); Pampinea, and other Poems (1861); Out of his Head, a romance in prose (1862); and a new collection of Poems, with several never before published, in 1863. Still another new and complete edition " of Mr. Aldrich's poems appeared two years later. In 1869 The Story of a Bad Boy was published; and it became at once a favorite by its naturalness and purity of spirit. Mr. Aldrich is at present ediA volume of choice tor of Every Saturday. stories, Marjorie Daw, and Other People, and a revised edition of the poems entitled Cloth of Gold, appeared in 1873. THE BLUE-BELLS OF NEW ENGLAND. "The roses are a regal troop, "The south-wind breathes, and lol ye throng This rugged land of ours I think the pale-blue clouds of May You show your winsome faces, The lovely woodland places. "All night your eyes are closed in sleep, To pleasant ways of duty: THE BALLAD OF BABIE BELL. I. Have you not heard the poets tell Into this world of ours? O Babie, dainty Babie Bell, Those deep and tender twilight eyes, Was love so lovely born: The land beyond the morn. And woke the chords of joy and pain, We said, Dear Christ! Our hearts bent down Like violets after rain. IV. And now the orchards, which were white And red with blossoms when she came, Were rich in autumn's mellow prime: The clustered apples burnt like flame, The soft-cheeked peaches blushed and fell, The ivory chestnut burst its shell, The grapes hung purpling in the grange: And time wrought just as rich a change In little Babie Bell. Her lissome form more perfect grew, And in her features we could trace, In softened curves, her mother's face! Her angel-nature ripened too. We thought her lovely when she came, But she was holy, saintly now Around her pale angelic brow We saw a slender ring of flame! She never was a child to us, VI. It came upon us by degrees: The knowledge that our God had sent We shuddered with unlanguaged pain, We cried aloud in our belief, VII. At last he came, the messenger, The messenger from unseen lands: And what did dainty Babie Bell? She only crossed her little hands, She only looked more meek and fair! We parted back her silken hair: We wove the roses round her brow, White buds, the summer's drifted snow, Wrapt her from head to foot in flowers! And thus went dainty Babie Bell Out of this world of ours! **CASTLES. There is a picture in my brain, A narrow stretch of brown sea-sand, Upon the budded apple-trees And ever would that lover be The wind that robs the burgeoned tree, Ah, graybeard, what a happy thing To move and breathe in magic air, Well, well, I think not on these two Then tears come welling to my eyes, I like the chaliced lilies, That in our garden grow. For they are tall and slender, Their mouths are dashed with carmine, Adown our garden-walks! And when the rain is falling, And watch them glow and glisten, O for the burning lilies, That in our garden grow! Pure as Elaine, I should not hold thee dear. Count me not cold, indecorous, unlike men! Indeed the time was, and not long since, when But 't is not now. An amulet I've here Saves me. A ring. Observe: within this sphere Of chiselled gold a jewel is set. What then? Why, this, the stone and setting cannot part, Unless one 's broken. See with what a grace The diamond dewdrop sinks into the white Tulip-shaped calyx, and o'erfloods it quite! There is a lady set so in my heart There's not for any other any place. EDMUND B. O'CALLAGHAN. Edmund B. O'Callaghan, M. D., LL. D., a native of Ireland, was at one time prominent in Lower Canada as a member of the Provincial Parliament, and editor of the Vindicator, the national organ at Montreal. He was active in the agitation in 1837, which, though failing to secure Canadian independence, resulted in such modifications as make it one of the best governed of colonies. Since his removal to the State of New York, in 1837, he has devoted himself to the study of the history of the State, and done much to bring to light the real facts as to the Dutch period. For several years he has been connected with the office of Secretary of State, giving his peculiar learning to the proper editing of New York State papers. He has published, History of New Netherland; or, New York under the Dutch (two vols., 8vo, New York, 1846-48); Jesuit Relations, a bibliographical account (8vo, New York, 1847; issued in French at Montreal, 12mo, 1850); Documentary History of the State of New York (4 vols., 4to and 8vo, Albany, 1849-51); Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York (11 vols., 4to, Albany, 1855 -61); two volumes of Dutch and two of French documents, being translated by Dr. O'Callaghan; Remonstrance of New Netherland (4to, Albany, 1856); Commissary Wilson's Orderly Book, edited by Dr. O'Callaghan (4to, Albany, 1857, xi. 220 pp.); Orderly Book of Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne (4to, Albany, 1860, xxiv. 221 pp.); Names of Persons for whom Marriage Licenses were Issued previous to 1784 (8vo, Albany, 1860, ix. 480 pp.); Journals of the Legislative Council of New York (2 vols., 8vo); Origin of the Legislative Assemblies of the State of New York (4to, Albany, 1861, 37 pp.); A List of Editions of the Holy Scriptures, and Parts thereof, Printed in America previous to 1860 (Svo, Albany, 1861, lx. 415 pp.); Woolley's Two Years' Journal in New York (4to and Svo, New York, 1860, 97 pp.); The Register of New Netherland, 1626-1674 (8vo, Albany, 1865, 198 pp.) ; Calendar to the Land Papers (8vo, Albany, 1864); Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State (4to, Albany, 1865, xi. 423 pp.); Journal of the Voyage of the Sloop Mary from Quebeck, 1866; Voyages of the Slavers St. John and Arms, 1867; Voyage of George Clarke to America, with an Introduction and Notes, 1867; The Sailing Directions of Henry Hudson, 1869; The Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1869. JOHN GILMARY SHEA. John Gilmary Shea, LL. D., was born in New York city, in 1824, educated at the Grammar School of Columbia College, and admitted to the bar. The third volume of Bancroft's History drew his attention to the former French colonies in North America, and their romantic interest, and he has since cultivated that field, and incidentally the Spanish colonies, with true antiquarian zeal. A period of six years spent in the Society of Jesus, enabled him to prosecute more especially studies into the history of that order. Although constantly engaged in business, and devoting only leisure moments to literature, he has published, The Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley (8vo, New York, 1853); History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United States (12mo, New York, 1854), of which a German translation appeared at Wurzburg; Perils of the Ocean and Wilderness (12mo, Boston, 1857); Bibliography of American Catholic Bibles and He has written several histories for the use of Catholic schools, and compiled, translated, and arranged several popular prayer-books, the St. John's Manual, Catholic Prayer-Book, &c., besides compiling, editing, and translating a number of works, and contributing largely to periodicals. A series of biographies of Catholic missionaries killed on the Indian missions in the United States, which appeared in the United States Catholic Magazine, were revised by him, and have been issued in a volume in Germany; another series included the history of all the religious orders of women having convents in the country. He has devoted much time to the condition of the editions of the Bible published for Catholics in this country. In 1864 he edited an edition in which many glaring errors were corrected; and which many glaring errors were corrected; and in 1870 reprinted Challoner's original edition, correcting only typographical errors, and conforming in punctuation and orthography of proper names to the Clementine edition of 1592, recognized as the standard Latin text. This was the most accurate English Catholic Bible issued for more than a century. He then corrected the more serious errors in two stereotyped editions still published, and in 1873 prepared new Bible, adhering to Challoner's original text, and adding a commentary translated from the German of Allioli. He also issued in 1873 a small Bible Dictionary, the first Catholic work of the kind in English. a HENRY C. MURPHY Was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1810. He was educated at Columbia College, New York, where he graduated in 1830; in 1833 was admitted to the bar, and became a practising lawyer in Brooklyn, N. Y., and was attorney to the city; in 1842 was elected to the mayoralty, and from 1843 to 1849 represented his district in Congress. He was a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the State of New York in 1846. From 1857 to 1861 he was minister of the United States to Holland. On his return, he was elected to the Senate of New York, and has continued a member of that body for twelve years. Previously to his departure for the Hague, in the summer of 1857, a complimentary dinner was given to him by the citizens of Brooklyn, an account of which has been published in a volume of much interest.* In early life Mr. Murphy was a contributor to the American Quarterly Review, and other periodicals of less note. He has written much in illustration of the early Dutch history of New York, and has translated a number of tracts and other publications by the first settlers from Hol land. To the volume of Collections of the New York Historical Society, published in 1857, he contributed translations of Voyages from Holland, A. D. 1632 to 1644, by David Peterson De Vries, with an Introduction and Notes (8vo, pp. 136), and of the tract attributed to Cornelis Melyn, Broad Advice to the United Netherland Provinces, a Dialogue about the Trade of the West India Company, &c. (8vo, pp. 47). In 1865 he published Anthology of New Netherland, or Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New York, with Memoirs of their Lives. A limited edition of this work was published by the Bradford Club (royal 8vo, pp. 206). The poets of whom we have memoirs and translations in this volume are Jacob Steendam, who was a resident in the colony from 1652 to 1660; Henricus Among works edited by Dr. Shea are: Wash- Selyns, a native of Amsterdam, who was the ington's Private Diaries (12mo, New York, only clergyman settled in the ministry in Brook1861); Miller's New York in 1695 (8vo, Newlyn, N. Y., before the Revolution; and Nicasius York); Novum Belgium; an Account of New an Account of New de Sille, first councillor in the administration of Netherland in 1643-44, translated with notes Governor Stuyvesant. Steendam's poem, The (4to, New York, 1862); The Operations of the The Operations of the Praise of New Netherland, is chiefly devoted to French Fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781 the agricultural products and natural history of -82, translated with notes, &c. (8vo, Bradford the region, while Selyns is a homely moralist De Sille's few Club, New York, 1864); The Lincoln Memorial and writer of occasional verses. (8vo, New York, 1864); Colden's Five Nations stanzas are found in the manuscript records (8vo, New York, 1866); Alsop's Maryland (8vo, which he began of the town of New Utrecht, L. I. New York, 1869); Household Book of Irish Eloquence (8vo, New York, 1870). He published a series of twenty-four volumes, called the Cramoisy Series, of Relations and Memoirs relating to early French colonization, in antique style, with the type, tail-pieces, initials, and heads of Cramoisy, the French printer of the seventeenth century. Besides contributing several papers on the Indian tribes to various works, he issued his Library of American Linguistics in 14 vols.; a series of grammars and dictionaries of Indian tribes within the United States. He edited the Historical Magazine (4to, New York, 1859-1865), Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, Chimney Corner, &c. He contributed to the first edition of Appleton's Cyclopædia, and is one of the staff of revisers of the second edition, ** in 1867 appeared his translation, from the Dutch, of a Journal of a Voyage to New York, in 1679-80, of two Labadists, with a history of that strange sect, in Europe and America, by him. It was published in the Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society. He has, however, particularly interested himself in the early discoveries of our continent; and his Henry Hudson in Holland, printed for private circulation while he was in Holland, is merely a chapter of a larger work which, it is understood, he is soon to publish on the first explorers of the coasts of the United States. Proceedings at the Dinner given by the Citizens of Brooklyn, at the Mansion House, on the 5th of August. 1857. to he Hon. Henry C. Murphy, previously to his departure on his Mission as Minister to the Netherlands. 8vo, pp. 90. CHARLES J. BUSHNELL. Medical College in 1848. He was several years Mr. Bushnell is a native of the city of New engaged in teaching; practised medicine from York, of New England parentage on the father's 1848 to 1852, at Somerville, New York; resided side, and descended on the mother's from an old at Albany from 1854 to 1860; and is now (1873) Knickerbocker stock. His father's family resi- living at Lowville, Lewis county, New York, ded in Saybrook, Connecticut, and numbered chiefly engaged in literary pursuits. He has among its members the ingenious mechanician been a diligent student of the history of the State of New York, and is a proficient in her Captain David Bushnell, whose invention of a statistics and antiquities. The following is a list torpedo, "The American Turtle," is remembered with the history of the American Revolution. of his publications: A Catalogue of Plants Mr. Bushnell studied law in the office of the growing without Cultivation in Lewis County, late Theodore Sedgwick, in New York, but has N. Y. (Albany, 1847, 8vo, pp. 36, in the Renot pursued the practice of the profession. His gent's Report and separately); A History of St. attention was early directed to the study of Amer- Lawrence and Franklin Counties, N. Y. (Alican history, and particularly to the antiquities bany, 1853, 8vo, pp. 720, with five maps, nine of his own city, of which he has collected many steel plates, and numerous wood-cuts); A Hiscurious literary and other memorials. He is tory of Jefferson County, N. Y. (Albany, 1854, also a diligent and experienced collector of coins 8vo, pp. 602, with six steel plates and many and medals. He has published, in limited edi-wood-cuts); Results of a Series of Meteorological tions, or “privately printed," An Arrangement of Observations, made at sundry academies in New Tradesmen's Cards, Political Tokens, also Elec-York, from 1826 to 1850 (Albany, 1854, 4to, pp. tion Medals, Medalets, &c.; current in the Uni- 502; published by legislative authority; second. ted States of America for the last Sixty Years, series, 1850 to 1863 (Albany, 1872, 4to, pp. 436); The New York Civil List, containing the names described from the Originals, chiefly in the Collection of the Author (1858, 8vo, pp. 126); and and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the prina series entitled Crumbs for Antiquarians, including an Historical Account of the First Three cipal State and county officers, from the RevoluBusiness Tokens issued in the City of New York; tion to the present time (Albany, 12mo, Weed, Parsons & Co.). This has passed through seven Memoirs of Samuel Smith, a Soldier of the Revolution; Journal of Solomon Nash, a Soldier of editions, viz., 1855, pp. 446; 1857, pp. 430; 1858, pp. 444; 1860, pp. 474; 1861, pp. 480; 1862, pp. 87; and 1863, pp. 492. From its being bound in green morocco, it is often called the "Green Book." It has been ordered by the State Legislature many successive years. Census of the State of New York for 1855 (Albany, 1857, fol., pp. 526, by legislative authority); also, Instructions and Circulars for taking the Census, and the Preliminary Report (8vo), of which two editions were issued; A History of Lewis County, N. Y. (Albany, 1860, pp. 320, with twenty-two plates, mostly portraits); Munsell's Guide to the Hudson River (Albany, 1859, 12mo, pp. 58, with eight colored maps); The Comprehensive Farm Record, with Directions for its Use (New York, Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860, 4to, pp. 160). An annotated translation of Banden's "Guerre de Crimée," under the title, On Military and Camp Hospitals, and the Health of Troops in the Field; being the Results of a Commission to inspect the Sanitary Arrangements of the French Army in the Crimean War (12mo, pp. 260, New York, Baillière Brothers, 1862). In the same year Dr. Hough entered the United States volunteer service as regimental surgeon, and served nine months in the campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. A record of this service has appeared from his pen, in a luxuriously printed volume, entitled, History of Duryea's Brigade during the Campaign in Virginia under General Pope, and in Maryland under General McClellan, in the Summer and Autumn of 1862 (8vo, pp. 200, small subscription edition, 1864). In January of the next year (1865) Dr Hough again took charge of the New York State census, preparing the pamphlet of instructions, &c., by authority of the Legislature. the Revolution; Memoirs of Tarleton Brown, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army; Life and Adventures of Levi Hanford, a Soldier of the Revolution; Journal of the Expedition to Quebec in 1775, by Major Return J. Meigs; Narrative of the Exertions and Sufferings of Lieut. James Moody in the Cause of the Government since the Year 1776, with an Introduction and Notes. Mr. Bushnell has also edited Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship, by Captain Thomas Dring, and the Adventures of Christopher Hawkins, containing Details of his Captivity a First and Second Time on the High Seas in the Revolutionary War by the British, and his consequent Sufferings and Escape from the Jersey PrisonShip, then lying in the Harbor of New York, by Swimming, now first printed from the Original Manuscript, written by Himself, with an Introduction and Notes, annotated with much diligence; Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett; Narrative of John Blatchford; Memoir of Eli Bickford; The Destructive Operations of Foul Air, Tainted Provisions, Bad Water, and Personal Filthiness upon Human Constitutions, exemplified in the Unparalleled Cruelty of the British to the American Captives at New York, etc.; Narrative of Ebenezer Fletcher, a Soldier of the Revolution. FRANKLIN B. HOUGH Was born at Martinsburg, New York, July 20, 1822. His father, Dr. Horatio G. Hough, emigrated from Southwick, Massachusetts, in 1797, and was the first physician who settled in Lewis county, New York. He resided there till his death, September 3, 1830. F. B. Hough, his youngest son, graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1843, and at the Cleveland Of books partly written or edited by Dr. Hough, in addition to the foregoing, the follow |