CONTENTS

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THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE REVOLUTION Reginald Pelham Bolton 223
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS (Sixth Paper) Rev. Livingston Rowe Schuyler 228
EARLY DAYS IN LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA W. P. Ryman      239
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC (Concluded) R. N. Arpe 249
THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA E. N. Vallandigham 259
FANCIES AT NAVESINK (Poem) Walt Whitman 264
THE FIGHT AT DIAMOND ISLAND Rev. B. F. DeCosta 265
INDIAN LEGENDS: II. THE MAIDEN OF THE MOON The late Charles Lanman 273
THE FIRST WOMAN IN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 276
HAND-LOOM WEAVING REVIVED 278
ERROR—MEMORIAL TREES 281
BALTIMORE’S OLD STEPPING-STONES 282
THE GRAVE OF LEATHERSTOCKING 283
THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA (Excerpt) William L. Stone 284
COMMUNICATION (John Paul Jones) A. A. Folsom 285
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Letter of Col. Henry Glen to Col. Marinus Willett 287
Letter of Washington to the Board of War  289
Letter of John Dickinson to the President of Congress 290
MINOR TOPICS: The First U. S. Flag 291
GENEALOGICAL: Queries—Answers 292
BOOK NOTICES 293

Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt