men gave every indi- cation of becoming very useful in the profession. Their mother, Mrs. Eliza- beth Speer Buchanan, also passed away, May 14, 1833, before the return of James from Russia. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry of Greensburg. Mrs. Buchanan was an excellent mother and a most

family of the late W. U. Hensel, for- mally presented to Mr. Paul Heine, owner of the magnificent hostelry, a marble tablet to commemorate the visit to the old Cadwell House of Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Horace Greeley, General Winfield S. Hancock and Theodore Roosevelt. These distinguished

Harriet Lane (Later Harriet Lane Johnston) By (MRS. A. K.) IDA L. K. HOSTETTER T O ME has been assigned the pleasure of writing about Harriet Lane, the niece of President Buchanan, and mistress of the White House during Buchanan's term. The grandfather of Harriet Lane was James Buchanan, who

Bassett Moore's comprehensive edition of "The Works of James Buchanan," in twelve volumes, published in 1908, by the J. B. Lippincott Company of Philadelphia and London. The letters are as follows: Washington 18 Jan: 1828. Dear Sir/ I return you the affidavits & certificate in the case of Catharine