from this source. No record has been found of the date at which this organization ceased to function. This completes the early history of libraries in Lancaster. The year 1829 might be taken as the date of the first step toward a more modern development. On January 10 of that year, a meeting was held

worked on that day at home. I �suppose the Yankees know nothing of it." Dr. Bachman in his "Old Order Amish of Lancaster County" calls attention to this celebration of "second" days : "Second Christmas," "Easter Monday, Whitmonday, by which the Pennsylvania Germans separate the religious from the

that his sonnets were made of stucco. Yet Lloyd Mifflin is not even mentioned in the "Cambridge History of American Literature," 3 while Henry Harbaugh receives in its pages, some rather fulsome praise—the only Lancaster County writer to be so honored. Knowing, in addition to this, that Henry Harbaugh

description of the "Lancaster County Room" in the Handbook of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum, 1938. 20 Franklin, Benj. An account of the newly invented Pennsylvania fire- places, 1744, in his: Works, ed. A. H. Smith, Macmillan, 1905, v. 2, p. 246. 21 Rush, op. cit., and Franklin, Benjamin

August 25, the battalion took part in the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, and on August 27 in the Battle of Long Island. No earnest student of Lancaster County history needs to be reminded of what the Musketry Battalion did on that day. Let us only say that, though the battle was lost, the army was saved by