Administration of her bachelor uncle, James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. — From the Col- lections of the Library of Congress. �A hostess with little perceptivity and restraint would have soon placed the President in embarrassing situations. Because of her good judgment a number of Buchanan's

suitable monument to the mem- ory of James Buchanan, at his birthplace near Mercersburg, Pa., as- sures a monument to the fifteenth President of the United States. The memorial will appeal to posterity in behalf of one to whom his fellow-citizens in the stormy times preceding the civil war were scarcely

Ode to the United States on its Bicentennial and to the Rededication of its People to the Principles of the Declaration of Independence by Rabbi Samson A. Shain Rabbi Samson Aaron Shain was a good friend of the Lancaster County Historical Society, and was a dear personal friend of the editor. His