white ruffles just below the elbow. Men still wear wigs. Their stocks are high, their shirts ruffled. From a green country town Lancaster is growing to be an industrial centre. It is the "stage-town" where travelers stop to change horses and often to spend the night. 28 Being also the market-town it is

, from West King Street, Lancaster. It is a story so wildly, improbably romantic, as to seem better fitted to the pages of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel or Sabatini's Scaramouche than to the sober annals of this society. Yet further research has confirmed and elaborated the history, and it seems

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

celebration of Lent, as a whole is still not common. "It is the great influx of foreigners that has led to a greater celebration of this season." From this date for- ward the interest in Easter becomes more and more evident. Easter stories, Easter poems, articles on popular customs, etc., appeared in local

congregation then worshipped, he detailed the history of the church up until a few years before his own pastorate, and then sug- gested that the troubled years which had just closed, should be left for treat- ment at the end of another hundred years, when the passions aroused by them should be forever stilled