, now known as number 39 North Main. Before it stood two large maple trees, "in keeping with the tree-clad reputation Manheim then held. It is said that people passing through town on the train in those days could see little of the town because of the many large beautiful old trees. These, like the two

miles and the day past very agreeably. Crossed the river which is near 2 miles over, but it has such a number of shallows and falls that it is not navigable even for boats. In the even returned." To Wright's Ferry with a party of girls ! Doubtless the town girls found this well-bred, twenty-year-old

_A Lancaster Schoolboy Views 5 he Civil War (Diary of Immanuel C. Pehrson, 1862-1863. Collection of the Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College) Reviewed by ELIZABETH C. KIEFFER The Civil War was a year old. Weary bands of new recruits marched through the streets of Lancaster, or pitched