ANDREW ELLICOTT, In the December number of the new magazine called the World's Work appeared an article under the title of "The Building of a Great Capi- tal." It is a well-written and hand- somely illustrated paper, and worth reading, but some of the statements made in the article do not seem to

the way, like many small to wns in New England, had a famous academy, which figures largely in its several copious histories, and the town library has a bust os Stevens to com- memorate his many gifts to it. It remains to notice the persons to whom in this letter he sends his re- gards—"Your brother

gen- eral interest, messages and addresses by prominent people under the Na- �tional or state Governments, acts of the Assembly or communications by correspondents. Then comes a de- partment of soreign news. These were copied from foreign newspapers, gen- erally three or four months old. They

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of