interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

is, in reality, a small atlas. lts title is altogether misleading, as one would naturally suppose it to be a biography of George Washington. It was published in con- nection with Chief Justice John Marshall's admirable life of the first President of the United States. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of this great