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

its obscurity, and has given to us the only out- line, so far as known, of the original building of St. James's church. LETTERS OF JAMES BUCHANAN By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN 1908, the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia and Lon- don, published, in twelve volumes, "The Works of James Buchanan

v. A BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LETTER By William Frederic Worner In the Division of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., there is an original letter writen by Benjamin Franklin to Edward Ship- pen, Esq., of Lancaster, Pa. The communication is a short one, and in it the illustrious

many years ago by the Right Rev. Dr. Samuel Bowman, assistant bishop of Pennsylvania and beloved rector of St. James's Protestant Epis- copal church, Lancaster, from 1830 to 1861. James Damant, organist of St. James's church and an excel- lent scholar, taught a school for young ladies, which was quite

Stephen Chambers, three of the six Lancaster delegates to the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States." It will be noted that the name of the apostle in whose honor the church was dedicated, is written James' on the bronze tablet. Inasmuch as there seems to be a difference of