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

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

county, Ky., in 1813, "changed the whole course of Ameri- can history." Briefly stated, the nar- rative goes,in that year the late James Buchanan, afterwards President, lo- cated at Elizabethtown,Hardin county, Ky., to practice law, his choice being directed by the fact that his father owned a tract of

I came to separate them I found the entire lot identical. The title was "The Boquet," conspicuously mis- spelled on the outer cover, though corrected on the inner page The volume was published in Lancaster, 1858, by Murray, Young & Co., and the author was James Scott Brown, "native and to the manner