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=Daniel Webster in New Hampshire.= (First Historical Article.)
Reminiscences, anecdotes, and gossip about the great statesman, given
to the author, Miss Amanda B. Harris, by Webster’s early friends and
neighbors in New Hampshire, or gathered from unpublished letters. With
portraits from life-photographs, and many sketches.
=Plucky Small: His Story=, is a serial by Mary
Bradford Crowninshield. “I was a wharf rat,” begins
Plucky. Plucky’s friend, “The Tinker,” was another;
“why ‘The Tinker,’” says Plucky, “he don’t know, nor
I don’t know.” Plucky does a great brave deed, and
on account of it he gets a chance to enlist “in the
apprentice-service of a United States training-ship,”
and so does “the Tinker,” and away they go on a long
cruise, down around the south of Europe, into the
Mediterranean, with stops at Marseilles, Gibraltar,
and Havre—a whole ship-full of prankish boys; and how
realistic the story is may be guessed from the fact
that the author is the wife of Commander Crowninshield,
now of the U. S. School-Ship _St. Mary’s_, and has
cruised with the boys on other U. S. training-ships.
Pictures by Frank T. Merrill.
[Illustration: Mary B. Crowninshield]
=About Rosa Bonheur.= (Second Art Paper.) This charming account of
the wonderful French woman who has painted the finest animal pictures
since Landseer has been written for WIDE AWAKE by Rosa Bonheur’s friend
of many years, the American artist, Henry Bacon. The picture of her
in studio dress painting the famous “Head of a Lion” was drawn by
Mr. Bacon; the portrait of her at eighteen is from a painting by her
brother, Auguste Bonheur. Full of anecdote and with many pictures.
=Children of the White House=, by Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, is a series of articles of national importance
and national interest. It is a wonder that this work
has not been undertaken before for the pleasure and
information of young Americans. Starting with the
little Custises, the adopted children of Washington,
this fascinating series, giving a chapter to each
Presidential family, comes down to the present
administration, gathering up delightful details of
family life, and tracing the after histories of the
Presidential children. Mrs. Upton for many years
has had rare privileges of ransacking old annals in
Washington, and interesting family reminiscences have
been kindly recalled for her, and precious relics,
portraits, and paintings furnished for photographing.
[Illustration: Harriet Taylor Upton]
=The Story of Boston Common=, by Edward Everett Hale, is now complete
in _MS._, and the long-expected series, touching much of early American
history, will be given, in three or more chapters, with historic and
modern pictures, during the coming summer.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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