MEMORIALS OF WASHINGTON _Henry B. Carrington_ FROM THE "COMMEMORATION ODE" _Harriet Monroe_ WASHINGTON'S STATUE _Henry Theodore Tuckerman_ TRIBUTES WASHINGTON'S NAME IN THE HALL OF FAME _Margaret E. Sangster_ ESTIMATES OF WASHINGTON WASHINGTON'S RELIGIOUS CHARACTER _William M'Kinley_ WASHINGTON _Anonymous_ VII WASHINGTON'S PLACE IN HISTORY THE HIGHEST PEDESTAL _William E. Gladstone_ WASHINGTON IN HISTORY _Chauncey M. Depew_ TO THE SHADE OF WASHINGTON _Richard Alsop_ THE MAJESTIC EMINENCE OF WASHINGTON _Chauncey M. Depew_ FOR A LITTLE PUPIL _Anonymous_ WASHINGTON'S FAME _Asher Robbins_ WASHINGTON, THE BRIGHTEST NAME ON HISTORY'S PAGE _Eliza Cook_ WASHINGTON, THE PATRIOT VIII THE WHOLE MAN GEORGE WASHINGTON _John Hall Ingham_ HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA OF WASHINGTON _H.B. Carrington_ A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF WASHINGTON _Henry Mitchell MacCracken_ THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON _Daniel Webster_ MOUNT VERNON, THE HOME OF WASHINGTON _William Day_ THE UNSELFISHNESS OF WASHINGTON _Robert Treat Paine_ THE GENIUS OF WASHINGTON _Edwin P. Whipple_ WASHINGTON'S SERVICE TO EDUCATION _Charles W.E. Chapin_ ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT _John W. Daniel_ THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON _Henry Cabot Lodge_ IX ANECDOTES AND STORIES ANECDOTES OF WASHINGTON THE ABUSE OF WASHINGTON _Thomas Wentworth Higginson_ PROVIDENTIAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON _Irving Allen_ CHARACTERISTICS OF WASHINGTON GREAT GEORGE WASHINGTON _Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith_ HEADQUARTERS IN 1776 _Paul Leicester Ford_ X SELECTIONS FROM WASHINGTON'S SPEECHES AND WRITINGS SELECTIONS FROM THE RULES OF CIVILITY SAID BY WASHINGTON WASHINGTON BEFORE THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, AUGUST, 1776 FROM VARIOUS LETTERS, SPEECHES, AND ADDRESSES WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO THE ARMY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S RESPONSE TO THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON RECEIPT OF THE COLORS OF FRANCE, 1769 WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS XI EXERCISES DECORATIONS FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES SOME YEARS IN WASHINGTON'S LIFE _M. Lizzie Stanley_ SOMETHING BETTER _Clara J. Denton_ THE STATES CROWNING WASHINGTON _Kate Bowles Sherwood_ THE NEW GEORGE WASHINGTON _Anonymous_ IN PRAISE OF WASHINGTON INTRODUCTION A good deal of American history was once violently distorted by the partisanship of the eighteenth century, frozen solid by its icy formalism, and left thus for the edification of succeeding generations. For example, it was not until 1868 that Franklin's Autobiography was by accident given to the world in the simple natural style in which he wrote it. The book had been "edited" by Franklin's loyalist grandson, and had been cut and tortured into the pompous, stilted periods that were supposed to befit the dignity of so important a personage. When John Bigelow published the original with all its naivete and homely turns of phrases and suppressed passages, he shed a flood of light upon Benjamin Franklin.