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THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY.

Vol. XVI.

CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1886.

Portrait of the Earl of Dufferin.

A Neglected Corner of the Metropolis. Historic Homes in Lafayette Place.

No. 1

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Frontispiece.

Mrs. MARTHA J. LAMB.
ILLUSTRATIONS.-La Grange Terrace, Lafayette Place-The Silver-toned Bell-Reformed Dutch
Church in Lafayette Place-Vauxhall Garden, 1803-The Lafayette Medal-Diagram of the Astor
Purchase in 1804-Map Showing Location of Lafayette Place-The Lafayette Place Home of Mr.
William B. Astor-Portrait of John Jacob Astor, Founder of the Astor Library-The Original Astor
Library Building-Portrait of Joseph G. Cogswell-The Astor Library with its Two Sections-Portrait
of William B. Astor-The Astor Library of the Present-The Opera House, now the Home of the
Mercantile Library.

The Dongan Charter to the City of New York. .

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Hon. JAMES W. Gerard.
ILLUSTRATIONS.-The Dongan Manor-house, Staten Island-Autograph of Dongan-The Great Seal-
Portrait of Lord Cornbury.

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History of the Fisheries Question.
The Speeches of Henry Clay..

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Toryism in the Canadian Confederation.
Cedar Mountain. .

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Reminiscences of Libby Prison.

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ILLUSTRATION.--Libby Prison.

An Old Mormon City in Missouri. .
Minor Topics.-Daniel Webster, by William C. Todd-The celebrated Lewis Morris on
Connecticut, the Sequel.

Reprints.-Extracts from the Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian, Relative
to American Affairs, 1774-1783.

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Notes.-Leopold Von Ranke-Garrett Noel, the First New York Bookseller-Sir William
Pepperell's Ring-Salem Cupboards.

Queries. Joel Barlow and the Sciota Land Company-Biographical Dictionary-Flag at
Half Mast-The War Ship Jason-Aristocratic-Americans on Guard-The Stamp Act
Congress.

Replies. The Trent Affair-Oldest Church Edifice-Dude-The Battle of Cross Keys.
Societies.-New York Historical Society-New Hampshire Historical Society-Connecticut
Historical Society-Linnæan Society, Scientific and Historical-Berkshire County His-
torical and Scientific Society.

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Book Notices.-The German Soldiers in the Wars of the United States, by Rosengarten-
A Chronicle; or, Genealogy of the Neff Family, by Elizabeth Clifford Neff-The Country
Banker, by Rae-Studies in General History, by Mary E. Sheldon-Haphazard Person-
alities, by Lanman-Where Are We, and Whither Tending? by Harvey-The Railways
and the Republic, by Hudson-Evolution and Religion, by Henry Ward Beecher-
Young People's History of England, by Towle-Persia, the Land of the Imams, by
Bassett-History of the School of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church, New York
City, 1633 to 1883-Year Book of the City of Charleston, 1885-The Olden Time Series:
Days of the Spinning Wheel in New England, and New England Sunday, edited by
Henry M. Brooks-Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Allen Thorndike Rice.

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TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY;

Or, Fifty Years' March of the Republic.

By ANDREW CARNEGIE.

1 Volume, 8vo, $2.00

It is a good work, admirably done in a unique manner.Boston Journal of Education.

Triumphant Democracy is an epic of material progress. — Philadelphia Ledger.

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AN AMERICAN

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Mr.

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the American will find something for the glorification of his country; he will at times himself be dazzled by facts hitherto unknown to him; and as he lays down the book he will forget that he has read over five hundred pages, and wish that the feast of which he has just partaken was about to begin. The book seems like a wonderful pyrotechnic display that bewilders the looker-on with its thousands of different lights and exploding bombs; yet not a light, but it is clear and golden; not a bomb explodes, but it has the sound of genuine and well-made powder. As a compressed encyclopædia of great and important facts in American progress and development, Mr. Carnegie's work is invaluable, not alone to the capitalist financially interested in the industries of the country, but to the intelligent laborer as well.-Brooklyn Magazine.

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