Any one will look with interest on Benedict Arnold's writing, and will attentively peruse Colonel Brown's denunciation of him "in the camp before Quebec." That camp is well represented, and there is a curious sentence of a court-martial on three deserters, who were to sit three hours under a gallows with halters around their necks, and then receive thirty lashes each.

An autograph poem by Captain Nathan Hale, the unfortunate spy, will not be overlooked, and the pleasant correspondence between some of the American leaders and their refugee friends, after the war, is of great interest. Indeed, one of the execrated Butlers showed great kindness to some of his Mohawk Valley friends when they were prisoners in Canada; but little can be said favorably of the cruel Walter Butler, whose autograph here appears. Sir William, Guy and John Johnson, and Daniel Claesse, are among the prominent signatures on Indian affairs, among which appears a statement by an Indian chief, with a name too long for our columns.

Paul Revere's autograph is in the collection, with all the accounts of his famous ride. In a neat note from James Madison his name appears at the beginning, not at the end: "James Madison desires," etc. There are letters from Governor Carleton, of Canada, and from colonial governors, as Colden and Delancey; from the first governors of the State of New York, as George Clinton and others, as well as British officers of the war of the Revolution, and some later celebrities. Among the miscellaneous matter are manifestoes of committees of safety, bills for supplies, secret letters, lists of houses destroyed and persons killed or wounded, public seals, Continental money, autographs of Presidents of Congress and state officers. One curious legal decision, on the raising of a liberty pole, must be noticed. It was determined that this was lawful, and as pikes and pitchforks might be needed in the work, to bring these did not constitute a violent assembly. One letter was written from Fort Brewerton, at the foot of Oneida Lake, but most of this valuable collection relates to places farther east.—Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, in Gazette and Farmers' Journal.

LADY FRANKLIN IN GREECE

Editor of Magazine of American History:-In looking at the portrait of Lady Franklin, I am reminded of the time when she visited Greece, early in her married life. The interior of the country was yet in a disturbed condition, and brigands abounded. She traveled through that country on horseback, a feat accomplished by only two foreign ladies until 1855, Lady Franklin and Mrs. Mary G. Benjamin, my mother, both journeys being previous to 1844.

Respectfully yours,

VOL. XVIII.-No. 2.-11

S. G. W. BENJAMIN

REV. MARK HOPKINS, LL.D.

The career of the eminent Christian scholar, Rev. Mark Hopkins, LL.D., who died on the 17th of June, 1887, is exceptionally interesting. He has long been recognized as the greatest man who has presided over an American college within the present century. He was an original, fearless, athletic thinker, and philosophical writer, a master of the art of expression, either by voice or pen, and one of the most beloved of teachers. All over the world men in highest positions speak of him as once their instructor, and as the prince of all teachers. It was our martyred President, Garfield, who said: "Give me a log cabin in the centre of the state of Ohio, with one room in it, and a bench with Mark Hopkins on one end of it and me on the other, that would be a good enough college for me."

The story of President Hopkins's life is largely a history of Williams College, of which he was president thirty-six years, in addition to nearly two dozen years of industrious instruction in the institution, exercising great influence. At the recent meeting of the alumni of Williams, President Carter pictured with graceful humor the conditions that surround commencement week, and then passed to tender words of the great dead. The resolutions on Mark Hopkins were as follows:

"The alumni of Williams College, recalling with gratitude the inestimable service which they have each and all received from their venerated teacher, Mark Hopkins, do not attempt at this time to estimate the value of his life work, nor to measure a man who embodied in himself all that his teaching impressed upon them. They desire simply to record their love and reverence for one who by his life bore witness to the highest truth, and by his death bequeathed to the college the inspiring memory of his devotion to knowledge, his greatness of mind and heart, and his sustained and fruitful activity. Identified with the college as a teacher and president for more than half a century, Dr. Hopkins greatly advanced its standing, its usefulness and its power. A patient, fearless, open-minded student, he gave his instruction the large and fruitful method which is the possession of the great teachers alone. Holding truth always as that which makes for character, he charged his teaching with the ethical completeness which is the end of education. Enforcing knowledge with unbroken appeal to obligation, he identified it to generations of students with purity of life and with unselfish consecration to humanity.

The great loss which the college feels so keenly is felt most keenly in the home where Dr. Hopkins's genial and benignant nature reached its kindliest aspects. To her who bears his honored name and to the family, so long and so intimately associated with the college, the alumni extend their sincerest sympathy.

Gathered in the place which has been consecrated by his life work, the pupils of Dr. Hopkins resolve to perpetuate his name by a memorial, which shall be both an enlargement of the power and usefulness of the college, and an enduring witness to his personality. To this end they pledge their personal effort, con

ceiving that they can honor their great teacher in no more lasting manner than by broadening the foundations of the college to which he gave his noble life."

The Boston Association of Alumni of Williams College entered the following minute upon their records:

"The death of Mark Hopkins, theologian, philosopher, teacher, is to every son of Williams a personal loss. His noble presence has remained clear and distinct in the memory of students after scenes in their college life have become dim and forgotten. It has stood to them for an influence strong and vital. He taught them to think, and by his devotion to noble aims, as well as by his counsels and prayers, he taught them to live. He was a city set on a hill, that could not be hid, and while he has been for half a century a great figure in American thought, he has been in all that time the inspiration and the friend of multitudes who now rise and call him blessed. His students honor his memory; they mourn with his family, and they renew their devotion to the college which he, a master of workmen, hewed out of the mountains of New England."

RECENT WORDS OF WISDOM

Men act according to their sentiments. Not what he knows, but what he feels, is a man's real motive power. The powder does not furnish itself with the spark for its own explosion, and human thoughts, all knowledge, all science, though having the vastest capability, do not, cannot move men till kindled by some fire of feeling, which they themselves are utterly unable to evoke.-President Seelye, at Amherst.

The scholar in politics is the man quite as useful as the man who reads only partisan papers and believes that honesty and integrity are merely theoretic.— George William Curtis, at Amherst.

It is certainly a critical period in the experience of the world, and specially of our own nation, at which the young men of these passing years are entering upon their life's work. In material things our people are moving, as if in an hour, out of the limitations and moderation of the past into all the resources and wealth of the most luxurious nations.-President Dwight, at Yale.

Great writers and orators are commonly economists in the use of words. They compel common words to bear a burden of thought and emotion which mere rhetoricians, with all the language at their disposal, would never dream of imposing upon them. It is said that Jeremiah Mason cured Daniel Webster of the florid foolery of his early rhetorical style. Mason relentlessly pricked all rhetorical bubbles, reducing them at once to the small amount of ignominious suds which the orator's breath had converted into colored globes having some appearance of stability as well as splendor.-Edwin Percy Whipple.

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS

Two General orders relating to those of the German troops of the Saratoga Convention stationed at Winchester, Virginia.

[From the manuscript collection of William L. Stone.]

G. O. Winchester, 11th April, 1781.

The Parole of the German officers is to be in future Ten Miles in circumference around the Borough of Winchester.

(Signed)

F. WOOD, Col. Com."

"Gen. Order, 12th April, 1781.

The Brunswick Troops will be removed by Detachments as fast as the Huts can be procured for them. The Hesse-Hanau Regiment will have only their proportion of those already built. Col. Holme will please to direct the manner of building the Huts, & will stimulate the Troops, already in the Barracks, to build for themselves as soon as possible, as they must give up those they occupy at present to the Brunswick Troops in a few days. The Troops at the Barracks are limited to one mile in circumference; & if they are found at any greater distance, they will be committed to Goal & there closely confined.

(Signed)

F. WOOD, Col. Com."

Two Letters of Colonel Beverley Robinson, never before published.

[Contributed by William L. Pelletreau.]

[The following letters written by Colonel Robinson to his brother-in-law, Frederick Philipse, and to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Ogilvie (widow of Philip Philipse, who afterwards married Rev. John Ogilvie), have been recently found among the Philipse papers. Mortlake, where he resided after his banishment to England, is a village on the Surrey side of the Thames, about eight miles from London. He afterwards lived at Thornbury, and died there in 1792.-WILLIAM L. PELLETREAU.]

(First Letter)

Mort Lake May 5 1786

Dr Fred

I must now trouble you with a memorandum on my own account which I did not think of time enough to give it you yesterday. It is suspected that the Com

missioners * mean to regulate their allowances to us by the sales of our Lands under the Confiscation Laws. If so some of us will have but a very scant pittance indeed, and I am afraid I shall be worse off than almost any other person if that should be their guide to value my estate by: but for all the accounts I have ever had concerning the sale of my lands, they were sold, or rather given away, for mere trifles in a private way. I am informed that the greatest & most valuable part of my lands particularly those at Fredericksburg, were disposed of during the war, long before the peace, or any certainty that Independence would be granted to the Americans. That the sales were not publicly advertised, only a written advertisement put up by ye Commissioners who sold them, at a country tavern door, a few days before the sale, for only a farm or two at a time, & at last sold without being put up to the highest bidder. That several of the tenants who were their friends had their farms for little or nothing, as a reward for their services, & to make a beginning of the sales. If that was ye method of selling, there is no wonder that they sold so low & so much under what they would have been valued at by good judges before the war. As I suppose no person is better acquainted with the Patent than Mr. Belden I must beg you will give my best respects to him, and request him to make an enquiry into these matters as soon as he can and if he can get proof of the time and manner of the sales & who were the purchasers, and secondly to get two or three honest reputable men, who are good Judges of the value of Lands & are acquainted with mine, to give their opinion on oath what they thought they were worth before the war, he will do me an essential service & I shall be much obliged to him. Any expense he may be at I will readily pay. I should be glad to know if any demand has been made on my tenants for their arrears of rent due me and for what they owed me on Bond and note.

I really am ashamed to acknowledge that this is only the second time I have wrote to you since I have been in England. I hope you will forgive me for so great a neglect, and not attribute it to the want of regard and respect for I assure you my love and friendship for you does not abate in the least, and it gives me great pleasure whenever I hear of your health and happiness.

* Appointed by British Government to fix compensation to royalists.