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Excerpt from Memoir of Samuel Stehman Haldeman LL. D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of PennsylvaniaDr. Haldeman, was always much interested in education and made a constant crusade against the erroneous statements so Often present in educational literature, exposing them in print and from the rostrum. On one occasion at a meeting of educators at Altoona.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands ...

Excerpt from Peale's Original Whole Length Portrait of Washington: A Plea for Exactness in Historical WritingsWhich was wantonly destroyed. - Justin Winsor's Critical History of America, 1888, Vol. VII, p. 565.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Browere's Life Masks of Great AmericansAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in...

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Excerpt from Biographical Sketch of the Excellency Abraham Lincoln: Late President of the United StatesThis lady in her eightieth year was still living at the time of the president's death, near Farmington, Coles county, Illinois.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from Hints on Portraits and How to Catalogue Them: A Talk Given to the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Philadelphia, Monday Evening, April 18, 1898, Being the First Annual MeetingTo Philadelphia, until some fourscore years ago, the right to be looked upon as the Athens of America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

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Excerpt from A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Services of the Late William Beach Lawrence: Pronounced Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia on Thursday Evening May 5 1881HE duty that I perform to-night is truly a sad pleasure. It is, T indeed, a great privilege-to be allowed to lay a tribute upon the grave of a departed friend, but, at the same time, it is a priv ilege that we would always be happier were we no...

Excerpt from Bibliographia Lincolniana: An Account of the Publications Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States of America, Being a Bibliographical Catalogue of All Sermons, Eulogies, Orations, Etc, , Delivered at the Time, With Notes and an IntroductiFive years ago the nation was called upon to give its utterance upon the fiendish crime committed at its national capital, on the person of its chief m...

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Works of Jean Antoine Houdon: The Sculptor of Voltaire and of WashingtonChapter I (1741-1769) Birth and student days in Rome. Statues of Saint Bruno and of John the Baptist. The Ecorche.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-...

Excerpt from Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution: A Sketch, 1877Historiographer of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Corresponding Member of the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

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Excerpt from A Tribute to the Memory of Hon. William Willis, LL. D., Of Portland, Maine: Read Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, at Its Stated Meeting Thursday Evening March 3, 1870This sketch, ormore properly memorandum of facts, which has been thrown together in great haste, will amply prove that our late member well earned the deference paid him by this Society when it chose him to the office which death has made...

Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the National Medals Issued Pursuant to Resolution of Congress, 1776-1815: A Paper Read Before "the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, " Thursday Evening, November 1 and 15, 1866I propose to read before the Society this evening, a brief memoir of the National Medals awarded by Congress during the Revolutionary War, the quasi French War, and the War of 1812. This idea suggested itself to me, b...

Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the National Medals Issued Pursuant to Resolution of Congress, 1776-1815: A Paper Read Before "the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, " Thursday Evening, November 1 and 15, 1866I propose to read before the Society this evening, a brief memoir of the National Medals awarded by Congress during the Revolutionary War, the quasi French War, and the War of 1812. This idea suggested itself to me, b...

Excerpt from Benjamin West's Family: The American President of the Royal Academy of Arts Not a QuakerSo very little is known of the family of Benjamin West, the Pennsylvanian President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, that every little counts, and mayhap by exploiting that little it will act as the magnet and draw more ample data to itself. John Galt, who was the official biographer of West, was a romance writer and not a historian, conse...