tled "Sertorius; or the Roman Patriot," which was brought out with considerable success by Junius Brutus Booth. This was followed by "The Prophet of St. Paul," a melo-drama. "The Trial," another tragedy, soon followed, and then appeared "Love and Honor," a farce. As he advanced in life, more solid subjects occupied Mr. Brown's pen, and in 1856 he brought out "The Forum; or Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar." This was a work in two volumes, and of much excellence. It contained a very flattering biography of the author from the pen of another, which marred the work with a violation of good taste.

Mr. Brown was a ready speaker, on all occasions; and for many years he was frequently upon the public platform, especially when there were exciting occasions. He took an active part as a speaker in favor of the Union, during the earlier period of the late Civil War. Up to the last year of his life, he seemed not to have lost any of the vigor of speech which distinguished him in the earlier periods of his career, mentally or physically.

EDWARD STanley.

The distinguished North Carolinian, Edward Stanley, died at San Francisco, California, on the night of Friday, the 12th of July. He was a native of New Berne, N. C. and represented that district in the National Congress from 1837 to 1843, and again from 1847 to 1853. He was a distinguished man in that body and was always regarded as a sound statesman on great national questions. Mr. Stanley was also an active member of the legislature of his native state, and held the position of speaker of the House of Commons. He was afterwards attorney-general of the state in

which office he had wide scope for the exercise of his high legal acquirements.

The strong inducements offered by California, for men of enterprise and active brains, drew Mr. Stanley to that state in 1852, where he was soon the centre of a genial society and occupied the first rank at the bar. He soon amassed a large fortune, and was adding thousands to it every year, when he accepted the invitation of President Lincoln to become Military Governor of North Carolina in the Spring of 1862. Mr. Stanley was a very active member of the Republican party from its organization in 1856, battled for the election of Fremont to the Presidency of the Republic, and was the nominee of that party for Governor of California, in 1857, but was defeated. He was the attorney for the city and county of San Francisco when he accepted the office of Governor of his native state, which he held only about a year, resigning his commission to the Secretary of War in May, 1863, On that occasion Mr. Stanton, the Secretary, wrote to him a very complimentary letter, saying "you will always enjoy the pleasant reflection of having faithfully performed a high and responsible duty to your government in the hour of its trial."

Mr. Stanley returned to California and remained in private life until his death. He was constitutionally a conservative man, and in the administration of the military governorship of North Carolina, was regarded by his more ardent and radical brethren, as a lukewarm Unionist. He closed evening schools opened by Vincent Collyer for the colored people, after Burnside took possession of New Berne, and he returned fugitive slaves to their masters. He was more desirous of bringing about reconciliation than conquest, and worked accordingly.

Announcements.-Messrs. Sheldon and Company, of New York, expect to publish early in the coming Autumn, "The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler," by BENSON J. LOSSING, in two volumes. The work has been prepared with great care, chiefly from the official and other manuscript letters and documents left by General Schuyler, one of the most honored, trusted and beloved of Washington's friends and companions in arms during the old war for Independence. This work will reveal to the American people a military commander, statesman and patriot, of whom very little has been written, hitherto, but who may justly claim a front rank among the worthies who achieved the independence of these states and prepared the solid foundations of the new nation.

Mr. Samuel G. Drake, the indefatigable author and thorough antiquary, is about to resume his labors upon the History of Boston, under the auspices of the government of that city. The first

volume was issued in a superb style, in 1856, containing 840 pages and handsomely illustrated by engravings on steel and wood. In that volume the history was brought down to the year 1770. The work will be continued, in the same style, from that time.

Madame Fanny Raymond Ritter, the accomplished wife of Professor Frederick Louis Ritter, of New York, has nearly completed her translation of the writings of Robert Schumann, on Music. The well-known abilities of Madame Ritter, are a guarantee that the English admirers of Schumann's Music will have a faithful interpretation as well as translations of that eminent artist's writings upon his favorite theme.

Journal of Dr. Solomon Drowne; Journal of a Cruise in the Fall of 1780, in the Private Sloopof War Hope, by Solomon Drowne, M.D. of Providence R. I. With Notes by HENRY T. DROWNE New York: Privately printed; pp. 27. This is

an interesting sketch of the cruise of an American privateer during the old War for Independence, from the accomplished pen of Dr. Drowne, (a graduate of Brown University, Providence, R. I.) at the close of 1773. He entered the Continental Army as a Surgeon, in which he did much Hospital duty. He became a member of the Board of Fellows of Brown University. Abroad he formed the acquaintance of many eminent men. In 1788, he went to Ohio and took part in the settlement of Marietta. He practiced the profession of a physician in several places, and in 1811 was elected Professor of Materia Medica and Botany, in Brown University. He was an active writer and good orator.

The Journal is elegantly printed on one side of tinted paper, by Charles L. Moreau and Henry Russell Drowne, two young amateur devotees of the art so honored by Bradford and Franklin. "It was printed by two boys, both of us novices in the Black Art" say the young printers in a note to the Editor of the RECORD, and it being our first attempt at book-printing, we hope it will not be too severely criticized." Honest criticism says, Munsell must look to his laurels.

List of Members of the Massachusett's Society of the Cincinnati; including a complete Roll of the Original Members, with Brief Biographies Completed from the Records of the Society, and other Original sources. By FRANCIS S. DRAKE, Boston: Printed for the Society. r. 8vo. pp. 75.

This work has been most carefully prepared by Mr. Drake, the author of the "Dictionary of American Biography," and forms a most important and interesting contribution to that department of American Literature. This is only the pioneer of a Memorial Volume soon to be issued, which will contain in addition to the biography of members, some account of the family of each, and those who have not yet sent communications on the subject, are requested to do so, to Mr. Drake, at the rooms of the N. Y. Historic Genealogical Society.

Notes on the History of Fort George during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, with Contem poraneous Documents and Appendix. By B. F. DE COSTA, author of "Lake George: its Scenes and Characteristics," &c. &c., New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau Street. London, 22 Buckingham Street. 8vo. pp. 78. This is an interesting volume made up of fragments gathered from manuscript records, old books and personal narratives, by the author, while engaged in preparing his popular work on Lake George. He does not claim for it a complete history of the Fort whose ruins may be seen near the head of Lake George, but rather as a collection of interesting materials for history. Many of the documents here appear in print for the first time, being transcripts from original MSS. The author's expressed desire is that it may be a stimulus for fresh and successful search for additional material.

The volume contains an engraved "Plan of

Lake George with the barracks, &c. &c., erected in the year 1759, and a small map of Lake George with each locality of interest defined by reference figures.

The appendix contains a copy of the "Orderly Book of James McGee, at Fort George, July and August, 1776," which is in the State Library at Albany. Also a poem entitled, "From Saratoga to the River St. Lawrence, on her way to Quebec."

It was written by Colonel Arentz Schuyler DePuyster, (see page 247 of the RECORD) and published in a volume entitled "Miscellanies by an Officer" printed at Dumfries, Scotland, in 1813. It describes his tour to Quebec, by way of Lake George, in somewhat humorous verse.

The Fight on Diamond Island, Lake George. By the Reverend B. F. DE COSTA. Author of "Notes on the History of Fort George, &c. &c. Reprinted, with additions, from the New England Historical Genealogical Register, New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau Street: London, 22 Buckingham Street, 8vo. pp. 11. This is a valuable contribution to the treasury of American History, engagement at Diamond Island, in Lake George, as it contains copies of documents respecting an in 1777, about which most histories have been silent, and probably gives all the positive information concerning that event, known to exist. The most interesting of these documents are reports by Colonel John Browne on the American side. The General Burgoyne, on the British side, and of report of the latter, who was the commander of the little band who attacked the British on Diamond Island is very full.

The Olden Time in New York. By a member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

I. New York Society in Olden Time.

II. Traces of American Lineage in England. New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons. 8vo. pp. 64. This is a thin volume, handsomely printed on tinted paper, and embellished with a steel-plate engraving of the Phillipse Manor House at Yonkers, and wood-cuts of Kip's Bay House in 1691; Washington's residence during a portion of his term as President of the Republic, situated on Franklin Square, New York, and the Richmond Hill House, the residence of Aaron Burr. The work is from the pen of Right Reverend William Ingraham Kip, Bishop of the Diocese of California and a descendant from one of the earlier settlers of New York. The first part-"New York Society in the Olden Time"-originally appeared in "Putnam's Magazine" for December, 1870, and excited much attention. It gives an account of several of the most prominent families in the city of New York, in Colonial times, with descriptions of their social customs and general habits of life, which enables one to form a good idea of what is generally called "the best Society," in New York, in the last cen

tury. The work possesses rare value, not only in the facts of Colonial social life presented, but in the consideration that in the course of a very few years no one will be left who could give such reminiscences of those old families. The second part-" Traces of American Lineage in England" was published in the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" for July 1871. The author traces through Burke's " Peerage" and "Landed Gentry" the lineage from ennobled stock or into ennobled stock, the families of Benedict Arnold, Sir William Johnson, the De Lanceys, Temples, Ingrahams, Pierreponts, Barclays, Livingstons and Lawrences. The work is dedicated to Edward Floyd De Lancey, Esq. of New York, the representative in this country as the prelate remarks of "the loyal and chivalrous De Lancey of the olden time."

A Century of Universalism in Philadelphia and New York, with sketches of its History in Reading, Hightstown, Brooklyn and Elsewhere, by ABEL C. THOMAS. Philadelphia: Published for whom it may concern. 18mo. pp. 350. This is an exceedingly interesting little volume which the Author has inscribed to M. Louise Thomas, in testimony of Head, Heart, and Hand-help during many years of his ministry. It traces, in outline, the growth and spread of the devotion of the universal restoration to heaven of all the souls of men, from its first proclamation in Philadelphia by George de Benneville the elder, (son of a French Protestant fugitive, who established himself as a Physician Germantown, where he died in 1793,) until the present time, and especially in the location mentioned on the title-page.

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In his introduction, the writer claims that "Universalism" as the theological view of his sect is called, has been the inspiration of all the benificent changes in society during a century of time, and says "Universalism is indeed both the Head and the Heart of Christianity." "Universalists have not always been in the fore-front of reforms," he says, "but Universalism has." He attempts to show that the doctrine is coeval with Christianity itself: that Clemens of Alexandria and his renowned pupil Origen, " exalted the cardinal theme, and for many ages the influence of the latter was visibly felt and acknowledged; but the church council of 553, put the black seal of condemnation upon the doctrine of Universalism.

Mr. Thomas includes in a list of believers in the doctrine of Universalism, among eminent persons, the names of Benjamin Franklin, and Dr. Benjamin Rush, and other distinguished men of Philadelphia. The book presents in clear outlines the annals of a sect which has received but little notice from historians hitherto.

History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. By HENRY WILSON. Volume I. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company. 8 vo. pp. 670. This is a handsomely printed volume, with

large clear type on fine paper, from the pen of a representative of the State of Massachusetts in the United States Senate, and now a candidate for the office of Vice President of the republic. The author has been an active participator in the later scenes of the drama whose incidents he has recorded in these volumes, whereof this, the first, has lately been published.

Mr. Wilson, after mentioning the scope of his work, in his preface, says, "I have striven, with scrupulous fidelity to truth and justice, to narrate the facts, develope the principles, and portray the results of this irrepressible conflict,' between the antagonistic forces of freedom and slavery. Although I have borne, for more than thirty years, an humble part in this stern strife, and have been personally acquainted with many of the actors and their doings, I have endeavored to be as impartial as the lot of humanity will permit. Of the actors in the great drama I have not set down aught in malice. Of the living and of the dead I have written as though I were to meet them in the presence of Him whose judgments are ever sure."

The first and second volumes will trace the history of Slavery and its influences from its introduction in 1620, to the opening of the civil war, and the third volume will describe the series of measures during that conflict, by which slavery was extinguished, and great social and political changes were wrought. The second volume will be published in 1873, and the third volume in 1874.

The volume here noticed, opens with the beginning and growth of Slavery and the early development of the slave power. Following the history of Abolition Societies; slavery in the territories; the ordinance of 1787; compromises of the constitution; slave representation and the slave trade; rendition of fugitive slaves; the first slavery debates in Congress; petitions for emanci pation; the powers of the Government defined; the Fugitive slave act in 1793; prohibition of the slavetrade; domestic and foreign slave trade; negotiations with foreign powers; the foreign relations of the government as influenced by slavery; Indian policy as effected by slavery; early anti-slavery movements; events in Virginia in connection with slavery; the formation and purposes of the American colonization Society; accounts of anti-slavery societies and the hostilities and excitements which they created; actions of Northern legislatures on the subject; battles for the right of petition; position of the colored people; the Florida war; demand for a recognition of property in slaves, and the "Liberty Party," it closes with an account of the annexation of Texas and its admittance into the Union as a slave state.

The work is written in a very clear style, every word and sentence directed to the point under consideration. It is almost entirely narrative, there being comments upon stated facts only sufficient to show the historical and philosophical relations of such facts.

The RECORD is indebted to Mr. HENRY ONDERDONK, Jr. for the following sketch of the Dutch Reformed Church at New Utrecht, Long Island, and some of the earlier ministers who were pastors of it. The picture is from a sketch made by the now venerable architect A. J. Davis, in June, 1825. The high steep roof, so characteristic of Dutch architecture at that period, is here exhibited in a most extravagant manner. The old churches at Jamaica and at Bushwick, were also of this form; the others built in this country were rectangular.

The church at New Utrecht, was built four feet thick. The roof was steep and in 1690, of granite stone, the walls being painted of a red color and surmounted by a cupola in which was a bell. The form of the building was octagon which occasioned a singular arrangement of pews inside, which of course were adapted to the shape of the edifice and upon the whole were more convenient than a stranger

stood on a pedestal and was ascended by a steep flight of stairs. Over the pulpit was a sounding-board on the summit of which was perched a dove carved out of wood and bearing in its beak the emblematic olive sprig. In September, 1776, the church with the adjoining building was used as a hospital and prison by the British, where Gen. Woodhull and other American prisoners, taken at and immediately after the battle of Long Island suffered great hardships at the hands of an angry foe. The church was taken down in 1828, and the stone used in the construction of a new church near the same site.

Before the erection of this church the people held religious services mostly at the house of Elbert Elbertsen Stoothoff, but on great occasions at the Church in Flatbush where the pastors of the combined churches in Kings County resided.

The first minister was Johannes Polhemus, 1654. The second was Henry Selyns, 1660. The third was Casparus Van Zueren from 1677 to 1685.

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The following extracts from the Journal of an early traveler gives us a glimpse of ancient manners: Sunday, Oct. 1, 1679, after dinner we intended going to E. E. Stoothoff's, being desirous (as we were told there would be preaching at his house) to hear Domine Van Zueren the minister of the Island; but Jaques Cortelyou persuaded us from it, because the house was usually, on Sundays, when there was preaching there so full of people who came from all directions to attend divine service, that one could scarcely get in or out; and the minister usually staid over night, with many other persons, *. Sometime after this while we were sitting in Jaques' house, Domine Van Zueren came up, to whom the farmers called as uncivilly and rudely as if he had been a boy. He had a chatting time with all of them. We sat near him and the farmers with whom he was conversing. He spoke to us indeed, but not a word of religion. On the contrary he chatted and gossipped with the farmers, while they talked about worldly things, without his giving them a single word of reproof or even speaking a word about God or religious matters. It was all about houses and crops and cattle and swine and then he went away."

The above is probably an over-drawn picture by a zealous sectarian.

The minister from 1685 to 1694, was Rudolphus Van Varick. He carried politics into the pulpit and preached openly against the Revolution (in Leisler's time) and had to flee. He escaped to New Castle, Delaware, but venturing to return he was seized at his house by Leisler's orders and dragged to prison, tried at a court of Oyer and Terminer, Oct. 20, 1690, and convicted under an indictment for treason, fined £80, and sentenced to be deposed from his ministerial functions.

After Leisler's execution1 he was restored to his charge; but the Leislerian

1 See page 276 of the RECORD.