not watch the tossing of Hector's plume in the waving trees on See, also, Boswell's Johnson, years 1777 and 1780; "Mr. Warton's answer to Milles and Bryant is come out. 17. Specimen of a History of Oxfordshire, (being the "The Biographer [of Bishop Shirley: see HILL, THOMAS] remarks: Among the many books sent to him from home to assist his studies, one is mentioned which contributed in a remarkable degree to his success. It was T. Warton's edition of Milton's minor poems. The study of this volume improved his taste for modern Latin composition, and seemed to give him a new insight into its mechanism. For, on the same principle that it requires less effort to copy a piece of mimicry than to observe in the first instance and reproduce the peculiarities of the original, he found it easier to catch the classical turn of thought and expression from a modern imitation than from an ancient model.' The truth of the general theory here advanced, as well as the choice of the particular example, may be questioned. Does Archdeacon Hill know the opinions of the great scholars on the continent of that time on Milton's Latin poetry?- how it was received by Heinsius and others? If not, let him turn to Burmann's 'Sylloge Epistolarum. To this portion of his duty T. Warton was not equal. His History of English Poetry' is admirable; nor could all Ritson's acuteness and knowledge injure it. His poems are worthy of high praise, particularly his academical ones, and perhaps he was the first among our poets who adorned his poetry by the imagery of the monastic ruin, the gothic shrine, and the picturesque beauties of our ancient architecture; but he should not have meddled as an editor with the ancient languages. He was but a moderate Latin scholar, and wretchedly imperfect in Greek. The scholars of Leipsic laughed at the Theocritus of Oxford, and it would too much shock the pride of our university scholarship if we were to recite the language that they used. This edition of Milton by Warton might be usefully reprinted, with corrections and very many necessary additions."-Lon. Gent. May., Dec. 1849, n., (Rev. John Mitford?) Since our Life of Milton (pp. 1296-1324, supra) was stereotyped, the following important works have appeared: I. The Life of John Milton, narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time, by David Masson, Camb. and Lon., 8vo, vol. i., 1608-1639, pp. 780, Dec. 1858; II. Original Papers illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Milton, now first Published from MSS. in the State Paper Office; Edited by W. D. Hamilton, 1860, sm. 4to, (Camden Soc.) III. John Milton and His Times; an Historical Novel, 2594 WAR N. York, 1868, 8vo. Warton was the author of The Idler, by Max Ring; Translated from the German by F. Jordan, Nos. 33, 93, and 96; and a contributor to Dodsley's Miscellany. In his History of English Poetry he promised Museum and to The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Baldwin's Lit. Jour., 1803; Gent. Mag., 1790, i. 480, a History of Gothic Architecture; but this never appeared. In addition to Mant's Memoirs of Warton, ubi supra, see Nichols's Illust. of Lit., viii. 115, (Index ;) Chalmers's (Obituary;) Nichols's Lit. Anec., vii. (Index) 455, 707; Biog. Dict., xxxi. 167-185; Austin and Ralph's PoetsLaureate, 1853, 316-332; Encyc. Brit., 8th ed., xxi. (1860) 734, (by David Irving, LL.D.;) D'Israeli's Quarrels of Authors, and his Curios. of Lit., Preface, 1839: Dibdin's Lib. Comp.: Campbell's Specimens; Drake's Essays Illust. of the Rambler. Adventurer, and Idler, 1810, ii. 166-219; Coleridge's Biog. Lit.; Gibbon's Decline and Fall, ch. lxx., n., (on the Office of Poet-Laureate ;) THORNTON, BONNELL. "The Wartons, both as critics and as poets, were of considerable service in discrediting the high pretensions of the former race, and in bringing back to public notice the great stores and treasures of poetry which lay hid in the records of our older literature."-LORD JEFFREY: Edin. Rev., xxvii. 7: repub. in his Contrib. to Edin. Rev., Edin., 1853, 77. The collector of old English literature must not fail to well, Wright, &c., 8vo, 1855-56, 4 Parts: only a few secure the Warton Club publications, edited by Hallicopies, privately printed for the members. child of the "Great Earl of Cork," and the wife of Charles, Warwick, Mary Boyle, Countess of, thirteenth Earl of Warwick, d. 1678, aged 53. 1. Occasional Meditations: subjoined to WALKER, ANTHONY, D.D., No. 2. See, also, Park's Walpole's R. and N. Authors, iii. 214. 2. Autobiography, (1671-74;) edited by T. C. Croker, of, with her Diary. 1847, 12mo, (Rel. Tract Soc.) Esq., Lon., 1848, p. 8vo, (Percy Soc., 1xxvi.) 3. Memoir ROBERT. Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of. See RICH, Warwick and Brooke, Earl of. See SERRES, OLIVIA WILMOT. solved Meditations and Premeditations and Premeditated Resolutions, Lon., 1634, 12mo; 1635; 5th ed., 1636, sm. Warwick, Rev. Arthur. Spare Minutes; or, Re12mo; 6th ed., 1637, 32mo; 1640; 1641, 16mo; 1674; Amst., 1680, sm. 8vo; Lon.? 1799, 12mo; Repub. from 6th ed., Lon., 1821, sq. 12mo, (Southern's Antiq. Classics.) "The style of his work is as singular as its spirit is excellent. He comprised great wisdom in a small compass. seems to have been as full of worth as his thoughts, and as brief His life as his book."-Retrospec. Rev., ii. (1820) 45. Warwick, or Warrick, Christopher. Medical papers in Phil. Trans., 1742, '44, '55. See Watt's Bibl. Brit. Warwick, Eden. 1. The Poet's Pleasaunce; or, Lon., 1847, sq.; red. to 218., 1849. 2. Nasology; or, Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, which our Pleasant Poets have, in Past Time, for Pastime planted, Hints towards a Classification of Noses, 1848, p. 8vo. 646 Mayhap there is more meant in it than is said in it,' quoth my father: Learned men, brother Toby, don't write dialogues upon long noses for nothing."-TRISTRAM SHANDY. Noticed in Lon. Quar. Rev., xc. 75; Lou. Athen., 1848, 823; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1848, 385. "We hardly know whether to admire most the ingenuity or Warwick, Sir Philip, M.P., b. 1608, d. Jan. 15, "May be worth reading."-BISHOP WARBURTON: Letters to a sonal anecdotes of interesting characters during the Civil War Mag., Ix.; Chalmers's Biog. Dict., xxxi. 196. Warwick, W. A. House of Commons, as elected the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom, Lon., 1841, 12mo. Commended by Lon. Athen., and Lon. Lit. Gaz. Warwick, Wilm. Life and Remains of, Lon., 8vo. Wase, Christopher, b. at Hackney, Middlesex; was admitted scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1645, and afterwards became Fellow; schoolmaster at Dedham, near Colchester, Essex, 1655; Master of the Free School at Tunbridge, Kent, probably about 1660; elected Superior Beadle of Law in the University of Oxford, 1671; d. 1690. 1. Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum Puerorum Institutio, (from the original Latin verse into Greek verse,) Lon., 1647, 8vo; 2d ed., 1650; 3d ed., 1668. 2. Electra of Sophocles, &c., (in English verse,) at The Hague, 1649, 8vo. 3. Gratii Falisca Cynegeticon; a Poem on Hunting, by Gratius, &c., 1654, 8vo. 4. Essay on Practical Grammar, 1660, 8vo. 5. Dictionarium Minus; a Compendious Dictionary, English-Latin and Latin-English, 1662, 4to; 1675, 8vo. This is a Compendium of Calepine, but " done with so much judgment that one can hardly find any thing in it which savoureth of barbarism.” (Dr. Littleton: Pref. to his Latin Dictionary.) 6. Cicero against Catiline, in Four Invective Orations, &c.; done into English, 1671, 12mo. 7. History of France under Mazarine; from the Latin of Benjamin Priolo, 1671, 8vo. 8. Considerations concerning Free Schools as settled in England, Oxf., 1678, 8vo. 9. Observationes Nonianæ, 1685, 4to. 10. Christopheri Wasii Senarius, sive de Legibus et Licentia Veterum Poetarum, 1687, 4to. See, also, SPELMAN, SIR JOHN, No. 6. "Christopher Wase was one of the most eminent Philologers which England could boast of in the last age."-JOHN LOVEDAY: Nichols's Lit. Anec., iii. 469. **That eminent philologer."-HEARNE: Leland's Itin., viii. 20, (Discourse.) See, also, Hearne's Life of Alfred ; Walker's Sufferings; Harwood's Alumni Etonenses; Chalmers's Biog. Dict., xxxi. 199. Wash, Henry, and Marison, T. R. Evening Lessons for Home Work, Lon., 1858, 18mo. Washbourne, Rev. Daniel. See REYNOLDS, EDWARD, D.D., No. 6. Washbourne, John. Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis, Gloucester, 1825, three Parts in 1 vol. 4to; 1. p., imp. 4to, £4 48. See Bohn's Lowndes, 902. Washbourne, Thomas, D.D., entered a commoner of Balliol College, Oxford, 1622; was admitted to the reading of the sentences, 1636; Preb, of Gloucester, 1660; d. 1687, aged 80. Divine Poems, Lon., 1654, 12mo; Mitford, April, 1860, £2. He published some single sermons. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., iv. 212; Lon. Gent. Mag., 1834, ii. 375. Washburn, Daniel, a divine of the Prot. Epis. Church, b. in Otsego county, N. York; graduated at Union College, 1845. 1. Sermon on the Trinity, Pottsville, 1853, Svo. 2. The Man of God who was Disobedient unto the Word of the Lord; a Sermon, (on Bishop Ives,) Phila., 1854, Svo. 3. Thanksgiving Sermon, 1863, 8vo. 4. Episcopacy set forth by the Apostles of Christ, &c.; a Sermon, Ashland, Pa., 1869, 8vo. Contributions to educational works and to periodicals. Washburn, Emma G. See Memoirs of, by her Father, Hartford, 18mo. Washburn, Emory, LL.D., b. in Leicester, Mass., 1800: graduated at Williams College, 1817; admitted to the Bar, 1821; resided at Leicester, 1821-28, and at Worcester, 1828-56; Judge of the C. C. Pleas of Mass., 1844 -48; in House of Rep. of Mass. three years, and in its Senate three years: Governor of Massachusetts, 1854-55; University Professor of Law in Harvard University, 1856 -69 et seq. 1. Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Mass., Worcester, 1826, 8vo. From Worcester Mag., ii. 65-128. 2. Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts from 1630 to 1775, Bost., 1840, &c., Svo, pp. 407. "It is a conscientious and judicious compilation from original Bources, both in print and in manuscript, written in a good style, and, we should judge, with great accuracy of statement and carefultiess of detail."-N. Amer. Rev., liv. 500. 3. An Address commemorative of the Part taken by the Inhabitants of Leicester, Mass., in the Events of the Revolution, delivered July 4, 1849, 1849, 8vo, pp. 48. 4. Brief Sketch of the History of Leicester Academy, 8vo, Part 1, 1855, pp. 158. 5. Address at the Social Festival of the Bar of Worcester County, February 7, 1856, Worces., 1856, 8vo, pp. 73. Contains a history of the Bar, and notices of its members, for twenty-five years. 6. Ad dress at the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Bridgewater, Mass., June 3, 1856, Bost., 1856, 8vo, pp. 63. 7. Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Mass., during the First Century from its Settlement, 1860, Svo, pp. 467. "He has studied the annals of his native town with filial affection, and he has drawn from his large stores of general historical knowledge many interesting details for the further elucidation of his subject."-N. Amer. Rev., xci. 266, (by C. C. Smith, of Boston.) "One of the best local histories that has appeared."-Hist. Mag., Mar. 1861, 92. 8. Treatise on the American Law of Real Property, 1860-62, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 688, 771; 2d ed., 1864, 2 vols. Svo; 3d ed., 1868, 3 vols. 8vo. "It must undoubtedly become the standard text-book for the student of this branch of the law."-Amer. Law Reg. "A book adequate to the wants of the American lawyer, as well as the American student."-Phila. Leg. Intell. "The best American text-book we have seen on the Law of Real Property."-Upper Canada Law Jour. 9. Professional Training as an Element of Success and Conservative Influence; a Lecture, 1861, 8vo, pp. 24. 10. Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes, Phila., 1863, 8vo; 2d ed., Bost., 1867, 8vo. In comprehensiveness and accuracy it is without a rival, and none of the published works on the same or kindred subjects can compare with it in research or ability."-WILLIAM CURTIS NOYES, 1863. ise on Real Estate, had taken position as one of our most accu "Highly creditable to the author, who, by his valuable Treatrate and reliable legal writers. . . . Mr. Washburn's Treatise is indispensable to the American practitioner."-Amer. Lit. Gaz., Oct. 1, 1867. He has also published many addresses, lectures, speeches, &c., and articles in N. Amer. Rev., BuckingReporter, &c.; and contributed an Introduction to Rev. ham's N. Eng. Mag., Worcester Mag., Amer. Jurist, Law Mass., Bost., 1860, 8vo. C. Durfee's History of Williams College, Williamstown, Washburn, Joseph, Minister of Farmington, Conn., graduated at Yale College, 1793, d. 1805. A vol. of his sermons, 12mo, was published after his death. Washburn, Peter T. 1. Digest of all the Cases decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont as reported in N. Chipman's, Tyler's, Brayton's, D. Chipman's, and Aiken's Reports, and the First 15 Volumes of the Vermont Reports: together with many Manuscript Cases not hitherto reported, Woodstock, 1845, 8vo. "The volume is carefully prepared, in which the dicta of the Judges are distinguished from the points decided."-8 Law Rep., 522. 2. Digest of all the Cases decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont as reported in Vols. 16 to 22, inclusive, of the Vermont Reports; together with many MSS. Cases not hitherto reported; being a Supplement to the Digests of the Previous Volumes of the Verof Vermont, 8vo, vols. xvii.-xxiii., both inclusive. mont Reports, 1852, 8vo. 3. Reports of Supreme Court SHAW, B.; SLADE, WILLIAM, JR., No. 3; WESTON, WIL LIAM. See Washburne, W. T. Fair Harvard, N. York, Dec. 1869, 12mo. Washington, Bushrod, son of John A. Washington, (younger and favourite brother of General George Washington, who bequeathed Mount Vernon to the subject of this notice,) was b. in Westmoreland county, Virginia, June 5, 1762; educated at William and Mary College, and subsequently served in the Revolutionary army; appointed by President Adams Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Dec. 20, 1798, and held this post until his death, at Philadelphia, Nov. 26, 1829. 1. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia from F. T. 1790 to F. T. 1796, Richmond, 1798-99, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., Phila., 1823, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. Reports of Cases determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Third Circuit, from 1803 to 1827; Edited by Richard Peters, Jr., (q. v.,) 1826-29, 4 vols. Svo: again, 1852, 4 vols. 8vo. "I have never thought that his Reports of his own decisions did him entire justice; while they in no adequate manner at ali fully represent his judicial powers or the ready command he held of his learning in the law."-HORACE BINNEY: Bushrod Washington, Phila., 1858, 8vo, (privately printed,) 27, (q. v.) See, also, Marvin's Leg. Bibl., 720. To the above must be added (for Judge Washington's decisions) Peters's Reports Circuit Court of U. States for Third Circuit, 1819, 8vo. In addition to Mr. Binney's admirable portrait, ut supra, see the Sketch by Judge Story in his Miscell. Writings, ed. 1852, 808, and in his Life and Letters, ii. 29, (see, also, Index ;) Ann. Reg., v. 5. His Letters to Sir John Sinclair, in Fac-Simile, Lon., Washington, George, fourth son of Augustine Washington, was b. on Pope's Creek, county of Westmoreland, Virginia, Feb. 22, 1732, N.S.; Surveyor of Lord Fairfax's lands on the Potomac River, 1748; Military In-ington's Patriotism: containing a Fac-Simile of his spector, with the rank of Major, to protect the frontiers of Virginia against the French and Indians, 1751; Adjutant-General, 1752; Commissioner to the French on the Ohio, 1753; Lieutenant-Colonel for the defence of Virginia, 1754: Aide-de-Camp to General Braddock at the battle of Monongahela, July 9, 1755; Commanderin-Chief of the Virginia Forces, Aug. 14, 1755-Dec. 1758; elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1757, when absent with the army, and took his seat, 1759; married to Mrs. Martha Custis, widow of Colonel John Custis, of Virginia, Jan. 6, 1759; Member of the Virginia Conventions on the points at issue between Great Britain and the Colonies, 1774; Member of the first Continental Congress, September, 1774; member of the second Continental Congress, May 10, 1775; Commanderin-Chief, June 17, 1775; Commander of the army at Cambridge, July 3, 1775; invested by Congress with dieta-rable éditeur."-BRUNET: Manuel, 5th ed., v. (1864) 1420. torial powers, Dec. 27, 1776; bids farewell to his fellowofficers in the city of New York. Dec. 4, 1783; resigns his commission, Dec. 23, 1783; Delegate to the General Convention at Philadelphia to form a Constitution, and elected President of the Convention, May, 1787; President of the United States, March 4, 1789-March 4, 1797; publishes his Farewell Address, Sept. 19, 1796; Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States, July 3, 1798; d. at Mount Vernon, after two days' illness, Dec. 14, 1799. Many notices of biographies of Washington, his writings, and histories illustrative of his career, will be found on preceding pages, (see references below :) to these, after citing some works most appropriately recorded here, we shall make additions. 1. Journal of Major George Washington, Williamsburg, 1754, 8vo; Lon., 1754, 8vo. Reprinted, N. York, 1865, 8vo, $1.50, 1. p., $3, (Sabin's Reprints.) See the translation of the Journal of Major Washington in Mé. moire concernant le Précis des Faits, avec Pièces justificatoires, pp. 73-100, Paris, 1756, 8vo. 2. Letters from General Washington to several of his Friends, in the Year 1776, Svo, 1777; 8. l., 1778, 8vo. Repub, in Epis tles, Domestic, Confidential, and Official, from General Washington; Written from 1776 to 1783, N. York, 1796, 8vo; Lon., 1796, 8vo, pp. 303; 1797, 8vo. Of these, the following, published both in the Letters and in the Epistles, were pronounced by Washington, in a letter to the Secretary of State in 1797, to be forgeries: a letter to Lund Washington, June 12, 1776; a letter to John Parke Custis, June 18, 1776; letters to Lund Washington, July 8, July 16, July 15, and July 22, 1776; a letter to Mrs. Washington, June 24, 1776. 3. His Official Letters to the American Congress written during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain, Boston, 1795, 2 vols. 12mo; Lon., 1795, 2 vols. 8vo; N. York, 1796, 2 vols. 8vo; Bost., 1796, 2 vols. 12mo. "It may, perhaps, be hazarded as a general remark, that great men are commonly distinguished by a peculiar simplicity of style;... and this is eminently the literary character of the official letters of Washington, here presented to the public. In this view, they afford an excellent specimen of the proper style for letters or papers on public transactions."-Lon. Mon. Rev., Dec. 1795, 389. A few words on Washington's style as a writer may appropriately be introduced here: In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agricultural and English history."-THOMAS JEFFERSON: Letter to Dr. Walter Jones, Jan. 1814: Tucker's Life of Jefferson. "He read little, but with close attention. Whatever he took in hand he applied himself to with ease; and his papers which have been preserved show how he almost imperceptibly gained the power of writing correctly, always expressing himself with clearness and directness, often with felicity of language .”—George BanCROFT: Hist. of the United States, vol. and grace." vii, 1858. See, also, Irving's Life of Washington, and N. Amer. The original MS. was purchased by Mr. Lenox at auction for $2500. There have been many editions of the Farewell Address: among the last is an illuminated edition, printed in colours, on plate paper, with arabesque designs and views of Mount Vernon, Phila., (Devereux & Co.,) 1860, 4to. All who would understand the history of this admithe Formation of Washington's Farewell Address, (by rable valedictory must carefully peruse An Inquiry into Horace Binney, LL.D., of Philadelphia,) Phila., 1859, PP. 250. All the known facts of the case are brought together and set forth with great acuteness and precision by Honourable Horace Binney, one of the most distinguished jurists of America," &c.— EDWARD EVERETT: Life of Washington, in Encye. Brit., 8th ed., xxi. (1860) 759, Liv. Age, June 2, 1860,) by Sir J. T. Coleridge; Prescott's ber, 1789, to the Tenth Day of March, 1790; from the $50. "It is a most characteristic revelation of the private life of its author, at a time which bore the full fruit of his sagacity and experience."-Hist. Mag., 1858, 285. 11. The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791; embracing the Opening of the First Congress, and his Tours through New England, Long Island, and the Southern States; Together with his Journal of a Tour to the Ohio in 1753; Edited by Benson J. Lossing, N. York, Dec. 1860, r. 8vo, 100 copies. See Cat. of T. H. Morrell, Jan. 12th, 13th, and 14th, 1869, 574–578. We append the references promised above: ANDERSON, JAS., LL.D.; BANCROFT, AARON; CORRY, JOHN; EDMONDS, CYRUS R., No. 1; GIBBS, GEORGE, No. 2; GLASS, FRANCIS; GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD, (p. 703 ;) HEADLEY, REV. JOEL TYLER, Nos. 6, 16; HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN, No. 8; IRVING, WASHINGTON, (pp. 937, 944:) add vol. v., 1859: all the vols. repub. in London: to reviews, add Lon. Gent. Mag., 1856, ii. 551; Lon. Athen., 1857, 1031; N. Amer. Rev., April, 1858, (by G. W. Greene;) KIRKLAND, MRS. CAROLINE M., No. 12; MACGUIRE, E. C.; MARSHALL, JOHN, LL.D.; NORTHMORE, THOMAS, No. 5; PARKINSON, RICHARD, No. 2; PAULDING, JAMES KIRKE, No. 17; PICKELL, JOHN: RAMSAY, DAVID, M.D., No. 10; REEVE, HENRY, No. 2; ROGERS, GEORGE, No. 2; RUSH, RICHARD, No. 3; SCHROEDER, JOHN FREDERICK, D.D., Nos. 8, 9; SIMPKINSON, JOHN NASSAU, No. 2; SPARKS, JARED, LL.D., Nos. 10, 15: THORNTON, REV. THOMAS; TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE, No. 15; UPHAM, CHARLES WENTWORTH ; WEEMS, MASON L., No. 2. To these we add R. W. Griswold's Illustrated Life of Washington, continued by B. J. Lossing, 1857-59, &c.; R. W. Griswold's Republican &c., par Cornelius De Witt, précédée d'une Etude hisCourt, 1854, 4to; 1856, 4to; Histoire de Washington, torique sur Washington, par M. Guizot, 1855, 8vo; Histoire de Jefferson, par C. De Witt, 1861; John Frost's Pictorial Life of Washington, 1859, 8vo; E. Cecil's Life of Washington for Children, 1859, 16mo; J. N. Norton's Life of Washington, 12mo; E. Everett's Life of Washington, 1860, 12mo, from Encyc. Brit., 8th ed., xxi. (1860) 740-766: commended in N. Amer. Rev., Oct. 1860, 580, (by C. C. Felton ;) E. Everett's Mount Vernon Papers, 12mo, and his Orations and Speeches, 3 vols. 8vo; B. J. Lossing's Mount Vernon and its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial, 1859, sm. 4to; new ed., The Home of Washington and its Associations, with 150 Engravings, 1864, sm. 4to: commended in N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1860, 280, (by A. P. Peabody, D.D.;) Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, by his Adopted Son, George Washington Parke Custis, with a Memoir of the Author, by his Daughter, and Illustrative and Explanatory Notes, by Benson J. Lossing, 1860, 8vo, pp. 644: reviewed in Lon. Athen., 1860, i. 614; Washington: his First Campaign, &c.; the whole arranged by N. B. Craig, 1848, 8vo; Washingtoniana, 1800, 12mo; 1802, 8vo: sold in New York in 1864 for $30: ed. Balt., 1800, 12mo, privately reprinted, N. York, 1865, 8vo, 100 copies, $7.50, and 1. p., 4to, 50 copies, $15; Eulogies and Orations on the Life and Death of Washington, 1800, 8vo; Religious Character of Washington, 1863, a tract, pp. 24, and in a vol.; M. C. Conklin's Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington, 1850, fp. 8vo; G. W. Greene's Biographical Studies, 12mo; Sir J. Sinclair's Correspondence; Tucker's Life of Jefferson; Randall's Life of Jefferson; John Adams's Letters and Mrs. Adams's Letters; Duyckinck's Cyc. of Amer. Lit. T. Moore's Memoirs; G. T. Curtis's Hist. of the Constitution; Nat. Portrait-Gallery, vol. i.; Bibl. Bibliographique, par E. M. Oettinger, 1850, r. Svo; Prof. Smyth's Lects. on Mod. Hist., and his French Revolution; Bohn's Lowndes, 2850; vols. of Collec. Mass. Hist. Soc. and of Proceed. Mass. Hist. Soc., and Cat. of Lib. of Mass. Hist. Soc.; Memoirs of Hist. Soc. of N. York, of Pennsylvania, Maine, &c.; E. Watson's Men and Times of the Revolution; J. F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, and his Annals of N. York; Personal Recollee. of the American Revolution, Edited by Sidney Barclay, 1859, 12mo; True Stories of the Days of Washington, 1860, 12mo; B. J. Lossing and E. Williams's Nat. Hist. of U. States, 1855, 2 vols. r. 8vo, and their Statesman's Manual, new ed., 1859, 4 vols. r. 8vo; Young's American Statesman, Svo; Diary of the Amer. Revolution, Edited by Frank Moore, 1860, 2 vols.; The Treason of Charles Lee, by George H. Moore, 1860; Histories of the United States, by Bancroft, Botta, Gordon, Graham, Hamilton, Hildreth, and others, and literature of the American Revolution generally; Catalogues of the Astor, Congress, Harvard, New York State, Philadelphia, and the various Historical Societies' and other Libraries; Catalogue of the Entire Library of Andrew Wight, of Philadelphia, 1864, 8vo, pp. 279-288, Nos. 3961-4050: Cat. of T. H. Morrell, Jan. 1869. pp 143-164, Nos. 559-660; Cat. of John A. Rice, March, 1870, pp. 477-504, Nos. 2370-2524. See, also, Indexes to Edin. Rev., Lon. Quar. Rev., For. Quar. Rev., Westm. Rev., Eclec. Rev., Blackw. Mag., Dubl. Univ. Mag., Lon. Athen., N. Amer. Rev., Amer. Quar. Rev., N. York Rev., Chris. Rev., Democrat. Rev., Amer. Whig Rev., Meth. Quar. Rev., Amer. Quar. Obs., South. Lit. Mess., Hist. Mag., Hunt's Mag., Amer. Eclec. Mag., Niles's Reg., Carey's Museum, Amer. Almanac, Liv. Age, Poole's Index to Period. Lit., 1850, 503-4; Whipple's Character and Characteristic Men, 1867, 293; (N. York) Catholic World, Nov. 1867, (unpublished letters of Washington to Count de Chastellux.) See Washington's Words to Intending English Emigrants, Lon., 1869, 12mo. I should be glad to see (what I have no space to give) a complete WASHINGTON BIBLIOGRAPHY brought up to 1870, supplemented by opinions of eminent authorities on his character and services. For a few of such opinions I must endeavour to find a place: "Washington, the dictator, has shown himself both a Fabius and a Camillus. His march through our lines is allowed to have been a prodigy of generalship. In one word, I look upon a great part of America as lost to this country. . . . How frantically have the French acted, and how rationally the Americans! But Franklin and Washington were great men. None have appeared yet in France. . . . How different are English and French! How temperate are the Americans! How unlike the villain Mirabeau to Washington!"-Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, April 3, 1777, to Hon. H. S. Conway, July 1, 1790, and to the Countess of Ossory, April 30, 1791: H. Walpole's Letters, ed. 1861, vi. 423, ix. 247, 310. See, also, 392. "On receiving intelligence of Washington's death, on the 15th of December, 1799, Napoleon not only went into mourning himself, but caused the whole army to do the same, by issuing the following order of the day: “Washington is dead. That great man fought against ty ranny; he consolidated the liberties of his country. His memory will ever be dear to the French nation, as to all freemen in both the old and new worlds, and especially to the soldiers of France, who, like him and the American soldiers, fight for equality and liberty."-Speech of Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, at Ajaccio, 1865. "He was indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man. . . . His was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war for the establishment of its independence; of conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example."-THOMAS JEFFERSON: Letter to Dr. Walter Jones, Monticello, Jan. 1814: Tucker's Life of Jefferson. "Washington's fame will go on increasing until the brightest constellation in yonder heavens is called by his name."-THOMAS JEFFERSON: Randall's Life of Jefferson, ii. 375. See, also, Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. "The character of Washington,-in war, in peace, and in private life, the most sublime on historical record."-WM. H. PRESCOTT: N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1841, 102: repub. in his Miscellanies, ed. 1855, 338. like the bray of the trumpet, formed no part of his aspirations. "Glory, that blatant word which haunts some military minds To act justly was his instinct, to promote the public weal his constant effort, to deserve the 'affection of good men' his ambition."-WASHINGTON IRVING: Life of Washington, vol. iv. "In the possession of that mysterious quality of character manifested in a long life of unambitious service, which, call it by whatever name, inspires the confidence, commands the respect, and wins the affection of contemporaries, and grows upon the admiration of successive generations, forming a standard to which the merit of other men is referred, and a living proof that pure patriotism is not a delusion, nor virtue an empty name, no one of the sons of men has equalled George Washington."-EDWARD EVERETT: Encyc. Brit., 8th ed., xxi. (1860) 766. "A civil war is better than assassination and massacre; it has a system of discipline, it has laws, duties, and virtues; but it must end in military despotism. The example of Washington moirs, ii. ch. ii. is solitary."-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH: Diary, July 4, 1811: Me "A character, of virtues so happily tempered by one another, and so wholly unalloyed by any vices, is hardly to be found in the pages of history."-CHARLES JAMES FOX: Hist. of the Early Purt of the Reign of James the Second, introd. chap., 1808, 4to. "To be the first man, (not the Dictator,) not the Sylla, but the Washington, or Aristides, the leader in talent and truth, is to be next to the Divinity."-Lord Byron's Journal: Moore's Life of Byron, after Letter DXVIII. "I have a large acquaintance among the most valuable and exalted classes of men; but you are the only human being for whom I ever felt an awful reverence. I sincerely pray God to grant a long and serene evening to a life so gloriously devoted to the universal happiness of the world."-THOMAS (afterwards LORD-CHANCELLOR) ERSKINE, London, 15 March, 1795: Sparks's Writings of Washington, i. 495, (q. v.) "The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in his party, according to Clarendon, as if their whole army had been cut off. . . . He had, indeed, left none his like behind him. . . . England missed the sobriety, the self-command, the perfect soundness of judgment, the perfect rectitude parallel, or furnishes a parallel in Washington alone."-LORD of intention, to which the history of revolutions furnishes no MACAULAY: Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden: Edin. Rev., Dec. 1831, 549, 550: repub. in his Essays. "In modern times, Washington, I believe, was the greatest man, and next to him, William the Third."-HENRY GRATTAN: Recollec. by Samuel Rogers, 1859, 102. "Washington, the Chief of a nation in arms, doing battle against the open foe before him, and the darker enemies at his with distracted parties; calm in the midst of conspiracy; serene back; Washington, inspiring order and spirit into troops hungry and in rags, stung by ingratitude, but betraying no anger, and ever ready to forgive; in defeat invincible, magnanimous in conquest, and never so sublime as on that day when he laid down his victorious sword and sought his noble retirement,here, indeed, is a character to admire and revere: a life without a stain, a fame without a flaw. Quando inrenies parem ?”— Thackeray's Virginians, (Sir George Warrington,) ch. lxxxvii. "Which was the most splendid spectacle ever witnessed.-the opening feast of Prince George in London, or the resignation of Washington? Which is the noble character for after-ages to admire,-yon fribble dancing in lace and spangles, or yonder hero who sheathes his sword after a life of spotless honour, a purity unreproached, a courage indomitable, and a consummate victory? Which of those is the true gentleman ?”— THACKERAY: George the Third. "The disinterested virtue, prophetic wisdom, and imperturbable fortitude of Washington."-SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON: Hist. of Europe, 1789-1815, ch. lix. "To George Washington nearly alone in modern times has it been given to accomplish a wonderful revolution, and yet to remain to all future times the theme of a people's gratitude, and an example of virtuous and beneficent power."-LORD JOHN (afterwards EARL) RUSSELL: Life and Times of Charles James For, vol. i., 1859. "He did the two greatest things which in politics man can have the privilege of attempting. He maintained by peace that independence of his country which he had acquired by war. He founded a free government in the name of the principles of order, and by reëstablishing their sway. . . . He deserved and enjoyed both success and repose. Of all great men, he was the Hillard's translation. WAT Also in most virtuous and the most fortunate. In this world God has | Lon., 1585, 4to. Towneley, Part 1, 714, £5. See, also, Guizot's work On the Causes of the Success of the English and American Revolutions. "Washington, after having raised a nation to independence, slept peaceably, as a retired magistrate, under his paternal roof, amid the regrets of his countrymen and the veneration of all people. ... His glory is the common patrimony of increasing civilization. His renown rises like one of those sanctuaries whence a stream pure and inexhaustible flows forth forever for the solace of the people."-VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND: Parallel between Washington and Napoleon, in his Travels in America and Italy, vol. i., and in his Memoirs, in Blackw. Mag., Dec. 1834, 809, 810. "How grateful the relief which the friend of mankind, the lover of virtue, experiences, when, turning from the contemplation of such a character, [Napoleon,] his eye rests upon the greatest man of our own or of any age; the only one upon whom an epithet so thoughtlessly lavished by men to foster the crimes of their worst enemies, may be innocently and justly bestowed!... This is the consummate glory of the great American:-a triumphant warrior where the most sanguine had a right to despair; a successful ruler in all the difficulties of a course wholly untried; but a warrior whose sword only left its sheath when the first law of our nature commanded it to be drawn, and a ruler who, having tasted of supreme power, gently and unostentatiously desired that the cup might pass from him, nor would suffer more to wet his lips than the most solemn and sacred duty to his country and his God required. . the duty of the Historian and the Sage, in all ages, to omit no It will be occasion of commemorating this illustrious man; and until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of Washington."-LORD BROUGHAM: Edin. Rer., Oct. 1838, 261, 262, (Reigns of George the Third and Fourth: Political Characters:) repub. in his Hist. Sketches of Statesm. who flourished in the Time of George III., ed. 1856, iii. 271, 274, and in his Contrib. to the Edinburgh Review, 1856, i. 844, 345. See, also, ii. 163, 193, iii. 480; his Inaugural Address as Chancellor of the Edinburgh University, May, 1860, (pub. in the London Times;) and Edin. Rev., xii. 438. See, also, A Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington, &c., showing a Serious Error in the Existing Pedigree, by J. L. Chester, Bost., 1866, 8vo, pp. 23. The writer "proposes to review the Washington pedigree more at large, and to present other more reasonable theories as to the true ancestry of the American President." (P. 20.) Add to Washingtoniana: The Fairfaxes of England and America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, including Letters from Hon. William Fairfax, President of Council of Virginia, and His Sons, Col. George William Fairfax and Rev. Bryan, Eighth Lord Fairfax, the Neighbours and Friends of George Washington; by Edward D. Neill, author of "Terra Mariæ," etc., Albany, Joel Munsell, 1868, pp. 234. Washington, Henry A., Professor of History and Constitutional Law in the College of William and Mary, Virginia. See JEFFERSON, THOMAS, (p. 959,) (noticed in Randall's Jefferson, 357, ii. 444, &c.;) South. Lit. Mess., April, 1860, 251, (posthumous.) Washington, Jacob. De Laude Roterdami, Roterd., 1707, 4to. Washington, John, R.N., Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, entered the navy, 1812, and was made captain, 1842. A list of his contributions to the Jour. of the Roy. Geograph. Soc. will be found in Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 550. See, also, O'Byrne's Nav. Biog., 1849, 1254. Said by Washington, Joseph, of Gray's Inn, a collateral ancestor of George Washington, (supra.) 1. Exact Abridgment of the Statutes to 1687, Lon., 1689, 8vo; 1698, Svo; 1700, 8vo; 1701, 8vo; 1704, 8vo. Boult: to 2d Anne, 1704, 8vo; to 6th Anne, 1708, 2 vols. Continued by Henry 8vo. 2. Observations upon the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Kings of England, &c., 1689, 8vo. Watt's Bibl. Brit. to be anon., but ascribed by it to Richard Washington. See Coke's 1st Inst., Hargrave & Butler's ed., 134 a, n. 1 and 2. Joseph Washington translated a portion of Lucian's Dialogues, and translated other works, (among these is said to be Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio contra Salmatii Defensionem Regiam,) and is supposed to be the author of what are sometimes called Colquit's Reports, and the editor of the 3d edition of Keilway's Reports, 1688, fol. See Thoresby's Hist. of Leeds, 97; Toland's Life of Milton, 84; Sparks's Life of General George Washington, App., 500-1; Wallace's Reporters, 3d ed., 1855, 85, 227. Washington, T., the Younger. The Nauigations, Peregrinations, & Voyages made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay, Daulphinois, &c.; Translated out of the French, 2598 Wasse, Joseph, b. in Yorkshire, 1672, and educated Northamptonshire, 1711; d. 1738. at Queen's College, Cambridge, became Rector of Aynhoe, of Clarke and Whiston, he became an Arian. Under the influence tius cum Notis Variorum, acced. Fragmenta Hist. Vet., 1. Sallusrecensuit Jos. Wasse, Cantab., 1710, 4to, some 1. p. "An excellent edition, enriched with the entire Notes of Glareanus, Rivius, Ciacconius, Gruter, Carrion, Manutius, Putseins, and Donsa; and with selections from the Notes of Castalio, Popma, Palmer, Ursini, Gronovius, Victorins, &c., together with those of the learned editor himself."-Watt's Bibl. Brit. acknowledged by the literary world. Wasse compiled the text "An excellent edition, the merits of which have been long from a careful investigation of nearly eighty MSS. and some very ancient editions. A Lexicon Sallustianum' is added to the work.'"-DR. DIBDIN: Introduc. to the Classics. nibus integris H. Stephani et Joh. Hudsoni; recensuit, et Notas suas addidit, Jos. Wasse: editionem curavit, snas2. Thucydidis Libri VIII. [Gr. et Lat.] oum Adnotatioque Animadversiones adjecit Car. Andr. Dukerus; acced. Scholia Græca, variæ Lectiones, &c., Amstelod., 1731, fol.; some on very large paper. This was long called editio optima. It was repub. Glasgow, (Foulis,) 1759, 8 vols. 12mo. See Brunet's Manuel, 5th ed., v. (1863) 845. The editions of Bekker, Berlin, 1821, 3 vols. 8vo; Poppo, Leipzig, 1821-40, 11 vols. 8vo; Haack, 1820, 2 vols. 8vo, Lon., 1823, 3 vols. 8vo; S. T. Bloomfield, Lon., 1830, 3 vols. p. 8vo, 2d ed., 1842-43, 2 vols. 8vo; T. Oxon., 1848-51, 3 vols. 8vo; Goeller, editio secunda, Lon., Arnold, Oxon., 1831-35, 3 vols. 8vo, new ed., Lon. and 1835, 2 vols. 8vo, Leipzig, 1836, 2 vols. 8vo; Haase, Paris, 1841, r. Svo, and Kock, Leipzig, 1845, 8vo, and other modern impressions, must be compared with Wasse and Duker's volume, the text, scholia, and notes of which have been republished from time to time by later editors. Suidas, Cantab., 1705, 3 vols. fol., some 1. p., (the best Wasse rendered important assistance to Kuster in his edition before that of Gaisford,) and was a large contributor (too large for the success of the work) to the Medals, Dissertations, &c., Lon., 1722-24, 4to, 10 Nos. Bibliotheca Literaria: a in 1 vol., which the classical scholar should secure. Drs. Collection of Inscriptions, Jebb, Wotton, Pearce, and others contributed to it: seo Boswell's Johnson's Diary, Aug. 10, 1774, ch. xlvi. He also published three papers in Phil. Trans., 1724, 25, 235, '36. Whiston calls him "more learned than any bishop said of him, "When I am dead, Wasse will be the most learned man in England." See Nichols's Lit. Anec., in England since Bishop Lloyd," and tells us that Bentley (Index;) Lon. Gent. Mag., lxxviii.; Chalmers's Biog. vii. (Index) 456, 707; Nichols's Illust. of Lit., ix. 115, Dict., xxxi. 210. Wasse, W., LL.D., Vicar of Hedon and Preston don; a Musical Farce, 1812, 8vo. Wastfield, Robert. Sober Words to all Magis- Waston, Samuel. His Life, with his Works, 1712, Svo. New York, 1799, graduated at Yale College, 1822. 1. 5. |