den, July 20. Address by the Hon. James M. Beck [President of The Pennsylvania Society]. NEW YORK. American Defense Society. Luncheon September 19. Address by the Hon. James M. Beck [President of The Pennsylvania Society]. NEW YORK. Liberty Loan meeting in Carnegie Hall, October 18. Address by the Hon. George W. Wickersham [Past President of The Pennsylvania Society]. NEW YORK. Anti-Disloyalty Mass Meeting, Carnegie Hall, November 2. Address by the Hon. James M. Beck [President of The Pennsylvania Society]. NEW YORK. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Lecture by Dr. John A. Brashear [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], on "The Science of the Beautiful in Commonplace Things," December 6. NEW YORK. Hell Gate Bridge Route, the New York Connecting Railroad, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, by which an all-rail connection between New England and Washington and points south are maintained, dedicated at Hell Gate Bridge, March 9, with an address by Dr. Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Member of The Pennsylvania Society. The line was formally opened by the running of the Federal Express from Washington to Boston, on April 1. NEW YORK. John Howard McFadden [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], Collection of Paintings of the British School, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 21 to October 14. NEW YORK. James G. Shepherd [Member of The Pennsylvania Society] Collection of Paintings. Exhibition at the Union League, November 8-10. NEW YORK. Thomas Eakins Memorial Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 5-December 15. Mr. Eakins was born in Philadelphia in 1844, and was long identified with that city as a painter. UTICA. Address by Dr. R. S. Naón, Argentine Ambassador and Gold Medallist of The Pennsylvania Society, before the December Club, March 21. Ohio CINCINNATI. Address by Joseph G. Butler, Jr. [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], on sixty years of progress in the steel industry, drawing on his personal experiences for that time, before the American Iron and Steel Institute, October 26. COLUMBUS. Address by Dr. R. S. Naón, Argentine Ambassador and Gold Medallist of The Pennsylvania Society, at Ohio State University, February 15. NILES. McKinley Birthplace Memorial Building. Dedicated October 5. This splendid memorial to the late President McKinley owes its inception to Joseph G. Butler, Jr. [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], and to whose personal energy it was brought to completion. He delivered an address at the dedication. Pennsylvania memorials included in the building: Bust of the Hon. Philander Chase Knox [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], in the Court of Honour. Busts of B. F. Jones, Dr. Andrew Carnegie [Past President of The Pennsylvania Society], Alexander M. Byers and Henry W. Oliver in the Museum Room. Bust of Henry C. Frick [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], in the Library. Rhode Island PROVIDENCE. Dinner for Dr. W. W. Keen [Member of The Pennsylvania Society] by the faculty of Brown University, January 16. Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE. Address by Dr. R. S. Naón, Argentine Ambassador and Gold Medallist of The Pennsylvania Society, University of Virginia, April 13. Pennsylvania Books Biography THE MASTER OF THE HILL. A Biography of John Meigs. New York, 1917. The biography of the famous headmaster of the Hill School at Pottstown. THE REV. JOHN H. A. BOMBERGER. Philadelphia, 1917. A centenary volume published by Ursinus College, founded by Dr. Bomberger, and of which he was president for twenty years. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SELF-REVEALED. By William Cabell Bruce. New York, 1917. 2 vols. Franklin's many-sided aspects as shown by his own writings.. A competent review of his life and activities. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PRINTER. By John Clyde Oswald. New York, 1917. The life of Franklin as a printer, publisher, writer and advertiser. Many facsimiles. AN UNCENSORED DIARY. By Ernesta Drinker Bullitt. New York, 1917. An account of a visit to Central Europe in 1916 by the daughter of Dr. Henry S. Drinker [Member of The Pennsylvania Society]. THE TALE OF A PLAIN MAN. By William A. Stone. Privately printed, 1917. The life of former Governor Stone told by himself for his children and grandchildren. BURROWS OF MICHIGAN AND THe Republican PARTY. By William Dana Orcutt. New York, 1917. 2 vols. Biography of a native Pennsylvanian long identified with the state of Michigan. WILLIAM PENN. By John W. Graham. New York, 1917. GALUSHA A. GROW. By James T. DuBois [Member of The Pennsylvania Society] and Gertrude S. Mathews. The life of the father of the Homestead Law and Speaker of the House of Representatives in Lincoln's time. A RECORD OF THE UNIVERSITY of PennslVANIA MEN RESIDING IN NEW YORK CITY AND VICINITY. By Harry Bowers Mingle [Member of The Pennsylvania Society]. New York, 1917. A brief biographical catalogue of graduates of the University of Pennsylvania in and around New York. THE MEXICAN WAR DIARY OF GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN. Edited by William Starr Myers. Princeton, 1917. Copied from the original Diary in the Library of Congress, and carefully edited. MEMORIAL OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FACKENTHALL. A memorial volume published by B. F. Fackenthal, Jr. [Member of The Pennsylvania Society]. GENERAL ALUMNI CATALOGUE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 1917. History THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL MOVEMENT AND THE AMERICAN SUNDAYSCHOOL UNION. By Edwin Wilbur Rice. Philadelphia, 1917. A centennial history of the work of the American SundaySchool Union. EARLY PHILADELPHIA: ITS People, Life and PROGRESS. BY Horace Mather Lippincott. Philadelphia, 1917. A handsomely printed review of early Philadelphia and its people. OLD ROADS OUT OF PHILADELPHIA. By John T. Faris. Philadelphia, 1917. An interesting account of the roads leading out of Philadelphia and their early history. Many illustrations. THE STORY OF LANCASTER: OLD AND NEW. By William Riddle, Lancaster, 1917. The first complete history of the city of Lancaster. |