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Washington. In casting about for a future home, he...selected the Arlington estate, because of its admirable situation and convenience to Alexandria, Georgetown, and especially the city of Washington, which two years before had become the permanent seat of the National Government. Mr. Custis accordingly determined to build for himself a splendid mansion upon the crest of Arlington's forest-clad hills, commanding an unrivaled prospect of the infant capital and surrounding country... [He accordingly] began the construction of Arlington House, after plans drawn for the most part by himself...

George Washington Parke Custis, the last male of his line, died at Arlington House on October 10, 1857, and was buried on the estate beside his wife, who had passed away in 1853. Their graves, marked by simple marble monuments, are located a short distance south of the mansion in a beautiful grove, amid the serried ranks of departed heroes of the Civil War.

In his will... Mr. Custis gave the "Arlington House estate" to his only child, Mrs. Robert E. Lee, during her lifetime... Arlington will always remain closely associated with the name of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the leading military figure of the Southern Confederacy, for it was his home during thirty years, where his happiest days were spent...

There is an interesting bit of legal history connected with the devolution of Arlington estate from the heirs to the United States Government. Early in the Civil War the Federal authorities took possession of it for military uses, and held it under that eminent title until January 11, 1864, when it was put up at public sale for unpaid direct taxes ($92.07), and was purchased by the Government for $26,800. Mrs. Robert E. Lee, the life-tenant, died in 1873. Four years later, her eldest child, George W. C. Lee, the remainder-man under Custis' will, brought a suit in ejectment and successfully contested the legality of the title of the Government under the tax sale; but was barred in the Supreme Court. In recognition, however, of his equitable claim, Congress appropriated (act of March 31, 1883) the sum of $150,000 for the purchase of the estate, and on March 31, 1883, Mr. Lee conveyed by deed to the United States all his rights therein for the sum appropriated, thereby removing the last cloud from the title to ground that had become sanctified by the dust of an army of heroes...

[During the early days of the Civil War, the Lees moved to Richmond and Arlington Heights was seized and fortified by Union forces.] Thenceforward to the conclusion of the war Arlington was an armed camp and hospital base; the mansion was given up to officers' quarters; fine groves of old trees were cut down, and thousands of tents dotted the plateaus...

As the conflict progressed and assumed greater proportions, the number of military camps and hospitals in the vicinity of Washington multiplied, the deaths ran up into the thousands, and the question of proper sepulture became a serious problem... Soon after the battle of the Wilderness, Maj. Daniel H. Rucker and Capt. James M. Moore of the quartermaster's department made a careful examination of all the

eligible sites for a national cemetery near Washington and reported in favor of Arlington. At this juncture, Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, the resourceful quartermaster-general of the Army, assumed the responsibility of ordering the interment at Arlington of those dying in the military hospitals at that place. According to the official records the first interments were made on May 13, 1864. From that date interments at Arlington were of daily occurrence and constantly increasing in number.

The action of General Meigs was promptly sanctioned by the Secretary of War, and by the provisions of an order dated June 15, 1864, two hundred acres of the estate, including the mansion, were appropriated for a military cemetery to be laid out and enclosed for the burial of all soldiers dying in the hospitals in and about Washington...

At the close of the war, a large burial corps under charge of officers of the quartermaster's department undertook the...task of recovering all the bodies of Union soldiers...from the battlefields and camps of Virginia and Maryland, within a radius of about forty miles from Washington, and interring them at Arlington...

It has come to pass that a very large contingent of the martyrs of the Spanish-American War repose at Arlington...

The cemetery, which now [in 1899] contains 408 acres (more than double its original area), has been greatly beautified since the Civil War.

Publications of the Library

Stories to Tell to Children

The third edition of "Stories to Tell to Children" is now off the press. In this edition few changes have been made in the text of the first edition except the addition of several new story titles and the revision of the sources. It is a pamphlet of seventy-two pages and the price is twenty-five cents at the Library, or thirty cents postpaid.

Choice of Vocation

The Library has recently issued for the information of boys and girls of high school age, a selected list of books and magazine articles concerning various occupations. It appears under the title "Choice of Vocation" and is a pamphlet of fifty pages. The price is twenty cents at the Library; twenty-five cents postpaid.

Books Added to the Library

November 1 to December 1, 1921

An r or b prefixed to the call number indicates that the book must be called for and used in the Reference or the Technology Room; j that it is especially suitable for children; and q that it is quarto size or larger.

Fiction

Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.

A466fr

The free rangers; a story of early days along the Mississippi. Appleton.

The adventures of the five young woodsmen who have previously appeared in "The young trailers" and "The forest rangers," in helping the settlers against the Indians and the Spaniards.

Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.

A466r

Riflemen of the Ohio; a story of early days along "the beautiful river." Appleton.

Further adventures of the hero of "The young trailers" and his friends. Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, and Girty, the renegade, appear in the story.

Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.

A466sc

Scouts of the valley; a story of Wyoming and the Chemung. Appleton.

The Wyoming valley massacre and the battle of the Chemung furnish more fighting and more adventures for the hero of "The young trailers."

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218ad

Adieu [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by G. B. Ives. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.) Other stories: The conscript.-The executioner.-The exiles.-Louis Lambert. Balzac, Honoré de.

B218ci

The civil service [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by M. W. Artois and J. M. Sedgwick. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Other stories: Gaudissart II.-A prince of Bohemia. Balzac, Honoré de.

B218do

A double family [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by William Walton. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Other stories: Peace of the household. A study of woman.- Another study of woman. The pretended mistress.

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218gam

Gambara; now for the first time completely translated into English by T. H. Walls. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Contains also "Massimilla doni;" tr. by G. B. Ives and "The accursed child;" tr. by G. B. Ives.

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218hon

Honorine [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by William Walton. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Other stories:

Colonel Chabert.-The interdiction.

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218ho

The house of Nucingen [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by William Walton. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Other stories: Secrets of la Princesse de Cadignan.-Sarrasine.-Facino Cane.-A man of business.-The involuntary comedians.

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218i

The illustrious Gaudissart, and The muse of the department; now for the first time completely translated into English by William Walton. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218je

Jesus Christ in Flanders [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by G. B. Ives. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Other stories: Melmoth converted.-The elixir of long life.-Seraphita. Balzac, Honoré de.

B2180

The old maid, and The cabinet of antiquities; now for the first time completely translated into English by William Walton. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218pas

Passion in the desert [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by J. A. Burgan and P. P. Breen. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Other stories: An episode under the reign of terror.-A dark affair. Balzac, Honoré de.

B218pe

The petty bourgeois; now for the first time completely translated into English by G. B. Ives. 2v. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.) Balzac, Honoré de.

B218wa

The way that girls love [and other stories]; now for the first time completely translated into English by Ellery Sedgwick. 2v. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

V.I. The way that girls love.-How much love costs old men.
V.2. The end of bad roads.-The last incarnation of Vautrin.

Balzac, Honoré de.

B218z

Z. Marcas, and The other side of contemporaneous history: first episode, Madame de la Chanterie, second episode, The novice; now for the first time completely translated into English by G. B. Ives. Barrie. (La comédie humaine.)

Benson, Edward Frederic.

Dodo wonders-. Doran.

B443do

English society life just before and during the great war. The author depicts the life and character of Dodo, the heroine of two former novels, at the age of 54 and after, along with her reactions to the war.

Bone, David William.

The brassbounder.

Dutton.

B623b

The story of the voyage of a "brassbounder" (British sea apprentice) in a squarerigged vessel from Glasgow to San Francisco and back again to Falmouth and Sligo.

Cholmondeley, Mary.

Romance of his life, and other romances.

Dodd.

C453ro

Contents: Introduction.-The romance of his life.-The dark cottage.-The ghost of a chance.-The goldfish.-The stars in their courses.-Her murderer.-Votes for men. -The end of the dream.

Dos Passos, John Roderigo.

Three soldiers.

Doran.

D747t

A novel in which the author presents a bitter invective against what he conceived as the tyranny, misery, and degradation of life in the American army during the great war. Dowst, Henry Payson.

Bostwick's budget. Bobbs.

D7732b

A lawyer friend puts a young married couple on a budget and helps them to make a success of it in spite of difficulties brought about by a bad start.

Farnol, Jeffery.

Martin Conisby's vengeance. Little.

Sequel to "Black Bartlemy's treasure."

French, Joseph Lewis, ed.

Great sea stories. Brentano.

F245ma

F9262gr

Extracts from writers of the sea from Kingsley and Marryat to Jack London and Masefield.

Galsworthy, John.

G157to

To let. Scribner.

Appeared in "Scribner's magazine," v.69-70, Jan.-Sept. 1921.

The saga of the Forsyte family begun in "The man of property" and continued in "In chancery" is here carried on with the tragic romance of Fleur and Jon Forsyte, distant cousins. Describing what happened to the young people, however, is less the interest of the author than the presenting of their social and family circumstances.

Gibbs, George, b. 1870.

Youth triumphant. Appleton.

G364yo

The romance of a waif of unknown parentage who eventually finds her way from the slums of New York to her aristocratic relatives.

Hamp, Pierre.

H2282p

People; authorized translation by James Whitall. Harcourt. (European library.)

Short stories depicting the tragedy and the comedy in the lives of the French working class.

Hamsun, Knut.

H231p

Pan; tr. from the Norwegian by W. W. Worster, with an introduction by Edwin Björkman. Knopf.

The smell and the sounds in the northern woods and the color of the changing seasons described, are the memories that remain rather than the story and the character sketch of the man who lived alone in a cabin in the heart of the forest.

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