Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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ments, an intolerable burden, and all the large librar;es of Europe have been driven to the necessity of printing none at all.
Professor Jewett proposes to stereotype all titles separately, and
to preserve the plates in alphabetical order, so as readily to insert additional titles in their proper order. By these means the
great cost of republication-that of composition, revision, and
correction of the press-would be avoided, and difficulties that
have discouraged librarians, and involved such enormous expenses, would be overcome. The importance of the Smithsonian
Institution in the center of our country, and the benefits it will
confer, have not yet been truly estimated. Science, literature,
and art will concentrate here; and in the enlightened encouragement they will receive, they will diffuse their radiance over
the whole length and breadth of the land, and the political
center of our country will thus become, as it should be, the seat
of learning and the arts. It is a significant fact that a descendant
of one of the most renowned families in England should have
chosen this country as the field wherein his great idea should
germinate and expand, and it was in a prophetic spirit that he
has somewhere expressed his belief that his name would be remembered when that of the Percys was forgotten. Their conquests were on the field of battle; those won by his munificence
will be in the regions of thought, of wisdom, and of beauty:
their victories were for one generation; his will be for all time.
About midway between the Capitol and the President's house
stands the national monument erected to the memory of Washington. As yet it has reached the elevation of only about one
hundred feet. It is to be constructed of granite encased in marble, and the height is to be six hundred feet. The base is to
consist of a grand circular temple, two hundred and fifty feet in
diameter and one hundred in height, from which springs the
obelisk, seventy feet square at the base, and five hundred in
height. The spacious gallery of the rotunda at the base of the
column is designed to be the Westminster Abbey, or the National Pantheon, to contain statues of the heroes of the Revolution, and pictures to commemorate their victories, while the
space beneath is intended as a place of burial for those whom the
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