Word: martha
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leading article of the number, "George Washington," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, is highly entertaining and instructive, as it treats of that period in Washington's life, of which the public know least, his career as president and his later life. Extracts taken from his diary reveal the simplicity and dignity of our first president, and from a vivid description of his official life in New York. There are several plates accompanying the article, among which are copies of portraits of Washington by distinguished artists of that time...
Never more popular and prosperous than to-day, the Magazine of American History opens its nineteenth volume with a wonderfully interesting January number. The opening article, "Thurlow Weed's Home in New York," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the editor of the magazine, is a highly interesting paper richly illustrated with exterior and interior news of the house. The description of the house and its distinguished occupant is very graphic, and Mr. Weed's wonderful experience in France at a critical period during our Civil war is charmingly told. The writer's simple and easy style only serves...
...covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also bounds the great wheat fields of the country, the area once covered with ice being far more productive than the rest...
...entirely to topics connected with the history of this country which can justly claim an equal footing with the Magazine of American History. The October number opens with a most interesting article on the origin of New York, a glimpse of the famous Dutch West India company, by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. The sketch is copiously illustrated by quaint pictures of the city of Amsterdam and is told in that clear, pointed style characteristic of the well known authors. The second article is a chapter on Church History-the relationship of church and state in the United States. Thought rather...
BOSTON THEATRE. Matinee - "Victor." Evening - Second Act of "Fra Diavolo;" Third Act of "Martha;" Third Act of "Victor...