regular army of the United States to-da>' to whom the name of the two sisters is not famihar, and the impression of their work has gone wherever the flag has gone. When Miss Susan Warner died, in 1885, the Government, upon special application of the cadets, permitted her burial in the military cemetery at the Point, -- an honour, it is said, never granted to any other woman. Miss Anna Warner still carries on the work that her sister laid down nearly eighteen years ago. How they come crowding, the names of those who belong, if not under the very central dome of our Hall of Fame, at least within its ample corridors! There, for instance, are the Primes: the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Scudder Prime, the father of many well-known sons and author of several hardly remembered books, was Principal of the Female Academy at Sing Sing in 1830, and afterwards continued the same occupation at Poughkeepsie. Samuel Irengeus, afterwards the editor of the Nciv York Observer, was associated with him in his educational work. Edward D. was also of the Observer; and William C, at one time connected with the Journal of Commerce, is widely known as one of the most entertaining writers of travel in foreign lands that America has produced. All the world knows that Henry Ward Beecher made his summer home at Peekskill. His great personality makes him a national figure, to whom it is impossible

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to assign merely local limits; Init the writer likes to recall a walk over one of the rough Highland roads, while, beside him, leading his horse by the reins, the great orator forgot his greatness to talk in a wdse, sweet way of wayside things. Mrs. Fremont -- Jessie Benton Fremont -- used to live just above Tarry town, and the house that was General Fremont's had formerly been the home of James Watson Webb, the well-known journalist.