I
Of course I resented all the changes and, equally of course, it was
unreasonable that I should. I had not stood stock still for a quarter of
a century, why should I expect Philadelphia to?
And little by little, as I got my breath again after my first indignant
surprise, as I pulled myself together after my first series of shocks, I
began to understand that the wonder was that anything should be left,
and to see that Philadelphia has held on to enough of its character and
beauty to impress the stranger, anyway, with the fine serenity that I
missed at every turn. Philadelphia does not "bristle," Henry James wrote
of it a very few years ago, by which he meant that it does not change,
is incapable of changing, though to me it was, in this sense, so
"bristling" that I tingled all over with the pricks. But, then, I knew
what Philadelphia had been. That was why I was impressed first with the
things that had changed, why, also, my pleasure was the keener in my
later discovery of the things that had not.
I can laugh now at myself for my joy in all sorts of dear, absurd
trifles simply because of their homely proof that the new Philadelphia
had saved some relics of the old. What they stood for in my eyes gave
value to the little iced Cakes of my childhood; to the frequent street
parade, glorified as it was beyond recognition by the new presence of
the mounted police; to the City Troop, gorgeous and splendid as of old,
and as of old turning out to decorate every public ceremony; to the nice
old-fashioned "ma'am," unheard in England except, I believe, at court;
to all the town, including my hotel, getting ready for the summer with
matting and gauze and grey Holland. Old associations, old emotions, were
stirred by the fragrance of the Cinnamon Bun that is never so fragrant
out of Philadelphia, and one of the cruelest disappointments of my
return was not to be able to devour it with the untrammelled appetite of
youth when it was offered me in an interval between the Soft-Shell Crab
and Ice-cream of a Philadelphia lunch and the Planked Shad and Broiled
Chicken of a Philadelphia dinner. The row of heads at the Philadelphia
Club windows, so embarrassing to me in my youth, borrowed beauty from
association. I was thrilled by the decanter of Sherry or Madeira on the
dinner table, where I had not seen it served in solitary grandeur since
I had last dined in Philadelphia. The old rough kindliness of the
people--when they were not aliens--in the streets, in the stores, in the
trolleys, went to my heart. And in larger ways, too, the place filled me
with pride for its constancy: for the steady development of all that
made it great from the beginning--its schools, its charities, its
hospitals, its libraries, its galleries; above all, for retaining what
it could of its dignified reticence in keeping its private affairs to
itself. It may live more in public than it did, but it still does not
shriek all its secrets from the house-top. It does not thrust all its
wealth down every man's throat. It still hides many of its luxurious
private palaces behind modest brick fronts. It may have broken out in
gaudy hotels and restaurants, but Friends still continue to go their
peaceful way completely apart in their spacious houses and pleasant
gardens. Nor would any other town be so shy in acknowledging to itself,
and boasting to others of, its beauty.
[Illustration: THE GIRARD TRUST COMPANY]
II
Philadelphia has always been over-modest as to its personal
appearance,--always on the surface, indifferent to flattery. Nobody
would suspect it of ever having heard that to a philosopher like
Voltaire it was, without his seeing it, one of the most beautiful cities
in the universe, that a matter-of-fact traveller like William Cobbett
thought it a fine city from the minute he knew it, that all the old
travel-writers had a compliment for it, and all the new travellers as
well, down to Li Hung Chang, who described it felicitously as "one of
the most smiling of cities"--the "Place of a Million Smiles." It was not
because it had ceased to be beautiful that it assumed this indifference.
As I recall it in my youth, it was beautiful with the beauty
Philadelphians searched Europe for, while they were busy destroying it
at home--the beauty that life in England has helped me to appreciate as
I never did before, for it has given me a standard I had not when I knew
only Philadelphia.
Judged by this standard, I found Philadelphia in its old parts more
beautiful than I remembered it. In a street like Clinton, which has
escaped the wholesale destruction, or in a block here and there in other
streets less fortunate, I felt as I never had before the austere
loveliness of their red brick and white marble and pleasant green shade.
As never before I realized the Eighteenth-Century perfection of the old
State House and Carpenter's Hall. I know of no English building of the
same date that has the dignity, the harmonious proportions, the
restrained ornament of the State House,--none with so noble a background
of stately rooms for those stately figures who were the makers of
history in Philadelphia. And the old churches came as a new revelation.
I questioned if I ever could have thought an English Cathedral in its
close lovelier than red brick St. Peter's in its walled graveyard on a
spring day, with the green in its first freshness and the great
wide-spreading trees throwing soft shadows over the grassy spaces and
the grey crumbling gravestones. The pleasure it gave me positively hurt
when--after walking in the filth of Front Street, where the old houses
are going to rack and ruin and where a Jew in his praying shawl at the
door of a small, shabby synagogue seemed the explanation of the filth--I
came upon the little green garden of a graveyard round the Old Swedes'
Church, sweet and still and fragrant in the May sunshine, though the
windows of a factory looked down upon it to one side, and out in front,
on the railroad tracks, huge heavy freight cars rattled and rumbled and
shrieked by, and beyond them rose the steam stacks of steamers from
Antwerp and Liverpool that unload at its door the hordes of aliens who
not only degrade, but "impoverish" Philadelphia, as the Irish porter in
my hotel said to me. And what pleasure again, after the walk full of
memories along Front and Second Streets, with the familiar odours and
Philadelphia here quiet as of yore, to come upon Christ Church a part of
the street like any French Cathedral and not in its own little green,
but with a greater architectural pretension to make up for it, and with
a gravestone near the sanctuary to testify that John Penn, one at least
of the Penn family, lies buried in Philadelphia. And what greater
pleasure in the old Meeting Houses--why had I not known, in youth as in
age, their tranquil loveliness?--What repose there, down Arch Street, in
that small simple brick building, with its small simple green, one bed
of tulips at the door, shut off from the noise and confusion and dirt
and double trolley lines of Arch Street by the old high brick wall; and
no less in that equally small and simple brick building in South Twelfth
Street, an old oasis, or resting place, in a new wilderness of
sky-scrapers. With these churches and meeting-houses standing, can
Philadelphians deplore the ugliness of their town?
[Illustration: TWELFTH STREET MEETING HOUSE]
And the old Eighteenth-Century houses? Would I find them as beautiful? I
asked myself. Would they survive as triumphantly the test of my
travelled years and more observant eyes? How foolish the question, how
unnecessary the doubt! More beautiful all of them, because my eyes were
better trained to appreciate their architectural merit; more peaceful
all of them, with the feeling of peace so intense I wondered whether it
came of the Colonial architecture or of associations with it.
Germantown may be built up beyond recognition, its Lanes, many of them,
turned into Streets for no reason the average man can see, but some of
the big old estates, are still green and untouched as if miles away, and
the old houses are more guarded than ever from change. One by one, I
returned to them:--Stenton restored, but as yet so judicially that Logan
would to-day feel at home in its halls and rooms, on its stairway,
outside by the dovecote and the wistaria-covered walls,--at home in the
garden full of tulips and daisies, and old familiar Philadelphia roses
and Johnny-jump-ups, enclosed by hedges, every care taken to plant in it
afresh just the blossoms he loved. But what would he have said to the
factories opposite? To the rows of little two-story houses creeping
nearer and nearer? And the Chew House--could the veterans of the
Revolution return to it, as the veterans of the Civil War return every
year to Gettysburg, how well they would know their way in the garden,
how well, in the wide-pillared hall with the old portraits on the white
wall, and in the rooms with their Eighteenth-Century panelling and
cornices and fire-places, and in the broad hall upstairs could they
follow the movements of the enemy that lost for them the Battle of
Germantown? And Wyck white, cloistered, vine-laden, with fragrant garden
and shade-giving trees! And the Johnson House, and the Wistar House, and
the Morris House. And how many other old houses beyond Germantown!
Solitude, and Laurel Hill, and Arnold's Mansion in the Park, Bartram's
at Gray's Ferry.
[Illustration: WYCK]
I thought first I would not put Bartram's to the test, no matter how
bravely the others came out of it--Bartram's, associated with the
romance of work and the dawn of my new life. But how glad I am that I
thought twice and went back to it! For I found it beautiful as ever,
though I could reach it by trolley, and though it was unrecognizably
spick and span in the little orchard, and under the labelled trees, and
by the old house and the old stables, and in the garden where gardeners
were at work among the red roses. But the disorder has not been quite
done away with in the wilderness below the garden, and there was the
bench by the river, and there the outlook up and down--had so many
chimneys belched forth smoke and had the smoke been as black on the
opposite bank, up the river, in the old days? Certainly there had not
been so many ghosts--not one of those that now looked at me with
reproachful eyes, asking me what I had done with the years, for which
such ambitious plans had been made on that very spot ages and ages ago?
III
Philadelphia is not responsible for the ghosts; they are my affair; but
it has made itself responsible for the beauty, not only at Bartram's but
at as many other of the old places as it has been able to lay claims
upon, converting them into what the French would call historic
monuments. And Philadelphia, with the help of Colonial Dames, and an
Automobile Club, and those societies and individuals who have learned at
last to love the Philadelphia monuments though still indifferent to the
town, has not been too soon in prescribing the desperate remedies their
desperate case demands. In the new care of these old places, as well as
in the new devotion to the old names and the old families, in the new
keenness for historic meetings and commemorations, in the new local
lectures on local subjects and traditions, in the very recent
restoration of Congress Hall, in all this new native civic patriotism I
seemed to see Philadelphia's desperate, if unconscious, struggle against
the modern invader of the town's ancient beauty and traditions. The
grown-up aliens who can be persuaded, as I am told they can be, to come
and listen to papers on their own section of the town, whether it be
Southwark, or Manayunk, or Frankford, or Society Hill, or the Northern
Liberties, will probably in the end look up the old places and their
history for themselves, just as the little aliens will who, in the
schools, are given prizes for essays on local history:--offer anything,
even a school prize, to a Russian Jew, and he will labour for it, in
this case working indirectly for patriotism.
[Illustration: THE MASSED SKY-SCRAPERS ABOVE THE HOUSETOPS]
But I am not sure that the greatest good the Society of Colonial Dames
is doing is not in emphasizing the value of the past to those who date
back to it. It has helped one group of Philadelphians to realize that
there are other people in their town no less old as Philadelphians and
more important in the history of Philadelphia, what is called society
luckily not having taken possession of the Colonial Dames in
Philadelphia as in New York. If all who date back see in the age of
their families their passport into the aristocracy of Philadelphia and
therefore of America, they may join together as a formidable force
against the advance of the formidable alien. Mr. Arnold Bennett was
amused to discover that every Bostonian came over in the Mayflower, but
he does not understand the necessity for the native to hold on like grim
death to the family tree--pigmy of a tree as it must seem in Europe--if
America is to remain American. My one fear is lest this zeal, new to me,
is being overdone, for I fancy I see an ill-concealed threat of a new
reaction, this time against it. What else does the Philadelphian's
toying with the cause of the "loyalists" during the Revolution and his
belated espousal of it mean, unless perhaps the childish Anglomania
which fashion has imposed upon Philadelphia? People are capable of
anything for the sake of fashion. The ugliest blot on the history of
Philadelphia is its running after the British when they were in
possession of the town that winter we ought to try to forget instead of
commemorating its feasts--that winter when Philadelphia danced and
Washington and his troops starved. Now Philadelphia threatens another
blot as ugly by upholding the citizens who would have kept the British
there altogether. However, this is as yet only a threat, Philadelphians
are too preoccupied in their struggle for survival.
IV
Not only the new patriotism, but the new architecture is Colonial. For
long after Colonial days Philadelphia kept to red brick and white
facings in town, to grey stone and white porches in Germantown, often
losing the old dignity and fine proportions, but preserving the unity,
the harmony of Penn's original scheme, and the repose that is the
inevitable result of unity. But there were many terrible breaks before
and during my time--breaks that gave us the Public Buildings and
Memorial Hall and many of the big banks and insurance offices down town,
and a long list of regrettable mistakes;--breaks that burdened us with
the brown stone period fortunately never much in favour, and the Furness
period which I could wish had been less in favour so much too lavish was
its gift of undesirable originality, and the awful green stone period of
which a church here and a big mansion there and substantial buildings
out at the University, too substantial to be pulled down for many a day,
rise, a solid reproach to us for our far straying from righteousness;
breaks that courted and won the admiration of Philadelphia for
imitations of any and every style that wasn't American, especially if it
was English, Philadelphia tremendously pleased with itself for the bits
borrowed from the English Universities and dumped down in its own
University and out at Bryn Mawr, there as unmistakable aliens as our own
Rhodes Scholars are at Oxford.
[Illustration: SUNSET. PHILADELPHIA FROM ACROSS THE DELAWARE]
But from the moment Philadelphia began to look up its genealogy and
respect it, the revival of Colonial was bound, sooner or later, to
follow. It meant a change from which I could not escape, had I
deliberately refused to see the many others. I was face to face with it
at every step I took, in every direction I went--from the Navy Yard on
League Island to the far end of North Broad Street; from Germantown, the
old grey stone here returned to its own again, to West Philadelphia;
from the University where the Law School building looks grave and
distinguished and genuine in the midst of sham Tudor and sham I hardly
know what, and deplorable green stone, to the Racquets Club in town;
from the tallest sky-scraper to the smallest workman's dwelling--it was
Colonial of one sort or another: sometimes with line results, at others
with Colonial red brick and white facings and Colonial gables and
Colonial columns and Colonial porches so abused that, after passing
certain Colonial abortions repeated by the dozens, the hundreds, the
thousands, in rows upon rows of two-story houses, all alike to the very
pattern of the awning and the curves of the rocking chair on the
invariable porch. I had it in my heart to wish that Philadelphia had
never heard the word Colonial. However, on the whole, more good has been
done than harm. The original model is a fine one, it belongs to
Philadelphia, and in reviving it the Philadelphia architect is working
along legitimate lines.
But even as I write this, I realise that it is not to the revival of
Colonial that Philadelphia owes all its new beauty. Indeed, the
architecture that has done most for it in its new phase is that from
which least would be expected by those who believe in appropriateness or
utility as indispensable to architectural beauty. A town that has plenty
of space to spread out indefinitely has no reason whatever to spread up
in sky-scrapers, and this is precisely what Philadelphia has done and,
moreover, looks all the better for having done. Its sky-scrapers compose
themselves with marvellous effectiveness as a centre to the town, though
they threaten by degrees to become too scattered to preserve the present
composition; they provide an astounding and ever-varying arrangement of
towers and spires from neighbouring corners and crossings; they give new
interest as a background to some simple bit of old Philadelphia, as
where Wanamaker's rises sheer and high above the little red brick
meeting-house in Twelfth Street; they add to the charm of some ambitious
bit of new Philadelphia as where the little Girard Trust
Building--itself a happy return to standards that gave us Girard
College and the Mint and Fairmount Water-Works--stands low among the
clustered towers, just as many a town in the Alps or Apennines lies low
in the cup of the hills, and is the lovelier for it; they redeem from
ugliness buildings of later periods, as where they give the scale in the
most surprising fashion to the Union League; from far up or down the
long straight line of Broad Street they complete the perspective as
impressively as the Arc de Triomphe completes that other impressive
perspective from the Garden of the Tuileries in Paris. They are as
beautiful when you see them from the bridges or from the Park, a great
group of towers high above the houses, high above the lesser towers and
spires, high above the curls and wisps of smoke that now hang over
Philadelphia; and from the near country they give to the low-lying town
a sky-line that for loveliness and grandeur is not to be surpassed by
the famous first view of Pisa across the Italian plain.
[Illustration: THE UNION LEAGUE BETWEEN THE SKY-SCRAPERS]
Philadelphia is, in truth, such a beautiful town that I am surprised the
world should be so slow in finding it out. The danger to it now is the
Philadelphian's determination to thrust beauty upon it at any cost, not
knowing that it is beautiful already. There is too much talk everywhere
about town-planning as a reform, as a part of the whole tiresome
business of elevating the masses. As I have said, Penn talked no
nonsense of that kind, nor did Sir Christopher Wren when he made the
fine design that London had not the sense to stick to, nor L'Enfant when
he laid out Washington. For the town that gets into the clutches of the
reformer, I feel much as Whistler did for art--"What a sad state the
slut is in an these gentlemen can help her." A town, like a woman,
should cultivate good looks and cannot be too fastidious in every
detail. But that is no reason why it should confuse this decent personal
care with a moral mission. There is too much reform in Philadelphia just
now for my taste, or its good. The idea of the new Parkway; with fine
buildings like the new Free Library and the new Franklin Institute,
along its route through the town; with the City Hall at one end and the
fine new Art Gallery in the Park at the other; promises well, and I
suppose that eventually the silly little wooden pergolas will disappear
and the new buildings go up in their place. But though I know it sounds
like shocking heresy, I should feel more confidence if its completion
were in the hands of the old corrupt government we never tired of
condemning, which may have stolen some of our money but at least gave us
in return a splendidly planned and thoroughly well-kept Park, one of the
most beautiful in the world. I believe that not only this monumental,
but more domestic experiments are in view, the workman this time to
profit--our old self-reliant American workman to have a taste of the
benevolent interference that has taken the backbone out of the English
workman. Rumours have reached me of emissaries sent to spy out the land
in the Garden Cities of Germany and England. But what have we, in our
far-famed City of Homes, to learn from other people's Garden Cities?
For comfort, is the workman anywhere better off at a lower rent than in
the old streets of neat little two-story brick houses, or in the new
streets of luxurious little Colonial abortions? And what does he want
with the reformer's gardens when he lives in the green country town of
Philadelphia?
[Illustration: UP BROAD STREET FROM LEAGUE ISLAND]
V
Philadelphia might have lost more of its old architecture and been less
successful with its new, and would still be beautiful, for as yet it has
not ceased to respect Penn's wish to see it fair and green. It is not so
green as it was, I admit--not so green as in the days of my childhood to
which, in looking back, the spring always means streets too well lined
with trees for my taste, since in every one those horrid green measuring
worms were waiting to fall, crawling, upon me. There are great stretches
in some streets from which the trees have disappeared, partly because
they do not prosper so well in the now smoke-laden air; partly because
every one blown down or injured must be replaced if replaced at all by
some thrifty citizen held responsible for whatever damage it may do
through no fault of his; partly, I believe, because at one time street
commissioners ordered one or two in front of a house to be cut down,
charged the landlord for doing it, and found too much profit not to
persevere in their disastrous policy. Still, though Philadelphians in
summer fly to little European towns to escape the streets they deplore
as arid in Philadelphia, I know of no other town as large that is as
green. The notes I made in Philadelphia are full of my surprise that I
should have forgotten how green and shady are its streets, how tender is
this green in its first spring growth under the high luminous sky, how
lovely the wistaria-draped walls in town and the dogwood in the suburbs.
Walk or drive in whatever direction I chose, and at every crossing I
looked up or down a long green vista, so that I understood the
Philadelphia business man who described to me his daily walk from his
Spruce Street house to the Reading Terminal as a lesson in botany. On
the other side of the Schuylkill, in any of the suburbs, every street
became a leafy avenue. There were evenings in that last June I spent in
Philadelphia, when, the ugly houses bathed in golden light and the trees
one long golden-green screen in front of them, I would not have
exchanged Walnut or Spruce Street in West Philadelphia or many a Lane in
Germantown, for any famous road or boulevard the world over. Really, the
trees convert the whole town into an annex, an approach to that Park
which is its chief green beauty and which, to me, was more than
sufficient atonement for the corrupt government Philadelphia is said to
have groaned under all the years Fairmount was growing in grace and
beauty. And beyond the Park, beyond the suburbs, the leafy avenues run
on for miles through as beautiful country as ever shut in a beautiful
town.
[Illustration: FROM GRAY'S FERRY]
VI
After all, there is beauty enough left to last my time, and I suppose
with that I should be content. But I cannot help thinking of the future,
cannot help wondering, now that I see the change the last quarter of a
century has made, what the next will do for Philadelphia--whether after
twenty-five years more a vestige of my Philadelphia will survive. I do
not believe it will; I may be wrong, but I am giving my impressions for
what they are worth, and nothing on my return impressed me so much as
the change everywhere and in everything. I think any American, from no
matter what part of the country, who has been away so long, must, on
going back, be impressed in the same way--must feel with me that America
is growing day by day into something as different as possible from his
America. For my part, I am just as glad I shall not live to see the
Philadelphia that is to emerge from the present chaos, since I have not
the shadow of a doubt that, whatever it may be, it will be as unlike
Philadelphia as I have just learned to know it again, as this new
Philadelphia is unlike my old Philadelphia, the beautiful, peaceful town
where roses bloomed in the sunny back-yards and people lived in dignity
behind the plain red brick fronts of the long narrow streets.
INDEX
Abbey, Edwin A., 393
Academy of Fine Arts, 64, 231, 376, 379, 380, 389, 395, 402, 405, 407,
412, 428
Academy of Music, 206, 459
Academy of Natural Sciences, 64
Acorn Club, 494
Adams, John, 6, 50, 161, 297, 385, 418-422
Addams, Clifford, 407
Adelphia, the, 499
Adirondacks (mountains), 169
Aitken, Robert, 310
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 243
Alexander, John W., 393
_Alhambra, The_, 315
Alicia, Mother, 371
Allen's, 125
America, new and old, 471
_American_, the (weekly), 249
American Army crossing the Delaware, 375
American Philosophical Society, 418
Angelo, Michael, 373
Annabel, Miss, school, 258
Annals, Watson's, 314
Antin, Mary, 467
Appian etchings, 395
_Arabian Nights, The_, 64
Arc de Triomphe, 405
Arch Street Meeting House, 120, 517
Arch Street Theatre, 67, 459
Ardea, Father, 191, 192
Arnold, Matthew, 161, 342-344
Arnold's Mansion, 521
_Arrah-na-Pogue_, 67
Art Gallery in the Park, proposed, 534
Art (Industrial) School, 257, 330, 332, 405
_Art Nouveau_, 408
Assembly, the (social), 153-174, 206, 216, 254, 260, 304, 316, 503
Atlantic City, 170, 246, 298
_Atlantic Monthly_, 243, 244, 257
Augustine's, 60, 148, 151, 153, 281, 438, 439, 449
Bailey, Banks & Biddle, 125, 456
Bala Country Club, 493, 495
Baldwin's Locomotive Works, 228, 477
Bank, Philadelphia, 49
Baptists, 176, 183
Bar Harbor, 169
Barber, Alice, 396
Barcelona (churches of), 199
Barrett, Lawrence, 324
Barrie (publisher of art books), 376
Bartram, John, 31, 300, 521
Bartram's Garden, 31, 42, 299-303, 337, 521, 522
Bayswater, England, 493
Beau Nash, 145
Beaux, Cecilia, 406
Beaux-Arts (school), 407
Beidleman (architecture), 361
Bellamy (_Looking Backward_), 338
Bellevue-Stratford (hotel), 148, 162, 414, 447, 500, 503
Belmont (Fairmount Park), 210, 299, 430, 496
Bennett, Arnold, 478, 486, 525
Bibliotheque Nationale, 12
Biddle, Miss Julia, 399
Biddles, 50, 145, 214-216
_Biglow Papers_, 320
_Black Crook, The_, 67
Blanchard (publisher), 313
Blitz, Signor, 91
Blum, Robert, artist, 246, 393
Board of Education, 257
Bobbelin, Father, 192
Boker, George H., 316, 323-325
Booth, Edwin, 68
Borghesi collection (art), 406
Borie, C. L. Jr., architect, 407
Bories, the, 31, 107
Borrow, George Henry, 320
Boswell, James, 290
Boudreau, Father, 193
Boudreau, Mother, 97
Bowie, Mrs., social leader, 146, 147
Boyle, John, sculptor, 396
Bradstreet, Anne, 309
_Breitmann Ballads_, 320, 456
Brennan, artist, 393
Brewster, Benjamin Harris, 342
Briggs, Richard, 424
Brillat-Savarin, 414
British Museum, 12, 309
Broad and Locust Streets, 257, 258, 259, 449
Broad and Walnut, 42
Broad Street, 324, 449, 489, 499-503, 529, 533
Broad Street, North, 459, 529
Broad Street Station, 12
Brook Farm, 347
Brown, Charles Brockden, 313, 363
Browning Societies, 352
Bryn Mawr, 98, 104, 173, 307, 364, 529
Bullitts, the, 107
Bunyan, John, 308
Burns's, 126, 210, 456
Burr, Anna Robeson, 363
Burr, Charles, 363
_Burton's Gentleman's Magazine_, 314
Business and Professional Club, 352
Cadwallader-Biddle, 343
Cadwalladers, 50, 145, 216
Caldwell, J. E. & Co., 125, 456
_Callista_, 59
Callowhill, Hannah, 417
Callowhill Street Bridge, 281
Camac Street, 351
Camden (N. J.), 293, 324-329
Campanini, opera singer, 401
Campbell, Helen, 338
Cape May, 170
Carlyle, Thomas, 243
Carpenter's Hall, 514
Carson, Hampton L., 6, 363
Cary (publisher), 313
_Casket, The_, 314, 428
Cassatt, Mary, 393
Castleman, Richard, 6
Cathedral, the, 120, 183, 184, 187, 198, 200, 203
Catholics, 176, 177-204, 258
Cavalcaselle, Giovanni B., 402
Centennial Exposition, 205-232, 233, 234, 253, 267, 276, 277, 357,
375, 390
_Century, The_, 337
Champs-Elysees, 405
Chapman, Miss, school, 258
Charles the Bold, 337
Chartres Cathedral, 199
Chartreuse, the old, 444
Chase, William M., 246
Chester, 54, 152
Chestnut Hill, 78, 123, 129, 170, 258
Chestnut Street, 125, 144, 226, 227, 325, 342, 368, 449, 456, 459, 499
Chestnut Street Theatre, 67, 459
"Chestnut, Walnut, Spruce, and Pine," 119, 123, 151, 158, 182, 263,
297, 464
Chew House, 297, 298, 518
Childs, George W., 113, 342, 499
Chippendale furniture, 289
Christ Church, 114, 120, 183, 188, 277, 517
Christ Church Burial Ground, 120, 281
Church (painting), 246
Church of England, 183
Cimabue, Giovanni, 402
City Companies in London, 152
City Hall, 259, 260, 405, 489, 526, 534
City of Homes, 481, 534
City Troop, 64, 452, 510
Civic Club, 494
Civil War, the, 130, 146, 518
Claghorn's collection of old prints, 376, 394
Clements, Gabrielle, 396
Clinton Street, 514
Clover Club, 152, 443
Club (Art), South Broad Street, 406
Coates, Mrs. Florence Earle, 336, 362
Cobbett, William, 440, 485, 513
Coghlan, Father, 193
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 324
College Club, the, 494
Colonial (American) art, 381, 389
Colonial Congress, 253, 267
Colonial Dames, 219, 221, 361, 522, 525
Colonial days, 283, 526
Colonial doorways, 361
Colonial history, 9
Colonial houses, 6, 36, 73, 158, 282, 297, 298, 382, 443, 460, 496,
518, 526, 529
Colonial life and society, 6, 443
Colonists, 495
Colonnade (hotel), 148
Columbia (College), 364
Comegys, Mrs., school, 258
_Complete Cookery_ (Miss Leslie), 423-430
Concord (Mass.), 347-348
Coney Island, 213
Conflans (convent), 175
Congress Hall, 522
Connor, Mrs., social leader, 147
Contemporary Club, 352
_Continent, Our_, 293
Continental (hotel), 148
Convent, 27, 31, 36, 47, 55, 59, 63, 67, 68, 72 sq., 104, 117, 126,
133-137, 175 sq., 205, 238, 241, 258, 368, 372, 373, 374, 451
Convent at Paris, 222
Cooper, Colin Campbell, 396
Cope, Walter, architect, 407
Copley, John Singleton, 389
Country Clubs, 152, 162, 447, 494-496
Courts (of law), 468, 500
Cox, Kenyon (painting), 246
Cramp's shipyard, 228, 477
"Crazy Norah," 27, 35, 375
Crowe, Joseph Archer, 402
Cruikshank drawings, 375
Curtis Publishing Co. Building, 355
Cushman, Charlotte, 68
Dana, William P. W., artist, 393
Dancing Class, 138, 139, 143-145, 147, 148, 157, 182, 184, 203, 254,
260, 304, 316, 503
Darlington butter, 440
Darlington, J. G. & Co., 125, 456
Darwin, Charles, 242
Daughters of Pennsylvania, 219, 221
Davenports, the (actors), 64
Davis, Clarke, 246
Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Harding, 336
Davis, Richard Harding, 336
Day, Frank Miles, architect, 407
Declaration of Independence, 158, 214, 227, 253, 267, 418
Decorative Art Club, 399
Delaware River, 278, 294, 308, 455
Dexter's, 35, 88, 126, 456
Dickens, Charles, 6, 59, 375, 427
Dickinson, Jonathan, 15, 313
Dillaye, Blanche, 396
_Domestic Economy_ (Miss Leslie), 428
Drama-Reforming Societies, 352
Dreka Co. (engraver), 125, 148, 151, 456
Drew, Mrs. John (actress), 68
Drexel, Anthony J., 342
Drexel Institute, 405
Duclaux, Mme (Mary Robinson), 260
Duke of Westminster's collection (art), 406
Dundas house, 42, 108, 459
Dutch descent, 219
Dutch in New York, 16
Dutch Jew, 467
Earle's, 125
Eastern Shore, Maryland, 219, 245, 246
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, 6, 361
Education, Board of, 257
Eleventh Street, 48
Eleventh and Spruce (streets), 44, 47, 48 sq., 94, 102, 104, 314, 427,
430
Eliot, George, 401
Eliphas, Levi, 242
Elkins art collection, 406
Ellwanger, G. H., 424
Elwood, Thomas, 15, 308
Episcopal Academy, 143, 162, 181, 258, 455
Head Master of, 181
Episcopalians, 176 177, 183, 187
_Evening Telegraph_, 246, 341
Ewing, Miss Julia, 341
Exposition, Centennial, 205, 232
Eyre, Wilson, 407
_Fabiola_, 59
Fairmount Park, 64, 129, 173, 210, 213, 281, 299, 444, 486, 496, 521,
533, 534, 538
Fairmount Water-Works, 299, 533
_Faith Gartney's Girlhood_, 59, 335
Ferris, Stephen, 394
Fildes, Luke, 231
Fisher, Sydney George, 6, 309, 358
Fishers, the, 31
Fish-House Club, 152, 443
Fitzgerald, Edward, 423
_Fool's Errand_, 338
_Forget-Me-Not_, 348
Fourth of July, 63
Fox, George, 15, 308
_Francesca da Rimini_, 324
Frankford, 81, 489, 522
Franklin, Benjamin, 24, 166, 215, 216, 253, 263, 281, 290, 355, 310,
313, 358, 386, 389, 400, 417, 422, 482
Franklin Inn, 351
Franklin Institute, 263, 534
Free Public Library, 307, 534
_French Revolution_ (Thiers), 375
Friends, 1, 9, 15, 16, 20, 92, 134, 166, 197, 203, 258, 283, 289, 290,
294, 307, 309, 357, 380, 386, 389, 513
Friends' School (Germantown), 258
Fromuth, marine painter, 406
Front Street, 278, 281, 290, 326, 514, 517
Frost, Arthur B., artist, 393
Furness (architecture), 407, 526
Furness, Dr. Horace Howard, 332, 335
Furness, Horace Howard, Jr., 362, 363
Furness, William Henry, D.D., 332, 335
Garber, Daniel, 407
Gebbie and Barrie, 125, 376
German mystics, 176
Germans (immigrants), 471
Germantown, 91, 123, 124, 258, 294, 297, 336, 468, 477, 496, 518, 521,
526, 529, 538
Germantown Cricket Ground, 496
Gettysburg (battle-fields), 518
Gibson collection, 379
_Gift, The_, 314
Gilchrist, Mrs. Alexander, 119, 284, 287
Gillespie, Mrs., social leader, 215, 216, 253
Giotto di Bondone, 402
Girard College, 123, 379, 533
Girard House, 148
Girard Trust Building, 530
Gissing, George, 239
Glackens, William J., illustrator, 406
Glackmeyer, Father, 193
Glasse, Mrs. (Cookery Book), 314, 423-428
_Godey's Lady's Book_, 314, 337
Gough Square (London), 324
Grafly, Charles, sculptor, 407
_Graham's_ (Magazine), 314, 337
Grants, the, 31
Gray's Ferry, 281, 299, 521
Green, Elizabeth Shippen, 406
Greene, General, 418
Grelaud, Miss, 107
Griggs (publisher), 313
Groton (school), 162
Haden, Seymour, etchings, 395, 396
Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha, 314, 428
Hallowell, Mrs. Sarah, 341
Hamilton, J. McLure, 393
Handy, Moses P., 245
_Hans Breitmann_, 320, 456
Harland, Marion, 428
_Harper's_ (magazine), 238, 337
Harrison, Alexander, 393
Harrison, Birge, 393
Harrison, John, 405
Harrison, Mrs. (Art Club), 399
Harvard (College), 162
Hassler's band, 140, 148
Haverford (school), 258
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 347
Hawthorne, Rose, 347
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 6, 157, 216, 220, 290, 307, 315,
364, 459
Hogarth's engravings, 376
Holloway, Edward Stratton, 406
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 243
Holmesburg, 258
Holy Trinity (church), 183
Home Arts School (London), 257
Homer and Colladay's, 125
Hooper, Mrs. Lucy, 341
Hopkins, the, 31
Hopkins, Dr. (dentist), 64
Horticultural Hall, 347, 503
Hospital, Pennsylvania, 24, 114, 277, 358, 460
Hotel Meurice, 222
Howells, William Dean, 259, 401
Howland's Hotel at Long Branch, 103
Hubbell's, 126, 459
Hudson River School, 390
_Hugh Wynne_, 357, 358, 363
Hughes and Mueller, 456
Huguet, Madame, 77, 85
Hunt, Holman, 372, 373
Huntington Valley Club, 495
Hutchinson Ports, 363
Impressionists (artists), 390
Independence Hall, 467
Independence Square, 355, 467
Industrial Art School, 257, 330, 396, 399
Ingersolls, the, 145
_Initials, The_, 59
International expositions, 213, 231, 253
Irish immigrants, 471
Irving, Henry, 401
Irving, Washington, 315
Irwin, Miss, school, 140, 175, 258
Italians (immigrants), 464, 468
James, Henry, 6, 16, 401, 509
Janauschek (actress), 348
Janvier, Thomas Allibone, 169, 363, 433-437, 443
Jastrow, Dr. Morris, 364
Jefferson, Thomas, 50, 386, 418
Jenkins, Howard, 249
Jesuits, 191, 193, 197
Jew, Dutch, 467
Jew, Pennsylvania, 467, 514
Jew, Russian, 214, 282, 283, 297, 361, 460, 464-473, 525
Jews, religious liberty of, 177
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 324
Johnson House, 297, 521
Johnson's, John G., art collection, 406
Jones's, 126, 210, 444, 456
Jourdain, M., 282
June, Jenny, 428
_Kate Vincent_, 178
Keatings, the, 31
Kellogg, Clara Louise, 67
Kensington, 228, 297, 477
Kensington, England, 493
Keppel, Frederick, 376
Kings, the, 31
Kirk, John Foster, 337
Kirkbride's Insane Asylum, 263
Kneller, portrait-painter, 389
Knight, Ridgway, 393
Kuegler, Franz, 402
_La Belle Helene_, 68
_La Grande Duchesse_, 68
La Pierre House, 148
_Ladies' Home Journal_, 355
Ladies of the Sacred Heart, 72, 93
Convent, 72 sq.
_Lady of Shalott_, 27, 373
Lalanne etchings, 395
Lamb, Charles, 126, 324
_Lamplighter, The_, 56
Long, John Luther, 363
Lathrop, Mr. and Mrs. George, 347
Latin Quarter, 411
Laurel Hill, 521
Law Courts, 468, 500
Law School, building, 529
Lea, Henry Charles, 313, 363
League Island, 529
Leary's, 126
_Ledger_ (newspaper), 113, 341, 355
Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget), 260
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 42, 234-238, 240-244, 254, 257, 263, 272,
275, 276, 316, 319-330, 332, 335, 344-348, 396, 399, 405
Leland, Charles Godfrey, _Memoirs_ of, 276
L'Enfant (architect), 533
Leslie, Margaret (artist), 396
Leslie, Miss, Cookery Book, 313, 423-437
Levi, Eliphas, 242
Lewises, 50
Li Hung Chang, 20, 513
Library, Bryn Mawr College, 307
Library of Congress, 309
Library, Free Public, 307, 534
Library, Friends', Germantown, 307
Library, Historical Society, 307
Library, Mercantile, 114, 241
Library, Philadelphia, 24, 114, 241, 290, 307, 455
Library, Ridgway, 241, 307, 364
_Life of Blake_, 119
Lionardo da Vinci, 402
Lippincott, Horace Mather, 6, 361
Lippincott, J. B., 124, 313
Lippincott's (book-store), 125, 313, 315
_Lippincott's Magazine_, 243, 314, 315, 337, 341, 427
Lithuanians (immigrants), 468, 473
"Little England" of Kensington, 19
"Little Street of Clubs, the," 351, 406
_Lives of the Artists_, 373
Locust Street, 472
Logan, Deborah, 309
Logan, James, 31, 177, 184, 241, 307, 417, 421, 518
Logan Square, 120, 162, 500
Loganian Library (see Ridgway), 364
Lombard Street, 472
Long Branch, 169
Longfellow, Henry W., 320, 329
_Looking Backward_, 338
_Lost Heiress, The_, 59
Lowell, James Russell, 316
Macalisters, the, 31
McCalls, the, 158
McCarter, Henry, artist, 407
MacVeagh, Wayne, 343
Madeira (wine), 55, 153, 417-423, 506, 510
Maeennerchor Garden, 500
Main Line, 31, 123, 297
Main Street in Germantown, 297
Manayunk, 522
Maria, Father de, 191
Marion, General Francis, 216
"Market, Arch, Race and Vine," 281
Market Street, 119, 120, 123, 157, 281, 294, 310, 329, 451, 456, 489
Martin, Madame, 137, 138
Maryland, Eastern Shore of, 219
Matisse, artist, 402
Mayflower (ship), 219, 525
Meeting-Houses, 188, 281, 517
_Meg Merrilies_, 27, 68, 375
Memorial Hall, 213, 405, 526
Mennonites in Germantown, 176
Mercantile Library, 114, 241, 307
Merritt, Mrs. Anna Lea, 393
Methodists, 183
Mifflin, Mrs. (Art Club), 399
Millais, John Everett, 275
Miller, Leslie, 396
Milton, John, 308
Mint, United States, 108, 130, 379, 459, 533
_Mischief in the Middle Ages_, 243
Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, 6, 357, 363, 456
Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield, 379
Moran family, 394
Moravians, monasteries of, 176
Morrises, the, 216
Morris, Gouverneur, 133
Morris, Harrison S., 362
Morris House, 297, 521
Morris, William, 400, 408
Mother Goose, 242
Mount Airy, 170
Mount Pleasant, 31, 299
Moxon's _Tennyson_, 372
Moyamensing Prison, 263
Murillo (painting), 372
Mustin's, 125
Napoleon, pictures of, 374
Narragansett Pier, 169
Nash, Richard ("Beau"), 145
Natatorium, 139, 140, 145, 499
_Nation_, the (New York), 249
_National Observer_, 294
Navy Yard, 529
New Century Club, 494
New Testament (German), 310
New Year's Day, 152
New York magazines, 337
Newman's _Callista_, 59
Nilsson, Christine, 401
Ninth and Green (streets), 489, 500
Nordau, Max, 402
Norrises, the, 216
Norris, Isaac, 15, 417
_North American_, the, 355
Northern Liberties, 522
Oakdale Park, 293
Oakley, Thornton, 406
Oakley, Violet, 406
_Old Mam'selle's Secret_, 335
Old Swedes Church, 114, 120
Orpheus Club, 153
Ouida's Guardsman, 275
_Our American Cousin_, 67
_Our Continent_, 337, 341
_Our Convent Days_, 88, 358
_Ours_, 67
Oxford (England), 86, 529
Oxford, Dr. (cookery books), 424
Page, George Bispham, architect, 407
Paget, Violet (Vernon Lee), 260
Park (see Fairmount), 534, 538
Parkway, the new, 405, 534
Parrish, Maxfield, 406
Parrish, Stephen, 396
Patterson, General, house of, 108, 459
Peale, Charles Wilson, 389
Pegasus Societies, 352
Penn Club, 351
Penn, John, 517
Penn, William, 2, 9, 10, 15, 24, 31, 35, 36, 74, 85, 117, 219, 260,
282, 287-289, 290, 294, 375, 382, 408, 417, 421, 455, 456, 474,
500, 526, 533
Penn, William, statue of, 9
Pennell, Joseph, 1, 24, 203, 219, 237, 246, 268, 271-303, 308, 337,
338, 341, 348, 351, 357, 368, 376, 380, 393-395, 474
Pennock Brothers, 144, 439
Pennsbury, 31
Pennsylvania Historical Society, 6, 157, 216, 290, 315, 364
Pennsylvania Hospital, 24, 114, 277, 358, 460
Pennsylvania Jew, 467
Pennsylvania, promotion of science by, 309
Pennsylvania Railroad, 276
Pennsylvania Railroad Station, 276, 448, 451
Pennsylvania, University of, 143, 162, 173, 258, 358, 364, 473, 496,
526
Pennypacker, Governor, 307
Peppers, the, 50, 399
_Peterson's_ (magazine), 314, 337
Philadelphia Art Club, 324
Philadelphia Bank, 49
Philadelphia Club, 153, 316, 443, 510
Philadelphia Library, 24, 114, 241, 290, 307, 313, 315, 455
_Philadelphia Saturday Museum_, 314
Phillips, John S., 376
Philosophical Society, American, 418
Picasso, artist, 402
Plastic Club, 406
Pocahontas, 9
Poe, Edgar Allan, 27, 316
Poor Richard (club), 352
Poor Richard's Almanac, 310
Poore, Harry, 271, 272
Pope of Rome, 120
Pope's Head, 310
Porter and Coates, 125, 315
Post-Impressionists, 381
Powhatan, 9
Pre-Raphaelites, 373, 390
Presbyterian Building, 271
Presbyterians, 176, 183
_Press_, the, 245
Provence, 60
Public Buildings (see City Hall), 10, 526
Public Industrial Art School, 405
_Punch_ (London), 250
Puritans (New England), 417
Putnam (N. Y. publisher), 315
Pyle, Howard, 249, 393
Quakers (see Friends), 15
_Queechy_, 59, 335
Race (Sassafras) Street, 281
Racquets Club, 499, 529
Rafael (pictures), 372, 375
Ralph (Franklin's friend), 310
Randolph House, 463
Reading Terminal, 538
Redfield, Edward W., artist, 407
Rembrandt (painting), 246, 406
Renaissance, period of, 11
Repplier, Agnes, 6, 88, 358
Revolution (American), 382, 389, 418, 518, 525
Rhodes scholars, 80, 529
Richards, William T., artist, 393
Ridgway Library, 241, 307, 364
Rittenhouse Smiths, 363
Rittenhouse Square, 24, 91, 120, 139, 198, 456
Ritz-Carlton (hotel), 148, 414, 447
_Robin Hood_ (Howard Pyle's), 249
Robins, Edward, Jr., 358
Robins, Edward, Sr., 1, 50, 54, 56, 74, 81, 107, 111, 123, 130, 138,
178, 181, 183, 187, 200, 239, 244, 259, 260, 263, 294, 307, 323,
371, 372, 374, 375, 423, 427, 459, 500, 505
Robins, Grant, 139, 140, 147, 165, 216, 505
Robins, Mrs. Thomas, 40, 41, 43, 53, 54, 50, 60, 61, 183, 239, 268,
437
Robins, Thomas, 1, 35-36, 41, 43, 48-63, 107, 178, 183, 219, 222, 307,
314, 357, 373-375, 413, 421, 459
Robinson, Mary (Mme. Duclaux), 260
Rogers, Fairman, 493
"Rogers Group," 39, 374, 375
Romanticists (artists), 390
Roosevelt, Theodore, 506
Rorer, Mrs. (cookery book), 428
Ross, Betsy, house of, 281
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 119, 372, 373
Rossetti, William Michael, 119, 284
_Routledge_, 59
Royal Academy, 389, 411
Royal Exchange, 411
_Rubaiyat_, the, 401
Rubens (painting), 246
Rue de Rivoli, 225
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 241, 307
Rush, Mrs., social leader, 146
Ruskin, John, 287, 400, 402
Russian Jew, 214, 282, 283, 297, 361, 460, 464-471, 473
Sacred Heart, Ladies of the, 72
Convent of, 72 sq., 258
St. Andrew's (church), 184
St. Augustine's (church), 198
St. Clement's (church), 184, 278
St. James's (church), 183
St. John's (church), 183, 199, 200, 203
St. Joseph's (church), 64, 91, 183, 184, 187, 188, 191, 193-199
St. Mark's (church), 183, 200
St. Mary's (church), 184, 198, 199, 278
St. Michael's (church), 198
St. Patrick's (church), 91, 183, 199, 200, 203
St. Paul's (school), 162
St. Peter's (church), 108, 114, 183, 188, 277, 463, 514
Salons (Paris), 411
Sargent, John S., artist, 393
Sartain, Miss Emily, 338, 393
Sartain, William, 393
_Sartain's Union Magazine_, 314
Sassafras (Race) Street, 281
Saturday Club, 152
_Saturday Evening Post_, 355
Saur's New Testament, 310
Sautter's, 126, 444, 449, 456, 506
Schaumberg, Emily, 107
School Board, 259
School of Industrial Arts, 257, 330, 332, 405
Schools, Public, 335
Schuylkill (river), 173, 276, 281, 294, 299, 362, 451, 468, 481, 496,
538
Scott, Walter, 59
heroines of, 27, 375
novels of, 197, 335, 336, 427
Second Street, 42, 137, 147, 148, 166, 277, 517
Second Street Market, 114, 120, 277
Seminary at Villanova, 198
Senat, Prosper, 395
Seville (churches of), 199
Shakespeare Societies, 352
Shakespeare, William, 68, 332, 363, 401
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 145, 313
Sheppard, J. B. & Sons, 125
Shinn (apothecary), 459
Shippen, Edward, 42
Shippen, Peggy, 31, 162
"Shippen, Peggy," 162, 356
Shippens, the, 158
Simses, the, 158
Sketch Club, 406
Sky-scrapers, 355, 530
Slavs (immigrants), 468, 471
Smarius, Father, 193
Smedley, William T., artist, 393
Smith, Albert, 263
Smith, Jessie Wilcox, 406
Smith, Lloyd, 242
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 364
Smith, Provost, house of, 281
Society Hill, 522
_Solon Shingle_, 67
Sons of Pennsylvania, 219, 221
Sothern, Edward Askew, 68
South Kensington, England, 408
South Street, 472
Southwark, 522
Southworth, Mrs. Emma D. E. Nevitt, 59
_Souvenir, The_, 314
Springett, Guli, 15
Spruce Street, 28, 42, 48 sq., 60, 63, 104, 107, 108, 113, 114, 215,
245, 253, 282, 460, 468, 538
State House, the, 113, 158, 220, 277, 358, 382, 471, 514
State in Schuylkill, 443
Station (Broad and Market), 489
Stations and terminals, 12, 28, 276, 481, 489, 538
Stations (railroad), 481, 489, 538
Steadmans, the, 31
Steevens, George, 449, 478
Stenton, 31, 297, 298, 518
Stephens (artist), 396
Stephens, Alice Barber, 396
Stephens, Charles H., 396
Stevenson, Mrs. Cornelius, 364
Stewardson, John, architect, 407
Stewart, Jules, 393
Stock Exchange, 54, 107, 111, 468, 486, 500
Stockton, Frank R., 336, 338
Stockton, Louise, 338
Stokes, Frank W., artist, 406
Strawberry Mansion, 210, 299, 430
Strawbridge and Clothier, 125
Stuart, Gilbert, artist, 389
Stuart, Gilbert, picture of Washington by, 41, 374, 375, 447
Swarthmore (school), 258
Swedes (immigrants), 471
Swedes Church, Old, 114, 277, 514
_Telegraph, Evening_, 246
Temple, the (London), 324
Tennyson's Poems, 27, 372, 373
Terminals (railroad), 12, 481, 489, 538
Terry, Ellen, 401
Thackeray (William Makepeace), 151, 294, 422
Thanksgiving Day, 63
Theatre Francais, 68
Theatres, 67
Thiers' _French Revolution_, 375
Third Street, 28, 107, 111, 113, 134, 137, 187, 206, 278, 290, 486
Thomas, George C., 307
Thompson, "Aunt Ad," 342
Thouron, Henry, 406
Torresdale, 28, 31, 72 sq., 123, 191, 258, 278, 451
Tourgee, Judge Albion W., 338
Traubel, Horace, 364
_Traveller, The_, 315
Treaty with the Indians (Penn), 375
Tree, Beerbohm, 68
Trollope, Anthony, 401
Trotter, Mary, 396
Trumbauer, Horace, architect, 407
Tuileries (Paris), 222, 533
Twelfth and Market, 489
Twelfth Street Market, 54
Union League, 152, 443, 447, 533
University of Pennsylvania, 143, 162, 173, 258, 307, 364, 473, 496,
526, 529
University, Provosts of, 119
University School (architecture), 407
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King, 363
Van Tromp, Miss, miniatures, 395
Vaux, Richard, 342
Vicaire (_Bibliographie_), 424
Vienna Cafes (Centennial), 210, 227
Villanova Seminary, 198
Villon, Francois, essay on, 238
Virginia Company, the first, 219
Virginia, early settlers in, 216, 219
Voltaire (author), 428, 513
Walnut Lane, 298, 538
Walnut Street, 184, 203, 297, 468, 489, 494, 538
Walnut Street Theatre, 67
Wanamaker's, 530
War, Civil, the, 130
Ward, Genevieve, 348
Wardle, Thomas (bookseller), 313
Washington (city), 226, 534
Washington, George, 44, 119, 215, 290, 482, 526
Washington's Birthday, 63
Washington's household, 44, 433
Washington, statue of, 386
Waterloo (eve of), 254
Water-Works (Fairmount), 64, 67, 299, 533
Watson, John, 6, 356, 357, 413
Watts, Harvey M., 362
Waugh, Frederick J., marine painter, 406
Welsh, John, 50
West, Benjamin, 64, 389
West Philadelphia, 126, 294, 297, 468, 529, 538
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, 6, 361
Whartons, the, 50, 145, 216
Whelans, the, 31
Whistler, James A. McNeill, 16, 395, 396, 405, 534
White, Ambrose, 78, 120
White, Bishop, 290
White, Dr. (dentist), 64
White, William, 144
White, Willie, 144, 145
Whitefield, George, 177
Whitman, Walt, 119, 316, 324-331, 336, 337, 344, 347, 364
Whittier, John G., 320
_Wide, Wide World, The_, 59, 335
Widener, Peter A. B., 307, 406
Wilde, Oscar, 344, 347
Williams, Dr. Francis Howard, 336, 362
Williams, Dr. Talcott, 364
Willing's Alley, 184
Willings, the, 158
Willis, N. P., 316
Willow Grove, 213
Wilstach Collection, 405
Wise, Herbert C., 361
Wissahickon (creek), 177, 298, 299
Wistar House, 297, 521
Wistar parties, 146
Wister, Mrs., authoress, 335, 336
Wister, Owen, 363
"Wister, Sally," 162, 356
Wisters, the, 107
Woman in White (German mystics), 176
Woman's School of Design, 405
Wood, Bishop, 200, 203
Woodland's, 126
Wren, Sir Christopher, 283, 289, 533
Wyck, 297, 521
Wyeth's, 126, 456
Yale (college), 162
Yearly Meeting, 289
_Yellow Buskin_, the, 405
Zantzinger, C. C., architect, 407
Zola, Emile, 259
IN THE LAND OF TEMPLES
By JOSEPH PENNELL
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| Printer errors corrected. These include: |
| - Page 74, Illustration caption "Loudorn" corrected to be |
| "Loudoun" (LOUDOUN, MAIN STREET GERMANTOWN) |
| - Page 152, word "Fast" corrected to be "East" (Italy and the |
| East) |
| - Page 157 and 313, word "Pensylvania" corrected to be |
| "Pennsylvania" (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) |
| - Page 170, word "Philadephia" corrected to be "Philadelphia" |
| (reception in Philadelphia) |
| - Page 174, word "to" corrected to be "too" (all too short at |
| the best) |
| - Page 402, word "Nordan" corrected to be "Nordau" (from |
| Lionardo to Nordau) |
| - Page 486, word "Your" corrected to be "You" (You are welcome)|
| |
| Index entries that do not match their referred text corrected |
| (except if the referred text is an obvious typo). These |
| include: |
| - Index entry "Beidelman" corrected to be "Beidleman" |
| - Index entry "Cimabue" corrected to be "Cimabue" |
| - Index entry "Francesco da Rimini" corrected to be "Francesca |
| da Rimini" |
| - Index entry "Greland" corrected to be "Grelaud" |
| - Index entry "Hughes and Muller" corrected to be |
| "Hughes and Mueller" |
| - Index entry "Kugler" corrected to be "Kuegler" |
| - Index entry "Maennerchor" corrected to be "Maeennerchor" |
| - Index entry "Racquet Club" corrected to be "Racquets Club" |
| - Index entry "Tourgee" corrected to be "Tourgee" |
| - Index entry "Vieaire" corrected to be "Vicaire" |
| |
| Index page references that erroneously lead to pages without |
| text (blank or illustration only) were removed. |
| |
| The author's variable spelling has been kept. This includes: |
| - Both "ailantus" and "ailanthus" |
| - Both "baptised" and "baptized" |
| - Both "bookseller" and "book-seller" |
| - Both "colored" and "coloured" |
| - Both "Delancey" and "De Lancey" |
| - Both "dreamt" and "dreamed" |
| - Both "encyclopaedia" and "encyclopedia" |
| - Both "everyday" and "every-day" |
| - Both "football" and "foot-ball" |
| - Both "forefathers" and "fore-fathers" |
| - Both "halfway" and "half-way" |
| - Both "learnt" and "learned" |
| - Both "neighborhood" and "neighbourhood" |
| - Both "nowadays" and "now-a-days" |
| - Both "realise" and "realize" |
| - Both "refashioning" and "re-fashioning" |
| - Both "reunion" and "re-union" |
| - Both "role" and "role" |
| - Both "splendor" and "splendour" |
| - Both "uptown" and "up-town" |
| - "Waterworks," "Water Works," and "Water-Works" |
| |
| Some advertisements for other books published by J. B. |
| Lippincot were moved from page ii to the end of the text. |
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