Report of National Museum, 1893. PLATE 18. 



CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. 



Copies in bron/c of the goU medal awanlcd hy act of CongresB January 

 2S, 1S64. to CoriKlms Vamlerbilt "for his unique manifestation of a fervid 

 and large-souled patriotism in presenting as a free gift to the Government" 

 his new steamship " Vaiiderbilt.'* 

 Received from Bureau oi- the Mint. 1S.S4. 7S.J02 



POET, SCOTCH 



WILLIAM DRUMMOND, of H.wvthorntien. 



Born at " Hawthornden," near Edinburgh, Dec. 13, 

 15S5 ; d. Dec. 14, 1649, and buried at Lasswade, two miles 

 from his birth-place. 



Descended from an ancient Scotch family of noble blood. 

 Educated at the University of Edinburgh (ALA., 1605), and 

 in Law at Paris and Bruges ; a man of wealth and a Royalist, 

 resident at Hawthornden, except from 1625- 30, when travel- 

 ling on the Continent. 



A Scotch poet of the Spenserian school, — author, among 

 other works, of Teares on the Dcatk of Ma-Hades, 1 6 1 3 ; 

 Poems, 1 616; Faith Feasting, 1617; Flowers of Sion and 

 The Cypresse Grove, 1623; and some forgotten historical 

 and political writings. 



"Drl'.m.mo.vd was essentially a follower of Spenser, delighting in the descrip- 

 tion of outer nature, but, amid all his sensuousness, and even in those lines most 

 conspicuously Laden with lustrous beauty, there is a dash of melancholy thought- 

 fulness— a tendency deepened by the death of his first love. He was so success- 

 ful as a writer ot sonnets that ne was called 'the Scottish Petrarch,' and his 

 sonnets are still ranki^ immediately after Shakespeare's, .Milton's and Words- 

 worth's. His poems are distinguished by pensive beauty, sweetness of versifica- 

 tion and nicely-worded descriptions, but lack vigour and originality. The Cypresse 

 Groie, one of the noblest prose poems in literature, exhibits great wealth of illus- 

 tration, much line thinking and an extraordinary command of musical English." 



Tho.mas Gilrav. 



See Drumniond of Hawthornden, by David Masson, 1S73. 



Feast of Tabernacles (Pliotocjraph).—Sho\vinj: the offer- 

 ing;- ot grace before the meal (known as Kid.lusli, or 

 sanctitieation) in a tent. The feast of tabernacles takes 

 place on the 15th of Tishri (.September-October), and 

 c .ntinucs according to Lexiticns .xxiii, 39-43, seven 

 days ; most of the modern Jews observe eight days. 

 The important feature ot the celebration was the com- 

 mand to dwell in booths, a practice still kept tip. In 

 a.icient times this feast which was coincident with the 

 harvest time, was the most important of the three pil- 

 grimage festivals. 154,472'. 



Photographed from the original drawing by permission 

 of the Century Co., New York. 



Specimen forms of labels. 



