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persists after the legs have received contour, this being probably 

 another illustration of the comparative neglect of the arm ; as in 

 the accompanying drawing by a boy of five (Fig. 18, a). The 

 primal rigid straightness yields later on to the freedom of an 



b 



Fro. 18. c, A miner. 



organ. Thus an attempt is made to represent by means of a 

 curve the look of the bent arm, as in the accompanying drawings 

 by boys of five (Fig. 18, b and c). In other cases the angle of 

 the elbow is indicated. This last comes comparatively late in 

 children's drawings, which here, too, lag behind the crudest out- 

 line sketches of savages. 



SKETCH OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE. 



BY PKOF. GEORGE L. BURR. 



A LMOST in the exact geographical center of the State of New 

 JU^>- York there suns itself in the upper valley of a tributary of 

 the Susquehanna a tidy village on which the impoverished fancy 

 of an ofiicial map-maker has set the ancient name of Homer. 

 Ancient, indeed, for its region is the village itself. The settlers 

 from Massachusetts and from Connecticut who pushed westward 

 along the valleys of the Mohawk and the Susquehanna, reaching 

 these uplands in the last decade of the eighteenth century, settled 

 here more thickly than elsewhere, and for half a centurytill its 

 neighbor settlement of Cortland, once its suburb but soon its 

 rival, crowded it from the pre-eminence it was, not only in the 

 number of its citizens, but in their thrift, their piety, and their 

 public spirit, the recognized metropolis of the district. 



It was here, in the midst of all that is conservative in Ameri- 

 can life, that on the 7th of November, 1832, was born a man 

 destined in much to be a leader of the fresher thought ANDREW 



