January, 1914 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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as in the “Bloomer Waltz and 
Polka” and the "Belgian Gallery 
Polka,” and in the foibles of fashion 
such as the "Grecian Bend," the 
“Waterfall,” "Dolly Varden,” etc. 
The fact is that the only portraits 
of many of the early nineteenth cen- 
tury stage celebrities that are in ex- 
istence have rendered them of the 
highest interest to those collecting 
data of the early American stage and 
invaluable to the collector of Civil 
War material and of Lincolniana. 
Through the interval of years the 
sheet music relating to the Civil War 
in text and title has almost vanished, 
but some still exist in the collection 
of the Lincoln Museum in Washing- 
ton, the Library of Congress, and in 
private collections such as that of 
Mr. M. 
which contained at one time about 
200,000 sheets of American music, 
much of which he rescued from the 
publisher’s dusty shelves, although 
many of the old compositions which 
appeared in their lists and catalogues have disappeared into 
oblivion. This is due largely to the fact that the zinc plates 
from which music of this kind was published were too val- 
uable to store away and found their 
way into the melting pot, unless the 
composition was of great popularity, 
also to the lack of demand and the 
for publishers to sell their 
old and uncalled-for stock as old 
paper to be destroyed, and to the 
great tires of Boston and Chicago, in 
which many mementos of these times 
were burned. 
The titles of “The Wigwam 
Grand March” and "Honest Old 
Abe,” song and chorus, published in 
Boston during the political cam- 
paign of i860, are illustrations of 
the many hundreds dedicated to 
Abraham Lincoln, as the cover “On 
Picket Duty” represents the spirit of 
the music of the time and of the ex- 
cellence of lithographic production 
then obtained. 
The “Uncle loin's Cabin” series 
included in Mr. Savage’s collection 
has a unique value, constituting as it 
does the first issue of many cele- 
brated poems by American poets. 
The title-page, with a portrait of Lord Byron illustrated, 
“And Wilt Thou Weep When I am Low?” is still another 
example of this type with a very deep poetical significance. 
F. Savage of New York, 
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A rare "New York” cover 
The cover of the "Castle Garden Schottisch” shows the old Castle Garden at a time when it was surrounded by water and reached by 
long wooden bridge leading from an arched gateway 
