15 UWfc,*U(%kc £ iuV 13 I9!9 SELF-RELIANCE, INITIATIVE, LOVE OF WORK AND CONCENTRATION HELP THE INDIVIDUAL TO OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES THIS BOOK HAS BEEN PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR PRESENTATION AS STATED ON PAGES 179 TO 184 Presented With the Compliments op EDWARD DETRAZ BETTENS 130 West 87th Street New York, New York U. S. A. -■* . jf TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS Serene and patient in Life's sunset hour, With the calm twilight stealing on apace, Reflected in her sweet benignant face, Which shines in beauty like a cherished flower — A dear devoted Mother keeps her dower Of Goodness, Faith, Unselfishness and Grace; Toil, disappointment, grief have left no trace Save in her Love's forever widening power ! She has lived wisely through her many years; Fulfilled her mission with unsparing zeal ; Enjoyed the spell of Letters and of Art; She has seen rainbows in all storms of tears; To ties of Friendship has been ever leal, In perfect harmony of Mind and Heart. Nathan Haskell Dole. TWO GREAT TEACHERS 40600 New York, September 5, 1919. Thomas Fenton Taylor, Esq.* Dear Taylor: "Why don't you justify to me, your opinion of Henry Adams as a teacher, is your question in your letter to me dated September 3rd, 1919?" Then you add "I took three one year courses in History with him." The original Rochat and Bettens emigrants — my ancestors — settled in Vir- ginia about the year 1800, Mr. Rochat coming from Paris, France, and Mr. Bettens from Switzerland. They had lived through the period of the French Revolution, and in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson was the great leader. The spirit of inquiry, then prevailing in Europe and in the United States, was not objectionable to these two Emigrants, and perhaps I, one of their descendants today, am inclined to favor free inquiry into every subject. And this may explain why some teachers, very learned men, who base their instruction to a great extent on authority do not stand as high, in my estimation, as some other teachers who may be willing to put to the test any and every tradition, custom, and authority. Friom the time of my birth April 11, 1848, in Vevay, Indiana, French and not English was taught me, and up to about my seventh year, I could not talk nor understand English. I do not recollect of attending any school, until about 1857, on arriving in Cincinnati, Ohio, I entered a District School on Sycamore Street, of which Mr. Reynolds was the Principal. At that time, my general knowledge of the studies taught to children of the age of nine, was about the same as that of the other pupils, except that I was wofully deficient in handwriting. Because of that deficiency I was dropped into a class, in school, lower than the one into which I was first entered as a pupil. Not one of the teachers of that District School do I remember, except its Principal, Mr. Reynolds. From that District School, I entered the Second Intermediate School, where a Miss McGill was a teacher. During a lesson, or examination, in penmanship, Miss McGill came up behind me, looked over my shoulders, at my writing — and down on my hand, holding the pen, came her rattan, and a second stroke of the rattan followed, because of a blot on the copy book, caused, in fact, by the first stroke of the rattan! I forgive her. Her niece, a pupil in that Intermediate School, wished to go to her (the niece's) father's law office, and Miss McGill, ♦Class of 1875 Harvard College. asked me to be the niece's escort. From the school house to the lawyer's office, this niece and I walked, she hugging, as well as she could, the walls of the houses, and I walking along the edge of the curb stone. Miss McGill is the only teacher of that Second Intermediate School of whom I have any recollection. In the fall of 1864 I entered Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, the Principal of which was Mr. George W. Harper. I had been a pupil there about four weeks, when Mr. Harper told me that my marks in all of my studies, except mathematics, were satisfactory. "I do not understand mathematics," I said to Mr. Harper. He then told me not to study any of my studies, except mathematics for the coming month. He would give me a perfect mark, for that month, in all of my studies, except mathe- matics. "Your trouble," he said, "is that the foundation for a knowledge of mathematics was not properly laid. Therefore, start from the very beginning of a mathematical education, and, during this month, work on mathematics only." I followed his advice, and on graduating from Woodward in June, 1868, I was awarded the Ray Silver Medal for excellence in mathematics — which medal I still have. I entered Harvard College, as a Freshman, in September, 1869. About the month of December, 1869, in Stoughton Hall, Room 2, Harvard College, I was preparing for a coming examination in mathematics, when my classmate, J. O. Shaw, asked me to tutor him for that examination, offering to pay me $1.50 per hour. I was dumbfounded, and offered to let him study with me, without any payment, as I did not think that I was competent to be a teacher in mathematics. He refused to agree to this, saying that he, and other of my classmates, had remarked how, in the classroom, I showed not only my proficiency in mathe- matics, but my ability to make the solution of the mathematical problems intelligible to these classmates. Then, for the first time, I became a tutor, and from the money earned as such tutor, my expenses in Harvard College for seven years up to January, 1877, and my brother Tom's expenses in Harvard College for five years up to the fall of 1875, and my mother's expenses from June, 1873 to January 1, 1877, were paid except, as the scholarships received by Tom and me from Harvard College helped to pay some of those expenses. To whom am I indebted for being able to earn these moneys as a tutor in mathematics ? To George W. Harper, Principal of Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. Therefore, Mr. Harper, in my estimation, stands head and shoulders over all of the teachers that I have ever had (excluding Experience as a Teacher), unless Mr. Henry Adams, Assistant Professor of History, in Harvard College, can chal- lenge the supremacy of Mr. Harper. During my Junior and Senior years in Harvard College, I had two courses of History under Mr. Adams, one in a class of about forty-five fellow classmates, where Modern European History was taught. The recitation room for that class was in University Hall. The other class had about seven of my classmates; the subject of study was Early Germanic Institutions ; the class met in Mr. Adams' private room, in Wads- worth House — and it was in every way a very informal hour of instruction. Mr. Adams would, at times, smoke a cigarette, or sip some sherry — but his seven pupils never enjoyed either of those privileges in his room. Mr. Adams was a man with whom no one could take undue familiarities. What was his method of instruction ? 'Trove all things : hold fast that which is good." — I Thessalonians v : 21. In that small class of seven, nothing was taken for granted. The most famous authoritative writer, or book, meant nothing to Mr. Adams, nor to the Seven Pupils, unless after examination he and they agreed, with the writer or the book. To Mr. Harper I am indebted for having been able to earn the money as a tutor of mathematics as above stated. To Mr. Adams, I am, in part, indebted, for the way that I have met number- less alleged truths, fortified by tradition, custom or authority, and for my ability, to-day, to look, unafraid, at traditions, customs and authority, and to be willing to "Prove all things ;" and to "hold fast that which is good." Therefore to-day, there loom up before me, as the two greatest of all my teachers (excluding Experience the greatest of all) GEORGE W. HARPER and HENRY ADAMS. Have I answered the question you asked me in your letter of the 3rd instant? Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. A GIFT OF VALUE TO THE WORLD A fine life and character, such as that of Saint Francis of Assisi, is, in the opinion of many persons, far more valuable to the world than the gifts of all of the temples, cathedrals, churches and church endowments that the world has ever received. To bring to the knowledge of the world an admirable life and fine character — that of MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS — a sketch of such life and character, included in books, has been widely distributed among colleges, libraries, art museums, clubs and individuals. For the same reason a room in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College, has been named "The Louise E. Bettens Room" ; a "Louise E. Bettens Fund" has been created in the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Harvard College, and some other gifts have been made to Harvard College ; and her Library, and some of her book cases, pictures and bronzes have been given to Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. The book "The Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens" is meant to extend the general knowledge of the life and character of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, and in particular, to enable readers of that book to see what writers, and what books, exerted some influence in forming her character. Fine lives and characters are a blessing to the world. Material gifts help educational institutions to perform a duty that they owe to their country and to their pupils, but what is valuable to the world are these fine lives and characters, rather than the material gifts. The true memorial of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens is her life and character and not the gifts to Harvard College, nor to Woodward High School — these gifts serving only as sign posts to direct the traveler to the true path leading, through life, to strength of mind, contentment, serenity and even happiness. "Let me express my warm appreciation and commendation of the memorial which you propose to establish in the Woodward High School at Cincinnati," writes a friend to me. "I have, as you know, visited the 'Louise E. Bettens Room' in the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard, a room the dignified simplicity of which greatly pleased me, and I have no doubt that when the memorial at Woodward is finished, and the visitor asks for a memento of your mother, it will be sufficient for the custodian to quote the inscription to the memory of Sir Christopher Wren on the walls of St. Paul's in London — "si monumentum requiris, circumspice." INDEX Part One Page I. The Earthly Paradise 11 II. Autobiographical 13 III. The Acceptance of the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens by Wood- ward High School 35 IV. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 41 V. The Louise E. Bettens Room in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College 55 VI. The Louise E. Bettens Memorials in Harvard College, April 10, 1917 61 VII. Looking Back, April 11, 1919 69 VIII. Temptations 73 IX. Frank Bettens 81 X. A Portrait of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens for Woodward High School 87 XI. Good-Bye 93 Part Two The Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 101 ILLUSTRATIONS Part One Page I. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, 1907 7 II. The Vevay Home, 1843 to 1857 10 III. Rose Bettens and Her Mother, 1848 14 IV. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens and Her Three Sons, March, 1864 18 V. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens and Two of Her Sons, 1876 22 VI. Thomas Simms Bettens, Kebo and Don 30 VII. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, 1864 42 VIII. The Reading of the Medea of Euripides, November, 1912 46 IX. The Louise E. Bettens Room in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College 62 X. Lake O'Hara. John Singer Sargent, painter 66 XL Monmouth Before James II. John Singleton Copley, painter 70 XII. Bridle Path — Tahiti. John La Farge, painter 74 XIII. Sunday Morning, Domberg. James McNeil Whistler, painter 78 XIV. Fishing in the Adirondacks. Winslow Homer, painter 82 XV. Frank Bettens, 1864 86 XVI. Edward Detraz Bettens, April 6, 1914 100 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY 1907 FROM A PAINTING IN MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS THE LIBRARY OF MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS "The sun, the moon, the stars, Shed no such light on the ways of men, As one good life." NEW YORK NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN <\ PART ONE Mrs. Louise E. Bettens and Her Children The house in Vevay, Indiana, in which all of the children of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens were born, and in which she lived from the time of her marriage, in 1843, to about 1857, is still in existence, its front porch having been replaced by a portico, and some additions having been made to it in the rear. It is on a farm, a public road separating the farm from the banks of the Ohio River. The house fronts south, looking over the Ohio River, towards the Kentucky Hills. A Vevay photographer, in March, 1918, made three photographs of the house and its front yard. One photograph was of the front of the house, with the camera standing near it. Another was a photograph of the gate, yard, and front of the house, the camera being stationed a little south of the road. The third photograph is of the yard, road, Ohio River and the Kentucky Hills, with the camera standing in front of the house. The weeping willow tree that was formerly at the gate is no longer there. Nor is there a vineyard, as formerly, from the road stretching north over the farm. Two pecan trees are still standing near the house. On each side of the walk from the gate to the house there is, today, a flower border of daffodils. Such a border was there during the years 1843 to 1857. New York, May 28, 1919. Miss Eleanor C. O'Conneli,,* Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear Miss O'Conneix: Your letter, of the 23rd inst, has interested me so much, that I am sending to you by insured parcel post, as a gift to Woodward High School, three volumes of "The Earthly Paradise" by William Morris, published in 1871 by Roberts Brothers. A Harvard Graduate, a teacher in Cincinnati, gave those volumes to our mother Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, 1872, with an inscription, written in red ink by him on a fly leaf of Volume One, a part of which is as follows : Read, dreamer, and as down your eyelids droop, Weighted with slumberous stories sweetly told, Haply your thought may add unto the group Of wand'rers toward that paradise of old, One seeking truth and good, not ease, not gold, But lulled at times by Lotos-eaters' lays. From that time until she died, those volumes were, everywhere, her companions and friends. In 1913, at my request, Stikeman & Com- pany of this City, bound those volumes, Jansen style — that is without any tooling — in brown levant, with levant doublure, and silk fly leaves. On January 7, 1914, the anniversary of her birthday, the re- bound volumes were a birthday gift to our mother from me. In each volume, preceding the title page, are inserts of photogravure reproduc- tions of photographs or portraits of our mother and her three sons, together with some printed matter. *A teacher in Woodward High School. 11 In volume one, among these inserts, you will see her and her children, as they were in March, 1864. On a fly leaf in volumes two and three is her name written there by her. The "Earthly Paradise" helped her to understand Greek myth- ology character and spirit, and to love this earth and what it creates. In the story of Alcestis, in Volume one of The Earthly Paradise, the song of Apollo was penciled marked by her. From that song I quote the following: "O, Dwellers on the lovely earth, * * * * What is the folly ye must do To win some mortal's feeble heart? O fools ! when each man plays his part, And heeds his fellow little more Than these blue waves that kiss the shore, Take heed of how the daisies grow. O fools! And if ye could but know How fair a world to you is given." In those lines there is a glimpse of what this earth was to our Mother. Therefore, "The Earthly Paradise" seems a fitting book in which to enclose her features and those of her children, with some printed matter. In Harvard College there is a memorial of our Mother, one pur- pose of which is to encourage and advance the Art of Painting. Could a memorial of our mother, in Woodward High School, be a means of encouraging and advancing the Art of Book Binding? If it could, I can give to Woodward High School, as a part of such a memorial, about twenty books — not memorial books — that are examples of fine book binding. Would the gift of such books be acceptable to Woodward High School ? Is there a place in that School in which such books can be kept safely and at the same time be seen and examined by pupils of Wood- ward? Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 12 II AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL Rose and her mother Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 1846 FROM A PAINTING IN MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS New York, July 14, 1919. Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell. Dear Miss O'Conneli,: An autobiographical letter may not be inappropriate now that there is to be a memorial of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens in Woodward High School. I was the valedictorian of the class of 1868, Woodward High School, and won the Ray Silver Medal for proficiency in mathematics. From about June, 1868, to about August, 1869, I earned about five dollars a week in the store of Henry Brachmann, on Third Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Having saved one hundred and ten dollars from those wages, I entered Harvard College in September, 1869. In the Fall of that year Harvard College gave me a scholarship amounting to three hundred dollars for the school year ending June, 1870. During the Christmas vacation of 1869 I began to tutor private pupils. My brother Tom entered Harvard College in September, 1870. During his and my college years, we each obtained scholarships every year. These scholarships helped to pay his and my expenses in Harvard College, and what was left unpaid, my earnings as tutor paid. On June 1, 1873, I wrote to our Mother a letter, a copy of which is as follows: "Cambridge, Mass., June 1, 1873. "Dear Mother: I hope, with you, that your pen will soon make you independent. I am certain, if you once get a fair chance, you will succeed — and then a long good-bye to Shillito's and Cincinnati. You are right in saying that we wish you with us, to advise and help us. Let us all strive that we may meet and remain with one another while we live. When I think how we are separated, and how you are situated, I feel as though I could do a dozen men's work and bring this to an end. I feel that we are slowly mounting over our difficulties. I am sure that we are approach- ing a happy termination of our long struggles. But this very knowl- edge makes me impatient. I wish to end the journey. Like Xenophon's soldiers, returning home, the news that the sea is at last in sight makes me redouble my speed — and like them, dear 15 mother, when we stand on the heights and behold the welcome blue water, we will embrace one another with joy, for Greece, the object of our longings, rests just beyond. It was with such thoughts that I came near accepting a position in a school last Monday. There is a vacancy in the Boston Latin School. They want a teacher of history. The salary for the first year is $2,600, and $3,000 for the second. This salary was a great temptation to me. I knew that, with it, I could put ourselves above our present circum- stances. I interviewed the Principal of the school. I went to my teachers and asked them for recommendations. By Tuesday night I had nearly finished my plans to make a strenuous effort to get the sit- uation. The next day I went to President Eliot to get a recommenda- tion, but he met my request by decidedly objecting to my taking the place in the school. He said that the time spent at the school would be lost time. I knew your views, and on thinking over the whole matter I reluctantly gave up striving (for the position). The chance was a pretty big temptation, and I hardly know whether I did right in reject- ing it or not. Before I had decided not to try for the position, the enclosed recommendation of character was sent me by Dean Gurney, which you may perhaps value.. One more letter you will receive (before coming to the 73 Com- mencement Exercises) ; until then, good night, my dear mother. Your loving son, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, E. D. Bettens." Cincinnati, Ohio. "Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 28 May 1873. "Mr. E.. D. Bettens, a member of the Senior Class, stood about tenth in a class of one hundred and thirty, at the end of his junior year, and has been throughout his college course, a thoroughly satisfactory student. Mr. Bettens has devoted himself particularly to the study of History, and will, probably, obtain honors this year for excellence in that subject. As I have known something of Mr. Bettens personally during his College Course, I will add that I have seldom known a student to show so much energy and proficiency in making his way through college as Mr. Bettens. He will do with his strength whatever he undertakes. E. W. Gurney, Dean of the Faculty." 16 Our mother was present in Appleton Chapel, Harvard College, June, 1873, and heard me deliver there, my Commencement address, the subject being "Hildebrand." From that time, until she died, she and I had one home. From June, 1873, to June, 1874, I took a post graduate course of Early Germanic Laws under Assistant Professor Henry Adams, con- tinuing to tutor private pupils. From September, 1874, to June, 1876, I was in the Harvard Law School, from which, in June, 1876, I obtained my degree of LL.B., tutoring private pupils during those two years. In the Summer of 1876 I became a student in the law office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson, Boston, Massachusetts, and on the advice of one of these lawyers, prepared to go to New York City. On October 3, 1876, the Superior Court, Suffolk County, Common- wealth of Massachusetts, gave me its certificate admitting me to prac- tice as an attorney and counsellor at law in the Courts of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts. I then gave up tutoring as the Law is a jealous mistress and brooks no rival. With about four hundred dollars as the savings from my earnings as a tutor, Mother and I came to New York, where, about January 1, 1877, I became a clerk in the office of Barlow & Olney at ten dollars per week, thereafter raised to fifteen dollars per week. On June 1, 1877, the General Term of the Supreme Court held in the City of New York, gave me its certificate admitting me to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law in all of the courts of the State of New York. On November 20, 1879, the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, gave me its certificate admit- ting me to practice in its Court as Attorney, Proctor, Solicitor and Advocate. On October 11, 1880, the Supreme Court of the United States of America gave me its certificate admitting me to practice in its court as Attorney and Counsellor. About 1880 the law firm of Bettens & Lilienthal (Jesse W. Lilien- thal, Woodward Class of 1870, and Harvard Law School Class of 1876) opened its office at 30 Broad Street, New York City, and that 17 firm continued there until, about 1890, Lilienthal went to San Fran- cisco, California. I kept my office at 30 Broad Street until that build- ing was torn down. Thereupon my law office was in the Manhattan Life Building for about three years, when I moved to 76 William Street, where I remained until about 1910. Because of my mother's increasing age and approaching total loss of sight, in or about 1910 I closed my law office, transferred my law books to 130 West 87th Street — my mother's and my home — and remained with her until she died March 23, 1914. I am still living in that house, and I have never married. I need not say anything, in this letter, about my brother Tom, as I am the author of the two books, copies of which are in the Library of Woodward High School, entitled, respectively : Thomas Simms Bettens — A Memorial Thomas Simms Bettens Nor need I say anything in this letter about our Mother, as I am the author of the following books, copies of which are in the Library of Woodward High School, to wit, the books entitled, respectively : Mrs. Louise E. Bettens Louise E. Bettens The Family of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens Painter and Patron Picture Buying Art Museums and Artists All of above books contain a sketch of the life and the character of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. The book "Mrs. Louise E. Bettens" states what memorials of her existed in Harvard College on April 10, 1917. Since April 10, 1917, all of the above books mentioned, after the book "Mrs. Louise E. Bettens," have been privately distributed and are a part of her memorial. The books that were in her Library at the time of her death, numbering about 1325 volumes, are described in the catalogue, a copy of which you have. In addition to those 1325 volumes 18 - Mrs. Louise E. Bettens and Her Sons MARCH, 1864 I am sending to Woodward High School other books bringing the total to about 1,600 volumes. Some of these additional books are as follows, to wit : The Education of Henry Adams — An Autobiography. A Son of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland, Lecturer and Author. A Chronicle of Friendships, by Will H. Low, the painter; a presenta- tion copy from its author to me, his card presenting that book to me being pasted on the inside of the first cover. The Life, Art and Letters of George Inness, the painter, by his son, George Inness, Jr., also a painter; a presentation copy from its author to me. My brother Tom was very fond of dogs. I am sending to Wood- ward High School a number of interesting books on dogs, and modern novels, collected by Tom. During my senior year in Harvard College, Professor Torrey, knowing that I had very little time to spare for the reading of books, advised me to handle the books, look at them and read the title pages. This, he said, would leave on my mind some impressions as to the books and their authors. In after years, with more leisure at my command, memory, he said, would remind me that there were such books and authors, or some of them, and then, he said, I might wish to read them or some of them. I suggest that the teachers in Woodward High School consider that advice of Professor Torrey. Very few pupils in Woodward High School are mature enough, mentally, to wish to read, or to understand, the Dialogues of Plato, or many other books in the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. But if the teacher had a pupil look at Plato's Dialogues — I mean the outside covers, — handle the books, read the title pages, the pupil, when a little older, might wish to read a Dialogue. This is but a suggestion on my part in line with the advice given to me by Professor Torrey in 1873. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 19 New York, April 6, 1919. Professor Horatio S. White.* Dear White This afternoon I read the pamphlet sent to me by you bearing on Professor Willard Fisk's life labor and character. I, at once, took out of one of my book cases, Dasent's two volumes telling "The Story of Burnt Njal", published in 1861, by Edmundson and Douglass, Edinburgh, and bought and read by me about the year 1874 — before I left Cambridge. Skarphedinn with his "Ogress of War" — his battle axe — sing- ing as he rushed into battle, rises before me as I look at these two volumes. That is the way to do all work, whatever it may be, and no work is drudgery performed with that spirit. During all of the forty-five years that have gone since I read "The Story of Burnt Njal", the singing of Skarphedinn as he struggled to succeed has rung in my ears. I thank you and Professor William H. Carpenter for the pleasure that comes over me this afternoon, as I think of Skarphedinn, his "Ogress of War", and his singing. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. ♦Class of 1873, Harvard College. 20 New York, July 6, 1919. Samuel B. Clarke, Esq.* Dear Clarke: "It is towards Serenity that we must bend our steps," says Rodin, the Sculptor, as quoted in the July 5, 1919, issue of the New York Nation, in an article entitled Visio Pacis. "Love of one's work," continues Rodin, "brings Serenity. Artists, true artists, are almost the only men who do their work with pleas- ure. * * * * Let there be, artist carpenters, happy to adjust their tenons and mortices with skill, and artist masons who mix their plaster with love, and artist truckmen, proud to treat their horses kindly and not to crush the passers by." And the writer of Visio Pacis adds : "This is indeed what Rodin conceives the word artist to mean. This is why Artists are the most useful of men. They show us what life might be if it were pursued in the Spirit of Art." Serenity is to be found in love of one's work ! And he who loves his work is an Artist! Have I then been, without knowing it, an Artist, in the Rodin sense, for the sixty-two years back to the year 1857? During our Civil War, when not in the school room in Cincin- nati, or not otherwise engaged, I was, as opportunity presented it- self, a newsboy selling daily newspapers ; a helper in a bakery, carry- ing dough to the baker; an office boy in a printing shop, running errands; an employee in the paint department of a carriage manu- facturing concern, painting wheels of carriages; a folder of blouses, coats and trousers for soldiers, in a United States Warehouse; and, *Class of 1874, Harvard College. 21 for about one hour, a skilled (?) tinsmith attempting to turn out tin kitchen utensils. Alas ! my career as a tinsmith lasted only about one hour, as the foreman told me that only a skilled workman could do what I was trying to do — and what I wanted to do, for the wages were good, and it was the summer vacation. My school work in Cincinnati was never postponed, nor neg- lected. Then came the seven years in Harvard College and its Law School, during which, my expenses were earned by me. A lawyer's work in New York City followed the seven years at Harvard University, and something was done, as such lawyer, to keep the wolf from the door. Was that life a hard life? No. Did it ever occur to me that that life was not worth living? No. At all times, I loved the work that was set before me to be done, and in no case, so far as I can now recollect, did I rebel at the doing of such work. There was the joy that came because there was work to be done ; there was the joy of doing the work — doing it as well as I could do it, and now, in my seventy-first year, Rodin tells me that since 1857 I have been an Artist ! I never knew it until he told me today, and am not sure that I ought to believe him now. I am sure of one thing, that I never sought serenity as an end. The writer of Visio Pacis says : "There are persons who tell us — and they are not the least wise of their generations — that to seek serenity as an end, is to miss it by the way; it is to be possessed, like many other spiritual goods, only by renouncing the pursuit of it." Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 22 New York, July 7, 1919. Samuel B. Clarke, Esq. Dear Clarke : My brother Frank died March 10, 1864, in a room on the top floor of a building on Kilgour Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The house was on the east side of the street. Our room was an inside room, with one window opening north on a school yard, and two windows opening south, on an open passageway leading to a room next and west of our room. To maintain the privacy of our room, on that south side, the green shutters of those two windows were always kept closed and fastened — the windows being opened or closed as we wished. Mother, her sister Lucretia, my brothers Frank and Tom, and I, lived in that one room for many years. It was kitchen, dining room, sitting room and bed room, all in one. Mother, as an operator of a Singer's sewing machine, was, in Shillito's drygoods store, earning in March, 1864, about twelve dollars per week. Frank when he died was a member of the class of 1866 Woodward. Tom and I were in the Intermediate School, from which we thereafter entered Woodward, graduating, I in 1868, he in 1870. On March 10, 1864 there were no photographs of our mother, or her sons. Frank's photograph was made March 11, 1864, Mother's, Tom's, and mine, a few days thereafter. The negative from which Frank's photograph was made, I have, and also have the photographs of Mother, Tom and me, made in March, 1864. I value those photographs more than all the photographs, portraits and miniatures since made, of Mother, Frank, Tom and me. I treasure the recollection of that room more than any other room or house in which I have lived since I left Cincinnati — for we were still living in that room, when, in the fall of 1869, I ventured to leave Cincinnati for Harvard College, with a total capital of One Hundred and Ten Dollars with which to pay my tuition 23 and expenses for four years in Harvard College, and two more years thereafter in Harvard Law School. My sympathies for those struggling under adverse circumstances have never weakened, on the contrary, they have grown stronger and stronger, as the years have come and gone. My hope is, that my mother's life and character becoming known, will strengthen, uphold, and encourage some who consider their condition to be desperate and their future to be hopeless. The memorials of our mother have that definite object in view. Sincerely, Edward D. Biyf T£ns. 24 New York, July 21, 1919. Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell. Dear Miss O'Connell: About twelve years ago two letters were written, a copy of one and a copy of a part of the other being as follows: Framingham, Mass., December 30, 1907. Dear Bettens: I am sending to all the class (of 1873, Harvard College) the record of each man, as I have it, and asking for additions and corrections. These go eventually to the College, and ought to be full and accurate. I have practically nothing about you : Son of Alexander and Louise (Rochat). Born Vevay, Indiana, April 11, 1848. LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1876. Formed firm of Bettens & Lilienthal in New York. Bt praeterea nihil. Can't you write up your record for the Harvard Archives? Yours truly, Arthur L. Ware, Secretary of the Class of 1873, | Harvard College. New York, January 20th, 1908. Dear Ware: Your letter of December 30th asks me to write up my record for the Harvard Archives. You have practically nothing about me, your letter says. My record and my home life are almost the same — every- thing else being but incidental to, and leading up to, this home life. ****** Sincerely, To Edward D. Bettens. Mr. Arthur L. Ware, '73 Class Secretary, Framingham, Mass. 25 Your letter to me dated July 16, 1919, asks permission to publish in the Woodward Oracle my "autobiographical letter" to you dated July 14, 1919. You can make use of that letter by publishing it in the Oracle and in any other way you wish. My letters to you, to Principal Charles Ottermann, to Dr. Randall J. Condon, Superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools, to Judge Clearwater, and to Samuel B. Clarke, Esq., are not confidential. They can be used in any way that may be deemed advisable. My life teaches me that the Kingdom of Heaven is in me and in my immediate surroundings, and that one room serving as kitchen, dining-room, sitting-room and bedroom, with five persons living in that one room, can be the Kingdom of Heaven as truly as a luxuriously furnished house occupied by myself alone. Poverty is not necessarily a curse — it is often a blessing, because it may be the compelling force that brings out of the individual the best that is in him, as he struggles out of poverty's grip. What is it that made Hercules the hero of the ages? It was his Labors. "Pleasure offered Hercules a life of ease and enjoyment. Virtue a path of toil leading to glory ; and he chose the toilsome path of virtue." One's home life offers to him a life's work in struggling to better that home life and to brighten the lives of his family. The Labors of Hercules can be repeated to-day not with the world to roam over in search of them, but in one's immediate sur- roundings. Realizing very early in my life that there were lions, hydras and other monsters right around me to be destroyed, I battled with them for many years, and the glory that came to me is peace of mind and contentment that have always been with me. If my letters can instill in the minds of some of the Woodward boys and girls that the world they can try to conquer is in themselves and in their homes, I will not have lived in vain. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 26 New York, July 26, 1919. Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell. Dear Miss O'Connell: Your letter of 22nd inst. has been received. Mother's greatest favorite among poets was Byron, with Brown- ing a close second, and Browning's "Ring and the Book" was ever uppermost in her mind. Many an evening was spent by me reading to her from "Men and Women," some of those poems being "Herve Real"; "By the Fireside"; the "Statue and the Bust"; "Lord Roland to the Dark Tower Came", etc. Your wording of what is to be on the title page of the "Bettens Album" which you are preparing, seems to be just right. That word- ing is as follows : The Bettens Album Illustrating by Half-tones, Photographs and Photogravures The Family of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens Places of Interest to them Memorials to Her and Special Printed Matter. 1919. I agree with you that the "Special Bettens Album" should be in the Alcove Room, and a smaller one placed in the Graduates' Room. Enclosed is a copy of Dole's Sonnet. Rummell's Drawing, showing the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens in the Alcove Room, will be photographed and a copy sent to you. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 27 Thomas Simms Bettens died July 2, 1907, in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the age of fifty-six. His mother, then eighty years old, began to show the effects of old age. That month, her son, Edward, decided that her life and character ought to be known beyond the circle of her immediate family and a few friends. She had lived the ideal life of a mother, centering her work in the welfare of her children, and, as opportunity permitted, perfecting her own character, and improving her mind with books worth reading. The world does not readily notice such a life, even acquaintances are slow to understand it. But in July, 1907, Edward began to consider how such a life and character could interest the outside world. As a rule people will admire a beautifully bound book, printed on fine paper and handsomely illustrated, even though their contents do not interest them. Such books were, at first, made use of by Edward, to bring before others the life and character of his mother. Using hand-made imperial Japan paper, photogravures, and the services of Mr. Walter Gilliss of this city as the printer, the book "Thomas Simms Bettens, a Memorial", was privately distributed in 1908. It contains a four page sketch of the life and character of his mother, and Woodward High School has a copy of that book. The next year the book "Thomas Simms Bettens", containing a three page sketch of her life and character, was privately distributed. It was printed on hand-made imperial Japan paper, with photogravure illustrations, bound in brown levant by Messrs. Stikeman & Company, all under the supervision of Mr. Walter Gilliss. Woodward High School has a copy of that book. After the death of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, March 23, 1914, memorials of her were created in Harvard College, which memorials, as they existed on April 10, 1917, are described in the 26 extra illustrated copies of the book "Mrs. Louise E. Bettens," a copy of which book Woodward High School has. Other memorials of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens have been in the form of privately distributed books, copies of which are in the Library of 28 Woodward High School, and the titles of which are as follows, with date of private distribution : Louise E. Bettens 1918 The Family of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 1918 Painter and Patron 1918 Picture Buying 1919 Art Museums and Artists 1919 In the book "Art Museums and Artists," and also in the pamphlet "Mrs. Louise E. Bettens — Pippa passes," copies of which Woodward High School has, under the heading of "Looking Back" is an enumera- tion of the means employed, and their money cost, since July, 1907, up to April 11, 1919, in attempting to create an enduring record of the life and character of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. Then Edward, the surviving child of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, received a letter dated May 3, 1919, from Miss Henrietta Walter, a teacher in Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1865 to 1892. Miss Walter asked Edward whether he was willing to consider the "making a gift to Woodward High School in memory of his mother," and suggested that he write, concerning such a memorial, to Dr. Randall J. Condon, the Superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools. Edward wrote to Dr. Condon, and the latter asked Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell, a teacher, at the present time, in Woodward High School, to correspond with Edward as to such a memorial. Such a correspondence, begun with Miss O'Connell, on or about May 24, 1919, has ended in Woodward High School setting aside the well lighted Graduates' Alcove, in the second story of the Wood- ward High School building, in which, as a Memorial of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, are to be placed, books, book cases, pictures and bronzes, the property of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens on March 23, 1914, when she died, and a few other books, added to that collection. The dimensions of the Graduates' Alcove are, 18 feet 4 inches in width, 27 feet 7 inches in length, and 13 feet 3 inches in height. 29 The books, bookcases, pictures and bronzes, constituting the memorial of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens in Woodward High School, briefly described, are as follows, to wit: BOOKS 1. The 1325 books which were in the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens on March 23, 1914, at the time that she died. They are described in the catalogue of that Library. 2. Books other than the 1325 books above mentioned. The total number of books in the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens in the Graduates' Alcove in Wood- ward High School is about 1600 volumes. A special feature of this memorial of books is the collection of 213 books on Painting, Sculpture and Architec- ture, more particularly described in the catalogue of the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, but a few of these 213 books are here referred to, to wit : (a) 25 volumes published by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, each volume con- taining photographs of all the paintings of a single painter, such as Raphael, and of some paintings attributed to such painter. At a glance a pupil can, from these volumes, get some notion of the paintings of many of the great masters. (b) 7 volumes, published by Franz Hanfstangel, of photographs of master- pieces in the following galleries : NO. OF Photographs 1. Konigl. Gemalde-Galerie, Dresden 350 2. Kaiser Friedrich-Museum, Berlin 259 3. Rijks-Museum, Amsterdam 208 4. L'Ermitage Imperial, St. Petersburg 239 5. National Gallery, London 222 6. Konigl. Gemalde-Galerie, Hague 125 7. Konigl. Gemalde-Galerie, Cassel 209 A pupil, with the help of these seven volumes, can go through seven of the greatest Art Museums, without leaving the High School building, and obtain some notion of 1600 masterpieces of great painters. (c) 58 volumes of "Masterpieces in Color", published by T. C. & E. E. Jack, of London, and Frederick A. Stokes & Co., of New York. A pupil can, from these volumes, obtain some notion of the colors of about 290 great paintings. 30 Thomas Simms Bettens AUGUST 15. 1906 BORN MARCH 6. 1851 DIED JULY 2. 1907 FROM A PAINTING IN MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS (d) 27 volumes of "Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture", published by George Bell & Sons, London. The more capable and serious-minded pupil will find these volumes very instructive. (e) 2 volumes of "The History of Painting from the Fourth to the Eigh- teenth Century", by Richard Muther, published by G. P. Putnam. This is a standard work and very informing. (/) 3 volumes of Hogarth's Complete Works, published by Chatto and Windus, London. (g) 10 volumes on Art and Artists by Mrs. Jameson, published by James R. Osgood & Co. With the foregoing books on painting, and other books on same subject, given to Woodward High School, not only the pupils, but the teachers and visitors, will have spread before them a feast, such as was not offered to the pupils in Woodward in the years 1864-1870. II BOOKCASES FOR THE GRADUATES' ALCOVE (a) Three black walnut bookcases from the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens at 130 West 87th Street, New York, New York. (b) New Globe- Wernicke golden oak extension units, with tops and bases, sufficient, with the black walnut cases, and a special case, to contain all of the 1600 books above mentioned. (c) A special case, or two special cases, with glass tops and sides, to con- tain the 23 examples of fine binding described in the catalogue of the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, and the books in memory of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens and Thomas Simms Bettens now in the Library of Woodward High School, and the three volumes of "The Earthly Paradise", and one or two more books. Ill Framed steel engravings, oil paintings, black and white drawing, prints, charcoal drawing, etchings, water colors, mezzotint, and photo- graph on platinum paper, formerly the property of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 31 Hung in Woodward High School, these pictures may be a con- stant educational influence on the pupils, training their eyes and minds to what is beautiful and ennobling in Art. The prints may remind the pupils of two of the greatest events in the struggle of the people for the security of their lives, liberties, and happiness. These pictures and prints are as follows, to wit : STEEL ENGRAVINGS Engraver Steinla Zimmermann Rafael Morghens Steinla Mandel Mandel Lefevre Lefevre Joseph Bal Piranesi 11. The Wheat Field, oil painting, by Gustave Henry Mosler, painter. 12. Frank Bettens, oil painting, by Walter Florian, painter. 13. Woodward High School, a black and white drawing, by Richard W. Rummell. Facsimile of Magna Charta, A. D. 1215, with the seals of the King's Securi- ties to Magna Charta, and the Shields of the Barons in Arms, reproduced in colors. Facsimile of the Constitution of the United States of America. Landscape. A charcoal drawing, by Thomas R. Manley. Subject Painter 1. Sistine Madonna Raphael 2. The Magdalen Battoni 3. The Madonna of the chair Raphael 4. The Madonna Holbein 5. Ecce Homo Reni 6. Mater Dolorosa Dolci 7. Die Nacht Correggio 8. Die Heilige Csecilia Raphael 9. La Jardiniere Raphael 10. The Arch of Constantine. 14 15 16 Etchings 17. The Trout Brook 18. The Old Bridge 19. The Captain of the Guard 20. In Fleecy Fetters Bound 21. The Close of Day 22. Nasturtiums. Water color, by Margaret Rand, painter. 23. Maiden and Youth. Water color. 24. Jem Burn's Four Friends. A mezzotint, by G. Zorello, engraver. 25. Reading of the Medea. A photograph on platinum paper by Alman & Com- pany. Engraver Peter Gowanus Peter Gowanus Raj on Rudolph Berger W. Wellwood, Jr. 32 IV BRONZES (a) A bronze and marble clock. (b) Two bronze and marble candelabra, matching the clock. (c) Two solid bronze statuettes. (d) A bronze and marble card receiver. The only daughter of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, Rose, died in Vevay, Indiana, June 28, 1849, when about three years of age. As there were no photographs or paintings of Rose, she, at first, was brought into the family group, through the assistance of a Byzantine Greek poet, who lived about 500 A. D. A London merchant, with poetical tastes, in his travels on business, in England, translated into English, from a longer poem of the Byzantine poet, the twelve lines, which under the title of Rose Bettens, brought her into the family group. That poetical re-incarnation of Rose is as follows : Rose Bettens " Winter nor chills thee, nor Summer burns, Nor sickness makes sorry: Thou nor hungerest, nor thirsteth, and Robbed of its glory Seems to thee now this life of ours, For thou dwellest securely — Innocent, there Where the rays of Olympus Enhallow thee Purely !" Born May 10, 1846 Died June 28, 1849 About two years ago, on a commission from Edward, Mr. Alyn Williams, painted in miniature, "Rose and her Mother," as he imagined them to be in 1848. 33 Ill ACCEPTANCE OF THE LIBRARY OF MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS BY Woodward High School WOODWARD HIGH SCHOOL CINCINNATI CHARLES OTTERMANN PRINCIPAL June 30, 1919. Mr. Edward D. Bettens, 130 West 87th Street, New York City. Dear Mr. Bettens: Your letters addressed to our Miss O'Connell have brought to us some very welcome news. It was indeed a great satisfaction for her to present to me your interesting statements of your intentions to give to "Old Woodward" the magnificent library of your mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, the fine old walnut cases, the beautiful collection of steel engravings and paintings, and, finally, the offer which just reached me this morning of the extension bookcases. All of these letters were shown to our superintendent, Dr. Condon, who manifested, as you might readily suppose, a deep interest in them and felt that Woodward was certainly fortunate in receiving these fine offers from you. The catalogue which reached us the latter part of last week has been shown to several persons who we knew would be vitally interested in such matters, and has in every case elicited an exclamation of sur- prise and wonder as to the extent, variety of choice, and discrimination in such choice, of the books as outlined in your list. Our delay in a prompt answer to you is not due, as you may readily imagine, to a desire not to accept the books, but to consider from our standpoint a most effective plan for taking care of these valuable gifts in a manner befitting them, and at the same time placing them in such relation to our present library as to make them directly available to the boys and girls and teachers of Woodward. This, I 37 take it, is in direct agreement with your desires — that is, that we make this wonderful memorial to your mother be of great service and value to the future pupils and teachers of Woodward High School. We have now in mind a plan by which a large alcove, which up to this time has been known as the "Graduates' Alcove," might be connected by means of a door with the main library. In this alcove we hope to place the three walnut cases and the extension cases, and of course placing the collection of books in them as you request. This makes this alcove, which in a sense is an historic one, a fine place for quiet study for our pupils. Here, surrounded by works of art, beautiful books and other things which speak of the best traditions of the past, they surely will be inspired by the highest ideals of culture. May I therefore, as principal of Woodward High School, have the honor of accepting these, your valuable gifts to "Old Woodward," as a fitting memorial to your mother. I might say that while I do not expect to be at the Woodward building during the month of July, I shall be in the city during the summer, and will be glad to take charge of these items as they come in if you see fit to send them during July. Very respectfully yours, Charles Ottermann.* ♦Principal of Woodward High School. 38 CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT DENTON BUILDING SEVENTH AND RACE RANDALL J, CONDON SUPERINTENDENT July 15, 1919. Mr. Edward D. Bettens, 130 West 87th Street, New York City. My Dear Mr. Bettens : This is to acknowledge your letter of the 12th of July and to say that I am entirely willing to await your pleasure in all of these matters. I wish to thank you sincerely at this time for the gift of books, prints, pictures and bronzes, together with the bookcases, which you are proposing to give to the Woodward High School as a memorial to your mother. We are planning to install this library in a special room which will make the gift quite noteworthy and, we hope, an in- spiration to the young people who will have occasion to use it. Sincerely yours, R. J. Condon, Superintendent of Schools. 39 IV MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS Mrs. Louise E. Bettens AT THE AGE OF THIRTY-SEVEN 1864 FROM A PAINTING IN MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS The Memorials of MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS are an express acknowledgment by her sons that if their lives have been useful, the credit belongs to their mother, whose courage and wisdom in her advice to them never failed — not even on, perhaps, the most desolate day of her life, March 10, 1864, when her eldest son Frank died. On a farm, near Ghent, Kentucky, there was born, January 7, 1827, Louise E. Rochat, the daughter of Jacob and Nancy Rochat. A reader of books, this father usually had one with him, even when at his work. When this daughter was old enough, she became his com- panion, and not infrequently, he would unhitch the horses from the plow, or stop whatever work he was doing, and read aloud to his daughter. The Book of Job, the Psalms of David, the poetry of Moore, Burns and Byron quickened the mind of the girl, and a strong desire for knowledge and wisdom early came to this child, from such a father, but, at the same time, the neglected farm work soon ended in the loss of the farm. With his family, Jacob Rochat went to Vevay, Indiana, and there on January 31, 1843, Louise E. Rochat, not yet seventeen years of age, married Alexander Bettens. From that marriage were born, in Vevay, Frank, Rose, Edward Detraz and Thomas Simms Bettens, naming the children in the order of their births. Rose, born May 10, 1846, died June 28, 1849. The girl, Louise E. Rochat, and the matron, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, loved nature and animals. In Vevay a crow became her friend and the two would go together into the woods, the crow flying off among the trees, but returning to its friend at her call. At the expiration of about ten years of married life, Alexander Bettens' health failed. He never regained it, dying August 11, 1870. That sickness, and financial embarrassment, brought Mrs. Bettens face to face with the problem of supporting and educating her three young sons from her own earnings. Teaching for a few years, in and about Vevay, gave her but a small and precarious income, and writing for the newspapers, none at all. About 1857 she and her three sons were in Cincinnati, Ohio, and for about ten years she remained in that city, with them, supporting them with wages, never more than about twelve dollars per week. 45 No friendly bird visited her in her Cincinnati room. No books, except school books, were purchased by her during those ten years, but her boys entered and passed through the District Schools into the Intermediate Schools, Frank being in Woodward High School when he died March 10, 1864. The poverty and grief of Frank's mother, the hopes, centered in him, shattered by his death, at the age of twenty, did not interfere with the education of her two remaining sons. They passed through the Intermediate, and Woodward High Schools of Cincinnati, and entered Harvard College, and at the age of forty-six, their mother joined them in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June, 1873. In Appleton Chapel, she heard Edward speak on Hildebrand, and saw him receive, on commencement day, in June, 1873, his degree of A. B. from Harvard College. She remained in Cambridge, and in June, 1874, Thomas gave her his Harvard College diploma of A. B. received by him that month, and the next year she received from him his Harvard College diploma of A. M. From June, 1873, until she died she and Edward had one home. Thomas was a teacher in Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois, during 1875 and 1876. In 1877 he joined his mother and brother in New York City, where Edward was a lawyer, and there the three lived united in one home until Thomas died July 2, 1907. In the Harvard College Library (Gore Hall) Mr. John Fiske gave Mrs. Bettens an alcove and a special table, and talked with her about music and books. In Boston she attended the lectures of the Reverend James Freeman Clarke. She absorbed the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Congenial friends met in her room to read books, and to discuss art, music and literature, and' with some especial friends, she attended, in Boston, the concerts of the Symphony Society. So passed about three years of her life in Cambridge. The last thirty-eight years of her life she lived in New York City. She was in Bar Harbor, Maine, for the summer, for about thirty successive years, up to and including the summer of 1911. She went to the Grand Opera in New York City and was a con- stant attendant at the Concerts given in that city, by Theodore Thomas, 46 Leopold Damrosch, the New York Philharmonic Society and the Oratorio Society. She did not neglect lighter music such as Gilbert and Sullivan's. She heard Salvini, Booth, Irving, Modjeska and Sara Bernhardt; was delighted with the acting at Wallack's and Daly's Theatres and with that at Harrigan & Hart's and Tony Pastor's. At weekly reunions of a few friends in her home in New York City, music, art and literature, were, as in Cambridge, the subject of conversation. Surrounded by her books as her friends, and by a few men and women, and by her sons, until Thomas died July 2, 1907, and then with Edward, she passed into the evening of life, losing her eyesight in 1909, her optic nerve dying. But even then she heard re-read the poetry of Byron, Browning, and other poets, and the novels of Dumas. She still went to the New York Philharmonic Concerts, and in the Summers of 1909, 1910 and 1911, at Bar Harbor, she was an almost daily attendant at the Boston Symphony Concerts given at the Swimming Pool. This life continued until the evening of November 10, 1911, when, for the last time, sitting in her library, she listened to one of the glowing descriptions in Gib- bon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. That night a stroke of paralysis made her helpless, from the effects of which she never recovered, dying March 23, 1914. In the Treasure Room of the Widener Library, Harvard College, is a quarto volume of inlaid letters and illustrations, entitled Louise E. Bettens, bound in levant by Stikeman & Co., with no star on its back. These letters, written from her home, during this last sickness, to intimate friends, describe her life of about two years and four months in that sick room, and show that music, literature of the highest kind, and conversation, sustained her and enabled her to forget her age, and physical infirmities. The Reading of the Medea of Euripides to her on November 25, 1912, described in that book, is but one of similar readings occurring almost daily during that sickness. In March, 1864, she lost Frank, her eldest child, and her grief and poverty were then extreme. 47 But she rose superior to that grief and poverty, and in her last sickness she was superior to the infirmities of age and sickness, being supported by the thoughts and visions spread before her by some of the world's great minds. We may be living today in a materialistic age, but idealism is not dead when a Louise E. Bettens lives. The picture of the Reading of the Medea of Euripides shows that the mind and soul of such an idealist conquers even the grim visage of approaching Death which ceases to have any terrors for her. Perhaps her life and aspirations may have a good influence upon some who see that picture and understand its meaning. 48 New York, August 5, 1919. Dr. Charles W. Eliot.* Dear Mr. Euot: Last May a former teacher in Woodward High School, Cincin- nati, Ohio, — from which I graduated in 1868, my brother Thomas in 1870, and in which my brother Frank was a pupil, when he died in 1864 — wrote me a letter suggesting, that I should create in Wood- ward High School, a memorial of my mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. This Memorial has been created. A well-lighted room, whose dimensions are 27 feet 7 inches in length, 18 feet 4 inches in width, and 13 feet 3 inches in height has been set aside in that High School building for such a Memorial. This Memorial consists of 1,325 books, constituting the library of Mrs. Bettens, at the time of her death, — with additional books making the total number about 1600, and book-cases sufficient to con- tain the books, also 24 pictures and prints, and 6 bronzes, all of which had been her property. My correspondence as to this Memorial has been mainly with one of the present teachers in Woodward High School — Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell. Miss O'Connell wrote me a letter dated July 30, 1919, asking for a list of eight or ten poems and books of which Mrs. Bettens was most fond. I have given much thought to that request, and the best answer that I can make to Miss O'Connell, is a letter to her dated August 6, 1919, a copy of which is enclosed. You have shown such an interest in the Memorials of Mrs. Bettens in Harvard College, that I venture to write to you this letter. Last June I sent to Miss O'Connell a catalogue describing briefly each of the 1325 books which were in my mother's library at ♦President Emeritus of Harvard University. 49 the time of her death. In a letter to me dated June 30, 1919, Mr. Charles Ottermann, the principal of that high school says that "The catalogue (of the books in the library of Mrs. Bettens) which reached us the latter part of last week, has been shown to several persons, who we knew would be vitally interested in such matters, and has in every case elicited an exclamation of surprise and wonder as to the extent, variety of choice, and discrimination in the choice, of the books as outlined in your list." A copy of that catalogue is now in the hands of the printers, and it is my intention to print and distribute privately a few copies of this catalogue. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 50 New York, August 6, 1919. Miss Eleanor C. O'Connell. Dear Miss O'Connell: Your letter dated July 30, 1919, asks me to let you have a list of eight or ten poems and books of which my mother was especially fond. I do not believe that even my mother would undertake to answer that question. Mrs. Bettens readily responded to what was beautiful, ennobling and inspiring in Literature, Art, Music, Nature and Humanity. I hesitate to attempt to pick out eight or ten poems and books as those of which she was especially fond. But an outline of the growth in her of some knowledge of the world's greatest books, and of the acquisition by her of some of the wisdom taught by some of these books, I may be able to give to you. Going back to the period before her marriage on January 31, 1843 — she was born January 7, 1827 — Tom Moore, Byron and Walter Scott had almost complete control of her mind. She never memorized poetry — that is, she never made a conscious effort to have her memory retain what she read. But the poetry of Moore was so impressed on her girlish mind that she never forgot it, and up to the time when paralysis deprived her of her speech at the age of 84 years, she could repeat page after page of Lalla Rookh, the Fire- worshipers and almost any of Moore's poetry. Byron did not act in that way on her. She could not repeat his poetry from memory as she could that of Moore. But the words, the verse of Byron, had a tone, for Mrs. Bettens, that enabled her to recognize Byron's writing when it was read aloud to her, she not being told that it was his poetry. Perhaps of all the poets, whose poetry she, in a long life, read, Byron was her favorite poet. Scott did not make on her anything like the impression made by Moore and Byron. 51 Later, that is after her marriage, it was Dickens, Bulwer and Thackeray, who came into her life, and of the three, Thackeray never left her. After 1873 once a year she would read some of the novels of Thackeray. At the age of forty-five, while still living in Cincinnati, a three- volume edition of "The Earthly Paradise," by William Morris, opened up to her Greek mythology, life and character, and wherever she went those three volumes went with her. She brought them with her to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June, 1873, when, at the age of forty-six, she joined her sons, Edward and Thomas, who were then in Harvard College. There, in Cambridge, in 1873, and in succeeding years, Ralph Waldo Emerson, with his essays, and James Freeman Clarke, with his lectures, directed Mrs. Bettens to a path along which she traveled for about forty years. In that path she made the acquaintance of many men and women, among them Goethe, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Chaucer, Robert Browning, Alfred de Musset and George Sand. Old age came to her; for many years she had associated with many of the wise men and women of the past. Turning to her son, she said in her gentle and quiet way, be "Like the Eagle, my son, With his wing on the wind, And his eye on the Sun !" and "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell, by Life's unresting sea !" The wisdom of these writers acted on Mrs. Bettens as the beauty of Grecian Helen — the curse of Troy — acted on the old men of Troy. 52 Sitting near the ramparts of that beleaguered city, these old men, arose, as Helen approached, thus involuntarily paying homage to loveliness. Then the great thoughts contained in the books that Mrs. Bettens read, obtained for her a Harbor of Safety, protecting her from the pursuing pirate ships, Care and Disappointment. These books earned for Mrs. Bettens a reward, similar to that won by Balaustion, when she sang the songs of Euripides as she stood on a Greek galley that was pursued by a pirate ship. The hostile Greeks in the Harbor in which the Greek galley sought safety, won over by the songs of Euripides, pulled the galley into the safe harbor, crowned Balaustion, and the pirate ship missed its prey. This Greek love of poetry permeated the mind of Mrs. Bettens and protected her from the depressing effects of many sorrows, cares and disappointments. Born a Rochat and a Modern, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens was, in Spirit, a Greek of the Age of Pericles. The epitaph on Sophocles, supposed to have been written by Simmias of Thebes, the pupil of Socrates, made a deep impression on her, and she often repeated it aloud. A translation of this epitaph is as follows : "Creep gently, ivy, ever gently creep, Where Sophocles sleeps on in calm repose; Thy pale green tresses o'er the marble sweep, While all around shall bloom the purpling rose. There let the vine with rich, full clusters hang, Its fair young tendrils fling around the stone; Due meed for the sweet wisdom which he sang, By Muses and by Graces called their own." This letter does not state the eight or ten poems and books of which my mother was most fond, but it may suggest what was "The Education of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens". Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 53 THE LOUISE E. BETTENS ROOM IN The Philips Brooks House Harvard College New York, July 28, 1919. Mr. Charles Ottermann. Dear Mr. Ottermann : 1. Enclosed is a photograph of the Louise E. Bettens Room in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College, before alteration. That room being in the condition as shown in that photograph, I wrote a letter dated the 21st day of June, 1916, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, a copy of which letter is enclosed. 2. With that letter I sent to the President and Fellows of Harvard College a photograph (copy enclosed) of a drawing made by Richard Rummell of that room, with one chair, rugs, tables and books, once the property of Mrs. Bettens, and a portrait of her eldest child, Frank, all included in that room. With that furnishing there would be something of Mrs. Bettens in that room. The authorities in control of that room decided that the furniture and rugs shown in that suggested room would be soon ruined by the students and visitors, and, thereupon, 3. That room, with the expert assistance of the interior decorators, Irving & Casson-A. H. Davenport Company, was "created," contain- ing a table, chairs, a rug, hangings, window seats, etc., none of which had belonged to Mrs. Bettens. A photograph of that room thus "created" is enclosed. It is a beautiful and dignified room, but I have never seen it. The portraits and the pictures in that room had been the property of Mrs. Bettens. Perhaps Harvard College may be will- ing to give one of the two portraits of Mrs. Bettens, now in that room, to Woodward High School, to be placed in the Alcove Room, where it will be surrounded by her books, bookcases, pictures, bronzes, and the portrait of Frank, her eldest child. The Alcove Room in this way will be permeated with the character and surroundings of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, and for this I am profoundly grateful. Sincerely, . Edward D. Bettens. 57 New York, June 21, 1916. President and Fei^ows of Harvard College. Dear Sirs: In the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College, is a room in which are now portraits of my mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, and of my brother, Thomas Simms Bettens, and landscapes by A. H. Wyant and Eugene Deszagg, all gifts to the Louise E. Bettens Fund. For your consideration, I herewith submit a printed sketch, dated June 15, 1916, of the "Life of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens." As an additional gift to that Fund, for that room, I offer a portrait, painted 1907 by Walter Florian, of Frank Bettens, who died March 10, 1864, at the age of twenty. He was the first born of the children of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. The following books, in good condition, selected from the Library of Mrs. Bettens, I offer for that room : Volumes Works of Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead and Company , 48 The Waverley Novels. Library Edition. A. & C. Black. J. B. Lippincott. . 25 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Monticello Edition. Issued under the auspices of The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, Washington, D. C. 1904 20 Balzac's Works. Translated. Roberts Brothers , 40 Thackeray's Works. No. 285 of edition limited to one thousand copies. Estes and Lauriat 30 Works of Jonathan Swift. Edition of Sir Walter Scott. Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin & Co. Dickers & Son 19 Novels of Alexander Dumas. Translated. Estes and Lauriat 43 Works of Voltaire. Translated. Edition de la Pacification. No. 136 of edition limited to one thousand copies for America. E. R. Dumont. ... 42 58 To contain above books I offer you the choice of two, out of four, of the bookcases of Mrs. Bettens. Two of these bookcases are mahogany, style Chippendale. The other two are black walnut, of a style in vogue in New York City about forty years ago. The black walnut bookcases are, in my opinion, more durable, more valuable and much handsomer than the mahogany bookcases. Herewith sub- mitted is a photograph of one of the two similar black walnut book- cases. The mahogany bookcases are sketched in a drawing of that room, a photograph of the drawing being herewith submitted. This drawing shows where the bookcases could be placed. From the furniture of Mrs. Bettens, I offer for that room the following: Two camel's-hair Eastern rugs, each about \2y 2 by 7y 2 feet. They are sketched in the drawing of this room. A chair inlaid with mother of pearl and ivory, and an octagon table, both sketched in the drawing of this room, and both more clearly shown in a photograph herewith submitted. A mahogany desk, style Chippendale, sketched in the drawing of that room, and more clearly shown in a photograph herewith submitted. I offer, for that room, twelve special Windsor mahogany chairs and four Ben Franklin easychairs covered in leather, indicated in the drawing of that room, but more clearly shown in sketches here- with submitted. Messrs. Irving & Casson-A. H. Davenport Co., after examining this room, recommend these chairs as suitable for it. I offer to have installed in that room three (3) window seats with leather cushions over the radiators. I offer to have the following alterations made in this room, to wit: Present floor removed and replaced by a solid quartered oak floor. All wall electric lights on North, South and West walls to be removed, and two electric fixtures installed in the ceiling, and room to be accordingly wired. The door and bottom register of ventilator in West wall, where there is a closet, to be removed and wall and baseboard extended to South wall, closing up that closet. Re-paint ceiling North, South and West walls and all woodwork on those walls. 59 To maintain in good repair and condition the before mentioned portraits, paintings, books, rugs and furniture and electric lights, I offer to give you Two Thousand ($2,000.) Dollars, to be kept intact as a principal fund, but the income to be used for such repairs and maintenance in good condition of these portraits, paintings, books, rugs, furniture and electric lights, and to replace any, if possible, that may for any reason cease to exist, or require replacement. It is my wish that the character of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens be impressed on this room. For that reason the portraits of her sons Frank and Thomas Simms Bettens should be in that room. Next to her sons were her books, and the two bookcases, with works above specified, should also be in that room. She had other books, some of them more valuable in many ways and closer to her than those now offered, but they are not so suitable for this room. If you accept my offer, perhaps in the room itself you may be willing to have placed something appropriate and unobtrusive which may indicate that this room is the Louise E. Bettens Room. Respectfully, Edward D. Bettens. 60 VI THE LOUISE E. BETTENS MEMORIALS IN HARVARD COLLEGE April 10, 1917 New York, April 10, 1917. Dear Ware : Your letter received. I have always hoped that my Mother's character — one of aspiration under difficulties — might, if known, help and encourage others when in trouble. How to call attention to that character was and is the problem. I am still working at it, and perhaps will continue to do so as long as I live. The poet has described her life of Aspiration : Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! For your consideration, and in answer to your letter, I enclose a statement of my Mother's Memorial in Harvard College. I prefer that my name be not mentioned in that statement except where it is unavoidable. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens, Class of 1873, Harvard College. Mr. Arthur L. Ware, Secretary Class of 1873, Harvard College. 63 THE LOUISE E. BETTENS MEMORIAL HARVARD COLLEGE Louise E. Rochat, born January 7, 1827, on a farm near Ghent, Kentucky, married January 31, 1843, in Vevay, Indiana, to Alex- ander Bettens, was the mother of Frank, Rose, Edward Detraz and Thomas Simms Bettens, naming the children in the order of their births. Mrs. Bettens died March 23, 1914, in New York City, her hus- band and all of her children except Edward having predeceased her. The book, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, limited to 150 copies, printed on Japan paper, bound in Levant, with doublure and silk fly leaves, with illustrations, was for private distribution only. There is in Harvard College a foundation for a memorial of Mrs. Bettens. Beauty and Usefulness have been controlling factors in establishing this memorial, and the Fogg Art Museum, the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Widener Library, have united in helping to establish it. The Fogg Art Museum controls a sum of money, amounting at present to Twenty Thousand Dollars, as a principal fund, known as THE LOUISE E. BETTENS FUND ESTABLISHED BY HER CHILDREN The income of this fund is to be used to encourage and advance Painting by citizens of the United States, including women, as well as men. The Phillips Brooks House Association has set aside a room in the Phillips Brooks House to be known as The Louise E. Bettens Room. 64 The Phillips Brooks House Association has Twenty-five Hun- dred Dollars, as a principal fund, to be kept intact and to be known as THE LOUISE E. BETTENS FUND PHII4JPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION The income of that Fund is to further the activities of the Phillips Brooks House Association, but is not to be used for the maintenance of Harvard College buildings or for the expenses now met by Harvard College or by the existing Phillips Brooks House Fund. The Widener Library, in its Treasure Room has Ten Books, to which the book, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, is to be added, and also has seven miniatures painted by Alyn Williams, all the books and the miniatures contained in one cabinet. The seven miniatures are as follows: Rose and her Mother 1848 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 1864 Frank Bettens 1864 Thomas Simms Bettens, Don and Kebo 1906 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 1907 The Reading of the Medea of Euripides to Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 1912 Edward Detraz Bettens 1916 Incidental to this Memorial, and helping to make it attractive and instructive, Harvard College has accepted the following paint- ings which are now in the following places, to wit: In Room No. 790 of the Widener Library are: The Head of a Girl, by A. Asti. A Vestal Virgin, a copy on Delft of the Vestal Virgin, by Angelica Kauffman, in the Dresden Gallery. 65 In the Louise E. Bettens Room, Phillips Brooks House, are: Two Portraits of Mrs. Bettens and One Portrait of Thomas Simms Bettens. A Landscape in Oil, by A. H. Wyant. A Landscape, Water Color, by Eugene Deszagg. In the Fogg Art Museum are: Lake O'Hara, a Painting in Oil, by John Singer Sargent. Bridle Path — Tahiti, a Water Color, by John La Farge. Sunday Morning — Domberg, a Water Color, by James McNeill Whistler. Monmouth Before James II, Refusing to Reveal the Names of his Accomplices, an unfinished Oil Painting, by John Singleton Copley. It is not out of place in connection with this Memorial to men- tion the Fountain in the Harvard Union, placed there as a memorial of Thomas Simms Bettens, by some of his pupils. Nor should the Thomas Simms Bettens Fund, established in 1916 by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Massa- chusetts, be overlooked. 66 o < Cambridge, Mass., June 5, 1917. Dear Mr. Bettens : I congratulate you heartily on the means you have used to com- memorate your mother at Harvard University. The Fund bearing her name to be administered by the authorities of the Fogg Art Museum is likely to remain useful for centuries. You of course have procured from the President and Fellows of Harvard College a state- ment accepting the Funds on exact conditions of trust. The Fund for the benefit of the Phillips Brooks House Associa- tion will probably be long-lived and always useful. The Cabinet in the Widener Library is a very appropriate memorial, but lacks of course the enduring usefulness of the two Funds. The valuable pictures put into the Fogg Art Museum, if suitably marked, will be a good commemoration so long as the pictures endure ; for the Fogg Museum is an admirably secure building as regards fire. The best memorial of a mother is, however, the work of her children. Your brother Thomas did first-rate work as a teacher, and the influence of that work is carried forward in his pupils. I dare say you have done work of like value. Will it be carried for- ward like your brother's? I was interested to notice that you took a stanza from Dr. Holmes's beautiful poem called "The Chambered Nautilus" to describe your mother's life. He, as you know, was a physician and a Unitarian. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Eliot. Edward D. Bettens, Esq. 67 New York, June 6, 1917. Dear Clarke: You and Beaman* will, I am sure, be interested in Dr. Eliot's letter to me dated June 5th inst., a copy of which is enclosed. The wise and experienced Dr. Eliot says in his letter to me : "You, of course, have procured from the President and Fellows of Harvard College a statement accepting the funds on the exact conditions of trust." Have I? I have been less interested in those funds (although they are of great interest to me and to what I am trying to accomplish) than I have been in the book "Mrs. Louise E. Bettens," and what its contents suggest. It is particularly what that book suggests that I have had constantly in mind. Anybody who has the spare cash can give money to Harvard College, and buy pictures, and furnish rooms, all of which is very interesting. But to suggest a character and a life, omitting many details, is quite another matter. I do not know whether I have succeeded in producing that kind of a book. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. Samuel B. Clarke, Esq. ♦William S. Beaman, Harvard Class of 1872. VII LOOKING BACK April 11, 1919 LOOKING BACK April 11, 1919 Since July, 1907, an effort has been made to create an enduring record of the life and character of MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS. A brief statement of some of the means employed and of their money cost is as follows: Cost I. Five family portraits have been painted by Walter Florian, three of which are in the Louise E. Bettens Room in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College $3,260.00 II. Seven family miniatures have been painted by Alyn Williams, and all are in a case in the Treasure Room of the Harry Elkins Widener Library, Harvard College 4,742.00 III. The case above mentioned has been presented to the Harry Elkins Widener Library 165.00 IV. The Louise E. Bettens Room in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College, has been repaired and furnished 2,733.11 A case in that room for books, has been presented to the Phillips Brooks House Association 75.00 V. The Louise E. Bettens Fund, Phillips Brooks House Associa- tion, has been created 2,500.00 VI. The Louise E. Bettens Fund, established by her children, in the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Harvard College, has been created 20,000.00 Five paintings have been presented to the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum 8,300.00 VII. The Thomas Simms Bettens Fund, Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Massachusetts, has been created 2,000.00 71 VIII. Five quarto volumes of inlaid letters and illustrations, bound in cost levant, with doublure and silk fly leaves, have been presented to Harvard College $1,008.00 Four of these quartos are in the case in the Treasure Room above mentioned. The fifth quarto is in the case in the Louise E. Bettens Room in the Phillips Brooks House. IX. Books, octavo in size, one copy of each edition being in the case in the Treasure Room above mentioned, have been printed and privately distributed as gifts. They are entitled as follows : 1. Thomas Simms Bettens, A Memorial, 325 copies; printed on hand made imperial Japan paper; photogravure illustrations; cloth covers 637.57 2. Thomas Simms Bettens, 250 copies ; printed on hand made imperial Japan paper ; photogravure illustrations ; bound in levant with doublure and silk fly leaves 4,434.55 3. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, 150 copies, 25 of which were extra illus- trated; printed on hand made imperial Japan paper; photographs as illustrations ; bound in levant with doublure and silk fly leaves 2,078.90 4. Louise E. Bettens, 250 copies ; printed on Strathmore paper de luxe, photographs as illustrations ; cloth covers 1,278.81 5. The Family of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, 350 copies ; printed on Strathmore paper de luxe ; photographs as illustrations ; cloth covers 1,611.50 6. Painter and Patron, 650 copies; printed on Strathmore paper de luxe ; half tone illustrations ; cloth covers 1,489.29 7. Picture Buying, 650 copies ; printed on Strathmore paper de luxe ; half tone illustrations ; cloth covers 1,341.47 8. Picture Buying, 450 copies; printed on Dill & Collins superb dull coated paper ; half tone illustrations ; paper covers 330.41 9. Art Museums and Artists, 1,200 copies of a paper covered Brochure printed on Strathmore paper de luxe 102.50 72 VIII TEMPTATIONS New York, August 7th, 1919. Mr. Charles Ottermann. Dear Mr. Ottermann : Your letter postmarked August 5th, was received by me yester- day afternoon. The books and the three walnut bookcases are now in Woodward High School. The 24 pictures and prints have also, probably, been received and stored in Woodward by this time. The bronzes ought to be expressed to Woodward by Tiffany & Co. about August 21st, 1919. It is my wish that all of these articles be placed in Woodward High School as you and your advisers decide is advisable, with the following exceptions, to wit : 1. The two Kip bookcases should be placed, opposite each other, near the group of the three windows in the Alcove Room, so that the light from those windows will bring out all the beauty that is in these bookcases. 2. The portrait of my brother Frank, together with three of the bronzes, should be placed — the portrait over, and the bronzes on, one of the Kip bookcases as shown in Diagram II. 3. The photograph of The Reading of the Medea to my Mother, should be placed over the other Kip bookcase, and the three other bronzes on it, as shown in Diagram IV. 4. My name as donor must not be put on any of the 24 pictures and prints or on any metal tablet that may be affixed to such pictures and prints. But at my expense, a suitable metal tablet should be affixed to each of these 24 pictures and prints except The Reading of the Medea, 75 and Frank's portrait. On each of these tablets the following words, or something equally simple and appropriate, should be inscribed : In Memory of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens I gave to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard College, five valuable paintings, but I personally saw to it that my name as donor should not appear on any of the frames of those pictures. At my request the inscription on the metal plate affixed to these pictures is as follows: THE LOUISE E. BETTENS FUND Again, I paid for the alteration, decoration and furnishing of the Louise E. Bettens Room, but my name as donor nowhere appears in or about that room. It is distinguished, as I understand it (I have never seen the room) as the Louise E. Bettens Room, such descrip- tion being placed somewhere near the entrance of the room. Your letter tells me that your mother was a pupil in Woodward in 1867, as Miss Dena Kasting, and that she tells you that Joseph Rawson and I, members of the Class of 1868, Woodward, were close friends. Please give your Mother my warmest regards, for I thank her for reminding me of one of the pleasantest days of my life. Raw- son entered Harvard in the Class of 1872, that is, he went to Harvard in the Fall of 1868. I worked for one year in Cincinnati and then in the Fall of 1869 entered Harvard College as a member of the Class of 1873. In the Fall of 1869 on "Bloody Monday Night" the Freshmen, I being with them, assembled on a dark night in the College Yard to do battle with the Sophomores, Rawson being one of them. Fierce, and with varying success, did the battle rage, with no vigilant Proctor to stem the surging masses. It is not for me to describe the conflict, for it was too dark for me to distinguish any individual on that night. But, I soon found that I was lying prostrate on the body of a fallen Sophomore pinning him to the ground. He spoke. It was the voice 76 of Rawson and we laughingly parted, no one being injured by that encounter. But that dark night is not the pleasant day referred to by me above — that pleasant day came to me after I had graduated in 1873 and was a Proctor in Harvard College. Rawson on his wedding tour came to my Proctor's Room and told me that he would pay my ex- penses on a trip over Europe. I stepped from where he and I were standing to the chimney, walked back, and said, "Joe, I thank you, but cannot accept your offer." That is the pleasant day referred to. During the three years of my Proctorship in Harvard College, beginning with the Fall of 1873, three temptations came to me: 1. The chance to become a teacher in the Boston Latin School at an initial salary of $2,600 per year. President Eliot dissuaded me from trying to obtain the position. 2. The generous offer of Rawson to give me the benefit of a European tour. Perhaps it was simple common sense on my part that induced me not to accept his offer. But, at bottom, was the fact that where I was to be I intended that my Mother should also be there. Rawson did not know this. 3. Mr. Soley, a Harvard graduate, was during my Proctorship at Harvard the Professor of History in Annapolis Academy. Dean Gurney was a Professor of History in Harvard College. I had obtained from Harvard College honors for proficiency in History. Annapolis Academy wanted an assistant professor of History at $1,800 per year, to teach eight months per year, and in the remaining four months to have the privilege of going to foreign parts on a U. S. vessel in which were students of the Academy. Mr. Soley consulted Professor Gurney. Professor Gurney recommended me as the Assistant Professor. Mr. Soley and I talked it over ; he over-persuaded me so that one afternoon I agreed to accept the position. Sober second thought resulted in my informing Mr. Soley the next morning that I would not accept the posi- tion. He had a very sharp tongue and I got from him what I probably deserved, a severe tongue lashing, for accepting one afternoon and reject- ing the next morning this position as Assistant Professor. At the end of my three years' Proctorship I came to the City of New York and was very glad to obtain a salary of $10. a week as a 77 clerk in the law office of Barlow & Olney, both of whom were Harvard graduates. About 45 years have passed since Rawson called on me in that Proctor's Room and made me his generous offer, and I believe that he and I have continued ever since to be and are now as close friends as we ever were, — even if he is today Vice-President of the First Na- tional Bank of Cincinnati, and I only an humble depositor in a similar bank in the City of New York. Therefore, I again thank your Mother for stirring up these mem- ories of the past. Just as I had finished this letter there comes to me your letter stating that last year there were 81 teachers in Woodward High School, and about 1400 boys and girls. The totals amaze me, as my class of 1868 had only about 33 pupils on graduation, but I thank you for the information which you have given me. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 78 WOODWARD HIGH SCHOOL CINCINNATI CHARLES OTTERMANN PRINCIPAL August 5, 1919. Mr. Edward D. Bettens, 130 West 87th St., New York City, N. Y. Dear Mr. Bettens: I am now in a position to answer your questions of July 27. 1. In addition to the principal, assistant principal, librarian, and secretary, there were eighty-one teachers in Woodward in the school year ending June 1919. 2. The information answering your #2 and #3 I have taken from the annual report of last school year. The statistics are as follows : No. Enrolled Average No. Attended Boys Girls Boys Girls A 112 92 96 81 B 157 138 136 123 C 155 231 126 177 D 382 440 290 344 Total 806 901 648 725 I trust the above gives you the information which you are seeking. Sincerely, Charles Ottermann. 79 IX FRANK BETTENS 1844, January 14 — March 10, 1864 1827 SHERMAN AVENUE NORWOOD, OHIO August 8, 1919. Mr. Edward Detraz Bettens, New York. Dear Sir: I have just read your book "Picture Buying", and I notice in the sketch of the life of your mother you speak of your residence in Cin- cinnati and the death there of your brother Frank. Did your family attend the Seventh Presbyterian Church on Broadway? Did your brother associate with one of my name, who spent one night watching at his sick bed? You speak of your mother attending the lectures of the Rev. James Freeman Clarke. I happen to be at this present time in corre- spondence with his daughter. Pardon my curiosity, but I am wonder- ing whether you are of the family of Bettens I knew, and brother to one of my dearest friends. Yours truly, D. W. Mieeer. 83 New York, August 11, 1919. Mr. D. W. Miller, 1827 Sherman Avenue, Norwood, Ohio. Dear Mr. Miller: Your letter of 8th instant, received by me this morning, opens the flood gates of my memory. You were the dearest friend of my brother Frank, outside of his immediate family. His mother and her three sons were members of the Seventh Presbyterian Church on Broadway, Cincinnati, Ohio, of which church your father was an Elder. Your namesake, Charles Miller, was at Frank's bedside, the night that Frank died, March 10, 1864. It was Charles Miller that arranged for the photographing of Frank on March 11, 1864, the day after Frank's death, and I have in my possession the negative of that photograph. From that negative, the painter, Walter Florian, painted in 1907, a portrait of Frank, and that portrait is now in Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in a short time it will hang in the Grad- uates' Alcove, on the second floor of that school building. One of my treasures is a little wooden box, whose dimensions are Sj4 inches in length, 5 inches in width and 5 inches in height. Its cover is hinged on the main body of the box, and there is a lock. The top of the box has on it a fine landscape ; on the front and two sides of the box are beautiful designs, painted in various colors. The rest of the cover and the sides are painted black, with a border of red and gold, and the cover and all the sides are finely varnished. That box I received from one of the painters* in your father's carriage manufacturing establishment in Cincinnati, Ohio, when, one summer, I painted carriage wheels in that establishment. That work- man having a fancy for me, made that box, painted it and gave it to me. I keep it in my safe, but it is now before me on my desk, and ♦"Probably Luke Ward, foreman of the paint department and an expert at land- scapes," writes Mr. D. W. Miller. 84 from it I have taken a photograph of Frank, made March 11, 1864, the day after he died, and I am sending it to you with this letter. You can keep it. In the same box is a lock of Frank's brown hair. I remember two other boyhood friends of Frank. One was a Woodward classmate of Frank's, Philip N. Lilienthal, the son of Rabbi Lilienthal of Cincinnati. Philip and Frank often studied together in the Rabbi's house, the Rabbi at times helping them in their studies. The other boy friend of Frank was Weston — whose first name I forget. Weston's father made lightning rods, and young Weston became known as "Steeple Jack", for his daring in climbing to the top of church steeples in Cincinnati in the performance of his duties in placing lightning rods on those steeples. Your letter refers to my mother's attending the lectures of the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, and that you, at the present time, are in correspondence with a daughter of the Reverend James Freeman Clarke. With this, my letter to you, I am sending to you an uncorrected copy of a printed proof, received by me last Saturday afternoon, of a book entitled, "The Library of Mrs. Louise E Bettens", which you can keep. At page 52, please read what is there said about the influence of the lectures of the Rev. James Freeman Clarke on my mother, when in 1873, at the age of 46, she joined her sons, Edward and Thomas, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The daughter of the Rev. James Free- man Clarke may be pleased to know that her father was a potent factor in guiding my mother, although I believe that my mother never spoke to him. She sat in the audience when he lectured in Boston, and then read the books that he recommended. At page 21 of the book, "The Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens", is a reference to my painting carriage wheels in your father's carriage establishment. But the whole book may interest you. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 85 Frank Bettens born january 14. 1844 died march 10. is64 FROM A PAINTING IN MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS X A Portrait of MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS FOR Woodward High School New York, August 25th, 1919. Miss Eleanor C. O'Conneee. Dear Miss O'Conneee: A letter from Mr. Ottermann received this morning informs me that the three large bookcases are set up in the Alcove Room of Wood- ward High School and that the Globe- Wernicke Company's charge for their units, tops and bases for that Alcove Room, specified in their two letters to Mr. Ottermann, dated August 21, 1919, is $263.67. I have mailed to Mr. Ottermann my check to his order for $263.67, to be paid to the Globe- Wernicke Company, after they shall have rendered a bill. This, of course, means that the Globe- Wernicke Company's units, tops and bases, are to be delivered to Woodward High School, set up, and a reasonable time is to elapse thereafter, to enable Mr. Ottermann to decide whether there are defects in any of the units, tops or bases. Thank you for telling me that Kilgour, and not Kilgore, is the proper spelling of one of the streets on which Mrs. Bettens and her children at one time lived. I enclose a photograph received by me last week from Alman & Company, the photographers, which is not to be returned to me. It is a reproduction of the earliest photographs of Mrs. Bettens and her sons that I have — photographs made in March, 1864, she being thirty-seven years old, Frank being twenty, I sixteen and Tom thirteen. The Reading of the Medea of Euripides to Mrs. Bettens on November 25, 1912, when she was eighty-five years old, is her last photograph. Among the twenty-four pictures given by me, recently, to Woodward High School, is a photograph, on platinum paper, of the Reading of the Medea of Euripides. Her portrait, painted in 1907, when she was eighty years old, is in the Phillips Brooks House, Harvard College, and perhaps Har- vard College may give that portrait to Woodward High School. In the meantime it may be advisable to have in the Alcove Room the following substitutes for that portrait, to wit : 1. The photograph of the Reading of the Medea of Euripides to Mrs. Bettens, which Woodward High School now has. 2. A photograph, in my possession, of the portrait of Mrs. Bettens painted in 1907, which photograph was made directly from that portrait. It is framed in antique gilt, and measures, frame included, 22 x 18 inches. It is an admirable photograph of that portrait, and I will send it to Woodward High School if my suggestion is approved. 3. The group photograph of Mrs. Bettens and her sons in 1864, which I am herewith sending to you, to be framed, at my expense, with a frame to harmonize with the frames of the two photographs above mentioned. Grouped together, these three photographs will show Mrs. Bettens at the age of thirty-seven, when, in the lowest depth of poverty and sorrow, her eldest child had just left her. Then she is seen in the 1907 portrait, at the age of eighty, a few months after Tom had followed Frank. Then, at the age of eighty-five, in the Reading of the Medea of Euripides, in 1912, Mrs. Bettens has with her her surviving child. At the age of about twenty-four, Mrs. Bettens, then living in the Bettens Home in Vevay, began to feel the pressure of the approaching financial and other troubles which soon almost overwhelmed her. This was about 1852. After 1852, Mrs. Bettens at one time taught school in a little log house, on a farm in Kentucky, almost opposite to the Bettens Home. One of her pupils in that log house, a girl about seven years of age at that time, after she had grown to womanhood, wrote to me a letter dated July 9, 1918, in which she says : "One picture, when your Mother taught school in the little log house on my father's farm, made a lasting impression on my memory. Our farm in Kentucky was almost opposite your Mother's home in Indiana, and she crossed the river every Friday afternoon — my father rowing her over in a skiff — returning for her on Sunday evening. Often I would be 90 allowed to go along, but one time the river was unusually rough, great white-capped waves rolled high — the wind all day had blown furiously. There was danger, but one of her boys was sick — and the mother-heart was willing to brave wind and water to get home. My father, knowing her anxiety, started across the waters in the frail little boat, but would not let me go with them. Standing on the banks — a child of seven years — I did not realize the danger as I watched wave after wave rising higher and higher, until all were hidden from view. In the middle of the river they were compelled to turn back to the Kentucky shore — the crossing could not be made — but early in the morning, with more favorable elements, your Mother reached home and family. The circumstance has been more vividly brought to mind since reading your books, and, young as I was at the time, I remember the respect and regard my parents had for your Mother as teacher and guest in our home." From Vevay, Mrs. Bettens and her sons went to Bennington, Indiana, a place about ten miles from Vevay, and there she taught school for a short time. It was from Bennington that Mrs. Bettens, and her three sons, went to Cincinnati about 1857 — their first home in that city being in Fifth Street, near Broadway. Her first efforts in Cincinnati at making money were as a copyist for lawyers — not in their offices, but doing the work at home. But, this not supporting her and her family, she sewed garments, for manufacturers, doing the work at home. From the Fifth Street rooms, Mrs. Bettens and her sons moved into the top floor of one of Henry Brachmann's busi- ness houses on Third Street, near Walnut. Mr. Brachmann was the husband of one of the sisters of my father. From those rooms on Third Street, we moved into a single room in a business house owned by one of the Kilgour family, on Broad- way, near Third Street. One of her neighbors in that Broadway house was a Mr. Bussey — a workman in the employ of the Shillito Dry Goods House. It was Mr. Bussey who obtained for Mrs. Bettens a position as an operator on a sewing machine in Shillito's. From the Broadway room, Mrs. Bettens, her sister, and her sons, moved about 1861 into a room on Kilgour Street, and there the five lived in that one room until I, in the fall of 1869, left for Harvard College, Tom joining me in Harvard in the Fall of 1870 and our 91 Mother joining Tom and me, in Cambridge, June, 1873. Her financial support of me ceased when I graduated from Woodward High School in June, 1868, and her financial support of Tom ceased when he entered Harvard College in the Fall of 1870. After Tom left for Harvard in the Fall of 1870, Mrs. Bettens left the Kilgour room, and lived, more comfortably, in a house located, I believe, near Seventh and Race Streets. It was in that house that she made the acquaintance of the Harvard Graduate who gave her, on Thanksgiving Day, 1872, the three volumes of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 92 XI GOOD-BYE New York, August 21, 1919. Mr. Charles Ottermann. Dear Mr. Ottermann: Please, in my name, thank assistant principal, Mr. Jones, for what he has done in arranging, in the Graduates' Alcove, Woodward High School, the three bookcases. His ideas measure up to a wish expressed by me, in a letter dated August 4, 1919 to Miss O'Connell, that "a sine qua non of the arrangement of the bookcases, pictures and bronzes, should be that this Alcove Room, so furnished, will at once appeal to the visitor, because of its pleasing and artistic effect." Woodward High School has a copy of the book entitled "Mrs. Louise E. Bettens", which contains a letter from me dated April 10, 1917 to Mr. Arthur L. Ware, Secretary of the Class of 1873 (my class) Harvard College, describing the memorials of my mother, in Harvard College.* After the memorial of my mother in Woodward High School shall have been established, I may write to Mr. Ware a letter amending a paragraph of the letter to him dated April 10, 1917, which amended paragraph is as follows, the amend- ments being in parentheses : "There (are) in Harvard College (and in Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio), foundations for memorials of Mrs. Bettens. Beauty and Usefulness have been controlling factors in establishing (these) memorials, and the Fogg Art Museum, the Phillips Brooks House Associations, the Widener Library (and Woodward High School) have united to establish (them). The 1,600 books of my mother's library, her book cases, her paintings, engravings and other pictures and some of her bronzes, in Woodward, as her memorial there, with the Memorials in Harvard described in my letter to Mr. Ware dated April io, 1917, and the books, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, Louise E. Bettens, The Family of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, Painter and Patron, Picture Buying, Art Museums and Artists, and The Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, taken together, constitute the outward and visible memorial of a life and character distinguished because of its Beauty and Usefulness. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. ♦Reprinted at pages 63-65 of The Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, Part One. 96 New York, July 22, 1919. Edward P. Usher, Esq.* Dear Usher: Last Saturday, July 19, Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, received from me as a gift the Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, my mother, containing about 1600 books. Yesterday I received from you and read a book, of fifty-four pages, in memory of your son, Albert Morse Usher, Company I, 107th U. S. Infantry. Today there will leave New York City for Woodward High School three bookcases that had belonged to Mrs. Bettens, and in a short time these will be followed by twenty-four paintings, engravings, etchings, mezzotint, drawing and prints, and also six bronze pieces, all once owned by Mrs. Bettens. These books, book cases, pictures and bronzes are to go into a well-lighted room, called the Graduates' Alcove, in Woodward High School, the dimensions of the room being 18 feet 4 inches in width, 27 feet 7 inches in length, and 13 feet 3 inches in height. One or two cases, with glass tops and sides, are to be in the Graduates' Alcove, and will contain finely bound books, and also copies of the books in memory of my mother and brother, copies of which books you have. If you do not object I will have Stikeman & Co. bind the Memorial Book that I received from you yesterday in cloth, the same as the books "Painter and Patron," "Picture Buying," and "Art Museums and Artists." On the front cover of your son's Memorial Book, the binders will put, in gilt, everything that is on the paper cover of the book you sent me. Then I will ask the Principal of Woodward High School to put your son's Memorial Book in one of those two cases. *Class of 1873, Harvard College. 97 The boys and girls of Woodward High School for generations to come, may, from the books in that book case, receive a light that may brighten their lives, for from that book case will shine out a mother, a teacher and an artist-soldier, each one an inspiration to all boys and girls, who are willing to examine the books. It is perhaps fitting that a memorial of your son should be with memorials of my mother and brother. You and I first met as Freshmen in Harvard College, in Sep- tember, 1869. We were room-mates in Stoughton 2, Harvard Col- lege, during our Freshman year in Harvard. Fifty years having passed, since those days, you and I can now, in imagination, stand together in the Graduates' Alcove in Wood- ward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, before the book case which will contain the memorial books of your son, my mother and brother ; and there you and I can wait until we say, one to the other, Good- Bye, as one of us departs for the Unknown. Sincerely, Edward D. Bettens. 98 "When the sky's growing dark, and the red sun is setting, We should stir up the embers, and call upon the elves Of Mirth and Content, and all troubles forgetting, Make a gay world for others — and so for ourselves. "Tis the Beauty of Age, to be tranquil and gentle, Whatsoever it be, making best of its lot. And though gray locks and crowsfeet are not ornamental, There's a grace that can hallow and make them forget. So, a welcome to all that my Fate may provide me, Be it joy or sorrow, a cross or a crown ! Here's a grasp of the hand for the comrades beside me ! Here's a smiling Good-Bye as the curtain comes down ! And when the play's over and everything ended, And you hear, in your musing, the sound of a knell, Give me one loving thought, for the good I intended, And a rose for my pall, as you bid me Farewell!" 99 Edward Detraz Bettens APRIL 6, 1914 AT THE AGE OF SIXTY-SIX FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALMAN a CO PART TWO THE LIBRARY OF MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS INDEX To the Catalogue oe the Library of MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS Books Offered to and Accepted by Woodward High School Cincinnati, Ohio Number of Page Volumes I. Poetry, Dramas and Plays, Mainly Modern 105 201 II. Greek Literature and Books Relating to Greek Subjects 115 90 III. Latin Literature 123 12 IV. Essays, Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Books of Philosophy and Kindred Subjects. . 127 180 V. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 137 213 VI. Examples of the Art of Binding 147 23 VII. Prose Works of Imagination 153 260 VIII. Historical 157 85 IX. Miscellaneous 163 94 X. Special 171 158 1326 For whom the book, The Library of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, has been privately printed 179 — 182 ILLUSTRATIONS Part Two Interiors of 130 West 87th street, New York City, the home of Mrs. Louise E. Bettens from January 1, 1894, to March 13, 1914. Page XVII. The Library, facing north . 106 XVIII. The Library, southeast corner 114 XIX. The Library, southwest corner 122 XX. The Dining Room, southeast corner 126 XXI. The Dining Room, northwest corner 134 XXII. Second Story Rear, A. Dreamer 180 POETRY, DRAMAS AND PLAYS Mainly Modern No. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Full calf with gold ornamentation on covers and back. Crown 8 Vo. Extra illustrated with 199 landscape and portrait engravings by E. Finden. John Murray, 1855 6 A Treasury of English Sonnets, from the original sources, with notes and illustrations. By David M. Main. y A Morocco. 12 Mo. R. Worth- ington 1 The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats. Edited with notes and appendices by H. Buxton Forman. A re-issue with additions and corrections. Cloth, gold decorations on front cover. Crown 8 Vo. Reeves and Turner, 1889 4 Sakoontala, or The Lost Ring. An Indian Drama translated into English prose and verse from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa, by Monier Williams. Cloth. Crown 8 Vo. Dodd, Mead and Company 1 Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns. No. 225 of the reprint and facsimile of the original Kilmarnock Edition limited to 600 copies, being the extent of the original issue. Board covers. 8 Vo. John Wilson 1 The Farce of Master Pierre Patelin, by an unknown author living about 1469, A. D. Englished by Richard Holbrook. Illustrated with fac- similes of the woodcuts in the Edition of Pierre Levet, ca. 1489. Board covers. Crown 8 Vo. Houghton Mifflin Company 1 The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Cloth. 16 Mo. James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. . . 3 The Jerusalem Delivered. By Torquato Tasso. Translated into English- Spenserian verse, with a life of the author by J. H. Wiffen. Cloth. 12 Mo. Henry G. Bohn 1 i The Orlando Furioso. Translated into English verse, from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto, with notes by William Roscoe Rose. Illustrated with engravings on steel. Cloth. 12 Mo. Henry G. Bohn 2 The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, with a Memoir, y Morocco. 16 Mo. Thomas R. Knox 2 The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley, with a Memoir. y A Morocco. 12 Mo. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1883 2 The Poetical Works of John Keats, with a Memoir by James Russell Lowell. Illustrations. Full Morocco. 16 Mo. 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Cloth. 12 Mo 1 The Incas, The Children of the Sun. By Telford Groesbeck, with preface by Clements R. Markham. Illustrations by Eric Pape, engraved on wood by M. Haider. Cloth, covers and back gold decorated. 8 Vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 1 CEuvres Completes de Alfred de Musset. Edition ornee de 28 gravures d'apres les dessins de M. Bida, d'un portrait gravee par M. Flameng d'apres l'original de M. Laudelle, et accompagnee d'une notice sur Alfred de Musset par son frere. }£ Morocco. Regular 8 Vo. Charpentier, 1881 10 CEuvres Completes de P. J. de Beranger, Nouvelle Edition revue par l'auteur. Illustree de cinquante-deux belles gravures sur acier, entiere- ment inedites d'apres les dessins de MM. Charlet, A. de Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jaques, J. Lange, Pinquelly, de Rudder, Raffet. l / 2 Morocco. 8 Vo. Perrotin, 1847 2 108 No. The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, collected by himself. A new edition, including "Oliver Newman," and other poems. 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Edition on Japan paper limited to 250 copies. Privately printed 1916. . 1 Giuvres Completes de Moliere. % Morocco. 16 Mo. Charpentier, Paris, 1869 , 3 The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited with Memoir by Edward Dowden. Board covers. 12 Mo. No. 23 of an edition limited to 150 copies, of which 25 are for America. George Bell & Sons, 1892. . 7 The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Edited with Memoir by John Dennis. }i Morocco. George Bell & Sons, 1892. 16 Mo 5 The Fables of La Fontaine. Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury. Three hundred illustrations by Gustave Dore and one hundred etchings by famous French etchers. Full Morocco. Quarto. Cassell & Company 2 The Aldus Shakespeare, with various copious notes and comments by Henry Norman Hudson, Isabel Gollancz, C. H. Herford, and over one hundred other Shakespearean authorities. Cloth. 16 Mo. Bigelow Smith & Co. 39 109 No. The Poems of James Russell Lowell. Cloth. 12 Mo. 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With illustra- tions. Im Verlag von Julius Bard, Berlin, 1914 1 Francisco De Goya. By Richard Muther. Leather. 16 Mo. A. Siegle, London. 1905 1 Francisco Goya, von Dr. Kurt Bertels. 26 illustrations. Cloth. Royal 8 Vo. R. Piper & Co. Munich & Leipzig, 1907 1 El Greco. By August I. Mayer. 50 illustrations. Boards. Crown 8 Vo. Delphin Verlag. Miinchen, 1911 1 Hogarth's Works, with Life and Anecdotal Descriptions of His Pictures. Illustrated. The whole of the plates reduced in exact fac-simile of the original. By John Ireland and John Nichols. Cloth. 12 Mo. Chatto and Windus 3 The History of Paintings from the Fourth to the Early Nineteenth Century. By Richard Muther. Translated from the German and edited with anno- tations by George Kriehn. Illustrated. Cloth. Crown 8 Vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907 3 Le Greco. Essai sur sa vie et sur son ceuvre sui d'un catalogue et d'une bibliographie illustre de nombreuses reproductions. Par Paul Laford, Conservateur du Musee de Pau. Paper. Royal 8 Vo. 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Adam and Charles Black, 1914 1 Der Stille Garten. Deutsche Maler der I. Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. 100 examples. Arbeit, Brot und Friede. Paper. Regular 8 Vo. Karl Robert Langewische. Verlag Taunus & Leipzig 1 Danische Maler, von Juelbis zur Gegenwart. With over 130 examples. Paper. Regular 8 Vo. Karl Robert Langewische. Verlag Dusseldorf & Leipzig 1 Griechische Bildwerke. Max Sauerlandt. Mit 140, darunter etwa 50 ganzseitigen Abbildungen. Paper. Regular 8 Vo. Karl Robert Langewische. Verlag Dusseldorf & Leipzig 1 Moderne Plastik. Einige Deutsche und Auslandische Bildhauer und Medail- leure Unserer Zeit. Wilhelm Radenberg. With about 150 examples. Paper. Regular 8 Vo. Karl Robert Langewische. Verlag Diissel- dorf & Leipzig 1 Miniatures. By Dudley Heath. With numerous examples. Cloth. Reg- ular 8 Vo. Methuen & Co 1 142 La Miniature sur Ivoire. Essai Historique et Traite Pratique. By G. Debille- mont-Chardon. Preface de M. Leonce Benedite. Ouvrage illustre de 16 planches hors texte en phototype. Paper. Regular 8 Vo. Paris, Librairie Renouard. H. Laurens, Editeur Masterpieces of Sculpture. 120 examples selected by Dr. Georg Gronau. Vol. I. From the earliest time to Michelangelo. Cloth. 16 Mo. Frederick A. Stokes Company George Romney. By Rowley Cleeve. Leather. 16 Mo. George Bell & Sons, 1901 Michelangelo. By Edward C. Strutt. Cloth. 16 Mo. George Bell & Sons, 1901 Masterpieces of Etchings. 100 examples selected by Laurence Binyon. Cloth. 16 Mo. Frederick A. Stokes The French Impressionist. By Camille Mauclair. Leather. 16 Mo. Duck- worth & Co Old Masters and New. Essays in Art Criticism. By Kenyon Cox. Nu- merous Examples. Cloth. Crown 8 Vo. Fox, Duffield & Company, 1905 Painters and Sculptors. A second series of Old Masters and New. By Ken- yon Cox. Numerous examples. Cloth. Crown 8 Vo. Duffield & Company, 1907 The Appreciation of Pictures. A Handbook. By Russell Sturgis. Nu- merous examples. Cloth. Crown 8 Vo. 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