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WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

ITS HISTORY, OBSERVANCE, SPIRIT, AND
SIGNIFICANCE AS RELATED IN PROSE
AND VERSE, WITH A SELECTION FROM
WASHINGTON'S SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

EDITED BY

ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1926

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

PREFACE

The popular idea of Washington has recently begun to veer away from thevision of an eighteenth century demigod in a wig,—an old-fashionedstatue in dusky bronze, stern and forbidding. We are swinging aroundtoward the idea of a loveable, fallible, very human personality withhumor, a hot temper, and a genuine love of pleasure.

Accordingly, in gathering material for this book the editor has passedby those earlier writers who are mainly responsible for this distortedview; and he has aimed to gather here the essays, orations poems,stories, and exercises which best exhibit the modern conception ofWashington; together with a selection from his own writings and thefinest of the elder tributes to the memory of our greatest NationalHero.

NOTE

The Editor and Publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to
Houghton, Mifflin & Company; Doubleday, Page & Company; J.B. Lippincott
& Co.; Mr. David McKay, John Macy, and others who have very kindly
granted permission to reprint selections from works bearing their copyright.

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