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personal portrayals of the men who built the foundations upon which the present great superstructure rests, the writer will be gratified.

Having been himself at one time a pupil in the old Academy building, his interest has been enhanced in the course of the present work by the memory of his attendance on tuition in the venerable birthplace, now no more, of the great educational institution whose continuing years have left a record of such great interest, and which to-day holds out such enlarging promises, the fruitage of the seed laid there in 1749 by the "voluntary society of founders," as the Trustees were termed by the first Provost.

Ardrossan,

23 February, 1900.

THOS. H. MONTGOMERY.

SOME OF THE WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE FOLLOWING

1814.

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Aberdeen University.-Mss. Abstracts and Minutes from Records.
Alden, Timothy.-A Collection of American Epitaphs. New York,

Allen, Ethan.-Historical Notices of St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis Baltimore, 1857.

Allibone, S. Austin.-A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. Philadelphia, 1858.

Allison & Penrose.-Philadelphia, a History of Municipal Development. Philadelphia, 1887.

1757.

"American Magazine or Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies."

Arnold, Matthew.-Address on Foreign Education, read in University Chapel, 1886.

Ayres, Anne.-Life and Work of William Augustus Muhlenberg, D. D. New York, 1881.

Bancroft, George.-History of the United States. 13th ed. Boston, 1846. Barton, Thomas.-Sermon on Unanimity and Publick Spirit. 1755. Beardsley, E. Edwards.-Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D. D. 1874.

-Life and Correspondence of Samuel Seabury, D. D. 1881. Bigelow, John. The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin. New York and London, 1887.

Bowring, John.-Compendious System of Natural Philosophy. London, 1744.

Brown, John.-Sermon, on publication of the Brief. 6 March 1763.
Brown, David Paul.-The Forum. Philadelphia, 1886.

Buchanan, Edward Y.-Early History of Trinity Church, Oxford.

Two Discourses. Philadelphia, 1885.

Burnaby, Andrew.-Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America, in the Years 1759 and 1760. London, 1798.

Burd Papers, the.—Extracts from Chief Justice William Allen's Letter Book, by Lewis Burd Walker.

1897.

Burnet, Gilbert.-History of my own Times.

1734.

Carson, Joseph.-History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania.

1851.

1869.

Coates, Mary.-Family Memorials, Philadelphia, 1885.

Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society. New York,

Delaware County Historical Society, Proceedings.

Dexter, Franklin B.-Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History. 1885.

Duyckinck, Evart A. & George L.-Cyclopædia of American Literature. New York, 1856.

Fisher, J. Francis.—Sketch of James Logan. In Sparks' Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1840.

Fisher, Sidney G.-Church Colleges, their History, Position and Importance. Philadelphia, 1895.

Ford, Paul Leicester.-Bibliography of Benjamin Franklin. Brooklyn, 1889.

Forster, J. Montgomery.-Memoir of Rev. Joseph Montgomery. 1879. Franklin, Benjamin.-Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania.

1764.

1749.

-Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of our Public Affairs.

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-Remarks on a late protest against the appointment of Mr. Franklin as Agent for the Province of Pennsylvania.

1764.

-Observations relative to the intentions of the original founders

of the Academy in Philadelphia.

1789.

Franklin, William Temple.-Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin. London, 1818.

"Gentlemen's Magazine," the.

Gledstone, James P.-Life and Travels of George Whitefield. London, 1871.

Gordon, Thomas F.-History of Pennsylvania.

1829.

Graydon, Alexander.-Memoirs of a Life chiefly passed in Pennsyl

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Hildeburn, Charles R.-Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania. 1886. Hopkinson, Francis.-Errata on the Art of Printing incorrectly. Examples taken from a Latin Grammar lately printed, etc. Philadelphia, 1763.

-The Psalms of David, etc., etc. For the use of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New York. New York, 1766. -Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings.

1793.

Philadelphia,

Hosack, David.—Inaugural Discourse delivered at the opening of Rutgers Medical School in the City of New York, 1826.

Hunt, Isaac.-Letters from Transylvania. 1764.

Jay, Sir James.-Letter to the Governors of the College of New York respecting the Collection for the Colleges of Philadelphia and New York. London, 1771.

Jenkins, Howard M.-Family of William Penn. 1899.

Johnson, Samuel.-Elementa Philosophica, containing chiefly Noetica or Things Relating to the Mind or Understanding, etc. Philadelphia, 1752.

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1879.

Keith, Charles P.-The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania. 1883. Kingsley, William L.-Yale College; a Sketch of Its History. Krauth, Charles V.-Treatise, etc., with Prolegomena and Annotations. Philadelphia, 1886.

Lewis, William.-Commercium Philosophico-technicum. London, 1736-'66.

Logan, Deborah.-Penn and Logan Correspondence.
Martin, John Hill.-Bench and Bar of Philadelphia.

1870.

1883.

Maryland Gazette,'' The.

McMaster, John B. & Stone, Frederick D.-Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution. Philadelphia, 1888.

Mears, Anne deB.-Old York Road and Its Early Associations. Philadelphia, 1890.

Mifflin, John.-History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London, 1794.

Morgan, John.-A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America. Delivered at the Public Anniversary Commencement held in the College of Philadelphia, May 30 and 31, 1765. Philadelphia, 1765.

Morton, Thomas G.-The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1895. Philadelphia, 1895.

Newman, F. W.-The English Universities, from the German of V. A. Huber. London, 1843.

1856.

Newman, John Henry.-Office and Work of Universities. London,

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New York Historical Society, Collections of.

"New York Mercury," The.

Overseers of the Public School of Friends, Mss. and Minutes.

Palfrey, John G.-A History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. 1859-1864.

1864.

Parton, James.—Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York,

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"Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography," the

Perry, William Stevens.-Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church. 1871.

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Philipps, Thomas.-Way of Teaching Languages.

1885.

1723.

Porter, Noah.-American Colleges and the American Public. 1878.
Proud, Robert.-History of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1797.
"Quarterly Theological Magazine," Philadelphia. 1814.

Quincy, Josiah.-History of Harvard University. Cambridge, 1849. Reed, William B.-Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed. Philadelphia, 1847.

Ridgely, H. W.-Old Brick Churches of Maryland. New York, 1894.
Royal Gazette, The."'

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Sargent, John.—The Mine and other Poems. 1784.

Scharf & Westcott.-History of Philadelphia.

1884.

Smith, Horace W.-Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William

Smith, D. D., etc. Philadelphia, 1880.

Smith, Rev. William.—Some thoughts on Education with Reasons for Erecting a College in this Province, and fixing the same at the City of New York.

1752.

-A General Idea of the College of Mirania.

1753.

-A Poem on visiting the Academy of Philadelphia, June, 1753. -Personal Affliction and frequent Reflection upon human Life, of great use to lead man to the Remembrance of God. Philadelphia, 1754. -Discourses on Several Public occasions during the War in America. London, 1759. 2nd ed., 1762.

-An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians in the year 1764. 1765.

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Sparks, Jared.-The Works of Benjamin Franklin. 1840.

Sprague, William B.-Annals of the American Episcopal Pulpit. New York, 1859.

Stewart, Andrew.-Short Introduction to Grammar for the use of the College and Academy in Philadelphia, etc. 1762.

Stiles, Ezra.-In Gratulatione Nobilissimi et Amplissimi viri B. Franklinii, &c., &c. 1818.

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Stillé, Charles J.-Life and Times of John Dickinson. 1891.
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Mss. Minutes of the Academy and College.

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Westcott, Thompson.-Historic Mansions of Philadelphia.

ed. Philadelphia, 1895.

Revised

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