GOVERNOR'S ISLAND

It has been our privilege to assist in the publication of
an excellent history of that important section of our city
lying off the Battery—Governor's Island. The Reverend
Edmund Banks Smith, Chaplain of the Island, is the
author.

A frontispiece in colors showing a soldier in the uni¬
form of the Royal Americans—a regiment stationed there
during the French and Indian War, is only one of the
many interesting pages in this work. There are more
than thirty illustrations, all of great value.

Few of our citizens know of the romantic history at¬
taching to this Island possession of our city. From the
beginning of our settlement the Island has in one way or
another possessed a military significance, while the last
two centuries have seen it wholly devoted to that service.
During the recent World War a huge addition was made
to its size by an engineering feat of singular success, and
it is now many times its original dimensions.

Dr. Smith has written a most absorbing account of the
life of this little island. In years gone by, many persons
dying in the service were buried there, and a complete
roster of these names is included in the story. The excit¬
ing part played by the garrison in the early Colonial Wars,
especially the expedition which resulted in the capture of
Louisburg, is of stirring interest. The Chaplain has been
stationed on the Island these many years and this work
has been largely a labor of love. No man is better quali¬
fied to write on this subject than is Chaplain Smith.

Of the five hundred copies printed three hundred have
already been spoken for. It is convenient in size—seven
by ten inches—about four hundred pages, and is bound in
half morocco. The price is $10.00 per copy while they
last. We will send it on approval to any reader of the
Manual.

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