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A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually regarded as Peculiar to the United States. By John Russell Bartlett. Second Edition. Greatly Improved and Enlarged. Boston. Little, Brown, & Co. 8vo. pp. 524. $2.25. Acadia; or a Month with the Blue Noses. By Frederick T. Cozzens, Author of "The Sparrowgrass Papers." New York. Derby & Jackson. 12mo. pp. 329. $1.00. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress.
They went straight through without, as before, stopping overnight at Baltimore. Consequently they reached New York on Thursday noon. Mr. Rockharrt telegraphed to the Cozzens Hotel at West Point to secure a suite of rooms, and then he took his own party to the Blank House.
There had been little improvement outside of the stockade and dining hall, and for most of the time the people lived in their wagons. Travel, Missions and Industries Passing of the Boston Party Keen interest in the Southwest was excited early in 1876 by a series of lectures delivered at New England points by Judge Samuel W. Cozzens, author of "The Marvellous Country."
"What," says he, "a Hynds woman painting of strange folks their faces? Out upon thy notion, Jessamine!" And my Cozzens laugh'd and said, Ever did Gentlemen dislike a Learn'd Female. To cure me they did Cruelly bait me to Marry the Pursy Ninny that hath the Plantation beyond the Hopes, he that hath been Ogling of me for years. Could scratch the Wretch his eyes Out!
Entering the library of the State Department, one saw J. C. Derby, so long in the front rank of New York publishers, then Mr. Seward's librarian. On Pennsylvania Avenue was Fred Cozzens' store, to which Mr. Sparrowgrass had transported his Catawbas and Cabanas. At the White House one would perhaps meet N. P. Willis in the reception- room, and in Mr.
He spent several days in instructing the cook at Cozzens' Hotel, West Point, in this art, and did not desist until the bread was made according to his standard. He had a great aversion to dining alone, and rather than do so would cheerfully pay for the meal of any pleasant friend whom he would invite to dine with him.
"The Young Trail Hunters; or, The Wild Riders of the Plains." By S. W. COZZENS. Lee & Sheppard, Boston. "Vine and Olive; or, Young America in Spain and Portugal." The same. "The National Ode." By BAYARD TAYLOR. W. F. Gill & Co., Boston. "Hold the Fort." By P. P. BLISS. The same. "The Poetical and Prose Writings of Charles Sprague." A. Williams & Co., Boston. "Corinne; or, Italy. A Love Story."
The summer of his graduation Loring was ordered on temporary duty as an instructor during the encampment of cadets. He did not dance. He cared little for society, but one evening at Cozzens' he was thrilled by the sweetness of a woman's song, and gazing in at her as she sang to an applauding audience in the great parlor, Loring saw a face as sweet as the voice.
There was formed the American Colonization Company, with Cozzens as president. Two companies of men, of about fifty individuals each, were dispatched from Boston, each man with equipment weighing about thirty pounds. The destination was a fertile valley in northeastern Arizona, a land that had been described eloquently, probably after only casual observation.
I'd let you take it after I'm through, only it isn't mine; I borrowed it from Billy Cozzens." "Thanks," answered Joel, "but I don't believe I'd have time for it." "Humph!" grunted Sproule. "There you are again, putting on airs. Just wait until you've been here two or three months; I guess I won't hear so much about study then."
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