him in a copyrighted print. The portrait was reproduced in 1891 by Fiske in his American Revolution,1 in 1896 (from the Daniels print) by Foote in his Annals of King's Chapel,2 and in 1908 by Avery in his History of the United States and its People.3

Curiously enough, there has long been a doubt among the members of the Club of Odd Volumes as to the authenticity of their print doubt which can now be set at rest. Mr. Daniels was a plate-printer who did much work for Dr. Banks; each heard of the existence of a portrait of Bernard in England; there was some rivalry between them about getting photographs; and in 1887 each received a photograph of an alleged portrait of Bernard. As Dr. Banks's came directly from a descendant of Governor Bernard, the authenticity of that was beyond dispute. But Mr. Daniels became uneasy about his photograph, sent an inquiry to Oxford, and in reply received the following letter:

DEAR SIR,

BODLEIAN LIBRARY

OXFORD
Aug. 10. 1887.

I enclose a receipt for the photograph-account and a certificate from the photographer, in the matter of Governor Bernard's picture. I can add my own testimony to the certainty that your photograph is from that picture. I am glad the matter is so satisfactorily concluded.

J. H. Daniels Esq.

I am
Truly Your's
F. MADAN
(sublibrarian) 4

In course of time the real facts were lost sight of, there was confusion between the two prints; and in the minds of the members of the Club of Odd Volumes the doubt was transferred from the Daniels

1 i. 51.

2 ii. 206. It was perhaps through Dr. Banks that Mr. Daniels learned of the painting at Christ Church. In January, 1888, the Rev. Henry W. Foote spoke of the Daniels print before the Massachusetts Historical Society, and in February presented a copy of the print to the Society. (2 Proceedings, iv. 61, 66.) 3 v. 31.

4 As the Daniels print was purely a commercial venture, Mr. Daniels naturally wished to have its authenticity placed beyond the possibility of a doubt. Hence he had the letter facsimiled, and presumably sent a copy of the facsimile with each copy of the print sold. The letter in the text is printed from such a facsimile found by Dr. Banks in a New York print shop in February, 1921.

print, where it belonged, to the Club of Odd Volumes print, where it was out of place.

(3) The story of the third portrait shows to what lengths our patriotic ancestors could go in venting their displeasure even upon the inanimate representation of their cordially hated royal governor, of whom it was said "That a worse cannot be found on this Side

if there." In the Corporation records of Harvard College is this entry, under date of November 26, 1765.

Whereas Govern Bernard, as we are inform'd by our TreasTM 2 hath offer'd to give his Picture to the College, Thereupon unanimously Voted, That We thankfully accept it.3

Accordingly, the portrait was duly sent by the governor and was hung in the College Hall.

Under date of October 6, 1768, a newspaper writer declared:

From Cambridge we learn, that last evening, the picture of -hanging in the College-Hall, had a piece cut out of the Breast exactly describing a Heart, and a Note, that it was a most charitable attempt to deprive him of that part, which a Retrospect upon his administration must have rendered exquisitely painful.4

The portrait was repaired, and on November 25, 1768, the Corporation voted:

That the Picture of his Excellency Governor Bernard presented by him to the College, be put into an handsome Frame, the Expence to be defrayed out of the College Treasury: and that this, with the other Pictures in the Hall, be placed in the Philosophy Room,5

How the repairing was done, we learn from a newspaper extract dated March 14, 1769:

G-r B-d's picture has been lately returned to Harvard-College to be hung up in the Library: Our American Limner, Mr. Copely, by

1 Boston Gazette, August 7, 1769, p. 2/2.

2 Thomas Hubbard.

* College Book, vii. 145. Cf. Donation Book, i. 81; J. Quincy, History of Harvard University, ii. 485.

• Boston Evening Post, December 19, 1768, p. 1/1.

5 College Book, vii. 184. At a meeting of the Overseers on November 25, 1768, "A Vote of the Corporation at their Meeting this day Viz That the Picture of Governor Bernard with the other pictures in the Hall be placed in the Philosophy room . . . read and consented to" (Overseers' Records, iii. 13).

the surprising art of his pencil, has actually restored as good a heart as had been taken from it; tho' upon a near and accurate inspection, it will be found no other than a false one. - There may it long remain hanging, to shew posterity the true picture of the man, who during a weak and w -d Ad-n, was suffered to continue in the St of G -m- -t, a sore scourge to the people, until he had happily awakened a whole continent to a thorough sense of their own interest, and thereby laid, the foundation of American greatness.1

When, how, or why this portrait disappeared has not been ascertained, but it is no longer in the possession of Harvard College.

Three towns-Bernardsville in New Jersey, Barnard in Vermont,2 and Bernardston3 in Massachusetts-perpetuate the name of a former governor of those once British provinces; a little village post-office on the western side of Mount Desert, in the town of Tremont, is called Bernard; and quite recently, the western peak of Western Mountain has been designated Mount Bernard.

Ancient prejudices die hard, and though adverse criticism was made when Bernard's name was attached to one of the Mount Desert peaks, documentary evidence bears testimony to Governor Bernard's active interest in the development of what is now Eastern Maine, to his persistent efforts, even in the face of censure, to inform the home government of the true status of the Massachusetts title to the lands between the Penobscot and St. Croix Rivers, a task which involved much study and considerable research,—all of which goes to show that it is not only fitting but eminently appropriate that the name of Bernard should find place on Mount Desert Island.

As the eastern mountain of the Desert group bears the name of Champlain, in honor of the skilful navigator and fearless explorer

1 Boston Evening Post, May 8, 1769, p. 1/3.'

2 Cf. New Hampshire State Papers, xxvi, 20–22, 627-628.

• Lucy C. Kellogg (History of the Town of Bernardston, 1902) says: "The fact that the place was named for a Tory Governor has, at times, aroused the ire of some of her citizens, but some measure of consolation may be gleaned from the truism that the man could hardly have been held alone responsible for the age in which he lived, nor yet for having been born a British subject. May not the circumstance of his being considered by his king worthy to assume such a position, serve in some degree to mitigate this feeling?" (p. 2).

A search among the printed accounts of Bernardsville, New Jersey, has failed to reveal any criticism of the naming of the town.

who gave the Island of the Desert Mountains its name, so may the western height forever remain a monument to the memory of that scholarly gentleman, royal governor of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, Sir Francis Bernard, who essayed its settlement.

Mr. JOHN W. FARWELL exhibited a book published in London in 1632,1 speaking as follows:

The book I have here has an interest as a type of the books used in the early days of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and also for its associations. On the front fly-leaf is written, in different places, "Jn° Leverett His Book 1682," "To M" Tho Davis This," "Wm Paddy His Booke 1660,” “Jn° Leverett 3.10.1684," and "John Leveret Anno Domini millesimo setentesimo nonogesimo tertio 1693." Then come a few letters, impossible to read with certainty, and finally four lines in Latin. On the inside of the front cover is written "Cooke" and the letters "RI" joined together. And on the fly-leaf at the back of the book is written "William Paddy His Book." I feel sure that the book belonged at one time to Paddy and at another to Leverett; and, by comparison with an authentic signature, that the words at the top of the leaf are in the hand of John Leverett, later President of Harvard College.

The names of John Leverett and William Paddy, written in old script, were probably written by the same person, some time after Paddy's death, perhaps to show that the book had belonged to him. The writing does not resemble his handwriting and is dated two years after his death. It could hardly have been written by his son William, for he was but eight years old in 1660. The name John Leverett and the Latin are written in a different hand, resembling that of "Cooke" on the cover. Paddy's name, on the last leaf, is in quite a different hand from all the others, but still conveys the idea that Paddy had owned the book.

The senior William Paddy came in the James from Southampton, sailed April 5, arrived in Boston June 3, 1635. His name appears

1 A Most Excellent Instrvction for the Exact and perfect keeping Merchant Bookes of Accovnts, by way of Debitor and Creditor, after the Italian man1632. It is a folio, containing

ner:

By I. C. Gent.

London:

pp. i-viii, 1-152. The author was I. Carpenter.