GOOD WORDS

In the prospectus which I used in my late tour over Ohio was left a blank column, for any subscribers so disposed to make kindly comments against their signatures. Some of these here follow. It will be observed they are largely from men whom Ohio delights to honor. Moreover they paid me in advance to assist me in my second tour over Ohio.

I have known Mr. Howe and his books many years, and am confident he will get up a valuable and interesting work. His original book was an inestimable benefit to the people of Ohio, is yet highly prized. No less than ten copies have. been bought by me at different times. One copy is now within my reach, and always is when I sit as I now do, in my place of writing at home.-Ex-President R. B. Hayes, Fremont, O.*

I urged Mr. Howe to undertake this work which is needed and will be welcome. -Ex-Governor George Hoadley, Cincinnati, O.

I subscribed for the first edition and read it with much interest. It is time to publish a second and enlarged edition and I am glad that it is to appear.- Hon. A. G. Thurman, Prest, Ohio Arch. and Hist. Soc., Columbus, O.

All who know Mr. Howe's former book will rejoice at his undertaking this.Gen. M. F. Force, Cincinnati, O.

I know Mr. Howe well. He will make a valuable book. Cincinnati, O.

- Hon. Alphonso Taft,

I saw, when ten years of age-forty years ago-Mr. Howe sketching the birthplace of Tecumseh for his Historical Collections, the best book of the kind ever published.-Gen. J. Warren Keifer, Springfield.

Howe's Ohio Historical Collections has been to me one of the most useful books ever published. I know of no state history its equal. Its reliability is proverbial. -R. M. Stimson, Treas. Marietta College.

Mr. Howe's former work was of great value to our people. I have no doubt but that the second edition will be of still greater value.-Hon. John A. Bingham, Cadiz. O. K. The author and his book cannot be too strongly recommended. Searles, Ins. Agent, Cleveland.

A. M.

NOTE.-Mr. Hayes is especially fond of American History. In his private library of 8,000 volumes over 4,000 are upon that subject alone.-H. H. (739)

Mr. Howe and I are New Haven boys. I am proud of him and expect as much from his proposed book as do his greatest admirers.-Hon. John A. Foote, Cleveland.

Howe's History was a wonderful book, published as it was when the sources of information could only have been reached by the most indefatigable labor.—Major Stephen Johnston, Piqua, O.

One of the first books I ever read was Mr. Howe's history. Before I could read, its bulky back and shining title was a wonder to my eyes, as I used to see it in my father's library.-E. O. Randall, Merchant, Columbus, O.

Thirty years ago, a tow headed boy, I pored with intense interest over Howe's History of Ohio, its tales of pioneer and Indian adventure. I hope to renew that pleasure in re-reading the work revised and enlarged by the author.—Judge Henry M. Huggins, Hillsboro.

I read and re-read Mr. Howe's original book thirty years ago. It was one of the most valuable historical works I ever possessed.-D. R. Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby), Editor Toledo Blade.

As a patron of Mr. Howe's original edition I became familiar with its superior value. Hon. Clark Waggoner, Historian, Tolredo.

I read the old book as a boy and it still has an honored place in my library.— Whitelaw Reid, Ed. N. Y. Tribune, and author of " Ohio in the War."

The enterprise Mr. Howe has undertaken deserves the support of every true Ohioan. His first book is exceedingly interesting and the new edition will be equally meritorious.-- Wm. Henry Smith, Journalist.

As a boy I read, re-read and read again and again Mr. Howe's original book. To me it was the most fascinating of all books in my father's library. — Henry S. Sherman, Lawyer, Cleveland.

We have read the old edition at our house until it is worn out and we want a new one.-J. D. Van Deman, Lawyer, Delaware.

I can remember when a very little boy lying on the floor looking at the pictures in Mr. Howe's Historical Collections.-M. D. Harter, Manufacturer, Mansfield.

I have owned a copy of Mr. Howe's original book and prize it highly.-Gen. R. P. Buckland, Fremont.

I rejoice to make the acquaintance of Mr. Howe, whose first book I have read again and again in my boyhood.—Gen. Henry C. Hedges, Mansfield.

I welcome this Pioneer Historian to the work for which he is so eminently fitted. Aid him all good people for the honor of the State of Ohio. -John D. Caldwell, "The Universal Secretary."

The work proposed will be of great value and I am glad that it is to be undertaken by one so able and experienced.-Hon, Wm. McKinley, Jr., Mem, Cong., Canton.

I remember Mr. Howe's History of Ohio as one of the chief delights of my boyhood.-Dr. Toland Jones, London.

I am glad that Mr. Howe is about to give us a new edition of his interesting and valuable History of Ohio.-Gen. Thomas Ewing, New York.

I greatly enjoyed Mr. Howe's original book many years since and am glad he is about to renew it.-Gen. Wager Swayne, New York.

I have known and esteemed Mr. Howe from boyhood.-4. S. Barnes, School Book Publisher, New York.

Mr. Howe has spent a day with us at Yamoyden in the shadow of Mr. Mansfield's memory. If every one who meets Mr. Howe could enjoy his delightful companionship for a day, the foretaste of his book thus obtained would make subscribers of them all.—Mrs. Eleanor Mansfield Swiggert, Morrow, O.

It is against my rule to subscribe for any book, but I am glad to make an exception in this case, for I have the former edition and would not be without this.Geo. R. Sage, U. S. District Judge, Lebanon, O.

I have Mr. Howe's original history with its Indian stories and legends. My boys and girls have read it so much that I have been obliged to have it rebound twice, and I talk of making him pay for the re-binding by way of damages.-H. W. Smith, Lawyer, London, O.

With pleasant recollections of the old edition.—Julius Dexter, Bank Pres., Cincinnati.

I prize the old edition and have great faith in the new.-Robt. P. Kennedy, Lieut. Gov., Bellefontaine.

The original edition of the History of Ohio, published in 1847, was a source of inestimable satisfaction to me for the vast and accurate information it afforded of the condition of Sthe tate at that time. The new edition will be invaluable.-C. S. Bragg, of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati, O.

Howe's book of 1847 was of inestimable value. I have full faith in the success of the new.-Ex-Governor Charles Foster, Fostoria, O.

Many years ago I purchased and read the original volume, and was greatly interested and delighted with it.-Hon. C. A. Harrington, Warren, O.

I read Mr. Howe's first history when I was eight years old and remember it more vividly than any book I have read since.-Major E. C. Dawes, R. R. Official, Cincinnati, O.

Mr. Howe's first work is still a standard authority on Ohio history. I am confident the present undertaking will be faithfully carried out and be of great value and interest.-Peter G. Thomson, Manufacturer of Toy Books and Games, Cin., O. As long as I can remember I have read Mr. Howe's books, and will be glad to read any he may write.-A. A. Graham, Secy. Ohio Arch. and Hist. Soc., Columbus, O. I have known Mr. Howe for over forty years. I have in my possession Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio which I prize highly.-Gen. James S. Robinson, Secy. of State, Kenton, O.

"No man ever came to me more highly recommended than does Mr. Howe. I regard him as entirely worthy of the support he asks for the work in which he is engaged." See note.

NOTE. The year 1846, in which I first traveled over Ohio, the gentleman who wrote the above made his first appearance on any stage: it was in a log cabin, in Highland County, and as an infant in a cradle. As I again traveled over Ohio, in 1886, he was occupying a chair in the State Capitol as its Governor, Jos. B. FORAKER.— H. H.

I have a copy of Mr. Howe's edition of 1847 which I prize highly and have read many times, and gladly take the new edition. What a contrast it will be-Ohio in 1846 and in 1886.-John Sherman, U. S. Senator, Mansfield, O.

I am delighted to commend the proposed work of the friend of my boyhood, Henry Howe.-J. William Baldwin, Lawyer, Columbus, O.

The old edition was of great value in rescuing a multitude of things from wholly perishing. The new edition will be still more valuable and interesting. The collection of materials is invaluable.-Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

I found the old edition of the highest value.-Judge C. C. Baldwin, Cleveland, O. The old book has done great good; now for the new.-T. J. Godfrey, Banker and Attorney, Celina, O.

May the author live to write up a third history. He has the heart of youth, the head of a poet, and the faith of a saint!-Cyrus Butler, Merchant, Ohio Society, New York.

I have been deeply interested in the project Mr. Howe is pursuing with so much energy and zeal.-Jay Cooke, Banker, Philadelphia.

The following is extracted from the Cincinnati Commercial Gaz ette, of Jan. 1, 1887.

HENRY HOWE AND HIS HISTORY OF OHIO.

There is no person living to whom the people of Ohio in the last generation were so much indebted in giving them a knowledge of, and pride in their State as to Henry Howe, its early historian.

In January, 1846, he, then a young man, the son of a book-seller, left his home in New Haven, Ct., came over the mountains by stage, and then on the back of a white horse, named in irony, "Pomp," for he was an humble creature, made the entire tour of the State, thus passing more than a year examining the records, collecting historical documents, and taking down from the lips of the still living pioneers, their early recollections. But for him, a great deal of valuable historical matter relating to Ohio would have been forever lost.

Pencil sketches of the county seats, and objects of historical or other interest were made by him on the spot, and the result was, six months after his return, "Howe's Historical collections of Ohio," illustrated with 177 engravings, and by all odds the most entertaining and valuable work on Ohio ever published. And those who have been so fortunate in late years as to get hold of a stray copy, know how to prize the treasure.

On the publication of his work, Mr. Howe became a resident of Cincinnati for thirty years, and then returned to his native city, where he remained until November of 1885, when he came out to Ohio a second time, to travel the State for a new edition of his famous work.

Few men, perhaps no other man would have the clan and audacity to undertake such a labor at his time of life; few, indeed, at any time of life could promise to do it as thoroughly and well.

A week since, on Christmas eve, he was able to thus telegraph to his family : "To my beloved ones, at 184 Crown Street, New Haven:

After a lapse of forty years from the first, my second historical tour of Ohio is finished. Glory to God, and a happy Christmas.

HENRY HOWE."

In his late tour over Ohio, Mr. Howe has visited every county of the State, collected a vast deal of new matter, and made arrangements with about a hundred different local photographers for illustrations of their respective towns and general objects of interest. The idea is to have the matter of the old work contained in the new, the Ohio of 1846, when it was emerging from the log-cabin era, contrasted with the Ohio of to-day, even to the pictures of the towns, for all the old engravings of places are saved to be printed in contrast to the new-to give its grand history of the past forty years, including, of course, its war history and notices of eminent persons whose services have entitled them to a place in such a work.

It is proposed to publish the work by subscription, and in two large octavo volumes, illustrated by, say four hundred engravings and maps. It will be a work worthy of the advanced greatness of the State, showing it in its varied features, and such a one as no other State ever has had, and such as no other can have under the same extraordinary circumstances of authorship.

Although over seventy years of age, Mr. Howe is as lively and chirrupy as any exuberant youth in his teens, and although white haired and white bearded, his walk and movements are so springy and agile as to surprise those who meet him. He is overflowing with enthusiasm and love for his task, and this, he says, makes for him every passing hour an hour of joy. He wants to do the best he can for this great State" the native State of my children, who are born Buckeyes, which I, through no fault of my own, am not.”