As one of the most sympathetic pen pictures of George Washington the man, there is here reprinted the final chapter of Henry Cabot Lodge's biography of our first President. We preface the chapter by a few paragraphs from Senator Lodge's own Introduction to his book. It is believed that this portrayal of the personal side of this great character will make an immediate and lasting appeal to students in junior and senior high school grades. It is a timely contribution to the 1932 observations of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. COPYRIGHT, 1889 AND 1917, BY HENRY CABOT LODGE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE The Riverside Press PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. GEORGE WASHINGTON THE MAN BY HENRY CABOT LODGE FEBRUARY 9 in the year 1800 was a gala day in Paris. Napoleon had decreed a triumphal procession, and on that day a splendid military ceremony was performed in the Champ de Mars, and the trophies of the Egyptian expedition were exultingly displayed. There were, however, two features in all this pomp and show which seemed strangely out of keeping with the glittering pageant and the sounds of victorious rejoicing. The standards and flags of the army were hung with crape, and after the grand parade the dignitaries of the land proceeded solemnly to the Temple of Mars, and heard the eloquent M. de Fontanes deliver an "Eloge Funèbre." About the same time, if tradition may be trusted, the flags upon the conquering Channel fleet of England were lowered to half-mast in token of grief for the same event which had caused the armies of France to wear the customary badges of mourning. If some "traveler from an antique land" had observed these manifestations, he would have wondered much whose memory it was that had called them forth from these two great nations, then struggling fiercely with each other for supremacy on |