The following names, secured by Captain Perkins, were then read and the persons unanimously voted members of the association: Herbert M. Moody, Fred H. Bates.

G. W. Browne reported that suitable rooms could be secured in the new Kennard, and the committee chosen to secure quarters were requested to investigate and report at the next meeting.

Adjourned to meet October 8, at rooms of the Second National Bank.

FRANK W. SARGEANT, Rec. Sec.

ADJOURNED MEETING HELD OCT. 8, 1902.

At the adjourned meeting of the Association held at rooms of the Second National Bank the following members were present: Messrs. Herrick, Fellows, Carpenter, Eaton, Hadley, Gould, Burnham, Challis, Clapp, and Browne.

In the absence of the recording secretary, G. Waldo Browne was elected secretary pro tem. and received the oath of office from J. W. Fellows, J. P. Reading of records of last meeting omitted.

Voted upon motion of Mr. Fellows that election of librarian to fill vacancy be laid upon the table until the annual meeting.

Upon presentation of name by President Herrick, Mrs. Olive Rand Clarke was elected to active membership in the Associa tion.

G. W. Browne offering requests for withdrawal upon the parts of the respective members, it was voted that their requests be granted: Rev. William H. Morrison, Brockton, Mass.; Rev. Samuel Rose, Merrimack, N. H.; Mr. Walter S. Noyes, Littleton, and Mr. Henry N. Hurd, Manchester.

Upon motion it was voted that bill of incidental expenses incurred by G. W. Browne as chairman of Publication Committee, be paid by the Treasurer. Amount of bill, $22.22.

Voted that committee on permanent quarters be authorized to secure rooms in the Kennard or elsewhere, as they thought best.

The amendment to the Constitution then taken from the table it was unanimously voted that the same be accepted, so that the time of holding the annual meeting shall be on the first Wednesday in January of each year, and that the Quarterly meetings be held on the first Wednesdays of April, July and October. Accordingly the next Annual meeting will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1903.

Upon motion of Mr. Browne, Messrs. William H. Morrison and Walter S. Noyes were elected honorary members.

Following remarks by Messrs. Fellows, Herrick, Clapp, Eaton and others relative to articles in preparation for future publica. tion, the meeting adjourned without date.

G. WALDO BROWNE, Rec. Sec. Pro Tem.

OLD NEW ENGLAND ROOFTREES.

(BOOK REVIEW.)

THE ROMANCE OF OLD NEW ENGLAND ROOFTREES, by Mary C. Crawford; L. C. Page & Co., Pubs., Boston, 12mo., 390pp., 30 illustrations, $1 25. For sale by W. P. Goodman, of this city.

The above title sets forth succinctly a work that must appeal strongly to our readers. In well chosen language the author narrates some of the most interesting incidents, as well as giving particular descriptions, clinging about the old rooftrees she has selected, giving enough of the romantic to impress the quaint homesteads and the lives of their occupants very vividly upon the mind. There were twenty four subjects chosen, selected so as to cover New England. Among those most likely to interest our readers we notice the Governor Wentworth House at Ports. mouth, N. H.; Red Horse Tavern, Sudbury, Mass.; Pepperell House, Kittery, Me.; Williams House, Deerfield, Mass., and of more especial interest to readers of the Quarterly, the Stark

Homestead, Dunbarton. A fine half tone of the old mansion accompanies the article. In fact, the thirty-odd pictures of the subjects treated greatly enhance the value as well as the beauty of the book. The following extracts from the description of the Stark place afford an apt specimen of the happy style of the work :

MOLLY STARK'S GENTLEMAN SON.

Of the quaint ancestral homes still standing in the old Granite State, none is more picturesque or more interesting from the historical view point than the Stark house in the little town of Dunbarton, a place about five miles' drive out from Concord, over one of those charming country roads, which properly make New Hampshire the summer and autumn Mecca of those who have been "long in populous city pent." Rather oddly, this house has, for all its great wealth of historical interest, been little known to the general public. The Starks are a conservative, as well as an old family, and they have never seen fit to make of their home a public show-house. Yet those who are privileged to visit Dunbarton and its chief boast, this famous house, always remember the experience as a particularly interesting one. Seldom, indeed, can one find in these days a house like this, which, for more than one hundred years, has been occupied by the family for whom it was built, and through all the changes and chances of temporal affairs has preserved the characteristics of revolutionary times.

This imposing old mansion was built by Caleb, the son of Gen. John Stark.

Caleb Stark was a very remarkable man. Born at Dunbarton, December 3, 1759, he was present while only a lad at the battle of Bunker Hill, standing side by side with some of the veteran rangers of the French war, near the rail fence, which extended from the redoubt to the beach of the Mystic River. In order to be at this scene of conflict, the boy had left home secretly some days before, mounted on his own horse, and armed only with a musket. After a long, hard journey he managed to

reach the Royall house in Medford, which was his father's head. quarters at the time, the very night before the great battle. And the general, though annoyed at his son's manner of coming, recognized that the lad had done only what a Stark must do at such a time, and permitted him to take part in the next day's fight.

After that, there followed for Caleb a time of great social opportunity, which transformed the clever, but unpolished New Hampshire boy into as fine a young gentleman as was to be found in the whole country. The Royall house, it will be remembered, was presided over in the troublous war times by the beautiful ladies of the family, than whom no more cultured and distinguished women were anywhere to be met. And these, though Tory to the backbone, were disposed to be very kind and gracious to the brave boy whom the accident of war had made their guest.

So it came about that even before he reached manhood's estate Caleb Stark had acquired the grace and polish of Europe. Nor was the lad merely a carpet knight. So ably did he serve his father that he was made the elder soldier's aid-de-camp, when the father was made a brigadier-general, and by the time the war closed, was himself Major Stark, though scarcely twentyfour years old.

Soon after peace was declared, the young major came into his Dunbarton patrimony, and in 1784, in a very pleasant spot in the midst of his estate, and facing the broad highway leading from Dunbarton to Weare, he began to build his now famous house. It was finished the next year, and in 1787, the young man, having been elected town treasurer of Dunbarton, resolved to settle down in his new home, and brought there as his wife, Miss Sarah McKinstrey, a daughter of Dr. William McKinstrey, formerly of Taunton, Massachusetts, a beautiful and cultivated girl, just twenty years old.

Beside building the family homestead, Caleb Stark did two other things which serve to make him distinguished even in a

family where all were great. He entertained Lafayette, and he accumulated the family fortune. Both these things were accomplished at Pembroke, where the major early established some successful cotton mills. The date of his entertainment of Lafayette was, of course, 1825, the year when the marquis, after laying the corner stone of our monument on Bunker Hill, made his triumphal tour through New Hampshire.

The bed upon which the great Frenchman slept during his visit to the Starks is still carefully preserved, and those guests who have had the privilege of being entertained by the present owners of the house can bear testimony to the fact that the couch is an extremely comfortable one. The room in which this bed is the most prominent article of furniture bears the name of the Lafayette room, and is in every particular furnished after the manner of a sleeping apartment of one hundred years ago. The curtains of the high bedstead, the quaint toilet-table, the bed-side table with its brass candlestick, and the pictures and the ornaments are all in harmony. Nowhere has a discordant modern note been struck. The same thing is true of all the other apartments in the house. The Starks have one and all displayed great taste and decided skill in preserving the longago tone that makes the place what it is. who inherited the estate in 1838, when his major, died, was a Harvard graduate, and writer of repute, being the author of a valuable memoir of his father and grandfather. He collected, even more than they had done, family relics of interest. When he died in 1865, his two sisters, Harriett and Charlotte, succeeded him in the possession of the estate.

The second Caleb, father, the brilliant

Only comparatively recently has this latter sister died, and the place came into the hands of its present owner Mr. Charles F. Morris Stark, an heir who has the traditions of the Morris family to add to those of the Starks, being on his mother's side a lineal descendant of Robert Morris, the great financier of the Revolu tion. The present Mrs. Stark is the representative of still another noted New Hampshire family, being the granddaughter of General John McNeil, a famous soldier of the Granite State.