l8 The New-York Historical Society us his full-length portrait of General Pershing as well as his own boyhood portrait by his old teacher, James H. Beard. We were very happy to receive Ralph Bartlett Goddard's bronze bust of our former president, Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman, and the plaster death mask of Joseph Keppler, Sr., famous cartoonist and founder of Puck. In his day George Inness was considered the greatest American landscape painter and his oils have always been greatly admired. His soft, misty Turpentine Camp near Tarpon Springs, Florida, painted in the 188os, belonged to his son until his death and then came indirectly to us to join our two other landscapes from his brush. A view in quite a different style but one particularly welcome because of its artist and subject is the first oil painting in our collection by the important artist John William Hill whose career is being thoroughly studied by Richard J. Koke. This painting represents the Van Nest Mansion, once the Greenwich Village home of Sir Peter Warren, and shows the famous country place in its ample grounds as it appeared in 18 3 2. It is one of the few early views of Greenwich Village before it was swallowed up by the great city. We also secured a lovely watercolor by the same artist showing a View from High Tor in Rockland County and, by another painter, a view of The Country Seat of James Bogert, Jr., on Harlem River, a charming rural scene in what is now the heart of the city. The most important sketchbook which we have secured in a long time was the Album of Scenes in the United States drawn in GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894) Only known portrait from life By George Inness, Jr., his son The Foster-Jarvis Fund