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From marbles to Greek vases is a natural step. Sir William Hamilton, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples, had the dignified hobby of collecting Greek vases, and his collection is set forth in three volumes, with many numbered plates and detailed descriptions. The plate illustrating the twelve exquisitely shaped and molded vases will appeal to the eye of even him to whom all art is Greek.
Other books likely to be of general interest are the nine volumes of Bernard Picart's "Religious Ceremonies and Costumes;" the 120 engravings from the works of J. M. W. Turner; paintings of collections from the private galleries of wealthy New Yorkers; the copy of Poe's "Raven" illus- trated by Gustave Dore, and the collection of wood engravings by members of the Society of American Wood Engravers. The latter contains such well-known names as those of Victor Ber- strom, W. B. Clossin, Henry Wolf, John Tinkey and Elbridge Kinsley.
Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, widely known in New- ark, is the son of Abraham Coles, physician and hymn writer, whose monument stands in Wash- ington Park. The present Dr. Coles lives in Scotch Plains and has collected books and objets d'art for years. Among his many gifts to the Newark Library are several fine bronzes, includ- ing replicas of the marble bust of Homer, the
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Venus di Milo head, Augustus Caesar, the Apollo Belvidere, Benjamin Franklin as a boy with his whistle, and George Washington. The latter was given in memory of the donor's father.
Following is a complete list of the books presented to the Newark Museum by Dr. Coles :
Albrecht Durer's Drawings.
Paoletti Impronte. Four cases of medallions reproduced from originals in museums of Italy.
Alhambra. Plates giving plans and views of the Alhambra.
Masterpieces by Fra Angelico.
Turner Gallery.
Superstitions Anciennes et Modernes. 2 vols. 1733.
Scheuchzer's Geestelyke Natuurkunde. 6 vols. 1735-38.
Montfaucon's Antiquitates Graecae et Ro- mande. 1757.
Dissertazione sulle Statue di Niobe. 1779.
Collection de Gravures. Engravings after the Italian school. 1806.
Schola Italica. 1806.
Architettura della Basilica Vaticano. 1812.
Visconti's Iconographie Romaine. 1817.
Woburn Abbey Marbles. 1822.
Mongez's Iconographie Romaine. 1824.
Lights and Shadows of New York Picture Galleries. 1864.
Dell's Nature Pictures engraved by Paterson. 1871.
Coleridge. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. 1878.
Seguin's Picturesque Tour in Picturesque lands. 1881.
Engravings on Wood by Members of the So- ciety of American Wood Engravers. 1887.
Hitchcock. Art of the World Illustrated in the Paintings, Statuary and Architecture of the World's Columbia Exposition. 2 vols. 1894.
Holes, R. R. Naval and Military Trophies. Water Colour Drawings by William Gibb. 1896. Exposition Universelle, 1900. The Chefs- d'Oeuvres. 10 vols.
Tissot's Life of Jesus Christ. 3 vols.
Picart's Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses. 9 vols. 1723-43.
Hamilton's Engravings from Ancient Vases. 3 vols. 1791-95.
Forster's British Gallery of Engravings. 1807. Meyrick's Antient Armour. 3 vols. 1842.
Alhambra, Plans, Elevations, etc., from draw- ings by M. Jules Gourney and Owen Jones. 2 vols. 1842-45.
Meyrick's Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour. 2 vols. 1854.
Poe. The Raven. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. 1884.
Carter's Ancient Sculpture and Paintings in England. 1887.
The New York Vanderbilt Collection of Paint- ing and Art Treasures, in four large folio vol- umes, bound in full levant leather.
The library of Dr. and Miss Coles
has many beautifully bound illuminated books, the products of the middle ages. Some of the rarest and most elegant works bound in full levant leather, with inlaid doublures, are from the Robert Hoe (of printing press fame) collection.
Among works of special value and in- terest are mentioned the following :
Four sets only of the "Diary and Correspond- ence of Samuel Pepys" were printed on vellum, signed by L. De Vinna & Co., the one owned by Robert Hoe and now the property of Dr. Coles, is No. 2 registered. This set is said to have been bound for Mr. Hoe in Paris for five hundred dollars per volume, and there are ten volumes. Each volume has in it Mr. Hoe's book plate and has a leather case with clasps.
"Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and of the Period of the Renaissance," is by Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. It is illuminated: full levant leather binding; hand tooled; three volumes, London, Chapman & Hall. 1874.
The works of Moliere illustrated by M. Louis Leloir, Maurice Leloir, Jacques Leman and Edmund Hedouin. Full levant, doublures of leather and silk, have much inlaid work, hand tooled, eleven volumes, Paris - Chez Barrie Freres, Editeurs.
The works of Shakespeare, edited by W. E. Henley. This artist's Bibliophile edition was limited to fifteen copies, of which the one owned by Dr. Coles is signed "Publisher's Copy." It is bound in full levant leather, with doublures, with inlaid beautiful paintings; there are twenty vol- umes luxuriously illustrated and have leather slip covers; printed at Edinburgh by T. & A. Con- stable. Subscription price is said to have been more than $300 for each volume.
Two large folio portfolios of the works of Meissonier, also-"Meissonier-His Life and His Art," by Vallery C. O. Greard, De L'Academie, Victor Recteur de L'Academie de Paris. With extracts from his note books, and his opinions and impressions on art and artists collected by his widow. Translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd and Mrs. Florence Simmonds with 38 plates and 236 text illustrations, New York. A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1897, in two volumes; this edition on Japanese vellum was limited to 100 copies, including 25 for America, of which Dr. Coles's is No. 83, signed by A. C. Armstrong & Son, December 21, 1896. The binding is full
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levant leather, doublure silk. Robert Hoe's book plate is in each. Richard Clay & Son. London.
The Waverly Novels - Collectors, autograph edition. Limited for sale in America to ten numbered and registered sets of which Dr. Coles' set is No. 6 and is signed by George D. Sproul, publisher, 1900. Full leather, inlaid work elegantly illustrated. Doublures with Walter Scott's coat-of-arms.
The library has also beautiful folio and quarto leather bound editions of works illustrating the art collections of Europe in the public and private galleries and Paris Salon. "The Lives of the Queens of England," by Agnes Strickland, in eight volumes, are bound in full levant leather, with doublures inlaid with twenty miniature portraits of the Queens, painted on ivory by Miss Currie, all enclosed in a spring leather case of ingenious work- manship. Published by Colburn & Com- pany, London, 1851. Bound by Sungor- ski & Sutcliff, London. Extra illustrated, 1852.
A sumptuous volume owned by Dr. Coles is that of the "Portraits of the Sov- ereigns of England," engraved from the best authorities by W. H. Worthenton, London ; published by William Pickering, 1824. There are thirty-six fine portraits on India paper. Folio superbly bound in full crimson polished levant morocco, both sides covered with beautifully hand- tooled designs, consisting of roses, the intervening spaces being filled with min- ute pointille tooling, with twenty-four highly finished portrait miniatures paint- ed on ivory by Miss Currie; morocco joints, broad inside borders, blue watered silk doublures and ends, gilt edges; en- closed in a polished levant morocco pull- off case by Riviere, 1824.
The miniatures are arranged as fol- lows: Front cover -- Mary II .: Mary I .; Mary, Queen of Scots ; Charles I. ; Charles II .; Elizabeth; George I .; George II .; George III .; Oliver Cromwell; George
IV .; Anne. Back cover-James I .; Ste- phen; Edward I .; Edward III .; Richard III .; Edward I .; Henry III .; Henry VIII .; Henry IV .; William I .; Henry I .; William II.
A very fine effect is introduced in the decoration of this charming example. The minute pointille tooling shows up the dull gold, against which the larger floral pattern of roses shows up bright like burnished gold.
Dr. Coles' collection of Bibles is par- ticularly interesting. It includes the Breeches Bible, Gen. iii, said to have been the personal property of King James of England. It has on its morocco bound cover the royal coat-of-arms. It was printed at Geneva by John Crespin, 1568. Bound with it is a "Calender Historical, wherein is contained an easie declaration of the Golden Number :" "The Epacti -- "The Indiction Romaine ;" "The Cycle of Sunne, 1569;" "The whole Book of Psalms, collected into English metr. by T. Sternhold, Hopkins and others, con- ferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge them with all, faithfully perused and allowed according to the order ap- pointed in the Quenes Majestie Injunc- tions ;" also "Prayers for all occasions ;" "The Articles of the Faiths;" "The Com- mandments ;" "Instruction of Children in the Faith ;" also the "New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. conferred diligently with the Greek and best approved translations in divers lan- guages." The whole dedicated to "The Moste Virtuous and Noble Quene Eliza- beth, Quene of England, France and Ire- land, whose humble subjects of the Eng- lish Church at Geneva, wish peace and grace from God the Father through Christ Jesus our Lord-Geneva, 1569."
An illustrated copy in black letter, full morocco binding, of "The Bishop's Bible, conteynyng the Olde Testament and the
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Newe, set forth by authorities and im- printed at London by the assignment of Christopher Barker, her Majestie's Prynt- ter, 1578." It is known and stamped as Archbishop Cranmer's Bible, from its containing a "Prologue, or preface, made by Thomas Cranmer, late Archbishop of Canterburie." It is also known as the "Triacle Bible," from the reading of verse 22, chapter viii, of the book of Jeremiah, which reads: "Is there not triacle at Gilead, is there no physician there." In King James' version we read: "Is there no balm in Gilead." His Luther's Bible : Largest Type Bible in seven volumes: "Biblia Vulgata," 1714, with others, add to the interest felt in the inspired writings.
From the Centennial Year number of the "Bible Society Record" we take the following article by Miss Emilie S. Coles, written at the request of the editors, who say :
Miss Coles has been a life member of the American Bible Society since April 24, 1868, a period approaching fifty years. She and her brother, Dr. Coles, have been deeply interested in all forms of mission work among many de- nominations throughout the world, and it is a pleasure to publish this account from Miss Coles' pen of the beautiful Centenary Tower in Ran- goon, Burma.
The American Centenary Clock and Bell Tower in the City of Rangoon, Burma, British India, reaches completion while the American Bible Society celebrates its Centenary. It is a thank-offering to God the Father, "who sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world"-the Son, "who loved us and gave himself for us" -- the Holy Spirit, ever with us to "guide into all truth."
We are assured that the Tower will last, with care, for centuries. It is fireproof, the material of which it is built being English white glazed terra cotta. The first floor is of marble, and the stairs leading to the Observation Room above are of iron. The vane is bronze. With the four- dail striking clock and the Westminster peal of bells (after Handel), its cost will be over twelve thousand dollars-paid by J. Ackerman Coles, M. D., LL. D., of New York City. As an American, he
rejoices at the success, through divine power, of American missionaries, aided by American mis- sionary, Bible, and tract societies and other agencies.
On the first and largest bell are these words: "A gift in grateful recognition of what God has wrought through American missionaries during the past one hundred years." It also has the following inscription : "The Angel of the Lord said, beliold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people; for unto you is born * * A Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." The inscription on the second bell reads: "His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor ;" the third : "The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father." The fourth and smallest reads: "The Prince of Peace."
The Tower is a copy of the tower of the old Colonial Church in Salem, Massachusetts, said to have been patterned after the tower of an Eng- lish church designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Having passed through the tower of the old Salem church on February 6, 1812, after their ordination as the first American foreign inission- aries to Asia, Adoniram Judson, Samuel Newell, Samuel Nott, with their wives, Gordon Hall, and Luther Rice sailed for India, and, reaching Cal- cutta the same year, were hospitably received by the English missionary, William Carey. In 1813, Adoniram Judson and his wife landed in Ran- goon. We learn from Professor J. F. Smith that Dr. Judson early undertook the task of trans- lating the Bible into Burmese; that he completed the New Testament in 1828, which was printed in 1832; that he finished the translation of the Old Testament in 1834 and that it was issued the next year. The American Bible Society . gave $23,200 for the printing of Dr. Judson's version of the Scriptures in Burmese. Dr. Coles has in his library a copy of the Burmese Bible (second edition), printed in Maulmain in 1840. On the fly leaf is written:
To Mr. Robert Robinson, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, with the affectionate regards of the trans- lator. A. JUDSON.
Maulmain, November 30, 1840.
Professor Smith adds that "the companions and successors of Dr. Judson took up similar tasks for other races. In the one hundred years since the arrival of Dr. Judson in Rangoon the Gospels, at least, have been translated into no less than six of the indigenous languages oi
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Burma. The Christian message is now acccs- sible in their own tongues to nearly 11,000,000 of the people of the land." Dr. Judson labored in Burma nearly forty years, compiling also a Bur- mese Dictionary, which is Burmese-English and English Burmese.
In 1813 Luther Rice sailed for America to solicit funds; and the Notts and Hall for Bom- bay. In 1814 Newell joined them-bereft of his wife and child. Through him the Ceylon Mis- sion was begun in 1816. Gordon Hall was the founder of the American Marathi Mission, India. His tract on the needs of the heathen and the duty of the churches in America led the beloved physician, John Scudder, M. D., to leave his suc- cessful practice in New York City, and with his devout wife and child, sail for Jaffna, Ceylon. in 1819.
As he was bidding his friends farewell, his words of glad assurance that the Lord was lead- ing him caused James Brainard Taylor to sur- render himself, also, to a like service, as mission- ary to the American Indians. "From its first year," says Dr. Henry O. Dwight, "the Ameri- can Bible Society undertook to supply Scriptures to missionaries among the American Indians." For thirty-six years the Rev. John Scudder, M. D., D. D., labored in Ceylon and on the conti- nent of India, where he was aided and succeeded by his seven sons, whose families still continue their work.
The One Hundredth Annual Report of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society states: "One permanent result of the Judson Centennial at Rangoon will be a Tower with a clock and Westminster chimes. It will be in a position where it can benefit the city at large, and will be a beautiful and fitting appreciation of the missionary pioneers of a century ago and of their successors down to the present day."
The Tower is seventy-five feet high by four- tcen feet squarc, and its site is well adapted to evangelistic work.
A brick and stone chapel for the Karens was erected by Dr. Coles near the Tower site, a memorial to his mother and his father.
A bronze tablet on the Tabernacle Church at Salem, Massachusetts, reads as follows :
On February 6, 1812, in the Tabernacle Church on this site, Adoniram Judson, Gordon Hall,
Samuel Newell, Samuel Nott and Luther Rice were ordained the first American Foreign Mis- sionaries to the Ucathen in Asia. This Cen- tennial Tablet given by Jonathan Ackerman Coles, M. D., L.L. D., was cast 1902 to perpetu- ate the memory of their zealous and successful labors and those of their devoted wives in the service of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
A correspondent of the "New York Sun." under date of February 23, 1916, wrote from Salem, Massachusetts: "The bronze Tablet on the Flagstaff in Tri- angle Park, South Salem, was unveiled to-day and presented to the City. The Tablet, Flag and Flagstaff were gifts of J. Ackerman Coles, of New York, and commemorate the enterprise and resolute spirit with which Salem met the fire of June 25, 1914."
The seventy-ninth annual report of the American Telugo Missions, published at Madras, India, says :
In this record (1915) we must not fail to re- count one of its delightful surprises. Through the generosity of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, of New York City, we have received the gift of a beautiful sixteen-foot Mullins steel motor launch, to carry the Gospel up and down the Kurnool-Cuddapah Canal. Ever since coming to Kurnool, twenty years ago, says the Rev. Dr. W. A. Stanton, this has been one of our dreams, but we never sup- posed it would be realized. It would be in vain for me to attempt to describe the beauties of this little ship. Long may she plow these waters, a messenger of peace and good will to the people along these shores, who know not the love which prompted the gift.
The Rev. Henry Huizinga, Ph. D., principal of the Coles Memorial High School at Kurnool, British India, says :
The roll of students for 1914 consists of 113 Brahmans, 133 Non-Brahman Caste Hindus, 85 Christians, 62 Mohammedans and 5 Pandamas. The teaching staff consists of twenty-two, of which seven are college graduates. Our class average was higher than the presidency average, in English, by nine per cent., in Sanscrit by two per cent., and in Practical Physics by six per
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cent. Our principal aim is the development of character, patriotism, love of honor, reverence for God, and a spirit of service for humanity ; these are the chief features of the character we desire to build up in the lives of the young men who are under our influence.
The Rev. Lloyd C. Smith, M. A., prin- cipal and manager of the Dr. Abraham Coles and Mr. Warren Ackerman Memorial High School for Boys in Nellore, British South India, reports that the enrollment has reached four hundred and fifty-that in regard to examinations, their results are considerably above the presidency average, and in English are the best the school has ever secured under the School Final Scheme. Our Technical Depart- ment continues to be both popular and efficient. The organization of a students' Young Men's Christian Association was one of the features of interest of the year 1914 .. It seems to be a real force in the life of the school, and gives the Christian students a solidarity and standing they have not enjoyed before. In connection with the work of the Literary Societies, Mr. Smith says, "we arrange for public lectures in the school hall as opportunity affords."
Rev. Dr. David Downie writes :
Hostels are a real necessity, because suitable quarters for students cannot be obtained in In- dian towns. We have been engaged throughout the year in the construction of the Hostel given by Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, in memory of his uncle, the late Mr. George Ackerman. As the building rises, we see it assuming most splendid proportions. It will be a substantial and beauti- ful building, and a magnificent addition to our plant. In hostels the boys are removed from constant contact with heathen customs and people, and are surrounded with Christian influences. The Hostel at Kurnool is a gift of Dr. Coles in memory of his uncle Mr. Theodore J. Ackerman, a worthy citizen of New Haven, Connecticut, U. S. A., and the Teacher's residence at Kurnool, a gift in remembrance of the Doctor's uncle, the late Judge James Hervey Ackerman, A. B., LL. B., who for some time was associated with the Hon.
Amzi Dodd in the practice of law in Newark, New Jersey, U. S. A., and subsequently practiced in New York City.
The Rev. Dr. W. A. Stanton and Dr. Coles have purchased a large tract of land near Kur- nool, South India, and laid it out as a village with streets, lined with shade trees, and have built homes thereon; each family being assigned a small farm of five or more acres attached there- to, have planted groves of mangoes and margosa trees; have built a reservoir and pumping sta- tion for irrigating the grounds; furnished plows, oxen and a flock of sheep.
In a letter to Dr. Coles, Dr. Stanton says :
I have just returned from the village. I found the people well and happy and working hard at their farms. They have brought the lands which I assigned them last hot season under cultivation, and the crops look fine. If we continue to have good rains they should have a bumper harvest. The shepherd and his flock are doing well. The flock has now increased in size. Our carpenter is kept busy. He is an excellent workman and is not only a carpenter but a blacksmith as well. I took out fifty mango trees and planted thein in a garden. The trecs we planted last ycar are doing well, some of them being more than twice their original size. As the garden is growing so rapidly I found it necessary to engage a gardener to look after it. I found a very good man who has had experience in such work and was able to secure his services. In addition to looking after the trees he is to have a vegetable garden and raise all kinds of produce for sale. I shall make this a kind of demonstration farm, in which I shall show our people what crops can be best raised on this land, and the best methods of cultivating and harvesting. I think it will be a great benefit to them. The rains have stopped at last, and so I have begun work on an engine house for the pump. That is nearly completed and then we have to construct a reservoir for the pump and fit up the plant. After we get that done we shall start on the Rest House. We had the walls well up when the rains came on and it has not been possible to do anything since. But we shall push on with the work now. On Sunday we had very interesting services in the village. In the morn- ing we had Sunday school and prcaching service. The people can all repcat the Ten Command- ments and First and Twenty-third Psalms, They sing very well also. In the afternoon we baptized
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twenty new converts and received them into the village church, and observed the Lord's Supper We have now seventy-five resident church. mem- bers in the village, and our congregation on Sun- days includes people who come from the sur- rounding villages.
On August 7, 1915, the Rev. Dr. Stan- ton wrote to Dr. Coles from Kurnool, South India, as follows:
MY DEAR DR. COLES :
We need a fine large church plant adequate in size to meet the needs of our growing congrega- tion and with class rooms for our Sunday school and Bible work. I am sending under separate registered cover the plans of the proposed church building, so that you may see just what we want. Mr. Pogson, one of the best authorities in Mad- ras, has drawn the plans at my suggestion. I told him what I wanted, and he has worked out the ideas. The nave is sixty-four by thirty-six feet, with steep gable roof, covered with Man- golore red tiles. The gable peak is forty-eight feet above the ground level In the interior there are three huge arches, one at the chancel and one at each of the transepts, which will give a very imposing effect. The tower is one of the finest features of the building-it is eighty-eight feet to the summit, and is drawn on very beautiful and imposing lines. The building will be con- structed of the same beautiful stone as that used in the High School and Hostel buildings and will present a most artistic appearance.
The estimated cost for the ground and build- ing, including its furnishing is $10,000. Of course we could put up a much cheaper building than this, but since, by your generosity, we have such beautiful and artistic buildings as the Coles Me- morial High School and the Coles Memorial Stu- . dents' Homes and the Coles Memorial Boarding Home, it seems only appropriate that we should have a beautiful church building. Would you like
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