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descended, as we came to the lakes, to Idaho Springs and the plains.

As I now look out of my window, in my Denver home, at the evening star, slow-sinking behind its granite

crest, I wish I could follow Saturn's silvery trail, so that even in the thickening darkness I might stand once more upon Rosalie Mountain.

HENRY DUDLEY TEETOR.

ARCHITECTURE IN DENVER.

CAPTAIN ROBERT S. ROESCHLAUB.

DENVER is a city remarkable for its homes "built to last and built to be lovely, as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without, with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and partly his history."

There is nothing conventional in this home-building. Every house seems to be the singular idea of its owner or its architect materialized. The contrariety of design is as creditable to the one as to the other. The aim seems to be to build and possess a quiet resting-place, suited to each individual's conceptions-the realization of his peculiar home-dream.

Madame De Stael wrote, “Architecture is frozen music." For the past seventeen years Captain Robert S. Roeschlaub has been a composer of this "frozen music" in Denver and Colorado, and neighboring States. Some of the private residences and terraces of his designing are North End Park Terrace, The Sopris double residence, Bell Place Terrace, resi

dence of P. Gottensleben, residence of Mrs. George Ady, the E. B. Light Terrace, etc.

Of public buildings, including churches, we notice: The High School building of East Denver; the Emerson School Building; Central Presbyterian Church; the State School for Deaf and Blind, Colorado Springs; the King Block, College Hall, University of Denver; the Chamberlin Observatory; Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Denver; Central Block at Pueblo, and First Presbyterian Church at Colorado Springs.

Mr. Roeschlaub was born in Munich, Bavaria, a descendant of a professional family, his grandfather being at one time Dean of the Medical University of Munich. His father was a practicing physician for over fifty years. Removing with his father's family to America, this son lived at Quincy, Ill., from 1851 to 1873, saving the period spent in the Union Army. At the age of nineteen, August 1, 1862, young Roeschlaub enlisted as a

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private in Company E, 84th Illinois Volunteers. At the time he was attending an academy preparing for his profession, and his enlistment was under one of his professors. His promotion was regular from a private's station to captain. He was in full command of his company from July 15, 1863, to the close of the war.

Captain Roeschlaub took part in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Rocky Face Ridge, Dalton, Pumpkin Vine Creek, Kenesaw, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Johnstown, Lovejoy, Franklin, Nashville, and numerous skirmishes of those campaigns. He was wounded twice, at Stone River and

Chickamauga. He is a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of America, and recently read an interesting paper before that · body entitled "A Forty Days' Foot Race With Hood."

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In 1870 he removed to Denver, where he has since lived in the successful pursuit of his profession. has been supervising architect of the Denver Board of Education for the past fifteen years, and is the designer of all of East Denver's school buildings, which have become so noted throughout this country as well as abroad.

H. D. T.

VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE.*

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MORE IMPORTANT VERSIONS AND EDITIONS.

1562.

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The "Whig" or "Placemaker's Bible obtained its name from an error occurring in the 5th chapter of St. Matthew, 9th verse, where "Blessed are the placemakers" is substituted for the words "Blessed are the peacemakers." It was translated from the Hebrew and Greek and printed in English. During this year the Codex Bezae, or Cantabrigiensis (mention of which was made in Part I. of these papers) was discovered in the monastery of St. Irenaeus at Lyons. This uncial manuscript contains, on opposite pages, the Gospels, and the book of Acts in Greek and Latin.

It was presented to the University of Cambridge in 1581 by Theodore Beza, who found it, during the French civil wars, in this monastery. In the manuscript the Gospels stand: Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order found also in some of the manuscripts of the old Latin versions.

An edition of the New Testament was printed in Latin, at Paris, by Jacob Keruer. An edition of the New Testament was printed in Latin from the version of Martinez, a copy of which is in possession of Mr. Willis

* Copyright, 1889, by Charles W. Darling.

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Pine, of Ohio. An edition of the Bible was published at Lyons by Seb. Honore, and an edition of the New Testament passed through the press of Steelsius at Antwerp. A revised and corrected edition of Bruccioli's version (1532) was printed in Italian, at Geneva, for the use of Protestants, but Walchius regards this as an entirely new version. The Bible, in Hebrew and German, was printed at Mantua by Kafvenaki. This old city is distinguished for its patronage of literature and art, and is second to but few in antiquity. Founded by the Etruscans, 400 years before the building of Rome, it is often mentioned, under its present name, by Roman writers. On the decline of the Roman empire, it was pillaged by the Huns, afterwards taken by the Longobards, and still later annexed to the exarchate of Ravenna. Charlemagne gave it its first fortifications, and in the 11th century it was held in common with Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, under the sway of the family of Canossa. In the beginning of the 12th century Mantua became independent, and so continued until it fell under the iron

rule of Buonacolsi. In 1328 it found better masters in the Gonzagas, who, as Dukes of Mantua, governed with

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