This is the Second Edition of a rare but significant book published in 1924. It includes the following new material: an Introduction, an "About the Author" section, and Barnes' letter to Wilson which initiated the exchange of letters. (The first edition had Wilson's letter to Barnes, but not Barnes' letter to Wilson.) The editor of the Second Edition adds this note to readers: "I hope you will enjoy reading this revised Second Edition, the correspondence between two early proponents of making the study of Administration its own field of study, separate from Political Science." -- Peter V....

This book is both a biography of Almont Barnes and a history of First New York Light Artillery, Battery C, in the Civil War. It is also a great STORY because the "world" knows very little about him; even Arlington National Cemetery, where Almont Barnes is buried, is looking for information about him. Almont Barnes was my great grandfather, my mother's mother's father. My mother never told me much about him, probably because she didn't know much. She told me that he had been a newspaper editor in upstate New York and a Captain in the Civil War, and that there was a monument honoring him and...

DAVID lived on an island on the coast of South Carolina. It was the first day of school and David was in first grade. The island schoolhouse, that had looked so empty and desolate all summer long, with tall grass growing in the schoolyard, was now brimming over with children. The grass was cut, and the big windows were opened wide. David sat at his own desk, in his own chair. The mothers who had brought their children to school had all gone away, David's mother, too. And now it was Miss Joyce, the teacher, whom David must mind. The story tells of David's experiences in First Grade - learning...