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                              _Washington_
                       _ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS_


                                   BY

                      MRS. HARRIET EARHART MONROE

    _Author of "The Art of Conversation," "The Heroine of the Mining
                 Camp," "Historical Lutheranism," etc._

                       _NEW AND REVISED EDITION_

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                        FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
                          NEW YORK AND LONDON
                                  1909




                      COPYRIGHT, 1903 AND 1909, BY
                         HARRIET EARHART MONROE
              [_Printed in the United States of America_]
               Revised Edition Published September, 1909




                                CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE

      I. The City of Washington                                        1

     II. A Genius from France                                          4

    III. The Capitol Building                                         12

     IV. Interior of the Capitol                                      17

      V. The Rotunda                                                  21

     VI. Concerning Some of the Art at the Capitol                    26

    VII. The Senate Chamber                                           33

   VIII. The House of Representatives                                 40

     IX. Concerning Representatives                                   46

      X. The Supreme Court Room                                       53

     XI. Incidents Concerning Members of the Supreme Court of the     58
           United States

    XII. Teaching Patriotism in the Capitol                           67

   XIII. People in