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Two Howell's Letters
No full textThe Kirk's place into context and transcribe two letters from William Dean Howells written to James R. Osgood, his publisher, in October 16, 1882, and October 21,1891. They were written at the beginning and in the midst of Howells's most productive and influential period, the letters add to our growing understanding of the writer
Notes from the Library volume 2:1
No full text"Rutgers University Press" by Earl S. Miers; three book reviews of books published by Rutgers University Press: "James Madison: Philosopher of the Constitution," by E. McN. Burns, reviewed by Loring B. Priest; "An Index to Don Quijote," by Richard L. Predmore reviewed by Charles H. Stevens, Jr.; "Shakespeare's Influence on the Drama of His Age" by D. J. McGinn, reviewed by Donald F. Cameron. "A School Girl'S Diary" by Zora Klain. "The Laws of Yale-College" by Rudolf Kirk
The New Library Building
No full textDonald Cameron, the university librarian, announces the second state appropriation for a new library, (later named the Alexander Library) and the plans for it
The University Library and the State
No full textMcDonough speaks about Rutgers Library's role in the total library complex of New Jersey
Notes from the Library in Volume 9:2
No full text"Lafayette's Letters to Washington" by Edward McN. Burns"Rutgers Press Books" by Oral Sumner Coad. Review of "The Last Poems of Philip Freneau," edited by Lewis Leary. Rutgers University Press."Letters of Thomas Hood From the Dilke Papers in the British Museum." Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Leslie A. Marchand. Rutgers University Studies in English: Number Four. Reviewed by T.C.D. Eaves"Gifts to the Library
The Library of the College of Agriculture
No full textA brief history of the College of Agriculture, the Experiement Station and the Library of the College of Agriculture is presented here
The Good Die Young
No full textStearns explores a special type of memoirs, a generic name to a lugubrious genre of American literature concerning the lives of young persons who died at an early age after exhibiting notable signs of piety. The Rutgers University Library possesses a fine collection of these memoir anthologies, some one hundred narratives, each one a little more moral than its predecessors
The Printing Anniversary Celebration
No full textThe five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing from movable type, and the four hundredth anniversary of the introduction of printing in America, were celebrated during March and April by the Associated Friends of the Rutgers Library with a series of lectures and exhibits of outstanding interest
Mary Cowden Clarke and Her East End Injun
No full textThe article concerns the one of the many parodies of Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" published in 1855. It is "The Song of Drop oy Wather, by Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow," written by Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), a decorous Victorian lady. Falk states "The Song of Drop O'Wather could not be consideredcoarse, but it does contain a somewhat detailed account of crime and sin. One wonders if perhaps Mrs. Cowden Clarke in her late years regretted having 'sullied' the public mind.