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Highlights of British and German Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1941
No full textOsborne analyzes pamphlets in possession of the Rutgers University Library that provide an interesting insight into the methods and techniques used by each side to present its case to the American public from 1939 to 1941. He concludes "the spirit of the Anglo-American heritage permeates the pages of the British publications, but it is expressed in a subtle, indirect fashion that contrasts vividly with the rather strident claims of the Germans.
William Kenrick, Eighteenth Century Scourage and Critic
No full textFussel seeks to give an idea of the whole career of William Kenrick, the hack, the dramatist, the lexicographer, the Shakespearian, and the "superlative scoundrel," as well as his criticism in the "Monthly Review.
William Elliot Griffis, Class of 1869
No full textWilliam Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) participated in the "modernization" of Japan, along with other "yatoi" or foreign workers in Japan in the late ninetheeth century. He became most famous in his role as our first "Old Japan Hand." He was considered during his lifetime as "Interpreter of a Nation." He wrote and lecture on Japan profusely for fifty-two years after staying in Japan for four years from 1870 to 1874. His voluminous papers are in Rutgers' Special Collections
Notes from the Library in Volume 14:2
No full text"A Baseball Novel" by Clarence E. Turner (The Bride and the Pennan By Frank L. Chance"Freneau and Bion" by Philip Marsh
From Tennessee to California in 1849: Letters of the Reeve Family of Medford, New Jersey
No full textThese letters written in journal form by Clayton and Robert Reeve, brothers, and their sister, Rebecca Foster Reeve tell the story of their travels westward to seek out gold and other treasure in California
Notes from the Library in V0lume 8:2
No full text"Kearny at Seven Pines" by Rudolf Kirk. Concerns a manuscript of "Kearny at Seven Pines" by by Edmund C. Stedman (1833-1908), about General Phiip Kearny ((June 2, 1815 – September 1, 1862)."A Missionary Cutting and Gather Mashine" by Virgina S. Burnett
Railroad Accident at Burlington in 1855
No full textSinclair describes an accident in Burlington, New Jeresy, of the Camden and Amboy railroad utilizing contemporary newspapers and pamphlets fron the Rutgers Library