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Notes from the Library in Volume 6:1
No full text"A [Walt] Whitman Letter" (May 2, 1865) by Oral Sumner Coad; "The Spirit of the Fair," by Rudolf Kirk; "For Bibliophiles: Bookmaking & Kindred Amenities," edited with an Introductionand Notes by Earl Schenck Miers & Richard Ellis. Rutgers Press, reviewed by Lelise A Marchand
The Sillon: An Experiment in Popular Education
No full textThe Sillon was founded a a mass political movement in 1899 by Marc Sangnier (1873-1950). Sangnier believed, however, that he could reach his goal only by educating the workers of the nation. In this article, Jefferson elaborates on the Sillon as an important education movement as well
The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Journal
No full textCameron, the University Librarian, takes note of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Journal and how it has become the Library's "chief means of communication" with people interested in the Library. Since articles are based on the holdings of the Library, the Journal helps the friends of the library to become aware of "the diversity and rarity of many of our prossessions.
The Rutgers Law Library
No full textFiordalisi writes about the origin of the Rutgers Law Library in Newark and describes its current state in 1951 and its goals for the future
The Collins Bible
No full textThe article provides historical context for the publishing of the 1791 edition of the King James Bible by Issac Collins. This work is considered to by Collins' greatest single achievement in this disinguished publishing career
William A. Newell, Class of 1836
No full textWhile not an outstanding student at Rutgers, Newell (1817-1901) went on to have significant careers as a physician and a public servant
The Milledoler Funeral
No full textThe article concerns a painting of the funeral of Philip Milledoler (1775-1852), Rutgers' fifth president 1825-1840). The author provides a transcription of the author's father's (Rev. Dr. Cormelius Brett's) memory of the service and an explanation of the picture
Literary Annuals and Gift Books
No full textShortly after the appearance in 1936 of American Literary Annuals & Gift Books 1825-1865 by Dr. Ralph Thompson, a former instructor of English at Rutgers, Mr. Alan E. James, of the class of 1928 and now on the staff of the Library, compared the holdings of literary annuals and gift books in the Rutgers Library with the titles given in Dr. Thompson s extensive bibliography. Mr. James found that Rutgers owned, in addition to about a third of the total number of books, some forty-six new titles or variants which were unknown to Dr. Thompson or to any other bibliographer of these curious and often rare publications. The following list will give students of American literature further materials for enlarging our knowledge of literary America a century ago.