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Minutes of the Convention of the State of New Jersey Holden at Trenton the 11th Day of December 1787
No full textWhitman vs. Parton
No full textFrom a portion of material acquired by the univerrsity, Dr. Coad has been able to fill out the story of a much-debated controversy concerning a debt of Whitman
Goethe, Rolli, and "Solitario Bosco Ombroso"
No full textDorris elaborates on a passage from Goethe's autobiograph "Dichtung und Wahrheit," in which Goethe mentions an italian song he learned by heart as a child. It is "Solitario Bosco Ombroso," written by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687-1765). He points out the significance of the song and of the Rutgers' copy of Rolli's book "Di Canzonette e di Cantate, libri due" of 1727 which contains it
Seventeenth-Century English Newsbooks
No full textFrench discusses the genre of the English Newsbook from the seventeenth century and the holdings of such books in the Rutgers library. He characterizes them as "frankly unreliable but frequently charming or spicy or even rowdy gossip.
Exhibitions and Notes from the Library
No full text"Exhibitions" describes exhibitions of the "Oriole Press," which operated in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and of the Jack Kriendler Memorial Collection."Notes from the Library" includes:"A Swedish Contribution to New Jersey Historiograph" by Richard P. McCormick. Concerns Israel Acrelius' "Description of the Former and Present Condition of the Swedish Churches in What Was Called New Sweden, Afterwards New Netherlandy But at the Present Time Pennsylvania, Together With the Adjacent Places on the River DeLa Ware, West Jersey, and New Castle Countyy in North America" (1759)."A Lost Fragment of Freneau's The Spy" by Philip Mars
George Augustus Osborn In Memoriam
No full textMemorial tribute to George Augustus Osborn (1874-1947), Rutgers University Librarian, 1907-1945
