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The Charter
No full textThe article deals with the second charter of Queen's College from 1770, printed by John Holt in the best printing art of the time
Last Words Volume 18:1
No full textMarchand opines on the need to collect materials for libraries widely and without regard to current tastes
The First Century of the New Brunswick Stage: Part III
No full textThis article concludes Coad three part series on the first century of the New Brunswick Stage
Scholarship and Autobiography
No full textFussell (1924-2012) was a Rutgers professor of English for 28 years (1955-1983). At first well-known as a scholar of eighteenth century English literature, Fussell went on to be a strong critic of war and social class beginning with perhaps his most influential book, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), about the romantic myth and reality of war in World War I. In this essay, he argues that all humanistic research involves an element of autobiography in them, but it became more prominent in this book and subsequent works of because of his own experience as a soldier in the World War II. He was almost obsessed by the image of “my strange marble boys,” his fellow dead soldiers on the battle fields in 1944. Through the art of writing scholarship, he was able to objectify these images, purge himself of them, and move on
Deshler and the Know Nothing Party
No full textCharles D. Deshler, druggist, editor, author, and one of the most active political leaders of the Know Nothing Party, left at his death a large body of manuscripts which were the collections of a lifetime of contacts with some of the most prominent Americans of the last half of the nineteenth century. His son Charles Deshler of the Class of 1885, presented this group of papers to the Library
Letters of Washington Irving
No full textThis article is the second part of the article "Seven Letters of Washington Irving" published in the previous issue of The Journal (9:1). These four Irving letters here printed, dated nearly a year later (April-December 1805) were addressed to his brothers Peter and William Irving and to a friend, Andrew Hicks, and give us glimpses of Irving during the second half of his first visit to Europe from Italy to Paris and London
A Collection of Papers of Arthur Waley and Beryl de Zoete
No full textJohns describes the content and significance of the papers of Arthur Waley and Beryle de Zoete that were donated to the Library. They contain the correspondence, letters and notebooks give the reader some interesting sidelights on literary life in England between the wars. There are some three thousand books, mostly in Western European languages ranging from sinology, archeology and anthropology, grammars, language manuals and painting to modern English and Italian literature. Over a third are either inscribed to Arthur Waley or Miss de Zoete, or have their annotations
Seventeenth-Century English Newspapers and Periodicals
No full textA bibliography of seventeenth-century English newspapers and periodicals that are to be found in the collection in the Rutgers University Library