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"A pleasant Land to see" Part One
Coad presents "a sort of anthology, admittedly very incomplete, of passages in praise of selected scenic landmarks of the State of New Jersey, arranged in a loose order of geographical progression from north to south." In this article, he finds historic passages about The Palisades, Greenwood Lake, The Passaic and Its Falls, The Orange Mountains, A Warren County Trout Springs, The Delaware Water Gap, and The Raritan River Valley.
Invasion Jitters, Napoleonic Period
Aubin utilizes seven pamphlets in the Rutgers Library and published in 1802 and 1804 to illustrate the British fear on an invasion by French soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte
Byron's Ode to Napoleon
Pack describes the nature of the rare first edition of Byron's "Ode to Napoleon," published in London in 1814, bound together with eight other Byron octavo pamphlets
Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making It a Benefit to the World
Exhibitions and Notes from the Library
"Lost Tribute to Washington" by Jules B. Faber"William Dean Howells" by Richard E. Amacher"A Volume from Samuel Sewall's Library" by Walter Hardin
Vetancurt's Nahuatl Primer
Dauster explores "Arte de lengua mexicana" (1673) of Father Augustin de Vetancurt, a systematic grammar of Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs, and related to those languages spoken across most of northern Mexico and a large part of the southwestern United States
Gifts and Acquisitions in Volume 12:1
Describes gifts and acquisitions of "The New Jersey Journal," "AnAbstract, or Abbreviation of Some Few of the Many . . . Testimonysfrom the Inhabitants of New-Jersey, and Other Eminent Persons,Who Have Wrote Particularly Concerning That Place," and others