[Rarebooks] FS - Lynching, Mormons, etc.
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BRYCE, Lloyd (ed.). /THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW /A broken run of
fourteen individual issues. Bound in paper wrappers with library stamps
to front cover only. February, 1890, to December, 1893, including five
issues from 1890; three from 1891; two from 1892; and four from 1893.
The covers of two issues are absent. All issues show rubbing to edges
and wear to spine. Contents uniformly in very good condition, with some
pages uncut in some issues
A positive cornucopia of fascinating articles and amusing Victorian
advertisements. Some interesting articles include: Edward Bellamy,
"'Looking Backward' Again"; Sen. J. S. Morrill, "Free Trade or
Protection"; A Daughter of Brigham Young [sic], "Family Life Among the
Mormons"; General Nelson A. Miles, "The Future of the Indian
Question"; Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, "Favorable Aspects of State
Socialism"; Henry Cabot Lodge, "Lynch Law and Unrestricted Immigration";
Alice Hayes, "Can a Poor Girl Go to College?"; Marion Harland, "Women as
Human Beings"; Edward Bellamy, "The Progress of Nationalism in the
United States"; Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, "The Perils of Re-electing
Presidents"; Jefferson Davis, "The Doctrine of State Rights" (Davis, the
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War, died in 1889, just
before this article was published in February, 1890); Sir William
Thomson, "Electric Lighting and Public Safety"; Capt. W. T. Sampson,
"The Battle-ship of the Future"; [three articles on Hawaii]: "The
Invasion of Hawaii", "A Plea for Annexation", "Our Present Duty";
Gertrude B. Rolfe, "The Right to Die"; Mrs. M.E.W. Sherwood, "Why Women
Marry"; [four military authors] "Further Recollections of Gettysburg";
Gen. W. T. Sherman, "Our Army and Militia"; etc. etc. A unique
repository of period thought, manners, beliefs and attitudes.
Price: $150.00.
Terms of Sale - The price is net in U.S. funds. Payment by check or
credit card (MasterCard, VISA, AMEX). Postage and packing charge $10 in
North America. Returnable within seven days of receipt if not as described.
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