[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.

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