Buchanan’s Journal of Man, Volume 1, Number 5, by Joseph Rodes Buchanan. Published June 1887.
Buchanan’s Journal of Man, Volume 1, Number 5
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1887, June, Periodicals
Old Fogy Biography
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It seems that biography as well as history will have to be re-written in the light of modern progress. Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography has sent out its first volume, edited by Gen. Wilson and Prof. John Fiske. The sources of this volume do not promise much liberality, and the first volume does not show it. While professing to record the lives of all who are eminent or noteworthy, it fulfils this promise by recording many who are not very eminent or noteworthy; indeed, Mr. Lowell says, by way of commendation, that he has hunted for obscure names and found them. What then is the reason of the omission of the Hon. Cassius M. Clay, our former minister to Russia, one of the most conspicuous figures for many years in American politics and par excellence, the lion of the struggle which ended in negro emancipation? His life, recently published is a volume of fascinating and romantic interest. Mr. Clay might treat this omission as the old Roman said of having a statue in the forum–that he would rather men should ask why he had no statue there, than to ask why his statue was there. Dr. Joseph Rodes Buchanan is briefly noticed, his name incorrectly spelled, a catalogue of his publications given, and a volume attributed to him which was written by the notorious Dr. John Buchanan of Philadelphia. But nothing is said of the new school of philosophy, or of the new sciences, established by Dr. Buchanan. Evidently this is old fogy biography. The editors have gathered their material with a scoop, unable to distinguish between dirt, pebbles and jewels. Nevertheless they have made a valuable record if not a fair one.
Frenzied Finance
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Nonfiction
Frenzied Finance; Volume 1: The Crime of Amalgamated, by Thomas W. Lawson. Published 1905.
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Buchanan’s Journal of Man, Volume 1, Number 4
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Buchanan’s Journal of Man, Volume 1, Number 4, by Joseph Rodes Buchanan. Published May 1887.
Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching
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Nonfiction
Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching, by Henry Ware, Jr.. Published 1824.
The Lost Art of Reading
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Nonfiction
The Lost Art of Reading, by Gerald Stanley Lee. Published 1903.
The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor, Volume 1, Number 2
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The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor, Volume 1, Number 2, February 1810, edited by Stephen Cullen Carpenter. Published 1810.
This issue includes Venoni, or, The Novice of St. Mark’s by M. G. Lewis.
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A Tar-Heel Baron
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Fiction
A Tar-Heel Baron, by Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton. Published 1903.
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