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Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. "Red Reminiscences of the Southwest"" by William M. Baker-- author discusses the peculiar habit of hangings;"" The Launch of the Valkyries"" by Wm. W. Young; Little Guinever, by A.W.; ""Simples and Simplers"" by Wilson Flagg. ""Jefferson in the Continental Congress"" by James Parton. Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, play the violin... and speak French, Italian and Spanish, as well as read Latin and Greek. Erudite discussion of contemporary (1872) musical tastes, in our not yet so highly cultivated musical community. Paper periodical, good condition. . Catalogs: Printed Matter/History .

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. In Politics commentary, the writer notes that with the Presidential election over, ""the nation breathes freer in the security of its delivery from Mr. Greeley and his galvanized democracy."" ""Common Ornamen"", a comment on Americans' love for ornamentation in 1872; ""Meeting of Jefferson and Hamilton"" by James Parton. ""The Fight of a Man with a Railroad"" by John A. Coleman, Providence, RI. Coleman has traveled many thousands of miles on rails in Europe and the U.S. and he has a load of grievances. ""The Poet at the Breakfast-Table XII"" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, is another of Holmes' brilliant literary excursions. Holmes dreads persons with an excess of vitality, and those drooping, languid people as well. Paper periodical, good condition. . Catalogs: Printed Matter/History .

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. "Jefferson in the Service of Revolutionary Virginia"" by James Parton, tells fascinating tales about Jefferson's part in the Revolution. Gov. Dunsmore's cowardly attempt using negro slaves to rob the Williamsburg magazine, just as General Gage in Boston was calculating his losses from Lexington and Concord. Commentary on Ambroise Thomas's Mignon; Recent Literature: The Odyssey of Homer, translated into English blank-verse by William Cullen Bryant. Politics: The Presidential conventions are drawing near. ""When we elect a man to office, we at the same time unconsciously encourage others to tear him to pieces."" ""The Poet at the Breakfast-Table V"" by Oliver Wendell Homes-- more good humor as Holmes describes his encounter with young Doctor Benjamin Franklin and his case of yellow jaundice. His description of an astronomical observatory is interesting. Paper periodical, good condition. . Catalogs: Printed… Read More

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1871. 16 x 25 cm. Edmund C. Stedman writes about the new liberal trend in schools and universities in his erudite ""Tennyson and Theocritus"". ""A Thanksgiving"" poem by Celia Thaxter; W. Goodell, M.D. has lived many years among the Turks, and now writes about Oriental insanity, including the plight of young brides, in ""The Bedlams of Stamboul"".Kate Beaumont XI by J.W. DeForest; Our Whispering Gallery, about a visit to Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill in Kent, and all the connections to his writing. The very queer little boy and the bullies who remove the muzzles from bears, and Cobham village. Paper periodical, good condition. . Catalogs: Printed Matter/History .

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1871. 16 x 25 cm. Twin Love by Bayard Taylor; Learning by H.B. Hudson; American Life in France, V, by M.L.P.; A Greyport Legend by Bret Harte; Kate Beaumont, IX, by J.W. DeForest; our Whispering Gallery--Dickens; The Romance of Modro�o Hollow by Bret Harte; In the Lane by Celia Thaxter. ""Encyclicals of a Traveler, III"" reports on heat in Rome, so hot we could scarcely breathe... even so, he finally visits the Palace of the Caesars, now owned by Napoleon, who paid $40,000. He can't help laughing at the spruced-up condition. Then, he's off to Venice, and more surprises. Paper periodical, good condition. . Catalogs: Printed Matter/History .

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company (Late Ticknor & Fields), 1872. 16 x 25 cm. "L'Ore, The Slave of a Siamese Queen"" by Mrs. Leonowens. Author, after whom the fictional Anna and the King of Siam was written, describes a striking encounter with a woman who was a Muslim slave to the Siamese Queen. ""Jefferson American Minister in France"" by James Parton-- interesting details of how Jefferson adjusted to his life in Paris, and the problem of the young Republic's poor compensation for its ministers. ""The Poet at the Breakfast-Table X."" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Another of Holmes' meandering but brilliant essays. Music: Fran Abt, Henry Smart, Alberto Rondegger, Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumann, Ju;ious Eichberg, Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy, more. Paper periodical, good condition. . Catalogs: Printed Matter/History .