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Biography
Calhoun, John Caldwell. 92 032m
Meigs, William Montgomery. Life of John Caldwell Calhoun. 2v.
1917. Neale Pub. Co.
Contains bibliographical foot-notes.
"The long-desired complete and impartial life of the Great Nullifier. Evidently
it rests on an industrious examination of the available sources and is constructed, on
the whole, with an admirable sense of the relations of the various phases of Calhoun's
career to the whole story of his long and important life." American political science
review, 1918.
Davis, Henry Gassaway. 92 D318P
Pepper, Charles Melville. Life and times of Henry Gassaway
Davis, 1823-1916. 1920. Century.
Deals with two phases of Senator Davis's long life—the practical side as railway
builder and creator of industrial communities, and the visionary side as public servant,
political leader, and private citizen.
Irving, Washington. 92 l288ir
Journals of Washington Irving (from July 1815 to July 1842); ed.
by W. P. Trent and G. S. Hellman. 3v. ,1919.
v.i. The tour in Wales, 1815.—France, 1820.—Aix-la-Chapelle, etc.—The Rhine
country, Dresden, etc.
v.2. France, Aug. 1824 to Feb. 8, 1826.
v.3. Spain.—Tour through the West.—Esopus and Dutch tour.
Published by the Bibliophile Society.
Lincoln, Abraham. 92 Lyisbt
Barton, William Eleazar. The soul of Abraham Lincoln. 1920.
Doran.
Contents: A study of religious environments.—An analysis of the evidence.—
The religion of Lincoln.—APPENDICES: Extract from Newton Bateman's Lecture on
Lincoln with variants of the Springfield farewell address.—"High-handed outrage at
Utica," by Artemus Ward.—"The conversion of Abraham Lincoln," by the Rev. E. L.
Watson.—The Reed lecture.—Two Herndon letters concerning Lincoln's religion.—
The Irwin article, with letters.—"The Christian's defence."—Lincoln and the churches,
by Nicolay and Hay.—"Bound together in Christianity and patriotism," hitherto
unpublished address of Lincoln.
"Bibliography," p.387-400.
Swinnerton, Frank Arthur. 92 89783b
Bennett, Arnold, and others. Frank Swinnerton; personal sketches.
1920. Doran.
The same r 92 89782b
Contents: Frank Swinnerton; a personal sketch, by Arnold Bennett.—Concerning
Mr Swinnerton, by H. G. Wells.— A conversation about Frank Swinnerton, by P. M.—
Frank Swinnerton, as seen by an editor, by G. M. Overton.—Books by Frank Swinnerton;
description and comment
Whitman, Walt. - 92 W648ba
Bazalgette, Leon. Walt Whitman, the man and his work; tr. from
the French by Ellen FitzGerald. 1920. Doubleday.
Contains bibliographical foot-notes.
Written in 1907 by the French translator of Whitman to acquaint his nation with
the poet who to him expressed the whole western continent. This translation, slightly
abridged from the original, is offered as a centenary tribute.