Lines to the Tyrant
1861 Southern Literary Messenger publishes a pseudoscientific essay asserting Black inferiority to justify slavery, alongside a pro-Confederate poem calling force against Lincoln.
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Lines to the Tyrant
Reconciliation
1863 magazine excerpts: Civil War narratives of marches and escapes, poems on reconciliation and emancipation, and an essay arguing political economy must serve statesmanship and national unity.
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To Lamar Fontaine
1863 Literary Messenger reports Union troops’ desecration in Virginia and captured restraints, alongside poems honoring Confederate heroes and a humorous essay on the word ‘wox’.
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To the Southern Cross
Civil War reports recount Missouri campaigns and skirmishes. Poetry on crusader/Jerusalem imagery and an essay calls for post-war education and teachers’ conventions in the South.
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The Golden Treasury
An essay on the moral uses of insanity urging compassion, religious hope, and the healing power of Christ, followed by a review of Palgrave’s Golden Treasury and reflections on English poetry.
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Voir Naples et Mourir
Victorian pieces on human frailty: an essay on insanity and its moral effects, a poem ‘Voir Naples et Mourir’ on mortality, and reflections on first teachers and influence.
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Fitz-Greene Halleck as a Poet
Examines hazards and new regulations on household poisons, and presents a critical appreciation of Fitz-Greene Halleck’s poetic style and influence.
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Perry’s Elements of Political Economy
Argues for an organized ‘ecclesiastical economy’ to systematize church temporalities; contains reviews of natural history and Arthur P. Perry’s Elements of Political Economy tracing economic thought.
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Shakespeare
Two pieces: a call to develop ‘ecclesiastical economy’ for managing congregational temporalities, and a critical review of Richard Grant White’s biography of Shakespeare.
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Tenney’s Manual of Zoology
Argues for a systematic ‘ecclesiastical economy’ for congregational temporalities. Reviews works on Jesus and on zoology, defending special creation against Darwinian views.
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Childhood of Joseph Addison Alexander
Biography of Joseph Addison Alexander’s childhood: a precocious, voracious reader who mastered Latin, Hebrew and other languages under his father’s tutelage and prepared for Princeton.
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The Sea: By One on Shore
Index and selections from Hours at Home (Vol. VIII, 1868–69). A literary monthly featuring essays, translations, travel pieces and poetry (Girardin profile, Sevastopol, sea poems).
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The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, Volume 1
Biography of Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Princeton theological professor, biblical and Oriental scholar, preacher and commentator, chronicling his studies, teaching and writings.
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The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, Volume 2
Biography of Joseph A. Alexander, Princeton theologian: diaries, sermons, teaching, travels, commentaries (Isaiah, Acts), personal letters, piety, declining health and death.
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Gardiner’s Harmony of the Four Gospels
Presbyterians argue apostolic succession rests on apostolic writings, doctrine and polity rather than historical lineage. Also reviews Gardiner’s Harmony of the Gospels.
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An Invitation
A magazine issue featuring a sketch of Jasmin, the troubadour of Agen; a poem ‘An Invitation’ evoking wintry night and hearth; and an introduction to Plautus’s comedy ‘The Haunted House.’
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Gough’s New Testament Quotations
Reviews Hodge’s Systematic Theology as learned, perspicuous, and orthodox. Notes Gough’s New-Testament/Old-Testament collations (helpful for Romans) and Somers’ postwar Southern survey.
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What I Saw of the Shah
Victorian literary-travel sketches: Italian haunts of Lord Byron and a narrator’s uneasy encounters with the Shah of Persia—obsession, public spectacle, and travel observation.
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Reason and Redemption
Review of Reason and Redemption: argues that denying Redemption requires abandoning reason; critiques deism, pantheism, positivism and atheism and defends Christian apologetics.
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The Metaphysical Postulate of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles
Critique of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles arguing his doctrine of the ‘unknowable’ rests on flawed Hamiltonian premises and tends toward agnosticism or atheism. Compares positivism with Christian theology.
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