White, Richard Grant [1822-1885] - The New Gospel of Peace, According to St. Benjamin

New York, The American News Company, 1877. orig. cloth. 18x13cm, xxvi,343 pp. Some page-edge browning.. Rubbed. Tear to flyleaf. Small stain to rear cover. Good. ¶ White (1822-1885), American Shakespearean scholar, philologist and essayist... During the Civil War he contributed to the Spectator, under the pseudonym, "A Yankee," a series of articles which greatly influenced English public opinion in favour of the North, while his clever and pungent satire, The New Gospel of Peace; according to St Benjamin", in four books (1863-1866) - also published anonymously - was an effective attack upon "copper-headism" and the advocates of "peace at any price" ...Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 edition].

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