The Pentecost of Calamity w/dust jacket & pamphlet
The Pentecost of Calamity w/dust jacket & pamphlet
The Pentecost of Calamity w/ dustjacket & pamphlet The Pentecost of Calamity by Owen Wister author of "The Virginian" copyright 1915 Pamphlet included with book reads: "Together with Mr. Wister's book the Donor would like to present the enclosed article." The pamphlet includes excerpts from two articles on International Law written by Charles Noble Gregory (New York Herald, May 16th, 1913(sic)) and Professor Theodore S. Woolsey (Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, July 29th, 1915) Owen Wister (1860 – 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister ) Charles Noble Gregory (1851–1932) American lawyer and educator (source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Charles_Noble_Gregory ) Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852 – 1929) was a United States legal scholar...He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876). After traveling in Europe he was instructor in public law at Yale, and for 33 years (1878-1911) professor of international law. He was one of the founders of the Yale Review and a frequent contributor to it. He wrote several essays which were collected under the title America's Foreign policy (1898), and he edited Woolsey's International Law and Pomeroy's International Law. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Salisbury_Woolsey ) Section of torn pamphlet reads: "But this writer had made other investigations which showed vastly larger military supplies passing from Germany to Great Britain at this time." "Neutrality and...Arms Shipments." -- Charles Noble Gregory, A.M., LL.D Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Law of the American Bar Association (Published in the New York Herald, May 16, 1915) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112039404022 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112039404022?urlappend=%3Bseq=12