Edwards, B. B.; Cogswell, W. The American Quarterly Register. Vol. XI. [1839]

Edwards, B. B.; Cogswell, W. The American Quarterly Register. Vol. XI. [1839]. Boston: American Education Society, 1839. First Edition. [4073]

Sometime rebound in brown cloth, leather spine title label retained, 9 x 6, 476 pp., recent former owner's signature on ffep. Shadow on front end papers & remnants from old card pocket. Engraved portraits of Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D.; Jonathan P. Cushing, M.A.; John Farmer, M.A.; and Rev. James Manning, D.D., from a portrait painted in 1770. Good. Hardcover. 

This volume has the numbers from August, 1838 to May, 1839.

This series (1827-1843) is no. 103 in Roberts, Revival Literature. "A periodical with numerous articles on revivals."

The volume is full of historical matter, biographies, revival accounts, memoirs, &c.  It contains Revivals of Religion in Amherst College, by Heman Humphrey (12 pp.) and Revivals in Colleges, by Calvin Butler (2 pp.).

Other pieces of interest are Memoir of President Appleton, President of Bowdoin College; History of the General Convention of Vermont; Sketch, Statistics of the Theological Seminary of Andover, with a list of alumni; History of the "Pilgrim Society," with an account of the early Settlement of Plymouth Colony; Sketch of the Life and Character of Jonathan P. Cushing, President of Hampden Sydney College; History of the General Association of Massachusetts, with brief congregational histories and biographies of ministers; History of the Connecticut Medical Society; Memoir of the Rev. James Manning, D. D., First President of Brown University; Biographical Notices of Early Graduates at Brown University