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The Lantern Vol. 6, No. 1, December 1937, Roberta Byron, Ernest Muller, Mabel B. Ditter, Elizabeth M. Seidle, Jane Poling, Frank J. Tornetta, Vernon D. Groff, Edward L. French, Evelyn Huber, Robert B. Peck, Dorothy Kinsey Shisler, C. Kenneth Snyder, Robert E. Yoh, Eli Broidy, Ruth Grauert, Charles Steinmetz

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• After Thinking Things Over
• Ho! Ho! The Mistletoe!
• Unrealized Dreams
• Two Preeminent Victorians
• The Thing
• Progression
• It Wasn't in the Lines
• He Was the Most Perfect Man
• College (C)lasses
• Robins and Roses
• The Commuter
• When the Rose is Dead
• Truth in Print
• Alias Mike Romanoff
• Winslow Homer
• When I Was Young
• Maurice Evans, a Great Shakespearean
• Among Our Contributors
• Of Manx and Man
• A Sanguinary Pirate
• Conversation Has an Adventure
• "Ursinus' Neediest Case"

The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 3, May 1937, Jane Poling, E. M. Huber, Jack Maloney, Edward L. French, Valerie H. Green, C. Kenneth Snyder, Frank J. Tornetta, Mabel B. Ditter, Robert C. Yoh, Bertram Lutz, H. Spencer Halberstadt, Catherine Steele, Roberta Byron, Vernon D. Groff, Alfred Gemmell

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Dedication
• Dr. McClure: An Ursinus Man
• Roar, O Wind!
• To the Ladies!
• The Futility of Dying
• The Symbolism of the British Crown
• Oh!
• "It Might Have Been"
• Treat Yourself?
• Three Writers
• Hawaii in June
• On Being a Twin
• Black Magic
• Triangle
• Who Longs?
• A Son Passes
• "Sing an Old-Fashioned Song"
• Questioning
• An Argument About a Fish
• That Morning Eye-Opener
• Scoop for the "Sun"
• The Dead Do Not Die Once
• Give Us Time

The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 2, March 1937, Marjorie Brosz, Betty Sacks, Edward L. French, C. Kenneth Snyder, Evelyn Huber, Keith M. Thompson, Jack Maloney, Dorothy Burton, Richard Yahraes, Valerie H. Green, Elizabeth Ballinger, Frank J. Tornetta, Marjorie Bell, Vernon D. Groff, Helen Smith, Jean P. Wingate

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Frame of Mind: An Editorial
• Sahara
• Memories
• Tears of Blood
• A Review of Gielgud's Hamlet
• What is This Thing Called Swing
• Oriental Impressions
• Campus Rhymes
• Death of a Soldier
• Should We Denounce the "Scab"
• Descent to Celia
• Blood for Sale!
• To a Winter Day
• They Met at Sunset
• A Week With the Weekly
• My Alarm Clock
• Chasing the "Blues"

The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 1, December 1936, Vernon D. Groff, Edward L. French, Robert E. Yoh, Eugene Shelley, Evelyn Huber, Jean L. Ulsh, Richard Yahraes, Dorothy Burton, Jack Maloney, Mitchell Fenimore, Frank J. Fornetta, Keith M. Thompson, Valerie H. Green, Mabel B. Ditter

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• All of Us
• Public Dance
• In Tibet, of All Places
• Thoughts
• Subterranean Conflict on the Campus
• Out, Out Into Fragrance and Sweetness
• My Soul Steals Out to Meet You In the Night
• Bored Young Lady
• Guay Shin's Prayer
• On Playing Ping-Pong
• The Love-Life of One Cat and the Death of Another
• My Lady
• Danger! Germs Working!
• The Wolves
• Letters from India
• With Apologies to Hamlet
• The Dream

The Lantern Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1936, Eugene Shelley, Charles Francis Ehly, Utahna Basow, Elizabeth M. Seidle, Charlotte R. Tyson, Vernon D. Groff, Florence A. Roberts, H. Spencer Halberstadt, Paul R. Shelly, Richard Yahraes, Virginia Shoffner

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Dr. Omwake as his Friends See Him: A Letter from Dr. James M. Anders ; An Interview with Dean Kline
• George Leslie Omwake, Educator and Churchman
• The Story of Ursinus
• "Way Back When"
• Editorial: "We Look Before and After"
• Reminiscences of an Ex-Storekeeper's Daughter
• The Tale of a Toper, or How the Little Stone Went Rolling
• Book Review: May I Present?
• Time Out, Please
• Youth at the Crossroads
• Of Candy Bars and Tears
• Reflections
• To a Star
• It Takes Two to Study the Moon

The Lantern Vol. 4, No. 2, March 1936, Beryl L. Goodman, Charles Francis Ehly, Vernon D. Groff, Walter B. Kelly, H. Spencer Halberstadt, Mitchell Fenimore, Mabel B. Ditter, Elizabeth Mcbride, Jessie F. Wilson, Alfred Gemmell, Edward L. French, Edwin Frey, Arthur F. Martin, Sylvan Grotte

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Cooperative Democracy
• Fantasy
• Drama: "Porgy and Bess"
• Foreign Entanglements
• The Kibitzer
• My Gallery of Old Folks
• My Friend, Mark Twain
• Jimmy and Waffles
• Reminiscence
• Gold Dust
• After Twenty Centuries
• "All the World's a Stage"
• Early Medicine

The Lantern Vol. 4, No. 1, December 1935, Grace Lees, Edward L. French, Dorothy Witmer, Richard Yahraes, Elmer W. J. Schmitt, Mitchell Fenimore, Dorothea Benner, Elizabeth Mcbride, Charles Francis Ehly, F. Bradford Stone, Roberta Byron, Vernon D. Groff

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• A Challenge to All
• The Tree
• College With a Purpose
• Midnight Clouds
• Exultation
• Pagan Festival
• Ah Childhood!
• From Brain to Brawn
• Pictures in the Sky
• Winds
• In Absolution
• Clouds in a Hot, Red Sky
• "Out of Douche and Latin"
• Satan Calls a Conference
• Emptiness
• A Portly Gentleman Intrudes

The Lantern Vol. 3, No. 3, June 1935, Elizabeth Mcbride, Edwin Frey, Ruth I. Hamma, Richard Yahraes, William H. Tempest, Frank J. Tornetta, Thomas Hepner

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Scholarship's Reward
• Thus Endeth
• Even in Dover
• An Essay Submitted for the Paisley Prize: The Moral Standard to Which We Must Appeal in Judging Whether a Lie is Ever Justifiable
• Towers of France
• An Essay Submitted for the Paisley Prize
• Initial Adventures in Psychiatry
• In Commemoration of "Comus"
• The Amish Maiden

The Lantern Vol. 3, No. 2, March 1935, Wilhelmina Meinhardt, Jesse Heiges, Dorothea Benner, Harry F. Fenstermacher, Gilbert J. Bartholomew, Paul R. Shelly, Ruth I. Hamma, Elizabeth Mcbride, Utahna Basow, Dorothy E. Horne, Margaret L. Shively, Mitchell Fenimore

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Puppets of Propaganda
• Reluctance
• Reflections From My Diary
• Reverie
• Bash Turner Enters the Limelight
• The College Students' Obligation
• The Schwenkfelders
• Love's Desire
• Verse
• On the Squirt of a Grapefruit
• Pioneers!
• Whither Fraternities?
• Mary Peters: A Book Review
• Different as Night and Day
• Ode to an Alley Cat

The Lantern Vol. 3, No. 1, December 1934, John H. Brown Jr., Wilhelmina Meinhardt, Dorothy Witmer, Eugene Shelley, Ruth I. Hamma, Ione B. Hausmann, Regina S. Romberger, Elizabeth Mcbride, Dorothy E. Horne, Kathleen Black, Paul Williams

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Magic Words
• The Old Trappe Church
• The "Light of Life"
• Edwin Markham: Impressions
• Increment (A Christmas Thought)
• Our Christmas
• What Price Forgetting?
• Autumn
• The Old Parson
• Zacharias Ursinus
• Inspiration
• A Scrap-Book of Memories
• A Campus Saunter

The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 3, June 1934, Joyce L. Strickland, Sara E. Brown, Harry F. Brian, Ione B. Haussmann, Sylvia Acri, Anna May Brooks, Edith Cressman, Ruth I. Hamma

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Looking Backward and Forward
• "Hahd on de Nerves"
• My Lavender Lady
• The Perpetual Borrower
• Into the Depths
• "The Best There Is"
• I Wonder
• A Day Out of a German Boy's Life
• Book Review: "Work of Art"
• Fear
• Early Summer (A Sketch)

The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1934, Rose-Marie Brubaker, Joyce L. Strickland, Ruth I. Hamma, Anna May Brooks, Keturah R. Donalson, Nadine Jones, Sara E. Brown, Dorothy Witmer, Virginia A. Meyer

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Fulfillment Through Expression
• Ole Man Ennis
• Nos Illusions by Philippe Vallee
• A Celtic May Day Festival
• Dew Drops
• Baker Street Fiction
• March Winds
• Winter Sunset
• Book Review: No Second Spring
• A Thought
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Illustration

The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 1, December 1933, Naomi M. Clark, Keturah R. Donalson, Joyce L. Strickland, Ruth I. Hamma, William H. Tempest, Isobel W. Wilt, Jesse Heiges, Mary E. Myers, Dorothy F. Patterson, Rose-Marie Brubaker

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Petition
• Keep it Burning!
• Jes' Before Christmas
• Noel: Translation from Theophile Gautier
• A Young Jew Meets Jesus
• Book Review: Little Man, What Now?
• Book Review: Thunder and Dawn
• Continuity
• La Veille de Noel (Reflexions d'un Provincial)
• Noel Sceptique par Jules LaFargue
• Horizon
• Winter Night
• Linoleum Cuts

The Lantern Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1933, Clair Hubert, Ruth I. Hamma, Gladys Urich, Anna May Brooks, Sara E. Brown, Keturah R. Donalson, Alfred L. Creager, Ruth Roth, Joyce L. Strickland, Sylvia Liverant, Lewis Peters, Anna Grimm

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Remember: Translation of "Rappelle-toi" by Alfred de Musset
• Lighting the Lantern
• Footfalls
• To a Lovely Lady
• The Sons of Martha
• Strategy
• Lumine Lunae
• Poetry in Retrospect
• Nirvana
• A Domestic Episode
• At Night
• Haman and Hitler
• This is What He Said
• Bookocracy
• Four Loves
• Cities and Personalities

The New England Primer Improved, Unknown

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Full title: The New England primer improved, for the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added the Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's catechism. Boston, Printed by E. Draper and sold by J. Boyle, 1777

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The Wonder Of Wonders, Or, The Remarkable Discovery Of An American Hermit; : Who Lived Upwards Of 200 Years, James Buckland, John Fielding

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Chapbook description:

The hermit was purportedly discovered by Capt. James Buckland and Mr. John Fielding, who in 1785 "agreed to travel into the western parts of this vast country, to explore the regions which belong to the United States which are yet unknown to us."

Printed in Kennebunk prior to Maine's statehood.

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Prieres Ordinaires Des Soldatz De L'Armee Conduite Par Monsieur Le Prince De Condé, Accommodees Selon L'Occurrence Du Temps, Louis Prince De Condé (1530-1569)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Morning and evening prayers for the use of soldiers, according to Calvinist rites.

Full title: Prieres ordinaires des soldatz de l'armee conduite par Monsieur le Prince de Condé, accommodees selon l'occurrence du temps = Zwey schone Gebet welche die Soldaten die unter dem herrn Printzen von Conde ligen beide Abends vnd Morgens wenn sie auf vnd von der Wacht zihen sprechen

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Bulla Reductionis Generalis Concilii Ad Civitatem Tridentinam Cum Monitione & Requisitione Prælatorum, Pope Julius Iii

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Pope Julius III's bull announcing the re-opening of the Council of Trent in 1551 following the death of Paul III in 1549.

Full title: Bulla reductionis generalis concilii ad civitatem Tridentinam cum monitione & requisitione Prælatorum, ad illius prosecutionem p. S. D. N. D. Iulium III. pont. max

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Historia Vnd Beschreibung Des Magdenburgischen Kriegs, Sebastian Besselmeier

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

A news pamphlet detailing the various events during the siege of the Protestant city of Magdeburg by imperial forces in 1551.

Full title: Historia vnd beschreibung des Magdenburgischen kriegs, von anfang biss zum end, was sich die zeit der belegerung, innen vnd ausserhalb der Stadt zugetragen vnd verloffen hat, auch von der Schlacht vnnd furnembsten scharmutzlen thaten vnd angriffen zu beyden theilen geschehen im Iar der mindern zal, 50. vnd 51., auffs kurtzest verfasst

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Commentariorum De Bello Germanico, Luis De Avila Y Çuñiga (1500-1564)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

A description of Charles V's war war against the Protestant league in 1546-1547, when the League was defeated at the battle of Muhlberg.

Full title: Commentariorum de bello Germanico, à Carolo V. Caesare Maximo gesto, libri duo / à Gulielmo Malinaeo Brugensi latinè redditi, & iconibus ad historiam accommodis illustrati

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Abtrucke Der Verwarungs Schrifft, Der Chur Vnd Fürsten, Auch Graffen, Herrn, Stette Vnd Stende Der Augspurgischen Confession, Unknown

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

The Protestant nobles state their grievances against Charles V, pointing out that in arming against them he is in violation of the oath he gave when elected Holy Roman Emperor.

Full title: Abtrucke der verwarungs schrifft, der Chur vnd Fürsten, auch Graffen, Herrn, Stette vnd Stende der Augspurgischen Confession Eynungs verwandten, Jhrer yetzigen hochgenottrangten, vnd verursachten Kriegssrüftung halben, an Keyserliche Mayestat aussgangen, vnd beschehen

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Bestendige Vnd Warhafftige Verantwortung, John Frederich, Elector Of Saxony (1503-1554)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Defense by Elector John Frederick of Saxony and Landgrave Philip of Hesse against the charges of Emperor Charles V that they are rebellious vassals. The princes counter that the real reason for the the Pope's and Emperor's making war against them is their Evangelical faith.

Full title: Der Durchleuchtigst vnd Durchleüchtigen Hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herren, Herrn Johans Friderichen, Hertzogen zu Sachssen ... Und herrn Philipsen, Landgrauen zü Hessen ... Bestendige vnd warhafftige verantwortung, auch im Rechten gegründete widderlegung : Warumb die vormeinte vrsachen ... zuvorleumen vnterstanden, Inn facto vnd inn der that nicht war ... Das auch derselbe genante Kayser …

Warhaffte Vnd Gegründte Meldung Vnd Anzeigen Der Geschwinden, Tückischen, Bösen Anschleg Vnd Practick, Johann Schradin

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Political satire against Charles V in the form of a dream by a Protestant preacher. In the dream, the Emperor has become a vassal of Rome and that Germans are released from their obedience to him.

Full title: Warhaffte vnd gegründte Meldung vnd Anzeigen der geschwinden, tückischen, bösen Anschleg vnd Practick : so wider die löblichenprotestierenden Stende, vnd Euangeliums einig Verwanten, durch die grossenFeind Gottes, den Bapst, vnd seinem Anhang, fürgenummen, vnd zu jemerlichenvnwiderbringlichem Vndergehen, vnd verderben des deudschen Lands, erdachtseind. Item Vrsach der genötigten, vnd gedrungnen Defension vnd Gegenwehr. Auch wie sich darinne zu halten sey. Gottes Wort bleiht …

Recusationsschrifft, Unknown

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

In this tract, the leaders of the Schmalkald League formally announce their intention not to participate in the Council of Trent, and give reasons why they are unable to do so. These include their objection to the Pope's having called it, since the Pope, as Bishop of Rome, has no legitimate power over other bishops, and their not recognizing the Council of Trent as a free and ecumenical council.

Full title: Recusatio[n]schrifft, in welcher alle protestierende Religions vnd Eynungs verwandte Stende, Rechtmessige vnd ergründete Ursach anzeigen warumb jre Chur vnd F.G. vnd sie, das vermeint, von Bapst Paulo dem Dritten, …

Beuelch, Das Euangelion Belangendt, Henry Duke Of Saxony (1473-1541)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Heinrich, a staunch Lutheran, announces the death of his brother the Duke George of Albertine Saxony, an equally committed Catholic, and decrees that Saxony is now to follow the reformed religion.

Full title: Des durchleuchtigen hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn[n], herrn[n] Hainrichen Hertzoge[n] zu Sachssen [et]˜c. Beuelch, das Euangelion belangendt

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Apologia, Das Ist, Ein Vertedigs Rede Georgij Wicelij Widder Seine Affterreder Die Luteristen, Mit Sampt Kurtzer Abconterfeyung Luterischer Secten, Vnd Preis Alter Römischen Kirchen, Nützlich Zu Lesen, Georg Witzel (1501-1573)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Witzel, a Catholic priest who converted to Lutheranism, explains his break with Luther and return to the Church of Rome in response to the attacks of Lutherans against him. Bound with: Melliflui ac devotissimi patris beati Bernhardi…

Full title: Apologia, das ist, ein vertedigs rede Georgij Wicelij widder seine affterreder die Luteristen, mit sampt kurtzer abconterfeyung Luterischer secten, vnd preis alter Römischen Kirchen, nützlich zu lesen : Auch wie er von der Kirchen ynn die secten kommen, vnd von den selbigen widderumb zu der Kirchen geflohen ist

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Epistola Ad Henricum Viii. Sept. 1, 1525, Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Letters exchanged in 1525 between Henry VIII and Martin Luther.

Full title: Literarum, quibus inuictissimus princeps, Henricus octauus ... respondit, ad quandam epistolam Martini Lutheri, ad se miss, et ipsius Lutheran quo epistol exemplum

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Appellation Vnnd Beruffung Der Prœbst Vnnd Des Augustiner Priors Zu Nüremberg, Unknown

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

An appeal action by the provosts G. Pessler of S. Sebald, and Hektor Pömer of S. Lorenz, and the prior of the Augustinian monastery Wolfgang Volprecht against the authority of the bishop of Bamberg Weigand von Redwith in judging their case, and calling for a free council.

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Ain Gesprech Von Den Scheynwercken Der Gaystlichen, Vnd Jren Gelübdten, Hans Sachs (1494-1576)

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

In a dialogue with the baker Peter, Hans Sachs discusses votive offerings and the Mass.

Full title: Ain Gesprech von den Scheynwercken der Gaystlichen, vnd jren gelübdten : damit sy zuouerlesterung des blouts Christi vermayne[n] selig zuowerden. / Hanns Sachs Schuochmacher

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Ernstliche Erbietung Der Euangelische[N] Prediger An Den Gaystlichen Stand Die Yetzigen Leer Betreffend, Urbanus Rhegius (1489-1541)

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In six “points” the reformer Rhegius seeks to demonstrate the “signs” by which the true new evangelical teachings may be discerned.

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