By Jonathon Goodman.

in all but a few murder cases, the crime comes as a complete surprise to the victim: confident of dying naturally, he has made no effort to prevent the criminal quietus, has not augmented any preparation for a possible meeting with his Maker. In the Gorse Hall case, however, the victim, a man called George Harry Storrs, seems to have been warned of the fatal attack and to have taken some notice of the warning. Seems is the salient word. If we are to come anywhere near solving the mystery, we must concentrate on getting rid of the ambiguity.

Ohio State University Press. 1983. 251 p.

By Henry M. Hunt.

The Assassination of Henry Patrick Cronin.. A Complete and Authentic History of the Greatest of Modern Conspiracies. Apart from its value as a history of a celebrated case, the story itself is of thrilling and fascinating interest.

Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. Kochersperger (1889) 574 pages.

By W. Kilby Reynolds.

Celebrated cases before the courts in St. John. N. B. Cases including: The Mispeck Tragedy; Redburn the Sailor; Burgan the “boy” burglar; and the Murder of Clayton Tilton at Musquash. Compiled from the most authentic sources.

Progress Electric Print (1895) 105 pages.

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By Jane Addams.

With Autobiographical Notes. “While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else. This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago. Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps. Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists.” (From Amazon).

New York: Macmillan, 1912. 462p.

By Frantz Funck-Brentano.

“Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into 18th-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom.” (French)

Paris: Hachette, 1911. 629p.

By H. Ashton-Wolfe.

Crimes of love and hate. “I have been or the present either at the investigation final trials of the criminals. Several of the stories myself chosen have because of the ingenuity displayed both by the law-breakers and the investigators.”

H. & B. Publishers (1928) 313 pages.

By Sophie Lyons.

Queen of the Underworld. The publishers believe that a picture of life sketched by a master hand — somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his field or as Morgan and Rockefeller do in their — could not fail to be impressive and valuable and prove the oft repeated statement that crime does not pay.”

New York Ogilvie Publishing (1913) 294 pages.

By Thomas Dekker.

The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London. “Drawne in seven severall Coaches, Through the seven severall Gates of the Citie. Bringing the Plague with them.”

Cambridge London (1905) 96 pages.

By David M. Stewart.

Historians of workingmen in the antebellum United States have long been preoccupied with labor politics and with the racism, nativism, and misogyny of their public culture. Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America expands our account of such men by asking questions about their social and bodily lives that are more discrete, yet still engaged with the economic forces that radically altered working life as the market revolution transformed a rural, agricultural nation into one that was commercial, industrial, and urban. To advance a more capacious view of workingmen, David M. Stewart turns to reading, which is where many first encountered antebellum change as a material fact. Tapping sources from serial fiction, reform tracts, and children’s books, to diet, land use policy, and personal correspondence, Stewart contends that in helping retool a workforce of farmers and artisans to meet the disciplinary needs of capital, the period’s burgeoning new print culture industry developed rhetoric that used emotional coercion to affect conduct. This rhetoric also became the basis for recreational idioms that compensated for the pain of both coercive reading itself and the world such reading produced. In the space between the disciplinary and recreational lives of workingmen, Reading and Disorder revises how we understand them as performative subjects, which is to say, as cause and effect of changing antebellum times.

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011. 242p.

By Deborah Lutz.

The dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years; English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence. The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero—his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living. Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeemed by love of the Brontës, and the tormented individualism of twentieth-century love narratives. Arguing for this character’s central influence not only in literature but also in the history of ideas, this book places the dangerous lover firmly within the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the Modernism of Georg Lukács, and Roland Barthes’s theories on love and longing. Working with canonical authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Charles Maturin, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde, and also with non-canonical texts such as contemporary romance, The Dangerous Lover combines a lyrical, essayistic style with a depth of inquiry that raises questions about the mysteries of desire, death, and eroticism. The Dangerous Lover is the first book-length study of this pervasive literary hero; it also challenges the tendency of sophisticated philosophical readings of popular narratives and culture to focus on male-coded genres. In its conjunction of high and low literary forms, this volume explores new historical and cultural framings for female-coded popular narratives.

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006. 117p.