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the new england qvarterly A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters Contents Editorial Linda Smith Rhoads 175 The Theology of Democracy Jared Hickman 177 Discordant Correspondence in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Friendship” Thomas Constantinesco 218 Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship William Rossi 252 How to Go to Heaven, or How Heaven Goes? Natural Science And Interpretation in Cotton Mather’s “Biblia Americana” Reiner Smolinski 278 Memoranda and Documents Thinking Musically, Writing Expectantly: New Biographical Information about Emily Dickinson Carol Damon Andrews 330 The Making of an Image: Emily Dickinson’s Blue Fly Sam S. Baskett 340 Mark Twain’s Secret Mission to the London Hospital John Y. Le Bourgeois and Jonathan Evans 344 Book Reviews Journals: 1952–2000, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., edited by Andrew and Stephen Schlesinger Hugh Brogan 348 My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor Frank Shuffelton 350 Excursions: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Joseph Moldenhauer Laura Dassow Walls 352 Emerson’s Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists, by Randall Fuller William E. Cain 354 In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation, by François Furstenberg Benjamin L. Carp 356 For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions, by James R. Gaines Jonathan Dull 359 Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth- Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts, by Joseph Horowitz Michael Kammen 361 Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Bridget Bennett Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity, by Sam Halliday Linda Simon 363 The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr Peter C. Baldwin 365 A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry, by Beth English Jefferson Cowie 367 The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Sarah Robbins Nancy F. Sweet 369 Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade, by A. J. B. Johnston Geoffrey Plank 372 The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, by Thomas S. Kidd Linford D. Fisher 374 Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat, edited by Micah A. Pawling Kevin Sweeney 376
