[Twenty-eight pages are clippings from the New
York Evening Telegram, February 24, 1892, devoted to
the "Great Ingersoll Controversy," in which
Robert Green Ingersolland his
agnostic views are both attacked and defended, and
including his own answers to his critics. The rest of
the volume contains clippings, 1884-1892, of
contemporary interest on various subjects such as
art, astronomy, foreign affairs, history, literature,
medicine, politics, and religious matters. There is
substantial coverage of
W[illiam?] H[anna?] Thomson's
address on materialism; Rev.
Charles H. Parkhurst's
denouncement of the
New Yorkadministration, and
conflicts with
Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,
William O'Brien Pardow, and
others;
Christopher Columbus; and
vessels. Also included are numerous obituaries,
including two lengthy notices of
Walt Whitman's death, one of
which is "Ingersoll's Eulogy of Whitman." Other
obituaries include ones for
Chester Arthur,
William Astor,
Henry A. Barnum,
Joseph P. Bradley,
Sidney Dillon,
Theodore William Dwight,
William Jermyn Florence,
John Bartholomew Gough,
Hannibal Hamlin,
John Pope Hennessy,
Charles Stuart Parnell,
Max Strakosch,
William Henry Vanderbilt, and
James Watson Webb. ]