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"Heads of the People" was published in 1840 as a two-volume set, edited by Douglas Jerrold, who also contributed several chapters. This volume contains extracts from that work. A number of the contributors, including Jerrold, were liberal or radical journalists who went on to write for Punch, which was established in the following year. The aim was to entertain the reader, but the authors also claimed a "moral seriousness of purpose" in portraying the many faces of the English, with their faults as well as their virtues. As well as describing the current state of affairs, the writers made no secret of their opinions. In particular, Douglas Jerrold's description of a public hanging is a strong condemnation of capital punishment. For the modern reader, these extracts provide a fascinating insight into life in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. The Metropolitan Police was still in its infancy, but the image of the policeman even in those early days is one which endured for many years. The description of the judge has also changed remarkably little, even up to the present. Volume II engages the reader with characterizations of the policeman, the exciseman, the common informer, the judge, and the hangman.

The information presented in this four volume series is taken from Marriage License Affidavits currently housed at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library in Santa Rosa, California. Affidavits are the application for a marriage license and may well include persons who never actually married. The date may or may not coincide with the actual marriage date of those who did, in fact, get married. Volume I covers A through F; Volume II covers G through M; Volume III covers N through Z; and Volume IV is an index to brides' surnames. Entries in the first three volumes are listed alphabetically according to surname of the groom. The original data is preserved on eight reels of microfilm and contains approximately 14,000 records. In many cases, the condition of the microfilm is exceedingly poor, and the handwritten entries vary from readable to totally unreadable. Many parental consent forms were handwritten notes. Two, and sometimes three, persons reviewed each record to ensure the best possible abstraction of information. Part One of Volume III lists the surname and given name of the groom, surname and given name of the bride, date of application, and comments such as consent of a guardian for brides under the age of eighteen and grooms under the age of twenty-one. In a few cases, birth dates or other pertinent information is given. Part Two of Volume III lists the surname, given name and age of the groom; surname, given name and age of the bride; place of residence (town/city); and place of birth (state or country).

During World War II the United States mobilized over sixteen million men and women to fight Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Nearly one-half million of those patriots, including Lieutenant Austin Rodney Keith, did not return. This is his story; the story of a young theater-loving Maine man caught up on the stage of history. Austin trained as an air warrior with the Army Air Forces. War service took him to places far from his Bangor, Maine, home, but he never let go of his dream for a future in theater. Wartime letters to his theater professor and mentor detail his passion. As months of war became years, though, Austin became keenly aware of his own mortality. Death lingered nearby with every dangerous mission. In a remarkable letter to his parents, Austin foresaw his own demise, admitted his fear, but reassured his folks with his faith. Austin's faith gave him the courage and strength to bravely lead his men into each combat mission. Austin and his crew landed in Saipan in early January, 1945. He was a pilot of the nation's most sophisticated mass weapon yet developed, the B-29 Superfortress. Soon, he and hismen joined other crews as they made harrowing journeys across hundreds of miles of open ocean to bomb Japan. Austin was killed in action on February 25, 1945, when the B-29 (Superfortress) bomber of which he was a crew member, collided with another aircraft while assembling to participate in a combat mission to Tokyo, Japan. Both aircraft crashed into the sea, and there were no survivors from either plane. Austin was one of more than 15,000 young airmen who were lost either incollisions or other tragic accidents. Several photos, a bibliography, and an index to full names and places augment this work.

Dr. Agnes E. Gish spent more than twenty years traveling the Old Buckingham Road seeking the original sites of the taverns and ordinaries that once dotted its roadside every four to twelve miles and studying the lives of those who dispensed hospitality-for-a-profit to its travelers. These public and private houses of entertainment are presented here in brief vignettes that contain both historical and genealogical information. The information has been gathered from public documents such as land patents, court order books, deeds, wills, personal property and land tax books, pension petitions, census enumerations, marriage bonds and minister's returns, records of the Board of Public Works, and the Mutual Assurance Society's fire insurance policies. The many newspaper notices of this period add a personal touch to the facts found in these public documents.