Catalogue of the Library of the Calliopean Society, Yale College

New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College, 1846. 8vo. 235 x 145 mm., [9 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. 94 pp.  Stitched as issued; wanting wrappers, some soiling to the edges of the paper and some light foxing throughout. A late comer to the debating societies of Yale College, the Calliopean Society was incorporated in 1819 by a group from the Linonia Society dissatisfied with the leadership of oldest society on the campus.  This society named after the muse of poetry Calliope included in its ranks many students from the Southern states and created a strong voice for antebellum issues in a stronghold of abolitionism.  As a result it was disbanded in 1853 and only resurrected one hundred years later in the mid-1950's as an active more conservative union with little interest in New Deal and Great Society policy.  The main headings of the catalogue include Biography, Divinity, Encyclopedias, History, Mental and Moral Philosophy, Novels and Romances, Natural Science, Poetry and Plays, Politics and Law, Rhetoric, Voyages and Travels, and Books in Foreign Language. (804).