Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, a gallant Confederate soldier, and since the war a devoted, useful minister of the gospel, Mr. Nelson is widely known and needs no endorsation from us.

If he is a prisoner from one of the Higher Courts he will probably arrive some time after 5 p.m.; if he has been 'weighed off' at 'the Bailey' or London Sessions he will probably come in a police van […]

The melodies are unaffected, almost stoic; there’s a kind of nonidiomatic breeze blowing through them.