The Lime-Kiln Club series - author   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 The Lime-Kiln Club
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The social rules a man should live by, not the exaggerated duty and worries the churches would lay on. (PB) Series of regular aricles published in the Detroit Free Press by Charles Bertrand Lewis. Also published in book form, under the pseudonym M. Quad, as Brother Gardner's Lime-kiln club, being the regular proceedings of the regular club for the last three years. With some philosophy, considerable music, a few lectures, and a heap of advice worth reading. Not compiled in the interest of Congress, or any department of government.(Chicago, Belford, Clark & Co.,1882)

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The Lime-Kiln Club 1878 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 13 no. 158 1878; (p. 551) Purported record of a negro meeting which discusses the absurdity of women's dress and self-decoration; a consolation for misery in the thought that it could be worse; an unsuccessful collection; and a report against stocking American forests with elephants, giraffes etc. Parody in quasi-dialect. (PB).
The Lime-Kiln Club 1882 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 17 no. 203 1882; (p. 419) Negro wisdom of false goodness and humbug of not enjoying life. (PB)
The Opening Brother Gardner , 1888 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 23 no. 279 1888; (p. 688) Words on meaning of Christmas, New Year and celebration. (PB)
Lime-Kiln Club Brother Gardner , 1888 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 24 no. 280 1888; (p. 7) On the unreasonableness of human nature which expects different behaviour from its neighbour than it exhibits. (PB)
Lime-Kiln Club Brother Gardner , 1888 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 24 no. 281 1888; (p. 92) Aphorisms on the conduct of life. (PB)
[Brother Gardner] Brother Gardner , 1888 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 24 no. 282 1888; (p. 162) A brother's call to be a preacher is soundly squashed by Brother Gardner in favour of supporting his family. (PB)
[Brother Gardner] Brother Gardner , 1888 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , December vol. 24 no. 283 1888; (p. 219) A brother reprimanded for his use of 'big words' rather than plain English. (PB)
[Brother Gardner] Brother Gardner , 1889 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 24 no. 285 1889; (p. 310) On the Lord's tolerance for human nature. (PB)
[Brother Gardner] Brother Gardner , 1889 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 25 no. 293 1889; (p. 86) The club discusses the question of whether the white man is improving and answers it generally in the negative. (PB)
[Brother Gardner] Brother Gardner , 1889 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 25 no. 293 1889; (p. 86) Yjr club discusses the question of whether the white man is improving and answers it generally in the negative. (PB)
Brother Gardner on Drunkenness Brother Gardner , 1882 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 18 no. 208 1882; (p. 26) Condemnation of drunkenness, and the resulting expulsion from the club. (PB)
The Lime-Kiln Club 1884 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 19 no. 226 1884; (p. 370) A vote to admit women members is rejected on the basis that no true woman wants women's rights. (PB)
The Wokingman Question 1884 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 19 no. 227 1884; (p. 415) Advises him to live at the level of his income; discontent from pride and family. (PB)
The Lime-Kiln Club 1884 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 19 no. 228 1884; (p. 472) A lecture on the causes of corns and chillblains. (PB)
Brother Gardner on Charity 1883 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 18 no. 218 1883; (p. 594) Charity wears tolerance of faults not alms-giving; everyone in the US can earn enough for their own survival. [US work ethic; negro accent.] (PB)
Brother Gardner 1883 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 18 no. 219 1883; (p. 663) How a businessman is ruined by his wife's extravagance in keeping up appearances [in the form on an address to a lodge.] (PB)
Brother Gardner on Orthodox Religion 1884 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 20 no. 234 1884; (p. 128) Challenges Christians who convince a murderer going to the gallows he is a martyr and will go to to heaven. (PB)
Brother Gardner 1885 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 20 no. 237 1885; (p. 336) Obituary for a dead brother member: his Christianity shown not by church attendance but by dying free of debts and his family law-abiding. (PB)
The Lime-Kiln Club 1884 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 19 no. 230 1884; (p. 620) Brother Gardner resolves a petty quarrel between two members over a dinner invitation not given. (PB)
The Lime-Kiln Club 1884 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 20 no. 233 1884; (p. 100) An 'agitator' [unionist] is expelled from membership of the club for ceasing to work and stirring up trouble and resentment amongst working men. Very anti. (PB)

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