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One German reader, gas Neue Deutsche ABC- und Buchsta.-
bir-Euchlein,⁶ has survived; and it is possible that
other school books in English and German were published.

Religious books, prominent in most bibliographies
of the period, were represented by the Reverend Thomas
Chamberlain's America's Timely Remembrancer; or, The
Minister Preaching his own Funeral Sermon, printed by
Bartgis in 1794;⁷ and Samuel Knox's A Funeral Oration,
Commemorative of the Illustrious Virtues of the Late
Great and Good General Washington, delivered in Fred-
erick on February 22, 1800, and printed at the request

of the congregation.⁸ Bartgis, like many other Ameri-
can printers, published Washington's Will⁹ during the
year following his death.

Bartgis showed a certain proclivity - interesting
because it is fairly rare in early American printers -
for publishing local literary works. One book of Ger-
man poems is extant, Die Lehre von der Wiederbringung
aller Dinge...von einem Mann, der ein Bauer ist, aus Mary-
land. Friederichs Caunty. Unfortunately the pamphlet
is both anonymous and undated, and since the news-
paper which carried its announcement (supposing that
there was one) has not survived, it has been impos-

6 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 252.

7 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 158.

8 Appendix A. Imprint bibliography, item 594.

9 Appendix 4. Imprint bibliography, item 630.