among New England journalists and intellectuals; in that year he was awarded an honorary degree (Artium Magister) by Harvard University. Harrison was recognized by his friends as someone with a unique and perceptive view of American life. His work has an ethnographic feel, particularly his documentation of life in the post-bellum South, based on extensive travels and contact with ordinary people in the everyday business of life. One of his major concerns was to show the highly educated cultural elite how the rest of America lived, thought, and felt. Like Charles Eliot Norton, he was a conservative in the stamp of Matthew Arnold, worried that capitalism insidiously worked to degrade culture, and part of his intentions—particularly in documenting the life of the New England working class—was to make the cultured elite more aware and more concerned about the spiritual life of ordinary people. His work remains today as an important testimony of the conditions of life in the United States of the late nineteenth century. Notes References Crimmins, Timothy J. 1979. "Frederick Law Olmsted and Jonathan Baxter Harrison: Two Generations of Social Critics in the American South," pages 137-151 in Dana F. White and Victor Kramer (editors), Olmsted South: Old South Critic/New South Planner. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press. Denning, Michael. 1996. The Cultural Front. Verso. Fryckstedt, Olov W. 1958. In Quest of America: A Study of Howells’ Early Development as a Novelist. Upsala, Sweden: Thesis. Harvard University. 1900.Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University, 1636-1900. 2001 facsimile reprint by Adamant Media Corporation. Sedgwick, Ellery. 1994. The Atlantic Monthly 1857-1909: Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Turner, James C. 1999. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Selected Writings of Jonathan Baxter Harrison Religion "Religious Condition of the West." Radical: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Religion. 2(1866):234 "Lessons of Methodism." Old and New. 4(1871):189 "Methods of Dealing with Social Questions." pages 249-254 in Institute Essays; read before the Ministers’ Institute, October 1879, Providence R.I. with Introduction by Rev. H.W. Bellows. Boston: G.H. Ellis. 1880. New England Social Classes and Everyday Life "Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life." The Atlantic Monthly. October, 1878 42(252):385-403 "The Nationals, their Origin and their Aims." The Atlantic Monthly. November, 1878 42(253):521-530 "Three Typical Workingmen." The Atlantic Monthly. December, 1878 42(254):717-727 "Workingmen's Wives." The Atlantic Monthly. January, 1879 43(255):59-71 "The Career of a