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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ENCYCLOPADIA BRITANNICA, 25 volumes, nearly new, for sale cheap. Ninth edition, printed from original plates in Edinburgh, bound in sheep. Cost $150. Call (after 7 p. m.) at 35 Divinity Hall...
...Home rule cannot satisfactorily settle the essential difficulties of the land question: Fortnightly Review. XLV, 273. LIII, 177. a. The British government being bound in honor to protect the landlords could not allow a hostile Irish parliament to settle the question; Fortnightly XLV. 861; Edinburgh Review. CLIV, 291. b. An Irish parliament would only temporarily settle the question: Dublin University Magazine. LXX, 116; Contemporary Review, XLIX...
...exception of Robinson Crusoe, is Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes of a slaveholder. The book is edited and abridged...
Captain Mahan, U. S. N., whose recent book on naval history has made him so prominent, contributes "The United States Looking Outwards." It is a thought full paper urging our nation to be ready to back up the aggressive foreign policy which it is bound, sooner or later, to adopt and predicting that the islands of the Carribean Sea are the plums which all nations will soon be trying to snatch...
...minutes. As for the fluke by which Dean secured the ball and ran down a clean field, the only explanation is that he broke through and touched the ball as it was leaving Barbour's fingers, changed its course and was lucky enough to pick it up on the bound while he was running at full speed. The ball did not touch either of the Yale halfbacks during this play...