Word: british
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition discusses a comparatively fresh subject, - the establishment of a course in American literature in the English department. The Advocate thinks that if is not feasible to have a special course in American literature, it would be practicable to change English 8 and English 9 (now overcrowded with purely British authors) to full courses, and thus the English writers could not only be treated more thoroughly but the more important American authors could be included...
...Massachusetts and 225 in New York. Outside of these two States the largest membership is in the Middle States and Pennsylvania. Ohio has seventy-seven, Illinois sixty. Two live in Japan, one each in Australia, Samoan Islands, Sandwich Islands and United States of Columbia. The number from Canada and British Columbia is thirty-four...
...Ghostly" is a long and rather interesting story, though one is inclined to skip the preface which has almost nothing to do with the plot, and to begin the fiction at "Spoff's First Prayer." The story is well told, the scene laid in British Columbia, and the plot deals with a solitary hunter, who, compelled to spend the night in a deserted Indian village, meets there his hospitable ghost...
...English control of Canada has been a failure. [a] it has not developed the resources of the country. [b] the system of government is costly and unsuitable, [c] Canadian welfare has been sacrificed to British interests; Dublin Review, vol. 35 p. 151; Forum, July 1887; ibid March, 1889: August, 1889; Contemporary Review, Nov. 1881, Handbook of Commercial Union; Bourinot's Constitutional Manual of Canada; Bryce's American Common wealth. II. 410; Dilke's Problems of Great Britain c. 1; Payne's Colonial Dependencies...
...been published under the authority of the British Museum from a papyrus which has recently come into the possession of the Museum through some Egyptian excavations. In general the manuscript is in good condition, though the last of the four rolls of which it consists is fragmentary. The writing, as is usual in such cases, is on the reverse of the papyrus, which originally held certain mercantile accounts dated 79 A. D. Allowing, therefore, reasonable time for these accounts to lose their importance before the other side would be used, we may fix the date of this text...