Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Messrs. Frederick Warne and Co. have issued a story of adventure, "The Desert Ship" by J. B. Burton, author of "The Hispaniola Plate." The scene is laid in Colorado Desert and the story is well worth reading...
SUMMER tutoring at Seal Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me. Entrance and condition examinations. Terms reasonable. Highest references. Apply for circular to E. K. Rand, Divinity Hall, Cambridge...
...hand, arranged in a roockery, a choice selection of the plants which were favorites in English gardens in the time of Queene Anne. Just beyond, there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples and magnolias, with tree ferns and palms from the conservatory. Fronting these are clustered excellent representatives of the flora of the Australasian colonies. If the walk be now continued through the main paths, one comes in succession upon the representative plants of the northern...
...subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture last night was "Twenty Novels for a Desert Island." If one were left alone on a desert island from which there was to be no return, what twenty novels would be the most satisfactory in such a life-long solitude? In answer to this question Mr. Copeland had collected lists from some thirty persons of different ages and occupations. Some few of these lists he read, after a consideration of the qualities which would in general be demanded of novels which were alone to represent the whole mass of fiction...
Lecture. Twenty Novels for a Desert Island. Mr. Copeland. Sever...