Word: european
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Macvane began with the history of the disputed territory from the time that Spain claimed Guiana. It is not international law, the lecturer said, that discovery gives claim to possession. The claims of Spain in Guiana were not repeated by other European countries since they were not backed up by actual possession. Guiana changed hands many times...
...Sidney Everett contributes a paper on Unclaimed Estates. He gives minute and most interesting information in regard to the large European estates which are supposed to be awaiting American claimants...
...long-promised "Life of Agassiz," by Jules Marcou, is at last announced for immediate publication. M. Marcou is the only surviving European naturalist who came with Agassiz to this country, and he was closely associated with him both in Europe and America as pupil, assistant and friend. The book brings out very clearly the identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts...
...allied powers" were Russia, Austria and Prussia, in league with Spain and Bourbon France. And our republic was then in its infancy, and its safety was certainly imperilled by this powerful combination of European despotisms. Can any one without a smile ask what is there now to be compared with this? Would England extend any "political system" to South america which could in any sense endanger "our peace and happiness?" When the last French Empire undertook to establish an empire in Mexico, while our Southern states were in rebellion, we were justified in resisting so obvious an attack...
...permanent and political union between an European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient;" if it does involve this what shall be our position about Canada; does it involve the position. once taken by our government, that South America controversies can not be arbitrated by European powers; is it for the interest of the human race that a peaceable settlement of South America by European colonies be forbidden; is it for our selfish interest so to forbid them, or would our commercial interests be advanced by having the continent populated as fast as possible; shall we permit South Americans...