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Best general references: The party platforms in Dallinger and Proper's handbook, and elsewhere:-Candidates' letters of acceptance in newspapers of Sept. 7 and 27; - H. R. Ex Doc's 1 "Sess. 52" Cong. No. 91. Cong. Rec. p. 551, 558, (Jon. 26, '92), N. A. Rev. 154, 642-648 and Nov. '92 Public Opinion vol's XI, XII, XIII, passim, on administrative policy...
Within the college the association has been a decided help. To men who come to Harvard from a distance, and those who are unacquainted with the college, the Association Handbook and the reception committee have doubtless been very beneficial. The disclosure of this practical work which is done by the association may tend to dispel a feeling which has no little hold on the college that the Y. M. C. A. does nothing more than hold religious meetings and send delegates to conventions...
...Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada; based on Nuttall's Manual," by Montague Chamberlain: Little, Brown & Co., 1891. Price...
...books, but the latest edition by Mr. Montague Chamberlain is easily placed among the best of them. Mr., Chamberlain bases his book on "Nuttall's Manual of Ornithology of the United States of America." This book itself was published in 1832, and being the first handbook of the subject ever published it came into instant favor. But there is evidently much original work in Mr. Chamberlain's book, which is very comprehensive and includes every known bird of today in this part of the country. No bird that can be found east of the Mississippi River, from the Gulf stream...
...Public Opinion, Oct. 24, '91. - (b) He wrung favorable legislation from an unwilling Parliament and a people; Nation, vol. 51, p. 497. - (c) He made the Irish question the chief question in English politics; Nation, Oct. 15, '91. - (d) He converted the Liberal party to the Irish cause; Handbook of Home Rule, p. 52; McCarthy's Ireland's Cause, etc., p. 99. - (e) To this policy of obstruction is due the lenient Irish policy of the present Conservative Government...