Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other articles of interest to the warlike-minded are James Grant Wilson's sketch of Von Moltke and the second part of Arthur Sherburne Hardy's account of the Japanese Army. One would hardly believe that the author of this matter-of-fact description of military maneuvers in Japan could have written the "Wind of Destiny" and "Passe-Rose." But Mr. Hardy was a soldier himself once, while calculations of the velocity of Japanese riffles must be easy work to the Dartmouth professor of mathematics...
Professor Royee has furnished the following sketch of the main argument of the lecture, not as a statement complete in itself, but as a memorandum for those who heard the discussion...
...series of Historical Monographs is a discussion of "The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development and Function in the Government of the United States," by Mr. E. C. Mason, instructor in Political Economy. The monograph, the result of special research under the direction of Dr. Hart, opens with a sketch of the derivation of vetoes from the royal prerogative in England. It goes on to discuss vetoes in United States history, under the heads of vetoes affecting the form of government, the distribution of its powers, and their exercise. Each class is elaborately treated. The occasion of each veto is discussed...
...Achille Luchaire's "Les Communes Francaises a Pepoque des Capetiens directs; Mendelyeef's "Grundlagen der Chemie"; A facsimile of the earliest edition of Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of the New World; "Leibnitz's New Essays Concerning the Human Under standing," John Dewey; D. McK. Kerly's "Historical Sketch of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery," being the Yorke prize essay of Cambridge University in 1889; Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason;" A. C. Merriam's "Telegraphing Among the Ancients;" "A Dictionary of Music and Musicians," (A. D. 1450 1889). by eminent writers. English and foreign...
...comic Irish sketch of "Father Phil's Collection," was a bright and clever piece and afforded the reader many opportunities which were availed of. "A Senator Entangled" and "The Fourth of July Celebration at Jonesville" were, as their titles announce, American caricatures. The latter closed the entertainment...