The Book Buyer: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volumen5

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889
A review and record of current literature.
 

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Página 372 - By John Austin Stevens. JAMES MADISON. By Sydney Howard Gay. JOHN ADAMS. By John T. Morse, Jr. JOHN MARSHALL. By Allan B.
Página 372 - A Series of Biographies of Men conspicuous in the Political History of the United States. Edited by JOHN T. MORSE, Jr. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS By John T. Morse, Jr. ALEXANDER HAMILTON By Henry Cabot Lodge. JOHN C. CALHOUN By Dr. H. Von Hoist.
Página 45 - BALLADS AND POEMS. By MEMBERS OF THE GLASGOW BALLAD CLUB. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d BANNATYNE. Handbook of Republican Institutions in the United States of America. Based upon Federal and State Laws, and other reliable sources of information. By DUGALD J. BANNATYNE, Scotch Solicitor, New York ; Member of the Faculty of Procurators, Glasgow.
Página 603 - BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson, with the TOUR in the HEBRIDES and JOHNSONIANA. New Edition, with Notes and Appendices, by the Rev. A. Napier, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge, Vicar of Holkham, Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the 'Theological Works of Barrow.
Página 149 - I should say that if one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of respect, the feeling for what is elevated, one could not do better than take the American newspapers.
Página 538 - Lamb's Complete Works, In Prose and Verse, reprinted from the Original Editions, with many Pieces hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by RH SHEPHERD. With Two Portraits and Facsimile of a Page of the
Página 603 - Bohn's volume has the rare recommendation of -being entirely free from the rubbish which is commonly thrust into similar collections. His selections have been made from a long and extensive course of reading, and It everywhere bears evidence of a scholar's eye and taste. There must be, as we Judge, nearly 8,000 quotations in the volume, ranging from Chaucer to Tennyson.
Página 165 - The author's skill as a story writer has never been more felicitously illustrated than in this volume. The title story is meagre almost to baldness in incident, but its quaint humor, its simple but broadly outlined characters, and, above all, its touching pathos, combine to make it a masterpiece of its kind.
Página 210 - Works of William Shakespeare, edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. With notes and introductions to each play by FA Marshall and other Shakespearian scholars, and numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne.
Página 548 - A Dictionary of 118,000 Words, 3000 Engravings, A Gazetteer of the World locating...

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