United States or Sudan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But notwithstanding these considerations, the jury, in Robert's case, did not express any solicitude to save his life as they had done that of James. They found him guilty of being art and part in the forcible abduction of Jean Key from her own dwelling.* * The Trials of the Sons of Rob Roy, with anecdotes of Himself and his Family, were published at Edinburgh, 1818, in 12mo.
La Pierre philosophale des dames, ou les Caprices de l'amour et du destin, by Louis Adrien Duperron de Castera, , 12mo. I have not seen a copy of the book. Mrs. E. Griffith's comment on the work is typical of the tendency to moralize even the amusements of the day. See A Collection of Novels, , II, 162.
The Life and Letters of Mrs. Emily C. Judson. By A.C. Kendrick, Professor of Greek Literature in the University of Rochester. New York. Sheldon & Co. 12mo. pp. 426. $1.00. The Life of George Washington. By Edward Everett. New York. Sheldon & Co. 12mo. pp. 348. $1.00. Poems. By Henry Lynden Flash. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 168. 75 cts. Historical Pictures Retouched. In Two Parts.
"The author knows how to make them real and how to carry them through moving and thrilling scenes with unconscious heroism and often with equally unconscious dry drollery." The Outlook. With illustrations by M.J. BURNS and FRANK BRANGWYN 12mo, $1.50 "Mr. Connolly has a touch of gay humor in his narratives. He knows his sea and his sailors well.
See Goldsmith's Comedy, Act III. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 2. James Pringle, Convener of Selkirkshire for more than half a century. For an account of the Pringles of Torwoodlee, see Mr. Craig Brown's History of Selkirkshire, vol. i. pp. 459-470. "The Insurrection of the Papers a Dream." The Twopenny Post-Bag, 12mo, London, 1812.
It is literally indispensable to the general practitioner, not merely because it is the only book which contains the collected law on the subject as administered in this country, but also because, if it had a dozen competitors, its intrinsic value would be all the more fully developed by the comparison. The Astronomy of the Bible. By O.M. MITCHELL, LL.D. 12mo. New York Blakeman & Mason.
These tales, though in the garb of fiction, are true. "I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could," Mr. Riis tells us in a prefatory note. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman By H. G. WELLS. Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net. The name of H. G. Wells upon a title page is an assurance of merit.
Being a Narrative of the Exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and Adjacent Countries during the Years 1853, '54, '55, '56, under the Orders of the United States Government. With Maps and Numerous Engravings. New York. Harper & Brothers. 8vo. pp. 632. $3.00. Symbols of the Capital; or Civilization in New York. By A.D. Mayo. New York. Thatcher & Hutchinson. 12mo. pp. 358. $1.00.
"It portrays in life-like colors the characters and daily habits of nearly all the English and Irish celebrities of that period." N. Y. Courier and Enquirer. The Political and Military History of the Campaign of Waterloo, from the French of Gen. Baron Jomini, by Lieut. S. V. BENET, U. S. Ordnance, with a Map, 12mo, cloth, 75 cents.
Alger's name a household word in so many homes. The Train Boy. By HORATIO ALGER, JR. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Paul Palmer was a wide-awake boy of sixteen who supported his mother and sister by selling books and papers on the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. He detects a young man in the act of picking the pocket of a young lady.