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New York. Harper & Brothers. 18mo. pp. 371. 60 cts. The Sunny South; or the Southerner at Home. Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton. Edited by Professor J.H. Ingraham of Mississippi. Philadelphia. George G. Evans. 12mo. pp. 526. $1.25. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges. By James Hadley, Professor in Yale College. New York.
"I will here give only the most important figures. "In the case of iron ore, England has up to now maintained its position better than in other respects. "Imports amounted in 1913 to 7.4 million tons. "In 1916 to 6.9 million tons. "January, 1913, 689,000 tons; February, 1913, 658,000 tons. "January, 1916, 526,000 tons; February, 1916, 404,000 tons.
He made war upon the southern kingdom, and with such success that he felt himself entitled to claim its conquuest, and to inscribe upon his signet-seal the proud title of "Conqueror of Babylonia." This is probably the exact event of which Berosus spoke as occurring 526 years before Phul or Pul, and which Herodotus regarded as marking the commencement of the Assyrian "Empire."
For the long interval between the defeat of the Huns in 526 A.D. and the raids of Mahmud of Ghazni about 1000 A.D. which was almost entirely free from foreign inroads, seems precisely the period when the want of political ideas and constructive capacity was most marked. Nor were the incursions always destructive and sterile.
It will give you an idea of how busy President Woodruff had been when you are told that from 1834 to 1895 he had traveled through twenty-eight States of the Union, three of the countries of Europe, and six islands of the sea. He had held 7,555 meetings, preached 3,526 discourses, organized fifty-one branches of the Church, besides doing a great deal of other work in the Church.
A march of 526 miles or about 33 moderate days' marching the continuance and termination of which were disturbed by no special misfortunes on a great scale that could not be anticipated, but were, on the other hand, rendered possible only by incalculable pieces of good fortune and still more incalculable blunders of the enemy, and which yet not only cost such sacrifices, but so fatigued and demoralized the army, that it needed a prolonged rest in order to be again ready for action is a military operation of doubtful value, and it may be questioned whether Hannibal himself regarded it as successful.
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