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Featherman, A. Social History of the Races of Mankind. 5 vols. Trübner & Co. London, 1881. Ellis, Rev. Wm. Polynesian Researches. 4 vols. G. Bohn. London, 1853. Bishop, Mrs Isabella Bird. Korea and Her Neighbours. 480 pp. Fleming H. Revell Co. Somerville, Lieut. Boyle T. The New Hebrides. Jour. Anthr. Inst., xxiii, 1894. Hall, G. Stanley. Adolescence. 2 vols. Appleton, N.Y., 1904.
I looked it over, and discovered this memorable entry among the obituary announcements of the day: "On the 29th inst., at Brighton, Michael Vanstone, Esq., formerly of Zurich, aged 77." Miss Vanstone was present in the room when I read those two startling lines. Her bonnet was on; her boxes were packed; she was waiting impatiently until it was time to go to the train.
Confederate States' steamer Sumter, Port Royal, Nov. 12th, 1861. SIR, In the interview which I had the honour to hold with your Excellency on Saturday last, the 9th inst. I understood your Excellency to assent to the proposition that I might go into the market at St. Pierre, and purchase such supplies as I might stand in need of, coal included.
"'The Settlement of New Plymouth, March the 21st inst. A. D. 1620." For thus in Old Style did John Alden count the date we now should set at March 31st, 1621. And having written it in the queer crabbed Saxon script we find so hard to decipher he inquired, "And what next, Mistress Priscilla?" "Next, Master John, thou mayest set down," "'My well beloved'"
He addressed a letter to the ad interim President, General Arroya, as follows: "ORIZABA, April 22, 1847. "MY ESTEEMED FRIEND: The dispatch which I have forwarded to the Minister of War will already have informed you of the events which occurred on the 18th inst.
I am very glad, however, that you had an opportunity of reading a copy of General Grant's letter of the 20th inst. to me, which I left with Mr. Macfarland for that purpose, and also that he might show it to other officers of the Army of Northern Virginia in my condition.
Goodrich, with the Connecticut Military Adventurers from the Mississippi, but last from Pensacola, the 16th inst." They had "laid out twenty-three townships at the Natchez," where lands were in process of rapid occupation, the arrivals numbering "above four hundred families within six weeks, down the Ohio from Virginia and the Carolinas."
It is never correct, for example, to write the following sort of note: DEAR MRS. CRONICK: Your invitation for the 12th inst. received and in reply would advise that I am not at the present time in a position to signify whether or not I can accept.
"Mr. Albert Weener, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Perth, Western Australia, A.C. "Dear Sir: According to yr. instructions our party left Paramaribo on the 9th inst. for Medellin, giving out that we were going to see possible tin deposits near there.
"'GENTLEMEN, In answer to yours of the 20th inst., I beg to state that I have a distinct recollection of Professor Morse's application for a patent, strengthened by the fact of his not having paid the fees for the hearing, etc., and these being now owing.
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