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II, ch. xi, xii; far more pretentious works are, Joseph von Hammer, Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches, 2d ed., 4 vols. II, 1451-1538, and H. A. Gibbons, The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire , covering the earlier years, from 1300 to 1403. Five hundred years ago a European could search in vain the map of "the world" for America, or Australia, or the Pacific Ocean.
I will not call it a 'garden city', for a garden city represents an attempt to add some of the features of the country to a town. Silchester, I fancy, represents the exact opposite. It is an attempt to insert urban features into a country-side. For accounts of the Silchester excavations, see Archaeologia, vols. lii-lxii, and Victoria Hist. of Hampshire, i. 271, 350; large plan by W.H. St.
Vols., and keep this matter a military secret. In spite of his prepossessions against it, Shorty took naturally to Headquarters duty, as he did to everything else in the army. He even took a pride in his personal appearance, and appeared every morning as spick and span as the barber-shop around the corner could make him.
Biographies of Calvin: H. Y. Reyburn, John Calvin: his Life, Letters, and Work ; Williston Walker, John Calvin, the Organizer of Reformed Protestantism ; Emile Doumergue, Jean Calvin: les hommes et les choses de son temps, 4 vols. H. M. Baird, Theodore Beza is a popular biography of one of the best-known friends and associates of Calvin.
For bibliography and summary of contemporary literature, Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution. Selections from newspapers and contemporary documents are in Moore's Diary of the American Revolution, 2 vols. 1860. For the Loyalists, see Tyler, in American Historical Review, I; Van Tyne, The Loyalists in the American Revolution. 1902.
Voyage de M. Levaillant, dans l'Intérieur de l'Afrique, 1780-85. Paris, 2 vols. 8vo. Second Voyage, 1783-1785. Paris, 3 vols. 8vo. These Travels, which have been translated into English, possess a wonderful charm in the narrative, attained, however, too often by the sacrifice of plain and unadorned truth, to the love of romance and effect.
A good brief account of the Revolution is in Smith's The Wars Between England, and America , chaps, I-VI; a fuller and better account in Channing's History of the United States, III, chaps. I-XII; all things considered the ablest summary is Lecky's The American Revolution. An able and suggestive work is Fisher's The Struggle for American Independence, 2 vols. 1908.
A Tale of Real Life. By Mrs. Emma D.E.N. Southworth. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 455. $1.25. The Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. Great Expectations. 2 vols. New York. James G. Gregory. 16mo. pp. 336, 334. $1.50. The Silver Cord. A Novel. By Shirley Brooks. New York.
The laws are engraved on a great stele of diorite in no less than forty-nine columns of writing, of which forty-four are preserved,* and at the head of the stele is sculptured a representation of the king receiving them from Shamash, the Sun-god. * See King, Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi, 3 vols.
The principal design of these two works is sufficiently indicated in their titles. Dr. Garnett's Tour through the Highlands and Part of the Western Islands of Scotland. 1800. 2 vols. 4to. Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, antiquities, botany, and manners, are treated of, though not in a masterly manner. Travels in Scotland and Ireland, 1769-72. Chester, 1774. 2 vols. 4to.
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