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92 P297w White, Newport John Davis. St. Patrick; his writings and life. 1920. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Translations of Christian literature, series 5: Lives of the Celtic saints.)

Contains translations with notes and introductions of the "Confession," the "Epistola ad Coroticum," the hymn known as the "Lorica of St. Patrick," and Muirchu's "Life of St. Patrick," written in the seventh century, which is the most ancient one extant. Peabody, Ephraim.

92 P338

[Peabody, Robert Swain, & Peabody, F. G.] A New England romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody [1807–1892], told by their sons. 1920. Houghton.

Reveals "the simple natural lives of a Massachusetts clergyman and his wife." Outlook 1920.

Pope, Alexander.

92 P813m

Mackail, John William. Pope; the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge, 10 May 1919. 1919. Cambridge University Press.

Chiefly a consideration of Pope's place as a poet in English literature, with some biographical information.

Witte, Sergiei IUlievich.

92 W827

Memoirs of Count Witte; tr. from the original Russian manuscript and ed. by Abraham Yarmolinsky. 1921. Doubleday.

An account of the political career of this Russian statesman (1849-1915), closing with the year 1912.

Collected Biography

r 920.7 D56

920 K26

Dictionnaire historique portatif des femmes célèbres. 3v. 1769.
King, Grace.

Creole families of New Orleans. 1921. Macmillan. Genealogical and historical accounts of the French and Spanish families who settled in New Orleans and made its history in colonial times.

923.2 M73 Mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections, by a gentleman with a duster. 1921. Putnam.

Contents: Mr Lloyd George.-Lord Carnock.-Lord Fisher.-Mr Asquith.-Lord Northcliffe.-Mr Arthur Balfour.-Lord Kitchener.-Lord Robert Cecil.-Mr Winston Churchill.-Lord Haldane.-Lord Rhondda.-Lord Inverforth.-Lord Leverhulme.Conclusion.

A series of critical and biographical analyses, set down with a devastating candor never exceeded in the literature of European politics, yet done with the delicacy of an etching. Condensed from Atlantic monthly, 1921. Runciman, Sir Walter.

Drake, Nelson and Napoleon. 1920. Putnam.

923.5 R87

Contents: Drake and the fleet tradition.-Nelson and his circle.-Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805: British order of battle; A list of the combined fleet of France and Spain. Napoleon and his connection with the world war.-Sea songs.-Appendix: Some incidents of Nelson's life (chronologically arranged).

Stafford, Hartwell, ed.

q 920 S77

The Philadelphian and his city; who's who in Philadelphia in wartime. V.I. 1920. Stafford's National News Service. (Keystone state notables.)

Binder's title reads "Who's who in Philadelphia."

The same.....

qr 920 S77

Ault, Norman.

Travel and Description

(Includes Antiquities)

913.42 Ag2 Life in ancient Britain; a survey of the social and economic development of the people of England from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. 1920. Longmans.

Davidson, Norman James.

910 D29

Modern travel; a record of exploration, travel, adventure & sport in all parts of the world during the last 40 years derived from personal accounts by the travellers. 1921. Lippincott.

Contents: Hunting mighty game.-The ice-bound shores of Labrador.-The savage tribes of the Paraguayan Chaco.-A tramp across the Sahara.-The haunts of slavery [Central Africa].-A wanderer in the wilds of Africa.-Madagascar: nature's museum. -A land of perpetual rain [New Guinea].-The home of the bird of Paradise [New Guinea].-The treacherous tribes of Oceania.

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Information about the life and position of the women of ancient Greece.

Europe

Hallays, André.

914.344 H17

The spell of Alsace; tr. with a foreword, by F. R. Fraprie. 1919. Page.

Contents: Mulhouse.-Ensisheim; Rouffach; Issenheim; Guebwiller; Murbach.— Colmar.-Ammerschwihr, Kaysersberg and Riquewihr; Voltaire in Alsace; Schlestadt; Hohkoenigsbourg.-Sainte-Odile and Obernai.-Saverne; Marmoutier; Birckenwald; Saint-Jean-des-choux.-Alsace in 1903.-Wissembourg.-An excursion in the surroundings of Strasburg; The Alsatian tradition.-Toward Sainte-Odile.-"In the service of Germany," by Maurice Barrès.-The castle of Martinsbourg; Alfieri and the countess of Albany. Ferrette.-Haguenan and Neubourg.-Soultz-sous-Forêts; The letters of the baroness de Bode.-The chateau of Reichshoffen.-Eighteenth century art in Alsace.— The chateaux of the cardinals of Rohan.-Churches and abbeys.-Public festivals.-The cities of Alsace.-Unchanging Alsace.

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Kansas and the country beyond, on the line of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern division, from the Missouri to the Pacific ocean, partly from personal observation and partly from information drawn from authentic sources; written in a series of letters to the Pittsburgh gazette. 1867. Lippincott.

Contains map.

With this is bound "Report of surveys across the continent, in 1867-'68, on the

Copley, Josiah-continued.

r 917.81 C79 35th and 32d parallels, for a route extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to the Pacific ocean at San Francisco and San Diego," by W. J. Palmer.

With this are also bound a letter of John D. Perry, president of the Union Pacific Railway (Eastern division), together with the reports of the engineer and the geologist of the road, and the report of the majority of the Senate committee on Pacific railroads, Feb. 19, 1869.

Parsons, John, 1817-40.

917.72 P26

Tour through Indiana in 1840; the diary of John Parsons of Petersburg, Virginia; ed. by K. M. Rabb. 1920. McBride.

An intimate, though formally and quaintly worded, picture of the social, political, and family life of the Middle West at that time. As the young traveler had numerous letters of introduction, his experiences are given additional value by his accounts of meetings with men and women since become famous.

Visher, Stephen Sargent.

r 917.83 V35

The geography of South Dakota. [1918?] University of Chicago. Thesis for Ph. D., University of Chicago.

Reprinted from South Dakota state geological survey, "Bulletin no.8." "A bibliography of the literature cited," p. 163-168.

Other Countries

Bulstrode, Mrs Beatrix, afterward Mrs Gull.

915.1 B87

Tour in Mongolia, with an introduction bearing on the political aspect of that country by David Fraser. [1920.] Methuen.

An account of a trip made by an English woman in 1913 when Mongolia was at war with China, giving many descriptive details of the picturesque and primitive life and character of the natives.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.

New Jerusalem. [1921.] Hodder.

915.69 C42

The author's reflections, historical, philosophical, and political, with some descriptive notes, set down while on a trip to Palestine.

Dewey, John, & Dewey, Mrs H. A. (Chipman).

915.2 D51 Letters from China and Japan, ed. by Evelyn Dewey. 1920. Dutton. Impressions of life and customs in the Far East by a Columbia University professor of philosophy and his wife.

Pollard, Samuel.

915.1 P76

In unknown China; a record of the observations, adventures and experiences of a pioneer missionary during a prolonged sojourn amongst the wild and unknown Nosu tribe of western China. 1921. Seeley.

Bruton, F. A.

History
Europe

qr 942.72 B83

The story of Peterloo; written for the centenary, Aug. 16, 1919. 1919. Manchester University Press.

An account of the dispersal by armed force of a meeting of working people gathered to discuss parliamentary reform in Manchester, England, in 1819.

Fortier, Alcée.

944 F79

Précis de l'histoire de France, avec des notes explicatives en anglais. 1919. Macmillan.

United States

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

r 016.9744 C21

The Pilgrims; selected material for use in connection with the Pilgrim tercentenary celebration. 1920. Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania Infantry-155th regiment.

q 973-7448 J155 Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-65; campaigns 155th Pennsylvania regiment, narrated by the rank and file; ed. and comp. by C. F. McKenna. 1910. 155th Regimental Association. Pittsburgh.

Other Countries

New York (city)-Public library. Astor, Lenox and

Tilden foundations.

qr 016.956 N26

Armenia and the Armenians; a list of references in the library; comp. by I. A. Pratt, under the direction of Richard Gottheil. 1919.

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La guerre et la vie de demain; conférences de l'Alliance d'Hygiène Sociale, 1914-16. v.1-2. 1916–17.

V.1. Enfance et jeunesse.

V.2.

Les risques immédiats de la guerre et leur réparation. Ludendorff, Erich von.

940.91 L97 The general staff and its problems; the history of the relations between the high command and the German imperial government as revealed by official documents; tr. by F. A. Holt. 2v. [1920.] Dutton.

The author seeks in this work to meet the demand for the sources on which he based the bold and sensational assertions he made in "My war memories." Condensed from New York times, 1920.

McLaren, Mrs Eva Shaw, ed.

940.917 M19 1919. Hodder.

History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. An account of the work done in France and Servia during the great war by the hospital units composed of British women equipped and sent out by the Scottish federation of women's suffrage societies.

Mirman, L. and others.

r 940.924 M73

Leurs crimes; publié sous le patronage de Mm les Maires des villes de: Belfort, Épinat, Chalons-sur-Marne, Nancy, Bar-le-Duc, (Mézieres), Melun, Chateau-Thierry (pour Laon), Beauvais, Amiens, Arras, Dunkerque (pour Lille), Sainte-Dié, Baccarat, Pont-a-Mousson, Lunéville, Gerbéviller, Nomeny, Reims, Verdun, Sermaize, Senlis, Albert, Clermont-en-Argonne. 1918. (Pages d'histoire, 1914-16.)

"Ouvrages consultés," p.64.

An account of German atrocities in the devastated regions of France. Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley.

940.918 S48 Shadow-shapes; the journal of a wounded woman, Oct. 1918-May 1919. 1920. Houghton.

An American journalist, injured on a visit to a battlefield, gives an account of life in French hospitals and her impressions of French and world politics during her convalescent days in Paris after the armistice.

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Title translated: "Episodes of the year 1848; studies and sketches."

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Sivooký démon.-První nocu mrtvoly.-Aspon se pousměj!
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Arbes, J.

Barikádníci.-Elegie o černých očich.-Anna a Marie.
Svatý Xaverius.-Advokát chudasů.-Duhokřídlá Psyche.

Newtonův mozek.-Omlazující krev.-Duhový bod nad hlavou.-Lotr Gólo.

Ukřižovaná.-Akrobati.

Ethiopská lilie.

Satyry a rozmarné hříčky.

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