Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record, Issues 237-251

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Trübner & Company, 1888
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.

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Page 104 - The Sublime Porte undertakes to carry out, without further delay, the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their...
Page 62 - A knowledge of the commonplace, at least, of Oriental literature, philosophy, and religion is as necessary to the general reader of the present day as an acquaintance with the Latin and Greek classics was a generation or so ago.
Page 195 - THE GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES. A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the Contest between England and Spain for the Possession of the Soil now occupied by the United States of America; set forth through a series of Historical Manuscripts now first printed, together with a Re-issue of Rare Contemporaneous Tracts, accompanied by Bibliographical Memoranda, Notes, and Brief Biographies.
Page 52 - RELIGION IN CHINA; containing a brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese; with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion amongst that People. By Joseph Edkins, DD , Peking.
Page 60 - Cr. 8vo., 7s. 6d. Ex VOTO. An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia. Crown 8vo., los. 6d. SELECTIONS FROM WORKS, with Remarks on Mr. GJ Romanes' ' Mental Evolution in Animals,
Page 125 - TABULAR LIST OF ALL THE AUSTRALIAN BIRDS AT PRESENT KNOWN TO THE AUTHOR, showing the distribution of the species. By EP Ramsay, FLS , &c.
Page 30 - The Silva of North America. A description of the Trees which grow naturally in North America, exclusive of Mexico.
Page 38 - STUDIES OF TORNADOES.— The American Meteorological Journal, desiring to direct the attention of students to tornadoes, in hopes that valuable results may be obtained, offers the following prizes : For the best original essay on tornadoes or description of a tornado, $200 will be given.
Page 10 - In proportion as we love truth more and victory less, we shall become anxious to know what it is which leads our opponents to think as they do. We shall begin to suspect that the pertinacity of belief exhibited by them must result from a perception of something we have not perceived. And we shall aim to supplement the portion of truth we have found with the portion found by them.

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