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Recreation

Charousek, Rudolf.

794.1 C38

Charousek's games of chess, with annotations and a biographical introduction by P. W. Sergeant. 1919. Bell.

Complete records of 146 games played by a Hungarian champion.

Conklin, George.

791 C75 The ways of the circus; being the memories and adventures of George Conklin, tamer of lions; set down by H. W. Root, with a foreword by D. C. Seitz. 1921. Harper.

Hammond, Daryn.

796.35 H22

The golf swing; the Ernest Jones method. [1920.] Brentano. The methods of an English professional described and illustrated with many photographs.

Holt, Ardern.

793.3 H74

How to dance the revived ancient dances. 1907. Cox.

Literature

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.

824 C42us

The uses of diversity; a book of essays. 1921. Dodd.

r 820.9 G83

Greene, Nelson Lewis.

Historical chart of English literature, for use in schools and colleges.

1912. Privately printed.

Chart, 14 x 38 inches, folded in 8° cover.

Holliday, Robert Cortes.

Men and books and cities. 1920. Doran.

814 H72m

Contents: I stage my first death scene.-Meredith Nicholson and a camel.-The soul and the trap-drummer.-Why Shakespeare's audience didn't walk out on him. -Booth Tarkington discusses the cosmos.-Riley and a colored barber.-Boyhood of the hero.-Miltonic angels, not Herrick blossoms. The author goes wool gathering.-The effeminacy of pajamas.-A farewell from William Marion Reedy.-Mrs Joyce Kilmer at Walnut Hills.-E. V. Lucas fools Chicago.-Maternity and climate.-To San Fran. cisco; a new Walking stick paper.-A pal of Jack London.-I become a movie "direc

tor.

Lucanus, Marcus Annæus.

qr 873 L96c

Civilis belli Caesaris et Pompei libri decem suo nitori restituti, interpretibus Ioanne Sulpitio Verulano & Omnibono Vicentino, viris clarissimis; additus est praeterea vocabulorum index, Hyacinthus Arpinas recensuit. [1508.]

O'Neill, James Milton, and others.

Argumentation and debate.

1920. Macmillan.

808.5 025

An earlier edition is written by Craven Laycock and R. L. Scales (808.5 L43).

Phillimore, John Swinnerton.

801 P49

Revival of criticism; a paper read at the meeting of the Classical Association at Oxford on May 17th, 1919. 1919. Blackwell.

A discussion of the status of German scholarship in the classics.

Smith, Logan Pearsall.

Trivia. 1920. Doubleday.

824 S649

"These pieces vary from a few lines to several pages in length, and, in subject, from suggestive experiences, sights, persons, and remarks of everyday life, to stories with a touch of the aphorism and regular little philosophic essays. The style is equally versatile, fanciful, even freakish, often truly poetic, sometimes colloquial, always clear-cut and expressive of serious thought." Athenæum, 1918.

Soto, Domingo de.

1572.

qr 888 A71zS

Super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis commentaria. 1572.
With this is bound his "Super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis quaestiones."

Whitman, Charles Huntington.

r 821 S74zwh Subject-index to the poems of Edmund Spenser. 1918. Yale University Press.

Published under the auspices of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Whitman, Walt.

818 W64g Gathering of the forces; editorials, essays, literary and dramatic reviews and other material written by Walt Whitman as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847; ed. by Cleveland Rodgers and John Black, with a foreword and a sketch of Whitman's life and work during two unknown years. 2v. 1920. Putnam.

The same..

Poetry

.r 818 W64

Branch, Anna Hempstead.

811 B696

The shoes that danced, and other poems. 1905. Houghton. Johnson, Robert Underwood.

811 J36c

Collected poems, 1881-1919; comprising his volumes: "The winter hour," "Songs of liberty," "Saint-Gaudens; an ode, and other verse," "Poems of war and peace," "Italian rhapsody," and other poems not before collected. 1920. Yale University Press.

Moore, Thomas Sturge.

Some soldier poets. 1919. Richards.

821.09 M87

Contents: Julian Grenfell.-Rupert Brooke.-A half pleiade [Robert Nichols, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves].-R. E. Vernède.-Sorley.-Francis Ledwidge.Edward Thomas.-F. W. Harvey.-Richard Aldington.-Alan Seeger.-The best poetry. Newbolt, Sir Henry John.

St. George's day, and other poems. 1918. Murray. Shipley, Orby, ed.

821 N26sa

821.08 S55

Carmina Mariana; an English anthology in verse in honour of, or in relation to, the blessed Virgin Mary. 1893. Spottiswoode.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

821 S97sel

Selections; ed. by Edmund Gosse and T. J. Wise. 1920. Heinemann. Wilkinson, Mrs Marguerite Ogden (Bigelow).

811 W731

Bluestone; lyrics. 1920. Macmillan.

Drama. Theatre

Benavente y Martínez, Jacinto.

862 B42p

La princesa Bebé; escenas de la vida moderna divididas en cuatro

actos. 1914.

Bottomley, Gordon.

King Lear's wife [and other] plays. [1920?] Small.

822 B64

Other plays: The crier by night.-The riding to Lithend.-Midsummer eve.Laodice and Danae.-Appendix A (King Lear's wife).-Appendix B (The crier by night).

"Bibliographical note," pref. p.7.

Norwood, Gilbert.

882.09 N46

Greek tragedy. [1920.] Methuen.

Contents: The literary history of Greek tragedy.-The Greek theatre and the production of plays.-The works of Eschylus.-The works of Sophocles.-The works of Euripides. Metre and rhythm in Greek tragedy.

Rolland, Romain.

842 R64li

Liluli; illustrations d'après les bois de Frans Masereel. [1919?] Smith, Alice Mary, ed.

808.2 S64

Short plays by representative authors. 1920. Macmillan. Contents: The hraun farm, by Jóhann Sigurjónsson.-The merry merry cuckoo, by Jeannette Marks.-The locked chest, by John Masefield.-The post office, by Rabindranath Tagore.-Six who pass while the lentils boil, by Stuart Walker.-The silver lining, by Constance d'Arcy Mackay.-By ourselves, by Ludwig Fulda.-The rider of dreams, by Ridgely Torrence.-Spreading the news, by Lady Augusta Gregory.-The swan song, by Anton Tchekhoff. The man on the kerb, by Alfred Sutro.-The shadowed star, by Mary Macmillan.

Biography

Conselheiro, Antonio Vicente Mendes Maciel, called.

9 92 C7588 Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame. A Brazilian mystic; the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. 1920. Heinemann.

A biography of the leader of a religious uprising which occurred in Brazil in the 1890's.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

92 G559ec2 Conversations with Eckermann; appreciations and criticisms on many subjects, with a preface by Eckermann and special introduction by Wallace Wood. 1901. Dunne. (Universal classics library.) Levy, Joseph Leonard.

r 92 L669 Mothers' Pension League of Allegheny County. Memorial meeting and fourth annual observance of Mothers' day under the auspices of the Mothers' Pension League of Allegheny County, in testimony of the services rendered by Rabbi J. L. Levy, its late president, Soldiers Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh, Sunday, May 13th, 1917. [1917. Pittsburgh.]

With text of the Mothers' pension acts of 1917, 1915 and 1913. Mazzini, Giuseppe.

92 M549г Mazzini's letters to an English family 1844-54; edited and with an introduction by E. F. Richards. 1920. Lane.

"The book has not much fresh information to offer; but it revives the Mazzini legend in all its magic." Athenæum, 1920.

Michell, John.

92 M6663g

Geikie, Sir Archibald. Memoir of John Michell. 1918. Cambridge University Press.

Bibliographical foot-notes.

Life of this 18th century English scientist and discussion of his contributions in geology, physics, and astronomy.

Ritchie, Thomas.

92 R499a

Ambler, Charles Henry. Thomas Ritchie; a study in Virginia politics. 1913. Bell Book & Stationery Co.

"Genealogy of William Roane and Mary Upshur," p. 301-303.

A biography of this Southern editor, showing his influence on state and national politics during the first half of the 19th century.

Robert II, duke of Normandy.

David, Charles Wendell.

92 R5341d

Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy.

1920. Harvard University Press. (Harvard historical studies, v.25.) "Note on the sources,' p.205-210.

A study of the career of the eldest son of William the Conqueror.

Rochechouart, Louis Victor Léon, comte de.

92 R566j Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart in France, in southern Russia, the Napoleonic wars, 1812-15 and as commandant of Paris 17881816; authorised translation by Frances Jackson. 1920. Dutton.

Standish, Miles.

92 $785P Porteus, Thomas Cruddas. Captain Myles Standish: his lost lands and Lancashire connections; a new investigation. 1920. Manchester University Press. (Manchester University. Historical series, no.38.)

Contents: The character and career of Captain Standish.-The mystery of Myles Standish. The Standishes of Ormskirk and of Man.-The Captain's descent from Standish of Standish and his connection with Duxbury.-Longfellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish."-Duxbury Park.-Standish Hall.-A Pilgrim library.-Deed relating to the lost lands.-Appendix: Later Standishes of Ormskirk.

"Bibliography," pref. p.10.

Tolstoï, Lyof Nikolaïevitch, count.

92 T588g

Gorky, Maxim, (pseud. of Alexiei Maximovitch Pieshkov). Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi; tr. from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. 1920. Woolf.

Brief, fragmentary notes, giving impressions of Tolstoi's personality and character, and recording conversations on literary and ethical subjects.

Collected Biography

Redding, Cyrus.

Past celebrities whom I have known. 2v. 1866. Skeet.

V.I.

920 R27p

George Canning.-J. W. M. Turner.-William Hazlitt.-Talma.-Dr Parr.— Rev. Caleb Colton.-Dr Wolcot.-Augustus William Schlegel.-William Beckford.

V.2. Daniel O'Connell.-The Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil.-Richard Cobden.--Madame de Stael Holstein.-John Clare.-Mentelli.-Horace Smith.-(George) Leopold Christian Frederick Cuvier.-Benjamin Robert Haydon.-J. B. Belzoni.-Adam Czartoryski.

г 923.8 W66

Who's who among commercial organization secretaries, 1920. V.I. 1920. Amer. City Bureau.

Travel and Description

General

Brigham, Albert Perry, & McFarlane, C. T.

q 910 B744e

Essentials of geography; first book. 1920. Amer. Book Co.

"Short list of useful references," p.257-258.

Curle, James Herbert.

This world of ours. 1921. Doran.

910 C92

Contents: The world my oyster.-How I opened the shell.-Beyond the Blaauwberg. Australia to the Klondyke.-African scenes.-The Plaza of Carácas.-Pacific coast and Andean plateau.-Ecuador and Colombia.-Central and Northern America. The Caribbean sea.-Up and down Europe.-Archangel to Astrachan.-Jerusalem and the Jews.-The Mahomedan East.-India.-China and Cochin China.-The Archipelago. -The South seas.

Europe

Hale, Mrs Louise (Closser).

An American's London. 1920. Harper.

914.21 H16

An actress's impressions of the city and its people under post-war conditions. Wells, Herbert George.

Russia in the shadows. 1921. Doran.

914.7 W49

Lays the blame for the collapse of Russia, which is portrayed as very real and very terrible, not at the door of bolshevism, but at that of European imperialism.

Zedler & Vogel, Darmstadt.

Nürnberg [photographic plates].

r 914.33 Z38

United States

Armstrong, Moses Kimball.

r 917.83 A73 Early empire builders of the great West; comp. and enl. from the author's Early history of Dakota territory in 1866. 1901. Porter.

Contents: Early history of Dakota territory.-National resources of the Northwest territories as seen in 1866.-Early elections.-Pioneer legislatures and Indian wars.— Sketches of travel and early hardships.-Sketches of Congress and Western empire.— Speeches in Congress on behalf of the West.-After a quarter of a century; two capitals: Washington and Richmond.-Racy sketches of Southern life.

Other Countries

South of Suez. 1920. McBride.

Anderson, William Ashley.

916 A55

Somewhat disconnected sketches giving an account of the author's wanderings in East Africa during the great war.

Canada-Interior department.

Description of & guide to Jasper park. 1917.
Situated in the Rockies in the province of Alberta.

9 917.12 C16

919.11 L97

Lumholtz, Carl.

Through central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917. 2v.

ner.

Contains map.

1920. Scrib

A record of the author's sojourn in that country, practically everything of scientific interest being noted, especially along the lines of ethnology and natural history. Contains illustrations from photographs by the author.

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