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Collected Biography

Harrison, Frederic, and others, ed.

r 920 H29a

New calendar of great men; biographies of the 559 worthies of all ages & nations in the Positivist calendar of Auguste Comte. 1920. Macmillan.

Lairtullier, E.

920.7 L16

Les femmes célèbres de 1789 à 1795, et leur influence dans la révolution, pour servir de suite et de complément à toutes les histoires de la révolution française. 2v. in 1. 1840.

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Contents: Avant-propos.-Introduction.-Théroigne de Méricourt.-Madame Necker. Charlotte Corday.-Suzette Labrousse.-Madame Rolland.-La mère Duchesne.-Lucile Desmoulins. Olympe de Gouges. Mademoiselle d'Orbe. - Rose Lacombe. Les furies de guillotine. Mademoiselle Maillard. - Sophie Momoro. Catherine Théot. Madame Tallien (Thérésia Cabarrus).-Aspasie Carlemigelli.-Sophie Lapierre.-MarieAntoinette, Madame de Stael, Madame de Stainville, Cécile Renaud, etc.-Femmes dont il est parlé dans l'ouvrage.

McCabe, Joseph, comp.

qr 921 M12 Biographical dictionary of modern rationalists. 1920. Watts. Information concerning nearly 3,000 persons who since 1600 have dissented in some respect from orthodox Christianity.

923.2 M735

Mirrors of Washington; anonymous, with 14 cartoons by Cesare and 14 portraits. 1921. Putnam.

Contents: Harding, Warren G. Wilson, Woodrow. Harvey, George (Brinton McClellan). - Hughes, Charles Evans. - House, Edward Mandell. Hoover, Herbert Clark.-Lodge, Henry Cabot.-Baruch, Bernard Mannes.-Root, Elihu.-Johnson, Hiram Warren. Knox, Philander Chase.-Lansing, Robert.-Penrose, Boies.-Borah, William Edgar.

Character sketches amounting almost to caricatures. They are "concerned almost entirely with the vanities and weaknesses, the negligences and ignorances, the manifold shortcomings, the positive achievements of evil imputed to the men who are studied." Atlantic monthly, 1921.

Smith, Elva Sophronia, ed.

920.7 S64

Heroines of history and legend; stories and poems. 1921. Lothrop. "Notes," p.295-308.

The same.. . . . .

.j 920.7 S64

Forty-eight "stories, ballads and narrative poems which tell of the loyalty, patriotism, courage and self-sacrifice of girls and women in different ages and in many lands, from the time of the East Indian princess, Savitri, whose love was not conquered by death, to Edith Cavell, the English nurse, who gave her life in the great European war." Preface.

Welch, Alice Kemp-.

920.7 W47

Of six mediæval women, to which is added a note on mediæval gardens. 1913. Macmillan.

Contents: A tenth-century dramatist, Roswitha the nun.- A twelfth-century romance-writer, Marie de France.-A thirteenth-century mystic and beguine, Mechthild of Magdeburg. A fourteenth-century art-patron and philanthropist, Mahaut, countess of Artois. A fifteenth-century feministe, Christine de Pisan.-Agnes Sorel.-A note on mediæval gardens.

Genealogy. Heraldry

Ewing, Presley Kittredge, & Ewing, Mrs M. E. (Williams). r 929.2 E97 Ewing genealogy with cognate branches; a survey of the Ewings and their kin in America. 1919. Privately printed.

Gevaert, Émile.

Héraldique des provinces belges. [1918.]

r 929.6 G34

"Notes et références," p.111.

qr 929.2 P27

Partial record of the Brown family, having especial reference to descendants of Alexander Brown and his wife Elizabeth Gibson of Fayette co., Pa. 1920.

Two blueprint sheets about 20 x 23 inches, folded in 4° cover.
Signed: W. C. Brown.

The patrician; ed. by John Burke. 6v. 1846-48. Churton. r 929.7 P29
Issued quarterly.

v.5-6, 1848, ed. by J. B. Burke.

Maps-Europe. (1920.)

Maps. Atlases

r 912.4 M16 Bartholomew's political map of the new Europe, 1920, according to treaties of Paris, showing the old states of 1914 and the new of 1920. 1920. Bartholomew.

Size, 24% x 314 inches, folded in 8° cover; scale, 1:5,500,000, about 80 miles to 1 inch.

Maps-Pennsylvania. (1918.)

qr 912.748 M67

Steam railroad map of Pennsylvania; issued by the Public service commission. 1918.

Size, 324 x 53%1⁄2 inches, folded in 4° cover; scale, 6 miles to 1 inch. Contains inset maps of Pittsburgh and vicinity and Philadelphia and vicinity. Maps-Pittsburgh. (1795.)

qr 912.74886 M19 Pittsburgh, 1795; drawn by A. G. Haumann, civil & mining engineer and geologist. 1869. Pittsburgh.

Roll map; size, 12 x 15 inches.

Reclus, Onésime.

qr 912.44 R26

Atlas de la plus grande France; géographique, économique, politique, départemental, colonial; ouvrage formant le complément naturel de l'Atlas pittoresque de la France. [1913.]

Travel and Description

Fowler, George Herbert.

(Includes Geography)

qr 912 F84 Charts; their use and meaning; prepared for the Challenger Society for the Promotion of the Study of Oceanography. 1916. Potter. "References," p.44.

r 910.5 J466

Journal of geography; a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of teachers of elementary, secondary and normal schools, 1902-June 1914. v.1-12. 1902-14.

v.3, no.4, April 1904, wanting.

Published monthly except July and Aug.

No numbers published from Feb. to Aug. 1907; v.6 consists of 11 numbers.

Europe

Amiens avant et pendant la guerre. des champs de bataille, 1914–18.)

914.4 A51

1919. (Guides illustrés Michelin

qr 914.4 F86

La France; an American magazine [monthly], March 1919-date. v.3date.

1919-date.

v.3, no.1-3, March-May 1919, title reads "The new France; an illustrated monthly magazine of Franco-American relations."

v.3, no.4-7, June-Sept. 1919, title reads "Victory;" subtitle varies.

V.4, no.1-4, Oct. 1919-Jan. 1920, subtitle reads "A magazine of French-American activities."

Mérejkowski, Dmitri.

914.7 M63

The menace of the mob; tr. from the Russian by B. G. Guerney. 1921. Brown.

Contents: The menace of the mob.-The blossoms of bourgeoisie.-When Christ shall rise again.

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis.

Europe's morning after. 1921. Harper.

914 R53

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Contents: Poland for patriotism.-Husks.-Handing it back. For over sand years. Almost sunny Italy.-The mysteries of Paris.-Merrie England.-Schieber

land.

United States

George, Walter Lionel.

917.3 G31

Hail Columbia! random impressions of a conservative English radical. 1921. Harper.

"Mr. George's insight into the essential elements of the American character is remarkable. He goes to the heart of things right through the distracting and perplexing superficial symptoms. He does not confine his observation to hotels and highways, to parks and theatres. He seems to have frequented the average man and woman." lantic monthly, 1921.

Montana-Agriculture and publicity department.

Montana: vacation land. 1919.

Contains map.

The same.....

Towne, Charles Hanson.

Loafing down Long Island. 1921. Century.

At

q 917.86 M84v

.qr 917.86 M8492v 917.4721 T66

A familiar, chatty account of a number of week-end journeys on foot, each starting where the preceding one left off, thus making a circuit of the island, its villages and resorts, its highways and byways.

Other Countries

Finden, William, & Finden, E. F.

qr 915.69 F49 Landscape illustrations of the Bible, consisting of views of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Old and New testaments, with descriptions by T. H. Horne. 2v. 1836. Murray.

Nearly 100 plates engraved by the Findens from original sketches by several artists. A number of the drawings are by J. M. W. Turner.

Newton, Sir Charles Thomas.

q 915.6 N29

Travels & discoveries in the Levant. 2v. 1865. Day. The author was an English archæologist connected with the British Museum, and spent a number of years in the Near East both in the interests of the museum and as British consul at various places.

History

General

Elson, Henry William.

Modern times and the living past. 1921. Amer. Book Co.

"For further reading" at the end of each chapter.,

909 E55

A text-book of universal history beginning with prehistoric times and coming down to the end of the European war. For high school students.

Europe

Castelnau, Michel de.

qr 944.02 C26

Memoirs of the reigns of Francis II and Charles IX of France. containing a particular account of the three first civil wars raised and carried on by the Huguenots in that kingdom wherein the most remarkable passages in the reigns of King Henry VIII of England, Queen Elizabeth and the unfortunate Mary queen of Scots are set in a true light. 1724.

Digges, Sir Dudley, comp.

qr 942.05 D57

Compleat ambassador; or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory, comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. 1655. T. Newcomb.

England-Foreign office.

Collection of reports on bolshevism in Russia. 1919.

Abridged edition of Parliamentary paper, Russia no.1 (1919).

Fletcher, Joseph Smith.

r 947 E64

942.74 F63h

Harrogate and Knaresborough. 1920. Soc. for Promoting Chris

tian Knowledge. (Story of the English towns.)

Maps on lining-papers.

"Authorities," p.7.

Fletcher, Joseph Smith.

942.74 F63p

Pontefract. 1920. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Story

of the English towns.)

"Authorities," p.7.

Fletcher, Joseph Smith.

942.74 F63s

Sheffield. 1919. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Story

of the English towns.)

Maps on lining-papers. "Authorities," p.7.

Francis, David Rowland.

947 F86

Russia from the American embassy, April 1916-Nov. 1918. 1921. Scribner.

The author was the American ambassador.

Hamilton, Lord Ernest William.

941.6 H21i

Irish rebellion of 1641, with a history of the events which led up to and succeeded it. 1920. Murray.

Contains bibliographical foot-notes.

Continues the author's "Elizabethan Ulster" (941.6 H21) and covers the history from 1606 up to the time of the Cromwellian settlement in 1649.

Hodgkin, Thomas.

937 H66

Dynasty of Theodosius; or, Eighty years' struggle with the barbarians; a series of lectures delivered to the Durham Ladies' Educational Association. 1889. Clarendon Press.

Masterman, John Howard Bertram.

942.48 M46

Birmingham. 1920. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Story of the English towns.)

Plans on lining-papers.

"Authorities," pref. p.3.

Nekliudov, Anatolii Vasil'evich.

940.9 N21

Diplomatic reminiscences before and during the world war, 1911–17; tr. from the French by Alexandra Paget. 1920. Murray.

The author was Russian minister to Bulgaria, 1911-13, minister to Sweden, 1914-17, and ambassador to Spain, 1917.

r 947 N261 New Russia; a weekly review of Russian politics; ed. by the Russian Liberation Committee. 3v. 1920. Russian Liberation Committee.

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Peterborough. 1920. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

(Story of the English towns.)

Maps and plans on lining-papers.

"Books consulted," pref. p.10.

Ross, Edward Alsworth.

The Russian Bolshevik revolution. 1921. Century.

947 R73

Covers the period from the fall of the czar in March 1917, to the expulsion of the constituent assembly by the Bolsheviki in January 1918.

Salmon, Arthur Leslie.

942.35 S17

Plymouth. 1920. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Story

of the English towns.)

Maps on lining-papers. "Bibliography," p.116.

United States

Balch, Thomas Willing.

Swedish beginning of Pennsylvania and other sylvania history. 1914. Amer. Antiquarian Soc.

Contains bibliographical foot-notes.

qr 974.8 B189 events in Penn

Reprinted from the "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society," Oct. 1914. Brown, George Washington.

974.89 B78

Old times in oildom; a series of chapters in which are related the writer's many personal experiences during 50 years of life in the oil regions. 1911. Derrick Pub. Co.

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