Word: authority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essay on Anglo-Saxon Sand-Saws, he became successively university lecturer, editor of the North American and of the International Review, representative in the legislature, overseer of the college and congressman. He was also vice-president of the Constitutional Centennial Commission last year, and is, besides, the author of a history of the colonies, of biographies of Webster and Hamilton, and of several other works. He voted for Greely in 1872, and it was a surprise to many when he remained with the Republican party in 1884, and became chairman of the State Committee...
...Clinton commander of the British forces in New York. This charge Mr. Loring seeks to refute. "The Site of Old Fort Massachusetts" and "A Trip from New York to Niagara in 1829" are both exceedingly vivid and interesting contributions, the latter being taken from the diary of the famous author and journalist, Colonel William Leete Stone, who died in 1844. "An Unpublished Letter of John Adams" and "A Boston Newspaper of the Revolution" speak for themselves and the rest of the number is well worth a perusal. The book notices, as usual, are useful criticisms on good books; they...
Miss Amelie Rives, the author of "The Quick or the Dead" and other works that recently have attracted attention in the literary world, was married at Charlottesville, Va., recently. The groom is Mr. John Armstrong Chanler of New York, a wealthy grandson of John Jacob Astor...
...time is the "History of Yale Athletics from 1840-1888," by Richard M. Hurd, Yale '88. The book gives a complete account of every contest in rowing, foot-ball, base-ball, track athletics and tennis which Yale has had with other colleges, and is a decided credit to the author. As a general thing, books on athletics contain a confusing tangle of dates, names, anecdotes and statistics; but Mr. Hurd has separated everything in such a systematic manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics...
...with an ancient work on Geography, in three volumes. The books, which are printed in Latin and bound in parchment, are entitled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive Atlus Novus." It was printed in 1645 at Amsterdam, and bears the name of a famous geographer of that time, Joannes Bloev, as author. The "Atlas Hovus is full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures of the author's vivid imagination. On many of the maps animals...