Word: national
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trade with the islands. Some other country, possibly an enemy, would hold the harbor and would command our western coast as well as all our trade routes ot the west. Captain Mahan declares that this would put our Pacific coast entirely at the mercy of the nation holding the islands...
...Alexander had lived twenty or thirty years longer, said President Andrews, history probably would have been radically different in three respects. Greece would have been firmly united into one Hellenic nation, the danger of Persian domination would have been changed to the assured lordship of Greece over Asia, and Rome would not have conquered Greece, but Greece ruled Rome...
...work is modelled after Palgrave's well-known collection of English verse. Of course it can not be considered such a literary gem as the older book, for the poetry of a new country like ours cannot furnish such a field for selection as that of an older nation. It will, however, serve as a basis of comparison by which American verse may be judged. It is inevitable that many readers will find favorite poems omitted but as a whole the work of a compiler will be found satisfactory...
References: Nation, vol. 45, p. 68; vol. 47, p. 125; vol. 48, p. 176; vol. 49; vol. 44, p. 385; Lloyd, Wealth or Common-wealth; Labor I, 539-47; Pop. Sci. M.; March, 1889, p. 619; Quarterly J. of Economics III: 135; Cong. Record, XXI, p. 2456; Joynes, "Pools and Corners...
Best general references: Bryce "American Commonwealth," I Chap. L-LXVIII; Fiske "Civil Government," pp. 120-136; Lalor's Encyclopedia, I, p. 460; Political Science Quarterly, II, 291; Nation 41, 337; "Ford's American Citizen's Manual," Part...