Word: scotland
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This is a book of something over 400 pages, of octavo size, not too thick, or too, heavy or too expensive for every wise traveller who is interested in casties to take with him to Scotland. The information given is just about what one wants-a brief architectural and historical account of a hundred of the most significant Scotch castles. The interest and value of the book are, moreover, greatly enhanced by the fifty-one illustrations, mostly pleasant, brown halftones, but comprising also four colored plates and seventeen plans. There is a short introduction, which outlines none too convincingly...
...Castles and keeps of Scotland. By Frank Roy Fraprie S.'98. L. C. Page...
...public ought to be grateful to the compiler of such a handbook as this, for the information here collected is very inconveniently gathered elsewhere; the authoritative work of MacGibbon and Ross. The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, is in four large volumes; Billing's Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland is in three volumes and very rear; and the numerous monographs, and the articles in society publications, about single castles are not easy to know or to find. Not a few of the more earnest readers of the book, would, I think, appreciate a small and unobtrusive bibliography, such...
...graduated from Yale in 1870, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1873, and received the degree of D.D. from Lake Forest University in 1888. The year after his graduation from the Princeton Theological Seminary he was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and has since held pastorates at New Scotland, N. Y., and Lake Forest, Ill. From 1897-1901 he was president of Lake Forest University, and since 1905 has been president of McCormick Theological Seminary. He has been preacher to the University for the past two years...
...Letters to American Boys," by W. H. Carruth p.'89; "The Making of Religion," by S. M. Crothers h. '99; "Annotated Rules of the Federal Counts of the United States," by W. W. Dewhurab '75; "From the Isles," by A. D. Ficke '04; "The Castles and Keeps of Scotland," by F. R. Fraprie '98; "Youth," by G.S. Halt p. '78; "Venetian Life," by W. D. Howells h. '67; "Quantitative Punctuations," by J. D. Logan '94; "Whose Home is in the Wilderness," by W. J. Long '92; "Athens and About There," by P. S. Marden l. '98; "Cathedral Cities of France...