Word: scottish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fifth part of Professor Childs' edition of English and Scottish ballads will soon be published by Houghton, Mifflin...
...Justin Winsor has written the fifth volume of his "Narrative and Critical History of America," a volume of 649 pages, besides doing a vast amount of compiling in connection with his official duties as librarian of the University. Professor Child has written Part IV. of the "English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Professor Charles Eliot Norton has edited, for the Macmillans of London, the "Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle" and "The Correspondence of Gaethe and Carlyle." In the realms of fiction little has been done; but the two works published have been conceeded by all reviewers as unqualifiedly successful. "Rankell's Remains...
...effected at University and Kings colleges. In this country, as we know, there are medical schools connected with our universities and colleges, but a university course is not compulsory for a medical student. We also have hospital medical schools entirely distinct from any colleges. It is, however, in the Scottish and continental universities that we see to what importance the medical faculty may attain. Edinburgh has nearly three times as many graduates in medicine as in any other department. And the graduation fees annually from the medical students are 35,000 dollars, whereas the fees of other students only amount...
...Furnival speaks as follows on Prof. Child's "English and Scottish Ballads": "It seems strange at first sight that Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor...
...third volume of Child's Scottish Ballads has appeared...