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Excerpt from Banks and Exchange Companies: A Letter to Alexander Blair, Esq., Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, in Answer to the Prospectus Issued by the Proposed British Trust CompanyIt has been reported, and pretty generally believed, that this Company has been originated by the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank, in order to control, or put an end to, the business of the Exchange Companies, whose operations are viewed by the directors of ...

Kinnear charts the map from Herakleitos to Pound, Freud to Derrida, Celan, Rilke, Joyce. This is a text like no other, divining the naming and un-naming of things from zero through infinity in the way of the philosopher-poets. Alternating contemplations on immensities with crystalline poems that begin each chapter, spoked with Kinnear's translations of Heraclitus, and spun with the dreams of memory, it's a book to reach for again and again. We...

Excerpt from History of Glenbervie The near approach of the centenary anniversary of the death of Burns suggested to the author of the following pages the desirability of having some account, however meagre and inadequate, of the past and present history of the parish from which sprung the family rendered now world-famous by the genius of the great Bard. The author, alike from observation, traditionary report, and his own reading, was for a ...

Excerpt from Principles of Property It is a consequence, perhaps it may be deemed even an advantage, of the transference of political power to a democracy that it compels a revision and restatement of the arguments and the ideas on which our social life has hitherto been content to rest. New minds bring in now theories, and the old accepted doctrines must be put in new lights if they are to 'satisfy those who come fresh to their consideration...

Excerpt from The Use of Words, the Accidence of Grammar as It Explains the Parts of Speech The chief object in the teaching of English as a. School subject must be to acquire facility in the use of language as an instrument, and a clear apprehension of it as a means of expressing lucid ideas, and, as an aid towards these, some know ledge of its structure and its growth is of great importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hu...

Regional areas are key building blocks of society in many countries. This compilation uses Australian case study examples to demonstrate how regional areas are uniquely well-placed to contribute to national goals in innovation, infrastructure provision, water and food security, environmental sustainability, industry diversification, healthy and liveable communities, and natural disaster preparedness and response. Each of these themes is examin...

Excerpt from The Crisis the Currency: With a Comparison Between the English Scotch Systems of Banking The critical position into which a combination of disturbing influences has thrown our whole monetary and commercial system, must have led all men, of thoughtful habits, to some investigation of the causes which have brought about a state of things, almost without example in this country, accustomed, as we unfortunately are, to periodical com...

Excerpt from Digest of House of Lords Cases: Decided on Appeal From Scotland, 1709 to 1864, With Glossary of Scottish Law Terms The want of a complete Digest of the Reports of Scottish Appeal Cases has long been felt by the profession, and in an especial degree by those who have practised at the bar of the House of Lords. Although the several volumes of Shaw's Digest now contain references to the full series of the Scottish appeal reports, of...

Excerpt from History of the Eighty-Sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry The history of the Eighty-sixth Illinois was written in part while the regiment was yet in the service, merely for the gratification of a personal desire, but since its muster out, the author has been frequently urged by many of his friends to have it published, that they might share what he alone enjoyed. He complied with an earnest request from Colonel Fahnestock...

Excerpt from Cruces Shakespearianæ: Difficult Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, The Text of the Folio and Quartos Collated With the Lections of Recent Editions and the Old Commentators, With Original Emendations and NotesT be following Work consists of Suggestions, resulting from many years' study, for t/ze E mendation of S lzakespeare's T ext. Every portion of it must stand or fall upon its individual merit, and t/iere is little occasion ...

Excerpt from Principles of Reform: Political and Legal It need hardly be observed that the title of this work is not to be understood as implying that an attempt to discuss every important question of Reform, now agitated, is to be found in the following pages. But there are certain cardinal and primary subjects, alike in politics as in law, to which Reform must first be directed, and in which it must secure success before any further advance...

Excerpt from Principles of Property in Land At a time when the Conditions on which Property in Land should be held are being brought under consideration, it seems desirable to examine the Principles on which such Property rests, as well as the practical results of our present laws affecting Land. The preliminary inquiry into Principles is the more necessary, because very conflicting theories respecting the Institution of Property are put for...

Excerpt from Cairo, Petra and Damascus in 1839: With Remarks on the Government of Mehemet Ali, and on the Present Prospects of Syria The Object Of my visit to the Levant was entirely mercantile. Circumstances, unforeseen before my arrival at Alexandria, induced me to visit Cairo, instead of proceeding directly to Beyrout, as I had originally intended and until I met with my friend, Mr. Roberts, I had never entertained the design of making the...

This exhaustive and complete discography of Indian music issued on microgroove discs and cassettes provides information on over 2, 700 recordings of classical and semiclassical music of the Indian subcontinent. It covers the period from the early 1950s to the end of 1983 and also contains information on recordings from the early 1930s onward that were originally issued at 78 RPM and have been reissued on microgroove discs. The main text of the...

Excerpt from Principles of Civil Government Without this guidance our legislation and our progress must be blundering and haphazard. Measures framed to suit the exigencies or demands of the moment, without considering whether they are consistent with principle or sanctioned by experience, can only work confusion and harm. They will, indeed, be speedily cast aside, but only to be replaced by equally empirical remedies. On the other hand, legis...

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Excerpt from The Foundations of Religion The following chapters contain an extremely con densed summary of some Lectures which formed part of a series given on Sunday evenings during the last three years in a rural parish, in the absence of any service or religious instruction in the afternoon. They are now dedicated to those who listened to them, in gratitude for their earnest attention, and in the hope that such a short Manual of the ground...

Mary McGeachy (1901-91) navigated the gender conventions of the twentieth century. Born a gospel preacher's daughter in small-town Ontario, she served in the League of Nations Secretariat in the 1930s and was employed by the British Ministry of Economic Warfare during World War II. In October 1942, she became the first woman to be given British diplomatic rank, and in 1944 was made Director of Welfare for the newly established United Nations R...

This volume presents a balanced survey of children and violence in the United States-specifically those children who commit acts such as murder, rape, and assault. The physical, cultural, social, economic, and legal aspects of this pressing issue are explored in detail in Violent Children. Topics include the causes of these acts and what is being done to cope with and prevent this violence. Statistical information, intervention programs, and ...

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