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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...of cast-iron, of cotemporaries of Shakspeare, and of those whose names have been worthily associated with his, would be fitting ornaments of the interior. The statue would stand on a pedestal of stone in which should be the entrance, through doors of cast-iron, whose panels might be adorned with bassi-relicvi. Nothing is said about ways and means. Mons. Thiers is occupying his time in writing his book on Italy and the Fine Arts in the Sixteenth Century. M. Villemain is completing the second volume of his " Souvenirs Contemporains," the first of which created such a sensatiou on the Continent. A paragrapher says that " Lamartine " is almost forgotten. We can scarcely believe this, when we read that he has just sold a "History of Turkey," from his swift pen, to the proprietors of a Paris daily nswspaper, for the modest sum of £4,800 sterling. Mr. Squier's work on Nicaragua has been translated into German by E. Hofner, and published at Leipsic. The celebrated geographer, Dr. Ritter, has prefaced it with a brief introduction. "The Lamplighter," which has lately been so popular in this country, has just been reprinted in the cheap Tauchnitz edition of English and American writers. A sum of £1,200 sterling annually allotted by Government for the purpose of literary pensions has this year been bestowed as follows:--£100 a year to Sir Francis Head; £100 to Mrs. Moir, widow of "Delta," of Blackwood's Magazine; £100 to Alaric A. Watts; £100 to Dr. Hincks, antiquarian; £100 to daughters of Joseph Tucker, a surveyor in the navy (not known in literature); £80 to the Rev. William Hickey, " Martin Doyle;" £100 to widow of Sir Harris Nicholas; £50 to widow of Dr. G...
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- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1130302032
- ISBN 13 9781130302035
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine268
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