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hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1907 Edition. Library rebound hardcover edition, may have usual markings. Overall in great condition for its age, does have a few pages with small tears.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. TITLE : The Fortnightly Review. ISSUE : Vol. LVIII, New Series, No. CCCXLVI, New Series. DATE : October 1895 EDITOR : W. L. Courtney. IMPRINT : Leonard Scott Publication Company. PLACE : 231 Broadway, NYC PROVENANCE : Ultimately from the personal library of Rev. E. P. Powell. Once shelved in the personal collection of Reverend E. P. Powell (Edward Payson Powell, 1833 - 1915), graduate of Hamilton College and Union Theological Seminary. He was a Congregationalist minister, an author of books and an editorial journalist of prolific production. Powell worked in the service of Abolition and civil rights. He was a resident of Clinton N.Y. and Utica N.Y. Powell was a voracious subscriber to periodicals of intellectual nature. He has not signed this item, but it is part of a large assortment from his personal library. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Monthly Periodical; volume pages [485] - 640, plus 8 pages of front and back material (advertising); 6 1/2" x 10 1/4", printed wraps, stapled and glued. TABLE OF CONTENTS ** THE REACTION AND ITS LESSONS - by Frederick Harrison (1831 - 1923) English historian, jurist and author. He was a leading Positivist, influenced by John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. ** FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE - by Mdlle Y. Blaze de Bury. Ferdinand Vincent-de-Paul Marie Brunetière (1849 - 1906) was a professor of literature, editor and literary critic. ** IRELAND - by a Disenchanted Nationalist ** THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF SPEECH - by Professor A. R. Wallace, F.R.S. (Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823 - 1913). Collaborated with Darwin on establishing a theory of evolution. Naturalist, geographer and social critic, best known for his contribution to the ideas of natural selection. A prolific author, he produced a great many books, papers, and magazine articles on a great variety of subjects. He collected thousands of specimens of different species. ** THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND - by Captain J. W. Gambler. He spent his life commanding ships in the British navy. ** THE ASSERTED GROWTH OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN ENGLAND - by the Very Rev., the Dean of Canterbury (Dean Frederic William Farrar, 1831 - 1903) Senior cleric of the Anglican Church of England , Archdeacon of Westminster, and finally Dean of Canterbury. Farrar was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin. ** NATIONAL DEFENCE : THE NAVAL MANŒUVERS - by W. Laird Clowes (Sir William Laird Clowes, 1856 - 1905) Journalist and distinguished naval historian. Wrote numerous technical articles on naval technology & strategy. He often wrote under the pseudonym, 'Nauticus'. ** NATIONAL DEFENCE : ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARMY - by Major Arthur Griffiths. (1838 - 1908) Prison administrator, military historian, and field correspondent for the "London Times". ** A ROMAN REVERIE - by Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913) Editor of the "National Review", poet, English Poet-Laureate, subsequent to Tennyson. ** ENGLISH INDUSTRY AND EASTERN COMPETITION - by R. S. Gundry (Richard Simpson Gundry, 1838 - 1924) English journalist. ** ISLAM AND ITS CRITICS: A REJOINDER - by "A Quarterly Reviewer" - Malcolm Canon MacColl, replying to Syed Ameer Ali CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned periodical that remains clean, presentable , and fully intact, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR - Spine is weathered; paper is darkened, especially at the edges; nicking and chipping about the edges (which are extended slightly past the text-block). All the same the exterior is clean and nicely preserved, and displays well. BINDING - Solid - no leaves are detached or loose INTERIOR - Clean and attractive with no marking. Some of the leaves have nicking and chipping from when the first reader separated the leaves (periodicals and many books were often released to the public with leaves still attached at the fore-edges and top edges, necessitating the separation before reading.) No signatures or marginalia. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 504pp. Documents illustrative of European life and institutions from German invasions to the renaissance. Originally published in 1907.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 248 pages + ads, illustrations, green cloth. Howes F257.