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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Support Small Business by buying this book! 1st Edition (The Catholic Publication Society - 1881)- No marks noted in text. No dust jacket as designed. Binding is sound and the corners are lightly frayed. The gilt on the spine is faded, otherwise in remarkable condition. A Twit-Twat is a house sparrow . . . . . . . . .TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Preliminary 2.) Origin of the Twit-Twats 3.) A Sorrowful Christmas 4.) A Brief Glance at the Harmonies of Creation 5.) A Description of some strange Natural Habits of the Twit-Twats considered as Types of Human Beings 6.) The Beginning of a Fierce Battle between two hostile Tribes of Birds 7.) A glorious Battlefield and the first great Twit-Twat Victory 8.) Suspension of Hostilities â" Mating of the Birds â" Building of their Nests 9.) Ominous Rising of a new Native Leader â" Multiplication of both races 10.) The Sparrows Rustication ended by an eventful Catastrophe â" return of the Birds 11.) War again and Confusion â" Final Success of the Twit-Twats 12.) Christmas again â" The Winter Festival of the Sparrows. . . . . . . . . . . Augustus Thebaud (20 November 1807 â" 17 December 1885) was a French-American Jesuit educator and publicist. Thebaud was born at Nantes, France. He studied at first in the preparatory seminary at Nantes, then entered the grand seminaire and was ordained to the secular priesthood at the usual age. After three years of parochial work in his native city, he entered the Society of Jesus in Italy, on 27 November 1835, whence he returned to France in 1837 to pursue a course of scientific studies at the Sorbonne under Ampere and others. He landed in the United States on 18 December 1838, and was called to the chair of chemistry at St. Mary s College, Kentucky, where he became rector in 1846. Before the end of that year however the Jesuits left Kentucky to take charge of St. John s College, Fordham, New York, which had been transferred to them from the Diocese of New York by Bishop Hughes. Father Thebaud was the first Jesuit President of St. John's, a position which he held from 1846 to 1851 and again from 1860 to 1863. In the interval he taught the sciences for two years, 1851â"52, under Father Larkin, and the following eight years he spent as the pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Troy. To this charge he returned after his second rectorship at Fordham and filled the position from 1863â"69, and again from 1873-74. The intervening years we find him at first in Montreal and then at St. Joseph s Church, Hudson City, New Jersey. After spending another year at Fordham, he was assigned to St. Francis Xavier s parish, New York, where he passed the rest of his days. He died at St. John's College in 1885, and was buried in the University Cemetery. -- Wikipedia. . . . . . . . . . The illustrtor is Robert S. Bross (American, c. 1831 - active 1856/1881) He was known for his wood engravings.