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... obtained their names, not in honour of Columnius, but from the Columbia, a Boston merchant vessel. Sometimes places were named after the day in the calendar when they were discovered by Europeans-e.g., Natal and Florida, because first sighted on Christmas ...

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

... he'll be use better nor waur for onytbing I said shoot him.' The following Sunday he remembered the Queen, but forgot her name, After a long pause he prayed 'May the Lord bless her young Majesty the Queen-the Queen! -extraordinary ?? After that incident ...

LITERATURE

... ship for Irving, he never had any bond of union with hiin, his disciples, or the Church that is, vulgarly, called by his name. After his deposi- tion Dr Campbell foundedno sect, but ministered to those who sought his teaching, at first as an itinerant ...

LITERATURE

... e new birth, One of the reasons of this f was that most of thle gentlemen who had started this maolvement, though their names a~fter- wards came to be world-wide, were at this perz,)d comparatively unknown, and filled no ltrge space in the public eye. ...

LITERATURE

... tables fora fnture edi- ion. Againstthat time we wouldlnrthiehsli g'gLst,? aa 'es6ntial, the:.inrertion of the author's name after the species. The classification -adopts'd'is the' same as in GaieDl, ad'nithe selection ls justt lecause' that! sten' is ...

LITERATURE

... adopted by a baronet's wife, ,agreeing to the condition that it should become I absolutely hers and take her husband's ;name. After twenty years the artist paints a Ipicture called Pomona, which at the Royal Academy is the sensation of the year. The ...

LITERATURE

... hung with , tapestries representing the unhappy loves and . bloody quarrels of Jason and Medea, and when she signed her name after the remarriage on I French soil a blot almost made it illegible. Sad creature of destiny, Marie Antoinette to all men's ...

LITERATURE

... the Great Silver River. E The fato eof Sir Horace Rumbold's narrarive is carious as illustrating how much there is in a name after alL Under the title chosen, after much anxious consideration and consultation, and adopted with elated pride, the book fell ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... the Pope. A romantic ( figure lie is, as we discern him in that distant c chivalrons time, and in modern Germany I his name, after an oblivion of mnanv a centuries, has again become a household w-ord, while his poetry has been made familiar by modern ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... stay with the school managers, at whose fanily tov devotions he had to assist, and sometimes bear an himself prayed for by name. After the aholi- wit tion of denominational inspection by the Edu- flou cation Act of 1870, be wvas appointed to one of 1spe -the ...

LITERATURE

... Napoleo tthat Bernadotte's son -was called Oscar, sn d his successor, the present King of Sweden and Norway, also bears the name after him. Upon a work having such a record there can surely be no exaggeration in bestowing the epithet of epoch-making ; and ...