... previous year the American squadron under Commodore Perry had anchored near the Emperor's head-quarters in Yeddo Bay. A couple of months later the Russian squadron, under Admiral Pontatine, anchored in Nagasaki Bay. The visit of the Americans to Yeddo had ...

... portion of Dr Rogers's volume we shall notice is that on Lowland Minstrels, which is principally composed of materials that the author had previously used up in his ' Scottish Minstrel.' As a specimen of this chapter, we shall quote a few sentences from ...

... well as the detestation of all consistent Ultramontanes for Bossuet's memory-a detestation the more intense as they are com- pelled to speak of him publicly with every token of respect. It will be sufficient to mention, as an illustration, that in the article ...