Educational Times: A Review of Ideas and Methods, Volume 51

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S. Birch, 1897

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Page 181 - THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Page 33 - Maskers came in, with sixe gentlemen disguised in silke bearyng staffe torches, and desired the ladies to daunce, some were content, and some that knewe the fashion of it refused, because it was not a thyng commonly seen.
Page 12 - ... These stories are mainly culled from a series called Contes du Lundi, originally contributed by their author to the Figaro. Written at fever heat immediately after the great 1870 war, they show Daudet's power in many ways at its highest. . . . We therefore do more than recommend— we urge all readers of French to get the stories in some form, and the present one is both good and cheap.
Page 159 - ELEMENTARY PRACTICAL PHYSICS: a Laboratory Manual for Use in Organised Science Schools. With 120 Illustrations and 193 Exercises. Crown 8vo.
Page 221 - Ryland. 2 vols. y. 6d. each. Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places. Trans, by JE Ryland. 3*. 6d. NIBELUNGEN LIED. The Lay of the Nibelungs...
Page 159 - Designed for the Use of Schools, and of Candidates for the London Matriculation and other Examinations. With numerous Exercises, Examples, Examination Questions, and Solutions, etc., from 1870-1895.
Page 52 - A CLASS-BOOK HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Designed for the Use of Students preparing for the University Local Examinations or for the London University Matriculation, and for the Higher Classes of Elementary Schools.
Page 55 - A very useful series of Educational Works, of which Dr. Cornwell is either author or editor. It ('The Geography for Beginners') is an admirable introduction. There is a vast difficulty in writing a good elementary book, and Dr. Cornwell has shown himself possessed of that rare combination of faculties which is required for the task.
Page 164 - The order shall be laid as soon as may be before both Houses of Parliament...
Page 52 - COX'S GREEKS AND PERSIANS. CURTEIS'S RISE OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE. IHNE'S ROME TO ITS CAPTURE BY THE GAULS. MERIVALE'S ROMAN TRIUMVIRATES. SANKEY'S SPARTAN AND THEBAN SUPREMACIES. SMITH'S ROME AND CARTHAGE. THE PUNIC WARS.

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