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The Science Of Political Economy
The Science Of Political Economy – Henry George Henry George died fighting one of the most corrupt political organizations of the civilized world – a sufficient epitaph for any worthy man. But he has larger claims to respect and consideration. He made a creditable attempt to solve the root-problem of material life – poverty, – […]
Political Theories of the Middle Age
Political Theories of the Middle Age – Otto von Gierke This excellent book is a translation of a very small portion of Dr. Gierke’s “ Deutsches Genossenschaftsrecht, “ being the section entitled “ Die Publizistischen Lehren des Mittelalters. “ Its ten chapters treat of the following questions : The evolution of political theory under the […]
The Condition of Labor
The Condition of Labor – Henry George This earnest and eloquent Letter to the Pope is by far the most remarkable utterance which the Encyclical of 1890 has evoked. The Pope could not have found a fitter controversialist to oppose him, for Mr. George meets him on the same basis of metaphysical theology, and appeals […]
Property in Land
Property in Land – Henry George A reprint of „The Prophet of San Francisco,“ by the Duke of Argyll, from the Nineteenth Century for April, 1884, and of „The Reduction to Iniquity,“ by Henry George, from the same magazine for July. The literary reputation and the high social and political rank of the Duke of […]
Hawaiian Legends Of Old Honolulu
Hawaiian Legends Of Old Honolulu – William Drake Westervelt The legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet. They tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspirations; in short, they give us a twilight history of the race. […]
Antonina
Antonina – Wilkie Collins In ‚Antonina, or The Fall of Rome‘, Mr. Collins reproduces in very vivid and gorgeous colors the striking and important events that marked the first steps in the decline of the Roman power. The period affords ample scope to a fertile imagination and a brilliant fancy. We have before us Rome […]
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A.
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. – Wilkie Collins There is much in this book that will interest the English artist. The story of the painter’s life is plainly told – with just enough, scattered here and there, of filial affection and partiality to take it out of the level of ordinary […]
Charles Dickens – Social Reformer
Charles Dickens – Social Reformer – William Walter Crotch It seems important to emphasize the fact that Charles Dickens was in a very special sense a social reformer. It was not simply that he loathed shams. With him it was not merely a case of creating characters at which the whole world laughed, humbugs who […]
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens – Sidney Dark „Dickens,“ Mr. G. K. Chesterton has written, „is as individual as the sea and as English as Nelson.“ The author of this biography has found no better excuse than this for writing another book about him. Dickens was a writer apart and the novelist of the lettered and of the […]