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    14/06/2024
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    National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 02. February 1896

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    Chapter: 9 | Listen: 6

    The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: * Venezuela: Her Government, People, and Boundary, by William E. Curtis * The Panama Canal Route, by Robert T. Hill * The Tehuantepec Ship Railway, by Elmer L. Corthell * The Present State of the Nicaragua Canal, by Gen. A. W. Greely * Explorations by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1895, by W. J. McGee * The Valley of the Orinoco, by T. H. Gignilliat * Yucatan in 1895 along with geographic literature and notes.     [chương_files]  

    14/06/2024
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    Last Essays of Elia

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    Chapter: 29 | Listen: 2

    Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb’s conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life looking after her; had collaborated with her, in fact, on their Tales From Shakespeare. This world was made by God, he once remarked, but He has left it for humanity to bustle about in. These are Lamb’s reflections on said bustlings. He once said of his close friend Coleridge that the man was hungry for eternity; but Lamb was hungry for humanity. He satisfies this hunger admirably in these Last Essays. – Summary by Tony Addison     [chương_files]  

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    National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 01. January 1896

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    Chapter: 11 | Listen: 4

    The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the following articles: * Russia in Europe, an annual address by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard * The Arctic Cruise of the U.S. Revenue Cutter “Bear”, by Sheldon Jackson * The Scope and Value of Arctic Explorations, by Gen. A. W. Greely along with an obituary, geographic literature, executive reports, and North American notes.     [chương_files]  

    14/06/2024
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    Figures of Several Centuries

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    Chapter: 34 | Listen: 5

    Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by Josh Kirsh.     [chương_files]  

    13/06/2024
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    Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

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    Chapter: 26 | Listen: 1

    This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style of essays. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

    13/06/2024
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    Woman and War

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    Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Internationally famous South African Novelist. She was an extraordinary person and was one of the earliest campaigners for women’s rights, including the right to equal pay for equal work, saying: “The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense is the nearest approach to a willful and unqualified “wrong” in the whole relation of woman to society today”. She opposed racism of all kinds whether against the Boers or Black People and she was also a pacifist and anti-war campaigner. She was a vociferous critic of British Imperialism in South Africa and of Cecil Rhodes and his policies while prime minister of the Cape. As a result of her public support for the Boers, all her manuscripts and her house were burned by the British during the Anglo-Boer War and she was interned in a concentration camp for several years. Her most well known book is “The Story of an African Farm” from 1883, in which her own free thinking and progressive views on equality, sexuality and marriage are explored. It became a best seller in Europe and The United States, praised by feminists for portraying a strong heroine in control of her own destiny. The book was originally published under […]

    13/06/2024
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    National Geographic Magazine Vol. 06

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    Chapter: 34 | Listen: 4

    National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895. * Geographic Progress of Civilization – Annual Address by the President Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard * Shawangunk Mountain, by N. H. Darton * Weather Making, Ancient and Modern, by Mark W. Harrington * Geomorphology of the Southern Appalachians, by Charles Willard Hayes and Marius R. Campbell * The Battle of the Forest, by B. E. Fernow * Surveys and Maps of the District of Columbia, by Marcus Baker * The first Landfall of Columbus, by Jacques W. Redway, F. R. G. S. * Japan, by D.W. Stevens * Geography of the Air, Annual Address by the Vice-President, General A. W. Greely * Sir Francis Drake’s Anchorage, by Edward L. Berthoud * Note on the Height of Mount Saint Elias, by Professor Israel C. Russell * Geographic Notes, by Cyrus C. Babb (The Antarctic Continent – Magnetic Observation in Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen in 1892 – A New Light on the Discovery of America – Monographs of the National Geographic Sociaty – Important Announcement Concerning Essays) * Laws of the Temperature Control of the Geographic Distribution of Terrestrial Animals and Plants. Annual Address by Vice-President Dr. C. Hart Merriam. * Oregon: Its History, Geography, and Resources, by John H. Mitchell.     [chương_files]  

    13/06/2024
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    Untimely Papers

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    Chapter: 10 | Listen: 4

    This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal “The Seven Arts,” before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of “The State,” the book Bourne worked on until his tragic death in December, 1918, at the hands of the Spanish flu pandemic. In the words of the book’s editor, poet James Oppenheim, “We have nothing else like this book in America. It is the only living record of the suppressed minority, and is, as so often the case, the prophecy of that minority’s final triumph.” – Summary by Ben Adams     [chương_files]  

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    France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization

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    In 1915, as the “Great War” (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting French armed forces. By then he was already winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (the first writer in English to be so honoured). He published his observations in articles in the Daily Telegraph in England, and in the New York Sun. At that stage of the war nationalistic sentiments were running high but the true cost of war was beginning to be understood “at home”. The collection of journalistic pieces is preceded by a poem, “France”, that had been published before the outbreak of war (in 1913) which has a more overblown jingoistic feel to it than the reflections on war itself. The poem does, though, show Kipling’s love of France, as well as his sense of the destiny of imperial dreams. Kipling himself was an ardent and effective writer of propaganda directed primarily against German treatment of civilians. The “rape of Belgium” in 1914 and the sinking of the Lusitania earlier in 1915 were particularly shocking. In Kipling’s eyes such “total war” was a renunciation of civilisation. The heat of his reaction is associated with his militarism. Although not a soldier, Kipling was educated at the United Services College (a school for the sons of officers which prepared students to enter Sandhurst and Dartmouth – the British army and navy officers training establishments). His writing is deeply imbued with notions of military service as honorable […]

    12/06/2024
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    Colour of Life

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    This is a collection of essays by English poet and author Alice Meynell. The essays in this volume share a dream-like quality, as they explore in few words an idea or a phenomenon observed by the author. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]