Semi insanity and the question of culpability in law
A review of Grasset on semi insanity. It explains the concept that some individuals are not wholly sane nor insane, detailing how this status affects criminal responsibility. It lists famous semi insane figures and discusses three possible legal outcomes: full responsibility, full insanity, or partial responsibility with treatment.
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Thas
Professor Grasset
University of Montpelier
France
Germany
Orestes
Ajax
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Macbeth
Lear
Moli
Ibsen
Grasset
Anatole France
G T
Pascal
Auguste Comte
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de Maupaigant
Roussebert
Baudelaire
de Musset
Bernardin
Pierre
Voltaire
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Con
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Tasso
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Swift
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Newton
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Schilier
Byron
Swedenborg
Darwin
Schumann
Chopin
Warner
Mozart
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Rossini
Berlioz
Bedlam
Santeuil
Crébillon
Literary notes on old masters and Dickens editions
Oxford completes a six part reproductions series of selected drawings from old masters totaling 126 works across three schools and dates. Chapman Hall announces two Dickens miscellanies for their National edition, including newly identified Household Words and Examiner pieces. A Masson book on Prud'hon is announced by Manzi Joyant. The latest German census reportedly contains the longest word in existence.
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Oxford
Charles Dickens
Chapman & Hall
Dickens
P. P. Prud’hon
M. Frédéric Masson
Manzi Joyant & Co
Les Peintres de Napoléon
Bronx Emerges in Novel by Hopkins Priest and Pagan Title
H. H. Hopkins, author of The Mayor of Warwick, has written a new novel to be published in the spring by Houghton Mifflin & Co. under the title Priest and Pagan. The work continues Hopkins' exploration of urban conflict and moral choice set in a Bronx backdrop.
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Dr. Watson
Ian Maclaren
Robertson Nicoll
Watson
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co
Bronx
H. H. Hopkins
Warwick
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Dramatic duel ends in tragedy as brothers clash on stage
A tense confrontation erupts as a brother kills another during a blood soaked scene. Basiliola tends the wounded with Marcus’s weapon stained by blood. The crowd recoils in horror at the brutal sacrifice within the play.
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Sergio
Marco
Basiliola
Noblest Celtic artifact a Thames bronze shield found after centuries
In Ancient Britain the bronze Thames shield is hailed as Celtic art’s noblest creation. Its oblong form bears three repoussé circles with boss enamelled swastikas and S and C shapes, though coloring has faded. Kipling’s Jungle Book tops popular works, and Roger the dog inspires a Harvard study of spelling and math feats.
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T. R. Holmes
Britain
Thames
Roger
R. M. Yerkes
Harvard
Two Shakespeare Quarto Reappear in Stratford Library
Sidney Lee announces two Shakespeare quartos from the Locker Sampson collection have returned from American exile. They are perfect copies of the first edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the second edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor, now prized items at Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford.
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Sidney Lee
Locker-Sampson
Shakespeare
Stratford
Burns and a Chair in the Valley of the Rule
A recently reviewed book on the Valley of the Rule recounts Robert Burns visit to Gilbert Elliot at Wells on Rule. Burns was asked to sit in a famous armchair long associated with James Thomson, but the gathering misfired as impressions and expectations clashed, making the Wells visit a failure.
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Robert Burns
Valley of the Rule
James Thomson
Gilbert Elliot
Wells-on- Rule
Burns
Thomson
Gilbert
Thom
Wells
Land of Eternal Beauty and Love Found Beyond Time
A meditation on the impossibility of earthly peace and joy. The speaker rejects the mortal world and its decay, urging instead a spiritual realm beyond sense where beauty and love endure, the only true home for the soul.
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Arthur Munby
London Spectator
Plor
Orion
Ury
God
Beauty
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Funk
Wagnalls Company
Scopes
Oliver Cromwell
Lombroso
Fisenbahnbetriebstelegrapheninspektions - Assistenten
San Francisco
Travers
Miss Dean
Sara Dean
Frederic Harrison
Tien
Paris
Athena
M. Anatole France
Jeanne d’Arc
Jeanne
David
Goliath
Thomas William Coke
Batton
Mr. Kipling
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