Burton on Fans and African Perceptions in Preface Excerpt
The excerpt surveys Fan behavior and coastal tribes, noting honesty, chastity, and warlike traits among Fans, and contrasting savage courage with civility. It reviews Captain Burton and Dyer’s Africa depictions, condemns colonial cant, warns of Jamaica-like upheavals in Sierra Leone, and questions British West Africa policy’s humanity and success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton
John Tod
Lear
Dyer
Africa
Captain Burton
Jamaica
Sierra Leone
Sam
Picturesque Europe and Remains of Rev Cecil in New Edition
A review notices Cassell's Picturesque Europe Part 1 focusing on Windsor with wood engravings and a Birket Foster steel view. It also praises A Remains of the Rev Richard Cecil in a new Elliott Stock edition, with selections highlighting practical religion and urges the preacher’s enduring influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
The
British Isles
London
Cassell, Potter and Co
European
Messrs. Cassell
Windsor
Whymper
Richard Cecil
Robert Bickersteth
Ripon
Elliot Stock
Cecil
Vision of a City on Moriah and Slivered Bark
The speaker describes bending the wrist and admiring lines and bark while drawing odorous sprays to lips. Mid Judah’s mountains witness the ascent as blocks are cleft out and smoothed to become walls and pillars. On a hill they build a city in silence with no hammering or saws. The vision closes with clouds above and a bound boundary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliot Stock
Moses
David
Elisha
God
Tadmor
Mr. Cecil
Church of England
Cecil
Israel
George Francis Armstrong
Queen’s College
Cork
Queen’s University
Ireland
King Solomon
Longmans
Armstrong
Hiram
Tyre
Solomon
Lebanon
Joppa
Judah
Ezion
Ophir
Moriah
Scientific and oddities from a distant paper emerge
A collage of short items notes Rothschild fees for Suez shares totaling £99414, humorous mishearings about hogs and conchologists, a metallic coffin trend, a tax joke, and a Maine court sentence. Also mentions Nineveh excavations, heaven anecdotes, and early ice-making experiments by Gamgee with Chelsea Glasgow plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Rothschild
Missouri
Maret
Christian Index
A.S
Cowden Clarke
Maine
Academy
George Smith
Nineveh
Assur-banipal
Babylonia
Smith
Hebben
Massa
Dar
Chile
Chelsea
Gamgee
Glasgow
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