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Ghismonda. A Seventeenth-Century Tragedy. Edited by Herbert G. Wright. Manchester University Press. 1944. (The Ward Bequest. Publications of the University of Manchester No. CCXC. English Series No. XXIII). Pp. vi+186, with errata leaf unbound. 7s. 6d. net.

Ghismonda. A Seventeenth-Century Tragedy. Edited by Herbert G. Wright. Manchester University Press. 1944. (The Ward Bequest. Publications of the University of Manchester No. CCXC. English Series No. XXIII). Pp. vi+186, with errata leaf unbound. 7s. 6d. net.

The "Types of English Series"

The "Types of English Series"

Book Review: A Notable English Series

Book Review: A Notable English Series

A Junior High School Series in English with a Maximum of Practice and a Minimum of TheoryJunior English in Action. J. C. Tressler , Marguerite B. Shelmadine

Previous articleNext article No AccessEducational WritingsA Junior High School Series in English with a Maximum of Practice and a Minimum of Theory Junior English in Action. J. C. Tressler , Marguerite B. Shelmadine Pauline CopePauline Cope Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 42, Number 3Mar., 1934 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/439626 Journal History This article was published in The School Review (1893-1979), which is continued by the American Journal of Education (1979-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Choral Octavo: Laurel Octavo Old English Choral Series 950–956

Choral Octavo: Laurel Octavo Old English Choral Series 950–956

Book Review: Pupil Activity English Series

Book Review: Pupil Activity English Series

Appendix I. Notes on the Collection of Rock-specimens made by Col. English in European Turkey and Asia Minor

The collection of specimens submitted to me by Col. English, though not very large, included representatives of many different kinds of rocks—sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. The most numerous, however, were the recent lavas, which ranged from rhyolites and trachytes to very basic augitites. Many of the specimens, having been collected in the course of hurried traverses through difficult regions, were not so fresh as might have been desired. Yet it was possible, in nearly all cases, to form a definite opinion regarding the nature of the rock and the group to which it was to be assigned. The clastic sediments and organic limestones of the Tertiary Series require no special description, but mention may be made of the occurrence of red, baked, and hardened, nodular shales, which had been contact-altered apparently by lava-flows that covered or enveloped them. None of the advanced stages of thermal alteration were found in any of the rocks sliced. Trachytic (?), andesitic, and basaltic tuffs were numerous, but call for no detailed treatment. The assemblage of crystalline, igneous, and metamorphic rocks was on the whole very similar to that which has been described by J. S. Diller from the adjacent district of the Troad. With the exception of the nepheline-basalts, practically all the rocks described by him were present also in Col. English's series; and there were only one or two classes the occurrence of which was not already known from Mr. Diller's paper. Rhyolites were certainly few, although they are reported as abundant in

An English Series of Original Songs

An English Series of Original Songs

On the Structure of the American Pteraspidian, Palæaspis (Claypole); with Remarks on the Family

I. Review of the Discovery of Palæaspis. In the volume of this Journal for 1885 1 the present writer published a description of the first specimens of Pteraspidian fishes that had come to light in the New World. They were discovered in the autumn of 1883 in a bed of variegated marl, and later in a bed of red and green sandstone enclosed in the marl and belonging to the Onondaga or Salina Group of the Upper Silurian formation. The fossils were found in Perry Co., Pennsylvania, in the survey of which the writer was at that time engaged. The sandstone and shale pass under the town of New Bloomfield, and for this reason the stratum has received the name of the ‘Bloomfield Sandstone.’ The horizon of these beds corresponds with that of the English Lower Ludlow, or with the interval between that and the Wenlock, inasmuch as the Lower Helderberg Limestone which overlies it is unquestionably the pal—ontological equivalent of the English Ludlow, and the Niagara Limestone which lies next beneath it is as certainly the counterpart of the: English Wenlock. The whole mass of the Salina Shale is, in Perry Co., about 1500 feet in thickness, and for the most part, with the exception now noted, is entirely unfossiliferous. This mass is but slightly represented in the English series. The fossils consisted of the usual shields resembling those so long known from the rocks of nearly corresponding age in Herefordshire, and occurred in ‘great abundance, but were for

Further Observations on the Correlation of the Eocene Strata in England, Belgium, and the North of France

It is not my intention to reopen the whole question of the position and correlation of the Eocene strata of England and France, but merely to bring again before the Society such portions of them as involve some yet unsettled points of classification and some necessary rectifications of my own work. The synchronism of the Thanet Sands with the Lower Landenian, of the London Clay with the Lower Ypresian, of the Bracklesham Beds with the Calcaire Grossier, and of the Barton Beds with the Grès de Beauchamp is now perfectly well established. But with respect to the exact relation of the Sands of Bracheux and of the Soissonnais to the English Series, of the Oldhaven Beds to the Woolwich Series, and of the Lower and Upper Bagshots to equivalent strata in the Paris Basin, there are still differences of opinion and some open questions. Since'the publication of my early papers on the Eocene strata, the important monographs on the Eocene Mollusca of Edwards* and Searles Wood† in this country, and the last great work of Deshayes‡ in France, have made large additions to the Eocene faunas of the English and French Tertiaries. At the same time, the work of the Geological Survey and others in the London and Hampshire Basins §; of MM. Hébert ∥, Dolfuss ∥, De Mercey ∥, and others in the Paris Basin; of MM. Gosselet ¶, Ortlieb, and Chelloneix ** in the North of France; and of MM. Briart and Cornet M. Dewalque, MM. Rutot, Van

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M. CLAUDIUS SAUNIER'S treatise, though mainly intended for technical readers, contains a vast quantity of useful and instructive information, likely to be quite as interesting to amateur as to professional horologists. The work, moreover, is largely illustrated by beautiful coloured copperplate engravings, which, as models of accuracy and elegance, cannot be too highly praised. If in anything the book is perhaps scarcely up to the mark, as regards recent improvements in English clockwork; but no doubt such will be fully discussed in the appendix we understand M. Saunier has in hand, and which we hope will be published before the conclusion of the English series. So far as can be judged from the first number, the work of translation is being performed efficiently.

Handbuch der Allgemeinen Himmelsbeschreizbung

THIS work professes to combine a full account of the most recent physical discoveries in astronomy, with an exact statement of all those points which are commonly met with in handbooks of the science. The present volume, as will be gathered from the title, deals only with the solar system. Certainly it cannot be said to bear out in full the promise of the author. We are particularly struck by the almost entire absence of reference to the labours of English spectroscopists within the bounds of the solar system. Mr. Huggins's researches on cometic spectra are briefly referred to; but his observations on the spectra of the planets are passed over in silence, while place is given to the comparatively less valuable researches of the Padre Secchi on the same subject. We should be far from desiring to undervalue the researches of the eminent Italian astronomer; but no one who is acquainted with the circumstances under which Mr. Huggins and Father Secchi have respectively observed the planetary spectra, could think (we imagine) of comparing the Italian with the English series of observations. A similar remark applies to the solar researches of Father Secchi, which have not been made with sufficient dispersive power to be fairly comparable with the researches of Mr. Lockyer. Yet the labours of the last-named observer are passed over unnoticed, hot only in the body of the work, but in an appendix, wherein the author treats specially of recent solar observations. In a note, a brief and inexact account is given of Mr. Lockyer's discovery that the bright lines of the prominence spectra can be seen when the sun is not eclipsed. After this, it is surprising to find that a full account is given of Professor Tyndall's ingenious theory of comets. Handbuch der Allgemeinen Himmelsbeschreizbung. Von Hermann J. Klein. Das Sonnensystem. (Braunschweig, 1869.)

On some Upper Coal-measures, containing a bed of Limestone, at Catrine in Ayrshire

Some years since the writer described, in a short communication read before the Society and printed in the Quarterly Journal, the breccia at Ballochmoyle and the red and purple strata found near Catrine in Ayrshire. As to the latter, he expressed no opinion whether or not they were Permian or Carboniferous, evidence being then wanted to decide that question; but his impression was that they were Carboniferous strata much higher in the series than any which had yet been described in Scotland. A visit to the locality a few days since enabled him to establish beyond doubt that the strata at Ballochmoyle Braes, Catrine, and Sorn represent a coal-field as high as any in the English series,—in fact, one similar to those at Ardwick, near Manchester; Uffington and Leebotwood, near Shrewsbury; Buxterby, near Nuneaton; and Lane-End, Potteries. Mr. Ralph Moore, in his valuable sections of the Scottish coal-fields, gives the Ayshire strata as follows: In the remarks accompanying the ‘First Sketch of a New Geological Map of Scotland’, published in 1861, Sir R. I. Murchison and Mr. Geikie say, at p. 13,— “Another chief feature of the present map, as distinguished from all other maps of the country, consists in the subdivision of the Carboniferous formation. “This group of Rocks consists in Scotland of the following members:— “The Upper Coals represent, wholly or in part, the true English Coal-measures, which lie above the Millstone-grit. They occur, in Scotland, in four basins,—one in Mid-Lothian, a second in Fife, the third and