A miscellany presented to John Macdonald Mackay, July, 1914

MacKay, John MacDonald

Published by Liverpool : University Press, 1914

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Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned and stained. Spine bands and panel edge bumped and rubbed as with age (with some wear to the corners). Internally, bright and clean; some foxing to the end papers. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xvi, 403 pages plates (some folded) portraits 25 cm. Notes; Editorial note [signed: O.E. i.e. Oliver Elton]. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Address from colleagues, former students, and friends -- Address from classes -- Academic -- John Macdonald Mackay, builder / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Architecture as an academic subject / C.H. Reilly -- Ideals of civic design / S.D. Adshead -- Chemical research in a modern English University / F.G. Donnan -- Fermentation / J.S. Macdonald -- Mathematics as an arts subject / W.H. Young -- Ideals of a school for commerce / John Montgomery -- Mackay and the school of Russian studies / Bernard Pares -- Study of German in an English University / Karl Holl -- Evolution of a Western Canadian University / Ralph Flenley -- Birmingham University and Mackay / E.A. Sonnenschein -- Nocturne / Norman Wyld -- Historical, archaeological, legal -- Progress of Hittite studies / John Garstang -- Herodotus the tragedian / J.L. Myres -- Herodotus and the Battle of Marathon / C.F. Lehmann-Haupt -- Russians and Mongolia / E.H. Parker -- Notes on Domainal administration / G.W. Coopland -- St. John of Bridlington / J.A. Twemlow -- Pepy's abstract of Anthony's account of Henry VIII's navy / F.P. Barnard -- Liverpool and Irish politics in the XVIth century / C.F. Routledge -- Procès de Sorcière a Templeuve en Pevèle au XVIIe siècle / Charles Bonnier -- German pamphlets in prose and verse on the trial and death of Charles I / Robert Priebsch -- Social structure / Chancellor H.C. Dowdall -- Lawyer among the prophets / Judge Thomas -- Literary, artistic, scientific, etc. -- Notes on the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus / G.A. Davies -- "Brito Malus" et "Brito Exosus" / V.-H. Friedel -- Old Irish prayer for long life / Kuno Meyer -- Welsh "Sunday Epistle" / W. Garmon Jones -- "Night-Wanderer" : a poem by Dafydd ab Gwilym (c. 1350) / J. Glyn Davies -- John Major / H.A. Strong -- Sonnets on a sonnet / J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly. Coleridge's use of light and colour / A.C. Bradley -- Ueber Friedrich Hebbel's Verhältniss zur Allgemeinen Geschichte / Robert Petsch -- Class dialect and standard English / H.C. Wyld -- Ideal numbers in the rational field / F.S. Carey -- Long galleries in Tudor houses / Sir Martin Conway -- History of the Anatomical Museum / F.J. Cole -- Fortress of the rocks / Dorothy M. Vaughan -- Verse -- To J.M.M. : a suite / C.S. Sherrington -- To a chieftain / John Sampson -- "Scrutator" / R.H. Case -- "Es war einmal ; Order, auld lang syne / Antonie Meyer -- Envoy / Oliver Elton -- Appendices -- New University and primary teachers -- Teaching of architecture in the New University -- Senate and faculty, etc. -- Local University and the local authority : a forecast of Liverpool -- National College of Agriculture in the Transvaal. Subjects; Mackay, John Macdonald. University of Liverpool. History. Welsh literature History and criticism. Irish literature History and criticism. Historians Great Britain. Miscellanea. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 416992

Bibliographic Details

Title: A miscellany presented to John Macdonald ...

Publisher: Liverpool : University Press

Publication Date: 1914

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st edition.