Friday, 15 July 2016

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Edgar Allan Poe "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" (1840) his descriptive use of English.

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Scottish humour as they have always characterised the Labour  Party as "Red Tories"

The Theology of Donald Trump - The New York Times

The Theology of Donald Trump - The New York Times: "http://nyti.ms/29jagzv"

To better understand Mr. Trump’s approach to life, ethics and politics, we should not look to Christ but to Friedrich Nietzsche, who was repulsed by Christianity and Christ. “What is good?” Nietzsche asks in “The Anti-Christ”: “Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases – that resistance is overcome.”
Whether or not he has read a word of Nietzsche (I’m guessing not), Mr. Trump embodies a Nietzschean morality rather than a Christian one. It is characterized by indifference to objective truth (there are no facts, only interpretations), the repudiation of Christian concern for the poor and the weak, and disdain for the powerless. It celebrates the “Übermensch,” or Superman, who rejects Christian morality in favor of his own. For Nietzsche, strength was intrinsically good and weakness was intrinsically bad. So, too, for Donald Trump.

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Saturday, 2 July 2016

The international in SearchWorks

The international in SearchWorks:



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I'm trying to trace these five articles: 

1)  “Mystic Dartmoor”, in: Travel. , November 1910, Vol. 16, p34-36.[art.] [Database: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)]

2) “The Spirit of Piccadilly”, in: The International: A Review of Two Worlds [New York, The Moods Publishing Company, 1908-1918], Vol. 7-8, (1913), p.??   [art.][on the gay scene in London, same published in California Outlook, Vol. 14. (1913), p.12.]

3) “Berlin a modern Babylon.”, in: Travel. , September 1914, Vol. 23, p14-17.[art.] [Database: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)]

4) “Tramping around the Isle of Wight.”, in: Travel. , December 1916, Vol. 28, p22-25.[art.][ Database: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)]

5) “What the Germans think of America”, in: Travel., July 1926, Vol. 47, p13-16.[art.][ Database: Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)]

No.2 is at HATHI TRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY however,  
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100076260?type%5B%5D=title&lookfor%5B%5D=The%20International&ft=



I also managed to get hold of a digital copy of  4)  from the HATHI TRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY that has the following copies:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000495599?type%5B%5D=title&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Travel%20incorporating%20Holiday%22&filter%5B%5D=topicStr%3ATravel%20Periodicals&ft=

but unfortunately not Vol. 16, 23 or 47. 

“Tramping around the Isle of Wight.”, in: Travel[1], Vol. 28. No. 2. (December, 1916),  p22-25; 46-47. [art.]


[1] Editor, Edward Frank Allen; published monthly by Robert M. McBride & Company, Inc. Union Square North, New York City; Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, E.C.