Professor Abrams chronicles the nineteenth century struggle for a special court to rehabilitate delinquent and dependent children and their families. The leaders were dedicated reformers- the "child savers" who sought to ...

The following reports by members of the faculty of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and the University of Western Cape, located in Bellville, South Africa, are the result of participation in a faculty ...

The Union List of learned Anerican Serials in Indian Libraries (ULLAS) was compiled through a generous grant of Rs. 80,000/- (16,000 dollars) by the U. S. Government in India to the Indian Council for Library Development. ...

In the past few decades, no group of Shakespeare's plays has increased more in public and scholarly esteem than the four late comedies - Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest - generally collected in modern ...

It is impossible to know whether Perrault intended the Memoirs to be published. There are early references to "your uncles," identifying Perrault's children as his immediate audience; however, he offered nothing about his ...

Lezama Lima's works undoubtedly form an important and major body of literature, and critical interest in his publications continues to grow. However, his challenging and innovative writings require patient reading if one ...

Paper Flowers [Flores de papel] has recently been published in Spain and also in Cuba, where it won the 1970 Casa de las Americas theatre award, Latin America's most prestigious prize. As the 1970 recipient, Paper Flowers ...

George Grenville could have upheld Parliament's sovereignty, raised a revenue, reduced smuggling, and asserted British control over the colonies by lowering the duty on foreign molasses imported into America from sixpence ...

The numerous Spanish-language periodicals that were published in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the early years of the twentieth provide a fascinating but much-overlooked view ...

Although the results of Latin American peasant movements appeared particularly impressive in the 1960s and the 1970S, the end of the decade witnessed the progressive repression of the major movements on the continent. Latin ...

The unrivaled power and tension in the best works of Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James are derived precisely from the authors' imaginative experimentation with the dialectic structure of this perpetual opposition. Unlike ...

This is a book about people with different ideas about democracy from those that prevail today. Wisconsin's early progressives would have been astonished by the focus historians have placed on producer identifications. ...

The stories told in this book, like the stories on television, illustrate the triumph of good over evil; the rewards of heroism and virtue; and the endurance of the human spirit when faced with tragedy and catastrophe. In ...

Browne has become so traditionally a part of the history and texture of classic English prose style that we sometimes unconsciously undervalue his ideas and their power to arouse dispute in his time. The primary purpose ...

It is the purpose of this study to trace the public career of David Rice Atchison from his early cases in a frontier courtroom to his last defense of Southern rights in Kansas which ended in ultimate defeat and undeserved ...

Britain witnessed a milder brand of fascism and communism than did most other European countries. Neither the extreme Left nor the extreme Right ever assumed proportions that directly threatened the regime or even approached ...

Before proceeding to an examination of Cela's works, mention of the critical orientation of this study may prove of some assistance to the reader. My primary intent is to discuss the novels in order to underline the "proteic" ...

OM, the sacred monosyllabic symbol of Parabrahma Param¡tman, is the pious and holy name of the Supreme Lord. It is cryptic, majestic, mighty, mystic, mysterious, sacred, sacrosanct, secret and transcendental by nature. It ...

"Indian Library Scene as seen at the Dawn of Independence" is a study of libraries and librarianship in India. The study had many goals, including: to make an historical study of the origin, growth and development of ...