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Fact, Fancy, and Fable
Hardcover reprint of the original 1889 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Reddall, Henry Frederic. Fact, Fancy, And Fable; A New Handbook For Ready Reference On Subjects Commonly Omitted From Cyclopaedias; Comprising Personal Sobriquets, Familiar Phrases, Popular Appellations, Geographical Nicknames, Literary Pseudonyms, Mythological Characters, Red-Letter Days, Political Slang, Contractions And Abbreviations, Te...
Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900
The fourth and final volume of the Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900, records the most volatile period in Hawaii's history. American business interests and the desire for a constitutional monarchy were pitted against the desire of the monarchs, King Kaläkaua and Queen Liliuokalani, to strengthen the power of the throne. The convulsions of the 1887 and 1889 revolutions were succeeded by the overthrow of the monarchy on January 17, 1893. Documents revealing the struggle over annexation, beginning in 1893, and the counterrevolution of 1895 are an important component of this volume. Annexation in 1898 was followed by a two-year period during which functions of government and laws were a...
Secretly Inside
In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
Wit and Humor of the American Bar
[Reddall, Henry Frederic, Compiler.]. Wit and Humor of the American Bar: A Collection from Various Sources Classified Under Appropriate Subject Headings. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., [1905]. 238 pp. Reprint available September 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003056441. ISBN 1-58477-387-1. Cloth. $95. * Contents: "Some Neat Replies," "The Bright Witness," "The Witty Attorney," "Slips of Speech," "At The Expense of the Bench," "The Prisoner Retorts," "Humor of the Bench," "The Reply that Silences," "Justice's Justice," "Strained Situation," "Outside the Court Room," "Where Ignorance is Bliss," "Diplomacy," "In Rural Districts," "The Negro and the Law," "The Irishman in Court," "The Young Lawyer" and "Coroner's Verdicts."
Lowering the Bar
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Louis Trezevant Wigfall
Biography of Louis Trezevant Wigfall who, as United States Senator from Texas, did more than any other man to cause the disintegration of the Union, and as Confederate States Senator from Texas, did more than any other man to cause the collapse of the Confederacy.
