Project Gutenberg #2

• English as she is spoke, or, a jest in sober earnest, by Pedro Carolino and José da Fonseca,
• On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music, by Camille Saint-Saëns, 1915
• A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church, by Isaac Watts
• The Federalist Papers

Project Gutenberg #1

I subscribe to Project Gutenberg's daily rss feed of new books, so I think I'll post a few interesting ones here each day.

• Benjamin Franklin: A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago - American Pioneers and Patriots Series
• The Fifth-Dimension Tube: A Complete Novelette - Murray Leinster, from the January 1933 issue of Astounding Stories
• Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, 1912

Nicotian literature

Tobacco Talk and Smoker's Gossip, 1886.

Unclear on the concept

From the local freecycle list this morning:

My sister is offering a set of encyclopedia's. They are probably 20 - 25 years old. They are in a near empty storage unit that we are trying to empty out totally. They would be great to cut up for school/college projects in history.

From the UPS man

The ISI edition of Orestes Brownson's The American Republic arrived today.  My initial impressions: good solid typesetting with a stylish but unobtrusive italic face (I would have known these faces 15 years ago); a beautiful buff and blue cover with a dark red spine; a readable and useful introduction by Peter Lawler that's nearly half the length of Brownson's work.

Every time I see the UPS man I think of Arthur Clarke's line upon receipt of Stephen Wolfram's massive A New Kind of Science at his Sri Lankan lair: "another ruptured postman staggers away from my front door."

An old-fashioned auto-da-fe

Hilary Jane Margaret White and friends celebrate Reformation Day!

How far we've come

Vide.