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American Traits As Seen By The French, George D. Morris

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

Long before the vogue of Taine's theory of literary criticism made it incumbent on the critic to explain the characteristics of his author by race, milieu, and moment, many of his compatriots had already employed the method-in so far, at least, as the element of environment is concerned--in attempting to account for the peculiarities of American novelists. Each of these attempts, whether it was successful or not, gives us a glimpse of the author's conception of the American people. If we supplement the information obtained in this way with that contained in the direct affirmations which they …

Some Legal Aspects Of The Invasion Of Belgium, Sumner Allen

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

In the fifth century before the Christian era the two powerful states of Greece, Athens and Sparta, were at war. Greek culture was then at its highest level, and Athens was the centre-in the phrase of Pericles, "the school of Hellas." Its attainments in art, letters, and government were a source of pride and the basis of the Athenian claim of superiority. During the progress of that long and terrible war, the Athenians conceived that the neutrality of a small colony on the little island of Melos was a military disadvantage, and an army was sent to reduce it to …

Joseph Chamberlain, The Radical, Cephas D. Allin

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The approaching retirement of Joseph Chamberlain from the House of Commons awakens a sympathetic interest throughout the world. It is pathetic indeed to see the oft-victorious warrior stricken down and borne from the field at the very moment of the triumph of his political foes. Time has turned against the venerable statesman. The principles for which he so stoutly fought are apparently going down to defeat. The Home Rule question, which he had hoped was buried, has risen again to haunt his declining days. The policy of preferential trade, to which he owes his imperial reputation, has been practically set …

Colonial Aspects Of The War, Cephas D. Allin

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

In a recent speech Mr. Asquith declared that the greatest mistake that Germany had made in respect to the war was in her failure to recognize that there was a British Empire. Great Britain has long been regarded as a small, insignificant island off the European coast. She has been looked upon as a second-rate European power somewhat in the class with Italy and Spain. And such she is in fact if considered by herself alone. But the war has revealed, what the Empire has long since known, that England is an imperial rather than a European nation, that she …

The Renaissance, E. Benjamin Andrews

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

In the early part of the fifteenth century a change as subtle and indefinable as it was significant, came over the spirit of European society. Without sharp break with the past, involving no strictly new creation, no sudden or unheralded revolution of ideas, gradually rose an altered mode of viewing man, the world, life-far less theological than the old, less respectful to tradition, more confident in man's powers and future-in fine, laic and human. Renewed study of classical antiquity was sign and instrument, rather than essence, of the new movement. If men looked back, it was mostly to clear their …

The Mantle Of Browning, Hardin Craig

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

As one grows older one becomes sadly conscious that there are problems in one's life and in society for which there is no solution in the poetry of Robert Browning. A very great deal has happened since Robert Browning wrote; and what he tells us to do is not the thing we want to do, and his presentation of the situation in which we stand is not one that commends itself as entirely adequate. Part of the great outcry for the practical with its too wholesale rejection of the idealistic teachings of the last century, is a definite feeling that …

Nietzsche, P. H. Frye

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

On account of the attention which Nietzsche has been attracting of late, the occasion seems a favourable one for reviewing once more his life and work. In a letter to one of his acquaintances, written in March, 1884, he himself prophesies with the proverbial modesty of genius that" in fifty years, perhaps, will the eyes of some few (or of one, for it requires genius) be opened to what has been done through me. For the present, however, it is not only difficult but quite impossible (in accordance with the laws of 'perspective') to speak of me publicly without falling …

The Ideal Of Peace, S. B. Gass

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The present temper of peace-loving America is very close to that of a nation on the brink of war. There is something in it almost baffling to one who has thought of his countrymen as a people to be saved from excess by a cool humour. No doubt their moral sympathies have been deeply stirred by the present conflict. Many of their prepossessions have been shocked, and one at least has been quite shattered. It had been hoped in many quarters that the age of war had passed, that international understanding and economic interdependence had made an open breach between …

American Traits As Seen By The French, George D. Morris

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

Long before the vogue of Taine's theory of literary criticism made it incumbent on the critic to explain the characteristics of his author by race, milieu, and moment, many of his compatriots had already employed the method-in so far, at least, as the element of environment is concerned--in attempting to account for the peculiarities of American novelists. Each of these attempts, whether it was successful or not, gives us a glimpse of the author's conception of the American people. If we supplement the information obtained in this way with that contained in the direct affirmations which they …

Giosuè Carducci, Ruth Shepard Phelps

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

It is a commonplace to say that the nations of the north have seen in Italy from the first the home of romance, the pleasure-place of the imagination. And they have always delighted to heighten her effects. From Chaucer to Walter Pater she has been ever the land of mystery and tragedy, of soft lascivious manners and gorgeous crimes, of a deep magical melancholy which has laid a spell upon the northern mind-a spell, however, which that mind itself and its tastes have largely created. The deep racial differences have fascinated the Teutonic imagination, which in turn has exaggerated them; …

Canada And The War, J. E. Le Rossignol

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

Canada is a protected country and the Canadian people have given little thought to the danger of war. On the Atlantic and Pacific coasts she is protected by the sea; on the north there is a wilderness of barren land, a barrier of ice and the Arctic Ocean; on the south there is a good neighbour, with whom she has had no serious trouble for a hundred years. There are no enemies close at hand, and the danger from distant foes has always seemed remote and problematical.

The Diplomatic Background Of The European War, Bernadotte E. Schmitt

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

When on August 1, 1914, the fateful news came over the wires that Europe stood at Armageddon, the people of this country were scarcely able to accept the fact, for it was difficult to understand why the flower of European manhood should be sent forth in arms to shatter the cultural and material progress of a century. But to the close student of European diplomacy it has long been evident that some day the conflicting interests of the Great Powers and some of the smaller states, an intricate system of alliances, ententes, and secret agreements, and the armaments accumulated …

German Versus English Aggression, A. D. Schrag

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

The present state of public opinion is quite inexplicable unless we remember that great wars are periods of the abnormal, not only in the political, the industrial, and the commercial, but in the intellectual sphere as well. The mental chaos that confronts us on every hand can be accounted for only on the theory that wars are days of sickness in the life of the human race. The bold assertions, wild speculations, fanciful prophecies which one hears on every hand must be regarded as the incoherent prattle of a delirious public mind. Not only the unthinking public but men of …

French Opinion Of Our Civil War, Louis Martin Sears

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

In these days when America is the spectator of world war, it is of increased interest to notice the views of Europe when America was the battle ground itself. An awakening interest in this study has recently impressed upon our public the paramount importance of the English attitude toward the war; and our vast debt to Cobden, Bright, and John Stuart Mill and other English Liberals has stirred the national gratitude. The Liberals of France played an equal role. Their voice, not loud but deep, operated to curb the opportunism and militancy of Napoleon III and his cabinet of adventurers. …

Sociology And The Law, Arthur W. Spencer

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

A significant recent development in the field of legal science in this country, the importance of which is not yet generally recognized by laymen, is the noteworthy awakening of interest in the philosophical literature of the continent of Europe dealing with legal institutions. Progress in this field of legal philosophy has been especially rapid since the late seventies, particularly in Germany. In English-speaking countries no phenomena of equal significance have occurred. America has never produced any notable philosophical jurists; and the work of English legal scholars of the past generation, though in some instances it has been brilliant and of …

The Man From The Moon, W. G. Langworthy Taylor

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

Man from the Moon: I thought I knew something about mundane affairs from my study of the newspapers; but to see a Jeffersonian with a ring through his nose led about like a dancing bear by a socialist! It's enough to make a man believe in possession- or what amounts to much the same thing, conversion. But hold; I will accost him. (To Jeffersonian.) Why do you offer yourself to be bullyragged by this person, whom I recognize by his salt-and-pepper suit, white tie, and kid gloves to be a follower of the creed, "property is robbery"?

Jeffersonian: …

A Classical Romanticist, George R. Throop

Mid-West Quarterly (1913–1918)

It is necessary in the interpretation of any writer, and especially if he be of the present day, that the literary motives which actuate him should be thoroughly understood. Through their realization and through what we might term his interpretation of his own ideals, we are enabled to form a sufficient idea of his literary originality and a better comprehension of his relation to his own and preceding times. It is of course truistic that all writers can not create new fields, that they can only follow, modifying, adapting, enlarging, or lessening, as the case may be, the accumulated heritage …

Natural Reforestation In The Mountains Of Northern Idaho, Harry B. Humphrey, John Ernst Weaver

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884–1956)

The factors affecting the natural reforestation of a fire-denuded area may, in general, be said to be the same in Idaho and Oregon as in Maine or Minnesota. There may be and actually are differences in detail as to what species of herbaceous and shrubby plants may prepare the way for the more delicate seedlings of those trees native to the particular locality. But the principle prevails everywhere that certain plants or plant societies. are antecedent and probably essential to the appearance and permanent establishment of a forest. The first step in the reforestation of a fire-swept area is the …

A Study Of The Root-Systems Of Prairie Plants Of Southeastern Washington, John Ernest Weaver

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884–1956)

While carrying on a study of the plant formations and associations of semi-arid southeastern Washington in 1912-1914, it soon became apparent that for a proper understanding of the development and structure of these associations a knowledge of the root-systems of the more important prairie species was imperative. Consequently, during the fall, winter, and spring of 1913--1914, more than 350 root-systems of 25 of the most important ecological species were examined. This paper contains descriptions of these, together with a discussion of the conditions under which the plants grow.

The prairies of southeastern Washington, and their eastward extension into adjacent Idaho, …

Bulletin 147, Pork Production, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 147, Pork Production, 1915

Bulletin 148, Handbook Of Nebraska Grasses, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 148, Handbook of Nebraska Grasses, 1915

Bulletin 149, Raising The Dairy Calf, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 149, Raising the Dairy Calf, 1915

Bulletin 151, Corn Silage And Alfalfa Hay For Beef Production, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 151, Corn Silage and Alfalfa Hay for Beef Production, 1915

Bulletin 150, Soy Beans And Cowpeas, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 150, Soy Beans and Cowpeas, 1915

Bulletin 152, Management Of Irrigated Land, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 152, Management of Irrigated Land, 1915

Bulletin 153, Lamb Feeding Experiments, 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 153, Lamb Feeding Experiments, 1915

Bulletin 155, Rotations And Tillage Methods In Western Nebraska (Popular Edition), 1915

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 155, Rotations and Tillage Methods in Western Nebraska (Popular Edition), 1915

Nebraska Green Quartzite - An Important Future Industry, E. H. Barbour

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

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Nebraska Green Quartzite An Import Ant Future Industry, Erwin H. Barbour

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

ln southern Harlan and Franklin counties, there occur many acres of green quartzite which must be of commercial consequence when made available. It is a neglected resource upon which important industries are sure to be based. With the development of this bed in view, the Nebraska Geological Survey has examined this area. and through this leaflet wishes to place the results before possible investors.

Researches In The Genus Taraxacum, Paul B. Sears

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

These researches were undertaken with a view to working out certain little known phases of the life history of our local species of dandelion, and particularly with a view to confirming or disproving the following widely accepted conjecture of Raunkjiaer;

"Species Danicae Taraxaci castratione agamice propagari demonstratum est; species onmes Taraxaci semper parthenogenetice propagari verisimile est."

The problem has been found to involve difficulties and obscurities which will require considerable time to effectually disentangle, but results have already been secured which we believe ourselves justified in setting forth.

During the work we have been much in debt to the late …