...Miguel Mejides; Manuel Michalowski; Alex Martin; Candice Ward Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Miguel Mejides Rumba Palace The first time I saw her, I knew I was screwed. Within me were all the ingredients of misfor­ tune: a lethal mixture of bad luck, advancing age...

.... In short, this particular Henry Adams is a useful addition to the litera­ ture, but neither a definitive nor a provocative nor even a very entertain­ ing one. Perhaps no one will ever solve the riddle of Henry Adams; Miss Stevenson has certainly not done so. John a. garraty Governor Tryon and His Palace...

...Carroll Van West; Mary S. Hoffschwelle "Slumbering On Its Old Foundations : Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll Van West and Mary S. Hoffschwelle One of the most heralded museum openings of recent date was that of the refurnished Governor s Palace at the Colonial Williamsburg...

... of Minos, in 1900 an English archaeologist, Arthur Evans (later Sir Arthur), secured permission to dig on the traditional site of Knossos. His success was both astounding and epoch-making. Between 1900 and 1905 he laid bare the celebrated palace of Minos, a complex structure of many rooms and many stories...

..., looking delicious but sternly forbidden by the American health rules. From our bedroom I could look out across the treetops toward the Palace, Independence Palace, where lived bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, his brother and adviser Mr. Nhu, and Madame Nhu, the first lady of Vietnam. I had seen only...

... streets, it may have been thus named from the German Jews who settled there. Passing north along the Baltic through Lithuania to Latvia, there was the old German palace of Kreuzburg, which at one time belonged to the Roman Catholic bishops of Riga, but later came into possession of the wealthy Ger­ man...

...; Miss Stevenson has certainly not done so. John a. garraty Governor Tryon and His Palace. By Alonzo Thomas Dill. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Pp. 304. $5.00. The approaching restoration of one of the most interesting American colonial buildings, Governor William Tryon s...

... a return to the hero s homeland but a return to his own palace and immediate family, that is, to domestic life. Without worrying about which epic is the earlier, we can say that the Odyssey answers the Iliad both in terms of the relative chronology of Nostos, Domos, and the Ancient Stage 417 their plots...

... palace from which the child comes arises through a poetic dialogue with Coleridge. In his own great ode, Dejection, Coleridge chal­ lenged the premises of the four stanzas that initiate Intimations. Wordsworth had written those stanzas, in which he mourns the pass­ ing of a glory that was once part...

... were wandering from place to place. The Palace fell into disrepair during the war, and was little used thereafter for public functions, many of its rooms being rented to private persons. In 1798, after the capital of the state had been moved to Raleigh, the Palace was largely destroyed by fire...

... to practise a mild variety of it. Years before he had presented himself at the palace of Gokal Das, the titular Raja of our city Jubbulpore, and, on obtaining audience with him, had made the following surprising announcement: Gokal Das, your services are now at an end. Return me my property! What property...

... of gold and diamonds. Near there modern man has discovered some of the greatest iron deposits on earth. For one home Lagoa Santa man chose the great Maquine cavern near today s village of Cordusburgo, a Niebelungen Palace with spacious salons glistening with stalactite and stalagmite columns...

... by the lake shore beneath Tiscapa Hill, on which the Presidential Palace dominates it like the castle of a feudal lord, approached through the Field of Mars by a broad and winding parkway and flanked by the massive headquarters of the National Guard. Managua is a new city in the sense that practically all...

... beyond the baroque pedi­ ment of Sant Ignazio, and, nearer home, the treetops and watchtower of the Quirinale, successive residence of popes, kings, presidents. But most immediately, right across the garden, was Palazzo Barberini. Each morning when I opened the long shuttered windows on the palace, I...

..., Tiriel s sons rebelled against his authority. Rather than living on in his palace under their dominion, Tiriel took his wife, Myratana, out among the rocks and waited futilely for natural disaster (fire from heaven or torrents of the sea ) to destroy his rebellious family (6.8-10). In the first 170...

... Republican. But crowds of books also entails looking before and after, from the Divina Commedia to The Wasteland. Add to this crowd the numerous quota­ tions from mid-Victorian reviews and the references to contemporary studies: in breadth alone, Victorian Noon may remind readers of the Crystal Palace...

... to that of the narrator to build a perfect palace of thought is obvious, Mrs. Blackall points out. Further, if James s narrator is to be compared with the Bavarian king, the implication is that his pri­ vate revel is that of a madman and his palace of thought, however in­ genious, the product of a mad fancy. Thus...

... or four intimates. The resemblance of Ludwig s passion to erect great buildings to that of the narrator to build a perfect palace of thought is obvious, Mrs. Blackall points out. Further, if James s narrator is to be compared with the Bavarian king, the implication is that his pri­ vate revel...

..., it was the miniature copy of the Court of St. James, somewhat aping the man­ ners of that royal palace, while the cold Church and its graveyard and the College chapel si licet cum magnis corn-parare parva were the Westminster Abbey and St. Paul s of London where the great ones were interred. He might have added...

... with nothing except cleanliness. Neither his sword, nor the lacings of his boots, nor his horse s reins, were orna­ mented with gold or precious stones or other articles of value, though this was a Scythian custom. But his surroundings were more elegant than his personal attire. His palace, though only...