The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-24
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

G. p. Putnam's Sons, New York. publish "The
Story of Sici!y-PhGniciau, Greek and Roman"
by the late Edward A Freeman This is a new
volume in the 'Story of the Nations" series,
and is the last WORK OF which Prof Freeman
read the proofs In the opening chapter the
author says: "The claim OF the history OF Sicily
to place in The story OF the Nations is not
that there has ever been a Sicilian nation.
There has very seldom been a time when there
was a power ruling over all Sicily and over
nothing out OF Sicily. There has never been
time when there was one language spoken by
all men in Sicily and by no men out OF Sicily.
All the powers, all the nations that have dwelled
round the Mediterranean sea have had part
in sicilian history. All the languages that
have been spoken round the Mediterranean sea
have been at one time or another, spoken in
Sicily. The historical Importance of Sicily
comes, not from its being the seat of any one
nation, bu. from its being the meeting place
and the battle field OF many nations. Many OF
the chief nations of the world have settled in
Sicily and have held dominion in Sicily. They
have wrought on sieilian soil, not only the
history OF Sicily, but great part of their own
history. And, above all, Sicily has been the
meeting place and battlefield, not only OF rival
nations and languages but of rival religious
creeds "-S7s PIP, II mo-, with maps and Illus
trstious. Cloth, si5j.
William Wood & Co., New York, publish "a
L.
Weudt, SURGEON General Hamilton and others.
We have not yet passed danger of cholera cpl
demic, and know not what the spring viii de-
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most remarkable of all diseases. IL includes all
the modern theories and accepted facts concern
ing the plague. including Prof. Koch's comma
bacillus. The history OF the disease from the
earliest time is given. 1t has always been pres
ent in HIndustan. and is as destructive there as
IL any country The editor sketches rational
and simple pan OF treatment and exam mes
the theories of noted spec alists. The book is
illustrated with maps and engrsvings, and is
quite readable today as when the destroyer
Knocked at the gates OF New York last summer.
Syo.. 400 Pr. Postpaid, So
Rand, McNa!ly & CO. publish as No. IA Of the
Globe Library king Billy, of Ballara,, and
Other Stories" by Morley Roberts. "the aus
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The Bancroft Company, san Francisco, are
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