Update on William Clark Russell research from John Addy — # 3, Dec, 2011 1. Clark Russell’s 3-vol ‘The Hunchback’s Charge’ sold for £12,500 at Sotheby’s 2010. In The Book Collector for Autumn 1965, Robert Lee Wolff said this book was ‘issued in a very small edition, of which Clark Russell later bought up and [...]

Some people suggest reading Dante, Chaucer, and Beowulf in the second grade. I didn’t read these until high school. What do you recommend? C.S. I have your book Teaching the Trivium but I do not seem to be able to find any mention of your position on reading the Iliad/Odyssey. If you would recommend it, [...]

Will the reader please to cast his eye over the following lines, and see if he can discover anything harmful in them? Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip [...]

We are currently trying to read through Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow. We are reading about knights and history, etc. during the Wars of the Roses and my boys, 9 and 11, are very interested in this particular text. Unfortunately, I am having a terrible time with the dialogue. Between arcane terms that don’t [...]

Does any of the following sound familiar? Dio Cassius Roman History 59.1-10 Gaius Caligula rules Rome (A.D. 37) ….. As it was, however, he lavished boundless sums upon actors (whose recall he at once brought about), upon horses, upon gladiators, and everything of the sort; and thus in the briefest space of time he exhausted [...]

Concerning the Roman emperor Gaius Caligula Dio Cassius Roman History 59.28 28 Gaius ordered that a sacred precinct should be set apart for his worship at Miletus in the province of Asia. The reason he gave for choosing this city was that Diana had pre-empted Ephesus, Augustus Pergamum and Tiberius Smyrna; but the truth of [...]

Hi Laurie, I found your name on the internet with your brief review of William Clark Russell’s John Holdsworth: Chief Mate and The Wreck of the Grosvenor. I’ve been collecting this author’s books for a few years now and I’m trying to write a book (the first, I believe) on his life and work. I’ve [...]

Some interesting observations from Aristotle in his Politics (3.7, 15): 7 Having determined these points, we have next to consider how many forms of government there are, and what they are; and in the first place what are the true forms, for when they are determined the perversions of them will at once be apparent. [...]

What is the primary difference between your Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline textbook/DVD and your Significant Excerpts ebooks? Also, can the texts be printed from the DVD? Thanks so much! Kristina Solid The Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline DVD contains the full texts of many hundreds of books by [...]

Pliny the Elder Natural History 9.8 …In the days of Augustus Cæsar the Emperor, there was a dolphin entered the gulf or pool Lucrinus. This dolphin loved wondrous well a certain boy, a poor man’s son who went every day to school from Baianum to Puteoli. This boy was wont also about noon tide to [...]