AMERICAN LITERATURE.
P. 14, c. 2—“Sandys.” The extract here given is taken from the dedication of one of Sandys’s works to Prince Charles, afterward King Charles I. The work bears the ambitious title, “A Relation of a Journey begun in A. D. 1610; Four Bookes containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy and Islands adjoining.” Of this work a traveler of the times says, “The descriptions are so faithful and perfect that they leave little to be added by after-comers, and nothing to be corrected.”
P. 15, c. 2—“Mogul,” mo-gūl´. A person of the Mongolian race.
P. 15, c. 2—“Cæteris paribus.” Other things being equal.
P. 15, c. 2—“Boyle,” boil. (1626-1691.) An Irish chemist and philosopher. He has been called the inventor of the air pump, and by it he demonstrated the elasticity of the air. His charity and philanthropy gave him the reverence of his associates and his philosophical experiments placed him among scientists. He has been called “the great Christian philosopher.”
P. 15, c. 2—“Bodleian,” bōd´le-an. Pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, who founded a celebrated library in Oxford in the sixteenth century.
P. 15, c. 2—“Văt´i-can.” An assemblage of buildings in Rome, including the Pope’s palace, museum, library, etc.
P. 16, c. 1—“Edwards.” This selection is taken from Edwards’s treatise on the “Religious Affections.”
