李仙得与日本第一次侵台

1874年日本以琉球难船事件为由出兵"征台",拉开了近代日本侵略中国的序幕。此事件与美国人李仙得有着密切的关系。李仙得时受雇于日本政府,充任"准二等出仕"。他向日本政府提出几十件备忘录及意见书,教唆日本政府接受台湾番地为无主之地的主张,并帮助副岛种臣使用奸计骗得了出兵台湾的口实。他还雇船雇员协助日本出兵"征台",所以,日本此次侵台,从策划到实施,李仙得都积极参与,起了很大的作用。     

William Morris Hughes,Empire and Nationalism: The Legacy of the First World War

Despite the amplitude with which Prime Minister W. M. Hughes voiced Australian claims during the First World War, his conduct in the immediate postwar years shows that his nationalism remained consistent with an imperial and British standpoint. This proposition is illustrated with reference to Hughes' role in the 1921 imperial conference, the Chanak crisis, and his post-prime ministerial memoir. While obsessed with expedients to improve the speed and scope of intra-imperial communications and thus facilitate consultation, Hughes was concerned to ensure that Australia played a proper role in arriving at a consensus on the deep common interest that unified Britain and the Dominions. His lack of concern for extending the scope for independent action won by the Dominions during the war, his dismissive remarks regarding the British role in the League of Nations, and the vehemence of his communications with London in 1922, must all be seen within the context of an imperial loyalty that survived the war undiminished.     

蓝毗尼——佛祖诞生地

<正>在尼泊尔旅行期间,中国驻尼使馆的朋友为我们策划线路时,建议我们一定要去蓝毗尼,说蓝毗尼如同圣城麦加、耶路撒冷的地位,是佛祖释迦牟尼诞生地。这样的诱惑当然让我们难以拒绝,于是,怀揣一颗虔诚之心,我们踏上了蓝毗尼的朝圣之旅。世界文化遗产:蓝毗尼蓝毗尼位于尼泊尔南部特莱平原的鲁潘德希县,从首都加德满都到蓝毗尼的公路约300公里,是尼泊尔的主要交通干道,虽然许多路段崎岖难行,但是路两侧     

Lord Avebury on Marriage,Totemism, and Religion

The Purpose of Education. An Examination of Educational Problems in the Light of Recent Scientific Research. By St. George Lane Fox Pitt. (New cheap edit.) Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1924. 715/16" x 5½. Pp. xxxi + 192. 4s.

Origins of Education Among Primitive Peoples. A Comparative Study in Racial Development. By W.D. Hambly. With a Pref. by Dr. C. Hose. Macmillan &; Co., 1926. 8¾" x 5 11/16". Pp. xx + 432. 112 ill. 25s.     

Original DocumentsRalph Lord Cromwell

The excavation of four ploughed-out round barrows in Milton Keynes has produced evidence of relevance to barrow design, ceramic chronology, economy, settlement patterns and population in the second millennium B.C.

The chronological usefulness of Longworth's Collared Urn Classification is considered and a long survival of All-Over-Cord Beaker tradition in southern Britain is suggested. Three of the sites produced a mixed flint assemblage ranging in date from Mesolithic to Bronze Age. A local pastoral economy, possibly associated with transhumance, is indicated at two sites. It is suggested that barrow distribution coincided with settlement distribution. An estimate is made of the proportion of the population who received barrow burial and a formula is derived for computing the size of local Bronze Age populations.     

Andrew Marvell,the Lord Maynard and the Ballastage Office

In the Restoration, Andrew Marvell was elected to the Elder Brethren of the London (Deptford) Trinity House (May 1674). Some “new” documents reveal him assisting that shipmasters’ corporation in its business. In this work, he was helping to protect a charity, shoring up a corporate bulwark against the rising tide of Court interest; he was soon to lament in An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government (1677). At issue was the drafting of letters rejecting a claim by the Lord Maynard, a prominent courtier who, with the support of James Duke of York and of Charles II, sought the reversion of the Ballastage Office. That lucrative office was a major resource for the London Trinity House, and one which fuller profits it was reluctant to concede. Whatever Marvell's own observation of decorum, the heavy correction of his initial draughts shows his more abrupt style coming under review, with a more flourishing courtliness characterizing the final letters sent by the group.