Literary History of India. By R. W. Frazer LL.B., 8vo. (London, 1898.)

Charity and the London hospitals, 1850–1898

Despite recognizing their importance, hospital historians have traditionally been less interested in the administrative and financial aspects of institutions under study, although paradoxically this documentation has survived much better than clinical records. We tend easily to forget that most hospitals periodically teetered on the brink of insolvency even though many had been initially launch...

Comparative Literary History

The Street Folk *London Labour and the London Poor: a Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. By Henry Mayhew. Vols. i. ii. and iii. 8vo. London: Griffin, Bohn, & Co. 1861.—Ragged London in 1861. By John Hollingshead. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1861.

" How is this, that men of science, osteologists, and surgeons, beat some poets in respect of nature?count nought common or unclean?spend raptures upon perfect specimens of indurated veins, distorted joints, or beautiful new cases of curved spine; while we are shocked at nature's falling off, and shrink back from her warts and blains ? Nay, we will not, when she sees us, even look at her to say...

To Comfort Always: A History of Holywell Hospital 1898 - 1998

been very ably written in a far from drab style. Indeed it should appeal to a much wider readership than what might appear from the title. Also for those who may have had occasional contact with Holywell Hospital, they will discover interesting nuggets as well as the more numerical type data. The beginnings of an institution should always be interesting to read. This, the author has done very s...

Studying Literary History with Latent Feature Models

Studying Literary History with Latent Feature Models