The study deals with the Franco-Prussian War in chapbooks. This conflict provided last major stimulus for this medium, which gradually disappeared second half of 19th century. Chapbooks on subject war comprised mostly broadside ballads, but prayers and small prose prints were created as well. importance satirical songs significantly increased at that time. article studies interpretation chapboo...

to the Lake District and who, from the first flush of revolutionary fervour came to a dignified old age in Rydal, Westmorland as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, a Tory supporter, opponent of reform and adherent to the established church. There are several reasons for choosing this subject. I have heard some twenty Presidential Addresses to this Society, from Mr. Robert Cooke's 'Ship-Shape and B...

INTODUCTION IN JANUARY 1967 there started the campaign organized by W.H.O. to eradicate smallpox totally. This campaign could not have hoped to succeed without a safe, effective vaccine. Although Edward Jenner probably did not "discover" vaccination, he is usually (and properly) given credit for testing the method and bringing it before the public. Inevitably many engraved portraits of Jenner w...