Familiar studies of men and books /

Victor Hugo's romances.--Some aspects of Robert Burns.--Walt Whitman.--Henry David Thoreau: his character and opinions.--Yoshida-Torajiro.--François Villon, student, poet, and housebreaker.--Charles of Orleans.--Samuel Pepys.--John Knox and his relations to women.

Writings by the way.

"Burns and the peasantry of Scotland;" p. 209-229.

Liederklänge aus England und Spanien.

Includes translations from Thomas Moore and Robert Burns.

Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect /

Added engraved t.-p., with vignette.

Poetical works.

Mode of access: Internet.

Familiar studies of men and books /

Mode of access: Internet.

The cotter's Saturday night and other poems,

Mode of access: Internet.

Pictures of the heart : sentimentally delineated in the danger of the passions, an allegorical tale : The adventures of a friend of truth, an oriental history in two parts : The embarrassments of love, a novel : and The double disguide, a drama in two acts /

Murdoch taught Robert Burns at Ayr school and later corresponded with him.

Landscape illustrations to the first complete and uniform edition of the life and works of Robert Burns,

Mode of access: Internet.

Blue book for the use of subordinate divisions of the order of the Sons of Temperenance (1867)

Inscribed on front paste-down: Rothschild division No.227; and in pencil: James Jackson; and on front free endpaper: Presented to James M Clark By Mrs Amanda Burns Robert at Stayner 25 Aug. 1878.

Natural resource windfalls and efficiency of local government expenditures: evidence from Peru

We study the role of natural resource windfalls in explaining the efficiency of public expenditures. Using a rich dataset of expenditures and public good provision for 1,836 municipalities in Peru for period 2001-2010, we estimate a non-monotonic relationship between the efficiency of public good provision and the level of natural resource transfers. Local governments that were extremely favored by the boom of mineral prices were more efficient in using fiscal windfalls whereas those benefited with modest transfers were more inefficient. These results can be explained by the increase in political competition associated with the boom. However, the fact that increases in efficiency were related to reductions in public good provision casts doubts about the beneficial effects of political competition in promoting efficiency.

Knox-Wise Family Papers - Accession 591

The Knox-Wise Family Papers includes a land grant issued to John Knox in 1768; diaries written by Dr. John Knox [1792-1859] covering the 1840s and 1850s; James N. Knox [1806-1880] covering 1859-1880; and William D. Knox [1847-1928] covering 1869-1928; indentures, deeds, receipts, court summonses and other papers of Hugh Knox [1757-1821], sheriff and justice of the peace in Chester County, South Carolina (ca. 1780s and 1790s); correspondence of James N. Knox, correspondence, and other professional papers of Dr. John Knox; correspondence, and other papers of William D. Knox, Superintendent of Education in Chester County from 1896-1928. Papers of various other members of the Knox and Wise families including Hugh Boyd Knox [1814-1886], Robert Knox [1796-1879], Sally Knox Wallace [1803-1901], Alexander Walker Wise, and Emmie R. Knox [1885-1969]; family histories of the Knox, Wise, Dunlap, Gaston, and Wilks families; church histories, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Also included are three published volumes of the United Confederate Veterans Minutes of the 21st (1911) and 25th (1915) Annual Meeting and Reunion; and the minutes of the annual reunion of the South Carolina Division of the United Confederate Veterans (1921-1927).