COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Volume 50 - jo

[VfkaBT]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_seaandconrad_mcfee_mp_128kb.mp3
The Sea -- and Conrad, by William Mcfee
from The Bookman, April 1921
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman-1921apr-00102
25.27

William McFee (15 June 1881 – 2 July 1966) was an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McFee

[Sue Anderson]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_seaandconrad_mcfee_mp_128kb.mp3
The Sea -- and Conrad, by William Mcfee
from The Bookman, April 1921
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman-1921apr-00102
25.27

William McFee (15 June 1881 – 2 July 1966) was an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McFee

Thanks, BT, for The Sea -- and Conrad. Good title! Sounds interesting. I liked the first sentence of McFee's Wikipedia bio too: "He was born on the Erin's Isle, a three-masted ship owned by his father, a sea captain..." I can sure imagine that as the first sentence for a sea story!

[soupy]

The Sea -- and Conrad is PLOK

Thanks for reading it

Craig

[MillionMoments]

Here is the corrected version of Unprofessional Forestry, which is no 14:38: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_forestry_cary_mgt_128kb.mp3

[soupy]

Unprofessional Forestry is PLOK

Thanks MM

Craig

[soupy]

Here is a short one from me

Effects of situation, climate, tendance by Theophrastus 371-287 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus
translated by Sir Arthur Hort 1864-1935

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005387763;view=1up;seq=149

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_effectsofsituationclimatetendance_theophrastus_cc_128kb.mp3

5:07

Craig

[Sue Anderson]

Here is a short one from me

Effects of situation, climate, tendance by Theophrastus 371-287 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus
translated by Sir Arthur Hort 1864-1935

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005387763;view=1up;seq=149

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_effectsofsituationclimatetendance_theophrastus_cc_128kb.mp3

5:07

Craig

Thanks for Theophrastus, Craig! He sounded a bit "Darwinian" to me...

[soupy]

Darwin sounds a bit like Theophrastus

Craig

[Sue Anderson]

Here's something by another Darwinian predecessor: "In the third edition of On the Origin of Species published in 1861, Charles Darwin added a Historical Sketch that acknowledged the ideas of Rafinesque."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Grape Vines
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_grapevines_rafinesque_sa_128kb.mp3
11:14

https://archive.org/details/americanmanualof00rafi
pp. 26 ff.

[soupy]

Thanks for Rafinesque's description of grapes Sue. It seems he lost most of his books in a shipwreck and had to start from scratch.

Only one error noted.

:48 P. 26 ascribe their introduction – you read induction

Craig

I will be gone until July.

[Sue Anderson]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_grapevines_rafinesque_sa_128kb.mp3

Craig, Thanks for catching that. Corrected and uploaded. I marked it PL OK; I'll also PL anything that comes in between now and when you get back.

[Availle]

Here is

Brief Account of the English Character

by Charles Marjoribanks (I think it's him, dates just fit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Albany_Marjoribanks)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54820 (English only, of course )

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf50_englishcharacter_marjoribanks_ava_128kb.mp3
10:11

[Sue Anderson]

Here is

Brief Account of the English Character

by Charles Marjoribanks (I think it's him, dates just fit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Albany_Marjoribanks)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54820 (English only, of course )

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf50_englishcharacter_marjoribanks_ava_128kb.mp3
10:11

Thanks, Availle! This is a fascinating document: "Believing in the power of print in converting and “educating” the Chinese, nineteenth-century European traders and missionaries invested significant amounts of energy and money in the dissemination of tracts on the China coast. One of these ephemera was 大英 國人事略說, "Brief Account of the English Character." It was first drafted in English by Charles Marjoribanks, president of the English East India Company’s Select Committee in Canton. Robert Morrison (馬禮遜), a missionary-cum-sinologist, translated the manuscript into Chinese and printed hundreds of copies at his 英華書院 (Anglo-Chinese College) in Malacca (Melaka). "

PL OK.

[Availle]

I wonder how many Chinese - the ones the pamphlet was meant to reach - could actually read it. Most people who could read at that time took a long time to learn it and ended up being one of the low government officials Marjoribanks complained of...

[VfkaBT]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf050_bytheroadiandii_maugham_vfkabt_128kb.mp3
By the Road, Parts I & II, from:
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia, by William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27252
18:25