Diamond Sky

Religion & Spirituality

Thaye, Jampa

Buddhism

Ganesha Publishing

'Lean's Collectanea is an absolutely unique, essential, and invaluable English proverb collection. I am so glad that it is in print again due to your efforts. It is a standard reference work.'--Prof. Wolfgang Mieder'The best work on the subject since John Ray's ‘Collection of English Proverbs' (1670)Lean's Collectanea is a vast collection of proverbs, folklores and superstitions acquired over a lifetime by Vincent Stuckey Lean of Bristol (1820--99). Painstakingly collected and researched during Lean's travels on the Continent and throughout Britain, the 5-volume Collectanea is packed with many thousands of entries, helpfully arranged by theme and fully indexed.Covering all periods and many countries, the Collectanea goes well beyond simply listing proverbs; it includes superstitions, popular customs and sayings, proverbial witticisms, rhymes and aphorisms; it records death customs, cures for diseases, omens and signs, good luck sayings, charms, and more. Lean unearths the provenance of many obscure proverbs, and consults an extraordinary number of sources (the list of authorities covers more than 100 pages). Assembled for publication after the author's death, this lively work also contains Lean's extensive contributions to Notes and Queries, ‘A New Treasury of Similes', and a biographical memoir of Lean by Julia Lucy Woodward.The proverb was at its peak in Britain in Elizabethan times, and Lean's work is particularly authoritative and helpful in illuminating the literature of this era. In addition to English literature departments, it will be of strong interest to philological and language students, scholars in cultural studies (many proverbs are based on racial, nationalist and class beliefs), oral historians, linguists and folklorists.--famous and long out of print gigantic collection of proverbs --major storehouse of information for the study of language, folklore, cultural studies and more --broad scope that includes customs, superstitions, aphorisms, charms, etc. --index helps navigate the vast amount of information 

Lean's Collectanea: Encyclopedia of Proverbs

Literature & Fiction

Lean, Vincent Stuckey

British & Irish

Michael Davitt (1846-1906), father of the Land League, Member ofParliament, labour campaigner, writer and public speaker, was one of the central Irish figures of the late nineteenth century. Closely involved in the land question, Home Rule and labour issues, he wrote articulately and reflectively on these and many other important and problematic subjects, leaving historians an invaluable resource, not only of biographical material, but also of insights into the major questions of his day. The importance of Davitt's contribution alone would justify the publication of a collected works. However, it might also be argued that by looking at his writing as a body of work, the man and ideas that emerge are both more wide-ranging and more complex than the traditional identification of Davitt as founder of the Irish Land League, important as this was in securing for Irish tenant farmers the right to own their land. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of his non-Irish interests, the breadth of his social thinking and his concern to link the land question with the cause of labour. This collection includes his six books, all his pamphlets, and his major writings for journals such as the Contemporary Review and the Nineteenth Century.

Collected Works of Michael Davitt

History

Davitt, Michael

Europe

<div>Catholic emancipation - freedom from the restrictions of the penal laws that had successively been imposed on Roman Catholics since the mid sixteenth century - seemed an inevitable consequence of the 1801 Act of Union with Great Britain, but it not until 1829, and then only when faced with probable revolution in Ireland, that it was conceded by the British Government. What seems in retrospect a simple question of the granting of civil rights was attended by vehement resistance from vested interests, rebellion and reaction in 1798, a systematic coercion of Irish opinion thereafter, and rural unrest. The Catholic Question in Ireland is a collection of ten key works tracing the path of reform, from early claims for Catholic equality to the eventual granting of political and civil rights. They illustrate particular moments in the struggle: the organization of an effective Catholic Committee in 1760; the 1793 Relief Act which gave some Irish Catholics the right to vote, though not to sit in Parliament; the Humble Petition of 1805 which resulted in the first parliamentary debate on emancipation since the Act of Union; the short-lived 'Catholic Convention' of 1811; the creation of the Catholic Association by Daniel O'Connell in 1823; and the Parliamentary Inquiry of 1824-5 into the state of Ireland. It would be hard to overestimate the significance of the Catholic Question in the determination of national consciousness in Ireland and in signalling the beginning of an eventual transfer of power from a relatively privileged minority to the majority of the Irish people. The books and pamphlets reprinted here, now very hard to obtain, provide essential information about the debate itself and about contemporary social conditions and public opinion. --rare and important material never before reprinted --documents over 60 years of one of the most important debates in Irish history --crucial to an understanding of Irish and Anglo-Irish history and politics in the 18th and 19th centuries --edited by Nicholas Lee, former archivist of Bristol University Library Special Collections</div>

The Catholic Question in Ireland, 1762-1829 (Irish History and Culture)

Isabella Bird (1831-1904) was one of the most remarkable and intrepid explorers of her time; her unique knowledge of the customs and habits of the Mid-East and Asia, coupled with her fame as a writer, lecturer, and photographer, persuaded the Royal Geographic society to admit her as their first woman member. These writings on Hawaii, the Rocky Mountains, Japan, Persia, Tibet, and elsewhere all reveal keen anthropological interests and serve as the fifty-year diary of a Victorian feminist.

Collected Travel Writings of Isabella Bird (Vols. 6-12)

Travel

BIRD, ISABELLA

Asia

Frederick Victor Dickins (1838-1915) is most remembered as a pioneer in the English translation of classical Japanese literature. This set contains many of those classic works, as well as Dickins's collected papers.

Collected Works of Frederick Victor Dickins (Ganesha - Collected Works of Japanologists)

Dickins, Frederick Victor

Reference

International Congress of Orientalists: Proceedings 1873-1881

Japanese Art and Japonisme, Part I: Early English Writings (Ganesha - Western Sources of Japanese Art and Japonisme)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan (Volume 8)

Moges, Marquis de

Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China (Volume 15) (Ganesha - Japan in English: Key Nineteenth-Century Sources on Japan)

Pumpelly, Raphael

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