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Observations on the new American republic by an early president of Georgetown University Father Giovanni Antonio Grassi was the ninth president of Georgetown University and pioneered its transition into a modern institution, earning him the moniker Georgetown's Second Founder. Originally published in Italian in 1818 and translated here into English for the first time, his News on the Present Condition of the Republic of the United States of North America records his rich observations of life in the young republic and the Catholic experience within it. When Grassi assumed his post as president in 1812, he found the university, known then as Georgetown College, to be in a "miserable state." He immediately set out to enlarge and improve the institution, increasing the number of non-Catholics in the school, adding to the library's holdings, and winning authority from Congress to confer degrees. Upon his return to Italy, Grassi published his News, which introduced Italians to the promise and contradictions of the American experiment in self-governance and offered perspectives on the social reality for Catholics in America. This book is a fascinating work for historians of Catholicism and of the Jesuits in particular.

"PURR " Tessa B. Dick (Raised by cats; author of Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright) "Place all beverages on a flat surface, and sallow whatever you're eating or drinking before you begin reading... you're liable to lose it if you don't." Ted Atoka (author of Fiammetta's Dream, book ii of the Villa Paradiso Series) 'Meowing on the Answering Machine' is a collection of short fiction and prose by Robert Emmett. Forty-two short works spanning twenty years, with several drawings throughout to fill the margins and give spice to the words. From Dafne to Dangle, from food that cooks itself to the talking furniture in search of identity. Hilarious and spooky, absurd and authentic. All your favorite tales from the often odd world of Robert Emmett are offered together for the very first time

2012 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated anthology containing a selection of these famous stories by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Robert Emmett Owen. Contents: GOOSE-GIRL THE LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER HANSEL AND GRETHEL OH, IF I COULD BUT SHIVER DUMMLING AND THE THREE FEATHERS LITTLE SNOW WHITE CATHERINE AND FREDERICK THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR LITTLE RED CAP THE GOLDEN GOOSE BEARSKIN CINDERELLA FAITHFUL JOHN THE WATER OF LIFE THUMBLING

I enter directly into a fabulous music-instrument realm. It will take considerable suspensions of disbelief to enjoy my fables (since many human-instrument crossovers happen), yet I think it a suitable suspension. To the extent that my music fables are portraits of various music instruments (and composers, conductors, instrument makers), they should confirm what experience has taught and suggest musical allegories newcomers could not imagine. Seen from inside music, from the standpoint of musical instruments, musical compositions have a different reality and a renewed sense of existence.