Macmillan's Series of Foreign School Classics. Schiller's Der Neffe als Onkel: "The Nephew His Own Uncle". A Comedy, Adapted for the Weimar Stage from the French of Picard (German Edition)
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Satire is a genre of literature where vi...)
About the Book
Satire is a genre of literature where vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings in humans and their institutions are held up to ridicule with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into reform. While satire is generally meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is generally constructive social criticism.
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(This title, part of the long-running College Classical Se...)
This title, part of the long-running College Classical Series, is a high-quality reprint of the original edition published on 2007. It includes extracts from Phaedo, the Symposium and from Xenophon's Memorabilia, and a Vocabulary.
Louis Dyer was born on September 30, 1851 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was the son of Charles Volney Dyer, M. D. , and Louisa Maria (Gifford) Dyer. His father was descended from William and Mary Dyer, who came from Somersetshire to Boston in 1635, became adherents of Mrs. Hutchinson, and were driven from Massachusetts Bay to Rhode Island, where they joined the Society of Friends.
Education
Educated by private tutors in Geneva and near Lyons, he entered first the University of Chicago (1867), then the University of Munich, and finally the sophomore class at Harvard (September 1871). Older than most undergraduates, and matured by extensive travel, he was none the less liked by his classmates, and interested himself in many college activities. At graduation (June 1874) he obtained highest honors in classics. Entering Balliol College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1874, he won the Taylorian Scholarship for proficiency in Italian, and studied there until February 1877, when the illness of his father required his return to Chicago
After 1887 his life was spent mostly in Oxford, where he had been given the B. A. degree in 1878.
Career
Charles Dyer practised medicine in Newark, New Jearsey, in New York, and in Chicago, and was prominent in the anti-slavery movement and active in the work of the “Underground Railroad. ”
In 1862 President Lincoln appointed him judge for the United States in the Anglo- American Mixed Court at Sierra Leone. Louis Dyer’s independent habit of thinking, his quiet and efficient friendliness, and his interest in social problems, undoubtedly derived from these antecedents.
He became tutor in Greek at Harvard, and in 1881 assistant professor of Greek, a post which he held until June 1887.
During this period he published: A Consideration of the Use of Form in Teaching (1881) ; The Greek Question and Answer (1884); and an excellent edition of Plato’s Apology and Crito (1886).
After 1887 his life was spent mostly in Oxford. In December 1889, he returned to Boston to deliver eight lectures in the Lowell Institute course, later published under the title Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated (1891).
In 1893 he was made master of arts at Oxford, and appointed lecturer in German and French at Balliol; he was examiner of schools for the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Committee.
In 1893 he published An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy, translated from the Italian of Luigi Cossa. During the year 1895-96 he was acting professor of Greek at Cornell University, and in 1899 he delivered three lectures on Machiavelli before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, later published as Machiavelli and the Modern Slate (1904).
In 1899 also he contributed to Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset a series of notes on the career of his ancestor, under the title, “William Dyer, a Somerset Royalist in New England. ”
Returning to the United States, he delivered in 1900 the Hearst Lectures on Greek art in the University of California, visiting, in the next year, many of the American universities, where he lectured on Mycenae and Cnossus. Oxford as it is, published in 1902, was a small but useful volume for the guidance of Rhodes scholars.
In 1904 he became a member of a committee of the Oxford Congregation interested in the maintenance of Greek as a compulsory requirement in the university. At the same time he engaged in the work of promoting the Egypt Exploration Fund, which was to yield papyri of inestimable worth, ana he was also a prominent member of the council of the Hellenic Society.
In all these enterprises his activities were untiring and fruitful. He married, in London (November 23, 1889), Margaret Anne Macmillan, daughter of the publisher, Alexander Macmillan.
In June 1890, he purchased Sunbury Lodge, which thereafter became known in Oxford as a center from which radiated kindness, hospitality, and helpfulness, “one of the first places to which cultivated American visitors in England turned, and where they met sympathetic Oxford colleagues. ” There he was the recognized intermediary between the university and the young American students who began to flock to Oxford under the Rhodes Foundation.
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Membership
In 1904 he became a member of a committee of the Oxford Congregation interested in the maintenance of Greek as a compulsory requirement in the university.
Personality
Gifted with a wide knowledge of men and things, with a joyous wit and humor, and sweetness of disposition, he possessed a charm that few or none could resist.
Connections
He married, in London on November 23, 1889, Margaret Anne Macmillan, daughter of the publisher, Alexander Macmillan.