More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...
For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...
Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...
If we only had a president," sighed a liberal Democratic House member. A growing number of Democrats in both houses feel that way. The suspicion that he is not, in Lyndon Johnson's famous formulation, "a man you can go to the well...
THE TWO officers who led an army expedition which was lost for a month in the Borneo jungle have been severely criticised for "flawed" judgement and leadership by an army Board of Inquiry. But no disciplinary action will be taken against expedition leader...
Huge street protests made millions of immigrants more visible and powerful last year, but they also seem to have revived a hateful counter force: white supremacists.Groups linked to the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and neo-Nazis grew significantly more active, holding more rallies, distributing leaflets and...
BERLIN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - German business is worried that conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's commitment to radical reforms in Europe's biggest economy may be fading, and fears she could even reverse some changes to keep voters happy. Solid economic growth and falling unemployment mean...
