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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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mly-veiled parable expressing Buchanans views onkingship. His most ambitious poem is theDe Sphsera, an elaborate exposition of thePtolemaic system of astronomy; and his mostpopular production is his Latin translation ofthe Psalms into a variety of classical metres.The last continued to be used as a schoolbookin his native country into the nineteenthcentury. Of his prose works, his De Jure Regnisets forth explicitly and with special refer-ence to Scotland the same doctrine of the sover-eignty of the people which was shadowed inBaptistes. Both this work and his historyearned the distinction of being later suppressedby the government. The Historia coveredthe history of Scotland from the earliest timestill 1580; and while far from being a criticalwork in the modern sense, is much more dis-criminating than most of the chronicles thatpreceded it. Its chief value is for the periodof his own life, and here his authority is thatof the honest partisan. The general impression left by his work is
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JAM Kb ULCllAXAX, FIFTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. BUCHANAN tliat of an acute, vigorous, and independentmind, poetical rather than practical or philo-sophical; of a temperament capable of strongemotion; of a character showing some of thedefects common to most men of his age, buton the whole straightforward and robust. Andif the use of Latin has caused his wTitings tocease to be read to-day, it is to be rememberedthat for the Europe of his own time he was theforemost man of letters in Britain, and in theopinion of such judges as the Scaligers andMontaigne, the first Latin poet in Europe. Bibliography.—Buchanans complete workswere collected by T. Ruddiman (re-edited byPeter Burman. 2 vols., Lugduni Batavorum.1725). The vernacular writings have beenissued by the Scottish Text Society, with lifeand notes by P. Hume Brown (Edin. 1892).The Lives* by Irving and Chalmers are nowsuperseded by P. Hume Browns GeorgeBuchanan (Edin. 1890). Shorter sketches arethose of D. Macmillan (Edin

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