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... acid. During the autumn of 1909, there were more than 1,000 “smoke-fog” deaths in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1952 smog killed more than 4000 people...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over th...

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...EUR EMIGRANT THE SECOND CABIN I FIRST ENCOUNTERED my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spir... ...mpropriety; and the whole strength of her endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had hear... ...doors broken and removed for firewood; of homeless men loiter- ing at the street-corners of Glasgow with their chests beside them; of closed factories... ...ed. Coming as they did from a country in so low a state as Great Britain, many of them from Glasgow, which commercially speaking was as good as dead, ... ...erched across the carpenters bench upon one thigh, found Blackwood; a neat, bright, dapper, Glasgow-looking man, with a bead of an eye and a rank twan... ...w was continually threatening to slip his cable for the States, and at last, one Wednesday, Glasgow was left widowed of her Brown. Some months afterwa... ...ming thick on the Devonian. He could find no berth in Belfast, and had to work a passage to Glasgow on a steamer. She reached the Broomielaw on a 43 ... ...er, and he could never have been dry. By night he walked the streets, and by day slept upon Glasgow Green, and heard, in the intervals of his dozing, ... ...nse of amusement. Why he did not go to the Sailors’ House I know not; I presume there is in Glasgow one of these institutions, which are by far the ha...

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...In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared. At the last minute he was convinced by friends to purchase a ticket one grade above the lowest price, for which he was later t...

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...I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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...ty. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library. If a word by way of suggestion to teachers be p... ...outh, Gloucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire b... ...ght, as a solitary spectator, when seated on the box of the Manchester and Glasgow mail, in the second or third summer after Waterloo. I find it neces... ...ffice has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns. B... ... came about that I found myself left in charge of his Majesty’s London and Glasgow mail, then running at the least twelve miles an hour. What made thi... ...ng, from which cause, and from the external prettiness of the book—being a Glasgow reprint by the celebrated Foulis, and gaily bound—I was induced to ...

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... on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas Engineers a...

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..., in fact. I remember feeling it only once in a church: St. Mungo's, in Glasgow. I had felt it at Clava Cairns, at Rosicrucian Park ... and I fel...

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...heir relatively many performances in different places in the world (Smolensk, Glasgow, Strasbourg, Chisinau, Timisoara, Karlsruhe etc.), but especia...

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...broad, in “Amarom”, Ramnicu Valcea, July 1994, no.3. Craciun, Gheorghe, Glasgow, Scotland, in “Timpul”, Melbourne, July, 4th year, no.40, p.7. To... ...95, 5th year, no.22, p.56. Adam, Ioan, The animals country in a tour to Glasgow and Strasbourg, in “Vocea Romaniei”, Bucuresti, August 23, 1995, 3...

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...URAGEOUS BATTLE the outcome of the court cases. Friends at the End (FATE), Glasgow , Scotland, (44) 141- 334-3287; www.friends-at-the-end.org.uk {info...

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...BM in USA [6, 7], Frascati, M¨ unich, Meudon (Italy, Germany, France) [8], Glasgow University (Scotland) [9] and other laboratories around the world. ...

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...r, when she was back in Scotland, she wrote that Hugh was assassinated in Glasgow—an Elizabethan courtesy, some- one said. The shock was more of a sh...

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...i, the neutral-tinted spectacles, and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes of the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist?s suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie with a cheap pin in it, he wears a suit of clean white linen, acceptable in color, if not in cut, to the Moorish mind....

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...f the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist’s suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie wi...

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...near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. He became professor of Surgery in Glasgow and later (1877) at Kings College Hospital, in London. Lister’s contribution to the advancement of surgery cannot be overestimated. Before his work on antisepsis, wounds were often left open to heal, leading to long r...

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...e of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, h...

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... marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberde... ...– this book may alone preserve a memory of James Walter Ferrier and Robert Glasgow Brown. Their thoughts ran very differently on that December morning...

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...Is he a Christian even? He might be a Mahommedan or a Deevil or a Fire-worshipper, for what I ken.” The third brother had his name on a door-plate, no... ...of Hermiston was all by now; and he was a partner of his firm, and looked to die a bailie. He too had married, and was rearing a plen- tiful family in... ...s with his broadcloth, his beaver hat, and the ample plies of his neckcloth. Though an eminently solid man at bottom, after the pattern of Hob, he had... ...o hear Clem, ar- 56 Weir of Hermiston rived upon one of his visits, and dealing in a spirit of con- tinuous irony with the affairs and personalities ... ...e pew and con- templated vacancy with the shadow of a smile between play- ful and sad, that became him strangely. Dandie’s sister, sit- ting by the si... ...e in her attitude of pretty decency, her mind should run upon him! If he spared a glance in her direction, he should know she was a well-behaved young... ...n something of a flutter till the word Amen. Even then, she was far too well-bred to gratify her curiosity with any impatience. She resumed her seat l... ...looking insupportably prosperous, and patronising Torrance with the favour of a modified atten- 63 Robert Louis Stevenson tion, as of one who was use... ...chalantly back; and that deadly instrument, the maiden, was suddenly unmasked in profile. Though not quite in the front of the fashion (had anybody ca...

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... offence in my native town, and a proportionable pleasure to our rivals of Glasgow. I confess the news caused me both pain and merriment. May I remark... ...ago would cut quite as rueful a figure on the same romantic stage. T o the Glasgow people I would say only one word, but that is of gold; I have not y... ...ay only one word, but that is of gold; I have not yet written a book about Glasgow. 8 EDINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES with the town beating to arms behi...

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... mightily surprised, for he was obviously Scandinavian, and begged him to explain. It seemed he had learned his English and done nearly all his sailin... ...ain. It seemed he had learned his English and done nearly all his sailing in Scotch ships. “Out of Glasgow,” said he, “or Greenock; but that’s all the... ... lo- cal patriotisms and prejudices, part us among ourselves more widely than the extreme east and west of that great continent of America. When I am ...

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...g; from which cause, and from the external prettiness of the book, being a Glasgow reprint, by the celebrated Foulis, and gaily bound, I was induced t... ...loucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow—expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns... ...with these impressions, from the terrific experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mail, were other and more general impressions, de- rived from long ... ...idity, by impinging on a moonlight night against the off hind wheel of the Glasgow mail! Deodand upon the said wheel—two-pence.” What a simple lapidar... ...ffice has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and win- nowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns.... ...es from Preston, I found myself left in charge of his Majesty’s London and Glasgow mail, then running about eleven miles an hour. What made this negli...

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...put out of fash- ion. They were to be found chiefly at Perth, Stirling, or Glasgow, where they and their horses were usually hired by 110 Chronicles ... ...f being here quoted:— “In the year 1795 a serious disturbance broke out in Glasgow among the Breadalbane Fencibles. Several men hav- ing been confined... ... be, but that he had left business of the utmost importance to a friend in Glasgow, which he wished to transact before his death; that, as to himself,... ...siness was settled, and that, if the officer would suffer him to return to Glasgow, a few hours there would be sufficient, and he would join him befor... ...such, that he com- plied with the request of the prisoner, who returned to Glasgow at night, settled his business, and left the town be- fore daylight... ...g circuit to avoid being seen, apprehended as a deserter, and sent back to Glasgow, as probably his account of his officer’s indul- gence would not ha...

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...ich I think, with her coloured-glass skylight ends bearing the motto, “Let Glasgow Flourish,” was certainly one of the most heavily-sparred specimens.... ... There, alone in a noisy crowd, I would write slowly a letter addressed to Glasgow, of which the gist would be: There is no cargo, and no prospect of ... ...ion. In this it differs from Liverpool, from Cardiff, from Newcastle, from Glasgow; and therein the Thames differs from the Mersey, from the Tyne, fro...