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Hardback. Zustand: Good. The most talked-about education book this semester. --New York Times From the author of Coming Apart, and based on a series of controversial Wall Street Journal op-eds, this landmark manifesto gives voice to what everyone knows about talent, ability, and intelligence but no one wants to admit. With four truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America's educational establishment. -Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn, but America's educational system does its best to ignore this. -Half of the children are below average. Many children cannot learn more than rudimentary reading and math. Yet decades of policies have required schools to divert resources to unattainable goals. -Too many people are going to college. Only a fraction of students struggling to get a degree can profit from education at the college level. -America's future depends on how we educate the academically gifted. It is time to start thinking about the kind of education needed by the young people who will run the country.…

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Unbound. Zustand: Fair. One leaf from *The Weekly Freeman National Press & Irish Agriculturist*, St. Patrick's Day, March 11, 1911. Foilo. Pages 5/6 and 27/28. The fragile newspaper is chipped and torn along the edges and in the middle, with a large piece of page 27/28 torn off but present though lacking a small portion of the music and text, and creases from being folded, a fair only copy. Features two songs for voice and piano: "The Irish Rapparees: Specially Arranged for the Weekly Freeman" with words by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and music by G.L. Murray, and "The Standard of Ireland (Ardharc Na Eire)" with no credits printed. The section also includes stories and poems including, "Dan's Dilemma" by Victor O'D. Power, "The Sprig of Shamrocks" by J.A. Fitzpatrick, "A Teaspoon's Tragedy" by Jane Barlow, "Thoughts of an Irish Felon" by Timothy Ronan, "Pope Pius X" by Mrs. Bellamy Storer, "Ireland's Veils" by Ethel R. Wheeler, "On St. Patrick's Day" by Denis A. McCarthy, and "The Wexford Massacre" by Michael Barry. Four pages of an Irish newspaper published the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day, 1911.…

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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Find The Woman" - What happened in Central Africa when word spread that a venerated witch-doctress had invented a potion to render the white man's bullets harmless - with photo of Maria N'Koy in her ceremonial regalia; At Grips With the Desert - Part III - Donald R.G. Cameron's party set out to cross the Sahara and became lost for ten dreadful days - with photos and map; A Tenderfoot in Argentina - Englishman G.H. Mummery went to Argentina to try his luck on a big estancia; The "Eggers" of Yorkshire - Article with amazing photos of the people who scramble the towering cliffs of the Yorkshire coast to reap a harvest of sea-bird eggs; Brigand-Hunting in Anatolia - Capt. S.H. Woolf was stationed on the Bagdad Railway with a small detachment of Indian troops; My College Adventures - Young Carl N. Taylor was wandering around America when he decided to study in Indiana - he provides an interesting glimpse into a novel phase of American college life; The Sanyasi's Curse - A tale from construction of one of the Southern Indian railways in 1887-8; Tapu - A weird little New Zealand story from Ken J. Royal, who went hunting for Maori curios on an old native battleground; Twelve Days on a Burning Ship - The coal cargo of the old windjammer Fanny catches fire far to the south of Cape Horn; My Trip to "Devil's Island" - Excellent photo-illustrated article describing Arthur Mills' visit to the notorious French penal establishment in Guiana where Dreyfus endured his martyrdom and the betrayer of Nurse Cavell is presently imprisoned; Shorty the Sheepherder - Edith Ammons Kohl describes a strange character she met while newspapering in Montana; Rough Luck - Johannes Else's nearly successful escape from the prison at Cape Town; A Deal in Diamonds - The curious experience of an Eastern merchant while visiting Marseilles on business; The Lost Mine - Part II of II - A. Hyatt Verrill seeks a mysterious native "King" in Panama - with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Backstrip entirely nibbled away so covers loose but present, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. de Walton, John; Tresilian, S.; Prater, Ernest; East, Laurence; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.W.; Wenban, R.; Wigfull, W.E.; Abbey, S.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Inns, Kenneth; Holloway, Cyril (illustrator). …

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo., (9 x 5 6/8 inches). Half-title in volume II. Tinted lithographed frontispiece in each volume after J.O. Lewis and Peter Rindisbacher (1806-1834) (quite spotted, lower edge of "War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes soiled). Publisher's plum cloth (remboitage, unevenly faded); preserved in modern brown cloth slipcase. Provenance: inscribed on the front free endpaper of volume one: "Ossulston from his sincere & attached friend The Author. Buck.m Palace, July 3 1839."; with the book label of Chillingham Castle on the front paste-down of each volume. First edition "This is the first and best edition of a most interesting work, by an intelligent observer of the peculiarities of the Pawnees, before they had been modified by contact with the whites.We follow [Murray] with an unabated interest in his narrations of his adventures during a three months' tour in the Indian territory" (Field). Murray later befriended Catlin, and is depicted in his Indian Portfolio as the figure being chased by a bison. He organized Catlin's exhibition at Egyptian Hall in London. …

4pp., 16mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, on aged paper. She begins by explaining the reasons for her silence, and apologising if she has 'seemed neglectful': 'the truth is that I quitted Chester Squr on Monday, for Miss Squire's of Blackheath [.] I return to London to morrow mg, to spend a few days with Mr. Murray's [publisher] family in Albemarle St. & then think of takg the railroad to Derby [opened in 1844] to fulfil a long promised visit.' The letter continues with references to 'Mrs Reese Sr.' of Chester Square, 'dear Kath:' and 'dear Matty'. The letter concludes: 'May we have all reason to praise God's mercy in the complete restoration of our dearest Kitty's beloved husband. I do indeed share yr thankfulness in the happy prospect'. …

A significant letter, filling gaps in the provenance of Bellini's Crucifixion, now in the Louvre. All that has been known hitherto about the painting's provenance is that at the beginning of the twentieth century it was in the Paris collection of the banker Rodolphe Kann, and that before the Second World War it was owned by the Florentine dealer Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, from whose heirs it was acquired by the Louvre in 1970. The present item reveals that the painting was acquired from the recipient Fisher [probably the auctioneer George Fisher] by the London art dealer Agnew, by whom it was sold to Kann. Nor has Murray's ownership of the painting hitherto been noted, and it seems that Bonacossi acquired it (as he did several other works) at the sale of Murray's collection in 1923. 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and creased paper. After explaining that he has sent the letter in expectation that Fisher has returned from a foreign trip, Murray continues: 'I have a little piece of news that will interest you. Two days ago I re-purchased (this time definitely for myself) your Bellini "Crucifixion". I have been very sorry ever since Agnew [London art dealer] sold it to that ignoble Jew (German) Kann [the banker Rodolphe Kann] that I was unable to purchase it then. | The subsequent history is curious. When the Kann coll[ection] passed into the hands of Duveen [in 1907] it remained unsold, partly no doubt owing to the subject & partly to its being unsigned. It requires happily for me an intelligent art lover to appreciate its beauty. Duveen presented it to Dr. Bode [Wilhelm von Bode] in recognition of his help in selling the greater part of the coll[ectio]n. | For some reason (monetary perhaps) he Bode did not present it to the Berlin Mus[eu]m. but placed it in the hands of his crony Volpi [Count Elia Volpi], here for sale. Volpi included it in an auction he had here some time back but not getting the sum hoped for bought it in. It has remained in his hands since.' Murray had 'long ceased to visit' Volpi, but after writing to him was 'well received. I promptly seized the occasion to re-possess myself of the long coveted treasure together with a very fine bust of a cardinal ascribed to Bernini. So both now decorate my picture gallery since yesterday.' He concludes by giving his plans for returning to London, and in the hope that 'Mrs Fisher is better'.…

Edited by the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell.   First edition. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt title to spine, spine slightly worn and with very small puncture. Pencil ownership inscription to front free and paper. viii, 60, [4, publisher's catalogue]pp. London, Bernard Quaritch, A scarce, albeit brief, work by an important yet little-known author. Murray was H.M. Consul-General in Egypt from 1846 until 1853, and after this moved to Persia, where he became involved in a serious diplomatic row after being accused of committing adultery, withdrawing from his post until he received an apology from the Shah.    OCLC lists no copies.…