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Old Friends in a New Dress
No full textSee my copy of the 1826 third edition, which added Part II. (Perhaps the first edition was in 1807.) This fifth edition makes several important changes. First, it admits at last who the author is: R.S. Sharpe. Secondly, it cuts the title back by leaving out or Select Fables of Aesop in Verse. Thirdly, it adds a third section of fourteen more stories, Additional Fables, 1837. (It seems also to have dropped one from Part II and to have rearranged the order of fables in both the first and second parts.) Fourthly, it is the first edition of this book to add cuts, eighty-two of them spread over the three parts of the book. Fifthly, Chalmers and Collins in Glasgow have dropped out of the picture as publishers. Finally, the book has grown to 264 pages. See my comments there. I continue to enjoy the artistry of these fables. Perhaps I have been reading so many original fables lately that it is a special pleasure to come back to good traditional stories. I read the new fourteen fables. They are a mix of the well known and the less well known. Their main lesson is, as so often in nineteenth-century fable books, that children obey their parents. The new vignettes are good. Some good examples are Two Goats (112), TT (121), FG (180), and WSC (248). The moral to FG advises doubting the things we cannot gain and being happy without them (180). There is a T of C at the beginning, after the commendations of an earlier edition of the book. The binding has separated completely from the interior of the book. The cover features a gilt arrangement of fable animals around the title. Curiously, the price is stamped in gilt on both the cover and the spine.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Fifth editionBy R.S. Sharpe
Note from William Sharpe to Mr. Johnson
No full textNote from William Sharpe to Mr. Johnson, stating his inability to attend S. B. Simmons camp dedication
Portrait of Ian Sharpe and Philip Mead, 1983 [picture] /
No full text(P2192/273); Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an14598483-1
First the forest: conservation, 'community' and 'participation' in South West Cameroon
No full textWestern concern with ‘conserving’ or ‘managing’ the rain forests of Africa has led to the setting up of a number of conservation projects. In such projects the ‘participation’ of the ‘community’ in forest conservation has become the new orthodoxy. However, proposals about local people's participation presume that defining the future of the forest is a straight contest between the alternatives of conservation or forest clearing. Such proposals also presume that the existence of communities is non-problematic. In contrast, this article documents that there is already considerable local debate about forest use and conservation, much of it among those excluded from the formal arena of politics and policy-making. Concern with ‘the environment’ includes concern about the perpetuation of society, and represents a clear continuation of West African village cosmologies focused on the societalisation of space. At the same time, conservation aims of ‘keeping the forest as it is’ have few resonances, since forest people see society itself as an artful, but often problematic, construction in which the conversion of the forest plays a central part. In conclusion, the article suggests that the key to environmental management must be for external agencies to articulate with the interests and values of those who hold a legitimate stake in African forest resources
The structural Sharpe model under t-distributions
No full textIn this paper we consider Sharpe's single-index model or Sharpe's model, by assuming that the returns obtained follow a multivariate t elliptical distribution. Also, given that the returns of the market are not observable, the statistical analysis was made in the context of an errors-in-variables model. In order to analyze the sensibility to possible outliers and/or atypical returns of the maximum likelihood estimators the local influence method [10] was implemented. The results are illustrated by using a set of shares of companies belonging to the Chilean Stock Market. The main conclusion is that the t model with small degrees of freedom is able to incorporate possible outliers and influential returns in the data.diagnostics, t-distribution, errors-in-variables models, portfolios, Sharpe model,
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
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