Arthur George: 102 books

Book cover of The History and Romance of Crime: Chronicles of Newgate from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century (Complete)
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The combat with crime is as old as civilization. Unceasing warfare is and ever has been waged between the law-maker and the law-breaker. The punishments inflicted upon criminals have been as various as the nations devising them, and have reflected with singular fidelity their temperaments or development....
Book cover of The Shahnama of Firdausi: Volume III
by Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book cover of The Shahnama of Firdausi: Volume VII
by Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book cover of The Shahnama of Firdausi
by Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book cover of The Shahnama of Firdausi: Volume V
by Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book cover of The Shahnama of Firdausi
by Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book cover of The History and Romance of Crime: Italian Prisons
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

A prison of great antiquity still exists in Rome and claims precedence in date over St. Angelo. This is the Mamertine Prison, situated just below the Capitol and on the way to the Forum, in which by common tradition St. Peter was confined A.D. 62. The pillar to which he is said to have been chained is...
Book cover of The History and Romance of Crime: Russian Prisons
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

A definite movement toward judicial reform began in Russia in the early sixties. The old law courts with their archaic procedure and evil repute as sinks of bribery and corruption were abolished. Trial by jury was revived, and justices of the peace were established to dispose of the smaller criminal...
Book cover of The History and Romance of Crime: Non-Criminal Prisons
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

THE three principal prisons in London in the fourteenth century were the Fleet, the King’s Bench and the Marshalsea, but Newgate took precedence in interest because identified with its earliest history. All have their peculiar histories full of interesting associations, replete with memories of famous...
Book cover of Mysteries of Police and Crime
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014

Book cover of The History and Romance of Crime: Prisons Over Seas
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It will hardly be denied after an impartial consideration of all the facts I shall herein set forth, that the British prison system can challenge comparison with any in the world. It may be no more perfect than other human institutions, but its administrators have laboured long and steadfastly to approximate...
Book cover of New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor
by Arthur George Crandall
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

When the young business man or girl stenographer who has grown up in one of the innumerable thriving towns or cities of the broad Mississippi Valley, scans the morning paper on the way to the daily task and reads of the incidental happenings duly chronicled as New England News, there may perhaps be a...
Book cover of The History and Romance of Crime: Oriental Prisons From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from generation to generation and become not only a tradition but an established fact, is accepted as such by the people, who display only a passive indifference to deeds of cruelty and violence....
Book cover of The Shahnama of Firdausi
by Arthur George Warner, Edmond Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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