) His many works include the first translation of the Kojiki into English ( 1882 ), A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese ( 1888 ), Things Japanese ( 1890 ), and A Practical Guide to the Study of Japanese Writing ( 1905 ).

: Writing in 1905 Walter L. Fleming referred to James T. Rapier, a Negro member of the Alabama constitutional convention of 1867, as " Rapier of Canada.

Writing to his friend Sir George Cooper in August 1849, he stated:

Earlier Prime Ministerial advisers had appeared from time to time in episodes of Yes Minister, including Daniel Moynihan as Daniel Hughes in " The Writing on the Wall " ( 1980 ) and Nigel Stock as Sir Mark Spencer in " Bed of Nails " ( 1982 ).

Key A: Hall ; B: Saloon ; C: Green Writing Room ; L: Red Drawing Room ; M: Green Drawing Room ; N: Grand Cabinet ; H: Library ; J: covered colonnade ; K: Birth Room of Sir Winston Churchill H2: Chapel ; O: Bow room.

Writing After Sidney: the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586 – 1640.

The Leatherhead Drama Festival began in 2004 and is the UK's largest drama festival of its type, in which schools and drama groups from around Surrey and beyond compete each year for the Sir Michael Caine Drama Awards, the Richard Houghton Awards and New Writing Awards.

The postgraduate Master of Arts in Creative Writing, founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970, is regarded as the most respected in the United Kingdom, and admission to the programme is competitive.

Writing in 1850, the British diplomat Sir Henry Charles Sirr described a visit to one of the elephants that had been used by Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last king of Kandy, to execute criminals.

Writing in 1981, Sir Hugh Casson describes the building thus:

Writing in 1549, Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles stated of " Ywst " that it was a fertile country full of high hills and forests on the east coast with five parish kirks.

Writing in 1932, Sir Edward Maufe said: ‘ The ideal has been to produce a design, definitely of our own time, yet in the line of the great English Cathedrals ; to build anew on tradition, to rely on proportion, mass, volume and line rather than on elaboration and ornament.

Writing Coventry's biography in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Philip Chesney Yorke stated that " though Sir William Coventry never filled that place in the national administration to which his merit and exceptional ability clearly entitled him, his public life together with his correspondence are sufficient to distinguish him from amongst his contemporaries as a statesman of the first rank.

" Andrew Green in ' Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories 1915 – 1948 ' ( 2003 ) considered the volumes of the Official History for Gallipoli, the Somme, 3rd Ypres and the German March offensive of 1918 and concluded that Edmonds had been far more objective than others had given him credit for.

The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970.

Writing in 1845, in his book Chromatics, George Field notes ( perhaps erroneously ) that Sir Joshua Reynolds gives the ratio 2: 1 as a rule for the proportion of warm to cold colors in a painting, and attributes to Smith the expansion of that rule to all proportions in painting:

Work on philosophical languages was pioneered by Francis Lodwick ( A Common Writing, 1647 ; The Groundwork or Foundation laid ( or So Intended ) for the Framing of a New Perfect Language and a Universal Common Writing, 1652 ), Sir Thomas Urquhart ( Logopandecteision, 1652 ), George Dalgarno ( Ars signorum, 1661 ), and John Wilkins ( An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 1668 ).

Writing to Sir Horace Mann in May 1770 Horace Walpole asked " What do you think of a winter Ranelagh erecting in Oxford Road, at the expense of sixty thousand pounds ?".

Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann ( born Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 2 June 1907 ; died London, 7 April 1987 ) was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.

Writing for the New York Times shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the Detroit Free Press wrote that " the people of Washington, London, Paris and all points between might have been dancing in the streets " if it were not for " doubts and suspicions " about Soviet intentions.

" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described Uncle Tom's Cabin as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature.

Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".

Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

* Pechenik Citation Style is a style described in A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 6th ed.

Writing in 1941, a newspaper reporter described the colliery as " beautifully landscaped.

Writing in 1684 he described Wigtown as an indifferently, but well-built town with a large, broad street.

Writing in the " Arthur Murray Silver Dance Notebook ", Lauré Haile, who first described " Western Swing ", listed the following songs / records as " Good Swing or Fox Trot Records ":

Writing Culture helped bring changes to both anthropology and ethnography often described in terms of being ' postmodern ,' ' reflexive ,' ' literary ,' ' deconstructive ,' or ' poststructural ' in nature in that the text helped to highlight the various epistemic and political predicaments that many practitioners saw as plaguing ethnographic representations and practices.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

* April 10: Writing again from Monroe, Howard described the situation: " Men galloping about-guns getting ready-wagons being filled and hurrying off, and everybody in commotion.

Writing for Allmusic, John Dougan described the genre's origins:

Writing to Charles I, Wentworth described Ormonde as " young, but take it from me, a very staid head ".

Writing for music website Allmusic, Mark Deming described Vincebus Eruptum as " a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army ", praising the band's " sound and fury " as one of the founding movements of heavy metal.

Writing to Derwent Coleridge, Moultrie's close friend Bonamy Price described the reciprocal influence of these two men.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

Writing in Salon. com, Joyce Millman disputed that Ally McBeal should even be described as a " women's show " -- that its representations of women were, in fact, a male fantasy.

Writing of her Radio 2 debut, Daily Telegraph radio critic, Gillian Reynolds described Feltz's voice as " like lemon tea with honey.

Writing in his 1998 classification, Rice recognized two of the subspecies of the common minke whale-B. a. scammoni ( Scammon's minke whale ) and a further ( taxonomically ) unnamed subspecies found in the Southern Hemisphere to which he gave the common name the dwarf minke whale ( first described by Best, 1986 ).

Writing of the " unusual excitement on the subject of religion " described in the First Vision story canonized by the LDS Church, Milton V. Backman, associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University, said that although " the tools of the historian " could neither verify nor challenge the First Vision, " records of the past can be examined to determine the reliability of Joseph's description regarding the historical setting.