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The circumstances in which this book came to be written are as follows. Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed in New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon. Samuel J. Elder and Hon. Charles T. Gallagher, both well-known lawyers in Boston. After...
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent classical music figures of the Western world. This German musical genius created numerous works that are firmly entrenched in the repertoire. Except for a weakness in composing vocal and...
When the thing was at its hottest, I bolted. Tom, like the darling he is - (Yes, you are, old fellow, you're as precious to me as - as you are to the police - if they could only get their hands on you) - well, Tom drew off the crowd, having passed the old gentleman's...
A MORAL Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one.
My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is such that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of explanation as to how they came into my possession. Withal, my knowledge of him is so meager that I should rather not undertake to say if he were...
The English Notes which go to make up this Chinese Class book are the result of a game which the President of the Woman's Anglo-Chinese College of Neuchang, China, induced the seven Chinese girls of the graduating class to play during the last six months of their...
When one of the leading publicists in America, Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews, after reading the manuscript of Part I of this volume, characterized the author as The Robinson Crusoe of the Twentieth Century, he touched the feature of the narrative which is at...
Even in college Alfred Hardy was a young man of fixed ideas and high ideals and proud of it.
A deadly feud was raging among the boys of Numedale. The East-Siders hated the West-Siders, and thrashed them when they got a chance; and the West-Siders, when fortune favored them, returned the compliment with interest. It required considerable courage for a boy to...
As China has now fairly taken her place in the family of nations, it is unnecessary to elaborate an argument in support of even the humblest attempt to elucidate her history. It is a subject to which we can no longer remain indifferent, because circumstances are...
This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the...
No new edition of Bulfinch's classic work can be considered complete without some notice of the American scholar to whose wide erudition and painstaking care it stands as a perpetual monument. The Age of Fable has come to be ranked with older books like Pilgrim's...
Within sight of an English port, and within hail of English ships as they pass on to our empire in the East, there is a land where the ways of life are the same to-day as they were a thousand years ago; a land wherein government is oppression, wherein law is tyranny,...
Some twenty and odd years ago there stood a little cabin at the foot of a round hill, that very much resembled a cupola in shape, and which, from its position and height, commanded a prospect of singular beauty. This hill was one of a range that ran from north to...
How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle andHow He Was Driven Thence...
The subject discussed in the following pages is one of great importance, and especially so to the people of this country.The views presented for consideration differ widely from those generally entertained, both as regards the cause of evil and the mode of cure; but it...
1604. De Monts' first landing on Eastern coast. (May 16)
Le navire Est a l'eau; Entends rire Ce gros flot Que fait luire Et bruireLe vieux sire Aquilo....
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