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What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound? - the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands - is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so...
Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her father a quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dog was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields, when Spitalfields was prosperous. Her mother was a...
Link Ferris was a fighter. Not by nature, nor by choice, but to keep alive.
The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the case.The inns of the Middle Ages, which, I believe, reeked with...
In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the King's castle lay a great dark...
(In the Garden of the Chapelle Expiatoire)
When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, Amurath to Amurath succeeds; the...
Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is
I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.I...
A young man and an old one sat in the shade of the willows beside the wide, still river. The glare of a hot August sun failed to penetrate the shelter in which they idled; out upon the slow-gliding river it beat relentlessly, creating a pale, thin vapour that clung...
It is the evening before the first of May, and the boys are looking forward to a May-day festival with the children in the neighborhood. Mrs. Chilton read aloud these beautiful lines of Milton:
'Take off that mute, do!' cried Louisa, snatching her fingers from the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist.
MR. PRESIDENT, - I am to speak of the Duel between France and Germany, with its Lesson to Civilization. In calling the terrible war now waging a Duel, I might content myself with classical authority, Duellum being a well-known Latin word for War. The historian Livy...
Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the...
My thanks go to the Editors of The Outlook for permission to reproduce the articles which first appeared in that magazine.
Matthew Gregory Lewis, who professed to have translated this romance out of the German, very much, I believe, as Horace Walpole professed to have taken The Castle of Otranto from an old Italian manuscript, was born in 1775 of a wealthy family. His father had an estate...
It is sometimes treated as an impertinence to revive the personages of one story in another, even though it is after the example of Shakespeare, who revived Falstaff, after his death, at the behest of Queen Elizabeth. This precedent is, however, a true impertinence in...
He best deserves a knightly crest, Who slays the evils that infest His soul within. If victor here,He soon will find a wider sphere. The world is cold to him who pleads; The world bows low to knightly deeds....
A WINTER MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT SPHINX
IN WHICH THE LEADING TRADESMEN OF POINTVIEW BECOME A BOARD OF ASSESSORS
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