In publishing this poem, the Author feels that some apology is needed. Itdeals with matters of a kind not usually treated in modern verse, andwhich ask to be approached, if at all, with dignity and reverence.More...

Never printed before, | And now published by the Authours | Originall Copies. | _Si quid habent veri Vatum prжsagia, vivam.|London_, | Printed for _Humphrey Robinson_, at the three _Pidgeons_, and for | _Humphrey Moseley_ at the _Princes Armes in St Pauls_.More...

Perhaps the proper title of this article should be "The Influence ofAmerican Enterprise upon the Maritime Development of the first Colonyin Australia," but as such a long-winded phrase would convey, at theoutset, no clearer conception of the subject-matter than that of "The...More...

Вmona was, as his master so frequently told him--accentuating the remarkwith a blow or a kick--only "a miserable kanaka." Of his miserablenessthere was no doubt, for Denison, who lived in the same house as he did,was a daily witness of it--and his happiness.More...

To many people in England the mention of Australia conjures pictures oftented gold-fields and tall, black-bearded, red-shirted bushrangers; ofmounted police recruited from "flaxen-haired younger sons of good oldEnglish families, well-groomed and typically Anglo-Saxon"; of squatters...More...

"There," said Tвvita the teacher, pointing with his paddle to a long,narrow peninsula which stretched out into the shallow waters of thelagoon, "there, that is the place where the battle was fought.More...

The quaint, old-fashioned little town faces eastward to the bluePacific, whose billows, when the wind blows from any point between northand east, come tumbling in across the shallow bar in ceaseless lines offoaming white, to meet, when the tide is on the ebb, the swift current...More...

"Guess I'm getting round," and the big, bronzed-faced man raisedhis eyes to mine as he lay under the awning on the after deck of hispearling lugger. I sat down beside him and began to talk and ultegra di2.More...

"Chinkie's Flat," In its decadence, was generally spoken of, by thepassing traveller, as a "God-forsaken hole," and it certainly didpresent a repellent appearance when seen for the first time, gaspingunder the torrid rays of a North Queensland sun, which had dried up...More...

A writer in the _Sydney Evening News_ last year gave that journal someamusing extracts from the visitors' book at Longwood, St. Helena. If theextracts are authentic copies of the original entries, they deserve tobe placed on the same high plane as the following, which appeared in a...More...

"BULLY" HAYES! Oh, halcyon days of the sixties and seventies, when thePacific was not, as now, patrolled by men-of-war from lonely Pylstaart,in the Friendlies, to the low-lying far-away Marshalls and the corallagoons of the north-west; when the Queensland schooners ran full...More...

A boy and a girl sat by the rocky margin of a deep mountain pool inPonape in the North Pacific. The girl was weaving a basket from theleaves of a cocoa-nut. As she wove she sang the "Song of Luliban," andthe boy listened intently.More...

II. THE MAYNARDS III. THE BRIG _MAHINA_ IV. MR. BILLY WARNER OF PONAPЙ V. VELO, THE SAMOAN, PROPHESIES. VI. IN ARRECIFOS LAGOON VII. ALICE TRACEY VIII. MRS. TRACEY TELLS HER STRANGE STORY IX.More...

I had ridden all day through an endless vista ot ghostly grey gums andironbarks, when I came in sight of the long wavering line of vividgreen foliage which showed me that I had reached my destination--aroughly-built slab hut with a roof of corrugated iron.More...

On a certain island in the Paumotu Group, known on the charts as ChainIsland, but called Anaa by the people themselves, lived a white mannamed Martin Flemming, one of those restless wanderers who range thePacific in search of the fortune they always mean to gain, but which...More...

One by one the riding-lights of the few store-ships and whalers lyingin Sydney Harbour on an evening in January, 1802, were lit, and as theclear notes of a bugle from the barracks pealed over the bay, followedby the hoarse calls and shrill whistles of the boatswains' mates on a...More...

This is a true story of one of Nelson's captains, he of whom Nelsonwrote as "the gallant and good Riou"--high meed of praise gloriously wonat Copenhagen--but Riou, eleven years before that day, performed a deed,now almost forgotten, which, for unselfish heroism, ranks among the...More...

The Governor's brows relaxed somewhat. "Let him come in in ten minutes,Cleary, but tell him at the same time that I am very tired--too tired tolisten unless he has something of importance to say.More...

Captain Ethan Keller, of the _Casilda_ of Nantucket, was in a very badtemper, for in four days he had lost two of the five boats the barquecarried--one had been hopelessly stove by the dreaded "underclip" givenher by a crafty old bull sperm-whale, and the other, which was in charge...More...

Half-way up the side of the mountain which overlooked the waters ofthe little land-locked harbour there was a space clear of timber. Huge,jagged rocks, whose surfaces were covered with creepers and grey moss,protruded from the soil, and on the highest of these a man was lying at...More...

In other works by the present writer frequent allusion has been made,either by the author or by other persons, to Captain Hayes. Perhaps thecontinuous appearance of his name may have been irritating to many ofmy readers; if so I can only plead that it is almost impossible when...More...

This book does not pretend to be a history of Australia; it merely gathersinto one volume that which has hitherto been dispersed through many. Ourstory ends where Australian history, as it is generally written, begins;but the work of the forgotten naval pioneers of the country made that...More...

Early one morning, just as the trade wind began to lift the whitemountain mist which enveloped the dark valleys and mountain slopes ofthe island, Denison, the supercargo of the trading schooner _Palestine_,put off from her side and was pulled ashore to the house of the...More...

Late one evening, when the native village was wrapped in slumber, Temanaand I brought our sleeping-mats down to the boat-shed, and spread themupon the white, clinking sand. For here, out upon the open beach, wecould feel a breath of the cooling sea-breeze, denied to the village...More...

Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamerand myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each hadsailed in a certain Australian coasting steamer more than twenty yearsbefore--he as chief officer and I as passenger; and her shipwreck one...More...

Rнdan lived alone in a little hut on the borders of the big Germanplantation at Mulifenua, away down at the lee end of Upolu Island, andevery one of his brown-skinned fellow-workers either hated or fearedhim, and smiled when Burton, the American overseer, would knock him down...More...

With her white cotton canvas swelling gently out and then softlydrooping flat against her cordage, the _Shawnee_, sperm whaler of NewBedford, with the dying breath of the south-east trade, was sailinglazily over a sea whose waters were as calm as those of a mountain lake.More...

The night was close and stifling, and the dulled bellowing of the surfon the weather side of the island told me that the calm was about tobreak at last, and in another hour or so the thirsty, sandy soil wouldbe drenched with the long-expected rain, and the drooping palms and...More...

A few weeks ago I was reading a charmingly written book by a lady (thewife of a distinguished savant) who had spent three months on Funafuti,one of the lagoon islands of the Ellice Group.More...

As the rising sun had just begun to pierce the misty tropic haze ofearly dawn, a small, white-painted schooner of ninety or a hundred tonsburden was bearing down upon the low, densely-wooded island of Mayou,which lies between the coast of south-east New Guinea and the murderous...More...

A small, squat and dirty-looking trading steamer, with the name_Motutapu_ painted in yellow letters on her bows and stern, lay atanchor off the native village of Utiroa on Drummond's Island in theEquatorial Pacific.More...

"Hallo! young lady, what on earth are you doing here?" and Gerrard bentdown over his horse's shoulder, and looked inquiringly into the face ofa small and exceedingly ill-clad girl of about ten years of age.More...

Brabant's wife was sitting on the shady verandah of her house on thehills overlooking Levuka harbour, and watching a large fore and aftschooner being towed in by two boats, for the wind had died away earlyin the morning and left the smooth sea to swelter and steam under a sky...More...

## Fish Drugging## Вmona and Others## Tom Gerrard## The River Of Dreams## "Five-Head" Creek## Black Bream Of Australia## Chinkie's Flat and Others## John Frewen, South Sea Whaler## Memory Of The Southern Seas## Rнdan The Devil and Others...More...

In that delightful and exciting book, written by Captain Joshua Slocum,and entitled, "Sailing Alone Round the World," there is a part whereinthe adventurous American seaman relates how he protected himself fromnight attacks by the savages by a simple, but efficient precaution.More...

A comparison of Christianity with Muhammedanism or with any otherreligion must be preceded by a statement of the objects with whichsuch comparison is undertaken, for the possibilities which lie in thisdirection are numerous.More...

William Beckford, born in 1759, the year before the accession of KingGeorge the Third, was the son of an Alderman who became twice Lord Mayorof London. His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had thriven by theplantations in Jamaica; and his father, sent to school in England, and...More...

_Mr. Beck, who is one of the leaders of the New York Bar, is the authorof the most widely read article written since the war began, entitled:"The Dual Alliance v. The Triple Entente," which was subsequentlyexpanded into a book, called "The Evidence in the Case," pronounced by a...More...

I have been greatly honoured by your invitation to take the chair onthis interesting occasion. It gives me special pleasure to be able tointroduce to this distinguished audience my friend, Mr.More...

The volume _The Evidence in the Case_ is based upon an article by theHon. James M. Beck, which came into print in the "New York Times" ofOctober 25th. The article in question made so deep an impression withthinking citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that it has been...More...

My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here isthat of Tristan and Queen Iseult; how to their full joy, but to theirsorrow also, they loved each other, and how at last they died of thatlove together upon one day; she by him and he by her.More...

THE following are the circumstances which occasioned the succeedingpages. A gentleman and a friend, requested the writer to assign reasonswhy he should not join the Abolition Society.More...

Recent inquiries into the life of Henry Vaughan have added but little tothe information already contained in the memoirs of Mr. Lyte and Dr.Grosart. I have, however, been enabled to put together a few notes onthis somewhat obscure subject, which may be taken as supplementary to...More...

Since undertaking the translation of Dr. Ludwig Nohl's valuable edition of"Beethoven's Letters," an additional collection has been published by Dr.Ludwig Ritter von Kцchel, consisting of many interesting letters addressed...More...

361. To Herr Grillparzer362. To Herr Probst, Leipzig363. To Schindler364. To Herr von Rzehatschek365. To Prince Trautmannsdorf366. To Count Moritz Lichnowsky367. To Herr Schuppanzigh368.More...

"_Right and wrong are in the nature of things. They are not words andphrases. They are in the nature of things, and if you transgress thelaws laid down, imposed by the nature of things, depend upon it you willpay the penalty_.More...

_It was simply a struggle for fresh air, in which, if the windows could not be opened, there was danger that panes would be broken, though painted with images of saints and martyrs.More...

If amid the storm and stress of your academic career you find anhour's relaxation in perusing the pages of this book, all the travailthat I have suffered in the making of it will be repaid athousandfold.More...

"In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the camp, their very names were soon lost and unrecorded, and here they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed,...More...

The present Editor has had many opportunities of studying the theatre sideof David Belasco. He has been privileged to hear expressed, by this Edisonof our stage, diverse opinions about plays and players of the past, andabout insurgent experiments of the immediate hour.More...

The passengers,--dusty, jaded, crossly annoyed at the need of changingcars,--gathered up their luggage and filed out onto the bare, rooflessstation platform. There, after a look down the long converging rails invain hope of sighting the train they were to take, they fell to glancing...More...

In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is eitherextraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar senseof helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a triflingadditional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any...More...

"What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be,if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter!Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is thetrue location of heaven.More...

The first beams of the sun of August 17, 1777, were glancing down thelong valley, which opening to the East, lets in the early rays ofmorning, upon the village of Stockbridge. Then, as now, the Housatoniccrept still and darkling around the beetling base of Fisher's Nest,...More...

And yet in further conversation I have known a very large number ofthese same somewhat scornful Socialists to admit, "You know, the firstthing that got me started to thinking about Socialism was Bellamy's'Looking Backward.More...

The golden hands of the parlor clock point glimmeringly to an hourafter midnight, and the house is still. The gas is turned almost out,but the flickering of the dying sea-coal fire in the grate fitfullyillumines the forms and faces of two young women, who are seated before...More...

The happiness of some lives is distributed pretty evenly over the wholestretch from the cradle to the grave, while that of others comes all atonce, glorifying some particular epoch and leaving the rest in shadow.More...

Jessie was a practical, energetic young lady, whose blue eyes neverrelapsed into the dreaminess to which that color is subject. Shefurnished the "go" for the club. Especially she furnished the "go" forHenry Long, who had lots of ideas, but without her to stir him up was as...More...

My friend Hammond is a bachelor, and lives in chambers in New York.Whenever we meet on my occasional visits to the city, he insists on myspending the night with him. On one of these occasions we had beenat the opera during the evening, and had witnessed an ovation to a...More...

It is a village street, with great elms on either side, while along themiddle stands another row set in a narrow strip of grassy common, sothat the street and roadway are in reality double.More...

Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzaswhich make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather. His nose hadacquired the shape of a turnip and the complexion of a beet.More...

It is a remark of St. Philip Neri's latest biographer that, "Our Saintwas profoundly convinced that there is in music and in song amysterious and a mighty power to stir the heart with high and nobleemotion, and an especial fitness to raise it above sense to the love...More...

"Well, it is a great mistake," repeated Miss Martin firmly, as she gotup, feeling that the repetition notably strengthened her position. "As Isaid before, no sensible woman should do it.More...

Anecdotes of old times, 275.Angles, their original country, 326.Angodus de Lindsei, 141.Anne, queen, a note on her farthings, 83.Annoy, used as a noun, 43.Anonymous Ravennas, noticed, 462.More...

Admonition to the Parliament, 4. 184.A. (E.) on meaning of Chatterbox, 141.Жgrotus on the monuments of De la Beche family, 341.---- number of the children of Israel, 11.---- petition respecting the Duke of Wellington, 43.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Cann Family--Landholders in Lonsdale South of the Sands--Rotation of the Earth --Nelson and Wellington--Are White Cats deaf?-- Arms in Dugdale's "Warwickshire," &c.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--St. Dominic--"Will" and "shall" --Sir John Fleming--Deal, how to stain--Irish Characters on the Stage--Arms on King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate--Chaucer's Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace--Magistrates wearing their Hats in...More...

MINOR NOTES:--Alleged Cure for Hydrophobia--Epitaph at Mickleton--Charade attributed to Sheridan-- Suggested Reprint of Hearne--Suggestions of Books worthy of being reprinted--Epigram all the Way from Belgium--Derivation of "Canada"--Railway Signals...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Christian Names--Lake of Geneva --Clerical Portrait--Arms: Battle-axe--Bullinger's Sermons--Gibbon's Library--Dr. Timothy Bright --Townley MSS.--Order of St.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Life--"The Boy of Heaven"-- Bells--Captain Ayloff--Robert Johnson--Selling a Wife-- Jock of Arden--Inigo Jones--Dean Boyle--Euphormio-- Optical Query--Archbishop King--Neal's Manuscripts-- Whence the Word "Cossack?More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Passage in Boerhaave--Story of Ezzelin--The Duke--General Sir Dennis Pack--Haveringemere--Old Pictures of the Spanish Armada--Bell Inscription--Loselerius Villerius, &c.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Was Andrew Marvell poisoned?--Anonymous Pamphlet by Dr. Wallis--Mrs. Cobb's Diary--Compass Flower--Nuns of the Hotel Dieu-- Purlieu--Jennings Family--Latimer's Brothers-in- Law--Autobiographical Sketch--Schonbornerus--Symbol...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic Registers--St. Alban's Day--Meigham, the London Printer--Adamsoniana--Canker or Brier Rose-- "Short red, god red"--Overseers of Wills--Lepel's...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--"Wanderings of Memory"-- "Wandering Willie's Tale"--Chapel Sunday--Proud Salopians--George Miller, D.D.--Members of Parliament --Taret--Jeroboam of Claret, &c.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Thirteen an unlucky Number-- Quotations--"Other-some" and "Unneath"-- Newx, &c.--"A Joabi Alloquio"--Illuminations-- Heraldic Queries--John's Spoils from Peterborough and Crowland--"Elementa sex.More...

Minor Queries:--"Seductor Succo"--Anna Lightfoot --Queries from the "Navorscher"--"Amentium haud Amantium"--"Hurrah!" and other War-cries --Kissing Hands at Court--Uniforms of the three Regiments of Foot Guards, temp.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Phillips Family--Engine-а-verge --Garrick's Funeral Epigram--The Rosicrucians-- Passage in Schiller--Sir John Vanbrugh--Historical Engraving--Hall-close, Silverstone, Northamptonshire --Junius's Letters to Wilkes--The Reformer's...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Lord Chatham--Slow-worm Superstition-- Tangiers--Snail Gardens--Naples and the Campagna Felice--"The Land of Green Ginger"--Mugger-- Snail-eating--Mysterious Personage--George Wood of Chester--A Scale of Vowel Sounds--Seven Oaks and Nine...More...

MINOR NOTES:--Lines on the Institution of the Order of the Garter--Old Ship--The Letter "h" in "humble"-- "The Angels' Whisper"--Pronunciation of Coke--The Advice supposed to have been given to Julius III.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Sir Walter Raleigh--Ancient Fortifications: Hertstone, Pale, Brecost--Newton and Somers--Daventry, Duel at--Passage in Burial Service-- "They shot him on the nine-stane rig"--Wardhouse, and Fishermen's Custom there--"Adrian turn'd the bull"--...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Reynolds' Nephew--Sir Isaac Newton--Limerick, Dublin, and Cork--Praying to the West--Mulciber--Captain Booth of Stockport--"A saint in crape"--French Abbйs--What Day is it at our Antipodes?More...

MINOR QUERIES:--The Withered Hand and Motto "Utinam"--History of York--"Hauling over the coals"--Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury--Washington--Norman of Winster--Sir Arthur Aston--"Jamieson the Piper"--"Keiser Glomer"--Tieck's...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Ravilliac--Emblem on a Chimney-piece-- "To know ourselves diseased," &c.--"Pжtus and Arria"--Heraldic Query--Lord Chancellor Steele--"A Tub to the Whale"--Legitimation (Scotland)-- "Vaut mieux," &c.More...

Passage in Virgil--Fauntleroy--Animal Prefixes descriptive of Size and Quality--Punning Devices --"Pinece with a stink"--Soiled Parchment Deeds --Roger Wilbraham, Esq.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--"Terrж filius"--Daughter pronounced Dafter--Administration of the Holy Communion --Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead--A Scrape--"Plus occidit Gula," &c.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--"De la Schola de Sclavoni"--Mineral Acids--Richard Geering--Stipendiary Curates--Our Lady of Rounceval--Roden's Colt--Sir Christopher Wren and the Young Carver--Vellum Cleaning--Dionysia in Boeotia--Poll Tax...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Queries relating to the Porter Family--Lord Ball of Bagshot--Marcarnes--The Claymore--Sir William Chester, Kt.--Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and Great Britain--Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant--Memorial...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--The Words "Cash" and "Mob" --"History of Jesus Christ"--Quantity of the Latin Termination -anus--Webb and Walker Families-- Cawdrey's "Treasure of Similes"--Point of Etiquette --Napoleon's Spelling--Trench on Proverbs--Rings...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Bishop Grehan--Doxology-- Arrow-mark--Gabriel Poyntz--Queen Elizabeth's and Queen Anne's Motto, "Semper eadem"--Bees --Nelly O'Brien and Kitty Fisher--"Homo unius libri"--"Now the fierce bear," &c.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Randall Minshull and his Cheshire Collections--Mackey's "Theory of the Earth"-- Birthplace of King Edward V.--Name of Infants-- Geometrical Curiosity--Denison Family--"Came" --Montmartre--Law of Copyright: British Museum...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Henry Scobell--The Court House --Ash-trees attract Lightning--Symbol of Sow, &c. --Passage in Blackwood--Rathband Family-- Encaustic Tiles from Caen--Artificial Drainage-- Storms at the Death of Great Men--Motto on Wylcotes'...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Monumental Brass at Wanlip, co. Leicester, and Sepulchral Inscriptions in English --Influence of Politics on Fashion--Rev. W. Rondall --Henry, third Earl of Northumberland--"When we survey," &c.More...

MINOR NOTES:--Chair Moving--Epitaph on Politian in the Church of the Annunciation at Florence-- Epitaph in Torrington Churchyard, Devon--The early Delights of Philadelphia--Misapplication of Terms--"Plantin" Bibles in 1600--Ancient Gold...More...

MINOR NOTES:--"Hierosolyma est perdita"--Quaint Inscription in a Belfry--The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah--The Using a Circumstance as a "Peg," or "Nail," to hang an Argument on, &c.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--B. L. M.--Member of Parliament electing himself--"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re"--Jacobite Garters --Daughters taking their Mothers' Names--General Fraser--A Punning Divine--Contango--Pedigree to the Time of Alfred--...More...

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Admissions to Inns of Court-- Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans--Derivation of Britain-- Derivation of the Word Celt--"Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira"-- Cash--"Antiquitas Sжculi Junentus Mundi"--Caves at Settle,...More...

MINOR NOTES:--Materials for a History of Druidism--Domestic Chapels--Ordinary--Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory for 1854--Antiquity of the Word "Snub"--Charles I. at Little Woolford--Coincidence between Sir Thomas...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Spielberg, when built?--"Ded. Pavli"-- Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantleboard: Mantell and Brace--Passage in Job--Provincial Glossaries-- Chadderton of Nuthurst, co.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Barristers' Gowns--"Charta Hen. 2. G. G. n. 2. q."--Albany Wallace--Leslie and Dr. Middleton--Star and Garter, Kirkstall--Shrove Tuesday--"Tarbox for that"-- De Gurney Pedigree--"[Greek: Pistis]," unde deriv.More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Dog-whippers: Frankincense--Atchievement in Yorkshire: Lipyeatt Family--"Waestart"--Rebellion of 1715-- "Athenian Sport"--Gutta Percha made soluble--Arms of Anthony Kitchen--Griesbach Arms--Postage System of the Romans--Three...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--Cabinet: Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckinghamshire-- Bersethrigumnue--Lady Jane Grey--Addison and Watts--Lord Boteloust's Statue by Richard Hayware--Celtic in Devon--...More...

MINOR QUERIES:--"Chintz Gowns"--"Noctes Ambrosianж"--B. Simmons--Green Stockings--Nicholas Kieten--Warwickshire Badge--Armorial--Lord Brougham and Horne Tooke--Rileys of Forest Hill--Fish "Lavidian"--"Poeta nascitur, non...More...

Minor Notes:--Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III.--Copernicus--First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of Parliament--Richard Brinsley Sheridan--Publican's Invitation--Bishop Burnet again!More...

MINOR QUERIES:--"One New Year's Day"--Greek denounced by the Monks--Pliny's Dentistry--J. Farrington, R.A.--Henry Crewkerne of Exeter--Dr. Johnson--Latin "Dante"--Ralph Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent--Major-General Wolfe--Custom at...More...

Minor Queries:--North Sides of Churchyards--Hatfield--Ulrich von Hutten--Simon of Ghent--Boetius--Gloucestershire Gospel Tree--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Anthony Warton--Cardinal's Hat--Maps of London--Griffith of Penrhyn--Mariner's...More...

Minor Queries:--Chantrey's Sleeping Children in Lichfield Cathedral--Viscount Dundee's Ring--Kilkenny Cats--Robert de Welle--Lady Slingsby--God save the Queen--Meaning of "Steyne"--Origin of "Adur"--Colonel Lilburn--French Verses--Our...More...

We this day publish our fifty-second Number. Every Saturday, for twelvemonths, have we presented to our subscribers our weekly budget of "NOTES,""QUERIES," and "REPLIES;" and in so doing, we trust, we have accomplishedsome important ends.More...

Minor Queries:--Quotations wanted--Death of Richard H.--Sir W. Herschel's Observations and Writings-- Swearing by Swans--Automachia--Poa cynosuwides-- Vineyards--Martin, Cockerell, and Hopkins Families--Camden's Poem on the Marriage of the...More...

Minor Queries:--Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry--The Jews' Spring Gardens--Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility--"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"--Whipping by Women--Lжrig--MS.More...

Minor Queries:--Bishops' Lands--The Barons of Hugh Lupus--Can the Queen make a Gentleman?--Plafery--St. John's Bridge Fair--Queries on Costume--Cum Grano Salis--Earl of Clarendon's Daughter, Lucretia--Vandyke's Portrait of Lord Aubigny--Foundation...More...

Minor Queries:--The "Tanthony"--"Beauty Retire"--The Soul's Dark Cottage--Small by Degrees and beautifully less--Musical Plagiarism--Simon Bache--Sir Walter Raleigh--Harrison's Chronology--Aristophanes on the Modern Stage--Drachmarus--Strutt's...More...

Minor Queries:--The Witches' Prayer--Water-buckets given to Sheriffs--A Cracow Pike--Meaning of Waste-book--Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland--Decking Churches at Christmas--Coinage of Germany--Titles of Peers...More...

Minor Notes:--Ayot St. Lawrence Church--Johannes Secundus--Parnel--Dr. Johnson--The King's Messengers, by the Rev. W. Adams--Parallel Passages--Cause of Rarity of William IV.'s Copper Coinage--Burnett--Coleridge's Opinion of Defoe--Miller's...More...

Minor Queries:--Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?-- English Synonymes--Christmas Day--A Coggeshall Job--"Saffron Walden, God help me"--T. Gilburt on Clandestine Marriages--Father Hehl, and Cahagnet-- Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland--Derivation of...More...

Minor Queries:--The Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes-- Writing-paper--Little Casterton (Rutland) Church--The Hippopotamus--Specimens of Foreign English--St. Clare--Dr. Dodd--Hats of Cardinals and Notaries Apostolic--Baron Munchausen's Frozen...More...

Minor Queries:--Lord of Relton--Beatrix de Bradney-- "Letters on the British Museum"--Ballad Editing: The "Outlandish Knight"--Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli--Engraved Portrait-- Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence--...More...

Minor Queries:--Owen Glendower--Meaning of Gig-Hill-- Sir John Vaughan--Quebecca and his Epitaph--A Monumental Inscription--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I.--Comets--Natural Daughter of James II.More...

Minor Notes:--Nonsuch Palace--Ferrar and Benlowes-- Traditions from remote Periods through few Links-- Longevity--Emendation of a Passage in Virgil--Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K.More...

Minor Queries:--Viaggi di Enrico Wanton--Gloucester Alarm--Where is Criston, co. Somerset?-- "There was a Maid of Westmoreland"--Anthony Bridges--Barlaam and Josaphat--"Stick At Nothing" --"Ejusdem Farinж"--Batail--The Knights of Malta...More...

Minor Queries:--Ex Pede Herculem--"To-day we purpose"--"God takes those soonest whom He loves the best"--Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope --Whychcote of St. John's--Meaning of Rechibus-- Family of Queen Katherine Parr--Skort--Religious...More...

Minor Queries:--Villenage--Roman Roads near London--Mrs. Catherine Barton--Sempecta at Croyland --Schmidt's Antiquitates Neomagensis--Roman Medicine-stamps--Sir Harris Nicolas' History of the Royal Navy--Wooden Baldrocks--Thanksgiving-book...More...

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Minor Queries:--Vegetable Sympathy--Court Dress--Dieu et mon Droit--Cachecope Bell--The Image of both Churches--Double Names--"If this fair Flower," &c.--Hugh Peachell--Sir John Marsham--Legend represented in Frettenham Church--King...More...

On a certain brilliant Spring morning in London's City the seed of theStory was lightly sown. Within the directors' room of the AasvogelSyndicate, Manchester House, New Broad Street, was done and hidden away adeed, simple and commonplace, which in due season was fated to yield a...More...

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ACTS xvii. 24, 26. GOD, _that made the world hath made of_ one blood _all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the--bounds of their habitation.More...

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April 4, 1857.--I have changed my sky without changing my mind. I resumethese old notes in a new world. I hardly know of what use they are; butit's easier to stick to the habit than to drop it.More...

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I AN EVENT IN MR. SKELLORN'S LIFE II THE END OF THE SCENE III MR. CANNON IV DOMESTICITY INVADED V MRS. LESSWAYS' SHREWDNESS VI VICTOR HUGO AND ISAAC PITMAN VII THE EDITORIAL SECRETARY VIII JANET ORGREAVE IX IN THE STREET...More...

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At the beginning a misconception must be removed from the path.Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegantaccomplishment, by acquiring which they will complete themselves, andmake themselves finally fit as members of a correct society.More...

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If there is any virtue in advertisements--and a journalist should bethe last person to say that there is not--the American nation israpidly reaching a state of physical efficiency of which the world hasprobably not seen the like since Sparta.More...

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In the evening dimness of old Mrs. Maldon's sitting-room stood theyouthful virgin, Rachel Louisa Fleckring. The prominent fact abouther appearance was that she wore an apron. Not one of thosewhite, waist-tied aprons, with or without bibs, worn proudly,...More...

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Often as I have thought of my old friend "Father Payne," as weaffectionately called him, I had somehow never intended to write about him,or if I did, it was "like as a dream when one awaketh," a vision thatmelted away at the touch of common life.More...

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[Transcriber's note: The source book had no Table of Contents and itschapters were numbered only, not titled. However, its pages hadrunning headers which changed with each chapter.More...

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In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources ofofficial information, the nature of which I am not at liberty to specifyfurther. I have used these freely in such chapters of this book as dealwith recent and contemporary events in Turkey or in Germany in...More...

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I lingered at the window of the garden-room from which Miss Mapp sooften and so ominously looked forth. To the left was the front of herhouse, straight ahead the steep cobbled way, with a glimpse of the HighStreet at the end, to the right the crooked chimney and the church.More...

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To whom can I dedicate this book but to you who were, not only the bestfriend of the man I have written about, but one without whom the bookcould not have been written? It is to you that I owe practically all thematerials necessary for the work: it was to you that Frank left the...More...

_These sermons (which the following pages contain in a much abbreviatedform) were delivered, partly in England in various places and at varioustimes, partly in New York in the Lent of 1912, and finally, as acomplete course, in the church of S.More...

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Almost all the verses in this book have appeared before, themajority of them included in two books, _I Pose_ and _This isthe End_. Messrs. Macmillan, who published these, have been kindin raising no objection to re-publication.More...

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Everyone who has preceded me in this Chair has rendered his thanks infitting terms for the gift which is truly said to be the highest thatIndia has it in her power to bestow. It is the sign of her fullest love,trust, and approval, and the one whom she seats in that chair is, for...More...

_Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world.It is the third of a series of Manuals designed to meet the publicdemand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings.More...

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Our subject to-night consists of two words: psychism--spirituality. Iam going to speak to you on the subjects denoted by these two words,because there is so much confusion about them in ordinaryconversation, in ordinary literature, and out of that confusion much...More...

When undertaking to prepare a new edition of this book I receivedpermission from the authors to "throw it into the form in which you thinkit would be most useful at the present time.More...

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VI. NANT (AVEYRON) VII. MILLAU (AVEYRON)VIII. FROM MENDE TO ST. ЙNIMIE IX. ST. ЙNIMIE X. THE CAСON OF THE TARN XI. SHOOTING THE RAPIDS XII. LE ROZIERXIII. MONTPELLIER-LE-VIEUX XIV.More...

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Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all thetime. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They arefar more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are moreinterested in them.More...

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WITH PRIDE IN THEIR WORK, FAITH IN THEIR FUTURE AND AFFECTION FORTHEMSELVES, AN OLD WRITER DEDICATES THIS BOOK TO HIS YOUNG FRIENDS ANDPUPILS, GEORGE STERLING AND HERMAN SCHEFFAUER.More...

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A beautiful young woman? That is exactly what Billy Magee wanted to knowas, closing the waiting-room door behind him, he stood staring justinside. Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric wasagonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour?More...

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In the preparation of this, and of the preceding volumes, of Travels inthe South of Europe, in South America, and in Africa; as well as in theBiographical Conversations on Celebrated Voyagers and Travellers, it hasbeen the design of the author, by a detail of anecdotes of extraordinary...More...

I had seen and heard little of Hartman since our college days. There hewas counted a youth of eminent promise: after that I knew that he hadtraveled, written something or other, and practised law--or professedit, and not too eagerly: then he had disappeared.More...

Twenty-two years ago the enterprise of Horace Marshall & Son produceda series of small books known as "The Story of the Empire Series."These volumes rendered a great service in bringing home to thecitizens of the Empire in a simple and intelligible form their...More...

(1) _The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq., Poetical, Controversial, and Political_: containing many Original Letters, Poems, and Tracts never before printed, with a New Life.More...

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The coast line of the south of Norway is very irregular. This is thework of the mountains and rivers. The former end in hillocks andheadlands, off which often lie islands; the latter have dug out valleysand end in fjords or smaller inlets.More...

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The object of this book is to explain the modern systems of Book andNewspaper Illustration, and especially the methods of drawing for whatis commonly called "process," on which so many artists are now engaged.More...

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Albeit he is an ancient bird, who tried his pipe in better days, and then was scared by random shots, he is fain to lift the migrant wing once more towards the humble perch, among the trees he loves.More...

When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago ormore, I lost my best and truest friend in a very sad and mysterious way.The greater part of my life has been darkened by this heavy blow andloss, and the blame which I poured upon myself for my own share in the...More...

Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriberto six publications issued each year. The annual membership feeis $2.50. Address subscriptions and communications to the AugustanReprint Society in care of the General Editors: Richard C.More...

A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCECHAPTER I. GAUL.CHAPTER II. THE GAULS OUT OF GAUL.CHAPTER III. THE ROMANS IN GAUL.CHAPTER IV. GAUL CONQUERED BY JULIUS CAESAR.CHAPTER V. GAUL UNDER ROMAN DOMINION.More...

XVI. Reveries XVII. The Accepted Suitor XVIII. A White World XIX. Breaking Down XX. The Shadow XXI. Danger Ahead XXII. A Catastrophe XXIII. At Last XXIV. 'Bring Home the Bride so Fair!More...

"Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is wisdom."So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among those who have earned theworld's gratitude by this ministration he must be accorded aconspicuous place.More...

The sun does arise,And make happy the skies;The merry bells ringTo welcome the Spring;The skylark and thrush,The birds of the bush,Sing louder aroundTo the bells’ cheerful sound;While our sports shall be seenOn the echoing green.More...

Edna did not like that word opportunity; it always seemed to her thatit meant something unpleasant. She had noticed that when pleasantthings came along they were rarely spoken of as "opportunities," butwere just _happenings_.More...

"I mean that grandma wants us all to spend an old-fashioned Thanksgivingwith her; the kind she used to have when she was young. She says sheand grandpa are both getting old and they may not be able to have thewhole family there together again.More...

It had stopped raining; Molly made quite sure of it by looking into thelittle puddles upon the walk. At first she thought there were dropsstill falling upon them, but it was only the wind which ruffled thesurface.More...

Myцhддn erддnд iltana marraskuussa v. 1816 muuan keski-ikдinen miesenemmдn hiipi kuin asteli Nybron satamalaiturilla Tukholmassa, taluttaenkдdestд pientд poikaa, joka nдytti noin kahdeksan vuotiaalta.More...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servantwho cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who hadattended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling aboutthe room since eight o'clock in the hope of awakening him.More...

Al verse en la ancha escalera de mбrmol rojo, envuelto en el silencio deaquel caserуn vetusto y seсorial, experimentу el bienestar voluptuosodel que entra en un baсo tras un penoso viaje.More...

LUIS AGUIRRE had been living in Gibraltar for about a month. He hadarrived with the intention of sailing at once upon a vessel bound forOceanica, where he was to assume his post as a consul to Australia.More...

The morning of that day--it was a Tuesday of the Lenten season--couldnot have dawned more promisingly. The sea, off the Cabaсal, was in flatcalm, as smooth as a polished mirror. Not the slightest ripple broke theshimmering triangular wake that the sun sent shoreward over the lifeless...More...

There are three cathedrals which I think will remain chief of theSpanish cathedrals in the remembrance of the traveller, namely theCathedral at Burgos, the Cathedral at Toledo, and the Cathedral atSeville; and first of these for reasons hitherto of history and art,...More...

Finding himself on the broad, red-marble staircase in the silence ofthat ancient mansion, of such princely magnificence, he experienced thesudden sense of comfort and wellbeing that a traveler feels on plunginginto a bath after a tedious journey.More...

The word _maja_ has no exact equivalent in English or in any of themodern languages. Literally, it means "bedecked," "showy," "gaudilyattired," "flashy," "dazzling," etc., and it was applied at the end ofthe eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth to a...More...

Who have stood behind the armies of the Allies through the years of theGreat War as an unswerving second line of defense against an onslaughtupon the liberty and civilization of the world, I dedicate this volume.More...

[Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour soloudly, both in print and private letters--"Show us thewonder-working 'Brothers,' let them come out publicly--and we willbelieve in them!More...

Occultism is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic orintellectual, though both are its servants. Neither is occultism thepursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step issacrifice, the second, renunciation.More...

I have omitted to notice the route to this place, having formerlydescribed the greater portion of it. I remarked a considerableimprovement in the different towns we passed through: the people lookcleaner, and an air of business has replaced the stagnation that used...More...

The following Narrative is only a part of a voyage undertaken for thepurpose of conveying the Bread-fruit Tree from the South Sea Islands tothe West Indies. The manner in which this expedition miscarried, withthe subsequent transactions and events, are here related.More...

The Apocalypse should be regarded as a peculiarly interesting portion ofscripture: a blessing being promised those who read, hear, and keep thethings which are written therein. It has been subjected to so manycontradictory interpretations, that any attempt to comprehend its meaning...More...

Hermes, the guide of the dead, brings to Pluto's kingdom their psyches,"that gibber like bats, as they fare down the dank ways, past thestreams of Okeanos, past the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, tothe meadow of asphodel in the dark realm of Hades, where dwell the...More...

"THE BIRD AND INSECTS' POST-OFFICE" was projected and written by ROBERTBLOOMFIELD, author of the "Farmer's Boy," &c., excepting Letters VIII.,X., XI., and XVI. by his eldest son, Charles.More...

LONDON:Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultryand sold by T.C. Rickman, 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone-Street;Ingram, and Dingle, Bury; Booth, Norwich; Hill, Edinburgh;Archer, and Dugdale, Dublin.More...

A man of the first eminence, in whose day (fortunately perhaps for me) Iwas not destined to appear before the public, or to abide the Herculeancrab-tree of his criticism, Dr. Johnson, has said, in his preface toShakspeare, that--"Nothing can please many, and please long, but just...More...

I had never before attended the races. "The sport of kings" is notpopular in Boston, my former home, but here in Chicago every one turnsout on Derby Day, if at no other time. And so, catching something ofthe general enthusiasm, my friend Murray Jameson, who by the way is...More...

Page 49. In addition to the list of churches containing presumed vestigesof Anglo-Saxon architecture, Woodstone Church, Huntingdonshire, andMiserden Church, Gloucestershire, may be enumerated.More...

These essays, written for the _Fortnightly Review_ in the summer andautumn of 1881, were intended as first sketches only of a maturer workwhich the author hoped, before giving finally to the public, to completeat leisure, and develop in a form worthy of critical acceptance, and of...More...