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Scott's Last Expedition, Volume IScott's Last Expedition, Volume I - Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott 1913 Fourteen years ago Robert Falcon Scott was a rising naval officer, able, accomplished, popular, highly thought of by his superiors, and devoted to his noble profession. It was a...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory NotesIn our Life of Dryden we promised to say something about the question, how far is a poet, particularly in the moral tendency and taste of his writings, to...
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Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849I suppose that the history of travelling in this country, from the Creation to the present time, may be divided into four periodsthose of no coaches, slow coaches, fast coaches, railways. Whether balloons, or rockets, or some...
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 - Poems and PlaysThe earliest poem in this volume bears the date 1794, when Lamb was nineteen, the latest 1834, the year of his death; so that it covers an even longer period of...
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Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras, are to be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, at p. 602. of his Handbook for London), in the Musarum Delici, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of "witty trifles,"...
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Master Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's TimeMaster Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's TimeThere was an unwonted buzzing in the east end of Stratford on that next to the last day of April, 1596. It was as if some one had thrust a stick into a hive of bees and they...
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The Crater Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the PacificThe Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the PacificThe reader of this book will very naturally be disposed to ask the question, why the geographies, histories, and other works of a similar character, have never made any mention of the regions and events...
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The Man from Brodney'sThe Man from Brodney'sHe attained the end of a hale old age by tumbling aimlessly into the mouth of a crater on the island of Japat, somewhere in the mysterious South Seas. The volcano was not a large one and the crater, though somewhat...
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Mr. Punch's History of the Great WarMr. Punch's History of the Great WarThough a lover of peace, Mr. Punch from his earliest days has not been unfamiliar with war. He was born during the Afghan campaign; in his youth England fought side by side with the French in the Crimea;...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917The Daily Mail is very cross with a neutral country for holding up their correspondent's copy. If persisted in, this sort of thing might get us mixed up in a war. A Highgate man has...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832Here is one of the ivy-mantled relics that lend even a charm to romantic nature on the banks of the Wye. Its shattered tower and crumbling wall, combine with her wild...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832.The Genesee is one of the most picturesque rivers of North America. Its name is indeed characteristic: the word Genesee being formed from the Indian for Pleasant Valley, which term...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.These venerable ruins stand upon the southern bank of the Tweed, in Roxburghshire. The domestic buildings of the monastery are entirely gone; but the remains of the church connected with,...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 533, February 11, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 533, February 11, 1832 This has been described as "perhaps the most striking imitation we have of the great works of nature:" at all events, it has less of the mimicry of art than...
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Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil WarFriends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil WarMy dear lads: Although so long a time has elapsed since the great civil war in England, men are still almost as much divided as they were then as to the merits of the quarrel, almost...
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An Essay on War, in Blank Verse Honington Green, a Ballad the Culprit, an Elegy and Other Poems, on Various SubjectsAn Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Whoever has read the Preface to the FARMER'S BOY will hardly fail of recollecting the Name of NATHANIEL BLOOMFIELD; the Author of the...
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Morning Bells Or, Waking Thoughts for Little OnesMorning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little OnesMost of the readers of this little book will have already read Little Pillows. Those were given you to go to sleep upon night after night; sweet, soothing texts, that little hearts might rest upon. But in...
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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its DevelopmentInquiries into Human Faculty and Its DevelopmentSince the publication of my work on Hereditary Genius in 1869, I have written numerous memoirs, of which a list is given in an earlier page, and which are scattered in various publications. They may have appeared desultory...
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People of the WhirlpoolPeople of the Whirlpool - From The Experience Book of a Commuter's WifeFebruary 2. Candlemas and mild, gray weather. If the woodchuck stirs up his banked life-fire and ventures forth, he will not see his shadow, and must straightway arrange with winter for a...
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The Barbarism of BerlinThe Barbarism of Berlin Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite...
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