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Harold's Town and Its Vicinity - Waltham Abbey, Waltham Cross, Cheshunt, and High Beech, Epping ForestWith a view to making future Editions of this Handbook as accurate and comprehensive as possible, suggestions for its improvement are cordially invited. If sent to The Editor, The...

A-B-C of GardeningThe third thing to do is to add to it whatever fertilizer you decide on using. This may be old, well-rotted manure from the cow-yard, if you can get it, for it is the ideal fertilizer for nearly all kinds of plants....

A-B-C of Vegetable GardeningNot everybody has a garden. Some deny themselves the pleasure and the profit of one because they have never had any experience in gardening, and have somehow got the impression that special training is necessary to make a success of the...

Harper's Electricity Book for BoysIf a handy-book of electricity like this had fallen into the hands of Thomas A. Edison when he was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway, or when he was a telegraph operator, he would have devoured it with the...

Harper's Household Handbook: A guide to easy ways of doing woman's workTHE COOK BOOK OF LEFT-OVERS By Helen Carroll Clarke, former instructor in cookery in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and Phoebe Deyo Rulon, former instructor in invalid cookery and dietetics in Bellevue Hospital, New York...

Harper's indoor book for boysThe success of Harpers Outdoor Book for Boys seems to insure a welcome for an indoor handy book, equally practical and comprehensive, which shall show how leisure time indoors can be spent most pleasantly and profitably. When stress of weather,...

DiamondsThe following pages are based on personal observations during two visits to Kimberley, in 1896 and 1905, and on personal researches on the formation and artificial production of diamonds. In 1896 I spent nearly a month at Kimberley, when Mr. Gardner F. Williams, the...

The A B C of RelativityEverybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing, but very few people know exactly what it is that he has done. It is generally recognized that he has revolutionized our conception of the physical world, but his new conceptions...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine - No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. THE TREASON OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. MEMORIES OF MEXICO. THE POOLS OF ELLENDEEN. A WATERSPOUT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. MAURICE TIERNAY,THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SENSITIVE SPIRIT. ESCAPE FROM A MEXICAN...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851The Fourth Volume of Harper's New Monthly Magazine is completed by the issue of the present number. The Publishers embrace the opportunity of renewing the expression of their thanks to the public and the press,...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Benjamin Franklin entered upon his career as a public man when very near the middle of the active portion of his life. His history, therefore, naturally divides itself into two equal portions, each entirely distinct from the other....

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Rodolphus, whatever may have been his faults, was certainly a very ingenious boy. When he was very young he made a dove-house in the end of his father's shed, all complete, with openings for...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II.On the 5th of July, 1789, Howard quitted England to return no more. Arriving at Amsterdam on the 7th, he proceeded by slow stages through Germany and Prussia into the empire of the Czar, which he entered...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. In a late article on Southey, we alluded to the solitary position of Wordsworth in that lake country where he once shone the brightest star in a large galaxy. Since then, the star of...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. It was a glorious October morning, mild and brilliant, when I left Boston to visit Concord and Lexington. A gentle land-breeze during the night had borne the clouds back to their ocean birth-place, and not...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. IIIn bringing the Second Volume of the New Monthly Magazine to a close, the Publishers would avail themselves of the occasion, to express their profound appreciation of the favor with which it has been received,...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II.There is a freshness about the fame and the character of Mr. Irving, no less than about his writings, which enables us to contemplate them with unabated delight. Few men are so identified personally with their literary...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. - NoneIn that rational estimate of true greatness which men are daily becoming more inclined to form, names will yet rank high as those of the benefactors of mankind, which history has too long suffered to...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IVThe person who came in so suddenly to help the boys extinguish the fire under the corn-barn, on the night of the robbery, was Antonio, or Beechnut, as the boys more commonly called him. In...

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVI, July 1852, Vol. VThe Connecticut river flows through the State of Massachusetts, from north to south, on a line about half way between the middle of the State and its western boundary. The valley through which the river...