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John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele RisingThe kraal, a large one, surrounded by an oval ring-fence of thorn, contained some seventy or eighty huts. Three or four smaller kraals were dotted around within a mile of it, and the whole lay...

John and Betty's History VisitTwo eager young Americans sat, one on each side of the window of an English train, speeding towards London. They had landed only that morning, and everything seemed very strange to them, as they watched the pretty scenes from the...

John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color WoodcutThis text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set...

John Baring's HouseSitting on the doorstep, Elizabeth Scott leaned her head against the stone wall of the old house. The June twilight was closing in and a hard days work was done. Three meals had been prepared and half of the large garden had...

John Barleycorn It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of...

John Black, the Apostle of the Red River - Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba PrairiesWe are in the habit of referring to the heroic deeds of our fathers, whether English, Scottish, Irish or French, in the struggles they endured and...

John Brown the Hero: Personal ReminiscencesTHE interest attaching to this little book demands from me some notice of its author, and of my indebtedness to him while preparing, twenty years ago, a "Life and Letters of John Brown," which has since become the basis...

John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A CritiqueThe writer of this book is not an iconoclast, neither has he prejudged John Brown. In 1859 the character was impressed upon his attention in a personal way. An older brother, Joseph E. Wilson, was a member of...

John Brown: A Retrospect - Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.I am advised that one of "U.S. Hounds is on my track"; & I have kept myself hid for a few days to let my track get cold. I have...

John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer CollegeIn substance, this address, now for the first time published, was prepared several years ago, and has been delivered in many parts of the North. Its publication now in pamphlet form is due to...

John Brown: Confessions of a New Army CadetNo doubt you have seen, in the highways and byways, a lot of youths in khaki with white bands round their caps. These boys are called cadets, and are usually men home from the front to train...

John Bull on the Guadalquivir - From "Tales from All Countries"I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, be well pleased were any one to insinuate that she were other than an Englishwoman;...

John Bull; Or, The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five ActsThe irresistible broad humour, which is the predominant quality of this drama, is so exquisitely interspersed with touches of nature more refined, with occasional flashes of wit, and with events so interesting, that, if...

John Bull's Other Island Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr Lawrence Doyle and Mr Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most...

John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull)At the Concours Hippique, we noticed a striking fact this year, that nearly all THE people were dressed la Redfern. And also in the Bois, one is not considered at all pschutt in the morning unless habittee...

John Bull, Junior; or, French as She is Traduced It must be that a too free association with American men of letters has moved the author of this book to add to his fine Gallic wit a touch of that preposterousness which is supposed...

John Bunyan and the GipsiesAlthough what is contained in the following pages should explain itself, a few prefatory remarks may not be out of place. In the Scottish Churches and the Gipsies I said that, in regard to the belief about the destiny of...

John Burnet of Barns: A RomanceEntered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED, Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. I have taken in hand to...

John CaldigatePerhaps it was more the fault of Daniel Caldigate the father than of his son John Caldigate, that they two could not live together in comfort in the days of the young man's early youth. And yet it would have been much for...

John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V.These pages are the beginning of a narrative of the personal military experience of John Call Dalton, M. D., Surgeon U. S. V., written during the last year of his life, at the request of his family, and now printed...