History - General

Charles Frohman: Manager and ManI would rather say a word of the qualities that to his friends were his great adornment than about his colossal enterprises or the energy with which he heaved them into being; his energy that was like a force of...

Church Reform - The Only Means to That End, Stated in a Letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury "To the Right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London. "62, Fleet Street, November 18,1833. "My Lord, "I have...

Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex - with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya GlyphsA number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the...

Curiosities of the American StageThis book, as its name implies, is a series of chapters from the annals of the American Theatre; and it considers Plays and Players more particularly in their less familiar aspects. It does not pretend to be critical; and the...

Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"This republication of Essays which were written several years ago has no reference to any present controversies. Its justification is the fact that strangers and friends in England and America alike had urged me from time to time...

Euphorion - Vol. I - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the RenaissanceFaustus is therefore a parable of the impotent yearnings of the Middle Agesits passionate aspiration, its conscience-stricken desire, its fettered curiosity amid the tramping limits of imperfect knowledge and...

Euphorion - Vol. II - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the RenaissanceReal and Idealthese are the handy terms, admiring or disapproving, which criticism claps with random facility on to every imaginable school. This artist or group of artists goes in...

First Theater in America - When was the drama first introduced in America? An inquiry, including a consideration of the objections that have been made to the stage.The paper here reprinted by the Dunlap Society was read before the New York Historical Society more...

Great Poems of the World War N a fateful day in 1914, without a warning flash or tremor, there fell upon the world such a blast of war as human reason could not have foreglimpsed, nor Apocalyptic vision raised, to appall the souls of...

Histoire anecdotique de l'Ancien Théâtre en France, Tome Premier - Théâtre-Français, Opéra, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre-Italien, Vaudeville, Théâtres forains, etc...Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numeros des...

Histoire Anecdotique de l'Ancien Théâtre en France, Tome Second - Théâtre-Français, Opéra, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre-Italien, Vaudeville, Théâtres forains, etc...Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numeros des...

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 03 (of 15), Spanish AmericanThe 12th of October, 1492, ranks very high among the important dates in the history of the world. For on that day men from Europe, then the centre of civilization, first gazed on...

History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6 General ViewTransition from the Old to the New CivilizationHistorical Sketch of SpainSpanish CharacterSpanish SocietyProminent Features of the AgeDomestic MattersThe New WorldComparative Civilizations and SavagismsEarliest Voyages of Discovery. How...

History of Central America, Volume 2, 1530-1800 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 7 Other archaic letter substitutions include "b" for "v" and "i" for "y" and vice versa. These have been left as printed. Origin and Character of the ConquerorThe Triumvirate...

History of Central America, Volume 3, 1801-1887 - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 8 Popular Feeling in Central AmericaEffect of Events in SpainRecognition of American EqualityRepresentation in the Spanish CrtesDelusive ReformsEnd of Saravia's RulePresident Jos BustamanteHis Despotic CourseDemands in the CrtesConstitutional GuaranteesOfficial...

History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The object of this Preface is to explain the design of the following Lectures, and to enumerate the sources on which they are founded. What is the province and mode of inquiry intended in...

History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant TheologyRationalism is the most recent, but not the least violent and insidious, of all the developments of skepticism. We purpose to show its historical position, and to present, as faithfully as possible,...

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science WHOEVER has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligent classes in Europe and America, must have perceived that there is a great and rapidly-increasing departure from the public religious faith,...

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom My book is ready for the printer, and as I begin this preface my eye lights upon the crowd of Russian peasants at work on the Neva under my windows. With pick and shovel...

A History of Freedom of ThoughtIT is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds...