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The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920WITH these notes we introduce the first number of the London Mercury. It might, beyond denial, appear in more tranquil and comfortable days. We have just been through a crisis which has brought...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 - Volume LVBoth the interest and the importance of the subject make it worth while to follow out every clew that may lead to the approximate determination of the age of Niagara Falls. During this past season, in...

The Children's Book of Thanksgiving StoriesThe success of "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories" has encouraged the Editor to hope that a similar collection of stories about Thanksgiving would prove useful to parents, librarians, and teachers, and enjoyable to children. Like the former book,...

Nuggets of the New Thought: Several Things That Have Helped People I do not like writing a prefaceit seems too much like an apology. I have no special apology to tender for offering this collection of New Thought nuggets. They may possess no literary...

Astronomy for Young FolksAstronomy, it has been said, is the oldest and the noblest of the sciences. Yet it is one of the few sciences for which most present-day educators seem to find little, if any, room in their curriculum of study for the...

The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking PeopleII. The origin and form of the suggested alliance between England and the United States48 I. How the suggestion arose.48 II. The indefiniteness of the form of the proposed Alliance..55 Definition of co-operation, alliance, union,...

Beautiful FernsAdiantum pedatum:Root-stock creeping, scaly, and copiously rooting; stalks scattered, a foot or more high, dark-brown and polished, forked at the top; fronds six to fifteen inches broad, membranaceous, smooth, spreading nearly horizontally, composed of several (six to fourteen) slender divisions radiating from the...

The EnchiridionThe little book by Epictetus called Enchiridion or manual has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy. As soon as it had been translated into the vernacular languages, it became a bestseller among independent intellectuals, among...

P. T. Barnum's MenagerieTrixie hugged his right arm tight, as usual, Gay kept fast hold of his left hand, while Tom was so anxious to miss no part of the show that he did not know that he was walking so clumsily as to...

Frey and His WifeIt's hard to tell why men could not get along with Ogmund Ravensson; but so it was, and something must be said about it. He was of thrall-origin, it is true, for Raven, his father, who became very rich and lived...

The Life of Francis ThompsonThe 16th of December 1859 was the day, 7 Winckley Street, a box of a house in a narrow road, the place of Francis Joseph Thompson's birth. He was the second son of Charles Thompson and his wife, Mary Turner...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 2, 1895On the opposite side of the room, with his brave old back against the wall, stood my dear father, his arms tightly bound to his sides, and a cummerbund tied firmly over that mouth which...

"Farewell"I am an orphan. My father, who was a curate in the Church of England, died when I was sixteen years of age, leaving me totally unprovided for. I need not trouble the reader with the vicissitudes of fortune which left me, when I...

In the Heart of the Christmas PinesA ruined mill with dripping eaves, a grinding shudder of brakes, and the train halted. With quick interest in her eyes, the traveler alighted, but outside on the sodden village platform her interest fled panic-stricken in an overpowering...

Salvador of the Twentieth CenturyWhile it is quite reasonable to hope for a consistent improvement among the Central American nations, and as easy to discern the extent of amelioration which has already occurred, it is necessary to bear in mind some of the causes...

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those...

The Whirl: A Romance of Washington SocietyFew men have the goal of their ambition in sight at thirty-eight years of age. But Sir Percy Carlyon had, when he was appointed First Secretary of the British Embassy at Washington, with a very well-arranged scheme worked...

The Rise of the Russian EmpireWith the exception of a translation of Rambauds somewhat disjointed work, there is no detailed history of Russia in the English language at all approaching modern standards. The reigns of Petr the Great and of some of his successors...

Boris the Bear-HunterThe moment at which I propose to introduce my readers to Boris the Bear-Hunter came very near, as it happened, to being the last which my hero was destined to spend upon this earth. Great hunter as Boris was, there is no...

Letters from SwitzerlandClimbing the UtlebergFat woman on a donkeyFirst Alpine viewThe valley, lake and hillsHaunts of Lavater, Zimmerman, Klopstock, GessnerThe work of EscherComing DownBaur HotelLake ZurichLake ZugGoldaLand-sideRuinAscent of the RigiThe best routeChapels by the wayMary of the SnowConvent and monksThe SummitThe CompanyChange of TemperatureSunsetSupperNightSunriseGlory...