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Johann Sebastian Bach : The story of the boy who sang in the streetsThis house stands in the town of Eisenach in Germany. It looks very much the same today as it did when Sebastian was a little boy. Many people go there to...

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work Many years ago I determined to give the public an account of the life of Johann Sebastian Bach, with some reflections upon his genius and his works. The brief article by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach4 and...

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the OrganWe have seen to what an early period of Bach's life his first free compositions revert; perhaps of still earlier origin are the works which the Chorales inspired in him. Liturgical in character, and...

Johanna d'Arc: Kertomus hänen elämästään ja marttyrikuolemastaanSaadaksemme oikean mielipiteen etevst historiallisesta henkilst, tulee hnt arvostella oman aikansa nkkannalta, ei nykyajan. Monen jaloimmankin henkiln luonne nytt vhemmn ansiokkaalta, kun myhempin aikakausien tutkimus esitt hnen tekonsa selvemmss valossa, mutta tuskin on nelj-, viisisataa vuotta sitten ollut...

Johannes KalvinOli elokuu vuonna 1536 Geneven kaupungissa, kauniin Sveitsin alppijrven lounaiskolkassa. Sinne oli saapunut matkustaja, joka aikoi Baseliin ja poikkesi majataloon yksi. Hnen tarkotuksensa oli jo seuraavana aamuna jatkaa matkaansa, Vaikka vasta 27-vuotias, oli hn jo kuuluisa kirjailija ja hnen nimens senthden laajalti tunnettu...

Johdanto Suomen kirjallishistoriaanTieteiden sislt ei voida johdantoin kautta iknkun edeltksin nytt tahi ulkoapin kertoa, millainen se on. Se opitaan ja ksitetn ainoasti kunki tieteen tydellisest esityksest ja kokonaisesta menosta alusta loppuun asti. Toista oikotiet tieteiden tuntemiseen ei lydy. Jo yleinen tapa johdannoilla varustaa suurempia...

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...