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Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IIThe summit is easily reached in nine hours, on horseback, the journey having been accomplished in that time by the Translator, in the company of Mr. Stratton, the British Minister, and...

The Search After Hapiness [sic]: A TaleThe persons meant by the Chief of the city and his Sons are the Duke of Wellington the Marquis of Duro and Lord Wellesly the city is the Glass town Henry O'Donell and Alexander Delancy are Captain Tarry-not-at-home...

A Selected Bibliography of Virginia, 1607-1699This bibliography is a modest collection of titles relating to the life of seventeenth-century Virginia in its broadest interpretation. It has been compiled with the need in mind of the general reader and of the student who is just...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 15, October 10, 1840Localities are no less subject to the capricious mutations of fashion in taste, than dress, music, or any other of the various objects on which it displays its extravagant vagaries. The place which on...

English Law and the Renaissance - The Rede Lecture for 1901Were we to recall to life the good Sir Robert Rede who endowed lecturers in this university, we might reasonably hope that he would approve and admire the fruit that in these last years...

The Albigensian HeresyThe interest and importance of the so-called Albigensian Heresy[1] lie in the fact that while it bears "a local habitation and a name," its actual habitation was not local, and its name is misleading. Its origin must be traced back to pre-Christian...

Bastiljin valloitusI. Lukija tutustuu tmn kertomuksen sankariin ja hnen syntymseutuunsa. II. Todistetaan, ett tti ei aina ole yht hyv kuin iti. III. Ange Pitou ttins luona. IV. Kuinka lausevirhe ja kahdeksan kielivirhett saattaa vaikuttaa ihmisen elmn. V. Maalaisfilosofi. VI. Paimenelm. VII. Todistetaan, ett jos...

Jüdische SprichwörterIn der Erkenntnis, da die Anschauungen und die Denkweise, die Sitten und Gebruche, kurz der ganze Charakter eines Volkes nirgends bndiger, deutlicher und nancierter zum Ausdruck kommen als in seinen Sprichwrtern, haben als erste die Parmiographen derartige Sammlungen veranstaltet, von denen und aus...

Beyond These VoicesLady Felicia Disbrowe was supposed to condescend when she married Captain Cunningham of the first Lifesince, although his people lived on their own land, and were handsomely recorded in Burke, there was no record of them before the Conquest, nor even on...

The Clergy and the Pulpit in Their Relations to the People. This excellent translation of the now celebrated work of the Abb Mullois is presented to the American public with every assurance that it will meet with a most cordial welcome. It is a...

Bygone Scotland: Historical and SocialFor a country of comparatively small extent, and with a large proportion of its soil in moor and mountain, histories of Scotland have been numerous and well-nigh exhaustive. The present work is not a chronicle of events in order and...

Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal for Residences, Hotels and InstitutionsThe problem of sewage disposal for a single house differs from the corresponding problem for a city chiefly in two ways: first, because in the city it is becoming, if it has not, indeed, already...

Demoniality; or, Incubi and SuccubiI was in London in the year 1872, and I hunted after old books: They caused me to live in past ages, happy to escape from the present, and to exchange the petty passions of the day for the peaceable...

Väinämöiset: Yksi kokous meijän nykyisten runojain virren-teoista Siit Hnen palavasta Isnmoan-rakkautesta, jolla Hn, Hnen Keisarilliselta Jaloueltansa Suomessa viimen asetetussa Koulun-Toimituksessa, tyskeli soahaksensa itin-kielemme opillisessa tarkoituksessa yls-harjoitetuksi, ja Kouluissamme kytetyksi uskalletaan nyryymmss hartautessa omistoo nit kirjan-lehti, toistukseksi Moamiesten yhteisest suosiosta, ja siit yksinnisest arvoittamisesta ja...

The CubomedusæJelly-fish offer to the lover of natural history an inexhaustible store of beauty and attractiveness. One who has studied them finds within him a ready echo to Haeckels statement that when first he visited the seacoast and was introduced to the enchanted world...

Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 3, Volume 4 (Zoology)The first contribution to the herpetology of the islands of the Pacific Coast of North America of which I have knowledge was, curiously enough, a description of the lizard of Socorro, an island...

Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of AdventureThe only part of my history which I regard as worthy of placing on record is confined to a few months. I was thirty-two years of age at the time, and had thus entered into the very summer...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 14, October 3, 1840We need hardly have acquainted our Irish readers that in the prefixed sketch, which our admirable friend the Burton has made for us, they are presented with the genuine portrait of a piper, and...

Prästgården: En JulhistoriaI matsalen stodo fyra drrar ppna. Till folkstugan, varifrn kksstket trngde in, och dr Bolla, hjlphustrun, redan en stund viskat och vinkat t mamsell Mina. Till salsfrstun, varifrn tuppen och bandhunden ibland lto hra sig, och dr Mats, kusken, msom gjorde miner...

The IntruderShould I go before the judge and say: "I have committed a crime. He would not be dead if I had not killed him. It is I, Tullio Hermil, who am his assassin. I premeditated that assassination in my house. I committed it...