Biography & Autobiography
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Famous Scots Series, 1Thomas CarlyleOf the writing of books on Carlyle there is no end. Why, then, it may pertinently be asked, add another stone to the Carlylean cairn? The reply is obvious. In a series dealing with famous Scotsmen, Carlyle has a rightful claim to a...
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Reminiscences, 1819-1899Reminiscences, 1819-1899Julia Ward Howe. FROM SUNSET RIDGE: Poems Old and New. 12mo, $1.50. REMINISCENCES. With many Portraits and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $2.50. IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE? and other Essays. With a Portrait of Mrs. Howe. Square 8vo, $1.50. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. Boston...
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My First Summer in the SierraMy First Summer in the SierraThe total height of the three falls is 2600 feet. The upper fall is about 1600 feet, and the lower about 400 feet. Mr. Muir was probably the only man who ever looked down into the heart of the...
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Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)The present volume bears the name of Margaret Fuller simply, because it is by this name that its subject is most widely known and best remembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage; but this later style and title were borne...
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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3)The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) - 1859-1880 This description extends in truth much beyond the session of a given year to the whole existence of the new cabinet, and through a highly important period in Mr. Gladstone's career. More...
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Woman: in all ages and in all countries, Volume 3Women of Early ChristianityWhen the historian has described the rise and fall of empires and dynasties, and has recounted with care and exactness the details of the great political movements that have changed the map of continents, there remains the question: What was the...
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Reminiscences: The Story of an EmigrantReminiscences: The Story of an EmigrantTranscribers Note: Most variations in hyphenation, capitalization, and spelling have been retained as in the original. Spelling errors have been corrected when most occurrences of the word in question are correct. Obvious typos have been amended. All amendments are...
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Ten Girls from HistoryTen Girls from HistoryAs in the Ten Boys from History, so in this companion volume, the plan has been to call attention to the lives of girls who achieved some noteworthy success during youth, and in whose character courage was the dominant trait. Many...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10)Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) - Michelagnolo to the FlemingsWhile the most noble and industrious spirits were striving, by the light of the famous Giotto and of his followers, to give to the world a proof...
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Woman: in all ages and in all countries, Volume 1Greek Women ASPASIA After the painting by Henry Holiday. Aspasia was born in Miletus. At an early age, accompanied by another young girl, Thargelia, she went to Athens. Their beauty and talents soon won them distinction--Thargelia married a king of Thessaly, and Aspasia married...
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A Letter to a Gentleman in the Country, from His Friend in LondonA Letter to a Gentleman in the Country, from His Friend in London - Giving an Authentick and Circumstantial Account of the Confinement, Behaviour, and Death of Admiral Byng, as Attested by the Gentlemen Who Were PresentIII. A further Address to the Publick; containing...
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Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can ReadStories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can ReadThe history of the United States is full of the names of heroes. They stand out like the stars on our flag. It is not our purpose to [iv]boast. The world has had its heroes in...
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The Indian CaptiveThe Indian Captive - A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of north-western AmericaThe following brief narrative of the unparalleled adventures of MATTHEW BRAYTON is compiled for the satisfaction of those who...
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Julio Diniz (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) Esboço BiographicoJulio Diniz (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) Esboço BiographicoAo cmoro do athleta, que cahiu fulminado pela morte, no deixaro d'ir, em piedosa romagem, com as flores da saudade, os que mais d'uma vez lhe viram lampejar as armas impollutas ao sol da gloria litteraria. um...
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Vers IspahanVers IspahanQui veut venir avec moi voir Ispahan la saison des roses, consente au danger des chevauches par les sentiers mauvais o les btes tombent, et la promiscuit des caravansrails o l'on dort entasss dans une niche de terre battue, parmi les mouches et...
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Rulers of India: Lord CliveRulers of India: Lord CliveOrme's History of Indostan (original edition); The Siyaru-l Muta-akherin of Ghulm Husain Khn (Review of Modern Times), translated copy; Cambridge's War in India (containing the Journal of Stringer Lawrence); The Memoir of Dupleix (in French); Grose's Voyage to the East...
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Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.DMemoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.IT has been a sad but not entirely unpleasant duty to prepare, at the request of the Maryland Historical Society, a brief memoir of one of our earliest and most distinguished Honorary Members, the late Jared Sparks, LL.D. The duty,...
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Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer InfantryCompany K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry - Roster and Record, April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865At the last annual reunion of the association of the survivors of the 20th Illinois Regiment, held in Chicago September 8, 1893, I was assigned the duty of preparing...
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10)Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) - Bastiano to Taddeo ZuccheroWhen Pietro Perugino, by that time an old man, was painting the altar-piece of the high-altar of the Servites at Florence, a nephew of Giuliano and Antonio...
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The Memoirs of Madame Vigée LebrunThe Memoirs of Madame Vigée LebrunMadame Lebrun brought out her Memoirs at the suggestion of her friend, the Princess Dolgoruki, in 1835. The authoress was born in 1756, at Paris, where she died in 1842. She was the daughter of Louis Vige, an obscure...
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