Biography & Autobiography
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William the Conqueror and the Rule of the NormansWilliam the Conqueror and the Rule of the NormansSince the current of barbarian immigration which overthrew the civilisation of Rome in the West, probably no national movement of the kind has more profoundly affected the general course of history than the expansion of Scandinavia...
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The History of ChristianityThe History of Christianity - Consisting of the Life and Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth; the Adventures of Paul and the Apostles; and the Most Interesting Events in the Progress of Christianity, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. THE author of this...
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Irvin Cobb, His Book:Irvin Cobb, His Book: - Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXVIt is not for me to indicate when the big events in his life will occur or to...
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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan BoyA Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy - Sent from the workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at seven years of age, to endure the horrors of a cotton-mill, through his infancy and youth, with a minute detail of his sufferings, being the first...
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Elf Jahre Gouverneur in Deutsch-SüdwestafrikaElf Jahre Gouverneur in Deutsch-SüdwestafrikaGehe hinaus in die Welt, mein Buch, du Ergebnis vieler Arbeitsstunden, aber auch die Freude meiner Muezeit. Du sollst meinen Mitbrgern einen Einblick in elf Jahre deutscher Kolonialpolitik geben, vielfach von Erfolgen gekrnt, aber auch von Rckschlgen begleitet sowie mit...
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the OrganJohann 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...
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Myself When Young: ConfessionsMyself When Young: ConfessionsIF the majority of ones friends live in Kensington and Bloomsbury, and if one is fond of going out to parties in the evening, then one should live somewhere midway between these two extremities of charm and culture. With the acceptance...
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Vagabond AdventuresVagabond AdventuresRALPH KEELER. BOSTON: FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1870. {ii} Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, BY RALPH KEELER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. TO My old Friend...
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My Musical LifeMy Musical LifeBecause of you my disappointments have been cut in half and my happinesses made double, and if I have made known to you the wondrous muse of music, you in turn have brought into our home and given a permanent abiding place...
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Throne-MakersThrone-MakersSince 1789 every European people has been busy making a throne, or seat of government and authority, from which its ruler might preside. These thrones have been of many patterns, to correspond to the diversity in tastes of races, parties, and times. Often, the...
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Memoir of a BrotherMemoir of a BrotherThis Memoir was written for, and at the request of, the near relatives, and intimate friends, of the home-loving country gentleman, whose unlooked-for death had made them all mourners indeed. Had it been meant originally for publication, it would have taken...
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Lives of Famous Indian ChiefsLives of Famous Indian Chiefs - From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories...
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The Life of Bismarck, Private and PoliticalThe Life of Bismarck, Private and Political - With Descriptive Notices of His AncestryThe life of Count Bismarck has been so much misinterpreted, by interested and disinterested persons, that it is thought the present publication, which tells a plain unvarnished tale, will not be...
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Memoir of the Life and Services of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Baronet, K.C.BMemoir of the Life and Services of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Baronet, K.C.B.In dedicating to you the Memoir of which I have been permitted to be the Editor, I cannot but feel how inadequate the portrait, which I have been endeavouring to sketch, must...
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From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their ArtFrom Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art[Pg 3] I INTRODUCTION THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC However interesting may be the study of an art through the personalities of the artists who have produced it, and such study, since art is...
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Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, lady companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Volume 2 (of 2)Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, lady companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Volume 2 (of 2) - with extracts from her journals and anecdote booksPrincess Charlotte having had a long discussion with respect to residence in Holland, of which all the papers were...
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An Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline HallAn Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline HallDear Peggy: As I tell you this story of the noble grandmother who, dying long before you were born, would otherwise be to you a picture of the imagination, I am going to let the public listen,...
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What I Remember, Volume 1What I Remember, Volume 1 BY THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I SECOND EDITION LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1887 {iv} Richard Clay and Sons, london and bungay. {v} OMNIBUS WICCAMICIS T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE...
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The Romantic ComposersThe Romantic Composers[Pg 2] [Pg 3] I INTRODUCTION ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC Historians of music are accustomed to speak of the first half or three-quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven, including Schubert,...
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Pioneers of progress. Men of scienceThe Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos)The title-page of this book necessarily bears the name of one man; but the reader will find in its pages the story, or part of the story, of many other Pioneers of Progress. The crowning achievement of anticipating...
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