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Harper's Round Table, March 23, 1897Portsmouth, as I remember the place in the days of my early youthsay, somewhere about the years 1844 to 1850was surely the liveliest place, the most full of action, movement, and life, of any in her Majesty's dominions, which...

Harper's Round Table, March 24, 1896Fred March had an idea. It was even a brilliant idea, and the longer he pondered over it, the more certain he was that it was a practical one. "And that, after all, is the important point," as Jack...

Harper's Round Table, March 3, 1896Can you not see the boy of 1775 nowhis sturdy legs encased in stout black stockings, german-silver buckles to his knee-breeches, his hair plaited and tied with a smart black ribbon, and all this magnificence topped by three real...

Harper's Round Table, March 3, 1896, Vol. XVII., No. 853Father limped across the dirt floor of our sod house, and painfully sat down on the edge of his bunk. "Boys," he said, with a little groan, "I guess you'll have to go after that...

Harper's Round Table, March 31, 1896A short distance ahead of them stalked John Coleman, the guide. He was a tall thin man with drooping shoulders, and he carried the Professor's camera, a heavy pick, and a long-handled shovel as if they were no more...

Harper's Round Table, March 9, 1897Tom Rodman was only fifteen years old; but like most Yankee boys of his age, he was pretty quick at getting news. He knew that the French Emperor had declared war against the Germans; he knew that soldiers were...

Harper's Round Table, May 12, 1896Thronged to the gates is the little town of Elis on this the night before the Olympic Games. Here are present not only men of every Grecian city and province, but strange wanderers from the uttermost corners of the...

Harper's Round Table, May 14, 1895aval battles of the civil war have an immense importance, because they mark the line of cleavage between naval warfare under the old and naval warfare under the new conditions. From the days of the defeat of the Spanish...

Harper's Round Table, May 19, 1896It was the critical moment in the famous sham battle of Easter Monday. The bicycle corps was a mile and a half away, and the signal post had been captured by the enemy. Unless the corps could be brought...

Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895orrible though the civil war was, heartrending though it was that brother should fight against brother, there remains as an offset the glory that has accrued to the nation by the countless deeds of heroism performed by both sides...

Harper's Round Table, May 26, 1896The officer of the deck is pacing his last hour of a very dull forenoon watch upon the bridge of the U.S.S. Minneapolis. The tropical sun beats down with unflinching savageness upon his head; his eyes are restlessly scanning...

Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895he battle of Chancellorsville marked the zenith of Confederate good fortune. Immediately afterwards, in June, 1863, Lee led the victorious Army of Northern Virginia north into Pennsylvania. The South was now the invader, not the invaded, and its heart...

Harper's Round Table, May 5, 1896There once lived in New York an Indian warrior by the name of Peter Twenty Canoes. Tommy Ten Canoes lived at Pokanoket, near Mount Hope, on an arm of the Mount Hope Bay. He was not a warrior, but...

Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895ne of the heroic figures of the Revolution was Anthony Wayne, Major-General of the Continental line. With the exception of Washington, and perhaps Greene, he was the best General the Americans developed in the contest; and, without exception, he...

Harper's Round Table, November 10, 1896There was a boy at old Camp Sandy once upon a time when white men were scarce in Arizona, and from the day he was ten years old this boy's consuming desire was to help "clean out," as he...

Harper's Round Table, November 12, 1895There was a crushing sound, and through the alders and tangle of hardback bushes came the old colored man. His face was ashy gray; but he took in the situation in one frightened glance. Without pausing, he threw himself...

Harper's Round Table, November 17, 1896This is how the country people still tell the story of the Tragedy of the Youths, an incident of the time of James VI. of Scotland and I. of England, about forty years before the sailing of the Mayflower...

Harper's Round Table, November 19, 1895When Fred Hallowell graduated from school in the spring of 1893, and passed his final examinations for college, there was every promise that he would have an enjoyable summer vacation followed by four years of pleasant college life. But...

Harper's Round Table, November 24, 1896The Editor of the Round Table has asked me to relate some incident of my life which may be of interest to its readers. Will they permit me to tell them that episode in my life which gives me,...

Harper's Round Table, November 26, 1895But the care he was giving to his boat looked like more serious business than an hour's sport. She is a swift sharpie that he called Villa Clara, after his native town, and she was drawn up on the...