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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 - Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899In our dreams we are taken back into an earlier world. It is a world much more like that of the savage, the child, the criminal, the madman, than is the world...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900 - Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900Geometry became a science long ago, zology much later, medicine only a generation or two ago, and the history of man is but just being developed into a science. What was...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, August 1899 - Volume LVThe Comptroller of the City of New York deserves the thanks of all good citizens for his serious indictment of the abuses of public charity that have grown up in this city and State within the...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 - Volume LIV, No. 2, December 1898In 1880 it happened to fall to me to make a forecast of the very great reduction in the price of wheat in Great Britain, which could then be predicated on the...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1899 - Vol. LVI, November, 1899 to April, 1900Those who do pioneer work in science encounter not only the inherent difficulties of research and interpretation, but also the misapprehension of certain educated men whose distinctive gift is a fatal...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 - Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899A PLEA FOR THE CULTIVATION OF TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, VINES, AND GRASSES IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH, FOR THE COMFORT OF SUMMER RESIDENTS, AND...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1900 - Vol. 56, November, 1899 to April, 1900The advances in science lead to hopes of the sudden accumulation of gold, just as the discovery of new worlds led our ancestors to invest in many inflated enterprises of commerce...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899 - Volume LIV, No. 3, January 1899The earliest nomadic stage of mankind has left traces in many of the colonies. The first age of French Canada, of New York, of great part of North America, was one of...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1900 - Vol. 56, November, 1899 to April, 1900One of the most remarkable chapters in the astronomy of the past century was commenced on the very first night with which that century began. It was, indeed, on the 1st...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 - Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899The popular mind persists in thinking that there is a wide difference between science and knowledge in general. Yes, there is a wide difference, but it is just the difference that there...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 - Volume LVBoth the interest and the importance of the subject make it worth while to follow out every clew that may lead to the approximate determination of the age of Niagara Falls. During this past season, in...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 - Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899Perhaps there is no civilized institution to which, man has accommodated himself with so ill a grace as monogamy. Hardly a perversion of it has ever existed but may still be found....

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1900 - Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900The experiments which have been intentionally or accidentally made in transplanting organic species from the countries in which they have been developed to others of diverse soil, climate, and inhabitants are...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May 1899 - Volume LV, No. 1, May 1899Hardly two years ago the names Dawson and Klondike were entirely unknown to the outside world, and geographers were as ignorant of their existence as was at that time the less learned...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900 - Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900The circumstance which renders the coming total eclipse of the sun, on May 28, 1900, of special significance to thousands of people who might otherwise entirely overlook the occasion is the...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 - Volume 54, November 1898The controversies over the question of the origin of Central American culture are to be again awakened by the exploration organized under the direction of the American Museum of Natural History through the liberality...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1899 - Volume LVI, No. 1Much has been written of late about "the real problems of democracy." According to some "thinkers," they consist of the invention of ingenious devices to prevent caucus frauds and the purchase of votes, to...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899 - Vol. LV, May to October, 1899The analogies between the life of an individual and that other organism which we call civilized society are as interesting as for any other reason because of their inexhaustible and ever-fresh variety....

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 - Vol. LV, May to October, 1899In an article on the plague in this journal, in May, 1897, the writer answered this question as follows: "Yes, there is danger; but this, being foreseen, may be easily avoided. Thorough...

The Sun of Saratoga: A Romance of Burgoyne's SurrenderYou will watch this hollow and the hill yonder, said the general, and see that not a soul passes either to the north or to the south. Dont forget that the fate of all the colonies...