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The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. III. (Complete), 1891An Expedition to Mount St. Elias, Alaska; by ISRAEL C. RUSSELL IntroductionThe Southern Coast of Alaska Part IPrevious Explorations in the St. Elias Region Part IINarrative of the St. Elias Expedition of 1890 Part IIISketch of the...

The Antiquities of Bridgnorth; With Some Historical Notices of the Town and CastleThe Substance of the following pages was given in two lectures, which I delivered last year to the Members of The Society for Promoting Religious and Useful Knowledge. Since then I have...

Bethlehem: A Nativity Play Ye Gentles, that come here to watch our play, Put, we beseech you, thought of us away! No standing here have we: in heart we kneel, With, at our hearts, this prayer,that ye may feel How in Loves hands time...

The Little Review, September 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 6) A great newspaper has published a cartoon picturing Uncle Sam on a harvesting machine, calmly saying Giddap to his horses, while a neglected sheet with the inscription European war blows to one side. As long...

Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths - Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911The following brief description of the Seneca is taken, with slight alterations, from the article on that tribe in the Handbook of American Indians: The Seneca (= Place of...

Distress SignalThe years passed relentlessly, ticked offone, two three, fourby the big lone planet Worta as it moved with ponderous sureness around the dying red star. Sometimes, in the first year after they were marooned, the two runaway boys, Carl Wyant and Rex Oberling,...

Wireless Telegraph Construction For AmateursThe success of the previous editions of this book has made a new and third one necessary. There have not been any startling changes or new discoveries made in the field of wireless telegraphy since the first edition was published,...

The Fatal ThirdHanford Webster, third officer of the space ship Polaris, was afflicted with what would have been known in the twentieth century as a first class jinx. However, more about the jinx later. He wasn't thinking about that right now where he was...

Scrambled WorldThe sun was dying. About its sullen shadow-streaked red globe thousands of miniature artificial worlds clustered like a swarm of night-chilled midges. So thickly did they hug the great globe of dulling flame that it seemed Sol had acquired an outer husk of...

On Board the "Rocket"All the incidents of this book are facts, occurring in the writer's own experience. In a few cases names have been altered, in accordance with his desire, neither to give offence to the living, nor to cast discredit upon the dead....

Gay gods and merry mortals: some excursions in verse SOME ancient tales of Pagan days The author of this book relates Explaining how in divers ways The gods displayed their human traits; And how they oft in other years Set human beings by the...

Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad HabitsThus spoke Tom Newcombe, as he lay under one of the trees in his fathers yard, rolling about on the grass, and tossing his heels in the air, as if he scarcely knew what to do with...

Lettres à M. Panizzi, tome IIJe ne sais gure de nouvelles de Paris que par les journaux. Je suis fort triste de la tournure que prennent les affaires. D'un ct, les tentatives d'assassinat recommencent; de l'autre, la discussion de l'adresse s'envenime de jour en...

A sentimental & practical guide to Amesbury and StonehengeIn compiling this little Guide Book, I have somewhat departed from the ordinary lines, but I venture to hope that the traveller to Amesbury and Stonehenge will not like it the worse on that account. I...

What I Saw in Berlin and Other European Capitals During WartimeSeveral chapters of this book are reprinted from the Evening News (London), to the Proprietors and Editor of which paper the author owes his grateful thanks for the permission to include them here. The...

En AlsaceL'automne dernier un capitaine posait cette question cinquante conscrits: Qu'est-ce que l'Alsace? Trente-huit rpondirent peu prs convenablement. Douze, c'est--dire le quart, ignoraient de quoi il s'agissait. Peut-tre que cette ignorance est regrettable toutes sortes d'gards et mme un peu dshonorante. Puisse ce petit...

Excursions in North Wales - A Complete Guide to the Tourist Through That Romantic CountryThe ancient City of Chester is unquestionably the most attractive and convenient starting-place, from which should commence the journey of the tourist, who is desirous of exploring the beautiful and...

Legends of SwitzerlandAside from the picturesque, historical, and geological interest connected with a journey in Switzerland, that country also boasts of a rich fund of legends, delightfully characteristic of the people at whose firesides they have been told for centuries. The grand scenery, terrific...

The Sins of Silvertip the FoxNever before, in the early, early spring, had there been so much excitement down at Doctor Muskrats Pond. Of course, springs the season for visitors. They were always on the lookout for old friends winging up from the south....

Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine SketchesMr. Bullens work in literature requires no introduction. If it ever did, it has received one so complete from Mr. Kipling, that not another word is needed. Mr. Kipling, in phrases as happy as they are generous,...