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A History of Roman Classical Literature.The history of Roman Classical Literature, although it comprehends the names of many illustrious writers and many voluminous works, is, chronologically speaking, contained within narrow limits. Dating from its earliest infancy, until the epoch when it ceased to deserve...

In the vine countryTo begin with, we had started rather late,it is noticeable that the minutes between five and six A.M. are fewer and closer together than they are at any other period of the day,and, when half way to the meet we found...

A Short List of Scientific Books Published by E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd. September 1915Motor Body Building in all its branches. By C. W. Terry. With additional matter by Arthur Hall. Medium 8vo, 256 pp., 15 illus., 50 plates. (1914.) 10s. 6d. net....

Harper's Round Table, October 6, 1896The men of the block-house fort had eaten breakfast by candle-light, for an early start to their work upon the various clearings. The long, rough table would be reset later for the women and children. They were a band...

The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit PhotographyEvery new truth which has ever been propounded has, for a time, caused mischief; it has produced discomfort, and often unhappiness.Buckle, in History of Civilisation. A number of test sances for spirit photography had been held with...

An Attempt to Explain the Origin and Meaning of the Early Interlaced Ornamentation Found on the Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of ManAny reasonable and honest attempt to explain the origin of the singularly elegant interlaced ornamentation, familiar to archologists as...

History of the government of the island of Newfoundland - With an appendix containing the Acts of Parliament made respecting the trade and fisheryI intend to give a short history of the Government and Constitution of the island of Newfoundland. This will comprise the...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the beginnings of female emancipation in France and EnglandThere is something particularly fascinating about the study of the literature and philosophy of the eighteenth century, with its gradual evolution of lofty social ideals which the Revolution failed to realise. When the...

The BarbariansTal-Karanth, Supreme Executive of Tharnar, signed the paper and dropped it in to the out-going slot of the message dispatch tube. It was an act that would terminate one hundred and eighty days of studying the tapes and records on the Terran ship...

Under the Big DipperINDIA the wonderfulIndia the home of Buddha and the land of mystery and misery. The country of glorious traditions and unsatisfied desires! What ambitions have not been dreamed, what visions not conjured in your cause! Assyrian and Greek, Mongol and Parsee,...

Hyvä naapuriKotka nimisen ravintolan emnt ei kuitenkaan tahtonut ottaa paperikukilla koristettua nrett vierashuoneen takasta, sill vaikka olikin kylm, tiesi hn entisestn, ettei talvi viel ollut tulossa; ja nyttivthn nuo matkustavaiset olevan alhaista sty ja ehk tyytyvt viettmn yns arkihuoneessa. Muuttava perhe on aivan tavallinen...

William 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...

A Day with a Tramp, and Other DaysThe following narratives, like those published in the series of The Workers, East and West, are drawn from notes taken during an expedition made ten years ago. In the summer of 1891 I began an experiment of...

L'Illustration, No. 3740, 7 Novembre 1914Combien est grande la dtresse du soldat qui na sur sa tombe de bataille htivement creuse et pare quune croix de bois o dj sefface une inscription devenue illisible! Et pourtant cette dtresse est avantageuse encore et privilgie si...

Nacha RegulesThe Centennial festivities had been going on since May. Thousands of people had flocked in from every corner of the country, from neighboring states and even from Europe. During these great days of a nation's coming of age, the crowd, in one enormous,...

Rake Knitting PatternsWho does not remember the spool-knitter of his childhood, perhaps a home made affaira large empty spool with four wire brads driven in around the opening at one endon which one made an endless rope of colored yarns, to use, maybe, for...

Tom Slade on Overlook MountainIf so it chance that you live in the city of New York and should, let us say, stop for a cooling drink of water in the interval of a ball game, pause for a few moments and consider this...

Avoidance SituationCaptain Allen Hawkins stood quietly in the observation room of the Sunward looking out at subspace. He was a medium-sized man with a trim squareness to him that suggested he had been in the military most of his life. He had a good...

A Son at the FrontCampton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was coming from America, must have landed in England that morning, and after a brief halt in London would join him the next...

Harper's Round Table, September 29, 1896The night is dark and cloudy, and a heavy mist hovers over the entrance to the highly fortified port of . Like gigantic aquatic ghosts a fleet of American men-of-war is cautiously and silently approaching this strong-hold of the...