Our earliest attempt at independence

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Life and writings of Arthur Schopenhauer

The masters of philosophy in Germany have generally been the University professors ; in England, members of the outside public ; causes and effects, advantages and disadvantages of each of these circumstances ; Schopenhauer more akin to the English than to the German philosopher ; fundamental differences between his early training and that of his German predecessors ; his contempt for the histo…

Life of Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870), novelist, was born 7 February, 1812, at 387 Mile End Terrace, Commercial Road, Landport, Portsea. His father, John Dickens, a clerk in the navy pay office, with a salary of 80/. a year, was then stationed in the Portsmouth dockyard. The wife of the first Lord Houghtori1 told Mr. Wemyss Reid that Mrs. Dickens, mother of John, was housekeeper at Crewe, and famous for …

Answers to criticisms of piano class instruction

"Vy/^ BELIEVE this pamphlet constitutes a valuable addition lA/ to the literature on piano classes issued by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. Most of our booklets on ^ this subject treat it from the positive angle by presenting the advantages primarily and, in a broad and impartial way, the net benefits to be derived. "Answers to Criticisms of Class Piano Inst…

American autographs, historical and literary

1. ADAIR, General John. Governor of Kentucky. Served in the Revolutionary War, under St. Clair and Wilkinson against the Indians and defeated by the Miamis. Aid to Shelby at the Battle of the Thames 1813. Fine War A. L. S. to Governor Isaac Shelby. "Altho I have been necessarily absent for some time from the State 1 have lost none of the feeling of a Kentuckian, every disaster our brave men …

At Bay

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Belle of Lynn

" You are the * Belle of Lynn,' " he said to her, with a smile. " I have heard of nothing else since I came here. All the masters of that dull old grammar-school, and half the pupils too — " " They are very kind," she replied, shyly, " but I do not know any of them, and I did not know that they had given me that name." " They speak of you always as the Belle of Lynn," he replied. '^ Are…

The history of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

The present is the best collected edition of the important works of Schiller which is accessible to readers in the English language. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times since the first publication of the original works ; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated into this collection. Schiller was not less efficiently qualified by nature for an …

Helen Mulgrave : or, Jesuit executorship : being passages in the life of a se…

As an autobiographer is expected to say something of his birth, parentage, and education, I will begin my narrative with some particulars of mine, in the relation of which I shall endea vor to be brief. My father and mother, who were Irish, were both Roman Catholics by hereditary descent ; their families, for several gene rations, having been born in the Romish church. My father, who inhe…