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 …
" 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 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 …
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…
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THIS is a charming little book. Brightly written, poignant with enthusiasm, and full of excellent teaching, it is sure to fulfil its purpose : to stimulate the amateur, and encourage the art student novitiate to serious study, hard, and, perhaps sometimes, dry work. Reading it reminded me pleasantly of my youth, when all the problems with which it deals were so new to one, when the veil was …
LibriVox recording of The Purple Land by William Henry Hudson. Read in English by Larry Wilson; MaryAnn; DJRickyV; Alexander Brett; jftocanada; Kalynda; Jairus Amar; Chancho Jomp In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adve…
The introduction of this work not only makes it possible, but even easy, to acquire a conversational knowledge of Hindustani. The whole of the instruction throughout has been compiled on HUGO'S well known Simplified System, the success of which is due to its commonsense character. It avoids all confusing technicalities of grammar, and imparts a knowledge of the language in an absolutely practic…