The present volume lays claim to notice for these two reasons ; — first, its contents, — secondly, its plates. Its contents have been so formed as to suit it in a pre-eminent degree as a present for youth. Its sketches are those of places and events which have peculiar interest— whether the gorgeous scene, with forest and mountain and river, or the mighty castle, or the tented battle-f…
The first book of our History of the Origins of Christianity brought us down to the death, and burial of Jesus ; and we must now resume the subject at the point where we left it — that is to say, on Saturday, the fourth of April, in the year 33. The work will be for some time yet a sort of continuation of the life of Jesus. Next to the months of joyful raptiu-e, during which the great Founder…
It is evident to us, Spaiiisli Carlists, that the foreign public opinion is erroneously informed about our history, our program and our deeds. We know we have been victims of an evil-minded propaganda, based on falsehood and confusion; the Black Legend that throws upon Spain, our Countrj', the whole responsibility of obscurantism and tyranny is even darker, gloomier, where our Party is conce…
THE credibility of Scripture has been assailed since the beginning of the present century on the ground that the narratives contained in it are not contemporaneous with the events they profess to record, i, because they represent an incredible amount of civilization as existing in the ancient Eastern world, and are inconsistent with the accounts of classical writers ; and, 2, because writing wa…
M. Victor Bérard is one of the ablest and most cultivated French political writers. Born in 1864 and educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure he rapidly distinguished himself by the brilliance of his intellect and the versatility of his talent. His Hellenic studies stimulated his interest in Near Eastern questions, and after publishing, in 1894, his first important work 44 De l'Origine des Cu…
ALTHOUGH there is no historic record of the fact, yet there is every reason to believe that long before the Roman invasion the site of Chester was occupied as a stronghold by the original inhabitants. The site of Chester in early times was one well suited for the growth of a great and strong city. Its strength as well as its fitness for commerce, mainly lay in the river itself, which washed the…
Tuis third volume, treating of the habits and appearance of our Familiar Wild Birds, is prepared on the same lines as its predecessors, cehich have met with such a wide-spread welcome from the public. It is, unhappily, necessary to remark that, as these popular chapters go further through the list of British birds, they now come from time to time upon birds which, once “familia…
Probably no man is better know in Lawrence county than Isaac P. Rose, whose adventures in the Rocky Mountains are here given by Mr. Marsh. Mr. Rose is the oldest school teacher in the county, having taught continuously for 45 winters, without losing a day on account of sickness, and is, at the. time of this writing, engaged in teaching his forty-sixth winter's school, and his pupils, some of wh…
ONiiY one of the four Franciscan plays which here follow has any close incidental connection with the life of St. Francis ; and that is the only one which might properly have a place found for it in the Little Plays. But while continuing to illustrate the Franciscan legend in dramatic form, I did not intend to make a constructive sequel, and would sooner have let the Little Plays stand without …
I THINK it will be generally admitted that Moliere is the greatest comic poet France has produced, and that he is equal, if not superior, to any writer of charactercomedies on the ancient or modern stage. His plays may be divided into six classes or groups : First, the small dramatic poems or pastorals, such as Psyche, Ics Amants magnifiques, la Princesse d 'Elide, Ics FacJieux, Melicerte, la P…