Mrs. Dobbs' dull boy

R. and Mrs. Dobbs had three sons and three daughters : and I may state on the best authority (for surely a mother ought to know her own children) that every individual son and daughter was uncommonly clever, save one. That one was Jem, the dull boy. The young Dobbses were more than clever (I still speak on the best authority). They were equally remarkable for personal beauty as for mental en…

Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Lite…

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32767040

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gutenberg

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gutenberg etext# 36298

Travel, adventure, and sport from 'Blackwood's magazine'

T7IABLY in March 1879, news reached Buda-Pesth -L^ of impending floods in the Theiss valley of a serious and exceptional character. During the past winter more snow had fallen all over the ' country than is generally the case even in Hungary, while at the same time the cold had been less than usual. At Buda-Pesth, though the Danube was covered with drift-ice, it had never been completely frozen…

The tour of the world in eighty days

In the year 1872,-the house No. 7 Saville Row, _ Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan dieu, in 1814—was inhabited by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the mdstajngular and most -noticed members Gi the Reform Club of London, although he seemed to take care to do nothing which might attract attention. This Phileas Fogg, then, an enig‘ matic personage, of whom nothing ‘was known but tha…

The University Prints

THE series here presented carries on in the field of Northern Art the work begun in the two series already published, which illustrate the development of art in Italy during the Early and Late Renaissance. The earlier painters of the Low Countries have, in accordance with the latest scholarship, been grouped together under the general head of the School of the Netherlands, illustrated by the…

Luke Barnicott, and other stories

The village of Monnycrofts, in Derbyshire, may be Baid to be a distinguished village, for though it is not a city set on a hill, it is a village set on a hill. It may be seen far and wide with its cluster of red brick houses, and its taU gray-stone chorch steeple, which has -weathered the winds of many a century. The distant traveller observes its green upward sloping fields, well embellished b…

On the question proposed for disussion to the Botanical Congress at St. Peter…

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The makers of Venice

Venice has long borne in the imagination of the world a distinctive position, something of the character of a great enchantress, a magician of the seas. Her growth between the water and the sky; her great palaces, solid and splendid, built, so to speak, on nothing; the wonderful glory of light and reflection about her; the glimmer of incessant brightness and movement; the absence of all those h…

The location of La Salle's colony on the Gulf of Mexico

One of the unsettled points in the history of La Salle's career in America has been the exact location of the colony which he established temporarily on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in 1685. The view held my Parkman and most other writers has been that the site was on the Lavaca river, but from this opinion some have dissented, while others have been in doubt because of the inadequacy of th…

University prints

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