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…
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…
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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…
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 …
"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…