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The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 8, June 1888
by Trinity CollegeThe clergy of the Middle Ages and previous to the Reformation were secularized. To the spiritual wants of the masses they gave little heed, but spent the large portion of their time in riotous living, in ambitious schemes, and in devising means by which to retain their hold on the superstitions of the common people. The monks, whose chief vow was t..
Picturesque Spain - Architecture, landscape, life of the people
by Kurt HielscherSpain is one great open-air museum containing the cultural wealth of the most varied epochs and peoples. On the walls of the Altamira cave is blazoned that much admired steer painted thousands of years ago by men of the Ice Age. In Barcelona stand the fantastic buildings of neo-Castilian present-day art. Celts, Iberians, Romans, Carthaginians, Moor..
The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1934
by Charles D. HornigHorror Stories, a companion weird magazine to Terror Tales, will appear in the middle of December.... The Winford Publications' weird magazine forecast in this column some months ago made its bow in November under the title, Mystery Novels Magazine, Weird! Strange!! Unusual!!! To judge from the first issue there will appear a complete book-length n..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 5, Vol. I, February 2, 1884
by Chambers' JournalHampstead Heath! What a world of delight seemed concentrated in that name in the days of childhood, when donkey-riding was not yet too undignified an amusement, and a gallop ‘cross country’ through the bracken and furze struck terror into the heart of nurse or parent, and covered the rider with glory! Such feats of horsemanship now belong to the ir..
The Rising Son
by Wm. Wells BrownThe Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race is the biography of African-American race written by Wm. Wells Brown whose other works include “Sketches Of Places And People Abroad,” “The Black Man,” “The Negro In The Rebellion,” “Clotelle,” Etc.After availing himself of all the reliable information obtainable, the aut..
Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza
by Albert F. CalvertThe six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they compact of artistic and architectural treasures, but within their walls much of the history of the Spanish nation has been made. Oviedo—that little ci..
New York - The Nation's Metropolis
by Peter MarcusNEW YORK is preëminently the City of Violent Contrasts. Towering shafts of brick and stone and steel, soaring traceries of cables, derricks, girders and electric signs, smooth stretches of gray asphalt, subway and sewer excavations, broad harbors and stately ships, oily canals and garbage dumps, classic columns, gilded domes, palaces and shanties, ..
Youth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902
by H. L. CogginsYouth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys & Girls.Uncle Hayward and his family were New England people, who had settled in Georgia near the Ocmulgee River, where I was now paying them a really delightful visit. Harold and myself, being very fond of hunting, spent much time together in pursuit of the various kin..