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Judgments in Vacation

Judgments in Vacation

by Edward Abbott Parry

To a sane world one must offer some few words of excuse for writing judgments in vacation. One has heard of the emancipated slave who invested his savings in purchasing a share in another slave and of the historical bus-driver who made use of his annual holiday to drive a bus for a sick friend. And so it is with smaller men. One gets so used to giv..

The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 10, June 1934

The Fantasy Fan, Volume 1, Number 10, June 1934

by Charles D. Hornig

Horrible beyond conception was the change which had taken place in my best friend, Crawford Tillinghast. I had not seen him since that day, two months and a half before, when he had told me toward what goal his physical and metaphysical researches were leading; when he had answered my awed and almost frightened remonstrances by driving me from his ..

The Men of the Merchant Service

The Men of the Merchant Service

by Frank Thomas Bullen

It has been repeatedly represented to me by disinterested friends, that among the innumerable works of both fact and fiction dealing with the sea, there are none telling in a comprehensive way what are the conditions of life in the Merchant Service; in other words, that there is no work to which a parent, yielding to his son's importunity to be all..

Toledo

Toledo

by Albert Frederick Calvert

The author would, in the ordinary way, be hard put to it to frame a reasonable apology for compiling a new volume on the subject of the ancient and royal city of Toledo. Artists have reproduced its wonder of imposing and picturesque detail; archæologists have explored its many monuments; historians have discovered in its archives a record which, fo..

Opening the West with Lewis and Clark

Opening the West with Lewis and Clark

by Edwin L. Sabin

As time passes, the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, fathered by the great President Jefferson, should shine brighter and brighter amidst the other pages of American history. The purchase of the Province of Louisiana was opposed by many citizens. They were ignorant and short-sighted; they asserted that here was a useless burden of waste land fitt..

Some 'Frightful' War Pictures

Some 'Frightful' War Pictures

by W. Heath Robinson

Some 'Frightful' War Pictures is a humorous work with illustrations by William Heath Robinson. The full-page drawings originally appeared in “The Sketch” and in “The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.” The author is indebted to the proprietors of these journals for permission to issue them in this volume...

The Child's Pictorial History of England

The Child's Pictorial History of England

by Julia Corner

A juvenile history of England has long been needed in our primary schools. Those already prepared, and in use, are written in a style entirely beyond the capacities of young children, and too comprehensive in detail.“History for children ought to be told in their own simple language, or it fails to interest them; while all that is unfitted for chil..

The Other Man

The Other Man

by Edgar Wallace

It was a bad night in London, not wild or turbulent, but swathed to the eyes like an Eastern woman in a soft grey garment of fog. It engulfed the walled canyons of the city through which the traffic had roared all day, plugged up the maze of dark side streets, and blotted out the open squares. Close to the ground it was thick, viscous, impenetrable..