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The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 6, February 1935

The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 6, February 1935

by Charles D. Hornig

This, the February 1935 number, is the last issue of THE FANTASY FAN. The life of TFF has extended over exactly one and a half years—since September 1933, and during that time we have learned that there are not enough lovers of weird fiction who are interested enough in the subject to pay for a fan magazine. We may call it an experiment that failed..

The Jay Bird Who Went Tame

The Jay Bird Who Went Tame

by John Breck

Prob’ly you’re all wondering what happened to Chaik Jay and Tad Coon when the big rain began to fall. Chaik had hurt his wing. He’d have had a bad time with it if he’d tried to stay in the pickery thorn bush, in the Quail’s Thicket, down by Dr. Muskrat’s Pond. Tad Coon knew a thing or two when he advised the bird to let Louie Thomson catch him. Wel..

The Magnetic Girl

The Magnetic Girl

by Richard Marsh

It was the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to anyone. I really hardly know how to begin to tell about it. I was doing my hair before the looking-glass in my bedroom—and I could not help noticing that it was rather a curious colour, though my eyes were nearly blinded by tears of rage, and something else. The rage was because Lilian and A..

The Trap -  Pilgrimage, Volume 8

The Trap - Pilgrimage, Volume 8

by Dorothy M. Richardson

A short by-street paved from side to side. Narrow house-fronts and the endmost houses, hiding the passage that curved round into the further street, high enough to keep out of sight the neighbouring cubes of model dwellings and to leave, as principal feature in the upper air, the spire of St. Pancras Church. An old little street. A scrap of old Lon..

Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot

Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot

by Richard Cannon

Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849.The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are animated, and consequently it is of the ..

Magic Shadows -  The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

Magic Shadows - The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

by Martin Quigley

The art of magic shadows, which just before the dawn of the twentieth century evolved into the modern motion picture, was born three centuries ago, at Rome. There Athanasius Kircher, a German priest, first showed his invention, the magic lantern, to friends, and enemies, at the Collegio Romano, where he was a professor of mathematics.The world prem..

The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 7, May 1888

The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 7, May 1888

by Trinity College

One individual can’t select for another the books best adapted to the mental growth of that person; individuality of taste is an idiosyncrasy of the human race. Give a person free access to a well-regulated library, and you need not fear but that person will suit himself. Let the flocks graze at will upon the verdant plains where grow the herbs bot..

The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 8, June 1888

The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 8, June 1888

by Trinity College

The 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..