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Sir George Etienne Cartier - His Work for Canada and His Services to Montreal
by John BoydThe greatest work in which Cartier participated, and in which it is freely acknowledged he played a determining part, was of course the establishment of Confederation. The idea of a union of all the provinces of British North America did not originate with Cartier, any more than it originated with Macdonald, Tupper, Tilley, Brown or the other great..
The Death of the Scharnhorst, and Other Poems
by Arch Alfred McKillenThe Death of the Scharnhorst, and Other Poems written by Arch Alfred McKillen.The Bird, the Lad and MeThe War in SpainIt Rains TonightWhile Drums Are RollingApolloFountain of LovelinessHighway Number 66Dirge for the SqualusEcho Canyon..
The Fantasy Fan, Volume 2, Number 6, February 1935
by Charles D. HornigThis, 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
by John BreckProb’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
by Richard MarshIt 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
by Dorothy M. RichardsonA 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
by Richard CannonHistorical 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
by Martin QuigleyThe 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..