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The Trinity Archive, Vol. I, No. 7, May 1888
by Trinity CollegeOne 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
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..
Heir Apparent
by Alan Edward NourseWe watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship. There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin. Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort. We had waited years for this moment, to honor a great man's triumphal return to Earth.... He had w..
Clara Barton - A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian
by Charles Sumner YoungClara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest HumanitarianFounder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America.The author undertakes to produce a few pen pictures of a personal friend—humanity’s friend. Th..
Combatman
by John Massie DavisAs Computerman, I was the first to come out of deep freeze after we kicked clear of the Time-Warp. So I left the needles in my wrists—the tubes let me reach Brain One—and started punching data from the instruments while my fingers were still half stiff. Finally, stiff fingers or not, I had all the data racked into the primary feed and decided to ch..