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Queen of the Dawn -  A Love Tale of Old Egypt

Queen of the Dawn - A Love Tale of Old Egypt

by H. Rider Haggard

There was war in Egypt and Egypt was rent in two. At Memphis in the north, at Tanis, and in all the rich lands of the Delta where by many mouths the Nile flows down to the sea, a usurping race held power, that whose forefathers, generations before, had descended upon Egypt like a flood, destroyed its temples and deposed its gods, possessing themsel..

Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada

Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada

by Isaac Weld

At a period when war was spreading desolation over the fairest parts of Europe, when anarchy seemed to be extending its frightful progress from nation to nation, and when the storms that were gathering over his native country[1] in particular, rendered it impossible to say how soon any one of its inhabitants might be forced to seek for refuge in a ..

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 33, Vol. I, August 16, 1884

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 33, Vol. I, August 16, 1884

by Chambers' Journal

In the biographies of the saints of the early Celtic Church it is frequently recorded that towards the close of their lives they left their monasteries and sought the seclusion of some lonely island or mountain solitude, in order to pass the evening of their days in undisturbed devotion and freedom from worldly cares. Joceline in his Life of St Ken..

Hampshire Water-Colours

Hampshire Water-Colours

by Wilfrid Ball

Hampshire Water-Colours by Wilfrid BallTower of College Chapel, WinchesterChurch of St. Lawrence, WinchesterMiddle Gate, Winchester CollegeThe Itchen near Chilland MillRomseyWest Gate, SouthamptonChristchurchSopleyRingwoodLymingtonBeaulieu VillagePortsmouth from GosportPortchesterSheet Mill, near PetersfieldUpton GreyOld Basing BridgeNear Liph..

Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook -  Ten Lectures on Social Subjects

Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook - Ten Lectures on Social Subjects

by Laurence Housman

These papers, originally given as lectures, make no pretence to the solution of the social or political problems with which they are concerned. They indicate rather a certain standpoint or attitude of mind from which these and like questions may be viewed, one which may find acceptance with only a few of my readers. Even those who are friendly may ..

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899

by Various Authors

It was very clear that the carpenter sweetheart had been discarded, and that this stranger had filled his place so promptly that Jane had not thought it worth her while to go through any ceremony of transferring his privileges. Of course she had known well enough that her mistress would be no party to such a rapidly moving panorama of courtship. Or..

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 993, January 7, 1899

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 993, January 7, 1899

by Various Authors

There is, perhaps, no word in the present day which has been more frequently used and abused than “culture.” It has come so readily to the lips of modern prophets, that it has acquired a secondary and ironical significance. Some of our readers may have seen a clever University parody (on the Heathen Chinee) describing the encounter of two undergrad..

A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad

A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad

by F. W. Harvey

Most of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette—the first paper ever published from the trenches. The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as such gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August, 1915. The poems are written by a soldier and reflect a ..