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The Moon - A Popular Treatise
by Garrett Putman ServissThe reader familiar with astronomical literature will doubtless remark a certain resemblance between the plan on which this book is written and that of Fontenelle’s “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds,” a French classic of the eighteenth century. The author freely acknowledges that it was the recollection of the pleasure which the reading of ..
A Tragic Idyl
by Paul BourgetNeither these princes nor their neighbors noticed the presence at one of the tables of a man who had borne the title of King in one of the states improvised on the Balkan Peninsula. Men had fought for this man, men had died for him, but his royal interests seemed now to be restricted to the pasteboard monarchs on the table of trente-et-quarante. An..
Labour and the Popular Welfare
by W. H. MallockThe landed rental of the country is given by me as something under a hundred million pounds. It has been asserted that were the ground-rents in towns properly estimated, the true rental would be found to be a hundred and fifty million pounds or a hundred and eighty million pounds. It is no doubt difficult to differentiate in town properties the tot..
Learning and Other Essays
by John Jay ChapmanAn expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of the engraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainly one of the great gems of the world,’ and there was something in his tone that was even more thrilling than his words. He might have been describing the Parthenon or Beethoven’s Mass,—such was the passion of reve..
Poems
by Lionel JohnsonA collection of poems written by Lionel Johnson.WINCHESTERTO MORFYDDPLATO IN LONDONIN FALMOUTH HARBOURA FRIENDA BURDEN OF EASTER VIGILBY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES AT CHARING CROSSLALEHAMOUR LADY OF FRANCEIN MEMORYTHE PRECEPT OF SILENCEHILL AND VALEGWYNEDDA CORNISH NIGHTMYSTIC AND CAVALIERPARNELL..
The Passing of Morocco
by Frederick F. MooreFor several years I had been watching Morocco as a man who follows the profession of ‘Special Correspondent’ always watches a place that promises exciting ‘copy.’ For many years trouble had been brewing there. On the Algerian frontier tribes were almost constantly at odds with the French; in the towns the Moors would now and then assault and someti..
The Power of Music
by Bryce WaltonA young Greek lady being brought from her own country, to Paris, some years since, was, soon after her arrival in that city, carried to the opera by some French ladies, supposing, as she had never heard any European music, that she would be in raptures at it; but, contrary to these expectations, she declared, that the singing only reminded her of t..
Benton's Venture
by Ralph Henry BarbourTom rescued his books, which he had laid aside, and, with a final look at the automobile, left Saunders’ Carriage Works and took up his homeward journey again. It was the first week in June, and the afternoon[4] was warm and almost summer-like. There was a lazy quality in the air, which, possibly, explains why Tom had taken twenty minutes to get fr..