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Illustrations are like windows to the house of knowledge. They let light in upon the understanding, and they facilitate the outlook upon truth and beauty. To illustrate is to help one sense by the use of another, to reason by analogy, and to teach the unknown by the known. When definition fails, illustration...

A Christmas Collection: The Abbot's Ghost Prince Lazybones and Other Stories An Old-fashioned Christmas And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy Angel Unawares: A Story of Christmas Eve A Christmas in the West Indies Beasley's Christmas Party The First Christmas Of New England The Birds' Christmas...

It affords me pleasure to be the means of giving to the reading public another volume dealing with the byways and highways of church history. The authors who have been good enough to favour me with contributions are recognised authorities on the subjects they have written about, and I hope their efforts...

WHAT CAUSED THE WAR BARON BEYENS I Political designs of Francis Ferdinand. The Archduke Francis Ferdinand will go down to posterity without having yielded up his secret. Great political designs have been ascribed to him, mainly on the strength of his friendship with William II. What do we really know...

The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome. Izumi Shikibu's...