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The ancient port of Sunwich was basking in the sunshine of a July afternoon. A rattle of cranes and winches sounded from the shipping in the harbour, but the town itself was half asleep. Somnolent shopkeepers in dim back parlours coyly veiled their faces in red handkerchiefs from the too ardent flies,...

Among the numerous and varied methods which the Popish Church has adopted, to maintain its usurped sway over the minds and bodies of men, none has been more effectual than the erection of the Inquisition. Established for the purpose of taking cognizance of what it styles heresy, many are the victims...

The general rules by which this series is governed have been fully stated by the Editor in the first published volume, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory. It will therefore not be necessary for me to do more than endeavour to justify the particular application of them in this book....

LONDON: SONNETS WRITTEN IN 1889. On First Entering Westminster Abbey Fog Saint Peter-ad-Vincula Strikers in Hyde Park Changes in the Temple The Lights of London Doves In the Reading-Room of the British Museum Sunday Chimes in the City A Porch in Belgravia York Stairs In the Docks OXFORD: SONNETS WRITTEN...

Yet John Keats is in some respects out of keeping with the magnificent phraseology of which he is the mouthpiece. "Little Keats," as his fellow medical students termed him, is a small, undersized man, not over five feet high—the shoulders too broad, the legs too spare—"death in his hand," as Coleridge...

In telling Fortunes by Cards—as in all games in which they are employed—the Ace ranks highest in value. Then comes the King, followed by the Queen, Knave, Ten, Nine, Eight, and Seven; these being generally the only cards used. The order, and comparative value of the different suits, is as follows:—First...

My grandmother's curios—Camels and elephants—Dr Morrison—Chinese in Australia—Feared for his virtues—Racial animosity—Great Northern Plain—A city of silence—A land of exile—The Holy Sea—Frost flowers on a birch forest—Chaos at Manchuria and Kharbin—Japanese efficiency—A Peking...

Suite Number 403 Friends or Enemies? The Shadow on the Wall The Crimson Patch Who Took It? The Mystery Deepens Left Alone A Piece of Paper A Message in the Night A Council of War An Adventurous Mission The House with the Green Shutters Virginie Decides Melanie Out of the Net The Secret of the Crimson Patch

It is not sufficient to write things true, but they must likewise seem probable, to gain belief. This has sometime so prevail'd with me, as to make me think of retrenching from my Relation the strange Stories you will find therein. But I have been withheld from doing this, by Persons of such great...

Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by Americans and as we...

PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS LISPETH THREE AND—AN EXTRA. THROWN AWAY. MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS. YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER. FALSE DAWN. THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES. CUPID'S ARROWS. HIS CHANCE IN LIFE. WATCHES OF THE NIGHT. THE OTHER MAN. CONSEQUENCES. THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN. A GERM DESTROYER. KIDNAPPED....

The Command of the Sea (A.D. 1915) A Lesson from Cæsar Ancient War-ships Fighting-ships of the Middle Ages Mariners of Other Days Some Mediæval Sea-fights The Navy in Tudor Times From Elizabeth to Victoria The "Turks" in the Channel The Honour of the Flag The Evolution of Naval Gunnery Evolution...

The Boy of Ten Years His Heroes In Jerusalem In Rabbi Gamaliel's School Tent-Making In Tarsus The Great Teacher of Galilee In Jerusalem Again The Man with a Shining Face On the Road to Damascus In Arabia Fifteen Wonderful Days The First Great Missionary Journey The First Great Problem A Letter to...

MONTEZUMA CASTLE, a pueblo ruin in the Verde River valley of central Arizona, has no connection with the Aztec emperor whose name it bears. The name was given by early settlers in the Verde Valley in the belief that the striking 5-story ruin with its 20 rooms had been built by Aztec refugees, fleeing...