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Men, Women, and Books
by Augustine BirrellOf writing books about Dean Swift there is no end. I make no complaint, because I find no fault; I express no wonder, for I feel none. The subject is, and must always remain, one of strange fascination. We have no author like the Dean of St. Patrick’s. It has been said of Wordsworth that good-luck usually attended those who have written about him. ..
The Cameroons
by Albert Frederick CalvertAlthough the designs, which German philosophers conceived and German statesmen and strategists spent thirty years in perfecting, for the conquest of our Cape territories and the creation of a Greater Germany extending from the Mediterranean to Table Bay, are best illustrated and exposed by the defiantly defensive policy they pursued in South-West A..
Plague and pestilence in literature and art
by Raymond CrawfurdThis volume represents substantially the FitzPatrick Lectures which I had the privilege of delivering at the Royal College of Physicians in 1912. Originally I intended to do no more than gather together into a succinct record the various memorials and reminders of Pestilence that I had met with in my wanderings at home and abroad and in my casual i..
Narrative of Henry Box Brown
by Henry Box BrownNot for the purpose of administering to a prurient desire to “hear and see some new thing,” nor to gratify any inclination on the part of the hero of the following story to be honored by man, is this simple and touching narrative of the perils of a seeker after the “boon of liberty,” introduced to the public eye; but that the people of this country..
The Alhambra and the Kremlin
by Samuel Irenæus PrimeThe South and the North of Europe are contrasted in this volume. Not by any formal comparison of the morals and manners, the institutions and condition of the peoples in different latitudes, but by candid statement and description, I have sought to give a fair view of life as it is in Spain and Scandinavia. Since the journey was made, the Queen of ..
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley
by Solomon BayleyIn presenting the following fragments to the attention of the public, it appears necessary to state the manner in which they came into my possession, and to give the reader a brief account of the Author, Solomon Bayley. This narrative discloses the melancholy and incontrovertible fact, that the rights of Slaves are shamefully invaded in a country, ..
The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. II (of 3)
by Athenaeus of NaucratisThe Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. II (of 3), by Athenaeus of Naucratis literally translated by C. D. YONGE, B.A. with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into english verse by various authors, and a general index. in three volumes...
The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black
by Leonard BlackThe book was written substantially by Mr. Black himself, but, in consequence of his deficiency of education—growing out of the fact that his childhood and youth were spent in slavery—it needed considerable correction to fit it for the press. This work was kindly performed, gratuitously, by a friend of the author, who was, however, very careful to p..