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HAVING finished reading Irvings ""Legend of the Arabian Astrologer,"" I closed my book, and idly swinging in my hammock, was musing on those beautiful stories of the Alhambra. My mind was busy rehearsing the story just read. Before me were the two old graybeards quarreling over the rosy-checked princess; I heard the astrologer exclaim ""The mona...

KING VALDEMARS WOOING. Valdemar King and Sir Strange bold At table sat one day, So many a word twixt them there passed In amicable way. ""Hear Strange, hear! thou for a time Thy native land must leave; Thou shalt away to Bohemia far My young bride to receive."" Then answered Strange Ebbesen, To answer he was not slow: ""Who shall attend me of th...

Good news, Augustus, my mOther exclaimed upon reading the message she'd just received from a friend in Dieppe. ""Your father has escaped France in safety."" We hugged each Other, overjoyed to know that he'd avoided the inevitable fate, which, as an aristocrat, would have befallen him at the hands of the purging Republicans. Then a look of distre...

Genesis A, B Verse Indeterminate Unknown Us is riht micel æt we rodera weard, wereda wuldorcining, wordum herigen, modum lufien! He is mægna sped, heafod ealra heahgesceafta, 5 frea ælmihtig. Næs him fruma æfre, or geworden, ne nu ende cymþ ecean drihtnes, ac he bi a rice ofer heofenstolas. Heagum þrymmum sofæst and swifeorm sweglbosmas heold, 10

A LECTURE DELIVERED BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FEBRUARY 5, 1864. Ladies and Gentlemen,-I have undertaken to speak to you this evening on what is called the Science of History. I fear it is a dry subject; and there seems, indeed, something incongruous in the very connection of such words as Science and History. It is as if w...

Extract of a letter from Hon. Gerrit Smith, of New York, Member of Congress, to Joseph Sturge, Esq., of Birmingham, England. (By permission of Mr. Sturge.) ""Peterboro', New York, March 23rd, 1853. ""I take great pleasure in introducing to you my much esteemed friend, Professor Wm. G. Allen. I know him well, and know him to be a man of great men...

WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH EDITED BY G.W. CABLE The following diary was originally written in lead-pencil and in a book the leaves of which were too soft to take ink legibly. I have it direct from the hands of its writer, a lady whom I have had the honor to know for nearly thirty years. For good reasons the author's name is omitted,...

Os tres periodos sao;--o dos tempos primitivos;--o dos tempos mythologicos;--e o dos tempos historicos. O primeiro periodo comprehende duas epochas principaes: a da origem do homem, e a do diluvio e da dispersao dos homens, segundo a tradicao biblica. No segundo periodo notam-se tres epochas principaes que sao:--a dos tempos idolatras, caracteri...

MORNING PRAYER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who removest sleep from mine eyes, and slumber from mine eyelids. Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast given us the Law of truth, and hast planted everlasting life in our midst. Moses commanded us the Law as an inheritance of th...

Although in the present day the writing of a preface may be considered almost a work of supererogation on the part of an author, since it is that portion of a work seldom or ever looked into, still, as custom demands the form, and there may be some among my readers who may desire to learn what first led me to undertake this work, I am induced to...