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""Then Silverwhite drew his sword with a great sweep, and rushed upon the sea-troll"" 44 ""The pike rose to the surface with the golden keys in his mouth"" 70 ""So heartfelt was her happiness that she forgot everything else in the world"" 84 ""A shrine adorned with gold and precious stones appeared"" 110

The Secret Memoirs of Henry of Navarres famous queen possess a value which the passage of time seems but to heighten. Emanating as they undoubtedly do from one of the chief actors in a momentous crisis in French history, and in the religious history of Europe as well, their importance as first-hand documents can hardly be overestimated. While th...

Rosie was going to buy a new spring suit for Georges birthday. Looking at that sentence again, I see that it could be open to misconstruction. The suit was for herself. But it was to be bought in honour of Georges birthday and flashed before his admiring gaze for the duration of that occasion. Altogether, taking it all round, George Mellons twen...

A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these volumes-on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the Other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and str...

Writing in London on a day in winter with a murky sky and sloshy streets, the title of Alpine Photography is verily refreshing. It brings back days of sunlight and joyous experiment, and as we write the soul stirring scenery is before us called up by photographs taken under varying conditions of comfort and discomfort. That there is something di...

To most young people, holidays mean simply freedom from lessons and a good time. All this they should mean-and something more. It is well to remember, for example, that we owe the pleasure of Thanksgiving to those grateful Pilgrims who gave a feast of thanks for the long-delayed rain that saved their withering crops-a feast of wild turkeys and p...

L e recueil de contes publi? sous le titre des Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles est tellement connu, que nous croyons pouvoir nous dispenser de parler ici de sa valeur litt?raire. Par un hasard singulier, qui ne s'explique pas facilement, on n'en connoissoit pas un seul manuscrit, et toutes les ?ditions d'un ouvrage qu'on consid?re avec raison comme l'u...

In the presentation of this serious enterprise for the criticism and official sanction of The Academy, 'en seance', was included a request that, if possible, the task of writing a preface to the series should be undertaken by me. Official sanction having been bestowed upon the plan, I, as the accredited officer of the French Academy, convey to y...

Spain has a rich and varied literature, from which other nations have freely drawn,-a literature that gives true expression to the life and aspirations of the Spanish people. The selections in this volume are taken from literary works that have been written in the past fifty or sixty years, and although they are inferior in some respects to the ...

In preparing this book the editors have had two main purposes in view. Their first purpose has been to furnish some definite knowledge concerning literary productions of Wisconsin people. They have been surprised, and they feel that their readers will be surprised, to find how many authors of national repute have been intimately associated with ...