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IN the last century - and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking - long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his native...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. On New Year&'s day Dr. Pringle received a letter from India, informing him that his cousin, Colonel Armour, had died at Hydrabad, and left him his residuary legatee. The same post brought other letters on the same subject from the agent of the deceased in London, by which it was evident to the whole family...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Horatio Alger, Jr. , an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass. , January 13, 1834. He was the son of a clergyman, was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Two frowning boys sat in their tennis flannels beneath the glare of lamp and gas. Their leather belts were loosened, their soft pink shirts unbuttoned at the collar. They were listening with gloomy voracity to the instruction of a third. They sat at a table...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Towards the end of September the Emperor made a journey to Raab; and, as he was mounting his horse to return to his residence at Schoenbrunn, he saw the bishop a few steps from him. "e;Is not that the bishop? "e; said he to M. Jardin, who was holding his horse's head. "e;No, Sire, it is...