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Excerpt from Wayside Weeds W. H. E. There is a Heav'n: at least on earth below: It is where scholars read and thinkers brood: For crowns and halos volumes in a row For angels' wings it has its gown and hood. In that seraphic choir see Ellis sit! With that Elys-ian light his numbers glow: The scholar's seriousness, the scholar's wit, Twin spirits in alternate ebb and flow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 7: A Series of Papers Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates, and in a Manner That He Would Not Disapprove, Were He Among Us Now, Gifted With the Knowledge, and Familiar With the Habits and Doings H. We were rejoiced to hear that you intended to visit Hindustan, and we lose no time in coming to offer you our welcome. You cannot conceive how greatly ...

Excerpt from Memoir of Mrs. Mary Mercy Ellis, Wife of Rev. William Ellis: Missionary in the South Seas, and Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society, Including Notices of Heathen Society, of the Details of Missionary Life, and the Remarkable Display of Divine Goodness in Severe and Protracted Applications The examples of merchants and other secular men, who go and reside abroad in great numbers unmarried for the sake of emolument or...

Excerpt from Family Letters of Richard Translated Somewhere I have recently seen this collection of "Family Letters" referred to by a well-wishing journalist in advance of its integral English publication - a few of the letters or portions thereof having been elsewhere translated by me before - as "a supplement to Wagner's Autobiography." Upon the assumption that we yet may be given a reliable translation of Mein Leben, to some extent I can a...

Excerpt from Education, as a Means of Preventing Destitution: With Exemplifications From the Teaching of the Conditions of Well-Being and the Principles and Applications of Economical Science at the Birkbeck Schools, Prefaced by a Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M. P My Lord, I am aware that it must be matter of more than ordinary importance, which alone can justify an obscure individual in trespassing upon your time and attent...

Excerpt from Philo-Socrates: A Series of Papers Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates, and in a Manner That He Would Not Disapprove, Were He Among Us Now, Gifted With the Knowledge, and Familiar With the Habits and Doings P. You may be reckoned among the fortunate boys of this world, and I will tell you why I say so. Your appearance bespeaks that you are taken care of at home. Unha...

Excerpt from What Stops the Way?: Or Our Two Great Difficulties, With Some Hints Concerning the Way In venturing to submit the following pages for your consideration, I am particularly anxious to obtain the attention of those among you who concur in the opinion that "posterity" has some claims upon us, or that we have some duties to perform to "posterity" besides those generally thought of. It has been contended, with great force, that we ar...

Excerpt from The Martyr Church: A Narrative of the Introduction, Progress and Triumph of Christianity in Madagascar, With Notices of Personal Intercourse and Travel in That IslandThe present volume is offered to the Christian public, more especially to the friends of missions, in the hope that it may gratify a desire, which it is believed is at the present time very generally felt for a more complete account than has been hitherto given of the...

Excerpt from The Metal Mixer: The Easiest, Simplest and Most Exact Method of Mixing Iron by Chemical Analysis, With Tables and Ready Made Mixtures, Indispensable to Molders, Melters and Foundry MenFoundry iron contains several of these elements, or im purities as they are sometimes called, but there are only five in which we are mostly interested in. They are silicon, phosphorus, sulphur, manganese and the carbons. Of these five, I think the c...

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Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

Excerpt from Norwich University, 1819 1911, Vol. 2 of 3: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor, Sketches of the Trustees, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Professors, Alumni, and Past Cadets, 1820-66 Whittemore, Milwaukee, Wis., The Historical Department of the State of Iowa, Gen. William H. Thrift, adjutant-general of Iowa, Mr. J. L. Gillis, Sacramento, Cal. Gen. S. M. Preston, '45, Seattle, Wash. The Historian especially acknowledges t...

Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 6: A Series of Papers, Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates, and in a Manner That He Would Not Disapprove, Were He Among Us Now, Among the Boys P. If the state of society were such that all adults were possessed of abundance of wealth, and of the knowledge and habits requisite for making wealth minister to their well-being, the advice and exhortat...

Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 4: Among the TeachersP. Showing how far safer it is to prevent the growth of superstition than to separate it from religion after they have had time to entwine themselves with the affections into one strong cord wherewith to tie down intelligence and all aspira tions for improvement.T. Unfortunately, we are no longer children, and on that account we have less time to learn, while we may have much to unlearn. B...

Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 3: A Series of Papers, Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates, and in a Manner That He Would Not Disapprove, Were He Among Us Now, Among the Teachers T. They tell us, Philo, that you are an enemy of religion, and that is why they dislike your teaching the boys. P. And who are they who thus strive to injure me, and, I may say, the boys also, and seem...

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