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Excerpt: ...being reinforced, he took up a strong position on the twenty-seventh. Again there was failure in combining the attack. Jackson found obstructions that even he could not overcome quickly enough. Hill attacked again with the utmost gallantry, wave after wave of Confederates rushing forward only to melt away before the concentrated fire of Porter's reinforced command. But at last the Confederates-though checked and roughly handled-con...

bTitle:/b Letters from Majorca ... With numerous illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 mill...

bTitle:/b A month at Gastein: or, Footfalls in the Tyrol, etc. [By C. W. Wood.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections includ...

bTitle:/b Under Northern Skies ... With sixty-eight illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 m...

bTitle:/b Round about Norway ... With sixty-three illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 mil...

bTitle:/b In the Black Forest.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial...

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Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 55: January to June, 1893 Oh, Charles E I only went out to take a message to the cottage. And she knows I might have been back in ten minutes. Indeed I must hasten in. He opened his umbrella, which he had brought with him, for rain had been threatening all the morning, and, causing her to take his arm, held it over her. She walked timidly it was the first time She had ever taken it: and the moment they came with...

Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 47: January to June, 1889IT was a May-day and the Wind was not in the east. The little wind there was blew softly and gently from the south, and down in the valley the weather was warm and genial.Some people might have found it too warm inside the smithy, at three O'clock in the afternoon, to be pleasant. Nevertheless, Reuben Foreman, as he stood at his anvil wielding mightily his heavy sledge with movement slow a...

Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 53: January to June, 1892 The two gentlemen were speedily immersed in college politics, reminiscences to Sir Henry, realities to Arthur Ashley. Sir Henry had never gained university honours, had never tried for them, but he was delighted that Arthur, his presumptive heir, should do so. Sir Henry had been always childless, and this young man, his brother's eldest son, was the present heir to Ashley. Sir Henry had ...

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Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknow...

Excerpt from Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, Vol. 2 The Gun boats are to be built on the Thames, by Which much time and expense Will be saved. I want no assistance towards building the Gun boats. The Labor and Materials I have at hand. It is not so With respect to the Ship however no time need be lost. An estimate of the materials is sent, and a saving of time and expense will arise in pro portion to the number of Shipwr...