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At the North of Bearcamp Water

Frank Bolles

Floating upon the clear waters of Chocorua Lake in the latter part of a warm July afternoon, and looking northward, I see the coolness of night beginning to grow in the heart of the mountain. At first..

Pennsylvania Dutch, and other essays

Phebe Earle Gibbons

The leading article in this collection appeared, as first published, in the Atlantic Monthly in October, 1869. After this essay was written I became better acquainted with our plain German sects, and ..

Good Newes from New England

Edward Winslow

From thence they departed; and the wind being fair for the Massachusets, went thither, and the rather, because the savages, upon our motion, had planted much corn for us, which they promised not long ..

South Africa; vol I

Anthony Trollope

    That was what had just been done in the Transvaal when my idea of going to South Africa had ripened itself into a resolution. Clearly there was an additional reason for going. ..

South Africa; vol II

Anthony Trollope

The farmers’ houses generally consisted of two main rooms, with probably some small excrescence which would serve some of the family as a sleeping apartment. In the living room there would be a fire-p..

A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth

Dwight B. Heath

    Any good book must mean many things to many readers, and this journal offers more than just reflections of past glories and intimations of great tragedy. It is a primary source for Ameri..

Rasputin and the Russian Revolution

Princess Catherine Radziwill

When the book called “Behind the Veil at the Russian Court” was published the Romanoff’s were reigning and, considering the fact that she was living in Russia at the time, the author of it, had her id..

Inside the Russian Revolution

Rheta Childe Dorr

A great deal of news, as we regard news, never gets into the papers at all, or is compressed into very small space. For example there have been a number of terrible railroad accidents on the Russian r..