THE PASSING OF ARTHUR.
The reader has already become somewhat acquainted with the marvelous history of King Arthur, and…
THE PASS OF KILLIECRANKIE.
John Græme of Claverhouse, whose title of Viscount Dundee had been given him in reward…
THE ORIGIN OF RIVERS.
Let us trace a river to its source. Beginning where it empties itself into the…
THE MYSTERY OF THE TADPOLE.
George Henry Lewes. A blade of grass is a mystery, if men would but distill…
THE MOTIONS OF BIRDS.
A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as…
THE LAST FIGHT IN THE COLISEUM,
A.D. 404. Charlotte M. Yonge. The grandest and most renowned of all ancient amphitheaters is…
THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS.
(1620.) The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the trees…
THE HIGH TIDE ON THE COAST OF LINCOLNSHIRE—1571.
Jean Ingelow. The old mayor climbed the belfry tower,The ringers ran by two, by…
THE HAPPY VALLEY.
The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of…
THE GREAT VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
In 1883 the most destructive volcanic eruption ever known occurred in the Straits of Sunda…