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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 105, Vol. III, January 2, 1886

Chambers' Journal

Edward Hawthorn smiled quietly. ‘It won’t do, my dear fellow,’ he said, glancing up quickly at the handsome open face in the big photograph. ‘My father isn’t at all that sort of person, I feel certain..

Ealing and Its Vicinity

D. F. E. Sykes

The village of Ealing lies on the northern and southern sides of the Uxbridge Road, and is distant about seven miles west from where once stood Tyburn Turnpike. The Parish of Ealing is not mentioned i..

In a Yellow Wood

Gore Vidal

People were coming in and out of the restaurant. It got a lot of the less wealthy Wall Street trade. Clerks and secretaries and stenographers had breakfast and lunch here and the lonelier ones had sup..

The Building in Japan

Teijiro Takagi

The incessant work of ten of the carpenters for two months has so progressed that every pole and railing is properly planed and skillfully shaped, measured and holed so that each piece fits the other ..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 3, April 1836)

Students of Yale

This is, indeed, but the brief outline of a theory; and like all other theories, it requires great modification in its application to the world. Man in his progress to civilization is not always influ..

Summer Morning - A poem

Thomas Miller

A cottage girl trips by with side-long look,Steadying the little basket on her head;And where a plank bridges the narrow brookShe stops, to see her fair form shadowèd.The stream reflects her cloak of ..

The Principle of Relativity

Albert Einstein

Michelson-Morley Experiment.—In 1881, Michelson and Morley performed their classical experiments which undermined the whole structure of the old ether theory and thus served to introduce the new theor..

Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee

Jarena Lee

At the time I had a book in my hand; it was on a Sabbath morning, about ten o’clock; to this place I resorted, where on coming to the water I sat down on the bank, and on my looking into it, it was su..