History Books

A Day in Old Athens

William Stearns Davis

This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city un..

The Victorian Age - The Rede Lecture for 1922

William Ralph Inge

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. The prophet or pioneer, after being at first declared ..

The Seigneurs of Old Canada - A Chronicle of New World Feudalism

William Bennett Munro

What would history be without the picturesque annals of the Gallic race? This is a question which the serious student may well ask himself as he works his way through the chronicles of a dozen centuri..

Vignettes Of San Francisco

Almira Bailey

In the same way that the poets have loved Rome and made their pilgrimages there—as good Moslems travel toward Mecca, so there are some of us who have come to San Francisco. Then when we arrive and fin..

The Vigilance Committee of 1856

James O'Meara

Many accounts of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco have been published, but all of them, so far as I have seen, were from the pen of members of that organization, or else from persons who favor..

San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906

James B. Stetson

As the earthquake and the great fire in San Francisco in the year 1906 were events of such unusual interest, and realizing how faulty is man's memory after time passes, I have here jotted down a few i..

California Romantic and Resourceful

John Francis Davis

California Romantic and Resourceful, A plea for the Collection, Preservation and Diffusion of Information Relating to Pacific Coast History.This plea is an arrow shot into the air. It is the result of..

Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland

Charlotte M. Yonge

If circumstances regarding the Queen's captivity and Babington's plot have been found to be omitted, as well as many interesting personages in the suite of the captive Queen, it must be remembered tha..