History Books

The Native Races of East Africa

Wilfrid D. Hambly

A few years ago two dwarfs or Pygmies from the trackless forests of Uganda were bold enough to allow themselves to be brought to London, where they were exhibited and photographed. Unfortunately these..

The Foot-prints of the Creator

Hugh Miller

The geological works of Hugh Miller have excited the greatest interest, not only among scientific men, but also among general readers. There is in them a freshness of conception, a power of argumentat..

Memorials of Old Devonshire

F. J. Snell

The Editor deems he has no need to apologize for thus enriching the volume with the labours of departed Devonians, whom their compatriots recall with deep reverence, and whom, were they living, the Ed..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Athenian people, on this and similar occasions, xxiiwere enabled to resolve and perform boldly from the generous spirit inspired by their national system of education. Their institutions, also, we..

Famous Colonial Houses

Paul M. Hollister

In the face of mutterings of anarchy—that Russian importation which is so much less satisfactory than the caviar—there is reassurance in these sturdy calm old mansions which are the monuments of the s..

How to Trace a Pedigree

Helen Augusta Crofton

Many nations have preserved the records of family genealogy in their national archives; indeed, all have done this more or less, and all honour to those who have been keenest in the matter, for a nati..

Betty Alden: The first-born daughter of the Pilgrims

Jane G. Austin

But to me it seems a small matter, this question of the grave of Standish. He lived to be old and very infirm, and neither his old age, his infirmities, nor his final surrender to death are any part o..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The marriage of brothers with their own sisters was, in later ages, considered illegal; not so with respect to half sisters by the fathers’s side, whom no law forbade men to marry. Still the recorded ..