Non-fiction Books

The Seven Lamps of Advocacy

Edward Abbott Parry

The English Bar is a society of advocates, though, as Blackstone tells us, we generally call them counsel. The Scots retain the name in their Faculty of Advocates. The word must be insisted upon for i..

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 36, Vol. I, September 6, 1884

Chambers' Journal

Being now robed, we enter the Hall. What a babel of tongues is here also! ‘Have you got a mess?’ is the question asked by friend of friend. (An Inn of Court mess consists of four persons, the first of..

Half Hours With Modern Scientists - Lectures and Essays

George F. Barker

The title of this Series of Essays—Half Hours with Modern Scientists—suggests a variety of thoughts, some of which may not be inappropriate for a brief introduction to a new edition. Scientist is a mo..

Unnoticed London

Elizabeth Montizambert

The following brief account of a few of the things that have interested me in London is not intended for the use of the inveterate sightseer, for whom so many admirable and complete fingerposts to the..

One Hundred Cartoons

Oscar Edward Cesare

Brilliant and powerful interpretations of our times, by the man whose recent change from the New York Sun to the New York Evening Post gave the latter newspaper opportunity to congratulate itself on t..

The Wild North Land

William Francis Butler

People are supposed to have an object in every journey they undertake in this world. A man goes to Africa to look for the Nile, to Rome to see the Coliseum or St. Peter’s; and once, I believe, a certa..

Venice

Mary Sturge Gretton

VENICE herself is poetry, and creates a poet out of the dullest clay.” It was a poet who spoke, and his clay was instinct with the breath of genius. But it is true that Venice lends wings to duller cl..

Ten Years in Washington

Mary Clemmer

Ten Years in Washington or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield. ..