Periodical Books

The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 2

Various Authors

The outlook for the American Missionary Association while hopeful, yet appeals most earnestly for increased contributions. The debt has been steadily reduced. At the Annual Meeting in 1895, it was rep..

Amiel's Journal - The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel

In this second edition of the English translation of Amiel’s “Journal Intime,” I have inserted a good many new passages, taken from the last French edition (Cinquiéme édition, revue et augmentée.) But..

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844

Various Authors

The Englishman who, however well inclined to defer to the wisdom "of former ages," should throw a glance at the stern realities of the past, as connected with the history of his country, will be littl..

The Arena, Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897

Various Authors

The twenty-seven respectable citizens of New York who, in 1792, met under a buttonwood tree in front of the premises now known as Number 60 Wall Street, and formed an association for the purchase and ..

The Arena, Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897

Various Authors

This the age of evolution. The word is used by many men in many senses, and still oftener perhaps in no sense at all. By some it is spoken with a haunting dread as though it were another name for the ..

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

Various Authors

Late in the autumn of 1836, an Austrian brig-of-war cast anchor in the harbor of New York; and seldom have voyagers disembarked with such exhilarating emotions as thrilled the hearts of some of the pa..

English Embroidered Bookbindings

Cyril Davenport

A new series of 'Books about Books,' exclusively English in its aims, may seem to savour of the patriotism which, in matters of art and historical research, is, with reason enough, often scoffed at as..

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

Various Authors

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics...