Recreation Books

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion - A Study in Survivals

This book is the outcome of work undertaken in Greece during my two years’ tenure of the Craven Studentship from 1898 to 1900. It is therefore my first duty gratefully to commemorate John, Lord Craven..

The Atom and the Ocean

E. W. Seabrook Hull

Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. Historians of the future will record that man almost simultaneously unlocked the secret of..

Among Cannibals

Carl Lumholtz

In the year 1880 I undertook an expedition to Australia, partly at the expense of the University of Christiania, with the object of making collections for the zoological and zootomical museums of the ..

Modern dancing and dancers

J. E. Crawford Flitch

It is not unlikely that when the art historian of the future comes to treat of the artistic activity of the first decade of the twentieth century, he will remark as one of its most notable accomplishm..

My Home in the Alps

Alice Le Blond

In this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared in the St. Moritz Post, or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post. It thus seems to me that a small book, dealing with some of the vari..

Legends of Old Honolulu

W. D. Westervelt

The legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet. The legends tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspira..

The magic of jewels and charms

George Frederick Kunz

Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the ..

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories

George Bird Grinnell

In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says. The stories must be reproduced as they are told; otherwise they lose that primitive flavor which is o..