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The Story of Cairo
The Story of Cairo – Stanley Lane Poole Cairo is in the fullest sense a medieval city. It had no existence before the Middle Ages; its vigorous life as a separate Metropolis almost coincides with the arbitrary millennium of the middle period of history; and it still retains to this day much of its mediaeval […]
Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam
Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam – Simon Henry Leeder This Western apologist for Islam claims that no writings on Mohammedanism are „more misleading than those of missionaries,“ especially those published in recent years. Their writings are said to be cruel and relentless attacks on Islam. This book is a sympathetic study […]
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile – Amelia Ann Blandford Miss Blandfords’ ‚A Thousand Miles Up the Nile ‚ is one of the classics of the literature of Egypt. Her work as an Egyptologist, and deserved reputation as such, began with the expedition of which it is the narrative. The author has studied her subjects […]
The Ritual of Transcendental Magic
The Ritual of Transcendental Magic – Eliphas Levi This work is in two parts: in the first one, called „The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic“, we establish the kabalistic and magical doctrine in its entirety; this here, the second part, is consecrated to the cultus, that is, to Ceremonial Magic. The one is that which the […]
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy This book has made Mr. Hardy one of the most prominent English novelist. The power and the movement of the story are so great that it is only when we read a review of it that we are conscious that its author had any purpose save that which […]
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies – Andrew Lang Mr. Lang’s book is the most curious imaginable. Written in 1691 by a Scotch divine, it is nothing less than a calm assumption of the existence at that time of a commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies, whose government, habits, etc., are minutely described […]
The Star of Bethlehem. Old Testament shadows of New Testament truths
The Star of Bethlehem. Old Testament shadows of New Testament truths – Lyman Abbott The Old Testament is more full of parables than the New. Its history is prophetic. Its stories are parables in real life. The chronicles of Israel are full of God’s foreshadowings of the redemption of the world. From the Fall in […]
Ten Theophanies
Ten Theophanies – William M. Baker The author of this book is better known by his novels than by his religious writings. If he carries his vivid and illuminating imagination into a work so different in its nature from these, as the one before us, the result is certainly to aid in the production of […]
History of Santa Clara County
History of Santa Clara County – Eugene T. Sawyer There is no county in California so rich in material, romantic, progressive and adventurous, as the County of Santa Clara. It absorbs about the whole of the Santa Clara Valley, rightly proclaimed the richest valley in the state, and in respect of size, the richest in […]
The Ball and the Cross
The Ball and the Cross – Gilbert Keith Chesterton The story begins with a theological discussion in an airship, whose owner, Lucifer, nearly runs it against the ball and the cross which surmount St. Paul’s, London. Here he leaves the other occupant of the ship, an old hermit, who appears again at the end of […]