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Auld Licht Idylls
Auld Licht Idylls – James M. Barrie A collection of stories of Scottish life, charmingly written, full of the grace and humor that characterize this writer’s productions. If there is a drawback to the pleasure of reading them, it is the want of a glossary to give the benighted English reader some notion of the […]
Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis
Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis – J. Fletcher Williams The recounting of events which have transpired in our own neighborhood is the most interesting of all history. There is a fascination in the study of the intermingled fact and fiction of the past which is heightened by a familiarity with the localities described. […]
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 10 – 19
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 10 – 19 – John Calvin The Commentaries On Jeremiah, like those on The Minor Prophets, were delivered as Lectures In The Theological School At Geneva, taken down by some of the Pupils, and afterwards read to Calvin, and corrected. We find in them the production of the same […]
The Canons Of Dordrecht
The Canons Of Dordrecht – Synod of Dordrecht The Canons of Dordrecht is the judgment of the National Synod held in the Dutch city of Dordrecht in 1618-19. Today, these canons are part of the Three Forms of Unity, one of the confessional standards of many of the Reformed churches around the world, including the […]
The Red Fairy Book
The Red Fairy Book – Andrew Lang In his „Blue Fairy-Book“ Mr. Andrew Lang did not exhaust the fairy treasury, and in this companion volume he has collected many attractive tales. They are mainly from Madame d’Aulnoy and other French sources, the Norse and the unfailing German. Mr. Lang has condensed the story of „Sigurd“ […]
The Pink Fairy Book
The Pink Fairy Book – Andrew Lang With „The Pink Fairy Book“ Mr. Lang has exhausted the primary colors without coming to an end of his store of fairytales. This time he has gone further afield, though without finding much that is new. Japan yields a few; and other sources which we do not remember […]
The Crimson Fairy Book
The Crimson Fairy Book – Andrew Lang A storyteller’s night without one of Mr. Andrew Lang’s books of fairy tales would be but a dull affair. This one is “ The Crimson Fairy Book „, made up of some three dozen tales chosen, as in previous collections, from the folk-lore of all nations, and adapted […]
The Animal Story Book
The Animal Story Book – Andrew Lang If anyone believes that style does not appeal to the young readers, let him open Mr. Andrew Langs „The Animal Story Book“, and read to any intelligent child of nine years Dumas‘ description of Mysouf I., Mysouf II., and Pritchard, and note how soon Dumas becomes a living […]
Reincarnation – A Study In Human Evolution
Reincarnation – A Study In Human Evolution – Theophile Pascal It it more than 1500 years since the decision of the Council of 543 a.d. condemned to oblivion sublime teachings which ought to have been carefully preserved and handed down to future generations as a beacon amid social reefs; teachings that would have uprooted that […]
Redburn – His First Voyage
Redburn – His First Voyage – Herman Melville Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. This theme of a youth confronted by realities and evils for which he is unprepared-or incorrectly prepared by both family and American institutions-is a […]