Category: History - American

The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, July 1884, No. 10

The White House 557 Sunday Readings [_July 6_] 560 [_July 13_] 560 [_July 20_] 560 [_July 27_] 561 Growth 561 Tenement House Life in New York 561 The Cañons of the Colorado 564 The Courts of Three Presidents 566 Astronomy of the Heavens For July 569 For August 570 For Septembe...

Chapters

5. Part 5

There is one point of resemblance between M. Grévy and the Marshal, for M. Grévy is a keen sportsman; but in most other things the two differ, though in sum M. Grévy differs mor...

6. Part 6

Soul of mine, Would’st thou choose for life a motto half divine? Let this be thy guard and guide Through the future, reaching wide; Whether good or ill betide, Rise higher!

7. Part 7

Mr. Dudley had given them a note to introduce them to the commander at the navy yard on their return. It proved that he was absent. But they needed no pass nor introduction. The...

10. Part 10

There are two great sword-fisheries in the world, one on the coast of New England, and the other in the waters about Sicily. The former gives employment, in different years, to...

12. Part 12

The Chevalier de St. George, whom we saw in the story of “Rob Roy,” retired to Italy after his unsuccessful enterprise of 1715, “where the sufferings of his father for the Roman...

17. Part 17

=Snow Hill, Md.=, claims to have the finest C. L. S. C. on the Peninsula. “Of our twenty members one is a clergyman, two are lawyers, and six are school teachers. The study of B...

8. Part 8

See him enter the plain white “meeting-house” and ascend the lofty pulpit, and you recognize the height of his exaltation. In many places all the congregation were wont to rise...

14. Part 14

But let us glance at the kind of weapons which would be used against us in a foreign war, and with which we are unprovided and with which we must supply ourselves. Except the Un...

3. Part 3

Now this stylish apartment house looks out at the rear upon a series of common tenement houses, where in old brick or frame buildings a dense mass of people look out of the back...

18. Part 18

_Pennsylvania._—It is helping me regain what I lost under the pernicious influence of novel reading. It fills many moments, that would have been spent in idle dreaming, with rar...

2. Part 2

But after all its artistic finish, its rich decoration, the luxury apparent at a glance, there is a sense of something lacking in this grand habitation. All of these fine apartm...

9. Part 9

Arius, one of the prime movers in it, reasoning upon the relation of the terms Father and Son, arrived at the conclusion that the Son, though the first born of beings, did not e...

19. Part 19

It is fitting that, in this last number of the Chautauquan year, we should remind our readers that the gathering of our students and teachers is at hand, and that the opening of...

11. Part 11

Her Minnesota experience was almost tragic. Before reaching there she was informed that Governor Lowrie allowed no abolition sentiments in St. Cloud. “Then there is not room the...

13. Part 13

I sat one evening on the banks of the Tweed amid the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, by a plain monument in St. Mary’s Aisle; the soft moonlight, streaming through broken casements, ad...

4. Part 4

When these falls had been passed, they found themselves at the head of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, which was about two hundred and seventy miles long, varying from five to...

16. Part 16

If we change our order this month and begin the gossip from our letters with the “University Circle,” of =San José, Cal.=, it is only because we wish to call particular attentio...

1. Part 1

The White House 557 Sunday Readings [_July 6_] 560 [_July 13_] 560 [_July 20_] 560 [_July 27_] 561 Growth 561 Tenement House Life in New York 561 The Cañons of the Colorado 564...

15. Part 15

_The School of Theology_, J. H. Vincent, D.D., President, is to commence its first session July 12. It will be an attraction to many. The studies and topics for discussion, we s...

20. Part 20

[G] The Adult Kindergarten; or the Educational Problem Solved, for Public Life, Private Life, and School Life Uses. By a member of the Philadelphia Bar. Price, 50 cents. The Tow...