In Viviana Radcliffe I have sought to portray the loyal and devout Catholic, such as I conceive the character to have existed at the period. In Catesby, the unscrupulous and ambitious plotter, masking his designs under the cloak of religion. In Garnet, the subtle, and yet Sincere Jesuit. And in Fawkes the gloomy and superstitious enthusiast. One doctrine I have endeavored to enforce throughout, — toleration. From these who have wilfully misinterpreted one of my former productions, and have attributed to it a pur pose and an aim utterly foreign to. My own intentions, I can scarcely expect fairer treatment for the present work. But to that wider and more discriminating class of readers from whom I have experienced so much favor and support, I confidently commit this volume, certain of meeting with leniency and impartiality.
There were hoops of gold all over his hands, And across his breast, in chains and bands, Broad and massive as belts of leather. And the belts of gold were bright in the sun, But brighter than gold his black eyes shone From their sad face-setting so swarth and dun, Brighter than beautiful Santan stone.
The future of civilised life both in peace and war is going to depend more and more upon the practical application of science to men's everyday needs. The two branches of science most needful for this are chemistry and mechanics. And in this evolution, oil and its products are going to play an ever-increasing part.Take locomotives as an instance. Up to 1840 - only 80 years - ago - animal-drawn vehicles were the only means of fast (12 m. p. h.) - as it was considered then - progression. Then came railways, and with railways came the coal and steam age, which lasted unbroken until about 1890, when oil and gas in various forms began to make inroads upon the until then unchallenged position of coal and steam combined as the only prime mover.And it is interesting to reflect that if it were not for the discovery and use of oil and oil products, probably at least one quarter of the machinery to-day producing power would be using coal instead of these forms of power production, and the national output of coal, especially at its now reduced figure, would be unable to sustain the burden, with the result that coal would now be costing over £5 a ton, with all the evils attendant upon such high prices.Coal has now a serious rival in oil, and in my opinion during the next 20 or 30 years the declining monopoly of coal as our only large source of power will be further shattered by the use of oil.
None Of these pamphlets are illustrated, and the four reprints of letters to the Mining Journal' are, I think, now out of print. A practical and sensible paper on the working of the Festiniog Quarries, by Messrs. Langley and Bellamy, has also just been issued by the Institution of Civil Engineers. As far as was practicable I have availed myself of the help afforded by these various pamphlets, and the references contained in larger works. My thanks are also due to my son, Mr. E. H. Davies, for his assistance in the preparation of the plans and sections by which the book is illustrated. I trust that the book will do its part in helping to further remove what has grown into a great national industry out of the region Of speculation and to place it on a sound scientific and commercial basis.
Fi 1g. Retis'pongia crateriformis pag. 50, Weisser Juray von Hossingen, nat.-'grösse, das Maschen netz ist nicht verkleinert; d Dicke der Becherwand.
Helen, 10Her Wedding Night, 117If I Had Thought, 122Isabel and Blanche, 33John Marshall, 30Jennie, 29Karra, 62Last Days of Lincoln, 6Listen! 98Looking Backwards, IIILooking In At The Window, 99Looking Through a Lady's Shutter, 132Lost Dream, The, 118Love Lives Forever, 40Love's Three Degrees, 93Lutie, 128Marguerite, 103Marjorie, 38Mary, 82Midst the Evening's Red and Gold, 151Mildred, 112Music, 92My Little Boy and I, 83Myrtle, 71My Son, 23Mystery, The, 124Nature's Solitude, 27New Century, The, 69Nor Heaven Nor Hell, 39Ode On a Lady's Hat, 105Old Daguerrotype, The, 28Olive, 88On the Banks of St. Joe River, 145Our Sisters-in-Law, 134Oh! Why Should Thy Heart? 26
Grantland Rice is a sweet and kindly human being who has a habit of saying things in a sweet and kindly way. Sometimes he says them in verse, which is still better.You like Grantland Rice's prose stuff until you have read some of his verses. Then you wonder why he doesn't write in rhyme all the time. Then some day you read one of his base ball stories, and you decide that there is a good deal to be said on both sides of this proposition.Grant Rice is almost the only man I know who has made literature of the sporting department of a daily paper - not merely smart journalism, but actually literature - matter that has good diction, swift, sharp, crackling metaphor, deft phrasing, smooth, clarified English. And his jingles very frequently are more than just rhymes. They are rhythm.
My Dear Lord Advocate,This trifle was written at your desire, and you did me the honour to read it to an assembly of Scotch Notables at Ulbster Hall, when I was myself unable to attend.Having thus stood godfather to the young stranger, you will not object to your gossip sending it into the world under the protection of your name. If my production is a fault, 1 have at least the poor Frenchwoman's excuse, that it is a very little one.
The principal chapters of the fecond part, containing a deflrzption of this dijeafl', its caufi's, the means of preventing and curing it.
Scotland. Are Iona and Loncarty to be regarded but as names, not as realities? Should we not, instead of disregarding the traditions and memorials of the past, do all in our power to preserve them, until further researches shall enable the enquirer to discover the exact truth P In this view, the reader shall be presented with such information and particulars regarding the early history of the House of Stewart as can be collected from the most approved authorities, and it will be for himself to determine the value to be placed on their testimony.
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