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...he Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visitors,... ...eart.com/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But t... ...0. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerners were vehement trade protectionists. The federal gove... ...ippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after... ...before they succumbed to lobbying and the euphoria of the eradication of the Moslem Moors from Granda in January 1492. He is a deeply controvers... ... only in December 1913. It was first published as a "word-cross" puzzle in New York of all places - in a Sunday weekly called the "World". ... ...er" in 1924, the Sunday Express in Britain picked up the American habit. The "New York Times" succumbed and published the first of its renowned cr...

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...Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears ...

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...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ... driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in G... ... excited -- A great story teller -- Traffic with the people -- Commerce of the Moors in India -- Offerings of presents to his majesty -- Exchanging ma... ...e South Seas -- His departure on a pirating cruise - - In trouble with Barbary Moors -- Capture of a Spanish vessel -- A strange sight witnessed on th... ... with India and China, until their own country wag invaded by the Norsemen and Moors in about 412 A.D. when Rome capitulated. The Romans continued to ... ...ain Cook, the son of a common farm laborer, was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire, England, October 27th, 1728. His death occurred at the hands... ...nded by Moor and Smith. They wintered about two miles from the company's fort, York, on the Hayes River, and although comfortable huts were built and ... ...arry. With three white companions and a number of Indians he started from Fort York in 1819 to the Great Slave Lake; thence going to the Coppermine Ri...

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...ght, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. T... ...r was the fac- ulty overlooked. One of the best a))prociatnd was " Hail to North Ad ! " No wonder, for oven the Hoosao Valley had to run an ex- tra ca... ... Oration After the noise around the fire 1910 CANK COMMITTEE had subsided. Northrop Clarey '07, of Great Barrington made the opening address. "Fellow ... ...pt Dompsoy's 'pep- per mill.' The senior committee has provided, as in New York theaters, safe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illus... ...s one of the three land appraisers of the Laiul Cffioo of the State of New York. Mr. Hoover is an editor of the Union-Sun, a daily paper of Look- port... ...s of 1898, of Chicatfo, III. Tiffany & Co. Hlllh Avenue and .17lh Si., New York Men's Gold Watches New Model 18 Karat Gold open-faceWatches suitable f... ...f our revered nnil honorahlo professor and doss oHicor, Professor Leverett Moors, bo it Resolved: That in behalf of the junior class wo hereby express...

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...en with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely persona... ... artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some time... ...o July 13, 1519 My father and mother welcomed me home. Father gave me a northlight room, on the third floor. I will place my easel near the window... ...t we may, lovers in peace, lead on our days to age: I am constant as the northern star, of whose true-fixed and resting Quality there is no fellow ... ...gh the pollarded garden, its cy- presses like stone columns: we walked the moors until Christmas cold sent us shivering to the big fireplaces where w... ...rowing time, those bronzes, our return, our boat bucking seas, sending us north, ice off the larboard, back to reality, debts, conniving. We said go... ...test diamond is somewhat small, speak to us and it will be remem- bered in moors, fens, and locks. If your crown, coming from a woman’s head, needs a... ...lly blocked the Confederacy through foreign influence. As governor of New York he left an enviable record; as senator he is above re- proach. With hi...

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...The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . .... ...NTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreign... ... good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robi... ...r principal Trading being upon the Coast, from the Latitude of 15 Degrees, North even to the Line it self. I was now set up for a Guiney Trader; and m... ...yield, and were carry’d all Prisoners into Sallee, a Port belonging to the Moors. The Use I had there was not so dreadful as at first I apprehended, no... ...to go out in this Boat, either for Pleasure or for Fish, with two or three Moors of some Distinction in that Place, and for whom he had provided extra... ...reabouts, for we saw no People. Yet such was the Fright I had taken at the Moors, and the dreadful Apprehen sions I had of falling into their Hands, ... ...d the like. The same Day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the Northward upon our own Coast, with Design to stretch over for the African C... ...retch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, which it seems was the manner of their Course in those D...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting ...

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...lace of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon towe... ...path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters. The wind was a keen north-east breeze, and might have been thought too severe by any but the ‘h... ...eys and minstrelsy, and the sun shines as it never does in this cold bleak north; and above all there is Margaret, dear tender Margaret, almost a quee... ... an archiepiscopal see, instead of leaving Scot- land under the primacy of York. Hawk and harp were all the properties the princesses-er- rant took wi... ...rewdly suspect ’tis the other way, gude man!—then the Lombard’s fellows in York, London, or Paris, or Bourges will, on seeing this bit bond, supply us... ..., with a view to a future surprise. The escort of Sir Patrick was asked to York by a Canon who had to journey thither, and was anxious for protection ... ...night of Berwick and the Canon of Durham 31 Yo n g e on the wide northern moors; but Sir Patrick, on starting in the morning of the day when they wer...

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...e Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the wid...

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... other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes... ...er endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had heard reports, her husband and she, of some... ...lked the deck and looked round upon my fellow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understan... ...ound myself unable to decide if he were Scots, English, or Irish. He had certainly employed north- country words and elisions; but the accent and the ... ...were fleeing from starvation, he was present on a plea- sure trip to visit a brother in New York. Ere he started, he informed me, he had been warned a... ...her old chum in Sauchiehall Street. ‘By the bye, Alick,’ said he, ‘I met a gentleman in New York who was asking for you.’ ‘Who was that?’ asked Alick.... ...hing than formerly. ‘C’est difficile,’ he added, ‘a expliquer.’ When we were well up on the moors and the Conductor was trying some road-metal with th...

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...n Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...nsas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilizat... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...s and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, and he had a beautiful white strong neck. He led a gig- gling class t... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...rican Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in New York! But I never saw a town that had such up-and-coming people as Gopher P... ...on was but too easy to meet, where there were no secret gates opening upon moors over which one might walk by moss-deadened paths to strange high adve...

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...sel, being evidently afraid of his crew of more than two hundred Turks and Moors, but sent seven men on board the prize and took it in tow. Curiously ... ...n. M. Dessault is a real personage, and the kindness of the Dey and of the Moors was exactly as related, also the expedi- ent of sending the Marabout ... ...d by Jean Matha for the ransom and rescue of prisoners in the hands of the Moors. A translation of the adventures of the Comtesse de Bourke and her da... ...mtesse de Bourke and her daughter was published in the Catholic World, New York, July 1881. It exactly agrees with 6 A Modern Telemachus the narratio... ...her lap—’could never bear the cold of that bare and dissolute place in the north you are bound for, and old Madame la Marquise, her mother, would be m... ...e made a cinder of my poor heart, when I am going away into the deso- late north, among the bears and the savages and the heretics?’ ‘There will be pl... ...th paste and powder and the like, an original conception of his, namely, a northern landscape, with snow-laden trees, drifts 22 A Modern Telemachus o...

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...re away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Margaret and the Red Rose came north.’ ‘ And is that the way they keep you safe?’ asked the hostess, who m... ...n?’ exclaimed Hal with ea- ger interest. ‘Of course he doth! The Mother at York promised I should learn whatever became a damsel of high degree,’ said... ...ft to hear that you speak as we do at home in Bedfordshire, not like these northern boors, that might as well be Scots!’ ‘I am not from Bedfordshire,’... ...it, but Hob mocks at it. He thinks the only use of the Wain is to find the North Star, up beyond there, pointing by the back of the Plough, and go by ... ...ailing folk, women and children in deadly fear of the cruel, bloody-minded York folk, and the Lord of March that is himself King Edward now, a murrain... ...h sharply, and too turbulent and unmanageable for the soberminded house at York. So there she was sent, with the deeply devout and strict Sister Schol... ...ish never to hear of being a baron. His relief was to wander away upon the moors, watch the lights and shadows on the wondrous mountains, or dream on ... ...rk and his crew that King Harry is reported to be lurking in some of these moors, and the Countess Clifford being his wife, he fell un- der suspicion ... ...reats against the Talbot if ever he should venture himself on the Cumbrian moors; and still hotter was their wrath, more bitter the tears of the sheph...

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...riest for her careless- ness. Yet, as she observed, Mistress Grisell was a North Coun- try maid, never couthly or conformable, but like a boy, who wou... ...s accidental. The Lord of Whitburn himself was in Ireland with the Duke of York, while his lady was in atten- dance on the young Queen, and it was jud... ...r Madge, canst thou speak for him?” Madge was Edmund’s sister, Margaret of York, who stood trembling and crying by Grisell’s bed. 9 Charlotte M. Youn... ...turned a message that if the maid was dead she should be embalmed and sent north to be buried in the family vault, when her father would be at all cha... ...f Somerset, the very bane of the King and the enemies of the noble Duke of York and Earl of Warwick. The story will be clearer if it is understood tha... ...m opposite sides of the down, one as if from Salisbury, the other from the north; and presently he reported that the former wore the family badge, a w... ...f not thrown and injured—have been left behind to feel herself lost on the moors. She minded the less his somewhat rude ejaculation, “Ho! Ho! South! S... ...Sunderland merchants for armour and weapons; the colts running wild on the moors were hastily caught, and reduced to a kind of order by rough breaking... ...r my brother or my nephew make me welcome or no, I shall have seen the old moors and mosses. Then methought I would come hither, or to some of the tow...

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...reef is broken by the fresh water of the streams; if the swell be from the north, it enters almost without dimi- nution; and the war-ships roll dizzil... ...all is Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission,... ...ly to send it from the land and sell it. A man at home who should turn all Yorkshire into one wheatfield, and annually burn his harvest on the altar o... ... natural love for the tropics which lies so often latent in per- sons of a northern birth; difficulty and danger attracted him; and when he was picked... ...e white enemies of the new regimen were of two classes. In the first stood Moors and the employes of MacArthur, the two chief rivals of the firm, who ... ...rtunity to thrust a stick into the Ger- man wheels. For some while, he and Moors fought their difficult battle in conjunction; in the course of which,... ...ontinuously growing. The sphere of Brandeis was limited to Mulinuu and the north central quarters of Upolu – practically what is shown upon the map op... ...lised American, this gentleman had been for some time representing the New York World in a very effective manner, always in the front, living in the f...

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...h artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, ... ...nanas, unfamiliar nuts, grape fruits, mangoes. The motor-cars that went by northward and southward grew more and more powerful and efficient, whizzed ... ...n the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s suffrage,... ...assistance in packing and dis- persing the rest. Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxe... ...AT MONO-RAIL DISASTER AT TIMBUCTOO. or this:— WAR A QUESTION OF HOURS. NEW YORK CALM. 37 H G Wells EXCITEMENT IN BERLIN. or again:— WASHINGTON STILL ... ...together fish-like. For the great airships with which Germany attacked New York in her last gigantic ef- fort for world supremacy—before humanity real... ...n, women, and children mixed together as though they had been no more than Moors, or Zulus, or Chinese. Lower New York was soon a furnace of crimson f...

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...berths in the ship’s cabin in which the wounded were to be conveyed to New York. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the field, a... ...wn country, Stamford Bridge was, in like manner, guarded by a single brave Northman, after the battle fought A.D. 1066, when Earl Tostig, the son of G... ... The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without expecting a... ... no defensive armor, as they went forth to receive the keys of the city of York. The battle was fought by the Norsemen in the full certainty that it m... ...mbers of which he thrust up his spear, and thus was able to hurl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of hi... ...vender.’ We have seen how the sturdy Roman fought for his city, the fierce Northman died to guard his comrades’ rush to their ships after the lost bat... ...1293 1293 1293 1293 1293 IN THE early times of Spanish history, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or the blight of Western gold h... ...tion and learning of the Christian kingdoms were far more derived from the Moors than from the kindred nations of Europe. By the close of the thirteen... ... to be like a broken punch bowl, with the broken part towards the sea. The Moors had fortified the city with a surrounding wall and twenty-six towers,...

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...gow, 1894. H. MAYNADIER, The Arthur of the English Poets , Boston and New York, 1907. G. PARIS, Histoire littéraire de la France , Paris, 1888. J. R... .... SCHOFIELD, English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer , New York and London, 1906. B. TEN BRINK, Geschichte der Englischen Literatur ,... ... Strassburg, 1899. T ranslated into English, 1st ed, I., H.M. Kennedy, New York, 1888, II., i., W.C. Robinson, 1893, II., ii., L.D. Schmidt, 1896. Aut... ...guerdon; but of these he had no great company. This Passent arrived in the north country and ravaged it, burning the towns and spoiling the land. He d... ...poiling the land. He dared make no long stay, for the king hastened to the north to give him battle, and this he might not endure. Passent took again ... ...ise than got safely away. When Uther parted from York he passed throughout Northumberland. From Northumberland he entered into Scotland, having many s... ...m his distant home, many a long days’ journey. With him were black men and Moors, bearing their king’s rich treasure. The senate gave of their number ... ...d that day. Guitard passed across his body, smiting down many Africans and Moors. Holdin, Duke of the Flemings, was a wise prince, circumspect and sob...

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...ey must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted f... ...urniture would have been nothing ex- traordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to... ...at you run a risk of being lost in the marshes? People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings; and I can tell you there is n... ...at we should appropriate the dairywoman’s cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter. A pleasant suggestion—and then, if the surly old ... ...ner or supper. But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment gre... ...k for th’ horse,’ he replied. ‘It ‘ud be to more sense. Bud I can look for norther horse nur man of a neeght loike this—as black as t’ chimbley! und H... ...ook-larning,” as you would say. Have you noticed, Catherine, his frightful York- shire pronunciation?’ 187 Emily Brontë ‘Why, where the devil is the ...

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... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...oughts to the Future. 26 Democracy in America Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, ... ...n where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of Nort... ...was only adopted in New England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this ... ...ors are almost all commingled with the gen- eral mass. In the State of New York, which formerly con- tained many of these, there are but two who still... ...These differences may be perceived to a certain extent in the State of New York; they are very sensible in Pennsylvania; but they become less striking... ...population of the Southern States will, perhaps, be similar to that of the Moors in Spain. After having occupied the land for centuries, it will perha...

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...adoc, who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol diers, ‘decides the fate of Br... ...were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the be... ...cots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the So... ...itons, are to be seen in almost all parts of the country. Across the bleak moors of Northumberland, the wall of Severus, overrun with moss and weeds, ... ...ght in which the English were commanded by two nobles; and then be sieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, wit... ...s missal, were left dead upon the field. The victo rious army marched to York. As King Harold sat there at the feast, in the midst of all his compan... ...or unarmed, were Oxford, Warwick, Le icester, Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, York. In all these places, and in many others, fire and sword worked their ... ...ng other intolerable monsters, a Colonel Kirk, who had served against the Moors, and whose soldiers—called by the people Kirk’s lambs, because they b...

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...TER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY. – It was, if I remember rightly, five o’cl... ...sent at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sun... ...an lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The names of the States and T erritories themselves form a chorus o... ...; the lamps were lit; a party of wild young men, who got off next evening at North Platte, stood to- gether on the stern platform, singing “The Sweet ... ...t it contained, as I passed through, one person in- completely civilised. At North Platte, where we supped that evening, one man asked another to pass... ...ey came from al- most every quarter of that Continent. All the States of the North had sent out a fugitive to cross the plains with me. From Virginia,... ...s, hard upon the shore of that ill-omened strait of whirlpools, in a land of moors where no stranger came, un- less it should be a sportsman to shoot ... ... overhead at night; of the blest return of morning, the peep of day over the moors, the awaking birds among the birches; how he abhorred the long wint...

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...commandeered an old opera-glass from his uncle who farmed at Leet over the moors, he had bought a cheap paper planisphere and Whitaker’s Almanac, and ... ... what looks like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from the little ro... ... Germany, of course!” A naval battle was supposed to be in progress in the North Sea. Let them! I returned to the consideration of my own affairs. Par... ...’s operating-room—I know not why. “They’re going to give us trouble in the North Sea, it seems,” he remarked with a sort of innocent zest. “I’m glad t... ...rs staggered, dropped, and were still. The figure runs from my pen. In New York that very thing occurred. Most of the theatrical audiences dispersed, ... ... had any had eyes to see its clearness. In London it was night, but in New York, for example, people were in the full bustle of the evening’s enjoymen... ...d, streaming over the bridges in the gray cold light of dawn. Where is New York, the high city of clangor and infuriated energy , wind swept and compe... ..., “and we’re going to level all these slums—and shift into tents on to the moors;” and he began to tell me of many things that were being arranged, th... ...he garden and the garden was too small for me; I went out to wander on the moors. “The past is past,” I cried, and all the while across the gulf of fi...