The present volume completes the work proposed by the Prince Society of atranslation into English of the VOYAGES OF CHAMPLAIN. It includes thejournals issued in 1604, 1613, and 1619, and covers fifteen years of hisresidence and explorations in New France.

Still unrivalled, after the lapse of four centuries the villas of thegreat cardinals of the Renaissance retain their supremacy over theirItalian sisters, not, as once, by reason of their prodigal magnificencebut in the appealing charm of their picturesque decay.

_The rights of production of these plays are in every casereserved by the authors or their representatives. No play can begiven publicly without an individual arrangement. The law doesnot, of course, prevent their reading in classrooms or their...

extolls the Golden Age, 29; his requisites for a knight-errant, 35; at the interment of Chrysostom, 41; his adventure with a dead body, 51; captures Mambrinos helmet, 56; performs penance, 63; his views of knight-errantry, 76, 82;...

These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate booksof Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of theclassics which are one of the real improvements of recent times.

I. A Discussion Somewhat in the Air II. The Religion of the Stipendiary Magistrate III. Some Old Curiosities IV. A Discussion at Dawn V. The Peacemaker VI. The Other Philosopher VII.

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon ofsea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies,among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous--norwished to be.

"We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes, Countless and vehement, the sons of God,...

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pabbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished--...

As I write, here in my surgeons study, I ask myself that question.Whats behind it? My neighbors? Then what do I know--really know--ofthem? After all, this wall which rises beyond my desk, the wall againstwhich my glass case of instruments rests, symbolizes the boundary of...

The volume _The Evidence in the Case_ is based upon an article by theHon. James M. Beck, which came into print in the "New York Times" ofOctober 25th. The article in question made so deep an impression withthinking citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that it has been...

Grim Fate was tender, contemplating you, And fairies brought their offerings at your birth; You take the rose-leaf pathway as your due, Your rightful meed the choicest gifts of earth.

I have a quantity of MS. in hand for Parts II and III, and hope to beable----should life, and health, and opportunity, be granted to me, topublish them in the course of the next few years.

Thomas Chatterton was born in Bristol on the 20th of November 1752.His father--also Thomas--dead three months before his sons birth, hadbeen a subchaunter in Bristol Cathedral and had held the mastershipin a local free school.

THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sundayin the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palmit was close upon ten oclock, the candles were burning dimly, thewicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist.

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voicewas stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sittingin the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot andstifling.