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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIII, NO. 359.] SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1829. [Price 2d. RUGBY SCHOOL [Illustration: Rugby School.] On the eastern border of Warwickshire, about 13 miles from Coventry, and 16 from Warwick, stands the cheerful town of Rugby, a place of great antiquity, but of little note previous to the erection of a grammar-school there, towards the close of the sixteenth century. The circumstances under which this school was founded, and the rank it has attained among our classical seminaries, may probably be interesting to the reader....

NIGHT WATCHES by W.W. Jacobs HIS OTHER SELF “They’re as like as two peas, him and ‘is brother,” said the night- watchman, gazing blandly at the indignant face of the lighterman on the barge below; “and the on’y way I know this one is Sam is because Bill don’t use bad langwidge. Twins they are, but the likeness is only outside; Bill’s ‘art is as white as snow.” He cut off a plug of tobacco, and, placing it in his cheek, waited expectantly....

Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia” BOOK VI. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. 1727-1730. Chapter I. FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER’S SPECTRE-HUNT. The Crown-Prince’s young Life being, by perverse chance, involved and as it were absorbed in that foolish question of his English Marriage, we have nothing for it but to continue our sad function; and go on painfully fishing out, and reducing to an authentic form, what traces of him there are, from that disastrous beggarly element,–till once he get free of it, either dead or alive....

VOLUME II by Rev. JAMES MacCAFFREYLic. Theol. (Maynooth), Ph.D. (Freiburg i. B.) Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth Nihil Obstat:Thomas O’Donnell, C.M.Censor Theol. Deput. Imprimi Potest:Guilielmus,Archiep. Dublinen.,Hiberniæ Primas. Dublini, 16 Decembris, 1914. HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH From the Renaissance to theFrench Revolution CHAPTER I RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF ENGLAND BEFORE THE REFORMATION Wilkins, /Concilia Magnae Britanniae/, iii., 1737. /Historia Regis Henrici Septimi a Bernardo Andrea Thosolate/ (André of Toulouse), edited by J....

Life Story of a Motherless Boy By ISABEL C. BYRUM [Illustration: Learning to Pray] Author’s Preface In presenting this little volume, the author hopes that it may be useful in suggesting to the minds of young boys the great wrong there is in indulging in evil habits. We read, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” and this is true concerning most boys who form habits that are harmful both to body and soul....

HUMAN NATURE AND OTHER SERMONS by Joseph Butler INTRODUCTION. Joseph Butler was born in 1692, youngest of eight children of a linendraper at Wantage, in Berkshire. His father was a Presbyterian, and after education at the Wantage Free Grammar School Joseph Butler was sent to be educated for the Presbyterian ministry in a training academy at Gloucester, which was afterwards removed to Tewkesbury. There he had a friend and comrade, Secker, who afterwards became Archbishop of Canterbury....

Little Britain by Washington Irving What I write is most true…I have a whole booke of cases lying by me which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients (within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity with me. NASHE. IN the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of LITTLE BRITAIN....

LONG ODDS The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I was stopping with him at the place he bought in Yorkshire. Shortly after that, the death of his only son so unsettled him that he immediately left England, accompanied by two companions, his old fellow-voyagers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good, and has now utterly vanished into the dark heart of Africa....

LOST ON THE MOONORIN QUEST OF THE FIELD OF DIAMONDS BY ROY ROCKWOOD CHAPTER I. A WONDERFUL STORY II. SOMETHING ABOUT OUR HEROES III. PREPARING FOR A VOYAGE IV. AN ACCIDENT V. THE WORK OF AN ENEMY VI. ON THE TRACK VII. MARK IS CAPTURED VIII. JACK IS PUZZLED IX. A DARING PLOT X. “HOW STRANGE MARK ACTS” XI. READY FOR THE MOON XII. MARK’S ESCAPE XIII. A DIREFUL THREAT XIV....

MAURICE GUEST Part I S’amor non e che dunque e quel ch’io sento? Ma s’egli e amor, per Dio, che cosa e quale? PETRARCH I. One noon in 189-, a young man stood in front of the new Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and watched the neat, grass-laid square, until then white and silent in the sunshine, grow dark with many figures. The public rehearsal of the weekly concert was just over, and, from the half light of the warm-coloured hall, which for more than two hours had held them secluded, some hundreds of people hastened, with renewed anticipation, towards sunlight and street sounds....

MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER By HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH 1918 [Illustration: Jeanne d’Arc.–the spirit of the women of the Allies.] TO THE ABLE AND DEVOTED WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE Who have stood behind the armies of the Allies through the years of the Great War as an unswerving second line of defense against an onslaught upon the liberty and civilization of the world, I dedicate this volume. HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH CONTENTS FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT I....

MONI THE GOAT-BOY BY JOHANNA SPYRI Author Of “Heidi” TRANSLATED BY HELEN B. DOLE ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR BY CHARLES COPELAND [Illustration: “In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy.”] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. ALL IS WELL WITH MONI II. MONI’S LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS III. A VISIT IV. MONI CAN NO LONGER SING V. MONI SINGS AGAIN LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “In the midst of the flock came the goat-boy” frontispiece “Moni climbed with his goats for an hour longer” “Jorgli had opened his hand....

Mr. Trunnell Mate of the Ship “Pirate” By T. Jenkins Hains Author of “The Wind-jammers,” “The Wreck of the Conemaugh,” etc. 1900 To All Hands under the lee of the weather cloth this is inscribed MR. TRUNNELL I By some means, needless to record here, I found myself, not so many years ago, “on the beach” at Melbourne, in Australia. To be on the beach is not an uncommon occurrence for a sailor in any part of the world; but, since the question is suggested, I will say that I was not a very dissipated young fellow of twenty-five, for up to that time I had never even tasted rum in any form, although I had followed the sea for seven years....

MR. WADDINGTON OF WYCK BY MAY SINCLAIR 1921 MR. WADDINGTON OF WYCK I 1 Barbara wished she would come back. For the last hour Fanny Waddington had kept on passing in and out of the room through the open door into the garden, bringing in tulips, white, pink, and red tulips, for the flowered Lowestoft bowls, hovering over them, caressing them with her delicate butterfly fingers, humming some sort of song to herself....

Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy CHAPTER I–MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER Ah! It’s pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did, else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick I am well convinced which holds the damp, and as to chimney-pots putting them on by guess-work like hats at a party and no more knowing what their effect will be upon the smoke bless you than I do if so much, except that it will mostly be either to send it down your throat in a straight form or give it a twist before it goes there....

Or, Rescuing the Runaways by ANNIE ROE CARR 1916 CHAPTER I DOWN PENDRAGON HILL Ta-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat! Professor Krenner took the silver bugle from his lips while the strain echoed flatly from the opposite, wooded hill. That hill was the Isle of Hope, a small island of a single eminence lying half a mile off the mainland, and not far north of Freeling. The shore of Lake Huron was sheathed in ice....

THE WORKS OF EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON) NIGHT AND MORNING Book IV CHAPTER I. “O that sweet gleam of sunshine on the lake!” WILSON’S City of the Plague If, reader, you have ever looked through a solar microscope at the monsters in a drop of water, perhaps you have wondered to yourself how things so terrible have been hitherto unknown to you–you have felt a loathing at the limpid element you hitherto deemed so pure–you have half fancied that you would cease to be a water-drinker; yet, the next day you have forgotten the grim life that started before you, with its countless shapes, in that teeming globule; and, if so tempted by your thirst, you have not shrunk from the lying crystal, although myriads of the horrible Unseen are mangling, devouring, gorging each other in the liquid you so tranquilly imbibe; so is it with that ancestral and master element called Life....

”COUNTRY LIFE”Library of Fiction. NORTH, SOUTHANDOVER THE SEA. ByM.E. FRANCIS(Mrs. Francis Blundell.) with Illustrations by H.M. BROCK. 1902. NOTE Some of these stories have already appeared in “The Cornhill Magazine,” “Longmans’ Magazine,” and “Country Life,” and are reprinted by kind permission of the Editors of these periodicals. CONTENTS NORTH GOLDEN SALLY“TH’ OWDEST MEMBER”THE CONQUEST OF RADICAL TEDHEATHER IN HOLBORNSENTIMENT AND “FEELIN’” SOUTH THE ROMANCE OF BROTHER JOHNGILES IN LUCK“THE WOLD LOVE AND THE NOO”BLACKBIRD’S INSPIRATIONTHE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM OVER THE SEA ELLENEYIN ST....

“When found, make a note of.”–CAPTAIN CUTTLE No. 1 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1849. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 6d. NOTES AND QUERIES. The nature and design of the present work have been so fully stated in the Prospectus, and are indeed so far explained by its very Title, that it is unnecessary to occupy any great portion of its first number with details on the subject. We are under no temptation to fill its columns with an account of what we hope future numbers will be....