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Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914), was a Scottish novelist. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik. In that year he produced his first publication, Dulce Cor, a collection of verse. He eventually abandoned the Free Church ministry for novel-writing. The success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of writing had created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots when Mr Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister in 1893. It was followed by a rapidly produced series of popular novels frequently featuring the history of Scotland or with his native Galloway. His works include The Men of the Moss Hags (1895), Cleg Kelly and the Grey Man (1896), The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion (1897), The Red Axe (1898), The Black Douglas (1899), Kit Kennedy (1899), Joan of the Sword Hand and Little Anna Mark (1900), Flower o' the Corn (1902) and Red Cap Tales: Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North (1904). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ALPS ONCE MORE (A letter published by ' The Times' in 1906.) Axenstein : Sept. 20, 1906 Here, in Axenstein, in view of the historic cradle of Swiss liberty, and amidst some of the sublimest scenes in Europe, we have enjoyed the pleas you have made for the preservation of these wonderful works of Nature, and for the due use of them by foreign tourists. It is now exactly fifty-five years since I first saw this lake and these crags ; and in my old age I return to them and find them somewhat changed in the half-century—though the change is the work of man, no wise the work of Nature. Nature is as lovely, as sublime, as ever, and the railways, pensions and grand hotels, motors and circular trippers, are after all but scratches on the surface and flies upon thegranite rock. Will you allow me to jot down a few thoughts from the experience of more than half a century ? It is common observation that in many parts of Switzerland, and those some of the most interesting and beautiful, the English are now but seldom to be found. In my young days the English were about three-fourths of the travellers. To-day, in some of the most beautiful haunts, they are rather one-fifth, or even one-tenth. Of course other nations, especially the German and Italian, have gained in half a century enormous facilities of access, and also in wealth, energy, and ambition. And it is often said that Switzerland is exhausted, connu, hackneyed to Englishmen. But this is not the truth, or the whole truth. It cannot be ; for if most English men and women of leisure and means at middle age have already visited the great centres of the Alps, the younger generation has not had time or opportunity yet to do so, and the vast increase of facilities for tours must have tapped an area of myriads of new tourists. ...

Contents: To Parents and Teachers. A Parable. THe First Vision. The Angel Moroni. The Sacred Plates. The Book of Mormon. The Three Witnesses. The Priesthood Restored. Organization of the Church. Persecution of Joseph. The Mission of the Indians. Removal to Ohio. The Land of Zion. & MORE. Ending with Temple Building & The presidency of Lorenzo Snow. Includes Appendix , 3 maps and 23 Illustrations. Cover is green cloth with black box decoration & 6 black verticle line designs on cover. Upper left corner has gilt title in decrotive box.

Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion to killing, and the not-so-villainous Mord Valgardsson. Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile peace agreements, Njal's Saga tells the compelling story of a fifty-year blood feud that, despite its distance from us in time and place, is driven by passions familiar to us all. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction, chronology, index of characters, plot summary, explanatory notes, maps, and suggestions for further reading.

Title from the very popular nineteenth-century American author who articulated and disseminated the values, beliefs, and habits of middle-class life in pre-Civil War America. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALBURY, SURREY " Now birds record new harmony; And trees do whistle melody! Now everything that Nature heeds Doth clad itself in pleasant weeds." Thomas Watson ALBURY, SURREY OF all the fascinating characters of the Restoration, none was more wholly delightful or exercised a wider influence over his contemporaries than John Evelyn. Living in the times of Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, Charles II., James II., and William III., though a pronounced Royalist, he was yet respected by Cromwell—no lover of the King's friends—and much sought after by both the learned and the rich for the charm of his conversation and the greatness of his abilities. Evelyn has left behind him two living evidences of his genius— his books and his Gardens. Of his many books the one best known to-day is his Diary—a veritable treasure-house of customs, habits, and fashions at one of the most interesting periods of history. And his Gardens have justly earned for him the title of the Greatest of England's Garden Philosophers. Infinite charm is to be found in the Gardens designed by Evelyn—a charm apparently lost in thesemodern days, and which no well-intentioned copy ever achieves. So subtle and delicate is it that it only lingers in the Gardens that he not merely designed but whose progress was his personal care. How strongly the spirit of the man (who, Horace Walpole says, " really was the neighbour of the Gospel, for there was no man that might not have been the better for him") dwells in his Gardens can best be realised by those who have paced the Terraces at Albury Park, belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, one of the many English Gardens which owes its chief beauties to Evelyn's genius. This Albury Park is often mentioned in the Diary ; the first allusion to it being in 1648, when Evelyn ...

In the preface to the first volume Jensen writes, "On the rolls of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are found the names of a host of men and women of worth - heroes and heroines of a higher type - who have been and are willing to sacrifice fortune and life for the sake of their religion. It is for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of these, and to place on record deeds worthy of imitation, that [this set] makes its appearance." With over 5000 biographical entries of "heroes and heroines" complete with over 2000 photographs the L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia is an essential reference for study of early church history. Nearly anyone with pioneer heritage will find exciting and interesting history about ancestors in these volumes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.