Aesop

A collection of fables from Aesop retold in verse.

Presents a collection of nine of Aesop's fables, including "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," and "The Tortoise and the Hare."

Some of Aesop's most famous fables have been adapted for very young readers. The fable is told mostly through the pictures.

Contents: Colonisation—Mr Wakefield's Theory The Reaction, or Foreign Conservatism Madame D'Arbouville's "Village Doctor" National Education in Scotland Ararat and the Armenian Highlands Legitimacy in France The College. A Sketch in Verse Jack Moonlight Moonlight Memories. By B. Simmons Austria and Hungary

PREFACE This little Tale is founded upon the well–known tradition, prevalent among the old inhabitants, that where the Golden Gate now is was once dammed up by a rock or rocks, and the whole Valley was a great inland sea with its entrance to the Ocean down near Monterey. The writer has seen, on Ohio Street, in this City, (which in 1850 was quite an elevated spot of ground,) the black sedimentary earth, at least two feet thick, which abounds in greater...

Part translation, part retelling of Homer's classic epic poem The Iliad, which tells the story of the ancient Greek siege of Troy. With an explanatory introduction to Greek and Trojan history and religion.

Collected epitaphs on men, women, and occupations.

Excerpt from Lectures on Horsemanship: Wherein Is Explained Every Necessary Instruction for Both Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Useful and Polite Art of Riding, With Ease, Elegance, and Safety You of courfe next recover or take your fwitch, which is done by putting your right-hand over your left, and with a quick firm motion take it in your right hand, holding the fame perpendicularly.

The Religious Tract Society, founded 1799 was the original name of a major British publisher of Christian literature intended initially for evangelism, and including literature aimed at children, women, and the poor. The society started by publishing tracts, but rapidly expanded their work into the production of books and periodicals. Their books were mostly small but did include larger works such as the multi-volume Devotional Commentary and the...