Harper's Handy Series, Issue 40

Front Cover
Harper & Brothers., 1885

From inside the book

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 65 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Page 181 - ENGLISH DICTIONARY. A Dictionary of the English Language, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Explanatory : embracing Scientific and other Terms, Numerous Familiar Terms, and a Copious Selection of Old English Words. By the Rev. JAMES STORMONTH. The Pronunciation Revised by the Rev. PH PHELP, MA Imperial 8vo, Cloth, $6 00; Half Roan, $7 00; Full Sheep, $7 50.
Page 182 - The Volumes of the WEEKLY and BAZAR begin with the first Numbers for January, the Volumes of the YOUNG PEOPLE with the first Number for November, and the Volumes of the MAGAZINE with the Numbers for June and December of each year. Subscriptions will be commenced with the Number of each Periodical current at the time of receipt of order, except in cases where the subscriber otherwise directs. BOUND VOLUMES. Bound Volumes of the MAGAZINE...
Page 163 - Blodgct compares the Pacific climates, from north to south, to the " Norwegian, English, and Spanish or Portuguese, with the intermediate France blotted out, and an anomalous temperature substituted so cold at midsummer as to cut off the vines and corn which ought to be found there...
Page 56 - Rain-WaterGood water should be (i) at all seasons clear, transparent, bright, and when seen in large bulk, pure blue, the natural color of uncontaminated water ; (2) it should be well aerated, holding in solution from seven to eight cubic inches of air per gallon, consisting of two or more cubic inches of oxygen and six of nitrogen ; (3) it should have at its source a uniform temperature equal to the average of the climate for the year...
Page 85 - ... above the sea level. The plain receives not only the rainfall which falls on its surface, but the water from adjacent mountains, and is consequently saturated with wet. The population living on and near this plain suffered intensely from fever : entire regiments were destroyed by death and disease. It was at last determined to drain the plain. The result of this work was an immediate redaction of the sick and death-rate.
Page 163 - The climate is nowhere extreme. The ranges of both the thermometer and the barometer are limited, as in Western Europe. " The winter and cooler months are delightfully equable on the whole coast, but the summer is harsh and widely different from the summers of [those parts of] Europe which have the same temperature for the winter...
Page 180 - Mr. Stanley may fairly boast of having given to the world two of the most remarkable books of travel and adventure. . . . and this second work is in every respect by far the more interesting." — Athenaw*. How I Found Livingstone: including Four Months
Page 41 - I come to those of our freedmen ? What a profusion of statues ! What a number of columns do I see supporting nothing, but placed as an ornament merely on account of the expense ! What quantities of water murmuring down steps ! We are come to that pitch of luxury that we disdain to tread on anything but precious stones.
Page 120 - If a committee of unprejudiced scientific men had been appointed to compound and recommend a perfectly aseptic drink combining the qualities of nutrition and palatability with such small amount of alcohol as should act as a preservative to the fluid itself, an aid to digestion and a mild and innocuous stimulant to the whole system, it is probably upon a light bitter beer, brewed from good malt and hops, that the seal of approval would be placed.

Bibliographic information