“Hark to Angus! Man, his heart will be sore the night! In five years I have not heard him playing ’Great Godfrey’s Lament,’” said old…

Old Ma’ame Paradis had caught seventeen small doré, four suckers, and eleven channel-catfish before she used up all the worms in her tomato-can. Therefore she…

The United Empire Loyalists were American Tories who forsook their homes and property after the Revolution in order to live in Canada under the British…

Is Waterloo a dead word to you? the name of a plain of battle, no more? Or do you see, on a space of rising…

“Yes, indeed, my grandfather wass once in jail,” said old Mrs. McTavish, of the county of Glengarry, in Ontario, Canada; “but that wass for debt,…

Orange seems at first thought more intimately associated with comparatively modern history than with the fortunes of the Roman colonists of Gaul. Its name at…

Nîmes, unlike its contemporary and neighbour Arles, has contrived to flourish even in a prosaic and commercial age. Its industries, light and refined in character,…