Temperaments are born, not made, and they cannot be changed, by time, nor training, nor by any other force. Twain, Mark. Autobiography of...

And so after Apries had been deposed, Amasis became king. He was from the Saitic home, and Siouph is the name of his native city. The...

The idea of a man falling into raptures over grave and somber California, when that man has seen New England’s meadow-expanses and her maples, oaks, and cathedral-windowed elms decked in summer attire, or the opaline splendors of autumn descending upon her forests, comes very near being funny—would be, in fact, but that it is so pathetic. No land with an unvarying climate can be very beautiful. The topics are not, for all the sentiment that is wasted on them. They seem beauti