The Cosmopolitan Volume 13, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 13, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781230034676

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...to hunt up a snake for dinner. Upon an island near his cave he was wont to find a toothsome variety of serpent; but on this occasion a flood had swelled the river and swept away his stepping stones. The poor fellow was in a bad plight, and while he was rummaging about for consolation in the pathetic winds he discovered that the storm had uprooted an enormous pine tree and hurled it across the torrent. Using this for a footpath, our friend, to use an Irishism, passed over upon dry ground. Such was the inception of the historic bridge. There can be no doubt that the first means used by primitive man to cross rivers and streams were stepping stones, fallen trees or beams of timber. When the stream was too wide for one plank to reach across it the stepping stones would be used for piers and several beams thrown over them, thus making a continuous bridge. Little progress in the art of bridge building was made in the dreary millenniums between the rude barbarian and the cultured Egyptian, Grecian and Roman. Owing to the savage spirit of perpetual warfare, in earliest times a bridge would have been as much an invitation to an invader as it is now to commercial greatness. Alexander's pontoon bridge over the Ganges, those of Darius over the Bosphorus and the Danube; that of C;esar over the Rhine, of Xerxes across the Hellespont, and Trajan's great structure in Dacia, all meant slaughter and spoliation. History ascribes to the beautiful and romantic queen, Semiramis, the credit of building the first important and useful bridge, when, seeking to make Babylon the peer of Nineveh, she threw her famous structure across the Euphrates in 783 B.c. This bridge had a wooden superstructure and was 500 furlongs in length. It had stone piers, which were built...

The Cosmopolitan Volume 5, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 5, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781230032429

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...his arm and led her away. When so distant as to be unobserved, he said in strong emphasis, "Miss Baron, I take off my hat to you. Not to a princess would I pay such homage as to the woman who could wake the feeling with which these poor people regard you." She blushed with the deepest pleasure of her life, for she had been repressed and reprimanded so long that words of encouragement and praise were very sweet. But she only said with a laugh, "Oh, come; don't turn my poor bewildered head any more to-night. I'm desperately anxious to have uncle and aunt think I'm a very mature young woman, but I know better and so do you. Why, even Uncle Lusthah made me cry like a child." "Well, his words about you brought tears to my eyes, and so there's a pair of us." "Oh!" she cried delightedly, giving his arm a slight pressure, " I didn't know that you'd own up to that. When I saw them I felt like laughing and crying at the same moment. And so I do now--it's so delicious to be free and happy--to feel that some one is honestly pleased with you." He looked upon her upturned face, still dewy from emotion, and wondered if the moon that night shone on a fairer object the world around. It was indeed the face of a glad, happy child no longer depressed by woes a few hours old, nor fearful of what the next hour might bring. Her look into his eyes was also that of a child, full of unbounded trust, now that her full confidence was won. "You do indeed seem like a lovely child, Miss Baron, and old Uncle Lusthah told the whole truth about you. Those simple folk are like children themselves and find people out by intuition. If you were not good-hearted they would know it. Well, I'm glad I'm not old myself...".

The Cosmopolitan Volume 17, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 17, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781230041520

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...line of trees and buildings leading to the great avenue, and, at the very end of it all, the hamlet, her cherished creation. She never saw Trianon again. The 16th of October, 1793. The Place de la Concorde is black with human beings; a tumbrel, escorted by soldiers, forces its way through the crowd; seated upon a bundle of straw, the queen, dressed in white, seems lost in her last thoughts. The cart reaches the foot of the scaffold, and Marie Antoinette ascends it with firm, quick steps. When she reaches the guillotine, she casts a glance toward the Tuileries. As in a rapid vision, she sees once more her happy days: the Trianon fetes, where she shone in such incomparable beauty; but most fondly her last sojourn with her children, in that enchanted park. Her children! What will become of them? This is her last, her very last thought, before, heartbroken at the prospect that may await them, she bends under the blade of the guillotine. To-day, thousands of visitors daily throng the park of Trianon; they visit the little chateau, so simple in its architecture; but most eagerly they walk in the charming paths, follow with delighted eye the meanderings of the brooks that flow under the trees planted by Marie Antoinette's orders, and examine with keenest interest the village, whose every house is still standing.. At the beginning of this century, Trianon was let to a restaurant-keeper, who used it to give public concerts and balls! To-day it has been restored to its former state. The visitor often feels that he is making a pilgrimage in remembrance of the martyred queen, and at each tree and shrub half expects to see appear, in her simple lawn dress, the unfortunate princess whose memory is so closely identified with Trianon. IF you travel...

The Cosmopolitan Volume 27, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 27, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781230004952

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...nity, they marked adecade in the social world ancestors, and that it required only encouragement to develop wit and originality. She accordingly founded a literary club of ladies, who met biweekly in the parlors of the members, at which each one was expected to contribute an article from her own pen, to lie read before her confreres and discussed by the society. The wisdom of this social leader has been well proved by the success of the modest little society which she founded, and from w h i ch have sprung many others of more or less d istinction, the original society being an exclusive association to which few are admitted, and to attain entrance to w h i c h confers a certain social distinction. This society is so quietly conducted that but few people know of its existence, beyond the circle of old-fashioned New Yorkers. the metropolis. Up to the middle of the century, the subject of wealth was one that was little considered or discussed. Every one lived in about the same simple style; cverjr one was supposed to have the same number of servants, that was increased only when one family was larger than another and required more service. It was considered the height of vulgarity to spend money lavishly on unnecessary luxuries, simply for the sake of making a display and thereby exciting the envy of others. Quiet, unostentatious hospitality marked the character of each household in which the wit and education of the hosts were the standard of excellence and not the size of their bank account. Families were well known in all their branches and ramifications, and there were but few persons in society who had not been born and bred in the city. Photograph by Path Hi other. MRS. ARTHUR KEMP. that had a more durable effect than they of whom it...

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: University of Missouri at Rolla

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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The Cosmopolitan Volume 18, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 18, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9781230052885

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... or built vessels that were capable of making long voyages into distant seas, nor did her most daring captains ever venture to launch out upon the great, wide ocean and attempt to weather the Cape of Good Hope. By Lieut.-Col. G. J. Wolseley, 1861. In a dull narrative of our last war with China, I read as follows: "With the material at her disposal, China, if under a strong and enlightened government, is capable of being made the greatest naval power in the world. What if, in some future time, a Peter the Great should arise in China? Such an event might change the whole face of the inhabited globe, and the coasts of Europe experience the miseries of barbarian inroads, to which those of the Goths and Vandals by land were but as child's play." Since that was written a whole generation has come and gone, yet China has shown but little signs of renewed life or of capacity for good government. The great rebellion, to which allusion has already been made, then threatened to overturn her ruling dynasty, had already destroyed some of her most fertile provinces, and had left manj-of her greatest cities in ruins. Chiefly by the help of a brilliant English soldier--the late memorable Gen. Charles Gordon--that abominable uprising of the worst and most ignorant classes, was at last finally suppressed. This was followed by a spluttering attempt made towards reform, but it soon fizzled out under the mulish conservatism of the educated, or, as they would be called elsewhere, the ruling classes. Many thousand stands of arms were purchased for the land forces, and great breech-loading guns were brought from Europe, to be mounted at several important points along China's immense sea-board. But no important reforms were effected in their absurd...

The Cosmopolitan Volume 37, Nos. 1-6
The Cosmopolitan Volume 37, Nos. 1-6

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781230022437

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...of to-day, most notably the tendency toward a reproduction of national dances, and the tendency toward a renaissance of the Hellenic principle of the dance. Guerrero, the successor of Carmencitnas best exemplar of the Spanish dancer, and Otero, a good dancer for all her too pronounced personal notoriety, are the leading exponents of t h c for m e r tendency; therefore, the Spanish dance is the source from which the many lesser lights draw their inspiration also. This preeminence of the Spanish dance is due. not merely to the talent of plainly strongly defined ideas and emotions; it is therefore a true dance, is deservedly popular, and will live. Thesamecan be said of the darky "cake-walk"--the only truf, that is natural and original, dance in America. It is a natural growth from the savage ancestry of the American negro, and in its pure form every step and every twist has a definite mimetic object, is the representation of a definite feeling. The serpentine dance, invented in its modern form by Loie Fuller, and the "though t dances" performed by Isadora Duncan, are an attempt to revive the II e 1 1 e n i c dances that were part of the dramatic represen tations. It is the manner of dancing, very slight motion its chief ex-Mmk. Charlotte Wiehe, Thk Danish-parisian Favorite, Whose with the feet ponents, but to Pantomime Has Done Mcch To Restorb The Art To Favor. flnfj egg_ tj, e the inherent true and natural, therefore great part of the work being sustained by lasting, qualities of the dance itself. No the upper part of the body and the arms, dance could be invented by ever so great a that is specifically Hellenic in Miss Fuller's master that could so play on the senses, dancing. Much of her idea is original, and so...