George F. Hoar: “I was pretty well known through the city as an earnest Free Soiler, and as sharing the public feeling of indignation…”

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

This quaint old room, with its great oak beam overhead, and its kitchen grate wide enough to roast a deer--this strange blending of an hotel dining-room and a Court of Justice, has nevertheless a link with the far distant past more…