Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    Ebook68 pages42 minutes

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

    By Julia Truitt Bishop

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

    Read more from Julia Truitt Bishop

    Related to The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Dispatch

      Aug 7, 2023

      The Dispatch
      9 min read

    • Article

      Where Will Your Reading Take You?

      Oct 14, 2022

      Britain’s Secret Defences by Andrew Chatterton This is a history of the Auxiliary Unit, the Special Defence Branch and Section VII. You’ve not heard of them before? Little wonder. These were organisations so secret that when they were demobilised par

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books & gifts

      Dec 10, 2021

      Books & gifts
      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jun 24, 2021

      You opened Paul Rafaelle’s marvellous recollections of life as a resident correspondent in the Chinese capital by noting that Mr Rafaelle had been stationed in “Peking (now Beijing)”. Actually, it is still Peking, just as Moskva is Moscow, Warszawa i

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Aug 4, 2022

      David Frost with Richard Nixon, 1977. Reader Charlotte Cornish lauds the duo’s TV clash of that year In regard to Clifford Williamson’s feature on Watergate (July), it is interesting to note that this was not the first time that US president Richard

      3 min read

    • Article

      Michael Wood On…

      Dec 23, 2020

      I’ve put this one off, I’ll be honest. After all, it’s been building up for quite a while. But on 1 January 2021 we finally leave the European Union. How will historians see this moment? Too early to tell, you will rightly say, but historians taking

      3 min read

    • Article

      'The Story Of Britain' Is An Eminently Readable History Of The Isles

      Feb 21, 2019

      The book made fine, invigorating reading two decades ago, and it still does (making room, of course, for the addition of the Brexit referendum). Author Roy Strong leads readers smoothly through rulers and epochs, with a narrative style that's happily

      3 min read

    • Article

      Books & co

      Jul 9, 2021

      Summer reading Escape with a book… by Helen Baggott Many of us will have a few family postcards in our family history collection, with their hastily scribbled messages sending best wishes from places near and far. If we’re lucky, we know exactly who

      5 min read

    • Article

      History

      Apr 3, 2024

      Viking, 464pp, £20 In this follow-up to his 2021 bestseller Empireland, wrote Andrew Marr in the Times, Sanghera ‘tries to understand why the modern British display such amnesia about their forebears’ vast, world-changing project.’ Although the book

      11 min read

    • Article

      Books & co

      Oct 9, 2020

      Take your mind on a genealogy journey By John Moss The origins of many of England’s towns, hamlets and villages often date back as far as Saxon times, with some even relating to the Roman or Viking place names. In A History of English Place Names we

      5 min read

    • Article

      Encounters

      Aug 3, 2023

      Encounters
      3 min read

    • Article

      The BEST & THE WURST

      Dec 13, 2020

      The BEST & THE WURST
      10 min read

    • Article

      Collectors Corner

      Feb 14, 2020

      Dear Stamp Collector A walking group to which I belong has three members (out of twelve) whose hobby interests include country walking and philately. The entire group intends to walk the length of Hadrian’s Wall in late summer; eighty miles from Bown

      3 min read

    • Article

      Editorial

      Nov 2, 2023

      This issue marks another major milestone in the storied history of Fortean Times: exactly 50 years since the appearance of the very first issue of The News (as FT was known for its first 15 issues) in November 1973. We’re certainly delighted – and, w

      5 min read

    • Article

      Stamp Sidelines

      Mar 13, 2020

      Something you just can’t get when buying on the internet, writes Richard Stenlake, is the serendipity of going through a box of cheapie postcards or covers at a fair looking for the cards and postmarks that to the untrained eye look like nothing. It’

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books & co

      Nov 11, 2022

      by Rachael English This novel, inspired by true events, tells the story of a mother’s sacrifice to save her child from starvation in the Irish Famine. Young mother Bridget Moloney had faced the heartwrenching experience of leaving her baby daughter

      5 min read

    • Article

      You Had To Be There

      Feb 28, 2024

      You Had To Be There
      4 min read

    • Article

      News

      Dec 13, 2022

      News
      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jul 9, 2020

      Letters
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books & co

      Nov 10, 2023

      by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe This historical biography chronicles the story of America’s Astor family across several centuries, showing how they rose from beginnings in the fur business, purchasing property and dazzling American society, bef

      5 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Sep 21, 2021

      Reviews
      4 min read

    • Article

      Collectors’ Corner

      Apr 14, 2023

      About a century ago, radio broadcasting was still in its infancy but it made huge progress towards the end of the 1920s, writes Christer Brunström. The BBC traces its origins back to 1922. Radio listening soon became a favourite pastime and the deman

      5 min read

    • Article

      “England Was Seen As A Pariah State, Ruled By Regicidal Rebels Who’d Publicly Executed Their King”

      Sep 30, 2021

      ON THE HistoryExtra PODCAST Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson (Allen Lane, 688 pages, £35) Ellie CawtHorne: Devil-Land looks at England from 1588 to 1688. Why do you think this is such a fascinating 100-year period of English

      9 min read

    Reviews for The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls - Julia Truitt Bishop

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On

      In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897

      A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

      Author: Various

      Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop

      Release Date: June 2, 2005 [EBook #15970]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.(www.pgdp.net)

      Copyright, 1897, by William Beverley Harison

      To Any Subscriber Securing

      For Us 1 NEW SUBSCRIPTION

      We Will Send, Post-Paid,

      A BOUND VOLUME OF ...

      These volumes are neatly bound in cloth,

      with title stamped on side and back, and

      make a neat library book, handy in size

      and weight, and tasteful in appearance.

      PART I. contains

      NOVEMBER 11th, 1896 to FEBRUARY 18th, 1897

      PART II. contains

      FEBRUARY 25th, 1897 to JUNE 3d, 1897

      Albert Ross Parsons, President, American College of Musicians, writes concerning his son, aged 10: The bound volume of the first fifteen numbers has remained his daily mental food and amusement ever since it arrived. I thank you for your great service both to our young people and to their elders.

      The Great Round World

      3 and 5 West 18th street               NEW YORK CITY

      YOUR OPPORTUNITY

      THE

      Journal of Education

      EVERY WEEK

      From Sept. 1, 1897, to Jan. 1, 1898

      FOR ONLY

      FIFTY CENTS

      You can get more practical help, more valuable suggestions, and more real assistance in your schoolroom work, out of the Journal of Education, than from any other educational paper.

      The Journal will have a richer feast to offer its readers during the coming year than every before. Nature-study will continue to be a prominent feature. The best talent will be employed to prepare programmes and exercises for the proper observance of the birthdays of noted men, and all school holidays.

      A monthly pictorial supplement will be given with the Journal, as during the past year.

      TEACHERS' HANDBOOK FREE.

      If you will cut this advertisement out and send it to us with your order, we will send you postpaid a valuable Teachers' Handbook, bound in paper, 130 pages, free of charge. The regular price of the book is 50 cents.

      (G.R.W.)

      Remainder of This Year Free. For only $2.50, new subscribers can have the Journal of Education weekly, from the time their order is received at this office until January 1, 1899, provided reference is made to this offer.

      Published weekly at $2.50 a year. Trial Trip, 5 months for $1.00.

      NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY

      3 Somerset Street, Boston, Mass.

      The Great Round World PRIZE CONTEST

      The Great Round World is now over six months old, and it feels some anxiety to know just how much interest its readers have taken in the news and how much information they have gained from its pages. To ascertain this, it has been decided to offer ten prizes for the best answers to the following:

      Name ten of the most important events that have been mentioned in The Great Round World in the first 30 numbers, that

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1