History

The original source material for the Legend of Atlantis was Plato's Critias dialog. Now get seven translations, paraphrased, and transliterations of this ancient manuscript in one handy volume.

Now for the first time done entire into English out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster and Allied Manuscripts - Historical Reprint

A small book delving into the meanings, origins, and development of Phallic worship.

RAGGED, bald, and desolate, as though a curse rested upon it, rises the H

The son of discord- Origin of swearing- Decline of lying as an art- Growth of swearing as a science- The military oath- Religious oath -John the Marshall Fustian oaths- Legislation begins- George Fox and Margaret- Fell Oath of the King-Maker- Oath of the Bear-garden.

Xenophon, it must be admitted, is not, like Plato, Thucydides, or Demosthenes, one of the greatest of Greek writers, but there are several considerations which should commend him to the general reader. He is more representative of the type of man whom the ordinary Englishman specially admires and respects, than any other of the Greek authors usually read.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to tell in a popular way the story of the Norman Conquest, and to give an idea of the principal personages who figured in England at the period when that memorable event took place; and I have endeavoured, I hope not without some degree of success, to treat the subject in a popular and picturesque style, without any sacrifice of historic truth.