Like William Clarke Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, Samuel Hildebrand was a proud Missouri bushwhacker. In this long out of print book, Hildebrand describes raids and executions his band of men carried out. He remained at the end of the war and unreconstructed rebel and fervent racist. Like many of his southern brethren who fought, he never owned slaves but kept a captured black man with him after the war. This self-serving but fascinating account is a valuable addition to the canon of Civil War literature. In it, Hildebrand claims that others have tried to tell his story but have gotten it wrong, so he has a notarized statement by prominent men included as verification of authenticity. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time ever, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

    She wrote under the pseudonym A. L.O. E. (a Lady of England). From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she left England for India to engage in missionary work. Her works include: The Rambles of a Rat (1854), Old Friends With New Faces (1858), Idols in the Heart (1859), The Crown of Success (1864), The Story of a Needle (1868) and The Robbers Cave: A Tale of Italy (1900).

    John Henry Newman's account of the great struggle over Christian doctrine in the fourth century shows the first signs of his later views on development. It was also in many ways a "tract for the times" -- a warning to the Anglican Church of the 1830s of the dangers of state interference in religious debate and of the need for theologically educated leadership.This book is taken from Newman's 1871 revision of the text. It contains some additional material and a fuller apparatus of references. This present edition also includes an introduction and notes which attempt to put the work into its context in the nineteenth century Church, but also to explain how scholarship has altered our view of the subject matter. The Arians of the Fourth Century remains a startlingly original essay on the methods of intellectual history within the Christian church, and a powerful statement by Newman of a vision of the church that is not yet fully in tune with Roman Catholic teaching, yet is also at odds with much of the traditional theology of the Church of England.

    Volume I covers this journey up to Mt. Sinai. "These volumes are amongst the most agreeable of travels that we have ever read; nor is it possible to arrive at their conclusion without desiring that another such pair by the same hand were within reach for instant consultation." --The Monthly Review The volumes are almost exclusively occupied with personal narrative. They tell what the author himself saw and heard and felt; they go into no learned or fanciful disquisitions; they pretend to add little to the store of what is already familiarly known. But they give the adventures and observations of an enterprising and spirited man in a manner adapted to excite the liveliest interest, and to bring before the mind an unusually strong persuasion of the reality of the things witnessed, and the places and persons described. The vivacity of the narrator makes us feel, after reading the book, as if we had actually been with him on the route. We seem to have shared his lazy enjoyment on the Nile, where he lolled along in his boat without dressing or shaving, and strolled leisurely on shore among the mummy pits and pyramids. We can hardly believe that we were not with him in his adventurous scrambling up and down Mount Hor, and his strange quarrels and still stranger reconciliations with his Bedouin guides. John Lloyd Stephens (1805 – 1852) was an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. Stephens embarked on a journey through Europe in 1834, and went on to Egypt and the Levant, returning home in 1836. He later wrote several popular books about his travels and explorations.

    It is this chapter that has been republished here for the convenience of the interested reader.Keddie's book was well received at the time of its publication:"We commend the 'Songstresses of Scotland' as a delightful book. Everything that Henrietta Keddie touches she adorns, and she has here hit upon a genial and interesting theme." - The British Quarterly ReviewLady Anne Barnard (1750 – 1825) was a Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray. Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a significant impact on the cultural and social life of the time. Her letters written to Melville, then secretary for war and the colonies, and her diaries of travels into the interior have become an important source of information about the people, events and social life of the time. She is also retained in popular memory as a socialite, known for entertaining at the Castle of Good Hope as the official hostess of Earl Macartney.Henrietta Keddie (1827 – 1914) was a prolific Scottish novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Tytler. Her domestic realism became popular with women, as did her conduct books.