Все книги

Grant Allen

Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of ScienceGrant Allen Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science PREFACESome people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry a...

Biographies of Working MenGrant Allen Biographies of Working Men PREFACEMy acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiles's "Lives of the Engineers," "Life of the Stephensons," and "Life of a Scotch Naturalist;" to Lady Eastlake's "Life of Gibson;" to Mr. Holden's "Life of Sir William Herschel;" to M. Seu...

Strange StoriesAllen Grant Strange Stories PREFACE It is with some little trepidation that I venture to submit to the critical world this small collection of short stories. I feel that in doing so I owe some apology both to my readers and to the regular story-tellers. Being by trade a psychologis...

Moorland IdyllsGrant Allen Moorland Idylls “For dear Fatherwith Grant’s love.”I. THE NIGHT-JAR We sat late on the verandah last night, listening to the low trilling croon of the night-jar. It was a balmy evening, one of the few this summer; the sunset was lingering over the heather-clad moors, an...

Charles DarwinAllen Grant Charles Darwin CHAPTER I THE WORLD INTO WHICH DARWIN WAS BORN Charles Darwin was a great man, and he accomplished a great work. The Newton of biology, he found the science of life a chaotic maze; he left it an orderly system, with a definite plan and a recognisable meani...

-

Science in ArcadyGrant Allen Science in Arcady PREFACE These essays deal for the most part with Science in Arcady. 'Tis my native country: for I am not of those who 'praise the busy town.' On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has just departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place ...

Miss Cayley's AdventuresAllen Grant Miss Cayley's Adventures I THE ADVENTURE OF THE CANTANKEROUS OLD LADY On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to go round the world.It was my stepfather's death that drove me to it. I had never seen my stepfather. ...

Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South PacificGrant Allen Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South Pacific CHAPTER I. WE SIGHT A BOAT On the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromanga – of course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides an...

Paris. Grant Allen's Historical GuidesGrant Allen Paris / Grant Allen's Historical Guides INTRODUCTION THE object and plan of these Historical Handbooks is somewhat different from that of any other guides at present before the public. They do not compete or clash with such existing works; they ar...