This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...repeated the girl. Thorns. It lies in my hand, A dead, dead rose; Not lovely now, but it nice was fair. No sweets are shed From its petals dead, But its thorns are sharp as ever they were. It lies in my heart, A dead, dead love; Nor hope, nor happiness brings to me, A faded flower, It has lived its hour; But its thorns are sharp as they used to he. Ylorence Way Wright. An American Ideal. 'By CHARLES H. CHAPMAN, 'P11. 'D., 'President of the Uneversiiy of Oregon. H N our childhood we are near to God. The angels still visit and whisper news from the unforgotten realms we have left behind." So sings the poet of immortality. Fresh from the Creator's hand; nay, trailing after us clouds of glory from the Eternal we come into this world of filth and deformity. It does not take long for the clouds of glory to fade away; but there is a time between childhood and manhood, before God has shut away his face and the everlasting doors turning on their golden hinges have come between us and our home. when life in one great throb of strength and hope. VVe feel then that no task is too hard for us, that no prize is too high, that all things great and worthy are predestined for our use. It is in that golden prime that the youth reads in his book of one who cut his way upward in a rocky cliff, climbing ever higher while his companions stood below and watched him. There were names on the limestone, cut by hands now feeble in old age or dead and in their graves, and over them all was one name--a name once mighty to charm the soul of youth to high endeavor--it was the name of Washington. "I will climb," said the boy, setting his teeth, "above that name. and I will cut my own higher than his." He...

Excerpt from The Pacific Monthly, Vol. 12: July, 1904 December, 1904 Improvement of Nancy, The (short Story) Ina Wright Hanson Indictment of Russia, An Wm. H. Galvani Klootchman and Pappoose Korean Art and Artists James Hunter Wells, M. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Pacific Monthly, Vol. 1: July, 1905 Tho California Building, showing two of the four Ilia ion who.uently, from the shores of the Pacific. But Japan is fighting the preliminary bat tle of all nations that want an equal chance on the Pacific; for Russia in con trol of China and Corea would be in posi tion to close the door to all commerce not directed in the interest of her own policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Pacific Monthly, Vol. 1: October, 1898-Mach, 1899 Page It Might Have Been, (short Story). David Burr Chase 100 Immigration and Immigrants G. H. Morre 103 Joseph Simon, Oregon's Junior Senator 187 Kahwayo, (short Story). Lizzie G. Wilcoxson 231 Little George, (short Story) Adonen 195 Life's Elegy, (poem) Valentine Brown 191 Literary Comment 39 78 117 Love's Remembrance, (poem) Lischen M. Miller 68 Looking Back, (poem) Florence B. Cartwright. 79 Man, (poem) 152 Mother and Mammy, (poem) Howard Weeden 238 Mother Goose for Grown-u p Folkes. 257 Mt. Hood, Oregon. 84 Our Point of View, (editorial) 35, 71, 112, 153, 203 249 Oriental Learning. J. Hunter Wells, M. D.. 192 Over the Bar, (short Story). Lischen M. Miller 17 October, (poem). Marion Douglas. 33 Physical Characteristics of the Northwest Capt. Cleveland 3 Prythee, Poet, Sweetly Sing, (poem) 73 Quatrain Florence May Wright 24 Retrospection, (poem) John Leish Tait 135 Sport in the Pacific C, F. Holder, 125 Salmon Fishing on the Lower Columbia C. L. Simpson 53 Some Phases of Our National Life. 235 Some Day I Shall Meet My Love, (poem) Lischen M. Miller 163 The Month 76, 115, 161, 206, 254 In Literature, Art, Science, Politics, and Education -with Leading Events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Pacific Monthly, Vol. 3: November 1899-April 1900 A Glance at California's Educational Policy A Brave Defense; a Story 0! Pioneer Days in Oregon A Bovine Gladiator (story) A Fragment (poem) A Trip to Mount Hood A Sonnet A Twentieth Century Problem Agnes (poem) An Incident (short Story) And This Is All (poem) Beware, Base Albion (poem) Bart; a. Study From Lite books (department) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.