Stories of New France: Being Tales of Adventure and Heroism From the Early History of Canada. E-book. Formato PDF Agnes Maule Machar   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The seventeenth century may be called the heroic age of Canada. The infant colony had to struggle for existence against pitiless enemies and forces of nature strange and well-nigh insurmountable. The struggle brought out a race of heroes whose names no one in the Old or New World should willingly let die. Champlain, Maisonneuve, Daulac, La Salle remind us of Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. Le Jeune, Jogues, Brbeuf, Lallemant consecrated the colony by lives of noblest endeavor and heroic death. Their memories belong to the Church universal. Their names are worthy of a place in any martyrology.The object of this volume is to make the past of Canada better known, to those at least who have not leisure or opportunity to study the glowing pages of Parkman. Writers who follow him must consult his works. But few have the time to read through ten or twelve volumes about one period in the history of Canada. These stories deal with the time in question through episodes round which cluster all the most interesting details. The voyages of Jacques Cartier, the colonizing of Acadie, Quebec and Montreal, the wars with the Iroquois, the story of the Jesuit missions, the adventures of La Salle, the tale of Evangeline and the last siege of Quebec - so crowded with incident - include the chief points of interest in early Canadian history.For convenience these stories have been divided into two series.

The Boy's Book of New Inventions. E-book. Formato PDF Harry E. Maule   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Although the subjects treated in the earlier chapters are here spoken of as new inventions, all of them are not recent in the strictest sense of the word, for men had been working on the central idea of some of them for many years before they actually were developed to a stage where they could be patented and sent out into the world.

Selma Lagerlöf: The Woman, Her Work, Her Message, Including Liberal Quotation From Dr. Lagerlöf's Own Autobiographical Writings and From Some of Her Critics. E-book. Formato PDF Harry E. Maule   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In all her work Miss Lagerlof's heart has turned with greatest understanding to that life in which she was born, the life of rural Sweden teeming with tradition, responsive always to the onslaughts and the miracles of Nature.