Humphrey Milford-Oxford University Press

-The Test Bv C'BEKNARD-KurtE^-^ WHITELADIES is a very famous school, situated in the midst of beautiful scenery on one of the wildest stretches of coast in the United Kingdom. A mile away there is a small fishing town, but otherwise Whiteladies' position is isolated, and visiting teams, who...

CHAPTER I THE WEAKLY BOARDER " AND there was a shipwreck," said Tony Martin in a low XX voice, " and my father and mother were drowned. Off Port EUzabeth. But Mr. Maplestone, our head girl's father, was on board and saved us, saved my twin sister and me. We were only three months old then....

PRÉFACE THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA The estate of Castlewood^ in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in His Majesty's cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannoc, and...

INTRODUCTION Charles Kingsley, one of the busiest of men, illustrates the truth of the saying that it is only the busy people who can always find time. He wrote this book» as his wife tells us, while he was rector of Eversley, in the intervals of his parish work and his lectures to working men...

In the United Kingdom, the Medical Officer engaged in public health work seldom practises the methods of chemical analysis which he has learned during his course of training. In countries liowever where public health work is less advanced or is just beginning to develop it may be otherwise. The...

CHAPTER I a daughter of the manse Lola Sinclair looked with satisfaction at her reflection in the mirror, A flower-like face, framed in golden-brown hair that waved and curled in a fluffy mass well down on to her shoulders, smiled back at her, the blue eyes bright with excitement. But Lola's...