Switzerland became the playground of Europe in the early years of the nineteenth century, and as a consequence its hotels began to attract the attent ...

The Aberdeen Fat Cup—Mr. Stewart's Cracks—The Tarty Herd—Mr. Martin's Show Beasts—Aberdeenshire Feeders—Early Days of Feeding—The Original Horned Dod ...

WHEN Manhattan Island was first settled, it was covered with trees, with the exception of the low-lying salt meadows. Much of the timber was soon cle ...

The Spanish era in California had its tangible be-ginning in the year 1769 with the arrival of Junipero Serra and Gaspar de Portola at San Diego. ...

Three citizens of the American Republic have just been elevated by ordination of Pope Pius X to a rank that had its origin in the Roman catacombs. Th ...

First of the Astors to come to America was Heinrich, elder brother of John Jacob. Heinrich approached the Astor heritage as a sutler in the mercenary ...

THE last two sections of the Grande Galerie contain some of the important pictures of the Flemish masters, the larger number of the remainder owned b ...

The haunts of St. John—Morayshire Sellers—Horned Beasts —Lack of Breeders—Feeding Stock—Mutton for London—Sheep Farming—Morayshire Feeders—The Forres ...

THE room of the early masters, numbered I on the plan, the room into which the entrance stairs lead, was the so-called Great Hall of the old Scuola. ...