THIS volume embraces two groups of extremely miscellaneous essays, entitled,respectively, ‘Speculative’ and ‘Political.’ This duality illustrates the well-known truth that, while English speculation ...

Alternative histories — speculative essays, short stories or novels that suggest how the world would be different if certain events played out differently — debuted in 1833. That’s when future British ...

IN this book Mr. Black offers some essays which might well be of value to the student of physiography. Treatises on this subject are usually crammed very full of facts, and more interest might be ...