Fort Leavenworth Is In Fact No Fort,

Versailles Was A Gulf Into Which The Labor Of France Poured Its Earnings; And It Was Never Full.

The Spanish Voyager, As His Caravel Ploughed The Adjacent Seas, Might Give Full Scope To His Imagination, And Dream That Beyond The Long, Low Margin Of Forest Which Bounded His Horizon Lay Hid A Rich Harvest For Some Future Conqueror; Perhaps A Second Mexico With Its Royal Palace And Sacred Pyramids, Or Another Cuzco With Its Temple Of The Sun, Encircled With A Frieze Of Gold. Haunted By Such Visions, The Ocean Chivalry Of Spain Could Not Long Stand Idle.

America, When It Became Known To Europeans, Was, As It Had Long Been, A Scene Of Wide-spread Revolution.

Our New England Climate Is Mild And Equable Compared With That Of The Platte.

In The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century, Spain Was The Incubus Of Europe. Gloomy And Portentous, She Chilled The World With Her Baneful Shadow.