Ten Books for the People; Reports, Programmes, Etc., Given to the Members and Ticket Holders of the Cleveland Educational Bureau (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...men in Norway, including Thorwaldsen, the sculptor. One day when the Skraelings came to trade, a sailor killed one of them. The rest fled to the forest, but a great number soon returned, and there was a battle. While the fight was going on a native picked up an ax, and after looking at it, hit one of his friends on the head. He dropped dead, and a large, handsome man, their chief, in terror, threw the ax into the water. The Skraelings then stopped fighting, and were never seen again. At last Thorlinn and his men went back to Greenland, and then to Iceland, where Snorre grew to manhood. The accounts of the discoveries of the Vikings were found in old manuscripts preserved in Iceland, called "The Saga of Eric the Red" and "Thorfinn's Saga." Thus America was known to Norway, and probably to Spain and Italy, 500 years before the voyage of Columbus. FROM CHRISTIANA we went by rail to Stockholm. Each train has a matron whose apartments are next the conductor's. She cleans the cars, and'makes them quite homelike. As one can never step on or off the train until the conductor gives permission, the traveler feels constantly as though he were under the care of a father and mother. The cars move slowly, perhaps that one may enjoy the scenery. Each compartment has a letter box, t and time-table with the fare per mile. The country through which we passed was picturesque. The hay had just been cut, and was hung on wooden frames to dry, like clothes on a line. The houses and barns were usually red, the latter with roofs of hay held down by narrow boards. Many fields were purple with heather, like those of Scotland, or blue with the corn-flower. We went through great forests of spruce and pine, which the government does not allow the owners to cut till th...