A photo of Queen Elizabeth I giving a speech to her troops before the Spanish Armada in 1588, with a stern and confident expression and her red hair blowing in the wind. A scene of Marco Polo returning to Venice after his travels to the East in 1295, with his camel loaded with treasu...
It is almost needless to mention this honoured name. For the furtherance of the good work which he began nearly fifty years ago, he still lives and still labours. There is no spot on which an accent of Teutonic speech is uttered where the name of Jacob Grimm is not a ‘household word...