The story of the brilliant career of Eugene, generally known as Prince Eugene of Savoy, has its special lesson for youth. He was intended for the Church, but was ambitious for a military career. Louis the Fourteenth had marked out for him the profession of an abbe; but monarchs, even the most powerful, do not always dispose...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.Maximilian in Mexico is the story of Maximilian I of Mexico.

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.Erik the Red is a short biography of the famous Viking.

The story of the brilliant career of Eugene, generally known as Prince Eugene of Savoy, has its special lesson for youth. He was intended for the Church, but was ambitious for a military career. Louis the Fourteenth had marked out for him the profession of an abbe; but monarchs, even the most powerful, do not always dispose. When "the little Capuchin," as he was contemptuously called, applied to that sovereign for a commission in the French army and was refused it, he shook the French dust...

William Tell by George Upton; Translated from the German of Ferdinand Schmidt. William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. His legend is recorded in a late 15th-century Swiss chronicle.According the legend Tell, expert crossbow, killed Gessler, a tyrannic of Habsburg Austria positioned in Altdorf, Uri. Iconoclasts may deny the existence of William Tell, historians and critics may assign him to the shadowy realm of legend, but all Switzerland, even after six centuries have passed, s...

The story of the life of Elizabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, is one of the saddest in the history of royalty, and in some respects recalls the story of the life of Marie Antoinette. Both their lives were sorrowful, both ended tragically, the one at the hands of an assassin, the other upon the guillotine. Elizabeth will not be remembered in history as a sovereign, for everything connected with the throne and with court life was distasteful to her, but rather as th...

On the ninth of September, 1888, an unusual event occurred in the princely house of Wittelsbach. Maximilian Joseph, the head of the ducal line of Vorpfalz-Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld, and his wife Ludovica (Louise), daughter of King Maximilian First of Bavaria and his second wife, Caroline of Baden, celebrated on that day their diamond wedding, both bride and groom having been barely twenty years old at the time of their marriage.Few princely couples have been closely connected with so ...

Prince Eugene, the great warrior and statesman, although scion of an Italian family, and by birth a Frenchman, became a thorough German. He appeared at a critical time in the relations between Germany and France, to save his adopted fatherland from destruction, and to illuminate the darkest period of German history with the glory of a series of the most splendid and heroic achievements. The historian Von Sybel calls him "the greatest general and statesman of Austria." As a statesman he ove...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary is a short biography of the famous empress.

Mozart's Youth, by Franz Hoffmann. Translated by George P. Upton. Originally published in 1904.

The Standard Light OperasByGeorge Upton

A vast country spanning an entire continent, Canada is a land of many secrets. Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained is a compelling exploration into some of the country's most baffling events, creatures and personages. From the chilling fate of the Franklin Expedition, to the brutal murder of magnate Harry Oakes and the repeated sightings of the enigmatic Sasquatch, author John Marlowe delves into the supernatural, the unsolved and the inexplicable.Stories include: The Flesh-Hungr...