Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. John Henry Overholt is an eccentric inventor desperate to see his Air Motor a success. Unfortunately there are no funds left to finish his project and he is running out of money, time and hope. John's wife had taken a job as a governess in Germany, and he lives alone with his son. His young son is worried too as they'll soon be even without money to buy food. To cast aside their negative thoughts they begin to work on a miniature reproduction of the city of Hope, and while they do so they realize that their hope for the future still lives.
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F. Marion Crawford. The Little City of Hope (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
The Little City of Hope (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
Table of Contents
I. HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
II. HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
III. HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
IV. HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY
V. HOW THE CITY WAS BESIEGED AND THE LID OF PANDORA'S BOX CAME OFF
VI. HOW A SMALL BOY DID A BIG THING AND NAILED DOWN THE LID OF THE BOX
VII. HOW A LITTLE WOMAN DID A GREAT DEED TO SAVE THE CITY
VIII. HOW THE WHEELS WENT ROUND AT LAST
IX. HOW THE KING OF HEARTS MADE A FEAST IN THE CITY OF HOPE
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F. Marion Crawford
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He was a mathematician, and a very good one, besides being otherwise a man of cultivated mind and wide reading. Unfortunately for himself, or the contrary, if the invention ever succeeded, he had given himself up to higher mathematics when a young man, instead of turning his talent to account in an architect's office, a shipbuilding yard, or a locomotive shop. He could find the strain at any part of an iron frame building by the differential and integral calculus to the millionth of an ounce, but the everyday technical routine work with volumes of ready-made tables was unfamiliar and uncongenial to him; he would rather have calculated the tables themselves. The true science of mathematics is the most imaginative and creative of all sciences, but the mere application of mathematics to figures for the construction of engines, ships, or buildings is the dullest sort of drudgery.
Rather than that, he had chosen to teach what he knew and to dream of great problems at his leisure when teaching was over for the day or for the term. He had taught in a small college, and had known the rare delight of having one or two pupils who were really interested. It had been a good position, and he had married a clever New England girl, the daughter of his predecessor, who had died suddenly. They had been very happy together for years, and one boy had been born to them, whom his father insisted on christening Newton. Then Overholt had thrown up his employment for the sake of getting freedom to perfect his invention, though much against his wife's advice, for she was a prudent little woman, besides being clever, and she thought of the future of the two beings she loved, and of her own, while her husband dreamed of hastening the progress of science.
