1896. Jordan was President of Leland Stanford Junior University. This volume is made up of separate sketches, historical or allegorical, having in some degree a bond of union in the idea of the higher sacrifice. Contents: The Story of the Innumerable Company; The Story of the Passion; The California of the Padre; The Conquest of Jupiter Pen; The Last of the Puritans; A Knight of the Order of Poets; Nature-Study and Moral Culture; The Higher Sacrifice; and The Bubbles of Saki.