The Story of the Innumerable Company And Other Sketches

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.