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A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865My father, a skillful physician by profession, was by taste and inclination a controversal writer, a contributor to the newspapers, mixing up in the stir of the times. Before the Civil War his energy was devoted to...

A Boy's Fortune; Or, The Strange Adventures of Ben BakerThe speaker was a policeman, the scene was City Hall Park, and the person addressed was a boy of perhaps sixteen, who was reclining on one of the park benches, with a bundle at his...

A Boy's RideIt was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in...

A Boy's TownI call it a Boy's Town because I wish it to appear to the reader as a town appears to a boy from his third to his eleventh year, when he seldom, if ever, catches a glimpse of life much higher than...

A Boy's Trip Across the PlainsEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, By A. ROMAN & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States For the Southern District of New York. THE ELDESTOF A BEVY OF...

A Boy's Voyage Round the WorldI have had pleasure in editing this little book, not only because it is the work of my youngest son, but also because it contains the results of a good deal of experience of life under novel aspects, as...

A Boy's Will Part I Into My Own The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world. Ghost House He is happy in society of his choosing. My November Guest He is in love with...

A Boy's Workshop: With plans and designs for in-door and out-door workThe typical American boy, at some period in his life, has a taste for the mechanic arts. Before he is out of pinafores, he surreptitiously lays hold of edged tools, and with unlimited...

A Boy’s-Eye View of the ArcticTO the lecturer the introduction is the most interesting part of his lecture, in that it is generally so complimentary that his feeling of guilt and a sense of his own inferiority mars somewhat his whole discourse. My cabin...

A Brace Of Boys - 1867, From "Little Brother" I am a bachelor uncle. That, as a mere fact, might happen to anybody; but I am a bachelor uncle by internal fitness. I am one essentially, just as I am an individual of the...

A brazileira de Prazins: scenas do Minho. Entre as diversas molestias significativas da minha velhice, o amor aos livros antigosa mais dispendiosaleva-me o dinheiro que me sobra da botica, onde os outros achaques me obrigam a fazer grandes orgias de pilulas e tizanas. E,...

A Breath of Prairie and other storiesIt is an accepted truth, I believe, that every novelist embodies in the personalities of his heroes some of his own traits of character. Those who were intimately acquainted with William Otis Lillibridge could not fail to recognize...

A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed.The greater number of the papers comprised in this volume were originally contributed to the Overland Monthly, and nearly in the order in which they now appear. Two essays, written at later dates, were printed in the Californian....

Until his father's death, Noah Adams believed the large piece of land gifted to him on his twenty-first birthday is legally his. Suddenly he discovers a condition comes with the 'gift'. For the land to become lawfully his, Noah must marry within four weeks...

Forced to marry by proxy to keep his land, Seth Adams agrees to wait for several weeks to meet his bride until her sister has given birth. He is shocked when she arrives, bringing her young niece with her.Abigail Taggart has looked forward to...

A Bride from the BushThere was consternation in the domestic camp of Mr Justice Bligh on the banks of the Thames. It was a Sunday morning in early summer. Three-fourths of the family sat in ominous silence before the mockery of a well-spread breakfast-table:...

A Bride of the PlainsWhat would you have said nowO patriot and selfless herohad you lived to see the country which you loved so well, for whose liberty and national dignity you fought with such unswerving devotionwhat would you say, could you see her...

A Brief Account of Radio-activityI have gathered the material for this little book because I have found it a necessary filling out of the course for my class in general chemistry. Such a course dealing with the composition and structure of matter is left...

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER...

Bartolome de las Casas's A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies stands as one of history's most damning narratives of Spanish colonization that was ever written. Las Casas chronicled gory details of Spanish mistreatment of the native American Indians, an abuse which...