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Ocean SteamshipsOcean Steamships - A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliancesSlow Growth of the Idea of Steam PropulsionModels Shown at the Liverpool Exhibition in 1886Claims of Precedence in the Invention of SteamboatsWhat Fulton AccomplishedThe ClermontThe Voyage of the Savannah in 1819The First...
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The Gentle Art of FakingThe Gentle Art of Faking - A history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present dayCollectomania may with some reason be looked upon as a comedy in which the leading parts are...
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Buddhist birth stories or, Jataka tales, Volume 1Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1It is well known that amongst the Buddhist Scriptures there is one book in which a large number of old stories, fables, and fairy tales, lie enshrined in an edifying commentary; and have thus been preserved for...
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Sinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonSinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonThe Sinhalese beliefs, customs and stories in the present collection were contributed by the writer to the Indian Antiquary fourteen years ago in a series of articles under the title of Glimpses of Sinhalese Social Life; they are now offered, amplified...
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The Art of Bookbinding: A practical treatise, with plates and diagramsThe Art of Bookbinding: A practical treatise, with plates and diagramsBookbinding carries us back to the time when leaden tablets with inscribed hieroglyphics were fastened together with rings, which formed what to us would be the binding of the volumes. We might go even...
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Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Expedition to Candy, in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Expedition to Candy, in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804 - With Some Observations on the Previous Campaign, and on the Nature of Candian Warfare, etc., etc., etc. As it appears generally incumbent...
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Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7MARAKKYAR.The Marakkyars are described, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as a Tamil-speaking Musalman tribe of mixed Hindu and Musalman origin, the people of which are usually traders. They seem to be distinct from the...
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Memoir of Hendrick Zwaardecroon, commandeur of Jaffnapatam (afterwards Governor-General of Nederlands India) 1697Memoir of Hendrick Zwaardecroon, commandeur of Jaffnapatam (afterwards Governor-General of Nederlands India) 1697. - For the guidance of the council of Jaffnapatam, during his absence at the coast of Malabar.This Memoir of Commandeur Zwaardecroon was, as stated, compiled and left by him in 1697...
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Curiosities of the American StageCuriosities of the American StageThis book, as its name implies, is a series of chapters from the annals of the American Theatre; and it considers Plays and Players more particularly in their less familiar aspects. It does not pretend to be critical; and the...
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HookersHookersThe characters in this story are real, live, and living people, and most of them are still in the fair city of Juarez, plying the oldest trade in the world, and were known personally by the Author, who studied them for several months in...
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The Numerical Strength of the Confederate ArmyThe Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army - An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and othersThe distinguished soldier and critic whose name appears on the title page argues, as do various other Northern critics, that the usual Southern estimate...
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The Curry Cook's AssistantThe Curry Cook's Assistant - Or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original StyleBy A. Egmont Hake, Esq. [TRUE COPY.] The author of this little work has asked me to write him a Preface, and I gladly do so, especially if...
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The Bright Side of Prison LifeThe Bright Side of Prison Life - Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in RebellionThe author's name and reputation may sell this bookmiracles have happened; but he does not intend to permit the possible deception of a confiding public into the...
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The Pearl of IndiaThe Pearl of IndiaThat many readers evince a growing satisfaction in contemplating foreign lands through the eyes of experienced travelers, the favor shown to previous books by the author of these pages abundantly testifies. Mutual profit is therefore the outcome of such a work;...
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The Buddhist CatechismThe Buddhist Catechism In token of respect and affection I dedicate to my counsellor and friend of many years, Hikkaduwe Sumangala, Pradhna Nyaka Sthavra and High Priest of Adam's Peak (Sripada) and the Western Province, THE BUDDHIST CATECHISM, in its revised form. I hereby...
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The Coinages of the Channel IslandsThe Coinages of the Channel IslandsAuthor of Contributions on "The Coins and Tokens of Ceylon" (Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XV.); "The XVIIth Century Tokens of Berkshire" (Williamson's Edition of Boyne's XVIIth Century Tokens); "Berkshire Dialect and Folk Lore, with Glossary" (the Publications of the English...
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A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)'The History of England, principally during the Seventeenth Century,' which is here laid before the reader in an English form, is one of the most important portions of that cycle of works...
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What Is Free Trade?What Is Free Trade? - An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader Years ago I could not rid my mind of the notion that Free Trade meant some cunning policy of British statesmen designed to subject the world to...
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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East IndiesAn Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies - Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous EscapeHow much of the present Knowledge of the Parts...
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4 Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.Where the Rabbit Plague BeganThe Natural Enemy of the RabbitDunedinA Lovely TownVisit to Dr. HockinHis MuseumA Liquified CaterpillarThe Unperfected Tape WormThe Public Museum and Picture CHAPTER XXXI. The Express Train"A...
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