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The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by MenCooking is a gift, not an art. Eating is an art, not a gift. In combination a grace is developed. No great culinary triumph was ever perfected by accident. Charles Lambs essay on roast pig was...

Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and GoatWe had passed through the Land of Little Sticks, as the Indians so appropriately call that desolate waste which connects the edge of timber land with the Barren Grounds, and had been for several days making our way north on...

Notes on Railroad AccidentsThis volume makes no pretence whatever of being either an exhaustive or a scientific study of the subject to which it relates. It is, on the contrary, merely what its title signifies,a collection of notes on railroad accidents. In the course...

Haudan partaalla: Palkittu romaaniTnn olen min tyttnyt kaksikymmentyksi vuotta ja holhoojani juhlallisten selitysten mukaan samalla tullut kteni ja omaisuuteni herraksi. Min en tiennyt olevani niin rikas, ja min kasvoin omissa silmissni Voldemar-sedn lukiessa luetteloa kiinnityksistni ja osakkeistani, mutta enimmn riemastutti minua se tosiasia, ett...

Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898These writings are meant to be truthful, but they are too rambling and egotistical to possess much historical value. Few subjects are treated of except such as the writer was personally connected with or in which he felt a...

The Revolt of ManIT is now fourteen years since this book appeared anonymously. At first the story stood cold and shivering, disregarded by the world. Six weeks, however, after its production a highly appreciative review in one of the most important journals caused people...

Endres Tuchers Baumeisterbuch der Stadt NürnbergKommentare zur den Original-Handschriften wurden in der gedruckten Ausgabe am jeweiligen Seitenende vermerkt; diese finden sich im vorliegenden Text zusammenhngend am Ende des Dokuments (siehe "ANMERKUNGEN ZU DEN EINZELNEN SEITEN". Das Inhaltsverzeichnis wurde dagegen an den Anfang des Textes...

The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) - Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous ManuscriptsThe present edition of Donne's poems grew out of my work as a teacher. In the spring of 1907, just after I had published a small volume...

L'Illustration, No. 0074, 25 Juillet 1844Histoire de la Semaine. Dner des Exposants dans la salle de l'Orangerie du Louvre.--Souvenirs de Londres. Chez Dickens et chez Samuel Rogers. Par O. N. Portrait de Samuel Rogers et de Thomas Campbell.--Thtres. Opra-Comique. Une scne des quatre Fils...

Valentine and Orson: A Romantic Melo-Drame - As Performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-GardenTHE JEW and DOCTOR, BIRTH-DAY, WILL for the DEED, CABINET, ENGLISH FLEET, FAMILY QUARRELS, IL BONDOCANI, SCHOOL for PREJUDICE, FIVE THOUSAND a YEAR, SAINT DAVID's DAY, NAVAL PILLAR, MOUTH of the NILE,...

Spinster of This ParishNeither the characters nor the incidents of this story are in any way drawn from persons or events of real life; and in passages where the names of the living or the dead have been mentioned, they thus appear merely because...

Analectabiblion, Tome 2 (of 2) - ou extraits critiques de divers livres rares, oubliés ou peu connusMeditationes, consolationes, consilia, judicia, sententi, narrationes, responsa, faceti D. Martini Luther, pi et sanct memori, in mensa prandii et cn, et in peregrinationibus, observata et fideliter transcripta (ex...

Analectabiblion, Tome 1 (of 2) - ou extraits critiques de diveres livres rares, oubliés ou peu connusL'ide d'offrir au public un extrait raisonn de divers livres prcieux par leur mrite ou leur raret n'est pas nouvelle; elle remonte au patriarche Photius, qui fournit, ds...

I mattoidi al primo concorso pel monumento in Roma a Vittorio Emanuele Non Voi amico Lombroso ma molti di quelli egregi signori che scrvon giornali, cio libri che hanno la vita di un giorno, e parecchi di quelli, non meno egregi, che scrvono libri...

Pericla Navarchi Magonis; sive, Expeditio Phoenicia Annis Ante Christum MilleThe easiest way to learn a language is by its use and in this respect Latin is like other languages,it should be studied with use, and used with study. In teaching Latin, however, schools follow...

The Border Boys on the TrailThe trainmen began hoarsely shouting the curious-sounding name of the small frontier town near the Mexican border, in the southwest part of New Mexico. Slowly the long dust-covered Southern Pacific express rolled imposingly into "Mag-gay," very slowly, in fact,...

Taras Bulba: Kertomus kasakkavallan mahtavuuden ajoiltaPojat olivat vastikn laskeutuneet ratsailta. Siin oli kaksi rotevaa nuorukaista, jotka viel ujoina tuijottivat maailmaan kuni vasta koulunsa pttneet ainakin. Heidn voimakkailla, terveill kasvoillaan voi jo huomata ensimisen viiksenalun, johon partaveitsi ei kuitenkaan viel ollut kajonnut. He olivat kovin...

Dutch Bulbs and GardensMiss Nixon wishes me to present her humble duty and thanks to Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands, for graciously honouring her with the permission to make drawings of Her Majestys Summer Palace and Gardens at Het Loo. Miss Nixon...

A Year with the Birds - Third Edition, EnlargedThis little book is nothing more than an attempt to help those who love birds, but know little about them, to realize something of the enjoyment which I have gained, in work-time as well as in...

Den bergtagna: En kärlekens tragedi En atelier p nedre botten. I bakgrunden ett stort fnster och ett par glasdrrar, vettande till en trdgrd, som inhgnas af en hg mur. I trdgrden str ett blommande krsbrstrd; syrener och murgrn klnga upp fver muren. Erna sysslar...