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Alice's Blighted Profession: A Sketch for GirlsDiana. Do you know what brought me here to-day? It was to ask you to accompany us on our tour through the north next week. (Sits on arm of Alice's chair) There's a dear. Say you will come....

Sons and LoversAn introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a searchlight. But a convention of publishing seems to require that the candle should be there, and I am proud to be the one to hold it. About...

Copper Coleson's GhostIn the rear of a white cottage, known to all residents of the town of Truesdell as the Blake homestead, stands a great apple tree, whose leafy boughs have afforded shade in summer and fruit in autumn to several generations of Blakes....

Les voyous au théâtre (Histoire de deux pièces)Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Le sujet que je...

El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 2Sabe, oh Comendador de los Creyentes! que haba en el pas de Mesr[1] un sultn justo y benfico. Este sultn tena un visir sabio y prudente, versado en las ciencias y las letras. Y...

Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerThe life and labors of D. S. Warner are so closely associated with a religious movement that any attempt at his biography becomes in part necessarily a history of that movement. I...

Ang "Filibusterismo" (Karugtóng ng Noli Me Tangere)Ang tekstong ito ay nasa lumang Tagalog, na gumagamit ng titik g na may tilde sa ibabaw (g), na makikita halimbawa sa mga salitang ng, mga, at ngayn. Kung hindi maayos na nakikita ang titik g, tiyaking UTF-8...

A Corner of SpainI stood upon the salient bastion of an ancient fortress towering high above a swift and placid river. Below and around me swept line upon line of crumbling walls and grass-grown moats, the scene of many a bloody struggle in the...

The Quest for a Lost RaceWhile the Home-Coming Kentuckians were enjoying their meeting, in Louisville, in the month of June, 1906, Doctor Thomas E. Pickett published a newspaper article which he had written for the Home-Coming Week, the object of which was to present...

The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants."Our Planet is surrounded by two great oceans," says Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant: "the one visible, the other invisible; one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes...

Motor Matt's Clue; or, The Phantom AutoIssued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York, N....

A Lady of RomeMaria Montalto was dressed as a Neapolitan Acquaiola and kept the lemonade stall at the Kermess in Villa Borghese. The villa has lately changed its official name, and not for the first time in its history, but it will take as...

Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne, tome IIEN quel temps a vcu le lgislateur clbre appel Zoroaster par les Grecs, et Zardast ou Zerdoust par les Orientaux? et en quels sicles doit-on placer les deux dynasties Pishdd et Kn ou Kaan, que les Perses modernes...

Naiskohtalo: RomaaniSaaren lounaisrannalla oli syv lahdenpoukama, jonne tuulen kydess sellt pin lakkaplaineet tulla vilistivt kuin hurjasti karkaava lammaslauma. Tuulen ja veden muodostama leve, tasaisenloiva hiekkareuna kierteli kaarena veden rajaa. Sen ylpuolella alkoi mehev nurmea kasvava tasainen kentt, sekin poukaman tavoin kaareutuen melkein hevosenkengn muotoon....

Fenelon's Treatise on the Education of Daughters - Translated from the French, and Adapted to English Readers"Chaste and modest writings never alter the honour of any gentlewoman. For as the remembrance of infamous persons is much detested and hated by the Musesso is the...

At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3)The drawing-room within was very different from the wild conflict of light and darkness outside. There was music going on at one end, some people were reading, some talking. There were flirtations in hand, and grave...

At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3)Helen had still another incident before her, however, ere she left St Mary's Road. It was late in the afternoon when she went back. To go back at all, to enter the dismantled place, and have...

At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3)Mr and Mrs Robert Drummond lived in a pretty house in the Kensington district; a house, the very external aspect of which informed the passer-by who they were, or at least what the husband was. The...

Edinburgh Under Sir Walter ScottIn the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenthfrom, approximately, the death of Samuel Johnson in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832Edinburgh, rather than London, was the intellectual centre of the kingdom. It would,...

The Children's Book of GardeningThis book was suggested by the questions of a boy of twelve who lived in Germany and sent for an English book that would teach him the elements of gardening. One of the authors asked the editor of a well-known...