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The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 40, April, 1894 - An Illustrated Monthly An Anarchist. Illustrated Interviews. Martin Hewitt, Investigator. Zig-zags at the Zoo My Diving-Dress. From Behind the Speaker's Chair. Stories From the Diary of a Doctor. Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times...

The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 39, March 1894 - An Illustrated Monthly Illustrated Interviews. That Stout German Zig-zags at the Zoo Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. Beauties:Children. Crimes and Criminals. Lost in a Blizzard The British Embassy at Paris. Portraits of...

The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 38, February, 1894 - An Illustrated Monthly Between the Acts Crimes and Criminals. Giovanni Zig-zags at the Zoo Actors' Make-Up. Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of Their Lives. Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. Illustrated Interviews....

For Love of a Bedouin MaidThe speaker was Lord Throgmorten, a man of about thirty-six years of age, rather stout, with reddish hair and whiskers and cold, steel-gray eyes. He had just returned from a yachting cruise, upon which he had started upon his...

First Lessons in the Maori Language, with a Short VocabularyThe object of the following pages is not to give anything like a complete treatise on the Maori language, nor even a complete outline of Maori Grammar; but rather to furnish, in as small a...

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 12, 1895 Good gardeners grieve for Mr. Peter Grieve, Who landscape-gardening art has had to leave, To our regret. Hybridest and cross-breeder, He in the Garden-World was a great leader. "Suffolk Sir Joseph Paxton" he was...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET; AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. To whom all communications (post paid) must be addressed. SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD...

Some Adventures of Mr. Surelock KeysOne evening early in the month of November, 1908, we were sitting in our cosy rooms in Butcher Street. I was busy extending the notes I had made of some of the marvellous doings of the Great Detective, when...

British Pomology - Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great BritainIt is much to be regretted, that of late years, so little attention has been given in this country, to the study of pomology, and that...

Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid ThemAn express train was on its way from London to Edinburgh. It was running at sixty miles an hour, and the passengers, as comfortable as if they had been sitting in easy chairs by their own firesides, were...

A Discovrse of Fire and Salt - Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as TheologicallHave been informed of your zeal and forwardnesse in advancing Learning and Truth, two commendable vertues, for a man of your merit and profession. And meeting with a subject...

Rustic Speech and Folk-LoreAmong common errors still persisting in the minds of educated people, one error which dies very hard is the theory that a dialect is an arbitrary distortion of the mother tongue, a wilful mispronunciation of the sounds, and disregard of the...

The Life of James McNeill WhistlerThe Fifth Edition of our book was exhausted before war was declared, and not until peace was declared was it thought by the publishers advisable to issue this Sixth Edition, which has been revised and brought up to date,...

Keski-ikäinen nainenOli ers sunnuntai huhtikuun alussa v. 1813. Aamu lupasi yhden niist kauniista pivist, jolloin pariisilaiset ensi kerran vuodessa nkevt katunsa puhtaina ja taivaansa pilvist vapaana. Vh ennen kello kahtatoista kiitivt komeat ajovaunut kahden tulisen hevosen vetmin Rivolin kadulle Castiglianen kadulta ja pyshtyivt toisten...

Warwickshire: The Land of ShakespeareTo those who know Warwickshire well it will be unnecessary to either sing its praises, as not only one of the most historic but also one of the most fascinating of middleEngland shires, or to urge its claims for the...

Le collier des jours: Le second rang du collierC'est Paul de Saint-Victor qui taquine ainsi mon pre, propos de notre institutrice, Mlle Honorine Huet (qu'il prononce: Huai, mchamment sans faire sonner le T, pour imiter le parler du midi) car il a une antipathie...

The Ashtabula DisasterThe narrative of the greatest railroad disaster on record is a task which has been undertaken in the following pages. No event has awakened more wide-spread interest for many years, and the calamity will not cease to have its effect for a...

The Boy Scouts Afoot in France; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the MarneAuthor of The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge...

The Prairie-BirdI hate a Preface! Such will probably be the readers exclamation on opening this volume. I will, however, pursue the subject a little further in the form of a dialogue. Author.I entirely agree in your dislike of a Preface; for a good book...

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 - I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek RacesWe are told that, in an ancient city, he who had a new law to propose made his appearance, when about to...