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Ralph on the Midnight Flyer; or, The Wreck at Shadow ValleyIve been a long time at the railroad game, he declared; but I never yet understood the psychology of a maintenance of way man. No, sir. In some things they are as loyal to...

Minos of SardanesTwo men stood on the bridge of a speeding ship in a place of ice and fire. A storm rode with them, a tempest that shrieked and moaned and tore, and around the ship seethed and tossed the waters of the furious...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 112, Vol. III, February 20, 1886The old maxim regarding the power of habit is usually and rightly regarded as exhibiting a thorough application to the regulation of animal life. Not merely in human...

Turquois mosaic art in ancient MexicoONE of the tragedies of the discovery of the New World was the abrupt and summary blotting out of the flourishing and still advancing civilization of the Aztec and other Mexican tribes. Had their complete conquest and subjection been...

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 2.The Mondragola of Machiavelli, which reflects Italian morals at the time of the Renaissance, is well known. Lafontaine has later made use of this motif in one of his humorous stories. In the fourth chapter Liguro arrays...

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1 This work is strictly limited to twelve hundred and fifty numbered sets, which are for sale only to subscribers. The type has been distributed on publication and no more will be printed. This very fine and...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 16LE piton Mdric Rompel, que les gens du pays appelaient familirement Mdric, partit lheure ordinaire de la maison de poste de Roy-le-Tors. Ayant travers la petite ville de son grand pas dancien troupier, il coupa dabord...

Van de Noordpool naar den Aequator: Blikken in het groote rijk der scheppingToen nu wijlen Dr. A.E. Brehm in de voornaamste steden van Duitschland zijne voordrachten hield over de Vogelbergen van Lapland en de boomlooze Toendra van Siberi, over de maagdelijke wouden van Afrika...

Lyrics & Legends of Christmas-Tide Title: Lyrics & Legends of Christmas-Tide Author: Clinton Scollard Release Date: December 27, 2021 [EBook #67022] Language: English Original Publication: US: , United States: George William Browning,1904. Credits: Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at...

The Sabbath: A SermonThe Sermon here presented to the Public is below all criticism. It makes no pretensions to novelty, or to merit of any kind; it is only one of the thousands which are preached every week by men, who, in the midst...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 111, Vol. III, February 13, 1886All the world has shrunk since the Golden Age of our childhood. Time was longer, and people were taller then. A wet day was the depth of despair...

Sree Krishna, the Lord of LoveI beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have explained the science of creation, its making and its mechanism. In doing...

In the Rockies with Kit CarsonLate one afternoon when the sunlight was slanting through the trees and wavering upon the adobe walls of the Pueblo of Los Angeles, when the only sounds were the whispering winds in the higher boughs, and the thrumming of...

First notions of logic (preparatory to the study of geometry) This Tract contains no more than the author has found, from experience, to be much wanted by students who are commencing with Euclid. It will ultimately form an Appendix to his Treatise on Arithmetic....

Day DreamsTO you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword of warning before you peruse the contents of this book. I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neither poems nor prose. Just dreamsDay Dreamsa bit of romance,...

Venusmärchen: Geschichten aus einer andern WeltDunkel wlbt sich der Himmel ber der Erde, und die Sterne gren einander und winken das ist das Flimmern fassen einander bei den Hnden und tanzen einen feierlichen Reigen ber die unermelichen Himmelsbahnen, und Seht, wie klar die Milchstrae...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 110, Vol. III, February 6, 1886The cry is everywhere the samethe badness of our modern servants. But who is really to blamethe mistresses or the maids? the masters or the employed? The one...

Ge-eft Acht! Schetsen uit het Indische soldatenlevenIeder, die de toestanden in het Indische leger kent, zal zich verwonderd hebben over al den onzin, die in den laatsten tijd daarover geschreven en gesproken werd. Voornamelijk enkele hoogmogende geestelijken en de middernacht-zendelingen, hebben in woord en...

The man with the hoe, and other poems[A] This song should be read in the light of the deep and comforting truth that the Divine Feminine as well as the Divine Masculine Principle is in Godthat he is Father-Mother, Two-in-One. It follows from this...

A poem on the earthquake at Lisbon CALM was the Sky, the Sun serenely bright, Shot oer the Sea long dazzling Streams of Light. Thro Orange Groves soft breathing Breezes playd, And gatherd Sweets like Bees where eer they strayd. In fair Relievo stood...