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The Tragedy of Wild River ValleyAlong a quiet road a man was walking at a steady, swinging pace. He was above the medium height, strongly built, and his erect carriage bespoke him one accustomed to military drill, while the knapsack swung over his shoulder...

The Rising of the Tide: The Story of SabinsportThe town is going to the Devil, and the worst of it is nobody will admit it. You wont. You sit there and smile at me, as if you didnt mind having Jake Mulligan and Reub...

Practical Instruction for Detectives: A Complete Course in Secret Service StudyHaving been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline...

Our Part in the Great WarThree years of world war draw to a close, as France prepares to celebrate the birthday of her liberty. Never in the thousand years of her tumultuous history has she been so calm, so sure of the path she...

A Handbook of Pictorial HistoryIt has been felt that in the study of English History, to the ordinary student and teacher, there are great difficulties in the way of consulting the numerous standard and other excellent works, on the subjects dealt with in this...

Hanging in ChainsOf the twelve regular methods of proceeding in the courts of criminal jurisdiction in England, the lastthat of executionis the only one that is particularly treated of in the following pages. Sus. per col. has been, as it were, the only warrant;...

St. Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical StudentHaving selected medicine as a profession, the usual day for a man to enter on a course of study at one of our great medical schools is the first of October. The almanack tells us this is...

The Camp-life of the Third RegimentWhat is camp-life like? What did we do? How did we fare? What scenes, incidents, and episodes occurred? These are questions everyone wishes answered by somebody who "saw it all." If one cannot paint, one should have the dramatic...

Romantic Ireland; volume 1/2IN times past books of travel were frequently written for the perusal of a few intimate friends. Such was the purpose of a little pamphlet entitled A Trip to Ireland, which a few years ago fell into the hands of the...

The Natural Philosophy of Love1. Invertebrates: formation of the male.Primitivity of the female.Minuscule males: the bonellie.Regression of the male into the male organ: the rirripedes.Generality of sexual dimorphism.Superiority of the female in most insect species.Exceptions.Numeric dimorphism.Female hymenoptera.Multiplicity of her activities.Male's purely sexual rle.Dimorphism of...

The Great War in Verse and ProseThe boys and girls of this generation have had the opportunity and responsibility of living through great times. In days to come they will look back with a feeling akin to awe on the hours when, in Sir...

Ruskin RelicsTwelve chapters are here reprinted, with some additions, from "Good Words," by the courtesy of the Editor and Publishers. Another, on Ruskin's Drawings, is adapted, by permission, from the author's "Prefatory Notes to the Catalogue of the Ruskin Exhibition at the Gallery of...

Glimpses of Indian BirdsIn the brief sketches that follow I find occasion repeatedly to attack the prevalent theories of protective colouration, because it is impossible for the naturalist who uses his eyes to accept these theories. Most of these hypotheses were advanced by field...

Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10)The editors have freely consulted the standard technical and business literature of America and Europe in the preparation of these volumes. They desire to express their indebtedness, particularly, to the following eminent authorities, whose well-known...

A Contribution to the Critique of Political EconomyThe subject of our discussion is first of all material production by individuals as determined by society, naturally constitutes the starting point. The individual and isolated hunter or fisher who forms the starting Pg 266point with Smith...

The Lenâpé and Their Legends - With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticityIn the present volume I have grouped a series of ethnological studies of the Indians of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey...

Coyotes in Their Economic RelationsSir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication as Bulletin No. 20 of the Biological Survey a report on Coyotes in their Economic Relations, prepared by David E. Lantz, assistant. The subject is of immediate importance to the...

Married Life: A Comedy, in Three ActsThe Comedy of MARRIED LIFE is entirely originalif the being unassisted by either anecdote, tale, ballad, biography, or any other resource constitutes entire originality.Yet, as some of the couples, especially MR. and MRS. CODDLE, and MR. and MRS....

Shorter Bible Plays Increasingly the church is coming again to use religious pageantry and plays for instruction and worship. In the earlier history of religion the dramatic expression of religious aspiration and feeling was almost universal. The dramatic impulse is deeply grounded in human...

Petals Plucked from Sunny ClimesWRITING, like other employments, furnishes a reward to those who are fond of itelevates the mind to a higher and happier state of enjoyment than merely grasping for earthly treasure, a desire to discover something beautiful in our surroundings, a...