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Macmillan's Three-and-Sixpenny Library of Books by Popular Authors December 1905This Series, which comprises over four hundred volumes in various departments of Literature, has lately received some notable additions. Prominent among these is a new and attractive edition of The Works of Thackeray, issued under...

Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in AmericaIt may be necessary to acquaint the reader, that the following observations and experiments were not drawn up with a view to their being made publick, but were communicated at different times, and most of...

Sir Gawain and the Lady of LysTHE stories contained in the present volume of Arthurian Romances are drawn from the same collection of tales as that from which the first visit of Gawain to the Grail castle, in the preceding volume of the series,...

Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome sixième - Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècleNote 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...

Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4 - A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society.We think it incumbent on us to acquaint the Public, notwithstanding the title of this work, and what...

Red Caps and LiliesThe sound was illusive. Flambeau listened with every bit of him, his taut, strong body alert with eagerness. The call might have come from the landing outside the small salon of Madame la Comtesse, but it had sounded higher up; the...

The Reign of the ManuscriptI have examined the manuscript of your book with care. The conception seems to me to be admirable, and new in form of presentation. There is a great deal of valuable material for which one would search a long time...

Tessin tarinaErn iltana loppupuolella toukokuuta tallusteli muuan keski-ikinen mies Shastonista kotikylns Marlottia kohti, joka sijaitsi lheisess Blakemoren eli Blackmoorin laaksossa. Kovin olivat hnen jalkansa raihnaiset ja kyntins vinoa, niin ettei hn voinut astua oikein suoraan, vaan kampeutui aina hiukan vasemmalle. Vlist hn nykytti ptn...

La Política de los Estados Unidos en el Continente AmericanoA principios del siglo XVIII, el extenso territorio que hoy ocupa la Repblica norteamericana formaba tres distintas colonias: una espaola, otra francesa y otra inglesa. Esta ltima ocupaba un rea muy reducida en proporcin a...

The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana; or, Following the Game Trails in the CanebrakeAuthor of The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies, The Pony Rider Boys in Texas, The Pony Rider Boys in Montana, The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks, The Pony Rider...

Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsTo The Inhabitants of Space in General And H. C. in Particular This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of Three Dimensions Having been...

The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2In the year 1821, a mission was sent by the Governor-General of Bengal to the courts of Siam and Cochin-China, having for its object the opening of a friendly intercourse...

Where Art Begins HEN a few really congenial spirits meet together, it is astonishing how quickly the subject which perhaps one of the party starts will grow, and how many branches it will shoot out before its vitality can be considered exhausted. My present...

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers - With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion In offering this Sketch, Roster and Statistical Record of the services of Company D in the War...

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New YorkLong ago it was said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The...

L'Illustration, No. 2503, 14 février 1891n nous avait promis le Buf gras pour cette anne, le classique et comique Buf gras de notre enfance, l'hritier du buf Apis promen triomphalement travers les rues entre quatre mousquetaires de carnaval et cinq ou six bouchers costums...

Nuoren ylioppilaan kirjeitä 1850-luvultaNmt kirjeet, jotka isvainajani ktkist lasken nyt pivn valoon, ovat enimmksi osaksi osoitetut hnen vanhemmilleen, yksi ainoa on sisarelle kirjoitettu ja kymmenkunta hnen nuoruudenystvlleen Kaarlo Slrille. Ne ksittvt 1853-1860 -vuosien vlisen ajanjakson, hnen ylioppilas-aikansa, josta suurin osa kului Helsingiss lukuunottamatta lukuvuotta...

Brand - Runo 5:ssä näytöksessäTALONPOIKA. Voit olla sekin, kukaties; vaan vaikka oisit piispakin, niin kyt s kuolon kourihin jo ennen pivn koittoa, jos kuilun yli aiot sa. (lhestyy varovasti houkuttaen.) Liet viisas, opinkynyt mys, mut yli voimais nyt on tys. l' ollos jykk, ylpe,...

History of the Union Jack and Flags of the EmpireThis history of the Union Jack grew out of a paper principally intended to inform my boys of how the Union Jack of our Empire grew into its present form, and how the colours and...

Nancy BrandonThe small kitchen was untidy. There were boxes empty and some crammed with loose papers, while a big clothes basket was filledwith a small boy, who took turns rolling it like a boat and bumping it up and down like a flivver. Ted...