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Paris and Its StorySIX centuries have failed to efface from the memory of the French people the misery and devastation wrought by the hundred years wars, as travellers in rural France will know. Paris saw little of Charles who, after the temporary activity excited...

Toisen tahran tarina - Ym. Sherlock Holmes'in seikkailujaTarkoitukseni oli, ett "Mustan Pekan seikkailu" olisi ollut viimeinen julkaisemani kertomus ystvni Sherlock Holmesin seikkailuista. Ptkseni ei ole suinkaan johtunut ainesten puutteesta. Olen kirjoittanut muistiin sadottain sellaisia, joista en ole viel hiiskahtanutkaan. Eik siihen ole ollut syyn...

I promessi sposi. - Opere di Alessando Manzoni, vol. 1Chiudendo il Discorso che prepose alla ristampa, per la Biblioteca Italiana del Le Monnier, dei Versi e delle Prose del Parini (1846), Giuseppe Giusti scriveva: Cos la Lombardia perd il suo poeta; e non poteva...

Tom Sawyer: Koulupojan historiaVanha rouva vetsi silmlasinsa alemmas nokkavarrelle ja katseli niitten yli ympri huonetta; sitte nosti hn ne otsallensa ja tirkisteli niitten alaitse. Harvoin ja tuskinpa milloinkaan katseli hn niin vhptist kun yht poikaa niitten lpi, sill nm olivat hnen juhlalasinsa, hnen ylpeytens,...

Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times - Their Art and Their TechniqueThe object of this book is to give a general account of the various methods of writing, the different forms of manuscripts and the styles and systems of decoration that were used...

The Library of Work and Play: Electricity and Its Everyday UsesWhy do we pursue one method when instructing an individual boy out of school, and a very different method when teaching a class of boys in school? The school method of teaching the dynamo...

Arvid Kurck och hans samtidaI. Kurckska tten. II. P sotsng och br. III. Rnker. IV. I knektstugan. V. Klas Kurck hller ting. VI. Frsmdd. VII. Brllop. VIII. Varningar. IX. Dramat utspelas. X. Epilogen. XI. I bo skola. XII. Affrslif p 1500-talet. Arvid Kurck p...

Harper's Young People, April 19, 1881 - An Illustrated WeeklyToby had begun to realize that he was lost in the woods, and the thought was sufficient to cause alarm in the mind of any one much older[Pg 386] than the boy. He said to...

Summer Days in Shakespeare LandBy Shakespeare Land, as used in these pages, Stratford-on-Avon and the country within a radius of from twelve to twenty miles are meant; comprising parts of Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, and some portions of Worcestershire which are mentioned by Shakespeare, or...

Twenty Six Choice Poetical Extracts - Selected from Celebrated Authors, and Printed from Copper Plates Engraved Expressly for the Work, Each Embellished with a Beautiful Vignette, Illustrative of the Subject Title: Twenty Six Choice Poetical Extracts Subtitle: Selected from Celebrated Authors, and Printed from...

The Motor Boys in the Clouds; or, A Trip for Fame and FortuneDear Boys: In this, the ninth of the books in the Motor Boys Series, Jerry, Ned and Bob decide that as they have had a number of adventures on land and water,...

Harper's Young People, April 12, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly"What business shall I follow?" is the question every young man and boy asks himself; "how shall I make a living?" and the best answer is, "By learning some useful trade." Nearly all the good...

The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in LondonInside the hired omnibus there was a dead silence. Outside the rain lashed drearily against the window panes. From the corner where Molly sat there came a dismal, despairing sniffle, drowned, before its finish,...

L'Histoire de France racontée par les Contemporains (Tome 4/4) - Extraits des Chroniques, des Mémoires et des Documents originaux, avec des sommaires et des résumés chronologiquesNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve...

From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It - Giving My Exciting Experiences as a "Hobo"After a good deal of persuasion upon the part of my relatives and immediate circle of friends, I have decided to write an...

Serbian Folk-loreIT is only within the last few years that the importance of folk-lore, the popular legends, tales, drolls, and extravagances which have been handed down from generation to generation among the labourers, peasants and youth of a nation, has been frankly recognised. It...

Ladies and GentlemenThere were the hotel lobbies; they roared and spun like whirlpools with the crowds that were in them. But the streets outside were more like mill-races, and the exits from the railroad stations became flumes down which all morning and all afternoon...

Taten des großen Alexander EINGANG. Einige werden zu Preis und Rhmen gefhrt durch die Tugendkraft ihrer geliebten Helden, die anderen durch die kriegerischen Taten; die dritten durch deren Weisheit, viertens endlich manche durch wundersame Begebungen und Zeichen. Aber in Ordnung aller Heldennamen der vergangenen...

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 4, October 1837 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. NAPOLEON. THE DEATH OF SOCRATES. NOTES OF A SURGEON. THE BIRCHEN CANOE. MARK! LINES. STANZAS. THE FOSTER-CHILD. SONNET. STANZAS. ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. THE SEA. THAPTOPSIS. EXQUISITES: THE GENUS 'BORE.' THE GENUS 'BORE.' NAHANT. SLAVERY IN...

A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret BreckinridgeMore than a year has now passed since Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge, the beloved subject of the following brief notices, was taken from us into the saints' everlasting rest. By that event, the little family of which she was the...