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Peregrine in France: A Lounger's Journal, in Familiar Letters to His Friend The friend who has ventured to send these letters to the press feels it necessary to state, in apology for the insufficiency of such a trifle to meet the public eye, that...

Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon - A Narrative in which is Described many things Relating to the Early Southwest A Narrative in Which Is Described Many Things Relating to the Early Southwest, with an Account of the Fight Between Indians and Buffalo Hunters...

The Vision SplendidThe broad faces of the sunflowers surveyed, with their eternal, undiscriminating smile, the nape of Horatia's white neck, and were no wiser. Her back was towards them, and they could not see what book was in her lap. But the hollyhocks further...

Pikku kuvia elämästäIhmisen elm on vaiheineen niinkuin jonkunmoinen panoraaman kuvio. Vaikuttimineen, pyrintineen liitelee tuo kuvio silmiemme editse ja monenlaista vaariinottamista on tuossa elmnkuviossa. Iloineen, suruineen, taisteluineen, voittoineen, tappioineen hiipivt ne silmiemme editse pmrns kohden. Monenlaisia tuloksia saavutetaan noissa riehuvissa pyrinniss, niin yksiln, kuin perheenkin...

How We Robbed Mexico in 1848 THERE is one page of our own history that our historians pass over lightly and to which America cannot point with any feeling of pride, but only with shame and disgrace. I refer to the Mexican war. When...

The Lost Army That's so, said the other. And if we can't go for soldiers, perhaps they 'll find us useful about the camp for something else. This conversation took place between two boys of Dubuque, Iowa, one pleasant morning early in the year...

Bobbie Bubbles No, his father's name wasn't Bubbles, and bubble blowing wasn't the family trade. Maybe the Smiths got their name because their great-great-great-grandfather's grandfather was a blacksmith, and maybe the Johnsons got their name because once, ages ago, a man named John had...

Lincoln in Caricature INCOLN in caricature is a phase of the career of the great war President that has thus far lacked adequate treatment. Yet he was the most bitterly assailed and savagely cartooned public man of his time, and one has only to...

The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? - Illustrated The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall. No...

New House That Jack Built. An Original American Version Title: New House That Jack Built. An Original American Version Author: L. Whitehead Release Date: March 7, 2014 [EBook #45067] Language: English Credits: Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by The Internet...

Mrs. Leary's Cow: A Legend of Chicago [Shortly after the Chicago fire, there appeared a dismal-looking photograph card of this celebrated bovine, on the reverse of which was printed this remarkable legend: "On the other side of this card will be found a life-like...

English Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil A British noblemanso runs the storywhen travelling in Switzerland was so impressed by the gloomy grandeur of one of the mountain passes, that he exclaimed, "Surely there is no other view like this in the world!" "I...

Little Crumbs, and Other Stories - Fully Illustrated You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90...

Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States - Illustrated FOR many years we have been of opinion that a work on NESTS and EGGS, in life-like colors, would be a valuable acquisition to ornithological science, and meet a want that has long...

Hallimajan nuoret: Kuvaus nykyajaltaSisveden rannalla harjujen piirittmss laaksossa on Hallimajan tehdas. Se on ollut laakson valtiaana vasta kolme vuosikymment. Sit ennen aaltoili laakson lakeilla pelloilla kellertv vilja, ja apila levitti huumaavaa tuoksuaan; ojat kulkivat suorina viivoina laakson halki ja poikki ulottuen jrven hiekkarantaan saakka....

The Call of the East: A Romance of Far FormosaIn every port of the Orient the outposts of the restless, aggressive West touch the lines of the impassive East. Consuls, military and naval officers, merchants, missionaries force the ideas and ideals of the West...

La Comédie humaine - Volume 03Au commencement du mois d'avril 1813, il y eut un dimanche dont la matine promettait un de ces beaux jours o les Parisiens voient pour la premire fois de l'anne leurs pavs sans boue et leur ciel sans nuages....

Notes on Old PeterboroughThe Reminiscences of a Citizen whose memory goes back in detail for over Seventy Years, as in the case of the Contributor of these Notes, cannot fail to be of paramount interest and of antiquarian value. Especially in this case, where...

Les tribulations d'un chinois en ChineIl faut pourtant convenir que la vie a du bon! s'cria l'un des convives, accoud sur le bras de son sige dossier de marbre, en grignotant une racine de nnuphar au sucre. Soyons philosophes! dit alors un personnage plus...

Ambrose Gwinett; or, a sea-side story: a melo-drama, in three actsHypercriticism has presumed to find fault with this drama, which a better taste has denominated the serious domestic historical, because, forsooth, it smacks of the Old Bailey!and, when justification has been pleaded by citing...