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A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a ScientistA purely scientific interest in coal mines and the fossils they often contain led me to desire to go to Japan, for purely scientific purposes. My naturally roving instincts warmly supported...

RousseauEs war meine Absicht, in diesem Buch nur eine Darstellung von Rousseaus Gedanken zu geben, und auch hierbei nur diejenigen zu bercksichtigen, die fr die mit Rousseau einsetzende Bewegung wertvoll gewesen sind. Eine allseitige Darstellung von Rousseaus Denkarbeit bietet das mustergltige Werk von Brockerhoff:...

L'Illustration, No. 0057, 30 Mars 1844Pajol et Briqueville. Portrait de Pajol.--Histoire de la Semaine.--Congrs central d'Agriculture de 1844 et Concours d'Horticulture.--Courrier de Paris. Une Sortie du Thtre-Italien.--La Polka. Gravure et Musique.--Le Dernier des Commis Voyageurs. Roman par M. ***. Chapitre I. Un Relais.--Petits Pomes...

Making a Poultry HouseTo close one's eyes and dream of a home in the country with its lawns, its gardens, its flowers, its songs of birds and drone of bees, proves the sentimental in man, but he is not practical who cannot call into...

Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne - Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master MarinerMost people know their "Robinson Crusoe," and have heard of the author Defoe. But how many of us have heard even the name of...

Trooper 3809: A Private Soldier of the Third RepublicEvery Frenchman is liable to military service during twenty-five years of his lifeviz., from the age of twenty until he is forty-five.[1] In time of peace this period of service is thus divided: (i) Three years...

The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2)This Work was originally published, above thirty years ago, under the title of the Evangelical Rambler. It has long been out of print; and its republication at the present time has been...

CharlieNote 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 blanches n'ont pas t repris. Au sortir de chez la fleuriste o elle avait prtext d'aller...

Un cœur virginalRoman, c'est un roman. Et ce ne serait que cela, si l'on n'avait tent, par une analyse sans scrupules, d'y dvoiler, si l'on peut dire, les dessous d'un cur virginal, d'y montrer que l'innocence a ses instincts, ses besoins, ses obissances physiologiques....

The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in Aviation - From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 217-222, Publication 2329, 1915It is doubtful whether any person of the present generation will be able to appraise correctly the...

Cynthia - With an Introduction by Maurice HewlettMy first acquaintance with Mr. Merrick's engaging and stimulating muse was made in the pages of Violet Moses, an early work, which appeared, I remember, in three volumes. Reading it again in the light of my appreciation...

Under One Sceptre, or Mortimer's Mission: The Story of the Lord of the MarchesTitle: Under One Sceptre, or Mortimer's Mission The Story of the Lord of the Marches Author: Emily Sarah Holt Release Date: December 18, 2013 [EBook #44464] Language: English Character set encoding:...

Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the RosesTitle: Red and White A Tale of the Wars of the Roses Author: Emily Sarah Holt Release Date: December 18, 2013 [EBook #44463] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 It is a proverbial truth...

How to Make Electrical Machines - Containing Full Directions for Making Electrical Machines, Induction Coils, Dynamos, and Many Novel Toys to Be Worked by ElectricityFor the stand of the machine take a piece of wood (deal will do, but mahogany would be preferable) 14...

Wanderings through unknown AustriaWe were talking the other day of the many and interesting books of travel that have been written lately, books so full of valuable information and precise descriptions that you almost feel that Inner Africa and the North Pole are as...

Carleton's Condensed Classical DictionaryBEING BRIEF BUT SUCCINCT INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PROMINENT NAMES IN CLASSICAL HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY, TOGETHER WITH THE MOST CONSPICUOUS INCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. CAREFULLY PREPARED AND EDITED BY GEORGE W. CARLETON, AUTHOR OF Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Algiers and Spain....

Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official RecordsI am glad to write an introduction to a memoir of Lieutenant-General Longstreet. If it be thought strange that I should write a preface to a memoir of a conspicuous adversary,...

Tools and materials illustrating the Japanese method of colour-printingThis pamphlet has been prepared by Mr. Edward F. Strange, of the Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, for use primarily in connection with a collection of Tools, Materials and Examples, specially brought together and now...

Tom Fairfield's Hunting Trip; or, Lost in the WildernessThree lads, who had made the above remarks, came to a whirling stop on their shining, nickeled skates and gathered in a small ring about the fourth member of the little party, Tom Fairfield by name....

Basutoland: Its Legends and CustomsSome time ago, during a conversation about Basutoland, you suggested that I should write an account of the country and its inhabitants, and were kind enough to give me many valuable hints as to how I should collect and arrange...