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Lambkin's RemainsThe preparation of the ensuing pages has been a labour of love, and has cost me many an anxious hour. Of the writing of books, says the learned Psalmist (or more probably a Syro-Chaldic scribe of the third century) there is no end;...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899 THE SECRET OF THE SEA. THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS. FRUIT PUDDINGS. LAST YEARS ROSES. AN ALBUM OF BIBLE PLANTS. NOCTURNE. SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. ANSWERS...

Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook: Ten Lectures on Social SubjectsThese papers, originally given as lectures, make no pretence to the solution of the social or political problems with which they are concerned. They indicate rather a certain standpoint or attitude of mind from which these and...

Oedipus királyLaos, Theba kirlya sok ven t lt Jokaste nejvel gyermektelen hzassgban. A delphii Apollhoz fordultak vgre s tle azon vlaszt nyertk, hogy gyermekk fog ugyan szletni, de ez apjnak gyilkosa s anyjnak frje lesz. Megszletett a gyermek; szlei a szrny jslattl val flelmkben...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 993, January 7, 1899There is, perhaps, no word in the present day which has been more frequently used and abused than culture. It has come so readily to the lips of modern prophets, that it has acquired...

Hampshire Water-Colours 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 days of receipt of the work....

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 33, Vol. I, August 16, 1884In the biographies of the saints of the early Celtic Church it is frequently recorded that towards the close of their lives they left their monasteries and sought...

Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 [Vol. 1 of 2]AT a period when war was spreading desolation over the fairest parts of Europe, when anarchy seemed to be...

Queen of the Dawn: A Love Tale of Old Egypt There was war in Egypt and Egypt was rent in two. At Memphis in the north, at Tanis, and in all the rich lands of the Delta where by many mouths the Nile flows...

Dreams and Images: An Anthology of Catholic PoetsThis is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival Orby Shipleys admirable Carmina Mariana or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the poems...

Cotswolds Water-Colours 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 days of receipt of the work....

A Gallery of ChildrenONCE upon a time there was a beautiful Princess, who loved all lovely things, and most she loved the flowers and the blossoming trees in her fathers garden. Now there was a humble man called Silvio, whose business it was to...

Eunice and CricketHold the camera steady and push the lever, read the brown-eyed girl with the long, dark braid, from the little pamphlet she held in her hand. Look down in the little round hole, Cricket; you can see the picture perfectly. Isnt it...

A Man in the ZooI HAVE to thank Mr. Arthur Waley for permission to quote from his translation of a poem by Wang Yen-shou, which appears in The Temple and other Poems, published by Messrs. Allen & Unwin. I also wish to say that...

Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing HorsesThis is a plain, unvarnished and practical treatise on the art of balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses, unclouded by little known technical and scientific words and phrases, but written by the author, Wm. J. Moore, in...

Recollections of Captain Wilkie: A Story of an Old OffenderI had been so full of the fact that my long-expected holiday had come at last, and that for a few days, at least, the gayeties of Paris were about to supersede the dull routine...

Pest 1916Mostanban, (mskor zuzmars szakllu januriusban), midn a pesti tornyok ramutatin nem foglalhatnak knyelmes helyet a cskk, dlfel napsugr ltogatott el a vrosba, kedves, ajndkot hoz jvevny s a liget nagy fi fltt mr nem ltszanak titokzatos hieroglifjei a fekete galyaknak: egy fiatal hlgy...

Chester Water-Colours 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 days of receipt of the work....

Old Ruff, the Trapper; or, The Young Fur-HuntersYoung Harry Northend remained by his lonely camp-fire in the wilderness, long after the dull, dismal day had dawned, in the hope that Little Rifle, his promised bride of the wilderness, as he loved to look upon...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern ProseThe poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British...