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HookersThe characters in this story are real, live, and living people, and most of them are still in the fair city of Juarez, plying the oldest trade in the world, and were known personally by the Author, who studied them for several months in...

The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army - An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and othersThe distinguished soldier and critic whose name appears on the title page argues, as do various other Northern critics, that the usual Southern estimate...

The Curry Cook's Assistant - Or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original StyleBy A. Egmont Hake, Esq. [TRUE COPY.] The author of this little work has asked me to write him a Preface, and I gladly do so, especially if...

The Bright Side of Prison Life - Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in RebellionThe author's name and reputation may sell this bookmiracles have happened; but he does not intend to permit the possible deception of a confiding public into the...

The Pearl of IndiaThat many readers evince a growing satisfaction in contemplating foreign lands through the eyes of experienced travelers, the favor shown to previous books by the author of these pages abundantly testifies. Mutual profit is therefore the outcome of such a work;...

The Buddhist Catechism In token of respect and affection I dedicate to my counsellor and friend of many years, Hikkaduwe Sumangala, Pradhna Nyaka Sthavra and High Priest of Adam's Peak (Sripada) and the Western Province, THE BUDDHIST CATECHISM, in its revised form. I hereby...

The Coinages of the Channel IslandsAuthor of Contributions on "The Coins and Tokens of Ceylon" (Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XV.); "The XVIIth Century Tokens of Berkshire" (Williamson's Edition of Boyne's XVIIth Century Tokens); "Berkshire Dialect and Folk Lore, with Glossary" (the Publications of the English...

A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)'The History of England, principally during the Seventeenth Century,' which is here laid before the reader in an English form, is one of the most important portions of that cycle of works...

What Is Free Trade? - An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader Years ago I could not rid my mind of the notion that Free Trade meant some cunning policy of British statesmen designed to subject the world to...

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies - Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous EscapeHow much of the present Knowledge of the Parts...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4 Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.Where the Rabbit Plague BeganThe Natural Enemy of the RabbitDunedinA Lovely TownVisit to Dr. HockinHis MuseumA Liquified CaterpillarThe Unperfected Tape WormThe Public Museum and Picture CHAPTER XXXI. The Express Train"A...

The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem 1. 1 Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner,...

Tom Brown's School Days T is not often that in later years one finds any book as good as one remembers it from one's youth; but it has been my interesting experience to find the story of Tom Brown's School Days even better than...

A wickedly fun rhyming treat! With bouncy, rhyming text in verse from the classic nursery rhyme and bold, dynamic illustrations from acclaimed author-illustrator Dan Yaccarino, Five Little Pumpkins is a must-have Halloween board book!Roll along with the pumpkins and their spooky friends as they...

This classic story is a favorite with toddlers, who will cheer on the three clever billy goats who outsmart a mean troll. With plenty of repetition, this adventure is perfect for reading aloud and for joining in, and a satisfying ending provides a reassuring...

GroundedLieutenant Colonel Martin sat back in his hard desk chair and looked out through the tinted window to where the slim, dartlike jets waited, poised on the sun-washed runways. A red and blue jet swooped down out of the brilliant, cloudless sky and shot...

The angry houseIt thought, I am content. I am content because there are so many things I can do to make them happy. I can cook their meals, make the beds, scrub my floors, wash my windows. I can bathe them, keep them warm,...

AwakeningStartled, Alice realized that she was behind schedule in her household duties. Quickly she switched the news off the Tevee. Master Kelsey hated newscasts. They made him uneasy, particularly with all this talk about a possible air-raid. The cumulative loneliness, the hours of lonely...

Os jardins ou a arte de aformosear as paisagens: PoemaVarias pessoas de grande merecimento escrevro em prosa cerca dos Jardins. O Author deste Poema colheo dellas alguns preceitos, e at descripes. Em bastantes passagens teve a dita de encontrar-se com to bons Escritores, porque...

Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema Laurens Alma Tadema was born on January 8th, 1836, at Dronryp, a little town in the very heart of the Frisian province of Holland. Hence by birth Tadema is Dutch, though by residence and naturalization he is now an Englishman....