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The hollow lensIn the _argot_ of the underworld, Chester Fay, alias Edward Letchmere, an expert on other peoples strong-boxes, had lammistered to Short Hills, California, where an excellent golf-links surrounds a half-hotel, half-clubhouse of the superior order. After finishing a game, upon the twelfth...

Brook and river trouting - A manual of modern north country methods, with coloured illustrations of flies and fly-dressing materialsWhen the writers began to take a practical interest in trout fly dressing, they experienced great difficulty in determining the correct feathers for the various...

The story of the Thirty Eighth regiment of Massachusetts volunteersIn the following pages, an attempt has been made to present a connected and reliable account of the movements of the Thirty Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during its term of service in the army...

Bookbinding for beginnersTHE present day demand for industrial education has had the effect of somewhat discrediting the more formal manual training commonly found in the upper elementary grades and early high school years. This work is usually conducted in special shops and by special...

The quest for Santa ClausNote: Before the curtain rises upon Act I, as soon as the company has assembled, the Superintendent ostensibly begins a short address of welcome. While thus engaged, Beggar Maid enters at the rear of the room and immediately starts in...

The penultimate trumpHarley D. Haworth had been a doughty warrior in the American manner. Many a powerful Wall Street foe had bowed to his strength and thousands of innocent victims had cursed his name. But that was many a misty year ago. Now even...

Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2) - With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existingThe readers, I presume, will have felt...

Address of President Coolidge before the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Washington, D. C., May 1, 1926The strength and hope of civilization lies in its power to adapt itself to changing circumstances. Development and character are not passive accomplishments. They...

Le Pays de l'InstarEn ralit, bien loin que le gnie des hommes lait jalousement spar des autres terres, ce pays ignore mme les frontires naturelles: nul cours deau, nulle chane de montagnes qui le dlimite: le pays de lInstar na pas de situation gographique...

Der Graf von Saint-Germain: Das Leben eines AlchimistenDer Name des Grafen Saint-Germain fhrt uns mitten hinein in die Welt der Abenteurer, Projektenmacher und Betrger, von denen das 18. Jahrhundert, so stolz das Jahrhundert der Aufklrung genannt, wimmelte; denn selten stand das Abenteurertum in solch...

Elsie Lindtner - A sequel to "The Dangerous Age"Readers and admirers of The Dangerous Ageand their name is legionwill find themselves perfectly at home in the following story. To them, Elsie Lindtners rambling aphorisms, her Bashkirtseffian revelations of soul, the remarkably frank letters which...

And we sailed the mighty darkYou've seen themthe old ships, the battered and ruined ships, the ships that have made one voyage too many, and are so ancient you can't remember their names or the reputations they've earned for themselves in deep space! Sure...

The humour of IrelandThat the Irish people have a wide reputation for wit and humour is a fact which will not be disputed. Irish humour is no recent growth, as may be seen by the folk-lore, the proverbs, and the other traditional matter of...

NovellejaKarl Rudolf Leonid Blauman on maakylien kasvatteja, kuten miltei jrkin kaikki muutkin Latvian kaunokirjailijat. Hn syntyi 1862 Liivinmaalla arentimiehen poikana ja viett aikaisimman nuoruutensa kotikylss. Lahjakas poika saa alkuopetusta erss yksityiskoulussa ja psee sitten Riian kauppakouluun, jonka kurssin ptt 20-vuotiaana. Siin hnen opinkyntins. Koulun...

The entertaining story of King Brondé, his Lily and his RosebudIF anybody had happened to be walking along what was called the Robbers Road, in Long Forest, a part of the possessions of good King Brond, who lived many, many hundred years ago, he...

In self-defenseProhibition, remarked Ike Harper, loosening up a notch in his belt and rolling a fresh smoke, is goin to make two roses bloom in this country where only one bloomed before. Cause why? One drink uh bootleg hooch will bring blossoms to th...

Il Novellino: The hundred old talesOne day about the end of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth, when the Middle Ages still darkly curtained the Renaissance from view, a man of the Court, or minstrel, of some Italian lord had one...

The nutrition of manThe present book is the outcome of a course of eight lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute of Boston in the early part of 1907. In this presentation of the subject the attempt has been made to give a systematic account...

Mistake insideThis was England, two hundred years before bomb craters had become a fixed feature of the English landscape, and while the coffee house still had precedence over the pub. The fire roared, and the smoke from long clay church-warden pipes made a blue...

Sto jisker ethických Kdy jsem dne 4. dubna 1919 poprv vystoupil na Staromtskmu nmst a poprv zaal kzati, byla ve mn zprvu zkost a nejistota. Nebyl jsem jist, jak mne pijmete. Ale el jsem prost proto, e jsem k tomu ctil vnitn posln. Byl...