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FombomboIn Caracas, Thomas Strawbridge called at the American Consulate, from a sense of duty. The consul, a weary, tropic-shot politician from Kentucky, received him with gin, cigars, and a jaded enthusiasm. He glanced at Mr. Strawbridge's business card and inquired if his visitor were...

A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines - Nevada and the Great Basin Region; Lake Tahoe and the High SierrasThe central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible, such information in regard to...

Buch und Bildung: Eine AufsatzfolgeVor einem Fest stellt man sich wohl an einen Spiegel und prft, ob der Anzug sitzt, ob die Binde in Ordnung, ob das Haar richtig liegt. Wer aber Feste richtig zu feiern versteht, der bleibt nicht bei diesen eitlen uerlichkeiten....

Children of IndiaIndia is a very old land, and those who live there look far back into the past. They listen to the stories that were told of men and gods in those old days, and follow the customs that were followed then. There...

Unwelcome TenantMaynard was dividing his attention equally between the transparent bubble that housed the Meinz pendulum and the two ports, forward and aft, that broke the steel panelling of the control cubicle. He listened critically to the measured clicking of the Geiger counters and...

Moon of TreasonClyde Vickers shuffled awkwardly down the gangplank. After two years on Jupiter he felt buoyant as a toy balloon in the mild gravity of Earth's satellite. Every step he expected to go sailing over the heads of the other passengersup, up into...

Mystery of the Caribbean PearlsThe chabasco had struck with the quickness and lashing fury that is the nature of this most feared of tropical storms. A chabasco strikes without warning, with tornado-like violence, whirling and smiting and soaking. The storm ends as abruptly as...

Radio-ActivityI feel that some apology is due to my readers for bringing out at such an early date a new edition which includes so much new material, and in which the rearrangement is so extensive as to constitute almost a new work. Though only...

Australian EssaysIt would be absurd to suppose that it will not seem clear, to whatever readers this little book may find here, that one of the principal characters of the Dialogue is a man for whom we all, I think, feel more interest, admiration,...

Eternal Zemmd Must Die!Lancing out of the void at light-speed, it stabbed deep into the Solar Systemand vanished. Then began corruption ... poison and hate creeping from world to world. Too late men learned a death blow had been delivered! We have remained indecisive...

The Dead-Star RoverOnly savage engines roamed that arid world, charging one another with snarling guns beneath those grinding treads. And two puny machine-less humans like Torcred and Ladna should die quickly. That they suddenly could become the most dangerous things alive must surely be...

The True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by J. S. REDFIELD, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Edward O. Jenkins,...

A barátfalvi lévita; Ujabb elbeszélésekMost harmincznyolcz esztendeje, hogy az Eltkozott csald czm regnyemet az olvas kznsg el bocstottam befejezetten, de mgis befejezetlenl. Annyiban egsz volt a trtnet, hogy a vezreszme kiszenvedett benne, az ellenttek sszesimultak, tokmond s tokvisel egytt bukott el s egytt megnyugodott;...

To Be "Talked About" Use Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin'COOKIE N CRACKER COOKIN contains recipes that will make you the talked about hostess. Not because the recipes are difficult or expensive to prepare, they are gourmet masterpieces; but because they are made of just the...

Forgers and ForgeriesCopyright 1954 by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated. Copyright in the United States and foreign countries under International Copyright Convention. All rights reserved under Pan-American Convention. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced without the written permission of Harry...

Secrets of Making Frozen Desserts at Home: 150 Tested Recipes - Easier, More Economical, More Delicious4Chip the ice in small pieces and mix with coarse ice cream salt in the proportion of 3 to 6 parts of ice to one of salt. The 3...

Hawkins-Davison Houses, Frederica, St. Simons Island, GeorgiaFort Frederica, located at a bluff on the western shore of St. Simons Island, Georgia, and on the Inland Waterway, was founded in 1736 by the British under the leadership of James Edward Oglethorpe, as an outpost to...

The Kingdom of Promise and ProphecyRobertson L. Whiteside was a native of Hickman county, Tennessee, born December 27, 1869, died at his home in Denton, Texaswhere he had lived more than forty yearsJanuary 5, 1951. Early in his life (17 years of age), he...

The Painted Veil "Pray, when you are returned to the world, and rested from the long journey," followed the third spirit on the second, "remember me, who am Pia. Siena made me, Maremma unmade me: this he knows who after betrothal espoused me with...

Jessica Trent's InheritanceBravely and hopefully, my darling, as befits the daughter of Cassius Trent. Eagerly, I trust, as one who goes to finish his life work; answered the almost heart-broken mother, the joy of whose existence would vanish with that outgoing eastern train. Next...