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The Greatest Heiress in EnglandA country town, quiet, simple, and dull, chiefly of old construction, but with a few new streets and scattered villas of modern flimsiness, a river flowing through it, dulled and stilled with the frost; trees visible in every direction, blocking...

Utazás a föld központja felé (2. rész)Buksom utn sok vrem elfolyt. Vremmel voltam elzva. Mennyire sajnltam, hogy meg nem haltam, hogy a hall mg elttem llott! Tbb nem akartam gondolkodni. Mintegy kizrni lelkembl igyekeztem az eszmket, s a fjdalom ltal vgkp kimeritve, az alagut...

Utazás a föld központja felé (1. rész)n magam maradtam. Nem remlhetm, hogy, tekintve sajt hatrozatlan jellememet, kpes legyek a vilg minden tanrainak legingerlkenyebbikt kapacitlni. Ennlfogva fels emeleti kis szobmba vonulni szndkoztam, midn az utczaajt nagy robajjal megnyilt, a falpcsn nehz lptek kopogsa hallatszott s...

Modern cosmogoniesOf the sixteen chapters constituting this little work, thirteen have been published as a series, begun in Knowledge and continued in Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, and to the proprietors of those journals, for their courteous permission to reprint them, I offer my...

English Folk-Song and DanceWhen I travelled I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come down from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which I passed; for it is...

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms - Being an account by the Chinese monk Fâ-hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline1. Nothing of great importance is known about F-hien in addition to what may...

On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passionThere was a crush at Mrs. Eversheds beautiful house in Mark Place, and she now stood at the head of the staircase receiving her guests. Her face wore a smile, and conventional words...

Zur neuen Lehre: BetrachtungenUnter neuer Lehre mchten wir eine Weltanschauung verstanden wissen, welche ihre Mglichkeit vorausgesetzt einen zuverlssigeren und vollkommeneren Inhalt an Stelle des Gottes- und Unsterblichkeitsglaubens setzt. Neu wrde die Lehre im Gegensatz zur Religion, als der alten Lehre, genannt zu werden verdienen,...

The Lore of the Honey-BeeOne of the oldest and prettiest fables in ancient mythology is that which deals with the origin of the honey-bee. It was to Melissa and her sister Amalthea, the beautiful daughters of the King of Crete, that the god Jupiter...

Werwile of the Crystal CryptHis black science threatened the whole cosmos. Against him frail Princess Nuala thrust her ancient knowledgebut he sneeringly smashed that. And space-toughened Clark Travis stood by helplessly. Of what use here was a pair of ready fists? He should have...

Spacemen Are BornMust I hear the spacemen's songs and the stories they tell, so that the breath of romance aches each day in my bones? For here on Earth's cool moon I am as close to the sky as I need be, and the...

A history of Italian literatureI think, says Jowett, writing to John Addington Symonds (August 4, 1890), that you are happy in having unlocked so much of Italian literature, certainly the greatest in the world after Greek, Latin, English. To have interpreted one such literature...

Venus HateNot that Selo was an ordinary Venusian woman. Even in her madness, as she babbled to the patrol about red dust devils and punctured thermiteens, there was a haunting beauty about her. Those deep-set violet eyes, the blue-black hair, the shapely, well-rounded bodyeasy...

The Bloodhounds of ZirthNo one escaped from Zadda, Earth's grim penal star. The barriers were too steep. The Zirthan guards too clever. The mertha hounds too keen at trailing. Only 4W382ZT won freethough he couldn't beat the awful rap. There was silence in the...

Pictures by GavarniTHE following pictures are selected from the two volumes of Gavarnis uvres Choisies published by Hetzel, Paris, 1846-8. In choosing them the publishers have been careful to exclude any illustrations likely to offend English taste or too local in interest for the...

Schön ist die Jugend: Zwei Erzählungen Es war in der Mitte der neunziger Jahre und ich tat damals Volontrdienst in einer kleinen Fabrik meiner Vaterstadt, die ich noch im selben Jahre fr immer verlie. Zufllig ist die Zeit jenes Sptsommers und Frhherbstes in meinem...

Kampf und Tod Karls des Zwölften: Historische ErzählungenVon der Winterklte berrumpelt, hatten die Schweden in Gedrnge und Wirrwarr hinter den Mauern von Hadjatsch Quartier genommen. Da fand sich bald kein Haus mehr, das nicht von Frostkranken und Sterbenden gefllt war. Das Jammergeschrei hrte man...

Mein Weg zu Martin LutherDie Flle und Kraft evangelischen Bekennertums ist in der Christenheit in Vergessenheit geraten. Das war Undank gegen Tote und Unrecht gegen Lebende. Wie keine andere Kirche der Welt zhlt die evangelische Glaubenszeugen. Ihre Kraft des Leidens und Sterbens mu wieder...

Märchen In der Mostackerstrae wohnte eine junge Frau, die hatte durch ein Unglck bald nach der Hochzeit ihren Mann verloren, und jetzt sa sie arm und verlassen in ihrer kleinen Stube und wartete auf ihr Kind, das keinen Vater haben sollte. Und weil sie...

In the wake of the buccaneersThere is no more entrancing body of water in either the Western or the Eastern Hemispherethan the Caribbean Sea, with a fringe of lovely tropical islands on the one side and on the other the Spanish Main and its...