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The Happy Hunting-GroundsThere is a universal saying to the effect that it is when men are off in the wilds that they show themselves as they really are. As is the case with the majority of proverbs there is much truth in it, for...

Nibble Rabbit Makes More FriendsYou remember all the funny things Nibble heard about Man from the guests who came to his Storm Party. That was the time the Big Hollow Oak blew down, and the brave little bunny who lived at Doctor Muskrats Pond...

A Description of a New-Invented Stove-Grate - Shewing Its Uses and Advantages Over All Others, Both in Point of Expence, and Every Purpose of a Chamber FireAnd ever since the Duty laid upon Coals, the Article of Fire has been so very expensive in...

Out of the Dark NebulaFive thousand green space-cadets, manning the mighty Albion on their shake-down cruise, heard that grim message from HQ: "War with Xantu! Return immediately to Terra Base!" Which posed a problem ... for lurking in starry battleground, somewhere between Earth and...

Captive of the CentaurianessThe hero is the child of his times, in that his milieu furnishes him with motives and means, and yet the hero seizes the time and shapes it as he will. And he remains an enigma to his contemporaries and to...

G. F. WattsThe Photogravures are from photographs by Fredk. Hollyer. Permanent photographs of works of Watts, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holbein, and of pictures in the Dublin and Hague Galleries can be obtained of Fredk. Hollyer, 9 Pembroke Square, Kensington. GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS was born on...

Dateline: MarsScott Warren snapped off the vision screen and sat down in front of his typewriter. Through the glass side of the building he could see the lights of the celebrations whose sounds he had just silenced. He lighted a cigarette and started to...

Lake of FireSteve found the mirror in the great northwestern desert. It was lying half-buried in the sand, and the wind howled in fury over it, and when he bent to pick it up the sun smote him like a shining blade, dividing his...

Open InvitationWithout waiting for an answer, he made his way to the row of shallow mud tubs before the television screen. The operators aimed eyestalks at each other. Finally, Yado Nol-Moz, as junior, rose and went to the wall controls of the conditioner. Which...

The Secret Chart; or, Treasure Hunting in HaytiTwo sailors and an old colored steward remained below to escape an unnecessary wetting, and the fifty-ton beauty tugged at the cable as if trying to escape from her moorings before her caretakers should be aware of...

The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain - Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the late KingTHis Discourse of Stone-heng is moulded off, and cast into a rude Form, from some few indigested notes of the...

The platinum metalsThe Mineral Resources Committee of the Imperial Institute has arranged for the issue of this series of Monographs on Mineral Resources in amplification and extension of those which have appeared in the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute during the past fifteen years....

Les gens de théâtreLe temps n'est plus Dieu merci o les comdiens se voyaient frapps d'une proscription brutale qui ne s'arrtait mme pas devant une tombe. Ces planches que l'intolrance feignait de prendre pour des trteaux, trop de noms illustres les ont glorifies pour...

Le Livre des LégendesLa Lgende d'une dette, raconte au banquet Nobel, le 10 dcembre 1909 La fille du Grand-Marais La Mine d'Argent La Lgende de la Rose de Nol La Marche nuptiale Le Joueur de violon Une Lgende de Jrusalem Pourquoi le Pape devint...

Le Bar de la FourcheVoici un livre dont tu accepteras la ddicace en souvenir de nos longues causeries. Tu m'as emmen si souvent de la Martinique Sumatra et de Juan Fernandes aux Kouriles, que ton nom s'est inscrit tout seul la premire page de...

Blind PlayHe had left the airlock between the lifeboat and the ship open. That had been stupid, he realized, but it was too late to correct it now. One of the Tang's two other crew members was approaching down the corridor just beyond the...

The BrydThe Bryd was awakened with a rude jolt. It didn't even have time for a mental yawn. Something terrible was going on in Dale Stevenson's mind, and the turmoil there made the Bryd most uncomfortable. It shook off the lethargy of its long...

Le Aquile della Steppa: Romanzo Propriet artistica e letteraria della Casa Editrice A. Donath, Genova, la quale, avendo adempiuto alle formalit che la legge prescrive, provveder, non solo contro le contraffazioni, ma anche contro le imitazioni. Legge 19 settembre 1882 N. 1012. Un urlo...

War-Chess, or the Game of BattleThe Game of Battle represents two antagonistic armies, one of which, the Attacking (or Invading) Army, is composed of four figures, each representing a regiment of Light Infantry; five figures, each representing a regiment of Infantry of the Line;...

Advance Australasia: A Day-to-Day Record of a Recent Visit to Australasia. - Second Edition.Upon revising the last sheet of this small book for press I could not help feeling that some little explanation was needed of its appearance at all. For assuredly, when I...