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Peggy's GiantThis is Peggys own drawing of what happened in the first Adventure of the Ring. Everyone is very frightened in it. Nurse has just sat down on seeing the Giant, and has dropped Peggys brown holland frock behind her. Peggy drew the frock...

The last travels of Ida Pfeiffer: inclusive of a visit to Madagascar, with a biographical memoir of the authorIt was at Buenos Ayres that I received the intelligence of the death of my beloved mother. Shortly before her decease she had expressed the wish...

Wealth against commonwealthNature is rich; but everywhere man, the heir of nature, is poor. Never in this happy country or elsewhereexcept in the Land of Miracle, where "they did all eat and were filled"has there been enough of anything for the people. Never since...

London Clubs: Their History & TreasuresThe modern club, with its luxuries and comforts, has its origin in the tavern and coffee-house of a long-past age. The resorts in question have long since entirely changed their character, although they were once important features of London...

The Bustan of Sadi - Translated from the Persian with an introductionIf among the twenty-two works with which Sadi enriched the literature of his country the Gulistn rank first in popularity, the Bustn (lit. Garden) may justly claim equal precedence in point of interest...

Harper's Round Table, January 19, 1897Throughout most of the ranch country there are two kinds of deer, the black-tail and the white-tail. The white-tail is the same as the deer of the East; it is a beautiful creature, a marvel of lightness and grace...

The Hundred, and Other StoriesTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain....

Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the YezidizThe Arabic manuscript here translated was presented to me before I left Mosul by my friend Dud a- as a memento of our friendship. awja a- was a man of culture, in sympathy with western...

A Question of IdentityAround the Earth, and above it, too, from South Africa and Franz Joseph Land to the satellite stations adrift through the black morning, two hundred million pairs of eyes focussed on the gaunt figure that moved so deliberately across the television...

Victor HugoIn the spring of 1616 the greatest Englishman of all time passed away with no public homage or notice, and the first tributes paid to his memory were prefixed to the miserably garbled and inaccurate edition of his works which was issued seven...

Lady Patricia: A comedy in three actsMr. Besier is a man who can see and think for himself, and constructs as setting for the result of that activity a form of his own. The construction of Don is as daring as it is original.Mr....

El árbol de la ciencia: novelaNota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se considera dominio pblico. Seran...

Frank Merriwell's Diamond Foes; Or, Straight Over the PlateA half million enthusiastic followers of the Merriwell brothers will attest the unfailing interest and wholesomeness of these adventures of two lads of high ideals, who play fair with themselves, as well as with the rest...

ConservationThe people of Earth had every means of power at their command, yet they used none of it. Was it due to lack of knowledge and technique; or was there a more subtle, dangerous reason? "I was off duty then and haven't had time...

Teddy and the Mystery DeerThe type in which this book and others of the same series is set is especially designed to conform to the type in the school books which are used by boys and girls of the age to which these stories...

The RaiderThey dropped the raider on the night side, less than thirty miles from Thanlar, the capitol city. The dark, slim ship drifted silently to the ground, discharged its passenger and lifted again, moving slowly like a great shark in the night. On the...

Mother Goose's Melody Title: Mother Goose's Melody Release Date: October 8, 2019 [EBook #60459] Language: English Credits: Produced by hekula03, Jwala Kumar Sista and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)...

MidnightRUTHERFORD MONTGOMERY would rather write than do anything else in the world. Most of his books are about animals and the wilderness he knows so well. As a boy, Mr. Montgomery would listen to the tales told by hunters, and his favorite sport then...

When I Was a Little GirlThere used to be a little girl who does not come here any more. She is not dead, for when certain things happen, she stirs slightly where she is, perhaps deep within the air. When the sun falls in...

From Office Boy to Reporter; Or, The First Step in JournalismMy Dear Boys: I have tried to write for you a story of newspaper life and tell how a boy, who started in the lowest position,that of a copy carrier,rose to become a reporter....