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Mary Louise Adopts a SoldierSo I see, replied the old Colonel, if we may rightly call it the Dorfield Regiment. The newspapers dont mention the fact, but it takes in the whole surrounding country, because there were not enough Dorfield boys to fill the...

When Polly Was EighteenThe young man, stretched on the grass among the waving shadows, was gazing across the valley to the hills in their soft afternoon veiling. It was a June picture beautiful enough to hold the attention of any one, yet it was...

The Romantic Composers[Pg 2] [Pg 3] I INTRODUCTION ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC Historians of music are accustomed to speak of the first half or three-quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven, including Schubert,...

Madame Adam (Juliette Lambert), la grande Française - from Louis Philippe until 1917La Grande Franaise [1] Professor of Energy, a term first applied to Napolon I, is a title which has been bestowed on more than one living Frenchman. None has better claim to...

Brave BelgiansI am glad to hear that you have now completed the work you undertook of collecting, from our soldiers themselves, these accounts of the war. They will certainly help people to know, and to appreciate, what you so rightly call our heroic and...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...

My Colored BattalionYou know, too, that for some time, during the Great World War, we were in the very front lines of that magnificent wave of determined Allies in France who held and at last swept back the fiendish forces of autocracy and tyranny...

Was mir das Sternenlicht erzählt: Eine populäre Himmelskunde für die JugendHabe ich mich satt genug gesehen am Blau meiner heimatlichen Berge, habe ich lange genug getrumt vom Glcke und vom inneren Frieden lngst verklungener Tage und Jahre, dann trete ich in den groen Garten...

Cecco d'Ascoli: racconto storico del secolo XIV Il nome di Pietro Fanfani gi tanto noto e venerato nella repubblica delle lettere, che temo quasi di venir tacciato di arroganza intraprendendo a scrivere alcune poche parole che devono servire in tal qual modo di introduzione...

Harper's Round Table, July 14, 1896The younger boy ceased his efforts to close the gates, and advancing a few steps before the entrance of the fort, looked up the valley to where the road from Prescott appeared from behind a spur of the foot-hills....

Life in Afrikanderland as viewed by an Afrikander - A story of life in South Africa, based on truthTo the Reader, Gentle Reader, I have written this story in the English languagea language learned by me, as a foreign language, for the chief purpose...

Madame X: a story of mother-love ELEGIE (From the French of Massenet) Oh, Spring of days long ago, blooming and bright, Far have you fluttered away! No more the skies azure light, caroling birds Waken and glisten for me! Bearing all joy from my...

L'Atelier de Marie-ClairePendant quelques minutes il y eut dans notre groupe un joyeux bavardage. Puis les quatre tages furent monts rapidement. Et tandis que les autres reprenaient leurs places autour de la table, j'allai m'asseoir devant la machine coudre, tout auprs de la fentre....

Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident MagistrateIt appears to be the custom, for writers of books of this description, to begin with apologies as to their style, or excuses for their production. I pretend to no style; but have simply written at the...

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 4 (of 4)Victories of the Russians.Altercation with France.Position of the Duc de Choiseul.Origin of his Power.His Character.Madame du Barry.Her Influence opposed to that of the Duc.Opposition to her Presentation at Court, which is at...

The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos)The title-page of this book necessarily bears the name of one man; but the reader will find in its pages the story, or part of the story, of many other Pioneers of Progress. The crowning achievement of anticipating...

The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 11, July, 1835LITERARY NOTICES THE CRAYON MISCELLANY, No. II. THE CONQUEST OF FLORIDA, by Hernando de Soto: by Theodore Irving CHANCES AND CHANGES, a domestic story: by the author of "Six Weeks on the Loire." NORTH AMERICAN...

Revolted Woman: Past, present, and to comeIt might have been supposed, having in mind her first and most stupendous faux pas, that Woman would be content to sit, for all time, humbly under correction, satisfied with her lot until the crack of doom, when...

Secrets of meat curing and sausage making - how to cure hams, shoulders, bacon, corned beef, etc., and how to make all kinds of sausage, etc. to comply with the pure food lawsAdolph Heller, the father of the members of the firm of B....

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, No. XVIII, April, 1854FOR the early portion of the season, we illustrate a mantilla of great beauty. It is made of black-green or ruby-colored, with a richly embroidered ornamental design. Should it prove desirable, the upper portion of the...