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My German Prisons - Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of WarThe writer has been so constantly and earnestly appealed to to write his experiences, and so weary recounting them, that he has at last...

Democracy in France. January 1849I venture to believe that nothing will be found in the following pages which bears the impress of my personal situation. While events of such magnitude are passing before his eyes, a man who did not forget himself would deserve...

The Chinese KittenDora was industriously setting the table for supper. Lucy, at the kitchen dresser, was peeling peaches. Lucy had on a big apron belonging to her mother, and it covered both her and the stool on which she sat. Dora wore a pink...

The Heart of EnglandThis Series opens with a new work by Mr. Edward Thomas, that curious and enthusiastic explorer of the English Countryside, whose prose style gives him a claim to be regarded as the successor, as he is the biographer, of Richard Jefferies....

The Red Light of Mars; or, A Day in the Life of the Devil - A Philosophical ComedyThere is to me something typically American about the life-story leading up to the play contained in this volumea story in which the creation and publication of...

The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England[Note: The following is the substance of a little Welcome which the author was requested to write to American soldiers and sailors visiting England for the first time during the fateful days of 1918. It was distributed...

An essay in defence of the female sex - In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady.Prefaces to most Books, are like Prolocutors to Puppet-Shows, they...

My Crochet SamplerThe following pages contain a selection of patterns adapted to almost every purpose to which the art of Crochet is applicable,whether as an useful or a decorative species of work. Many of the designs have been expressly composed for this little treatise;...

The Western Echo - A Description of the Western State and Territories of the United States. As Gathered in a Tour by WagonEver since there was an East there was a West, and from the fact that the great race of humanity had its...

De Koning der ZeeEventjes schommelend aan haar ankerketting op de eerste rimpeling van het opkomend getij, lag daar de torpedoboot-vernieler "Calder". Ze maakte nu een veel minder trotschen indruk, dan toen ze een paar dagen geleden de haven verliet. De machine was onklaar geraakt...

Love and MarriageEllen Key, whose most important book is here for the first time presented in English, is no stranger in the English-speaking world. Her Century of the Child has already found many appreciative readers in America as well as in England. Ellen Key...

The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 4, April, 1882relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the American Missionary, to Rev. G.D....

La verdad sospechosaMxico ha sido propicio al florecimiento de la poesa lrica: desde Francisco de Terrazas hasta la plyade flamante de los poetas novsimos, no se ha roto la cadena del verbo de oro. Ha habido representantes de todas las escuelas, ha producido el...

Silverspur; or, The Mountain Heroine: A Tale of the Arapaho Country CHAPTER I. MOUNTAIN MEN. CHAPTER II. A FOOT RACE. CHAPTER III. THE GIRL WARRIOR. CHAPTER IV. THE PROPHETS CHILD CHAPTER V. THE SNAKE. CHAPTER VI. CONFESSION UNDER TORTURE. CHAPTER VII. OLD BLAZE IN...

Index for the Project Gutenberg Series "American Pioneers and Patriots" "LES CONQUERANTS" Frontpiece By NORMAN WILKINSON SAINT ANDREWS GATE STREET IN GENOA LA RABIDA PALOS HARBOUR THE SEA ASTROLABE PORTUGUESE MAPPEMONDE BEHAIMS GLOBE WATLINGS ISLAND CARAVEL. (FIFTEENTH CENTURY MAP OF ESPANOLA THE FOUR VOYAGES...

The Elves of Mount FernThey live in Elfland, and Elfland can be found in every corner of the globe. They take up their abode on wooded hillsides, beside murmuring streams, or in deep, leafy forests. In the dead of night, when all the world...

Modern Cotton Spinning Machinery, Its Principles and ConstructionIn submitting the following pages to the judgment of the public, the Author does not pretend to have written an exhaustive treatise. This would require a volume much larger than the present. It has rather been his...

George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago.As Columbus and La Salle were the most prominent of the Pioneers of America, so was Washington the most illustrious of its Patriots. In the career of Columbus we have a vivid sketch of life...

The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer)Last year, among the waifs swept to Paris by the great torrent of the flight from the North, there came to the American Hostels a little acrobat from a strolling circus. He was not much more...

Sarah BernhardtMy Dear Huret, You have given me an attack of vertigo. I have been reading your biography of our illustrious friend. Its rapid, nervous style, its accumulation of dates and facts, its hurried rush of scenery and events flying past as though seen...