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All along the River: A NovelIt had been raining all the morning, and it was raining still, in that feeble and desultory manner which presages a change of some kind, when the postman came with the long-expected Indian letter. He was later than usual....

Through the Casentino with Hints for the Travellerwith Hints for the Traveller by Lina Eckenstein Illustrated by Lucy Du Bois-Reymond London: J. M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street Covent Garden, W.C. * * 1902 The Casentino is the name...

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun IN 1663, says Sainte-Beuve, it became the policy of Louis XIV. to help Portugal against Spain, but the succour which he gave was indirect; subsidies were secretly furnished, the levying of troops was favoured, and a crowd of...

The Watcher by the ThresholdWe have travelled so many roads together, highland and lowland, pleasant and dreary, that I ask you to accept this book of travellers' tales. For Scotland is a wide place to travel in for those who believe that it is...

The King's Scapegoat I My Claim to be heard for Truth's Sake II The Bruisings of a Friend III Fire and Sack IV Babette V Paris in "Eighty-Three" VI The Muse in Draggled Skirts VII The Shrewdest Brain in France VIII The Doors of...

Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro Every year more and more is the constantly recurring question ever put "Where shall we go to this Summer?" and every year the field for selection gets narrower and narrower. In writing the following pages, my object has...

Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)At any time whatever, at the time when any animal springs for seizing an animal that is its prey, it comes running near a rock that is in an open place in the forest. Having arrived near...

Education of WomenThe higher education of women in America is taking place before our eyes on a vast scale and in a variety of ways. Every phase of this great experiment, if experiment we choose to call it, may be studied almost simultaneously. Women...

Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de CourcyThe following discourses, which were found among the manuscripts of the Author after his decease, will, no doubt, be extremely acceptable to those, who have been accustomed to hear the word of truth from his lips, and...

The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a DestroyerHum; dont know about the brave sailor part of it, smiled Ned Strong pleasantly, as the dark-skinned speaker halted him and his companion Herc Taylor in the shadow of the gray wall of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We are...

Interim: Pilgrimage, Volume 5 Miriam thumped her Gladstone bag down on to the doorstep. Stout boots hurried along the tiled passage and the door opened on Florrie in her outdoor clothes smiling brilliantly from under the wide brim of a heavily trimmed hat. Grace...

A czigánybáró; Minden poklokon keresztülKilenczszz falu llt resen a bnsg terletn. (Az sszeirs az olyan falut, a melyikben kt hz lakva van, mr a lakottak kz sorozza.) Azoknak egy rsze le is volt getve s porig rombolva; de olyan is sok volt, a hol...

Journal 01, 1837-1846 - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) Thoreau was a man of his own kind. Many things may be said of him, favorable and unfavorable, but this must surely be said first,that, taken for all in all,...

Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical EssayThe first edition of this pamphlet appeared a short time before the publication of the Official Records relating to Gettysburg. Consequently many things of importance to the subject treated were unknown to the writer. Such facts as he possessed...

How to Install Electric Bells, Annunciators, and Alarms. - Including Batteries, Wires and Wiring, Circuits, Pushes, Bells, Burglar Alarms, High and Low Water Alarms, Fire Alarms, Thermostats, Annunciators, and the Location and Remedying of TroublesAn electric bell depends for its action on the fact...

Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translationI would fain have enriched this edition of my Sappho with some new words of the poetess, if only even to the slight extent which I reached in 1887; but, to the world's sorrow, that pleasure...

Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France - Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original DocumentsBy the order of Pope Calixtus in 1455, the Trial of Jeanne dArc at...

Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 6, De La Isla De Cuba, IIIEn las cifras en nmeros romanos impresas en versalita en el original, el tamao de la letra U (1000) es,...

Women Students in the University of North Carolina: 1897-1922This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the admission of women into the University and so it has seemed fitting that it should be the occasion of a general alumnae reunion. It is with pleasure that...

Kahden reportterin seikkailut: SeikkailuromaaniPelisaleissa kvi kuin maininkien vaimeneva kohina. Vihrefrakkiset virkailijat liukuivat ihmisjoukossa ja suhisevin nin muistuttivat, ett rahan ja intohimon pyhtss tytyi olla hiljaa. Sihkyvien shkkruunujen valossa loistivat kirjavavriset marmoriseint korinttilaisine pylvineen, kuvapatsaineen ja korkokuvineen, parketti kumisi satojen hillittyjen askelten nt, ja vihreverkaisilla...