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The Scriptures Able to Make Us Wise Unto Salvation - Or the Bible a Sufficient CreedThere is no work, of human production, that contains such a variety of principles, which, when viewed as a whole, make such a complete system as the Bible. It...

The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) — A Philosophical PoemThe Asrr-i Khud was first published at Lahore in 1915. I read it soon afterwards and thought so highly of it that I wrote to Iqbal, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at...

West Point - An Intimate Picture of the National Military Academy and of the Life of the CadetThis book is intended to give, aside from a brief historical sketch of West Point, something of the feelings of the cadet from the moment that he...

Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of EthnographyThe lectures which appear in this volume were delivered at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, in the early months of 1890. They have since been written out, and references added in the foot-notes to a...

The Yellow FaceThe flickering firelight fell upon the girl's pretty, thoughtful face; her violet eyes looked like deep lakes in it. She stood with one small foot tapping the polished brass rail of the fender. Claire Helmsley was accounted fortunate by her friends, for...

The Feeding of School ChildrenThe Provision of Meals for School Children, which is the subject of the following pages, is still undergoing that process of tentative transformation from a private charity to a public service by which we are accustomed to disguise the assumption...

The Nether MillstoneThere were tears in the girl's eyes--tears of futile anger and despair. The danger was so great, and yet safety was so near. If only the black horse would stumble or swerve, if only she could work the bit into that iron...

The Heart of a MysteryOn a certain bitter December evening, when the present century was several years younger than it is now, Miss Pengarvon, of Broome, in the shire of Derby, sat in the Green Parlor at the Hall, working by candle-light at some...

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 4 - My Girls, etc. I. My Girls II. Lost in a London Fog III. The Boys' Joke, and who got the best of it IV. Roses and Forget-me-nots V. Old Major VI. What the Girls did VII. Little Neighbors...

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 3 - Cupid and Chow-chow, etc. I. Cupid and Chow-Chow II. Huckleberry III. Nelly's Hospital IV. Grandma's Team V. Fairy Pinafores VI. Mamma's Plot VII. Kate's Choice VIII. The Moss People IX. What Fanny Heard X. A Marine Merry-making Mamma...

The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in ItalyThis book owes much to many: to the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Research Committee of the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, for giving me...

Fighting Germany's SpiesEspionage has always been to Americans one of the hateful relics of an outworn political system of Europe from which America was fortunately free. We lived in an atmosphere not tainted with dynastic ambitions or internal oppression. We had no secret agents...

My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life I am constrained to encourage a possible reader by assuring him that I have no intention whatever of writing strictly an autobiography. Nothing in myself nor in my life would warrant me in so doing. I might,...

The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing GunJack Chadwick stepped from the door of the shed where he and Tom Jesson, his cousinand, like Jack, about seventeen years oldhad been busy all the morning getting the Flying Road Racer back into shape, after that wonderful...

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those...

La Divina ComediaNota 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. UE es pues la...

Spirits Do ReturnThis book was written through the inspirational spirit of the well-known writer, Samuel L. ClemensMark Twain. As I have never before written a book, the reader will see that I have had help from an unseen forcefrom the Spirit World. I was...

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams - As Related in Extracts from Elizabeth Graham's DiaryWe are the Dudley Grahams,four children and a mother. We are very poor and keep a boarding-house; not because we like boarders, but because when dear father died a three...

The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 12, December, 1887Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for The American Missionary,...

The Peak DistrictIn Peakland one marvels most at the strange variety of sceneryillustrations of all English inland beauty seem to have been grouped there for mans delight. There are tender meadows, streams such as must have meandered through Arcady, fantastical hillocks, mountains that cut...