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Die GlücklichenDie Glcklichen so hatte Frulein Rosa Hesse das junge Ehepaar getauft, welches, in Begleitung eines kleinen Tchterchens und einer ltlichen Dienerin, vor einigen Tagen seinen Einzug in das Pensionat Klinger gehalten hatte. Frulein Rosa Hesse war der Schngeist des Pensionats, sie hatte vor...

The Old and the New Magic The very word magic has an alluring sound, and its practice as an art will probably never lose its attractiveness for peoples minds. But we must remember that there is a difference between the old magic and the...

Erdsegen: Vertrauliche Sonntagsbriefe eines Bauernknechtes.Der vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1906 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und altertmliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Zitate wurden nicht korrigiert. Gleiches gilt fr regional gefrbte Ausdrcke...

Vie privée et publique des animauxDE BALZACLOUIS BAUDEMILE DE LA BDOLLIREP. BERNARD GUSTAVE DROZBENJAMIN FRANKLINJULES JANIN DOUARD LEMOINEALFRED DE MUSSETPAUL DE MUSSET Mme MNESSIER-NODIERCHARLES NODIER GEORGE SANDP. J. STAHL LOUIS VIARDOT A linsu de toutes les grandes puissances, il vient de se passer un...

Rambles in Yucatan; or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula - Including a Visit to the Remarkable Ruins of Chi-Chen, Kabah, Zayi, and Uxmal. 2nd edTo those who intend to bestow upon the following pages the honor of a perusal, it may seem almost...

De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. De Amsteldamsche HecubaWij offeren hier uwe E. de Amsteldamsche Hecuba. Dezen bijnaam draagt ze, omdat Amstelredam hare geboorteplaats is. Verscheide vaders hebben vaderlijk recht aan dit kind[4]. Zeit men, dat het schandelijk luidt, dat er meer als...

Autobiography of a ChildThe picture is clear before me of the day I first walked. My mother, a handsome, cold-eyed woman, who did not love me, had driven out from town to nurse's cottage. I shut my eyes, and I am back in the...

The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and StrowingsWe hold these truths to be self-evident,that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.The Declaration...

Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and AchievementsIn this volume the author has made the effort to portray Napoleon as he appears to an average man. Archives have not been rummaged, new sources of information have not been discovered; the author merely...

Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of CureThe physician has a twofold duty to perform. He is called upon not merely to alleviate pain, and to undertake the cure of disease, but he is, moreover, required to lay down...

The Festival of Spring, from the Díván of Jeláleddín - Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions, with an Introduction and a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámJelleddn Rm (A.D. 1207-1273) is now universally recognised by 'those who know,' as the greatest of...

Miles Standish, the Puritan CaptainThe adventures of our Pilgrim Fathers must ever be a theme of absorbing interest to all their descendants. Their persecutions in England, their flight to Holland, their passage across the stormy ocean, this new world, as they found it, swept...

The Corner House Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=478dAAAAMAAJ&dq (the New York Public Library) A brilliant light streamed from the open doorway of No. 1, Lytton Avenue, making a lane of flame across the pavement, touching pinched gaunt faces that formed...

Der Bucheinband: Seine Technik und seine GeschichteDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1890 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Rechtschreibvarianten wurden nicht vereinheitlicht; ungewhliche und altertmliche Wortformen wurden nicht verndert, sofern die Verstndlichkeit des Textes dadurch nicht...

Kirsti: SielunkuvausKirstill oli idistn kaksi eri kuvaa, toinen, joka vastasi nykyisyytt ja todellisuutta, ja toinen hmrmpi, joka lapsuuden aikaisimpiin aikoihin liittyi. Silt ajalta hnelle oli jnyt mieleen monta pient tapausta, joita myhemmin omituisella hellyydell muisteli, mutta tuskin uskoi tosiksi. Kerrankin is kotiin odottaessa oli...

Stories of Symphonic Music - A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present DayMost concert-goers have observed, at performances of modern orchestral works of a descriptive character, the efforts of many persons in the audience to...

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921 - America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyAll new jokes, jests and jingles; Captain Billys Advice to the Lovelorn; and Smokehouse Poetry comprising a collection of the best red-blooded poems in the world. Republication...

Moonlight Schools for the Emancipation of Adult IlliteratesIt has been said that every great movement for freedom originated among mountain people. However true or untrue this may be, the movement to emancipate the illiterates of America originated among the people of the mountains of...

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3In the Brill, or rather in Brill-place, Somers-town, there is a variety of courts branching out into Chapel-street, and in one of the most angular and obscure of these is to be found a perfect nest of...

A Dominie DismissedHe returns as a cattleman to the village where he has previously been a schoolmaster. Incidentally, he watches the effect of his successor's teaching, the triumph of his own methods and the discomfiture of his rival at the hands of the children,...