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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 49 - 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 islands...

The Evolution of Naval ArmamentThe notes on which these essays are based were collected in the course of two commissions spent under the lee of the Admiralty library, close to the Royal United Service Institution, and in touch with the Reading Room of the...

Practical Hand Book of Gas, Oil and Steam Engines - Stationary, Marine, Traction; Gas Burners, Oil Burners, Etc.; Farm, Traction, Automobile, Locomotive; A simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts...

Un cavallo nella luna: Novelle Di settembre, su quell'altipiano d'aride argille strapiombante franoso sul mare africano, la campagna, gi riarsa dalle rabbie dei lunghi soli estivi, era triste, tutta irta di stoppie annerite. E tuttavia fu stabilito che i due sposi vi passassero almeno...

Baconian EssaysBY E. W. SMITHSON WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND TWO ESSAYS BY SIR GEORGE GREENWOOD LONDON CECIL PALMER OAKLEY HOUSE, 14-18 BLOOMSBURY ST., W.C. 1 {2} F i r s t Edition C o p y-r i g h t 1 9 2 2...

The Polly Page Ranch ClubSue Warner ran down the flight of stone steps that led from the side entrance at Calvert Hall to the garden, her face full of perplexity. Waiting for her were three of the girls, Isabel Lee, Ruth Brooks, and Edwina,...

The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-day)Shortly before my departure from Vienna I chanced to meet an acquaintance, a Viennese writer. "Are you really going to Russia?" said he. "I almost envy you, for it is to us a land of riddles. It has...

Harper's Young People, April 18, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly"Now I'll see about makin' the saddle," said Bob, "'cause I've seen 'em a good many times in a circus, an' I know jest how they're made. While I'm doin' that, you fellers must be...

De Sobremesa; crónicas, Tercera Parte (de 5)Nota 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....

Im Hause des Kommerzienrates.Die Dezembersonne huschte noch einmal scheu durch die groe Schlomhlenstube, dann nahm sie das letzte laue Strahlenfnkchen von den seltsamen Gegenstnden, die auf dem tiefen Steinsimse des Eckfensters ausgebreitet lagen, und verschwand in dem Schneewolkenbette, das sich trge, aber beharrlich am...

Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 Prentiss had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the...

Those Other AnimalsMAN, being essentially a creature of habit, has come to look upon what he is pleased to consider as the inferior creation from one point of view only, and that in most cases the narrow and selfish one of his own interests;...

Harper's Round Table, April 14, 1896It was a beautiful summer morning. There was a light wind from the southwest, which just tempered to a degree of endurance the blazing heat of the full-orbed sun. A few wisps of feathery white lay slantwise across the...

The Bashful Earthquake, & Other Fables and VersesThe contractions t and nt for it and not have a space before and after them, so we see is nt and wer nt and t is in the original text. These spaces are retained in this...

The House of Orchids, and Other PoemsAt the seas verge, near Cypress Point, in Monterey County, the rain, wind, sun and sea have shaped a crag of the Santa Lucian granite into the form of a cowled or crowned figure, bent above the surf....

North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life Italyabout which so much has been writtenpolitical, geographical, social, pontifical, poeticalItaly is my theme. But not the Italy of popes and priests and controversies, of civic struggles and new kingdoms, nor the Italy of tourists...

Wild Life in New Zealand. Part I. Mammalia. - New Zealand Board of Science and Art. Manual No. 2.In a land which depends to a very large extent on agricultural and pastoral pursuits and industries some knowledge of the animal and vegetable life of...

Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 10, January 1899 - A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and ArtUniversal Brotherhood AMAGAZINE Devoted To The BrtherhdofHumanity TheThesphicalMvement PhilsphyScienceAndArt FOUNDEDIN1886UNDERTHETITLEOF THEPATHBY WQJUDGE ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 56761...

De drie steden: LourdesDe heer J. M. Meulenhoff verzoekt mij een kort woord ter inleiding te schrijven voor Zolas bekende serie: Lourdes, Rome, Parijs. Ik kan in deze beknopte inleiding over de literaire en dramatisch-psychologische waarde van zijn drie romans, als nawerk op de...

A Chance for Himself; or, Jack Hazard and His TreasureThe mannoticeable for his round shoulders, round puckered mouth, and two large, shining front teethwielded a stout iron bar called a crow, with which he pried up the turf-bound rocks, and helped to tumble them...