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Rice PapersTHESE stories possess the merit of not being true, nor are they necessarily founded on fact; they were written during three years service in China, and their conception served to more or less pleasantly while away many hours. If they afford the reader...

The Great Valley Copyright, 1916, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916. Reprinted November, 1916. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. [v] TO THE MEMORY OF SQUIRE DAVIS and LUCINDA MASTERS WHO, CLOSE TO...

The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3)Four years passed rapidly and tranquilly at Fairlee. The waters of Lochleven flowed at the foot of its undulating grounds, and the mountains of Glencoe terminated the grandly-beautiful and distant prospect which Christobelle gazed upon with untired delight,...

The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 2 of 3)Sir Foster Kerrison's entrance into the great drawing-room at Wetheral was an epoch in its annals. It was the precursor of stirring matter. Lady Wetheral received him with great amenity of manner; and any other gentleman might have...

The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3)Sir John and Lady Wetheral were blessed with four fine little girls, who promised to be all the fond heart of a parent could wish; for, as her ladyship observed with pride, "their forms were perfect, and their...

The Peacock of JewelsTo find Barkers Inn was much the same to an ordinary person as looking for a needle in the proverbial haystack. Dick Latimer, however, knew its exact whereabouts, because he lived there, and on this foggy November night he was making...

Annali d'Italia, vol. 6 - dal principio dell'era volgare sino all'anno 1750 Con tutta l'ansiet di Pio II pontefice di far una spedizion memorabile contra de' Turchi, giunti oramai colle tante loro vittorie e conquiste a minacciar fino la stessa Italia [Raynaldus, Annal. Eccles.],...

The Race of the SwiftThe author wishes to make public acknowledgment to Leslies Monthly Magazine for permission to use in this volume The Race of the Swift, The King of the Northern Slope, and The Ghost Coon. Thanks are also due Field and Stream...

Gray Days and Gold in England and ScotlandThis book, a companion to Shakespeare's England, relates to the gray days of an American wanderer in the British islands, and to the gold of thought and fancy that can be found there. In Shakespeare's England an...

Saratoga National Historical Park, New YorkThis publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System, administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. It is printed by the...

Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying - With a dissertation on aëronauticsThe locomotion of animals, as exemplified in walking, swimming, and flying, is a subject of permanent interest to all who seek to trace in the creature proofs of beneficence and design in...

The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER...

The Mountain of FearsI told him that I had done only such work in this branch as a general practice would require, but that I had observed some few cases of especial interest during a military surgical service in the East, and proceeded to...

Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6I PLACE these Sketches in the hands of my Publishers, believing that careful chromo-lithographic fac-similes of them will convey a fuller and perhaps more novel idea of Arctic scenery than any rendering...

Pleiades Club Year Book 1910But apply these and other bromidic definitions to the art and literature of to-daymeasure them up against the Sunday newspaper, or Peter Pan at the theatre, or picture exhibitions of the Independent Artists and the followers of Matisseand assuredly there...

Napoleon1769 vuoden kevt oli levotonta aikaa Korsikan kalliosaaren vestlle. Eihn tosin oltu totuttukaan rauhaisiin piviin: 40 vuotta olivat korsikalaiset, joiden puukko ammoisista ajoista helposti irtaantui tupestaan, vapauden hurmauksessa ja hehkuvalla isnmaanrakkaudella taistelleet vihattua genualaista ylivaltaa vastaan, jonka alla olivat vuosisatoja huokailleet. Vihollinen oli jo...

KalevalaLikasom frtjensten att undan frgngelsen hafva rddat Finlands historiska minnen nstan uteslutande tillhr Porthan, likas hafva nationens mythiska qvarlefvor hufvudsakligast genom D:r Lnnrots verksamhet blifvit framkallade i ljuset. Alldeles obanad var vl icke heller den vg, han betrdde; men, hvad man fre honom gjort,...

Halloween, a Romaunt; with Lays Meditative and DevotionalWhen the Christian Ballads first appeared, I appended to the book several little poems of a different character, with the announcement that they were selected from a forthcoming volume. Although I afterwards determined not to publish that...

The Young Man and JournalismOne of the most important decisions a young man is called upon to make relates to the determination of his life-work. It is fraught with serious consequence for him. It involves the possibilities of success and failure. The social order...

New York Nocturnes, and Other PoemsSet up by J. S. Cushing & Co., and printed by Berwick & Smith, at the Norwood Press, for the publishers, Lamson, Wolffe & Co., in the year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-eight. * * * ......Buy Now (To Read...