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The Bitter Cry of Outcast London - An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor*** We desire thankfully to acknowledge the assistance kindly afforded us in the pursuit of our investigations by the Secretary and Agents of the London City Mission, and also...

PoemsThe memory of her beautiful life, and of her deep and unchanging love for me,together with the knowledge of the interest she felt in my writings, fills me with a longing to do that which I know would be pleasing to her. For though...

The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management - Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who...

The Vanishing of Tera"I come from Eden," cried the preacher; "even from the Island of Koiau, which floats as a green leaf upon the untroubled sea. There reigneth eternal summer, but there reigneth not the Eternal God in the hearts of the heathen. Koiau...

The Rainbow Feather"'The lef' han', dearie, an' gowld for th' charm. Aye! a bewtiful han' for a bewtiful maid. I 'udn't rade false for--eh, dear life, what is't? Th' lines goo criss an' crass. Duvel! I be mortal feared to tell 'ee. Take tha...

The Girl from MaltaEntered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture by the National Publishing Company, Toronto, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. It was a calm southern night, with a...

The Lone Inn: A MysteryIf there be aught in presentiments I was well warned by that first glimpse of the inn. The monstrous bulk of gables, sloping roofs, and lean chimneys, hunched blackly against the sky, would have scared a bolder spirit than mine....

The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story"Poverty, naked and unconcealed! One can endure that, with some patience, as a beaten soldier in the battle of life. But genteel pauperism--the semi-poverty of the middle-class, that lives a necessary lie at the cost of incessant worry and...

Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II - An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of WealthThe views herein set forth were in the main briefly stated in a pamphlet entitled Our Land and Land Policy,...

The Black Monk, and Other StoriesAnton Tchekhoff, the writer of the stories and sketches here translated, although hardly known in this country, and but little better known on the western continent of Europe, has during the last fifteen years been regarded as the most...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 45, May 8, 1841No individual of the canine race has attained an equal amount of fame, or excited an equal degree of attention through Europe, not merely in the days of his acknowledged existence amongst our dogs...

The Black Patch"Certainly not, Miss Hedge," said the other with dignity; "Jerry shan't find anything on you, or in you, save a friend, else I shall be horribly jealous. As to Vivian, he would murder his future brother-in-law if he caught him admiring you;...

Azalea's Silver WebSo you are back at your beloved Vassar! Does it seem as wonderful as it did last year? Or more so? More so, I expect. You were a little lonely and strange last year, you know. But now it will be different....

Winona, a Dakota Legend; and Other Poems Title: Winona, a Dakota Legend; and Other Poems Author: E. L. Huggins Release Date: August 9, 2017 [EBook #55303] Language: English Credits: Produced by Emmy, MFR, K Nordquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This...

Princo SerebrjanijPrezentante i tiun laboron al juo de la legantoj, mi sentas internan bezonon kore danki nian karan Majstron, kiu, ricevinte en la somero 1910 kelkajn apitrojn de mia traduko, feliigis min per kelkaj aprobaj linioj, kiuj decidigis min publikigi la laboron. Mi kore...

Freiland: Ein sociales Zukunftsbild Auch die dritte Auflage ist vergriffen, kaum da sie die Presse zu verlassen vermochte, und so bergebe ich denn meinen Lesern diese vierte. Mge sie vereint mit ihren Vorgngerinnen dahin wirken, da der Gedanke, dem ich in den nachfolgenden Blttern...

Society as I Have Found It{30} {31} After my marriage I took up my residence in Newport, buying a farm on Narragansett Bay and turning farmer in good earnest. I planted out 10,000 trees on that farm and then went to Europe to let...

The Forum, October 1914In each of the nations now engaged in the European conflict, a large number of people of all classesthe vast majority of people of all classesdid not want war, and would have done all in their power to avert it: for...

Her Husband's Purse The Pennsylvania town of New Munich was electrified by the sudden and entirely unlooked-for announcement of the betrothal of Daniel Leitzel, Esquire; but his two maiden sisters with whom he lived, and to whom the news was also wholly unexpected, were...

HazelhurstIt is true that many of the great vaulted rooms and galleries of Hazelhurst, which had rung to the clear tones of the Le Mesurier voice for some three or four hundred years, were now so empty of furniture, so devoid of thick hangings...