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A Little Bit of Fluff: A Farce in Three ActsThe scene represents a room in the well-to-do flat of MR. JOHN AYERS, in the district of Bayswater. A door to the R. leads into the bedroom and another door L. leads to the hall...

Barbers' Manual (Part 1); Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2)By way of explaining the dual character of this little book, we here indulge a few brief introductory remarks. Part First is designed simply as a manual of instruction for barbers, and we hope it...

Harper's Round Table, February 4, 1896Though the Indians of New England were for many years vastly superior in numbers to the white men, they were never wholly united, and their cowardice and lack of discipline were weaknesses for which their treachery and deceit could...

Space Nomads: Meteorites in Sky, Field, and LaboratoryMeteoritics is the study of the only tangible entities that reach us from outer space. Except for the meteorites, scientists have to depend entirely on studies of some form of radiation for all their knowledge of the...

Memorias de José Garibaldi, volume 1 - Traduzidas do manuscripto original por Alexandre DumasComo todo o presente tem ligao com o passado impossivel comear qualquer narrao, ainda que seja a historia de um homem ou de um successo, sem lanar os olhos para esse...

Old Friends at Cambridge and ElsewhereI have frequently been asked to write my Memoirs, or I should rather say, my Recollections. I have serious doubts as to whether I recollect anything of value; and, even if I do, I have no time at present...

The Girl in His MindThe dance that the chocoletto girl was performing was an expurgated version of the kylee sex ritual which the Louave maidens of Dubhe 7 practiced on the eve of their betrothal. Expurgated or not, however, it was still on the...

The Long Remembered ThunderIn his room at the Elsby Commercial Hotel, Tremaine opened his luggage and took out a small tool kit, used a screwdriver to remove the bottom cover plate from the telephone. He inserted a tiny aluminum cylinder, crimped wires and replaced...

Les mystifications de Caillot-Duval - Choix de ses lettres les plus amusantes avec les réponses de ses victimesNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des...

JaponetteEdgerton had been dead for several years; the failure of the firm presently killed old Tennant, who was not only old in years, but also old in fashionso obsolete, in fact, were the fashions he clung to that he had used his last cent...

Index to Library ReportsThe following table shows that this index is intended to cover reports of library commissions, state libraries, university libraries and the public libraries of the United States and Canada. When reports of a library were found to contain material of general...

Salvation UniversalFor this grand and glorious purpose, worlds are created by him and peopled with his children. He gives to them his commandments, granting the power to choose for themselves whether or not they will obey. Those who obey him in all things he...

Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's GuideTexas has a great variety of rocks and mineralssome are common and others are not. This book is designed to acquaint you with some of them and to tell you in a nontechnical way what they are like,...

Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National ParkView west toward Grand Teton on skyline. Hedricks Pond surrounded by knob and kettle topography is in foreground, tree-covered Burned Ridge moraine is in middle distance, and extending from it to foot...

Libro intitulado El cortesano. Libro de motes de damas y caballerosHace mucho tiempo que la obra intitulada El Cortesano, que compuso y public el caballero valenciano D. Luis Milan, es tenida entre los biblifilos por un libro de los ms raros de nuestra antigua...

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)The American Bibliography is almost entirely the work of Mrs. St. John of Ithaca, and is the result of laborious and careful critical research on her part. The French Bibliography is not so full....

The Art of Lead Burning - A practical treatise explaining the apparatus and processes.In compiling a treatise on the subject of lead burning too much stress cannot be laid upon the fact that the greatest care must be taken to observe the smallest details...

Guernsey Folk Lore - a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that islandSir Edgar MacCulloch at his death, which occurred July 31st, 1896, bequeathed his manuscript collection of Guernsey Folk-Lore to the Royal Court...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 733, January 12, 1878One of the most interesting and vivid of our recollections is that of witnessing some scenes in negro slavery in the United States, now upwards of twenty years agovery nearly the close...

The Border Boys with the Mexican RangersProfessor Wintergreen sat bolt upright amidst his blankets and listened intently. Had it been daylight, the angular figure of the scientist would have made a laughable spectacle. But the canyon in the State of Sonora, in Western Mexico,...