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A Relic of the RevolutionIn presenting the following pages to the reader, the publisher has no ambition to aspire to the character of an author, and what is perhaps more rare, he has no private interest to serve; he does not seek to gratify...

The Anatomy of SuicideThis treatise had its origin in the following circumstance:A few months ago, the author had the honour of reading before the Westminster Medical Society, a paper on Suicide Medically considered, which giving rise to an animated discussion, and evolving an expression...

Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE IVTH (QUEEN'S OWN) HUSSARS IN WHOSE COMPANY THE AUTHOR LIVED FOR FOUR HAPPY YEARS This story was written in 1897, and has already appeared in serial form...

Yesterday HouseThe narrow cove was quiet as the face of an expectant child, yet so near the ruffled Atlantic that the last push of wind carried the Annie O. its full length. The man in gray flannels and sweatshirt let the sail come crumpling...

On the Fourth PlanetHe hadn't notice the obstacle until he had almost touched it. His attention had been focused upon gleaning every feeder large enough to be edible from the lichens that covered his feeding strip. But the unexpected warmth radiating from the object...

Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others"It is as pleasant to be cheated as to cheat," is a maxim that must have been framed expressly for conjuring, for the more completely one is deceived by its medium (and, be...

How to Be a DetectiveSome of my friends will no doubt wonder why I should leave the beaten track and contrary to the course I have always adopted of furnishing notes to my friend, the New York detective, write a book myself. The fact...

Das Abendmahl im Zusammenhang mit dem Leben Jesu und der Geschichte des Urchristentums - Zweites Heft. Das Messianitäts- und Leidensgeheimnis. Eine Skizze des Lebens JesuDer Versuch, ein Leben Jesu zu schreiben und dabei nicht am Anfang, sondern in der Mitte, mit dem Leidensgedanken zu...

Miekka ja sana I: Historiallisia kertomuksiaHn loikoi piv paistattaen turvekodan oviaukossa ja lipsutti sormiaan. iti istui kivell oven pieless, kuroen luuneulalla ja jnnerihmalla isn nahkamekkoa. Is itse oli mennyt kalanpyydyksin kokemaan, mutta isois, arpinen ja ontuva ukko, kyyktti maassa kodan edustalla ja jauhoi kivikirveeseen...

Mam' Linda N the rear of the long store, at a round table under a hanging-lamp with a tin shade, four young men sat playing poker. The floor of that portion of the room was raised several feet higher than that of the front,...

Paul Rundel: A Novel FROM the window of her husband's shop in the mountain-village of Grayson, Cynthia Tye stood peering out on the Square. She was tall, gaunt, and thin-so thin, in fact, that her fingers, pricked by her needle and gnarled at the...

The Quest of the Golden Pearl A sturdy, thick-set young fellow of seventeen was Jack, with low-hung fists of formidable size, and a love for anything in the shape of a row that constantly led him into scrapes. Hot-headed though he was, he was...

Northern Georgia Sketches I am indebted to the publishers of The Century Magazine, Lippincotts Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, Book News, The Black Cat, and to the Bachelier Syndicate for the courteous permission to reprint the sketches contained in this volume. Andrew Duncan and...

The Rat-PitIN the city of Glasgow there is a lodging-house for women known as The Rat-pit. Here the vagrant can get a nightly bunk for a few pence, and no female is refused admittance: the unfortunate, the sick, and work-weary congregate under the same...

The Mentor: Bolivia, vol. 5, Num. 18, Serial 142, November 1, 1917The Indian of the Bolivian plateau is still only a half-civilized man and less than half a Christian. He retains his primeval Nature worship, which groups together the spirits that dwell in mountains,...

The Great Nebraska SeaEveryoneall the geologists, at any ratehad known about the Kiowa Fault for years. That was before there was anything very interesting to know about it. The first survey of Colorado traced its course north and south in the narrow valley of...

My Lady SeleneWhat first came to him out of the humming blackout mist was his own name: Marcusson. Al Marcusson, just turned sixteen that Saturday in June, that green-leafed day his father had called him out to the back yard. They had sat on...

Viehättävä rouva y.m. luonnekuviaJerome Klapka Jerome, (nnetn dscherm) englantilainen humoristi, syntyi Walsallissa toukok. 2 p:n 1859. Hn sai humanisen koulusivistyksen ja antautui sitten opettajauralle, josta kuitenkin erosi ruvetakseen nyttelijksi ja sittemmin siirtyi sanomalehtimieheksi. Hn julkaisi 1892-97 lehte "Idler" ja 1893-97 aikakauskirjaa "To Day." Mutta...

The Birds of LorraneHe turned his back on his useless ship and went inside the bubble house that had been his home for ninety-nine days. Methodically he donned his all-weather clothes, his environment suit. He did not want to die in this place. Here...

Half past AlligatorBill Bradley shooed away the group of Quxas that had surged over the first-base line. With broad grins on their flat, piebald faces, they moved awayin the wrong direction, of courseand squatted in a smiling semicircle around Pat Reed, who was playing...