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Cavalry Curt; Or, The Wizard Scout of the ArmyActors: In the foreground, a horseman and a drowsy sentinel roused to a sense of his duty by the sound of the approaching rider; in the background, a score or more of Confederate cavalrymen springing from...

The Stuff of Manhood: Some Needed Notes in American CharacterThe moral elements of individual character are inevitably social. And the social obligation immensely strengthens the sanctions which enjoin them. When a man has trained himself, to use the words of Lord Morley in dealing...

Les Huit Jours du Petit Marquis; Carlos et CornéliusUN dimanche, un dimanche anglais, le terrible Sunday silencieux et morne, le dimanche du vide et de lennui, un dimanche de juin, sous la chaleur torride, la lourde chaleur des ts de Londres, un dimanche de...

Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden: Being Extracts from the Journal of a FishermanSketches in Norway and Sweden! Are they fact or fiction? are they to be instructive or simply entertaining? These are questions which the public has a right to ask, and which...

Comment on devient écrivainLA VOCATION ET LE SUCCS COMMENT ON CRIT UN ROMAN LA TECHNIQUE ET LES PROCDS DU ROMAN COMMENT ON CRIT DES LIVRES DHISTOIRE ET DES LIVRES DRUDITION CE QUE DOIT TRE LA CRITIQUE LITTRAIRE COMMENT ON FAIT UN SERMON LA TRADUCTION...

GedichteDie Gedichtsammlung Im Treibhaus (Serres chaudes, Brssel 1895) ist bertragen von K. L. Ammer und in die endgltige Form gebracht durch Fr. v. Oppeln-Bronikowski, der auch die Fnfzehn Lieder bersetzt hat (Quinze Chansons, Brssel 1900, in der Neuauflage der Serres chaudes). Die Serres chaudes...

Aan Tafelbaai's Strand - of twintig jaren uit het leven van een Kapenaar (1791-1811)Omtrent tien jaren geleden woonde ik in een klein dorpje in den Oranje-Vrijstaat, den naam waarvan het niet noodig is op te geven. Het was een klein plekje, waar ik misschien...

The Rockspur Eleven: A Fine Football Story for BoysThere are thousands of readers who do not care for magazines because the stories in them, as a rule, are short and just about the time they become interested in it, it ends and they are...

Determination of the Atomic Weight of Cadmium and the Preparation of Certain of Its Sub-CompoundsIt affords me great pleasure to express my sincere thanks to Professor Remsen for his instruction and personal supervision during my entire connection with the University; to Dr. Morse, under...

Lincoln, the AmericanPrinciples rather than policies appealed to Abraham Lincoln. All great questions seemed to him to involve some moral quality. It was his habit, therefore, to resolve them into their simple fundamentals. It thus happens that many of his words are as apt...

Der Landjunker: Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen Die Vorfahren Von-Wisins waren ein deutsches Rittergeschlecht, das zum Orden der Schwertbrder gehrte und sich von Wiesen schrieb. Ein Baron Peter von Wiesen geriet im Kriege Iwans des Grausen mit Livonien in russische Gefangenschaft und kehrte nicht mehr...

The Fourth Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and the Great WarThese notes have been compiled, more or less in the form of a diary, with a view to placing on record the services of those who voluntarily came forward to serve their...

Phantom DuelWill Archer idly poked one of the array of keys which studded the wings of his control chair. The pattern of stars which sprayed into a twelve-foot black bowl from a knobbed projector above his head winked out and was promptly replaced by...

Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for BoysIn the minds of most people a very silly notion prevails about the weather and the weather man. They have a general impression that the weather knows no lawsthat it is lawless and reckless, fickle and changeable; that the...

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2 - With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.If we were to take away from the Museum Collection [of Books] the Kings Library, and the collection which George the Third...

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 - With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.LIBER MONASTERII DE HYDA; comprising a Chronicle of the Affairs of England from the Settlement of the Saxons to Cnut; and a...

The Mystics of IslamThe title of this book sufficiently explains why it is included in a Series exemplifying the adventures and labours of individual seekers or groups of seekers in quest of reality. Sfism, the religious philosophy of Islam, is described in the oldest...

Œuvres complètes de Mathurin Regnier - accompagnées d'une notice biographique et bibliographique, de variantes, de notes, d'un glossaire et d'un indexLe plan de cette nouvelle dition ne diffre pas de celui qui a t adopt pour le Regnier de la Petite bibliothque littraire. Les...

A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens In order to convey some idea of the object of this work, it may be useful to offer a few preliminary observations on the nature of the subject which it is intended to investigate, and...

Spitzbögen Da aber auch Stdte sich dem einzelnen feindselig erweisen knnen, drften die wenigsten noch erfahren oder bemerkt haben. Nun, mein Jettadore war Florenz. In was fr Klemmen ich dort geriet, was fr Schlingen dort jedesmal fr mich bereit lagen, spottet jeglicher Erfindung. Ach...