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A Father's Legacy to His DaughtersMY DEAR GIRLS; You had the misfortune to be deprived of your mother, at a time of life when you were insensible of your loss, and could receive little benefit, either from her instruction, or her example.Before this comes...

Julius LeVallon: An EpisodeSurely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as part of the continually recurring rhythm of progressas inevitable, as natural, and as benevolent as...

Greece and the Ægean IslandsMinor errors in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected. Please see the transcribers note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. What follows makes no pretense whatever...

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache TrailAuthor of The Grace Harlowe High School Series, The Grace Harlowe College Girls Series, Grace Harlowes Problem, Grace Harlowes Golden Summer, Grace Harlowe Overseas, Grace Harlowe with the Red Cross in France, Grace Harlowe with the...

Jessica's First Prayer; and, Jessica's MotherIn a screened and secluded corner of one of the many railway-bridges which span the streets of London there could be seen, a few years ago, from five oclock every morning until half-past eight, a tidily set out coffee-stall,...

The Dwindling YearsNEARLY TWO hundred years of habit carried the chairman of Exodus Corporation through the morning ritual of crossing the executive floor. Giles made the expected comments, smiled the proper smiles and greeted his staff by the right names, but it was purely...

The River Motor Boat Boys on the Amazon; Or, The Secret of Cloud IslandThe opening of a door cast an oblong shape of light over the forward deck of a motor boat, against which an April rain drummed fast or slow, as the uncertain...

Über die Probenächte der teutschen BauermädchenSr. Hochfreiherrl. Exzellenz dem Knigl. wirklichen geheimen Staats- und Justiz-Minister Freiherrn von Zedlitz Chef des geistlichen Departements, Ober-Curator der Universitten und Schulen, &c. &c. Verwegenheit wird es scheinen, dass ich eine Schrift Euer Hochfreiherrlichen Excellenz zu berreichen wage, die...

How to Do Chemical Tricks - Containing Over One Hundred Highly Amusing and Instructive Tricks With ChemicalsFrom the remotest ages chemistry has exercised the strongest fascination on the minds of the curious, nor is it a matter of surprise that boys should feel themselves...

Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three actsMiss Treable, Margaret's companion, a faded lady of uncertain age, is fingering the photograph on the mantelpiece R. Mrs. Martelli, the housekeeper, a grim-faced, elderly woman, dressed in stiff black silk, opens the door and enters L....

The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919It was considered by the past and present members of the 4th Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), that some permanent record of the part taken by the Regiment in the European...

Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three actsCAUTION:Professionals and Amateurs are hereby notified that this play is fully copyrighted under the existing laws of the United States Government, and nobody is allowed to do this play without first having obtained permission of Samuel...

Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10In 1905, the Syndics of the University Press asked me to complete, upon the lines laid down in the preface to volume I, the editing of the reprint of the Second Folio of the works of Beaumont...

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]I. Shakespeare's King John was printed for the first time in the Folio of 1623. The poet adopted most of the characters, the general plot, and occasional lines, or fragments of lines, from an...

ElinkautinenMutta minklainen haltijatar se oli, joka Barbron Nikolain kehdon ress asuskeli, sit ei ole helppo sanoa. Siell lkkisepn luona kaupungin rimmisess osassa pieness majassa, jonka rikkuneet akkunanruudut olivat ryysyill tukitut, tapahtui monenmoisia majoituksia ja asukaslisyksi varsinkin iseen aikaan, kun joutovell ja kulkevaisilla oli asunnoista...

Keeping Up with William - In which the Honorable Socrates Potter Talks of the Relative Merits of Sense Common and Preferred TO THE CHILDREN OF FRANCE AND BELGIUMMADE FATHERLESS BY WILLIAMISMWHOSE WRONGS HAVE ENLISTED THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AGAINST THE MISLED HOSTS OF GERMANY,...

Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm. Wells Brown from American Slavery - Written by Himself The present Narrative was first published in Boston (U.S.), in July, 1847, and eight thousand copies were sold in less than eighteen months from the time...

Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods in memory of summer days when we wandered far and sat down to rest by springs and brooks in the doomed empire of Strong and talked of saving it and of better times and knew not they were...

The Red Lady IT is the discomfort of the thing which comes back upon me, I believe, most forcibly. Of course it was horrible, too, emphatically horrible, but the prolonged, sustained, baffling discomfort of my position is what has left the mark. The growing...

The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor THE WORKERS FRIEND THIS STORY OF LABORS FORTY YEARS STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED The headdress of nationalities, and of public and private societies, has been in all ages a remarkable...