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The Diary of a TurkAlthough no Western Power has ever played a greater part in the problems of the Ottoman Empire than Great Britain, yet in no other country in Western Europe is Turkey more grossly misunderstood. I have been many times asked by...

The Old Sixth Regiment, Its War Record, 1861-5This text is encoded in UTF-8 (Unicode). If the apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change...

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) - Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private 1 Gentlemen,Your favor of May the 9th, came to hand on the 25th of June, I immediately communicated to the foreign...

The Art of Kissing: Curiously, Historically, Humorously, Poetically ConsideredOrigin of kissing; the Scandinavian tradition; an old poets ideaKissing in ancient Rome, and among the Jews and early ChristiansBiblical kissingReligious significanceKissing in early EnglandAncient kissing customs as described by ErasmusThe puritanical views of John BunyanHow...

Romantic legends of SpainA WORD regarding the circumstances under which this translation was made will be pardoned by all children of dear mothers. Mrs. Cornelia Frances Bates (1826-1908), a graduate of Mount Holyoke in the days of Mary Lyon and the widow of a...

PoemsOnce in a generation an author surpasses the bounds of nationality. Of such cosmopolitan artists Maurice Maeterlinck is perhaps the most shining example. Twenty years ago I was vainly endeavouring to interest English publishers in his plays. To-day I am asked to produce a...

The Forgery; or, Best Intentions.One of the finest characters in the world was the old English merchant. We may and have improved upon many things, but not upon that. A different spirit reigns in commerce from that which ruled it long ago, and not...

Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 4 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding...

St. Benedict’s Rule for MonasteriesThis translation of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict was made from the third edition of the text as edited by Dom Cuthbert Butler of Downside Abbey in England (St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co., 1935). Nihil obstat: Basil Stegmann,...

Kertomuksia kirkkohistorian alalta 1: Vanha aikaI. Kristittyjen taistelu toisella vuosisadalla. II. Harhaoppisuutta: Ebionit, Natsarealaiset, Gnostikot. III. Katsahdus toisen vuosisadan kirkkoon. IV. Septimius Severus vainoo kristitylt. V. Montanuksen harhaoppi. Kirkkois Tertullianus. VI. Monarkkilaiset. VII. Uusia vainoja. Kirkkois Cyprianus. VIII. Aleksandrian katekeetikoulu. IX. Kirkkois Origines. X....

The story of HungaryIn complying with the request of the publishers of the Nations Series to write the Story of Hungary, I undertook a task which was out of the range of my previous literary undertakings, which had for the most part been devoted...

Wyllard's Weird: A NovelThere are some travellers who think when they cross the Tamar, over that fairy bridge of Brunel's, hung aloft between the blue of the river and the blue of the sky, that they have left England behind them on the eastern...

"My country, 'tis of thee!" - Or, the United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition.OR, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; Past, Present and Future. A...

Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906Few, we take it, would deny the influence that women, through the ages, have wielded in political life. Kings and potentates, Ministers of State and priests, have been guided by their counsels. Although such influence was indirect, it was...

Tragedies of the White SlaveThe Tragedy of the Want Ad The Tragedy of the The Theatrical Agency The Tragedy of the Maternity House The Tragedy of the Girl with the Hair The Tragedy of Mona Marshall The Tragedy of the Little Immigrant The Tragedy...

"Morgan's Men," a Narrative of Personal ExperiencesThis narrative is printed in pamphlet form to comply with the request of numerous friends and to meet the suggestion contained in the editorial notice of the Louisville Evening Post in its issue of May 29, 1919, as...

A Dog of Flanders, The Nürnberg Stove, and Other StoriesA SET OF CHILDRENS CLASSICS THAT SHOULD BE IN EVERY WINTER HOME AND SUMMER COTTAGE Mzli By JOHANNA SPYRI Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK Cornelli By JOHANNA SPYRI Translated by ELISABETH P. STORK A Childs...

Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10A few addenda to the textual notes on The Elder Brother, Wit without Money and The Faithful Shepherdess (Volume II), will be found in the Appendix, before the notes to the plays contained in the present volume....

Ihmissyöjäin saarilla: (Adventure) RomaaniI. Jotakin on tehtv. II. Jotakin tulee tehdyksi. III. "Jessie" saapuu. IV. Joan Lackland. V. Hn tahtoo hankkia itselleen plantaasin. VI. Myrsky. VII. Kesytnt joukkoa. VIII. Paikallisvrit. IX. Mies ja nainen. X. Boucher'n sanantuoja. XI. Port Adamsin joukko. XII. Mr Morgan...

The Story of the Book of MormonAMERICA THE FIRST INHABITED OF ALL LANDSITS ANCIENT PEOPLESTHE GARDEN OF EDENTHE ANTEDILUVIANSTHE JAREDITESTHE NEPHITES AND LAMANITES. THE story that we are about to relate is a true one. It is the history of the races who lived...