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The History of the 2/6th (Rifle) Battalion, "the King's" (Liverpool Regiment) 1914-1919Shortly after the Armistice Colonel Fletcher wrote to me asking if I would undertake to write a history of the battalion. All through the war I had cherished a vague idea of doing...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 718 - September 29, 1877Since the commencement of the war between Russia and Turkey, the world has several times been startled by the announcement that the 'Flag of the Prophet' was about to be unfurled...

The Boys' Book of SubmarinesAnd yet while of course you know that a submarine can travel on or under the water, dive like a porpoise and destroy an enemy ship by shooting a torpedo at her, do you know exactly how an undersea boat...

The Alhambra It is not possible to forget Washington Irving in the Alhambra. With a single volume, the simple, gentle, kindly American man of letters became no less a figure in the Moor's Red Palace than Boabdil and Lindaraxa of whom he wrote. And...

Der Postsekretär im Himmel, und andere GeschichtenSeine Seele schickte sich jedoch nicht sogleich zur Reise an, sondern sie gab wohl acht, ob den irdischen Resten auch alle bliche Ehre widerfahre, und zhlte und prfte die Krnze, welche von einigen Verwandten, auch vom Stammtisch im...

The Silence of Colonel BrambleThe Highland Brigade was holding its regimental boxing match in a fine old Flemish barn in the neighbourhood of Poperinghe. At the end of the evening the general got on to a chair and, in a clear, audible voice, said:...

The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago - as Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, ShoemakerFor all the facts in this little book the writer is indebted to Henry F. Tapley, who gave the Lye, or Tapley, shoe shop to the...

Johannes KalvinOli elokuu vuonna 1536 Geneven kaupungissa, kauniin Sveitsin alppijrven lounaiskolkassa. Sinne oli saapunut matkustaja, joka aikoi Baseliin ja poikkesi majataloon yksi. Hnen tarkotuksensa oli jo seuraavana aamuna jatkaa matkaansa, Vaikka vasta 27-vuotias, oli hn jo kuuluisa kirjailija ja hnen nimens senthden laajalti tunnettu...

The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760The theme to which this volume is specifically limited is the position and achievements of learned women in England in the period between 1650 and 1760. But before entering upon this detailed study it seems desirable to give a...

Collotype and Photo-lithographyThe impossibility of obtaining any work in the English language on the subject of Collotype first led to my translation of the German work of Dr. Schnauss, and the fact that no work has hitherto appeared fully dealing with the matter is...

Traits of American Humour, Vol. 3 of 3Most Europeans speak of America as they do of England, France, or Prussia, as one of the great countries of the world, but without reference to the fact that it covers a larger portion of the globe...

Traits of American Humour, Vol. 2 of 3Most Europeans speak of America as they do of England, France, or Prussia, as one of the great countries of the world, but without reference to the fact that it covers a larger portion of the globe...

Traits of American Humour, Vol. 1 of 3Most Europeans speak of America as they do of England, France, or Prussia, as one of the great countries of the world, but without reference to the fact that it covers a larger portion of the globe...

Harper's Young People, November 1, 1881 - An Illustrated WeeklyEvery boy realizes the fascination of fishing, even if he gets nothing but bitesmosquito bites at that. It is the anticipation of what one may catch which heightens the every charm of the sport itself....

A Bachelor's ComedyThis was no comedy to those most concerned, of course, for comedy is like happinessdirectly a person knows he is in it, he is out of it. Tragedy, on the other hand, can only touch those who do not take themselves seriously...

The Smuggler of King's Cove; or, The Old Chapel MysteryWe doubt if there is anywhere on the sea board of England another stretch of coast so wild and rugged, and so forbidding of aspect to navigators, as is that of Headlandshireprobably so called because...

The Robber, A Tale.It was in the olden time of merry England--not at that far removes period when our native land first received its jocund name from the bowmen of Sherwood, and when the yeoman or the franklin, who had wandered after some knightly...

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 - Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric AgeThough the poems of Homer are replete, perhaps beyond any others, with refined and often latent adaptations, yet it may be observed in general of...

Suomen herännäisyyden historia XIX:llä vuosisadalla IV. 1853-1900 Ps. 25: 8-9. I. Pohjanmaan hernnisyys 1853-60. II. Kuolemansanomia Pohjanmaan hernnisyyden merkkimiesten rivist 1850-luvun loppuvuosina ja seuraavan vuosikymmenen alussa. III. Savon hernnisyyden vaiheita Paavo Ruotsalaisen kuoleman jlkeen vuoteen 1860. IV. Henrik Renqvist 1853-1866. V. Hernnisyys Matth. Akianderin...

The Post-GirlWhen summer comes Mrs. Gatheredge talks of repapering her parlor, and Ginger gets him ready to sleep in the scullery at a night's notice, but the letting of lodgings is not a staple industry in this quarter of Yorkshire, and folks would fare...