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PlaceboThe object appeared in the middle of Main Way, about fifty feet from the statue of Vachel Lindsay, and at least a hundred from anything else. It was much too big and complicated to have been hidden anywhere, and it hadn't any wheels, tracks,...

The Best of FencesAt Number One board, Kerrman was staring moodily at the dead screen, blowing clouds of cigarette smoke at the control panel and watching the smoke writhe and flow down around the pilot lights and switch plates. Parmay walked across the room...

In a Canadian Canoe; The Nine Muses Minus One, and Other StoriesMY thanks are due to the Editor of The Granta for permission to reprint In a Canadian Canoe, The Nine Muses Minus One, and The Celestial Grocery. They have been carefully revised, and...

The Co-opolitan: A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of IdahoThis volume is given to the public without other excuse than the simple fact that it has been written. If it is read it may do some good, but in any event it cannot do...

Les confessions de saint Augustin, évêque d'Hippone: précédées de sa vie par S. Possidius, évêque de Calame... ; traduction nouvelle par L. MoreauLinspiration de Dieu, crateur et ordonnateur de toutes choses, et la pense toujours prsente de consacrer, moyennant la grce du Sauveur, au...

The Ghost in the Red ShirtThe proper way to begin this story would be to assure the reader, first of all, that I have never believed in ghosts; that is the way ghost-stories usually begin, I think. Also, I should say that what I...

History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 1For six years the Peninsula was devastated by the war of independence. The blood of France, Germany, England, Portugal, and Spain, was...

King of the HillIt did Col. Hal Gascoigne no good whatsoever to know that he was the only man aboard Satellite Vehicle 1. No good at all. He had stopped reminding himself of the fact some time back. Or had it? There was nobody...

The FirstThe city was enchanted. It was a colossal music box blaring forth a thousand chants of victory. It was a rainbow torn down from the sky and poured over the earth. It was a magic nursery through which eager-eyed children swarmed to behold...

Twenty Talks to TeachersTwenty Talks to Teachers is an epitome of some of the discussions used by the author in teachers institutes. It is not a profound book. It was not intended to be. Its object is to call the attention of young teachers...

Water Reptiles of the Past and PresentIn most persons the word reptile incites only feelings of disgust and abhorrence; to many it means a serpent, a cold, gliding, treacherous, and venomous creature shunning sunlight and always ready to poison. Our repugnance to serpents is...

The Virgins of the RocksPall Mall Gazette.'A masterpiece. The story holds and haunts one. Unequalled even by the great French contemporary whom, in his realism, DAnnunzio most resembles, is the account of the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin by the sick, deformed,...

As Others See Us: Being the Diary of a Canadian DebutanteThe purpose of this story is to form some impression of salient facts and tendencies in Canadian life, and to show its strength, and through its strength, its weakness. So I planned before the...

The Cruise of the Pelican I. Boatswain Joe II. News from Nowhere III. Laying a Course IV. The Square Suitcase V. The "Pelican" VI. Outward Bound VII. Jerry Tells Something VIII. Miles Hathaway Talks IX. Unalaska Bay X. The Wreck XI. The Enemy Comes...

British Campaigns in Flanders 1690-1794 - Being Extracts from "A History of the British Army" This volume consists simply of extracts reprinted from my History of the British Army. It is published in order that the troops at the front may, if they wish...

Elsie's Friends at WoodburnThe weather on Christmas Day was an improvement upon thatthe wind being less boisterous and the snow-fall only an occasional light flurry, but the sun scarcely showed his face, and as evening drew on the moon shone but fitfully and through...

The River of London[Pg 3] INTRODUCTION Through the flats that bound the North Sea and shelve into it imperceptibly, merging at last with the shallow flood, and re-emerging in distant sandbanks and less conspicuous shoals, run facing each other two waterways far inland, which...

Aboe Bakar: Indische RomanHet parelgrijs van den jongen dag bij zwaar bedekte lucht, gaf het Indisch landschap een westersche tint. Er ontbrak iets aan: de groote, gloeiende vuurbol wierp er zijn heete gouden lichtbundels niet over; hulde niet alles in het zware oostersche geel,...

The Laughter of Slim MaloneTime has little to do with reputation in the far West, and accordingly the name of Slim Malone grew old in the region of Appleton, and yet the owner of the name was still young. Appleton was somewhat of a...

Célszerű szegény emberekAz lettrtnetrl beszljek? Nincs neki. lete kls adataival onnan kezdve, hogy szletett 1866-ban a cegldi vasti llomson, tkzben s meghalt 1917 prilis 24-n Szegeden, az Oroszln-utcban, amelyet mr Tmrkny-utcnak hvnak nem lehetne megtlteni egy oldalt. Heroikus lendlet, romantikus lethullmzs a plyjbl csak...