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Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and EpigramsNEARLY all these pieces have appeared in the Cambridge Review, and I thank the Editor for his courtesy in allowing me to reprint them. A few travesties and epigrams have been added, and others have been revised. Most...

What Do You Read?Writers have long dreamed of a plot machine, but the machines in Script-Lab did much more than plot the storythey wrote it. Why bother with human writers when the machines did the job so much faster and better? Herbert would have...

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768NO sooner was the late War with France concluded, and Peace established by the Treaty of Versailles in the Year 1763, than I began to consider (having rendered my country...

Aura: 5-näytöksinen näytelmäREETU AHKIO, tehtaalainen, ikpuoli, hiljainen, vakava, toisissa naimisissa oleva mies. AURA, hnen vaimonsa, nuori, pulska nainen. MANU TUULENSUU, tehtaan isnnitsijn renki, puolivliss kolmattakymment oleva, komea, vilkas ja ovela mies. LAINA TELSO, ei viel kahtakymment tyttnyt sievhk puotitytt tehtaan osuuskaupassa. HELENA HKKINEN, keski-ikinen...

Three Minute StoriesMany of these stories and rhymes appeared originally in the Ladies Home Journal, and were signed either with my initials, or with names of characters in my books. Others were adapted by me from the Indian Hitopadesa, or Book of Good Counsel,...

The Golden-Breasted Kootoo, and Other StoriesONCE upon a timeand a good time it wasthere lived a king. I do not know exactly what his name was, or just where he lived; but it doesnt matter at all: his kingdom was somewhere between Ashantee and...

Isla HeronA charming idyl of New England coast life, whose success has been very remarkable. One reads it, is thoroughly charmed by it, tells others, and so its fame has been heralded by its readers, until to-day it is selling by the thousands, constantly...

Five Minute StoriesA charming idyl of New England coast life, whose success has been very remarkable. One reads it, is thoroughly charmed by it, tells others, and so its fame has been heralded by its readers, until to-day it is selling by the thousands,...

The Evolution of Modern OrchestrationIt is not the purpose of this work to write a treatise on instrumentation or to prepare a pedagogical analysis of orchestration only, but rather to trace the evolution of the orchestra and of orchestration in connection with the history...

Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under The AmazonIssued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York,...

The Young Deliverers of Pleasant CoveCourage to dare, fortitude to endure, enterprise to accumulate, and prudence to retain, are qualities that, however valuable in themselves, when in excess impart to character a coloring dry, hard, and even render it repulsive. But if beneath the...

A Trip to Pilawin, the Deer-park of Count Joseph Potocki in Volhynia, RussiaWhen founding the Pilawin preserve in 1901 my intention was limited to the breeding of elk, which still have their native haunts not very far away to the north, but have for...

La mère et l'enfantLa Mre et l'Enfant n'a jamais jusqu'ici t publi entirement en volume; des extraits en avaient paru, du vivant de l'auteur, dans diffrentes revues, et une importante portion de l'ouvrage avait t imprime part en une plaquette aujourd'hui puise[1]. Un enfant...

The Battle of April 19, 1775 - in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, MassachusettsI have copied the greater part of these patriotic names from the original Rolls in the Archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where they were filed soon after...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 716 - September 15, 1877A curious question has more than once been asked: have the most remarkable works, in the various kinds of literary labour, been produced in the flush of youth or the calmness...

Orchard and VineyardSome of these poems have already appeared in The London Mercury, The Observer, Country Life, The Womans Leader, The Anglo-French Review; to the editors of these papers I am indebted for permission to republish. [The scene is laid in a circular space...

Gems of Reminiscence - Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints"Gems of Reminiscence," the title selected for this volume, is sufficiently comprehensive to include incidents from real life on a wide variety of subjects,...

Neue Kindergeschichten aus Oberheudorf: Fünfzehn heitere ErzählungenAn einem Wintertag, an dem es drauen schneite und wehte, als htte der Winter Sehnsucht, ein paar erfrorene Nasen zu sehen, sa der Schullehrer von Oberheudorf in seinem Wohnzimmer und las seiner Frau aus einem Buche vor. Die...

Suomen herännäisyyden historia XIX:llä vuosisadalla II. 1836-1844I. "Tidningar i andliga mnen" ja "Hengellisi Sanomia". II. Vanhan puutarhurin kirjeet. III. Kalajoen hernnisyys 1836-1837. IV. Kalajoen krjt (1838-1839). V. Suupohjan hernnisyysliikkeen alku. VI. Fredrik string ja hnen sanankuulijansa oikeuden edess. VII. Turun tuomiokapitulin pts stringin ja...

The Khaki Boys Fighting to Win; or, Smashing the German LinesDistant rumbles, like those of some far-off thunderstorm, penetrated even to the dugout, which was constructed under a greater depth of earth than usual. At times some fearful, though far-removed, explosion would cause the...