Recreation, Leisure
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Simla Village Tales Or, Folk Tales from the HimalayasSimla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the HimalayasIn introducing Simla Village Tales to my readers, I wish to acknowledge gratefully the valuable assistance given me by my sister Mabel Baldwin, who, when I was obliged to leave India suddenly owing to nervous breakdown...
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Superstition and ForceSuperstition and Force - Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, TortureThe history of jurisprudence is the history of civilization. The labors of the lawgiver embody not only the manners and customs of his time, but also its innermost...
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The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and ShrewsburyThe Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and ShrewsburyThere appear to be hardly any beginners or habitual players who know how to profit by seeing experts at play and at work. The reason cannot well be that we do not look on at games sufficiently often!...
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Highland LegendsHighland LegendsBy associating them with a name so universally revered I give them value; whilst I afford to myself an opportunity of expressing my admiration of those many virtues and amiable qualities which have rendered it so much beloved in your person by all...
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Gloves, Past and PresentGloves, Past and PresentMost men, apparently, take their gloves for granted. In these days the little refinements of civilization are accepted among us without a thought; but in so doing we lose a great deal of enjoyment which we never were intended to overlook....
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Historical Tales and Legends of the HighlandsHistorical Tales and Legends of the HighlandsThese Tales and Legends were very favourably received by a wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared from month to month in the Celtic Magazine. They are now published in a collected form...
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Sexual Life of Primitive PeopleSexual Life of Primitive PeopleTo most lay people the established order of sex relationships and marriage seems something so self-evident and stable that they cannot conceive the possibility of a variation in the established order. Yet here, as in all things, the law of...
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The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Barbering, Hair-dressing, & Peruke-Making Services, & Some Remarks on Wigs of Various Styles.Richard Gamble, barber and perukemaker of Williamsburg in the middle years of the eighteenth century, appears to have remained a bachelor all...
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Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and PersiaArmenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and PersiaAlmost from time immemorial a border warfare has been carried on between the Koordish tribes on the confines of Turkey and Persia, in the mountainous country beginning at Mount Ararat toward...
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The Wreck of the "Royal Charter"The Wreck of the "Royal Charter" - Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original MatterThis little book is prepared under the conditions of saving the Mail which leaves England on the 12th, and of being a complete narrative of the Wreck. The one condition...
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History of GeographyHistory of GeographyThis is not a history of geographical exploration, though the leading episodes in the advance of our knowledge of the face of the Earth are necessarily referred to in tracing the evolution of geography as a department of science. That is the...
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The cries of London and public edificesLondon Cries & Public EdificesThe Tinker is swinging his fire-pot to make it burn, having placed his soldering-iron in it, and is proceeding to some corner or post, there to repair the saucepan he carries.We commence with the most interesting edifice in our capital,...
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A Description of GreenlandA Description of GreenlandA FRIEND of mine, who lived some time in Greenland, published (unknown to me) some years ago, a Description of Greenland, under the title of A New Survey of Old Greenland, which, not long after my arrival in those parts, I...
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The Burton Holmes Lectures, Volume 1 (of 10)The Burton Holmes Lectures, Volume 1 (of 10) - In Ten Volumes Mr. Holmes has been asked to supply data for a biographical sketch. He replies that his biography will be found in his lectures, each lecture being a chapter from his life of...
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The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, and Other Great Sea DisastersThe Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, and Other Great Sea DisastersTHOSE who go down to the sea in ships was once a synonym for those who gambled with death and put their lives upon the hazard. Today the mortality at sea is...
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part SecondThe Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Second - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Siam and Java; With Descriptions of Cochin-China, Cambodia, Sumatra and the Malay ArchipelagoThe favorable reception accorded to "The Boy Travellers in Japan and China" has led...
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The Art of Tying the Cravat Demonstrated in sixteen lessonsThe Art of Tying the Cravat; Demonstrated in sixteen lessonsNo one accustomed to mix with the higher classes of society will be at all inclined to dispute the advantages arising from a genteel appearance; it therefore becomes necessary that the means of acquiring this...
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An Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk CoastAn Essay on the Encroachments of the German Ocean Along the Norfolk Coast - With a Design to Arrest Its Further DepredationsMany persons may consider it a remarkable circumstance, that an individual, whose profession requires his leisure time to be devoted to the acquirement...
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Lawn-tennisLawn-tennisThere is at present no work on Lawn-Tennis written by any of the well-known players or judges of the game, and it is with great diffidence that I offer this book to fill the gap until something better comes. It is intended for beginners,...
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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of ConjuringModern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of ConjuringThe wonder excited by the marvellous automatons of Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke has caused many inquiries into the art of mechanical conjuring. Although the productions of those gentleman at the Egyptian Hall have been thought...
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