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Notable Women of Modern ChinaNotable Women of Modern ChinaDuring a stay of some months in China in the year of 1909, I had an opportunity to see something of the educational work for women, and to meet several of the educated women of that interesting country. I was...
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Life of Robert BrowningLife of Robert BrowningLondon, Robert Browning's birthplace; his immediate predecessors and contemporaries in literature, art, and music; born May 7th, 1812; origin of the Browning family; assertions as to its Semitic connection apparently groundless; the poet a putative descendant of the Captain Micaiah Browning...
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Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William FarrarHeroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar - Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil WarWilliam Farrar Smith, the subject of this sketch, graduated at West Point in 1845, fourth in a class of forty-one members. He died...
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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.BThe Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. - Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic TupperIn the early part of last...
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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 - Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time CHAP. I. SECTION I. Oliver and his First Parliament: Sept. 3, 1654-Jan. 22, 1654-5.Meeting of the First Parliament of the...
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The Portland Peerage RomanceThe Portland Peerage Romance RICHARD THE BRAZEN BY CYRUS BRADY AND EDWARD PEPLE THE TANGLED SKEIN BY THE BARONESS ORCZY. 18th Thousand. 6s. THE MASCOTTE OF PARK LANE BY LUCAS CLEEVE. Third Edition. 6s. THE DUPE BY GERALD BISS. Second Edition. 6s. THE WOMAN...
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The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD ACTON, K.C.V.O., D.C.L., LL.D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN ADMIRATION OF HIS PROFOUND HISTORICAL LEARNING, AND IN GRATITUDE FOR ADVICE AND HELP GENEROUSLY GIVEN. An apology seems...
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The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) "Let my son often read and reflect on history: this is the only true philosophy."Napoleon's last Instructions for the King of Rome. BATTLE OF ULM BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ BATTLE OF JENA BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND BATTLE...
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The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)The demand for this work so far exceeded my expectations that I was unable to make any considerable changes in the second edition, issued in March, 1902; and circumstances again make it impossible for me to...
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Historia CalamitatumHistoria CalamitatumThe "Historia Calamitatum" of Peter Ablard is one of those human documents, out of the very heart of the Middle Ages, that illuminates by the glow of its ardour a shadowy period that has been made even more dusky and incomprehensible by unsympathetic...
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Varied TypesVaried TypesObjection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points...
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Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and MusicEdward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and MusicOwing to the high cost of book production at the present time, the use of illustrations, both musical and photographic, has been restricted in this book. It was decided only to fully illustrate the...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)As it appears to me that the life of Nikias forms a good parallel to that of Crassus, and that the misfortunes of the former in Sicily may be well compared with those of the latter in Parthia, I...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)I. Cato the elder, speaking to some persons who were praising a man of reckless daring and audacity in war, observed that there is a difference between a man's setting a high value on courage, and setting a low...
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Edward MacDowell: A StudyEdward MacDowell: A Study This study is based upon the monograph on MacDowell which I contributed in 1905 to the "Living Masters of Music" series. That book could not, of course, remain in the series after the death of MacDowell three years later; it...
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Lady Byron VindicatedLady Byron Vindicated - A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present timeThe subject of this volume is of such painful notoriety that any apology from the Publishers may seem unnecessary upon issuing the Authors reply to the...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)Among the extant Lives of Plutarch there are thirteen Lives of Romans which belong to the most eventful period of Roman history. They are the lives of the brothers Tiberius and Caius Sempronius Gracchus, of Caius Marius, Lucius Cornelius...
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Life & Times of Col. Daniel BooneLife of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and PioneerThe subject of the following biography, the celebrated Colonel Daniel Boone, is one of the most remarkable men which this country has produced. His character is marked with originality, and his actions were important and...
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Clara A. Swain, M.DClara A. Swain, M.D."The frail little mother of a frail little daughter" did not live long enough to see the fullest answer to her prayer that her youngest born might "grow up to be a good and useful woman," for she passed away before...
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The Every-day Life of Abraham LincolnThe Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And PersonalThis book aims to give a view, clearer and more complete than has been given before, of the personality of Abraham Lincoln. A life so full of incident and...
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