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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His TimesSir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times - With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.The materials necessary for writing a life of Sir Christopher Wren are so difficult of access as possibly to explain the unsatisfactory character of such...
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Rafael Cordero: Elogio PóstumoRafael Cordero: Elogio PóstumoUna vez ms nos congrega en este recinto consagrado la cultura del espritu, el sentimiento de gratitud social. La Directiva del Ateneo ha querido solemnizar con una fiesta literaria la instalacin en sus salones del retrato de un compatriota benemrito, el...
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Hermann LauscherHermann Lauscher Auf den Wunsch einiger Freunde, namentlich aber auf die Aufforderung Wilhelm Schfers hin, soll der verstorbene Hermann Lauscher wieder ausgegraben und noch einmal unter die Leute geschickt werden. Da bin ich denn eine Erklrung und Rechenschaft schuldig, zumindest eine bibliographische. Hinterlassene Schriften...
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Byron: The Last PhaseByron: The Last PhaseThis book has no pretensions; it is merely a record of events and impressions which nearly forty years of close study have accumulated. There seems to be a general agreement that the closing scenes of Byrons short life have not been...
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The Old PikeThe Old Pike - A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonThere were a number of spelling and typographical errors in the original text. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected silently. Variant and idiosyncratic spellings have been retained, especially for...
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Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, CriticTheodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, CriticAlthough in the inner circle of English letters this study of a living writer will need no apology, it may be well to explain for the general reader the reasons which moved me to undertake it. Some time ago a...
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Cornish Characters and Strange EventsCornish Characters and Strange EventsCornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales. That which brought it into more intimate association...
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Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex LifeAgainst the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex LifeAgainst the Current Simple Chapters from a Complex Life. 12mo, cloth, net $1.25 The Immigrant Tide Its Ebb and Flow Illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.50 On the Trail of the Immigrant 4th Edition. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth,...
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The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)Mr. Kegan Pauls InaccuraciesGodwins Early StoryFrom Socinianism to DeismIn the Service of PublishersHack-WorkPolitical JusticeCaleb WilliamsTemperance and FrugalityGodwins two imprudent MarriagesHis consequent ImpoverishmentHis personal AppearanceHis Speech and MannerHis morbid VanityHis Sensitiveness for his...
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The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 1 (of 2)The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 1 (of 2)Creators of The Romantic ShelleyClints Fanciful CompositionThe Poets Personal AppearanceHis Little Turn-up NoseHis Ancestral QualitySussexisms of his Speech and PoetryHis Phenomenal UntruthfulnessHis Temperance and IntemperanceA Victim of Domestic PersecutionWas The Necessity of...
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The Love Affairs of Lord ByronThe Love Affairs of Lord ByronWhether a book is called The Love Affairs of Lord Byron or The Life of Lord Byron can make very little difference to the contents of its pages. Byrons love affairs were the principal incidents of his life, and...
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KeatsKeatsWith the name of Keats that of his first biographer, the late Lord Houghton, must always justly remain associated. But while the sympathetic charm of Lord Houghtons work will keep it fresh, as a record of the poets life it can no longer be...
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An AutobiographyAn AutobiographyTHE memoirs of a great artist must inevitably evoke the interest and appreciation of the initiated. But this book makes a wider appeal, written as it is by a woman whose career, apart from her art, has been varied and adventurous, who has...
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American Statesmen, Volume 18Martin Van BurenSince 1888, when this Life was originally published, the history of American Politics has been greatly enriched. The painstaking and candid labors of Mr. Fiske, Mr. Adams, Mr. Rhodes, and others have gone far to render unnecessary the caveat I then entered...
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The Story of GeronimoThe Story of GeronimoGeronimo crawled up the hill so carefully that no stalk of grass moved, and no bush quivered. A pair of crested quail, feeding on insects in the grass, merely glanced up when he passed and went on feeding. Geronimo reached the...
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English Men of LettersSwiftThe chief materials for a life of Swift are to be found in his writings and correspondence. The best edition is the second of the two edited by Scott (1814 and 1824). In 1751 Lord Orrery published Remarks upon the Life and Writings of...
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Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's LoveDorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's LoveThis little book owes its origin to the fact that, with the exception of Professor Shairp's Sketch contained in the preface to the "Tour in Scotland," no biography or memoir of the subject of it has hitherto...
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A Layman's Life of JesusA Layman's Life of JesusEvery book should have a purpose. The object of this little volume is to try and harmonize, in a sense, and bring nearer to us, the story of the Master. It is free from the fog of creed, and the...
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AddisonAddisonOf the four English men of letters whose writings most fully embody the spirit of the eighteenth century, the one who provides the biographer with the scantiest materials is Addison. In his Journal to Stella, his social verses, and his letters to his friends,...
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Makers and Romance of Alabama HistoryMakers and Romance of Alabama HistoryThe present volume is intended to be a substantial contribution to the history of Alabama, by giving expansion to the recorded lives of its foremost citizensmen who alike on the field and in the forum, on the bench and...
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