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My sweetheart's the Man in the MoonJeanne turned off the radio and went downstairs slowly, watching how the gold-shot curtains on the landing window caught the sunlight in a multitude of brilliant flecks. She shuddered slightly. Up there, the sun would scorch and sear....

Reminiscences of the Civil War, 1861-1865Although many histories have been written and tradition has furnished its part toward the perpetuation of the memory of the exciting times of the civil war, very much occurred that has never been recorded. Monuments may be erected and...

Round the year with the stars - The chief beauties of the starry heavens as seen with the naked eyeThe charts illustrating this book have been drawn by the writer especially to meet the needs of beginnersof those who, feeling what a void in...

Down among men... And this is the story I told you through the several nights: of the man who came up through the dark and the fighting (often in such a ruck of fighting that he couldnt hear voices); how he was punished by...

In the grip of the Hawk: A story of the Maori wars As the long struggle between Maori and Pakeha dragged to a close, a new interest was given to it by the perversion of numbers of Maoris of various tribes to a singular...

How to thought-read - A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualismThe first book of this series, How to Mesmerise, gave...

Washington albumLarger versions of the illustrations may be seen by right-clicking them and selecting an option to view them separately, or by double-tapping and/or stretching them. High-resolution versions of nine illustrations may be seen by clicking High-Resolution below them. The panoramic view of Washington...

Book of parlor tricks: How to perform themThe point of this trick consists in divining a word which is named, together with several others. Two of the players commonly agree between themselves to place it after an object that has four legs; for instance,...

Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty AmericansThis book has been an adventure in intellectual co-operation. If it were a mere collection of haphazard essays, gathered together to make the conventional symposium, it would have only slight significance. But it has been...

The Philistine: a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 4, September 1895)In Mr. Cudahys remarkable book entitled The Pawns of Chance there are Sixteen Women who Did. Its sure success is prophesied on this account, for of the five novels that have made ten-strikes[106]...

The Philistine: a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 3, August 1895)How can we have great art in our day? We have no faith. Belief of some sort is the life-blood of art. When Athene and Zeus ceased to excite[75] veneration in the minds...

The Philistine: a periodical of protest (Vol. I, No. 2, July 1895)THE BIBELOT is issued monthly, beautifully printed on white laid paper, uncut, old style blue wrapper, in size a small quarto (56), 24 to 32 pages of text, and will be sent postpaid...

Heilige Banden: RomanPaula stond op van haar stoeltje in de studeerkamer van haar man. Ze had er met hem koffie gedronken, zooals ze dat gewoon waren sinds jaren, na den eten. Hij had intusschen wat zitten bladeren in een oud manuscript, een bijna vergeten...

The guest ritesIt was time for the after-meal meditation. Marik, First Priest of Carthule, finished his frugal meal and went outside to sit in the mid-day breeze and watch the sands blowing gently over the bare flat plains. The problem of the Revelation occupied...

Under Blanco's eye; or, Hal Maynard among the Cuban insurgentsIssued WeeklyBy Subscription: $2.50 per year. Entered as Second Class Matter at the N. Y. Post Office. Street & Smith, 81 Fulton St., N. Y. Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1898,...

Way of the godsHe looked at the October morning all about him as if he had never seen October before. That was not true, of course. But he knew that he would never see it again. Unless they had mornings, and Octoberswhere he was...

Let's Get TogetherA kind of peace had endured for a century and people had forgotten what anything else was like. They would scarcely have known how to react had they discovered that a kind of war had finally come. Certainly, Elias Lynn, Chief of...

Nick Carter Stories No. 120, December 26, 1914: An uncanny revenge; or, Nick Carter and the mind murderer.The famous New York detective sat at the head of the table. Ranged about it were Chick Carter, his leading assistant; Patsy Garvan, and the latters young...

Ludwig Richter-Büchlein: Mit vielen schönen Holzschnitten des Meisters: von Haus und Hof Weib Kind und KegelDas Original wurde in Frakturschrift gesetzt. Passagen in Antiquaschrift werden im vorliegenden Text kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten...

Friends and EnemiesThe sun hadn't quite risen, but now that the five men were out from under the trees it already felt hot. Far ahead, off to the left of the road, the spires of New Angeles gleamed dusky blue against the departing night....