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Three Loving LadiesMessrs. Burridge and Cos pantechnicons bumped majestically along the streets of Millport early in the morning. Mud seemed to be unaccountably falling from the sky through a close filter of smoke draped high above the town; for although there was no fog,...

Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and IslandsMemoir of the late John Gregorson Campbell, Minister of Tiree. [The following Memoir is chiefly from information given by Mr. Campbells sister, Mrs. Wallace of Hynish, thanks to whose unwearied and sympathetic assistance it...

Betty Alden: The first-born daughter of the PilgrimsEverybody has sympathized with Mr. Dick who could not keep King Charless head out of his memorial, and I hope everybody will sympathize with me who have been unable to keep Betty Alden in this her memorial...

In the Nursery: Happy Hours for the Little OnesOnce on a timethe story-book time when an-i-mals wore clothes and could talkthere were three mod-el mice. Their names were Gray Cloak, Fine Ear and Sat-in Slip-per. Sat-in Slip-per had a spoon of her own, Fine...

The Slaves of Society: A Comedy in CoversProduced by: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, Access Services at Purdue University Library, West Lafayette, Indiana, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet...

The Oak Shade, or, Records of a Village Literary AssociationMADE BY THE SECRETARY. The following paper was read at a full meeting of the Junto, and listened to with considerable attention: not more than a dozen falling into a nodding doze during its reading....

A Peep Into the PastThis hitherto unpublished essay was written by Max Beerbohm for the first number of The Yellow Book, but it was held over to make way for his famous Defence of Cosmetics, which duly appeared in April, 1894. Whether this change...

The Man Who Liked LionsMr. Kemper leaned on the rail, watching the caged lions asleep in the August sun. At his side a woman lifted a whimpering little girl to her shoulder and said, "Stop that! Look at the lions!" Then she jiggled the...

The Big Fix!The meet in the cafeteria was set up by an old connection of mine who'd heard I was interested in this new stuff. My connection's name was Rollo, sometimes called Rollo the Roller because he rolled lushes in the subway. We sipped...

Cousin Lucy at Study - By the Author of the Rollo BooksTwo volumes of a series of little books, corresponding, in their general style and characteristics, with the Rollo Books for boys, but designed more particularly for the other sex, have already been published,...

How to Trace a PedigreeI have endeavoured in this little book to give the amateur pedigree-hunter the benefit of what I have personally found to be the most valuable documents to search, and full instructions as to where he can consult them, also the...

A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept - A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 1, 1918Patriotism is a live issue. It is almost impossible for...

The Trail of DeathOver Abbeville, the second in this remarkable series, includes one of the most unusual and exciting scenes ever describeda fight to the death waged in the narrow cabin of a London-to-Paris passenger plane. Durant stood at the rail, watching the gleam...

Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)Having been for some time located in the border districts of the Cape Colony, and there coming into frequent contact with the natives; I was struck with the fact that there was a large field for investigation, and record...

The Gold BrickTEN thousand dollars a year! Neil Kittrell left the office of the Morning Telegraph in a daze. He was insensible of the raw February air, heedless of sloppy pavements; the gray day had suddenly turned gold. He could not realize it all...

Attraverso il Cinquecento Il Petrarchismo una malattia cronica della letteratura italiana. A cominciare dai tempi stessi del poeta che gli diede il nome, e a venir gi sino a quelli dei nonni o bisnonni nostri, ogni secolo della nostra storia letteraria se ne mostra,...

A Intrusa Sempre o mesmo egoista! Como ests em tua casa!... mas... desalmado, lembra-te de ns! So quasi horas de me ir recolhendo aos meus penates. E alli o padre Assumpo, caso no fique pelo caminho, ter tambem que marchar um bom pedao a...

Alkibiades, a tale of the Great Athenian WarMy husband, although he completed the composition of this work in his lifetime, passed away before he had fully revised and prepared it for the press, and the privilege of finally revising and editing it has, consequently,...

The Residuary Legatee; Or, The Posthumous Jest of the Late John AustinOn the morning of August 14th, in this last summer, Mr. Austin May alighted at the little Cypress Street station of the Boston & Albany Railroad, and, accompanied only by a swarthy and...

Famous Colonial HousesAs I read in Mr. Hollisters chapter on Mount Vernon of Washingtons long absence from the home he loved and of the eagerness with which he returned to it after the tumultuous years of the Revolutionary War, I was caught by the...