Deals of the Day

The nameless manThe invigorating breeze, stirring the leaves of the vines and rambler roses which grew in profusion over the trellis-covered veranda, carried, apparently, no comfort to the man seated there. He stared ahead of him, oblivious to his surroundings, the handsome rugs covering...

Galactic PatrolDominating twice a hundred square miles of campus, parade ground, airport, and space port, a ninety-story edifice of chromium and glass sparkled dazzlingly in the bright sunlight of a June morning. This monumental pile was Wentworth Hall, in which the Tellurian candidates for...

Josiah in New York; or, A coupon from the Fresh Air FundThe wide-spreading trees leading from the road to the low-studded house, which made up in breadth what it lacked in height, had already put on their autumnal dress of crimson, gold, and brown,...

The schoolmaster's trunk, containing papers on home-life in TweenitThe papers here collected were originally published in Hearth and Home, under the title of Papers found in the Schoolmasters Trunk. They embody observations made from actual life by a teacher residing in a country village....

Three generationsHenry James is dead. The news came to-day. A sudden warmth of old friendship, a kindness of other years leaps up within me, and the memory of how he looked at our house in Rome on a certain birthday of his that corresponds...

The Blue Peter: Sea comedies The steamship Nemesis, of two thousand five hundred and fifty tons register, and belonging to the port of London, had nearly finished her loading one foggy afternoon in a foggy November. She was at Tilbury, taking in a general...

Water and power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National ParkI beg to compliment you on the clearness and conciseness with which you have stated many of the controversial points involved in same. I have had so much of it in the...

Mese a zöld füvön: ElbeszélésekDe a vilg nagyon szegny volt, hiba kboroltak el napi jrsra, nem tudtak elgsgest szerezni. Tanyt vertek ht egy kisded erd sarkban s szapora tzeket raktanak a zld mezben s b lakomt stttenek egynhny lbasjszgbl, akit fegyver kzt hajtottak maguk...

AngelicaThen, pail in hand, she descended to the basement and pushed open with her foot the door of her flatthree black little rooms with barred windows on a lugubrious air-shaft, where great ash-cans stood and cats prowled and tradesmen went whistling by with bags...

Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.Nick Carter caught sight of the couple only by chance. His touring car, in which he was seated with his chauffeur and Patsy Garvan, his junior...

Invincible MinnieThis is not intended to be a romantic story, or a realistic storynot a tale of anything that ever did happen, only of something which might have happened. If you know a Minnie, as you very likely do, you will admit that, whether...

Cassell's book of birds; vol. 4THE PLOVERS (Charadrii):The Golden PloverThe Ringed PloverThe Dotted PloversThe Dotted Plover, or DotterelThe Shore PloversThe Little Shore Plover, or Little Ringed PloverThe Lapwings, or PeewitsThe Peewit, or LapwingThe Spur-winged LapwingThe Lappeted PeewitThe TurnstoneThe Pied Oyster-catcher, or Sea Pie 15-29...

A successful ventureIt was raining heavily, and a strong wind from the northeast blew the drops with relentless force against the dining-room windows. The few leaves that remained upon the trees were fast dropping, falling in sodden unloveliness upon the drenched lawn. It was...

Strange stories of the Civil WarTO the younger readers of the twentieth century the great war of 1861-65, fought to maintain the authority of the national government and to preserve the union of the States, may sometimes seem remote and impersonal. The passage of...

A víg ember bús meséi: ElbeszélésekEz a trtnet belnylik a tegnapba. Jl ssze kell szedni az emlkezsemet, hogy tisztn lthassam, merre kanyarog ez a mese, amelyiknek cml ezt adm: Az aranysarkantys vitz legendja. Tudnival, hogy a felsges kirly az aranysarkanty-renddel legkivlbb fnemes hveit, katonit...

The Mayflower Society House - Being the story of the Edward Winslow House, the Mayflower Society, the PilgrimsA NOTABLE accomplishment of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants was the purchase in 1941 of the Edward Winslow House in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a house of great...

Modern bookbindings: Their design and decorationWithin the last five-and-twenty years there has been a marked revival in every department of applied art. The influence of William Morris, whose efforts in all the accessories of house decoration were for some time only recognized by the...

The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 5, April, 1836When I consider my own weakness and the discerning judgment of those who are to be my audience, I cannot help blaming myself considerably for this rash undertaking of mine, being a thing I am...

A haunted life The Romance of War The Aide-de-Camp The Scottish Cavalier Bothwell Jane Seton: or, the Queen's Advocate Philip Rollo The Black Watch Mary of Lorraine Oliver Ellis: or, the Fusileers Lucy Arden: or, Hollywood Hall Frank Hilton: or, the Queen's Own The...

Egyszerű emberekAbban az idben nem igen lehetett mst csinlni a szp Novibazrban, mint hogy fogadsokat kttt az ember. Egy kis darab helyrsg volt az egsz, lenyomva Trkorszgba, a senki s a semmi kz, a hatalmas Isten hta mg: valami ngyszz gyalogos, valami tizent tzr,...