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On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor In penning the following pages I have endeavored to be truthful. In looking back upon the scenes through which I passed, I have sought to penetrate the veil of glamour Time trails behind...

Scorn of Women: A Play In Three Acts FREDA MOLOOF. A Greek girl and a dancer. Speaks perfect English, but withal has that slight, indefinable foreign touch of accent. Good figure, willowy, yet not too slender. Of indeterminate age, possibly no more than twenty-five....

Foxglove Manor: A Novel, Volume 3 (of 3) I can hear the bells ringing in the distance as I write.... Now they cease, and at this very moment the clergyman, snowy-banded, delicate-handed, is ascending the pulpit stairs, amid the reverent hush of his congregation....

Foxglove Manor: A Novel, Volume 2 (of 3) As Haldane sat in his study, the evening previous to the morning fixed for his journey to London, Baptisto entered quickly and stood before the desk at which his master was busily writing. You have arranged...

Foxglove Manor: A Novel, Volume 1 (of 3) The following attempt at a tragedy in fiction (a tragedy, however, without a tragic ending) must not be construed into an attack on the English priesthood generally. I have simply pictured, in the Rev. Charles Santley,...

The Story of Joan of Arc May I dedicate this little book to you, who are already a friend of the Maid? As you grow up you will meet certain wise people who will tell you that there was never any such person as...

The Indian Fairy Book - From the Original Legends These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians...

A "Bawl" for American Cricket This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text such as the following: Transcriber Notes are used when making...

Boys of Oakdale AcademyA hundred dollars, drawled Sile Crane, grinning. Why dont yeou bate something while youre abaout it? Nobodyd bother to take a measly little wager like that. Now Ive kinder got an idee that the new feller really comes from Texas, jest...

Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1900 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHIS is a rare winter visitor and not much known. Its nest is a very bulky and somewhat remarkable structure, composed exteriorly of sticks of various sizes, forming a spherical...

United States Steel: A Corporation with a SoulThis book is planned as an open and aboveboard presentation of the development of a great business. The story of the steel industry is the story of the United States Steel Corporation; one cannot be told without...

Das Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein Eduard Mrike, 1804 in Ludwigsburg geboren, 1875 in Stuttgart gestorben, ist zuerst mit einem Prosawerk, dem Roman Maler Nolten in die Literatur eingetreten. Technisch stand er damals, vor 1832, vor allem im Bannkreis der Novellistik des alternden Goethe und der Romantik,...

KalatyttöMiss sillinpyynti kauemman aikaa on lakkaamatta harjoitettu, siihen syntyy vhitellen kaupunki, jos paikka muuten on sopiva. Tmmisist kaupungeista ei voi ainoastaan sanoa, ett meri on ne maalle luonut, vaan ne loitommalta katsoen nyttvtkin meren ajamilta plkkykasoilta tahi kumotuilta veneilt, joita kalastajat ovat kaataneet suojakseen...

L'Illustration, No. 0073, 18 Juillet 1844Histoire de la Semaine.--Embarquement du prince de Joinville Toulon, d'aprs un dessin de M. Letuaire.--Courrier de Paris.--Exposition des produits de l'industrie. (11e et dernier article.) Objets divers. Onze Gravures.--Le Tir fdral de 1844. Porte d'entre du Tir fdral; Pavillon...

HusksIt was a decided uncompromising rainy day. There were no showers, coquetted with by veering winds or dubious mists, that at times grew brighter, as if the sun were burning away their lining; but a uniform expanse of iron-gray cloudskept in close, grim column...

Matkustus maan keskipisteeseenJules Verne on kirjailijanimi, joka tuntuu tutulta ja mieluiselta miljoonille koko sivistyneess maailmassa. Siihen yhdistyy jotakin elmn hauskimmista muistoista, mikli sellaisia jo nuoruudessa on kirjallisuudesta saatavissa, jotakin salaperist ja jnnittv, mutta samalla opettavaista ja isllisen toverillista. Samalla se muistuttaa mieleen sen valtavan...

The Motor Boat Club in Florida; or, Laying the Ghost of Alligator SwampOR Laying the Ghost of Alligator Swamp By H. IRVING HANCOCK Author of The Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec, The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket, The Motor Boat Club off Long...

Within the CapesCERTAIN members of Captain Tom Grangers family have asked him, time and time again, why he did not sit down and write an account of those things which happened to him during a certain period of his life. These happenings, all agree,...

Borth LyricsThose who took part in that strange camping out of the School in 1876 and 1877 will be glad to be reminded of their experiences now they are over. And perhaps the School at Uppingham, in years to come, may like to have...

Homes and Careers in CanadaAfter the sheets of this book were printed off, it was found that the title chosen, Making Good in Canada, had been used for another book that just secured priority of publication. It was necessary to change the title, but...