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Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association - Held at Ottawa, Canada, June 26-July 2, 1912The association convened in a preliminary session on Wednesday evening, June 26, with Dr. James W. Robertson, C. M. G., chairman of the...

The Burning SecretTHE train, with a shrill whistle, pulled into Summering. For a moment the black coaches stood still in the silvery light of the uplands to eject a few vivid human figures and to swallow up others. Exacerbated voices called back and forth;...

ABC Butter Making: A Hand-Book for the BeginnerI do not claim anything new or startling for this little work, nor do I claim to be what is usually termed "an authority" on the subject treated. A B C Butter Making is the result of...

TamarisMon ami, ce n'est pas vous qui me reprocherez de vouloir farder la nature et dpasser la vraisemblance dans les sentiments exprims par le narrateur de cette histoire. Vous n'en auriez pas le droit, vous qui n'avez jamais compris le bonheur que dans le...

LondonIn the following chapters it has been my endeavor to present pictures of the City of Londoninstantaneous photographs, showing the streets, the buildings, and the citizens at work and at play. Above all, the citizens: with their daily life in the streets, in the...

Nellie's Housekeeping - Little Sunbeams Series"Under the general head of 'Flowerets,' this charming author has grouped six little volumes, being a series of stories on the Commandments. 'Our folks' are in love with them, and have made off with them all before we could...

Our Little Brazilian CousinOur Little Brazilian Cousin lives in a land not so well known as the countries of Europe and Asia, but one of great natural beauty and charm. Through it flows the greatest river of the world, the Amazon, whose banks are...

A Change of Air"The thrifty plan of giving us sermons, politics, fiction, all in one stodgy sandwich, produces no permanent literature, produces but temporary 'tracts for the times.' Fortunately we have among us many novelistsyoung ones, luckilywho are true to the primitive and eternal,...

Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and ShootingAs a fisherman Mr. Punch is in the best of his humours. He makes merry over the weaknesses of those who follow the craft of Old Izaak, always with the slyest of genial...

Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain RangesAfter a book has been written, delivered to the publisher, and the proofs corrected, the author fondly imagines that little or no more is expected of him. All he has to do is to wait. In due...

Learning to Be a SchoolmasterLittle did I think, during my college days, that I should ever become a teacher. It would have made me unpopular to have said so, even if I had had any designs in that direction. My college mates, who were...

The Heart of the Wild: Nature Studies from Near and FarI have but one regret in offering to you and to some small section of lovers of wild life this bundle of stories, a regret that for the most part they end with the...

Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical SocietyThis catalogue describes the paintings in the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, with two hundred and eighty-six miniatures, comprising the Mari Collection and seventy-six objects of Sculpture. The New...

Joan of ArcJoan of Arc A Daughter of Jehu Abigail Adams and Her Times Pippin Elizabeth Fry Florence Nightingale Mrs. Tree Mrs. Tree's Will Miss Jimmy The Wooing of Calvin Parks Journal and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe Two Noble Lives Captain January A...

Up and DownI do not know whether in remote generations some trickle of Italian blood went to the making of that entity which I feel to be myself, or whether in some previous incarnation I enjoyed a Latin existence, nor do I greatly care:...

Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249 - Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of its constituent museumsThe Museum of Natural History and...

The Boy Scouts of Lakeville HighAs though snipped off short by one of its own whirling blades, the lawn mower in the next yard stilled abruptly. Almost on the echo, a mop of red hair popped above the garden fence. From her perch on...

Rosvot: Viisinäytöksinen näytelmä Hippokrates. lkn ksitettk tt nytelm muuksi kuin dramaattiseksi tarinaksi, joka kytt hyvkseen draaman suoritustavan etuja, iknkuin yllttkseen sielun sen salaisimmissa toiminnoissa, muuten antautumatta nyttmkappaleen aituuksiin ja ahnehtimatta nyttmllisest ruumillistuttamisesta koituvaa, epiltv hyty. Minulle mynnettneen, ett on mieletnt otaksua voitavan kolmen tunnin...

Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; - to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that SubjectYoung gentlemen who have gone through a course of academical studies,...

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools - Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John RuskinThe pictures in the National Gallery are hung methodically, so far as the wall-space and other circumstances will admit, in order...