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Mosby's War Reminiscences; Stuart's Cavalry CampaignsIn April, 1861, I was attending court at Abingdon, Va., when I met a person who had just stepped out of the telegraph office, who informed me that tremendous tidings were passing over the wires. Going in, I inquired...

History of the Cathedral Church of Wells - As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationThis small volume is a reprint, with hardly any change, of three lectures which were given to a local society in Wells in the months...

Der Untergang der Deutschen Juden: Eine Volkswirtschaftliche Studie Ueberblick ber die Sexualverhltnisse der alten Welt. Die Grundlagen und die Bedeutung der jdischen Geschlechts-Ethik. Ehe, Frhehe und Kinderreichtum als religises Postulat. Ihre strikte Durchfhrung im Mittelalter. Fruchtbarkeit und Profetie. Der Gedanke der Auserwhltheit. Einwirkung auf...

S. W. Partridge & Co. Catalogue of Popular Illustrated Books, 1904The Two Protectors: Oliver and Richard Cromwell. By Sir Richard Tangye, K.B. With extracts from unpublished manuscripts and reproductions of original portraits in the collection of the Author. Demy 8vo. 300 pages. Cloth boards,...

Monica's ChoiceThe door closed silently after the retreating maid, and Mrs. Beauchamp sighed wearily. How often, lately, she had been obliged to send some such message to her wilful young granddaughter, and, how many more times would she have the same thing to do?...

De positie van NederlandAfgebroken woorden aan het einde van de regel zijn stilzwijgend hersteld. De algemene noot is naar het begin van het opstel verplaatst. De voetnoten zijn hernummerd en verplaatst naar het eind van het opstel. Overduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het origineel...

Tara: A Mahratta Tale"This is a very remarkable book. It is a determined attempt to bring the interior Hindoo and Mussulman life of a great Mahratta province during the most exciting times home to the hearts and understandings of Englishmen, to interest them in...

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 5, November 1837 'NURSERIES OF AMERICAN FREEMEN.' SADNESS. YOUNG LOVE. WILSON CONWORTH. LINES SONNET: TO MRS. RANDOM PASSAGES THE SONGS OF OUR FATHERS. THE DEAD HUSBAND. THE DYING BOY. A FEW THOUGHTS ON PHRENOLOGY. A PRACTITIONER, HIS PILGRIMAGE OUR...

Histoire de la musiqueLa musique est l'art de combiner les sons d'une manire agrable l'oreille. Cette dfinition, qui est celle de J.-J. Rousseau, est la plus rpandue; mais il faut avouer qu'elle est aussi la plus incomplte et la plus fausse. Si la musique...

George BuchananThe concluding chapter of the book I intended to serve the purpose of prologue and epilogue, but on reflection I find that readers both in and out of Scotland may desire to be told a little more about Robert Wallace, M.A., D.D., and...

English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70 - With Numerous Illustrations by Ford Madox Brown: A. Boyd Houghton: Arthur Hughes: Charles Keene: M. J. Lawless: Lord Leighton, P.R.A.: Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A.: G. Du Maurier: J. W. North, R.A.: G. J. Pinwell: Dante Gabriel Rossetti:...

Guilds in the Middle AgesIt is a curious gap in our economic literature that no simple introductory study of Mediaeval Guilds has yet been published in England. The subject is, of course, dealt with in passing in every text-book of economic history, and there...

Taking the Bastile; Or, Pitou the Peasant - A Historical Story of the Great French Revolutioncontaining 104 pages, 1114 inches in size, consisting of large 912 plate pages giving plans, elevations, perspective views, descriptions, owners' names, actual cost of construction (no guess work), and...

Letters of John Calvin, Volume I - Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical NotesIt was but a few days before his death, and in the course of one of the latest conversations handed down to us by Theodore Beza, that Calvin,...

The Quest of the Historical Jesus - A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to WredeThe book here translated is offered to the English-speaking public in the belief that it sets before them, as no other book has ever done, the history of...

Theodore Roosevelt - An Address Delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge Before the Congress of the United StatesTHE words of lamentation from the old Moorish ballad, which in boyhood we used to recite, must, I think, have risen to many lips when the world was...

Lectures on Poetry - Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at OxfordI have no Occasion to detain the Reader with a Preface in Praise of Poetry: What I thought proper to say on that Head, he will find comprised in the following Introductory...

The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian ScienceChristian Science is the most shallow and sordid and wicked imposture of the ages. Upon a substratum of lies a foundation of false pretense has been laid, upon which has been built a superstructure of outward...

Deutschlands Beruf in der Gegenwart und ZukunftDer Verfasser hlt es fr unnthig, die Tendenz dieser Schrift im Voraus zu bezeichnen, weil er hofft, sie werde sich dem Leser von selbst ergeben. Wohl aber glaubt er, ber die Art ihrer Entstehung und den Wirkungskreis, den...

Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway CaseAction in the air must be automatic. There is never time to reason. With the speed of legerdemain the young pilot sent her plane into a steep right bank and pushed down hard on the left rudder pedal. The...