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A Ride through Syria to Damascus and Baalbec, and ascent of Mount HermonOur Ride through Palestine did not exhaust our enthusiasm for the East; we were not, as some travellers have been, disappointed with The Holy Land, because we did not expect to find...

Rat in the SkullSome people will be shocked by this story. Others will be deeply moved. Everyone who reads it will be talking about it. Read the first four pages: then put it down if you can. Dr. Joseph MacNare was not the sort...

Lover and Husband: A NovelLONDON in September. A dull, close, airless day. The streets would have been dusty enough too, no doubt, had there been a breath to stir the dust, which one felt instinctively, was lying there in masses, ready on the slightest...

A Maid in ArcadyThe clear water of the little river, in which the willows were mirrored quiveringly, shallowed where a tiny bar of silver-white sand thrust the ripples aside. Thus confined, the stream sulked for a moment in a deep, pellucid pool, and then,...

The Teenie Weenies in the WildwoodThe Teenie Weenies had known for some time that a tribe of tiny wild men lived in a big swamp many teenie weenie miles from the shoe house. Field mice and birds had carried the news of these strange...

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 15UVRES COMPLTES DE G U Y D E M A U P A S S A N T LA PRSENTE DITION DES UVRES COMPLTES DE GUY DE MAUPASSANT A T TIRE PAR LIMPRIMERIE NATIONALE EN VERTU...

Punasydän eli Metsien kummitus: Kertomus Pohjois-Amerikan YhdysvalloistaErn iltapivn loimusi aika nuotio Dakota-intiaanien leiriss vuolaasti virtaavan puron oikealla rannalla. Lhell olevalle tasangolle kokoontuivat kohta kaikki kyln miehet. Alipllikt ja merkittvimmt sotilaat asettuivat ympyrn nuotion ymprille ja tuijottivat synkin katsein tuleen. Ei kukaan uskaltanut lausua sanaakaan;...

Satellite PassageThe three men bent over the chart and once again computed the orbit. It was quiet in the satellite, a busy quiet broken by the click of seeking microswitches and the gentle purr of smooth-running motors. The deep pulsing throb of the air...

A New Era of Thought[viii-ix] [xii-xiii] At the completion of a work, or at the completion of the first part of a work, the feelings are necessarily very different from those with which the work was begun; and the meaning and value of the...

The Glebe 1913/09 (Vol. 1, No. 1): Songs, Sighs and Curses Dear Friend:To whom else than to you can I dedicate this little wreath of poems? Weeds or flowers, without you, they would not have been. Your interest, your sympathy, your appreciation were the...

Industrial Poisoning from Fumes, Gases and Poisons of Manufacturing ProcessesThe attempt to systematise from the scientific standpoint the mass of material that has been collected about poisons is a very heavy task, even for the toxicologist who desires to treat his subject comprehensively. How...

Under Honour's FlagGreat banks of purple vapour rose in the west; and sinking towards the earth, spread abroad in hazy wreaths, which seemed to possess, in a fainter degree, the hues of their parent clouds above. The air was heavy with moisture, which condensed...

Der Tod des Tizian. Idylle. Zwei Dichtungen Sptsommermittag. Auf Polstern und Teppichen lagern auf den Stufen, die rings zur Rampe fhren, Desiderio, Antonio, Batista und Paris. Alle schweigen, der Wind bewegt leise den Vorhang der Tr. Tizianello und Gianino kommen nach einer Weile aus...

Meditations on the Actual State of Christianity, and on the Attacks Which Are Now Being Made Upon It. When I published, two years ago, the first series of these Meditations, the series which had for its object the essence of Christianity, "that is to...

The FlameGabriele D'Annunzio, poet, novelist, and dramatist, was born in 1864, on the yacht Irene near Pescara in the Abruzzi, his mother being the Duchess Maria Galesse of Rome. His education was begun in the College of Prato, in Tuscany, and finished in the...

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices Michael took a printed copy of United States Declaration of Independence to the computer laboratory, where he sat at the teletype terminal and typed this first eBook. He distributed it via email to the people he...

Women of Belgium: Turning Tragedy to TriumphBy Herbert Hoover Belgium, after centuries of intermittent misery and recuperation as the cockpit of Europe, had with a hundred years of the peaceful fruition of the intelligence, courage, thrift, and industry of its people, emerged as the...

The Fireless Cook Book - A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 RecipesThe aim of this book is to present in a convenient form such directions for making and using fireless cookers and similar insulating...

The Postal Service (Fifth Edition)No other branch of the Federal Government furnishes employment to so many men as the postal service, particularly that branch of it in which letter carriers and clerks are used. In every city vacancies occur frequently, by reason of death,...

Harper's Young People, November 14, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly I said, "When will the summer come? Mamma, is it not late?" She smiled, and answered. "By-and-by; Be patient, child, and wait." I asked papa if he would buy A new wax doll for...