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The Devil's picture-booksThe Devils Books was the name bestowed upon Playing-cards by the Puritans and other pious souls who were probably in hopes that this name would alarm timid persons and so prevent their use. Whether or not his Satanic Majesty originated Playing-cards, we...

"Strictly Business"In at least three inns, the landlords, on hearing the news, spoke words of grave warning to their assistants. More than one inexperienced tradesman, foolishly finding satisfaction in the tidings, began to rummage eagerly among old accounts. In the local police-station, the inspector...

Junge Triebe: RomanDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1922 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen, Schreibvarianten, Dialektausdrcke, sowie fremdsprachliche Passagen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Die Familie sa an dem...

Book of brief narrativesSeveral years ago I was detailed to undertake the solution of a mystery surrounding a robbery which had baffled the police for a month or more. Then two detectives had been set at work upon it and had failed to locate...

Nat Wolfe; or, The gold hunters: A romance of Pike's Peak and New York "Their black hair, thick and lowering, Above their wild eyes hung, And about their frowning foreheads Like wreaths of night-shade clung. 'The bisons! ho, the bisons!' They cried and answered...

Memorials of Human Superstition - being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the SorbonneTHE Abb Boileau, the author of the Historia Flagellantium, was elder brother to the celebrated Poet of that name. He filled, several years,...

Nick Carter Stories No. 159, September 25, 1915: Driven from cover; or, Nick Carter's double ruse.I heard my name called just as I removed the receiver from its hook, Nick explained. The voice sounded like that of a woman, though I am not positive...

Nick Carter Stories No. 158, September 18, 1915: The blue veil; or, Nick Carter's torn trail.The man addressing the famous detective was not one to be wisely interrupted. His strong face, his broad, thin-lipped mouth and square jaw, the glint of his steel-blue eyes,...

Poetry for childrenAs often as I pass a little Blue-coat boy I gaze upon him lovingly: I reverence the quaint vision of a bygone age called up by the long blue gaberdine, the red leathern belt, the yellow stockingsa quaint monkish figure still to...

Underground MovementThe hatch to the front compartment swung open for the first time. One man came out. He turned at once to make sure that the air-tight door behind him had locked. Satisfied that it had, he turned again to look down the cabin...

Short-story masterpieces - Vol. IV - RussianIn the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=. It is really a...

En voyageEt cette fois appuya le petit garon, pour un vrai voyage! a ne sera plus comme notre dpart pour la campagne, qui ne nous laisse que quelques heures dans le train; on a peine le temps de sinstaller. Cest l quon devait samuser...

Œuvres de Voltaire Tome XIX: Siècle de Louis XIV.—Tome IAVEC PRFACES, AVERTISSEMENTS, NOTES, ETC. PAR M. BEUCHOT. TOME XIX. SICLE DE LOUIS XIV.TOME I. A PARIS, CHEZ LEFVRE, LIBRAIRE, RUE DE LPERON, N 6. FIRMIN DIDOT FRRES, RUE JACOB, N 24. WERDET ET LEQUIEN...

The UndamnedPlutonium was an equalizer. Nations learned the art of being polite, just as individuals had learned. To lash out with Plutonium wildly would be inviting national disaster, and to behave in an antisocial manner would get any nation the combined hatred of the...

Enough rope: poems First printing, December, 1926 Second printing, January, 1927 Third printing, February, 1927 Fourth printing, March, 1927 Fifth printing, April, 1927 Sixth printing, May, 1927 Seventh printing, July, 1927 Eighth printing, September, 1927 Ninth printing, October, 1927 Tenth printing, December, 1927 Eleventh...

The sociable Sand WitchOf all the witches that may be found in all the fairy tales ever told there is none more delightfully sociable than the Sand Witch. This Witch, who lives underneath the heaps of sand at the ocean's edge, where, in the...

In the three zonesI should like some time to tell how Tetherby came to his end; he, too, was a victim of materialism, as his father had been before him; but when he died, he left this story, addressed among his papers to me;...

Address of President Roosevelt on the occasion of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, Hodgenville, Ky., February 12, 1909We have met here to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the two greatest Americans; of...

Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam man in Mexico - or, hot work among the greasersThe Subscription Price of the Frank Reade Library by the year is $2.50: $1.25 per six months, post-paid. Address FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 34 and 36 North Moore Street,...

England under the Angevin Kings, Volumes I and IIProduced by: MWS, Fay Dunn, State Library of Western Australia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) This attempt to sketch the...