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The Boy Fortune Hunters in AlaskaI can easily recall the little room in which I sat, poring over my next days lessons. It was in one end of the attic of our modest cottage, and the only room done off upstairs. The sloping side...

Romantic Love and Personal Beauty - Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiaritiesOf all the rhetorical commonplaces in literature and conversation, none is more frequently repeated than the assertion that Love, as depicted in a thousand novels and poems every year, has existed...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1013, May 27, 1899 THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. A HAPPY HEALTHY GIRLHOOD. OUR HERO. FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. SHEILA. OUR PUZZLE POEM REPORT: AN ACCIDENTAL CYCLE II. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OUR...

Comment on Prononce le Français - Traité complet de prononciation pratique avec le noms propres et les mots étrangers Trait complet de prononciation pratique avec les noms propres et les mots trangers LIBRAIRIE LAROUSSE 13-17, rue Montparnasse. Paris TOUS DROITS DE REPRODUCTION, DE TRADUCTION,...

Glimpses of America - A Pictorial and Descriptive History of Our Country's Scenic MarvelsThe Engravings in this volume were made from original photographs, and are specially protected by Copyright, and notice is hereby given, that any person or persons guilty of reproducing or infringing...

The Book of HerbsWhat is a Herb? I have heard many definitions, but never one that satisfied the questioner, and shall, therefore, take warning by the failures of others and make no attempt to define the word here. It is, however, fairly safe to...

Lehtisiä mietekirjastaniThn toistakymment vuotta sitten alkoi Z. Topelius koota "Mietekirjansa" hajanaisia lehti, jonka ensi suunnitelman hn jo oli laatinut v. 1870. Hnen tarkoituksensa oli antaa jlkimaailmalle tilaisuutta tutustua hnen personalliseen ksitykseens ajan ja iankaikkisuuden suurista kysymyksist, ei sen vuoksi, ett hn olisi pannut mielipiteilleen...

The History of the Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consort's Own) Formerly the 95thA wish had long been entertained and often expressed by Riflemen, both by those serving in the Regiment and by those who had formerly served in it, that a detailed record of...

Wandering in Northern ChinaThere is no particular plan to this book. I found my interest turning toward the Far East, and as I am not one of those fortunate persons who can scamper through a country in a few weeks and know all about...

TatlingsHEREIN THE FORTUNATE READERS WILL FIND THE HAPPY CONJUNCTION of two very brilliant young people, whose literary and artistic talents fit like the proverbial glove, or the musical and lyrical alliance of those immortals, Gilbert and Sullivan. Never were epigrams more worthily illustrated, or...

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller - Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden...

Against This AgeHe knew that he was dead because his fingers had forgotten the art of touching and were trying to regain their ability. They were no longer able to separate different textures and surfaces, and everything held to them a preposterous smoothness that...

Tunneling: A Practical Treatise.A tunnel, defined as an engineering structure, is an artificial gallery, passage, or roadway beneath the ground, under the bed of a stream, or through a hill or mountain. The art of tunneling has been known to man since very ancient...

The Moon Princess: A Fairy TaleThe heavens were a stainless blue, and the Moon shone out of them arrayed in silvery garments. One by one the skys matchless jewels, the stars, peeped out, studding that great ceiling with flashing diamond-points, until the whole dome...

Hampshire Days Autumn in the New ForestRed colour in mammalsNovember mildnessA house by the BoldreAn ideal spot for small birdsAbundance of nestsSmall mammals and the weasel's partVoles and miceHornet and bank-voleYoung shrewsA squirrel's visitGreen woodpecker's drumming-treeDrumming of other speciesBeauty of great spotted woodpeckerThe cuckoo...

Notes on Novelists, with Some Other NotesIt was the happy fortune of Robert Louis Stevenson to have created beyond any man of his craft in our day a body of readers inspired with the feelings that we for the most part place at the...

The Secret of Heroism: A Memoir of Henry Albert HarperThe erection by the Canadian public of a monument in the capital of the Dominion; its unveiling by the representative of the Crown; its acceptance, on behalf of the government, by the Prime Minister of...

Great Men as Prophets of a New EraGreat institutions are the shadows that great men cast across the centuries. A great law, a great liberty, a great art or tool or reform represents a great soul, organized, and made unconsciously immortal for all time....

Clipped WingsThe proud lady in the new runabout was homeward bound from a shopping raid. It was her first voyage down-town alone with the thing. She guided the old family horse up to her curb in a graceful sweep, but, like a new elevator-boy,...

Clemenceau, the Man and His TimeI began to write this book in June. We were then holding our breath as we looked on, after the disasters of Cambrai and St. Quentin, upon the British troops still fighting desperately against superior numbers and defending the...