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The causes of prostitutionA prostitute is a woman who offers her body for hire to men for their sexual pleasure. Sexual promiscuity on the part of women, not practised for money, does not constitute prostitution. Nor does the mere granting of sexual privileges for...

The Somerset CoastOn confiding to personal friends, journalistic paragraphists, and other Doubting Thomases, professional sceptics, chartered cynics and indifferent persons, the important and interesting literary news that a proposal was afloat to write a book on the Somerset Coast, the author was assured with...

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: - A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain...

A Vagabond in the Caucasus - With Some Notes of His Experiences Among the RussiansPortions of Chapters VI., VII., IX., XI., XXVIII. appeared originally in articles contributed to Country Life, and Chapter XXII. and parts of II., X., XXXIII. in articles contributed to the...

Legendary Tales of the Highlands (Volume 2 of 3) - A sequel to Highland RamblesThere is a long, low, flat-topped, and prettily wooded eminence, that rises out of the middle of the bonny haughs of Kilmaichly, at some distance below the junction of the...

It Happened in JapanTwo men, side by side, were slowly pacing the deck of the Empress of India on her outward voyage to Japan. A week had almost passed since the boat had sailed from Vancouver, and the extremely bad weather encountered until this...

A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3)He was the best of all, she said; Mr. Balfour we saw very little of after he grew up, being the youngest to marry and leave home; Mr. James was a kind, easy-going young fellow enough;...

Princess Kiku: A Japanese Romance. A Play for GirlsScene II. Same as before. Sakara bribes little Ito to bring misfortune on the Princess by a play-act, which the Princess believes is reality. Mimosas description of the Emperors reception. The working of Sakaras spell. The...

The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Vol. 1. No. 8, May 1, 1839In a previous number of this Journal (see Art. I, page 161), we entered somewhat at length upon the discussion of the above proposition. We there contrasted the merits of phrenology, as...

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 5, November 1847Whatever our political independence may be, we are slavish imitators of Europe in every thing appertaining to society. We may boast of being republicanswe may beard England and France, conquer the Mexicans and annex Cuba, but we...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Fiske (p. xxviii) CHAPTER IV. THE SEARCH FOR THE INDIES. EASTWARD OR PORTUGUESE ROUTE. (p. xxxiii) CHAPTER VI. THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 58925 Author: Fiske, John Release...

The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology.In writing this book about Crayfishes it has not been my intention to compose a zoological monograph on that group of animals. Such a work, to be worthy of the name, would require the devotion of...

Select Books Published by Mr. T. Fisher UnwinThe Author has supervised the translation, and has added fresh matter, so that the volume differs in some degree from La Vie Nomade. Many of the illustrations are taken from illuminated manuscripts, and have never been published...

Scotts Bluff National Monument, NebraskaThis publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. It is printed by the Government...

Landmarks of Charleston - Including Description of an Incomparable StrollOnes task in discussing Landmarks of Charleston is to describe the more outstanding from the beginning of Charles Town to this present year. It is an agreeable task, but it leaves undone some things one...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Horatio Alger, Jr. You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...

A Classified Catalogue of Henry S. King & Co.'s Publications, November, 1873This work is the result of many years of research into the history of the Norman race in England. It is generally supposed to have become extinct; but careful study has shown that...

Vaccination a Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime - Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal CommissionThis Essay has been written for the purpose of influencing Parliament, and securing the speedy abolition of the unjust, cruel, and pernicious Vaccination laws....

Onnen aalloissa: Historiallisia kertomuksiaHmeentullin portin luona Turussa istui kirkkaana kesaamuna nuori tytt ojan partaalla lhell tiet, kudelma kdessn. Hn oli siit lheisest talosta kaupungin laidasta ja hn vartioitsi siin pieni siskojaan, jotka pellon pientareella leikkivt. Lauhkea tuuli kvi maista pin, pehmoisesti se notkautteli pellolla...

Cosas de España; tomo 2 - (El país de lo imprevisto)HABIENDO ya discurrido bastante, y suponemos que satisfactoriamente, acerca de las comidas y bebidas de Espaa, no estar dems que dirijamos nuestra atencin a esas casas en que, por caminos y ciudades, se pueden...