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Nick Carter Stories No. 152, August 7, 1915: The Forced Crime; or, Nick Carter's Brazen Clew.How to Send MoneyBy post-office or express money order, registered letter, bank check or draft, at our risk. At your own risk if sent by currency, coin, or postage...

The Cabala The train that first carried me into Rome was late, overcrowded and cold. There had been several unexplained waits in an open field, and midnight found us still moving slowly across the Campagna toward the faintly-colored clouds that hung above Rome. At...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 117, vol. III, March 27, 1886A few miles beyond the walls of merrie Carlisle, and only just across the Border on the Scottish side, is a lonely old-world little village, whither, in days...

Twenty years at sea: Leaves from my old log-booksIn the old days, fifty years ago, when I first went to sea, it was the custom in fine weather, in most ships, after supper had been leisurely discussed and pipes lighted, for both watches to...

The squaw spy; or the rangers of the lava-bedsA disastrous day for us truly, Kit, he said. No nobler fellows than Thomas, Howe and Wright. Now shall the war be pushed with vigor. This days massacre has heated my blood till it tingles through...

Yermah the Dorado: The story of a lost raceThis book Yermah the Dorado, was first published at The Sign of the Lark, San Francisco, in 1897. The issue was limited to five hundred copies, mostly subscribed for by personal friends of mine. The notes,...

Model aeroplanes - The building of model monoplanes, biplanes, etc., together with a chapter on building a model airshipThis is a practical handbook on the principles, constructional details and methods of building model aeroplanes, written by a well-known model aeroplane designer and builder. It...

Malthus and his workOf the three English writers whose work has become a portion of all Political Economy, Malthus is the second in time and in honour. His services to general theory are at least equal to Ricardos; and his full illustration of one...

Little WillieNOTE: Mr. Field said that his wife took the boy away on a visit, and he found in their absence he couldnt sleep till he got up and poured water on his nightshirt. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 68098 Author:...

Report on the New York Botanical GardenThis Report[1] is submitted at your request to set forth the results to date of our investigation and study of the grounds of the Botanical Garden, as a basis for comprehensive plans for their improvement. It is a...

Fifty years hence: or, What may be in 1943 - A prophecy supposed to be based on scientific deductions by an improved graphical methodThat portion of the public which honors me by perusing what I have been fortunate enough to learn concerning the future...

Reminiscences of the Chattanooga campaign - A paper read at the reunion of Company B, Fortieth Ohio volunteer infantry, at Xenia, O., August 22, 1894ON a balmy autumn daySeptember 18th, 1863, while the Chattanooga Valley lay nestled within its rugged mountain borders, bathed in...

Nick Carter Stories No. 149, July 17, 1915: A Network of Crime; or, Nick Carter's Tangled Skein.How to Send MoneyBy post-office or express money order, registered letter, bank check or draft, at our risk. At your own risk if sent by currency, coin, or...

Keeping one cow - Being the experience of a number of practical writers, in a clear and condensed form, upon the management of a single milch cowEvery farmer is ordinarily supposed to keep several cows, and there is no reason why most families in...

Cargoes for CrusoesHow that I, Robinson Crusoe, came to be wrecked with others of the ships company on a Desert Island, all being lost save my unworthy self, hath in a precise manner been narrated by one D. Defoe in the book he saw...

The Clevedon CaseThe well-known authority on criminology, Dennis Holt, inherited a house in a remote village, the sort of place in which, to quote himself, nothing ever happens. One night at fifty-three minutes past eleven (he was always meticulously accurate about time), his attention...

Il tulipano nero Due parole per conto mio a Voi, pregiatissimi soscrittori a questa mia Raccolta Romantica, le quali stieno a testimoniare la mia riconoscenza e il mio intendimento. La prima piena e sentita; e non potrei con parole esprimerverla, veggendo il favore con...

Nick Carter Stories No. 151, July 31, 1915: The Mystery of the Crossed Needles; or Nick Carter and the Yellow TongHow to Send MoneyBy post-office or express money order, registered letter, bank check or draft, at our risk. At your own risk if sent...

Glad ghosts I knew Carlotta Fell in the early days before the war. Then she was escaping into art, and was just "Fell." That was at our famous but uninspired school of art, the Thwaite, where I myself was diligently murdering my talent. At...

Maahengen uskossaAikana, jolloin ihmisjrjen hurjalle lennolle alkaa nytt miltei kaikki mahdolliselta, jolloin keksijneron terv huomio tunkee kirkkaana steen luonnon jumalallisten voimien valtakuntaan, niin aikana, jolloin ei ainoastaan inhimillinen aatos korkeuksia kiid, vaan jopa ihminen itsekin omilla luomillaan koneilla todella lent avaruudessa, lintuna liihoittelee ihanissa...