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Ypres to Verdun - A Collection of Photographs of the War areas in France & FlandersAn official visit to the Front during the great days of October, 1918, when our chief difficulty and our great object was to keep up with the retreating Germans,...

History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12)Exile and low condition of the Herakleids. Their reappearance as a powerful force along with the Dorians. Mythical account of this alliance, as well as of the three tribes of Dorians. Tmenus, Kresphonts, and Aristodmus, invade Peloponnsus across...

How Does a Tree Grow? Or, Botany for Young AustraliansAt the request of several Teachers, I have commenced a Shilling Series of School Books, chiefly to be confined to subjects of Colonial History and Popular Sciences. The form of dialogue has been adopted with...

A Daughter of JapanScene.A room in a Japanese house. It is tastefully furnished in a half-English, half-native style. A round table for meals. A sideboard with a tantalus. A piano, and one or two long bamboo chairs. A well-filled book-case. A verandah can be...

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4)Appearance of An Address to the Public on a late Dismission.Walpoles Answer to that Pamphlet.Dr. Lloyd, Dean of Norwich.Charles Townshends Defence of the Minority in the House of Commons on the Question...

The Sealed Valley I. Romance II. On Board the "Tewksbury" III. On the Little River IV. The Day of Days V. The Rice River VI. Blind Man's Buff VII. Bowl of the Mountains VIII. In the Valley IX. Nahnya's Story X. Moonlight XI. The...

Ramshackle House I The Canoeist II The Story in the Sun-Paper III An Irruption from the World IV Beside the Little Temple V On Board the Alexandra VI Moonlight VII The Trip to Town VIII The Return IX The Night Long X Days of...

Barry Wynn; Or, The Adventures of a Page Boy in the United States CongressBarry Wynn grabbed the rail of the day coach of the Washington Express and swung himself on to the platform of the car with the ease and enthusiasm of a healthy...

Science from an Easy ChairThis volume is a collection of some of the papers which I have contributed to the Daily Telegraph during the years 1908-1909, under the title Science from an Easy Chair. I have revised and corrected the letterpress, and have added...

Guide to Historic Plymouth: Localities and Objects of InterestThe introduction of visitors to Plymouth as they come by rail, is at Seaside, a station in the extreme north part of the town, at the dividing line between Kingston and Plymouth. As the cars slow...

A Manual of Bird Study - A Description of Twenty-Five Local Birds with Study OptionsThis Bird Study Manual is intended especially for the use of teachers and pupils in the New York City Schools. It is written primarily to describe the birds contained in...

The Motor Routes of France - To the Châteaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, & the Rhone ValleyThe fascination of a motor tour through France can scarcely be exaggerated. It is a country eminently suited to the new method of road travel,...

Caesar Borgia: A Study of the RenaissancePossessinga mild climate and a fertile soil, Italy from the earliest times has attracted the invader, the adventurer. Extending out into the Mediterranean, she has been exposed to attacks on all sides, and when the Roman Empire, disintegrated...

MichelangeloPassagen in Antiquaschrift werden im vorliegenden Text kursiv dargestellt. Abhngig von der im jeweiligen Lesegert installierten Schriftart knnen die im Original gesperrt gedruckten Passagen gesperrt, in serifenloser Schrift, oder aber sowohl serifenlos als auch gesperrt erscheinen. Michelangelo Buonarroti. Bildnis von unbekannter Hand (angebliches Selbstbildnis)...

Chats on VioloncellosFogThe South Kensington MuseumThe RavanastronArabiaThe Kemangeh GouzeEgypt, and the Rabab Is there any city in the world that canmetaphorically speakinghold up its head beside this place of mysteryLondon in a fog? Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, New Yorkwhat can they do in...

Magyar titkok: Regény (3. kötet)Szemeimet figyelve fggesztm az elttem l jult hlgy arcznak szablyos szp vonsaira, s kevs percz alatt tkletesen meggyzdm, hogy sejtsem csakugyan val. A hall halovny szne s mereven mozdulatlansg ktsgkvl ugyanaz vala, melyet a koporsban fekv Beattini grfnn szrevevk; ez...

Magyar titkok: Regény (2. kötet)Midn az ajt kszbrl a konyhba tekintk, oly jelenet mutatkozott elttem, mely nem igen volt kpes tnedez btorsgomat visszatrteni s tkletesen megfelelt azon eszmknek, miket ily elhagyatott romok fell magunknak rendesen kpzelni szoktunk; mg csak a vihar sem hinyzott, mely...

Magyar titkok: Regény (1. kötet)Magyar nemes volt ugyan, de nmet mveltsg, a mi nem csoda, mert gyermekkora a tizenkilenczedik szzad msodik tizedre esik, mikor a magyar nyelv idehaza is hamupipke volt. Mg a nemes urak is csak a nemzetisgi vidkeken trsalogtak magyarul a csaldban,...

The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2)A considerable portion of the present work, comprising the whole of the first volume and the first two chapters of the second, is reprinted with corrections and additions from the Westminster Review. The last chapter of the second...

The Bitter Cry of the ChildrenThe purpose of this volume is to state the problem of poverty as it affects childhood. Years of careful study and investigation have convinced me that the evils inflicted upon children by poverty are responsible for many of the...