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Birds of BritainThe study of Nature has of late years enormously increased, and there is probably no branch of its varied and inexhaustible interests which appeals more strongly to young and old than the fascinating study of Birds. Every one feels more or less...

History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2)The introduction of the Italian style into Portuguese poetry was unaccompanied by any remarkable struggle or sensation. No mention is made by writers on general literature, of the existence of a party strenuously opposed to...

Musketry (.303 and .22 cartridges) - Elementary training, visual training, judging distance, fire discipline, range practices, field practices1. The experience gained at the front in the present campaign may be divided broadly under two heads: Firstly, the test under war conditions of the general...

SailingMore, probably, could be written on boat-sailing than on any other sport; for this pursuit owes much of its extraordinary fascination to the fact that its science is practically infinite; the most experienced sailor has always something new to learn, and is ever acquiring...

Maurin des MauresPubli Paris, le cinq fvrier mil neuf cent huit. Privilge du droit dauteur aux tats-Unis, rserv en vertu de la loi sanctionne le 3 mars 1905, par Ernest Flammarion, diteur Paris. Lequel dbute comme un proverbe de M. Alfred de Musset et...

Meine Mission nach Abessinien - Auf Befehl Sr. Maj. des Deutschen Kaisers im Winter 1880/81 unternommenDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1883 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert; ungewhnliche und altertmliche Ausdrcke bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert....

The Little London Directory of 1677 - The oldest printed list of the merchants and bankers of LondonTo the Merchants and Traders of the City of London. Gentlemen, Although the publishing of the ensuing Pamphlet (or Catalogue) may at the first view, seem to...

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, t. 1Je vous adresse mon Ornithologie, comme un foible tmoignage de mon estime et de ma reconnoissance; si votre vj modestie sen trouve offense, vous pardonnerez au motif bien pur qui a dict mon offre. Jaurois voulu me dispenser...

Jules of the Great Heart - "Free" Trapper and Outlaw in the Hudson Bay Region in the Early DaysManou stopped on a snow hill, and looked back over the way he had come; then, steadying himself against the heavy northwest wind, he took off...

Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., area. Hearings, Part 3(2) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the...

Frederick the Great and the Rise of PrussiaIn the Austrian and Prussian capitals to-day the traveller may mark the contrast between two great statues, in each of which the meaning of a reign is set forth with happy instinct. In the heart of imperial...

The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. - A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and ScienceFollowing the example of older nations, the United States has been accustomed to keep at foreign courts and capitals certain diplomatic agents whose presence there seems to be...

Jonah's LuckIt was the close of a chilly autumn day; and under a lowering grey sky the landscape of river and marsh and low-lying hills looked forbiddingly forlorn. White mists veiled the wet earth; the road, running between withered hedgerows, was ankle-deep in mud,...

Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 2(2) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the...

Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1(2) The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the...

Die gerichtliche Arzneikunde in ihrem Verhältnisse zur Rechtspflege, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der österreichischen Gesetzgebung. Erster Band. - Zum Gebrauche für Ärzte, Wundärzte und Rechtskundige dargestellt und mit entscheidenden Thatsachen begründet obersten Justiz-Prsidenten, Herrn der Herrschaft Ellischau und der Gter Kolinetz, Auczin und Wlczkovitz in...

Guy Harris, the Runaway WELL, Guy Harris, I have only one word to say to you. If you think you can play off on me in this way, you are very much mistaken. I will post you among the fellows as a boy who...

Doctor Mead's Short discourse explain'd - Being a clearer account of pestilential contagion, and preventing. Many and various are the Opinions about the Design, as well as about the Meaning and real and true Sense of the short Discourse lately writ by the Celebrated...

Spain from WithinWhile a good deal has been written of late years about Spain from the point of view put forward by the governing classes, little or nothing has been said about the peoplethe mass of the nationwho, unable, the immense majority of them,...

Egy magyar nábob (2. rész)Mind kvl, mind bell nagy vltozsokon ment t a Nbob; termete annyira megcsappant ez id alatt, hogy elbbi ltnyeit nem viselheti a nagy bsg miatt, arczrl elmult a lzas vrssg, szemei krl a mmoros pffeds; az emberekkel komolyan beszl, kzgyek,...