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Light Science for Leisure Hours - A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c.In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable formclearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the...

Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets - A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and TownsSome portions of the following pages have already appeared in the monthly numbers of the Sanitary Engineer, and the complete work is now published with a view...

Beyond the Hills of Dream[1] This poem was suggested by the following passage in Tylers Animism: The pathetic German superstition that the dead mothers coming back in the night to suckle the baby she had left on earth may be known by the hollow...

The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a SavoyardThis book is copyright in all countries which are signatories to the Berne Convention Transferred to Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1904 Sixth Edition 1904 Reprinted 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1919 1920, 1922,...

The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 6, February, 1835ORIGINAL LITERARY NOTICES AN ORATION on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette: by John Quincy Adams EULOGY on La Fayette: by Edward Everett THE BEAUTIES of the Court of Charles the Second;...

TschandalaOppinut maisteri Andreas Trner istui kamarissaan ristikkorakennuksessa Pienen Harmaaveljestenkadun varrella Lundissa ern huhtikuun pivn Kaarle XI:nnen hallituksen loppupuolella. Hnen mielens oli raskas. skettin perustetun yliopiston ylioppilaat, jotka enimmkseen olivat tanskalaisia, joiden piti oppia ruotsinkielt ja ruotsalaisia tapoja, olivat tapansa mukaan panneet toimeen meteleit ja...

Suomen Kansan Vanhoja Runoja ynnä myös Nykyisempiä Lauluja 1Ne ainoat meille jneet muisto-merkit meidn Esi-vanhempaimme olosta, mielen laadusta, tist ja tavoista, ovat heidn veisunsa taikka Runonsa. Nmt erinomaiset virret vaelsivat jo satoja vuosia polvesta polveen ilman kirjoitus-keinoitta, paljaan muiston avulla aina meidn aikoihimme asti....

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Vankilasta ja SiperiastaTeokseni ei yritkn antaa mitn objektiivisia tietoja, se on vain subjektiivinen esitys siit mit olen kokenut ja nhnyt ja ensi kdess muilta kuullut. Kaksi ensimist lukua on kirjoitettu Irkutskissa, seuraavat kaksi Tchitassa, muut Suomessa matkalla tekemieni pivkirjamuistiinpanojen mukaan. Yll marraskuun 26 piv...

The Radio Boys Seek the Lost AtlantisJack Hampton wearily passed a hand across his eyes. Would they never sight the oasis at which Ali had promised they would arrive at the end of the days march? Even after many days of travel on camel-back,...

The Hospital MurdersThe loud speaker whined through laboratories, permeated kitchens, rasped in corridors. In the service corridor of Medicine Clinic the orderly rolling the laundry bin halted to listen and expectorate. Four floors above, Cub Sterling pulled in his long stride and reached for...

The Real Captain Kidd: A VindicationIt is to be feared that honest and well-meaning men have not infrequently incurred the odium of posterity, not so much by reason of any enormities of which they have themselves been guilty, as because it has been their...

Hans excellens av MadagaskarEgentligen hade jag inte alls tnkt g ned till tidningen den dagen; i grund och botten var det nog den gamle ungkarlens svrighet att sticka av frn inrotade vanor och tider, som besegrade vrken i ryggen. Doktorn hade fr sin del...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 23, December 5, 1840We have chosen the prefixed view of the Castle of Tully as a subject for illustration, less from any remarkable picturesqueness of character or historical interest connected with the castle itself, than for the...

The British Navy in BattleWe do not wish you a Merry Christmas, for to none of us, neither to you at sea nor to us on land, can Christmas be a merry season now. Nor, amid so much misery and sorrow, does it seem,...

Jüdisches Leben in Wort und BildMan hat viel ber die Juden geschrieben, aber erst seit einem halben Jahrhundert hat man angefangen sie ohne Voreingenommenheit, ja mit Interesse zu betrachten. Bis dahin waren ihre grossartigen wechselvollen Schicksale im Alterthum und ihr langes Mrtyrerthum nach und...

A Girl of Virginia"Lovely!" cried the girl enthusiastically, leaning a little further over the rail. A vine, which had climbed the round pillar and twined its tendrils about the porch's edge, set waving by the slight motion, sent a shower of scarlet leaves about...

Duell-CodexK. K. HAUPTMANN i. E., DIRECTOR DER KNIGL. LANDES-FECHTSCHULE ZU PRAG, RITTER DES KAISERL. OESTERREICH. FRANZ JOSEFS-ORDENS, DES KNIGL. SCHSISCHEN ALBRECHT-ORDENS I. CL., DES KNIGL. WRTTEMBERGISCHEN FRIEDRICH-ORDENS I. CL., DES SACHSEN ERNESTI-NISCHEN HAUSORDENS I. CL., BESITZER DES HERZOGL. SACHSEN-COBURG-GOTHASCHEN VERDIENST-ORDENS ERNST I. FR KUNST...

The Ship of CoralThe sea lay blue to the far horizon. BlueAh, blue is but a name till you have seen the sea that breaks around the Bahamas and gives anchorage to the tall ships at Port Royal; that great sheet of blue water...

Teatro selecto, tomo 1 de 4Justa y noble cosa es que los pueblos honren la memoria de sus grandes poetas; pero si he de decir lo que siento, ntes me parece funesto que til el entusiasmo oficial y la devocion obligada, que produce los...