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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) - During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraOn page 313 sees no reason why divination in darkness, in a wall, or in sunlight, or by potions and incantations, while well seems more...

Marlborough, and Other PoemsWHAT was said concerning the author in the preface to the first edition may be repeated here. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was at Marlborough College from...

The Mirror of the Graces - Containing General Instructions for Combining Elegance, Simplicity, and Economy with Fashion in Dress; Hints on Female Accomplishments and Manners; and Directions for the Preservation of Health and BeautyIn discoursing on the degree of consequence, in the scale of...

The Queen's AdvocateI was lying on the flat of my back, my hands clasped under my head, thinking lazily, as I watched the glorious sunset amid the Gravenje hillswhere the play of sunset colour is at times almost as fine as in Coloradoand speculated...

Through Colonial DoorwaysThe revival of interest in Colonial and Revolutionary times has become a marked feature of the life of to-day. Its manifestations are to be found in the literature which has grown up around these periods, and in the painstaking individual research being...

The Rambler Club's Winter Camp"The Rambler Club's Winter Camp," though a story complete in itself, deals with the further adventures of the jolly club whose acquaintance we made in "The Rambler Club Afloat." Although Nat Wingate has not always acted a good part toward...

Santa's Sampler: A Collection of over 100 Hors D'Oeuvre Recipes Cookbook Committee: Ginny Cowger, Sandy Mullin Pat White, Sandy Zigenfuss Caroline Bowie Cream everything except crab. Beat awhile. It will still look curdled. Then add crab. Heat in double boiler or freeze. Serve in...

The CatA cat is of all animals the most difficult to know; it is so intimate, but so detached; so dependent on human beings for its comfort, so loftily indifferent to their wishes. It requires one who has lived with cats and seen their...

Sussex, Painted by Wilfrid BallMr. Thomas Hardy, writing to Mr. Tyndale concerning his pictures reproduced in this volume, says: ...to their fidelity both in form and colour I can testify. And you seem to have conveyed in your renderings that under-picture, as one may...

Gaudenzia, Pride of the PalioFor months I wrote the story of the Palio in my mind. I pictured a fearless boy rider in this wildest of all horse races, a boy who dared defy the ancient rules and willed his horse to winin spite...

Billy ja etsivä: Seikkailuromaani Meksikon sodistaI. Kotona II. Tervetuliaiset III. Eptoivoinen yritys IV. Kulkurirunoilija V. Kumppanuksina VI. Bridgen koetus VII. Vaara VIII. Ilmiantajat IX. Rouva Shorter X. El Paso XI. Ojasta allikkoon XII. Kenraali Pesita XIII. Pesita muuttaa suunnitelmiaan XIV. Vijytys XV. Leijonaa rsyttmss...

Bully Bull Frog and His Home in Rainbow ValleyI should like to take all my young friends for a visit to a spot in a most beautiful valley. We will call it Rainbow Valley. Although this is not its real name, it will do...

Yayá Garcia Luiz Garcia era funccionario publico. Desde 1860 elegera no logar menos povoado de Santa Thereza uma habitao modesta, onde se metteu a si e a sua viuvez. No era frade, mas queria como elles a solido e o socego. A solido no...

Supercheries littéraires - pastiches, suppositions d'auteurs dans les lettres et dans les artsNous avons cherch donner dans deux prcdents ouvrages, une dfinition, aussi claire que possible, du Centon et de la Parodie. Il est peut-tre plus difficile d'tablir la thorie du Pastiche et ses...

History of the transmission of ancient books to modern times - together with the process of historical proof; or, a concise account of the means by which genuineness of ancient literature generally, and the authenticity of historical works especially are ascertained including incidental remarks...

Fairy Tales, Volume 2 (of 2)The division of Fairy Tales into two volumes was rather for the sake of keeping the books small and of uniform size in the series, The Open Road Library, than because there was any difference in the age of...

Fairy Tales, Volume 1 (of 2)Fairy Tales, of which this is the first volume, follows without break an earlier book, Rhymes and Stories, and is made up chiefly of Mrchen, or nursery tales, with a few drolls, or comic anecdotes. The term fairy tale...

The Lone SwallowsMost of the papers in this volume are published for the first time. A few have appeared in The Daily Express, The London Evening News, The Field, The Saturday Review, The Outlook, The English Review, and The Wide World Magazine. I am...

Anne FevershamA DISTINGUISHED member of the Lord Chamberlains company, Mr. William Shakespeare by name, had entered the shop of a tailor in the town of Nottingham. This popular and respected actor and playwright was about thirty-five years of age. Of middle height, he had...

Elnémult harangok: RegényMs a lirikus poeta, az mr harmincz ves korban bevgezte; a mit tudott, kiadta, potai alakja ksz, csak a magnlete tovbbi rszt bortja homly, mg rajta lvn a Prkk guzsalyn; de az elbeszl ir csak az tvenedik vvel ri el ereje teljessgt,...