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Nuggets in the Devil's Punch Bowl, and Other Australian TalesBill Marlock had been shearing all the morning, with long slashing cuts before which the fleece fell, fold upon fold. He was the "ringer" of the shed, and his reputation was at stake, for Norman...

Courtship of Miles Standish - Minnehaha Edition Prometheus. The Ladder of St. Augustine. The Phantom Ship. The Warden of the Cinque Ports. Haunted Houses. In the Churchyard at Cambridge. The Emperors Birds-nest. The Two Angels. Daylight and Moonlight. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport. Oliver...

Bill Bolton and Hidden DangerHis room was pitch dark. For a moment or two he listened to wind whistling through trees and the swishing pound of a heavy downpour. Lightning flashed in the bright flare of a summer electrical storm, and through open windows...

Maerten Harpertsz. Tromp: Een zeemanszoon uit de 17de eeuwDit is eigenlijk een geheel nieuw boek. De oorspronkelijke uitgave verscheen in t jaar 1895 eerst in Elsev. Gell. Maandschrift, daarna, in t laatst van 1896, als zelfstandige uitgave bij de Uitgevers-Maatschappij Elsevier, werd eenige jaren...

Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and ProgressThe following works are frequently quoted, and are only designated by the authors name. Thus, Elliot, ii. 75, means Sir H. M. Elliots Hist. of India, as told, &c. &c., vol. ii. p. 75. Explosion.The sudden and violent...

Shakespeare and the Stage - With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory NotesIllustrations, as well as facsimiles of book titles and exemplary book pages, have been moved between two paragraphs...

New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee HumorThe dry wit of the New England Yankee has done much to cheer the Lonely Traveler on his way. It has oiled the thinking machinery when it creaked and provided inspiration for that spontaneous good fellowship...

Valittuja kertomuksiaTulee kaksi vuosikymment kuluneeksi siit, kun 22-vuotias Intiassa syntynyt ja siell toiminut sanomalehtimies ylltti ensinn Englannin ja tuossa tuokiossa koko sivistyneen maailman erll kertomuskokoelmalla, jonka vaatimattomana nimen oli "Yksinkertaisia jutelmia ylngilt" [osittain suomentanut rouva Aino Malmberg ("Kertomuksia Intian ylngilt ja laaksoista" v. 1893)]....

Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical MysticismThe contents of this book are among the last writings of Max Heindel, the mystic. They contain some of his deepest thoughts, and are the result of years of research and occult investigation. He,...

The Religious Thought of the Greeks, from Homer to the Triumph of ChristianityIn this book eight lectures given before the Lowell Institute in Boston during the late autumn of 1914 are combined with material drawn from a course of lectures delivered the previous spring...

Motor Tours in the West CountryMax Pemberton in the Sphere: Will be read and reread by all who have toured Wales a-wheel. Mrs. Stawell is a charming writer; she has a fine sense of the road, and she adds to it a literary insight...

Mehalah: A Story of the Salt MarshesBetween the mouths of the Blackwater and the Colne, on the east coast of Essex, lies an extensive marshy tract veined and freckled in every part with water. It is a wide waste of debatable ground contested by...

Where the Twain Meet Spain first set foot in the Western World, and if the discovery brought great wealth it brought also much individual suffering and bitter hardship. In Jamaica, she found no people living in barbaric splendour, no stores of gold and silver...

A Broken Journey - Wanderings from the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River I have to thank my friend Mrs Lang for the drastic criticism which once more has materially helped me to write this book....

A Woman In China My grandmother's curiosCamels and elephantsDr MorrisonChinese in AustraliaFeared for his virtuesRacial animosityGreat Northern PlainA city of silenceA land of exileThe Holy SeaFrost flowers on a birch forestChaos at Manchuria and KharbinJapanese efficiencyA Peking dust storm. When I was a little...

Alone in West Africa To those who have helped me I dedicate this record of my travels in West Africa. Without their help I could have done nothing; it was always most graciously and kindly given and I know not how to show my...

Gasoline and Oil Stoves, "New Process" and "Standard." 1901In presenting this catalogue to the trade, we beg to call attention to the completeness in detail of the various lines herein represented, embracing the largest variety of the latest improved cooking devices which inventive genius...

Kertomuksia IntiastaRudyard Kipling, suuri englantilainen runoilija ja maailman huomattavimpia nykyaikaisia kirjailijoita, syntyi Bombayssa, Intian keisarikunnan pkaupungissa, joulukuun 30 p:n 1865. Sek isn ett idin puolelta on hn perinyt taiteellisia taipumuksia. Is oli tunnettu maalari J. Lockwood, joka m.m. julkaisi "Intian elimi ja ihmisi" nimisen...

Lois psychologiques de l'évolution des peuples La civilisation d'un peuple repose sur un petit nombre d'ides fondamentales. De ces ides drivent ses institutions, sa littrature et ses arts. Trs lentes se former, elles sont trs lentes aussi disparatre. Devenues depuis longtemps des erreurs videntes...

The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 21, November 21, 1840The little rocky island of Dalkey forms the south-eastern extremity of the Bay of Dublin, as the bold and nearly insulated promontory of Howth forms its north-eastern termination. It is separated from the mainland...