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The Thompson-Houston System of Electric LightingIn its power to assume always that form of energy which happens to be the most useful lies the great importance of electricity. This importance has been brought to the notice of the public by means of the many...

An Ideal Kitchen: Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion - A Guide for All Who Would Be Good HousekeepersIt is thoroughly practical; it is perfectly reliable; it is marvellously comprehensive; it is copiously illustrated; it is in short overflowing with good qualities, and is just the...

Bobbie, General Manager: A NovelI AM a junior in the H.C.H.S., which stands for Hilton Classical High School, and am sixteen years old. I live in a big brown house at number 240 Main Street, and my father is a state senator in Boston....

Some of Our East Coast TownsChelmsford, one of the youngest of the Essex Boroughs, and almost a suburb of Greater London by means of the Great Eastern Railway, was, when I first knew it, a dignified county town, the leading people of which considered...

She hath done what she could - A Discourse addressed to the Ratepayers of St. Marylebone, urging the adoption of The Public Libraries Act, 1855But it is to Free Libraries and News Rooms, and NOT to high-priced Institutes, that you must look for the...

The Marylebone Penny Readings and Their CriticsAs Certain statements have appeared in the Local Journals reflecting upon my character as the Honorary Conductor of The Readings, and upon the Institution, I deem it my duty to send this statement to you, with the request...

Armenia and the WarOf all the peoples upon whom this war has brought calamity and suffering, the Armenian people have had the most to endure. Great as has been the misery inflicted by the invaders upon the non-combatant populations of Belgium and Northern France,...

VanhuudestaCiceron Cato Maior De senectute on jo tt ennen ilmestynyt suomeksi lehtori K. Blomstedtin kntmn (Hmeenlinnassa 1886). Blomstedtin mehev, yleens hyvin ansiokas esitys on kuitenkin alusta alkaen ollut vaikeasti saatavissa tilapisjulkaisuun kuuluvana sek yleislle miltei tuntematon. Marcus Tullius Cicero syntyi 3 p:n tammik. v....

A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness Copyright, 1923, by International Magazine Company. Copyright, 1924, by International Magazine Company. Copyright, 1924, by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. Printed in...

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary - explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nationsIn the following Dictionary, compiled from the best sources ancient and modern, with the addition of many original articles, the selections have been made with reference...

Guvernanten Celias minnen Kom s en annan krlek. Den brjade s tyst och smningom, som nattens stjernor tga fram. Frst ser man blott en hr, en der; men ofrmrkt de vexa till i glans och antal, tills de fylla hela fstet. Sjn Mallasvesi ligger...

How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the SixtiesIn the summer of 1862, in the Bayou Manchac country near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there was a modest little schoolhouse called the "Dove's Nest." To that school came two young girls to complete a course...

Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games - Including all indoor games played to-day. With suggestions for good play, illustrative hands, and all official laws to dateThe word Hoyle has gradually come to stand as an abbreviation for an Encyclopedia of Indoor Games. The...

Consumption Curable: Observations on the Treatment of Pulmonary DiseasesIt is a matter of notoriety how slightly regarded or little known are the medicinal properties concentrated in the plants which adorn the vegetable kingdom. Such negligence of the means of healing, by the remedies which...

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller - Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations.This...

Sydän: Kirja nuorisolleTekijn esipuhe. Ensimminen koulupiv. Opettajamme. Tapaturma. Toverini. Intomielisyytt. Ensi luokan opettajattareni. Vinttikamarissa. Koulu. Nokikolari. Pieni padovalainen isnmaanystv. Vainajain piv. Ystvni Garrone. Hiilikauppias ja herrasmies. Veljeni opettajatar. itini. Ystvni Coretti. Nellin puolustaja. Luokkamme ensimminen oppilas. Kauppias. Ylpeytt. Ensimminen lumi. Muurarimestari. Lumipallo. Haavoittuneen kodissa....

The Sanitary Condition of the Poor in Relation to Disease, Poverty, and Crime - With an appendix on the control and prevention of infectious diseasesThe following pages having already appeared in the form of letters in the Marylebone Mercury, any preface on my part...

Nathaniel Parker WillisThe materials for a life of Willis are rich enough to be embarrassing. Most of his writings are, in a greater or less degree, autobiographical; and it would be possible to make a very tolerable life of him, by arranging passages from...

Madame Young's Guide to Health - Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the...

Under the Red Dragon: A Novel"And she is to be there--nay, is there already; so one more chance is given me to meet her. But for what?--to part again silently, and more helplessly bewitched than ever, perhaps. Ah, never will she learn to love...