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Home AmusementsThe gifted American artist, Mr. James E. Freeman, who has for many years been a resident of Rome, has brought together in this tasteful little volume a number of sketches of the noted men of letters, painters, sculptors, models, and other interesting personages...

Motor Matt's Mandarin; or, Turning a Trick for Tsan Ti CHAPTER I. ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE. CHAPTER II. THE YELLOW CORD. CHAPTER III. THE GLASS BALLS. CHAPTER IV. THE PAPER CLUE. CHAPTER V. PUTTING TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. CHAPTER VI. A SMASH. CHAPTER VII. NIP...

An Uninvited Member: A Play for Girls in Two ScenesFlorence and Vivian enter, arms entwined around each others waists, whispering eagerly. They wear yellow badges with black letters. Effie, a little girl of eleven or twelve, comes tiptoeing up behind, pounces on the entwined...

Answering the Phone: A FarceBy Effie Louise Koogle. The totally different Christmas entertainment. Add to the attractiveness of the minstrel show idea the distinction of having His Royal Nibs as Interlocutor, with equally unique personalities as End Men, endow them with a program flashing...

The Two Christmas Boxes: A Play for GirlsMr. Tibbals has been unusually successful in furnishing boys plays that introduce characters true to life. While the plays are strong and forceful in the lessons they teach, clean comedy predominates and the boys like them. A...

The Flying GirlThe author wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness to Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss and Mr. Wilbur Wright for courtesies extended during the preparation of this manuscript. These skillful and clever aviators, pioneers to whom the Art of Flying owes a colossal debt, do...

For Your Sweet Sake: PoemsDear Sir:You show in these verses a talent for putting thoughts into literary form ... very rare. I have found the sentiment of the poems always pure and orthodoxoften sweet and touching; there is a simplicity about them which wins...

Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New GuineaThe wonderful fauna of New Guinea, especially the marvellous forms of Bird- and Insect-life to be found there, have long attracted the attention of naturalists in all parts of the world. The exploration of...

The Story of Don John of AustriaIn one of the addresses delivered at the time of Padre Coloma's admission to the Real Academia Espaola there is a reference to Jeromn, as this Story of Don John of Austria is called in Spanish, which says...

From Farm Boy to Senator - Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel WebsterBut thirty years have elapsed since the death of Daniel Webster, and there is already danger that, so far as young people are concerned, he will become an...

Ylhäisiä naisiaThomas Hardy syntyi vuonna 1840 Upper Bockhamptonissa, pieness kylss lhell Dorchesteria, samaa kaupunkia, miss hn nyt on jo joitakin vuosikymmeni asunut omassa talossaan. Hn aloitti uransa arkkitehtina ja sai vuonna 1863 palkinnon arkkitehtuuripiirustuksista sek kultamitalin kirjoitelmasta "Tiili- ja terrakotta-arkkitehtuurista". Varhaisin hnen painetuista julkaisuistaan...

The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other storiesVALERY BRUSSOF is a celebrated Russian writer of the present time. He is in the front rank of contemporary literature, and is undoubtedly very gifted, being considered by some to be the greatest of living Russian...

Japanilaisia satujaJonkun aikaa hn samoili kohtaamatta mitn erikoisempaa, mutta vihdoin hn ern iltana, kuljettuaan tihen metsn lpi, joutui aution ja yksinisen vuoren kupeelle. Ei kyl, ei mkki ollut nkyviss, eip edes hiilenpolttajan majaa, vaikka niit niin usein tapaa metsn liepeill. Hn oli seurannut heikkoa...

A Mother's Year BookThis little volume has been compiled for mothers and is lovingly offered as a tribute to the memory of the almost perfect mother whose love cradled my own childhood so sweetly as to make all motherhood forever more dear to me....

The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 10, October, 1878may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. Drafts or...

The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 09, September, 1878may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. Drafts or...

Occoneechee, the Maid of the Mystic LakeRealizing that the memory of a nation is best kept aglow by its songs and the writings of its poets, I have been inspired to write OCCONEECHEE, in order that the once powerful nation known as the Cherokee...

Le livre de MonelleBonaparte le tueur, dix-huit ans, rencontra sous les portes de fer du Palais-Royal une petite prostitue. Elle avait le teint ple et elle grelottait de froid. Mais il fallait vivre, lui dit-elle. Ni toi, ni moi, nous ne savons le nom...

A Manual of Historic Ornament - Treating upon the evolution, tradition, and development of architecture and other applied arts. Prepared for the use of students and craftsmenTHIS manual has been prepared with the three-fold object of giving an elementary knowledge of Architecture and Historic...

Star of IndiaThe rustic portion of the congregation shouted the familiar hymn with laborious goodwill, overpowering the more cultivated voices that rose from the chancel and the front pewsalmost defeating the harsh notes wrung from the harmonium by the village schoolmistress, who also led...