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Man, Past and PresentMan, Past and PresentThose who are familiar with the vast amount of ethnological literature published since the close of last century will realize that to revise and bring up to date a work whose range in space and time covers the whole world from...
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Association Football, and How To Play ItAssociation Football, and How To Play ItFrom the above quotation by Sir Walter Scott, it is evident that football is quite an ancient game. Time alters everything, and it has undoubtedly done so in football. Where one used to play with half the village...
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With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3To the ordinary eye the moon and stars have at least prettiness, perhaps grandeur. To the trained astronomer, and the contemplative poet, the mighty firmament overwhelms the mind with the sense of human inability to grasp the vast....
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Laos Folk-Lore of Farther IndiaLaos Folk-Lore of Farther IndiaThese Folk-Tales from the Laos country, a part of the kingdom of Siam, in addition to their intrinsic merit have the charm of complete novelty. Until the translator of this volume collected these stories, they were even unwritten, with a...
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Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-Lore TalesOuta Karel's Stories: South African Folk-Lore TalesMy thanks are due to Dr. Maitland Park, Editor of The Cape Times, and Adv. B. K. Long, M.L.A., Editor of The State, for their kind permission to republish such of these tales as have appeared in their...
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Above the Snow Line: Mountaineering Sketches Between 1870 and 1880Above the Snow Line: Mountaineering Sketches Between 1870 and 1880 Some of the following sketches do not now appear for the first time; but such as have been before published in other form have been entirely re-written, and, in great measure, recast. To the...
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Jamaican Song and StoryJamaican Song and Story - Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunesThe stories and tunes of this book are taken down from the mouths of men and boys in my employ. The method of procedure has in every case been to sit...
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Folklore and Legends: OrientalFolk-Lore and Legends: OrientalThe East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while to preserve. The conditions under which the people live are most favourable to the...
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A Manual of the Antiquity of ManA Manual of the Antiquity of ManIn lecturing upon the Antiquity of Man I have found the minds of the people prepared to receive the evidences, and ready to believe the conclusions of the geologists. I have felt the need of a popular work...
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The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in AfricaThe World and Its People, Book VII: Views in AfricaAfrica is a vast continent inhabited, for the most part, by people who have not felt the influence of Christianity and modern civilization, and who, consequently, differ from us in character and habits of life....
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The Progress of EthnologyThe Progress of Ethnology - An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of ManExplorations and Discoveries in the Mounds and other earth-works in Ohio. Similar researches and their results in...
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Memorials of the Sea: My FatherMemorials of the Sea: My Father - Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of WhitbyMy Fathers more immediate ancestors, as a short biographical account of him by a friend, states,[A] occupied respectable stations in the middle walks of...
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Santal Folk TalesSantal Folk TalesOf late years the Folk tales of India have been the subject of much study and research, and several interesting collections of them have been published. But I am not aware that as yet the folk lore of the Santals, has received...
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RowingRowingMy thanks are due to the proprietors of the Daily News and of the English Illustrated Magazine for permission to include in this book the substance of articles originally contributed to their columns. I have not added to the Appendix any lists of winning...
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Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and DressmakersDress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists & DressmakersThe subject of Historical Costume covers such a multitude of detail that a volume on each century could be written, with hundreds of illustrations. Thus it is, most works on costume are expensive and bewildering;...
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Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque LanguageBasque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque LanguageThe study of the recent science of Comparative Mythology is one of the most popular and attractive of minor scientific pursuits. It deals with a subject-matter which has interested most of us at one period of...
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic CountriesThe Fairy-Faith in Celtic CountriesI have told what I have seen, what I have thought, and what I have learned by inquiry.Herodotus. I. The Religious Nature of the Fairy-Faith There is probably no other place in Celtic lands more congenial, or more inspiring for...
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The Evolution of FashionThe Evolution of FashionIn compiling this volume on Costume (portions of which originally appeared in the Ludgate Illustrated Magazine, under the editorship of Mr. A. J. Bowden), I desire to acknowledge the valuable assistance I have received from sources not usually available to the...
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Under Nordenvindens SvøbeUnder Nordenvindens SvøbeAh qujanaq! Den sidste Replik virkede. Vor Gaben blev til Latter, og Kuldegysene skylledes hurtigt ned med den varme Drik. Efter en 14 Timers Rejse i Kajak sammen med to Fangere fra Kangamiut, Carl og Alafitdle, havde jeg sgt Hvile paa det...
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Nord-Sud: Amérique Angleterre Corse SpitzbergNord-Sud: Amérique; Angleterre; Corse; Spitzberg23 avril.Promptement, la mer a t mauvaise. Toute la nuit, le vent a pouss contre nous, droit sur l'avant, les longues barres de la houle. J'entendais comme des cloches qui appelaient. taient-ce les lames faisant sonner les tles? Je disais:...
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