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Tales from silver landsTales from silver landsOWN in Honduras there is a town called Pueblo de Chamelecn which is not much of a town after all. There is only one street in it, and the houses are like big beehives that have been squared up, and the...
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Studying the short-storyStudying the short-story - Sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools.Fiction as an art has made more progress during the last hundred years than any other literary type. The first...
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The Berkeleys and their neighborsThe Berkeleys and their neighborsThe incidents are of great interest, well-imagined, and admirably carried out. But the notable feature of the book is the rare charm of its literary expression. The language is full of grace and wit and delicate sensibility. To read is...
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BilliardsBilliardsJustification for the appearance of a volume on the game of billiards as it is played early in 1896 is ample, for no treatise or manual exists in which modern developments are considered. Though this is so, it does not follow that the instruction...
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Színházi estékSzínházi estékSzofoklesznek azok a tragdii, melyeket a Nemzeti Sznhz igazgatsga ugyanegy este adatott el az Operahz sznpadn: Oedipus kirly, Oedipus Kolonosban s Antigone nem alkotnak valsgos trilgit a sznak szokott rtelmben. Egyik gy, mint a msik, nll egsz; s hogy Szofoklesznek a drmai trgy...
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Dragons and Cherry BlossomsDragons and Cherry BlossomsLarger versions of most illustrations may be seen by right-clicking them and selecting an option to view them separately, or by double-tapping and/or stretching them. When text follows the contours of an illustration, a larger version of that illustration may be...
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Mousseline: romanMousseline: romanLE long de la grille du chemin de fer, le pre Trbuc faisait les cent pas. Il marchait lentement, les mains derrire le dos, la tte droite, le kpi bien plant, en homme consciencieux qui sait comment il doit se tenir, mme si...
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Practical hints to builders and those contemplating buildingPractical hints to builders and those contemplating building - Facts worth considering relating to foundation, cellar, kitchen, chimney, cistern, brick-work, mortar, heating, ventilation, the roof, and many items of interest to builders.The object of this little book is to give to builders a few...
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Happy: The life of a beeHappy: The life of a beeYears ago, banished into the far Rio Grande region, I became a keeper of bees. As a child I had loved them, even caressed them, and many a time have I held them one and a hundred at once...
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The call of CthulhuThe call of Cthulhu"Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms...
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Canton Christian College bulletin no. 27Butchering and curing meats in ChinaThe Chinese, like most people, are lovers of pork, beef, mutton, and poultry, and consume these meats, both fresh and cured, in large quantities each year. Fresh meat is practically all consumed within a few miles of the locality...
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Le Démon SecretLe Démon SecretJe considrais ma table, ou bien encore le feu dans la chemine, et, de temps autre, ma lampe, quand lentre de Ted Williams me fit quitter cette inspection o je tchais de trouver quelque plaisir. Gros malin! mcriai-je. Voil qui est vident!...
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Plutonian LensLatent ImageJohn McBride stood on the roof garden of Satan's Hotel, looking across the River Styx at Sharon. To his left, the River Styx emptied into the Sulphur Sea, and in the evening sky to his right, the dancing flames lighted the cloud banks...
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The well in the desertThe well in the desertBlue Gulch was relaxing after the ardors of its working-day. From the direction of the Cheerful Heart Dance Hall issued sounds of mirth and festivity, and a weaving fantasy of shadows on its canvas walls proclaimed to those without that...
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Off duty: A dozen yarns for soldiers and sailorsOff duty: A dozen yarns for soldiers and sailorsIn my work here at Pelham Bay Camp with our wounded from abroad, with our sick boys who did not get over there, and with the well but often lonely men, who frequent our library, I...
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The blood of the vampireThe blood of the vampireIt was the magic hour of dining. The long Digue of Heyst was almost deserted; so was the strip of loose, yellow sand which skirted its base, and all the tables dhtes were filling fast. Henri, the youngest waiter of...
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Slavery and the slave trade in AfricaSlavery and the slave trade in AfricaIt is desirable that accurate information on the enormities of the slave trade should be spread at home and abroad, and that to slave-holding states all evidence proving the superior advantages of free labor should be freely supplied,...
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The war of the CarolinasThe war of the CarolinasThere was a daisy-meadow, that flowed brimming to the stone wall at the roadside, and on the wooded crest beyond a lamp twinkled in a house round which stole softly the unhurried, eddyless dusk. You stood at the gate, your...
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Select library no. 231Neva's three lovers: a novelSir Harold Wynde, Baronet, was standing upon the pier head at Brighton, looking idly seaward, and watching the play of the sunset rays on the waters, the tossing white-capped waves, and the white sails in the distance against the blue...
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Love's bitterest cupLove's bitterest cupJudge Paul McCann, an old bachelor, who was one of his most valuable patientsa chronic patient dying of good living, and taking a long, long time to do it ingave a heavy dinner party, to which he invited only married or middle-aged...
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