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The Red Fairy BookThe Red Fairy Book In a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault. But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction...
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A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary StudyA. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary StudyIt is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized. A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by personality, no less than...
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Jean of the Lazy AJean of the Lazy A Without going into a deep, psychological discussion of the elements in men's souls that breed events, we may say with truth that the Lazy A ranch was as other ranches in the smooth tenor of its life until one...
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Tales of Terror and MysteryTales of Terror and Mystery The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who...
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A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaA Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaAn affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the...
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Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan...
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An Inland VoyageAn Inland VoyageTo equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid,...
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The Song of the CardinalThe Song of the Cardinal He darted through the orange orchard searching for slugs for his breakfast, and between whiles he rocked on the branches and rang over his message of encouragement to men. The song of the Cardinal was overflowing with joy, for...
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At the Foot of the RainbowAt the Foot of the Rainbow "And the bow shall be set in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth." GENESIS, ix-16....
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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) Of The Middle Temple, Barrister-At-Law; First-Class Extra Certificate School Of Musketry, Hythe; Late Officer Instructor Musketry, The Queens Own Light Infantry Militia. Author Of 'The History Of The Jesuits,' 'Japan And Her People,'...
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Driven from Home Or, Carl Crawford's ExperienceDriven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience Author of Erie Train Boy, Young Acrobat, Only an Irish Boy, Bound to Rise, The Young Outlaw, Hectors Inheritance, etc. A boy of sixteen, with a small gripsack in his hand, trudged along the country road. He...
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Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian PaintersKnights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters What would we do without our picture-books, I wonder? Before we knew how to read, before even we could speak, we had learned to love them. We shouted with pleasure when we turned the pages and...
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Joe the Hotel Boy Or, Winning out by PluckJoe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck A number of years ago the author of this story set out to depict life among the boys of a great city, and especially among those who had to make their own way in the...
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The End of the TetherThe End of the Tether For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed...
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Heart of DarknessHeart of DarknessThe Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come...
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Youth, a NarrativeYouth, a Narrative This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speakthe sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel,...
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Ann Veronica: A Modern Love StoryAnn Veronica: A Modern Love Story The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. ANN VERONICA CHAPTER THE FIRST CHAPTER THE SECOND...
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Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People Until within the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away...
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The Chinese Boy and GirlThe Chinese Boy and Girl No thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the West. Glimpses of that life however,...
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoeThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good...
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