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The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the MohawksThe Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the MohawksThe life and surroundings of "The Lily of the Mohawks," as an undeveloped theme in literature, was first suggested to me by my uncle, the Rev. Clarence A. Walworth. My interest and enthusiasm...
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A Primer of AssyriologyA Primer of Assyriology Geography.The civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. The Tigris was called Idikna and Idikla in the Sumerian or primitive language of Babylonia, from which the Semites formed the name Idiklat, by...
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Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693IN the volume entitled The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle I have tried to present the conditions of France during the period in which the ancient liberties of the people and the turbulent society which had abused its...
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On the Field of Glory: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John SobieskiOn the Field of Glory: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John SobieskiRailroads are to nations what arteries and veins are to each individual. Every part of a nation enjoys common life with every other through railroads. Books bring remote ages to...
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"Green Balls" : The Adventures of a Night-Bomber"Green Balls" : The Adventures of a Night-BomberLest it should appear that in this book I have worked the personal pronoun to death, I wish to explain my reasons for describing always my own feelings, my own experiences, my own thoughts. I feel that...
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Burning of the Brooklyn TheatreBurning of the Brooklyn Theatre - A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876The Tragedy in the GalleriesA Wedge of DeathInto a Pit of FireHarrowing Scenes and IncidentsAffecting and Exciting Stories...
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My MemoirsMy MemoirsBEAUCOURT is a village in the "Belfort Territory," not far from the Swiss and German frontiers. It was in that village, at the "Chteau Edouard"all large mansions in that region are called "chteaux," and the name of the owner is added to the...
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The True Story of My Parliamentary StruggleThe True Story of My Parliamentary StruggleSo much misapprehension and misrepresentation prevails as to what has really taken place in the House of Commons with reference to my Parliamentary struggle, that I reprint the Report of the Second Select Committee and the Evidence taken...
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In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in PolandIn the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in PolandOn the 1st July, 1914, if I could have seen one step ahead in my life's course, this book would not have been written. On the day named I crossed the German frontier...
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Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2)Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2) The tale related in the following pages refers to a period in the history of Maryland, which has heretofore been involved in great obscurity,many of the most important records connected with...
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Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and TurkeyPan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and TurkeyThe great struggle begun by the Cossacks, and, after the victory at Korsun, continued by them and the Russian population of the Commonwealth, is described in With Fire and Sword, from the ambush on...
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Contemporary SocialismContemporary SocialismIn the present edition the original work has not only been carefully revised, but very considerably enlarged. The chapters on "The Progress and Present Position of Socialism" and "Russian Nihilism" contain a few sentences retained from the first edition, but otherwise they are...
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Four Years in FranceFour Years in France - or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic FaithEight and twenty years ago, when I became a catholic, I was told that I...
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Count FrontenacCount Frontenac - Makers of Canada, Volume 3The author of the following work desires to acknowledge his obligations to two preceding writers who have dealt with the life and times of Count Frontenac, the late Mr. Parkman, and M. Henri Lorin. The merits of...
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Caught by the TurksCaught by the TurksMy pilot ran his engine to free the cylinders from the cold of night, while I stowed away in the body of the machine some necklaces of gun-cotton, some wire cutters, a rifle, Verey lights, provisions, and the specially prepared mapprepared...
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'Midst the Wild Carpathians'Midst the Wild CarpathiansHungarians regard Az rdly arny kora as, on the whole, the best of Jokai's great historical romances, and, to judge from the numerous existing versions of it, foreigners are of the same opinion as Hungarians. Few of Jokai's other tales have...
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The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual GatheringThe Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gatheringhe chief object aimed at by the publication of this little volume is to furnish, in a concise and inexpensive form, information regarding the Clan Fraser not readily accessible to clansmen in Canada. It...
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Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western FrontNotes of a Camp-Follower on the Western FrontThe enclosure behind the palings had been a parade-ground in piping times; and British squads, from the pink French barracks outside the gates, still drilled there between banks of sterilised rubbish and lagoons of unmedicated mud. The...
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The Little Red FootThe Little Red FootThe day Sir William died there died the greatest American of his day. Because, on that mid-summer evening, His Excellency was still only a Virginia gentleman not yet famous, and best known because of courage and sagacity displayed in that bloody...
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The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the WaterThe Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water - Or, Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal The speaker was Shirley Willing, a typical Kentucky girl, slender of figure, vivacious of manner, and extremely pretty. With her father, she stood on...
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