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The League of the Scarlet PimpernelThe League of the Scarlet PimpernelIt was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with...
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Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and VictoriaPersonal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria"Ah! who has ever journeyed, on a glorious summer night, Through the weird Australian bushland, without feelings of delight? The dense untrodden forest, in the moonlight cold and pale, Brings before our wondering eyes again the dreams of...
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Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own PeopleLife's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People In Northern India stood a monastery called The Chubara of Dhunni Bhagat. No one remembered who or what Dhunni Bhagat had been. He had lived his life, made a little money and spent it all, as...
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The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano RooseveltThe Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Radio Addresses to the American People Broadcast Between 1933 and 1944I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about bankingwith the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking...
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Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 The notes which form the ground-work of these volumes have long been kept in the obscurity of manuscript: my studies of South America, of Syria and Palestine, of Iceland, and of...
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Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 During the hot season of 1863, "Nanny Po," as the civilized African calls this "lofty and beautiful island," had become a charnel-house, a "dark and dismal tomb of Europeans." The yellow...
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The Maid of Maiden LaneThe Maid of Maiden Lane Never, in all its history, was the proud and opulent city of New York more glad and gay than in the bright spring days of Seventeen-Hundred-and-Ninety-One. It had put out of sight every trace of British rule and occupancy,...
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St. George and St. MichaelSt. George and St. MichaelIt was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass...
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Lysbeth, a Tale of the DutchLysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch In token of the earnest reverence of a man of a later generation for his character, and for that life work whereof we inherit the fruits to-day, this tale of the times he shaped is dedicated to the...
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St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2Had it been till midnight, so long as there was a chance of his appearing, Dorothy would have waited. Caspar did his best to amuse her, and succeeded,showing her one curious thing after another,amongst the rest a watch...
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St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3Early the next morning, after Richard had left the cottage for Raglan castle, mistress Rees was awaked by the sound of a heavy blow against her door. When with difficulty she had opened it, Richard or his dead...
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St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the...
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Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My LifeAutobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My LifeIt would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant...
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The Fairy-Land of ScienceThe Fairy-Land of ScienceLecture I The Fairy-Land of Science; How to Enter It; How to Use It; And How to Enjoy It Lecture II Sunbeams, and the Work They Do Lecture III The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live Lecture IV A Drop of...
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Janice Meredith: A Story of the American RevolutionJanice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution Into the warp and woof of every book an author weaves much that even the subtlest readers cannot suspect, far less discern. To them it is but a cross and pile of threads interlaced to form...
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Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de JoinvilleMemoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de JoinvilleI was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, on the 14th of August, 1818. Immediately after my birth, and as soon as the Chancellor of France, M. Dambray, had declared me to be a boy,...
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The Campaign of ChancellorsvilleThe Campaign of Chancellorsville It must seem to the casual reader of the history of the war of 1861-65, that enough has already been written upon the campaign of Chancellorsville. And there are numerous brilliant essays, in the histories now before the public, which...
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Masters of the GuildMasters of the Guild Nothing would do but that they all should go immediately to see what had come to light A siffle of indrawn breath was heard in the crowd as he carried it to the fire (in colors) It was a great...
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A Yankee Girl at Fort SumterA Yankee Girl at Fort SumterSylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening of the Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her new friends, and...
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American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 2The Conservation of RacesThe American Negro Academy believes that upon those of the race who have had the advantage of higher education and culture, rests the responsibility of taking concerted steps for the employment of these agencies to uplift the race to higher planes...
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