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The Devil And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. And if thy...

The Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of NatureLife has invaded nearly every crack and crevasse of the world during the billion years since it left its first traces on this planet. It has adjusted itself to all extremes of...

Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2On the 27th of December, 1905, Harvard University opened its new house of philosophy, Emerson Hall. The presence of the American Philosophical and Psychological Associations gave national significance to the completion of this building. The psychologist will find quarters in...

Pueblo pottery making: a study at the village of San IldefonsoThe present paper is a careful study by Dr. Guthe of pottery making at San Ildefonso, a typical Pueblo Indian town on the Rio Grande, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The field-work was...

Mäster Olofs bröllop Sommaren 1524 rdde mycken oro och mycket buller i Sveriges huvudstad, som knappt hunnit hmta sig efter den frfrliga hemskelse, vilken vergtt den samma under belgringsren 1522 och 1523. Nr Gustaf Eriksson Wasa midsommaraftonen det sistnmnda ret hll sitt intg i...

De stille krachtDe volle maan, tragisch dien avond, was reeds vroeg, nog in den laatsten dagschemer opgerezen als een immense, bloedroze bol, vlamde als een zonsondergang laag achter de tamarindeboomen der Lange Laan en steeg, langzaam zich louterende van hare tragische tint, in een...

The Conscript MotherWHEN I met the signora at the tram station that May morning she was evidently troubled about something which was only partly explained by her murmured excuse, a sleepless night. We were to cross the Campagna to one of the little towns...

Gretchen Reinwalds letztes Schuljahr: Eine Erzählung für Mädchen von 13-16 Jahren Gretchen und ihre Mutter lachten. Das lange Kleid ist dir noch ungewohnt an unserem Kind, sagte Frau Reinwald, sie ist nun eben kein Schulmdel mehr, sondern eine Fortbildungsschlerin. Ja, Vater, du mut auch...

A United States Midshipman in the South SeasIn this story Midshipmen Phil Perry and Sydney Monroe, together with Boatswains Mate Jack ONeil, act through an historic drama of a South Sea war. The same characters have seen active service in many parts of the...

A United States Midshipman AfloatThe Navy-Yard at Brooklyn buzzed with its daily turmoil of labor. It was a bright June morning, and the high chimneys of the numerous shops and foundries belched forth flame and smoke. Thousands of begrimed workmen toiled incessantly, hammering, bending...

The Book of History (Vol. 1 of 18) - A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times to the PresentThis is the story of the earth from the first thing we know of it to the time in which we live. It is...

Világ folyása (3. kötet): Beszélyeks idkben, sok szzad v eltt, Granadn egy Aben Habuz nev mr kirly uralkodott. Megpihent hodit volt , azaz ifjabb napjait folytonos csata s zskmnyols kzt lve le, most midn gynge s lemedett ln, nyugalom utn sovrgott, mit sem ohajtva...

Világ folyása (2. kötet): BeszélyekAz tszeg ers bstyk nagyrsze mg fennll daczolva idvel s fergeteggel; egy egy vtized alig bir nhny lemezt a szilrd homlokzatrl lebontani. Csupn a keleti oldal, honnan egykor a menedkes vlgyre kapu nyilt, van egszen sszerombolva, -4- s rtheten beszli,...

Világ folyása (1. kötet): BeszélyekMinden kornak meg vannak sajt uralkod divat eszmi, melyek kisebb nagyobb krben forognak s nem ritkn talnos rdek s kzbeszd trgyaiv lesznek. Ilyenek pldl az utbbi vtizedbl a llekidzs, Pepitadh, asztaltncz, chloroform, California, lgyapot, rudni pap, rbuszok sat. Mint divat...

Des Waldbauern FriedelDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1912 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen sowie Schreibvarianten bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert, sofern der Sinn des Texts dadurch nicht beeintrchtigt...

The Little Review, January-February 1916 (Vol. 2, No. 10) A piano, alone on a stage; shadowed light around and above it; ivory and ebony moving out of the shadow; and the silence that hangs there before the musician plays. There is nothing like it...

The Light MachineWell, he said, the first man resumed unabashedhe said as how light travels one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles in a second. And furthermore, and in addition, he said as how some of the stars were so far away that it takes...

The Box of Smiles, and Other StoriesHer little boy cried when he had his face washed, and cried when he had to get up, and cried when he had to go to bed, and cried when he went to school, or stubbed his toe,...

"All's not Gold that Glitters;" or, The Young CalifornianIn her last note of introduction to the Home circle, Cousin Alice partly promised to tell a story of Virginia life when she came to them again. She has to confess that she has not redeemed...

Mahatma GandhiJEAN CHRISTOPHE, 10 vol. in-16. Jean Christophe, 4 vol.: I. LAube, II. Le Matin, III. LAdolescent, IV. La Rvolte. Jean Christophe Paris, 3 vol.: I. La Foire sur la Place, II. Antoinette, III. Dans la Maison. La Fin du Voyage, 3 vol.: I....