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The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His ManuscriptLest the name of a hitherto unknown author be totally obliterated, I am going to give a description of his curious personality, together with an account of a manuscript in his...

The Story of the House - Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. KetchamI would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without:...

John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poemsThe occasion for this little volume is the celebration of the centenary of Whittiers birth. The sketch of his life aims to present the chief formative influences which affected his career and determined the...

More BeetlesThis, if we count The Life of the Weevil as the third, is the fourth and last volume on Beetles in the Collected English Edition of Fabres entomological works. The first was entitled The Sacred Beetle and Others; the second The Glow-worm and...

A Gringo in Mañana-LandThis book covers various random wanderings in Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. It deals with a romance or two, a revolution or so, and a hodge-podge of personal experience. The incidents of the earlier chapters precede, while those...

Return to Gone-AwayAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including mimeograph and tape recorder, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-6113 Printed in the United...

Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States CapitolENSHRINED in the domed Rotunda of the United States Capitol, as in the Roman Pantheon from which it is descended, are the noblest hopes of a mighty Nation. Yet less fearful of incurring the wrath of an...

Eneida; v. 2 de 2(a) El afamado intrprete frances de la Eneida, Barthlemy (Pars 1838), parece dar por sentado que la version ms antigua del poema virgiliano es la del obispo Saint Gelais, dedicada Luis XII en 1500. Inverosmil se nos antoja semejante especie,...

Observations on the Terataspis grandis, Hall, the largest known trilobiteTrilobites of great size have been reported from various formations. With rare exceptions, however, these relics are but fragments of the test, leaving to the imagination the restoration of the original proportions of the animal,...

The Poor ManTemple of Kwan-Yin. A wide altar occupies the whole of the back of the stage; a long fringe of strips of yellow brocade hangs from the ceiling to within three feet of the floor at either end of the altar. In the...

Christmas Holidays; or, a Visit at HomeProduced by: Charlene Taylor, Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The University of Florida, The Internet Archive/Children's Library) The stage coach stopped at the...

The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South - In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White RaceIn the preparation of these pages an effort has been made to discover and present the truth in regard...

Der Mutterhof: Ein Halligroman Alle Rechte, auch das der bersetzung in andere Sprachen, vorbehalten Copyright 1918 by Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., Berlin Druck von Hallberg & Bchting (Inh.: L. A. Klepzig), Leipzig C 1 Printed in Germany Also lautet die Sage von Heyens...

Serbian Fairy TalesOnce upon a time a bear married a woman, and they had one son. When the boy was yet a little fellow he begged very hard to be allowed to leave the bears cave, and to go out into the world to...

The Asbestos Society of Sinners - detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and woven into a Stygian nights' entertainmentJOHN KENDRICK BANGS, House-boat-on-the-Styx, care...

El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayoEn marzo de 1808, y cuando haban transcurrido cuatro meses desde que empec a trabajar en el oficio de cajista, ya compona con mediana destreza, y ganaba tres reales por ciento de lneas en la imprenta...

The Powder of SympathyStrange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. Dear Felix, dear Frank:It...

The Gates of MorningBehind him the breakers of the outer sea thundered and the spindrift scattered on the wind; before him stretched an ocean calm as a lake, infinite, blue, and flown about by the fishing gullsthe lagoon of Karolin. Clipped by its forty-mile...

The Rider of the Mohave: A Western Story To those who, having paid the penalty for their misdeeds, seek to regain their places in the ranks of the law-abiding, this book is sympathetically dedicated It was three in the morning, but Geerusalem had not...

The Bird Boys' Aeroplane Wonder; Or, Young Aviators on a Cattle RanchWhew! for one, I feel like giving a vote of thanks to the striking masons, who loafed pretty much all summer, and held the repair work on the Bloomsbury High building up till...