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A Nest of LinnetsThis will never do, Betsy, said Mr. Linley, shaking his head. Sir Joshua calls you Saint Cecilia, but twere a misnomer if you do not sing the phrase better than you have just sung it. She drew an angel down: let...

Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience - A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All OccasionsIn preparing this volume the author has been guided by his own platform experience extending over twelve years. During that time he has given hundreds...

Reise nach dem skandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island im Jahre 1845. Zweiter Band.Das Wetter hatte sich bald wieder aufgeheitert, und ich trat schon am 24.Juni meine Reise nach dem Geiser und Hekla an. Der erste Tag, an dem wir nach Thingvalla ritten, bot...

History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2Summary Review of Volume One. The events which make up the first volume of the History of the Church moved forward from the back ground of successive dispensations of the Gospel which preceded...

Birds of the wave and woodlandThe Birds of the MonthsSome Rare Birds and Some CommonJanuary and the FieldfareFebrurary and the RookMarch, April, May, with the Thrush, Swallow and NightingaleThe Terrors of MigrationJune and the Ring-doveA Wood-Pigeon ProblemThe DotterelEvening Voices: The NightjarsJuly and the SkylarkAugust,...

Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondeceThere are few institutions in this or in any other country the history of which is so little known as is that of the post-office. The very name, in the opinion of the...

Ein Geschlecht: Tragödie Title: Ein Geschlecht Subtitle: Tragdie Author: Fritz von Unruh Release Date: October 24, 2014 [EBook #47189] Language: German Credits: Produced by Gerard Arthus, Reiner Ruf and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of...

Le collier des jours: Souvenirs de ma vieMes ans vanouis mes pieds se dploient Comme une plaine obscure o quelques points chatoient D'un rayon de soleil frapps Sur les plans loigns, qu'un brouillard d'oubli cache, Une poque, un dtail nettement se dtache, Et revit...

Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel WorkThe following article originated in a short paper which was read before a local society of civil engineers, and there were so many requests made for this paper and the illustrations presented with it that the author was led...

Model WomenThis volume is dedicated to you, because I believe in the principles it enunciates, and hope that many of your sex may get them lodged in their minds; and the conclusions to which they lead carried out in their lives. While feeling a...

Schenk's Theory: The Determination of SexThe facts observed and recorded by others assisted me to advance so far on the trodden path that I made an effort to snatch a secret from Nature. What I succeeded in obtaining, though small, induced me to set...

Antología portorriqueña: Prosa y versoNota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se considera dominio pblico En general...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900 - Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900Geometry became a science long ago, zology much later, medicine only a generation or two ago, and the history of man is but just being developed into a science. What was...

The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe message of "Mormonism" is of summoning interest in the world today. People of serious mind are not satisfied with the unsupported generalization that it is naught...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1900 - Vol. 56, November, 1899 to April, 1900The advances in science lead to hopes of the sudden accumulation of gold, just as the discovery of new worlds led our ancestors to invest in many inflated enterprises of commerce...

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1900 - Vol. 56, November, 1899 to April, 1900One of the most remarkable chapters in the astronomy of the past century was commenced on the very first night with which that century began. It was, indeed, on the 1st...

Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret PlotIssued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1909, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York,...

Fairy Tales from Many LandsTHERE was once a king who had three sons, and he had also a golden apple tree, that bore nothing but golden apples, and this tree he loved as though it had been his daughter. The king was never able,...

The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy May, the Sunbonnet Baby, was talking with Molly, her little Sunbonnet Baby sister. They were standing on the deck of a great ocean steamer. They had been sailing on the steamer for days and days. They had sailed more...

Drawn at a Venture: A Collection of DrawingsTHERE are various methods of introducing an artist to his public. One of the best is to describe how you saved his life in the Bush in 82; or he saved yours; and then you go on:...