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The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and CitizenIn December, 1891, there was printed in the North American Review a letter in reply to certain statements of a contributor to a previous number of the same magazine regarding the services of American Jewish citizens as...

Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth General Meeting of the American Library Association - Held at Kaaterskill, N. Y., June 23-28, 1913The PRESIDENT: The Thirty-fifth Annual Conference of the American Library Association begins this evening. Custom has decreed that the presiding officer shall deliver...

Contes de Restif de la Bretonne - Le Pied de Fanchette, ou, le Soulier couleur de roseCette version comporte y trois genre de notes: celles prcdes par la lettre U sont d'Octave UZANNE dans l'Esquisse Littraire, celles prcdes par les lettres A I sont...

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 7 (of 8) - The Guerilla War, from February 1901 to the Conclusion of Hostilities27.Anniversary of Majuba. Combined operations for driving Boers against Harrismith-Van Reenans[Pg x] blockhouse line. Manie Botha killed; 600 Boers killed, wounded, or prisoners....

Le paravent de soie et d'orLes branches basses du paltuvier, enguirlandes de lianes, forment comme un hamac au-dessus du marais, et c'est l que le pasteur de buffles est couch nonchalamment, une jambe pendante, caressant de son pied nu les longs rubans d'herbes qui...

A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV The men-of-war in which Anson went to sea were built mostly of oak. They were painted externally yellow, with a blue stripe round the upper works. Internally, they were painted red....

Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours - With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and TransportationIt is an awful thing to be told that one has made history, or done something historic. Such an accusation implies the duty of living up to other people's...

Billy Topsail, M.D.: A Tale of Adventure With Doctor Luke of the Labrador"There was no need to invent conditions or imagine situations. The life of any lad of Billy Topsail's years up there is sufficiently romantic. It is this skill in the portrayal of...

Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of NationsI shall have no hope of conveying to the reader, within the narrow limits of a preface, any fuller idea of the purport of this work than its title expresses; and as the chapters...

Why We Punctuate; or, Reason Versus Rule in the Use of MarksI hope my appreciation of the difficulties which beset the student and teacher of punctuation may justify a suggestion from me as to a good method in the study of the subject with...

SpainAs I pause in my work to pass in review the events of three thousand years, which I have tried to narrate in this little book, I probably anticipate my readers in wondering at the audacity, not to say presumption, which moved me to...

L'Illustration, No. 0069, 22 Juin 1844Histoire de la Semaine. Portraits de MM. Broglie et Cousin.--Courrier de Paris.--Exposition des produits des Manufactures de Svres, des Gobelins et de Beauvais. Deux Vitraux pour la chapelle royale d'Amboise; Thire en porcelaine; Jardinire en porcelaine; Coupe en porcelaine.--Exposition...

Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 3. (of 3) - Abridged and Fully Illustrated In presenting this last volume of Queens of England to our readers, we are glad to say that we have been permitted to carry the story through the entire history...

Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3) - Abridged and Fully Illustrated Up to Queen Anne, this work is based upon Agnes Strickland's "Queens of England;" but subsequent to that period many authorities have been consulted, and only such matter used as...

Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 1. (of 3) - Abridged and Fully Illustrated Up to Queen Anne, this work is based upon Agnes Strickland's "Queens of England;" but subsequent to that period many authorities have been consulted, and only such matter used as...

Quarter-Back BatesIt cannot be truthfully said that Dick Bates was overwhelmingly surprised when he reached the railroad station that September morning and found fully a score of his schoolmates assembled there. Wally Nourse had let the cat out of the bag the day before....

Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and GeographicalThe articles in this volume deal chiefly with the history of Glacial times and the origin of surface-features. As they were not written with any view to their subsequent appearance in a collected form, each...

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)A glance at the foregoing list[1] will serve to show that, from the retirement of Garrick to the close of the eighteenth century, tragic literature made no progress. It retrograded. It did not...

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3)Artists who have been wont to look into the Vicar of Wakefield, Gil Blas, and last century comedies, for picturesque subjects, would find account in referring to the lives of our actresses. Here...

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3)It is unnecessary to apologise for a new edition of Dr. Doran's Annals of the Stage. The two editions already published have been for many years out of print, and the first is...