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The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in CaliforniaWe stand on Mexican soil. We are on the seaward skirt of its westernmost State of Sonora, in the wild lands almost washed by the Californian Gulf, which will be the formidable last ditch of...

Redmanship in Kentucky for Fifty Great SunsI trust that no apology is necessary for the making of this book. It is merely a record of facts which if not soon presented in this tangible form might easily be blotted out forever. As it is...

Oxford and Its StoryTHE Story of Oxford touches the History of England, social and political, mental and architectural, at so many points, that it is impossible to deal with it fully even in so large a volume as the present. Even as it is,...

Church BellsThe little volumes in the Arts of the Church series are intended to provide information in an interesting as well as an accurate form about the various arts which have clustered round the public worship of God in the Church of Christ. Though...

The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume—1895-1899)The ultimate meaning of the Russian Revolution which took place in March, 1917, can be best understood through the pages of the Journal of Leo Tolstoi which is here printed. The spiritual qualities which make up the mind...

The Island of Yellow Sands: An Adventure and Mystery Story for BoysThe two boys were startled. The red-haired one, who had been lying on the ground, scrambled to his feet. The other, a wiry dark-skinned lad, sprang from his seat on a spruce log...

Neid1 An den Ufern der Lahn, oberhalb Ems, nicht weit davon, liegt ein Ort, der sich Arnstein nennt. Ein Bach geht zwischen den Husern entlang; ber den Husern steigt ein Hgel auf, und auf dem Hgel, weit sichtbar, erhebt sich eine prchtige Kirche. Nicht,...

Mark Tidd in BusinessThe Wicksville paper told how there wouldnt be any school for six weeks, on account of somebody getting diphtheria. That same afternoon my father didnt get out of the way of an automobile and got broke inside some place, so he...

Die Musen: Eine Ode Die Neun Musen, und in ihrer Mitte Terpsichore! Ich erkenne dich, Mnade! Ich erkenne dich, Sibylle! Mit deiner Hand erwart ich keinen Becher mehr noch deinen Busen selbst Zuckend in deinen Ngeln, Cumeische im Wirbelsturm der goldigen Bltter! Denn diese...

Gnadenreiche, unsere Königin Sie spielten den ganzen Tag Karten, er gab sich Mhe, geschickt zu verlieren. Von Zeit zu Zeit sagte sie: Ich will nicht mehr und warf die Karten hinter sich auf das Fensterbrett. Sie sprach nur, was auf das Spiel Bezug hatte....

The Sharper Detected and ExposedWhatever, dear reader, may be the value you attach to the knowledge of the knaveries I am about to reveal to you, you will assuredly never pay so dearly for them as I have. You will easily understand, that the...

María Luisa, Leyenda HistóricaHay tantos verdugos del idioma!............ Llegan nuestras manos da da tantos sacrilegios literarios! Confieso ingnuamente que cuando tuve entre las mas un ejemplar de la "Mara Luisa" del Sr. D. Andrs Portillo, lo abr con desaliento, con esa dejadez melanclica que...

Songs from the Smoke Among earnest social workers poetry is gaining a recognition that few anticipated. The reformer of the past was an orator who preferred the longer sentences of the pulpit to the concise expression of the poet. Oratory is in the mouth...

Kabouters in het Bosch"Ik?" zei Gnoom; "och, over 'n heele boel dingen. 't Is tegenwoordig 'n slechte tijd voor kabouters, hl slecht. 'n Paar duizend jaar geleden was 't plezierig in de wereld. Overal groote bosschen en weinig menschen. In die bosschen was 't...

Pilgrim Sorrow: A Cycle of Tales ROUMANIA, Bulgaria, Servia, and the other new countries situated in the far East of Europe, are so apt to be associated in our minds with the tiresome and unanswered Eastern question, that we certainly give both land and...

Friends of France - The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by its MembersThe following pages, written and edited in the course of active service in France, tell, however imperfectly, something of the experiences of a small group of young Americans who have...

'Up the Country': Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of IndiaShe to whom they were addressed, they of whom they were written, have all passed away, and you and I are now almost the only survivors of the large party that...

Die Gewerkschaftsbewegung - Darstellung der gewerkschaftlichen Organisation der Arbeiter und der Arbeitgeber aller Länder.Als ich bei der Vorbereitung des von mir auf dem evangelisch-sozialen Kongresse in Frankfurt a. M. am 17. Mai 1894 gehaltenen Vortrages ber die Gewerkschaften daran ging, mich nher mit dem...

Thorley WeirThe hottest day of all days in the hottest June of all Junes was beginning to abate its burning, and the inhabitants of close-packed cities and their perspiring congregations cherished the hope that before long some semblance of briskness might return into the...

Motor Matt's Daring; or, True to His Friends - Motor Stories Thrilling Adventure Motor Fiction No. 2, March 6, 1909Issued 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,...