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Selections from the Kur-anBetween Egypt and Assyria, jostled by both, yielding to neither, lay a strange country, unknown save at its marches even to its neighbours, dwelt-in by a people that held itself aloof from all the eartha people whom the great empires of...

Last of the Incas: A Romance of the PampasPatagonia is as little known at the present day as it was when Juan Diaz de Solis and Vicente Yanez Pinzon landed there in 1508, sixteen years after the discovery of the New World. The earliest...

SprotjeToen om even voor vieren, met een uitjoel van vrijgelaten baldadigheid, de zwerm deerns de school kwam uitgestoven, bleef achter in de plots huiver-leege gang, aan de schemere deur-opening van t lokaal, dat voor naaikamer diende, een bleekneuzig kind in een bruin jurkje nog...

Abel Sánchez: Una Historia de PasiónNota del Transcriptor: Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Con la intencin de conservar el texto original, signos de interrogacin y exclamacin no se usan al principio de la mayora de las preguntas y exclamaciones respectivamente. Pginas en...

With a Reservist in France - A Personal Account of All the Engagements in Which the 1st Division 1st Corps Took Part, viz.: Mons (Including the Retirement), the Marne, the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, and Loos A Personal Account of...

Per luchtschip "De Argonaut" naar MarsAan de andere zijde, in het onmetelijke hemelruim, staat de Groote Beer, met zijn zeven heldere sterren, het geheimzinnige getal, dat in het menschelijk leven zulk een merkwaardige rol speelt. In bonte mengeling en op ongelijke afstanden, verschillend in...

A Manual of the Historical Development of Art - Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and OrnamentationAn experience of more than eight years as Lecturer on the Historical Development of Art, at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, has convinced...

The Myth of a Guilty NationThis book is made up of a series of articles originally published in the Freeman. It was compiled to establish one point and only one, namely: that the German Government was not solely guilty of bringing on the war....

Het Eiland Marken en Zijne BewonersHet moge waar zijn, dat het Eiland Marken, bij velen in ons Vaderland bekend zij, zoo wel door de natuurlijke gesteldheid van dit stukje gronds, als door de eigenaardige, of liever, verouderde gewoonten van zijne bewoners;niet minder waar is...

ChristuslegendenToen ik vijf jaar oud was, trof mij een groot verdriet. Ik kan mij niet herinneren dat ik ooit grooter verdriet gehad heb. Dat was de dood van mijn grootmoeder. Tot dien tijd toe had zij elken dag in den hoek van de sofa...

Across America by Motor-cycleA few months after the Armistice of 1918 was signed, when the talk of everyone concerned was either when they would be demobilized or what they would do when they were demobilized, two young men were exchanging views on this same...

L'Histoire de France racontée par les Contemporains (Tome 2/4) - Extraits des Chroniques, des Mémoires et des Documents originaux, avec des sommaires et des résumés chronologiquesNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve...

The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Pacific AUTHOR OF THE BOY AVIATORS SERIES, THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS SERIES, THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS ON THE ATLANTIC, THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS AND THE LOST LINER, THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS OF THE ICEBERG PATROL, THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS...

Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of NatureThe Conquest of Nature, p. 4Man's use of Nature's gifts, p. 6Man the "tool-making animal," p. 7Science and Civilization, p. 8Clothing and artificially heated dwellings of primitive man, p. 10Early domestication of animals, p. 11Early development to...

Toy CraftEach year American parents spend millions of dollars for toys for the children. In a short time a large part of these toys are broken, and lie in the corner or the back yard. This is because of the destructive habits children have...

The CriminalThis little book is an attempt to present to the English reader a critical summary of the results of the science now commonly called criminal anthropology. In other words, it deals briefly with the problems connected with the criminal as he is in...

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 - An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas THE WRECK OF THE "GROSVENOR:" AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY OF THE CREW AND...

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 2 of 3 - An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas THE WRECK OF THE "GROSVENOR:" AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY OF THE CREW AND...

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 1 of 3 - An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas THE WRECK OF THE "GROSVENOR:" AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY OF THE CREW AND...

SpidersTHE modest dimensions of this book are perhaps sufficient indication that it is not intended as an aid to the collector. There are about five hundred and fifty known species of spiders in the United Kingdom alone, and at least an equal number of...