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Chantilly in History and ArtMy first visit to Chantilly was in April 1904, when the Exhibition of the French Primitives at the Pavillon Marsan, following close on that at Bruges, raised interest and comment far outside the boundaries of France. I visited the Muse...

Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881May 30th.At an hour as to which controversy might arise, owing to the changes of time to...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 SECOND EDITION. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. To whom all communications (post paid) must be addressed. SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY...

Prehistoric ManThis book deals with the earliest phases in the past history of Mankind: the selected period ends at the Aurignacian division of the Palaeolithic Age. I regret to be unable to affix definite dates in years to the several divisions of time now...

Valerius. A Roman StorySince you are desirous, my friends, that I should relate to you, at length and in order, the things which happened to me during my journey to Rome, notwithstanding the pain which it must cost me to throw myself back into...

Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)The disproportion, between the length of time occupied in the preparation of this volume, and the slightness of apparent result, is so vexatious to me, and must seem so strange to the reader, that he will perhaps bear with...

Our Square and the People in ItWALLED in by slums stands Our Square, a valiant green space, far on the flank of the Great City. Ours is an inglorious little world Sociologists have-not yet remarked and classified us. The Washington Square romancers who bold...

The Beggar's Purse: A Fairy Tale of Familiar Finance IT was our original intention to print and distribute a small number of these booklets gratuitously among our Mends with the hope that this story might aid in the sale of War Savings Stamps. However,...

Wanted: A Husband. A Novel OUT OF ORDER! pertly announced the placard on the elevator. To Miss Darcy Cole, wavering on damp, ill-conditioned, and reluctant legs, this seemed the final malignancy of the mean-spirited fates. Four beetling flights to climb! Was it worth the...

The Great American Fraud - The Patent Medicine Evil This is the introductory article to a series which will contain a full explanation and exposure of patent-medicine methods, and the harm done to the public by this industry, founded mainly on fraud and poison....

The Flying DeathSTANLEY RICHARD COLTON, M. D., heaved his powerful form to and fro in his bed and cursed the day he had come to Montant Point, which chanced to be the day just ended. All the world had been open to him, and...

La vie simpleAujourd'hui que La Vie simple a t tellement rimprime que les vieux clichs sont uss et qu'il faut recomposer le texte nouveau, il ne sera sans doute pas dpourvu d'intrt de noter ici quelques faits concernant l'origine et la destine de ce...

A Bird of Passage, and Other StoriesAnd then she opened the piano, and struck a few notes. There was something caressing in the way in which she touched the keys; whoever she was, she knew how to make sweet music; sad music too, full...

The Mentor: American Miniature Painters, January 15, 1917, Serial No. 123We are close to realizing the greatest joys to be found in this workaday world when we accept art as a vital part and not a thing separate and distinct from our daily lives....

On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane - With Observations on the Construction and Organization of AsylumsThe writer of a book is usually expected to show cause for its production,a custom which, however commendable as a sort of homage...

Miss Heck's Thanksgiving Party; or, Topsy Up To DateAny person with but half an eye could recognize at a glance the extraordinary character of Miss Myra Heck! And furthermore, if novelists did not show such decided preferences for white-skinned heroines, Miss Heck would long...

The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End - with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost BooksTranscriber's Note: Following chapters are mentioned in the index but are either skipped or do not exist in the first three volumes: VOLUME I. Book I,...

The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-ThreeThe air in the valley was still as death. Not a wandering puff of wind swept the white, snow-covered slopes that shot up steeply from either side of its wide, flat floor; nor had any stirred for several days....

Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese WarLast year, I remember, you were a little reproachful because I sent "Tom Burnaby" to Jack at Harrow, and I made you a half promise that possibly at some future date you Taylorians should not be forgotten. I...

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4)I. Many writers have very naturally conceived that the myth of Ixion, who is fabled to have embraced a cloud instead of Hera, and so to have begotten the centaurs, is really typical of ambitious men; for, although they...