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Gorillas & ChimpanzeesThe present work is the natural product of some years devoted to a study of the speech and habits of monkeys. It has led up to the special study of the great apes. The matter contained herein is chiefly a record of...

Boys of the Light Brigade: A Story of Spain and the Peninsular WarTitle: Boys of the Light Brigade A Story of Spain and the Peninsular War Author: Herbert Strang Release Date: November 15, 2013 [EBook #44190] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 "The Light...

Florida: Past and present - together with notes from Sunland, on the Manatee River, Gulf Coast of South Florida: its climate, soil, and productionsWHEN I published the little brochureNotes from Sunlandtwo years ago, the Gulf Coast of South Florida was, comparatively speaking, a terra...

Boys' Second Book of InventionsNo substance ever discovered better deserves the term "Miracle of Science," given it by a famous English experimenter, than radium. Here is a little pinch of white powder that looks much like common table salt. It is one of many...

Mesdames Nos Aïeules: dix siècles d'élégancesIl n'y a de nouveau dans ce monde que ce qui a suffisamment vieilli, a dit, non pas un 6 grand philosophe mais une femme, la couturire de Josphine de Beauharnais, pouse de Napolon Bonaparte, consul de la Rpublique...

Trees Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the YearThe best time to begin to study the trees is to-day! The place to begin is right where you are, provided there is a tree near enough, for a lesson about...

The Fighting Starkleys; or, The Test of CourageBEAVER DAM was a farm; but long before the day of John Starkley and his wife, Constance Emma, who lived there with their five children, the name had been applied to and accepted by a whole settlement...

On the Seaboard: A Novel of the Baltic IslandsAugust Strindberg's first literary productions were warmly received, and would have aroused lasting enthusiasm and admiration had the young author's prolific pen been less aggressive, in this, for his country, a totally new style of novel....

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND 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 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD...

The Red TavernS-s-st, there, good gossip, wake up, I pray thee! Hearest thou not voices yonder in our lordship's tent? Methinks I can see between the trees the glimmer of his council-candle. Even now he doth plan the attack, whilst this cursed cross-bow is...

L'oeuvre du comte de MirabeauIl ne sera question ici ni de la vie publique ni de la vie prive de Mirabeau. Tout cela est trop connu. Quil suffise de dire quHonor-Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, naquit le 9 mars 1749 au chteau du Bignon,...

Poésies Complètes - Tome 1Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages blanches n'ont pas t repris. Le premier volume s'ouvre donc par les:...

Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 17th 1915"Rapid progress," we read, "is being made in the American movement to supply soldiers at the battle fronts in Europe with Bibles printed in their own languages." We trust that one will be supplied to...

The Friends; or, The Triumph of Innocence over False Charges - A Tale, Founded on FactsIn one of the pleasant villages in the beautiful county of Kent, was situated a boarding-school of considerable celebrity. It had, for many years, been distinguished for possessing an...

The Myths and Fables of To-DayTo say that superstition is one of the facts of history is only to state a truism. If that were all, we might treat the subject from a purely philosophical or historical point of view, as one of the...

White Dandy; or, Master and I: A Horse's Story"It is Worth its Weight in Gold to any Man," is the criticism made about this book by one of the smartest and most intelligent business men of New England. This is a new book by...

Nautical ChartsIn preparing the material for a lecture on Charts for Columbia University, the writer was impressed with the fact that although nautical charts are mentioned or discussed in many publications, there was not found any one which covered the general subject of their...

Die kleine Stadt: Roman Die andern stieen unwillig den Atem aus. Der Leutnant der Carabinieri legte mit Nachsicht, weil es sich um einen Fremden handelte, die groe Sicherheit der Straen dar. Zwei seiner Leute begleiteten stets zu Pferde die Post, und nur einmal hatten...

Filosofía Americana: EnsayosQue una discusin haya agitado a las inteligencias durante siglos, no es motivo para dejarla de la mano, sin tentar antes el ensayo de probar una de dos cosas: o alguna solucin que se encuentre, o que la cuestin es insoluble. Creo...

Roy Blakeley's Motor CaravanGee whiz, whenever I see that fellow Harry Domicile, I know theres going to be a lot of fun. Just the same as I can always tell if were going to have mince turnovers for dessert. Thats one thing Im crazy...