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Rouva Mayburnin kaksoisetJohn Habberton oli niit "omatekoisia miehi", joita erityisesti Amerikassa nousee elmn alimmalta portaalta kuuluisuuteen ja kunniaan. Hn syntyi Brooklynissa 1842, joutui kahdeksanvuotiaana lntisimpn silloisista asutetuista valtioista, Illinoisiin, miss sai kansakoulukasvatuksen. Seitsemntoista vanhana hn sielt ilmestyi New Yorkiin, avosilmin, toimihaluisena, mieli uusien olojen...

British Marine PaintingTO most people it will seem quite natural that British artists should give much attention to marine painting. The sea plays a very important part in our national affairs, influences the character of the people, and affects the political policy of the...

The Professor's House The moving was over and done. Professor St. Peter was alone in the dismantled house where he had lived ever since his marriage, where he had worked out his career and brought up his two daughters. It was almost as ugly...

Charles Peace, or The Adventures of a Notorious BurglarThis book was originally published in 100 weekly installments. The volume number of each issue is provided as a sidenote, highlighted in light grey, occasionally mid-paragraph. Illustrations that appeared at the beginning of each issue were...

The End: How the Great War Was Stopped. A Novelistic VagaryIt is a pretty village, Saint Choiseul, perched on a hillside whose slopes, undeviatingly smooth and moderate, subside into a flowing land of streams and fields and white roadways. Its narrow streets are decorous...

Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners - The Orders and Their Æsthetic PrinciplesIt is important that an elementary treatise,more particularly if it profess to be a popular one, intended for the use of beginners as well as for professional students,should not only give...

Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase PaintingsAlthough the archaeologists and mythologists constitute for the most part the number of those seriously concerned with Greek vases, there still remain many engaged in the study of Greek literature for whom the vases are bound to...

An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.Although I cannot at this time bring together positive and undoubted evidence of the authorship of the following tract, (because the materials are at present inaccessible to me,) at some future period, in the...

The Dark Road: further adventures of Chéri-Bibi The Nut lay on the scorching beach facing the terrible sea in which the hungry sharks, the warders of his prison, were disporting. The convict was like a weary animal at rest. In truth, he had availed...

The Primrose Path: A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of FifePublished by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. Harper & Brothers will send either of the above works by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the...

Mélusine - Nouvelle édition, conforme à celle de 1478, revue et corrigéeLe roman de Melusine est un des plus intressants de lpoque ancienne. Le style en est simple, souvent naf, et, dans plusieurs passages, il ne manque pas dune certaine lvation. Les noces de...

Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in ConnecticutWhen I made up my mind to write this story, it was not to publish it, but it was at the request of my sister that lived in Africa, and has lived there more...

Chinese vs. Negroes as American Citizens - Mr. Scottron's Views on the Advantages of the Proposed Negro Colonization in South AmericaThe following letter and paper by S. R. Scottron, a member of the School Board and one of the best known and most highly...

The Trail of the Swinging Lanterns - a racy, railroading review of transportation matters, methods and menIn compiling the miscellaneous array of facts embodied in the pen sketches arranged within the covers of this book, the principal object striven for has been to seek...

The Last Days of the RomanovsBY GEORGE GUSTAV TELBERG PROFESSOR OF LAW IN SARATOV UNIVERSITY AND FORMER MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AT OMSK AND ROBERT WILTON SPECIAL RUSSIAN CORRESPONDENT FOR THE TIMES, LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY {iv}...

American Dangers and DutiesThe experiment of publishing a series of tracts upon Liberal Christianity entered upon in the month of October, 1858, has been eminently successful, with only a moderate outlay of effort and expense. The publications of our Society, under the following titles,...

Kill Me if You Can!Bartol stood on the balcony of the Grand Palace and waved, smilingly, at the throngs of people below. He couldn't help it; he struggled silently against the implanted hypnotic commands, but it did no good. He waved and smiled. And...

The Three Thieves of JapetusJake moistened his thin purple lips and clenched the radiophone tighter. "Hello, freighter!" he repeated. "We're survivors of a shipwreck. Can you pick us up? Please answer." His voice grew more urgent. "Please pick us up! Our air supply is...

DissociationsLDITION ORIGINALE DE DISSOCIATIONS COMPREND CINQ CENTS EXEMPLAIRES NUMROTS. ELLE SE DCOMPOSE COMME SUIT: UN EXEMPLAIRE SUR VIEUX JAPON A LA FORME, PORTANT LE No 1; UN EXEMPLAIRE SUR CHINE PORTANT LE No 2; CINQ EXEMPLAIRES SUR MADAGASCAR LAFUMA, NUMROTS DE 3 A 7;...

Chronique du crime et de l'innocence, tome 6/8 - Recueil des événements les plus tragiques;...Recueil des vnemens les plus tragiques, Empoisonnemens, Assassinats, Massacres, Parricides, et autres forfaits, commis en France, depuis le commencement de la monarchie jusqu nos jours, disposs dans lordre chronologique, et...