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Salt ... or No Salt ...A new trend in food and nutrition is the fast-increasing use of fresh lemon juice as an all-purpose table seasoning. Fresh lemons have long been recognized as an indispensable flavoring for pies, tomato juice, tea, fish and seafood. Now...

Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, LunaticsPrisons as places of detention are very ancient institutions. As soon as men had learned the way to build, in stone, as in Egypt, or with bricks, as in Mesopotamia, when kings had many-towered fortresses, and...

Hunting the HunCaptain Belton and Lieutenant Odell's book of the war will be read with deep and sustained interest by everyone who wants to understand "the real thing." For myself I confess to being thrilled by the simple, direct, conversational style of the chapters...

The Theory of Stock Exchange SpeculationOur object in writing this book is to endeavour to show to persons who may contemplate trying their hand at Stock Exchange speculation, the improbability of their hopes being realized. Much mischief and trouble would be avoided, and a...

Sink or Swim; or, Harry Raymond's ResolveSink or Swim is the second volume of the Luck and Pluck Series, and, like its predecessor, is designed to illustrate the truth that a manly spirit is better than the gifts of fortune. It does not fall...

The ScamperersThe Earthman, Wellesley, came to Ophir in the season of aphelion, when the binary suns of that remote planet were cold serpent's eyes, dimly seen above the chill mists that shrouded its fern forests and craggy, young mountains, its silent oceans and magnificent...

ZTime reversal exists at the sub-atomic level according to Feynman's Theoryand according to that same theory any entity can exist in three places at one time.... Does this explain, the strange co-existence of Summer, Mark and Wyn? What scientific or supernatural principle is behind...

After Some TomorrowBefore the first shots rang out, Alan had been sitting with some twenty young people of the Wolf clan in a grove of aspen approximately half way between the fields and the citadel on the hill-top. He had been teaching them myth-legend...

ValkoliljaKevet, nopsajalkaisen hevosen vetmt rattaat vierivt kettersti tiet myten. Rattailla istui Vstanforsin kirkkoherra, Edgar Sander, niin leveharteisena ja suurena ett tuskinpa kukaan hnen hoikkaa Brita-tytrtn tukevampi olisi mahtunut hnen rinnalleen. Mutta tlle siin oli tilaa ja hn nautti matkasta. Hn ajoi aina mielelln Mustalla...

In the Wilds of South AmericaI have frequently wondered how many of the large number of people who visit natural-history museums have any conception of the appearance and actions, in their wilderness homes, of the creatures they see, and of the experiences of the...

Sarah Bernhardt as I knew her - The Memoirs of Madame Pierre Berton as told to Basil WoonNever was more apt the German proverb, Truth is its own justification, than in the telling of the story of that most remarkable of women, Sarah Bernhardt....

Dr. Southwood Smith: A RetrospectMy first recollection of my grandfather is of him in his study. As a little child my bed stood in his room, and when he got up, as he used to do in the early mornings, to write, he would...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Edward GibbonNOTE: The huge size of this ebook makes for long delays in response time when trying to open the individual chapters in this index. Often it is more efficient to OPEN THE ORIGINAL EBOOK and then...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of the Brothers Grimm You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Gustave Flaubert You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within...

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 08 (of 12)The first edition (here reprinted) was published in 1819 in one 8vo. volume (343 pp.), with the following title-page:Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Delivered at the Surry Institution. By William Hazlitt. It is a...

Sales ResistanceOn his way home from the concert, Perry Mansfield whistled a pleasant melody from an old Stravinsky classic. But then, troubled by his conscience and that of his psychiatrist, he stopped to study the program again. What was that modern symphony? Oh yes,...

A Matter of Order"I don't like it at all," the tall thin man said. His name was Tharn, and he was known throughout the sprawling colony for the high-strung nervousness that was understandable enough in a youth of fifty, but hardly normal for a...

Home Manufacture and Use of Unfermented Grape JuiceUnfermented grape juice has no doubt been used ever since wine has been made from the grape. The following practical suggestions will enable housewives to put up unfermented juice at the time of the fruit harvest, and...

The Preparation of Bees for Outdoor WinteringONE OF THE MOST VITAL parts of the beekeeper's work is the preparation of bees for outdoor wintering. No other phase of beekeeping has so direct an influence on the honey crop of the following season. The apiary...