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The Black BearMy story of Ben starts on the 22d of June, 1890. Bens own story had begun some four or five months earlier, in the den where his mother, who was a Black Bear, had spent the winter; but although I came to...

One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex BY THE SAME AUTHOR DANNY OWD BOB BOY WOODBURN THE GENTLEMAN THE ROYAL ROAD THE BROWN MARE THE NEXT STEP THE TAMING OF JOHN BLUNT TWO MEN I THE HOSTEL II COW GAP...

Two Men: A Romance of Sussex BY THE SAME AUTHOR Bob, Son of Battle Danny The Gentleman Redcoat Captain The Taming of John Blunt The Royal Road The Brown Mare Boy Woodburn I Mr. Trupp II Edward Caspar III Anne Caspar IV Old Man...

Pumps and Hydraulics, Part 2 (of 2)The owner of a great tannery had once an improvement in making leather proposed to him by a foreman, but the merchant could not comprehend it even with the most earnest verbal explanation. As a last resort he...

The Chartreuse of Parma - Translated from the French of Stendhal (Henri Beyle)This novel was written in the year 1830, in a place some three hundred leagues from Paris. Many years before that, when our armies were pouring across Europe, I chanced to be...

Zigzag Journeys in the White City. With Visits to the Neighboring Metropolis HE last Zigzag volume sought to explain the American consular service, and to relate wonder-tales told in consular offices. This volume seeks to illustrate the White City, and to show what might...

Die Technik der Lastenförderung einst und jetzt - Eine Studie über die Entwicklung der Hebemaschinen und ihren Einfluß auf Wirtschaftsleben und KulturgeschichteDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1907 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Fremdsprachliche Orts- und...

A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South AustraliaThe following pages were written very recently, under a degree of pressure from some members of my family; and as I possessed no memoranda whatever to aid...

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2)Its distinction from perception, 1. Its cognitive functionacquaintance with qualities, 3. No pure sensations after the first days of life, 7. The 'relativity of knowledge,' 9. The law of contrast, 13. The psychological and the physiological theories...

VankeuteniSilvio Pellico syntyi Saluzzo'ssa Piemont'issa vuonna 1789. Hnen isns oli virkamies sota-asiain osastossa Milano'ssa ja jlestpin Turin'issa. Jonkun aikaa Franskassa vietettyn hn yhtyi isns Milano'ssa ja mrttiin Franskan kielen professoriksi sotilas-orpojen seminariin samassa kaupungissa. Sydmen pohjasta harrastaen kirjallisuutta ja vapautta hn rakensi tuttavuutta Ugo...

The Legend of the Lincoln Imp The devil was in a good humour one day, And let out his sprightly young demons to play. One dived in the sea, and was not at all wet, One jumped in a furnace: no scorch did he...

The Power-House COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. A recent tale of mine has, I am told, found favour in the dug-outs and billets...

Spons' Household Manual - A treasury of domestic receipts and a guide for home managementTime was when the foremost aim and ambition of the English housewife was to gain a full knowledge of her own duties and of the duties of her servants. In...

Lucian's Dialogues prepared for schools[Transcriber's note: This book consists of the main text and a supplement ('Notes') which not only contains explanations on the background of some stories, but also explains less frequent words (mostly in Greek). These refer to pages (and lines) of...

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)The treatise which follows has in the main grown up in connection with the author's class-room instruction in Psychology, although it is true that some of the chapters are more 'metaphysical,' and others fuller of detail, than...

Mrs. GaskellAmong women writers of the nineteenth century, none deserve more grateful remembrance than Mrs. Gaskell. Though it is forty-six years since she passed away, her stories are still eagerly read, and there is a growing interest in her life, as was shown by...

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Frank E. Smedley CHAPTER III.IN WHICH RICHARD FRERE MENDS THE BACK OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, AND THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO CHARLEY LEICESTER. CHAPTER VII.WHEREIN THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO MISS LIVINGSTONE, AND INFORMED WHO IS THE...

The New Man: Twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free manThe author offers to the public this little book, containing his personal recollections of slavery, with the modest hope that it will be found to present an impartial and unprejudiced view of that...

In Savage Africa - Or, The adventures of Frank Baldwin from the Gold Coast to Zanzibar.OR, The Adventure of Frank Baldwin From the Gold Coast To Zanzibar. BY VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON, C.B., D.C.L., COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY; AUTHOR OF JACK HOOPER, ACROSS AFRICA, OUR FUTURE...

The Loudwater Tragedy"My Dear Phil.--By this post I send you a copy of a certain penny weekly journal entitled The Family Cornucopia, which, for lack of something better to read, I picked up the other day at a bookstall while on my way to...