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Reprint of Two Tracts - 1. An essay on gleets. 2. An enquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of a singular disease of the eyesThe two tracts here reprinted were written in English by Jean Paul Marat during his residence in Church Street,...

Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago - Their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Masonry in times anterior to the Temple of Solomon.Author of "A Sketch of the Ancient Inhabitants of Peru, and...

The Book of HusbandryOne question of chief interest respecting the volume here printed iswho was the author? We know that his name was Mayster Fitzherbarde (see p. 125), and the question that has to be settled is simply thismay we identify him with Sir...

The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment by Chilian ConvictsThe preface to a book is very often nothing more than a respectable cloak, allowed by the conventionalities of literature, in which an author may wrap his excuses and...

The Frozen NorthI have retained the title Greenlanders in the Table of Illustrations page 67, plus retained the illustration title as quoted in the body of the book as, A Young Man. A Young Woman. As we travel northward, leaving the sunny lands of...

Mémoires de Garibaldi, tome 2/2Lors de mon entre dans le fleuve, larme orientale se trouvait San-Jos dans lUruguay, et celle dOribe la Boyada, capitale de la province dEntre-Rios; toutes deux se prparaient la lutte. Larme de Corrientes, de son ct, se disposait se runir...

Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. KellyThe first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Lgion trangre. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun,...

Five Years Under the Southern Cross: Experiences and ImpressionsFor five years, during my residence in Australia, I had the privilege of contributing to the English Christian World a large number of articles on life in the Commonwealth. These articles excited a great amount of...

Woodcock's Little Game: A Comedy-Farce, In Two ActsLend me Five Shillings, Three Cuckoos, Catch a Weazel, Where theres a Will theres a Way, John Dobbs, A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion, Going to the Derby, Your Lifes in Danger, Midnight Watch, Box and Cox, Trumpeters Wedding,...

Cassell's book of birds; vol. 2THE EAGLES (Aquila):The Tawny EagleThe Golden EagleThe Imperial EagleThe Spotted Eagle. The DWARF EAGLES (Hieratos):The Booted EagleThe Dwarf Eagle. The WEDGE-TAILED EAGLES (Uroatos):The Bold Wedge-tailed Eagle. The HAWK EAGLES (Pseudatos, Eudolmatos, or Asturatos):Bonelli's Hawk Eagle. The HOODED EAGLES (Spizatos):The...

Le Whip-Poor-Will, ou, les pionniers de l'OrégonNotre ami, M. Bouis, frachement en cette ville, arrive de l'Amrique, en trois quaraques et un brigantin, tout exprs pour nous parler plus ou moins franais, et publie une Nouvelle ayant pour titre le Whip-Poor-Will1, ou les pionniers...

Meditaciones del QuijoteBajo el ttulo Meditaciones anuncia este primer volumen unos ensayos de varia leccin y no muchas consecuencias, que va a publicar un profesor de Filosofa in partibus infidelium. Versan unoscomo esta serie de Meditaciones del Quijote, sobre temas de alto rumbo; otros...

The Romance of a ShopThere stood on Campden Hill a large, dun-coloured house, enclosed by a walled-in garden of several acres in extent. It belonged to no particular order of architecture, and was more suggestive of comfort than of splendour, with its great windows,...

The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 2, February, 1882relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the American Missionary, to Rev. G.D....

The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 1, January, 1882We welcome the advent of the new year with praise and thanksgiving. The toils and burdens of 1881 are past. The husbandman has garnered his sheaves. The sower has cast in his seed, and awaits...

Gypsy and GingerOh, but before that I ought to say that those were not their names. Hers was the name of the most beautiful of women, and his the name of the most victorious of men. But they were not a bit like that...

The Aviator and the Weather BureauThis is a brief but general account of the history of aviation as it is associated with southern California, a description of the War Department school of aviation at San Diego, a syllabus of the course of lectures delivered...

Royalty in All Ages - The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of EuropeIt has been remarked that to write of the private and domestic acts of monarchs while still alive savours of scandal and bad taste, but when...

The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surfaceINTERESTING SKETCHES OF MINES AND MINING IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLDCAVES AND THEIR MYSTERIESFAMOUS TUNNELSDOWN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. VOLCANOES AND THEIR ERUPTIONSPETROLEUMUNDERGROUND LIFE OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. SUBTERRANEAN WORKS...

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons - A Graphic Description of the Author's Experiences in Various Southern PrisonsLibbyNow I lose my money"Fresh fish"Quarters and rationsBoxes from homeTwo majors escapeA general conspiracyBad news and new prisonersGeneral Butler saves two Union officers by threatening to hang...