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Queen Zixi of Ix; Or, the Story of the Magic CloakThe clearing was in the form of a circle, and all around stood giant oak and fir trees, while in the center the grass grew green and soft as velvet. If any mortal had...

The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 In the galaxy of illustrious men whom God has given to France in this century, there is one whom history will place in the first rank. We mean the author of the Monks of...

Perfumes and Their Preparation - Containing complete directions for making handkerchief perfumes, smelling-salts, sachets, fumigating pastils; preparations for the care of the skin, the mouth, the hair; cosmetics, hair dyes, and other toilet articlesThe great progress which the art of perfumery has made during...

Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper - Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessMarketingBeefDifferent Cuts, etc.VealMuttonPorkPoultryFishShell-fishCare of MeatsTo salt down BeefTo cleanse Calfs Head and FeetTo prepare RennetTo salt down FishTo try out LardMolasses-cured HamsBrine...

Feu de joie PUR JEUDI Rues, campagnes, o courais-je? Les glaces me chassaient aux tournants vers d'autres mares. Les boulevards verts! Jadis, j'admirais sans baisser les paupires, mais le soleil n'est plus un hortensia. La victoria joue au char symbolique: Flore et cette fille...

Palace and Hovel; Or, Phases of London LifePERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERICAN IN LONDON, BY DAY AND NIGHT; WITH GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF ROYAL AND NOBLE PERSONAGES, THEIR RESIDENCES AND RELAXATIONS; TOGETHER WITH VIVID ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, SOCIAL CUSTOMS, AND MODES OF LIVING OF...

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 4 (of 4) - Hegel's Aesthetik[Summary and contrast between poetry and the other particular arts. Its relation to the other two romantic arts. Absence of all external sensuous presence. Poetry appeals to imaginative vision. Not so direct as...

Joe Wayring at Home; or, The Adventures of a Fly-RodI AM called Old Durability; but for fear my name may prove misleading, and cause those of my readers who are not acquainted with me to fall into the error of supposing that I am...

Bananas: Nature's Institution for the Promotion of LazinessThe chapter given in the following pages is from a work entitled: Tropical America: Its Planters and Plantations, now in preparation. Sports Afield said of the author: Probably no American is more competent to write of the...

Hellenism in Asia MinorAsia Minor is the country which, more than all others, recalls the highest development of Hellenic civilization. Its deeply indented coast formed a chaplet of Hellenic democracies which reached out into the interior and actually attacked the Persian civilization, upon which...

The Early Oxford Press - A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and IllustrationsThe present work was undertaken early in 1889, and is an attempt to describe in detail the products and working of the Oxford Press in its...

The Blue DuchessPaul Bourget was born in the cathedral city of Amiens about fifty years ago, but there are a number of other interesting things to say about him. Like so many famous authors, he began, in 1873, with verse. Probably the verse did...

The Train BoyHe was a boy of sixteen, of medium height for a boy of that age, with dark brown hair, bright, sparkling[Pg 10] eyes, not without a suggestion of mirthfulness, and round cheeks, with a healthful color. It would be hard to find...

The Law's Lumber RoomTo the Lumber Room you drag furniture no longer fit for daily use, and there it lies, old fashioned, cumbrous, covered year by year with fresh depths of dust. Is it fanciful to apply this image to the Law? Has not...

The Chief Mate's Yarns: Twelve Tales of the SeaWe had been sitting in at the game for more than an hour, and no life had entered it. The thoughts of all composing that little group of five in the most secluded corner of the...

Woman and Her Wits: Epigrams on Woman, Love, and BeautyUntil some fortunate beingwit, student, and man of the world (he will have to be all three)can, in a cunningly chosen library, write the history of the Epigram, and the birth and growth of epigrammatic...

Under Rocking SkiesFor a quarter of an hour Thomas Medbury had been standing at the east window of his mother's parlor, gazing out across his neighbor's yard with an eager intentness that betrayed a surprising absorption in a landscape without striking features and wholly...

The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo PlainsIn the days of the buffalo, wolfing was a recognized industry. Small partiestwo or more menwith team, saddle-horses, and camp outfit, used to go out into the buffalo range, establish a camp, and spend the winter...

The Social SecretaryMrs. Carteret said she would call for me at five minutes to one. But it was ten minutes after when she appeared, away down at the corner of I Street. Jim was walking up and down the drawing-room; I was at the...

The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the PacificWhose name is inseparably linked for all time with the "Titan of Chasms," the entire length of which he penetrated, revealing its weird and mysterious grandeur; whose fidelity to scientific survey has signally advanced the...